Download or read book Angie s Story written by Angie Suss Paull and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holocaust Memoir of Angie Suss Paull, survivor of Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camps and Salzwedel Ammunition Factory. Also chronicles her life after the war - her return to Lodz, meeting her husband in a DP Camp and her life in the United States.
Download or read book Angie s Story written by Steve Weintz and published by . This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the unsettling tale of Angie Ferguson, a 38-year-old prostitute who works in Little Rock, Arkansas, home to conservative businessmen, fundamentalist church-goers, and high-profile political figures, many of whom are also Angie's clients. Angie has been a prostitute for two years and in that time has had sex with more than a thousand men. "I make up for my age by doing things the other girls won't," she says. Yet she grew up in an educated, devout Catholic family and never imagined that this could become her life. She uses her considerable earnings to support her five children and their drunken, dead-beat father. Before she became a prostitute, Angie and her kids had to scrounge for food. Nor could she afford to buy them clothes or toys. But now she's making thousands of dollars a week and is able to buy them anything they want, but at a huge emotional cost. While her kids live with their father in a house in Hot Springs, a house that Angie pays for, Angie lives in a trailer on the outskirts of Little Rock, about an hour away. She tells the children she works as a private-duty nurse taking care of the elderly at night, and while she hates herself for what she's doing, she can't bear to go back to not being able to provide for them. Her chance to escape this life comes in the form of Tom, a recently divorced 42-year-old marketing executive at the local phone company. Tom is one of Angie's regular customers, and, over time, he finds himself drawn into Angie's life much further than he'd bargained for. In fact, Tom thinks he's falling in love with her. After one of her drug-crazed clients viciously attacks her, Tom asks Angie to marry him. He wants to save her, to take her away from this dangerous and demeaning life. Angie, exhausted, accepts Tom's proposal and quits prostituting herself, for a time. But for Angie there's no Hollywood ending, like in the movie Pretty Woman. The conclusion to Angie's Story is stark and brutal. The book takes place at the end of 1999, on the brink of Y2K, when many people believe the world will soon come to an end. As the century turns, the story races towards its deadly and devastating climax. Angie's Story has been called by one reader "a powerful and disturbing book" that probes beneath the seemingly placid surface of middle-class life to reveal the conflicting forces always at work there in Little Rock and so many other places like it. It takes the reader into the shadowy underworld of prostitution, sex addiction, escort services, drug and alcohol addiction, and violence. I know something about this world. While this is a work of fiction, Angie's Story also draws on my personal experience. In 1999, I--a divorced and very conflicted Little Rock businessman--married a prostitute in the hope of saving her. My own story ended tragically, but at least I'm still here to tell a version of it. Others, in real life and in Angie's life, weren't so lucky. Steve Weintz
Download or read book Angie s Gladiator written by Ruby Dixon and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an a'ani warrior, my life matters little. Cloned from the same matter as thousands of others, I am but one of many. Here on the ice planet, though, I can start over. I can become my own person, have my own needs, my own wants. I know what I want. I have known since the moment I arrived. Her name is Angie. She is human, with sad, lonely eyes and a very pregnant belly. To her, I am not just another clone. I am Vordis, the one who laughs at her jokes, tends to her needs, and makes her smile. I will do anything to make her mine. But my brother and fellow clone Thrand thinks the same way, and he's just as determined to win her.
