Download or read book The Glory Garage written by Nadia Jamal and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalists Nadia Jamal and Taghred Chandab delve into the dilemmas young people face trying to be true to the values of their parents and also be true to themselves.
Download or read book The Glory Garage written by Nadia Jamal and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ;A collection of true stories that present a fascinating insight into a culture that remains mysterious to many non-Lebanese Muslims. Warm, provocative, funny and poignant, these tales of family and community life, contradictions and customs, are a vivid insight into an exotic and vibrant culture.;;
Download or read book Oh the Glory of It All written by Sean Wilsey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[An] irreverent and remarkably candid memoir about growing up in wealthy eighties San Francisco . . . rollicking, ruthless . . . ultimately generous-hearted.” —Vogue “A vivid mix of brio, self-awareness and sophistication . . . writing well is indeed the best revenge.” —The New York Times Book Review “A monumental piece of work.” —Kirkus Reviews “In the beginning we were happy. And we were always excessive. So in the beginning we were happy to excess.” With these opening lines Sean Wilsey takes us on an exhilarating tour of life in the strangest, wealthiest, and most grandiose of families. Sean's blond-bombshell mother (one of the thinly veiled characters in Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City) is a 1980s society-page staple, regularly entertaining Black Panthers and movie stars in her marble and glass penthouse, "eight hundred feet in the air above San Francisco; an apartment at the top of a building at the top of a hill: full of light, full of voices, full of windows full of water and bridges and hills." His enigmatic father uses a jet helicopter to drop Sean off at the video arcade and lectures his son on proper hygiene in public restrooms, "You should wash your hands first, before you use the urinal. Not after. Your penis isn't dirty. But your hands are." When Sean, "the kind of child who sings songs to sick flowers," turns nine years old, his father divorces his mother and marries her best friend. Sean's life blows apart. His mother first invites him to commit suicide with her, then has a "vision" of salvation that requires packing her Louis Vuitton luggage and traveling the globe, a retinue of multiracial children in tow. Her goal: peace on earth (and a Nobel Prize). Sean meets Indira Gandhi, Helmut Kohl, Menachem Begin, and the pope, hoping each one might come back to San Francisco and persuade his father to rejoin the family. Instead, Sean is pushed out of San Francisco and sent spiraling through five high schools, till he finally lands at an unorthodox reform school cum "therapeutic community," in Italy. With its multiplicity of settings and kaleidoscopic mix of preoccupations-sex, Russia, jet helicopters, seismic upheaval, boarding schools, Middle Earth, skinheads, home improvement, suicide, skateboarding, Sovietology, public transportation, massage, Christian fundamentalism, dogs, Texas, global thermonuclear war, truth, evil, masturbation, hope, Bethlehem, CT, eventual salvation (abridged list)—Oh the Glory of It All is memoir as bildungsroman as explosion.
Download or read book Glory Be written by Ron & Janet Benrey and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unexpected windfall had greedy church choir members seeing green, taking sides and preparing for battle. Their weapon of choice? Practical jokes. And Emma McCall wanted no part of it…until a VW Bug appeared on her bed-and-breakfast's porch. The combatants' pranks were escalating, and only innkeeper Emma seemed to be taking them seriously. But before the pretty amateur could dust for fingerprints, an unexpected ally appeared: Glory's deputy police chief, Rafe Neilson. So when the antics became no laughing matter, the courageous single dad couldn't let impetuous Emma fight the pranksters alone….
Download or read book Glory Days written by Jim Wangers and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Any car maker's greatest asset is their perceived image in the marketplace." Wangers knows what he is talking about, for he was part of the most successful brand marketing campaign to ever come out of Detroit. At a time when such automotive legends as "Bunkie" Knudsen, Pete Estes, and John DeLorean held sway in the Motor City, Jim Wangers created and defined the American musclecar image, devising savvy brand marketing strategies to promote the car that started it all and became a cultural icon: the Pontiac GTO.
Download or read book My Life in the Paradise Garage written by Mel Cheren and published by Publisher Distribution Company. This book was released on 2003-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hard cover best seller is now in paperback. As one of the innovators of the disco era and founders of Paradise Garage, Mel Cheren rekindles the dance till you drop days of the late 70s and pays somber respect for those who have since passed away. Disco, the dark, early days of AIDS, gay liberation, NYC and everything in between is in this book.
Download or read book The Bone House written by Brian Freeman and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilary and Mark Bradley are trapped in a web of suspicion. Last year, accusations of a torrid affair with a student cost Mark his teaching job and made the young couple into outcasts in their remote island town off the Lake Michigan coast. Now another teenage girl is found dead on a deserted beach. . . and once again, Mark faces a hostile town convinced of his guilt. Hilary Bradley is determined to prove that Mark is innocent, but she's on a lonely, dangerous quest. Even when she discovers that the murdered girl was witness to a horrific crime years earlier, the police are certain she's throwing up a smoke screen to protect her husband. Only a quirky detective named Cab Bolton seems willing to believe Hilary's story. Hilary and Cab soon find that people in this community are willing to kill to keep their secrets hidden—and to make sure Mark doesn't get away with murder. And with each shocking revelation, even Hilary begins to wonder whether her husband is truly innocent. Freeman's The Bone House, his first stand-alone thriller since his Stride novels, is a knockout.
