Download or read book Crazy Loco written by David Rice and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of nine stories about Mexican American kids growing up in the Rio Grande Valley of southern Texas.
Download or read book Crazy Loco Love written by Victor Villasenor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up on his parents’ ranch in North San Diego County, Victor Villaseñor’s teenage years were marked by a painful quest to find a place for himself in a world he did not fit into. Discriminated due to his Mexican heritage, Victor questions the tenets of his faith and the restrictions it places on his own spirituality and sexuality. Ultimately, his search for identity takes him to Mexico to learn of his family’s roots, where he soon discovers that his heritage doesn’t determine his intelligence or success. Through this often humorous and poignant tale, Victor deftly undermines the macho stereotype so often associated with Latinos, while exposing the tender vulnerability and naïveté of a young man grappling with the roles foisted on him by the church and society. Victor’s youthful misadventures elicit sympathy, laughter, and tears as he attempts to divine the mysteries of the opposite sex in this powerful, revealing memoir. “The clarity that comes from Villaseñor’s personal and cultural experience is not matched in any of Steinbeck’s major works” (Los Angeles Times).
Download or read book Harley Loco written by Rayya Elias and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Terrific . . . Rayya’s stories blew mine away.” —Elizabeth Gilbert “A classic, blood-stained love letter to bohemian NYC.” —Craig Marks “Much more than a recovery memoir, this big-hearted, funny book is a truthful American story.” —Piper Kerman, author of Orange Is the New Black When she was seven, Rayya Elias and her family fled the political conflict in their native Syria, settling in Detroit. Bullied in school and caught between the world of her traditional family and her tough American classmates, she rebelled early. Elias moved to New York City to become a musician and kept herself afloat with an uncommon talent for cutting hair. At the height of the punk movement, life on the Lower East Side was full of adventure, creative inspiration, and temptation. Eventually, Elias’s passionate affairs with lovers of both sexes went awry, her (more than) occasional drug use turned to addiction, and she found herself living on the streets—between her visits to jail. This debut memoir charts four decades of a life lived in the moment, a path from harrowing loss and darkness to a place of peace and redemption. Elias’s wit and lack of self-pity in the face of her extreme highs and lows make Harley Loco a powerful read that’s sure to appeal to fans of Patti Smith, Augusten Burroughs, and Eleanor Henderson.
Download or read book Ms Coco Is Loco written by Dan Gutman and published by My Weird School. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Teachers and students will enjoy this early chapter book series about A.J., a boy who hates school, and his weird experiences at school with his unpredictable teachers.
Download or read book Crazy for You written by Codi Gary and published by Codi Gary's Books. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disaster Deana can't catch a break... Deana Sawyer has always been cursed. Even when she tries to change her image, she ends up with hot pink hair and a Halloween costume that's about to have a wardrobe malfunction. To make matters worse, the guy who broke her heart in high school is back in Loco, Texas...and hotter than when he left. Officer Finn wants to kiss and make up... Finn Meyers has come back to settle down. After living in the big city, the quiet streets of Loco are just what he needs. He knows he screwed up with Deana all those years ago, but he hopes they can put the past behind them. Especially after he gets a look at the assets she's been hiding. But danger lurks in the dark... When Finn realizes someone is stalking Deana, he's determined to protect her and their future together...when means keeping her as close as possible.
Download or read book Crazy Loco written by David Talbot Rice and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2003-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful collection of short stories telling the tales of a Mexican-American childhood ideal for fans of Gary Soto Welcome to Southern Texas. Meet Loco, a dog with a passion for firecrackers. And Pedro, an altar boy forced to lean a hard lesson from two of the toughest, oldest men ever to serve the Lord. Jordan and Todd are two boys from California who don't know what they're in for when they push their Texas cousins a little too far. Loosely based on the author's own childhood as a Mexican-American boy in south Texas, this story collection is a moving whirlwind of humor and insight--brash, tender, and full of the unexpected.
