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Author: Christopher Bollas
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This novella's hero, the psychoanalyst, is a comic figure compelled by patients, friends and circumstances to think about profound psychological, philosophical and theological issues "after the catastrophe", an undefined moment in recent time that he believes has irreversibly changed the moral course of western culture." --Cover.
Author: Sharam Rainfall
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2019-12-04
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1796071439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Darkness At The End Of The Tunnel... is a book that was born out of pain and is dedicated to all those who have tasted loneliness. To those who saw the darkness and the light within the darkness....To those life has passed by and left behind. To the lonely stranger who walks in a rainy town. To the woman who sits by the window for days, anticipating the return of her love. To the man who saw his beloved in the arms of another and remained silent. To those who were misunderstood and found themselves on a lonely island amongst the crowd...To those who sat long nights in a cold, dark room and didn't have a single soul in the whole world. To those who embraced themselves at nightfall, with cold sheets, wrapped in silence. To those hearts in which the candle of love still flickers. To all those, “The Darkness” is the light of all dreams, the longing, the desire and the yearning. Because only through the greatest loneliness, suffering, pain, and absence, only through the deepest valley and the darkest darkness, can you arrive at the footsteps of the greatest love of all... Sharam Rainfall
Author: Taylor Grant
Publisher:
Published: 2015-11-09
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780994679338
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offered for the first time in a collected format, this selection features ten gripping and darkly imaginative stories by Taylor Grant, a Bram Stoker Award (R) nominated author and rising star in the suspense and horror genres. Discover what happens when: - A wealthy industrialist awakens after ten years in suspended animation, and finds out that the horrors of the past can never be left behind. - A lonely man realizes that he's gradually vanishing from existence, into a nightmarish limbo of his own making. - An author stumbles upon an incomplete manuscript by his deceased father, and makes the grave mistake of trying to complete the story. - A woman learns that the imaginary voices that haunt the delusional and criminally insane are, in fact, real. This remarkable collection of short fiction exposes the terrors that hide beneath the surface of our ordinary world, behind people's masks of normalcy, and lurking in the shadows at the farthest reaches of the universe. "A master class in storytelling...one of the best collections of the last ten years." - Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award Winner, Dead City, The Dead Won't Die ..". so full of talent and commitment, that it is an inspiration." - Dennis Etchison, Two-time World Fantasy Award Winner, The Dark Country "A bold and unsettling new voice in suspense and horror." - Scott Nicholson, Bestselling thriller author, The Red Church ..". a cornucopia of horror from a master of the genre " - Tim Waggoner, Eat The Night, The Way of All Flesh ..".written with the precise-concise language of a poet. Each story has an almost perfect closure...." - Gene O'Neill, Bram Stoker Award Winner, The Cal Wild Chronicles, The Hitchhiking Effect "Grant is a writer who never fails to engage. Frankly, his stories frighten me..." - Christopher Ransom, International Bestselling Author, The Birthing House, The Fading ..".beautifully crafted tales... a depth and humanity of which we all can relate." - John Claude Smith, Riding the Centipede, Autumn in the Abyss "As classic, elegant, deadly effective and efficient as a switchblade." - John Palisano, Bram Stoker Award Finalist, Dust of the Dead, Nerves "A master at balancing pure dread, raw untethered emotion, and brilliant characters." - Robert S. Wilson, Bram Stoker Award nominated editor, author of Empire of Blood series. "Grant picks away at your worst fears...the bogeyman finally has a name..." - David Owain Hughes, Walled In, White Walls and Straightjackets
Author: Matthew O'Brien
Publisher: Central Recovery Press
Published: 2020-11-17
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1949481433
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A vivid and enlightening oral account of homelessness in the Las Vegas storm drains and the hard work of re-entering mainstream society. Are you aware that hundreds of people live underground in the flood channels of Las Vegas? Few people were until Matthew O'Brien grabbed a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton for protection and explored the storm-drain system in depth. This research resulted in his landmark book Beneath the Neon. Now the drains have been covered by CNN, Fox News, NPR, Dr. Phil, the New York Times, the BBC, Al Jazeera, and many other media outlets. They have even found their way on to popular TV shows, including CSI, Criminal Minds, and into mainstream movies. But the fact that several of these drug- and gambling-addicted tunnel dwellers have clawed their way out of the drains and turned around their lives has received far less attention. Dark Days, Bright Nights shares their harrowing stories and provides a unique perspective on one of America's most fascinating cities. It also paints a larger picture of homelessness and recovery in America. These stories are the happy (though not Hollywood) ending to the infamous tunnel tale. The narrative is complemented by bios and stark, black-and-white images of the survivors, putting a scarred, knowing face to the unblinkingly honest accounts.
