Author: A. J. Benza
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476738785
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"A.J. Benza's distinctive blend of wit, dry humor, and genuine tenderness shines through this candid, compelling memoir about the summer of 1974 when his shy, effeminate cousin comes to live with A.J.'s family, which is dominated by his short-tempered, outspoken, hyper-masculine father. At its core, A.J.'s story is about learning that "being exactly who you were meant to be is the only thing that matters""--
74 and Sunny
Author: A. J. Benza
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476738785
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"A.J. Benza's distinctive blend of wit, dry humor, and genuine tenderness shines through this candid, compelling memoir about the summer of 1974 when his shy, effeminate cousin comes to live with A.J.'s family, which is dominated by his short-tempered, outspoken, hyper-masculine father. At its core, A.J.'s story is about learning that "being exactly who you were meant to be is the only thing that matters""--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476738785
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"A.J. Benza's distinctive blend of wit, dry humor, and genuine tenderness shines through this candid, compelling memoir about the summer of 1974 when his shy, effeminate cousin comes to live with A.J.'s family, which is dominated by his short-tempered, outspoken, hyper-masculine father. At its core, A.J.'s story is about learning that "being exactly who you were meant to be is the only thing that matters""--
Crackhead II
Author: Lisa Lennox
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451661762
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In the follow-up to the bestselling urban novel Crackhead, a new boss takes over the South Bronx as Laci and Dink try to make a life away from crime. In Crackhead, the South Bronx Bitches, an infamous drug ring, promoted lies, betrayal, and disloyalty resulting in drama and death. Nobody’s lives were ever the same. Dink and Laci are adjusting to life as college students at Boston University. But with Laci fighting the demons of her past addiction at the hands of the South Bronx Bitches and Dink struggling to adapt to the legit life away from his former drug empire, will their pasts keep them from moving forward? Smurf has taken over the South Bronx in Dink’s absence. When he joins up with the mysterious Dirty, who comes to town with a new product and plans to take over the state, can they avoid the reach of a detective hell-bent on solving the mysterious deaths of Dame, Marco, and Crystal? Or will Smurf’s own strained relationship with his mother play a part in the demise of newly acquired empire? Lisa Lennox delivers in this fast-paced, emotional sequel to her bestselling first novel, Crackhead. With an ending so unexpected, and revenge so cold, fans will be talking about this book for years to come.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451661762
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In the follow-up to the bestselling urban novel Crackhead, a new boss takes over the South Bronx as Laci and Dink try to make a life away from crime. In Crackhead, the South Bronx Bitches, an infamous drug ring, promoted lies, betrayal, and disloyalty resulting in drama and death. Nobody’s lives were ever the same. Dink and Laci are adjusting to life as college students at Boston University. But with Laci fighting the demons of her past addiction at the hands of the South Bronx Bitches and Dink struggling to adapt to the legit life away from his former drug empire, will their pasts keep them from moving forward? Smurf has taken over the South Bronx in Dink’s absence. When he joins up with the mysterious Dirty, who comes to town with a new product and plans to take over the state, can they avoid the reach of a detective hell-bent on solving the mysterious deaths of Dame, Marco, and Crystal? Or will Smurf’s own strained relationship with his mother play a part in the demise of newly acquired empire? Lisa Lennox delivers in this fast-paced, emotional sequel to her bestselling first novel, Crackhead. With an ending so unexpected, and revenge so cold, fans will be talking about this book for years to come.
Invincible #74
Author: Robert Kirkman
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
THE VILTRUMITE WAR CONTINUES! The traitor is revealed as the Viltrumite Empire's Grand Regent Thragg launches a full-scale assault on the Coalition of Planets home base on Talescria. It appears that all is lost, but The Coalition isn't going to go down without a fight.
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
THE VILTRUMITE WAR CONTINUES! The traitor is revealed as the Viltrumite Empire's Grand Regent Thragg launches a full-scale assault on the Coalition of Planets home base on Talescria. It appears that all is lost, but The Coalition isn't going to go down without a fight.
Savage Dragon #74
Author: Erik Larsen
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
The children of both Widow and Rita Medermade are kidnapped, while Dragon battles Smasher and Mighty Man battles SuperPatriot in the Covenant headquarters.
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
The children of both Widow and Rita Medermade are kidnapped, while Dragon battles Smasher and Mighty Man battles SuperPatriot in the Covenant headquarters.
The 48 Laws of Power
Author: Robert Greene
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0670881465
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0670881465
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.
My Other Dad
Author: D.R. Tillotson
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491779713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Peter Linwood is dead, murdered in a Detroit alley hundreds of miles from home. No one knows what he was doing in that dark alley. Furthermore, who would want to kill a boring computer salesman ... and why? His daughter, Ellie Linwood, now must put aside her graduate studies to find out what happened to her father. Ellie finds an ally in Detroit Police Detective Emerson Smith. Together, they struggle to piece together Peter’s career using postcards he sent his daughter from every hotel he stayed in over the last twenty years. In the midst of their investigation, Ellie receives a mysterious note: “Here is the key to my favorite place. The reason I was killed is there. Your Uncle Max is the only person you can trust.” The note is signed “Dad.” Even stranger, Ellie’s Uncle Max has been dead for two years. Peter’s murder soon explodes into a worldwide conspiracy, and the men behind it will sacrifice anything or anyone to stop Ellie from uncovering their plan. Can Ellie and Smith stay alive long enough to solve her father’s murder? And what happens when Ellie meets her “dead” Uncle Max face-to-face?
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491779713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Peter Linwood is dead, murdered in a Detroit alley hundreds of miles from home. No one knows what he was doing in that dark alley. Furthermore, who would want to kill a boring computer salesman ... and why? His daughter, Ellie Linwood, now must put aside her graduate studies to find out what happened to her father. Ellie finds an ally in Detroit Police Detective Emerson Smith. Together, they struggle to piece together Peter’s career using postcards he sent his daughter from every hotel he stayed in over the last twenty years. In the midst of their investigation, Ellie receives a mysterious note: “Here is the key to my favorite place. The reason I was killed is there. Your Uncle Max is the only person you can trust.” The note is signed “Dad.” Even stranger, Ellie’s Uncle Max has been dead for two years. Peter’s murder soon explodes into a worldwide conspiracy, and the men behind it will sacrifice anything or anyone to stop Ellie from uncovering their plan. Can Ellie and Smith stay alive long enough to solve her father’s murder? And what happens when Ellie meets her “dead” Uncle Max face-to-face?
Wildcat
Author:
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434977528
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434977528
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Into the Sound Country
Author: Bland Simpson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807868191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Into the Sound Country is a story of rediscovery--of two North Carolinians returning to seek their roots in the state's eastern provinces. It is an affectionate, impressionistic, and personal portrait of the coastal plain by two natives of the region, writer Bland Simpson and photographer Ann Cary Simpson. Here Bland Simpson tours his old waterfront haunts in Elizabeth City, explores scuppernong vineyards from Hertford to Southport, tramps through Pasquotank swamps and Croatan pine savannas, and visits Roanoke River oyster bars and Core Banks fishing shanties. Ann Simpson's original photographs capture both the broad vistas of the sounds and rivers and the quieter corners of mossy creeks and country churchyards. Her selection of archival illustrations ranges from the informative to the humorous, from a turpentine scraper at work in the 1850s to a pair of little girls playing with a horseshoe crab on a Beaufort porch at the turn of the century. A memorable journey into eastern Carolina's richly varied natural world, Into the Sound Country is for anyone who would spend a while in one of America's most intriguing and underexplored areas.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807868191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Into the Sound Country is a story of rediscovery--of two North Carolinians returning to seek their roots in the state's eastern provinces. It is an affectionate, impressionistic, and personal portrait of the coastal plain by two natives of the region, writer Bland Simpson and photographer Ann Cary Simpson. Here Bland Simpson tours his old waterfront haunts in Elizabeth City, explores scuppernong vineyards from Hertford to Southport, tramps through Pasquotank swamps and Croatan pine savannas, and visits Roanoke River oyster bars and Core Banks fishing shanties. Ann Simpson's original photographs capture both the broad vistas of the sounds and rivers and the quieter corners of mossy creeks and country churchyards. Her selection of archival illustrations ranges from the informative to the humorous, from a turpentine scraper at work in the 1850s to a pair of little girls playing with a horseshoe crab on a Beaufort porch at the turn of the century. A memorable journey into eastern Carolina's richly varied natural world, Into the Sound Country is for anyone who would spend a while in one of America's most intriguing and underexplored areas.
