Download or read book Escape from the Truck Stop written by Andrea Lombardi and published by Andrea Lombardi. This book was released on 101 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luck comes at the wrong time for an Italian surveyor on a trip near Modena, who discovers he has won one hundred thousand euros with a scratch card in a highway service station which immediately afterwards gets targeted by a couple of robbers. On a stormy night, two colleagues stop at a service station. One leaves immediately, throwing himself back into the downpour. The other waits for the rain to ease down, orders a coffee and wins one hundred thousand euros with a scratch card. And that's when the longest night of his life begins.
Download or read book The Long Haul A Trucker s Tales of Life on the Road written by Finn Murphy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There’s nothing semi about Finn Murphy’s trucking tales of The Long Haul.”—Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair More than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Since then he’s covered more than a million miles as a mover, packing, loading, hauling people’s belongings all over America. In The Long Haul, Murphy recounts with wit, candor, and charm the America he has seen change over the decades and the poignant, funny, and often haunting stories of the people he encounters on the job.
Download or read book Explanations Excuses and Exhortations written by Robert A. Amundrud and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before I became a truck driver, I never imagined the immensity of the job and the number of duties involved in being an over-the-road truck driver; in fact, many of the things a driver is expected to do and even required to do are unpaid tasks since a driver's pay comes mainly from miles driven plus extra pay for extra pickups or drops on individual loads and other guarantees for time lost due to no fault of the driver. To begin describing the experiences, the trials, and the tribulations of the driver or drivers of these monsters of the road which we variously know as semis, eighteen-wheelers, big rigs, or even tractor-trailers one might look at the events of an individual driver's experiences. A good starting point might be to remind ourselves that without these mechanical beasts of burden which roam our highways and byways every hour of the day and night, we would all lead quite meager lives, since everything we eat, wear, entertain ourselves with, and transport ourselves by is at some point or even many points along the line transported by a truck or trucks. You name it, and trucks delivered it... Explanations, Excuses, and Exhortations presents a non-fiction account of the author's experiences as a truck driver in which he handled various problems and serious mistakes while making deliveries to his customers over a nine-year period. He encountered numerous challenges and difficulties trying to get home for time-off or emergency situations. Join him on the road and experience the events and problems of some of his actual trips, including: problems locating customers, with law enforcement officials, with his companies, with his trucks, and with routes that were impassible for trucks. The situations he encountered were often mind-boggling and overcome only by strategically manipulating through a maze of unknown and seemingly hard to surmount obstacles and difficulties. Sometimes, he felt as if there were no solutions to the problems facing him, while at other times he felt like they would only be resolved through extreme effort to achieve the desired end. The side trips were the best, exciting and adventure-filled, during which they saw beautiful, often awesome sights, including trips to New York City and other top tourist attraction areas. His wife accompanied him on most of these trips, taking pictures to chronicle the amazing sights that they enjoyed!
Download or read book Mon Fayette Transportation Project from I 68 in Monongalia County WV to Route 43 formerly Chadville Demonstration Project in Fayette County PA written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under the Sign written by Ann Lauterbach and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection from the author of Or To Begin Again, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Poetry Ann Lauterbach is one of America’s most innovative and provocative poets, acclaimed for her fierce, sensuous and intellectually charged poems. In this, her ninth book of poems, Lauterbach pursues longstanding inquiries into how language forms and informs our understanding of the relation between empirical observation and subjective response; worldly attachment and inwardness; the given and the chosen. The poems set out not so much to find cogent resolutions to these fluid dyads as to open them to the fact of unknowing that is at the core of all human curiosity and desire. A central prose section tracks along a meditative edge, engaging the risky task of opening the mind to the limits of apprehension; the final section evokes, in the figure of the instructor, the essential contemporary question of how information becomes knowledge.
Download or read book Killer on the Road written by Ginger Strand and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the correlation between the construction of the Interstate Highway system and the rise in the national murder rate, highlighting specific killers and how the highway system changed America.
