Download or read book The Baddest Cat written by Hudson Halfpersian and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They're cute, clever, and a powerful Meowfia gang who rule their turf completely! Whether dealing with a disrespectful bear, stealing a car and driving into the city for a shoplifting expedition at a seafood store, taking down a tornado, or abusing the town police dog, Hudson and his crew are a feline force to reckon with! Follow a tumultuous year in their lives, and you'll find yourself wondering, What do our pets really do when we're aren't around?
Download or read book A Nation of Lords written by David Dawley and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1992-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instructive and relevant look at an explosive period in urban history! This savagely moving autobiography of a violent street gang covers its heyday in the 1960s when it had perhaps ten thousand members in at least twenty-six branches on Chicago’s West Side. It is the story of a street gang that became a community organization, supported by private foundations and corporations and dedicated to social, economic, and political development. The gang’s violent neighborhood was transformed into Head Start’s most improved block where the crime rate decreased as did the number of gang-related killings.
Download or read book Benson written by George Benson and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much-awaited story of celebrated singer, songwriter, composer, and guitarist George Benson, with a foreword by Bill Cosby.
Download or read book Inside the Music the Life of Idris Muhammad written by Idris Muhammad and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the product of extensive taperecorded interviews conducted by Britt Alexander. Mr. Alexander met Idris Muhammad at Joe Segals Jazz Showcase in Chicago, IL, in the Fall of 1998, when he was writing free-lance for drum magazine publications. Mr. Muhammad then resided in Austria. Upon publication of the initial interview, both Muhammad and Alexander were living in New York City. The interviews continued. The result has been formatted into this book. Mr. Muhammad is now retired and living in New Orleans, LA. Mr. Alexander is a professional drummer, living in Santa Fe, NM.
Download or read book Important Not Very and Who Really Cares written by D. Wright R. D. Wright and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughing at childhood memories Country boy takes a mail order brain surgery course Laughing at family happenings Interviews with Genghis Khan and George Washington The courtship and married life of the cave family the Uggs And other comic relief You never know what is going to pop up in your everyday life, but R. D. Wright has found a way to handle it with wit and humor. Follow him as he hits garage sales on the weekend or tries desperately to find his mother's telephone number, "It's in the book, Ron." "No it's not, I looked." Sound familiar? Important, Not Very, & Who Really Cares? will resonate with anyone who has searched high and low for something only to discover that it is right in front of them or worse, nowhere to be found. His pieces are witty, charming, and we can see a little bit of our own lives in each of them.
Download or read book Planet Cat written by Sandra Choron and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents more than four hundred lists on various information on cats, including cat breeds, training, and behavior, as well as such topics as famous cats in history, cat food recipes, and gifts for pampered cats.
Download or read book Peace Kills written by P. J. O'Rourke and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times-bestselling author who “never fails to find the absurd” addresses everything from airport security to the Iraq War (The New York Times Book Review). To unravel the mysteries of war, P.J. O’Rourke first visits Kosovo. (“Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months later and bomb the country next to where it's happening.”) He travels to Israel at the outbreak of the intifada. He flies to Egypt in the wake of the 9/11 terrorists' attacks. and contemplates bygone lunacies. (“Why are the people in the Middle East so crazy? Here, at the pyramids, was an answer from the earliest days of civilization: People have always been crazy.”) He covers the demonstrations and the denunciations of war. Finally he arrives in Baghdad with the U.S. Army, and enters one of Saddam's palaces. (“If a reason for invading Iraq was needed, felony interior decorating would have sufficed.”) With this collection, P.J. O’Rourke once again demonstrates that he is “an acerbic master of gonzo journalism and one of America’s most hilarious and provocative writers” (Time).
Download or read book The Spook who Sat by the Door written by Sam Greenlee and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the "spook who sat by the door," is enlisted in the CIA's elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Chicago blacks as "Freedom Fighters" in this explosive, award-winning novel. As a story of one man's reaction to ruling-class hypocrisy, the book is autobiographical and personal. As a tale of a man's reaction to oppression, it is universal.
Download or read book Thrown Under the Omnibus written by P. J. O'Rourke and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 1153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential collection of career-spanning writings by the political satirist and #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Parliament of Whores. From his early pieces for the National Lampoon, through his classic reporting as Rolling Stone’s International Affairs editor in the 1980s and 1990s, and his brilliant, inimitable political journalism and analysis, P. J. O’Rourke has been entertaining and provoking readers with high octane prose, a gonzo Republican attitude, and a rare ability to make you laugh out loud. Christopher Buckley once described his work as “S. J. Perelman on acid.” Thrown Under the Omnibus brings together his funniest, most outrageous, most controversial, and most loved pieces in the definitive O’Rourke reader. Handpicked and introduced by the humorist himself, Thrown Under the Omnibus is the essential O’Rourke anthology. “The funniest writer in America.” —The Wall Street Journal
Download or read book Perspectives on Black America written by Russell Endo and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Drummers R B Funk Soul written by Jim Payne and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 248 page book is an exciting documentation of the innovative period of the '60s and '70s when the rhythm of popular music was changed forever. Featured here are biographies, interviews, discographies and rare archival photos of more than 20 great drummers of R&B, funk and soul, including the drummers of James Brown, Earth, Wind and Fire, Otis Redding and Sly and the Family Stone. the true originators of the modern hip-hop beats tell their stories, and the history of the funk comes to life. Appropriate for music fans of all kinds, and all drummers: beginners thru advanced.
