Download or read book WALKING ENIGMAS written by Tyris Terrell McKnight and published by Tyris Terrell McKnight . This book was released on with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enigma can be defined as a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand. Those kinds of people have layers and layers of mystery to them that no one may be able to understand, even the people closest to them. As human beings we will always attempt to get a better understanding of the actions of the people we love. What we don't want to admit to ourselves is that it's because of our selfish need to have an advantage over the ones that we say we love. In fact we are all playing a game of chess with each other to get the things that we need to survive. Everyday we move into our positions to checkmate the people in this world. If we are being honest with ourselves we all want to leave a mark that this world will never forget. This is the story of a man who is playing the game of chess with ruthlessness. Theodore Milton is a man from New Orleans, Louisiana whose father once ruled the underground economy with an iron fist before being shot down. Theodore has taken it upon himself to pick up where his father had left off and pick up his crown to the underground kingdom.
Download or read book Left to Chance written by Steve Kroll-Smith and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do survivors recover from the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives? This question has haunted the survivors of Hurricane Katrina and informed the response to the subsequent flooding of New Orleans across many years. Left to Chance takes us into two African American neighborhoods—working-class Hollygrove and middle-class Pontchartrain Park—to learn how their residents have experienced “Miss Katrina” and the long road back to normal life. The authors spent several years gathering firsthand accounts of the flooding, the rushed evacuations that turned into weeks- and months-long exile, and the often confusing and exhausting process of rebuilding damaged homes in a city whose local government had all but failed. As the residents’ stories make vividly clear, government and social science concepts such as “disaster management,” “restoring normality,” and “recovery” have little meaning for people whose worlds were washed away in the flood. For the neighbors in Hollygrove and Pontchartrain Park, life in the aftermath of Katrina has been a passage from all that was familiar and routine to an ominous world filled with raw existential uncertainty. Recovery and rebuilding become processes imbued with mysteries, accidental encounters, and hasty adaptations, while victories and defeats are left to chance.
Download or read book The Dog Fancier written by Eugene Glass and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Orleans Custom house Officials written by Rufus King Cutler and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Orleans Connection Series written by Kathy Ivan and published by Kathy Ivan. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Orleans Connection Series Books 1–3: Connor’s Gamble, Relentless Pursuit, Ultimate Betrayal
Download or read book Fortuitous Fate written by A.L. Jones and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fortuitous Fate is an multi perspective journey. A thrill ride for a thousand eyes. When N’jeri Solarin makes a promise to reunite Ajay with his father, she never expected it to take over ten years. Now, she’s digging through uncharted soil, even other countries, to make it happen. But never did she expect to discover the hidden truths behind his disappearance, including the many individuals who are also in search of this man. Who is this Dr. Muresh? Why is he the most wanted man in the new world? And why is every new person N’jeri meets along the way connected to something larger? Is her and Ajay’s journey fortuitous...or is this fate?
Download or read book Forest and Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Not Friendly written by Craytonia "Fire Round" Badger and published by 2Trill Publications . This book was released on with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a little girl, Nae-Nae was devastated after being shot and waking up to her momma and daddy being gunned down. At the time,she didn't have a slightest ideal as to why it happen. All should knew was that it happen. Her little brother Trey was asleep during the shooting. He was awaking during the aftermath.Nae-Nae left the house in the ruthless New Orleans Third ward going to seek some help that she eventually want find right away. As a result, her momma and daddy would die. On her journey searching for help, she ran across a couple cops that was scared to intervene. Instead of helpig her, one of them tried to rape her, but she manage to escape the preditor's intentions.When she turned back home, the same gunnman's that shot her, her momma and daddy returned to in search for something. After they couldn't find what they was looking for, they decided to rape her, just to get something outta the deal. Gloria was a next door neighbor and her mom's best friend. She had plotted the robber and murder of Nae-Nae's momma and daddy. It was Gloria's ideal to get the lump sum of cash they they had just recieved from their lawsuit. However, Gloria ended up cashless. As time went on Nae-Nae and her little brother was being bullied,but they showed no signs of fear. They eventually ended up in Foster care and were often mistreated,but that want be the end,because some monsters were being created. "PAYBACK IS NEVER FORGOTTEN"
Download or read book Furysong written by Rosaria Munda and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of fantasy’s best series." —Booklist, starred review In this explosive conclusion to the epic trilogy that began with Fireborne, Annie and Lee are fighting for their lives—and for each other—as invading dragonfire threatens to burn their home to the ground. A new revolution is underway, and nobody will emerge unscathed. In New Pythos, Griff is facing an execution by the dragonborn, who are furious at his betrayal. He has allies on both sides seeking to defy his fate, but the price of his freedom might come at a dear cost. And Delo will have to make a choice: follow his family, or finally surrender to his conscience. Meanwhile, Annie must race home to hatch a plan to save her Guardians and their dragons. With Callipolis on the brink of collapse and the triarchy set to be reinstated, she may be the one person who can save the city—if she can overcome her own doubts about her future. Lee is a revolutionary at heart, but now he’ll have to find a way to fight with diplomacy. Going up against the dragonborn court and a foreign princess, he faces a test of loyalty that sets his head against his heart. As the fate of Callipolis darkens, Annie and Lee must determine what they are willing to sacrifice in order to save each other, defeat their enemies, and reclaim their home.