Download or read book Escaping Toward Freedom written by Denise Turney and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2022 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping Toward Freedom is the fictional story of four teens who escape a human trafficking ring, each heralding from different states. Clarissa Maxwell, a key character in this thriller, is a former Navy specialist with friends in military special forces. Clarissa is vacationing in the Georgia countryside, deep in the woods, when she spots a girl hiding by her car, at the edge of her cabin. Sight of the girl trembling changes everything, strips Clarissa of the reason she'd traveled to the cabin. At once, Clarissa and the teen enter a world of intrigue, mystery, suspense and escape. Days later, more teen girls would show up. The foundation, the very core of this story, has dominated headline news and rightfully so. Escaping Toward Freedom is a powerful story that should be read and shared. Each reader can do something to make what happens in this story a past, memory, no longer a present-day trauma haunting millions of teens and adults and their grieving families. It's time to escape! It's time to truly go free!
Download or read book Adapting Stephen King written by Joseph Maddrey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen King's fiction has formed the basis of more motion picture adaptations than any other living author. His earliest short stories, collected in the Night Shift anthology, have been adapted into hit features including Creepshow, Children of the Corn, Cat's Eye, Maximum Overdrive, Graveyard Shift, Sometimes They Come Back, and The Mangler. Through his "Dollar Baby" program, King licensed several Night Shift stories to aspiring filmmakers for just one dollar each, resulting in numerous student film adaptations. This book critically examines and contextualizes adaptations of the Night Shift short stories, from big box office features to relatively unknown student films. It illuminates how each film is a uniquely and intricately collaborative endeavor, and charts the development of each adaptation from first option to final cut. Through old and new interviews with the creators, the work explores how filmmakers continue to reinvent, reimagine, remake and reboot King's stories.
Download or read book Truck Stop written by Evan Richardson and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRUCK STOP(murder/crime/thriller):Amazon.com ISBN-13:978-1499694666 ISBN-10: 1499694660 When Lulu Mae married Hank, she thought he'd help her become her dream of being a country western singer. But when she realized that all Hank wanted was a wife and for Lulu Mae to waitress in his honky-tonk truck stop saloon, as she had at the diner where he met her, she soon became infatuated with the handsome, and possibly dangerous, new bartender, Brad.Then the town was shocked by the news of a car containing two well-know people going over a hill and crashing at the bottom with a tremendous explosion, destroying most of the evidence as to the cause. The sheriff's department was quick to attribute the tragedy to a faulty accelerator, but crafty old Sheriff Bob, after fifty years on the police force, secretly suspected it was murder.As the one or ones responsible for the tragedy with the car scramble to avoid justice with the sheriff's department hot on the trail, the plot thunders to the dynamic conclusion where everyone has their final rendezvous with destiny to settle the score in this lurid tale of obsessive sexual desire, murder, greed, and betrayal in a small, rural Kentucky town one steamy-hot summer, set in a honky-tonk truck stop saloon situated along the Southern interstate.
Download or read book Gender Race and Class in Media written by Gail Dines and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -51 contemporary articles are new to this edition, with 14 classic pieces retained from prior editions.
Download or read book The Truck Stop written by Richard Seveska and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Truck Stop written by John L. Thompson and published by Dusty Desert Press. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moriarty, New Mexico is about as far as Logan Pierce got before the money and the El Camino gave out. He‘d hoped for a clean start in life as a field mechanic working for any company willing to pay top dollar for his skills in the oil fields of West Texas. Low on funds and out of options, he begins a change of course in his mechanic career and takes a local job as a technician at Duggan's Truck Stop. The truck stop is a miniature city within a city that has all the luxuries for a home away from home feel for the over-the-road truck driver. Under it all, Logan discovers there is also a dark side which people claim is operated by the Dixie Mafia. Then there is the persistent rumor that affiliates of the Mafia are looking for a quarter-million in missing cash skimmed from over a five-year time frame. The job was meant to be a temporary solution but that was before Amy Hauser entered the picture and presented him with additional problems. They want nothing more than to leave New Mexico for a new life, but then again…there’s that rumor of a quarter-million in missing mob cash. And Logan just may well have discovered where it’s hidden, but soon finds that some people want it more.
