Download or read book Boobie Boy written by Thomas Barr Jr and published by VIP Ink Publishing Group, Incorporated / Printhouse Books. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miami Urban crime thriller from Cocaine Cowboy error.
Download or read book National Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tantalizing Tidbits for Teens 2 written by Ruth Cox E. Clark and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-08-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II has more engaging, motivating, and meaningful titles and activities to share with your students. Impact literacy in your school by inspiring even the most reluctant students to pick up books and read. This popular book includes curriculum-related activities for educators to pick up and use right away to meet national standards and raise students' test scores. Find age-appropriate titles on the American Library Association (ALA) and International Reading Association (IRA) recommended reading lists for your students.
Download or read book Street Dreams written by Al-Saadiq Banks and published by True 2 Life Publications. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 18 year old, Darryl Lowe is determined to make it out of the hood. A talented prize-fighter, he sees boxing as his way over the walls that separate the ghetto from the American Dream. Boxing is his future, but Darryl needs a means of survival for today. Until his boxing career takes off, Darryl follows his childhood friend into the street life. Unlike his friend, who sees the fame of the game as the epitome of success, Darryl has a different end game in mind. However, he becomes blinded by the illusion of the streets and reeled in by the allure of them, leading him to constantly chase the rush that comes with the lifestyle. To him, the spectators on the sidelines - some cheering for him, others booing against him - are all the same. All that matters to him is they’re screaming his name. The highs, the lows...the pain, the heartache, and the murder and treachery are all normalized until it becomes a distraction. Slowly, the goals Darryl once had, begin to fade away until they seem impossible to reach. When the fast life becomes too much, Darryl is forced to choose between the two loves of his life. Will he make the right decision, or will his Street Dreams turn into Nightmares.
Download or read book All In written by Ro Ro and published by Jaechanel Production LLC. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After six years in prison, Boobie, a Watts Native, returned home to the Imperial Courts Housing Projects. His life exemplified what the saying, "We All Taught To Survive” (Watts) truly meant. Boobie was ready to hit the streets with his Day 1 Lucky. By any means, they were gonna get the bag. Boobie had a main and side chick who held down their positions. Bre was his “Stunna,” the type of woman he needed. Nickie was his project vibe, the kind he wanted. Shit got real after only one lick. All bets were off, and gunplay was soon to sever family ties. Bridges burned, lines were crossed, secrets came out, and betrayal and envy were at the audacity. With everyone’s life on the line, it soon narrows down to who remains All In.
Download or read book Muck City written by Bryan Mealer and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a town deep in the Florida Everglades, where high school football is the only escape, a haunted quarterback, a returning hero, and a scholar struggle against terrible odds. The loamy black “muck” that surrounds Belle Glade, Florida once built an empire for Big Sugar and provided much of the nation's vegetables, often on the backs of roving, destitute migrants. Many of these were children who honed their skills along the field rows and started one of the most legendary football programs in America. Belle Glade’s high school team, the Glades Central Raiders, has sent an extraordinary number of players to the National Football League – 27 since 1985, with five of those drafted in the first round. The industry that gave rise to the town and its team also spawned the chronic poverty, teeming migrant ghettos, and violence that cripples futures before they can ever begin. Muck City tells the story of quarterback Mario Rowley, whose dream is to win a championship for his deceased parents and quiet the ghosts that haunt him; head coach Jessie Hester, the town’s first NFL star, who returns home to “win kids, not championships”; and Jonteria Willliams, who must build her dream of becoming a doctor in one of the poorest high schools in the nation. For boys like Mario, being a Raider is a one-shot window for escape and a college education. Without football, Jonteria and the rest must make it on brains and fortitude alone. For the coach, good intentions must battle a town’s obsession to win above all else. Beyond the Friday night lights, this book is an engrossing portrait of a community mired in a shameful past and uncertain future, but with the fierce will to survive, win, and escape to a better life.
Download or read book MY FATHER written by Bob Cole and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-02-12 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Cole, born in Norwich, Connecticut, grew up in nearby New London. He went south for fighter pilot training, stayed in Richmond, married, had two sons; divorced, then remarried, obtaining, in addition to a keeper wife, another son and a daughter. He has written most of his life, but, after a career in data processing, he has devoted most of his free time to writing. So far, he has written five novels and numerous short stories, but this is his first serious attempt at being published
Download or read book We Own This Game written by Robert Andrew Powell and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sports Illustrated Best Book of the Year: “Vivid portraits of the kids, parents and coaches of the Greater Miami Pop Warner league” (Linda Robertson, The Miami Herald). Although its participants are still in grade school, Pop Warner football is serious business in Miami, where local teams routinely advance to the national championships. Games draw thousands of fans; recruiters vie for nascent talent; drug dealers and rap stars bankroll teams; and the stakes are so high that games sometimes end in gunshots. In America’s poorest neighborhood, troubled parents dream of NFL stardom for children who long only for a week in Disney World at the Pop Warner Super Bowl. In 2001, journalist Robert Andrew Powell spent a year following two teams through roller-coaster seasons. The Liberty City Warriors, former national champs, will suffer the team’s first-ever losing season. The Palmetto Raiders, undefeated for two straight years, will be rewarded for good play with limo rides and steak dinners. But their flamboyant coach (the “Darth Vader of Pop Warner coaches”) will face defeat in a down-to-the-wire playoff game. We Own This Game is an inside-the-huddle look into a world of innocence and corruption, where every kickoff bares political, social, and racial implications; an unforgettable drama that shows us just what it is to win and to lose in America. “Powell elevates We Own This Game well above the average sports book to a significant sociological study.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book Demons in Our Mist written by JESSIE LUMPKIN and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All her life Louise wanted to be a high class model, but her dream would be just that if the abuse continued. For no reason at all her Stepfather would abuse her as if each day depended on it. The visible marks were there and because of them her career could not be. She was a slave to her own body ever since she sent her portfolio to the modeling agency weeks ago. If the call finally came what would they say when they saw the scars and contusions? Not to mention what would happen to her if her step father found out that she was accepted into the modeling school and given the chance to finally live her life?
