Download or read book The Stickup Kids written by Randol Contreras and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented insiderÕs look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers. Known on the streets as ÒStickup Kids,Ó these men raided and brutally tortured drug dealers storing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and cash. As a participant observer, Randol Contreras offers both a personal and theoretical account for the rise of the Stickup Kids and their violence. He mainly focuses on the lives of neighborhood friends, who went from being crack dealers to drug robbers once their lucrative crack market opportunities disappeared. The result is a stunning, vivid, on-the-ground ethnographic description of a drug robberyÕs violence, the drug market high life, the criminal life course, and the eventual pain and suffering experienced by the casualties of the Crack Era. Provocative and eye-opening, The Stickup Kids urges us to explore the ravages of the drug trade through weaving history, biography, social structure, and drug market forces. It offers a revelatory explanation for drug market violence by masterfully uncovering the hidden social forces that produce violent and self-destructive individuals. Part memoir, part penetrating analysis, this book is engaging, personal, deeply informed, and entirely absorbing.
Download or read book Clean My Space written by Melissa Maker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wildly popular YouTube star behind Clean My Space presents the breakthrough solution to cleaning better with less effort Melissa Maker is beloved by fans all over the world for her completely re-engineered approach to cleaning. As the dynamic new authority on home and living, Melissa knows that to invest any of our precious time in cleaning, we need to see big, long-lasting results. So, she developed her method to help us get the most out of our effort and keep our homes fresh and welcoming every day. In her long-awaited debut book, she shares her revolutionary 3-step solution: • Identify the most important areas (MIAs) in your home that need attention • Select the proper products, tools, and techniques (PTT) for the job • Implement these new cleaning routines so that they stick Clean My Space takes the chore out of cleaning with Melissa’s incredible tips and cleaning hacks (the power of pretreating!) her lightning fast 5-10 minute “express clean” routines for every room when time is tightest, and her techniques for cleaning even the most daunting places and spaces. And a big bonus: Melissa gives guidance on the best non-toxic, eco-conscious cleaning products and offers natural cleaning solution recipes you can make at home using essential oils to soothe and refresh. With Melissa’s simple groundbreaking method you can truly live in a cleaner, more cheerful, and calming home all the time.
Download or read book Nobody Gets Hurt and Other Lies written by Nicholas Day and published by JournalStone. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of young boys steal a death mask from an antique store and face violent retribution. Inept criminals who dream of a big payday plot to kidnap a child. Four video store clerks venture into a freak Los Angeles snowstorm and discover that not all monsters are special effects. Two sisters convince themselves there's no reason to be afraid of Aunt Alice and her secrets, now that she's dead. An amnesiac suspects that the man who claims to love her may in fact be keeping her a prisoner. From riverside towns in the Midwest and a future Paris above the clouds, to ancient lycanthropes and vindictive pachyderms, this collection of supernatural terrors and heartbreaking reality from award-nominated Nicholas Day, author of Now That We're Alone and At the End of the Day I Burst into Flames, explores identity, addiction, love, and death. Plunge headfirst into fifteen tales of monsters, madness, and all the darkness human hearts can carry. Danger lurks around every corner, every decision a step closer to demise. Everybody gets what's coming to them in the end. But, of course, Nobody Gets Hurt.
Download or read book 21Wyte Free written by Thredda C. Sanders and published by Thredda C. Sanders. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on true events, 21Wyte&Free is a riveting account of a “Homeboy” who stepped out of his “Control Shell,” his “comfort zone,” to weave stories and tales of adventures outside of societal norms. It’s a gritty look at what capitalism, sex, drugs, money and tragedy, can make of a Man! Mesmerized by the power of money, he took up the mantel. This book is full of “fiery” tropes of street life along with its danger and trappings. He was handsome, charming and he wrote his own narrative. Using his intellect to rise among the “High Rollers,” he rose, fall and rose again. And with all said and done, he remained true to his “life’s vision.” No chains, laws or redemption kept him from his “adopted truths!”
Download or read book All My Jewelry Shit written by Alice Devon and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to use this Jewelry Making Notebook:8 X 10 Inches110 PagesThis useful jewelry project log book is a must-have for anyone that loves the art of designing jewelry! You will love this easy to use journal to track and record all your architecture activities.Each interior page includes space to record & track the following: Project Name - Write down the name of the current project.Date - Use this space to fill in the date of the project.Clients - Record and Track the client's name.Budget - Fill in the allowed budget for this project.Deadline - Write out the deadline for the project.Dimensions - Stay on task using the grid graph to sketch out the front, side and top view of the piece of jewelry. Material Components - Write out the details of each material, weight, quantity and the price.If you are new to the world of making jewelry or have been at it for a while, this jewelry making planner is a must have! Can make a great useful gift for anyone that loves to make jewelry! Have Fun!
