Author: jon-david
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781983229497
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Southern California in the 1980s was the apex of the universe for the pauper-impaired. Dynasty, Madonna, designer-everything, mobile phones and cocaine ushered in the Me Generation's appetite for addictive living. Jessy, a young hairdresser in Los Angeles, dressed for success and wanted to get rich quick and got more than he set out for by moonlighting for a man who made his passion for big cars supply his big habits. Big-Don is LA's campy commercial king for his chain of auto-repair shops, which are, in-reality, the front for his actual business of supplying drugs to the Hollywood elite. Big-Don's wife also has a passion but hers is for young hairdressers who must supply more than her appetite for fashion: and she gets Jessy hooked on more than a new lifestyle Jessy's relationships at his day-job at the upscale salon Beautious Maximous become strained as his employers and co-workers try their best to keep the boy grounded; a near impossible task when the salon manager is Tinsel Town's "queen" of gossip and his friends are more concerned with getting laid while dealing with the oncoming age of compulsory condom-sex due to a new un-named plague.This Mafia Hairdresser is gifted cars, clothing, all-you-can-snort cocaine, Hawaiian vacations and VIP invites to music & movie industry parties until he's asked to baby-sit the out-of-control mob couple by their mysterious associate, Smokey Topaz. To live or die, quit or stay... must this Mafia Hairdresser resort to drugs, blackmail and a possible accidental manslaughter? Mafia Hairdresser is Book One in a series and is based on the author's own fabulously dangerous lifestyle.This Edition includes preview of Book Two, The Glow Stick God, available on Kindle at Amazon.com, Fall 2011
Mafia Hairdresser
Author: jon-david
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781983229497
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Southern California in the 1980s was the apex of the universe for the pauper-impaired. Dynasty, Madonna, designer-everything, mobile phones and cocaine ushered in the Me Generation's appetite for addictive living. Jessy, a young hairdresser in Los Angeles, dressed for success and wanted to get rich quick and got more than he set out for by moonlighting for a man who made his passion for big cars supply his big habits. Big-Don is LA's campy commercial king for his chain of auto-repair shops, which are, in-reality, the front for his actual business of supplying drugs to the Hollywood elite. Big-Don's wife also has a passion but hers is for young hairdressers who must supply more than her appetite for fashion: and she gets Jessy hooked on more than a new lifestyle Jessy's relationships at his day-job at the upscale salon Beautious Maximous become strained as his employers and co-workers try their best to keep the boy grounded; a near impossible task when the salon manager is Tinsel Town's "queen" of gossip and his friends are more concerned with getting laid while dealing with the oncoming age of compulsory condom-sex due to a new un-named plague.This Mafia Hairdresser is gifted cars, clothing, all-you-can-snort cocaine, Hawaiian vacations and VIP invites to music & movie industry parties until he's asked to baby-sit the out-of-control mob couple by their mysterious associate, Smokey Topaz. To live or die, quit or stay... must this Mafia Hairdresser resort to drugs, blackmail and a possible accidental manslaughter? Mafia Hairdresser is Book One in a series and is based on the author's own fabulously dangerous lifestyle.This Edition includes preview of Book Two, The Glow Stick God, available on Kindle at Amazon.com, Fall 2011
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781983229497
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Southern California in the 1980s was the apex of the universe for the pauper-impaired. Dynasty, Madonna, designer-everything, mobile phones and cocaine ushered in the Me Generation's appetite for addictive living. Jessy, a young hairdresser in Los Angeles, dressed for success and wanted to get rich quick and got more than he set out for by moonlighting for a man who made his passion for big cars supply his big habits. Big-Don is LA's campy commercial king for his chain of auto-repair shops, which are, in-reality, the front for his actual business of supplying drugs to the Hollywood elite. Big-Don's wife also has a passion but hers is for young hairdressers who must supply more than her appetite for fashion: and she gets Jessy hooked on more than a new lifestyle Jessy's relationships at his day-job at the upscale salon Beautious Maximous become strained as his employers and co-workers try their best to keep the boy grounded; a near impossible task when the salon manager is Tinsel Town's "queen" of gossip and his friends are more concerned with getting laid while dealing with the oncoming age of compulsory condom-sex due to a new un-named plague.This Mafia Hairdresser is gifted cars, clothing, all-you-can-snort cocaine, Hawaiian vacations and VIP invites to music & movie industry parties until he's asked to baby-sit the out-of-control mob couple by their mysterious associate, Smokey Topaz. To live or die, quit or stay... must this Mafia Hairdresser resort to drugs, blackmail and a possible accidental manslaughter? Mafia Hairdresser is Book One in a series and is based on the author's own fabulously dangerous lifestyle.This Edition includes preview of Book Two, The Glow Stick God, available on Kindle at Amazon.com, Fall 2011
