Raver Girl

Raver Girl

Author: Samantha Durbin

Publisher: She Writes Press

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1647423082

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A PopSugar Best New Books of 2021 Selection Weed inspires her. Acid shows her another dimension. Ecstasy releases her. Nitrous fills her with bliss. Cocaine makes her fabulous. Mushrooms make everything magical. Special K numbs her. Crystal meth makes her mean. Sixteen-year-old Samantha, raver extraordinaire, puts the “high” in high school. A ’90s time capsule buried inside a coming-of-age memoir set against the neon backdrop of the San Francisco Bay Area's rave scene, Raver Girl chronicles Samantha’s double life as she teeters between hedonism and sobriety, chaos and calm, all while sneaking under the radar of her entrepreneur father—a man who happened to drop acid with LSD impresario Owsley Stanley in the ’60s. Samantha keeps a list of every rave she goes to—a total of 104 over four years. During that time, what started as trippy fun morphs into a self-destructive roller coaster ride. Samantha opens the doors of her mind, but she's left with traumas her acid-fried brain won't let her escape; and when meth becomes her drug of choice, things get progressively darker. Through euphoric highs and dangerous lows, Samantha discovers she’s someone who lives life to the fullest and learns best through alternative experience rather than mainstream ideals. She’s a creative whose mind is limitless, whose quirks are charms, whose passion is inspirational. She’s an independent woman whose inner strength is rooted in unwavering family ties. And if she can survive high school, she just might be okay.


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Download or read book Raver Girl written by Samantha Durbin and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PopSugar Best New Books of 2021 Selection Weed inspires her. Acid shows her another dimension. Ecstasy releases her. Nitrous fills her with bliss. Cocaine makes her fabulous. Mushrooms make everything magical. Special K numbs her. Crystal meth makes her mean. Sixteen-year-old Samantha, raver extraordinaire, puts the “high” in high school. A ’90s time capsule buried inside a coming-of-age memoir set against the neon backdrop of the San Francisco Bay Area's rave scene, Raver Girl chronicles Samantha’s double life as she teeters between hedonism and sobriety, chaos and calm, all while sneaking under the radar of her entrepreneur father—a man who happened to drop acid with LSD impresario Owsley Stanley in the ’60s. Samantha keeps a list of every rave she goes to—a total of 104 over four years. During that time, what started as trippy fun morphs into a self-destructive roller coaster ride. Samantha opens the doors of her mind, but she's left with traumas her acid-fried brain won't let her escape; and when meth becomes her drug of choice, things get progressively darker. Through euphoric highs and dangerous lows, Samantha discovers she’s someone who lives life to the fullest and learns best through alternative experience rather than mainstream ideals. She’s a creative whose mind is limitless, whose quirks are charms, whose passion is inspirational. She’s an independent woman whose inner strength is rooted in unwavering family ties. And if she can survive high school, she just might be okay.

Raver Girl

Raver Girl

Author: Samantha Durbin

Publisher:

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781647423070

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Inside musky San Francisco warehouses in the middle of the night is where sixteen-year-old Samantha is her superstar self--anxiety-free, ultra-connected, on top of the world--but when the sun rises, the buzz fades, and it's back to the doldrums of high school circa 1996.


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Download or read book Raver Girl written by Samantha Durbin and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside musky San Francisco warehouses in the middle of the night is where sixteen-year-old Samantha is her superstar self--anxiety-free, ultra-connected, on top of the world--but when the sun rises, the buzz fades, and it's back to the doldrums of high school circa 1996.

Hold Me Down

Hold Me Down

Author: Clea Simon

Publisher: Polis Books

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1951709772

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A riveting work of dark suspense from acclaimed author Clea Simon Gal, a middle-aged musician, is back in Boston to play a memorial for her late drummer/best friend, when she finds herself freezing on stage at the sight of a face in the crowd. The next day, she learns that the man she saw has been killed – beaten to death behind the venue – and her friend’s widower is being charged in connection with his death. When the friend refuses to defend himself, Gal wonders why and, as the memories of begin to flood back, she starts her own informal investigation. As she does so, she must reexamine her own wild life, her perception of the past, and an industry that monetizes dysfunction in a dark tale of love, music, and murder.