Download or read book My Voice written by Angie Martinez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback—Angie Martinez, the “Voice of New York,” candidly recounts the story of her rise to become an internationally celebrated hip hop radio icon. In her current reign at Power 105.1 and for nearly two decades at New York’s Hot 97, Angie Martinez has had one of the highest rated radio shows in the country. After working her way up as an intern, she burst on the scene as a young female jock whose on-air “Battle of the Beats” segment broke records and became a platform for emerging artists like a young Jay Z. Angie quickly became known for intimate, high-profile interviews, mediating feuds between artists, and taking on the most controversial issues in hip hop. At age twenty-five, at the height of the East Coast/West Coast rap war, Angie was summoned by Tupac Shakur for what would be his last no-holds-barred interview—which has never aired in its entirety and which she’s never discussed in detail—until now. Angie shares stories from behind-the-scenes of her most controversial conversations, from onetime presidential hopeful Barack Obama to superstars like Mary J. Blige and Chris Brown, and describes her emotional, bittersweet final days at Hot 97 and the highly publicized move to Power 105.1. She also opens up about her personal life—from her roots in Washington Heights and her formative years being raised by a single mom in Brooklyn to exploring the lessons that shaped her into the woman she is today. From the Puerto Rican Day Parade to the White House—Angie is universally recognized as a powerful voice in the Latino and hip hop communities. My Voice gives an inside look at New York City’s one-of-a-kind urban radio culture, the changing faces of hip hop music, and Angie’s rise to become the Voice of New York.
Download or read book Miracle Creek written by Angie Kim and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel A Time Best Mystery and Thriller Book of All Time The “gripping... page-turner” (Time) hitting all the best of summer reading lists, Miracle Creek is perfect for book clubs and fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng How far will you go to protect your family? Will you keep their secrets? Ignore their lies? In a small town in Virginia, a group of people know each other because they’re part of a special treatment center, a hyperbaric chamber that may cure a range of conditions from infertility to autism. But then the chamber explodes, two people die, and it’s clear the explosion wasn’t an accident. A powerful showdown unfolds as the story moves across characters who are all maybe keeping secrets, hiding betrayals. Chapter by chapter, we shift alliances and gather evidence: Was it the careless mother of a patient? Was it the owners, hoping to cash in on a big insurance payment and send their daughter to college? Could it have been a protester, trying to prove the treatment isn’t safe? “A stunning debut about parents, children and the unwavering hope of a better life, even when all hope seems lost" (Washington Post), Miracle Creek uncovers the worst prejudice and best intentions, tense rivalries and the challenges of parenting a child with special needs. It’s “a quick-paced murder mystery that plumbs the power and perils of community” (O Magazine) as it carefully pieces together the tense atmosphere of a courtroom drama and the complexities of life as an immigrant family. Drawing on the author’s own experiences as a Korean-American, former trial lawyer, and mother of a “miracle submarine” patient, this is a novel steeped in suspense and igniting discussion. Recommended by Erin Morgenstern, Jean Kwok, Jennifer Weiner, Scott Turow, Laura Lippman, and more--Miracle Creek is a brave, moving debut from an unforgettable new voice.
Download or read book Blinger written by Angie Cella and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blinger is the extraordinary story of the exhilarating four-year journey Angie Cella and her four children took, based on her Christian faith and hard work, to make her dream of success come true. Blinger is the story of how Angie brought that dream to life, building a successful business out of nothing but inspiration and hard work. Along with helpful business tips, Angie candidly shares all the fun and excitement, plus the letdowns, the failures, and the pain of bringing an invention to life - and how the power of faith can propel us when we feel like we just can't go on anymore.
Download or read book In Search of Us written by Ava Dellaira and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ava Dellaira's In Search of Us is a sweeping multi-generational love story. To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. But Marilyn was once young, too. When Marilyn was seventeen, she fell in love with Angie's father, James, who was African-American. But Angie's never met him, and Marilyn has always told her he died before she was born. When Angie discovers evidence of an uncle she's never met she starts to wonder: What if her dad is still alive, too? So she sets off on a journey to find him, hitching a ride to LA from her home in New Mexico with her ex-boyfriend, Sam. Along the way, she uncovers some hard truths about herself, her mother, and what truly happened to her father. "A rare and special book. Part mother-daughter love story, part road trip journey, part compelling mystery, and one hundred percent beautiful, spellbinding tearjerker. I’m in love with every page." —Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places and Holding Up the Universe
Download or read book Where the River Grins written by Angie Karcher and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Evansville history book dedicated to the children of Evansville for the use of learning local history from Evansville's beginning though the mid 1940's.
Download or read book Walks on the Beach with Angie written by Don Warner and published by . This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Warners daughter, Angie, was born with cystic fibrosis. Walks on the Beach with Angie details the brief time he spent with his lovely daughter and the circumstances of her death. Proceeds of this book go to the Angela Warner Foundation.
