Author: Rocco Morelli
Publisher: Bridge-Logos
ISBN: 9780882703237
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"At the age of 15, Rocco Morelli was already on his way up the ladder of life in the big time. A hometown Mafia "prince" with family roots that sink deep into organized crime, Morelli was cursed to repeat the sins of his fathers until his life=changing encounter with the only man who can stand up to him: Jesus Christ." (back cover).
Forgetta 'Bout It
Author: Rocco Morelli
Publisher: Bridge-Logos
ISBN: 9780882703237
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"At the age of 15, Rocco Morelli was already on his way up the ladder of life in the big time. A hometown Mafia "prince" with family roots that sink deep into organized crime, Morelli was cursed to repeat the sins of his fathers until his life=changing encounter with the only man who can stand up to him: Jesus Christ." (back cover).
Publisher: Bridge-Logos
ISBN: 9780882703237
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"At the age of 15, Rocco Morelli was already on his way up the ladder of life in the big time. A hometown Mafia "prince" with family roots that sink deep into organized crime, Morelli was cursed to repeat the sins of his fathers until his life=changing encounter with the only man who can stand up to him: Jesus Christ." (back cover).
Our First Year
Author: Jaclyn Douma
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1613460392
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
You've entered into the life of two, and frankly you're stumped when it comes to cooking for your loved one. Takeout and box dinners are not what you dreamed of when you said your 'I do's,' and now—whether it's been six months or six years—your pots and pans remain untouched. After Jaclyn Douma married her sweetheart, Jeff, she was excited to begin experimenting in her new kitchen. It didn't take her long, however, to discover that most of her cookbooks were filled with recipes involving high grocery bills and ingredients she had never heard of. So she began experimenting on her own, combining hers and her husband's family traditions into their own unique recipes. Soon after, Our First Year was born, combining helpful tips and easy-to-follow recipes for those who are new to the kitchen with mouth-watering recipes for pairs of two or fun-filled parties. If your Crock-Pots and pans continue to sit unused, Our First Year: Cost-Effective Recipes from the Home of Newlyweds is just what you need to get started!
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1613460392
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
You've entered into the life of two, and frankly you're stumped when it comes to cooking for your loved one. Takeout and box dinners are not what you dreamed of when you said your 'I do's,' and now—whether it's been six months or six years—your pots and pans remain untouched. After Jaclyn Douma married her sweetheart, Jeff, she was excited to begin experimenting in her new kitchen. It didn't take her long, however, to discover that most of her cookbooks were filled with recipes involving high grocery bills and ingredients she had never heard of. So she began experimenting on her own, combining hers and her husband's family traditions into their own unique recipes. Soon after, Our First Year was born, combining helpful tips and easy-to-follow recipes for those who are new to the kitchen with mouth-watering recipes for pairs of two or fun-filled parties. If your Crock-Pots and pans continue to sit unused, Our First Year: Cost-Effective Recipes from the Home of Newlyweds is just what you need to get started!
A Change of Heart
Author: Pricilla Baker
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449798020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
South Florida in the eighties. The glamorous life of a drug lord; booming bank accounts, private yachts, seductive women, unlimited power, Miami mansions, nightclubs, escort services, VIP social status. You can play the game until you get caught, or you can live your life as a fugitive. A new town, a new identity, a new life. John Delgado ran for over two decades. The game was now over, and there was nowhere else to run. It was then that God revealed the corruption of his sinful nature, drawing him into a relationship of love and forgiveness. Soon he would discover God's perfect will for him. This infinite wisdom would change his heart and carry him from the ashes. This biography is a story of John's adversities and his effort to connect with God. His transformation is enlightening and will uncover God's true intention for His creation of mankind.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449798020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
South Florida in the eighties. The glamorous life of a drug lord; booming bank accounts, private yachts, seductive women, unlimited power, Miami mansions, nightclubs, escort services, VIP social status. You can play the game until you get caught, or you can live your life as a fugitive. A new town, a new identity, a new life. John Delgado ran for over two decades. The game was now over, and there was nowhere else to run. It was then that God revealed the corruption of his sinful nature, drawing him into a relationship of love and forgiveness. Soon he would discover God's perfect will for him. This infinite wisdom would change his heart and carry him from the ashes. This biography is a story of John's adversities and his effort to connect with God. His transformation is enlightening and will uncover God's true intention for His creation of mankind.
