Author: Joe Connelly
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307425401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Some might say that Crumbtown isn’t a place. It’s a state of mind. And for the residents of this sinking, stinking, carcinogenic, potholed neighborhood, “There’s bad luck in the world, and then there’s crumbluck.” But for Don Reedy, a true victim of this phenomenon, his crumbluck is about to change. Sentenced to 15 years in prison after a botched armed robbery, Don is paroled early when a television producer decides to turn Don’s tragic story into a television show. Back in Crumbtown and working as a special consultant on the shoot, Don wrestles with delusional actors, pines for a beautiful Russian bartender, and reunites with cops and accomplices alike. But when the opportunity presents itself, Don decides to do something really daring: He robs the re-enactment of his legendary robbery. With the cameras rolling and the line between television and reality blurring, the hunt for Don—and a ratings coup—is on.
Crumbtown
Author: Joe Connelly
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307425401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Some might say that Crumbtown isn’t a place. It’s a state of mind. And for the residents of this sinking, stinking, carcinogenic, potholed neighborhood, “There’s bad luck in the world, and then there’s crumbluck.” But for Don Reedy, a true victim of this phenomenon, his crumbluck is about to change. Sentenced to 15 years in prison after a botched armed robbery, Don is paroled early when a television producer decides to turn Don’s tragic story into a television show. Back in Crumbtown and working as a special consultant on the shoot, Don wrestles with delusional actors, pines for a beautiful Russian bartender, and reunites with cops and accomplices alike. But when the opportunity presents itself, Don decides to do something really daring: He robs the re-enactment of his legendary robbery. With the cameras rolling and the line between television and reality blurring, the hunt for Don—and a ratings coup—is on.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307425401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Some might say that Crumbtown isn’t a place. It’s a state of mind. And for the residents of this sinking, stinking, carcinogenic, potholed neighborhood, “There’s bad luck in the world, and then there’s crumbluck.” But for Don Reedy, a true victim of this phenomenon, his crumbluck is about to change. Sentenced to 15 years in prison after a botched armed robbery, Don is paroled early when a television producer decides to turn Don’s tragic story into a television show. Back in Crumbtown and working as a special consultant on the shoot, Don wrestles with delusional actors, pines for a beautiful Russian bartender, and reunites with cops and accomplices alike. But when the opportunity presents itself, Don decides to do something really daring: He robs the re-enactment of his legendary robbery. With the cameras rolling and the line between television and reality blurring, the hunt for Don—and a ratings coup—is on.
Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of Chenango County
Author: Chenango County (N.Y.). Board of Supervisors
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chenango County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chenango County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1672
Book Description
Library Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
The Book Review Digest
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
Book Description
The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo
Author: Drew Weing
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 1626729328
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Charles just moved to Echo City, and some of his new neighbors give him the creeps. They sneak into his room, steal his toys, and occasionally, they try to eat him. The place is teeming with monsters! Lucky for Charles, Echo City has Margo Maloo, monster mediator. No matter who’s causing trouble, Margo knows exactly what to do—the neighborhood kids say monsters are afraid of her. It's a good thing, because Echo City's trolls, ogres, and ghosts all have one thing in common: they don't like Charles very much.
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 1626729328
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Charles just moved to Echo City, and some of his new neighbors give him the creeps. They sneak into his room, steal his toys, and occasionally, they try to eat him. The place is teeming with monsters! Lucky for Charles, Echo City has Margo Maloo, monster mediator. No matter who’s causing trouble, Margo knows exactly what to do—the neighborhood kids say monsters are afraid of her. It's a good thing, because Echo City's trolls, ogres, and ghosts all have one thing in common: they don't like Charles very much.
