Download or read book Nobody s Fool Y All written by Jerri Green and published by Jerri Green. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Nobody's Fool Y'All" by Jeri Green, Hadley Pell finds herself knee-deep in a mystery when a simple fly fishing trip takes a sinister turn. When a dead body disrupts her peaceful outing, Hadley's loyalty to her family clashes with her desire to uncover the truth. With her brother-in-law, Sheriff Bill Whittaker, urging her to keep silent, Hadley struggles to balance family harmony with her own sense of justice. To escape the tension, Hadley plans a road trip with her sister Maury to the VistaView Motor Court, a historic resort with a shady past. But when the local beautician insists on joining them, Hadley's plans are thrown into disarray. As they unravel the secrets of VistaView, Hadley and her companions stumble upon rumors of gangsters, hidden tunnels, and long-lost treasures. With danger lurking around every corner, Hadley must use all her wits to piece together the clues before it's too late. But will her discoveries lead to enlightenment or land her in the crosshairs of danger? Join Hadley and her quirky companions on another wild mountain adventure in this captivating installment of the Hadley Pell Cozy Mystery series. "Nobody's Fool Y'All" is sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats until the very last page.
Download or read book Nobody s Fool written by Richard Russo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story. "Remarkable.... A revelation of the human heart." —The Washington Post Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father's footsteps. With its uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody's Fool, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, is storytelling at its most generous. Nobody’s Fool was made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, and Melody Griffith. Look for Everybody’s Fool, available now, and Somebody’s Fool, coming soon.
Download or read book Nobody s Fool written by L.J. Breedlove and published by L.J. Breedlove. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even Heroes Make Mistakes Lanky Purdue is an Alaskan icon. He's been there forever — the dashing Air Force pilot, the man who flew medicines into villages in dark winters, the man who has rescued more stranded climbers than anyone can count. If you need help, Lanky Purdue is the man you go to. So when Belle Robards shows up at Purdue Flight Service in the dead of winter looking for help, it's no great surprise to Dace Marshall, his office manager. So yes, she's wearing a skirt, high heeled boots and a fur jacket — in Talkeetna at 10 below — and she won't tell Dace what the problem is. But Lanky wouldn't fall for a pretty face and a bogus sob story. Would he?
Download or read book Everybody s Grandmother and Nobody s Fool written by Kathryn L. Nasstrom and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Freeborn Pauley, a white woman who grew up in the segregated South, has devoted most of her ninety-four years to the battle against discrimination and prejudice. A champion of civil rights and racial justice and an advocate for the poor and disenfranchised, Pauley's tenacity as an activist and the length of her career are remarkable. She is also a consummate storyteller; for decades, she has shared her words with activists, students, and scholars who have found their way to her door. Kathryn L. Nasstrom uses rich oral history material, recorded by herself and others, to present Frances Pauley in her own words. Pauley's life has encompassed much of the last century of extraordinary social change in the South, a life touching and touched by famous figures from southern politics and the civil rights movement. Highlights of Pauley's career in the public eye include a friendship with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, encounters with several of Georgia's civil-rights-era governors, and a meeting with Eleanor Roosevelt. A skillful political organizer, Pauley was involved in decades of community mobilization, repeated efforts to educate politicians and the public about the origins and nature of poverty, and lobbying for unpopular causes. "People are born into a certain way of living," she says. "It takes a jolt to get out of it. It doesn't really mean that they're all that mean and bad, but it takes a jolt to make them see that maybe they could make a change." In a deft blend of biography and memoir, Nasstrom explains Pauley's historical significance and places her story in the context of developments in Georgia politics and the civil rights movement. Even as it contributes to the political history of Georgia and the South, affording insight of unusual depth on familiar issues and events, the book preserves one woman's story in the still largely undocumented history of southern women's social and political activism in the twentieth century. Pauley's experiences serve as a window on the lives of all those women and men who, town by town and state by state, made momentous change not only possible but also inescapable.
Download or read book The Reunion Show written by Brenda Hampton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Reunion Show, Brenda Hampton brings back the most memorable and controversial characters from her bestselling novels: Roc Dawson from Full Figured, Chase Jenkins from Don't Even Go There, Sylvia McMillan from Slick, Jada Mahoney from How Can I Be Down?, Prince' Perkins from Street Soldier and Jaylin Rogers from the Naughty series. These six will attempt to put their overwhelming differences aside and calm their unique personalities. Drama's the main course, topped with a hint of raunchiness and manipulation and served by cutthroat individuals wanting it all.'