Download or read book Be Fruitful and Multi Lie written by Robert E. Wilson, III and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pulpit to the door, from the ceiling to the floor, from the outer court to the inner court, into the unholy of unholies the veil of secrecy and the cloud of darkness are being lifted. Rev. Charles leads a prestigious Brooklyn, New York, congregation, all the while hiding a very deep, dark, potentially devastating secret that has caused him to Be Fruitful and Multi-lie... Follow a church and family dealing with the repercussions of an affair and illegitimate child in this fictional tale that affects churches across the world. The illuminating light of truth and the excruciating pain of exposure will hurt for a season, but in the end it brings about much needed change, healing and forgiveness, release and restoration.
Download or read book Dervish Dust written by Robyn L. Coburn and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dervish Dust is the first biography of Academy Award–winning Hollywood actor James Coburn.
Download or read book Motown Girl Sister Golden Hair written by Johnnie Sue Bridges and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnnie Sue Bridges incredible life story began with the release of her first book, the highly acclaimed Shadows And Scars, a beautiful story that captures the essence of living in the mountains of Middlesboro, Kentucky, with vivid imagery, comical moments and raw emotion. In one cold blue night, she writes of an already painful world turning into nothing short of a nightmare. Bitter coldness and survival starts the reader on a journey that portrays a young mothers fight against poverty, loneliness, and alcoholism, concluding in the riot-torn and racially divided city of Detroit. Shadows And Scars reveals a birds-eye view of the child that struggled to maintain stability in her hauntingly unstable world. Readers will gain the knowledge of endurance within themselves, despite adversity. Book # 2 Motown Girl Sister Golden Hair chronicles her roller coaster ride through the early 70s growing up in the inner city of Detroits Westside. Hitting the teen years during the underground time of extreme change, uprisings, experimenting with everything under the sun, came at a very high pricerobbery of her self worth and most importantly, the stolen innocence of the ones she dearly loved. Highly educated in cultured urban habit, she was forevermore restless and ran incessantly. And by the grace of God, she eventually changed and escaped. However, some of those she held closest to her heart paid the piper with their lives. In her own words, No one told us that stuff would kill ya. Book # 3 of the series Run BabyGirl Run Just Published! The year was 1973. A fourteen-year-old girl hitchhiked across the country to the Pacific Coast, then back to the Atlantic Ocean. Her mother died when she was only eleven years old and never knowing a father, there had to be a way of validating her very existence and to discover why she was on this planet. The answers were all around her; however, she would not be able to recognize them until years later. Meeting with many life-threatening situations, its a thousand wonders she is still alive to tell her story. Run BabyGirl Run is written with gutwrenching honesty and allows the reader to see into the very depths of this beautiful young girls soul. Editor: Jackie Hurst www.johnniesuebridges.com
Download or read book Crazy Is Forever Following Me written by Cathy Ivery Parham and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crazy Is Forever Following Me is the true story of one woman who picked up and moved her life (literally) to the other side of the world for four years. Some of her life and the adventures she encountered are shared in her first published book. Her description of life in Abu Dhabi is sometime funny and other times mind-blowing.
Download or read book Signature written by Ron Sanders and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signature is a futuristic sci-fi adventure recounting the political upheaval, social collapse, and revisionist reconstruction of 22nd Century Western civilization, as witnessed by a group of doomed intellectuals through a series of decoded holographic events. There's a price to knowing too much. What these men learn will impel them through a plague-ridden hell of madness, barbarism, and duplicity, in a world that may or may not be a multi-layered illusion.
Download or read book Leave Your Mark written by Les Moore and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leave Your Mark is a personal memoir of Les Moore’s life. It chronicles his diverse and intriguing journey from growing up in Michigan and unknowingly meeting Henry Ford, to enlisting in the navy; from meeting the woman of his dreams, to selflessly putting his family first and providing for them. Moore documents life as he moved across the United States to end up in California in the 1960s, to where he is today, father and grandfather in Michigan. It’s a journey of the human spirit. Whatever challenges life tossed Moore’s way, he met and encountered them. He worked hard to be the best he could be: not only for himself, but for those he loved along the way.
