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Life..... Such a simple four lettered word, with so many choices, consequences, struggles, ups and downs. The neighborhood I lived in was filled with drugs, poverty and crime. This book is about my life how I survived how I dealt with and lived it. There were no walks in the park, caviar or limos. Just an awkward hand I was left to play! I grew up with roaches, rats, gangsters and block parties, how did you?
Thrust back in time with Mateo, a dangerous but sexy pirate, Catherine struggles to keep her world upright as wicked storms push them around the high seas. While fighting savage Indians, his superstitious crew and different time lines that confuse the hell out of both of them, Catherine is drawn more and more to Mateo. And the sex is pretty hot, too. But they both need to return to their own times. Can they find a way to save themselves and stay together, or forever be torn apart?
A unicorn who has no horn sets out to find one.
My Education is Burroughs's last novel, first published two years before his death in 1997. It is a book of dreams, collected over several decades and as close to a memoir as we will see. The dreams cover themes from the mundane and ordinary - conversations with his friends Allen Ginsberg or Ian Sommerville, feeding his cats, procuring drugs or sex - to the erotic, bizarre and visionary. Always a rich source of imagery in Burroughs's own fiction, in this book dreams become a direct and powerful force in themselves.
"Guru of the Beat generation, controversial eminence grise of the international avant-garde, dark prophet and blackest of black-humor satirists, William S. Burroughs has had a range of influence rivalled by few living writers. This meticulously assembled volume of his correspondence vividly documents the personal and cultural history through which Burroughs developed, revealing clues to illuminate his life and keys to open up his texts. More than that, they also show how in the period 1945-1959, letter-writing was itself integral to his life and to his fiction-making. These letters reveal the extraordinary route that took Burroughs from narrative to anti-narrative, from Junky to Naked Lunch ...
How would you like to take a zipline to school? How about a bullet train? The surprising photographs in this eye-opening book show the incredible (and often DARING!) journeys made by students around the world. Colorful maps and location markers bring this fascinating book to life. Readers will be surprised at the many kinds of transportation used around the world and will want to read this book again and again!
Set in the 1990s, the horrific past of a troubled little orphaned girl named Chena who is forced to grow up quickly in an urban environment of drugs, abuse, and neglect unfolds through flashbacks as the guileful teenage Chena embarks on a voyage of love with high school heartthrob Brandon. However, this relationship is marred by infidelity and leads to the exposure not only of betrayal by Chena's promiscuous best friend Becky, but also of a horrific childhood secret, leaving Chena to discover if her past will determine her future, and if she will ever find love. Ultimately, a tragic death results, and the circumstances surrounding this death compel Chena to face her own past as she crosses moral lines, taking vengeance into her own hands.