Download or read book A Chicago Love Story written by Siren and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-24 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amoré Jones thought that the winters of Chicago were cold, but they had nothing on how cold her baby daddy, Chiraq, was doing her. 2019 wasn't looking too promising as the state of Illinois cut her food stamps, and her baby daddy was acting up. However, Amoré was determined to make it happen for her and her son, even if it meant that love had to be put on the back burner. But a new job may change all that as Amoré comes across her new boss, Markelle. Markelle "MK" Carter likes to entertain hoes, and he doesn't want to commit to anyone. However, his world, as well as his heart, is turned upside down when his new assistant, Amoré, enters his life. Amoré isn't his type at all. She's too hood, and MK isn't about to compete with any man for a chick. But, late nights and new found lust has MK trying to shoot his shot with Amoré. With Valentine's day quickly approaching, will Amoré pick the familiarity of Chiraq, or will she let MK slide in more than just her thoughts? Love is in the air, and Cupid is searching the hood. Who said that hood chicks don't need love too?
Download or read book A Ghetto Chicago Love Story written by Aloe Franklin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-03-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Walker, who goes by the name J-Money, was born on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. He later moved to Chicago’s west suburb, Maywood, Illinois, as a juvenile. Maywood is where he began his string of robberies. He and his gang committed robberies from Maywood to the West Side of Chicago for years. J-Money was arrested for robbery several times as a juvenile and as an adult. After doing time in the penitentiary, he came home a young man. He needed his own money, which led him to getting it the only way he knew how—robbing with his gang. The war also was still on with their rival street. A few of J-Money’s gang members find themselves locked up also. Though J-Money is street, he, too, is a ladies magnet. J-Money is having more sex than a little, which is why at nineteen, he got Lala pregnant a month after he came home from prison. This was also the same age he met a woman whom he fell in love with at first sight. Yvette is twenty-seven and married with five children. Yvette is a neighbor-turned-friend of J-Money’s auntie, Leana. Yvette and her husband, Dub, are on the verge of divorce after repeatedly trying to make it work for, at least, their kids’ sake. J-Money has never been in or believed in love nor has he ever been in a serious relationship. Yvette’s marriage is on the rocks. She has to make a decision not only for her, but her kids too. These are people who are a product of their environment, which is the ghetto. Police brutality, gang violence, poverty, struggle, and risk. J-Money has a flock of girls and is addicted to the street life. Will he leave all the girls alone for his first love or is it just puppy love? Which will he choose, the streets or love? Yvette is married with children and has just inherited a big lump sum of money. Will she leave her husband and find new love? Or will she settle because she wants her kids to have a normal household with mom and dad? Read the book, and you’ll find out because I’m not telling you!
Download or read book My Cubs written by Scott Simon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most tortured—and now triumphant—franchise. Heartbreak and hope. Charmed and haunted. My Cubs is Scott Simon’s love letter to his Chicago Cubs, World Series winners for the first time in over a century. Replete with personal reflections, club lore, memorable anecdotes, and tales of frenetic fandom, My Cubs recounts the franchise’s pivotal moments with the wise and adoring intimacy of a long-suffering devotee and Chicago native. Simon illustrates how the condition of “Cubness” has defined the life of so many Chicagoans and how the team’s fortunes became intertwined with the aspirations of its faithful. With the curse finally broken on November 2, 2016, My Cubs is the perfect portrayal of paradise lost and found.
Download or read book I Got You written by Dynasty Rose and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Perhaps A Novel written by Joe Meno and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This ambitious, adventurous writer . . . recalls Anton Chekhov with his amused appreciation of human foibles.”—Wendy Smith, Chicago Tribune The sky is falling for the Caspers, a family of cowards. When the parents decide to separate, this family is forced to appreciate the cloudiness of this modern age.