Download or read book All My Jewelry Making Shit written by Patricia Larson and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This useful jewelry project log book is a must-have for anyone that loves the art of designing jewelry! You will love this easy to use journal to track and record all your architecture activities.
Download or read book What s Really Hood written by Wahida Clark and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the streets take on a whole new meaning in this urban anthology of "hood" tales compiled by New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark. WHAT'S REALLY HOOD! Black Is Blue by Victor L. Martin delves into the life of a corporate woman who falls in love with a thug and finds out just how easy it is to stray from the straight and narrow. Eighteen and hungry Wiz's only addiction to drugs is the money it made. But Crystal changed all of that and shows him just how powerful a woman can be in The P is Free by LaShonda Teague. In The LastLaugh by Bonta, Bobo, a member of the infamous Eight-Trey street gang, learns that gang life isn't all it's cracked up to be as "street wars" take on a whole new meaning. Shawn "Jihad" Trump tells the story of loyalty, love and honor, when The Point Blank Mob is brought to its knees leaving the crew fighting for their lives and freedom in All for Nothing. And New York Times bestselling author, Wahida Clark, introduces Nina, a woman tired of being disrespected by men who takes revenge to the ultimate level in Makin' Endz Meet.
Download or read book All My Jewelry Making Shit written by Eveline Hoseki and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All My Jewelry Making Shit This Jewelry Making Journal Log Book has been created for professional and amateur jewelry makers and designers to organize their design ideas and keep track of components and costs. Keeping track of components and costs can be the most challenging aspect of any craft and this journal will help you do just that. With pages to track and record designs and costs, templates for new ideas, and an inventory to keep track the cost of components, you will be able to price your items with confidence and ease. See the back cover for an example of what you can expect inside this Logbook ! Jewellery Making Journal Features: Date Desing Title Place for Sketch or Photo Size / Shape Color / Metal Components (Quantity and Cost) Total Cost and Selling Price Notes This book includes: Beautifully designed premium matte cover Size: Easy-to-store 8.5 x 11 inches 128 pages to document your latest jewelry making activities Prompted spaces to document details such as design title, size, color, components etc. Perfect binding, quality white paper sheet This is the perfect gift/present for that jewelry making lover in your life, or for those looking to break into a new hobby. So get your copy today ! and don't forget to check my other notebooks and find the perfect one that will suit you, or would be ideal for that special gift for a loved one. My books carry a range of different notebooks and you will undoubtedly find the right one for you by checking through our different and exciting graphic options.
Download or read book Finding My Way Back to Love written by Diamond Johnson and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were Miami’s favorite couple. Mustafa and Kennedy Strong. Their names rang bells in the streets of Miami. Before Mustafa and Kennedy were a married couple, they were once two six-year-old kids who were the best of friends. But from day one, they knew that they loved each other. Years later, they now have three beautiful children, but Mustafa’s occupation is dangerous and Kennedy want’s nothing more than for her husband to leave the streets alone. After Mustafa’s parents, the streets raised him next, so that’s all he knows. Will Mustafa’s stubbornness cause him to lose his family? Should he have listened to his wife? No doubt that the Strong family will take a major loss, but is it fixable is the question. This book will make you cry, laugh, smile, angry, and cry all over again. We just hope that with everything that Kennedy and Mustafa endures, that they will be able to find their way back to love.
Download or read book Out written by Wanda Wright and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Nickki sits in prison facing a life sentence, her family struggles to survive in the city of Detroit. Grandma Ruth is doing everything she can to raise the fatherless children and keep her faith and the promise to raise her grandchildren while their mother is away... Only the Grace of God can save them. Othello mastermind of the street game has all but got the heart of the daughter that Nickki and Grandma Ruth prayed day and night for her life to be different. Penny has more than her share of pain as her friends, one by one, are being brutally murdered. Kwame can only strive to be strong for his family and not get caught up in the streets of Detroit with his childhood friends.
Download or read book Play Me Girl written by King A. Khaliq and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was raised by her mother and Grandmother Lulu Mae Jenkins right there in the brothel, where they made their home. Her father was a big-time gambler who went by the name of Sugar Man; he got killed in a robbery a couple of years ago, when she was only three years old.
