Author: Winter Travers
Publisher: Winter Travers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Charlie Beck is the Chicken King of Adams. I'm... well... I'm just Missy Clark, King, or I mean, Queen of nothing but sassy one-liners and malaphors. It's not "rocket surgery" to see that Charlie and I are on different paths in life. He's got the whole world in the palm of his hand, and I barely know what I'm doing ten minutes from now, let alone for the rest of my life. So, when two pink lines change everything, I do the only thing that makes sense. RUN! That is until Charlie Beck catches up to me, and he has something to say...
Charlie Beck Says I'm His
Author: Winter Travers
Publisher: Winter Travers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Charlie Beck is the Chicken King of Adams. I'm... well... I'm just Missy Clark, King, or I mean, Queen of nothing but sassy one-liners and malaphors. It's not "rocket surgery" to see that Charlie and I are on different paths in life. He's got the whole world in the palm of his hand, and I barely know what I'm doing ten minutes from now, let alone for the rest of my life. So, when two pink lines change everything, I do the only thing that makes sense. RUN! That is until Charlie Beck catches up to me, and he has something to say...
Publisher: Winter Travers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Charlie Beck is the Chicken King of Adams. I'm... well... I'm just Missy Clark, King, or I mean, Queen of nothing but sassy one-liners and malaphors. It's not "rocket surgery" to see that Charlie and I are on different paths in life. He's got the whole world in the palm of his hand, and I barely know what I'm doing ten minutes from now, let alone for the rest of my life. So, when two pink lines change everything, I do the only thing that makes sense. RUN! That is until Charlie Beck catches up to me, and he has something to say...
My Savior
Author: Winter Travers
Publisher: Winter Travers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The ride continues with the Iron Fiends MC. Olive was just trying to make enough money to survive. All of that changed when her world literally exploded, and in walked Cue Ball. The rough-around-the-edges biker and a member of the Iron Fiends MC was there to keep her safe. What she didn't expect was for Cue Ball to show her that just surviving wasn't enough. He could give her so much more if she just let go.
Publisher: Winter Travers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The ride continues with the Iron Fiends MC. Olive was just trying to make enough money to survive. All of that changed when her world literally exploded, and in walked Cue Ball. The rough-around-the-edges biker and a member of the Iron Fiends MC was there to keep her safe. What she didn't expect was for Cue Ball to show her that just surviving wasn't enough. He could give her so much more if she just let go.
Blue
Author: Joe Domanick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451641109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
American policing is in crisis. Here, award-winning investigative journalist Joe Domanick reveals the troubled history of American policing over the past quarter century. He begins in the early 1990s with the beating of Rodney King and the L.A. riots, when the Los Angeles Police Department was caught between a corrupt and racist past and the demands of a rapidly changing urban population. Across the country, American cities faced similar challenges to law and order. In New York, William J. Bratton was spearheading the reorganization of the New York City Transit Police and later the 35,000-strong New York Police Department. His efforts resulted in a dramatic decrease in crime, yet introduced highly controversial policing strategies. In 2002, when Bratton was named the LAPD's new chief, he implemented the lessons learned in New York to change a department that previously had been impervious to reform. Blue ends in 2015 with the LAPD on its unfinished road to reform, as events in Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, and Ferguson, Missouri, raise alarms about the very strategies Bratton pioneered, and about aggressive racial profiling and the militarization of police departments throughout the United States. Domanick tells his story through the lives of the people who lived it. Along with Bratton, he introduces William Parker, the legendary LAPD police chief; Tom Bradley, the first black mayor of Los Angeles; and Charlie Beck, the hard-nosed ex-gang cop who replaced Bratton as LAPD chief. The result is both intimate and expansive: a gripping narrative that asks big questions about what constitutes good and bad policing and how best to prevent crime, control police abuse, and ease tensions between the police and the powerless. Blue is not only a page-turning read but an essential addition to our scholarship.--Adapted from book jacket.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451641109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
