Author: Lee Gaylord
Publisher: Publish America LLC
ISBN: 1413724663
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Crazy Old White Man was the street name given to the author when he lived in the hood. It is about his life and how he became The Crazy Old White Man and those who were a part of his life during that time. You will get a look at the drug culture and the streets of Detroit. You will meet addicts and people of the streets. The author pulls no punches and is honest and straightforward about the events in his life. There are some success stories and some failures. There are some laughs and some tears. It is real life, and it shows that the people of the streets are normal people who may have made a wrong turn in life. They are lost souls who need to find themselves.
The Crazy Old White Man from the Hood
Author: Lee Gaylord
Publisher: Publish America LLC
ISBN: 1413724663
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Crazy Old White Man was the street name given to the author when he lived in the hood. It is about his life and how he became The Crazy Old White Man and those who were a part of his life during that time. You will get a look at the drug culture and the streets of Detroit. You will meet addicts and people of the streets. The author pulls no punches and is honest and straightforward about the events in his life. There are some success stories and some failures. There are some laughs and some tears. It is real life, and it shows that the people of the streets are normal people who may have made a wrong turn in life. They are lost souls who need to find themselves.
Publisher: Publish America LLC
ISBN: 1413724663
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Crazy Old White Man was the street name given to the author when he lived in the hood. It is about his life and how he became The Crazy Old White Man and those who were a part of his life during that time. You will get a look at the drug culture and the streets of Detroit. You will meet addicts and people of the streets. The author pulls no punches and is honest and straightforward about the events in his life. There are some success stories and some failures. There are some laughs and some tears. It is real life, and it shows that the people of the streets are normal people who may have made a wrong turn in life. They are lost souls who need to find themselves.
Ashes of Heaven
Author: Terry C. Johnston
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312965117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
No one captures the glory, adventure, and drama of the courageous men and women who tamed the American West like award-winning author Johnston. His Plainsmen series brims with colorful characters, fierce battles, and compelling historical lore. Reissue.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312965117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
No one captures the glory, adventure, and drama of the courageous men and women who tamed the American West like award-winning author Johnston. His Plainsmen series brims with colorful characters, fierce battles, and compelling historical lore. Reissue.
Chillin in a Straightcoat
Author: By Robert E Pace
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
This work is about the life of Robert E. Pace, from toddler years to dropping out of college. It is a pre-crack era story that deals with the era of hip-hop and the change in the income and attitudes of people that revolve around that lifestyle. This work also contains higher education and deals with racial and economic issues of Robert E. Pace a.k.a. Burgatime. In his dealings with a mental health diagnosis and suffering from paranoia and schizophrenia, God was his only salvation during those times as he started to make ill-advised decisions.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
This work is about the life of Robert E. Pace, from toddler years to dropping out of college. It is a pre-crack era story that deals with the era of hip-hop and the change in the income and attitudes of people that revolve around that lifestyle. This work also contains higher education and deals with racial and economic issues of Robert E. Pace a.k.a. Burgatime. In his dealings with a mental health diagnosis and suffering from paranoia and schizophrenia, God was his only salvation during those times as he started to make ill-advised decisions.
Big Black Penis
Author: Shawn Taylor
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569763852
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Being black and male is serious business, but its absurd contradictions are often too funny for words. In this award-winning book, Shawn Taylor deftly leads us on a no-holds-barred tour of his masculine development, acknowledging some deep but often hilarious truths about black men. This raw and spellbinding narrative, full of unexpected turns of phrase and shocking displays of vulnerability, contains powerful meditations on sexuality, romance, fatherhood, and violence. Unapologetic and sharply critical of the hatred and fear that American society harbors toward black men, Taylor brings the subject of black masculinity into the 21st century.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569763852
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Being black and male is serious business, but its absurd contradictions are often too funny for words. In this award-winning book, Shawn Taylor deftly leads us on a no-holds-barred tour of his masculine development, acknowledging some deep but often hilarious truths about black men. This raw and spellbinding narrative, full of unexpected turns of phrase and shocking displays of vulnerability, contains powerful meditations on sexuality, romance, fatherhood, and violence. Unapologetic and sharply critical of the hatred and fear that American society harbors toward black men, Taylor brings the subject of black masculinity into the 21st century.