Download or read book The Boys of Nepera Park written by Art Odell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With thirteen stories about boys being boys, Art Odell transports you to the 1940s and the wild escapades of teenage kids in a rural community of New York State in an era of unbridled, unabashed freedom and independence, when you slammed the screen door behind you on a summers morning and didnt slam it again till suppertime when forced to wash your face and hands you gulped down the meat and potatoes and let it fly again doing as you pleased from sunup till sundown; nobody bothering you and nobody knowing what you did, and when not even your worst enemy for the day would rat on you, and the only rules to go by were the ones you made up, and sometimes what youd been taught and mostly what you thought was right at the time, like blowing a trolley car off the track, rustling a circus horse and hiding it in a friends backyard, saving a family of muskrats from Booby the trapper, playing Ratgolf on the city dump, launching Boobys mothers cat in a borrowed circus balloon and watching it fly off to Connecticut. Truly safe from harm, the only real threat to your well-being was yourself, or awful bad luck, and the closest thing to a dangerous drug was a cigarette. It was a brief magical moment in time that only great prosperity and progress could eradicate.
Download or read book From Burma With Love written by Stephen W. Reiss and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 1644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, the Japanese blockaded all the harbors along the coast of China and Burma. To get supplies into central China, the Americans, British, and their allies built the Burma Road which became the Epic Story of the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater. It was 700 miles through jungles, over mountains, and crossing streams. Some 200,000 native laborers were involved. That was Irwin Reiss' job -- recruiting local tribesmen to move dirt and build bridges by hand and limited heavy help from Caterpillar tractors. Read these letters from the jungle and from the homefront and then ask yourself why is ongoing turmoil in other parts of the world.
Download or read book Gangster s Daughter written by Leo Sullivan and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 17 years old, young Kadisha Spencer has the world in the palm of her hands. She is young and beautiful, and lives a lavish life with a wonderful family, and an adorable boyfriend. She is destined for success. She graduated from high school ahead of her class, with Valedictorian honors. She has been accepted to a prestigious college, her dream is to became a doctor. All the while, she was raised in the preeminence of her legendary father, the infamous gangster, Ike "Monster" Spencer. Ike has been retired from the goon life for years, living the legitimate lifestyle as a dedicated father and businessman who has amassed millions. However, the streets are not ready for his retirement, it wants his timely demise, plus his riches. Suddenly, Kadisha's pristine sheltered world is shattered as devastation strikes. Her father is abducted and presumed dead. She, along with her beloved family members are brutalized in the most vicious way. Kadisha finds herself near death, barely clinging to life. That's when she makes one solemn promise to herself as well as the deceased members of her family. If she can pull through this, her attacker will have to pay with their lives. A gangster's daughter is born. This is a fast paced urban tale of murder, sex, drugs, and betrayal.
Download or read book Mad Craze Middle School the Case of the Crumpled Balls written by V. L. Nabors and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three days remain before 12 yr. old Cuban Linn's 2-week holiday break and he couldn't be more excited. First, he'll hang out at the mall with the most popular girl at his school and other friends. Then, he'll play in his school's division championship basketball game. Finally Cuban and his cousin/best friend Jaria will celebrate their 13th birthday with a huge party. Unfortunately, Cuban has unknowingly stumbled into the middle of a crime at his school. He is now the prime suspect and could lose everything, including his freedom. Join Cuban and Jaria as they set out to clear his name. Will they find the perpetrator in time? It's middle school fun, craziness, and suspense for readers 9 through 15 years of age.
Download or read book Friday Night Lights 25th Anniversary Edition written by H. G. Bissinger and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named Sports Illustrated's best football book of all time and a #1 NYT bestseller, this is the classic story of a high school football team whose win-loss record has a profound influence on the town around them. Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true. With frankness and compassion, Pulitzer Prize winner H. G. Bissinger unforgettably captures a season in the life of Odessa and shows how single-minded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires -- and sometimes shatters -- the teenagers who wear the Panthers' uniforms. The inspiration for the hit television program and film of the same name, this anniversary edition features a new afterword by the author.
Download or read book The Wrong Side of The Street The Intimate Story Of An African American Family s History Reaching Out To Heal And Bridge The Gaps From The Past For The Hopes Of The Future written by Jewel Creswell-Rollins and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wrong Side of the Street - written to Awaken A Silent Tradition Exemplifies the walk of each Black family through their accomplishments, pains, and wonders. The black family has experienced much since slavery; Here we see the struggles we overcame, the details of our survival, the warmth, the secrets, betrayals, business sense, fears, prayer life, discrimination, Miracles, and Yes, The Love. This book shows you different characters and how they dealt. Stories so Familiar it will feel like a soul’s reunion. What if we forgot from which we came? Would we fall back even further? Perhaps the higher forces have something better in mind. Here we will give you a foundation from the past, to help you become the new you. This adventurous true story is a mustread for any and every black family. As the timing of this book is perfect for such a time as this.
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