It Never Ends

It Never Ends
Author: Tom Scharpling
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1647000327

From cult comedy icon and beloved radio host Tom Scharpling, an inspiring, funny, and thoughtful memoir It Never Ends is Tom Scharpling’s harrowing memoir of his coming of age, a story he has never told before. It’s the heartbreaking account of his attempt at suicide, two stays in a mental hospital, and the memory-wiping electroshock therapy that saved his life. After his rehabilitation, Scharpling committed himself to reinvention through the world of comedy. In this book he will lift the curtain on the turmoil that still follows him, despite all of his accolades and achievements. In the vein of candid memoirs from comedians like Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk with Me and Norm Macdonald's Based on a True Story, It Never Ends is a revealing book by a beloved comedy icon.

Deposing Nathan

Deposing Nathan
Author: Zack Smedley
Publisher: Page Street YA
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1624147364

“A heartbreaking and important read.” —Caleb Roehrig, author of Last Seen Leaving “[A] layered, complex depiction of questioning (bi)sexuality... A heartbreaking case worth revisiting again and again.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Nate never imagined that he would be attacked by his best friend. For sixteen years, Nate was the perfect son—the product of a no-nonsense upbringing and deep spiritual faith. Then he met Cam, who pushed him to break rules, dream, and accept himself. Conflicted, Nate began to push back. With each push, the boys became more entangled in each others’ worlds...but they also spiraled closer to their breaking points. And now all of it has fallen apart after a fistfight-turned-near-fatal-incident—one that’s left Nate with a stab wound and Cam in jail. Now Nate is being ordered to give a statement, under oath, that will send his best friend to prison. The problem is, the real story of what happened between them isn’t as simple as anyone thinks. With all eyes on him, Nate must make his confessions about what led up to that night with Cam...and in doing so, risk tearing both of their lives apart.

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Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 94
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ISBN: 1434917606

They Are Soldiers

They Are Soldiers
Author: Harold Coyle
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 142991114X

From Harold Coyle, the New York Times bestselling author of Twice the Citizen, comes the fourth book in the Nathan Dixon series: They Are Soldiers They are your neighbor and the person who delivers your mail. They teach your children and build your homes. Every day you see them but do not notice them, that is not until they are needed. Only when disasters strike, whether it be natural or man made do they become something quite different, something more than a fellow citizen. Throughout our nation's history they have been called many things; the militia, the home guard, the National Guard. But regardless of their title they have always been unique, something more than ordinary people. Their willingness to be both a good citizen in peace and a warrior when called upon make them soldiers. The nature of the mission, to man a security zone that separates the nation of Israel from the newly created Palestinian state present him and the Guardsmen of Company A with a unique set of problems few are able to predict. Together the professional officer and the citizen soldiers he leads must find a way to navigate their way toward an uncertain future in a troubled land. Part of that future involves dealing with those who are determined to use the arrival of the Americans to further their own political and personal goals. One of these men is Hammed Kamel, a microbiologist who seizes upon the introduction of American forces in a place some still call the Holy Lands as an opportunity to strike a telling blow against the two nations who have oppressed his people, the Palestinians for decades. Together with a crops of like minded men, Kamel sets in motion a train of events that places the citizen soldiers of Bedlow, Virginia and their community on the other side of the world in jeopardy. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Shining Portal

A Shining Portal
Author: Leonard J. Griego
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2006-10-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781469124339

An Adventure Science Fiction Love Story. An 83 year old man on his last hike in the San Juan Mountains of Southern Colorado finds or is led to a Portal into another world. There he encounters two Black Wolves that have been waiting for him. Into his life has come a lovely woman. He first sees her when she is about fourteen and as she keeps appearing to him in the mountains where he lives, he can watch her grow into a woman. He keeps seeing her in the some small town somewhere. She appears to him by the Portal and she asks him when is he coming for her. After much inner turmoil, he is 83 years old!, he finds her, is transformed into the man she has been seeing, a man she has known for a long, long time. He takes her back to his strange new world and there begins the process of rediscovering who they really are and who the Wolves are. There they encounter a Horror they have been chasing through time. Through time they remember who they are. They have come to Earth centuries before, have been at Troy and with Charlemagne at Roncesvalles, and many other battles, have become human, living and dying, losing each other many times. Gradually and reluctantly with the Wolves help, they discover who they are and the reason for their lives, which is to eradicate the Universe of the Black Horror they have been pursuing. The only way to fight them is in hand to hand combat, he is a Swordsman and she is an Archer, and the Wolves have been bred to fight alongside them. The Horror’s reason for existence is to cleanse whole planets so their masters can move there. The Monsters have been brought to Earth and the last battle will be there. The final battle begins at Roncesvalles, in Northern Spain, where he fought in 787, continues in Space and finally on the Tundra of Northern Canada.

