Download or read book Enjoying the Ride written by Win Straube and published by Enjoying the Ride. This book was released on 2005 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rainbirds written by Clarissa Goenawan and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in an imagined town outside Tokyo, Clarissa Goenawan’s dark, spellbinding literary debut follows a young man’s path to self-discovery in the wake of his sister’s murder. Ren Ishida has nearly completed his graduate degree at Keio University when he receives news of his sister’s violent death. Keiko was stabbed one rainy night on her way home, and there are no leads. Ren heads to Akakawa to conclude his sister’s affairs, failing to understand why she chose to turn her back on the family and Tokyo for this desolate place years ago. But then Ren is offered Keiko’s newly vacant teaching position at a prestigious local cram school and her bizarre former arrangement of free lodging at a wealthy politician’s mansion in exchange for reading to the man’s ailing wife. He accepts both, abandoning Tokyo and his crumbling relationship there in order to better understand his sister’s life and what took place the night of her death. As Ren comes to know the eccentric local figures, from the enigmatic politician who’s boarding him to his fellow teachers and a rebellious, captivating young female student, he delves into his shared childhood with Keiko and what followed. Haunted in his dreams by a young girl who is desperately trying to tell him something, Ren realizes that Keiko Ishida kept many secrets, even from him.

Download or read book AHA FROM OH NO written by RAHUL T N U NAIR and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingu is an ordinary boy, and his life is as ordinary as it can be. There is nothing special about it. But, now and then, he goofs-up or makes a mistake or fails. With each of these missteps, Ingu learns something new and moves on, as every oh-no moment has a hidden aha lesson. Follow Ingu's journey from age four to eleven, and read about the ahas Ingu has from his oh nos.

Download or read book Chicago Street Cop written by Pat McCarthy and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving a career in law enforcement involves a considerable amount of natural instinct, skill, luck, and intellect. Fortunately for Pat McCarthy, he possessed all of these, some more than others, at different times.

Download or read book Testimony written by Robbie Robertson and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • On the 40th anniversary of The Band’s legendary The Last Waltz concert, Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal journey, and his creative friendships with some of the greatest artists of the last half-century. Robbie Robertson's singular contributions to popular music have made him one of the most beloved songwriters and guitarists of his time. With songs like "The Weight," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," and "Up on Cripple Creek," he and his partners in The Band fashioned a music that has endured for decades, influencing countless musicians. In this captivating memoir, written over five years of reflection, Robbie Robertson employs his unique storyteller’s voice to weave together the journey that led him to some of the most pivotal events in music history. He recounts the adventures of his half-Jewish, half-Mohawk upbringing on the Six Nations Indian Reserve and on the gritty streets of Toronto; his odyssey at sixteen to the Mississippi Delta, the fountainhead of American music; the wild early years on the road with rockabilly legend Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks; his unexpected ties to the Cosa Nostra underworld; the gripping trial-by-fire “going electric” with Bob Dylan on his 1966 world tour, and their ensuing celebrated collaborations; the formation of the Band and the forging of their unique sound, culminating with history's most famous farewell concert, brought to life for all time in Martin Scorsese's great movie The Last Waltz. This is the story of a time and place--the moment when rock 'n' roll became life, when legends like Buddy Holly and Bo Diddley criss-crossed the circuit of clubs and roadhouses from Texas to Toronto, when The Beatles, Hendrix, The Stones, and Warhol moved through the same streets and hotel rooms. It's the story of exciting change as the world tumbled through the '60s and early 70’s, and a generation came of age, built on music, love and freedom. Above all, it's the moving story of the profound friendship between five young men who together created a new kind of popular music. Testimony is Robbie Robertson’s story, lyrical and true, as only he could tell it.

Download or read book Uncle Al Capone written by Deirdre Marie Capone and published by Recaplodge LLC. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the revised edition, March 2015. The untold story from inside his family. Dramatic, unyielding, and provocative, Uncle Al Capone by Deirdre Marie Capone, Al Capone's grandniece, is a fascinating memoir and engaging biography. This moving, highly readable portrait of the Capone family and its mob trade examines what it has meant to survive the storied legacy of the family's forbearers. As Capone traces the arc of regret and what fuels the Capone myth, she finds redemption and a way to coexist with her legacy. In seventeen chapters with titles like "The Making of the Mafioso," "Trading the Chicago Outfit for the Chicago Cubs," and "The Saint Valentine's Day Truth," Capone outlines organized crime in Chicago and offers vignettes of American history during the early and mid-twentieth century. Using years of research and exhaustive interviews with her aunts, uncles, and cousins, she weaves an engaging anecdotal narrative of what it meant to be a Capone, what it meant to lose her father to suicide, and what it meant to have a mother who lived in constant fear. She offers compelling evidence that Al Capone was specifically targeted for prosecution by law enforcement agencies assisted by the media, which made gross exaggerations of her uncle's exploits and fueled a phenomenon of half-truths and utter falsehoods. From the family's roots in Angri, Italy to the author's ongoing investigations today, this debut offers a comprehensive and moving portrait of an iconic American family and one woman's efforts to make peace with the past.