Peepeyes
Author: Dwain S. Tucker
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456885448
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book chronicles the journey of discovery by a man who went on a quest to solve a mystery. Did his grandmother die the way he was told she had, or was she murdered? The rumor had plagued his family for almost four decades. Could the unthinkable be true, that his own grandfather might have been involved with the mysterious death of his grandmother? Along the way in his multiyear odyssey, the author discovers his family roots, his family tree, and the disturbing secrets long buried by his family. He vividly portrays the life and culture of Paducah, Kentucky, East St. Louis, Illinois, and Okeechobee, Florida, in the 1910s through the 1970s. He displays a culture and dialect of a strong breed of people that lived in rural western Kentucky in the early 1900s. He discovers extreme violence, knife fights, gunfights, bigamy, racism, thievery, bootlegging, and long-lost siblings. He discovers secrets within military and government files, unknown mental illnesses, wife-beatings, and murders. He discovers his grandfather’s World War II emprise, and the surprises it revealed. He uncovers the secrets of Freemasonry, and how it may have been involved in his grandmother’s death. He uncovers many lies from many people, and lawlessness by some in his family. The story includes attempts at a belated exhumation and autopsy to finally solve the mystery once and for all. He finally brings together all the evidence, pieces of a bizarre mystery, never before assembled by his family, to solve the enigma of his grandmother’s death. This book details the emotional pendulum experienced by a grandson on a journey to solve a riddle, and being repeatedly shocked and dumbfounded by what he found. Anne Carayon: “Great entertaining narrative! The mystery thickens as you go along! The historical and sociological backgrounds have transformed a personal sad story into a page of American Middle West history. It is also a description of what man can do to achieve his egotistical goals. That’s universal and timeless.” Deborah Schadt: “How brave it was of Dwain Tucker to put so much thought, time, and energy into looking for something he didn’t want to find! His intention to uncover evidence to disprove a family murder rumor led him to the discovery of numerous family secrets, both good and bad. “Many in Dwain Tucker’s family learned everything they knew from the school of hard knocks, and he was so honest in his portrayal of the ‘colorful’ characters in his family. His attempt at imitating the dialect used by the people of that place and time is both humorous and accurate. “Dwain has my admiration, appreciation, and gratitude for preserving a part of the Tucker family history—that if not for his perseverance would have otherwise been forever lost.”
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456885448
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book chronicles the journey of discovery by a man who went on a quest to solve a mystery. Did his grandmother die the way he was told she had, or was she murdered? The rumor had plagued his family for almost four decades. Could the unthinkable be true, that his own grandfather might have been involved with the mysterious death of his grandmother? Along the way in his multiyear odyssey, the author discovers his family roots, his family tree, and the disturbing secrets long buried by his family. He vividly portrays the life and culture of Paducah, Kentucky, East St. Louis, Illinois, and Okeechobee, Florida, in the 1910s through the 1970s. He displays a culture and dialect of a strong breed of people that lived in rural western Kentucky in the early 1900s. He discovers extreme violence, knife fights, gunfights, bigamy, racism, thievery, bootlegging, and long-lost siblings. He discovers secrets within military and government files, unknown mental illnesses, wife-beatings, and murders. He discovers his grandfather’s World War II emprise, and the surprises it revealed. He uncovers the secrets of Freemasonry, and how it may have been involved in his grandmother’s death. He uncovers many lies from many people, and lawlessness by some in his family. The story includes attempts at a belated exhumation and autopsy to finally solve the mystery once and for all. He finally brings together all the evidence, pieces of a bizarre mystery, never before assembled by his family, to solve the enigma of his grandmother’s death. This book details the emotional pendulum experienced by a grandson on a journey to solve a riddle, and being repeatedly shocked and dumbfounded by what he found. Anne Carayon: “Great entertaining narrative! The mystery thickens as you go along! The historical and sociological backgrounds have transformed a personal sad story into a page of American Middle West history. It is also a description of what man can do to achieve his egotistical goals. That’s universal and timeless.” Deborah Schadt: “How brave it was of Dwain Tucker to put so much thought, time, and energy into looking for something he didn’t want to find! His intention to uncover evidence to disprove a family murder rumor led him to the discovery of numerous family secrets, both good and bad. “Many in Dwain Tucker’s family learned everything they knew from the school of hard knocks, and he was so honest in his portrayal of the ‘colorful’ characters in his family. His attempt at imitating the dialect used by the people of that place and time is both humorous and accurate. “Dwain has my admiration, appreciation, and gratitude for preserving a part of the Tucker family history—that if not for his perseverance would have otherwise been forever lost.”
