Download or read book The Years of Smashing Bricks written by Richard Katrovas and published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Years of Smashing Bricks is about sex, drugs and karate in Coronado and San Diego, California, in the early '70s. It's a memoir in the form of interlocking stories, and reaches back into Richard Katrovas's odd childhood on the highways of America with criminal parents, and into his teens in Sasebo, Japan, with adoptive parents on a U.S. Navy base. Having earned a second-degree black belt in Sho-bu-kan Okinawa-te in the late '60s, at the height of the mystique of the black belt, Katrovas gave private karate lessons through his twenties in Coronado and San Diego; at the same time, he lived a bohemian life of sex, drugs, art and ideas. At the heart of this utterly unique, lyrical memoir is a young man's coming to terms with the cultural fictions of masculinity, and with his divided affections for a dying birth mother with whom he has lost contact, and an adoptive mother who is at once noble, deeply decent, and emotionally abusive.
Download or read book Applied Iron Palm written by Grandmaster Brian Gray and published by DEStech Publications, Inc. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 13Kings written by VS Nesby and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third book to the 13Kings series, Megan has come a long way to self-discovery. She has fought hard against those in power, and now she stands to face her most opulent opponent. In the midst of self-discovery, does she return to fight again, or does she leave the odds up to those she once adored?
Download or read book Iron Palm Fundamentals written by Grandmaster Brian Gray and published by DEStech Publications, Inc. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boys from the Blackstuff written by James Graham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gizza job. Go on, gizzit, go 'head, giz it if you've got it, giz it, I can do it. Giz it then. Go 'head, gizza job. 80s' Liverpool. Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie and Yosser are used to hard work and providing for their families. But there is no work and there is no money. What are they supposed to do? Work harder, work longer, buy cheaper, spend less? They just need a chance. Life is tough but the lads can play the game. Find the jobs, avoid the 'sniffers' and see if you can have a laugh along the way. 40 years after Alan Bleasdale's ground-breaking television series of the same name was essential viewing, this edition is published to coincide with the co-production between the Liverpool Royal Court and London's National Theatre, in April 2024.
Download or read book Halls of Shadow written by Daniel Arenson and published by Moonclipse. This book was released on with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world reels from a shocking assassination. The Aelarian Empire is cracking. From the ashes of a burnt world, warlords, barbarians, and rebels emerge to claim the remains. Outside the walls of Aelar, different factions converge. Tribal warriors prepare to shatter the gates. Valentina, a senator's daughter, seeks to enter the city and rebuild the Republic. Prince Seneca, the last scion of a mighty house, battles his rivals to the throne and strives to hold the Empire together. Meanwhile, within the walls, dark magic and conspiracies brew. In the distant desert, the kingdom of Zohar crumbles. The Empire musters to grind Zohar's cities into dust. Epher, King of Zohar, and his sister Maya, a powerful magic-user, fight desperately to defeat the Empire's legions. Yet their greatest enemy might be the mysterious, shadowy figure that roams their ancient land. In smoldering battlefields, crows feast and humans squabble for the last shreds of power. Yet can the splendor of past glory ever shine again, or will the final victors rule from halls of shadow?
Download or read book Crowns of Rust written by Daniel Arenson and published by Moonclipse. This book was released on with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The noble House of Sela is shattered. Its five children, once heirs to a bustling port, are scattered around the Encircled Sea. Their kingdom, the ancient land of Zohar, lies in ruin following a devastating invasion. As the dust settles, new fires kindle. In a shattering world, the pieces are up for grabs. Here fleets clash at sea, and desert warriors battle among dunes and ancient ruins; cloaked conspirators gather in shadowy alleyways, vowing to slay their emperor; and a girl seeks the magic of light beyond guardians of shadow. In a land of sand and splendor, glory will go to those with the sharpest steel and the hardest hearts. One war has ended. Now the world will burn. When the Encircled Sea storms, kingdoms are no sturdier than sandcastles. Rulers and rebels battle for golden thrones, but will they find only crowns of rust?
Download or read book Apex written by Ramez Naam and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Explosive Conclusion to Nexus and Crux Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award Global unrest spreads through the US, China, and beyond. Secrets and lies set off shockwaves of anger, rippling from mind to mind. Riot police battle neurally-linked protestors. Armies are mobilized. Political orders fall. Nexus-driven revolution is in here. Against this backdrop, a new breed of post-human children are growing into their powers. And a once-dead scientist, driven mad by her torture, is closing in on her plans to seize planet's electronic systems, and re-forge everything in her image. A new Apex species is here. The world will never be the same. File Under: Science Fiction [ Humanity 2.0 | Mind Matters | Hive | This Will Happen ]
Download or read book Behind Every Mean Girl There S a Tragedy written by Hermione Daguin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The average human being spends every second of his day fighting against the force of nature to see another day. But Im different. Im not afraid of outside forces to take my life away only myself. Approximatively 10 years ago, something happened to me. Something really bad. But Im not allowed to talk about it. As a way to release my frustration, I give hell to my body and everyone I come in contact with especially my parents. No one knows about what happened except the ones who did itand Him. But he didnt stay. Now, hes back and hes not talking either. I want to stop hurting, I need to stop. Make me stop.
Download or read book Behind the Bricks written by Karen J. Gatling and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the Bricks is a book written from the core of my heart. It is a book that portrays the physical, verbal and mental abuse I suffered through out my childhood at the hand of my mother. She ultimately blamed me for my father leaving her when she became pregnant. In this book I reveal ways in which I kept my focus as well as my sanity, through the gift of laughter. God sustained and preserved me while I endured pain and rejection. Behind the Bricks is a book that is intended to encourage, mend and heal those who have had like experiences to know that God can really restore, build and promote them to positively impact the lives of others through His genuine love.
