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  • The Best Four Years

    How to Survive and Thrive in College (and Life)

    by Adam Shepard ...
    Adam Shepard boldly and ingeniously proved the viability of the American Dream in his first book, Scratch Beginnings. Now he tells us that the years we spend in college are The Best Four Years of our lives—and he offers a lively, entertaining, and eminently insightful guide on how to make the most of the college experience from orientation to graduation.How do you turn four years of tuition into ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • One Year Lived

    by Adam Shepard ...
    FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK:"I'm not angry. I don't hate my job. I'm not annoyed with capitalism, and I'm indifferent to materialism. I'm not escaping emptiness, nor am I searching for meaning. I have great friends, a wonderful family, and fun roommates. The dude two doors down invited me over for steak or pork chops--my choice--on Sunday, and I couldn't even tell you the first letter of his name. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Scratch Beginnings

    Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream

    by Adam Shepard ...
    Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 31 min

    What can you get with twenty-five dollars and a dream?Adam Shepard graduated from college feeling disillusioned by the apathy around him and was then incensed after reading Barbara Ehrenreich's famous work Nickel and Dimed—a book that gave him a feeling of hopelessness about the working class in America. He set out to disprove Ehrenreich's theory—the notion that those who start at the bottom stay ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Scratch Beginnings

    Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream

    by Adam W. Shepard ...
    A young man sets out to prove the American Dream is alive and well in this memoir of homelessness, grit, and perseverance.After reading Barbara Ehrenreich's influential book, Nickel and Dimed, Adam Shepard felt discouraged by its hopeless view of American opportunity. He set out to disprove Ehrenreich's theory—the notion that those who start at the bottom stay at the bottom—by making something out ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Nightmare Magazine, January 2013

    by John Joseph Adams, Lucius Shepard, Ellen Datlow ...
    Series series Nightmare Magazine
    Nightmare is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In Nightmare's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.In this month's issue, we have original fiction from Matt Williamson ("On Murder Island") and Tamsyn Muir ("Chew"), along with reprints by Lucius Shepard ("The Ease with Which We Freed the Beast") and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Remaking English Society

    Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England

    by Steve Hindle, John D. Walter, Lindsay O'Neill, Malcolm J Gaskill, Naomi Tadmor, Paul Griffiths, Phil Withington, Tim Stretton, Alexandra Shepard1, Adam Fox2, Andy Wood3, Craig Muldrew4, Helen M Berry5, Henry French6 ...
    A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both within and between social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Nickel and Dimed

    On (Not) Getting By in America

    by Barbara Ehrenreich ...
    Narrated by Cristine McMurdo-Wallis ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    This engrossing piece of undercover reportage is a New York Times best-seller. With nearly a million copies in print, Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor. Author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America. What she discovers is a culture of desperation, where workers often ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Nightmare Magazine, December 2012

    by John Joseph Adams, Mike Mignola, Sarah Pinborough ...
    Series series Nightmare Magazine
    Nightmare is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In Nightmare's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.In this month's issue, we have original fiction from new writer J.B. Park ("Chop Shop") and bestselling author Daniel H. Wilson ("Foul Weather"), along with reprints by Tananarive Due ("Summer") and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Nightmare Magazine, November 2012

    by John Joseph Adams, Ramsey Campbell, Poppy Z. Brite ...
    Series series Nightmare Magazine
    Nightmare is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In Nightmare‘s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. In this month’s issue, we have original fiction by horror legend Ramsey Campbell (“At Lorn Hall) and up-and-coming writer Desirina Boskovich (“Construction Project”), along with classic reprints by ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Nightmare Magazine, October 2012

    by John Joseph Adams, Jonathan Maberry, Sarah Langan ...
    Series series Nightmare Magazine
    Nightmare is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In Nightmare‘s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. In our debut issue, we have four all-new, never before published horror stories: “Property Condemned” by Jonathan Maberry “Frontier Death Song” by Laird Barron “Good Fences” by Genevieve ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition

    by Paula Guran ...
    The darkness creeps upon us and we shudder, or it suddenly startles and we scream. There need be no monsters for us to be terrified in the dark, but if there are, they are just as often human and supernatural. Join us in this outstanding annual exploration of the year's best dark fiction that includes stories of quiet fear, the utterly fantastic, the weirdly surreal, atmospheric noir, mysterious ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Best Horror of the Year

    Edited by Ellen Datlow ...
    Series series Best Horror of the Year
    The first three volumes of The Best Horror of the Year have been widely praised for their quality, variety, and comprehensiveness.With tales from Laird Barron, Stephen King, John Langan, Peter Straub, and many others, and featuring Datlow’s comprehensive overview of the year in horror, now, more than ever, The Best Horror of the Year provides the petrifying horror fiction readers have come to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD