Download or read book Jailbird Kid written by Shirlee Smith-Matheson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angela Wroboski has recently moved with her mother from their small hometown into the city to rid them of a dark past. Now, Angela must deal with the fact that her home will be anything but "normal." Her dad, the infamous Nick "The Weasel" Wroboski, has served three jail terms for various crimes, including robbery, during her lifetime, and on June 5, Angela’s fifteenth birthday, he’s released from a two-year sentence in Fort Gavin Prison. Arriving home with an attitude and attire that’s sure to mess up her friendships and future, The Weasel tries in his own way to prove that this time he’s going straight. But the influence of the old gang, led by notorious Uncle Al who’s now operating an enigmatic "business" that’s more than a little shady, remains a constant threat to Nick’s future as a family man. When Angela learns that a crime is being planned that could blow apart her family, she must quickly decide how to intervene without breaking her father’s code to "never discuss family business outside the home."
Download or read book Jailbird s Daughter written by Don Porter and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sydney, a six-year-old charmer, wants to hire detectives to find her mother. Her father, Henderson, is an inmate in O triple C. (Oahu Community Correctional Center). He's scheduled to testify against the Mafia in Las Vegas, has been framed, and his life is in danger in the prison. Syd's mother has been kidnapped by prison guards who mistakenly believe that Henderson has stolen three hundred thousand dollars. Dick and George rescue the mother, but Dick is shot in the shoulder. They need ten thousand dollars to hire the notorious lawyer who will certainly spring the father. They stage a phony kidnapping to raise the money, move Maggie their receptionist to Seattle to impersonate a branch office. They get the father out of jail, and move the entourage to Seattle. Now they must get Henderson to Las Vegas in time to testify, but because Wickersham, the world's number one detective agency, has been hired to find Henderson, they dare not use a credit card.When Henderson's driver’s license number is broadcast in Bakersfield, California, George, and Maggie take off with the cars, hoping to lead the detective agency astray, leaving Dick and Henderson with very little time and very little money to get to Vegas any way they can. In the final dash, they drive a stolen cop car up the steps of the courthouse just minutes late.
Download or read book Why the Jailbird Prays written by Mark Holmes and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why The Jailbird prays is an inspirational, humorous, heart touching and evangelistic tool reading, which takes the reader outside looking in behind prison walls and jail cells to get an idea of what jail life is like and understanding an inmates way of living. This book will take you into the minds of the inmate while educating you and giving you an inmate's point of view, life story and testimony. This reading will empower, educate, encourage, enlighten and enhance ou individually. You will find humor in this book that will amuse you; however, you will be saddened by some of the inmate's life experiences, childhood growing up and abuse that they encountered. In the beginning of the book, you will read Jailbird Poems Prison Poetry as an appetizer to prepare you for the reading of this book. Each poem is an intro to each story presented in the book, and the poetry reveals my experiences in jail. In addition, the poems exploits the inmates past, bizarre and unorthodox behavior and their individual dysfunctions and issues. Jail Bird Poems Prison Poetry sets the tone for the book. I encourage you to purchase the soundtrack to the book titled Mama I Love You. The combination of the book and the soundtrack is great artistry; however, it bridges the gap between this well written reading and the music composition brings the book alive.
Download or read book Freaky Fast Frankie Joe written by Lutricia Clifton and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby can't find anything good to say about Clearview, Illinois, where he must spend the next ten months living with a father he knows only through birthday cards, a stepmother he didn't know existed, and four half brothers intent on making him the "freak" of the town. When life in Clearview becomes unbearable, Frankie Joe hatches a plan to ride his bike back to the Lone Star Trailer Park in Laredo, Texas. For that he needs money, and so he opens Frankie Joe's Freaky Fast Delivery Service. But Frankie Joe hasn't counted on quirky clients, unpredictable winter weather, and his equally unpredictable new family.
Download or read book Of Murder and Madness written by Gerry Spence and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-10-15 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting, blow-by-blow account of the trial of Joe Esquibel is told by his attorney, Gerry Spence. Joe Esquibel, an unemployed Mexican-American shot and killed his Anglo wife in the presence of eight witnesses, including a deputy sheriff. Spence developed the defense which successfully convinced the jury to find his client not-guilty by reason of insanity.