Consider Me
Author: Tanya Alexander
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1973654121
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Have you ever wondered why bad things happen to such a good person like yourself. You think surely these horrendous things come from the devil, so you begin to rebuke him. Yet while it is likely true that it is the devil wreaking havoc in your life, what if he was only doing what God has given him permission to do? So now, do you rebuke God? Consider Me: The Job Experience looks to the example of Job as a way to help you understand your trials and tribulations and seek God during these times. While it can be easy to curse him and turn your back on your relationship with him, author Tanya Alexander invites you to learn from Job and trust God and seek to understand his motive and perspective for allowing these things to be. As the Lord our God goes to and fro searching the earth for a willing and worthy volunteer to show forth his glory, have you ever asked him to “consider me”? Like Job, we can experience the fear and the dread of experiencing great loss and difficulties in our lives, but by placing our trust in God, we can overcome and glorify God.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1973654121
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Have you ever wondered why bad things happen to such a good person like yourself. You think surely these horrendous things come from the devil, so you begin to rebuke him. Yet while it is likely true that it is the devil wreaking havoc in your life, what if he was only doing what God has given him permission to do? So now, do you rebuke God? Consider Me: The Job Experience looks to the example of Job as a way to help you understand your trials and tribulations and seek God during these times. While it can be easy to curse him and turn your back on your relationship with him, author Tanya Alexander invites you to learn from Job and trust God and seek to understand his motive and perspective for allowing these things to be. As the Lord our God goes to and fro searching the earth for a willing and worthy volunteer to show forth his glory, have you ever asked him to “consider me”? Like Job, we can experience the fear and the dread of experiencing great loss and difficulties in our lives, but by placing our trust in God, we can overcome and glorify God.
Great Falls, MT
Author: Reggie Watts
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593472462
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Comedian and musician Reggie Watts shares his story of growing up in Montana as a biracial oddball struggling to navigate life, girls, drugs, and his own identity in America’s heartland—and having a blast doing it. Reggie Watts is weird. But you knew that. Anyone who’s seen his multifaceted, entirely improvised comedy and music shows knows that. Reggie Watts is also from the town of Great Falls, MT. These two facts are not unrelated. Watts grew up in Montana in the ‘80s, half French, half American, half white, half Black, speaking a bunch of different languages and slipping between the orchestra geeks and the football jocks until he finally found a squad of fellow misfits with an affinity for trouble. It was a wide-open time and place that invited freedom and exploration—as well as car theft and the not infrequent use of recreational cough syrup. And it helped him become the uniquely strange creative voice he is today. In Great Falls, MT, Watts takes us through his story, hitting on the culture shock he experienced after moving from Europe to the heart of America, where he was called racial slurs by neighbors but wasn’t Black enough for his father’s extended family. Where he fought with his authoritarian dad, built a new family of antiestablishment, post-punk oddballs—and ultimately knew he had to leave. But after Watts’s career exploded in Seattle and New York, ultimately scoring him a nightly place next to James Corden on The Late Late Show, he found himself drawn back to his hometown after the deaths of his parents. This is his love letter to the town that made him. But like love itself, it’s messy and complicated and dirty and beautiful—and as weird and wonderful as Watts himself.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593472462
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Comedian and musician Reggie Watts shares his story of growing up in Montana as a biracial oddball struggling to navigate life, girls, drugs, and his own identity in America’s heartland—and having a blast doing it. Reggie Watts is weird. But you knew that. Anyone who’s seen his multifaceted, entirely improvised comedy and music shows knows that. Reggie Watts is also from the town of Great Falls, MT. These two facts are not unrelated. Watts grew up in Montana in the ‘80s, half French, half American, half white, half Black, speaking a bunch of different languages and slipping between the orchestra geeks and the football jocks until he finally found a squad of fellow misfits with an affinity for trouble. It was a wide-open time and place that invited freedom and exploration—as well as car theft and the not infrequent use of recreational cough syrup. And it helped him become the uniquely strange creative voice he is today. In Great Falls, MT, Watts takes us through his story, hitting on the culture shock he experienced after moving from Europe to the heart of America, where he was called racial slurs by neighbors but wasn’t Black enough for his father’s extended family. Where he fought with his authoritarian dad, built a new family of antiestablishment, post-punk oddballs—and ultimately knew he had to leave. But after Watts’s career exploded in Seattle and New York, ultimately scoring him a nightly place next to James Corden on The Late Late Show, he found himself drawn back to his hometown after the deaths of his parents. This is his love letter to the town that made him. But like love itself, it’s messy and complicated and dirty and beautiful—and as weird and wonderful as Watts himself.