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Download or read book Hold Me Down written by Clea Simon and published by Polis Books. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting work of dark suspense from acclaimed author Clea Simon Gal, a middle-aged musician, is back in Boston to play a memorial for her late drummer/best friend, when she finds herself freezing on stage at the sight of a face in the crowd. The next day, she learns that the man she saw has been killed – beaten to death behind the venue – and her friend’s widower is being charged in connection with his death. When the friend refuses to defend himself, Gal wonders why and, as the memories of begin to flood back, she starts her own informal investigation. As she does so, she must reexamine her own wild life, her perception of the past, and an industry that monetizes dysfunction in a dark tale of love, music, and murder.

The Raver Stories Project

The Raver Stories Project

Author: Rosa Costanza

Publisher: 5150 Publishing, Incorporated

Published: 2017-08-15

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780997107012

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The stories of the most amazing days and nights in the rave underground, as told by the ravers themselves! From "Electric Daisy Carnival" to Burning Man, THE RAVER STORIES PROJECT tells how electronic music has changed peoples lives in often memorable and profound ways. It pulls back the curtain on DJ culture, and the most important musical era since hip-hop! THE RAVER STORIES PROJECT is music, secrets and controversy, all rolled into one!


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Download or read book The Raver Stories Project written by Rosa Costanza and published by 5150 Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of the most amazing days and nights in the rave underground, as told by the ravers themselves! From "Electric Daisy Carnival" to Burning Man, THE RAVER STORIES PROJECT tells how electronic music has changed peoples lives in often memorable and profound ways. It pulls back the curtain on DJ culture, and the most important musical era since hip-hop! THE RAVER STORIES PROJECT is music, secrets and controversy, all rolled into one!

Sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams

Author: Kelley Ryden

Publisher: Sellers Publishing

Published: 2010-09-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781416205944

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" ... [F]eatures more than 100 unforgettable photographs of babies combined with inspiring text written for this book by acclaimed authors such as Jodi Picoult, Rebecca Wells, Barbara Delinsky and others. Their writing reflects the hope, dreams, and desires in every new parent's heart."--Page 4 of cover.


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Download or read book Sweet Dreams written by Kelley Ryden and published by Sellers Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... [F]eatures more than 100 unforgettable photographs of babies combined with inspiring text written for this book by acclaimed authors such as Jodi Picoult, Rebecca Wells, Barbara Delinsky and others. Their writing reflects the hope, dreams, and desires in every new parent's heart."--Page 4 of cover.

The Secret Lives of Wives

The Secret Lives of Wives

Author: Iris Krasnow

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-10-02

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1592407390

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A bestselling, groundbreaking author investigates wives who thrive, sharing their uncensored strategies for staying married. America’s high divorce rate is well known. But little attention has been paid to the flip side: couples who creatively manage to build marriages that are lasting longer than we ever thought possible. What’s the secret? To find out, bestselling journalist Iris Krasnow interviewed more than two hundred wives whose marriages have survived for fifteen to seventy years. In raw, candid, sometimes titillating stories, Krasnow’s cast of wise women give voice to the truth about marriage and the importance of maintaining a strong sense of self apart from the relationship. Some spend summers separately from their partners. Some make time for wine with the girls. One septuagenarian has a recurring date with an old flame from high school. In every case, the marriage operates on many tracks, giving both spouses license to pursue the question “Who am I apart from my marriage?” Krasnow’s goal is to give women permission to create their own marriages at any age. Marital bliss is possible, she says, if each partner is blissful apart from the other. For anyone who wants to stay married and stay sane, this is the book to read!


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Download or read book The Secret Lives of Wives written by Iris Krasnow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling, groundbreaking author investigates wives who thrive, sharing their uncensored strategies for staying married. America’s high divorce rate is well known. But little attention has been paid to the flip side: couples who creatively manage to build marriages that are lasting longer than we ever thought possible. What’s the secret? To find out, bestselling journalist Iris Krasnow interviewed more than two hundred wives whose marriages have survived for fifteen to seventy years. In raw, candid, sometimes titillating stories, Krasnow’s cast of wise women give voice to the truth about marriage and the importance of maintaining a strong sense of self apart from the relationship. Some spend summers separately from their partners. Some make time for wine with the girls. One septuagenarian has a recurring date with an old flame from high school. In every case, the marriage operates on many tracks, giving both spouses license to pursue the question “Who am I apart from my marriage?” Krasnow’s goal is to give women permission to create their own marriages at any age. Marital bliss is possible, she says, if each partner is blissful apart from the other. For anyone who wants to stay married and stay sane, this is the book to read!