Sticks and Stones
Author: Michael Hiebert
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786041838
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
"There's something mesmerizing about Hiebert's storytelling voice." --The New York Times Book Review A case from the past sparks a nightmare for Detective Leah Teal in Michael Hiebert’s masterful new novel of suspense. Fifteen years ago, a serial killer tagged by the media as the Stickman spread terror throughout Alabama and became Alvin detective Joe Fowler’s obsession. After fifteen months and nine victims, Harry Stork was identified as the Stickman and Fowler shot him dead. The killings stopped. For a while. Now, more bodies are turning up, each staked through the chest with a stick-figure drawing in the killer’s signature style. Detective Leah Teal—Joe Fowler’s daughter and Alvin’s sole detective—receives a letter before each victim is found, just like her late father did. The only people who knew about the letters were the cops on the taskforce back then—and the killer himself. Did Joe shoot the wrong man, or was one of the detectives he handpicked involved all along? As a single mother, Leah tries to balance an increasingly disturbing case and a new relationship with caring for her children—bright, perceptive Abe, and teenaged Caroline, who’s in the first flush of young love. But with each menacing communication, each gruesome discovery, Leah realizes just how personal, and how devastating, the truth may be. Weaving lyrical prose and emotional richness into a taut, gripping mystery, Michael Hiebert creates a fascinating novel of life, love, and death in a small Southern town. Praise for the novels of Michael Hiebert Dream with Little Angels "Hiebert's first novel courts comparison to the classic To Kill a Mockingbird, but the book manages to soar as a moving achievement in its own right. In Hiebert's hands, psychological insight and restrained lyricism combine to create a coming-of-age tale as devastating as it is indelible. --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Readers who enjoy literary fiction depicting small-town life in the tradition of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird may want to try Hiebert's debut." --Library Journal "Michael Hiebert's debut delivers . . . a breathless, will-they-get-there-in-time affair, with a heartbreaking resolution." --Mystery Scene Close to the Broken Hearted "Hiebert does a masterful job of building suspense." --Publishers Weekly "A very good, sometimes emotional, mystery that will stay with you long after it's over." --Suspense Magazine A Thorn Among the Lilies "Engaging. . .Readers will keep guessing whodunit to the end." --Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786041838
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
"There's something mesmerizing about Hiebert's storytelling voice." --The New York Times Book Review A case from the past sparks a nightmare for Detective Leah Teal in Michael Hiebert’s masterful new novel of suspense. Fifteen years ago, a serial killer tagged by the media as the Stickman spread terror throughout Alabama and became Alvin detective Joe Fowler’s obsession. After fifteen months and nine victims, Harry Stork was identified as the Stickman and Fowler shot him dead. The killings stopped. For a while. Now, more bodies are turning up, each staked through the chest with a stick-figure drawing in the killer’s signature style. Detective Leah Teal—Joe Fowler’s daughter and Alvin’s sole detective—receives a letter before each victim is found, just like her late father did. The only people who knew about the letters were the cops on the taskforce back then—and the killer himself. Did Joe shoot the wrong man, or was one of the detectives he handpicked involved all along? As a single mother, Leah tries to balance an increasingly disturbing case and a new relationship with caring for her children—bright, perceptive Abe, and teenaged Caroline, who’s in the first flush of young love. But with each menacing communication, each gruesome discovery, Leah realizes just how personal, and how devastating, the truth may be. Weaving lyrical prose and emotional richness into a taut, gripping mystery, Michael Hiebert creates a fascinating novel of life, love, and death in a small Southern town. Praise for the novels of Michael Hiebert Dream with Little Angels "Hiebert's first novel courts comparison to the classic To Kill a Mockingbird, but the book manages to soar as a moving achievement in its own right. In Hiebert's hands, psychological insight and restrained lyricism combine to create a coming-of-age tale as devastating as it is indelible. --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Readers who enjoy literary fiction depicting small-town life in the tradition of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird may want to try Hiebert's debut." --Library Journal "Michael Hiebert's debut delivers . . . a breathless, will-they-get-there-in-time affair, with a heartbreaking resolution." --Mystery Scene Close to the Broken Hearted "Hiebert does a masterful job of building suspense." --Publishers Weekly "A very good, sometimes emotional, mystery that will stay with you long after it's over." --Suspense Magazine A Thorn Among the Lilies "Engaging. . .Readers will keep guessing whodunit to the end." --Publishers Weekly
A Thorn Among the Lilies
Author: Michael Hiebert
Publisher: Alvin, Alabama Novel
ISBN: 1617737372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"Detective Leah Teal is privy to most of the secrets in her hometown of Alvin, but there are always surprises to be had. Like the day she agrees to take her daughter Caroline to see a psychic for a reading. The psychic hones in on Leah instead, hinting at a string of gruesome killings and insisting that she intervene to prevent more deaths"--Cover flap.
