Download or read book Son of a Bitch Inspired by True Events written by B. Jason Sheffield and published by Completelynovel. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immaturity, simmering anger, and years of therapy - budding defense attorney, Benjamin Scales owes it all to his mother. She dragged him through hell while clawing her way to the top of the sexist, male-dominated legal profession, sacrificing everything to build a life for herself and her son - a bizarre and broken life, but a life. Under her ferocious veneer, Carter Scales is a shattered and lonely woman. They haven't spoken in years, but when she is caught in flagrante delicto with her star client, the leader of the notorious Salucci Crime Family, Carter turns to the one person she thinks should always have her back. But why should he help her? Jason B. Sheffield is a practicing criminal defense trial attorney based out of Atlanta, Georgia where he has defended clients in state and federal courtrooms across the country. Jason feels a great responsibility to anyone accused by the government of committing a crime and stands fearlessly to defend the rights of citizens against overreaching government officials. Jason also teaches at Emory University's College of Law as an adjunct professor and recently was invited by the US Embassy in the Republic of Georgia (formerly part of the Soviet Union) to teach jury trial techniques to criminal defense attorneys there now that their constitution had been amended to provide its citizens jury trials. Prior to becoming an attorney in 2005, Jason had been acting and writing in Atlanta for 7 years, while working as an emergency medical technician at Scottish Rite Children's Emergency Room. Jason's passion for law, teaching, and storytelling is second only to his love of his family.
Download or read book Sons of Mafia written by Ed Frederico and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sons of Mafia . . . WHAT A READ! I absolutely could not put this book down and even though the subject matter is dark and serious, Ed Frederico's flair for humor and sensuality makes this book unique and most definitely one of a kind. This book gets my A+ Rating. Richard Bell, Las Vegas, NV UNBELIEVABLE, this book comes to life and spins a web of not only Love and Intrigue, but also of Treachery and Deceit. The author writes with superior intellect and a keen understanding of the human condition. The book is bigger than life because "It is real life." John Arn, New Hampshire Wow! This is the first Novel I've ever read I could not put down. Rick Solitz Fresno, CA The Author, Ed Frederico, illustrates quite thoughtfully the predicament of birth: How Eddie D'Amico struggles to maintain his love and humanity. Because of the circumstance of birth, although born an innocent he is placed into a world of crime, treachery, and betrayal. This book takes off like a rocket with all its thrust and power. Sons of Mafia is such a Powerhouse! The book is impossible to put down, and this experience allows us to take an inside look into the strange world of Money, Greed, and Death. Jamal Argrow, Savannah, GA In Sons of Mafia, although there is explicit raw sex, the author has the unique ability to soften and add the human touch of passion with great Sensitivity, Care, and Good Taste. Come experience an unusual journey through the forbidden world of life inside the mafia where you will be allowed to travel first class. Ed Frederico gives the reader his inside view as never before experienced. Not only will you be able to see the inner workings of the families' business but also the inner workings of family life and how the dangerous decisions needed to be made affected everyone involved. Joel Jen Busch, Detroit, MI
Download or read book Falling Springs A novel based on a true story written by Marylee Jackson and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keely Marie McLaughlin felt there was a secret surrounding her birth. She was keeping a secret from her momma, and she'd told a whopper of a lie, too. She was also about to have the encounter of her lifetime. Keely's story unfolds in the summertime of 1929 in Southern Illinois, in the tiny rural town of Dupo. Her father works for the railroad, and her mother runs a small café and confectionary. Keely is the oldest child of four, all born into a loving, hardworking Irish family. The Great Depression is looming, which is guaranteed to make their lives worse, but they make the best of bad situations by calling on their love for one another, their faith, and their many skills to overcome what they'll need to survive. Although the family lives in poverty, they have a rich life knowing they are blessed no matter their hardships. Keely has also recently bloomed from a child mature beyond her years into a colorful young woman who unexpectedly meets a handsome, naïve boy from the city when he enters the café. The young man, William Benjamin O'Malley, finds sanctuary among the McLaughlins. Keely and Will cannot deny their immediate attraction to one another, which is obvious to all. Her father deems Keely and Will's young love forbidden. An act of Will's tenderness toward her family cements Keely's love for him, which also turns her father's fears and dislike for Will into admiration and acceptance. He ultimately approves of Keely's relationship with Will, especially since it was revealed that Will too, has a secret of his own, which will take him far away from Keely. Each time Will leaves Keely to travel home to St. Louis, he promises that he will come back to her. Keely in return, promises she'll wait for him without question. Full of love and coupled with unfulfilled desires as teenagers when they bid each other their final farewells; they vow to reunite one day. Years later, Will surprises Keely with a visit. The sparks continue to fly between them. Their ensuing love story will come at a huge price that neither of them could have ever imagined. Their adult love story continues in the upcoming sequel, Following Seas.
Download or read book Based on a True Story written by Hesh Kestin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trio of novellas set during post WWII period in varying international settings.
