Author: Jack Fredrickson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312605277
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Dark secrets and the disappearances of nearly everyone he has ever loved converge in a case that leads Dek Elstrom on a trail to northern Michigan and a forgotten ice-swept island where a death raises dangerous questions about Elstrom's home in Rivertown.
The Dead Caller from Chicago
Author: Jack Fredrickson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312605277
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Dark secrets and the disappearances of nearly everyone he has ever loved converge in a case that leads Dek Elstrom on a trail to northern Michigan and a forgotten ice-swept island where a death raises dangerous questions about Elstrom's home in Rivertown.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312605277
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Dark secrets and the disappearances of nearly everyone he has ever loved converge in a case that leads Dek Elstrom on a trail to northern Michigan and a forgotten ice-swept island where a death raises dangerous questions about Elstrom's home in Rivertown.
Phone Calls from the Dead
Author: Wendy Brenner
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565128125
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
A bodybuilder is charged with superhuman energy and an ability to make lightbulbs explode. A grieving father tries to communicate with his dead son via a tape recorder. A high school girl claims to have her uncle's nipple in an envelope. A thirtysomething woman is fired from her dead-end job at Manpower and comes to understand her life through the experience of a German shepherd. Four ornery squirrels, tied together by their tails, struggle to maintain their sanity. Ten stories in all, the highly original PHONE CALLS FROM THE DEAD pulses with meaning. Alive and odd and needy, the characters in Wendy Brenner's stories grapple with the extraordinary and the ordinary, searching for answers from unlikely sources, striving to connect with each other and with something greater than themselves. Amidst a world of technological, natural, and possibly supernatural phenomena, they struggle with the most human of losses and longings. Named one of twenty-five fiction writers to watch by Writer's Digest (along with Allegra Goodman, Jhumpa Lahiri, and William Gay), Brenner has been paving a new path through American fiction ever since her first collection, Large Animals in Everyday Life. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, described that collection as "chock-full of pitch-perfect dialogue and dead-on descriptions . . . intoxicatingly original." In PHONE CALLS FROM THE DEAD, the stories do just that, and then go a step farther. Whether it moves you to uncontrollable laughter or to tears, you won't soon forget Wendy Brenner's work.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565128125
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
A bodybuilder is charged with superhuman energy and an ability to make lightbulbs explode. A grieving father tries to communicate with his dead son via a tape recorder. A high school girl claims to have her uncle's nipple in an envelope. A thirtysomething woman is fired from her dead-end job at Manpower and comes to understand her life through the experience of a German shepherd. Four ornery squirrels, tied together by their tails, struggle to maintain their sanity. Ten stories in all, the highly original PHONE CALLS FROM THE DEAD pulses with meaning. Alive and odd and needy, the characters in Wendy Brenner's stories grapple with the extraordinary and the ordinary, searching for answers from unlikely sources, striving to connect with each other and with something greater than themselves. Amidst a world of technological, natural, and possibly supernatural phenomena, they struggle with the most human of losses and longings. Named one of twenty-five fiction writers to watch by Writer's Digest (along with Allegra Goodman, Jhumpa Lahiri, and William Gay), Brenner has been paving a new path through American fiction ever since her first collection, Large Animals in Everyday Life. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, described that collection as "chock-full of pitch-perfect dialogue and dead-on descriptions . . . intoxicatingly original." In PHONE CALLS FROM THE DEAD, the stories do just that, and then go a step farther. Whether it moves you to uncontrollable laughter or to tears, you won't soon forget Wendy Brenner's work.
Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968
Author: Lisa Krissoff Boehm
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135932557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This book is an examination of the image of Chicago in American popular culture between the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and Chicago's 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135932557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This book is an examination of the image of Chicago in American popular culture between the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and Chicago's 1968 Democratic National Convention.
ESCAPE, Dead End
Author: David J Antocci
Publisher: David J Antocci
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Abby declares war on her enemies in the fast-paced take no prisoners story that brings the ESCAPE trilogy to a thrilling conclusion! Nearly a year ago Abby was left battered and broken. Having spent every ounce of her strength on recovery, revenge has never strayed from her mind. Afforded the best rehab money could buy, combined with her mission to become the most formidable one-woman army anyone could reckon with, Abby is ready. She sets out on a path of revenge and will not rest until the man responsible pays for his crimes. She takes the fight to the enemy’s doorstep and will tear down anyone who gets in her way. Reunited with an ally from her past, Abby sets her sights down a road with no exit. There is no other path. She will slay the man who has tortured her life for the past decade or die trying. What Reviewers are saying: ★★★★★ ‘Great final book to the trilogy. Fast paced page turner right to the end.’ ★★★★★ ‘A fitting ending for a fantastic series!’ ★★★★★ ‘David Antocci has wrapped up the Escape Trilogy beautifully.’ ★★★★★ ‘From page 1 of Book 1 to the last page of Book 3 my interest was on fire.’ ★★★★★ ‘This book is all I hoped it would be and more. I've read all 3 in the series and cannot praise Antocci enough.’ ★★★★★ ‘The three books in the series are each a fun ride in themselves, but this last one wraps up Abby's story in a very satisfying way.’