Download or read book A FATHER S VOW written by Peg Sutherland and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope Springs Will Travers is back in town! Will Travers left Hope Springs ten years ago, accused of a crime he didn't commit. He tried to make a life for himself and his young wife far, far away. But his wife wanted more, and left him for greener pastures. Now he's raising his son on his own, and he realizes there's no better place to do that than Hope Springs. Even if it means facing Libby Jeffries again. Especially if it means facing Libby Jeffries. She was the only "witness" to his alleged crime. But Libby is not at all pleased to see him. Particularly when a series of "accidents" beings to occur. But this time Will needs her on his side. She's the only person who can help him make enough sense of the past to allow him to give his son a future. And, ironically, that future now includes Libby.
Download or read book The Night Dad Went to Jail written by Melissa Higgins and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2023 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When someone you love goes to jail, you might feel lost, scared, and even mad. What do you do? No matter who your loved one is, this story can help you through the tough times.
Download or read book Growing Up Ivy written by Peggy Dymond Leavey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commended for the 2011 Best Books for Kids and Teens Living in grim Depression-era Toronto with her actress mother, Frannie, Ivy Chalmers has never met her father. In 1931, Frannie sends twelve-year-old Ivy to stay with her paternal grandmother in Larkin, Ontario, while she seeks stardom in New York City. When Ivy’s father, Alva, arrives unexpectedly in Larkin, he turns out not to be the Prince Charming she imagined, but an illiterate peddler. Rescuing Ivy from her uncompromising grandmother, Alva takes her with him for the summer, wandering the countryside by horse-drawn caravan, selling shoes. Back in Larkin at summer’s end, Ivy meets teenager Charlie Bayliss, orphaned as an infant and raised by his aunt on a farm outside town. Ivy has a flair for writing and boundless imagination, while Charlie loves baseball and loathes farming. Unknown to both of them, though, is a secret connection they share. When the final pieces of the puzzle of their lives fall into place, nothing will ever be the same.
Download or read book Jailbirds written by Mim Skinner and published by Seven Dials. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIVE THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT WOMEN'S PRISONS 1. You can buy clothes from the Avon catalogue. 2. The Governor gets called the 'Gold Command' when there's an emergency. 3. Tampons are unlimited, soap is not. 4. The best paid job a prisoner can do is sewing pillow cases for other prisons. 5. More than half the women in prison have been victims of more serious crimes than the crimes they've committed. Life in UK prisons is a secret world that only leaks out of its barbed wire walls in contradictory sensationalist headlines and Panorama documentaries: disgraceful conditions versus phones and TV, drug epidemics and gangs versus self-harm and overcrowding. So what's the truth? What do prisoners really do each day? Why are they in there while we're not? And what happens once they leave? Helped by some women who've been inside, Mim Skinner - a prison teacher and community support worker - is here to set the record straight and shine a light on what it's really like to work and live inside as a woman. As eye-opening and funny as it is engrossing and heartbreaking, this is the first account of the unique world that exists inside a UK high-security women's prison and the stories of the women imprisoned there.
Download or read book Cold Case in Cherokee Crossing written by Rita Herron and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decades-old cold case is testing everything one Texas Ranger thought he knew about obtaining justice… A lot of men on death row profess their innocence. Those men are mostly just scared of dying. Jaxon Ward understands that, but as a Texas Ranger he needs to uphold the law. Yet the story Avery Tierney tells him… He's convinced her brother is awaiting execution while the real killer remains at large. Searching for the murderer opens old wounds for Avery, and now she has to face a past so traumatic she blocked it out. A past not so dissimilar to Jax's. Before long, the only comfort they find is in each other's arms. Avery's lost everything once before. And now, if she loses Jaxon, she fears she'll never recover.
Download or read book Cover Me written by Joanna Wayne and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bayou payback: "Detective Remy Comeaux never got over the loss of his beloved fiancee. But when he returns to New Orleans to expose ongoing corruption and meets Nicole Worthington, something about this beauty seems all too familiar"--Publisher.
