Download or read book Somebody Else s Children written by John Hubner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the narrative force of an epic novel and the urgency of first-rate investigative journalism, this important book delves into the daily workings and life-or-death decisions of a typical American family court system. It provides an intimate look at the lives of the parents and children whose fate it decides. A must for social workers and social work students, attorneys, judges, foster parents, law students, child advocates, teachers, journalists and anyone who cares about our nation's children.
Download or read book Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime written by Robert J. Randisi and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “FRANK SINATRA and DEAN MARTIN never knew how much trouble they were in until Robert J. Randisi stepped onto the scene. A gem of a read!”—SUE GRAFTON, author of S Is for Silence Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford are the Kings of Cool—the Rat Pack. Ocean's 11 is their first movie together and they have taken Sin City by storm—filming during the day and cavorting onstage at the Sands Casino at night. It's clear not everyone is charmed, however, when Dean begins receiving anonymous threatening letters. Eddie Gianelli, also called Eddie G., is a pit boss at the Sands. After twelve years, he's got the whole town wired. But he's still surprised when Joey Bishop drops by his table and invites him to meet with Frank in the Rat Pack's private steam room. Frank asks Eddie to find out who's been sending the threats, as a favor to him and Dean. Eddie wants to politely decline, but caught between his boss, Jack Entratter's, not-so-subtle nudging and being utterly starstruck by Dino, he agrees to look into it. He gets help from his P.I. best friend and a Jewish torpedo from Brooklyn. A few dead bodies and bruised ribs later, he remembers why he was reluctant. In a city of gamblers, Eddie has become the highest roller of all. The game is murder, and the stakes just may be his own life. Robert J. Randisi, the man Booklist claims "may be the last of the true pulp writers," takes his readers on a vivid, neon-lit tour of back rooms, bars, and famed gambling dens of the desert mirage that was—and still is—Las Vegas. Broads, blackjack, and bourbon flow. Celebrities, from John F. Kennedy to Angie Dickinson, strut in and out of this amazing first in a series that Rat Pack fans and crime fiction lovers will not want to miss. PRAISE FOR ROBERT J. RANDISI "This is a tremendously entertaining novel. If you're a fan of the Rat Pack, it's sacred."—T. Jefferson Parker, author of The Fallen "Randisi portrays splendid, seedy Vegas with a fresh and stunning perspective, making this a superb re-creation of those halcyon days and the hippest mystery of the year."—Ken Bruen, author of The Vixen "A terrific idea beautifully executed by one of the best storytellers in the business."—Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Paradise "Randisi delivers a masterpiece of plot and style, blazing with the bloody colors of early '60s Vegas."—Ed Gorman, author of the Sam McCain series "Guys in sharp suits, dice, cards, broads, booze—Randisi writes about it all as if he were a brother rat. What a time! What a town! What a book!" —John Lutz, author of Fear the Night
Download or read book Joey Somebody written by Joey Dumont and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2017, Joey took a break from his career to write a book called, Joey Somebody, The Life and TImes of a Recovering Douchebag. His book explores the very heavy topics of parental neglect, arrogance, insecurity, anxiety, and episodic depression through the lens of dark humor and self deprecation. Joey believes that laughter is the beginning of healing. And is now on a mission to prove just that.
Download or read book Durbin Memoirs written by Josie Hall and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josephine Durbin Hall was born on April 28, 1943, in Philadelphia to Joseph V. Durbin and Carrie W. Durbin. She was the second eldest of ten children. Her father was a long-distance truck driver who was gone most of the time. She and her eldest sister were required to help manage the home in his absence. Josie had difficulties reading due to her dyslexia and quit school at the age of sixteen, but she was determined to complete her education and received her GED at the age of forty-two. She married Edward Hall at the age of sixteen; he was eighteen. They had five children and adopted two additional children. She has twenty-two grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren. They have been together for fi fty-four years, and this past March they celebrated their fiftieth anniversary. Her passion is and has always been helping people. She is the cofounder of and president-elect of Christ on the Move Evangelist, a nonprofit Christian organization. She founded the following programs: “Conduct Connection Managed Behavior” for delinquent youth, Hall’s Residential Treatment Center for emotionally disturbed juvenile delinquents, Hall’s Foster Home for young mothers and their babies, and the first homeless shelter in the county. She also served as the administrator for these programs. She has received numerous awards for her outstanding community work, one being the Jefferson Award. She is a licensed minister and an evangelist. She has been in the ministry for the past twenty-eight years. She is the author of the book My Story. While stationed in Europe with her husband, she traveled and toured the country, meeting the locals, and established a group for young military wives. She spends a lot of time in her latest venture “Hidden in Plain View,” teaching how our forefathers in slavery used quilts to lead them to freedom.
