title: Atlas of the Human Heart: A Memoir
author:  Ariel Gore 
description: In the late 1980s, at age 16, Gore dropped out of high school, took her GED, and bought a one-way ticket to Hong Kong. From there she made her way to China, finagled herself into the Beijing Language Institute, and began a three-year journey of self-discovery that took her to Tibet, Nepal, India, Amsterdam, England, and Italy (to name only a few of her ports of call). This astounding memoir describes her experiences, including stints as a language student, smuggler, pilgrim, squatter, and indie film actress. Along the way, more than one person, upon learning her age, declares, "Your mother is crazy." Few would argue with that assessment, but whatever one may think of teaching self-reliance through benign neglect, it's clear that Gore's adventures make absorbing reading. She didn't end up dead, a fact that will strike most readers as remarkable, but she did end up pregnant in Italy at age 19 by her lout of a boyfriend. Ever resilient, Gore used her experiences as a young mother to good advantage, founding the well-regarded and unapologetically political magazine <i>Hip Mama</i>. <i>Beth Leistensnider</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
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  ADRENALIZE
  
  
  REBEL HEART BOOK 6
  
  
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  TRINA M. LEE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ADRENALIZE
  
  
  Copyright 2019 by Trina M. Lee
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
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  mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of
  the author.
  
  
  Published in Canada
  
  
  Editor
  
  
  [B. Leigh Hogan](http://hogandl.wixsite.com/editing)
  
  
  Cover Artist
  
  
  [Covers by Christian](http://coversbychristian.com/)
  
  
  Published by
  
  
  [Trina M. Lee](http://trinamlee.net/)
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents and dialogues in this
  book are of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any
  resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is completely
  coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Table of Contents
  
  
  [Chapter One](part0002_split_001.html#_CHAPTER_ONE)
  
  
  [Chapter Two](part0003_split_001.html#_CHAPTER_TWO)
  
  
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