Download or read book Sweet Jimmy written by Bryan Brown and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryan Brown has been telling stories with his distinctive Australian voice on TV and in film for a long time, but this time he's writing crime in his first book. 'Uniquely Australian and uncommonly good, I could hear the author's voice in every spare, haunting line. More please.' - Michael Robotham 'My friend Bryan Brown, quite apart from his other manifold talents, turns out to be an excellent writer. An authentic voice; highly imaginative yet completely believable, with a flair for fully realised characters and a gripping narrative ... a great story teller. This is utterly baffling. I'm furious.' - Sam Neill It was a gentle knock. Agnes had been waiting for it. Hoping he would be on time. Such a lovely fella, she thought... 'Come on through. Got a surprise for you,' she said. He had one for her too. Phil and Sweet Jimmy are cousins. Phil grows orchids . . . spider orchids . . . learnt about them in the nick. Jimmy likes orchids, too, but there are other things he likes even more . . . Trish Bennett didn't like her life. Hadn't liked it for a long time. Been on the streets. Bit of this for a bit of that. The 'that' wasn't always nice. Then Ahmed found her. Sam is a tea-leaf, a thief. Likes nickin. . . anything . . . always has . . . until the day he knocked off more than the Volvo. Fell for the sexy and beautiful Sue May from Hong Kong, Frank Testy did. Silly old prick. What price for ego? A huge bloody price it turns out. Taut and crackling with character, these gritty, raw and sometimes very funny stories from Australian great Bryan Brown are Aussie Noir at its best. Crime doesn't discriminate . . . it can happen to anyone . . . it could happen to you . . . in any ordinary suburb . . . at any time.

Download or read book The Manly Art written by Keith G. Laufenberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manly Art is another collection of writer Keith G. Laufenberg's short stories, only this time with the defining factor being that they all involve the sport of boxing. Having been in the sport himself, beginning at age 17, when he entered Marine Corps boot camp, and ending after seven years, fought as a professional, he is afforded a closer more intimate look into the boxers lives. In "Sonny Liston's Eyes," the reader is taken into the Underworld of the sport when a writer interviews an ex-mobster-who is dying of lung cancer-and claims to have killed Sonny Liston, as well as JFK and Martin Luthur King Jr. He tells an incredible story but backs it up by saying he has absolutely verifiable evidence that he will produce for the writer. In "Frankenstein" we see why a young amateur boxer should have picked boxing over football. He has little say in the matter though as his father and uncle have trained him his entire life for football and it, along with the other stories, will keep you glued to the page.

Download or read book The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez written by Jimmy Breslin and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-02-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez is a towering achievement by one of America’s most respected journalists. A work of conscience that travels from San Matías Cuatchatyotla, a small, dusty town in central Mexico, to the cold and wet streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this searing exposé chronicles the life and tragic death of an undocumented worker, along with broader issues of municipal corruption and America’s deadly and controversial border policy.

Download or read book 145th Street Short Stories written by Walter Dean Myers and published by Ember. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Monster, this collection of powerful and poignant stories about 145th Street—an unforgettable block in the heart of Harlem—celebrates African-American life in all of its glory. "Myers is a master." —The New York Times Book Review On Harlem's 145th Street, things happen that don't happen anywhere else in the world. Get to know Big Joe, who's throwing his own funeral while he's here to enjoy it, and everyone's invited. Meet Kitty and Mack, teens with a love story more real than anything they've ever known. Follow Monkeyman, the quietest kid on the block and the last person you'd expect the Tigros gang to target. And don't miss the block party of the year--the whole neighborhood will be there. From danger and despair to hilarity and joy, literary legend Walter Dean Myers captures every mood and every beat of life in this vibrant Harlem. This twentieth-anniversary edition of Myers's work features brand-new content, including historical information about Harlem's rich past, an immersive map of the neighborhood's iconic landmarks, and touching tributes from authors, artists, and literary legends. Celebrating two decades in print, this edition honors Myers's enormous legacy and brings his work to a new generation of readers. An ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults AWARDS FOR WALTER DEAN MYERS: New York Times Bestselling Author 3-Time National Book Award Finalist Michael L. Printz Award 5 Coretta Scott King Awards 2 Newbery Honors National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature (2012-2013) Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement Children’s Literature Legacy Award

Download or read book The Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1994-09-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

Download or read book Sweet Competition written by Liz Reed and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liz and Jimmy Reed, the creators of the “Cuddles and Rage” webcomic, have whipped up a truly delectable picture book debut featuring the antics of competitive twin cherries who will do anything to outsweet…er, outsmart one another! For this pair of twin cherries, everything is a competition. If Girl Cherry can swing higher, Boy Cherry will boast that he can swing lower. If one is smarter, then the other is cooler. So when they enter a contest to build the best dessert ever, they immediately pit themselves against each other. But when you’re attached at the stem, there’s only so much you can do on your own. Things could be easy as pie—so to speak—if they put aside their differences and join forces. Will Boy Cherry and Girl Cherry cream the competition by working together…or will one try to be the cherry on top? With loveable characters and laugh-out-loud situations, Sweet Competition is the perfect addition to any child’s bookshelf. After all, there’s always room for dessert!

