Ergebnis für "This is Colin Baker" in Literatur & Belletristik

The This is the new social media platform everyone is talking about. Allow it to be injected into the roof of your mouth and it will grow into your brain, allowing you to connect with others without even picking up your phone. Its followers are growing. Its detractors say it is a cult. But for one journalist, hired to do a puff-piece interview with their CEO, it will change the world forever.

To say that Augusten Burroughs has lived an unusual life is an understatement. From having no formal education past third grade and being raised by his mother’s psychiatrist in the seventies to enjoying one of the most successful advertising careers of the eighties to experiencing a spectacular downfall and rehab stint in the nineties to having a number one bestselling writing career in the new millennium, Burroughs has faced humiliation, transformation and everything in between.

Auf der Flucht vor einer Entscheidung, die sie einfach nicht treffen kann, landet die 20-jährige Dawn im Jax. In der warmen und herzlichen Atmosphäre der Bar mit ihrem bunten Publikum fühlt Dawn sich zum ersten Mal frei und gleichzeitig geborgen. Das liegt nicht zuletzt an Silas, dem zurückhaltenden Besitzer der Bar, der ihre Liebe zu Büchern teilt. Ehe Dawn es sich versieht, hat sie sich in das Jax verliebt, in die roten Samtvorhänge, die schillernden Gäste, das künstlerische Programm - und auch in seinen Besitzer Silas.

I've devoted my life to my son, always putting his needs first, and honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way. Becoming a father was the best decision I've ever made, but hell, single parenting is difficult. I'm so tired of holding everything together. I need a partner, someone to share my life with. I miss intimacy and passion. I want someone who will take charge and help me let go of all this control I cling to. But an endless string of bad dates and rejection has me feeling like maybe love will never come for me. Maybe a father is all I'm meant to be in this life.