Download or read book To Be a Man written by Nicole Krauss and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O, The Oprah Magazine's 20 Best Titles of the Year Time Magazine's 100 Books to Read in 2020 Financial Times' Best Books of 2020 Esquire's Best Books of 2020 New York Times Editors' Choice Lit Hub's Best Books of 2020 Bustle's Best Short Story Collections of 2020 Electric Literature's Favorite Short Story Collections of 2020 Library Journal's Best Short Stories of 2020 “Superb. . . . Krauss’s depictions of the nuances of sex and love, intimacy and dependence, call to mind the work of Natalia Ginzburg in their psychological profundity, their intellectual rigor. . . . Krauss’s stories capture characters at moments in their lives when they’re hungry for experience and open to possibilities, and that openness extends to the stories themselves: narratives too urgent and alive for neat plotlines, simplistic resolutions or easy answers.” —Molly Antopol, New York Times Book Review “From a contemporary master, an astounding collection of ten globetrotting stories, each one a powerful dissection of the thorny connections between men and women. . . . Each story is masterfully crafted and deeply contemplative, barreling toward a shimmering, inevitable conclusion, proving once again that Krauss is one of our most formidable talents in fiction.” —Esquire In one of her strongest works of fiction yet, Nicole Krauss plunges fearlessly into the struggle to understand what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman, and the arising tensions that have existed from the very beginning of time. Set in our contemporary moment, and moving across the globe from Switzerland, Japan, and New York City to Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, and South America, the stories in To Be a Man feature male characters as fathers, lovers, friends, children, seducers, and even a lost husband who may never have been a husband at all. The way these stories mirror one other and resonate is beautiful, with a balance so finely tuned that the book almost feels like a novel. Echoes ring through stages of life: aging parents and new-born babies; young women’s coming of age and the newfound, somewhat bewildering sexual power that accompanies it; generational gaps and unexpected deliveries of strange new leases on life; mystery and wonder at a life lived or a future waiting to unfold. To Be a Man illuminates with a fierce, unwavering light the forces driving human existence: sex, power, violence, passion, self-discovery, growing older. Profound, poignant, and brilliant, Krauss’s stories are at once startling and deeply moving, but always revealing of all-too-human weakness and strength.
Download or read book Stay the Night written by K. T. Webb and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four-year-old CeCe is ready for law school, she just has to decide which one. A surprise opportunity at Harvard Law beckons, but a ghost from her past returns and forces her to reevaluate her priorities. CeCe finds herself staying with Miles, her best friend's older brother, and learning how to love again. She's spent years building up her walls, and Miles tears them down in seconds. If she decides to stay the night with him, she needs to be sure he will stay forever.
Download or read book Plastic written by Susan Freinkel and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This eloquent, elegant book thoughtfully plumbs the . . . consequences of our dependence on plastics” (The Boston Globe, A Best Nonfiction Book of 2011). From pacemakers to disposable bags, plastic built the modern world. But a century into our love affair, we’re starting to realize it’s not such a healthy relationship. As journalist Susan Freinkel points out in this eye-opening book, we’re at a crisis point. Plastics draw on dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful chemicals, litter landscapes, and destroy marine life. We’re drowning in the stuff, and we need to start making some hard choices. Freinkel tells her story through eight familiar plastic objects: a comb, a chair, a Frisbee, an IV bag, a disposable lighter, a grocery bag, a soda bottle, and a credit card. With a blend of lively anecdotes and analysis, she sifts through scientific studies and economic data, reporting from China and across the United States to assess the real impact of plastic on our lives. Her conclusion is severe, but not without hope. Plastic points the way toward a new creative partnership with the material we love, hate, and can’t seem to live without. “When you write about something so ubiquitous as plastic, you must be prepared to write in several modes, and Freinkel rises to this task. . . . She manages to render the most dull chemical reaction into vigorous, breathless sentences.” —SF Gate “Freinkel’s smart, well-written analysis of this love-hate relationship is likely to make plastic lovers take pause, plastic haters reluctantly realize its value, and all of us understand the importance of individual action, political will, and technological innovation in weaning us off our addiction to synthetics.” —Publishers Weekly “A compulsively interesting story. Buy it (with cash).” —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature “What a great read—rigorous, smart, inspiring, and as seductive as plastic itself.” —Karim Rashid, designer
Download or read book An American Summer written by Alex Kotlowitz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE WINNER From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods. The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded by gunfire. What does that do to the spirit of individuals and community? Drawing on his decades of experience, Alex Kotlowitz set out to chronicle one summer in the city, writing about individuals who have emerged from the violence and whose stories capture the capacity--and the breaking point--of the human heart and soul. The result is a spellbinding collection of deeply intimate profiles that upend what we think we know about gun violence in America. Among others, we meet a man who as a teenager killed a rival gang member and twenty years later is still trying to come to terms with what he's done; a devoted school social worker struggling with her favorite student, who refuses to give evidence in the shooting death of his best friend; the witness to a wrongful police shooting who can't shake what he has seen; and an aging former gang leader who builds a place of refuge for himself and his friends. Applying the close-up, empathic reporting that made There Are No Children Here a modern classic, Kotlowitz offers a piercingly honest portrait of a city in turmoil. These sketches of those left standing will get into your bones. This one summer will stay with you.
Download or read book I Got You written by Dynasty Rose and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago is a dangerous place to grow up especially when you have nobody to lean on. Senior year is supposed to be easy breezy and filled with so much excitement. Not for this young group of friends, they will experience break ups, death, jail time, pregnancy, and so much more drama. When everything hits you at once the best feeling in the world is knowing you have somebody that has your back. Although Amora is captain of the dance team and dates the most popular guy in school, life still has a way of pushing her down. Some of us wish our mothers would give us our space while Amora just hoped to be recognized. Malik is the captain of the basketball team and seems to have it going on. That is until Thanksgiving Day when all the secrets unravel and paramedics arrive. Kira has a strong head on her shoulders and all she know is being independent. Father walked out on them after years of abusing her mother. Looking for love was never in the plans until she gave Vondre a chance. Vondre is the man of the house and ball is the only way out. Providing for his family is all he knows but a part time job aint cutting it. Veronica has both parent's but it's like she has neither. Her pass has built up so much anger and it takes a real man to help relieve it. Fast money ain't always good, but it pays the bills. Jordan was captain of the football team and a genus when it came to science. No matter how brilliant he was the streets are like fathers to the young black men. Young, alone, and broken all she wanted was love. Gina just wanted to get back what was hers. And she would do that no matter what it took. New to the streets of Chicago he just wanted to stay low. Keep his head in the books and make his mama proud. Who knew Khalil's whole future stood right before him with a broken heart ready to be mended.
Download or read book Love in the Time of Contagion written by Laura Kipnis and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely, insightful, and darkly funny investigation, the acclaimed author of Against Love asks: what does living in dystopic times do to our ability to love each other and the world? COVID-19 has produced new taxonomies of love, intimacy, and vulnerability. Will its cultural afterlife be as lasting as that of HIV, which reshaped consciousness about sex and love even after AIDS itself had been beaten back by medical science? Will COVID end up making us more relationally conservative, as some think HIV did within gay culture? Will it send us fleeing into emotional silos or coupled cocoons, despite the fact that, pre-COVID, domestic coupledom had been steadily losing fans? Just as COVID revealed our nation to itself, so did it hold a mirror up to our relationships. In Love in the Time of Contagion, Laura Kipnis weaves (often hilariously) her own (ambivalent) coupled lockdown experiences together with those of others and sets them against a larger backdrop: the politics of the virus, economic disparities, changing gender relations, and the ongoing institutional crack-ups prompted by #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, mapping their effects on the everyday routines and occasional solaces of love and sex.