Download or read book Jimmy written by Robert Whitlow and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2006-06-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once you look at the world through Jimmy's eyes, you'll never see it the same again. Jimmy's world is a place where a boy can grow to be a man, even if he's "special." Where angels hover, mostly unseen. Where danger can happen, and hearts can falter—but love is never wasted. From best-selling author Robert Whitlow comes a poignant tale of innocence and courage in the tradition of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird.

Download or read book Heroes and Hierophants written by Marcus D’Ambrose and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroes And Hierophants is the culmination of a year of innovative writing from three of today's hottest underground authors. The plan was simple: each week one of them would propose a topic, and they would each have a week to write about it. Then the next week another would give a topic, and so forth for the whole of the year. From this simple high concept beginning, Marcus D'Ambrose, Douglas Palermo and Noel Rogers took the project into directions entirely unprecedented. From serious god knowledge to rape jokes, the fearless trio push the envelope, lift the skirt of reality and explore the boundaries of the written word. What is already described as "a bold and visionary experiment in 21st century literature" (The Milville Times) and "perhaps the first look at a new integral method for the evolution of the species into cosmic awareness" (The Dobbs Ferry Clarion) is finally ready for download into your consciousness. Are you ready for it?

Download or read book Against The Odds Anna Dawson Book 1 written by Mara Jacobs and published by Copper Country Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mara Jacobs comes Book 1 in the Anna Dawson mystery series. My name is Anna Dawson, and I'm a gambler. And like any gambler will tell you, sometimes that’s good, and sometimes...not so much. And sometimes it’s an outright problem. I love Vegas, and I love the life I've built, but when one of my friends is murdered, and another one shot at, I know I need to take a serious look at myself. And I need to call in the big guns. Even if that means teaming up with Detective Jack Schiller, a man battling his own demons. Right now I'm just trying to juggle protecting my friends, helping Jack while not letting him get too close, and finding a murderer. And oh yeah, no one can learn about my gambling. Or this will be the last hand I'm dealt. *NOTE: The case is solved, the perpetrator caught, but there are a few threads that are continuing on through the next book and the series. Books in the Anna Dawson series thus far: 1 - Against The Odds 2 - Against The Spread 3 – Against The Rules 4 - Against The Wall 5 - Against The Grain

Download or read book Warm Water written by T.J. Richards and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warm Water is a medley of memoriesa patchwork of twenty-two personal stories from the life of T. J. Richards. Beginning at age four, with the imprinting sound of warm water gushing from a bathtub faucet, the author travels through time on a storytelling trip that carries the reader across a bridge that spans seventy years of the authors life. Autobiographical in nature, anecdotal and confessional at times, this book by T. J. Richards paints colorful portraits of boyhood while growing up in a government housing project known as the Patch. His description of hopping cars in the winter or witnessing a friend fall from a tree offers colorful accounts of his youth that continue through his rebellious teenage years into adulthood, where his personal and professional life as a commercial photographer in the latter half of the 1960s in Los Angeles comes alive.

Download or read book The Grace Murders Caspar s Run written by Karen Michaud and published by Karen Michaud. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the eve of the Great Depression. The Tremblay twins arrive in New York for a holiday, but instead of seaside fun on Coney Island, they learn one of them is destined to marry the angel of death ... or one of his mortal representatives.