The Journeyman Barber, Hairdresser, Cosmetologist and Proprietor
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barbers
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barbers
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The Mafia's Black Opal
Author: Tiffany Ransier
Publisher: Indigo Hearts Press LLC
ISBN: 1949079090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Valerio Marchioni Six years ago, I got the job I never wanted—being the head of the Italian Mafia. There’s no room to take my position lightly. I do whatever is required of me, according to the rules passed down from my father, including marrying someone I’m not in love with. I hold respect for her as the mother of my children and a former member of another Italian family. It only takes one night for us to be split apart forever. One vulnerable moment when I leave for a business trip gives someone the chance to attack my family. Now my pregnant wife is gone without a trace to be found. I will find who’s responsible and make sure their blood runs through the streets of New York City. First, I have to send all the women I find in the process, home. Except for her, the woman with nowhere to go. Her It only takes one night for me to be taken. I should’ve been safer than anyone. Yet I end up on the circuit, bounced around from place to place. It’s only on the day I decide to escape that I’m rescued by him, Valerio Marchioni. A man I should hate with every fiber in me. But then I get to know him. I see him for who he really is. And by then, it’s too late. I can never leave, not even if I wanted to. If he discovers who I really am, I’ll be dead before the men who took his wife.
Publisher: Indigo Hearts Press LLC
ISBN: 1949079090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Valerio Marchioni Six years ago, I got the job I never wanted—being the head of the Italian Mafia. There’s no room to take my position lightly. I do whatever is required of me, according to the rules passed down from my father, including marrying someone I’m not in love with. I hold respect for her as the mother of my children and a former member of another Italian family. It only takes one night for us to be split apart forever. One vulnerable moment when I leave for a business trip gives someone the chance to attack my family. Now my pregnant wife is gone without a trace to be found. I will find who’s responsible and make sure their blood runs through the streets of New York City. First, I have to send all the women I find in the process, home. Except for her, the woman with nowhere to go. Her It only takes one night for me to be taken. I should’ve been safer than anyone. Yet I end up on the circuit, bounced around from place to place. It’s only on the day I decide to escape that I’m rescued by him, Valerio Marchioni. A man I should hate with every fiber in me. But then I get to know him. I see him for who he really is. And by then, it’s too late. I can never leave, not even if I wanted to. If he discovers who I really am, I’ll be dead before the men who took his wife.
UTOPIA'S SUICIDE
Author: John Paul
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491886102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
Having one foot in North America and one in Europe, the author inevitably, compares these two continents, their surroundings, their people, and their modus vivendi. The interpretation of happenings on these continents as they relate to one life's adventure is the scope of this work, which is, before everything else, a collage of personal biography, illuminated by flashes of the remarkable historical moments preceding the emigration. There are, moreover, interpretations of impressions colored with romantic, enchanting mysticism, and alternatively, subjective impressions of immigrants who came to America to find a better life and expected, to some extent, to find a promised land on a platter. In either case, impressions are based on predispositions of what immigrants from the old country envisioned American to be like. However, gratia is not a prerequisite; it does not exist in the meaning of emi, nor immi gratia. Is this memoir an unprejudiced evaluation and objective notation of experiences as they were, or a biased overflow of emotions, ridicule and sarcasm, or delight and adornment? What is the difference between autobiography, memoir, and diary, versus a fictitious, rather historical novel in the first place? A degree of deviation from factual reality? A conglomerate relatively dry when transferred onto paper, this cacophony, without regard to categorization, may enlighten the mind of one American, or one potential immigrant, by informing or reforming the picture of the mirage of a once-magical "New World" or the romanticism of the "Old One."