Gold Blooded
Author: Ty Marshall
Publisher: Marshall House Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
They say the pretty ones have more fun... Golden Garcia learned at an early age that beauty is a weapon that is either working for you or against you. Stone-hearted and ambitious, she is willing to do whatever it takes to escape her unprivileged beginnings. She masters the art of seduction and manipulation to gain the things she desires most. But when Golden meets Champ, a seasoned hustler, a lifetime wiser, she realizes the thing she desires most in life is to be loved. He spoils her with the lifestyle she’s always dreamed of and her loyalty to him knows no bounds. She becomes addicted to the rush of being a hustler’s wife and finds herself caught up in a world of drug dealing and fast money. Before long, Golden realizes the lifestyle she so desperately sought after comes with a steep price tag. One that Champ feels she is forever indebted to him. There is no way out once she’s entangled in his vicious web of lies and deceit. Golden ultimately discovers there is only one rule in the game she’s playing, self-preservation. When her plot to break away goes awry, she will be left with a decision that will forever change her life. Gold Blooded is a fast paced, cautionary tale of sex, money & betrayal in a world where loyalty is limited and love don’t love nobody.
Publisher: Marshall House Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
They say the pretty ones have more fun... Golden Garcia learned at an early age that beauty is a weapon that is either working for you or against you. Stone-hearted and ambitious, she is willing to do whatever it takes to escape her unprivileged beginnings. She masters the art of seduction and manipulation to gain the things she desires most. But when Golden meets Champ, a seasoned hustler, a lifetime wiser, she realizes the thing she desires most in life is to be loved. He spoils her with the lifestyle she’s always dreamed of and her loyalty to him knows no bounds. She becomes addicted to the rush of being a hustler’s wife and finds herself caught up in a world of drug dealing and fast money. Before long, Golden realizes the lifestyle she so desperately sought after comes with a steep price tag. One that Champ feels she is forever indebted to him. There is no way out once she’s entangled in his vicious web of lies and deceit. Golden ultimately discovers there is only one rule in the game she’s playing, self-preservation. When her plot to break away goes awry, she will be left with a decision that will forever change her life. Gold Blooded is a fast paced, cautionary tale of sex, money & betrayal in a world where loyalty is limited and love don’t love nobody.
Race Traitors 2
Author: Mark Davis
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 164628917X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Race Traitors 2 presents the continuing conflicts of gang violence and murder in the city of Chicago in the year 1974. A record number of homicides and shootings plagued the city with no end in sight. Gang Crimes detectives, Myles Sivad and Aristotle Ashford were trapped in a wedge of gang violence as they struggled to address the carnage. Detective Sivad often found himself overwhelmed with duties and personal conflicts that subjugated his conscious and stirred his ability to stay focused on the present state of conditions in the city. His partner, detective Ashford was his pillar and he too found himself struggling with the tasks at hand. Murder had become a virus in the black south side communities as mothers of young victims continued to mourn the death of a son. From 1971 through 1974 hundreds of young black males were murdered or gunshot victims as gang supremacy surged. Detectives, Ashford and Sivad were bound by their oath to serve and protect life and property and committed to their pledge. In their attempt to deal with the physical and psychological stress of their duties, they fought against the intruders that were determined to destroy the black community. Entrenched in this struggle, they were forced to become participants in the growing reality of human anguish in an urban warfare that pitted race, culture and dedication to duty in a triangle of conflict.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 164628917X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Race Traitors 2 presents the continuing conflicts of gang violence and murder in the city of Chicago in the year 1974. A record number of homicides and shootings plagued the city with no end in sight. Gang Crimes detectives, Myles Sivad and Aristotle Ashford were trapped in a wedge of gang violence as they struggled to address the carnage. Detective Sivad often found himself overwhelmed with duties and personal conflicts that subjugated his conscious and stirred his ability to stay focused on the present state of conditions in the city. His partner, detective Ashford was his pillar and he too found himself struggling with the tasks at hand. Murder had become a virus in the black south side communities as mothers of young victims continued to mourn the death of a son. From 1971 through 1974 hundreds of young black males were murdered or gunshot victims as gang supremacy surged. Detectives, Ashford and Sivad were bound by their oath to serve and protect life and property and committed to their pledge. In their attempt to deal with the physical and psychological stress of their duties, they fought against the intruders that were determined to destroy the black community. Entrenched in this struggle, they were forced to become participants in the growing reality of human anguish in an urban warfare that pitted race, culture and dedication to duty in a triangle of conflict.