Download or read book Narrating the Storm written by Kristen Barber and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those interested in learning more about the personal impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, Narrating the Storm serves as an essential read. This important and timeless volume is a compilation of sixteen narratives that address the experiences of Gulf Coast residents, faculty, and graduate students who were caught up in the largest (not so) natural disaster in United States history. Each contributor deploys storytelling sociology as a methodological approach in order to illustrate how “personal” experiences with disaster are not so personal, but rather reflect and are informed by larger social phenomena related to issues including race, class, gender, age, bureaucracy, risk, collective memory, the blasé, and more. The narratives in this volume exemplify how inequality and injustice are unveiled, exacerbated, and created by the occurrence of disaster; and reveal the sociological in everyday and not-so-everyday experiences.

Download or read book What s in a Name written by Angela Breen and published by Raven's Quill Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first installment of the romantic suspense series by Angela Breen, we’re thrown into a world of difficult pasts, dangerous obsessions, and second chances. Rachel Montgomery, newly divorced mother of four, finds herself the dark obsession of a twisted serial killer. Rachel Montgomery’s life is finally coming together. She’s offered a management position and can finally move out of her aunt’s place and support her four children on her own. The sudden promotion comes with a catch: someone is stalking her. Using her beeper to torture her with sick messages all hours of the day and night. Terrified to tell anyone about the beeper calls, Rachel suffers in silence. She could lose her job and who would believe her anyway? FBI Agent Frank Tench, as a member of the BAU, is in town training the local cops on spotting predators. Instead, his attention is caught by Rachel. She’s hesitant after a painful divorce, but the lonely hours between dusk and dawn are starting to get to her. When women start to go missing his focus is split between his ex-wife’s feelings, his desire to be close to Rachel, and the case at hand. The moment Frank and Rachel get intimate, however, is a rude awakening–complete with its own graphic beeper message. Not only is she the killer’s next target, but he knows everything about her. Including where she lives, works, and where her children play. And now he’s pissed. Order What's in a Name? today and find out who makes it out alive!

Download or read book A Light in the Darkness written by Rian McMurtry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angela Fujimori enters her sophomore year of high school with a world changed. She apprenticed herself to a necromancer classmate to learn magic and hasn’t told her parents about it. But some of her friends do know, and the final exam will be pass or fail.

Download or read book Fill er Up written by Jim Draeger and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step back to the day when a visit to the gas station meant service with a smile, a wash of the windshield, and the cheerful question, "Fill 'er up?" Since their unremarkable beginnings as cheap shacks and curbside pumps at the dawn of the automobile age, gas stations have taken many forms and worn many guises: castles, cottages and teepees, Art Deco and Streamline Moderne, clad with wood, stucco, or gleaming porcelain in seemingly infinite variety. The companion volume to the Wisconsin Public Television documentary of the same name, Fill 'er Up: The Glory Days of Wisconsin Gas Stations visits 60 Wisconsin gas stations that are still standing today and chronicles the history of these humble yet ubiquitous buildings. The book tells the larger story of the gas station's place in automobile culture and its evolution in tandem with American history, as well as the stories of the individuals influenced by the gas stations in their lives. Fill 'er Up provides a glimpse into the glory days of gas stations, when full service and free oil changes were the rule and the local station was a gathering place for neighbors. More importantly, Fill 'er Up links the past and the present, showing why gas stations should be preserved and envisioning what place these historic structures can have in the 21st century and beyond.

Download or read book Please Sir written by Jack Sheffield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YEAR AT RAGLEY-ON-THE-FOREST SCHOOL... It's 1981, the time of Adam and the Ants, Rubik's Cube, the Sony Walkman and the Falklands War, as head teacher Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley-on-the-Forest School for another rollercoaster year. Vera, the ever-efficient chool secretary, has to grapple with a new-fangled computer - and enjoys a royal occasion - while Ruby the caretaker rediscovers romance with a Butlin's Redcoat. And for Jack, wedding bells are in the air. But the unexpected is just round the corner...

Download or read book Post Intimacy written by Taylor Sylva and published by Authorhouse UK. This book was released on 2013 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Iffa. Watch her deconstruct. Her life has been crammed between cultures, between men, between bodies of water and between her only two options: perish or escape. Witness her perfect, necessary, attimes brutal flight across the country and back while she searches for...anything. A buzz, a concert, a purpose. A future, obliteration. Peace. As fi rst-time novelist Taylor Sylva wends us through the twisted lives of this tiny nomad, ask yourself: What is intimacy? What comes after?

Download or read book Have You Filled a Bucket Today written by Carol McCloud and published by Bucket Fillers Incorporated. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heartwarming book encourages positive behavior by using the concept of an invisible bucket to show children how easy and rewarding it is to express kindness, appreciation and love by "filling buckets." Updated and revised, this 10th anniversary edition will help readers better understand that "bucket dipping" is a negative behavior, not a permanent label. It also explains that it's possible to fill or dip into our own buckets.

Download or read book Narrating the Storm written by Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those interested in learning more about the personal impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, Narrating the Storm serves as an essential read. This important and timeless volume is a compilation of sixteen narratives that address the experiences of Gulf Coast residents, faculty, and graduate students who were caught up in the largest (not so) natural disaster in United States history. Each contributor deploys storytelling sociology as a methodological approach in order to illustrate how â oepersonalâ experiences with disaster are not so personal, but rather reflect and are informed by larger social phenomena related to issues including race, class, gender, age, bureaucracy, risk, collective memory, the blasÃ(c), and more. The narratives in this volume exemplify how inequality and injustice are unveiled, exacerbated, and created by the occurrence of disaster; and reveal the sociological in everyday and not-so-everyday experiences.

