Half Burnt Cigarette And A Little Love Note

I was always the scholar types! You can call me the book-worm, the scorer, or the achiever but still, my work was made my last priority by the people around me. Where once my life was full of laughter and friends just a few months later after my wedding I was screaming and banging the walls of my quiet house. Not that my husband Sahil was a bad guy, in fact, he was my support since my graduation days, but our circumstances made us helpless. In that emptiness that encircled me I was just unable to take Akash out of my mind, but why should I have taken him out anyway? He said we will unite again; I had to wait for that day and keep my memories alive till then! Set across two cities in India, Half burnt cigarette and a little love note narrates the journey of an educated and flamboyant modern Indian girl named Vaani, who gets entangled in a dual web of two different kinds of love relations; the modern-day and fast type love relation and the more traditional and old-school love relation. Which one of the two would you have chosen? Where will Vaani end up being?

A rising soccer star. An ambitious journalist. An outlaw turned hero. An orphaned tomboy. An aspiring actor. A wishful writer. From the militancy infested state of Kashmir to the glittering stadiums of Spain...from the dark underworld of drug peddling to the murky world of the fashion industry... from the big bad world of corporates to the court of law. 'Love and the Circle of Six' will take you into the intricately entwined fates of six individuals, experiencing the joy of love, the pain of betrayal, the feeling of ecstasy, and the brittleness of relationships.

A mind-blowing romp of digital poetry in the vein of William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, this postbiopunk vision set in the year 2065 is the debut novel of author Joseph Ellis Pereira. The legendary hacker Katnip finds himself the only quantum warrior with the skills to stop a virus that threatens to destabilize reality itself. To do this he’ll need two things – the first being the truth. The Illuminati, itself guided by a mysterious agency run by three E.B.E.’s (Extraterrestrial Biological Entities ) i.e. The Grays exist. In fact, there is far more than a grain of truth to every conspiracy theory you’ve ever laughed about. The truth is these hidden masters’ were never the enemy, nor had they ever had one. Until now. And his weapon is Project Monarch. Seemingly unstoppable. Save for that second thing - Katnip’s girlfriend , Aliza, and the unquantifiable love that binds them. Place your bets – all the way down the rabbit hole.

An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year On Halloween, 1991, a popular high school basketball star ventures into the woods near Battle Creek, Pennsylvania, and disappears. Three days later, he’s found with a bullet in his head and a gun in his hand—a discovery that sends tremors through this conservative community, already unnerved by growing rumors of Satanic worship in the region. In the wake of this incident, bright but lonely Hannah Dexter is befriended by Lacey Champlain, a dark-eyed, Cobain-worshiping bad influence in lip gloss and Doc Martens. The charismatic, seductive Lacey forges a fast, intimate bond with the impressionable Dex, making her over in her own image and unleashing a fierce defiance that neither girl expected. But as Lacey gradually lures Dex away from her safe life into a feverish spiral of obsession, rebellion, and ever greater risk, an unwelcome figure appears on the horizon—and Lacey’s secret history collides with Dex’s worst nightmare. By turns a shocking story of love and violence and an addictive portrait of the intoxication of female friendship, set against the unsettled backdrop of a town gripped by moral panic, Girls on Fire is an unflinching and unforgettable snapshot of girlhood: girls lost and found, girls strong and weak, girls who burn bright and brighter—and some who flicker away.

This report considers the biological and behavioral mechanisms that may underlie the pathogenicity of tobacco smoke. Many Surgeon General's reports have considered research findings on mechanisms in assessing the biological plausibility of associations observed in epidemiologic studies. Mechanisms of disease are important because they may provide plausibility, which is one of the guideline criteria for assessing evidence on causation. This report specifically reviews the evidence on the potential mechanisms by which smoking causes diseases and considers whether a mechanism is likely to be operative in the production of human disease by tobacco smoke. This evidence is relevant to understanding how smoking causes disease, to identifying those who may be particularly susceptible, and to assessing the potential risks of tobacco products.

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST By turns philosophical and darkly comic, an ex-smoker’s meditation on the nature and consequences of his nearly lifelong addiction. Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a lifelong addiction, from the thrill of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. Reflecting on his experiences as a smoker from a young age, Gregor Hens investigates the irreversible effects of nicotine on thought and patterns of behavior. He extends the conversation with other smokers to meditations on Mark Twain and Italo Svevo, the nature of habit, and the validity of hypnosis. With comic insight and meticulous precision, Hens deconstructs every facet of dependency, offering a brilliant analysis of the psychopathology of addiction. This is a book about the physical, emotional, and psychological power of nicotine as not only an addictive drug, but also a gateway to memory, a long trail of streetlights in the rearview mirror of a smoker’s life. Cigarettes are sometimes a solace, sometimes a weakness, but always a witness and companion. This is a meditation, an ode, and a eulogy, one that will be passed hand-to-hand between close friends.

Isolation is a varied state of being. It has many sights, sounds, and textures, each of them highly individual. Through the poems and prose of "Waldeinsamkeit", Benjamin Carruth explores the state and space of loneliness: how we become immersed in it, what we may find and feel there, and the process of restoring our connections to other people and ourselves.