A Deep Dark Pit of Despair

A Deep Dark Pit of Despair
Author: Ryan R. Reilly
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2015-09-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781516818051

Rory Casbury--infamous Pirate of Vimiland, lover of women the country over, and scourge of the king--has finally been captured, his notorious career seemingly at an end. It all started when he and his partners stole a priceless royal artifact, and every step that followed plunged them deeper into despair. Now, if Rory cannot somehow figure a way out of this hole, his friends and country could pay the ultimate price!

Damage

Damage
Author: Josephine Hart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2023-01-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1639363092

**Soon to be appearing on Netflix as "Obsession," starring Richard Armitage and Charlie Murphy** This New York Times bestselling novel, now in a brand-new edition, is a daring look at the dangers of obsession and the depth of its shattering consequences. Damage is the gripping story of a man’s desperate obsession and scandalous love affair. He is a man who appears to have everything: wealth, a beautiful wife and children, and a prestigious political career in Parliament. But his life lacks passion, and his aching emptiness drives him to an all-consuming, and ultimately catastrophic, relationship with his son’s fiancée. Chilling and brilliant, Damage is a New York Times bestselling masterpiece of the romantic suspense genre.

The Foundation Pit

The Foundation Pit
Author: Andrei Platonov
Publisher: ISCI
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Furthermore, it provides essential background to Platonov's parody of the mainstream Soviet "production" novel, which is widely recognized as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian prose. In addition to an overview of the work's key themes, it discusses their place within Platonov's oeuvre as a whole, his troubled relations with literary officialdom, the work's ideological and political background, and key critical responses since the work's first publication in the West in 1973.

The Well of Loneliness

The Well of Loneliness
Author: Radclyffe Hall
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473374081

This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.

Love at Goon Park

Love at Goon Park
Author: Deborah Blum
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2011-07-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0465026060

In this meticulously researched and masterfully written book, Pulitzer Prize-winner Deborah Blum examines the history of love through the lens of its strangest unsung hero: a brilliant, fearless, alcoholic psychologist named Harry Frederick Harlow. Pursuing the idea that human affection could be understood, studied, even measured, Harlow (1905-1981) arrived at his conclusions by conducting research-sometimes beautiful, sometimes horrible-on the primates in his University of Wisconsin laboratory. Paradoxically, his darkest experiments may have the brightest legacy, for by studying "neglect" and its life-altering consequences, Harlow confirmed love's central role in shaping not only how we feel but also how we think. His work sparked a psychological revolution. The more children experience affection, he discovered, the more curious they become about the world: Love makes people smarter. The biography of both a man and an idea, The Measure of Love is a powerful and at times disturbing narrative that will forever alter our understanding of human relationships.

Challenging Depression and Despair

Challenging Depression and Despair
Author: Angela Patmore
Publisher: How To Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-11-25
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1848032099

This book is offered as a lifeline to people at the bottom of the bottomless pit of depression. It will explain the research and the thinking behind the tough love approach, much of which may be new to you because it flies in the face of current trends. With positive, common sense strategies, this book enables you to regain emotional control, showing that it is possible to combat depression without resorting to drugs or costly and often ineffective therapy. The first part of the book offers fresh insights into depression and into how it can be overcome. The second offers practical advice, culminating in a series of challenges that will enable you to change your entire attitude to emotional health and achieve a more positive and hopeful outlook on life. To be of any real use to someone in despair, a self-help programme must provide, step by step, a practical stairway out of hell. This is that stairway.

Escape from the Pit of Despair

Escape from the Pit of Despair
Author: Kim M. Yeager M.A
Publisher: CrossBooks Publishing
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2012-05
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781462716432

Are you tired of struggling with low self-esteem and worthlessness? Would you like to increase your sense of self-esteem and self-worth, maintaining it for the rest of your life? In Escape from the Pit of Despair, author and Christian counselor Kim M. Yeager provides guidance for helping you improve your low self-esteem and sense of worthlessness and discover the wonderful person you can love and believe in. Using biblical truths and personal anecdotes, Yeager helps you to escape and face the fears that create low self-esteem, and also to manage the emotions that can push you into the pit of despair. She shares the undeniable truths in the Bible that show how valuable you are in the world and to God. Escape from the Pit of Despair takes you on a personal journey that can not only help you discover what elements created your self-worth, but also teach you how to use that knowledge to create the life you truly want through self-discovery and scriptural exploration exercises and prayer. Escape from the Pit of Despair communicates the idea that what others tell you may be important, but what you believe about yourself is most important. Your faith and belief system can help you control your destiny and prevent you from returning to the pit of despair.

Get Out of That Pit

Get Out of That Pit
Author: Beth Moore
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017-07-11
Genre: Christian life
ISBN: 9780718095826

From her first breath of fresh air beyond the pit, it has never been enough for Beth Moore to be free. She is an author and Bible teacher who has opened the riches of Scripture to millions, has longed for you to be free as well--to know the Love and Presence that are better than life and the power of God's Word that defies all darkness. Beth's journey out of the pit has been heart-rending. But from this and the poetic expressions of Psalm 40 has come the reward: a new song for her soul, given by her Saviour and offered to you in Get Out of That Pit--friend to friend. This is Beth's most stirring message yet of the sheer hope, utter deliverance, and complete and glorious freedom of God. It is a story, a song--a salvation--that you can know too.

Passport to Heaven

Passport to Heaven
Author: Micah Wilder
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0736982876

“You have a call, Elder Wilder.” When missionary Micah Wilder set his sights on bringing a Baptist congregation into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he had no idea that he was the one about to be changed. Yet when he finally came to know the God of the Bible, Micah had no choice but to surrender himself—no matter the consequences. For a passionate young Mormon who had grown up in the Church, finding authentic faith meant giving up all he knew: his community, his ambitions, and his place in the world. Yet as Micah struggled to reconcile the teachings of his Church with the truths revealed in the Bible, he awakened to his need for God’s grace. This led him to be summoned to the door of the mission president, terrified but confident in the testimony he knew could cost him everything. Passport to Heaven is a gripping account of Micah’s surprising journey from living as a devoted member of a religion based on human works to embracing the divine mercy and freedom that can only be found in Jesus Christ.

Happily Ever After Divorce

Happily Ever After Divorce
Author: Jessica Bram
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2009-02-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0757307582

Radio commentator Bram gives a seldom touched-on view of divorce--a positive view of life on the other side--From publisher description.