My Petition For More Space
Author: John Hersey
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593080890
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
A street in New Haven. A line of people, blocks long, more closely packed than the rush-hour subways of the good old times. Poynter has been on the line since before dawn, as are thousands of others, pressed together, waiting their turns at the window to present their individual petitions. His is for more space—a notion so preposterous that when it is discovered it shocks, reverberates down the line, almost triggering violent reactions. In front of Poynter, so tightly jammed against him that he can see no more than the side of her face, is a girl petitioning to change her job. And, locked together in this fearful proximity, they talk, explore their predicaments, and perhaps fall in love. My Petition for More Space chills by its glimpse of a world grown so crowded that dissent is an inconceivable crime and acquiescence the law of survival. Feelings of hope and fear, desire, anger, frustration erupt sporadically, sparked by the friction of numbers. Call it tonight’s disturbing dream or a coldly logical scenario of things to come, John Hersey’s taut novel stings the mind.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593080890
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
A street in New Haven. A line of people, blocks long, more closely packed than the rush-hour subways of the good old times. Poynter has been on the line since before dawn, as are thousands of others, pressed together, waiting their turns at the window to present their individual petitions. His is for more space—a notion so preposterous that when it is discovered it shocks, reverberates down the line, almost triggering violent reactions. In front of Poynter, so tightly jammed against him that he can see no more than the side of her face, is a girl petitioning to change her job. And, locked together in this fearful proximity, they talk, explore their predicaments, and perhaps fall in love. My Petition for More Space chills by its glimpse of a world grown so crowded that dissent is an inconceivable crime and acquiescence the law of survival. Feelings of hope and fear, desire, anger, frustration erupt sporadically, sparked by the friction of numbers. Call it tonight’s disturbing dream or a coldly logical scenario of things to come, John Hersey’s taut novel stings the mind.
The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo: The Monster Mall
Author: Drew Weing
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 1250222702
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
In the second volume of this beloved graphic novel series, Drew Weing delivers a fresh and funny take on the age-old battle between kids and closet-dwelling monsters. Charles meets a lot of monsters in his line of work. While assisting Margo Maloo on her assignments, he’s had close encounters with trolls, ghosts, imps, and ogres. And lately, they’re all saying the same thing: living in Echo City is getting harder. As the human population of the city grows, monsters are being forced to abandon their homes. Teenagers are creeping into their territory, smartphones in hand, eager to photograph paranormal activity. Some monsters are tired of hiding and ready to fight. How can Margo and Charles keep Echo City’s monster community a secret, when it’s teetering in the brink of war? In this second volume of The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo, graphic novelist Drew Weing delivers a fresh and funny take on the age-old battle between kids and closet-dwelling monsters.
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 1250222702
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
In the second volume of this beloved graphic novel series, Drew Weing delivers a fresh and funny take on the age-old battle between kids and closet-dwelling monsters. Charles meets a lot of monsters in his line of work. While assisting Margo Maloo on her assignments, he’s had close encounters with trolls, ghosts, imps, and ogres. And lately, they’re all saying the same thing: living in Echo City is getting harder. As the human population of the city grows, monsters are being forced to abandon their homes. Teenagers are creeping into their territory, smartphones in hand, eager to photograph paranormal activity. Some monsters are tired of hiding and ready to fight. How can Margo and Charles keep Echo City’s monster community a secret, when it’s teetering in the brink of war? In this second volume of The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo, graphic novelist Drew Weing delivers a fresh and funny take on the age-old battle between kids and closet-dwelling monsters.
Bringing Out the Dead
Author: Joe Connelly
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307765474
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Perhaps only someone who has worked for almost a decade as a medic in New York City's Hell's Kitchen--as Joe Connelly has--could write a novel as riveting and fiercely authentic as Bringing Out the Dead. Like a front-line reporter, Connelly writes from deep within the experience, and the result is a debut novel of extraordinary power and intensity. In Frank Pierce, a brash EMS medic working the streets of Hell's Kitchen, Connelly gives us a man who is being destroyed by the act of saving people. Addicted to the thrill ("the best drug in the world") and the mission of the job, Frank is nevertheless drowning in five years' worth of grief and guilt--his own and others': "my primary role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness." His wife has left him, he's drinking on the job, and just a month ago he "helped to kill" an eighteen-year-old asthmatic girl. Now she's become the waking nightmare of all his failures: hallucination and projection ("the ghosts that once visited my dreams had followed me out to the street and were now talking back"), and as real to him as his own skin. And in reaction to her death, Frank has desperately resurrected a patient back into a life now little better than death. In a narrative that moves with the furious energy of an ambulance run, we follow Frank through two days and nights: into the excitement and dread of the calls; the mad humor that keeps the medics afloat; the memories, distant and recent, through which Frank reminds himself why he became a medic and tries, in vain, to convince himself to give it up. And we are with him as he faces his newest ghost: the resurrected patient, whose demands to be released into death might be the most sensible thing Frank has heard in months, if only he would listen. Bringing Out the Dead is a stunning novel.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307765474
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Perhaps only someone who has worked for almost a decade as a medic in New York City's Hell's Kitchen--as Joe Connelly has--could write a novel as riveting and fiercely authentic as Bringing Out the Dead. Like a front-line reporter, Connelly writes from deep within the experience, and the result is a debut novel of extraordinary power and intensity. In Frank Pierce, a brash EMS medic working the streets of Hell's Kitchen, Connelly gives us a man who is being destroyed by the act of saving people. Addicted to the thrill ("the best drug in the world") and the mission of the job, Frank is nevertheless drowning in five years' worth of grief and guilt--his own and others': "my primary role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness." His wife has left him, he's drinking on the job, and just a month ago he "helped to kill" an eighteen-year-old asthmatic girl. Now she's become the waking nightmare of all his failures: hallucination and projection ("the ghosts that once visited my dreams had followed me out to the street and were now talking back"), and as real to him as his own skin. And in reaction to her death, Frank has desperately resurrected a patient back into a life now little better than death. In a narrative that moves with the furious energy of an ambulance run, we follow Frank through two days and nights: into the excitement and dread of the calls; the mad humor that keeps the medics afloat; the memories, distant and recent, through which Frank reminds himself why he became a medic and tries, in vain, to convince himself to give it up. And we are with him as he faces his newest ghost: the resurrected patient, whose demands to be released into death might be the most sensible thing Frank has heard in months, if only he would listen. Bringing Out the Dead is a stunning novel.