Download or read book Dead End Fix written by T. E. Woods and published by Alibi. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear and violence come home to roost in this exhilarating Justice thriller featuring The Fixer—a roller-coaster ride for readers of Lisa Gardner, Karin Slaughter, and Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter novels. I’ll bring Hadley home. Whatever it takes. Whatever it costs. Whoever has to die. There’s a gang war unfolding on the streets of Seattle. A young boy has been killed in a drive-by shooting, and the ensuing chaos threatens to engulf the city. Normally, chief of detectives Mort Grant would be dealing with the fallout—but right now, his mind is elsewhere. . . . In one gut-wrenching phone call, Mort’s worst fears are realized. His granddaughter Hadley has been kidnapped, and the culprit is his own flesh and blood: Allie, his daughter and Hadley’s aunt. Now, desperate for any sign of the missing six-year-old girl, Mort turns once again to the relentless vigilante called The Fixer for help. After rising to the top of one of the largest criminal enterprises in the world, Allie Grant has turned her focus back on her family. But since they’ve rebuffed all her attempts at contact, she’s punishing them the only way she knows how. With an endless stream of cash and connections that span the globe, Allie makes a formidable target. But The Fixer boasts the deadliest weapon of all: her razor-sharp mind. Don’t miss any of the gripping Justice thrillers from T. E. Woods: THE FIXER | THE RED HOT FIX | THE UNFORGIVABLE FIX | FIXED IN BLOOD | FIXED IN FEAR | DEAD END FIX And look for the Hush Money mysteries: HUSH MONEY | BAD GIRL | PRIVATE LIES Praise for The Fixer “Hot and unpredictable, this debut hurls you down the curvy gray avenues of right and wrong at about a hundred and fifty miles per hour. Strap yourself in!”—Amanda Kyle Williams, author of The Stranger You Seek “Pitch-perfect . . . solid characters, unpredictable twists and excellent plotting; a must-read for those who enjoy crime fiction.”—Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads Volume 2 written by Bertrand Harris Bronson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the monumental work begun in Volume I, Bertrand Bronson presents here the words and music for Child Ballads 54 through 113. The texts are those established in the famous Child canon of English and Scottish ballads. To them, Mr. Bronson has added more than a thousand variant tunes grouped to show their melodic kinship, and the characteristic variations developed in the course of traditional singing and oral transmission. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book The Cost of These Dreams written by Wright Thompson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller! From one of America's most beloved sportswriters and the bestselling author of Pappyland, a collection of true stories about the dream of greatness and its cost in the world of sports. "Wright Thompson's stories are so full of rich characters, bad actors, heroes, drama, suffering, courage, conflict, and vivid detail that I sometimes thinks he's working my side of the street - the world of fiction." - John Grisham There is only one Wright Thompson. He is, as they say, famous if you know who he is: his work includes the most read articles in the history of ESPN (and it's not even close) and has been anthologized in the Best American Sports Writing series ten times, and he counts John Grisham and Richard Ford among his ardent admirers (see back of book). But to say his pieces are about sports, while true as far as it goes, is like saying Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is a book about a cattle drive. Wright Thompson figures people out. He jimmies the lock to the furnaces inside the people he profiles and does an analysis of the fuel that fires their ambition. Whether it be Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods or Pat Riley or Urban Meyer, he strips the away the self-serving myths and fantasies to reveal his characters in full. There are fascinating common denominators: it may not be the case that every single great performer or coach had a complex relationship with his father, but it can sure seem that way. And there is much marvelous local knowledge: about specific sports, and times and places, and people. Ludicrously entertaining and often powerfully moving, The Cost of These Dreams is an ode to the reporter's art, and a celebration of true greatness and the high price that it exacts.

Download or read book Mina s Journal written by Kimberley Zagoren and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mina's Journal is a quirky, sexy vampire tale with a new spin on the legends of yore. Over one hundred years old and still going strong, Mina thinks she knows it all. But what this self-centered vampiress doesn't know could fill a book. Out on her own after years in captivity, Mina forgets her old world sensibilities and lets her needs and desires take control. It isn't too long before she is caught up in a web of sex, lies, and betrayal. Can the living dead learn the true meaning of existence? Join Mina as she struggles to figure out the meaning of it all, before it's too late.

Download or read book Liberty City written by Keith G. Laufenberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story begins on a street corner where five of the main characters are waiting to be picked up for a construction job. It spirals out of control on their third day at work when the white daughters of the general contractor's make a frivolous play for one of the black laborers, which ends up with them, their fathers and four of the laborers in a courtroom, in which justice becomes secondary to the societal pressures of an all-white jury, in 1968, trying two black laborers, one who is an escaped-felon, on a trumped-up charge that ruins more lives than just those who end up in prison.

Download or read book One Hustle written by Cortney Gee and published by Brown Girls Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Everyday I’m hustling.....” Comedian Cameron B is a man with his back against the wall. The rent is due, his family needs food and bill collectors are blowing up his phone. Since his career is stalled, he's faced with doing agricultural work to make ends meet....that is until fellow entertainer, Lance The Great throws him a lifeline – two grand and a proposal. The loan and the opportunity changes Cameron's fortunes, but at what price? Living the life.... Now, Cameron doesn’t need to focus on his career. His side hustle has taken him from ashy to classy, where expensive cars and custom made clothes are the norm. And with the newfound wealth, a real player is born. Soon, Cameron finds himself trying to juggle life as an entertainer, father, boyfriend to several, and criminal. He’s tugged in several different directions and the only things that really wins out are the many criminal pursuits he has and the red-headed sexy sidepiece he's acquired. Set in mid-90's Los Angeles, One Hustle is a witty, sexy, page-turning debut from real-life comedian, Cortney Gee. In pages packed with his trademark humor, Gee proves he’s a new voice you’ll want to add to your reading collection.