Les, a young physician, begins a Residency program in Psychiatry in New York. Restless, unsettled, and yearning for self-understanding, he chooses to do his last two years of training in San Francisco and San Juan. Through his experiences, he learns more about his own insecurities and fears, and how to negotiate them. His first position on returning to New York, staff psychiatrist at a University Hospital, introduces him to the academic medical environment, which he finds oppressive. The s...

This memoir from the bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge and Wishful Drinking gives you an intimate, gossip-filled look at what it’s like to be the daughter of Hollywood royalty.Told with the same intimate style, brutal honesty, and uproarious wisdom that locked Wishful Drinking on the New York Times bestseller list for months, Shockaholic is the juicy account of Carrie Fisher’s life. Covering a broad range of ...

For state prosecutor Bradlee Aames, psychosis is a fact of life, a waking nightmare from which modern medicine’s soulless jargon and mind-numbing meds have offered little relief. Bradlee stays focused by winning trial after trial, even while she’s self-medicating with booze, dope, and midnight surfing sessions at a classic LA point break. But when a thick fog of delusions engulfs her, she blows a case, and her reputation and competence are called into question. To rehabilitate her career, ...

Unlock the more straightforward side of The Catcher in the Rye with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, one of the most popular young adult novels of all time. It is written from the perspective of Holden Caulfield, a rebellious teenager who suffers from depression and finds social conventions oppressive. After being expelled, Holden decides to run...

'I can't think of a living stylist I admire more than Renata Adler' ELIF BATUMAN'Luminously exact' NEW YORK TIMES'It was as though the novel had outstretched arms and I fell in' PARIS REVIEWWhen Speedboat burst on the scene in the late '70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before.It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Re...

Friendly, affable Bobby looks like a younger version of Richard Gere, but with even more charm. You'd love to have him for a next door neighbor until he tells you stories of his life as a drug addict. In this article, he talks about robbing a pharmacy at gunpoint to get the drug OxyContin, which is a painkilling opoid. Young men like Bobby are robbing drug stores throughout the United States to get this drug. Bobby also hijacked a van, crashed during a police chase, faked seizures in the h...

Globe and Mail Best 100 Book of 2015The secret world of Mauritian street-gangs is not for the faint of heart. Fraught with peril and mischief, its inner workings are a mystery to the daughter of one of its most valued members: Serge, the Grand Menteur. A liar of exceptional caliber whose sole responsibility is to purposefully confuse police with alibis, the Menteur fears for the criminal future he has unwittingly introduced into his daughter's life, when he...

In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queer brown femme survivorhood and desire. Tonguebreaker is about surviving the unsurvivable: living through hate crimes, the suicides of queer kin, and the rise of fascism while falling in love and walking through your beloved’s Queens neighborhood. Building on her groundbreaking work in Bodymap, Tonguebreaker

Basic Mandarin (Chinese) For Beginners. Basic Mandarin for Travel in China, Everyday words and useful phrases, words for Greetings, Shopping, eating out, Directions and lots more. English to Mandarin (Chinese) as well as the Chinese Characters..

Award-winning writer, Robert Hillman, has collaborated with one of Australia's best-known youth outreach workers and social campaigners, to bring his story to the public in that wonderful storytelling style that Robert and Les share.Raised in Braybrook in Melbourne's Western suburbs, Les has devoted his life to young people doing it tough both in Melbourne's west and more recently in western Sydney, setting up crucial programs, services and resources to assist youth at risk. His is...

John Crace's Digested Read first appeared in in February 2000 and has been running ever since. Each week Crace reduces a new book – anything from a Booker Prize winner to a Nigella cookery book is fair game – to 700 words in a parody of the plot, style, dialogue and themes. Or lack of them. The Digested Read has not just become an institution for readers; it is read and enjoyed by publishers and authors too. So long as it is not their book being digested. A few years ago Crace wrote Brides...

The ‘Creative Writing Tutor’ scheme provides a lively series of themed booklets that will stimulate your child’s imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results. The booklets provide ‘a tutor’ for the child, fun features and stories to read, follow up activities to complete, harder vocabulary to prepare children for more advanced writing and many helpful tips and techniques to improve writing style.Written by an experienced teacher, they ...