Download or read book Mental written by Jaime Lowe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting memoir and a fascinating investigation of the history, uses, and controversies behind lithium, an essential medication for millions of people struggling with bipolar disorder. It began in Los Angeles in 1993, when Jaime Lowe was just sixteen. She stopped sleeping and eating, and began to hallucinate—demonically cackling Muppets, faces lurking in windows, Michael Jackson delivering messages from the Neverland Underground. Lowe wrote manifestos and math equations in her diary, and drew infographics on her bedroom wall. Eventually, hospitalized and diagnosed as bipolar, she was prescribed a medication that came in the form of three pink pills—lithium. In Mental, Lowe shares and investigates her story of episodic madness, as well as the stability she found while on lithium. She interviews scientists, psychiatrists, and patients to examine how effective lithium really is and how its side effects can be dangerous for long-term users—including Lowe, who after twenty years on the medication suffers from severe kidney damage. Mental is eye-opening and powerful, tackling an illness and drug that has touched millions of lives and yet remains shrouded in social stigma. Now, while she adjusts to a new drug, her pursuit of a stable life continues as does her curiosity about the history and science of the mysterious element that shaped the way she sees the world and allowed her decades of sanity. Lowe travels to the Bolivian salt flats that hold more than half of the world’s lithium reserves, rural America where lithium is mined for batteries, and tolithium spas that are still touted as a tonic to cure all ills. With unflinching honesty and humor, Lowe allows a clear-eyed view into her life, and an arresting inquiry into one of mankind’s oldest medical mysteries.
Download or read book The Score written by Kiki Swinson and published by Dafina. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOING ONCE . . . Identity theft mastermind Lauren Kelly has always had a taste for the finer things. With her lover and accomplice, Matt Connors, by her side, there’s nothing she can’t buy or steal. But she’s not the only one... GOING TWICE . . . When their partner, Yancy, stumbles onto a tycoon’s multi-million dollar bank account, Lauren expects the latest scam will go smoothly—until she discovers Matt and Yancy are planning the ultimate betrayal... SOMEONE’S GOING TO DIE . . . Fortunately, Lauren is one step ahead of Matt. Once she disappears with every last dollar, they’ll have no doubt they chose the wrong woman to deceive. But all three of them chose the wrong target... “Treachery, betrayal and revenge add to the twists and turns. . . . Loved it!” —RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars “Reads like a block-buster movie.” —AAMBC Reviewer
Download or read book Grady written by Kathi S. Barton and published by World Castle Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harper Bailey was in way over her head, and the trouble just seemed to keep coming. Her brother-in-law had frozen her personal accounts, and now she was on the run because she wouldn’t do as she was “told.” She had been told to abort the baby. Harper hadn’t wanted the baby she had been forced to carry in the first place, but now that she’d felt life, she would protect the child with hers. Grady McCade knew that his mate had been found when she touched the piece of jewelry. The dragon had told him that if he didn’t hurry to her side, she would be found by the dragon slayers and her life could be ended as well as the life of the babe that she carried. With Grady and Harper together, the dragon grows stronger, and the slayers pick up the pace in their quest for all the pieces of jewelry. Can the McCades stop them before they strike again? Are any of them safe? Find out in The McCade Dragon—Grady
Download or read book Natural Born Liar written by Noire and published by Dafina Books. This book was released on with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mink LaRue realizes she resembles a missing oil heiress, she travels to Dallas, pretending to be the daughter to try to cash in.
Download or read book Z BRUH written by MoeFoe and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Z-bruh has controlled his D.C. neighborhood and crew with and iron fist for over 10 years. He's finally ready to leave the streets and invest in legitimate business which is met by disbelief from friends and family. When something goes wrong at his last re-up it begins a domino effect of bad events for Z-bruh and his crew which could prove to be costly. Will Z-bruh be able to pick up the pieces and still retire or will his exit from the game lead him to jail or even worse the grave.
Download or read book Got It Bad For An Atlanta Boss 2 written by Tay Mo'nae and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loyalty has always been important to Nico and Taj and now that secrets have been exposed they are looking at Raquel and Brielle in a whole new light. Did the girls set them up or is everything just a coincidence? Can they continue to trust the twins with their lives, or should they just use them to send a message to the gang responsible for trying to bring them down? Brielle wants nothing more to do with Nico. She believes in if a person shows you who they are believe them. When they?re forced to work together to try and get control on both of their lives will they both be willing to wave the white flag and make it work? With all the drama in their personal lives, Nico and Taj still have to worry about business and their street dealings. Someone is working with SMC and feeding information to the enemy. When the snake is revealed everyone will be shocked. Who could want to hurt the twins, Nico and Taj like this? Someone will have to pay the ultimate price in the end but who?
