![]() Eye opening, emotionally wrenching, and at times very funny, Voluntary Madness is a riveting work that exposes the state of mental healthcare in America from the inside out. Vincent applies brilliant insight as she exposes her personal struggle with depression and explores the range of people, caregivers, and methodologies that guide these strange, often scary, and bizarre environments. Vincent's journey takes her from a big city hospital to a facility in the Midwest and finally to an upscale retreat down south, as she analyzes the impact of institutionalization on the unwell, the tyranny of drugs-as-treatment, and the dysfunctional dynamic between caregivers and patients. She decided to get healthy and to study the effect of treatment on the depressed and insane "in the bin," as she calls it. Out of this raw and overwhelming experience came the idea for her next book. ![]() On the advice of her psychologist she committed herself to a mental institution. At the conclusion of her celebrated first book- Self-Made Man, in which she soent eighteen months disguised as a man-Norah Vincent found herself emotionally drained. ![]() Suffering from severe depression after her eighteen months living disguised as a man, Vincent felt she was a danger to herself. Revelatory, deeply personal, and utterly relevant, Voluntary Madness is a controversial work that unveils the state of mental healthcare in the United States from the inside out. Norah Vincent's New York Times bestselling book, Self-Made Man, ended on a harrowing note. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She's his best friend, Nick's little sister, and he could never go there.Īva has had a crush on Nick since she was a teen. Ever since she's grown up, he's found it difficult to control his feelings for her. Barrett's always been like part of the family when it comes to the Saunders family, but he's never felt familial with Ava Saunders. ![]() He's managed to get the weekend off to come to his hometown in Indiana for his best friend's father's retirement party. He's worked hard and is now on the fast track to becoming partner at the law firm he works at. it makes for one deliciously steamy story.īarrett Wilson is a successful attorney in Chicago. I love a good brother's best friend book. I've read quite a few Kendall Ryan books, and this is by far my favorite of her more recent releases. 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Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Courter scatters italicized words and phrases as if to exhibit her extensive research of the place and period (one wonders, however, how even the most curious reader can be edified by such sentences as ``When the spoon glowed, the cook was told to hold a large dekchi, or pot, over my head''). By all rights, these ingredients should add up to heady reading, but Dinah is a bloodless narrator, merely shuffled from one incident to another. Her opium- and sex-addicted mother is murdered by a jealous lover early on in this hefty volume Dinah herself acquires two husbands (the first is homosexual, the second satisfyingly ardent), has a run-in with a dissolute and wily maharajah, and takes control of the family business in an attempt to legitimize its interests. First met at the turn of the century, Dinah Sassoon, heroine of Courter's fourth novel (after River of Dreams ), is a member of one of Calcutta's richest Jewish families, its fortune built on opium trading. ![]() ![]() Now I’m not a non-fiction, survival story expert, but this has to be pretty close to the absolute limit of human endurance, both physically and psychologically. ![]() Holy persevering manliness Batman, I was wincing, shuddering and cringing just reading about this ordeal from the creaturey comfort of my toasty, warm bed while maintaining a glass of wine within reaching distance. Stranded for over a year in the most inhospitable climate on the face of the Earth, literally one tiny step away from complete disaster due to starvation, extreme weather or the ice flows on which they lived deciding to crack and deposit into the freezing depths below. ![]() * Psst.don’t mention this to my wife as she thinks she took care of this years ago. ![]() Behold.the gentleman whose exploits crushed the last vestiges of manhood from my fragile psyche*: ![]() ![]() Genre: Dark, twisted erotic romance / crime thriller Themes: mafia, homophobia, assassin, organized crime, outlaw bikers, human trafficking, runaway, trust issues ![]() Being stuck in the swamp with a kid hunted by a bunch of bikers is not Domenico’s idea of laying low. And as if Domenico didn’t have enough on his plate already, Seth forces him to help some hooker. What he doesn’t need is Seth giving him attitude, keeping secrets, and distancing himself for no reason. ![]() Nightmares of Seth’s torture are still haunting his dreams, and if he and Seth are to leave the country quietly and disappear off the mafia’s radar, he needs to stay in charge and keep everyone under control. When Domenico’s jealousy pushes them into the spotlight of a biker gang with connections to their former mafia family, Seth decides to step up, and make his own decisions, no matter what risks they might entail.