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491886102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
Having one foot in North America and one in Europe, the author inevitably, compares these two continents, their surroundings, their people, and their modus vivendi. The interpretation of happenings on these continents as they relate to one life's adventure is the scope of this work, which is, before everything else, a collage of personal biography, illuminated by flashes of the remarkable historical moments preceding the emigration. There are, moreover, interpretations of impressions colored with romantic, enchanting mysticism, and alternatively, subjective impressions of immigrants who came to America to find a better life and expected, to some extent, to find a promised land on a platter. In either case, impressions are based on predispositions of what immigrants from the old country envisioned American to be like. However, gratia is not a prerequisite; it does not exist in the meaning of emi, nor immi gratia. Is this memoir an unprejudiced evaluation and objective notation of experiences as they were, or a biased overflow of emotions, ridicule and sarcasm, or delight and adornment? What is the difference between autobiography, memoir, and diary, versus a fictitious, rather historical novel in the first place? A degree of deviation from factual reality? A conglomerate relatively dry when transferred onto paper, this cacophony, without regard to categorization, may enlighten the mind of one American, or one potential immigrant, by informing or reforming the picture of the mirage of a once-magical "New World" or the romanticism of the "Old One."
The Mafia's Nurse
Author: Astrid.O
Publisher: Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
"Don't you see? EVERYTHING comes at a price mio il amore" Matteo Russo- The heir to the Russo Famiglia. At 26 he's accomplished more than men his age could ever dream of, in unconventional ways, of course...He's not just a man, he is the man. He runs New York nothing comes in without him knowing and nothing will most certainly get out. Ruthless, cocky enigmatic, and assertive. Just a few words to describe him. Talia Cruz- A trauma nurse in one of the richest hospitals in New York. Young and successful and she's so proud of herself. Well, she should be, made an orphan at just 13 her and her older sister Iris, never thought they would make it this far. Now that she's 22 with a supportive job Iris can finally move back to their hometown leaving Talia to take on New York by herself. When Talia sees something that she shouldn't see and is taken captive by Matteo Russo himself, does she crumble and fall or does she reveal her true self? Because after all, what's a crazy King without an even crazier Queen?
Publisher: Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
"Don't you see? EVERYTHING comes at a price mio il amore" Matteo Russo- The heir to the Russo Famiglia. At 26 he's accomplished more than men his age could ever dream of, in unconventional ways, of course...He's not just a man, he is the man. He runs New York nothing comes in without him knowing and nothing will most certainly get out. Ruthless, cocky enigmatic, and assertive. Just a few words to describe him. Talia Cruz- A trauma nurse in one of the richest hospitals in New York. Young and successful and she's so proud of herself. Well, she should be, made an orphan at just 13 her and her older sister Iris, never thought they would make it this far. Now that she's 22 with a supportive job Iris can finally move back to their hometown leaving Talia to take on New York by herself. When Talia sees something that she shouldn't see and is taken captive by Matteo Russo himself, does she crumble and fall or does she reveal her true self? Because after all, what's a crazy King without an even crazier Queen?
Marilyn
Author: Lois Banner
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408814102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
As one of the founders of the field of women's history, Lois Banner reveals Marilyn Monroe in the way that only a top-notch historian and biographer could. Banner appreciates the complexities of Monroe's personal life in the context of her achievements as an actor, singer, dancer, comedian, model and courtesan.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408814102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
As one of the founders of the field of women's history, Lois Banner reveals Marilyn Monroe in the way that only a top-notch historian and biographer could. Banner appreciates the complexities of Monroe's personal life in the context of her achievements as an actor, singer, dancer, comedian, model and courtesan.
