Download or read book Telling Sonny written by Elizabeth Gauffreau and published by Paul Stream Press, LLC. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully Written, Heartbreaking Portrayal of Innocence Lost and the Love of Family Telling Sonny is a coming-of-age novel set in the 1920s, when much of vaudeville had devolved into the Small Time. Not so for Faby Gauthier, a naïve girl from the small village of Enosburg Falls, Vermont. For Faby, the annual vaudeville show that comes to the village is worthy of the Great White Way itself. Pretty and vivacious, Faby catches the eye of Slim White, America's self-proclaimed Favorite Hoofer. She spends time with him during the week of the show's run in hopes of learning first-hand how it feels to perform on the vaudeville stage. On Slim White's last night in the village, seduction would appear inevitable, and Faby succumbs. Her desire to forget her lapse in judgment is not to be, however. In a misguided to attempt to do the right thing, Slim White marries Faby on a whim and takes her with him on the vaudeville circuit. Little does she know that in a few short months, she will learn the true meaning of Small Time, setting her life on a path she never imagined.
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 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 Mailman Sonny written by Sonny Workman and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonny Workman, former factory worker now city mail carrier for Fremont, Ohio the 43420 zip code. Sonny is a US patent holder of the world's first hand held Runner's Calculator. Sonny is married to Denise. With 3 daughters and 3 grandchildren. Jaden, Avery and Emma. With negativity in almost every facet of our lives, Sonny strives to always find some goodness on every street at every house. Daily life as a city mail carrier can offer many opportunities that showcase such goodness. Please enjoy the first book of many planned that will highlight goodness with true everyday events as Mailman Sonny. Mailman Sonny series is dedicated to my many wonderful customers I have met on my mail routes in Fremont, Ohio. Every day is better serving the great people in the 43420 zip code. Many thanks to my wife Dee for her continued support along the way and to daughters Chelsea, Courtney and Summer for their input and suggestions. God bless you always. Sonny Workman
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 James Baldwin s Sonny s Blues written by Tom Jenks and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close reading of James Baldwin's short story "Sonny's Blues" that provides insight into his life and ideas about art. Tom Jenks's reading of James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" follows a scene-by-scene, sometimes line-by-line, discussion of the pattern by which Baldwin indelibly writes "Sonny's Blues" into the consciousness of readers. It provides ongoing observations of the aesthetics underlying the particulars of the story, with references to Edward P. Jones (whose magnificent story "All Aunt Hagar's Children" bears a knowing relationship to "Sonny's Blues,") to Charlie Parker's music, and to Billie Holiday's "Am I Blue?" and John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" as part of the musical progression Baldwin creates, and with attention to Baldwin's oratorical gifts and the biblical references in the story, to its time structure, characterizations, dramatic action, and, most of all, its totality of effect. Drawing on Baldwin's book-length essay The Fire Next Time, which Baldwin published six years after the publication of the short story, Tom Jenks offers insight on some of the sources in Baldwin's life for "Sonny's Blues" and on the logic and passion by which life may be meaningfully transformed into art.
Download or read book Beaming Sonny Home written by Cathie Pelletier and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The sharp-tongued Mattie...is one of Pelletier's most sublime creations."—Booklist Fortune hasn't been kind to 66-year-old Mattie Gifford. Her mother committed suicide, her husband slept with her best friend, and she can't stand her three selfish daughters. But she does love her son, Sonny, who nevertheless plunges her into deep despair when he takes two women and a poodle hostage in his ex-wife's trailer. Sonny claims to have seen John Lennon's face in an apparition and gets his own mug on the television news. Beaming Sonny Home is a poignant tale of disappointment and a mother's love that stands as a testament to Pelletier's gift for storytelling.
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 Subfertile written by Tom Mardirosian and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: There is no room for delicacy or modesty when Tom, on the brink of his fortieth birthday, learns that he and his wife's childless condition is a result of his low sperm count. Determined to have a child, and haunted by the dinosaurs he v
Download or read book Threat to National Security written by Harry Liller and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marines are looking for a few good men to betray, abuse, and kill! Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, as national security advisor, unleashes a living hell upon marine Sergeant Harry Liller.FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover personally relished committing horrible criminal acts against Liller and his mother when he was a child. The FBI continually commits felony criminal acts against Liller for the past sixty years!New York Mafia boss of bosses Carlo Gambino and Pittsburgh Mafia gambling boss Tony Grosso are Liller's loyal friends, while New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello loves Liller's father.Liller has the same problem gangster legend Benjamin Siegel had, falling in love with a beautiful woman. Tina is a wild, free-spirited, beautiful Cherokee who traps his heart.When Karen, a beautiful African American woman, meets Liller, sparks fly between them, enough to make Navy sailors commit arson and destroy a six-story Marine supply building to avenge Karen's broken heart.Meanwhile, President George H. W. Bush orders the CIA to classify Sergeant Harry Liller as a presidential assassin!This is the true story of Marine Sergeant Harry Liller. Semper lie!
Download or read book Donnie Brasco written by Joseph D. Pistone and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posing as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco," FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone carried out the most audacious sting operation ever, working undercover for six years to infiltrate the flamboyant community of mafia soldiers, "connected guys," captains and godfathers. Now his unforgettable eyewitness account brings to pulsating life the entire world of wiseguys—their code of honor and their treachery, their wives, girlfriends and whores, their lavish spending and dirty dealings. With the drama and suspense of a high-tension thriller, Joseph Pistone reveals every incredible aspect of the jealously guarded world he penetrated...and draws a chilling picture of what the mafia is, does, and means in America today.
Download or read book GIDEON S VICTORY OVER THE MAFIA written by STEVE ANTHONY SR. and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the memoirs turned telling testimony of how God, the ultimate artist, orchestrated one sinner's life taking him from a troubled childhood to great success; bringing him to a breaking point only to provide a dynamic rescue. From boyhood fist fights in South Carolina to dancing his way into a young woman's heart, Steve Anthony found himself in dealings with the Italian mafia where he fought for life and livelihood. While searching for fortune he found himself desperate for the true giver of life who set him free from a torrid past and offered hope and restoration for him and his family.
Download or read book Sunny s Story written by Ginger Katz and published by . This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunnys Story brings to light one of the most critical issues facing children, parents and educators today. Parents are challenged with discussing the dangers of alcohol and other drugs with their children. Having the courage to face hard issues is the first step in keeping children safe. Through the voice of the family dog, and in a tender and thoughtful way, Sunnys Story is an effective tool to approach this topic. This story opens a dialogue between parents and their children. It teaches parents about what children are exposed to everyday. Children will obtain a clear understanding of how their choices affect their life and the lives of those close to them.
Download or read book SWITCH written by Ginny Kinzer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete control of a world power by another, a rapidly decaying world power, is just a crazy thought! But, is it. SWITCH follows a young man of eighteen through thirty five years of life from student to President of the United States. The money, the people and the evilness of these years is dealt with until what emerges is victory . But, who won and who lost?
Download or read book A Most Determined Lunatic written by Steven R. Garman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonny Graham is a hotshot businessman on his way up the corporate ladder. He has a beautiful wife, two terrific children, a big house and a booming career. On the surface everything is perfect in his upscale life. But danger is lurking nearby as someone from Sonny's past is stalking his family with the intent of settling old scores. In an instant Sonny's world is turned upside down and his family is in great peril, fleeing for their lives. The situation intensifies as the lunatic gets bolder and grows closer. It is just a matter of time before there is a confrontation and everyone knows that the outcome could be very ugly.
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 865 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 Corruption in Professional Boxing written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
