Download or read book Warm Nights Deathless Days written by Sonny Liew and published by National Gallery Singapore. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warm Nights, Deathless Days: The Life of Georgette Chen is Eisner-nominated comic artist Sonny Liew’s response to the legacy of one of Singapore’s most prominent pioneer artists Georgette Chen (1906 – 1993). The result is a moving portrait of Chen’s life, thoughts, and dreams, a charming chronicle of her days as a precocious young painter to her winning of Singapore’s prestigious Cultural Medallion in 1982. Richly illustrated in a soft, milky palette, the comic captures the quiet space of art and friendship that Chen sheltered amid a turbulent backdrop of political turmoil and personal hardship. This book is the third title in the National Gallery’s Dreaming Art Series, presenting original illustrated stories by contemporary practitioners in the arts in response to key works in the National Collection.

Download or read book Sonny Days written by William B. McClaran and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This autobiography chronicles William B. McClaran's long and varied career in law enforcement. It is an honest and uncensored look at his early days as alter ego “Sonny Sonetti,” an undercover federal narcotics agent who inhabited the shadowy world of heroin addicts in Philadelphia and Detroit. McClaran moves from there to become the youngest chief of police in the history of three different cities in an era marked by race riots and Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, violent gang warfare, and the Vietnam antiwar protests. Dedication to the job results in painful sacrifices in his roles as husband and father to two young daughters. Throughout, McClaran holds fast to his belief that policing is a public service, and he remains a champion of the concept of community policing. Today, as a professor of criminal justice, he remains committed to a shift away from military-style training to a more progressive, humanistic approach.

Download or read book The First 100 Days of Love written by Sonny Rosati and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-14 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It began with a simple idea. Back when FaceBook was an innocent eye and a playful journey - throwing sheep at each other - friends just being friends. I was alone in a world that resented my every breath.. for gifts I didn't appreciate - dreams I didn't respect - & love I'd always take for granted. Alone with my thoughts.. hopes.. dreams.. inspirations.. magic - I believed that if you took one moment every day and just looked into the dark abyss of a perfect universe - and found one simple reason to love - then in return.. love would find you. So I created a FaceBook Page called 'I Love You Because', so people could post the reasons why they're in love - so that when you're alone in the world - we could all.. still celebrate the journey together. I believe in this.. not because it's a hope or dream or new age fancy.. or even a lonely wish - cast away on the other side of forever. But because it's true.So I kept the faith.. and I believed in the universe.. I believed in love - and I believed in me.I believe in karma.. destiny.. fate.. and love. They are all real to me. I believe we've always been connected.And I know - I left you in time.. and in time - you'll find me again.Then one day.. as many lifetimes collided in linear elegance.. she did find me.. again. And together.. it was another beautiful day.This book celebrates the first 100 days of my relationship with my super amazing wife.. soul mate & twin flame - SLC. I rewrote many of the original quotes and added both FaceBook posts and quotes from some of the people in our lives at the time. Not only because I wanted to answer her for all of the times she's asked me why I love her. Not because the universe holds secrets that can't be understood but only experienced. Not because we were created for each other.Simply Because.. I love you -S

Download or read book Sonny written by S. J. Peddie and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Couldn’t put it down.” —Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy (Goodfellas) and Casino The extraordinary life and times of a legendary crime boss who refused to squeal—but who finally agreed to talk to an award-winning New York Newsday reporter shortly before his death at age 103 . . . John “Sonny” Franzese reportedly committed his first murder at the age of fourteen. As a “made man” for the Colombo crime family, he operated out of his Long Island home specializing in racketeering, fraud, loansharking, and other illicit deeds he would deny to his dying day. His career in organized crime spanned over eight decades—and he was sentenced to fifty years in prison for robbery charges. But even behind bars, Sonny Franzese never stopped doing business . . . This is the true story of an old-school mafioso as it’s never been told before. Newsday reporter S. J. Peddie interviewed Franzese in prison—and uncovered a lifetime of shocking secrets from the legend himself: * Why FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a very personal interest in Sonny. * How Sonny managed to juggle numerous affairs with women, including a famous model. * How Sonny spent a third of his life in prison—and still managed to earn untold millions for the mob. * How Sonny accidentally revealed some of his worst crimes—to a “friend” wearing a wire. Through it all, Franzese refused to break the Mafia’s code of silence. Authorities believe he may have murdered, or ordered the murders of, forty to fifty people. Yet he earned a grudging respect from law enforcement and an absolute reverence from his fellow gangsters. Eventually he managed to outlive them all—until his death in 2020 of natural causes, a rare event in the Mafia. Thanks to a series of exclusive firsthand interviews, the astonishing life story of John “Sonny” Franzese can be told in all its bold, brutal, and blood-spattered glory. This is a must-read for anyone fascinated with Mafia history—and a rare look inside a criminal mind that has become the stuff of legend.

