Download or read book This Ain t No Shit written by Richard Archer and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of life experiences enclosed herein are true incidents that I witnessed or actively participated in. In many of them, I narrowly evaded some dire consequences of military justice via avenues of quick thinking, slick talking, or just plain dumb luck! I discovered a couple of best kept secrets that helped me skate through these adventures. Those secrets being, know what is in the Bureau of Personnel manual; have a good understanding of the grievance procedures (under the right circumstances, an enlisted dude can put the Commanding Officer on report; but you had better do your homework!); and lastly, tie in with a mentor who will show you the "ropes" about the Navy! Now this is in no way a sailor's guide to misbehaving. It is simply a comical look at one sailor that may well have proven himself to be a "magnificent bastard" as he advanced from Seaman Recruit to Senior Chief!
Download or read book This Ain t No Hearts and Flowers Love Story Pt 2 written by Brooklyn Darkchild and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Princess who returns to the mansion is far different from the star who left with Einstein the night before, and Obie finds her "carry on as usual" attitude a bit hard to take. Forced to separate by conflicting career demands, their racial and social class issues ignite. While Obie and Princess ponder how long they can make their relationship work, three deaths in a row push a still-fragile Princess over the edge, and Obie wonders if things will ever be right again.
Download or read book This Ain t No Healing Town written by Barry Callaghan and published by Exile Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ain t No Sunshine written by Renita Michelle Walker and published by Rocky D Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ain t No Makin It written by Jay MacLeod and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic text addresses one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy: how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next. With the original 1987 publication of Ain't No Makin' It, Jay MacLeod brought us to the Clarendon Heights housing project where we met the 'Brothers' and the 'Hallway Hangers'. Their story of poverty, race, and defeatism moved readers and challenged ethnic stereotypes. MacLeod's return eight years later, and the resulting 1995 revision, revealed little improvement in the lives of these men as they struggled in the labor market and crime-ridden underground economy. The third edition of this classic ethnography of social reproduction brings the story of inequality and social mobility into today's dialogue. Now fully updated with thirteen new interviews from the original Hallway Hangers and Brothers, as well as new theoretical analysis and comparison to the original conclusions, Ain't No Makin' It remains an admired and invaluable text.
Download or read book Everything I Miss At Home written by Dawn and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s love when the world is at your fingertips? Crosse Point, Virginia’s most notorious residents come together in a race for love, money, and lust while doing every dirty trick in the book to win at all costs. The allure of power and respect turns personal and professional relationships into bartering tools for the next big score. Erin Powell, slick talking sales guru. Devyn McAllister, the vivacious and vilified vixen, and transitioning basketball star Nikki Brown throw caution to the wind to satisfy the needs they lack in Everything I Miss At Home, the sexy and thrilling debut novel from the author Dawn. This page turning sexy corporate thriller in a soap opera on the steroids that somehow feels like real life. As the players succeed in making their wildest dreams come true, reality returns with a vengeance in a karmatic tornado that simultaneously spares and destroys. C’est La Vie.
Download or read book You Ain t Gonna Believe This But written by Stanley S. McGowen and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short stories is intended to illustrate a more humorous glimpse of a soldier's life in Vietnam. It's of the times when boredom and a fertile imagination often lead to amusing situations, rather than the "blood and guts" of combat. All the narratives in this book, saves one, are true, or at least were presented to the author as fact. Some are without a doubt true, as they happened to the author. Other Vietnam veterans related the remainder of the yarns, swearing that each and every detail was unquestioningly genuine. We all know that combat veterans do not lie but their memories may, nevertheless recall their experiences slightly altered from actual events. Perusing these stories the reader might logically conclude that ego or passing years might, just possibly, influence a few of the bone-chilling tales. GI's live through numerous happenstances that are not heroic but are embarrassing or mundane. No matter how cynical a GI becomes, some events, maybe only in retrospect, are viewed as ironic or downright funny. These random experiences are what the book are about.
Download or read book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English J Z written by Eric Partridge and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entry includes attestations of the head word's or phrase's usage, usually in the form of a quotation. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book Swiss Fork Saga written by Danny W. Fair and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a Colorado rancher in the 1880's and his desire to build a railroad.