Download or read book On the Brink written by Paul Randolph and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the outside looking in, it appears as if architect Paul Randolph and his wife, Brenda, have it all. Theyve lived a comfortable life in the same house on Songbird Lane in New Orleans East with their two children, nine-year-old Jason and seven-year-old Janie, for the last ten years. But Pauls life is a lie. None of his dreams of a vine-covered cottage with a little picket fence are anywhere near reality. He feels trapped in a loveless marriage and is emotionally unable to have an affair. Paul is not sexually attracted to women, and he is frightened to make a sexual advance on a man for fear the man will react unfavorably, or even violently. On the Brink follows Pauls journey as he addresses the emotional and psychological aspects of his sexuality. He is torn between his love for his children, his societal position, and a desperate desire for integrity. Weary of suppressing his true self, Paul deliberates his fate, his only desire being wholeness.
Download or read book Messenger in a Battle written by Joel Pierson and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Messenger Trilogy builds to an exciting conclusion as Tristan Shays and Rebecca Traeger return to Florida to help a troubled teen exonerate her wrongfully imprisoned father. But when the girl is reported as being kidnapped, an Amber Alert makes them wanted felons—just as Tristan is sent to warn a New Orleans police captain that her life is in danger. To make matters worse, they’ve crossed Calvin Traeger, whose powerful business associates at Consolidated Offshore want to keep the pair alive just long enough to extract valuable information about the location of an untapped oil reserve. If they are to have any hope of surviving, Tristan and Rebecca must decide to trust Stelios and his boss, Wolfson, who tried to frame Tristan for murder in Atlanta. When Consolidated’s forces bring out a living weapon of unimaginable destructive power, they will all have to rely on centuries-old prophecies that appear to foretell the outcome of the impending conflict. On the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, the two warring factions clash, thrusting the messenger into a battle for his very life.
Download or read book The City Born Great written by N. K. Jemisin and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes. Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life. Thus New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife...and how well he can learn to sing the city's mighty song. The City Born Great is a Tor.com Original. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Harbor City written by Chariss K. Walker and published by Chariss K. Walker. This book was released on with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes, someone's angel is someone else's demon. Harbor City is the fourth and final book in the An Alec Winters Series. The story began when 17-year-old Alec discovered a terrible family secret. Now, after suffering a devastating personal loss, Alec must return to work. His sales job takes him to Melbourne, Florida where he uncovers a human trafficking ring involving underage girls. Bad people doing bad things everywhere! This dark-urban-fantasy supernatural thriller tells Alec’s controversial story as an angel and demon on the gritty streets of New Orleans and Melbourne Florida. Harbor City is the last installment in this emotionally-charged 4-book series. Author's Warning: Dark fiction stories - deal with elements of fear, death, and the darkest side of life. Not for the faint of heart, not recommended for those under the age of 17. Fans of the movie, The Equalizer, and the television series, Supernatural and Constantine, will enjoy An Alec Winters Series.
Download or read book If We Were Electric written by Patrick Earl Ryan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If We Were Electric’s twelve stories celebrate New Orleans in all of its beautiful peculiarities: macabre and magical, muddy and exquisite, sensual and spiritual. The stunning debut collection finds its characters in moments of desire and despair, often stuck on the verge of a great metamorphosis, but burdened by some unreasonable love. These are stories about missed opportunities, about people on the outside who don’t fit in, about the consequences of not mustering enough courage to overcome the binds. In “Feux Follet,” an old man’s grief attracts supernatural lights in the dark Louisiana swamps. An exploding transformer’s raw, unnerving energy in the title story matches the strange, ferocious temper of an unlucky hustler. “Blackout” sets the profound numbness of a young man physically abused by his mentally unstable partner beside the meaningful beauty of an unexpected moment of joy with someone else. The teenage narrator in “Before Las Blancas” is so overwhelmed by his sexuality that he abandons everything and everyone he’s known to live in a happy illusion . . . in Mexico. And “Where It Takes Us” is a poignant, understated snapshot of a gay man who accompanies his straight, HIV-positive brother to the race track to bond again.
Download or read book Ma am written by Lue Wyatt and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ma'am is a story of an older woman who has lived a life of hard labor. She was a woman that not only worked hard, she also loved as well. Raised in poverty, married young with children did the only thing she knew, worked. Later in life, due to curcumstances that has happened to so many women, adopted five grandchildren. Later she discovered to her dismay, that while caring for children, all her life (siblings, her own children, later her own grandchildren). She had forgotten about her own personal life, needs and desires. While trying to ignore it, becomes clinically depressed. Youth had slipped away, time had forgotten her. Once a beautiful red head, and now merely a shell of her former self. Looking into the bathroom mirror one morning, she discovers the answer. All through her busy life, she held all the emotions in that a woman experiences. She had never talked to anyone before, but now in the privacy of her home, she could pour out all the pain and frustrations, that she had felt for so many years. Talking to the reflection in the mirror, and eventually finds peace of mind. Ive tried to describe how a woman would react under this stressful circumstances in which she finds herself. In trying to deal with her own personal life and still be responsible for the care of five grandchildren. I have written of a woman who is strong, life made her that way. She also has feet of clay. Ive tried to portray her as being very human, because we all are. In Maams story, she deals with the problems of aging, but at the same time, she sees humor in everyday happenings, and has the ability to laugh at herself as well with other people. The adventures of a woman, and Maam, are at times hilarious, but also truthful, but again, it is all part of lifes story. In my story of Maam, the woman has no name because she speaks for umpteen thousands of women all over the world. She also believes in her God, but the older she gets, the more issues she has. Maam is truthful about her triumphs and her failings as in all our lives, there are many.
Download or read book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil written by John Berendt and published by Random House. This book was released on 1994-01-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.