Million Dollar Baby
Author: F. X. Toole
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 145325398X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The boxing stories that inspired the Oscar-winning Clint Eastwood film: a New York Times Notable Book from “a heavyweight fiction contender” (Publishers Weekly). F. X. Toole knew boxing. Between bouts, he wrote, and two years before his death he published this collection of stories, giving readers an unprecedented look at the gritty life around the ring. He tells of a cutman with a sweet tooth, young fighters with dreams of celebrity, and a talented boxer who goes to Atlantic City for his biggest bout, only to be humiliated by the prejudices of a callous promoter. In “Million $$$ Baby,” the inspiration for the Oscar-winning Clint Eastwood film, an aged trainer takes on a female fighter, guiding her through disappointment, pain, and tragedy. And in “Rope Burns,” Toole realizes his epic vision, showing that even the purest fighter can succumb to the pressures of the world outside the sport. Throughout these stories, boxing’s violence is redeemed by the respect these men and women share, as they strap on gloves and prepare their bodies for the ultimate test. This ebook features an illustrated biography of F. X. Toole including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 145325398X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The boxing stories that inspired the Oscar-winning Clint Eastwood film: a New York Times Notable Book from “a heavyweight fiction contender” (Publishers Weekly). F. X. Toole knew boxing. Between bouts, he wrote, and two years before his death he published this collection of stories, giving readers an unprecedented look at the gritty life around the ring. He tells of a cutman with a sweet tooth, young fighters with dreams of celebrity, and a talented boxer who goes to Atlantic City for his biggest bout, only to be humiliated by the prejudices of a callous promoter. In “Million $$$ Baby,” the inspiration for the Oscar-winning Clint Eastwood film, an aged trainer takes on a female fighter, guiding her through disappointment, pain, and tragedy. And in “Rope Burns,” Toole realizes his epic vision, showing that even the purest fighter can succumb to the pressures of the world outside the sport. Throughout these stories, boxing’s violence is redeemed by the respect these men and women share, as they strap on gloves and prepare their bodies for the ultimate test. This ebook features an illustrated biography of F. X. Toole including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
Into the Whirlwind
Author: Kat Martin
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 1420139037
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling author delivers “full out action, suspense and romance” as the rugged men of BOSS take on an explosive new case (Fresh Fiction). Megan O’Brien is at her wit’s end. Her three-year-old son has been kidnapped. No police, says the ransom demand. Fearing for her son’s life, Meg has no choice but to turn to her former bodyguard, Dirk Reynolds, who’s now a PI with Brodie Operations Security Services, Inc. Dirk’s never forgiven Meg for the way she left him after their brief affair. But with bounty hunter Luke Brodie on his side, Dirk knows he’s got to help Meg rescue her son. The few clues they’ve gathered send them spiraling into a murky world of big banking and international crime. Meg may be way out of her depths, but she’s seeing a side of Dirk she never suspected—one no woman could possibly resist. Praise for Kat Martin “Kat Martin is a fast gun when it comes to storytelling, and I love her books.”—Linda Lael Miller, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Martin is a terrific storyteller.”—Booklist “She dishes up romantic suspense, sizzling sex and international intrigue.”—RT Book Reviews “[A] master of suspenseful romance . . . Martin doesn't hold back on the page-turning thrills or steamy love scenes.”—Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 1420139037
