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  This Is Gonna Hurt - Music...

  Nikki Sixx

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  This is Gonna Hurt is music, photography, and life through the distorted lens of Nikki Sixx, bassist for heavy metal rock band Mötley Crüe’s and the New York Times bestselling author of The Heroin Diaries. A combination of powerful prose and dramatic photographs, This is Gonna Hurt is an arresting, deeply personal look through the eyes of a real rock star at a stark, post-addiction world.

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  The Saint - From their pens to...

  Mary Butts

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  Mary Frances Butts was born on 13th December 1890 in Poole, Dorset. 
  Her early years were spent at Salterns, an 18th-century house overlooking Poole Harbour.  Sadly in 1905 her father died, and she was sent for boarding at St Leonard's school for girls in St Andrews. 
  Her mother remarried and, from 1909, Mary studied at Westfield College in London, and here, first became aware of her bisexual feelings.  She was sent down for organising a trip to Epsom races and only completed her degree in 1914 when she graduated from the London School of Economics.  By then Mary had become an admirer of the occultist Aleister Crowley and she was given a co-authorship credit on his ‘Magick (Book 4)’. 
  In 1916, she began the diary which would now detail her future life and be a constant reference point for her observations and her absorbing experiences. 
  During World War I, she was doing social work for the London County Council in Hackney Wick, and involved in a lesbian relationship.  Life changed after meeting the modernist poet, John Rodker and they married in 1918. 
  In 1921 she spent 3 months at Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema in Sicily; she found the practices dreadful and also acquired a drug habit.  Mary now spent time writing in Dorset, including her celebrated book of short stories ‘Speed the Plough’ which saw fully develop her unique Modernist prose style. 
  Europe now beckoned and several years were spent in Paris befriending many artists and writing further extraordinary stories.   
  She was continually sought after by literary magazines and also published several short story collections as books. Although a Modernist writer she worked in other genres but is essentially only known for her short stories.  Mary was deeply committed to nature conservation and wrote several pamphlets attacking the growing pollution of the countryside. 
  In 1927, she divorced and the following year her novel ‘Armed with Madness’ was published.  A further marriage followed in 1930 and time was spent attempting to settle in London and Newcastle before setting up home on the western tip of Cornwall.  By 1934 the marriage had failed. 
  Mary Butts died on 5th March 1937, at the West Cornwall Hospital, Penzance, after an operation for a perforated gastric ulcer. She was 46.

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  Black Power Black Lawyer - My...

  Nkechi Taifa

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  Black Power, Black Lawyer (BPBL) is a memoir that stitches suspense, calamity, humor, and wit into a tapestry of history, politics, law, culture, and romance. Both serious and scandalous, Nkechi Taifa’s audacious quest for justice is a gripping commentary on life, the perennial nature of human resistance to oppression, and her steadfast embrace of what is just. Sometimes raw, sometimes abrasive, sometimes passionate, Taifa offers her truth unapologetically and unfiltered, with honesty and authenticity. Her memoir tells a rarely heard quest: the search for resisters and rebels and the pursuit of issues on the cutting edge. Many memoirs chronicle iconic leaders of the civil rights era, yet few capture the transformative journeys of ordinary people coming of age during the tumultuous Black Power era. 
  BPBL offers a uniquely personal glimpse from an insider’s perspective into lesser-known chapters of history—from vivid stories of the more militant aspects of the Black liberation struggle to the craziness of congressional “sausage-making.” Journey with Taifa as she bears witness to ancestors, people, and moments that shaped her identity. From sitting on the lap of a brother providing security in the Black Panther Party office; to getting arrested just after graduating from law school; to being accused of being an FBI agent; to representing the lead defendant in the Capitol Bombing case; to being detained at an airport five months pregnant as an alleged enemy of the state; to winning a six-figure settlement in a landmark employment discrimination case against a major news network; to helping spark change to the infamous crack cocaine laws—her quest for justice reigned supreme. 
  This memoir is sure to awaken, inform, provoke, and inspire you to either join—or continue—“The Struggle” in both the suites and the streets! 
  Visit BlackPowerBlackLawyer.com for exciting updates since the memoir’s 2020 publication, particularly people who are now free!

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  SILENT WARRIOR:LIFE BEYOND...

  DR GEETANJALI MATHUR.

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  This book is written to bring awareness to women of all age groups and to give a lot of importance to self first, in case of health issues. It highlights the subject of women's health, the bedrock of a family. 
  Are you facing a physical or mental health problem? If you are the caregiver, the guardian or a medical professional, of such a person, going through a health issue, then you shall find this book "The Silent Warrior": Life Beyond Ovarian Cancer, motivating. 
  A medical doctor and a cancer survivor shares in this memoir, a deeply personal voyage through the turbulent waters of life, navigating through disease and beyond, with medical insight, resilience, and faith. It is regarding the unpredictable and challenging nature of the disease during the prime of her life. It is the indomitable human spirit that allows one to survive such deathly blows of life. 
  This book is not only about survival at the physical but also emotional and spiritual levels. The experiences mentioned in this book will help those facing health issues to find strength and courage, to smoothen life for a better tomorrow, knowing that you are not alone in this. 
  The book touches on the issues of awareness and early detection of the disease. There is no one path for all, as far as the varied holistic approaches are concerned. Everyone has to pick and choose what is best for them. The most important fact is, to get the right medical help at the earliest and continue alongside, the other practices for a good life. 
  Does one get a premonition of an imminent incident in life? 
  Do you get an answer to your question from the higher energies in trying times? Find some answers in the book "The Silent Warrior": Life Beyond Ovarian Cancer, by Dr. Geetanjali Mathur.

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  Return from Tomorrow

  George G. Ritchie, Elizabeth...

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  The True Story of an Uncharted Journey Through the Afterlife 
   
  As a world war raged around him, a young soldier named George Ritchie barely comprehended his own death as he left the physical world--only to return minutes later. Yet in the space between death and coming back to life, he experienced eternity.  
   
  In this riveting true story, Dr. George Ritchie shares some of the most stunning and detailed descriptions of life after death. You'll encounter other non-physical beings, travel through different dimensions of time and space, and discover a series of worlds--some hellish in their separation from life, some glorious in their heavenly brilliance. But most amazingly, you'll witness his transformational meeting with the Light of the world, the Son of God.  
   
  Hailed as one of the most amazing visions of the afterlife ever recorded, Ritchie's experience forever changed the course of his life and his understanding of the realm beyond our own--and it can do the same for you. 

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  After the Fire - A Memoir in...

  J. A. Jance

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  New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance's heartrending collection of poetry and essays recounts a dark chapter of her own life, her first marriage to an alcoholic—a powerful look at the emotional cost of addiction and an inspiring story of courage and triumph in the wake of crushing defeat 
  Before she found fame as a bestselling mystery author, Judith Jance wrestled with the anguish of being married to an alcoholic. For years she channeled her pain into words, composing the poems in this moving volume, first published in 1984, a year before her debut novel. 
  In searing and direct language, After the Fire chronicles the collapse of Jance's first marriage under the weight of her husband's addiction—and her own unwitting denial and codependence while she struggled to find herself. "I will not be the price of your redemption," she wrote then. "I will not pay my life to ransom yours." 
  An intimate, deeply personal look into a wrenching time in Jance's life, After the Fire is a portrait of addiction and its insidious effects on lives and love. It illuminates universal truths about unbearable loss and finding the courage to carry on, and offers inspiration and profound insight into the heart and work of a beloved bestselling author.

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