Download or read book Crazy Love written by Francis Chan and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised & Updated Edition! God is love. Crazy, relentless, all-powerful love. Have you ever wondered if we're missing it? It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe—the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor—loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. Whether you've verbalized it yet or not, we all know something's wrong. Does something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. Because the answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts—it's falling in love with God. And once you encounter His love, as Francis describes it, you will never be the same. Because when you're wildly in love with someone, it changes everything. Learn more about Crazy Love at www.crazylovebook.com.
Download or read book Crazy Love written by Leslie Morgan Steiner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping, compulsively readable story of romantic love and its dreadful underside (Susan Cheever), "Crazy Love" recounts Steiner's experiences as an abused wife--and how she found the courage to leave.
Download or read book Poco Loco written by J. R. Krause and published by Two Lions. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Poco Loco. He's a very unusual ratón. He likes to invent wacky things. When Poco Loco's Waffle Iron-Weather Forecaster predicts mal tiempo, Poco Loco runs to tell his barnyard friends. But it's still sunny out, and the other animals don't believe him. Then a roar of wind whips through their picnic, and Poco Loco and his friends fly up, up, and away. But never fear! Poco Loco will use his wits (and one crazy invention) to save the day! A Spanish/English glossary is included.
Download or read book Crazy Loco written by David Rice and published by Dial Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of nine stories about Mexican American kids growing up in the Rio Grande Valley of southern Texas.
Download or read book Crazy written by Pete Earley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A magnificent gift to those of us who love someone who has a mental illness…Earley has used his considerable skills to meticulously research why the mental health system is so profoundly broken.”—Bebe Moore Campbell, author of 72 Hour Hold Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son—in the throes of a manic episode—broke into a neighbor's house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law. This is the Earley family's compelling story, a troubling look at bureaucratic apathy and the countless thousands who suffer confinement instead of care, brutal conditions instead of treatment, in the “revolving doors” between hospital and jail. With mass deinstitutionalization, large numbers of state mental patients are homeless or in jail-an experience little better than the horrors of a century ago. Earley takes us directly into that experience—and into that of a father and award-winning journalist trying to fight for a better way.
Download or read book Con Pollo Loco written by Temo Fabiano and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was fed up with the laws and how the government political system was able to have a double standard. The laws didn't apply to the wealthy or the politicians. I had made the decision; it was time. I had been planning and plotting this for over a year. No more waiting. I could no longer just sit around and let things take their own course. My plan was a movement and that movement was called. "Con Pollo Loco": With Crazy Chicken. I choose it more just to be an ass.-It had no real meaning but it made me laugh. So that was what it was going to be. My plan was actually very simple. I was going to "assassinate" an unethical local political figure and make the country stand up and take notice of my movement. Oh, we weren't going to assassinate him the way you think; there would be no violence, no killings, only an assassination of their character, and well, maybe their job and the lifestyle they were enjoying at the expense of others. The politician would not be able to brush this under the rug. I was going to make sure that when the event took place, there would be no turning back. I had chosen my mark: Bruce Pearson, the Oakland county executive... his time was coming .I was going to make sure that when the event took place, there would be no turning back. He would have to either make changes or resign. I worked on the specifics of the plan for a year. I wanted to make sure there was no way Pearson could get out or get away with this again. Once the "assassination" was completed, I would post it to the web and wait to see how the citizens of America would take or embrace or maybe smash this movement.... I woke the following morning, slowly. I had been up late watching to see if anyone had viewed the youtube video we posted and sometime around 4am I went to bed. It was approximately 6 hours after the Assassination took place. As I was lying in the bed trying to wipe the sleep from my eyes, I hear a yell that shoots me up from my slumber. It is Jake, "Hey, man, get out here; this is crazy! We hit 80,000 and its going up faster than I can even say. It has gone viral. Your video has gone viral!" I rushed out into the room to look at the computer to see what Jake was screaming about and sure enough the video had gone viral. "Overnight sensation" some would say. I was excited. But then, as the counter kept rising, I had a sinking feeling in my stomach. I was not going to survive this. Oh, but, Bruce Pearson wasn't going to be able to survive this either. But holly crap it was happening. We all yelled and laughed and jumped up and down. We had posted the actual video onto youtube from a site on the other side of town and at a McDonald's. With a lap top that was old and outdated and then Tossed in a dumpster.Over the next several weeks, we all continued to go to our jobs and live life as usual. The only thing was that, silently across the country, "cell groups" were forming in mass putting out copy-cat reproductions. They were posting daily that they had joined the movement of "Con Pollo Loco" and they too were taking action "assassinating" people of influence for their lack of character.The internet was exploding with excitement about the "movement", so were the news Channels. Fearing some out of control extremist would hop on this bandwagon and do something horrible, the Government was now calling me Public Enemy Number One, and vowed to get me.Instead of being a dumb ass, I should have thought about it, but how could I have known. This was the moment that I realized I had to go. I had to run. I had to leave right then. We knew it had happened. We had talked about it and joked about it, but then, here it was: We had started one of the greatest movements for change in the history books. We shook hands, said goodbye and headed out. I turned and drove off into the early morning sun, not really knowing where I was going or what I was going to do....
