Download or read book Trying to Make It written by Rajeev V. Gundur and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to Make It is R. V. Gundur's journey from the US-Mexico border to America's heartland, from America's prisons to its streets, in search of the true story of the drug trade and the people who participate in it. The book begins in the Paso del Norte area, encompassing the sister cities of Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, which has been in the public eye as calls for securing the border persist. From there, it moves on to Phoenix, which was infamously associated with the drug trade through a series of kidnappings. Finally, the book goes on to Chicago, which has been a lightning rod of criticism for its gangs and violence. Gundur highlights the similarities and differences that exist in the American drug trade within the three sites and how they relate to current drug trade narratives in the US. At each stop, the reader is transported to the city's historical and contemporary contexts of the drug trade and introduced to the individuals who have lived them. Drug retailers, street and prison gang members, wholesalers, and the law enforcement personnel who try to stop them offer readers a comprehensive look at how various illicit enterprises work together to supply the drugs that American users demand. Most importantly, through a combination of macro- and microlevel vantage points, and comparative analysis of three key sites in illicit drug operations, the stories in Trying to Make It remind us that the people involved in the drug trade, for the most part, do not deserve vilification. Far from being a seemingly uniform, widespread threat or an unlimited array of bogeymen and women, they are ordinary people, living ordinary lives, just trying to make it.

Download or read book Grandpa Is a Giggle written by Ted Borgeas and published by Ted Borgeas. This book was released on 2005 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted Borgeas, transcended from a Foot Surgeon-Podiatrist to TV & Radio Producer-Director, To Author (Ted has been a member of AFTRA for over 20 years. (American Federation of Radio & Television Artists)His current popular TV productions Grandpa is a Giggle and Living In An AttitudeIts Magic! With Ted Borgeas are viewed weekly on Time-Warner and Cox Television, public access. As his continuous radio-talk show was for 15 years.This 75 year old dynamo whom nobody would hire, with a history of cancer, Built his own Empire. These are fun bedtime stories from his TV productions and grandchildren to grown up kids. Call Ted for details.Email: [email protected] Website: www.atborgeas.comPhone: 619-235-9393, Pager: 800-494-5341, Direct: 619-227-9393PO Box, 3022, La Jolla, CA 92038-3022Copyright © 2004 Ted Borgeas. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book What s Wrong I Don t Know written by Kelleen Dawson and published by Authors Book Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-14 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 30 years, friends, strangers and doctors urged me to share my firsthand account of mental illness. They believed in my ability to use simple words to help many people understand and empathize with those afflicted with this devastating illness. Through sharing and listening to others, I now know that mental illness has no boundaries. In my book, I give glimpses into what it's like to live with mental illness. By the end of my journey, I found my way out with hope and a calm mind. Volunteer and reach out to someone you know who is suffering, visit them and remind them they are not forgotten. When supporting someone with any illness, small actions can have a powerful effect.

Download or read book Supermodel You written by Sarah DeAnna and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the healthy habits that supermodels adopt to help them feel beautiful, assured, and empowered, covering such topics as diet, dress, exercise, sleep, personal appearance, and travel.

Download or read book Death Is Only the Beginning written by Brandon Notch and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Is Only The Beginning This is a story of a man who has mastered the ability of artistic expression through extrasensory, clairvoyance, and occult powers; while conflicted within his own thoughts, reflects upon his dark past. Living life the hard way, broke and homeless, one will do just about anything. Bringing illumination to the dark side of things like the alchemist that have come before his time, working with magic and unknown forces he mistakenly sparks a transformation becoming, “The Tattooist” and blurring the line between worlds. He sells his soul to the devil and walks that common path as his demons come out to play dancing under the moonlight. Fighting to survive amongst stone cold killers while hoping to see a glimmer of light penetrate to the depths of hell. The big end becomes the new beginning as this mad man tattoos a spectrum of color into your subconscious, a place where only black once resided. Come along on this journey as we search for enlightenment, and seek the true meaning of life while riding in a car full of murderers.

Download or read book They Called Me Starchild written by Rena Huisman and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who am I? Why am I here? What is my lifes purpose? These seem like reasonable questions that should automatically come with answers at the time of our birth, but they dont. Instead, we spend our lives trying to figure them out through trial and error or what Rena calls enlightenment through life experience. Encouraged to share her experience by her guides, she reveals how easy it is to ask for help and ignore the answers. To allow internal fears and preconceived ideas blind us from our true calling. But most importantly, she shows us how patient the universe is knowing that we are energetic beings living a physical life who need their help. Through her book, Rena shares her sacred journey to finding her lifes purposea journey that began with hearing the name Starchild. When we are ready, we will hear, see, feel, and know the answers to our questions and have the undeniable knowledge of who we are, and why we are here (Rena Huisman). Rena is the author of The Would-Be Medium: My Ten-Year Journey as a Workshop Junkie. She lives in Fairfax, Virginia, with her husband (Kurt), son (Travis) and little furry one, Stitch. Her daughter, Sydney, is a proud member of the US Navy. www.RenaHuisman.com

Download or read book Going Back to Bisbee written by Richard Shelton and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1992-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author shares his fascination with a distinctive corner of the country--Bisbee, Arizona--with a narrative that reflects the history of the area, the beauty of the landscape, and his own life

Download or read book The Gospel According to Billy the Kid written by Dennis McCarthy and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many good stories of the old West, this one begins in a saloon. In 1914 in El Paso, Texas, two strangers strike up a conversation at the bar—Bill Roberts, a real-life figure who died in Hico, Texas, in 1950, and a former US Army scout whose brother knew Roberts by another name: Billy the Kid. So begins The Gospel According to Billy the Kid, a tale of the old New Mexico territory, corrupt lawmen, honest ranchers, murder, betrayal, and the explosive events of the Lincoln County War that sent young Billy off seeking justice—and headed toward a bloody rendezvous with a sheriff hired to track him down. In the saloon Roberts has us imagine another story, told thirty-three years later over shots of whiskey, about a young outlaw given a second chance to find himself, to find peace, and to finally grow up and out from under the shadow of his own infamy.