Download or read book I Know This Much Is True written by Wally Lamb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-03 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.
Download or read book Birthright The True Story that Inspired Kidnapped written by A. Roger Ekirch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing story that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Kidnapped. In 1728, in the wake of his father’s death, the twelve-year-old heir to five aristocratic titles and the scion of Ireland’s mighty house of Annesley was kidnapped by his uncle and shipped to America as an indentured servant. Only after twelve more years did “Jemmy” Annesley at last escape, returning to Ireland to bring his blood rival, the Earl of Anglesea, to justice in one of the most captivating trials of the century. Hundreds of years later, historian A. Roger Ekirch delves into the court transcripts and rarely seen legal depositions that chronicle Jemmy’s attempt to reclaim his birthright, in the process vividly evoking the volatile world of Georgian Ireland—complete with its violence, debauchery, ancient rituals, and tenacious loyalties.
Download or read book Awakened by Hate A story of police brutality inspired by true events written by Pam Macri and published by Real Life Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaged woman, fun-loving Grace, struggles between the familiarity of her hometown and the reality that her fiancé was pulled over by a local police officer and the events that unravel her life from this fateful night. You will learn how her fiancé was beaten by the police to the point where she hears him stop breathing from the police officer’s recording device. Follow Grace’s desperate pursuits of waking up in the peaceful place she loved for years, to a very different place than she could not accept or recognize. Grace's up-bringing constantly reminds her that what happened to her fiancé was just plain wrong, she seeks ways to right-the-wrong. During the ordeal, she is forced to confront the facades of officials she voted for, who to trust, who's really in-charge, what really happens in prisons as she sees first-hand and when to keep her mouth shut.
Download or read book The Office Girls written by Sylvester Stephens and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A topsy-turvy ride through corporate America, where the male is the minority and must face a comedic blend of sex discrimination and harassment that threatens his sanity. Michael Forrester, a floundering author, has been reduced to writing articles for a local newspaper under a pseudonym. When the newspaper runs an article he finds offensive to African American men, he writes a rebuttal, which offends so many women it gets him fired. Michael then sets out to write a book that proves corporate women are just as scandalous, competitive, and insensitive as their male counterparts. But when he manipulates events to get hired into an office that is staffed by all women, events quickly spiral out of control. As romances sprout like weeds and Michael finds himself fighting for the women he works alongside, rather than against them, the question is whether he will be able to focus on his work, keep his flings a secret, and achieve the success he has always dreamed of. In turns hilarious, sobering, and eye-opening, The Office Girls tells the story of every woman who works in the corporate world and the challenges they face on a daily basis. The misogyny, sexual harassment, and gender inequality faced by these characters will ring true for all women who have experienced corporate America.
Download or read book New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway written by Jackson J. Benson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1990-12-12 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This companion volume reflects current scholarship and draws together essays that were published during the past decade or written for this collection."--Back cover.
Download or read book True Story A Trilogy written by Dan O'Brien and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Story: A Trilogy gathers together three documentary plays by award-winning playwright and poet Dan O’Brien concerning trauma, both political and personal. The Body of an American speaks to a moment in history when a single, stark photograph—of a US Army Ranger dragged from the wreckage of a Blackhawk helicopter through the streets of Mogadishu—altered the course of global events. In a story that ranges from Rwanda to Afghanistan to the Canadian Arctic, O’Brien dramatizes the ethical and psychological haunting of journalist Paul Watson. In The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage the playwright applies journalistic principles to investigating the source of his childhood unhappiness, as he searches for the reason why his parents and siblings cut him off years ago. The more he learns about his family, the more mysterious the circumstances surrounding their estrangement become, until his sense of self is shaken by rumors regarding his true parentage. The trilogy concludes with New Life, a tragicomedy that finds Paul Watson in Syria and the playwright in treatment for cancer, while together they endeavor to sell a TV series about journalists in war zones. New Life explores the paradox of war as entertainment, and dares to dream of healing after catastrophe. These three gritty yet poetic plays stand as a testament to the value of witnessing, honoring, and perhaps transcending the struggles of living.
Download or read book Repicturing the Second World War written by Michael Paris and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Films and television dramas about the Second World War have always been popular. Written by acknowledged experts in the field, this collection offers challenging, sometimes controversial, insights into how the popular memory of the Second World War has been 're-pictured' since 1989, which marked the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the war.
Download or read book Legend of the Gatorman written by Christopher Molleda and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s, deep in Bexar County (pronounced Bear County), a man from a powerful family finds a way to make money on the other side of the law. Joe Black operates successfully as a bootlegger, and when prohibition ends, he establishes a dance hall. One thing different from other dance halls and bars is the fact that he has live alligators that he feeds as entertainment for his guests. Joe Black soon finds himself in a love triangle that ends in death for one of the lovers and near-death for the other. One of his workers discovers this dark secret, and Joe Black stops at nothing to stop her from exposing his evil deeds. Who lives and who dies as the plot unfolds in a twist of terrifying events? In the end, there are secrets that shed a sense of light in all the darkness. Light triumphs over evil and lives on forever due to the heroic deeds of one of the victims. This story is inspired by true events that unfolded over a period of fifty years.