American policing is in crisis. Here, award-winning investigative journalist Joe Domanick reveals the troubled history of American policing over the past quarter century. He begins in the early 1990s with the beating of Rodney King and the L.A. riots, when the Los Angeles Police Department was caught between a corrupt and racist past and the demands of a rapidly changing urban population. Across the country, American cities faced similar challenges to law and order. In New York, William J. Bratton was spearheading the reorganization of the New York City Transit Police and later the 35,000-strong New York Police Department. His efforts resulted in a dramatic decrease in crime, yet introduced highly controversial policing strategies. In 2002, when Bratton was named the LAPD's new chief, he implemented the lessons learned in New York to change a department that previously had been impervious to reform. Blue ends in 2015 with the LAPD on its unfinished road to reform, as events in Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, and Ferguson, Missouri, raise alarms about the very strategies Bratton pioneered, and about aggressive racial profiling and the militarization of police departments throughout the United States. Domanick tells his story through the lives of the people who lived it. Along with Bratton, he introduces William Parker, the legendary LAPD police chief; Tom Bradley, the first black mayor of Los Angeles; and Charlie Beck, the hard-nosed ex-gang cop who replaced Bratton as LAPD chief. The result is both intimate and expansive: a gripping narrative that asks big questions about what constitutes good and bad policing and how best to prevent crime, control police abuse, and ease tensions between the police and the powerless. Blue is not only a page-turning read but an essential addition to our scholarship.--Adapted from book jacket.
Power Concedes Nothing
Author: Connie Rice
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451625928
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The “fierce” and “remarkable” memoir from one of the nation’s most influential and celebrated civil rights attorneys—second cousin of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice—is “a rallying cry for social justice” (More magazine). Connie Rice has taken on the bus system, the school system, the death penalty, gangs, and the LAPD—and won. Now, with an electrifying, inimitable voice, Rice illuminates the origins and inspiration for her life’s work in this “genuinely compelling” (Kirkus Reviews) account. Part memoir, part call to action, Power Concedes Nothing is passionate, provocative, and studded with dramatic stories of a life in the trenches of civil rights. Inspired by the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., Connie Rice has written a “remarkable” (Publishers Weekly) blueprint for a new generation of justice seekers.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451625928
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The “fierce” and “remarkable” memoir from one of the nation’s most influential and celebrated civil rights attorneys—second cousin of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice—is “a rallying cry for social justice” (More magazine). Connie Rice has taken on the bus system, the school system, the death penalty, gangs, and the LAPD—and won. Now, with an electrifying, inimitable voice, Rice illuminates the origins and inspiration for her life’s work in this “genuinely compelling” (Kirkus Reviews) account. Part memoir, part call to action, Power Concedes Nothing is passionate, provocative, and studded with dramatic stories of a life in the trenches of civil rights. Inspired by the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., Connie Rice has written a “remarkable” (Publishers Weekly) blueprint for a new generation of justice seekers.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
Autumn Crush: A Small Town M/M Second Chance Romance
Author: Elle Waters
Publisher: Lemon Tree Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Could my teenage crush turn out to be my happily ever after? When I’m left a farmhouse in my father’s will, I plan to sell it fast and return to my real life as a film editor in Los Angeles. Jump cut to six months later, and I’m still here, avoiding going through my dad’s stuff. Okay, I’m avoiding my grief, too. Then my assistant editor asks if her brother can stay in my guest house while he organizes a charity bike race. Saying yes is easier than coming up with a creative excuse to stay in self-imposed isolation. When Charlie rides up to the house for the first time, I experience a serious flashback. Could this handsome, athletic man be the grown-up version of a boy I fell for at seventeen? There's no way it could be him, right? The minute he opens his mouth to say hello, I instantly know he’s the same boy only in a more delicious package—a bronzed god while I’m a pasty film geek. But he doesn’t remember me. Why should he? We were only friends for a few months before my dad and I moved for the millionth time. Turns out Charlie does remember me, and we bond over having lost people we loved. Against all odds, there’s a spark between us. Sex is one thing—sharing a future is another. We’ll both have to change in order to make this crush into something that’ll last forever. Autumn Crush is a stand-alone, second chance, childhood friends-to-lovers gay romance with plenty of sweet and steamy small-town goodness.