Publisher: David J Antocci
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Abby declares war on her enemies in the fast-paced take no prisoners story that brings the ESCAPE trilogy to a thrilling conclusion! Nearly a year ago Abby was left battered and broken. Having spent every ounce of her strength on recovery, revenge has never strayed from her mind. Afforded the best rehab money could buy, combined with her mission to become the most formidable one-woman army anyone could reckon with, Abby is ready. She sets out on a path of revenge and will not rest until the man responsible pays for his crimes. She takes the fight to the enemy’s doorstep and will tear down anyone who gets in her way. Reunited with an ally from her past, Abby sets her sights down a road with no exit. There is no other path. She will slay the man who has tortured her life for the past decade or die trying. What Reviewers are saying: ★★★★★ ‘Great final book to the trilogy. Fast paced page turner right to the end.’ ★★★★★ ‘A fitting ending for a fantastic series!’ ★★★★★ ‘David Antocci has wrapped up the Escape Trilogy beautifully.’ ★★★★★ ‘From page 1 of Book 1 to the last page of Book 3 my interest was on fire.’ ★★★★★ ‘This book is all I hoped it would be and more. I've read all 3 in the series and cannot praise Antocci enough.’ ★★★★★ ‘The three books in the series are each a fun ride in themselves, but this last one wraps up Abby's story in a very satisfying way.’
Questionable Calls
Author: John Howard
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453565965
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
John Howard lived in Chicago and in the San Francisco Bay Area, two areas with enthusiastic football fans. While teaching history, his love for sports and an avid season ticket holder led him to spend several years coaching basketball and football. Like many fans he thought bad calls changed the outcome of some games albeit few in number. All sports rely on the integrity of referees and with a touch of imagination came the thought of what would happen if any one referee purposely overlooked infractions or intentionally made bad calls. With retirement came the story: Questionable Calls.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453565965
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
John Howard lived in Chicago and in the San Francisco Bay Area, two areas with enthusiastic football fans. While teaching history, his love for sports and an avid season ticket holder led him to spend several years coaching basketball and football. Like many fans he thought bad calls changed the outcome of some games albeit few in number. All sports rely on the integrity of referees and with a touch of imagination came the thought of what would happen if any one referee purposely overlooked infractions or intentionally made bad calls. With retirement came the story: Questionable Calls.
Nobody Calls Just to Say Hello
Author: Philip J. Rock
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809330717
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A loyal partisan and highly principled public official whose career overlapped with those of many legends of Illinois politics-including Mayor Richard J. Daley, Governor James Thompson, and Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan-Democrat Philip J. Rock served twenty-two years in the Illinois Senate. Fourteen of those years were spent as senate president, the longest tenure anyone has served in that position. This nuanced political biography, which draws on dozens of interviews conducted by Ed Wojcicki to present the longtime senate president's story in his own words, is also a rare insider's perspective on Illinois politics in the last three decades of the twentieth century. A native of Chicago's West Side, Rock became one of the most influential politicians in Illinois during the 1970s and 1980s. As a senator in the 1970s and senate president from 1979 to 1993, he sponsored historic legislation to assist abused and neglected children and victims of domestic violence, ushered the state through difficult income tax increases and economic development decisions, shepherded an unruly and fragmented Democratic senate caucus, and always was fair to his Republican counterparts. Covering in great detail a critical period in Illinois political history for the first time, Rock explains how making life better for others drove his decisions in office, while also espousing the seven principles he advocates for effective leadership and providing context for how he applied those principles to the legislative battles of the era. Unlike many Illinois politicians, Rock, a former seminarian, was known for having a greater interest in issues than in partisan politics. Considered a true statesman, he also was known as a skilled orator who could silence a busy floor of legislators with his commentary on important issues and as a devoted public servant who handled tens of thousands of bills and sponsored nearly five hundred of them himself. Nobody Calls Just to Say Hello, which takes its title from the volume of calls and visits to elected officials from constituents in need of help, perfectly captures Rock's profound reverence for the institutions of government, his respect for other government offices, and his reputation as a problem solver who, despite his ardent Democratic beliefs, disavowed political self-preservation to cross party lines and make government work for the people. Taking readers through his legislative successes, bipartisan efforts, and political defeats-including a heartbreaking loss in the U.S. Senate primary to Paul Simon in 1984-Rock passionately articulates his belief that government's primary role is to help people, offering an antidote to the current political climate with the simple legislative advice, "Just try to be fair, give everyone a chance, and everything else comes after that."