Publisher: Alvin, Alabama Novel
ISBN: 1617737372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"Detective Leah Teal is privy to most of the secrets in her hometown of Alvin, but there are always surprises to be had. Like the day she agrees to take her daughter Caroline to see a psychic for a reading. The psychic hones in on Leah instead, hinting at a string of gruesome killings and insisting that she intervene to prevent more deaths"--Cover flap.
Secrets, Silences and Betrayals
Author: Ndi, Bill F.
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
ISBN: 9956762989
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Secrets, Silences, and Betrayals is an invitation to readers to consider factoring in the often discarded or censored but useful information held by the dominated. The book's principal claim is that the unsaid weighs in significantly on the scale of semantic construction as that which is said. Thus, it legitimates the impact of the absentee in broadening and clarifying knowledge and understanding in most disciplines. In other words, just as exogenous epistemologies have underlain and explicated the basis for understanding diverse encounters-social, political, historical, cultural, literary, etc.-Secrets, Silences, and Betrayals challenges, from a pluridisciplinary angle, such highly dominant approaches to investigating the origin, nature, ways of knowing, and limits of human knowledge. It thus yields to the deontological basis to critically reexamine our understanding of the world around us. It is in this regard that the present volume points towards the need for human history to become a cumulative record and re-recording of every human journey and endeavor in life; it brings together disparate voices illuminating topical issues that would be or have been legated to posterity as nonexistent, partial, or half-truths.
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
ISBN: 9956762989
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Secrets, Silences, and Betrayals is an invitation to readers to consider factoring in the often discarded or censored but useful information held by the dominated. The book's principal claim is that the unsaid weighs in significantly on the scale of semantic construction as that which is said. Thus, it legitimates the impact of the absentee in broadening and clarifying knowledge and understanding in most disciplines. In other words, just as exogenous epistemologies have underlain and explicated the basis for understanding diverse encounters-social, political, historical, cultural, literary, etc.-Secrets, Silences, and Betrayals challenges, from a pluridisciplinary angle, such highly dominant approaches to investigating the origin, nature, ways of knowing, and limits of human knowledge. It thus yields to the deontological basis to critically reexamine our understanding of the world around us. It is in this regard that the present volume points towards the need for human history to become a cumulative record and re-recording of every human journey and endeavor in life; it brings together disparate voices illuminating topical issues that would be or have been legated to posterity as nonexistent, partial, or half-truths.
Hard Times and Survival; the Autobiography of an African-American Son
Author: William A. James Sr.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532060785
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Hard Times and Survival: The Autobiography of an African American Son is my story. It is how I overcame all the heartbreaking, brutal, and horrendous circumstances that I was born into in 1947. I saw it all in my first sixteen years: unbridled lust, gross immorality, damning lies, and terrible brutality by my father against me and my mother. He tried to kill me once but kept up a constant campaign of horrible abuses of my mother until I left home at sixteen. However, success is the best revenge! After three years of alcoholism, I pulled myself together and went back to school on my own. That was after I spent a year in Job Corps from 1966 to 1967. From 1975 to 1977, I went to Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville. From 1977 to 1980, I attended Virginia State University in Petersburg. I earned my BA and MA degrees. I studied above a master's at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville from 1980 to 1983. I did not graduate, but I learned valuable life lessons. I started to write in 1993 about what had happened to me over the years and how I used my dire circumstances as motivation to pick myself up and make my life better. I hope I am an example that will help others who are suffering through similar atrocities to be motivated to not give up but persevere and that they will, as I did, overcome anything they are being faced with.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532060785
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Hard Times and Survival: The Autobiography of an African American Son is my story. It is how I overcame all the heartbreaking, brutal, and horrendous circumstances that I was born into in 1947. I saw it all in my first sixteen years: unbridled lust, gross immorality, damning lies, and terrible brutality by my father against me and my mother. He tried to kill me once but kept up a constant campaign of horrible abuses of my mother until I left home at sixteen. However, success is the best revenge! After three years of alcoholism, I pulled myself together and went back to school on my own. That was after I spent a year in Job Corps from 1966 to 1967. From 1975 to 1977, I went to Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville. From 1977 to 1980, I attended Virginia State University in Petersburg. I earned my BA and MA degrees. I studied above a master's at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville from 1980 to 1983. I did not graduate, but I learned valuable life lessons. I started to write in 1993 about what had happened to me over the years and how I used my dire circumstances as motivation to pick myself up and make my life better. I hope I am an example that will help others who are suffering through similar atrocities to be motivated to not give up but persevere and that they will, as I did, overcome anything they are being faced with.
