Download or read book Money for Good written by Franklin White and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "West Owens needs money and has struggled his entire life to get it. When the oppotunity of a lifetime comes his way, he does not hesitate...despite the risks that put his life in danger. Soon he finds he has more money that he's ever seen -- and he'll do anything to keep it."--Publisher.

Download or read book 757 written by David Bashara Wyche and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialo and Pancho Mercias are brothers from Portsmouth, Virginia. Their father taught them the family businessdrug-dealingbut theyve taken it further than he ever imagined. The operation started small, just in their hometown, but soon it grew to include all the seven cities of the Tidewater area of Virginia. It became almost too much for them to handle. The boys do things they dont always like. For instance, they kill people in cold blood, all in the name of money. Dialo starts getting involved with some legit businesses in the hopes of someday leaving the drug trade behind. Meanwhile, his little brother looks forward to getting Dialo out of the way and maybe one day becoming a kingpin. Just as Dialo is ready to step aside, Pancho gets in big trouble with a rival drug-dealer, and things turn nasty. Blood covers the streets, and a full-blown war is underway. Dialo may have to give up on his dreams of being an honest businessman to save his brother. Old habits die hard as they enter the brawl, and someone may end up dead.

Download or read book As God Commands written by Niccolò Ammaniti and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of I’m Not Scared delivers “a black thriller with the momentum of an action-packed Hollywood movie” (The Times Literary Supplement). The winner of the prestigious Strega Prize, As God Commands is a dizzying and compulsively readable novel set in a moribund town in industrial Italy, where a father and son contend with a hostile world and their own inner demons. The economically depressed village of Varrano, where Cristiano Zena lives with his hard-drinking, out-of-work father, Rino, is a world away from the picturesque towns of travel-brochure Italy. When Rino and his rough-edged cronies Danilo and Quattro Formaggi come up with a plan to reverse all their fortunes, Cristiano wonders if maybe their lives are poised for deliverance after all. But the plan goes horribly awry. On a night of apocalyptic weather, each character will act in a way that will have irreversible consequences for themselves and others, and Cristiano will find his life changed forever, and not in the way he had hoped. Gritty and relentless, As God Commands moves at breakneck speed, blending brutal violence, dark humor, and surprising tenderness. With clear-eyed affection, Niccolò Ammaniti introduces a cast of unforgettable characters trapped at the crossroads of hope and despair. “It is impossible not to be gripped.” —Financial Times “Punk-rock desperadoes and a daft father-son tragicomedy team run riot through the mess and splendor of today’s Italy . . . Propulsive from the first page . . . Not at all pretty, but darkly, ferociously beautiful—a triumph for Europe’s hottest novelist.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Download or read book Voices of Color written by Woodie King and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of scenes and monologues by African American playwrights.

Download or read book How to Give a Damn Good Speech written by Philip R. Theibert and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 1998-07-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best advice, openings, stories, and facts for a standout speech—from a professional speechwriter for CEOs, political figures, and other top officials. Don’t let the mere thought of presenting a speech tie your stomach in knots and put you in state of sheer panic. Philip Theibert, author of Business Writing for Busy People, has written How to Give a Damn Good Speech to help you give any speech, sounding like a seasoned pro. He provides a blueprint for producing a professional, thought-provoking, friendly, and authoritative speech, even when you have very little time to prepare. How to Give a Damn Good Speech provides you with professional speech writers’ techniques to make each and every speech a powerful presentation. Theibert has done years of research and has read thousands of speeches in an effort to better illustrate his points and bring you the best examples possible. You can read the book in its entirety or, if you simply need a refresher, you can read the section that best suits your needs. This format allows you to focus on areas of your speech that most need help. Topics covered include: How to organize and write a speech 100 important things you need to know about giving an effective speech Interesting and entertaining stories to use in any speech Best quotations ever heard Historical anecdotes for each day of the year How to Give a Damn Good Speech, with its easy-to-read, accessible style, makes writing and giving speeches a breeze, and will prevent you from turning green the next time you’re asked to give a speech.

Download or read book The Art Of Seduction written by Robert Greene and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which sort of seducer could you be? Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? Or Saint? This book will show you which. Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer. Immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip. From the internationally bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The 33 Strategies Of War.

Download or read book The Crossroads written by Niccolò Ammaniti and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cristiano is thirteen. Home life is far from perfect. When his father and two friends come up with a plan to rob a bank, Cristiano sees the chance of a better life. As a tremendous storm brews that night, Cristiano will have to put childhood behind him once and for all, and the perfect crime will have shocking consequences.

Download or read book Choose Your Own Misadventure written by Thedrunken Valet and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opus of two perpetually stoned malcontents, Choose Your Own Misadventure: 309 allows the reader to choose their own path through a journey that traverses the hinterlands of a metropolis and the gritty, decaying urban husk that is Philadelph itself. The human-landscape has been shaped by the violent collision of base instincts and conditioned consumer responses. Consume and fornicate! Fornicate and consume! In a world that has been sucked dry, paved over, and strip mall acne'd, there ain't no wrong choices, 'cause there ain't no right choices! An absurdly funny, nihilistic stumble and fall, it is sure to delight and disgust, confuse and appall. Good lawd good lawd good lawd...