Download or read book The Joey Song written by Sandra Swenson and published by Central Recovery Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes addicts don't recovery, but with love and faith their families can. By the age of twenty, Joey had OD'd, attempted suicide, dropped out of college, survived a near-fatal car accident, done time behind bars, and been kicked out of rehab. Now manipulative and hateful, the once sweet and charming Joey is long gone. This is the poignant story of a defiant addict and the mother who won't give up on him. She finally realizes that it hurts more to hand on than to let go, and that letting go is not the same as giving up. Sandra Swenson beautifully orchestrates a mother's lessons of love and loss, while surviving her son's addiction. Despairing parents of addicts will find comfort in this stark, yet hopeful tale.
Download or read book Scribner s Monthly an Illustrated Magazine for the People written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What If Volume 1 written by TIM TROTT and published by Tim Trott Audio, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What If... is a collection of sci-fi and paranormal short stories with a twist of reality. The book features ten stories, including one in which two young women's lives become intertwined when one's nightmare reveals a sinister stalker who haunts the other's reality. Another story follows a college student who experiments with a Software Digital Radio and discovers a strange signal coming from a cemetery. Then, a thirteen-year-old finds a magical camera at a local second-hand store. The book describes a young couple that experiences a close encounter with a flying saucer on the beach and faces ridicule and a visit from the mysterious Men in Black. There is a story of an artificial intelligence robot that arrives at a large corporation and ends up solving a crime. Another story follows rumors of a mysterious space alien lurking in the woods that captivates the imagination of a quaint lakeside town. The book also includes the story of a minor traffic which accident leaves a young woman in an unexplained coma, but her sister finds a clue in a dream. Finally, the book ends with the story of a network that is granted an exclusive interview that is out of this world.
Download or read book Joey Dunlop The Definitive Biography written by Stuart Barker and published by John Blake. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Carl Fogarty Joey Dunlop's story is one of towering triumphs and desperate tragedies in almost equal measure. Born poor - dirt poor - with no running water, no electricity, he was the definition of the everyman hero, earning the title 'King of the Roads' in what must be considered one of the world's most extreme sports - motorcycle road racing. And as well as being voted Northern Ireland's greatest ever sportsman, he remains the most loved and most successful road racer of all time. Joey Dunlop won the hearts and minds of millions during his thirty-one-year career, culminating in his greatest triumph in the year 2000 at the Isle of Man TT when, grey-haired, bespectacled, and approaching fifty years of age, he reclaimed his reputation as the greatest TT rider in history by defeating a whole new generation of talent and regaining the F1 crown for the first time in twelve years. But in road racing, tragedy is never very far away. Joey lost his life in a racing accident in July of 2000. It was just weeks after his final TT victory. More than 60,000 people attended Joey's funeral. Over twenty years after his untimely death, the sport has never truly recovered from his loss. Everyone with an interest in motorcycling knows the legend of Joey Dunlop but now, for the first time, they can get to know the man himself. This definitive new biography is the most comprehensive ever written on the man. In turns hilarious, triumphant and tragic, this is Dunlop's story as it has never been told before - by those who were part of it.
Download or read book I Slept with Joey Ramone written by Mickey Leigh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A powerful story of punk-rock inspiration and a great rock bio” (Rolling Stone), now in paperback. When the Ramones recorded their debut album in 1976, it heralded the true birth of punk rock. Unforgettable front man Joey Ramone gave voice to the disaffected youth of the seventies and eighties, and the band influenced the counterculture for decades to come. With honesty, humor, and grace, Joey’s brother, Mickey Leigh, shares a fascinating, intimate look at the turbulent life of one of America’s greatest—and unlikeliest—music icons. While the music lives on for new generations to discover, I Slept with Joey Ramone is the enduring portrait of a man who struggled to find his voice and of the brother who loved him.
Download or read book Gangster Apparel written by Richard Vetere and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Someone to Watch Over Me written by Denny Kleibscheidel and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wilderness Peril written by Elizabeth Goddard and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspirational romantic suspense"--Spine.
