Download or read book Dumpster for God s Sake written by Ben Stoltzfus and published by 39 West Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loviers City believes that cleanliness leads to Godliness. But order quickly descends into chaos when a sighting of the Virgin occurs. Soon, thousands arrive to visit the spot where She appeared. But the pilgrims leave their mark, discarding refuse and besmirching Loviers City’s All-America vision. Suspense mounts as Rudy Squazza, the red-bearded ringleader of the homeless, and Jasmine, a rich teenager working on a high school project, fall in love. He is a dumpster diver and the victim of police brutality. She dresses in black leather, rides a red Ducati Supersport 750, and is known as the “Angel from Hell.” Equal parts sociological lore and screwball comedy, Dumpster, for God’s Sake bends reality into fiction in a uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human. With compelling prose, canny insight, and artful empathy, Ben Stoltzfus brilliantly examines group behavior in a timely tale of collective zeal and righteous intent that explores a city’s urgent quest for soul.
Download or read book For God s Sake written by Antony Loewenstein and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Australian thinkers come together to ask and answer the big questions, such as: What is the nature of the universe? Doesn't religion cause most of the conflict in the world? and Where do we find hope? We are introduced to the detail of different belief systems - Judaism, Christianity, Islam - and to the argument that atheism, like organised religion, has its own compelling logic. And we gain insight into the life events that led each author to their current position. Jane Caro flirted briefly with spiritual belief, inspired by 19th century literary heroines such as Elizabeth Gaskell and the Brontë sisters. Antony Lowenstein is proudly culturally, yet unconventionally, Jewish. Simon Smart is firmly and resolutely a Christian, but one who has had some of his most profound spiritual moments while surfing. Rachel Woodlock grew up in the alternative embrace of Baha'i belief but became entranced by its older parent religion, Islam. Provocative, informative and passionately argued, For God's Sake encourages us to accept religious differences but to also challenge more vigorously the beliefs that create discord.
Download or read book Only In His Sweetest Dreams written by Dani Collins and published by Dani Collins. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alliecats written by Ben Stoltzfus and published by 39 West Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mississippi said to Missouri, “If I put on my New Jersey, what will Delaware?” Virginia replied, “Alaska.” This wordplay on states’ names as vestments resembles the play and ambiguity in Alliecats, a wonderful collection of fifty-three graphic tales that catenate (link) meaning, sound, and likeness into clever puns. Novelist and literary critic BEN STOLTZFUS penned the introduction and assembled the words. His granddaughter (cater-cousin), ALLIE KIRSCHNER, drew the pictures. You will purr with satisfaction as she romps with feline grace, caterwauling from catalog to Catalina, although not without an occasional cataclysm or catastrophe. The purrposeful puns of Alliecats will amuse as you slide helplessly into a state of muscular rigidity, or catalepsy, while author and artist cater to your funny bone and make you laugh.
Download or read book Maddy S Place written by R L Bowden and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex & Drugs & Rock n Bowl This is serious business. Newly promoted Chief Homicide Detective Jack Diamonds first case is to solve the death of the towns most famous resident, professional bowler Biff Bower. Bowers body was found standing upright on the eve of his annual Memorial Day weekend bowling tournament. An illegal, grueling 72-hour winner-take-all marathon tournament. Detective Diamonds previous experience is of a 20-year veteran beat cop, whose duties were consisted of berating jaywalkers and checking parking meters. Promoted out of necessity and working with a skeleton crew, Diamond must do most of the legwork himself along with Lydia, Biff Bowers, mysterious, young personal biographer. Lydia was also the last known person to have seen Bower alive. Through Lydia, Diamond gets to know Maddys Place. A home for wayward girls that Bower frequented often during his turbulent youth. He gets to know the influences that he had on it, as well. Within Bower's fifty-year career and the people who shared his life may lie the clues that led to his demise.
Download or read book Final Justice written by Lee Gabrielle and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Final Justice is a fact based story of romance, intrigue, revenge, and justice, paralleling an incident that occurred in the author's life. This thriller, having many twists and turns, begins with a spectacular drive-by shooting involving two careening vehicles and subsequently three more, resulting in a horrific tragedy. Detective Lieutenant Dan Sullivan, the main character, is left with devastating emotional suffering and tremendous anguish. Dan gaining personal strength, draws upon his years of police training, and begins his unrelenting pursuit to expose and bring to justice all involved and responsible for this unthinkable tragedy. The intrigue and action mount dramatically when, through Dan's unwavering perseverance and risk of his own life, he is able to capture all those responsible. He also uncovers conspiracies involving crimes of corruption and murders directly connected to the local Mafia. Kiley & Gabrielle's Final Justice is laced with memorable character development, magnificent scenery, historical sites, passionate and loving romance, relevant flashbacks and justice for Kiley and Gabrielle.
