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Rat Race is a semi-autobiographical novel set in the 1980s in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain. It focuses on Paul, who has just graduated and wants to be a writer. He faces overwhelming pressure from everyone around him, however, to ‘get on’ and join the Rat Race, against his will and in sharp contrast to the alternative lifestyle he wants to live. Pretty soon he finds himself on the scrapheap and having to compromise his beliefs in order to make something of himself. Rat Race is one year in his life, charting his fluctuating fortunes, set against a background of the music and fashion of the alternative scene at the time. It is also a love story, as he meets and falls in love with the girl...
Today, Anthony Cumia is the co-host of the wildly popular “Anthony Cumia Show,” which live-streams to a huge following of paid subscribers; however, Anthony is most well-known from the legendary, nationally syndicated “Opie and Anthony Show.” Permanently Suspended is an all-access pass to the controversial mayhem that ensued on-and-off the air. A must-read for all diehard O&A fans, Permanently Suspended finally answers the questions that everyone has been waiting for: What really happened between Opie and Anthony? What was the reasoning behind the multiple firings? What prompted the tweeting about the Times Square NYC incident? What is the true account of the controversial allegations? What are the never-before-revealed details of Anthony’s stint in rehab? What does the future hold for his livestream podcast? These questions, and many more, will be answered. Permanently Suspended is a humorous, no-holds-barred account of the legendary career and life of Anthony Cumia—a blue collar guy who made his dreams come true, rising above all obstacles to become one of the most well-known and successful personalities in radio history.
Andrea Thompson''s return to the United States sets off a political firestorm.
Crank Wilson and Julia Thompson love each other madly. But after Crank’s huge mistake during the summer, on the road with Crank’s rock band Morbid Obesity, they aren’t getting along. Sean Wilson and Carrie Thompson are the seventeen year old younger siblings of Julia and Crank. Carrie is on her way to New York to start college at Columbia University and Sean is on his way home to Boston. For the next five days, they’re stuck in a car. Along the way, they’ll contend with screaming matches, giant spiders and a 240-pound pissed off Marine. And the whole way, Crank will be faced with one question. After he screwed up so badly, is there any way he can win Julia back?
The Confessions of a Physician Operative By: Dr. John W. Ford When the sudden death of his mother and abandonment by his father leaves young Sean Devlin without a home, he leaves the life he knows to move in with his aunt Jill. Though his childhood is tumultuous and often lonely, he finds love and acceptance in his new home and Sean grows up to become a very successful physician. But Sean lives a secret life. Ever the contradictory figure, Sean, when not saving his patients' lives, is a physician/killer for the CIA, and later in life, a crack operative for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency - a life he keeps closely guarded. The Confessions of a Physician Operative tells the story of a willful, complicated, and enigmatic figure and the unprecedented life he lived.
Wintersong is an exciting, fast-paced, adventurous narrative surrounding the lives of childhood friends whose unfortunate circumstances catapult them out of depression-era Chicago and onto the railroad, traveling westward. Their ultimate goal is one of fame and fortune via the exciting, new town of Hollywoood. However, their goal is sidetracked as their paths diverge from their original destination What they end up with will bypass anything they could have ever dreamed.
Embroiled in the conflict of World War II, the fledgling OSS enlists the unique talents of 4 exceptional young men to fight behind enemy lines. Trained from infancy in every conceivable form of martial arts and fluent in several languages due to their polyglot upbringing, these 4 extraordinary men excelled first as artists, giving them the means to pursue their dreams. Now caught up in the global conflict, they must battle the Nai threat before those dreams can become reality. Sean Winters studied to be a Veterinarian, but now leads a trained cadre of men deep into Nazi Germany, disrupting supply lines and trains loaded with innocents being transported to concentration camps. After a stint a...
"This special edition features the first three books in Jennifer Brozek's Melissa Allen series: Never Let Me Sleep, Never Let Me Leave, Never Let Me Die as well as a previously unpublished short story, Never Let Me Feel"--Back cover.
Crank Wilson und Julia Thompson lieben sich abgöttisch. Aber nachdem Crank während der Tour mit seiner Rock Band Morbid Obesity einen großen Fehler begangen hat, laufen die Dinge zwischen ihnen nicht mehr so gut. Sean Wilson und Carrie Thompson sind die siebzehnjährigen Geschwister von Julia und Crank. Carrie ist auf dem Weg nach New York, um ein Studium an der Columbia Universität zu beginnen, und Sean reist zurück nach Boston. Die nächsten fünf Tage verbringen sie alle zusammen in einem Auto. Unterwegs kommt es zu großen Streitereien, sie treffen auf Riesenspinnen und müssen sich mit einem verärgerten, 120 kg schweren, US-Marine auseinandersetzen. Während der ganzen Reise stellt sich Crank die eine Frage: Kann er Julia zurückgewinnen, nachdem er es so sehr vermasselt hat?