Publisher: Lemon Tree Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Could my teenage crush turn out to be my happily ever after? When I’m left a farmhouse in my father’s will, I plan to sell it fast and return to my real life as a film editor in Los Angeles. Jump cut to six months later, and I’m still here, avoiding going through my dad’s stuff. Okay, I’m avoiding my grief, too. Then my assistant editor asks if her brother can stay in my guest house while he organizes a charity bike race. Saying yes is easier than coming up with a creative excuse to stay in self-imposed isolation. When Charlie rides up to the house for the first time, I experience a serious flashback. Could this handsome, athletic man be the grown-up version of a boy I fell for at seventeen? There's no way it could be him, right? The minute he opens his mouth to say hello, I instantly know he’s the same boy only in a more delicious package—a bronzed god while I’m a pasty film geek. But he doesn’t remember me. Why should he? We were only friends for a few months before my dad and I moved for the millionth time. Turns out Charlie does remember me, and we bond over having lost people we loved. Against all odds, there’s a spark between us. Sex is one thing—sharing a future is another. We’ll both have to change in order to make this crush into something that’ll last forever. Autumn Crush is a stand-alone, second chance, childhood friends-to-lovers gay romance with plenty of sweet and steamy small-town goodness.
Creating Effective Rules in Public Sector Organizations
Author: Leisha DeHart-Davis
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1626164487
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The creation of rules that govern processes or behavior is essential to any organization, but these rules are often maligned for creating inefficiencies. This book provides the first comprehensive portrait of rules in public organizations and seeks to find the balance between rules that create red tape and rules that help public organizations function effectively, what the author calls “green tape.” Drawing on a decade of original research and interdisciplinary scholarship, Leisha DeHart-Davis builds a framework of three perspectives on rules: the organizational perspective, which sees rules as a tool for achieving managerial goals and organizational functions; the individual perspective, which examines how rule design and implementation affect employees; and the behavioral perspective, which explores human responses to the intersection of the first two perspectives. The book then considers the effectiveness of rules, applying these perspectives to a case study of employee grievance policies in North Carolina local government. Finally, the book concludes by outlining five attributes of effective rules—green tape—to guide future rule creation in public organizations. It applies green tape principles to the Five-Second Rule, a crowd control policy Missouri police implemented in the wake of protests following the Michael Brown shooting. Government managers and scholars of public administration will benefit from DeHart-Davis’s investigation and guidance.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1626164487
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The creation of rules that govern processes or behavior is essential to any organization, but these rules are often maligned for creating inefficiencies. This book provides the first comprehensive portrait of rules in public organizations and seeks to find the balance between rules that create red tape and rules that help public organizations function effectively, what the author calls “green tape.” Drawing on a decade of original research and interdisciplinary scholarship, Leisha DeHart-Davis builds a framework of three perspectives on rules: the organizational perspective, which sees rules as a tool for achieving managerial goals and organizational functions; the individual perspective, which examines how rule design and implementation affect employees; and the behavioral perspective, which explores human responses to the intersection of the first two perspectives. The book then considers the effectiveness of rules, applying these perspectives to a case study of employee grievance policies in North Carolina local government. Finally, the book concludes by outlining five attributes of effective rules—green tape—to guide future rule creation in public organizations. It applies green tape principles to the Five-Second Rule, a crowd control policy Missouri police implemented in the wake of protests following the Michael Brown shooting. Government managers and scholars of public administration will benefit from DeHart-Davis’s investigation and guidance.