Download or read book The Sonny Baca Novels written by Rudolfo Anaya and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 1095 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four suspenseful southwestern mysteries featuring a Chicano PI in New Mexico, by the “extraordinary” author of Bless Me, Ultima (Los Angeles Times Book Review). These four novels starring detective Sonny Baca are set against the terrain of the American Southwest, blending its Spanish, Mexican, and Native American cultures. Zia Summer: Sonny Baca’s cousin Gloria is brutally slain, her body found drained of blood with a Zia sun sign—the symbol on the New Mexican flag—carved on her stomach. His quest to find her killer leads Baca across New Mexico’s diverse South Valley to an environmental compound and a terrifying brujo. Rio Grande Fall: A woman plummets to her death from a hot air balloon during Albuquerque’s famous Balloon Fiesta—and Baca recognizes it as no accident. Shaman Winter: Baca, confined to a wheelchair after a violent encounter, is haunted by chilling dreams, but has no choice but to go to work when the Santa Fe mayor’s teenage daughter disappears and the trail leads to a charismatic and dangerous shaman. Jemez Spring: A high-profile murder ignites a hotbed of political treachery and terrorist threats that take Baca to Los Alamos, pitting him against a formidable foe—and a nuclear bomb. Unrelentingly suspenseful, with vivid details of the physical and spiritual landscape of northern New Mexico, these mysteries are perfect for fans of Margaret Coel or James D. Doss and star “a fascinating hero” (Edmonton Journal).

Download or read book Sonny written by Danny Falcone and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when you mix a beautiful socialite and a mafia solider? Sonny is an insider's view of a mobster's world torn by different loyalties, competing priorities and above all, the need to stay alive. It's a fast-paced tale of romance, passion, violence, revenge and betrayal where paradoxically the Mafia underworld and the world of high society mix perfectly. With its roots in the New York Mafia, the story unfolds against the counterpoint of high society and wealth. The two worlds collide and lives change, some for better, some for worse. All scores are settled and the stage is set for the next battle as the book concludes with a happy ending, for most Sonny is the debut novel in a continuing series where Santino Caperelli (Sonny Cap) has one foot in the upper echelons of organized crime and the other foot out the door, running the streets and answering to no one. Sonny is capable, charming, and ruthless when he has to be. The story begins with a chance encounter in Central Park between Sonny and a little girl. Her socialite mother and psychopathic stockbroker boyfriend weave an unexpected and dangerous relationship into Sonny's life. A mob war, a high energy trial and the score of a lifetime pull him from the grim reaper's grasp and catapult him to the top of the world, Sonny's World Sonny is one of a series of four.

Download or read book The Devil and Sonny Liston written by Nick Tosches and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anti-Ali, Sonny Liston represents everything that is compelling and terrifying about boxing. An overwhelmingly powerful fighter, Liston rose from a desperately poor childhood to street criminal to world heavyweight champion. He then became the pawn of a series of criminal organizations and was shadowed throughout his life by government investigations, arrests, and the rumor of corruption. The Devil and Sonny Liston is not just the biography of a boxer; it is one of the greatest organized-crime stories ever told and confirms Toschess place as one of the most powerful and original writers of our time. Toschess acclaimed biography of Dean Martin, Dino, sold more than 110,000 copies From the rappers Wu-Tang Clan to writer Thom Jones, people are fascinated by Sonny Liston and by boxing in general. King of the World by David Remnick sold more than 100,000 copies. Tom Cruises Cruise/Wagner Productions is at work on a movie based on this book. A collection of Toschess best writing, The Nick Tosches Reader, is due out in 2000. Tosches is a contributing editor of Vanity Fair.