Download or read book Kingdom in Dream written by P.T.More and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young and learned man gets up this day late than usual. He is getting everything innovative and different! After the lunch, he walks towards a cattle house. He wends to a hotel to read a newspaper, and it is aside of the street. Thousand billions corruption in River Joint Project, he gets shock. This news is against his moral thinking! On the other hand, his parents hold him responsible for every incident. A family clash causes to his hungry sleep. He gets a dream-he gets a birth as a son of the social reformer. He being a naughtiest boy, his parents plan to keep him in a boarding school. He enjoys the boarding life playing the football on exam days also. When he acknowledges the nations delicate status, he has a dream to make it a superpower. He enters politics, and establishes the new political party to become the prime minister. He arranges a lot assemblies, rallies and wins the general election. He begins to take an oath It is a time of the rising morning so his mama calls him constant. She disturbs it in vain. He feels nothing is with the poor people, their dreams also!

Download or read book The Dark Side of Skin written by Jeferson Tenório and published by Charco Press. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life under Brazil’s brutal “cordial racism” comes painfully alive in this novel of fathers and sons. How do you become the protagonist of your own life? For Pedro, it means searching for himself in the objects his father left behind: the layers that make up his life, and that of his parents, and the circumstances, geographies, and wounds that shaped them all. It’s an archaeology of affections, but also of life in southern Brazil, where being black on the streets of Porto Alegre manifests violences large and small. Where being a young woman, raised by a single mother, may find you seeking security in the untrustworthy arms of men. In Dark Side of Skin , Jeferson Tenório takes on fathers and sons, Shakespeare and Cervantes, and the inescapable bonds and burdens of family and history in one delicately rendered, painfully precise account of loved ones lost and found.

Download or read book What America Means to Me written by Albert F. Chestone and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, speaks loud and clear about the meaning of American Patriotism. It is my sincere belief, that if we are to remain a free, and strong democracy, as one Nation under God, we must without the slightest doubt, "Pledge Allegiance to America." We must stand united, determined to identify and expose the "Anti-Americans" within our country, who have total disregard for the labors of Our Founding. Fathers. The enemy exists within our society as both, individuals and as well funded organizations, constantly "chipping away" at our Declaration of Independence and Constitution, with fierce determination to change our form of government. They are intent on eliminating any reference to GOD, regardless of how, when and where, knowing that the majority of our citizens are of the Judeo/Christian belief. We are Christians and Jews, and people of every faith, who believe in God, who will unite to resist the "enemies," whose purpose it is, to deny us of our freedom and strip us of our freedom to worship God as we desire. As united believers in God, we must make certain that our lawmakers do not succumb to the demands of the "enemy within" and their constant "rabble-rousing" methods, aimed at the destruction of Our Heritage, Our Culture and Our Form of Government.

Download or read book SEVEN COLORS OF LOVE written by Pramod Rajput and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raj turned back to look at Gauri. Her hair was disheveled. Her face was not glowing as before. For the first time, he saw a common girl in her and no longer an angel. Gauri was unable to see the tears in his eyes from that distance. Raj cried his heart out all the way home. The road was deserted except for his sobs which reverberated against the surrounding hills and rocks, turning into an echo that only his soul could hear. It was the echo of a broken heart that Raj heard for the first time.

Download or read book Under the Walnut Tree written by S. D. Tolson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenagers live passionally in a challenging world of incredible changes and surprising experiencies. Standing between the fantasies of their vanishing childhood and the reality of mature everyday life, they adventure dreamily into the future of desire. Some of them react against the social constraints imposed by tradition, and find in the unbound forces of nature the values missing in the imperfect world of grown-ups. In their conflictive growing process the rebellious teen goes through a surprising metamorphosis that leads him to dramatically develop into his true mature identity. S. D. Tolson was born and raised in a land of ample sea horizons and high mountains and presently, after having lived in several diverse U.S. regions, resides in San Antonio, Texas, evoking the absent mountains and the distant sea. Literature has been S. D. Tolson's life avocation.

Download or read book Soul Man written by Tarun Kumar and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York City, Dr. Gill celebrated a breakthrough invention, drawing media attention. A reporter's inquiry about future projects led Dr Gill to reveal his next venture: a technology enabling soul exchange between living beings, challenging the conventional understanding of life's energy. Businessman John Herbert, desiring the power for nefarious reasons, attempted to coerce Gill into selling it. When Gill refused, Herbert tried to capture it, leading to a confrontation that ended with Gill comatose and the invention secretly administered to a newborn in a hospital, the son of billionaire Charles Martin. The baby is healthy and fit, but suddenly his body like becomes lifeless. all of a sudden no movement on his body. Astonished Mr Martin shouted, “Doctor... nurses... please save my child” while his wife started crying for her newborn baby. The doctor and nurses entered that room, and the doctor asked the nurse to check on him. The nurse checked the baby by using a stethoscope. And said with a quavering voice...“Sorry, sir, he is dead”. A profound silence filled the room as everyone stood in shock. Suddenly, the baby opens his eyes. Then the baby began speaking like the doctor, “Nurse! Check again” and the doctor started crying like a baby. Both became unconscious at the next moment. This was the birth of a soul man, who can exchange the soul with any living thing, such as humans, animals, or birds, or could be with you. This was the birth of SOUL MAN.