Download or read book What a Life a Different Kind of Biography written by Nelson Herbert LaFountain and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herein are printed stories and poems I have written over the years in my own way of telling my story. Rather than an autobiography I thought this may be a better way of presenting one’s life rather than in one mundane book. I began with a book and then I found I like to present my life this way. These are truthful works and not fiction. Some had memory “holes” that needed filling, who said what, or who I gave credit to but nothing that would take away from the story. It’s just the way I tell my life. After all, my life has been a series of short stories and poems not one continuous biography or even one long story. I tried to keep them truthful at all times. My poetry is not the deep thinking style but happenings in poetry form. I hope you enjoy it. The Chapter numbers are assigned to the places I lived when the stories happened, not necessarily in the order that they happened. You will find the stories and poems are not numbered. I began writing short stories and poems before I started my book. Then after a few stories, I figured it would be a good way to write a book. So this is it, for good or ill and I am not an author with an extensive vocabulary by any stretch of the imagination, I hope you’ll forgive that. They, so I’m told, are quite interesting and easy reading. Take them like vitamins, one or two a day. I hope you will laugh and cry and enjoy! The stories, poems, musings and thoughts in this book, are the product of but not limited to, a lifetime of memories, love, life, pain and laughter. It is a labor of love in an effort to sing the praises of those that deserve it the most, and not for the writer. For it was the people that this work was dedicated to that I have to thank for almost all the memories. If it weren’t for the people, there would be absolutely no need for writing this book.

Download or read book So You Wanna Be a Legend so Did I written by Hadley Hicks and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know what it takes to be a great teacher-coach? Hadley Hicks knows. He was mentored by five collegiate Hall of Fame coaches, he was a teammate of well known professional football players on a National Championship military team. He even had a ''cup of coffee'' in professional baseball. Hadley was successful as a high school and college coach. Yet, he never reached the greatness he felt was due him. Hadley Hicks shares his heart in his search for significance. His poignant, humorous, and down to earth writing style makes an enjoyable read. He is candid in his heartbreaks, the sin of divorce and the death of his eldest son. He survived a parental petition for his dismissal as football coach. He livened up his teaching experiences with an accidental shooting and a premeditated murder. He kept his fellow faculty alert with numerous practical jokes. Among student-athletes he mentored was a Cy Young Award winner and three professional football players. Hadley's marriage to a Godly woman who is his spiritual teammate, provided impetus for finding eternal significance in a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Download or read book The Love that Endures Remembering my Mother and my Father U S S Arizona s Chaplain at Pearl Harbor written by Thomas I. Kirkpatrick and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time was December 7, 1941. The wife and young son of the U.S.S. Arizona's chaplain, Captain Thomas L. Kirkpatrick, were listening to the radio that Sunday afternoon, when suddenly they heard: We interrupt this program to bring you a special news bulletin. The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by air, President Roosevelt has just announced. The attack also was made on all Naval and Military activities on the principal island, Oahu. The following day, the President made his historic speech to Congress, using language that would galvanize a shocked nation and propel America into war. The same day, the telegram arrived that ended a two-decade-long story about a love that endured numerous lengthy separations while the chaplain was deployed either at sea or at a remote duty station. How this military couple endured these stresses yet kept their marriage alive and vibrant, forms the core of this heartwarming and inspiring story, embedded in the sweep of world-changing historical events.

Download or read book Those Silly Americans written by Stephen Edwards and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen S. Edwards— former DJ, events specialist, and limousine and jet charter operator—spent a thirty-five-year career in the business world serving the elite of cooperate America, and he details his behind-the-scenes observations, and much more, in his new book, Those Silly Americans: Communism Over Socialism. From his experiences, he shares his unique insight into how we as human beings should respectfully treat our fellow humans. Human behavior is so silly! When Stephen’s job left him stranded in the New Mexico desert on the fateful date of Friday, November 13th, 2020, he witnessed what few others ever have. In Those Silly Americans: Communism Over Socialism he shares proof with readers—we are not alone in the Universe!

Download or read book A Handful of Sweets written by The Sweet Family and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight women who married eight brothers hatch a secret plan in the woods. A Georgia boy who never speaks tries to keep order in his town. A man who survives the end of the world sets off on a comical quest. A portrait plots revenge, a farmer tries his luck, a library janitor looks for love, and a desperately tired wife loses it. A man in a diner discovers he's not alone. These are a few of the many stories that can be found in this book. This anthology was collected from the numerous writings of five siblings aEUR" John, Charles, Sherriton, James and Josh Sweet. The stories came pouring out of their imaginations, were flavored by experience and time, and came together on these pages. The compilation of these stories began in their younger years and continued into adulthood; since then, though, life has taken them in different directions. Even so, the stories survive, and now those five siblings, older and wiser, have put them here to share with the world. Their tales, unrelated and diverse, contain a bit of the authors themselves in each one. Given how different each writing style is, it's their hope that A Handful of Sweets will have something for everyone.

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Download or read book Let Loose the Lions written by Jamie Groccia and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time. This will be updated once information is available

Download or read book Out written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out is a fashion, style, celebrity and opinion magazine for the modern gay man.