Download or read book The Jew written by Dominik Poleski and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is based on real-life events that took place in the historically pivotal years 19671969 amid widespread students protests in Europe and America, the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union, the Vietnam War at its height, and sociopolitical turmoil in Poland, resulting in several thousand Jews fleeing the country. Its a deeply personal and harrowing survival story of a Jewish teenager, Alek, and his mother, Zofia Brodski, in a small, isolated, and backward community in a communist totalitarian state amid discrimination, prejudice, and rampant poverty. Peoples lives are at the mercy of communist bureaucrats, the state police, the pervading presence of the Catholic Church, and the insane Marxist-Leninist ideology when lies became the truth and the prevailing doctrine. It all culminates in an incredible and most unusual conclusion. For some inexplicable reason, the author happened to be in the right place at the right time when many of the events took place.
Download or read book Angels Don t Live in Hell written by Nadia and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nadia immigrated to the United States with her family as a little girl. Growing up poor, she found an unconventional way to make easy money and live a life she never imagined. With that financial freedom, she helped many of her family members, in more ways than one. Subsequently, she married a man and had two children. What she thought would be her seventh heaven, turned out to be a nightmare that would sink her into an abyss of despair. From the outside, her life seemed great, but behind closed doors, she experienced domestic abuse. Nadia finally mustered the courage to leave, but she never anticipated the hell divorcing an indomitable narcissist would be. In Angels Don’t Live in Hell, she tells the story of her journey—the good, the bad, and the ugly, and the lessons she learned the hard way. This memoir covers love and unfathomable suffering. It talks about the ever-so-judged world of stripping. It discusses physical, financial, and emotional abuse. Angels Don’t Live in Hell shares the sense of being deeply in love and living a lavish lifestyle of extreme wealth one minute, while being left without the bare necessities and despising her spouse the next. From love bombing to trauma bond issues, betrayals and lies, Nadia offers insight into experiencing narcissist abuse and the effects of divorce, court proceedings, arrests, and counter-parenting issues.
Download or read book The Magic Castle written by Carole Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-01-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother's harrowing true story of her adoptive son's multiple personalities -- and the triumph of healing.
Download or read book Never Say Uncle written by Cherie Lewis and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cherie Lewis has created a captivating read that is a page-turner and a book that will be hard to put down. Being as intensely private as she is talented, Cherie Lewis shares her inspiring story like no one else can, giving the reader the ride of a lifetime as she desperately searches for her life's purpose. This is a story told with bravery, insight, integrity, and the unwavering desire to survive. Never Say Uncle is a novel based on a true story of never giving up and never giving in and never surrendering to the enemy within. The author takes you to the dark side, revealing how the main character, a barefooted little girl in pigtails, escapes the wrath of childhood abuse, becoming a mighty warrior battling to keep control of her life after love, loss, and heartache. The author takes you on a journey from overcoming obstacles of being victimized to becoming a survivor from the enemy that had taken a solemn oath to keep her from harm's way. From the very beginning, the writer shares the tale of a family of tortured souls and the brave young girl who must fight against the disloyal protector and untrustworthy guardians of her childhood, only to escape into the arms of a self-proclaimed mountain man, falling into a world of bitterness, anger, and despair as she jumps out of the frying pan and into the fire. From the first page to the last, the author does not disappoint.
Download or read book His Miserable Baby Momma Based On A True Story written by Angel Williams and published by Star City Publications . This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love conquers all. Meet Alana. After ending her relationship with her child's father, she vowed never to be like certain women in her life who were nothing more than miserable and bitter baby mommas. Following the sudden death of her daughter's dad, Alana falls in love with the man of her dreams. The perfect lover and father figure for her daughter. A true blessing from heaven, Ivan was. He was a single father, and Alana was a single mother, the perfect duo. However, when Ivan got back in contact with his younger son, Kameron, there was hell to pay. Kameron and his mother, Tessa, were one of a kind, something that Alana had never experienced. From day one, Tessa threatened to make Alana's life hell, and she certainly tried. Tessa did everything from stalking and harassing Alana to encouraging Kameron to abuse Ivan and Alana's kids physically and mentally. Her ultimate goal was to cause chaos in their home, and she was willing to use her child as a pawn in her sick game. A person can only endure so much before they reach their breaking point. Do you think Alana can withstand this storm of hell, bitterness, and evil? His Miserable Baby Momma is based on a true story. Alana's harrowing tale serves as a reminder to be careful who you allow to enter your life and who you entertain. You may find yourself dancing with the devil and not even know it. This nightmare is more than a story; sadly, it's reality.