Download or read book My Besties 3 The Downfall written by Asia Hill and published by Good2go Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ja'ziya (JuJu) has blood on her hands. At least the law says so. After her best friend Tiki and Aunt Tae are "knocked off" police apprehend Ja'ziya for both murders. But her Eastside Crazy Crew cohorts Dirty E and ReRe know different. They suspect their sworn enemy Lil Man is behind the takedown of their associate. Lil Man wants to destroy the ECC and everyone connected to them. Even going so far as to employ the services of corrupt cops. Now with Ja'ziya's trial looming Lil Man's testimony could put her away for life. But not if Dirty E and ReRe find him first. Nor are they the only ones hunting for Lil Man. So is local gangster Young Meech. Who's seen those closest to him snuffed out at the hands of Lil Man. Meech wants to return the favor before he kills Lil Man, personally. But his vengeance is delayed when tragedy hits close to home, forcing Meech to choose between doing the right thing... and taking his pound of flesh. One thing however is certain, before all the players involved can move forward Lil Man... must die.

Download or read book Swimming Corpse written by Veronica Helen Hart and published by Champagne Book Group. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the pursuit of a handsome man who wants to marry her, Doll Reynolds is forever expecting her missing husband to return. She buys a house, so he will have a place to plant a garden. Except, the current homeowner balks at all attempts to remove her belongings which threatens Doll’s dream of having a place for her husband begin to fade. The Blenders, though still peeved at her plans to move away, come to her rescue when Doll is injured during a yard sale. As they try to help her with the recalcitrant previous homeowner, Doll and the Blenders discover a corpse in the swimming pool of her new house…the homeowner. Now Doll is the police’s primary suspect. Can Doll and her friends find the real killer before the killer finds Doll?

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 The 48 Laws of Power written by Robert Greene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.

Download or read book Flipped written by Wendelin Van Draanen and published by Ember. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic he-said-she-said romantic comedy! This updated anniversary edition offers story-behind-the-story revelations from author Wendelin Van Draanen. The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh. Juli says: “My Bryce. Still walking around with my first kiss.” He says: “It’s been six years of strategic avoidance and social discomfort.” But in the eighth grade everything gets turned upside down: just as Bryce is thinking that there’s maybe more to Juli than meets the eye, she’s thinking that he’s not quite all he seemed. This is a classic romantic comedy of errors told in alternating chapters by two fresh, funny voices. The updated anniversary edition contains 32 pages of extra backmatter: essays from Wendelin Van Draanen on her sources of inspiration, on the making of the movie of Flipped, on why she’ll never write a sequel, and a selection of the amazing fan mail she’s received. Awards and accolades for Flipped: SLJ Top 100 Children’s Novels of all time IRA-CBC Children’s Choice IRA Teacher’s Choice Honor winner, Judy Lopez Memorial Award/WNBA Winner of the California Young Reader Medal “We flipped over this fantastic book, its gutsy girl Juli and its wise, wonderful ending.” — The Chicago Tribune “Van Draanen has another winner in this eighth-grade ‘he-said, she-said’ romance. A fast, funny, egg-cellent winner.” — SLJ, Starred review “With a charismatic leading lady kids will flip over, a compelling dynamic between the two narrators and a resonant ending, this novel is a great deal larger than the sum of its parts.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred review

Download or read book Invincible 82 written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Face-to-face with Universa. She came from a distant planet, wielding unimaginable power, seeking to drain our planet dry of all energy. Invincible was able to stop her. But how long can she be contained... and what can be done with her?

Download or read book Songs Of The Dead written by Andy Rausch and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songs of the Dead is a collection of nineteen short stories with varying themes, ranging from creepy to the supernatural. In "The Dinner Guests," a man finds himself experiencing an unusual hunger. In "She Had a Good Heart," a young heart transplant survivor meets her donor's family for the first time. What could go wrong? In "Dobie's Last Ride," a man finds himself at odds with a seemingly harmless black Lab, who turns out to be a bit less harmless as he first thought. This book contains graphic sex and violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18. "Andy Rausch's tough, hard-hitting prose is married to thought-provoking concepts that make you question your own opinions, your own moral stance, and your own preconceptions of right and wrong." -John A. Russo, author of Night of the Living Dead "The classic horror short story not only lives and breathes. In the imaginative brain of Andy Rausch, it's totally reanimated." - Herschell Gordon Lewis, director of Blood Feast

Download or read book First Lady written by Mz. K. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NaKira Diamond a high school girl from the suburbs of Pittsburgh meets a Kingpin who changes her miss goody goody life around. She becomes the First Lady of the game and he and their team treats her as such. She experiences lavish trips, shopping, expensive cars, big partying and a lot of respect. Her Kingpin Kill teaches her how to get money. When things turn ugly and she has to do some time in jail. She now has to protect herself stand her ground and maintain being respected all while still running the game on the streets from behind bars.

Download or read book Dead Ascension written by Daniel Poirier and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominic Emerson heads out to work to find that the city around him has completely changed since the night before. A zombie apocalypse has overtaken the nation. In the course of one night, everything has changed for the worst. It is up to Dom and his three brothers to find their friends and family and bring them to safety. As they make their way through the city, zombies attack endlessly. The boys have armed themselves, and they are constantly on guard. One bite or scratch means game over. They have seen the tragic results. Unfortunately, the zombies are not their only concern. In a world run amok, humans have a way of going bad, too. The Emerson brothers are leaders for good. They seek to find safety for themselves and the people they love, but there are others with nothing but evil intent. Now, they must fight zombies and their fellow man as they struggle to stay alive and find a safe haven before they too become victims of the undead.