The Climb Up and Away

The Climb Up and Away
Author: Tom Lewin
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2021-08-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1839757728

So, you think when you go before the judge you're going to get a fair and unbiased hearing? No, no, no, you silly billy! Unless you're pristinely clean and even then you have been weighed and measured before you even get in the dock. From the senior police officer who puts the word in to the prosecution, who then puts the word into the ear of the judge. He will even know what you've had for breakfast. In my latest court case at Coventry Magistrates Court, I was charged with refusing to name the driver of a vehicle that I had sold, even though I had informed the police. The prosecution caught the eye of the judge and held it... Your honour, this is a difficult case... and there are more serious charges... The judge nodded imperceptibly... I was found guilty after 5 minutes. No witnesses. No press. You can guess what my chances are for an appeal. What serious charges? I've heard nothing... In September an ex-tenant broke into my house with eight mates in balaclavas and robbed me. In April a plumber broke into one of my properties; stole a boiler and a waste trap. He admitted it on WhatsApp! In both cases the police have done nothing. No evidence you see... The police pick on easy targets to get their results. If it's too difficult they turn away...

Toy Cars

Toy Cars
Author: Nathan Spiteri
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2021-04-14
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780645122626

It was a day like any other, crystal blue sky and warm summer air, as young Nathan Spiteri walked into a change room at a familiar public swimming pool and experienced a turn of events that would alter his life forever. In his powerful and deeply vulnerable memoir, Spiteri dives into the trauma of being brutally abused, groomed and manipulated by the actions of a vicious paedophile. It is a ''coming-of-age'' story, a tour-de-force that ushers the reader into the world of abuse, addiction, sex, drugs and violence. In words poetic, as well as raw and real, Spiteri paints a stunning masterpiece of triumph over tragedy; a powerful canvas of self-discovery, therapeutic growth and self-love. Spiteri offers a cautionary tale for all parents who are raising children; and an anthem of survival for anyone who has suffered the difficulties of youth. In our search for a better life, Toy Cars proves that love and healing are possible.

The Second Apprentice

The Second Apprentice
Author: Carl East
Publisher: Carl East
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2020-03-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Nathan is about to learn that magic is real and that he has a talent for it. He's also about to learn that one can get into some serious trouble when dabbling with the arts. Follow our hero's adventures as he meets new and wondrous friends from different worlds, and finds out that the earth and all the other planets he visits are in danger of attack by an advanced civilization. Enjoy Author Note This is a non-erotic book for all ages.

Giving Birth to God

Giving Birth to God
Author: Mother Clare Watts
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0595283373

Giving Birth to God tells of one woman's journey through yoga ashrams and Sufi training to finding a mystical Christian school with Master Teachers. After 12 years of transformational training, Mother Clare was ordained a Priest, and four years later a Master Teacher. Mother Clare was married, raised four children, and was a practicing midwife and psychotherapist while receiving her mystical and esoteric training. Without being celibate, without going to India and joining a foreign religion, Mother Clare received complete spiritual training, including initiations and ordinations, in the midst of leading the full life of an American woman. Wonderfully moving stories give an in-depth rendering of the Inner Christian Path. Some accounts will induce laughter and some tears, while the stories of women giving birth and the transformations the author experienced as a midwife and mother will move hearts and open minds to the great reality of the spiritual world.

Some Hell

Some Hell
Author: Patrick Nathan
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1555979882

A wrenching and layered debut novel about a gay teen’s coming-of-age in the aftermath of his father’s suicide Colin’s family is dissolving in the aftermath of his father’s suicide. While his mother, Diane, retreats into therapy and cynicism, Colin clings to every shred of normal life. Awash with guilt, he casts about for someone to confide in: first his estranged grandfather, then a predatory science teacher. Shunned by his siblings and rejected by his homophobic best friend, Colin immerses himself in the notebooks his father left behind. Full of strange facts, lists, and historical anecdotes that neither Colin nor Diane can understand, the notebooks infect their worldview until they can no longer tell what’s real and what’s imagined. A novel of aching intensity, Some Hell shows how unspeakable tragedy shapes a life, and how imagination saves us from ourselves.