Download or read book Uncle Sonny s Settee written by James Trueman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in a series of children's stories to leave you spell bound! An ancient run down house, an old settee and an eccentric uncle... These elements lead Marissa, and her family in a series of roller-coaster adventures into the past to learn about the future and what is to come...Hold onto you seats for the ride of your life...!

Download or read book Sonny and the Heroic Deeds written by Jennifer Hashmi and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In “Further Adventures of Sonny, Gogo, and Tobo” the boys were older and growing in their understanding of the world, or that is to say, their two worlds, ours and the archipelago of islands in the sky where Gogo and Tobo lived. One day on a visit to our world Gogo had met Sonny and they had become fast friends. From then on Gogo would take Sonny back to his home nearly every weekend. In this third book the boys are older again. The twelfth birthday is a significant mile-stone in the Islands. Along with their regular schooling children must start to train for the work they will do as adults. Sonny receives a wholly unexpected offer. If he accepts he must face three tests of his aptitude for such a life. In “Sonny and the Heroic Deeds” we read about the challenges he and Gogo face together. They evaluate their sensitivity in handling a deeply emotional issue, their understanding of economic realities in the Islands, and look at a personal dilemma which can be resolved only by outside intervention. These tests reflect the realities faced by young people everywhere as they emerge from the protective chrysalis of childhood.

Download or read book The James Lovegrove Collection Volume 1 written by James Lovegrove and published by Solaris. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DAYS Nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award Days is a gigastore the size of a small city, whose security are licensed to kill and whose seven owners brood in the penthouse, far removed from the desperate scramble of consumerism. But at what price commerce? Security man Frank has lost his reflection, Books are entering a localised war with Computers, and there is a riot in Third World Instruments. Time for another flash sale... UNTIED KINGDOM Nominated for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award When the village of Downbourne is raided and schoolmaster Fen Morris’s wife Moira is snatched, there are no authorities to turn to. In the absence of its government – in exile in the Caribbean following the ‘Unlucky Gamble’ – and subject to random bombings and leaflet drops, the UK is lawless and falling apart. Their marriage was a disaster, but Fen sets out to recover her anyway; but does she even want rescuing?

Download or read book Sonny s World written by Danny Falcone and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sonny's World" is an epic tale of romance, passion, violence, revenge, betrayal, and, ultimately, healing. Each scene is an intense (but never gratuitous) glimpse into the human psyche. Its characters are believable and likable (if not always ethical). It is a wild ride on the rollercoaster of Fate, where what is "right" and what is "meant to be" are not always the same. Paradoxically the Mafia underworld and the world of high society mix perfectly. Danny Falcone has created a commercially appealing and always enthralling masterpiece.

Download or read book Sonny s Adventures written by Ivey Green and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a puppy dog named Sonny that lives in the South. Sonny lives on a lake. Sonny has a best friend named Little Duke. Little Duke lives in the North. Every summer, Little Duke comes to visit his grandma and grandpa and, of course, Sonny! Little Duke has another best friend. It is a catfish named Wally the Catfish. Sonny and Little Duke play in the lake every day with Wally. But this summer looks like it will be different if Sonny cannot find Wally. Sonny goes around to all the lake animals and asks if anyone has seen Wally. Little Duke will be here within an hour or so. And Wally just has to be here to greet Little Duke! Sonny has to find Wally no matter what it takes. Sonny has to ask someone whom Sonny is scared of for help. Read what Sonny will do to make his very best friend Little Duke's homecoming for the summer be just right