Download or read book Try Hard Tales from the Life of a Needy Overachiever Extra Sass Edition written by Em Rusciano and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling, hilarious memoir from one of Australia’s most adored performers and host of breakfast radio on Sydney’s 2DayFM with Harley Breen Funny, feisty and fabulous, Em Rusciano’s insights into her world of mayhem, marriage and motherhood are a laugh-out-loud, cry-out-loud balm for the soul. From her exploits at the Miss Sheila Fancypants School of Dance and her efforts to secure a solo at her end-of-year performance, to embracing the spotlight as an Australian Idol contestant and her deep and abiding love for John Farnham, Em Rusciano is a self-confessed bottomless pit of anxiety with a taste for glitter. And behind the stage make-up Em is an overachiever of epic proportions, camp to the core and fiercely maternal. She has all the insecurities of a person who spends their nights racked with self-doubt and all the confidence of a woman who can walk out onto a stage in front of a sold-out theatre and absolutely slay the crowd. Em has an army of gay men she adores, tells the best dirty jokes and loves those closest to her ferociously. When the chips are down you definitely want her by your side. This all-singing, all-dancing, all-emoting, leopard-print clad warrior is fearless, fabulous and pants-wettingly funny. Her words on the page are silly and sacred, bawdy and heartfelt. The stuff of life. Try Hard is her story. Because she is. And she does.
Download or read book David Kirby Greatest Hits written by David Kirby and published by Pudding House Publications. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grapple Settling Accounts Book Three written by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A profoundly thoughtful masterpiece of alternate history.”—Booklist It is 1943, the third summer of the new war between the Confederate States of America and the United States, a war that will turn on the deeds of ordinary soldiers, extraordinary heroes, and a colorful cast of spies, politicians, rebels, and everyday citizens. The CSA president, Jake Featherston, seems to have greatly miscalculated the North’ s resilience. But as new demonic tools of killing are unleashed, secret wars are unfolding. The U.S. government in Philadelphia has proof that the tyrannical Featherston is murdering African Americans by the tens of thousands in a Texas gulag called Determination. And the leaders of both sides know full well that the world’s next great power will not be the one with the biggest army but the nation that wins the race against nature and science—and smashes open the power of the atom. Praise for The Grapple “Turtledove never tires of exploring the paths not taken, bringing to his storytelling a prodigious knowledge of his subject and a profound understanding of human sensibilities and motivations.”—Library Journal “One of the strongest books in the extended series.”—SfSite “Compelling.”—Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Drive to the East Settling Accounts Book Two written by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Turtledove never tires of exploring the paths not taken, bringing to his storytelling a prodigious knowledge of his subject and a profound understanding of human sensibilities and motivations.”—Library Journal It’s 1942. For twenty-five years, the USA and the CSA have been entrenched in an era of simmering hatred, locked in a tangle of blood-soaked battle lines, modern weaponry, desperate strategies, and the kind of violence that only the damned could conjure up for themselves and their enemies. In Richmond, Confederate president and dictator Jake Featherston is shocked by what his own aircraft have done in Philadelphia—killing U.S. president Al Smith in a barrage of bombs. Featherston presses ahead with a secret plan carried out on the dusty plains of Texas, where a so-called detention camp hides a far more evil purpose. As the untested U.S. vice president takes over for Smith, the United States face a furious thrust by the Confederate army, pressing inexorably into Pennsylvania. But with the industrial heartland under siege, Canada in revolt, and U.S. naval ships fighting against the Japanese in the Sandwich Islands, the most dangerous place in the world may be overlooked. “First-time readers can jump in and enjoy Turtledove’s richly rearranged cultural and political landscape.”—The Kansas City Star “Engrossing . . . thoroughly satisfying.”—Publishers Weekly
Download or read book A Death in Harlem written by Karla FC Holloway and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Death in Harlem, famed scholar Karla FC Holloway weaves a mystery in the bon vivant world of the Harlem Renaissance. Taking as her point of departure the tantalizingly ambiguous “death by misadventure” at the climax of Nella Larsen’s Passing, Holloway accompanies readers to the sunlit boulevards and shaded sidestreets of Jazz Age New York. A murder there will test the mettle, resourcefulness, and intuition of Harlem’s first “colored” policeman, Weldon Haynie Thomas. Clear glass towers rising in Manhattan belie a city where people are often not what they seem. For some here, identity is a performance of passing—passing for another race, for another class, for someone safe to trust. Thomas’s investigation illuminates the societies and secret societies, the intricate code of manners, the world of letters, and the broad social currents of 1920s Harlem. A Death in Harlem is an exquisitely crafted, briskly paced, and impeccably stylish journey back to a time still remembered as a peak of American glamour. It introduces Holloway as a fresh voice in storytelling, and Weldon Haynie Thomas as an endearing and unforgettable detective.
Download or read book Blood for Ghosts written by John Perryman and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figuratively speaking, Blood for Ghosts takes for its theme the burial of the dead. The eight stories in the collection dramatize the many ways Texans in the 21st century struggle to give voice to their ancestors and the region’s past, a task made increasingly difficult by the pressures of globalization, the lure of efficiency, and the claims of “progress.” Such struggles are necessary, however, and are premised on the belief that the healthiest communities affirm a meaningful relationship with as much of the past as is possible. The collection’s title makes a nod of the head toward Hugh Lloyd-Jones’s fine study of ancient Greece and Book XI of The Odyssey, when Odysseus enacts a rite that summons the shades of the dead to drink the blood of sacrificed animals and so be given voice to communicate with the living. The collection’s epigraph comes from the same scene in Book XI: and up out of Erebus they came/ flocking toward me now, the ghosts of the dead and gone.