Download or read book A Safe Place for Dying written by Jack Fredrickson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extortion letter arrives at Crystal Waters, one of Chicago's wealthiest gated communities. It makes no specific threats, gives no instructions, demands only that $50,000 be gotten ready---chump change for an enclave where the cheapest house is worth three million. It's easy to see it as harmless---a note from a nut. Then a mansion explodes. The homeowners panic, and want it hushed up. If word gets out that a bomber is targeting Crystal Waters, their multimillion-dollar homes will become worthless, a last catastrophe for people strung out from living the good life too well. They hire Dek Elstrom to investigate. Dek Elstrom used to soar high, too, when he lived with his multimillionaire wife at Crystal Waters, but that was before the dominos of his life tipped over and his ex-wife threw him out. Now reduced to living in a crumbling stone turret, bankrupt of everything but attitude, he's not even his own ideal choice for the job. He's too broke, however, to question the motives of a gift-horse client. He needs the money---and the chance to reconnect with his ex-wife. Another bomb goes off, and Dek realizes the culprit must be someone who is angry, needs money, and used to live at Crystal Waters. Then he realizes something else. He himself is the prime suspect. A sly and clever caper among the richest of the rich, A Safe Place for Dying is for fans of Carl Hiaasen and Robert Crais.
Download or read book 7 Clues to Winning You written by Kristin Walker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a humiliating picture of Blythe goes viral, she's instantly the target of ridicule at her new school. To salvage her reputation, Blythe teams up with Luke to win the Senior Scramble scavenger hunt. But Luke is an unlikely ally and potentially can't be trusted. Perhaps it's his Shakespearean witticisms that reel Blythe in despite her better judgment . . . or maybe she just craves the thrill of the game. But as the hunt progresses, their relationship heats up. Soon their madcap mischief spirals out of control. Blythe is faced with arrest and expulsion, among other catastrophes - until Luke shows her what the Scramble (and love) is really about.
Download or read book Cultural Appropriation in Fashion and Entertainment written by Yuniya Kawamura and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it ever acceptable to “borrow” culturally inspired ideas? Who has ownership over intangible culture? What role does power inequality play? These questions are often at the center of heated public debates around cultural appropriation, with new controversies breaking seemingly every day. Cultural Appropriation in Fashion and Entertainment offers a sociological perspective on the appropriation of race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and religion embedded in clothing, textiles, jewelry, accessories, hairstyles and tattoos, as well as in entertainment, such as K-pop, Bhangra, and hip-hop. By providing a range of global perspectives on the adoption, adaptation, and application of both tangible and intangible cultural objects, Kawamura and de Jong help move the conversation beyond simply criticizing designers and creators to encourage nuanced discussion and raise awareness of diverse cultures in the creative industries.
Download or read book An Absence of Conscience written by Mike Holst and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T O R C H B R E N N A N was born to be a cop, and especially, a homicide detective. He had the instincts and that gut feeling mentality that helps detectives sort out the good from the bad. Minneapolis was a city that gave him a lot of challengesbut he was always up for it. Through it all, he tried to remain personally uninvolved with his cases and their victims, but that all changed one cold Christmas Eve. Mathew Halsworth Jr. was born with no moral compass. He was rich and intelligent and had every break in life one could ever want or need. But he grew up to be a ruthless, cold and uncaring born killer. He felt he was too cunning to get caught, and for a long time he was. That is, until he met Torch. While most detectives would have given up and stuffed this case in the cold case file, Torch could not and would not forget. He could forget a lot of victims, but not this one. This story will challenge your imagination with its many twist and turns, but in the end; no, Im not going to go there. Read the bookyou will be surprised.
Download or read book Painted Black written by Debra R. Borys and published by New Libri Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Robert Young, Cry for short, told himself he went with Lexie to keep her safe, that it had nothing to do with his struggle to avoid hustling along the harbor like Moon and the others. Selling blow jobs for forty bucks, however, pales in comparison to what he finds in Cole's apartment above the funeral home. And even a hungry kid will only go so far to fill his stomach. In the ensuing struggle, Chris escapes but Lexie does not and that fact still haunts him.