Bonfire
Author: Krysten Ritter
Publisher:
ISBN: 1524759848
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Successful environmental lawyer Abby Williams is forced to confront her small-town past while investigating a high-profile corruption case back home.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1524759848
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Successful environmental lawyer Abby Williams is forced to confront her small-town past while investigating a high-profile corruption case back home.
The Idiots Guide to Household Chores
Author: Nicky Brookes
Publisher: N B Publishing
ISBN:
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The Idiots Guide to Household Chores Are you someone who avoids basic household chores like the plague? Do you find yourself overwhelmed by dishes, laundry, and dust bunnies, yet have no clue where to start? Look no further—The Idiots Guide to Household Chores is here to help! This humorous and practical guide takes you through the everyday chores that pile up around the house, but with a twist: it’s written for people who really don’t want to do them. Whether you’re tackling that towering pile of laundry, decluttering your closet, or finally cleaning the refrigerator (yes, there’s probably something alive in there), this book breaks it all down into easy, bite-sized tasks that anyone can follow—even if you’re a professional procrastinator. Packed with relatable humor and tips that simplify even the most dreaded tasks, The Idiots Guide to Household Chores will help you get your home sparkling clean without feeling overwhelmed. From vacuuming and mopping to organizing your pantry and giving your home a touch of ambiance, this book covers everything you need to know—without the guilt or the stress. What you’ll learn: Simple strategies to clean your home without losing your mind Time-saving tips for organizing and maintaining your space How to tackle chores like dishes, laundry, bathroom cleaning, and more—step by step Clever tricks for dealing with pet hair, dusty blinds, cluttered garages, and more Fun ideas for adding final touches like candles, air fresheners, and cozy décor to make your home feel inviting Whether you're a beginner who shies away from chores or a seasoned procrastinator, this guide will help you turn your to-do list into something totally manageable—and maybe even a little fun!
Publisher: N B Publishing
ISBN:
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The Idiots Guide to Household Chores Are you someone who avoids basic household chores like the plague? Do you find yourself overwhelmed by dishes, laundry, and dust bunnies, yet have no clue where to start? Look no further—The Idiots Guide to Household Chores is here to help! This humorous and practical guide takes you through the everyday chores that pile up around the house, but with a twist: it’s written for people who really don’t want to do them. Whether you’re tackling that towering pile of laundry, decluttering your closet, or finally cleaning the refrigerator (yes, there’s probably something alive in there), this book breaks it all down into easy, bite-sized tasks that anyone can follow—even if you’re a professional procrastinator. Packed with relatable humor and tips that simplify even the most dreaded tasks, The Idiots Guide to Household Chores will help you get your home sparkling clean without feeling overwhelmed. From vacuuming and mopping to organizing your pantry and giving your home a touch of ambiance, this book covers everything you need to know—without the guilt or the stress. What you’ll learn: Simple strategies to clean your home without losing your mind Time-saving tips for organizing and maintaining your space How to tackle chores like dishes, laundry, bathroom cleaning, and more—step by step Clever tricks for dealing with pet hair, dusty blinds, cluttered garages, and more Fun ideas for adding final touches like candles, air fresheners, and cozy décor to make your home feel inviting Whether you're a beginner who shies away from chores or a seasoned procrastinator, this guide will help you turn your to-do list into something totally manageable—and maybe even a little fun!