Download or read book Shoot the Alligators Closest to the Boat written by Nathanael Stolte and published by Stubborn Mule Press. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stolte shows us his favorite parts of hell with calm enthusiasm. His love affair with perdition cools with distance from the inferno, but still proves eternal. There is humor and humility in this complex (but not convoluted) collection of street-kid war stories and dope sick love letters. It reads like a lullaby for the damned." --Ezhno Martín, founding editor EMP Books "Nathanael William Stolte always has room for you in his heart. It's warm and metaphysical in there, so be sure to bring your slippers and a flask. Stolte is the everyday-man's man, writing of a simple and humble life. He is often brave enough to call people out on their shit (including his own), writing, "Being wrong is a universal human condition." His short pieces land like grenades and his longer pieces spin tales of the intricacies of aging, the nature of perspective, and lessons necessary for becoming a better person. Wherever Stolte may be, I am confident that he is experiencing and writing about that place in its most beautifully authentic form. Like the city, this collection is dirty and tough, mysterious and sentimental. Stolte characterizes his collection well when he writes, "It's cold / my feet are wet & / I wouldn't change a thing." " --Linzi Garcia, author of Thank You "Some poets are born of the fire that makes the world in all of its beautiful doom, Stolte is one of those poets - let him sing." --RA Washington, author of BLACK Eunuch

Download or read book Closest Alligator to the Boat written by Jennifer Epley Sanders and published by Jennifer Epley Sanders. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Closest Alligator to the Boat" is a book about professional and personal development for college students. Think of it as a series of office hours sessions with a professor but in a short, written format. These "office hours" will address students' objectives, logistics, and morale for navigating college and life. This book is for college students who want to learn about themselves, make a change in their lives, get somewhere, achieve a goal, improve themselves, help others, or just get some different perspectives about professional and personal development options. This book will be especially useful for students who are feeling overwhelmed, behind, confused, unsure, or scared about their classes, major, the "world of academics," interacting with professors, handling professional relationships, conflicts with individuals or institutions, and trying to "do it all." The book's title "Closest Alligator to the Boat" comes from an old military saying that applies to a variety of situations. It refers to dealing with the most vital and urgent issue first. If you want to survive and thrive, you will need to "attack" whichever "alligator" is directly in front of you. It is important to tackle the things in life that are "mission critical," i.e., prioritize what matters most. This book will help students to prioritize certain ways of thinking and acting in order to achieve their short- and long-term goals.

Download or read book Second Term written by J.M. Adams and published by Oceanview Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lame duck president's desperate power grab threatens democracy in the United States—can former intelligence operative and single mother Cora Walker prevent catastrophe? September 2012. Cora Walker, a DIA defense operative, learns of a terrorist plot in Benghazi and rushes to a secret installation to stop it. When her superiors ignore her dire warnings, she's forced to mount an unsanctioned attempt to thwart the attack. Her team barely repels the large force of invaders determined to kill Americans. Sixteen years after her heroic actions in Benghazi, Cora is the press secretary for the Speaker of the House. As a single mom, she's struggling to balance her demanding job and her home life. Soon, things get more complicated at work as the lame duck president suspends habeas corpus and begins arresting members of Congress in a desperate attempt to retain power. Cora springs into action to save the Speaker and prevent catastrophe. She'll have to work strategically to keep everyone safe—alliances turn sour, and her trust in others begins to falter. It's an uphill battle for Cora until an explosive finale exposes what can really happen to democracy when political extremism reaches new heights. Perfect for fans of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor

Download or read book The Jack Knife Man written by Ellis Butler and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Jack-Knife Man" by Ellis Parker Butler. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book Alligator Gold written by Janet Post and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cracker Westerns are rip-roarin, action-packed, can't-put-'em-down tales set in the frontier days of Florida. They are full of adventure, real heroes, and vivid, authentic details that bring Florida's history to life. With enough shoot-outs and stampedes for any good Western story, Alligator Gold adds its unique Florida twist with an alligator in a deep blue spring. The Civil War is over and Caleb Hawkins is finally on his way home from a Northern prisoner-of-war camp. Hawk's been trying to get his mind off giving the rotten Snake Barber part of the secret to finding his family's hidden cache of gold when he was delirious with malaria at the camp. Now he's focused on getting back to the D-Wing, his Florida cattle ranch, and Travis, his only son. But his code of honor intervenes when he encounters a very pregnant Madelaine Wilkes along the trail. Hawk is duty-bound to help her, which comes to include taking her home with him. What he learns about the father of her baby tarnishes his clear attraction to her. Maddy Wilkes has her own code of honor, which gets in the way of her strong attraction to Hawk. And Snake Barber's singular lack of moral code gets in the way of any normal life on the D-Wing. See all of the books in this series

