Tag: Confessions

Free Download Frank Gilfeather, "Steve Paterson: Confessions of a Highland Hero"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1841588369, 1841589160 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 0.6 mb
Steve Paterson was set for fame and stardom with Manchester United in the 1970s, but from the age of sixteen he became gripped by an addiction to gambling before descending into alcoholism and debt. He became a soccer mercenary in Hong Kong, Australia and Japan, but his gambling and ruinous lifestyle followed him everywhere. Despite his personal problems, Paterson became a successful football manager, first in the Highland League and then, leading Inverness Caledonian Thistle all the way to the brink of promotion to the Premier League before taking the reins at Aberdeen Football Club from which he was sacked as his drinking and gambling escalated. By then, he had spent more than GBP1m on gambling over a 30 years period and racked up thousands of pounds worth of debt. In November 2008 Paterson decided to confront his addictions and booked into the famous Sporting Chance Clinic in Hampshire. He has now turned his life around and today works as a social worker helping youngsters in the north of Scotland. This candid and brutally honest memoir recounts the heady days of footballing success, twinned with the devastating hubris of his addictive personality.It is a heart-rending and insightful account of one of the most fascinating players and managers in the Scottish game.

Free Download Truman Locke, "Some Things You Should Know: Confessions of a TV Executive"
English | ISBN: 1350113409 | 2020 | 288 pages | EPUB | 430 KB
Truman Locke is a television executive. His job – to seek out extraordinary people and stories to put on TV – gives him a licence for adventure; freedom to go almost anywhere and do almost anything, so long as he’s successful. But now, things are going wrong. Under mounting pressure, his manoeuvring and risk taking start to slip out of control, bringing trouble and danger to his ordered world, jeopardizing everything.

Free Download Judith Krantz, "Sex and Shopping: The Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0312251963, 0312979657 | EPUB | pages: 386 | 6.1 mb
The autobiography of the popular novelist portrays her transformation from naive Wellesley graduate to sophisticated, world-traveled and acclaimed writer. By the author of Mistral’s Daughter and Scruples.

Free Download Clare Gee, "Hooked: Confessions of a London Call Girl"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1845966031 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.3 mb
A fast-paced, rollercoaster story of what a life of prostitution is really like and a young woman’s struggles with herself, her self-image, and her addictions

Free Download Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer by Stuart Ross
English | June 25, 2015 | ISBN: 177214018X | True EPUB | 128 pages | 1 MB
Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer takes up where Stuart Ross’s Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer left off in 2005. Memoir, tirade, unsolicited advice – this new volume is drawn largely from Stuart’s notorious "Hunkamooga" column that ran in subTerrain, but also includes pieces from his blog as well as previously unpublished work.

Free Download Bad habits : confessions of a recovering Catholic By McCarthy, Jenny; McCarthy, Jenny
2012 | 222 Pages | ISBN: 1401324657 | EPUB | 4 MB
The actress and comedian recounts her Catholic upbringing and her journey from aspiring nun at an all-girls school to bestselling author and talk show host, and offers her personal reflections on faith.

Free Download Augustine’s Confessions : a biography By Wills, Garry; Saint Bishop of Hippo. Augustine
2011 | 166 Pages | ISBN: 0691143579 | PDF | 1 MB
In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions–what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills’s biography of Augustine and his translation of the Confessions, this is an unparalleled introduction to one of the most important books in the Christian and Western traditions. Understandably fascinated by the story of Augustine’s life, modern readers have largely succumbed to the temptation to read the Confessions as autobiography. But, Wills argues, this is a mistake. The book is not autobiography but rather a long prayer, suffused with the language of Scripture and addressed to God, not man. Augustine tells the story of his life not for its own significance but in order to discern how, as a drama of sin and salvation leading to God, it fits into sacred history. "We have to read Augustine as we do Dante," Wills writes, "alert to rich layer upon layer of Scriptural and theological symbolism." Wills also addresses the long afterlife of the book, from controversy in its own time and relative neglect during the Middle Ages to a renewed prominence beginning in the fourteenth century and persisting to today, when the Confessions has become an object of interest not just for Christians but also historians, philosophers, psychiatrists, and literary critics. With unmatched clarity and skill, Wills strips away the centuries of misunderstanding that have accumulated around Augustine’s spiritual classic.

Free Download David Armstrong, "How Not to Write a Novel: Confessions of a Mid-List Author"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0749006803 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.3 mb
Every week, agents and ✅Publishers receive hundreds of manuscripts from would-be authors. Of these, less than one percent will make it into print. David Armstrong was one of the lucky ones – his first crime novel plucked from the slush pile and published to acclaim. But it rapidly became clear to Armstrong that being a published novelist is not always as glamorous as it seems from the outside. There are the depressing, ill-attended readings, the bitchy writers’ conventions, and the bookshops that have never heard of you and don’t stock your book. All of these will be familiar to any writer who, like Armstrong, falls into the category euphemistically known in publishing as ‘mid-list’. The reality is that for every J K Rowling there are 1,000 David Armstrongs; for every writer who is put up in a five-star hotel and flies first class courtesy of their ✅Publisher there are 1,000 who sleep on friends’ floors during book tours and dine at highway service stations… Witty, acerbic and wise, "How Not To Write A Novel" lifts the lid on publishing. From agents to editors, publicists to sales reps, it explains the publishing process – and how to survive it – from the point of view of a non-bestselling writer. A unique book, it is essential reading for anyone who dreams of getting their novel published – and for anyone curious about the inside workings of the publishing game.

Free Download Kang Zhengguo, "Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China"
English | 2008 | pages: 480 | ISBN: 0393332004, 0393064670 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
"A mesmerizing read…A literary work of high distinction." ―William Grimes, New York Times

Free Download Charles Bowden, "A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0151011834, 0156032538 | EPUB | pages: 309 | 0.4 mb
An anonymous narcotics agent outlines one of his most significant cases, which involved a fifty-million-dollar heroin deal that originated in Colombia and required the shared efforts of federal agents from all parts of the United States. By the author of Down by the River.