Download or read book Hard Habit to Break written by K. T. Webb and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia shouldn't be checking out the sexy older guy at the coffee shop. She should remind herself what happened the last time she was drawn to a man. Olivia should know better than to start something that could ruin both their lives. The trouble is, sometimes the things we shouldn't do become the hardest habits to break.
Download or read book The Ring written by Rio and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Got You 2 written by Dynasty Rose and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The windy city might be a lot of things, but to many its home. After ten years Jordan wakes up from his coma. Nothing is as he remembers it; Veronica is married and raising their baby girl with another man. How can she just forget about everything they ever shared? Veronica is in love with Liam, but her love for Jordan never went away. Now she's stuck between a rock and a hard place. Does she stay with her husband who is becoming more and more abusive or her first love? Trouble in paradise for Kira and Vondre, don't think sex will be able to fix this one. Vondre fell out of love years ago when he first laid eyes on Shanti. He was determined to break things off with Kira until there was a baby involved. Tired of keeping Shanti in the dark and pretending to be happy was becoming too stressful. Kira loved Von, but she made a mistake ten years ago that could really break him. Why ruin everything they shared? Technically he was the baby's father anyways right? Raising twins is a handful especially when Khalil is always on the road. Amora gave up her dream of touring the world choreographing celebrities. So Khalil could tour the world showing off his music. Marriage is about compromise, but Khalil doesn't understand that. He invites his young sexy artist to stay in their home where they raise their children. Without Amora having the slightest clue, they had issues with cheating in the pass, was this the same case?" Malik was still hung up over Amora, I guess it's true what they say. You never miss a good thing until it's gone and gone she was. Dating Tianna and Isis was becoming too stressful, one had to go, but was it the right one? Gina's happy ending is finally coming together after a couple drinks and a night at the club. Will she take the job offer to Seattle and leave everything behind? Or will she settle down with Malcom? Lines will be crossed, temptation will be at large and hearts will be shattered! Lies, secrets, and betrayal will all come out and nothing is as it seems. Three gun shots, but two dead bodies.
Download or read book The Women I Love written by Francesco Pacifico and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative and bracing send-up of modern masculinity, from the author of Class and The Story of My Purity Marcello, an editor and poet, is on the brink of his forties. Like everyone in his life, including his sister-in-law, he’s writing a novel. This novel. This novel will be about women. Love. Growing older. Maybe even taking responsibility. But unfortunately for Marcello, the women in his life resist definition. They flit and flicker constantly between archetype and actuality: sirens and saviors, subordinates and savants, vixens and villains. So Marcello cannot write plainly about love. Instead, he tries to write into the complexities of his many relationships: Eleonora, the junior editor, his former protegeé and sometime lover; Barbara, his claustrophobic girlfriend; his estranged gay sister; his elegant mother. Fresh, frank, and painfully cool, Francesco Pacifico’s The Women I Love dives nakedly into gender, sex, and power. Set in a vivid and alcoholic Italy, it acknowledges and subverts the narrow ways canonical male writers gaze at, and somehow fail to see, women—illuminating the possibility of equity between people in love, in bed, in work, and in life.
Download or read book Chicago With Love a Polite and Personal History written by Arthur 1902-1971 Meeker and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Jasmin and Troy written by Keisha J. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jasmine Henderson hasn't always had the perfect life growing up losing both parents in a bad car accident. She is forced to stay with an Aunt that doesn't care about her. Feeling unwanted and misused she had to adapt to her situation and forced to take care of herself. Jasmine had a strong mind to get out the hood. She wanted to make her parents proud of her. Troy Brown Good/Bad guy comes along and Jasmine is crushing on him heavy. He's the one that all the girls lust after and mostly all the guys love to hate. He takes Jasmine under his wing and the two become best of friends possibly even lovers. That is until the unthinkable happen and some stuff gets exposed. Will these two be able to keep their love for each other strong or will it be just another failed teenage love? Find out in this hood romance just how strong love is as Jasmine and Troy face life's trials and tribulations. Find out just how strong their love can stand after lies are told.