Download or read book Shooting and Fishing written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Savage Paradise written by Bud Lawrence and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AFTER A TRAVELING PRIZE FIGHTERIS SENTENCED TO A WORK FARM, HE MEETS AN INDIAN GIRL; TOGETHER, THEY PLAN THE ESCAPE OF A LIFETIME. Inside a barn in a tiny Florida town, the last ?ght of the night is about to take place. Andy, a traveling prize ?ghter, enters the ring to jeers from onlookers. As the betting ends, the ?xed ?ght begins. When he throws the ?nal punch that knocks his opponent to the ground, Andy suddenly realizes he has been betrayed by his employer and attempts to make a hasty exit. No one is waiting to whisk him to safety. Andys life is about to change forever. After Andy is brutally beaten by an angry town mob that includes the local sheri? , he is unjustly jailed and sentenced to a work farm. Subject to hard labor by a brutal overseer, Andy thinks his life is overuntil he meets Oquilla, a Seminole Indian also imprisoned by the sheri? , who secretly plans to make her his woman. Against all reason, Andy and Oquilla fall in love and begin planning their escape. The only way out is through foreboding and perilous swamps. As Andy and Oquilla em-bark on a dangerous journey to freedom, bounty hunters relentlessly pursue the couple. Only time will tell if Andy and Oquilla will be able to outrun an evil sheri? and his lackeys.

Download or read book 620 Days written by Charles F. Callihan and published by Charles F. Callihan. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He told me he had never seen someone with BS and MS degrees in chemical engineering, an MBA, who was a College Department Chairman, and Professor who was also a member of MENSA, as an inmate in a federal prison. I felt as special as when on my first day in prison I was informed of which sidewalks I could use, which direction on the sidewalks I could walk, and on what side of the sidewalk I could walk."

Download or read book Border Wars written by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two New York Times Washington correspondents provide a detailed, “fact-based account of what precipitated some of this administration’s more brazen assaults on immigration” (The Washington Post) filled with never-before-told stories of this key issue of Donald Trump’s presidency. No issue matters more to Donald Trump and his administration than restricting immigration. Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear have covered the Trump administration from its earliest days. In Border Wars, they take us inside the White House to document how Stephen Miller and other anti-immigration officials blocked asylum-seekers and refugees, separated families, threatened deportation, and sought to erode the longstanding bipartisan consensus that immigration and immigrants make positive contributions to America. Their revelation of Trump’s desire for a border moat filled with alligators made national news. As the authors reveal, Trump has used immigration to stoke fears (“the caravan”), attack Democrats and the courts, and distract from negative news and political difficulties. As he seeks reelection in 2020, Trump has elevated immigration in the imaginations of many Americans into a national crisis. Border Wars identifies the players behind Trump’s anti-immigration policies, showing how they planned, stumbled and fought their way toward changes that have further polarized the nation. “[Davis and Shear’s] exquisitely reported Border Wars reveals the shattering horror of the moment, [and] the mercurial unreliability and instability of the president” (The New York Times Book Review).

Download or read book The Alligator Closest to the Boat written by Sara Olsher and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being overwhelmed feels like being in a boat surrounded by alligators.Every problem feels scary and dangerous, and we feel frozen: how do we get out of this mess? Before we get to solving the actual problem, we have to fix that feeling.This workbook will help kids (and adults!) figure out which problem is the most important - the alligator closest to the boat - and then get to the work of solving it.

Download or read book We re Gonna Need More Arrows written by Mike E. Neilson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were Gonna Need More Arrows! Is a collection of hunting adventures from around the country and around the world. Share the adventures as the author tackles water buffalo on two continents with archery tackle. Go along with the author as he hunts red stag, peccary, wild hogs, exotic rams as well as the local wild turkeys and whitetail deer. See the mountains, feel the wind and rain, smell the forest floor as you trek to Australia, Argentina and Mexico searching for game. Travel the states in search of hogs and turkeys with both gun and bow. Live the adventure!