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809330717
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A loyal partisan and highly principled public official whose career overlapped with those of many legends of Illinois politics-including Mayor Richard J. Daley, Governor James Thompson, and Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan-Democrat Philip J. Rock served twenty-two years in the Illinois Senate. Fourteen of those years were spent as senate president, the longest tenure anyone has served in that position. This nuanced political biography, which draws on dozens of interviews conducted by Ed Wojcicki to present the longtime senate president's story in his own words, is also a rare insider's perspective on Illinois politics in the last three decades of the twentieth century. A native of Chicago's West Side, Rock became one of the most influential politicians in Illinois during the 1970s and 1980s. As a senator in the 1970s and senate president from 1979 to 1993, he sponsored historic legislation to assist abused and neglected children and victims of domestic violence, ushered the state through difficult income tax increases and economic development decisions, shepherded an unruly and fragmented Democratic senate caucus, and always was fair to his Republican counterparts. Covering in great detail a critical period in Illinois political history for the first time, Rock explains how making life better for others drove his decisions in office, while also espousing the seven principles he advocates for effective leadership and providing context for how he applied those principles to the legislative battles of the era. Unlike many Illinois politicians, Rock, a former seminarian, was known for having a greater interest in issues than in partisan politics. Considered a true statesman, he also was known as a skilled orator who could silence a busy floor of legislators with his commentary on important issues and as a devoted public servant who handled tens of thousands of bills and sponsored nearly five hundred of them himself. Nobody Calls Just to Say Hello, which takes its title from the volume of calls and visits to elected officials from constituents in need of help, perfectly captures Rock's profound reverence for the institutions of government, his respect for other government offices, and his reputation as a problem solver who, despite his ardent Democratic beliefs, disavowed political self-preservation to cross party lines and make government work for the people. Taking readers through his legislative successes, bipartisan efforts, and political defeats-including a heartbreaking loss in the U.S. Senate primary to Paul Simon in 1984-Rock passionately articulates his belief that government's primary role is to help people, offering an antidote to the current political climate with the simple legislative advice, "Just try to be fair, give everyone a chance, and everything else comes after that."
Post Covid Living at the Shadows
Author: Ramsis F. Ghaly MD
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669856534
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Will the world ever recover from COVID-19? As a practicing Neurosurgeon and anesthesiologist, I haven’t stop or close my practice. In contrary, I was much busier and happy to be in the frontline saving lives. The book contains not only my review to events occurred as the world began to recover from COVID-19 but also many of my medical and surgical adventures including patients’ stories during 2022 as COVID-19 slowing down! This is my fifth book since COVID-19 started! The fear is that COVID-19 has caused a lifetime impact and healed with visible permanent scar. Perhaps, the year 2022 is post-COVID. Living at the Shadows represents the New Era of “Hybrid Remote Living” for years to come! Indeed, COVID may be gone but not its shadow and the long-term impact of Lockdown!! Time has passed and the world hasn’t yet looked at how COVID-19 was handled and what lessons have been learned! Instead of celebrating Thanksgiving, among many others, the world witnessed post-COVID aggression! This book presents the author’s personal views, reflections and experiences during 2022 post-COVID-19 period covered over 178 chapters and 14 sections! The reader will reflect on what could be the new “norms” and events evolved as the world attempts to recover from the pandemic of “COVID-19”! In 14 sections over 153 chapters.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669856534
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Will the world ever recover from COVID-19? As a practicing Neurosurgeon and anesthesiologist, I haven’t stop or close my practice. In contrary, I was much busier and happy to be in the frontline saving lives. The book contains not only my review to events occurred as the world began to recover from COVID-19 but also many of my medical and surgical adventures including patients’ stories during 2022 as COVID-19 slowing down! This is my fifth book since COVID-19 started! The fear is that COVID-19 has caused a lifetime impact and healed with visible permanent scar. Perhaps, the year 2022 is post-COVID. Living at the Shadows represents the New Era of “Hybrid Remote Living” for years to come! Indeed, COVID may be gone but not its shadow and the long-term impact of Lockdown!! Time has passed and the world hasn’t yet looked at how COVID-19 was handled and what lessons have been learned! Instead of celebrating Thanksgiving, among many others, the world witnessed post-COVID aggression! This book presents the author’s personal views, reflections and experiences during 2022 post-COVID-19 period covered over 178 chapters and 14 sections! The reader will reflect on what could be the new “norms” and events evolved as the world attempts to recover from the pandemic of “COVID-19”! In 14 sections over 153 chapters.
Heads
Author: Jesse Jarnow
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306822555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The sweeping untold history of the American psychedelic underground, the Grateful Dead, and beyond... With 32 pages of photos
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306822555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The sweeping untold history of the American psychedelic underground, the Grateful Dead, and beyond... With 32 pages of photos
Shoe and Leather Reporter
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boots
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boots
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
House Calls
Author: Patch Adams
Publisher: Author's Choice Publishing
ISBN: 9781885003188
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A reminder that some of the most important factors in healing are not high-tech marvels but ordinary factors such as love, compassion, friendship, and hope.
Publisher: Author's Choice Publishing
ISBN: 9781885003188
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A reminder that some of the most important factors in healing are not high-tech marvels but ordinary factors such as love, compassion, friendship, and hope.