Download or read book The Judge s Wife Is Missing written by Dale German and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Amos "Coop" Cooper of Wichita, now retired from the Wichita Police Department, isn't surprised when he is asked to investigate a case; he is shocked, however, to learn he has been personally requested by Judge Elmo Wells. Coop and the judge never liked each other or got along, so why is Wells asking for him after so many years off the force? It turns out that Wells' wife, Marilou, is missing, having boarded a plane in Wichita without arriving in Boston to meet her mother as planned. Coop sees this as an open-and-shut case: Marilou must have changed planes and arrived at another destination via a connecting flight. The only problem is that Marilou's flight to Boston was nonstop. As Coop looks more closely at the disappearance, he discovers that there are plenty of people who might be angry at the judge, giving him numerous suspects but few leads. What's more, secrets seem to surround Marilou. How did the judge's wife disappear, and who's behind the caper that brought Coop out of retirement?
Download or read book Getting Old Is Murder written by Rita Lakin and published by Dell. This book was released on 2005-10-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s not Miss Marple. Her friends are no Charlie’s Angels. Nevertheless, 75-year-old Gladdy Gold and her gang of eccentric Fort Lauderdale retirees are out, about, and hunting down a killer–one who is silently stalking them. Selma Beller was the first to go–but Gladdy and her neighbors never suspected murder until another of their friends died in an eerily similar way. Now a handsome young detective won’t listen to them, Hy Binder won’t stop telling them dirty jokes, and crazy old Greta Kronk is doing everything humanly possible to make herself into a suspect. But amid the endless rounds of poolside kibitzing, early-bird specials, bittersweet memories, and interminable grocery-shopping trips, Gladdy and her gals are about to discover how the murders are being committed. And when it comes to catching this culprit–time really is running out….
Download or read book His Suffering and Ours written by Kathryn Mulderink and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our suffering is of many kinds - spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, psychological. It may be inflicted on us from outside ourselves, or be churned up from within us by forces we little understand. This collection arranged around Christ's Seven Last Words is meant to enliven the hope and peace that lead to joy in suffering and allow us to embrace our cross. It is a reminder of what is always certain: that God IS, that God is LOVE, that LOVE created us, that we ARE because God first loved us, that His love never wearies or wavers. "We all long for such genuine helps and such sweet reminders as this.there is a profound truth in every other line, and the rest is you singing to Him. That is what you represent to others, Kathryn -- His unconditional love, along with your own. It comes through so beautifully." Carol O'Reilly, TCRNews.com
Download or read book An Island Like You written by Judith Ortiz Cofer and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Pura Belpré award-winning collection of short stories about life in the barrio! Rita is exiled to Puerto Rico for a summer with her grandparents after her parents catch her with a boy. Luis sits atop a six-foot mountain of hubcaps in his father's junkyard, working off a sentence for breaking and entering. Sandra tries to reconcile her looks to the conventional Latino notion of beauty. And Arturo, different from his macho classmates, fantasizes about escaping his community. They are the teenagers of the barrio -- and this is their world.
Download or read book Baby Baby Baby written by Mary McBride and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drop-dead-gorgeous cop Sonny Randle had enough charm and raw sex appeal to turn a woman inside out. Melanie Spears should know—in the few months of their marriage, he'd blasted her perfectly planned life into chaos. Even with her dreams of white picket fences and two point five kids shattered, Melanie had never gotten over Sonny—but she had wised up. In fact, the newly organized Ms. Spears had a hot date—with a sperm bank! Her baby plan seemed perfect. Then she got an eyeful of her new neighbor. All six feet two heartbreaking inches of Sonny Randle, right next door—with his own plan to do things the old-fashioned way!
Download or read book Closing Costs written by Seth Margolis and published by Diversion Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fans of Tom Wolfe and Jonathan Franzen will revel” in this tale of New York real estate and its outrageous fortunes (Booklist). When Peggy Gimmel decides to sell the apartment she bought decades ago for a few thousand dollars, she’s thrilled to discover it’s worth almost two million. But her sudden windfall triggers a cascade of unexpected events, and plunges her into the orbit of Lucinda Wells—one of Manhattan’s most successful, and ruthless, real-estate agents. Peggy’s not the only one at Lucinda’s mercy. There’s also the technology entrepreneur struggling to salvage his sinking company while gut-renovating his home; the socialite exiled from Park Avenue to the pullout sofa of her parents’ West Side apartment; the illegal immigrant amassing a fortune printing money; and the clueless widow trying to unload a world-class collection of fake artwork. These are just some of the characters whose lives intersect in unlikely ways, all of them nearly overwhelmed by the rocketing real-estate market and the hard-charging broker who holds the key to their future. “A fun-to-read, engaging look at how the other half lives, buys, and sells.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Completely entertaining, wickedly funny and observant . . . Think Bonfire of the Vanities for real estate.” —The Tampa Tribune