Mafia Wife
Author: Lynda Milito
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 147973540X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
When Lynda Lustig met Louie Milito, she was a sixteen-year-old high-school dropout with a taste for adventure and an agonizing childhood. When they were married two years later, he was not yet a made man in the powerful Gambino crime family. Louie was a hairdresser who dabbled in petty thievery. But Lynda was so happy to be out of her domineering mothers loveless house. And over the years, she was willing to forgive her husband for anything: his violent rages, his frequent absences, his shady associates, and the blood on his hands. For twentyfour years Lynda Milito remained loyal to this charming and dangerous criminal -- her childrens father and close friend of crime boss John Gotti and underboss Sammy the Bull Gravano. But in 1988, Louie Milito disappeared, murdered by the very people he had always trusted to protect him. A crime story, a family story, a love story, Mafia Wife is the shockingly intimate, brutally honest tale of a survivor -- and of the life she lived in the dark bosom of the underworld.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 147973540X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
When Lynda Lustig met Louie Milito, she was a sixteen-year-old high-school dropout with a taste for adventure and an agonizing childhood. When they were married two years later, he was not yet a made man in the powerful Gambino crime family. Louie was a hairdresser who dabbled in petty thievery. But Lynda was so happy to be out of her domineering mothers loveless house. And over the years, she was willing to forgive her husband for anything: his violent rages, his frequent absences, his shady associates, and the blood on his hands. For twentyfour years Lynda Milito remained loyal to this charming and dangerous criminal -- her childrens father and close friend of crime boss John Gotti and underboss Sammy the Bull Gravano. But in 1988, Louie Milito disappeared, murdered by the very people he had always trusted to protect him. A crime story, a family story, a love story, Mafia Wife is the shockingly intimate, brutally honest tale of a survivor -- and of the life she lived in the dark bosom of the underworld.
Her Name Is America
Author: Sabah Toma
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1512793256
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Opinions regarding immigration have been a vital part of the American conversation throughout our entire history. Perhaps never more so than now. Our country has reached a crossroads in this conversation, a time in which discussion ends and action begins. From the Puritans over three hundred years ago until this very day, America, more than any other nation in the world, has been defined by its immigrants. It can be fairly said America is not only a land of immigrants, America is her immigrants. Sabah Toma would become one of those countless millions searching for what Americans call a better life but what immigrants call life itself. Mr. Toma would discover America is not as he imagined: the warm, nurturing woman standing in the harbor, holding her lantern aloft for the world. He would learn she is a harsheven brutaltask mistress demanding everything he could possibly give, and more. Finally, he would learn he could never give her enough because she, in turn, would give him everything. Her Name Is America distills the vast complexity of our current social and political discourse into one single human face. In the face of Sabah Toma, we find hope, pain, loss, joy, and ultimately, perseverance. This is one immigrants storythe story of Sabah Toma.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1512793256
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Opinions regarding immigration have been a vital part of the American conversation throughout our entire history. Perhaps never more so than now. Our country has reached a crossroads in this conversation, a time in which discussion ends and action begins. From the Puritans over three hundred years ago until this very day, America, more than any other nation in the world, has been defined by its immigrants. It can be fairly said America is not only a land of immigrants, America is her immigrants. Sabah Toma would become one of those countless millions searching for what Americans call a better life but what immigrants call life itself. Mr. Toma would discover America is not as he imagined: the warm, nurturing woman standing in the harbor, holding her lantern aloft for the world. He would learn she is a harsheven brutaltask mistress demanding everything he could possibly give, and more. Finally, he would learn he could never give her enough because she, in turn, would give him everything. Her Name Is America distills the vast complexity of our current social and political discourse into one single human face. In the face of Sabah Toma, we find hope, pain, loss, joy, and ultimately, perseverance. This is one immigrants storythe story of Sabah Toma.
