The Words of a Madman

The Words of a Madman
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Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : 1980746907
ISBN-13 : 9781980746904
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Words of a Madman by : caitlin kelly

this book is about being real. being broken. being happy. being sad. being anxious. being in love. being depressed. and overall being human.

Tales of the Madman Underground

Tales of the Madman Underground
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 544
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ISBN-10 : 9781101081938
ISBN-13 : 1101081937
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Tales of the Madman Underground by : John Barnes

Wednesday, September 5, 1973: The first day of Karl Shoemaker's senior year in stifling Lightsburg, Ohio. For years, Karl's been part of what he calls "the Madman Underground" - a group of kids forced (for no apparent reason) to attend group therapy during school hours. Karl has decided that senior year is going to be different. He is going to get out of the Madman Underground for good. He is going to act - and be - Normal. But Normal, of course, is relative. Karl has five after-school jobs, one dead father, one seriously unhinged drunk mother . . . and a huge attitude. Welcome to a gritty, uncensored rollercoaster ride, narrated by the singular Karl Shoemaker.

The Perks of Solitude

The Perks of Solitude
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Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9798709874923
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Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis The Perks of Solitude by : Caitlin Kelly

i've come to the conclusion that i'll never stop writing. even if my pen ink runs dry or my phone loses battery, i always find a way to scribble my nonsense somewhere. after the teenage years of my life. as a seventeen-year-old girl that has no idea what she's doing anymore, i'm deciding to format all my works into yet another book. i don't think my writing will be stopped. even if i acquire writer's block, i write about not having anything to write about. there's always something to write. there's always something to say. i could write poetry books my whole life and maybe... i will. this is the journey in the next chapter of my life. i moved out, became an individual and learned too much, too quickly. i only have room to grow.

The Madman of Piney Woods

The Madman of Piney Woods
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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9780545633765
ISBN-13 : 0545633761
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis The Madman of Piney Woods by : Christopher Paul Curtis

In this poignant companion to Elijah of Buxton, two boys united by tragedy find friendship and adventure in the Canadian woods. Benji and Red couldn’t be more different. They aren’t friends. They don’t even live in the same town. But their fates are entwined. A chance meeting leads the boys to discover that they have more in common than meets the eye. Both of them have encountered a strange presence in the forest, watching them, tracking them. Could the Madman of Piney Woods be real? In a tale brimming with intrigue and adventure, Christopher Paul Curtis returns to the vibrant world he brought to life in Elijah of Buxton. Here is another novel that will break your heart—and expand it, too. This critically acclaimed story by National Book Award finalist Christopher Paul Curtis joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes extra bonus content! Praise for The Madman of Piney Woods “Humor and tragedy are often intertwined, and readers will find themselves sobbing and chuckling, sometimes in the same scene.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review “A delight, featuring the author’s obvious love for his characters, his skillful use of sentiment, and his often hyperbolic humor.” —Booklist, Starred Review “Heady stuff. Funny stuff. Smart stuff. Good stuff. Better get your hands on this stuff.” —School Library Journal “So suspenseful . . . Curtis deftly makes what might have been simply heart-rending hopeful and redeeming instead . . . A thrill ride of a plot.” —TheNew York Times

Letters to a Young Madman

Letters to a Young Madman
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Publisher : Levins Publishing
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0985397233
ISBN-13 : 9780985397234
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Letters to a Young Madman by : Paul Gruchow

In Letters to a Young Madman, a man of genius, of uncanny writing ability, and of profound empathy for the mentally ill, recounts his “spectacular plunge from competency into official madness.” Paul Gruchow’s account of the mental illness, which eventually claimed his life, explores the double injury inflicted on the mentally ill. First, there is the illness itself, with its often debilitating symptoms. But then there is the more insidious injury made by society, stigmatization: “We no longer believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals, but we are not ready to grant that they are fully human, either.” In a voice remarkably clear, eloquent, and calm, Gruchow shows us why he came to regard the mentally ill as “his heroes.”

Madman in the Woods

Madman in the Woods
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Publisher : Diversion Books
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9781635768183
ISBN-13 : 1635768187
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Madman in the Woods by : Jamie Gehring

One woman’s haunting sixteen-year account of her youth when she and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. As a child in Lincoln, Montana, Jamie Gehring and her family shared their land, their home, and their dinner table with a hermit with a penchant for murder. But they had no idea that the odd recluse living in the adjacent cabin was anything more than a disheveled man who brought young Jamie painted rocks as gifts. Ted was simply Ted, and erratic behavior, surprise visits, and chilling events while she was riding horses or helping her dad at his sawmill were dismissed because he was “just the odd hermit.” In fact, he was much more—Ted eluded the FBI for seventeen years while mailing explosives to strangers, earning the infamous title of Unabomber. In Gehring’s investigative quest twenty-five years later to reclaim a piece of her childhood and to answer the questions, why, how, she recalls what were once innocent memories and odd circumstances that become less puzzling in hindsight. The innocence of her youth robbed, Gehring needed to reconcile her lived experience with the evil that hid in plain sight. In this book, through years of research probing Ted’s personal history, his writings, his secret coded crime journals, her own correspondence with him in his Supermax prison cell, plus interviews with others close to Kaczynski, Gehring unearths the complexity, mystery, and tragedy of her childhood with the madman in the woods. And she discovers a shocking revelation—she and her family were in Kaczynski’s crosshairs. A work of intricately braided research, journalism, and personal memories, this book is a chilling response to the question: Do you really know your neighbor? Praise for Madman in the Woods “Combining the observations of a one-time close neighbor with extensive research and empathy for the many lives affected, Jamie Gehring’s book might well be the best attempt yet to understand the strange life and mind of my brother, Theodore J. Kaczynski.” —David Kaczynski,?author of?Every Last Tie: The Story of the Unabomber and His Family “A captivating look at Ted Kaczynski—the Unabomber—from a perspective that no one else on the planet has.?It is insightful, unique, and fascinating!? A must read for all true crime fans and anyone who loves to know the real story behind the story.” —Jim Clemente, retired FBI supervisory special agent/profiler and writer/producer of the Audible Original Series Where the Devil Belongs

The Madman: His Parables and Poems

The Madman: His Parables and Poems
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 50
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ISBN-10 : 9783387043853
ISBN-13 : 3387043856
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The Madman: His Parables and Poems by : Kahlil Gibran

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Walk Like a Giant, Sell Like a Madman

Walk Like a Giant, Sell Like a Madman
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9780887309304
ISBN-13 : 0887309305
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Walk Like a Giant, Sell Like a Madman by : Ralph R. Roberts

The average real estate sells ten to twelve homes per year. A superstar salesperson sells fifty. Last year alone, Ralph Roberts sold more than six hundred residential properties -- fifty time more than the average competitor! What the secret behind the nation's bestselling real estate agent? How can you achieve similar phenomenal success in your field? More important, can you reach the megalevels Ralph Roberts attains year after year? Yes!

The Dictionary of Lost Words

The Dictionary of Lost Words
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Publisher : Ballantine Books
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9781984820730
ISBN-13 : 1984820737
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dictionary of Lost Words by : Pip Williams

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world. WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD

The Madman of Venice

The Madman of Venice
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Publisher : Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9780385738439
ISBN-13 : 0385738439
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis The Madman of Venice by : Sophie Masson

When he comes to Venice in 1602 to investigate pirate attacks on merchant ships, Master Ashby is entreated to find a Jewish girl who has disappeared from the Venice Ghetto amid a powerful countess's accusations of witchcraft.