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Author : J. B. Stephens
Release : 2004
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 067/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Big Empty by : J. B. Stephens
Download or read book The Big Empty written by J. B. Stephens. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After half of the world's population is killed by a plague, seven teenagers seek a better life in a nightmarish future by deciphering coded messages and trying to avoid the Slashers. Original.
Author : Loren Steffy
Release : 2021-03
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Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 241/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Big Empty by : Loren Steffy
Download or read book The Big Empty written by Loren Steffy. This book was released on 2021-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Trace Malloy and Blaine Witherspoon collide on a desolate West Texas highway, their fender bender sets the tone for escalating clashes that will determine the future of the town of Conquistador. Malloy, a ranch manager and lifelong cowboy, knows that his occupation--and his community--are dying. He wants new- millennium opportunities for his son, even though he himself failed to summon the courage to leave familiar touchstones behind. Witherspoon, an ambitious, Lexus-driving techie, offers a solution. He moves to Conquistador to build and run a state-of-the-art semiconductor plant that will bring prestige and high-paying technology jobs to revive the town--and advance his own career. What neither man anticipates is the power the "Big Empty" will wield over their plans. The flat, endless expanse of dusty plain is as much a character in the conflict as are the locals struggling to subsist in this timeworn backwater and the high-tech transplants hell-bent on conquering it. While Malloy grapples with the flaws of his ancestors and his growing ambivalence toward the chip plant, Witherspoon falls prey to construction snafus, corporate backstabbing, and financial fraud. As they each confront personal fears, they find themselves united in the search for their own version of purpose in a uniquely untamable Texas landscape. The Big Empty, the debut novel from longtime journalist and nonfiction author Loren C. Steffy, combines a sweeping appreciation for history and the struggles of small-town America with an examination of technology and the social and economic changes that come over time.
Author : Todd Henry
Release : 2015-04-28
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 994/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Die Empty by : Todd Henry
Download or read book Die Empty written by Todd Henry. This book was released on 2015-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A must-read for anyone interested in moving from inspiration to action.” —Cal Newport, author of So Good They Can’t Ignore You Most of us fill our days with frantic activity, bouncing from task to task, scrambling to make deadlines and chase the next promotion. But by the end of each day we’re often left wondering if any of it really mattered. We feel the ticking of the clock, but we’re unsure of the path forward. Die Empty is a tool for people who aren’t willing to put off their most important work for another day. Todd Henry explains the forces that lead to stagnation and introduces practices that will keep you on a true and steady course. The key is embracing the idea that time is finite, so you should focus on the unique contribution to the world that only you can make. Henry shows how to sustain your enthusiasm, push through mental barriers, and unleash your best work each day.
Author : J. B. Stephens
Release : 2005-02
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 081/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Desolation Angels by : J. B. Stephens
Download or read book Desolation Angels written by J. B. Stephens. This book was released on 2005-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After learning that the head of their community of Novo Mundum wants them killed, five teenagers escape into the Big Empty--a lawless space left desolate after a virus destroyed much of the human race.
Author : Susan Burton
Release : 2021-07-06
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 72X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Empty by : Susan Burton
Download or read book Empty written by Susan Burton. This book was released on 2021-07-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still. “Her tale of compulsion and healing is candid and powerful.”—People NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE For almost thirty years, Susan Burton hid her obsession with food and the secret life of compulsive eating and starving that dominated her adolescence. This is the relentlessly honest, fiercely intelligent story of living with both anorexia and binge-eating disorder, moving past her shame, and learning to tell her secret. When Burton was thirteen, her stable life in suburban Michigan was turned upside down by her parents’ abrupt divorce, and she moved to Colorado with her mother and sister. She seized on this move west as an adventure and an opportunity to reinvent herself from middle-school nerd to popular teenage girl. But in the fallout from her parents’ breakup, an inherited fixation on thinness went from “peculiarity to pathology.” Susan entered into a painful cycle of anorexia and binge eating that formed a subterranean layer to her sunny life. She went from success to success—she went to Yale, scored a dream job at a magazine right out of college, and married her college boyfriend. But in college the compulsive eating got worse—she’d binge, swear it would be the last time, and then, hours later, do it again—and after she graduated she descended into anorexia, her attempt to “quit food.” Binge eating is more prevalent than anorexia or bulimia, but there is less research and little storytelling to help us understand it. In tart, soulful prose Susan Burton strikes a blow for the importance of this kind of narrative and tells an exhilarating story of longing, compulsion and hard-earned self-revelation.