Rave On

Rave On

Author: Matthew Collin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018-10-09

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 022659548X

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Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect. Cultural liberation and musical innovation. Pyrotechnics, bottle service, bass drops, and molly. Electronic dance music has been a vital force for more than three decades now, and has undergone transformation upon transformation as it has taken over the world. In this searching, lyrical account of dance music culture worldwide, Matthew Collin takes stock of its highest highs and lowest lows across its global trajectory. Through firsthand reportage and interviews with clubbers and DJs, Collin documents the itinerant musical form from its underground beginnings in New York, Chicago, and Detroit in the 1980s, to its explosions in Ibiza and Berlin, to today’s mainstream music scenes in new frontiers like Las Vegas, Shanghai, and Dubai. Collin shows how its dizzying array of genres—from house, techno, and garage to drum and bass, dubstep, and psytrance—have given voice to locally specific struggles. For so many people in so many different places, electronic dance music has been caught up in the search for free cultural space: forming the soundtrack to liberation for South African youth after Apartheid; inspiring a psychedelic party culture in Israel; offering fleeting escape from—and at times into—corporatization in China; and even undergirding a veritable “independent republic” in a politically contested slice of the former Soviet Union. Full of admiration for the possibilities the music has opened up all over the world, Collin also unflinchingly probes where this utopianism has fallen short, whether the culture maintains its liberating possibilities today, and where it might go in the future.


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Download or read book Rave On written by Matthew Collin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect. Cultural liberation and musical innovation. Pyrotechnics, bottle service, bass drops, and molly. Electronic dance music has been a vital force for more than three decades now, and has undergone transformation upon transformation as it has taken over the world. In this searching, lyrical account of dance music culture worldwide, Matthew Collin takes stock of its highest highs and lowest lows across its global trajectory. Through firsthand reportage and interviews with clubbers and DJs, Collin documents the itinerant musical form from its underground beginnings in New York, Chicago, and Detroit in the 1980s, to its explosions in Ibiza and Berlin, to today’s mainstream music scenes in new frontiers like Las Vegas, Shanghai, and Dubai. Collin shows how its dizzying array of genres—from house, techno, and garage to drum and bass, dubstep, and psytrance—have given voice to locally specific struggles. For so many people in so many different places, electronic dance music has been caught up in the search for free cultural space: forming the soundtrack to liberation for South African youth after Apartheid; inspiring a psychedelic party culture in Israel; offering fleeting escape from—and at times into—corporatization in China; and even undergirding a veritable “independent republic” in a politically contested slice of the former Soviet Union. Full of admiration for the possibilities the music has opened up all over the world, Collin also unflinchingly probes where this utopianism has fallen short, whether the culture maintains its liberating possibilities today, and where it might go in the future.

Brother, Betrayed

Brother, Betrayed

Author: Danielle Raver

Publisher:

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780615533438

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"One brother will betray the others with such treachery that it will change the destiny of Miscia forever."The three princes hear this prophecy, and they will discover how far it will drive them to explore love, loyalty, and their own souls.The princes are bound by loyalty to each other and their kingdom. When conflict comes to their land, their ascension into power is darkened by betrayal.Oman, eldest and Anteria's promised king, leads his brothers on their journey through Arnith. Fasime, driven by passion, seeks a life of romance and adventure. Syah, born the ailing youngest brother of these two outgoing princes, endeavours to overcome his bleak destiny through pursuit of knowledge and magic... a quest that may reveal unknown power within his own soul.A tale woven with deception, war, sacrifice, and magic, BROTHER, BETRAYED takes readers to a troubled kingdom surrounded by barbarians, magical races, and forbidden boundaries.Reviews and comments:The excerpt drew me in and kept me interested. The writing is strong and very detailed. I can envision the scenes as if I am standing in them.Sara Raven I enjoyed the magical, royal setting, the lavishness of the setting, the dancing and revelry of your opening paragraph; and the emergence of the relationships among the brothers and their parents. Very intriguing. Well written, Danielle.EldeenI loved loved loved your writing! You are a great writer. Well, your novel held me hostage!!! Casey S Your writing is excellent! The descriptions and attention to detail is some of the best I've read (even among well-known authors). I felt immediately drawn into the world and I could visualize every scene and set as I was reading. The three brothers are very intriguing, and I sense there's going to be a lot more development with them, but I became immediately attached to them all right from the start. It grabbed me from among the other.


