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Hollywood Park
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Astonishing... precisely crafted, emotionally-sucker-punching prose.' Daily Telegraph 'Dangerous, immediate and lyrical from the jump.' Wall Street Journal HOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his is a story of fierce love and family loyalty told in a raw, poetic voice that signals the emergence of a uniquely gifted writer. Mikel Jollett was born in an experimental commune in California, which later morphed into the Church of Synanon, one of the country's most ...
Summary of Mikel Jollett's Hollywood Park
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I drop two classes and get put on academic probation. I meet some kids from Foothill College at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting off campus. I change my major from biology to history and psychology. #2 The Game was a method of getting through the hardened defenses of drug addicts, similar to AA, but it was actually a form of brainwashing. It lasted days, sometimes entire weekends. #3 I wonder about the kids in the orphanage, and where they are and what they’re doing. I wonder if they feel just as bewildered about their place in the world as I do. #4 The theory of attachment states that we base our relationships on the attachments we form with our parents early in life. The children of Synanon, who were raised in a cult, may have experienced loneliness like shame, as they imagined the reason they were alone was because there was something wrong with them.
Summary of Mikel Jollett's Hollywood Park
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I drop two classes and get put on academic probation. I meet some kids from Foothill College at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting off campus. I change my major from biology to history and psychology. #2 The Game was a method of getting through the hardened defenses of drug addicts, similar to AA, but it was actually a form of brainwashing. It lasted days, sometimes entire weekends. #3 I wonder about the kids in the orphanage, and where they are and what they’re doing. I wonder if they feel just as bewildered about their place in the world as I do. #4 The theory of attachment states that we base our relationships on the attachments we form with our parents early in life. The children of Synanon, who were raised in a cult, may have experienced loneliness like shame, as they imagined the reason they were alone was because there was something wrong with them.
Tell Me My Name
For fans of The Grace Year and We Were Liars comes a mesmerizing, can't-put-it-down psychological thriller—a gender-flipped YA Great Gatsby that will linger long after the final line On wealthy Commodore Island, Fern is watching and waiting—for summer, for college, for her childhood best friend to decide he loves her. Then Ivy Avila lands on the island like a falling star. When Ivy shines on her, Fern feels seen. When they're together, Fern has purpose. She glimpses the secrets Ivy hides behind her fame, her fortune, the lavish parties she throws at her great glass house, and understands that Ivy hurts in ways Fern can't fathom. And soon, it's clear Ivy wants someone Fern can help her ge...
Bering Strait
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I Am a Bacha Posh
A 2015 Amelia Bloomer List Selection "You will be a son, my daughter." With these stunning words Ukmina learned that she was to spend her childhood as a boy. In Afghanistan there is a widespread practice of girls dressing as boys to play the role of a son. These children are called bacha posh: literally "girls dressed as boys." This practice offers families the freedom to allow their child to shop and work—and in some cases, it saves them from the disgrace of not having a male heir. But in adolescence, religion restores the natural law. The girls must marry, give birth, and give up their freedom. Ukmina decided to confront social and family pressure and keep her menswear. This brave choice...
The Dancers of Riverside Park and Other Poems
These inspirational poems reflect Peggy Shriver's close and careful observation of both natural and social/political events. They move beyond the stereotypical sentiments of political advocacy to expressions of compassion, concern, ministry, and, at times, confrontation.
The Golden Hour
Beatriz Williams, the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives, is back with another hot summer read; a dazzling epic of World War II in which a beautiful young "society reporter" is sent to the Bahamas, a haven of spies, traitors, and the infamous Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora "Lulu" Randolph arrives in the Bahamas to investigate the Governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, that glamorous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarchy to its knees five years earlier. What more intriguing backdrop for their roman...
This Party's Dead
What if we responded to death... by throwing a party? By the time Erica Buist’s father-in-law Chris was discovered, upstairs in his bed, his book resting on his chest, he had been dead for over a week. She searched for answers (the artery-clogging cheeses in his fridge?) and tried to reason with herself (does daughter-in-law even feature in the grief hierarchy?) and eventually landed on an inevitable, uncomfortable truth: everybody dies. While her husband maintained a semblance of grace and poise, Erica found herself consumed by her grief, descending into a bout of pyjama-clad agoraphobia, stalking friends online to ascertain whether any of them had also dropped dead without warning, unabl...
Raising a Thief
A remarkable, true story about raising an unusually challenging child, in this case one who struggles to reciprocate love. Unfolding over nearly 20 years, the story focuses on the struggles of a Russian orphan, Sonya, mistreated early in life, ultimately diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder, and the family that adopted and tried to raise her. Sonya's story will allow a reader to better understand the immeasurable impact of a caregiver early in a child's life and also grasp why some bounce back from terrible childhood adversity and some don't.