Download or read book St Nicholas written by Mary Mapes Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hemingway s Boat written by Paul Hendrickson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, a brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood. Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961—from Hemingway’s pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until his suicide—Paul Hendrickson traces the writer’s exultations and despair around the one constant in his life during this time: his beloved boat, Pilar. We follow him from Key West to Paris, to New York, Africa, Cuba, and finally Idaho, as he wrestles with his best angels and worst demons. Whenever he could, he returned to his beloved fishing cruiser, to exult in the sea, to fight the biggest fish he could find, to drink, to entertain celebrities and friends and seduce women, to be with his children. But as he began to succumb to the diseases of fame, we see that Pilar was also where he cursed his critics, saw marriages and friendships dissolve, and tried, in vain, to escape his increasingly diminished capacities. Generally thought of as a great writer and an unappealing human being, Hemingway emerges here in a far more benevolent light. Drawing on previously unpublished material, including interviews with Hemingway’s sons, Hendrickson shows that for all the writer’s boorishness, depression, and alcoholism, and despite his choleric anger, he was capable of remarkable generosity—to struggling writers, to lost souls, to the dying son of a friend. We see most poignantly his relationship with his youngest son, Gigi, a doctor who lived his adult life mostly as a cross-dresser, and died squalidly and alone in a Miami women’s jail. He was the son Hemingway forsook the least, yet the one who disappointed him the most, as Gigi acted out for nearly his whole life so many of the tortured, ambiguous tensions his father felt. Hendrickson’s bold and beautiful book strikingly makes the case that both men were braver than we know, struggling all their lives against the complicated, powerful emotions swirling around them. As Hendrickson writes, “Amid so much ruin, still the beauty.” Hemingway’s Boat is both stunningly original and deeply gripping, an invaluable contribution to our understanding of this great American writer, published fifty years after his death.

Download or read book The Motor Boat Club in Florida written by Harrie Irving Hancock and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1909 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "REALLY, I can hardly believe that it's winter at all," declared Mrs. Tremaine, languidly, as she threw open her deck coat. "I find it hard" "Now, my dear, don't try to do anything hard. It's sure to fatigue you," laughed Henry Tremaine, coming up from the cabin companionway, where he had paused long enough to light a pipe. "But here it is," argued Mr. Tremaine's pretty young wife, "well into the month of December. We are out at sea, out of sight of land, save for a few of these horrid keys. There's hardly any breeze; the sun is warm-so warm, in fact, that I am afraid it will work ravages with my complexion. And, actually, the air is so warm and so full of indolence that I feel more inclined to go below and sleep than to do anything else." Though Mrs. Tremaine was not more than twenty-four years of age, her husband was a middle-aged man who had seen many more nooks of the world than she had. "My dear," he answered, "you are just beginning to experience the charm of the Florida winter."

Download or read book The Big Book of Classic Fantasy written by Ann Vandermeer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 WORLD FANTASY AWARD Unearth the enchanting origins of fantasy fiction with a collection of tales as vast as the tallest tower and as mysterious as the dark depths of the forest. Fantasy stories have always been with us. They illuminate the odd and the uncanny, the wondrous and the fantastic: all the things we know are lurking just out of sight—on the other side of the looking-glass, beyond the music of the impossibly haunting violin, through the twisted trees of the ancient woods. Other worlds, talking animals, fairies, goblins, demons, tricksters, and mystics: these are the elements that populate a rich literary tradition that spans the globe. A work composed both of careful scholarship and fantastic fun, The Big Book of Classic Fantasy is essential reading for anyone who’s never forgotten the stories that first inspired feelings of astonishment and wonder. INCLUDING: *Stories by pillars of the genre like the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Shelley, Christina Rossetti, L. Frank Baum, Robert E. Howard, and J. R. R. Tolkien *Fantastical offerings from literary giants including Edith Wharton, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Vladimir Nabokov, Hermann Hesse, and W.E.B. Du Bois *Rare treasures from Asian, Eastern European, Scandinavian, and Native American traditions *New translations, including fourteen stories never before in English PLUS: *Beautifully Bizarre Creatures! *Strange New Worlds Just Beyond the Garden Path! *Fairy Folk and Their Dark Mischief! *Seriously Be Careful—Do Not Trust Those Fairies!

Download or read book Alligator Tales written by Kevin M. McCarthy and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 1998 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tall tales and historical stories of Florida's alligators

Download or read book Alligator Bayou written by Donna Jo Napoli and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable novel, based on a true story, about racism against Italian Americans in the South in 1899. Fourteen-year-old Calogero, his uncles, and his cousins are six Sicilians living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana, miles from any of their countrymen. They grow vegetables and sell them at their stand and in their grocery store. Some people welcome the immigrants; most do not. Calogero's family is caught in the middle of tensions between the black and white communities. As Calogero struggles to adapt to Tallulah, he is startled and thrilled by the danger of midnight gator hunts in the bayou and by his powerful feelings for Patricia, a sharp-witted, sweet-natured black girl. Meanwhile, every day, and every misunderstanding between the white community and the Sicilians, bring Calogero and his family closer to a terrifying, violent confrontation. In this affecting and unforgettable novel, Donna Jo Napoli's inspired research and spare, beautiful language take the classic immigrant story to new levels of emotion and searing truth. Alligator Bayou tells a story that all Americans should know.