Download or read book The King of Con written by Thomas Giacomaro and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Jersey boy with a knack for numbers, a gift for making people trust him, and an all-consuming hunger to rule the business world, Tom Giacomaro could convince anyone of anything. As a teenager, Tom Giacomaro began working in the mob-laden New Jersey trucking industry. A charming, brash-talking salesman with a genius-level IQ, he climbed the ranks and let his lust for money and relationships with New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Chicago crime families send him spiraling into a world of drugs and violence. And that's only the beginning. In The King of Con, Tom details how he hashes out a deal with the FBI, agreeing to become a crime informant in an effort to avoid jail time—only, he continues his high-finance, white-collar scheming, luring celebrities and other high-profile contacts to invest multimillions in his new business ventures. When it all comes crashing down, Tom is thrown in prison for over a decade, yet, even behind bars, he's able to get what he wants from anyone . . . and he eventually finds a way to get released early. Cowritten by journalist Natasha Stoynoff, The King of Con is the unforgettable true story about a man who became hooked on living life to thrilling and dangerous excess, until he was humbled by the FBI, by the US Attorney, and by life itself. Now, Tom is back in his old New Jersey neighborhood. His old business cronies and mob contacts are calling, his palms are itching to make billions again, and the US Attorney's office is watching. Will he stay on the straight and narrow, or will he steal back his crown of crime as the King of Con?

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Download or read book Baffled by Love written by Laurie Kahn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three decades, Laurie Kahn has treated clients who were abused as children—people who were injured by someone whom they believed to be trustworthy, someone who professed to love them. Their abusers—a father, stepfather, priest, coach, babysitter, aunt, neighbor—often were people who inhabited their daily lives. Love is why they come to therapy. Love is what they want, and love is what they say is not going well for them. Kahn, too, had to learn to navigate a wilderness in order to find the “good” kind of love after a rocky childhood. In Baffled by Love, she includes strands from her own story, along with those of her clients, creating a narrative full of resonance, meaning, and shared humanity.

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Download or read book Short Stories to Amuse Baffle and Educate written by Ron Harvey and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some things in life are just inexplicable. On top of that, they can't be explained. What this book does is captivatingly capture your imagination in unimaginable and preposterous ways. Imagine that while you are imagining an image of your own imagination. As you read this book of short stories, poems, and cartoons, you will all too quickly realize that the author's imagination has run totally amok. Some may say it's run aground or hit a reef and broken its keel. You must be warned, however. So

Download or read book Tales from the Briccs written by Maurice Kelly and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from the Briccs is a collection of short urban stories that gives one a raw and water resistant glimpse into real life scenarios that happen in ghettos all across America. Each story contains one of the perils that plague the lives of individuals living in the ghetto: money, sex, violence, gangs and prison; yet they all have positive messages that are written to entertain and enlighten a mature audience thats in search of truth through the art of fiction. Its thrilling, humorous, heart stopping and destined to make you think twice.

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Download or read book The Devil s Topographer written by David M. Owens and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Devil's Topographer explores the wider implications of Bierce's contribution to war short fiction and the significance of the war story as a subgenre in American literature. This volume is a significant contribution to the body of literary commentary on Ambrose Bierce and to the study of the development of the American short story."--Jacket.

Download or read book Nostromo A Tale of The Seaboard written by Joseph Conrad and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the year 1904, famous English traveller and colonial writer Joseph Conrad's novel 'Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard' is set in the fictitious South American republic of Costaguana.

Download or read book The Poetical Works of Coleridge Shelley and Keats written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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