Download or read book A Clean Kill written by Mike Stewart and published by Dell. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Baneberry died with a whimper, not a bang. One moment she was alive, an attractive woman married to a successful businessman. The next moment she was dead, and no one had the slightest suspicion until a lawyer got involved–and shook the legal system to its core.... Living on Alabama’s warm, windswept Gulf Coast, Tom McInnes attracts troubling cases and troubled clients. With the help of Dr. Kai-Li Cantil, a gorgeous psychologist with a knack for unraveling other people’s secrets, McInnes pries into Kate’s death and soon knows it was no accident. In a world of multimillion-dollar lawsuits, Kate Baneberry signed her own death warrant when she did her civic duty and served on a jury. Because someone out there has grabbed justice by the throat and won’t let go–until all the right people die....
Download or read book Sink written by Joseph Earl Thomas and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2023, BET'S FAVORITE MEMOIRS OF 2023, AND ELECTRIC LITERATURE'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 "A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture. Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack addiction, and demeaned daily for his perceived weakness, Joseph Earl Thomas grew up feeling he was under constant threat. Roaches fell from the ceiling, colonizing bowls of noodles and cereal boxes. Fists and palms pounded down at school and at home, leaving welts that ached long after they disappeared. An inescapable hunger gnawed at his frequently empty stomach, and requests for food were often met with indifference if not open hostility. Deemed too unlike the other boys to ever gain the acceptance he so desperately desired, he began to escape into fantasy and virtual worlds, wells of happiness in a childhood assailed on all sides. In a series of exacting and fierce vignettes, Thomas guides readers through the unceasing cruelty that defined his circumstances, laying bare the depths of his loneliness and illuminating the vital reprieve geek culture offered him. With remarkable tenderness and devastating clarity, he explores how lessons of toxic masculinity were drilled into his body and the way the cycle of violence permeated the very fabric of his environment. Even in the depths of isolation, there were unexpected moments of joy carved out, from summers where he was freed from the injurious structures of his surroundings to the first glimpses of kinship he caught on his journey to becoming a Pokémon master. SINK follows Thomas's coming-of-age towards an understanding of what it means to lose the desire to fit in—with his immediate peers, turbulent family, or the world—and how good it feels to build community, love, and salvation on your own terms.
Download or read book Somebody Told Me written by Mia Siegert and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of trauma, identity, and survival. After an assault, bigender seventeen-year-old Aleks/Alexis is looking for a fresh start—so they voluntarily move in with their uncle, a Catholic priest. In their new bedroom, Aleks/Alexis discovers they can overhear parishioners in the church confessional. Moved by the struggles of these "sinners," Aleks/Alexis decides to anonymously help them, finding solace in their secret identity: a guardian angel instead of a victim. But then Aleks/Alexis overhears a confession of another priest admitting to sexually abusing a parishioner. As they try to uncover the priest's identity before he hurts anyone again, Aleks/Alexis is also forced to confront their own abuser and come to terms with their past trauma.
Download or read book Skinny Dip written by Carl Hiaasen and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Take a hilarious ride through the warped politics and mayhem of the human environment, and the human heart, in this "screwball delight so full of bright, deft, beautifully honed humor.... You'd follow [Hiaasen] anywhere." —The New York Times Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn’t know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he’s found a way–doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey, has figured out his scam, he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner into the night-dark Atlantic. Unfortunately for Chaz, his wife doesn’t die in the fall. Clinging blindly to a bale of Jamaican pot, Joey Perrone is plucked from the ocean by former cop and current loner Mick Stranahan. Instead of rushing to the police and reporting her husband’s crime, Joey decides to stay dead and (with Mick’s help) screw with Chaz until he screws himself. As Joey haunts and taunts her homicidal husband, as Chaz’s cold-blooded cohorts in pollution grow uneasy about his ineptitude and increasingly erratic behavior, as Mick Stranahan discovers that six failed marriages and years of island solitude haven’t killed the reckless romantic in him, we’re taken on a full-throttle, pure Hiaasen ride.
Download or read book Inclusive Research with People with Learning Disabilities written by Kelley Johnson and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking book, Jan Walmsley and Kelley Johnson discuss participative approaches to research and provide an up-to-date account of inclusive practice with individuals with learning disabilities. Drawing on evidence from two major studies, they explain how lessons learnt from inclusive research in the learning disability field are applicable to others working with marginalized groups. The authors examine the origins and the process of inclusive research, describing: * how and why it takes place * who carries it out * who funds it * how it is designed * how it relates to policy and practice. They look at the challenges inherent in this work, such as balancing the voice of the researcher with that of disabled participants and clarifying roles within research projects, and explore how it can become more inclusive and empowering. Providing valuable information and advice to researchers, policy makers and students as well as other health and social care professionals, this book presents a comprehensive examination of participative research in social care.
