Download or read book White Guys written by Anthony Giardina and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by actual events, Giardina has created a masterful and explosive social novel about the price of the American dream. After graduating from high school, in the early 1970s, Billy Mogavero is the only one of a tight-knit group of five friends who didn't make it out of Winship, a hardscrabble town outside of Boston. Twenty years later, the other four--who have made their way, to varying degrees--decide to return to Winship to visit Billy, once their galvanizing alpha male and now a paint salesman who lives at home with his mentally handicapped brother. Their reunion sparks a rapid-fire chain of events as Billy finally makes the social leap his friends have spent their lives making--to suburban respectability and conformity. Enthralled by the rapidity of Billy's climb--his marriage to an equally ambitious and tough Irishwoman, Maureen, included--his best friend, Timmy O'Kane, sees in Billy's protean character and masterful adoption of middle-class norms a vital and necessary critique of his cozy existence--paid for by his wealthy wife--in a privileged Boston suburb. But when Billy, Maureen, and their unborn child are victims of a drive-by shooting in which only Billy survives, Timmy is ensnared in a series of events that threaten to spin entirely out of his control. His complicity in the aftermath of the tragedy threatens the hardwon security of his leafy, suburban idyll--but is also strangely and seductively liberating.

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Download or read book Treacle Boy s Guide to the Game of Bridge written by Andrew Mountford and published by Andrew Mountford. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking roller-coaster of a ride through the world of rubber bridge. From opening bids and responses, through the complexities of Jacoby transfers and the Blackwood convention, and why you should lead the fourth highest card of a suit, this book has it all. In fact, its got it in spades! So who is this book for? Well, everyone. A tall order, maybe, but we think we’ve managed it. If you’re a complete newcomer to the world of bridge, then this book is definitely for you. Want to know what all the fuss is about - but don’t understand why a game takes so long - and don’t know the rules, or how to begin a game, or keep it going? Then this book explains all that stuff, with lots of examples and tips to get you started. Not a novice but still consider yourself a beginner? Want to improve your bidding technique and learn a few playing tricks? Then this book is also for you. It has a host of accessible guidelines that should help sharpen up your bidding, and some neat pointers as to how you can make more of the hands you are dealt. Or perhaps you’ve been playing for a while, and want to improve - you’ve always wondered what "Jacoby transfers" and "cue bids" were all about, and why you should lead with the fourth highest card in a suit: Then there’s something here for you too. You’ll find some useful bidding conventions and playing guidelines, explained through clear examples and (we hope) lucid explanation. Even if you’ve been playing for years, and are well on your way to transitioning from an intermediate to an advanced player, this book might still be for you. It contains anecdotes and caricatures you might find familiar and maybe even amusing, and if you find something that, from your seasoned perspective, you take issue with, well - good! We’d like to hear from you, particularly if you include details we can steal without citing you as a contributor, which can go towards adding to, and hopefully improving, future editions of this book.

Download or read book How Spaces Become Places written by John F. Forester and published by New Village Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A diverse set of place makers describe how they transformed contested or empty "spaces" into vibrant and functional "places." Spanning four countries and ten U.S. locales, these projects range from building affordable housing, to community building in the aftermath of racial violence, to the integration of the arts in community development. By recounting how they built trust, diagnosed local problems, and convened stakeholders to invent solutions, place makers offer pragmatic, instructive strategies to employ in other communities"--

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Download or read book The Bridge Club written by Felicia Plastini and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-07-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sapphire Opal Sullivan disappeared one June day, now a year later she has miraculously returned and with a baby in tow! What happened to her that past year she had been missing? As she journeys forward in her teenage life she has to come to terms with what life has dealt her. Things don't always work out as one has planned, and so when her old friends turn their backs on her she feels like she has no one to turn to, until she meets April. Sapphire has to learn to live without old friends, to make new ones and to move forward in her life when something so horrible happens that she finds herself thrust into facing her past. What will she decide? Will she ever find happiness? A fast paced, romance novel that tells the tale of love from a teenagers point of view. A fun, humorous and mysterious romance that keeps you turning the pages to know what will happen next.

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Download or read book Bridge Of Hope written by Anne Douglas and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josie Morrow and Lina Braid are the best of friends. But although Josie has an "understanding" with Agnus, Lina's brother, her mother has far more grandiose plans than for her to marry a local boy. She sees civil engineer Duncan Guthrie, a lodger in their Queensferry boarding house, as a much better catch, However, it is Lina who Duncan falls for, forcing her to break her promise to her childhood sweetheart in order to marry him.

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Download or read book The Bridge Troll Murders written by Sheldon Russell and published by The RoadRunner Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say a railroad is little more than a small town that stretches a thousand miles along a single winding thread. And like any small town, gossip is known to travel up and down the rail so fast it might as well be a telephone party line. So when a local runaway turns up dead sixty miles down track under a bridge marked as a safe hobo camp, it becomes Hook Runyon’s job to find out what happened before it hits the headlines of the local newspapers. The rail yard bull is dealing with the constraints of a new office job and the presence of a young aspiring criminologist from Back East, a mixture ripe for all hell breaking loose.

Download or read book Improving the Federal Bridge Program Including an Assessment of S 3338 and H R 3999 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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