Download or read book Best Books for Young Adults written by Holly Koelling and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2007-08-13 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a classic, standard resource for collection building and on-the-spot readers advisory absolutely indispensable for school and public libraries.
Download or read book Fair Wind and Plenty of It written by Rigel Crockett and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Godforsaken Sea and In the Heart of the Sea, Fair Wind and Plenty of It is a virtuoso debut by a sailor turned scribe -- a must-read for lovers of nautical adventure. On November 25th, 1997, the barque Picton Castle, a three-masted, square-rigged tall ship, headed out from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on a voyage around the world. Aboard ship a shifting crew of thirty, a combination of professional sailors and paying crew who were out $32,500 for the privilege of working “crew before the mast,” would travel for over a year and half, calling in at ports as exotic and varied as Aruba, Somoa, Bali and Zanzibar. Fair Wind and Plenty of It tells the story of an obsession, as Captain Dan Moreland, driven by a desire to make his mark in the world of traditional sail, rallies forces to convert a sixty-nine-year-old North Sea trawler into a seaworthy tall ship, and then assembles the crew to sail it. It’s the story of the uneasy balance that is achieved on board, where insubordination and rancour must be kept in line among a crew whose only connection is their common desire to be part of this journey. And it is Rigel’s story: a man who was conceived the day his father laid the keel for his first boat, whose mother was a sailmaker, and who has to reconcile his family legacy with his own need to understand why he must take part in the voyage of the barque Picton Castle. In Fair Wind and Plenty of It, Rigel Crockett tells a tale of shipboard camaraderie, gut-wrenching struggles and the near-mutinies that marked the year-and-a half journey -- where fellow shipmates proved to be as perilous as the ever-present sea.
Download or read book San Diego Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Diego Magazine gives readers the insider information they need to experience San Diego-from the best places to dine and travel to the politics and people that shape the region. This is the magazine for San Diegans with a need to know.
Download or read book Operation Blackball written by Benny Cruz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The content of this book is for informational purposes only. The book will help those assigned to monitor prison and street gangs, criminal groups, or drug cartel operatives deciphering what they say or talk about. This book is language and slang commonly used by those criminals. It’s intended for those in the field of corrections and law enforcement. This book is a must-have for those tasked with intercepting mail, text messages, or listening to a telephone conversation. This book discusses words, terms, and language that some readers might consider profane, vulgar, racial, derogatory, or offensive. Slang terms are words or phrases that have a cultural definition that is different from the literal meaning. Slang expressions also change continually. Many expressions or words often have more than one purpose or meaning. Some phrases have been around so long that they have become idioms or common expressions where certain word combinations are different from their literal meaning.
Download or read book Law and History in Cervantes Don Quixote written by Susan Byrne and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes’ seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era – those of law and history – into a new aesthetic product, the modern novel. Byrne uncovers the empirical underpinnings of Don Quixote through a close philological study of Cervantes’ sly questioning of and commentary on these fields. As she skilfully demonstrates, while sixteenth-century historiographers and jurists across southern Europe sought the philosophical nexus of their fields, Cervantes created one through the adventures of a protagonist whose history is all about justice. As such, Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quixote illustrates how Cervantes’ art highlighted the inconsistencies of juridical-historical texts and practice, as well as anticipated the ultimate resolution of their paradoxes.