Download or read book ESCAPE TO PARADISE written by William C. Knowles and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Benz is young man with a disability who has been kept in the attic of his family home. His uncle and aunt take care of the young man, but the only thing he learns is by looking through the cracks in the attic floor and watching the family television. After his aunt disappears, his drunk uncle fails to take care of him and occasionally came to the attic to beat the disables young man with his belt. Later, when Charlie Benz fights back, he killed his uncle and set the house on fire. Charlie Benz escaped from the burning house not knowing where he was going. He was befriended by several curious people and found himself being hunted along the interstate from rest stop to truck stop trying to escape a group of drug cartel members who wanted the money and drugs Charlie Benz found had and was carrying. Charlie Benz was escaping to a place the "voices" had told him it was where he needed to go.
Download or read book Truck Stop Tango written by Krissy Daniels and published by Krissy Daniels. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would you fall for the one you love? Six years ago, I made the biggest mistake of my life. I betrayed Slade Mason. Then disappeared. I’m home now. And I want her back. Trouble is, she’s lying. Keeping secrets. Pushing me away. What she doesn’t know is that not even her deception could make me leave her again. Five years ago, I made the toughest decision of my life. I did the unthinkable. Then covered my crime. Now, Tango Rossi is back. And I want him more than ever. Problem is, he wants answers I can’t give. What he doesn’t realize is that his betrayal is the very reason we can never be together. Betrayal tore us apart. Tragedy brought us back together. Can forgiveness set us free? Search Terms: contemporary romance, dark romance, sexy, small town, mafia romance, secret baby, friends to lovers, second chance romance, Krissy Daniels, Truck Stop, Truck Stop series, vigilante justice, past cheating, free first in series, complete series, love, forgiveness, erotic, free, free ebooks, free books to read and download, free romance books full novel, free romance ebooks, free romance, free romance books to read and download, free books to read, free books to read and download romance, romance free, sexually romantic books free samples
Download or read book The Drug Wars in America 1940 1973 written by Kathleen J. Frydl and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Drug Wars in America, 1940–1973 argues that the US government has clung to its militant drug war, despite its obvious failures, because effective control of illicit traffic and consumption were never the critical factors motivating its adoption in the first place. Instead, Kathleen J. Frydl shows that the shift from regulating illicit drugs through taxes and tariffs to criminalizing the drug trade developed from, and was marked by, other dilemmas of governance in an age of vastly expanding state power. Most believe the 'drug war' was inaugurated by President Richard Nixon's declaration of a war on drugs in 1971, but in fact his announcement heralded changes that had taken place in the two decades prior. Frydl examines this critical interval of time between regulation and prohibition, demonstrating that the war on drugs advanced certain state agendas, such as policing inner cities or exercising power abroad.
Download or read book Prison Break True Stories of the World s Greatest Escapes written by Paul Buck and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These men for whom there is little else that life has to offer, little or nothing to lose; these are men who are at the limits; these are men who might walk on hot coals without burning their feet.' In the folklore of World War II, the memory of those heroes who staged 'Great Escapes' from PoW camps still endures. But what of the other side of the coin: the audacious and daring breakouts of gangsters and villains today? The focus of Prison Break is one these 'Great Escapes' from civilian prisons, whether the escape is planned or opportunistic, aided from within by corrupt guards or facilitated by a violent gang of intruders. We travel with out subjects as they go over walls, tunnel out, or are lifted from the exercise yard into the skies. The exploits of such legendary Houdini type figures as the 18th Century rogue Jack Sheppard and the Canadian serial escaper Wayne Carlson are recounted alongside tales of breakouts from seemingly unassailable jails; Alcatraz, Northern Ireland's Maze prison, and the Bangkok Hilton.
Download or read book Cloak of Titans written by Jonathan Moeller and published by Azure Flame Media. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The point of no return is here. My name is Nadia, and I'm a Marshal of the High Queen of the Elves. That means it's my job to keep the peace between the humans, Elven commoners, and Elven nobles under my command. So when one of the Elven nobles pushes things too far, it might mean civil war between the High Queen and the rebel nobles. But the civil war is itself a trap because the malignant wizards of Singularity have been preparing for this moment for a very, very long time... ...and their deadliest weapons are ready.
