Download or read book Born a Gangster s Daughter written by Maha Al Fahim and published by Maha Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amina was born in Dubai in the 1970s. As a child, Amina was brutally beaten by her father. As she came of age, she was cruelly discriminated against in favor of her brothers. But as a woman she nonetheless persisted in her love for her family, which was at the center of her life. Managing to connect her father with life-saving medical attention at a time when he was dangerously close to death, she subsequently witnessed what appeared to be a miracle. Her grateful father became a famous businessman and a fervently devout Muslim. Delighted with his apparent change of heart, Amina felt as though her loyalty had been rewarded. Sadly for her and for many other people, she couldn't have been more mistaken. She soon discovered that her father was, in fact, a gangster, hiding behind the shield of religion. This true tale is more than a disturbing account of hypocrisy, corruption, and betrayal. Thanks to Amina's 14-year-old daughter, Maha, who skillfully brings her story to life in these pages, it is also an inspiring testament to the power of speaking the truth, of bringing meaning to suffering, and of discovering what truly matters in this life.
Download or read book Gangster s Daughter written by Leo Sullivan and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 17 years old, young Kadisha Spencer has the world in the palm of her hands. She is young and beautiful, and lives a lavish life with a wonderful family, and an adorable boyfriend. She is destined for success. She graduated from high school ahead of her class, with Valedictorian honors. She has been accepted to a prestigious college, her dream is to became a doctor. All the while, she was raised in the preeminence of her legendary father, the infamous gangster, Ike "Monster" Spencer. Ike has been retired from the goon life for years, living the legitimate lifestyle as a dedicated father and businessman who has amassed millions. However, the streets are not ready for his retirement, it wants his timely demise, plus his riches. Suddenly, Kadisha's pristine sheltered world is shattered as devastation strikes. Her father is abducted and presumed dead. She, along with her beloved family members are brutalized in the most vicious way. Kadisha finds herself near death, barely clinging to life. That's when she makes one solemn promise to herself as well as the deceased members of her family. If she can pull through this, her attacker will have to pay with their lives. A gangster's daughter is born. This is a fast paced urban tale of murder, sex, drugs, and betrayal.
Download or read book Gangster s Daughter 4 written by Leo Sullivan and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the gripping next installment of the Gangster's Daughter series, Kadisha continues her cat and mouse game of matching wits with Detective Steel as she simultaneously continues to eliminate her enemies. But are they really enemies, or are her real enemies the people she trusts the most? She tries to use her daddy's diary to help her decipher friend from foe but it seems that the deeper she gets into the diary, the more secrets are revealed. Will these secrets destroy everything she ever thought she knew about life and her family? Or will her true enemies take her down before she gets to the bottom of the mystery surrounding her family's murders? Come along for the wild ride with America's favorite Gangster's Daughter, Kadisha Spencer, and see if you can unravel the mystery before she can...
Download or read book A Gangsta s Daughter written by Leo Sullivan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At 17 years old, young Kadisha Spencer has the world in the palm of her hands. She is young and beautiful, and lives a lavish life with a wonderful family, and an adorable boyfriend. She is destined for success. She graduated from high school ahead of her class, with Valedictorian honors. She has been accepted to a prestigious college, her dream is to become a doctor. All the while, she was raised in the preminence of her legendary father, the infamous gangster Ike "Monster" Spencer. Ike has been retired from the goon life for years, living the legitimate lifestyle as a dedicated father and businessman who has amassed millions. However, the streets are not ready for his retirement, it wants his timely demise, plus his riches. Suddenly, Kadisha's pristine sheltered world is shattered as devastation strikes. Her father is abducted and presumed dead. She, along with her beloved family members are brutalized in the most vicious way. Kadisha finds herself near death, barely clinging to life. That's when she makes one solemn promise to herself as well as the deceased members of her family. If she can pull through this, her attacker[s] will have to pay with their lives. A gangster's daughter is born. " -- Page [4] of cover.