ĭomenico Acerbi can’t trust anyone. He is sick and tired of being a burden for Domenico, who seems to have it all together. Find the purpose, motivation, and strength to get back into shape. Afloat in a reality he never planned, he tries to find the lost pieces of himself again. Īfter months of recovering from his injuries, Seth struggles with who he has become. ![]() Faking their own death was the easy part. ![]() ![]() And this time it all builds to one mind-bending conclusion: They have to get off this ship. In A Million Suns, Beth deepens the mystery with action, suspense, romance, and deep philosophical questions. ![]() And this time it all builds to one mind-bending. ![]() But with each step, the journey becomes more perilous, the ship more chaotic, and the love between them more impossible to fight.īeth Revis catapulted readers into the far reaches of space with her New York Times bestselling debut, Across the Universe. In A Million Suns, Beth deepens the mystery with action, suspense, romance, and deep philosophical questions. It's been three months since Amy was unplugged. Their success-or failure-will determine the fate of the 2,298 passengers aboard Godspeed. A Million Suns Author: Beth Revis Book 2 of Series: Across the Universe View: 5902 Published year: 1865 GENRES Science Fiction A Million Suns (Across the Universe 2) Godspeed was once fueled by lies. They must work together to unlock a mystery that was set in motion hundreds of years earlier. He's finally free to act on his vision-no more Phydus, no more lies.īut when Elder learns shocking news about the ship, he and Amy race to discover the truth behind life on Godspeed. ![]() Everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed.īut there may be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of the ship. It's been three months since Amy was unplugged. In the 'New York Times' bestseller 'A Million Suns,' Beth Revis deepens the mystery with action, suspense, romance, and deep philosophical questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Jed narrates the adventure that started it all: the people and places he encountered on his way to the bottom of the world, and the internal journey that prompted it. ![]() ![]() He chronicled the trip on Instagram, where his photos and profound reflections on life soon attracted hundreds of thousands of followers and got him featured by National Geographic and The Paris Review. On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being funneled into a life he didn't choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent the next sixteen months cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. Every chapter shimmered with truth." -Cheryl Strayedįrom travel writer Jedidiah Jenkins comes a long-awaited memoir of adventure, struggle, and lessons learned while bicycling the 14,000 miles from Oregon to Patagonia. New York Times bestseller - "Thrilling, tender, utterly absorbing. ![]() ![]() I want to use a little of the "foreigners are not as cool as we are" attitude, both for comic effect and because that outlook is hardly unheard of today. It's always a balancing act, finding a happy medium between 19th and 21st century outlooks. I try to give my English characters similar viewpoints, though I may tone them down a bit, so as not to jar my readers too much. ![]() So, when I installed a porter in the apartment building in Paris in which Bertie Trent lives at the story's start, I depended mainly on Frances Trollope’s Paris and the Parisians in 1835.** As is normally the case in travel writings, the author’s attitudes and prejudices color her observations. And they were not searchable! You turned crusty, dusty pages, looking for what you wanted in magazine collections, for instance, that were not indexed. With Lord of Scoundrels, it's quite an experience, since I wrote the book before I had access to the Internet, and well before Google and others started scanning and posting online the ancient tomes I had to go into the bowels of libraries to find. ![]() As I try to do from time to time, I'll offer a few background notes on the book. ![]() ![]() Brodie's The Devil Drives, appeared in 1967. ![]() In the meantime another life of Burton, the late Fawn M. But for some reason, the Farwell book missed the boat to America and has only now, 26 years later, been published here. It was part of a wave of nostalgic interest in the Empire at its height that flowered as it was dissolving and produced, most notably, Alan Moorehead's The White Nile and The Blue Nile. Farwell's life of Burton originally came out in England in 1963. Even though his adoring wife, Isabel, burned the most revealing parts of his voluminous notebooks and papers, Burton is still a biographer's delight: The barest account of where he went and what he did cannot fail to be absorbing. $24.95 IN THE PANTHEON of great Victorians Sir Richard Francis Burton - explorer, ethnographer, linguist who knew no fewer than 29 languages and nearly a dozen dialects, connoisseur of the arcane erotic practices of cultures that few of his contemporaries had ever heard of - occupies a bizarre but distinguished niche. ![]() ![]() BURTON: A Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton By Byron Farwell Viking. ![]() |