Download or read book The Good Life written by Dorian Sykes and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988 Detroit, Wink and his crew jump into the drug trade, determined to taste the good life, but as they pay their dues and the unforgiving streets harden their hearts, they learn that all dreams are not worth living.
Download or read book Emiley In the End Who is Innocent written by David Martin, Sr. and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emiley Township is a unique rural town in southwest Louisiana, not far from the Texas border. It’s a small town with a wide variety in populace, from the liberals to an ultra-conservative town patron, to the Native American reservation on the edge of town and the small coven of witches who reside in the area. Despite their differences, everyone gets along—or at least tolerates one another. And although trouble has visited this little town from time to time, Sheriff Jon Beeville and his staff manage to keep the peace. But when Sheriff Beeville returns from a well-deserved vacation in San Francisco, he learns that a horrific murder has just taken place. His investigation leads to an unbelievable series of events, and an eclectic cast of characters contributes to the saga, including its disturbing end… Sheriff Beeville has many alleys and valleys to travel in order to unravel what has transpired and, most importantly, to determine who is really innocent…
Download or read book Adultery Experience Was My Teacher written by Spiritual Detox EP and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes and most of the time, we feel like this house behind me - abandoned, rejected, mistreated, voided and most of all no love. We live in a society where truth is validated through people - a society in which love is desired through the flesh and rarely through the teachings of God. God can offer you far more than anything the world can give. He can teach you how to love yourself and how to not to seek it from others in this world. Searching for love from others prior to loving yourself can end in turmoil; wanting to fill a void in my naive life, yearning to be loved, lead me to loving a married man. Before I knew what was happening, my life began spiraling out of control. One of the worst mistakes I made in my young life. This box of love I received from him seemed so exciting and full of expectations from the outer appearance, but when I opened, it was nothing but emptiness and loneliness. I was committing a sin by being a married mans mistress as he was being the adulterer. God seemed to be the only outlet in helping me out of my situation. Through Him I learned to first love myself and how to love others. With those qualities and other teachings, God will send you a spouse and not the estranged, flesh-driven relationships the world will try to give you. Through Him you will develop the qualities of governing Kings and Queens. Hopefully my willingness to be transparent about past relationships sleeping with a married man and having an abusive husband can help you see the signs before you walk into estranged situations like I did. This book will teach you the art of how to love in every aspect. I hope this book helps you and inspires you to help others. Good luck and remember Proverbs 8: to acquire wisdom is to love yourself.
Download or read book Westminster Avenue written by Wilus J. Arnold and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of human beings, the question of love has always posed a problem among different racial groups around the world. But in spite of attempts to prevent such unions, human beings continue to fall in love with people outside their race, knowing they will be confronted by serious ramificationseven death! Westminster Avenue is a novel that examines love between different ethnic couples in America during most of the twentieth century. As is the case in real life, love is the most powerful human emotion human beings experience, spanning both joy and sorrow! No one has yet figured out why people fall in love with each other. The truth is, it can be a number of reasons, including the often quoted saying Opposites attract! But this author suspects it runs much deeper than that. Whatever it is, love affects all human beings emotionally from the pinnacle of happiness to the depth of despair. Westminster Avenue examines interracial love in America in spite of the fact this culture vehemently opposes it. Since love is ubiquitous, the author expands this novel beyond the main couple in this book to include other couples who also fall in love despite racial differences. Men and women continue to seek love even after experiencing painful relationships with a previous partner. Love is the driving force in our lives, and the truth is, people never know where they will find it. Most human beings cannot really explain what love really is, but they know they can feel it when it happens to them. That is the essence of this novel, along with the song Love Will Find a Way!
Download or read book The Cailiffs of Baghdad Georgia A Novel written by Mary Helen Stefaniak and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hidden history of the South emerges when a worldly teacher leads Threestep, GA, to reinvent itself, setting in motion events that lead to triumph and tragedy for the black teenager who happens to be the smartest person in Piedmont County, Georgia, in 1938–39. As an epigraph from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois reminds us at the start of this novel, "Throughout history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness." Protagonist Theo Boykin is a genius, an artist, an inventor, a Leonardo DaVinci–type, whose talents are sought after by local blacks and whites alike, but even this is not enough to save him. He falls victim to "the tragedy of ignorance and the damage caused by fear," in the words of poet Rita Dove—the first African American to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate and a member of the jury that conferred on The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award for books that "make a significant contribution to our understanding of racism and our appreciation for the diversity of human cultures." You won't forget Theo Boykin, nor will you forget his friends the Cailiffs, especially Gladys, who tells this story with love and bewilderment, and the teacher, Miss Spivey, who changes all their lives.
Download or read book The Cailiffs of Baghdad Georgia written by Mary Helen Stefaniak and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stefaniak pens a big-hearted story of a Depression-era small town turned upside down by a worldly teacher.