Author: Ernesto Sabato
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-06-26
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1101659548
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the great short novels of the twentieth century—in an edition marking the 100th anniversary of the author's birth. An unforgettable psychological novel of obsessive love, The Tunnel was championed by Albert Camus, Thomas Mann, and Graham Greene upon its publication in 1948 and went on to become an international bestseller. At its center is an artist named Juan Pablo Castel, who recounts from his prison cell his murder of a woman named María Iribarne. Obsessed from the moment he sees her examining one of his paintings, Castel fantasizes for months about how they might meet again. When he happens upon her one day, a relationship develops that convinces him of their mutual love. But Castel's growing paranoia leads him to destroy the one thing he truly cares about. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: Ross Macdonald
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-01-22
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1453290524
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On the home front, two wartime lovers reunite under a cloud of paranoia in this thriller from Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Ross Macdonald In 1937 Munich, an American must be careful when he smokes his pipe. Robert Branch, a careless academic, makes the mistake of lighting up when the Führer is about to begin a procession, and nearly gets pummeled for his mistake. Only the timely intervention of Ruth Esch, a flame-haired actress, saves him. So begins a month-long romance between East and West—a torrid affair that ends when the lovers make the mistake of defending a Jew, earning Branch a beating and Esch a trip to a concentration camp. Six years later, Esch escapes to Vichy and makes her way to Detroit. To her surprise, Branch is waiting for her. He is a professor, working for the war effort, and his paranoia about a spy inside the Motor City war board sours their reunion. Once again, a dangerous net is encircling these lovers—a reminder that, in this war, love always comes second to death.
Author: Paul Hellyer
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1449076130
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Argues that the human species is headed for extinction in the near future, and presents three principal elements the author believes are needed to put the Earth on the road to recovery, including the availability of reliable sources of energy to replace fossil fuels, a world culture of cooperation, and a monetary and banking system that gives government the financial flexibility to make the transition from an oil economy to something quite different.
Author: Ned Zeman
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-07-03
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1592407218
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A journalist faces his toughest assignment: profiling himself as he struggles with mood disorders, memory, shock treatment therapy, and the quest to get back to normal. Twenty-five million Americans suffer from clinical depression. But Ned Zeman never thought he’d be one of them. He had a great life and thriving career at Vanity Fair. Then, at age thirty-two, anxiety and depression gripped Zeman with increasing violence and consequences. He experimented with therapist after therapist, medication after medication, hospital after hospital—including McLean Hospital, the facility famed for its treatment of writers, from Sylvia Plath to Susanna Kaysen to David Foster Wallace. Zeman eventually went further by trying electroconvulsive therapy, aka shock treatment. By the time it was over, Zeman had lost nearly two years’ of memory. He was a reporter with amnesia. He had no choice but to start from scratch, to reassemble the pieces of a life he didn’t remember and, increasingly, didn’t want to. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, profane and hopeful, The Rules of the Tunnel is a guttural shout of a book that defies conventional notions about mood disorders, unlocks mysteries within mysteries, and proves that sometimes everything you’re looking for is right in front of you.
Author: Neil Swidey
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2015-02-17
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0307886735
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job—with deadly results A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black mayonnaise.” Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred to floating tampon applicators as “beach whistles.” In the 1990s, work began on a state-of-the-art treatment plant and a 10-mile-long tunnel—its endpoint stretching farther from civilization than the earth’s deepest ocean trench—to carry waste out of the harbor. With this impressive feat of engineering, Boston was poised to show the country how to rebound from environmental ruin. But when bad decisions and clashing corporations endangered the project, a team of commercial divers was sent on a perilous mission to rescue the stymied cleanup effort. Five divers went in; not all of them came out alive. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents collected over five years of reporting, award-winning writer Neil Swidey takes us deep into the lives of the divers, engineers, politicians, lawyers, and investigators involved in the tragedy and its aftermath, creating a taut, action-packed narrative. The climax comes just after the hard-partying DJ Gillis and his friend Billy Juse trade assignments as they head into the tunnel, sentencing one of them to death. An intimate portrait of the wreckage left in the wake of lives lost, the book—which Dennis Lehane calls "extraordinary" and compares with The Perfect Storm—is also a morality tale. What is the true cost of these large-scale construction projects, as designers and builders, emboldened by new technology and pressured to address a growing population’s rapacious needs, push the limits of the possible? This is a story about human risk—how it is calculated, discounted, and transferred—and the institutional failures that can lead to catastrophe. Suspenseful yet humane, Trapped Under the Sea reminds us that behind every bridge, tower, and tunnel—behind the infrastructure that makes modern life possible—lies unsung bravery and extraordinary sacrifice.
Author: A. B. Yehoshua
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1328622630
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli author, a suspenseful and poignant story of a family coping with the sudden mental decline of their beloved husband and father--an engineer who they discover is involved in an ominous secret military project Until recently, Zvi Luria was a healthy man in his seventies, an engineer living in Tel Aviv with his wife, Dina, visiting with their two children whenever possible. Now he is showing signs of early dementia, and his work on the tunnels of the Trans-Israel Highway is no longer possible. To keep his mind sharp, Zvi decides to take a job as the unpaid assistant to Asael Maimoni, a young engineer involved in a secret military project: a road to be built inside the massive Ramon Crater in the northern Negev Desert. The challenge of the road, however, is compounded by strange circumstances. Living secretly on the proposed route, amid ancient Nabatean ruins, is a Palestinian family under the protection of an enigmatic archaeological preservationist. Zvi rises to the occasion, proposing a tunnel that would not dislodge the family. But when his wife falls sick, circumstances begin to spiral . . . The Tunnel--wry, wistful, and a tour de force of vital social commentary--is Yehoshua at his finest.
