Author: Walter Mosley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594130755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling. His parents are dead, he can't find a job, he drinks too much, and his friends have begun to desert him. Worst of all, he's fallen behind on the mortgage payments for the beautiful home that's belonged to his family for generations. When a stranger - a white man - offers him $50,000 in cash to rent out his basement for the summer, Charles needs the money too badly to say no. He knows that the stranger must want something more than a basement view. Sure enough, he has a very particular - and bizarre - set of requirements, and Charles tries to satisfy him without getting lured into the strangeness. But he sees an opportunity to understand the secrets of the white world, and his summer with a man in his basement turns into a dark game of power and manipulation.
The Man in My Basement
Author: Walter Mosley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594130755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling. His parents are dead, he can't find a job, he drinks too much, and his friends have begun to desert him. Worst of all, he's fallen behind on the mortgage payments for the beautiful home that's belonged to his family for generations. When a stranger - a white man - offers him $50,000 in cash to rent out his basement for the summer, Charles needs the money too badly to say no. He knows that the stranger must want something more than a basement view. Sure enough, he has a very particular - and bizarre - set of requirements, and Charles tries to satisfy him without getting lured into the strangeness. But he sees an opportunity to understand the secrets of the white world, and his summer with a man in his basement turns into a dark game of power and manipulation.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594130755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling. His parents are dead, he can't find a job, he drinks too much, and his friends have begun to desert him. Worst of all, he's fallen behind on the mortgage payments for the beautiful home that's belonged to his family for generations. When a stranger - a white man - offers him $50,000 in cash to rent out his basement for the summer, Charles needs the money too badly to say no. He knows that the stranger must want something more than a basement view. Sure enough, he has a very particular - and bizarre - set of requirements, and Charles tries to satisfy him without getting lured into the strangeness. But he sees an opportunity to understand the secrets of the white world, and his summer with a man in his basement turns into a dark game of power and manipulation.
MY WAY (The only way I know)
Author: William Cash Neve
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304783790
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
A little bit about the author Pen Name: Big Daddy Cash Name: William Cash Neve Date of Birth: 01/02/36 Sex: Male Location: Salt Lake City, Utah-United States Nationality: Danish Education: School of hard knocks Influence: Honesty, Integrity and Love Writing Style: My Way Favorite Quotes: I'm an altruistic example of my own ego and like my one liner's best of all.. "The mind is the key to the vehicle that travels the roads and byways of time." Claim to Fame: Publisher of many books found on Lulu, Amazon, Barns and Noble and many bookstores worldwide.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304783790
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
A little bit about the author Pen Name: Big Daddy Cash Name: William Cash Neve Date of Birth: 01/02/36 Sex: Male Location: Salt Lake City, Utah-United States Nationality: Danish Education: School of hard knocks Influence: Honesty, Integrity and Love Writing Style: My Way Favorite Quotes: I'm an altruistic example of my own ego and like my one liner's best of all.. "The mind is the key to the vehicle that travels the roads and byways of time." Claim to Fame: Publisher of many books found on Lulu, Amazon, Barns and Noble and many bookstores worldwide.
Supreme Court
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
Book Description
THE WEBOOK TRIANGLE
Author: Big Daddy Cash Neve
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300989246
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Fellowship of Writers I am a WEbooker that will reach out way beyond my imagination to show my creations of beauty to the whole world. I am a member of a collaboration of writers called the Fellowship of Writers. Writers with extraordinary talents and writing abilities We reach out for only the best. I have written thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and a good many songs. I write what I write to please my readers. Read and enjoy I have written this just for you.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300989246
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Fellowship of Writers I am a WEbooker that will reach out way beyond my imagination to show my creations of beauty to the whole world. I am a member of a collaboration of writers called the Fellowship of Writers. Writers with extraordinary talents and writing abilities We reach out for only the best. I have written thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and a good many songs. I write what I write to please my readers. Read and enjoy I have written this just for you.