Author: John Locke
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440196249
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
What if someone offered you $100,000 with the only stipulation being that a murderer would be killed if you accept the money? Would you take it? The people who choose to take it are about to find out the ramifications of their decisions to be part of this Lethal Experiment! Donovan Creed, former CIA assassin, is a smart-aleck tough guy who can't resist a noble cause. Despite a ton of baggage and a penchant for call girls, he always finds a way to beat the bad guys. In this sequel to Lethal People, Creed is forced to choose between his thriving contract-killer business, his part in the Lethal Experiment, and his desire to live a normal life with the beautiful Kathleen Gray and her newly-adopted daughter, Addie. Before that can happen, he has to take care of some lethal business involving a former lover. Lethal Experiment is a breezy and fun page-turner, featuring grisly humor, outrageous characters, and sexy dialogue.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440196249
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
What if someone offered you $100,000 with the only stipulation being that a murderer would be killed if you accept the money? Would you take it? The people who choose to take it are about to find out the ramifications of their decisions to be part of this Lethal Experiment! Donovan Creed, former CIA assassin, is a smart-aleck tough guy who can't resist a noble cause. Despite a ton of baggage and a penchant for call girls, he always finds a way to beat the bad guys. In this sequel to Lethal People, Creed is forced to choose between his thriving contract-killer business, his part in the Lethal Experiment, and his desire to live a normal life with the beautiful Kathleen Gray and her newly-adopted daughter, Addie. Before that can happen, he has to take care of some lethal business involving a former lover. Lethal Experiment is a breezy and fun page-turner, featuring grisly humor, outrageous characters, and sexy dialogue.
City of Lies
Author: R.J. Ellory
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468308459
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
A struggling writer is drawn into his estranged father’s life in the New York underworld in this thriller by the author of A Quiet Belief in Angels. Miami Herald reporter John Harper is about to go on assignment when he received word that his father has been shot—the father who disappeared when John was two years old. Returning home to New York brings memories of childhood, many of them painful, yet nothing could prepare John for the truth. Confronted with his father's notorious identity, John finds himself seduced by an underworld lifestyle of power, treachery, and menace. As he desperately tries to uncover the facts of his own past, he is faced with one lie after another. And with each new discovery he becomes more and more entangled in a dark and shocking conspiracy.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468308459
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
A struggling writer is drawn into his estranged father’s life in the New York underworld in this thriller by the author of A Quiet Belief in Angels. Miami Herald reporter John Harper is about to go on assignment when he received word that his father has been shot—the father who disappeared when John was two years old. Returning home to New York brings memories of childhood, many of them painful, yet nothing could prepare John for the truth. Confronted with his father's notorious identity, John finds himself seduced by an underworld lifestyle of power, treachery, and menace. As he desperately tries to uncover the facts of his own past, he is faced with one lie after another. And with each new discovery he becomes more and more entangled in a dark and shocking conspiracy.
All-American Cowboy
Author: Dylann Crush
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492662623
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This city boy has it all figured out... Until he goes toe-to-toe with a fierce cowgirl who's snagged the home field advantage. Holiday, Texas is known far and wide as the most celebratory town in the South—and no shindig is complete without one of its founding members. It's a real shame the last remaining Holiday is a city slicker, but what's that old saying about putting lipstick on a pig...? Beck has no intention of being charmed by some crazy Texas town, but the minute he lays eyes on his grandfather's old honky tonk—and Charlie Walker, the beautiful cowgirl who runs it—he finds himself wishing things could be different. Life's gentler in Holiday. Slower. More real than anything he's ever known. And when he looks into Charlie's eyes, Beck may finally discover what it's like to truly belong. Holiday, Texas Series: All-American Cowboy (Book 1) Cowboy Christmas Jubilee (Book 2)
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492662623
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This city boy has it all figured out... Until he goes toe-to-toe with a fierce cowgirl who's snagged the home field advantage. Holiday, Texas is known far and wide as the most celebratory town in the South—and no shindig is complete without one of its founding members. It's a real shame the last remaining Holiday is a city slicker, but what's that old saying about putting lipstick on a pig...? Beck has no intention of being charmed by some crazy Texas town, but the minute he lays eyes on his grandfather's old honky tonk—and Charlie Walker, the beautiful cowgirl who runs it—he finds himself wishing things could be different. Life's gentler in Holiday. Slower. More real than anything he's ever known. And when he looks into Charlie's eyes, Beck may finally discover what it's like to truly belong. Holiday, Texas Series: All-American Cowboy (Book 1) Cowboy Christmas Jubilee (Book 2)