Download or read book Young Goonz written by Reality Way and published by Good2go Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow us on http://www.instagram.com/GOOD2GOPUBLISHING for Free Giveaways. Welcome to Far Rock where opportunity never knocks. Meet Foe a member of the Young Goons. The plan is to make money and live comfortably but when the rival YBM (Young Black Mafia) no nonsense crew inters the equation things turn deadly. With each side not willing to compromise or back down Foe and the Young Goons are left with only one option...kill the competition! Take a ride with Foe as he takes you on a journey through Far Rock. With the weight of the world on his shoulders, Foe must prove that strategy is the harshest weapon in war. As him and the Young Goons go head up with the powerful ruthless organization known as the Young Black Mafia...
Download or read book Cark and Moil written by Don Pirata and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not your usual poetry. Not for the faint of heart. This book gives raw voice to, and exposes the destructive lifestyle of, all too many young Hispanic Angelenos. Gangs attract kids who lack effective families, and the gang becomes the family. Kids become the parents and teachers to their peers. Result? All grow up to be kids. Unfortunately these grown up kids play cops and robbers with real cops and real guns. These kids have more kids who, left without effective families, become the new gangsters, and so it all degenerates. Everyone gets caught in the vicious circle: police, parents, schools, and so on and on. Many finally end up in prison (the real cool school). Many end up dead. So who's to blame? Nobody. Who's got the answers? Nobody. Who cares? The final canto of this book is modeled after Kahlil Gibran's book THE PROPHET. By turning his ideas inside out, the twisted, involuted, reality of the gangster life is exposed. Not all of these fragments are doom and gloom. Most are funny, and many came from different periods on the author's life. After you've read this book, you'll know why the Pirata is crazy. Folked out, broked out, loc't out, one eye poked out, Pirata has spent the last decade trying to help young Hispanic gangsters make choices to build better lives. A graduate of Chaffey College in Alta Loma, and CSUB. He lives with his wife and son in Southern California.
Download or read book Just Say No written by Omar Tyree and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-08-07 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omar Tyree, New York Times and Blackboard bestselling author and winner of the 2001 NAACP Image Award for literary fiction, delivers a powerful story of two childhood friends lured into the sex, drugs, money, and madness of R&B stardom. Darin Harmon and John Williams, two good church boys from Charlotte, North Carolina, have been best friends since they were toddlers. Both use their God-given talents to breeze through high school, and both are awarded scholarships to North Carolina A&T State University: Darin for football, and John for music. During their sophomore year, John, the introverted momma's boy, showcases his musical genius in a homecoming talent show that changes both their lives forever. John's romantic crooning earns him the nickname "Loverboy." As his R&B career begins, he asks Darin to tag along as his manager. Darin wants no part in the music scene and has big dreams of his own, but when he suffers a season-ending football injury, he finally agrees to hop on the "Loverboy" bandwagon. The two set out to turn John into an R&B superstar. For Darin, dealing with John's rising fame and fortune proves a difficult challenge. The more the two adapt to the dangerous celebrity lifestyle of big-time money, fast women, and recreational drugs, the harder it gets for both of them to "just say no!" With its page-turning narrative and irresistible characters, Just Say No! is destined to become another urban-American classic from Omar Tyree.
Download or read book The Syndicate 2 written by Brick and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All hell has broken loose, and the McPhearson clan is right in the middle of the chaos. After finding out their beloved foster mother, Claudette McPhearson, was anything but the sweet old woman they thought her to be, Javon, Shanelle, and the rest of their siblings hit the ground running in order to keep the Syndicate operating and to keep themselves alive. That also means they have to lose some of the people they love the most. With the legacy of their mother and her plans for them in motion, the McPhearson children are operating on a broken foundation. Attacked on all fronts, Javon and Shanelle are struggling to keep the family normal, while following the criminal plans of their dead mother. The Syndicate is growing, and Javon is determined to bring in new blood while looking for those who killed Claudette. Not to mention, something odd is going on with all of his siblings that threatens to rock the family to the core. Will the McPhearson clan fall in order for the Syndicate to rise, or will the truth end the legacy before it can even begin?