Chocolate Sangria
Author: Tracy Price-Thompson
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 0307517292
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Juanita Lucas is a young woman living in a housing project in Brooklyn. Although she has a very light complexion, she is proud of her blackness, even as she takes a beating from the very sistahs she tries so hard to emulate. Her only friend, Scooter Morrison, is an upwardly mobile brother who also happens to be young, gifted, and gay. Then a chance encounter with two fine Puerto Rican men changes Juanita’s and Scooter’s lives in ways they could never have imagined. There is Conan, a hardworking man who wrestles with both his love for Juanita and his guilt over his brother’s death; and Jorge, an unscrupulous bad-boy thug who has no problem using what he’s got to get what he wants, until he comes dangerously close to getting scorched by his own flames. Fast-paced, suspenseful, and unpredictable, Chocolate Sangria explores the hearts of two lovers who get caught in the great cultural divide— and the devastating consequences of keeping secrets, telling lies, and betraying those you love.
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 0307517292
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Juanita Lucas is a young woman living in a housing project in Brooklyn. Although she has a very light complexion, she is proud of her blackness, even as she takes a beating from the very sistahs she tries so hard to emulate. Her only friend, Scooter Morrison, is an upwardly mobile brother who also happens to be young, gifted, and gay. Then a chance encounter with two fine Puerto Rican men changes Juanita’s and Scooter’s lives in ways they could never have imagined. There is Conan, a hardworking man who wrestles with both his love for Juanita and his guilt over his brother’s death; and Jorge, an unscrupulous bad-boy thug who has no problem using what he’s got to get what he wants, until he comes dangerously close to getting scorched by his own flames. Fast-paced, suspenseful, and unpredictable, Chocolate Sangria explores the hearts of two lovers who get caught in the great cultural divide— and the devastating consequences of keeping secrets, telling lies, and betraying those you love.
My Twisted Life
Author: Suzie Q Valentine
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438977859
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 My Twisted Life is about the life of Randolph Douglas Hopkins. His voice takes the reader on a journey through Randys first childhood memory of being brutally beaten for a crime he didnt commit. Then living in unimaginable pain as punishment for that crime. With a strong will to live and simply being too stubborn to die, he endured brutal amputations and bullet wounds using his self taught skills to patch himself back together. Randy never knew his father and cant remember even knowing his name. He grew up roaming the country with his psychotic mother and alcoholic stepdad, never knowing any stability in his life. With little formal education, due to the frequency and extent of his wounds and the gypsy lifestyle of his folks, he used his self driven motivation to educate himself in the skills that he most needed to survive. Aside from the basics of reading and writing, he became skilled in street smarts and survival with things such as petty theft, pool hustling as well as doctoring and mind control. He turned to drugs at a young age and used heavily throughout half of his childhood and all of his teen years. He was constantly faced with life threatening obstacles and always found himself longing for death, but yet struggling to live. Randy was determined to not let the abuse against him result in his death, so he struggled to do what ever it took to stay alive. Along the journey of his life, he made true friends and true love. Step inside Randys memories as he tells his story.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438977859
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 My Twisted Life is about the life of Randolph Douglas Hopkins. His voice takes the reader on a journey through Randys first childhood memory of being brutally beaten for a crime he didnt commit. Then living in unimaginable pain as punishment for that crime. With a strong will to live and simply being too stubborn to die, he endured brutal amputations and bullet wounds using his self taught skills to patch himself back together. Randy never knew his father and cant remember even knowing his name. He grew up roaming the country with his psychotic mother and alcoholic stepdad, never knowing any stability in his life. With little formal education, due to the frequency and extent of his wounds and the gypsy lifestyle of his folks, he used his self driven motivation to educate himself in the skills that he most needed to survive. Aside from the basics of reading and writing, he became skilled in street smarts and survival with things such as petty theft, pool hustling as well as doctoring and mind control. He turned to drugs at a young age and used heavily throughout half of his childhood and all of his teen years. He was constantly faced with life threatening obstacles and always found himself longing for death, but yet struggling to live. Randy was determined to not let the abuse against him result in his death, so he struggled to do what ever it took to stay alive. Along the journey of his life, he made true friends and true love. Step inside Randys memories as he tells his story.