The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film
Author: Drewey Wayne Gunn
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810885883
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's publication, hundreds of novels and short stories in this sub-genre have been produced, and Gunn has unearthed many additional representations previously unrecorded. In this new edition, Gunn provides an overview of milestones in the development of gay detectives over the last several decades. Also included in this volume is an annotated list of novels, short stories, plays, graphic novels, comic strips, films, and television series with gay detectives, gay sleuths of secondary importance, and non-sleuthing gay policemen. The most complete listing available--including the only listing of early gay pulp novels, present-day male-to-male romances, and erotic films--this new edition brings the work up to date with publications missed in the first edition, particularly cross-genre mysteries, early pulps, and some hard-to-find volumes. The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography lists all printed works in English (including translations) presently known to include gay detectives (such as amateur sleuths, police detectives, private investigators, and investigative reporters), from the 1929 play Rope until the present day. It includes all films in English, subtitled or dubbed, from the screen version of Rope in 1948 and the launch of the independent film Spy on the Fly in 1966 through the end of 2011. Complete with two appendices--a bibliography of sources and a list of Lambda Literary Awards--and indexes of titles, detectives, and actors, this extensively revised and updated reference will prove invaluable to mystery collectors, researchers, aficionados of the subgenre, and those devoted to GLBTQ studies.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810885883
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's publication, hundreds of novels and short stories in this sub-genre have been produced, and Gunn has unearthed many additional representations previously unrecorded. In this new edition, Gunn provides an overview of milestones in the development of gay detectives over the last several decades. Also included in this volume is an annotated list of novels, short stories, plays, graphic novels, comic strips, films, and television series with gay detectives, gay sleuths of secondary importance, and non-sleuthing gay policemen. The most complete listing available--including the only listing of early gay pulp novels, present-day male-to-male romances, and erotic films--this new edition brings the work up to date with publications missed in the first edition, particularly cross-genre mysteries, early pulps, and some hard-to-find volumes. The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography lists all printed works in English (including translations) presently known to include gay detectives (such as amateur sleuths, police detectives, private investigators, and investigative reporters), from the 1929 play Rope until the present day. It includes all films in English, subtitled or dubbed, from the screen version of Rope in 1948 and the launch of the independent film Spy on the Fly in 1966 through the end of 2011. Complete with two appendices--a bibliography of sources and a list of Lambda Literary Awards--and indexes of titles, detectives, and actors, this extensively revised and updated reference will prove invaluable to mystery collectors, researchers, aficionados of the subgenre, and those devoted to GLBTQ studies.
Pink Jinx
Author: Sandra Hill
Publisher: Sandra HIll Books
ISBN: 1950349454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Second chances at love make a great story, but when a couple has been married and divorced five times, what are the odds for success? Find out in Pink Jinx, the first book in Sandra Hill's Jinx treasure hunting trilogy. Starring Veronica Jinkowsky, a strait-laced Boston lawyer, and Jake Jensen, a professional poker player, Pink Jinx provides an outstanding cast of colorful characters, all trapped about a salvage boat on the open seas: Veronica's grandfather Frank Jinkowsky, whose Polish heritage is apparent in his insistence on constantly playing polka music and his matchmaking efforts, his partner Flossie, who used to be a Las Vegas showgirl, cook Brenda Caslow, an ex-NASCAR mechanic who is on a sauerkraut diet, divers Adam Famosa, a Cuban college professor, and Caleb Peachy, an ex-Amish Navy SEAL, and the beloved Tante Lulu of Sandra's Cajun series. Veronica and Jake are determined not to make mistake number six as they work to find the lost cache of pink diamonds, but will they find that the greatest treasure of all was with them all along?
Publisher: Sandra HIll Books
ISBN: 1950349454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Second chances at love make a great story, but when a couple has been married and divorced five times, what are the odds for success? Find out in Pink Jinx, the first book in Sandra Hill's Jinx treasure hunting trilogy. Starring Veronica Jinkowsky, a strait-laced Boston lawyer, and Jake Jensen, a professional poker player, Pink Jinx provides an outstanding cast of colorful characters, all trapped about a salvage boat on the open seas: Veronica's grandfather Frank Jinkowsky, whose Polish heritage is apparent in his insistence on constantly playing polka music and his matchmaking efforts, his partner Flossie, who used to be a Las Vegas showgirl, cook Brenda Caslow, an ex-NASCAR mechanic who is on a sauerkraut diet, divers Adam Famosa, a Cuban college professor, and Caleb Peachy, an ex-Amish Navy SEAL, and the beloved Tante Lulu of Sandra's Cajun series. Veronica and Jake are determined not to make mistake number six as they work to find the lost cache of pink diamonds, but will they find that the greatest treasure of all was with them all along?