Suddenly Facing Reality

2012-11
Suddenly Facing Reality

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  • Author: Josh Rosenberg
  • Publisher: Author House
  • ISBN: 147728642X
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 331

After partying his way through college in San Diego, Adam Elson graduates broke, directionless, and with no job in sight. Desperate for inspiration, he invites his childhood friend Richie to move in with him. Richie arrives with a shady scheme for a financial quick fix, which suddenly goes awry. Adam is forced to flee, propelling him on a journey to find his true calling in life and moral compass. As he makes his way, Adam learns the true story of his family in addition to what it means to love. Without looking back, he immerses himself in the relationships and new opportunities he encounters. Yet looming over this new life is the specter of his unresolved past - which could replace the reality he's worked so hard to build with a much darker one.

Facing Reality

2021-06-15
Facing Reality

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  • Author: Charles Murray
  • Publisher: Encounter Books
  • ISBN: 1641771984
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 118

The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart fIoat free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ability. The allegations of racism in policing, college admissions, segregation in housing, and hiring and promotions in the workplace ignore the ways in which the problems that prompt the allegations of systemic racism are driven by these two realities. What good can come of bringing them into the open? America’s most precious ideal is what used to be known as the American Creed: People are not to be judged by where they came from, what social class they come from, or by race, color, or creed. They must be judged as individuals. The prevailing Progressive ideology repudiates that ideal, demanding instead that the state should judge people by their race, social origins, religion, sex, and sexual orientation. We on the center left and center right who are the American Creed’s natural defenders have painted ourselves into a corner. We have been unwilling to say openly that different groups have significant group differences. Since we have not been willing to say that, we have been left defenseless against the claims that racism is to blame. What else could it be? We have been afraid to answer. We must. Facing Reality is a step in that direction.

The Greatest You

2019-05-07
The Greatest You

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  • Author: Trent Shelton
  • Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
  • ISBN: 1400207940
  • Category : Self-Help
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 220

Writing from deep, been-there experience, college football standout-turned NFL dropout Trent Shelton takes you on a journey to become the best hope-filled version of yourself. Trent Shelton seemed to have it all together–until everything fell apart. A college football standout, his NFL dreams died when he was cut from multiple teams. With no job and no prospects, learning he had a child on the way and numbing himself with whatever he could find, Trent then found out one of his closest friends had killed himself. Life seemed without hope–until Trent discovered the secret to finding promise in the darkest of times. And now he shares that secret with you. Sharing his revolutionary toolkit for transforming your life and reaching your goals, in The Greatest You, Trent will help you become everything you are meant to be; face the reality of your circumstances and realize your purpose in life; break free from toxic environments and forgive those who've harmed you; and learn how to guard yourself against the pitfalls of life. Weaving together personal stories from his own life and from others who have also gone through hard times, Trent reveals how you can bring out the best in yourself and establish a happier, more fulfilled future for generations to come.

A Sudden Light

2014-09-30
A Sudden Light

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  • Author: Garth Stein
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 0857205781
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 416

From the author of the million-copy bestselling The Art of Racing in the Raincomes the breathtaking and long-awaited new novel. This novel centres on four generations of a once terribly wealthy and influential timber family who have fallen from grace; a mysterious yet majestic mansion, crumbling slowy into the bluff overlooking Puget Sound in Seattle; a love affair so powerful it reaches across the planes of existence; and a young man who simply wants his parents to once again experience the moment they fell in love, hoping that if can feel that emotion again, maybe they won't get divorced after all.

Facing Reality

1982
Facing Reality

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  • Author: Cord Meyer
  • Publisher: University Press of America
  • ISBN: 9780819125590
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 452

Originally published by Harper and Row in 1980, this clear-sighted volume blends historical events and autobiographical material in an attempt to explain how one individual American's search for a peaceful world led from the battlefield to the presidency of the United World Federalists, and finally to twenty-six years of active duty with the Central Intelligence Agency.

Constitutional Amendments Relating to Abortion

1983
Constitutional Amendments Relating to Abortion

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  • Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Abortion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 794

The Sudden Appearance of Hope

2016-05-17
The Sudden Appearance of Hope

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  • Author: Claire North
  • Publisher: Redhook
  • ISBN: 0316335975
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 480

The World Fantasy Award-winning thriller about a girl no one can remember, from the acclaimed author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. My name is Hope Arden, and you won't know who I am. But we've met before -- a thousand times. It started when I was sixteen years old. A father forgetting to drive me to school. A mother setting the table for three, not four. A friend who looks at me and sees a stranger. No matter what I do, the words I say, the crimes I commit, you will never remember who I am. That makes my life difficult. It also makes me dangerous. The Sudden Appearance of Hope is a riveting and heartbreaking exploration of identity and existence, about a forgotten girl whose story will stay with you forever.

The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

2011-11-08
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

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  • Author: Philip K. Dick
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • ISBN: 054754927X
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 934

A glimpse into the mind of the bestselling science fiction author through a collection of his personal, metaphysical, religious, visionary writings. Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this will be the definitive presentation of Dick’s brilliant, and epic, final work. In The Exegesis, Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called “2-3-74,” a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe “transformed into information.” In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit, adding to, revising, and discarding theory after theory, mixing in dreams and visionary experiences as they occurred, and pulling it all together in three late novels known as the VALIS trilogy. In this abridgment, Jackson and Lethem serve as guides, taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dick’s life and work. The e-book includes a sample chapter from A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick. “A dyspeptic dystopian’s mad secret notebooks, imposing order—at least of a kind—on a chaotic world…Fascinating and unsettling.”—Kirkus Reviews

King of the Rising

2020-12-01
King of the Rising

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  • Author: Kacen Callender
  • Publisher: Orbit
  • ISBN: 0316454958
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 328

King of the Rising is the searing conclusion to an unflinching and powerful Caribbean-inspired fantasy series about colonialism, resilience, and defiance. A revolution has swept through the islands of Hans Lollik and former slave Loren Jannik has been chosen to lead the survivors in a bid to free the islands forever. But the rebels are running out of food, weapons, and options. And as the Fjern inch closer to reclaiming Hans Lollik with every battle, Loren is faced with a choice that could shift the course of the revolution in their favor -- or doom it to failure. Praise for Islands of Blood and Storm: "A powerful look at colonialism, oppression, and rebellion, and all that it can cost the individuals involved." —Library Journal (starred review) "The book's absorbing setting, captivating lead, and relevant themes of race and class complement each other with alternating delicacy and savagery."—NPR Books "King of the Rising puts readers firmly into the minds of Callender’s unforgettable characters as it answers a spine-tingling set of questions: At the end of the war, who will survive and who will rule?” —BookPage Islands of Blood and Storm Queen of the Conquered King of the Rising

The Day The Martians Came

1989-11-15
The Day The Martians Came

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  • Author: Frederik Pohl
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 9780312917814
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 260

Henry Steegman is hardly "Mr. Personality" aboard the Mars-bound Algonquin 9. Yet it is he who bungles upon the spectacular Macy's-like city beneath the Red Planet's crust. For better or worse, the name Steegman will be immortalized by a discovery that will transform millions of lives. For a struggling screenwriter, the Martian beings could mean a big story, big bucks, headlines...and more women than any many his size has ever known... For an exhiled Russian rocket man, the are a possible route to America's space program, and the land of opportunity... For a flying-saucer faker of flickering fame, the possibilities are out of this world. In a brilliant near-future look at the human condition, Frederick Pohl has honed his satire-sharp science fiction to a steely new edge.