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We all are given a story in this world. Some are a more complex set of events than others. The difference I hope to make is that I don't hold back. I lay everything out as it truly happened and I don't keep anything to myself. Like this book, I'm an open one. Each moment of our lives is an opportunity to make a great impression upon all in it! This book is a chronicling of just a small drop in a bucket full of water that's my life. So, get rea...

Der Kunstlehrer denkt, Carson sei einer der Intelligenteren im Knast, bei der Psychologin weckt er mütterliche Gefühle, der Bewährungshelfer interessiert sich vor allem für die schmuddeligen Details seiner Erzählungen. Immer wieder landet Carson im Bau, wegen Drogengeschichten oder weil er nicht ganz legal an ein Auto gekommen ist. Der Roman folgt dem jungen Noongar Aboriginal auf seinen Wegen im Gefängnis, nach draußen und zurück in die Zell...

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Bird follows Carson, a youmg, cerebral Aboriginal man who traverses his way in and out of the prison system in Western Australia. The story is told through the multiple white characters Carson encounters along his journey. The novel is similar stylistically and thematically to Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting or some of the early writings of John Dos Passos, painting a picture of a world which is simultaneously bleak, comic and harrowing.This is a...

Mania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness since the American Revolution. From Civil War veteran and virulent anticapitalist Cyrus Teed, to the dapper and overlooked civil rights pioneer Father Divine, to even the megalomaniacal Jim Jones, these figures have routinely been dismissed as dangerous and hysterical outliers. After years of studying these emblematic figures, Adam Morris demonstrates that messiahs are...

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