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Download or read book Brother, Betrayed written by Danielle Raver and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One brother will betray the others with such treachery that it will change the destiny of Miscia forever."The three princes hear this prophecy, and they will discover how far it will drive them to explore love, loyalty, and their own souls.The princes are bound by loyalty to each other and their kingdom. When conflict comes to their land, their ascension into power is darkened by betrayal.Oman, eldest and Anteria's promised king, leads his brothers on their journey through Arnith. Fasime, driven by passion, seeks a life of romance and adventure. Syah, born the ailing youngest brother of these two outgoing princes, endeavours to overcome his bleak destiny through pursuit of knowledge and magic... a quest that may reveal unknown power within his own soul.A tale woven with deception, war, sacrifice, and magic, BROTHER, BETRAYED takes readers to a troubled kingdom surrounded by barbarians, magical races, and forbidden boundaries.Reviews and comments:The excerpt drew me in and kept me interested. The writing is strong and very detailed. I can envision the scenes as if I am standing in them.Sara Raven I enjoyed the magical, royal setting, the lavishness of the setting, the dancing and revelry of your opening paragraph; and the emergence of the relationships among the brothers and their parents. Very intriguing. Well written, Danielle.EldeenI loved loved loved your writing! You are a great writer. Well, your novel held me hostage!!! Casey S Your writing is excellent! The descriptions and attention to detail is some of the best I've read (even among well-known authors). I felt immediately drawn into the world and I could visualize every scene and set as I was reading. The three brothers are very intriguing, and I sense there's going to be a lot more development with them, but I became immediately attached to them all right from the start. It grabbed me from among the other.

The Hot One

The Hot One

Author: Carolyn Murnick

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-08

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1451625812

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Subtitle in pre-publication: A memoir of friendship, sex, and murder in the Hollywood Hills.


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Download or read book The Hot One written by Carolyn Murnick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitle in pre-publication: A memoir of friendship, sex, and murder in the Hollywood Hills.

Paper Squares and Purple Stars

Paper Squares and Purple Stars

Author: John Vibes

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-05-18

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781092363266

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The year was 2007, I had just turned 21, and I was struggling to find my place in a world that I didn't understand. I spent most of my life as an outcast because I refused to conform with the expectations of mainstream society, but that summer, everything changed when I went to a rave and discovered an underground culture where I was finally accepted, where there were people just like me. It was like stumbling down a rabbit hole into a magical land of peace, love, and freedom. It really did feel like there was some type of magic in the air back in those days, because my life changed so quickly. In just a few months, I went from a common hustler and a nervous wallflower to a major promoter who organized and supplied some of the most notorious underground events on the east coast.I found meaning in my life, and I even found love, but I also found a dark side, which would threaten everything I gained. I ended up in a unique position to witness some of the wildest things that this underworld has to offer, experiencing some very extreme highs and lows of my own along the way. Years later, I reflected on what I saw and what I learned during those crazy times, and now I am ready to tell my story.


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Download or read book Paper Squares and Purple Stars written by John Vibes and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year was 2007, I had just turned 21, and I was struggling to find my place in a world that I didn't understand. I spent most of my life as an outcast because I refused to conform with the expectations of mainstream society, but that summer, everything changed when I went to a rave and discovered an underground culture where I was finally accepted, where there were people just like me. It was like stumbling down a rabbit hole into a magical land of peace, love, and freedom. It really did feel like there was some type of magic in the air back in those days, because my life changed so quickly. In just a few months, I went from a common hustler and a nervous wallflower to a major promoter who organized and supplied some of the most notorious underground events on the east coast.I found meaning in my life, and I even found love, but I also found a dark side, which would threaten everything I gained. I ended up in a unique position to witness some of the wildest things that this underworld has to offer, experiencing some very extreme highs and lows of my own along the way. Years later, I reflected on what I saw and what I learned during those crazy times, and now I am ready to tell my story.