A Thematic Exploration of Twentieth-Century Western Literature
Author: Jiang Chengyong
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000514811
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The twentieth century witnessed dramatic changes in terms of the structure of society, economics, politics, science, and technology, driving a change in Western literature from traditional to modern: old value systems were shattered; writing approaches and aesthetics changed; writers began to explore the psychological world and expand the discussion of humankind and modern civilization. This title takes classic literature by European and American authors of the twentieth century as research objects in order to comprehensively explore their thoughts, values, aesthetics, and narratives. Six major themes are used as units for analysis—existential meaning, self-identity, war and human nature, growing confusion, love and marriage, and anti-utopia. The authors argue that the six themes extend the themes of traditional literature and epitomize the unique characteristics of twentieth-century Western literature. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, especially Western literature and twentieth-century literature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000514811
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The twentieth century witnessed dramatic changes in terms of the structure of society, economics, politics, science, and technology, driving a change in Western literature from traditional to modern: old value systems were shattered; writing approaches and aesthetics changed; writers began to explore the psychological world and expand the discussion of humankind and modern civilization. This title takes classic literature by European and American authors of the twentieth century as research objects in order to comprehensively explore their thoughts, values, aesthetics, and narratives. Six major themes are used as units for analysis—existential meaning, self-identity, war and human nature, growing confusion, love and marriage, and anti-utopia. The authors argue that the six themes extend the themes of traditional literature and epitomize the unique characteristics of twentieth-century Western literature. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, especially Western literature and twentieth-century literature.
What a Life!
Author: Ola Lydia Taiwo
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1606939823
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
A heartwrenching memoir of a woman trying to overcome the emotional, physical, and psychological trauma of childhood abuse highlights how the author's decision to forgive her mother after 26 years finally released her from the hurt and pain of her tormented past.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1606939823
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
A heartwrenching memoir of a woman trying to overcome the emotional, physical, and psychological trauma of childhood abuse highlights how the author's decision to forgive her mother after 26 years finally released her from the hurt and pain of her tormented past.
Goldoon and Professor
Author: Bahman Shahzadi
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412012317
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A stash of historic letters is the starting point for this intimate view of life in pre-Revolutionary Iran. The authors, Jackie and Bahman Shahzadi, use excerpts of their old letters to peer into the past and examine the relationship that became a 35-year marriage. For young, American-born Jackie, the challenges of adapting to life in Iran were complicated by marrying into Zoroastrianism, a religion forbidding both conversion and interfaith marriage. Their life in Iran spans the political life of the Shah from coronation to overthrow. This conversational narrative chronicles the effects of these outside influences on this bicultural union, including, ultimately, exile from Iran in the midst of the Revolution.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412012317
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A stash of historic letters is the starting point for this intimate view of life in pre-Revolutionary Iran. The authors, Jackie and Bahman Shahzadi, use excerpts of their old letters to peer into the past and examine the relationship that became a 35-year marriage. For young, American-born Jackie, the challenges of adapting to life in Iran were complicated by marrying into Zoroastrianism, a religion forbidding both conversion and interfaith marriage. Their life in Iran spans the political life of the Shah from coronation to overthrow. This conversational narrative chronicles the effects of these outside influences on this bicultural union, including, ultimately, exile from Iran in the midst of the Revolution.
The Landlord as Scapegoat
Author: Keith Akiva Lehrer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Evicted
Author: Matthew Desmond
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0553447459
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review). In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: President Barack Obama, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker, Bloomberg, Esquire, BuzzFeed, Fortune, San Francisco Chronicle, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Politico, The Week, Chicago Public Library, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Shelf Awareness WINNER OF: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism • The PEN/New England Award • The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE KIRKUS PRIZE “Evicted stands among the very best of the social justice books.”—Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth “Gripping and moving—tragic, too.”—Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones “Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0553447459
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review). In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: President Barack Obama, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker, Bloomberg, Esquire, BuzzFeed, Fortune, San Francisco Chronicle, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Politico, The Week, Chicago Public Library, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Shelf Awareness WINNER OF: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism • The PEN/New England Award • The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE KIRKUS PRIZE “Evicted stands among the very best of the social justice books.”—Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth “Gripping and moving—tragic, too.”—Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones “Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty.”—San Francisco Chronicle
BIG DADDY CASH
Author: Big Daddy Cash Neve
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304010848
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
As extraordinary writers we open a world of wonders using words that flow with beautiful creative expression. Our short stories and poems are compelling and long to be expressed in a way that nurtures imagination and realism to bring you satisfaction. Our best is extraordinaire, a use of words uniquely fashioned, offered especially for our readers. We endeavor to take you beyond the ordinary and into the world of the extraordinary. Writing boldly and freely on the pages of this book dedicated to your brief moment of joy.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304010848
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
As extraordinary writers we open a world of wonders using words that flow with beautiful creative expression. Our short stories and poems are compelling and long to be expressed in a way that nurtures imagination and realism to bring you satisfaction. Our best is extraordinaire, a use of words uniquely fashioned, offered especially for our readers. We endeavor to take you beyond the ordinary and into the world of the extraordinary. Writing boldly and freely on the pages of this book dedicated to your brief moment of joy.