Download or read book Grits and Glory written by Ron & Janet Benrey and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A killer tries to make the hurricane that blew through Glory, North Carolina, look like the bad guy. But Storm Channel cameraman Sean Miller knows the body buried under the rubble wasn't the victim of a fallen church steeple. Feisty secretary Ann Trask seems to be the only person who agrees with him. But the woman of Sean's dreams is busy being romanced by a phony celebrity weatherman, who cried on cue and hid during the fi rst strong gust of wind! Which means it's time for Sean to invite Ann for some serious off-the-air investigation….
Download or read book Power Without The Glory written by Carl Marks and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book speaks for itself but...it spans a period of time from the end of the Second World War to the early nineteen eighties and charts the reasons why the West and the East agreed to move from Cold War to Holy War.The story narrates the ordinary and extraordinary lives of the characters and, as only literary fiction can do and arguably should do, reveals the personal and sexual lives of these people. In life, what goes on behind closed doors or in private between people is known only to those involved: nonetheless, this story opens those doors. But dare you or should you look in?
Download or read book The Perfect Flower Girl written by Taghred Chandab and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amani is going to be a flower girl, leading the bride and groom, stepping exactly, one, two, three! She's counting the days, and there's so much to do: cooking with Tayta, visiting the dressmaker, dancing at the party with all the bride's friends. But when the wedding day comes, and all the guests are waiting, will Amani be the perfect flower girl?
Download or read book Garage Protective Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Cars I Loved and Lost written by John Reddie and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Reddie was just twelve years old when his mother bought him his first car. It was a 1935 Plymouth rumble-seat coupe and cost just $15. This was the beginning of his lifelong love of and fascination with vintage American cars. In this memoir, Reddie gives a glimpse of his life as he reflects on all of the cars hes owned and all of the cars he could have owned. From the misadventures to the successes, Cars I Loved and Lost narrates a trip down memory lanefrom the first car that actually ran to the first car he actually drove. With a few repair tips included, Reddies story recalls fond memories through the lens of the automobile. Apparently I am not alone in my fondness for these gems. People invest considerable time and money into these cars, and why? Well, maybe they share my appreciation for them, in other words; they too grew up with these automobiles. They remind us of a different time, back when we were younger and carefree, when our biggest worry was having enough gasoline to get around for a day or so, even though it cost twenty five cents a gallon.
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Download or read book ISS 2 Identity Education and Belonging written by Fethi Mansouri and published by Academic Monographs. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity, Education and Belonging examines the social and educational experiences of Arab and Muslim Australian youth against a wider political backdrop. Arab and Muslim Australian youth have long faced considerable social obstacles in their journey towards full integration, but as the discourse of insecurity surrounding these conflicts intensifies, so too do the difficulties they face in Australian society. Events such as the war in Iraq, Australia's presence in Afghanistan and perceptions of Iran as a nuclear threat—together with domestic events such as the Cronulla riots—place Arabs and Muslims at the centre of global instability and exacerbate feelings of tension and anxiety. At a time when fear and confusion permeate their experiences, Identity, Education and Belonging is an all-important study of the lives of Muslim and Arab youth in Australia.
Download or read book Headstrong Daughters written by Nadia Jamal and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would you feel, as a guest, about sitting in a suburban living room that is for women only? What if you wanted a baby but as a single woman could not have one outside of a marriage? Could you stay home to mourn a husband for four months and ten days? Headstrong Daughters takes us inside the lives of Muslim women in Australia today. They are working professionals, mothers, and students. At home they are finding ways to stay true to their faith as well as to themselves, navigating the expectations of their families and the traditions they brought with them to their new country.But things are not always what they seem. These candid, moving and sometimes surprising stories reveal a side to Australian life that is little known and often misunderstood. Inspiring, warm and determined, these women are the new face of Islam in Australia.'A thoughtful, honest, and compelling window into a community so often assumed about, but rarely engaged with. I finished it in a single sitting.'Susan Carland, author of Fighting Hislam'Jamal's neutral, yet gently perceptive style allows the stories of her women to shine through, illuminating the myriad points of intersection with Islam in ordinary life. An absolutely fascinating and illuminating read.'Annabel Crabb, ABC writer and broadcaster
Download or read book Wellness by Design written by Jamie Gold and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design your home to optimize your healthy lifestyle with this room-by-room guide from certified kitchen designer and wellness design consultant Jamie Gold. Residential designer Jamie Gold has spent years exploring how simple changes to things like lighting, fixtures, storage, and outdoor space can impact our health and wellness. In Wellness by Design, Gold offers a room-by-room guide to refreshing your space so that it supports your wellness journey. Good news, it doesn’t require a yoga room and can be done in small apartments as well as large houses. This book explains how simple changes can make a huge difference in how you feel every day. You’ll learn: - How to maximize accessibility and organization in your kitchen for faster, healthier, and more delicious meals. - How to make easy fixes to your ventilation system to help ease symptoms of asthma and allergies - How to optimize your home office to eliminate back, neck, and foot pain. - How to enhance your bathroom tub and shower spaces to support fitness goals and simplify family life. - And much more! It’s time for your home to work as hard as you do to support your health. With the right organization and interior design, your home can help you maintain and improve your health in a variety of ways, from improving health and preventing disease to encouraging clean eating, sustainable living, safety, fitness, serenity, and joy. Whether you’re building your dream home or decorating your new rental, this book will help you keep your fitness goals and stay on track for a long and healthy life.