Download or read book Gangster s Daughter 3 written by Leo Sullivan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the gripping next installment of the Gangster's Daughter series, Kadisha continues her cat and mouse game of matching wits with Detective Steel as she simultaneously continues to eliminate her enemies. But are they really enemies, or are her real enemies the people she trusts the most? She tries to use her daddy's diary to help her decipher friend from foe but it seems that the deeper she gets into the diary, the more secrets are revealed. Will these secrets destroy everything she ever thought she knew about life and her family? Or will her true enemies take her down before she gets to the bottom of the mystery surrounding her family's murders? Come along for the wild ride with America's favorite Gangster's Daughter, Kadisha Spencer, and see if you can unravel the mystery before she can... This is part 4 on Kindle.
Download or read book Yakuza Moon written by Shoko Tendo and published by Kodansha USA. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yakuza Moon is the shocking, yet intensely moving memoir of 37-yearold Shoko Tendo, who grew up the daughter of a yakuza boss. Tendo lived her life in luxury until the age of six, when her father was sent to prison, and her family fell into terrible debt. Bullied by classmates who called her "the yakuza girl," and terrorized at home by a father who became a drunken, violent monster after his release from prison, Tendo rebelled. A regular visitor to nightclubs at the age of 12, she soon became a drug addict and a member of a girl gang. By the age of 15 she found herself sentenced to eight months in a juvenile detention center. Adulthood brought big bucks and glamour when Tendo started working as a bar hostess during Japan’s booming bubble economy of the nineteen- eighties. But among her many rich and loyal patrons there were also abusive clients, one of whom beat her so badly that her face was left permanently scarred. When her mother died, Tendo plunged into such a deep depression that she tried to commit suicide twice. Tendo takes us through the bad times with warmth and candor, and gives a moving and inspiring account of how she overcame a lifetime of discrimination and hardship. Getting tattooed, from the base of her neck to the tips of her toes, with a design centered on a geisha with a dagger in her mouth, was an act that empowered her to start making changes in her life. She quit her job as a hostess. On her last day at the bar she looked up at the full moon, a sight she never forgot. The moon became a symbol of her struggle to become whole, and the title of the book she wrote as an epitaph for herself and her family.
Download or read book Mob Daughter written by Karen Gravano and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Karen Gravano, a star of the hit VH1 reality show Mob Wives, comes a revealing memoir of a mafia childhood, where love and family come hand-in-hand with murder and betrayal. Karen Gravano is the daughter of Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, once one of the mafia's most feared hit men. With nineteen confessed murders, the former Gambino Crime Family underboss—and John Gotti's right-hand man—is the highest ranking gangster ever to turn State's evidence and testify against members of his high-profile crime family. But to Karen, Sammy Gravano was a sometimes elusive but always loving father figure. He was ever-present at the head of the dinner table. He made a living running a construction firm and several nightclubs. He stayed out late, and sometimes he didn't come home at all. He hosted "secret" meetings at their house, and had countless whispered conversations with "business associates." By the age of twelve, Karen knew he was a gangster. And as she grew up, while her peers worried about clothes and schoolwork, she was coming face-to-face with crime and murder. Gravano was nineteen years old when her father turned his back on the mob and cooperated with the Feds. The fabric of her family was ripped apart, and they were instantly rejected by the communities they grew up in. This is the story of a daughter's struggle to reconcile the image of her loving father with that of a murdering Mafioso, and how, in healing the rift between the two, she was able to forge a new life.
Download or read book Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid written by Glenn Stout and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2021 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thrilling Jazz Age chronicle of America's first gangster couple, Margaret and Richard Whittemore"--
Download or read book Gangster s Daughter 2 written by Leo Sullivan and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 17 year old Kadisha Spencer finds herself all alone with no one to turn to and no place to go. Her world has been devastated by a tragic home invasion that leaves members of her family brutally murdered in cold blood and her beloved father abducted. After being gang raped, shot in the head and left for dead, miraculously Kadisha and her baby brother, Lil Ike are able to survive the grisly attacks. Unfortunately, Lil Ike ends up in the hospital barely clinging to life as Kadisha finds herself searching for answers with very little clues. Everyone's a suspect. It isn't until the handsome thug, Mellow comes to her rescue. Even though she has always had a crush on him, she knows that he too could possibly be involved in the murders. Kadisha's heart turns into stone after her horrifying experience which makes her a cold blooded killer. She realizes that she is the offspring of a gangsta and revenge is a part of her nature. She is determined to find the culprits and soon discovers that the one person she thinks she can trust is out to kill her.