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling author delivers “full out action, suspense and romance” as the rugged men of BOSS take on an explosive new case (Fresh Fiction). Megan O’Brien is at her wit’s end. Her three-year-old son has been kidnapped. No police, says the ransom demand. Fearing for her son’s life, Meg has no choice but to turn to her former bodyguard, Dirk Reynolds, who’s now a PI with Brodie Operations Security Services, Inc. Dirk’s never forgiven Meg for the way she left him after their brief affair. But with bounty hunter Luke Brodie on his side, Dirk knows he’s got to help Meg rescue her son. The few clues they’ve gathered send them spiraling into a murky world of big banking and international crime. Meg may be way out of her depths, but she’s seeing a side of Dirk she never suspected—one no woman could possibly resist. Praise for Kat Martin “Kat Martin is a fast gun when it comes to storytelling, and I love her books.”—Linda Lael Miller, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Martin is a terrific storyteller.”—Booklist “She dishes up romantic suspense, sizzling sex and international intrigue.”—RT Book Reviews “[A] master of suspenseful romance . . . Martin doesn't hold back on the page-turning thrills or steamy love scenes.”—Publishers Weekly
In Her Own Time... Dorothy Hill Parker
Author: Constance Brady
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1639375767
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In Her Own Time... Dorothy Hill Parker: 1909 - 2003 By: Constance Brady About the Author Constance Brady lives in beautiful southeastern Ohio, in the historic river town of Marietta - the first permanent settlement in the northwest territory. Brady attended Marietta College and completed her doctoral studies at the Ohio State University. For thirty years, Brady worked as a psychologist, and her only hope is that she was able to make meaningful differences in the lives of so many disadvantaged children. Brady has two wonderful sons and three beautiful grandchildren. Now that she is retired, Brady spends time playing the cello and performing with several local music groups. She is an enthusiastic dragon boater and mentor to young Asian women attending Marietta College. Brady enjoys yoga classes, fitness work, and hiking in the Appalachian foothills. She studies prehistoric Adena and Hopewell Indian cultures from this area, collects pre-war baseball cards, and follows her never-ending fascination with Civil War history, especially the Battle of Gettysburg.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1639375767
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In Her Own Time... Dorothy Hill Parker: 1909 - 2003 By: Constance Brady About the Author Constance Brady lives in beautiful southeastern Ohio, in the historic river town of Marietta - the first permanent settlement in the northwest territory. Brady attended Marietta College and completed her doctoral studies at the Ohio State University. For thirty years, Brady worked as a psychologist, and her only hope is that she was able to make meaningful differences in the lives of so many disadvantaged children. Brady has two wonderful sons and three beautiful grandchildren. Now that she is retired, Brady spends time playing the cello and performing with several local music groups. She is an enthusiastic dragon boater and mentor to young Asian women attending Marietta College. Brady enjoys yoga classes, fitness work, and hiking in the Appalachian foothills. She studies prehistoric Adena and Hopewell Indian cultures from this area, collects pre-war baseball cards, and follows her never-ending fascination with Civil War history, especially the Battle of Gettysburg.
Clockers
Author: Richard Price
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312426187
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Crack-dealers known as "Clockers" are at the bottom of the drug-dealing ladder, and they must commit murder to rise higher.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312426187
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Crack-dealers known as "Clockers" are at the bottom of the drug-dealing ladder, and they must commit murder to rise higher.