Download or read book Angie s First Case written by Donald J. Sobol and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TWELVE-YEAR-OLD ANGIE, WHILE TRACKING A GANG OF TEENAGE THEIVES TO HELP HER SISTER WHO IS A POLICE OFFICE, BECOMES DANGEROUSLY INVOLVED WITH COUNTERFEITERS.
Download or read book Right of Way written by Angie Schmitt and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash while trying to cross a high-speed, six-lane road without crosswalks near his son’s home in Phoenix, Arizona. He was one of the more than 6,000 people killed while walking in America in 2018. In the last ten years, there has been a 50 percent increase in pedestrian deaths. The tragedy of traffic violence has barely registered with the media and wider culture. Disproportionately the victims are like Duarte-Rodriguez—immigrants, the poor, and people of color. They have largely been blamed and forgotten. In Right of Way, journalist Angie Schmitt shows us that deaths like Duarte-Rodriguez’s are not unavoidable “accidents.” They don’t happen because of jaywalking or distracted walking. They are predictable, occurring in stark geographic patterns that tell a story about systemic inequality. These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent public-health crisis that we have the tools, but not the will, to solve. Schmitt examines the possible causes of the increase in pedestrian deaths as well as programs and movements that are beginning to respond to the epidemic. Her investigation unveils why pedestrians are dying—and she demands action. Right of Way is a call to reframe the problem, acknowledge the role of racism and classism in the public response to these deaths, and energize advocacy around road safety. Ultimately, Schmitt argues that we need improvements in infrastructure and changes to policy to save lives. Right of Way unveils a crisis that is rooted in both inequality and the undeterred reign of the automobile in our cities. It challenges us to imagine and demand safer and more equitable cities, where no one is expendable.
Download or read book Quiet as They Come written by Angie Chau and published by Ig Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful, and at times brutal, portrait of a people caught between cultures. Set in San Francisco from the 1980s to the present day, this debut collection explores the lives of families of Vietnamese immigrants as they struggle to adjust to life in their new country, often haunted by memories and customs of their old lives in Vietnam. While some are able to survive and assimilate, others are crushed by the promise of the American dream.
Download or read book Beyond the Darkness written by Angie Fenimore and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable book, Fenimore describes one life, haunted by abuse and despair, that led to the suicide she thought would give her peace. Instead she entered a realm of terrifying darkness. Beyond the Darkness is unique in the near-death literature because it is the only full-length account of a descent into Hell.
Download or read book Seamless Bible Study Book written by Angie Smith and published by Lifeway Church Resources. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Member Book provides personal study segments and includes 6 weeks of homework with additional helps such as maps, timelines, and word studies.
Download or read book The Hate U Give written by Angie Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the book that inspired the movie! Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping novel about one girl's struggle for justice.
Download or read book Dominicana written by Angie Cruz and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Shortlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction “Through a novel with so much depth, beauty, and grace, we, like Ana, are forever changed.” —Jacqueline Woodson, Vanity Fair “Gorgeous writing, gorgeous story.” —Sandra Cisneros Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn’t matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year’s Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in Washington Heights. Lonely and miserable, Ana hatches a reckless plan to escape. But at the bus terminal, she is stopped by Cesar, Juan’s free-spirited younger brother, who convinces her to stay. As the Dominican Republic slides into political turmoil, Juan returns to protect his family’s assets, leaving Cesar to take care of Ana. Suddenly, Ana is free to take English lessons at a local church, lie on the beach at Coney Island, see a movie at Radio City Music Hall, go dancing with Cesar, and imagine the possibility of a different kind of life in America. When Juan returns, Ana must decide once again between her heart and her duty to her family. In bright, musical prose that reflects the energy of New York City, Angie Cruz's Dominicana is a vital portrait of the immigrant experience and the timeless coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world.
Download or read book Concrete Rose written by Angie Thomas and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. A Printz Honor Book! If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. Life’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control. Until, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father. Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different. When King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can't just walk away. Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. He’ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man.
