For nearly a decade, through his enigmatic and compellingPolaroids, Jeremy Kost has been telling the stories of NewYork nights from within its hottest party spots. In 2002, while staying with friends in Chelsea, Kost borrowedthe camera of one of his hosts and took it to The Cock. Eversince that fateful night, year after year, Kost has been thesole photographer to capture a complete millennial portraitof New York's famed drag queens, go-go boys, transsexuals,and wild-partying celebrities. An exhilarating trip through underground New York, It's AlwaysDarkest Before Dawn puts you on the guest list for a worldof vivacious creativity, performance, costume, and evidence(if you needed it) that a certain kind of fabulous madnessain't dead yet, and was around way before Lady Gaga! Celebration, angst, drunken revelry, joy, exhaustion,vulnerability, honesty, and pomp and circumstance areall captured in the uncompromising immediacy of Kost'sPolaroids of personalities such as Amanda Lepore, SophiaLamar, and oddly enough even former President Bill Clinton,Pamela Andersen, Paris Hilton, and many more. It's Always Darkest Before Dawn is Kost's first monograph andcollects the best, most outstanding images of New York'sclub culture created in the new millennium.

This collection of short stories and poems marks Cordy Jiang's first works as a budding creative writer. Her writing includes a wide array of topics ranging from mental health to romance. The large majority of the content is fictional, but of course, based on true events from her life. There is one memoir piece at the very end. Be warned that she doesn't shy away from topics that are difficult to swallow, and you will encounter some heavy pieces. Jiang believes in giving a voice to those who deserve to be heard, which means she writes about sensitive topics that are often neglected or ignored, such as the very real symptoms of mental illness and how they affect people's everyday lives. With that being said, there are some light-hearted pieces for comic relief sprinkled throughout some heavily emotional pieces. Reader discretion is advised. The reader should definitely be over 18 to read this. There is no sugar coating in this book, so if that's what you're looking for, this is probably not the book for you. I will say this: despite all of the darkness in this book, it is now the dawn.

Recovering from the recent suicide of her ex-boyfriend, senior class president Keisha Montgomery finds herself attracted to a dangerous, older man.

Dawn was living the American dream: the perfect job, the perfect house, and the perfect husband, who convinced her that "anything's possible when you're doing the right thing". But in 2009 when a recession rocks the Nation, she no longer believes in her husband's philosophy. Her American dream soon becomes an American nightmare when she's on the verge of losing everything she worked so hard for. Dawn quickly reverts to her old philosophy: Fight for what's yours by any means necessary. For Dawn, that means becoming someone she was in the past in order to ensure that she and her husband will again have the perfect future. Some say it's darkest before dawn. They have no idea.

Sixty-four days in captivity. Sixty-four days to lose yourself—or find yourself. Sixty-four days that gave me a love most people will never have, and my freedom took it all away. Constantly wondering when and how you will die, that does something to your mind. But what happens when it does something to your heart? What do you do when the presence of the man holding you captive becomes a comfort you crave—when you love him even though you shouldn’t? You smile and tell yourself it’s okay because love has no morals. I’m Ava Donovan. I was abducted at the age of nineteen. I’m told I’m a survivor, but the truth is, I only survived because he saved me.

When you can't sleep, there's always NIGHTS. The Night People are safe at last. After all the ugly pranks and vicious murders, things have finally returned to normal. The friends who are left are trying to forget and move on, taking comfort by meeting up late-night at their old hang out, Nights. It was the ancient spirit of Angelica Fear that caused all the trouble. And now she's been destroyed once and for all. Burned in a fire. But if it's true that the horror is dead, what did Angelica mean when her voice cried out from the flames?... "The Evil Lives!"