Download or read book The Sonny Chronicles Volume I written by Tobe Carberry and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: B.G.P., Tha' Berch', Weed Gardens..." All nicknames representing a neighborhood - Berchwin Gardens Projects! Berchwin was a Garden because of the talented budding youth housed in the neighborhood. Hundreds of bright young children ran in courtyards, on playgrounds and in hallways of a Garden. That Garden budded youth that blossomed into adults affected by the ills of the projects. Some say it is hard to have a Garden in the Projects because there is rarely even one rose that grows from concrete. There are a few success stories of those who escaped from B.G.P.'s, finding success and never returning, but those stories are not told for inspiration but rather disgust. One thing about those housed in this Project Garden, unity was essential. Poverty had a vise grip on those of Berchwin but close inter - family bonds gave Berchwin a sense of community pride. Even with the common ills of the projects; dysfunctional families, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, disease and poverty Tha' Berch was home to a special budding star. A star that was destined to represent the Garden... This young rose of "Weed Gardens" was destined because those before him of the same lineage and genes struggled. That struggle was passed down through painful family issues that created a youngster focused on not being like "them." Meet that youngster... Meet that star... Meet that rose amongst weeds.... See life through his eyes... Tobe Carberry and Samont Washington Present; The Sonny Chronicles, Volume One: First Things Learned Are Hardest to Forget.

Download or read book The Man Who Died Laughing written by David Handler and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down on his luck, a writer takes a ghostwriting job for a troubled comedian Stewart Hoag’s first novel made him the toast of New York. Everyone in Manhattan wanted to be his friend, and he traveled the cocktail circuit supported by Merilee, his wife, and Lulu, his basset hound. But when writer’s block sunk his second novel, his friends, money, and wife all disappeared. Only Lulu stuck by him. The only opportunity left is ghostwriting—an undignified profession that still beats dental school. His first client is Sonny Day, an aging comic who was the king of slapstick three decades ago. Since he and his partner had a falling out in the late 1950s, Day has grown embittered and poor, until the only thing left for him to do is write a memoir. Hoagy and Lulu fly to Hollywood expecting a few months of sunshine and easy living. Instead they find Day’s corpse, and a murder rap with Hoagy’s name on it.

Download or read book The Adventures of Sonny Brown written by Robert A. Thompson a.k.a The Boogie Mann and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his lawsuit money starts to get low, Sonny Brown finds out from the most unusual sources that the pimp life may have been just a natural call of the wild. The system hasn't been too kind to Angela "Angel" Cooper either, so she connects with Sonny on her eighteenth birthday since foster care is about to throw her to the wolves anyway. There are many obstacles, and they find themselves in more than a few perplexing predicaments where Sonny has to use his street hustler's instinct to dodge death. Every hood has their own struggles in the trenches, where survival is for those who know how to stack a dollar. Sonny Brown is mack royalty out here in Sactown Killer Cali, where counting coins and dead bodies are an everyday norm.

Download or read book Rescue Men written by Charles C. Kenney and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The men in Charles Kenney's family have been drawn to firefighting since his grandfather Charles "Pops" Kenney joined the Boston Fire Department in 1932. In his working class, Irish-Catholic neighborhood, there were other jobs that offered a decent wage, but none had the sense of belonging that comes with being a fireman, or the purity of purpose that comes with saving lives. Pops was on the scene of the notorious Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942; the author's father, "Sonny" served with distinction until an explosion blew him from a third-story window; and two of the author's brothers were "sparks" as children, amateur firefighters, whose career goals were thwarted by a court order integrating the Boston fire department and changing the rules for employment forever. One became a cop, the other a paramedic and rescue man with an elite squad sent to Ground Zero in the aftermath of the collapse of the World Trade Center. Spanning sixty years of firefighting history in America, Rescue Men captures what it's really like to be a fireman.

Download or read book Sonny the Immigrants Son written by Nickolas Bay and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Depression in the early thirties created hardships for most families in the United States, but none greater than those experienced by its new immigrants. Sonny, an immigrantsa son, is returning to the United States on the troopship General Richardson, which sailed from Le Harve, France, on October of 1946. Sonnyas memories of his childhood are triggered by the sight of the Statue of Liberty as he stands at the shipas rail with a colored sergeant who, unbelievably, lived in one of the neighborhoods where Sonny fought for his daily survival. They share war experiences and memories of the old neighborhood. Serious episodes including an encounter with a pedophile at the age of fivea]humorous ones like hiding under Old Glory from his mother, thinking he was being drowned in a baptismal tank, and why his father called him the horse manure king. Sonny left as a boy and returned from the service a man: Sergeant Nickolas Bay, a nineteen- year-old veteran of the Second World War.