Download or read book Captured written by Charles W. Pumphrey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linda Grosenbaugh was an assassin for the Chicago crime syndicate. Her father had introduced Linda to the crime family at an early age. Daddy was “boss” of the human organ–harvesting operation in Lancaster, California, but made an unforgiveable mistake, making him and his family expendable. After the death of her parents, Linda was on the run. Having taken her father’s last words seriously, Linda arrived at a refuge known as We Ville. Once admitted to her safe haven, Linda became an important part of that community, later to learn this was all preordained destiny. The unique town is occupied by those with infinite powers, some strange and some wondrous. The government has taken notice of We Ville, and a congressman has decided to undermine everything and anything in hopes to acquire it for himself.

Download or read book One Night Out Stealing written by Alan Duff and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second gripping, powerful novel by the author of Once Were Warriors. Boys’ homes, borstal, jail, stealing, then jail again – and again. That’s been life for Jube and Sonny. One Pakeha, the other Maori, only vaguely aware of life beyond pubs and their hopeless cronies . . . Reviewers found it compulsive and unforgettable, one saying: 'Brutal, foul-mouthed, violent, despairing and real . . . it can't be ignored'. In this novel Alan Duff confirms his skills as a gripping story-teller and a masterful creator of characters and situations. As one reviewer noted, it is 'original and important'.

Download or read book THE SEAT FILLER written by V.A. PATRICK SLADE and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tanner McKenna has it all. She has a great job as the Executive Producer on the RACHEL SHOW, the Number One talk show in the country. She has a great home along Venice Beach, California. And she's been dating her famous NBA boyfriend LaMont Jackson since college with hopes that he will propose on New Year's Eve. Her world drastically crumbles before her when her fiancé dumps her via voicemail, and then she discovers no less than a few weeks later that he is not only engaged, but married to someone else. What follows is a journey of self-discovery, as she puts the pieces of her life back together, while she discovers what love truly is and what will ultimately bring long lasting happiness.

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Download or read book Joining the Action written by Pression Jean-Baptiste and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Joining the Action was originally written in 2006 and changed many times from then until its publication now. This story is a tale of two friends who embark on a remarkable journey. They experience many dangerous situations, exotic locales, and thrilling activities. The friends also meet a number of unique individuals from different walks of life. They are quick to join the action and they must then figure out how to escape to ensure their safety and survival. About the Author Pression Jean-Baptiste was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1989. He was born totally blind. At age five, he came to the United States by missionaries and moved to Ohio permanently a year later. He never knew his biological parents. Jean-Baptiste wanted to be a writer from a young age and is thrilled to start his career with his first book of fiction, Joining the Action.

Download or read book Brightly Burning written by Alexa Donne and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most anticipated YA debuts of 2018, Brightly Burning is a gothic, romantic mystery with hints of Jane Eyre, Marissa Meyer, and Kiera Cass.” —Entertainment Weekly “Brightly Burning delivers a brooding gothic mystery and a swoony romance, all set in space. Donne’s atmospheric, twisty update of a cherished classic will keep you up late into the night!” —Elly Blake, NYT bestselling author of the Frostblood Saga Stella Ainsley leaves poverty behind when she quits her engineering job aboard the Stalwart to become a governess on a private ship. On the Rochester, there’s no water ration, more books than one person could devour in a lifetime, and an AI who seems more friend than robot. But no one warned Stella that the ship seems to be haunted, nor that it may be involved in a conspiracy that could topple the entire interstellar fleet. Surrounded by mysteries, Stella finds her equal in the brooding but kind nineteen-year-old Captain Hugo. When several attempts on his life spark more questions than answers, and the beautiful Bianca Ingram appears at Hugo’s request, his unpredictable behavior causes Stella’s suspicions to mount. Without knowing who to trust, Stella must decide whether to follow her head or her heart. Alexa Donne’s lush and enthralling reimagining of the classic Jane Eyre, set among the stars, will seduce and beguile you.

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Download or read book Would Everybody Please Stop written by Jenny Allen and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor "One of the funniest writers in America." That’s what The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz calls Jenny Allen—and with good reason. In her debut essay collection, the longtime humorist and performer declares no subject too sacred, no boundary impassable. With her eagle eye for the absurd and hilarious, Allen reports from the potholes midway through life’s journey. One moment she’s flirting shamelessly—and unsuccessfully—with a younger man at a wedding; the next she’s stumbling upon X-rated images on her daughter’s computer. She ponders the connection between her ex-husband’s questions about the location of their silverware, and the divorce that came a year later. While undergoing chemotherapy, she experiments with being a “wig person.” And she considers those perplexing questions that we never pause to ask: Why do people say “It is what it is”? What’s the point of fat-free half-and-half ? And haven’t we heard enough about memes? Jenny Allen’s musings range fluidly from the personal to the philosophical. She writes with the familiarity of someone telling a dinner party anecdote, forgoing decorum for candor and comedy. To read Would Everybody Please Stop? is to experience life with imaginative and incisive humor.

Download or read book Please Come Off Book written by Kevin Kantor and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please Come Off-Book queers the theatrical canon we all grew up with. Kantor critiques the treatment of queer figures and imagines a braver and bolder future that allows queer voices the agency over their own stories. Drawing upon elements of the Aristotelian dramatic structure and the Hero's Journey, Please Come Off-Book is both a love letter to and a scathing critique of American culture and the lenses we choose to see ourselves through.