Download or read book We Have Always Lived in the Castle written by Shirley Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.

Download or read book The Righteous Cut written by Robert E Skinner and published by Poisoned Pen Press Inc. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: December 1941: Jessica Richards, daughter of corrupt New Orleans councilman Whitman Richards, is the victim of a sensational daylight kidnapping from the grounds of a Catholic girls’ academy. Richards, a man with many enemies, outrages both his wife and police Captain Frank Casey by throwing the police off the case. Is it because the kidnapper is a familiar enemy, returned to settle an old score, or has Richards faked the kidnapping to further some aim of his own? The desperate mother turns to the one person who might help her old boyfriend Wesley Farrell. Farrell, a Creole club owner passing for white, freshly returned from a self-imposed exile to Havana, prowls the city’s bars and streets, familiarizing himself with a growing list of Richards’s enemies while he tries to decide which of them might have the brains and guts to stage a coup against the corrupt councilman. Meanwhile, Negro Squad Sergeant Israel Daggett searches for the sole witness to the kidnapping, young black custodian Skeeter Longbaugh, unaware that the kidnappers have sent Easter Coupi, the most feared killer in the Negro underworld, after Skeeter... This new entry into an atmospheric, well-reviewed noir series follows Daddy’s Gone A’Hunting, Blood to Drink (list as Best of 2000 by january magazine), and Pale Shadow.

Download or read book My Walk Through Life with Childhood Trauma written by A. Tanders, Ed.D. and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Walk Through Life with Childhood Trauma By: A. Tanders, Ed.D. My Walk Through Life with Childhood Trauma comprises of Dr. Tanders’ life from a young child until adulthood. This book is the life’s work of many trials and tribulations as a young child, obstacles, childhood trauma, anxiety, losses, abandonment issues, and how God played an amazing role in continuous healing from all that was endured. Dr. Tanders’ story is intended to uplift, show resiliency, transparency, and her faith in God. This book should encourage others to seek self-love, self-healing, and personal growth. Forgiveness is a powerful tool for the person that need forgiveness and for those of you who may need to be forgiven.

Download or read book Childhood Stories and Perspectives written by William L. Alston and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter and Julia Alston were two parents with two different upbringings—one was from a family of means, and the other was from a family with very little. One was about trying to have success and wealth, and the other was about having nothing, spending and splurging and wasting more than could be grasped. Both Walter and his spouse, Julia, had major flaws. Both were all about him and herself. They had no plans to effectively share between themselves or among their ten children. They were all in it for themselves and not for each other and certainly not for their offspring. Despite their selfishness, they left their children with more than they realized; they left their children a treasure trove of stories—stories that were handed down through several generations from their parents and their parents’ parents. For generations, this had transpired by word of mouth that revealed family history, culture, entertainment, and family accomplishments. These stories brought pride, pleasure, and a sense of direction and well-being to the Alston family. These stories brought assured tangibles that would encourage, empower, teach, and would point the way forward.

Download or read book Technology and Law Enforcement written by Robert L. Snow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although for much of the mid-20th century police departments across the U.S. had been reluctant to embrace new technology, depending instead on traditional police techniques, detectives in Los Angeles finally departed from this practice when they found themselves stymied in their attempts to solve the infamous Night Stalker serial murder case. This murderer and rapist had gone on a deadly rampage during the spring and summer of 1985, and though the police used every traditional police technique, they could not solve the crime. Finally, in desperation, they decided to do something different: use what was then the latest, cutting edge-technology. This new technology, the laser print finder, worked perfectly and the police arrested the Night Stalker the next day. Following this astonishing success, police departments across the nation suddenly began clamoring to obtain all kinds of new technology to assist them in solving crimes. This rush to embrace the latest technology hasn't slowed in the intervening 21 years. This book takes readers through every major branch of law enforcement and shows how technology has radically changed police department operations during the last two decades. It also shows how these changes continue today as technology advances and refines techniques already in practice. Beginning with the Night Stalker case, the author illustrates how the use and reliance on new technologies in solving crimes has made policing and detective work more accurate and efficient in capturing and convicting criminals (and courts more recently in releasing innocents convicted of crimes). Capitalizing on the interest in all things forensic, this book illuminates the behind the scenes technologies that go into solving crimes and keeping dangerous criminals off the street. Snow covers DNA and fingerprint technologies, vehicle technologies, undercover work, bomb detection, and other methods. Using many real life examples and first hand anecdotes, he shows how technology has become part and parcel of criminal justice efforts to solve crimes.