Download or read book A Child Born Man written by Kenneth H. Thompson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For author Kenneth H. Thompson, childhood was anything but idyllic. In his memoir, he chronicles his life story and the lessons he learned in the process. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he grew up with two brothers and two sisters, but he suffered abuse at the hands of his step-father. Hoping for a better life for her son, Thompsons mother adopted him out to another family. The joy was short-lived, as his adoptive mother was a saint by day and a devil by night, due to her drinking. In this memoir, he tells of his miserable childhood and the circumstances that led him to drug use, crime, and an eventual prison stay at Rikers Island. This autobiography details Thompsons journey through the storms and the darkness in life, but it also narrates how God came to help and instilled light in his mind and his soul and facilitated a complete spiritual balance.
Download or read book He Wanted Her written by Amy Faye and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was hard, and far too big for her. How on earth could anything that size fit inside of her? He takes what he wants, and he wanted her. She was exotic, beautiful, thrilling... and she was pure trouble. She's a gangster's daughter, and he was her only way out. It didn't hurt that he was gorgeous and dangerous and a great lay.
Download or read book The Gangster We Are All Looking For written by Thi Diem Thuy Le and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly acclaimed novel that reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing eyes of a child finding her place and voice in a new country. “A brilliant evocation of human sorrow and desire.... Heartbreaking and exhilarating.” —The New York Times Book Review In 1978 six refugees—a girl, her father, and four “uncles”—are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child’s imagination, the world is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects, and waits for her mother to join her. But life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited. As the girl grows, her matter-of-fact innocence eddies increasingly around opaque and ghostly traumas: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland, the memory of a brother who drowned and, most inescapable, her father’s hopeless rage.
Download or read book Yakuza Moon written by Shoko Tendo and published by Kodansha Amer Incorporated. This book was released on 2011 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into the family of a wealthy yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lived her early years in luxury. But labelled the yakuza kid, she became the victim of bullying and discrimination from teachers and classmates at school, her father's drunken rages at home. This title presents an account of one woman's experience of growing up in Japan's yakuza society. The story of a yakuza's daughter is tellingly recreated in a mature manga format, illustrated by a female Japanese manga artist in a lively and inspired fashion. A poignant and eye-opening true-life memoir, 'Yakuza Moon' is a
Download or read book The Child in Cinema written by Karen Lury and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a host of internationally recognised scholars to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the representation of the child in cinema. Individual chapters examine how children appear across a broad range of films, including Badlands (1973), Ratcatcher (1999), Boyhood (2014), My Neighbour Totoro (1988), and Howl's Moving Castle (2004). They also consider the depiction of children in non-fiction and non-theatrical films, including the documentaries Être et Avoir (2002) and Capturing the Friedmans (2003), art installations and public information films. Through a close analysis of these films, contributors examine the spaces and places children inhabit and imagine; a concern for children's rights and agency; the affective power of the child as a locus for memory and history; and the complexity and ambiguity of the child figure itself. The essays also argue the global reach of cinema featuring children, including analyses of films from the former Yugoslavia, Brazil and India, as well as exploring the labour of the child both in front of and behind the camera as actors and filmmakers. In doing so, the book provides an in-depth look into the nature of child performance on screen, across a diverse range of cinemas and film-making practices.
Download or read book Gangster Girl written by Dreda Say Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy Sullivan's father was one of London's most infamous gangsters. Haunted by his violent death she vows to live a respectable life. That is until the day her mum, who abandoned her when she was young and who she barely remembers, barges back into her life. It doesn't take Daisy long to realise that her mum is the Queen-pin of a prostitution ring with links to high society and the head of one of London's most feared underworld families - the Kings. Soon she is drawn into their next criminal act - a bank job. A job that turns out to be no ordinary robbery. Soon she is running for her life and the only person she can trust is up and coming gangland bad boy, Ricky Smart. Now she has to use every dirty trick her dad ever taught her to stay alive . . .
Download or read book Daughter of the King written by Sandra Lansky and published by Weinstein Books. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of one of the most powerful mobsters in America describes growing up amidst the glamour and tragedy of 1940s, 50s and 60s Las Vegas and recounts knowing Bugsy Siegel, Lucky Luciano and Frank Sinatra as a child.
Download or read book From Wiseguys to Wise Men written by Fred L. Gardaphé and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
