Tonight I'm Someone Else

Tonight I'm Someone Else
Author: Chelsea Hodson
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250170192

"I had a real romance with this book." —Miranda July A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, “bracingly good...refreshing and welcome,” that explores the myriad ways in which desire and commodification intersect. From graffiti gangs and Grand Theft Auto to sugar daddies, Schopenhauer, and a deadly game of Russian roulette, in these essays, Chelsea Hodson probes her own desires to examine where the physical and the proprietary collide. She asks what our privacy, our intimacy, and our own bodies are worth in the increasingly digital world of liking, linking, and sharing. Starting with Hodson’s own work experience, which ranges from the mundane to the bizarre—including modeling and working on a NASA Mars mission— Hodson expands outward, looking at the ways in which the human will submits, whether in the marketplace or in a relationship. Both tender and jarring, this collection is relevant to anyone who’s ever searched for what the self is worth. Hodson’s accumulation within each piece is purposeful, and her prose vivid, clear, and sometimes even shocking, as she explores the wonderful and strange forms of desire. Tonight I'm Someone Else is a fresh, poetic debut from an exciting emerging voice, in which Hodson asks, “How much can a body endure?” And the resounding answer: "Almost everything."

Lawyer X

Lawyer X
Author: Anthony Dowsley
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1460711831

Underbelly meets Molly's Game - the true crime investigation that rewrote the story of Melbourne's infamous gangland war and triggered a royal commission. Melbourne's gangland war was an era dominated by murders, stings, hits, drug busts, corruption and greed - inspiring bestselling books and even a popular TV series, Underbelly. It took the police a decade to curtail the violence and bring down criminal kingpins Carl Williams, Tony Mokbel and their accomplices. When the police finally closed the case file, just how they really won the war, with the help of an unlikely police informer, would become a closely guarded secret and its exposure, the biggest legal scandal of our time. Lawyer X is the scandalous, true story of how a promising defence barrister from a privileged background broke all the rules - becoming both police informer and her client's lover - sharing their secrets and shaping the gangland war that led to sensational arrests and convictions. The story of how Nicola Gobbo became Lawyer X, and why, is a compelling study in desperation and determination. Lawyer X is the definitive story of Melbourne's gangland wars and its most glamorous and compelling central character, based on the ground-breaking work of investigative journalists Anthony Dowsley and Patrick Carlyon, who broke the story for the Herald Sun in 2014, and their five-year struggle to reveal the truth about the identity of Lawyer X.

Felice Beato

Felice Beato
Author: Anne Lacoste
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 160606035X

The fascinating life and work of an artist who captured some of the first photographs of the Far East are presented in this gorgeous volume.

A Soldier Recalls

A Soldier Recalls
Author: Shreenivas Kumar Sinha
Publisher: Lancer Publishers
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1992
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9788170621614

Autobiographical reminiscences of an Indian Army officer.

The Encyclopedia of Angels

The Encyclopedia of Angels
Author: Rosemary Guiley
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2004
Genre: Angels
ISBN: 1438130023

An encyclopedia describing and giving the history of angels from the time when the earth was created forward, using texts from Hebrew, Arabic, ancient and contemporary works.