Download or read book A Voice Undefeated written by Collin Raye and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Collin Raye's powerful, golden voice dazzled the country music scene in 1991 with his Number One hit single "Love, Me", country music listeners fell in love with one of the great voices of our time. A new star was rising, and Collin's success continued throughout the nineties with over eight million records sold. Raye's autobiography, A Voice Undefeated, gives readers a down-to-earth account of the author's personal and professional life. From his childhood in Arkansas and Texas through his days with the Wray Brothers Band in Oregon and Reno to his rise to international stardom, this book is both a journey to the top of the music world and an intimate diary of a soul that has suffered great professional and personal losses. Many who love Collin Raye, the successful country music artist, don't know much about Collin Raye, the man, and the many trials he has endured with faith and courage. Most recently his beloved nine-year-old granddaughter, Haley, died in 2010 from an undiagnosed neurological disease. Since Haley's death, Collin has become an advocate for the sick and disabled and has established the Haley Bell BlessŽd Chair Foundation to provide wheelchairs to families with special needs children. This is a remarkable, inspirational story told by the man who lived it. It is a story of faith, of struggle, of suffering, of profound love, and ultimately of triumph in the midst of tragedy. Includes 32 pages of color photos. Includes DVD of never-before-seen personal interview and three songs written by Collin, "Undefeated", "She's With Me", and "Give Me Jesus" that are intimate to his story. Ê
Download or read book 2054 written by Elliot Ackerman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive work of speculative fiction set twenty years further in the future, at a moment when a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence combines with America’s violent partisan divide to create an existential threat to the country, and the world It is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the United States and China that brought down the old American political order. A new party has emerged in the US, one that’s held power for over a decade. Efforts to cement its grip have resulted in mounting violent resistance. The American president has control of the media, but he is beginning to lose control of the streets. Many fear he’ll stop at nothing to remain in the White House. Suddenly, he collapses in the middle of an address to the nation. After an initial flurry of misinformation, the administration reluctantly announces his death. A cover-up ensues, conspiracy theories abound, and the country descends into a new type of civil war. A handful of elite actors from the worlds of computer science, intelligence, and business have a fairly good idea what happened. All signs point to a profound breakthrough in AI, of which the remote assassination of an American president is hardly the most game-changing ramification. The trail leads to an outpost in the Amazon rainforest, the last known whereabouts of the tech visionary who predicted this breakthrough. As some of the world’s great powers, old and new, state and nonstate alike, struggle to outmaneuver one another in this new Great Game of scientific discovery, the outcome becomes entangled with the fate of American democracy. Combining a deep understanding of AI, biotech, and the possibility of a coming Singularity, along with their signature geopolitical sophistication, Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis have once again written a visionary work. 2054 is a novel that reads like a thriller even as it demands that we consider the trajectory of our society and its potentially calamitous destination.
Download or read book The Poor Man s Guide to Europe written by David Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bricks Ta Da Woods written by David Coleman and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lamar found himself seeking revenge for his older brother, Lucky, who was killed in a drug deal gone bad. Hours before his nineteenth birthday, he received a surprise of a lifetime. Lamar and his crew (Tank, Mann, Quan and later joined by his cousin Blazz) pledged the "bricks ta'da wood" that no one will come between them and their rise to the top. But with the triple homicide that took place at a popular nightclub, Detectives Floyd and King are asking questions and the trailof dirt could be leading straight to their front door. Would the hood take them under or the greed and disloyalty? Ride with them az they play this game called the streets, only to find out, without trust, there could be no betrayal.
Download or read book P O W written by John G. Hubbell and published by Crowell. This book was released on 1976 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thorn of Lion City written by Lucy Lum and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Lum was the third of seven children, born in Singapore in 1933 into a Chinese immigrant family ruled with an iron hand by Popo, her fearsome and superstitious grandmother. Popo is a firm believer in the old ways, in stomach-churning herbalist remedies, in the dubious fortune-telling of mystics, and in mischievous little girls like Lucy knowing their place. She is forever dispensing her own wicked brand of justice, much to the despair of her adopted family. This is Singapore in the 1940s, a former British colony now living under the specter of the invading Japanese—the hungry worms crawling down from the north, as Lucy knows them—and fear floods the streets. Lucy's father, a kind-hearted and talented linguist, finds himself being used by the occupiers as a translator, and brings back terrifying stories of his merciless employers, which he confides to his daughter under the heavy teak table they use as a make-shift air raid shelter in the bedroom. With a fresh and powerful voice, The Thorn of Lion City breaks the long silence of the Singaporean Chinese. Heartbreaking and ultimately triumphant, it speaks of the softly-spoken, redemptive love between a father and daughter.
Download or read book It Happened on Negro Mountain written by Jeff Carroll and published by Black Bed Sheet Books. This book was released on 2014-07-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Abraham is a drug dealer being forced out of his empire in Baltimore, Maryland. Rather than submitting to the pressures of the younger dealers, he decides to destroy his empire and leave his neighborhood turf with his baby mother and seven year old daughter Destiny, leaving behind a gang war to take up residence in Negro Mountain, located along the Mason-Dixon line. Destiny, disturbed and frightened by her parents’ gang banging lifestyle, turns to the spirits of her departed grandmother and of Negro Mountain itself who speak to her through the dolls she plays with, and bestow upon her powers to manipulate nature through prayer. The saying is, Negro Mountain is a place where bad things happen to bad people. So when negative energy meets with the energy resting in Negro Mountain the outcome is always the same. The Mountain wins.
