The Book of Rehab is designed to be used the instant someone decides they want to turn their life around. It’s a program developed for the real world that was used by the author and many other people to change their pattern of bad habits. The program was developed by a former drug abuser, and it’s designed to be used at home. One of the book's primary functions is to act as a translator for the people around the abuser. Many times people are unable or afraid, or don't know what to say to s...

Lake Shore Drive is a series of stories from rock n' roll experiences spanning over 30 years on the road. These are stories you couldn't make up. Bank robbers, midgets, insane practical jokes, multiple personalities, indecent exposure, transexuals, Hollywood, elephant turds, hookers and of course, DRUGS! DRUGS! The stories cover the entire country from Chicago to New York to Los Angeles to San Francisco. The three main characters are a composite (sometimes) as are the minor players. There ...

Real life medical drama is OK… but true stories of emergency medicine that make you laugh out loud are better!Mike Cyra's comedic storytelling style of writing is hilarious. Experience what it's like to drive an Emergency Vehicle through traffic. Learn how not to deliver a baby; how to fake unconsciousness; fun ways to chop your fingers off and why controlling your imagination is so crucial, when you find yourself alone in a morgue refrigerator, and the lights go out.Stare de...

At age 14, Lori Stephens was thrown out into the streets by her mother. This was the beginning of a life no one deserves to endure, ever.Through her struggle to stay alive, in a world she barely understood. Lori survived the next 30 years of drug and alcohol addiction, homelessness, rape, domestic violence, assault, conflict with the Law and jail. See how she was forced to resort to physical violence to stay alive.How she escaped with the courage and the will to stay alive,...

This book details my experiences during a 23 year period living in a haunted house!

"Just the ticket for the '90s."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEIf you're too young for a nursing home yet too old to be a rock star, if your marriage is as exciting as scraping grass off the lawnmower blades, then this hilarious book by Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist and author is for you. Put on your protective eyewear and take a probing look inside your increasingly Spam-like body at: The Midlife (Yawn) Marriage; Wise Financial Planning for Irresponsible Scum Such as Yourself; Sex...

"In the Arms of a Stranger" is Dale J Bingham's touching and moving account of his career as a paramedic. From his early years as a medic in Southern California, to his work as a Tulsa, Oklahoma paramedic, he gives an inside look at the rewards, the trials, and the heartaches that emergency workers face everyday. In between, he writes of his own struggles with a difficult career and of tragically losing his own mother to the very part of life he worked so hard to conquer. "In ...

In his brashest solo show, performer and playwright Eric Bogosian once again aims his searing social commentary at the contemporary urban and suburban scene. "Never miss Bogosian, because the sharp-tongued, sharp-shooting Bogosian never misses."--Clive Barnes, New York Post

Ever wonder about people who are always laughing?  They are usually remembering stories they have read in the TWENTY FUNNY STORIES books.  Do you Want to know what to look for in a toilet seat; find out why men should listen to their wives; what to do about annoying phone calls?  Well, this book gives you funny solutions - not really, but these and a few other stories that are included in this book will bring smiles, chuckles, and laughter to your heart.

Have you ever faked sleep at 3 a.m. in a perverse game of 'baby monitor chicken' with your partner? Or wondered exactly how dire the consequences of an incorrect measurement of formula might be?Have you fought off the urge to strangle the feral child who smeared something unidenitfiable on the playground slide just before your toddler used it? Or fought off the urge to strangle your own while they repeatedly shout 'What's up f**kface?' to all and sundry during a trip to the superma...

Do You want, or need to better understand addiction? now you can hear the story of an addition counsler that has been through the process of addiction and can share the thoughts and feelings of someone who overcame both alcohol and a drug problem. Could you use advice from an addiction counselor that has worked in a residetial treatment centre for more then ten years? I have done both. let me share my experience with you as a counslor and an alcoholic/addi...

This book contains actual 911 emergency and non-emergency calls that came into the San Diego Police Department Communications Division during my 19 years as a Police 911 Dispatcher.This book represents the calls received as accurately as possible. I did not embellish them to make them funnier or more exciting. These are actual calls, often unbelievable, but they are real calls.This book is a way for me to portray the "real world" of a 911 dispatcher. As you read through the...