Download or read book The Mustard Seed Kids Praying for Rainbows Inspired by the Family of Jackie Carpenter written by Michael McClendon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six-year-old JJ Veitch is a sweet, curious boy who loves the Lord, helping others, and embarking on adventures in the woods. Unfortunately JJ has no idea that he is at the beginning of a journey that will push him to the brink of manhood and teach him that bullies come in all shapes and sizes. JJ's father, Jason, is battling bullies. His are the most fearsome kind: adults. Desperate for change, he has to somehow find a way to stop the copper thieves who are robbing him of his livelihood. But when he takes matters into his own hands, he lands in jail, a horrifying place he never thought he'd be. As his family battles on Jason's behalf, JJ is terrorized by neighborhood thugs and must make a difficult choice whether to turn the other cheek or stand tall and fight for his beliefs. Will he and his family realize they only need to have faith the size of a mustard seed before it is too late?
Download or read book Moving Target written by J.A. Jance and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes novella "A last goodbye" and excerpt from "Cold betrayal".
Download or read book The Storm Before Atlanta written by Karen Schwabach and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when most people have grown weary of the war between the states, two young children are desperate to find their way to the battlefields. Jeremy DeGroot wants nothing more than to join a troop as a drummer boy. For Dulcie, a runaway slave, freedom means she must head directly toward the fighting in the hopes that she'll become "contraband," that is, property of the Union troops. Both Jeremy and Dulcie find a place with the 107th New York Volunteer Regiment and even start to forge a friendship. But all that is threatened when they cross paths with the mysterious Charlie, a young Confederate soldier, who may look like the enemy but feels more like a friend. Young readers who like their fiction filled with exciting historical details, rich characters, and action-packed adventures will be drawn to The Storm Before Atlanta.
Download or read book Hard Yards written by Melissa Lucashenko and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful story of life and death on the run, from the Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author of Too Much Lip. Roo Glover has two highly desirable talents – he can fight, and he can run like the clappers. In the inner-city's harsh code there are losers and survivors, and Roo's a survivor. He's made it through foster care, juvenile detention and poverty. He's an athlete, aching towards the dream of Olympic qualification. He's even coping with being white in the turbulent Aboriginal family of his girlfriend. But when cousin Stanley dies in custody, and Roo finds his father in the same week, trouble starts biting at his heels.
Download or read book Shinar 54 written by D. Corey Sanders and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jona McCracken is a broken ex-Marine with PTSD and a host of other personal issues. He stumbles upon a website promising relief from all his ills. The only catch is that he must immigrate to Shinar 54, a utopian city in the Nevada desert to obtain the wonder cure and to meet Lisa, his enchanting recruiter. Shinar is the enclosed haven for millions of people who have overcome sickness and pain. The outside world believes Shinar is a powerful and dangerous doomsday cult. Shinar prepares its people for the next life with a singularity of purpose that impoverishes the United States and sets the two nations on a collision course. As the political and economic tensions ratchet up, the world spirals down into an epidemic of fear, bigotry, and propaganda. World war is imminent. Jona and Lisa find themselves in the middle of it. Marco Franco, Jonas friend and confidant, is on his own mission to rescue his younger sister from certain death. Can he do it through intrigue and alliances? Set in the not-too-distant future, Shinar 54 is a story of conflict between good and evil, truth and lies, and the clash of opposing values. Ultimately, it is a tale of renewal, redemption, and reconciliation.
Download or read book Jail Bird The Life and Crimes of an Essex Bad Girl written by Tracy Mackness and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracy Mackness has always had a flair for business - if not all of it legal. She started work as a youngster on her dad's fruit and veg stall in Romford Market in the early 1970s, preferring grafting to going to school, but by the time she was a teenager she'd fallen in with a fast crowd and spent much of the next 15 years ducking and diving, and partying. The 1980s was a time of conspicuous excess, and Tracy took bigger and bigger risks - whilst sporting bigger and bigger hair - fraternising with gangsters, gypsies, prize fighters and the Essex criminal underworld. From Essex country clubs to Magaluf, Tracy was there, living life large. It was only when she was sent down for 10 years for conspiracy to supply cannabis, after being caught with 'a lorry load of puff' at a motorway service station off the M25, that she was able to turn her life around. Despite being banged up with some of the UK's toughest female prisoners, she proved to be a model inmate, and found her forte working on the prison farm. Never shy of hard work, Tracy left prison with numerous qualifications in pig husbandry and set up her own business, The Giggly Pig, which has become a huge success selling sausages at farmers' markets and festivals up and down the country. With her shrewd business acumen and bubbly personality, Tracy has come through the bad times with a hugely entertaining story to tell and a new life to live.