Download or read book Murder in the Heartland Book Two written by Harry Spiller and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a place where murder isn’t supposed to happen—rural Missouri and Southern Illinois—deputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us. It doesn’t matter whether you live in a big city or small county with farms and churches—murder is swift and can happen to anyone, anywhere, and anytime. All too often, victims fall prey in places we think are safe to raise our families, where we take walks on hot summer nights, where our children play in the park or yard without concern, and where we leave our doors unlocked at night. Murder in the Heartland, Book 2 tells the stories of innocent victims in these seemingly innocent places. From his research and investigations of ten murder cases, Spiller recounts the gruesome details of a fraternity hazing gone deadly, teen killings, and even murders by those living and working with the victims. As much as we like to think we’re safe, murder can happen even in rural America—and it does. Join Spiller in the second installment of his three-book series of these horrifying murders in the heartland.
Download or read book Luvin Him Wasn t Enough written by Racquel Williams and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever met a man that just grabs your attention and sweeps you off of your feet, only to find out later that he isn’t worth a damn? Amoy Simpson experienced a rough life growing up and can’t wait to get away from her turbulent home life. Looking for love, she stumbles on Devon, and thinks he is sent by God. She quickly learns that the thug is nothing but a two-timing liar who will go to the extreme to protect the secret he is hiding from her. Kennedy Guthrie is a self-proclaimed cougar who has everything going for herself—except someone to make her feel loved. After losing her husband to a violent crime, she has given up on love until she comes face-to-face with a street thug who makes her insides quiver and helps to make her feel loved all over again. But Kennedy is no stranger to deceit, and she is determined to show him that she is not the one to play with. Shari Simpson is selfish and out for herself, even if it means betraying her older sister. Her intentions are deadly, and she has no idea that she is playing a dangerous game. Her lies will reveal that blood is not always thicker than water, and sometimes, the ones closest to you are the ones that you have to watch around your man. Take a ride with three women, each going through their own drama with the loves of their lives. Will their love prevail, or is it not enough?
Download or read book The Neutronium Alchemist written by Peter F. Hamilton and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Neutronium Alchemist is the second novel in the Night's Dawn Trilogy from Peter F. Hamilton, an extraordinary feat of storytelling on a truly epic scale. The ancient menace has finally escaped from Lalonde, shattering the Confederation's peaceful existence. Those who succumbed to it have acquired godlike powers, but now follow a far from divine gospel as they advance inexorably from world to world. On planets and asteroids, individuals battle for survival against the strange and brutal forces unleashed upon the universe. Governments teeter on the brink of anarchy, the Confederation Navy is dangerously over-stretched, and a dark messiah prepares to invoke his own version of the final Night. In such desperate times the last thing the galaxy needs is a new and terrifyingly powerful weapon. Yet Dr. Alkad Mzu is determined to retrieve the Alchemist — so she can complete her thirty-year-old vendetta to slay a star. But Joshua Calvert is not alone in the chase to find and stop her, and there are people on both sides who have their own ideas about how to use the ultimate doomsday device. "A space opera that is big, boisterous, and has something for everyone." —Science Fiction Weekly The Night’s Dawn Trilogy The Reality Dysfunction The Neutronium Alchemist The Naked God
Download or read book I ll Hold You Down 3 written by Dejah Rice and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natalie and Neil have been through a lot throughout their course of trying to be together. For some reason, they just can’t seem to get their happy ending that they so desperately crave. Natalie is just trying to keep her mind occupied when her ex-lover kidnaps her and goes crashing into the bridge. No one knows if she is okay and if she will see it out of this traumatic event. Neil is cold when it comes to his enemy, but he has the biggest heart ever when it comes to his loved ones. When he gets a phone call that doesn’t sound so good from his sister, he rushes to try to save her. Once he makes it to her house, he is swarmed by the police. His sister’s baby’s father had called and falsely accused him of kidnapping his own niece. As if being tackled by the cops in his sister’s yard isn’t enough, he hears a gunshot go off in the house. The only thing on his mind is getting inside to make sure his sister is safe. In this finale, the lines of loyalty have been blurred with the lines of betrayal. It’s hard to tell who’s on whose side, especially when not so new people are added to the mix. It’s supposed to be blood before everything, but that’s just simply not the case anymore. Will Natalie survive the car accident? Will Neil be able to save his sister and find his way out of the dilemma he is in? Can these two get their happy ending that they are so deserving of, or will their enemies make sure that they will never see it? Take this last ride with this couple and find out!
