Download or read book You Wanna Borrow What written by Vickey V. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We (Americans) have always borrowed from others. When the cavemen (the first men on earth according to scientists) were on the earth, they borrowed one anothers hammer for making the wheel. Can you imagine seeing a caveman asking his friend to borrow his hammer to help him make a wheel?
Download or read book Dark written by Kenji Jasper and published by Crown. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thai Williams is walking a thin line between two worlds. On one side he has his job as a filing clerk for the Washington, D.C., Department of Public Works, his girlfriend Sierra, and his plans for going to college. But on the other, darker side there are his friends Snowflake and Ray Ray, men who run the neighborhood streets dodging the dangers of the criminal life and its after-effects. But that thin line disappears when Thai walks in on Sierra with another man, whom he eventually kills in a haze of jealousy and confusion. From there Thai finds himself on the run and away from the five-block stretch where he’s lived for all his life. He finds his way to Charlotte, where Enrique, his closest friend of all, has moved in search of a better life. In the course of the week that follows, Thai encounters a series of men and women who show him aspects of life he never dreamed of in his narrow ghetto existence. All of them are looking for answers, but it is Thai who must find his own path out of the dark and into the clear light of moral responsibility and repentance for his actions. In his first novel, Kenji has written a haunting portrait of his own urban generation, shadowed (and often erased) by violence, but determined to make their own mark on the world.
Download or read book Disappearing Acts written by Terry McMillan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan comes an honest look at a modern romance, from love at first sight to painful reality to working toward a happy ending.... Franklin Swift was a sometimes-employed construction worker and a not-quite-divorced dad of two. Zora Banks was a teacher, singer, and songwriter. They met in a Brooklyn brownstone, and there could be no walking away.... In this funny, gritty love story, Franklin and Zora join the ranks of fiction’s most compelling couples as they move from Scrabble to sex, from layoffs to the limits of faith and trust. Disappearing Acts is about the mystery of desire and the burdens of the past. It’s about respect—what it can and can’t survive. And it’s about the safe and secret places that only love can find.
Download or read book The Three Mike Cramer Novels written by Stephen Leather and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three page-turning action thrillers from Stephen Leather: THE CHINAMAN, THE DOUBLE TAP and THE LONG SHOT.
Download or read book The Long Shot written by Stephen Leather and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plan is so complex, the target so well protected that the three snipers have to rehearse the killing in the seclusion of the Arizona desert. Cole Howard of the FBI knows he has only days to prevent the audacious assassination. But he doesn't know who the target is. Or where the crack marksmen will strike. Former SAS sergeant Mike Cramer is also on the trail, infiltrating the Irish community in New York as he tracks down Mary Hennessy, the ruthless killer who tore his life apart. Unless Cramer and Howard agree to co-operate, the world will witness the most spectacular terrorist coup of all time . . .
Download or read book Open Ocean Closed Coffin written by Ian Wood and published by Ian Wood. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Zayn Stone, a budding author having some success with his work, is invited by his two closest friends, married swingers Donna and Chris, to take a trip to Hawaii as a plus one on the superyacht of the millionaire number two in a very successful Chinese robotics corporation, he thinks it will be an interesting experience. He has no idea. Both Chris and Donna have designs on him, and then there's a murder in a locked cabin and a host of suspects. There's the spoiled actress, the MVP basketball player, the reclusive supermodel, the two power-lifting German crew members, and others. Can he even survive the trip, let alone figure out whodunit? The answer will surprise you.
Download or read book Bay of Souls written by Robert Stone and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Stone's remarkable novel is a psychological thriller of razor-sharp intensity: mysterious, erotic, and deeply readable. Michael Ahearn, a professor at a rural college, sheds his comfortable assumptions when he becomes obsessed with a new faculty member from the Caribbean, Lara Purcell. An expert in Third World politics, Lara is seductive, dangerous -- and in thrall, she claims, to a voodoo spirit who has taken possession of her soul. Impassioned and determined, Michael pursues Lara to her native island of St. Trinity, heedless of the political upheaval there. Together they desperately attempt to reclaim all that Lara has lost. Yet island intrigue ensnares them. Lara sacrifices herself to ritual and superstition. Michael is caught unawares in a high-stakes smuggling scheme. In his feverish state of mind, the world becomes an ever-shifting phantasmagoria. He is, himself, possessed. In Bay of Souls, readers will recognize the trademarks of Stone's greatest fiction: the American embroiled in Third World corruption, the diplomats and covert operatives, the idealists and opportunists. Yet here the author's sights are set inward, to a place where politics is superfluous, experience unreliable. Never before has Stone probed so powerfully the psychological depths of one man's mind. What he finds there defies expectations.
Download or read book McQuaid in August written by Shepard Rifkin and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Damian McQuaid, of New York’s First Homicide Squad, decides to help a woman who has been receiving obscene phone calls. Such petty squeals are none of McQuaid’s business, but when, as he leaves for the day, he overhears an attractive woman talking to a precinct detective, he volunteers to help her. Unofficially, of course: he knows just what interpretation his buddies in homicide would put on that if they find out. Because she is terrified of being alone, he spends the night on Iris’s sofa, but when he wakes the next morning, he finds that she has been murdered in her bedroom while he slept. Shocked and angry, he decides to investigate on his own time—again, very unofficially; again, for very obvious reasons—and his inquiries lead him to begin a clever, insidious, and dangerous program of harassment in an effort to expose the man McQuaid believes to be the killer. All very unofficially, because McQuaid doesn’t have a single clue that would convict his suspect.
Download or read book What the Wine sellers Buy Plus Three written by Ron Milner and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of four plays by contemporary playwright, screenwriter, and director Ron Milner. Much of Black literature from the 1940s through the 1960s deals with the search for identity and asks the question, Should Blacks define themselves in relationship to white people and white culture? In dramatizing the struggles and desires of the Black working class and lower middle class, renowned Detroit playwright Ron Milner responds to this question by letting Black culture - Black music in particular - be not only his subject but part of his form of expression and way of being in the world. The four Milner plays collected here - Checkmates, What the Wine-Sellers Buy, Jazz-Set, and Urban Transition - are characterized by their attention to African American social and psychological culture. Checkmates (1990) explores the relationships of two Black couples who are generations apart in age and attitudes - one new at the games and realities of love, the other experienced. What the Wine-Sellers Buy (1974), a coming-of-age tale set on Detroit streets in the 1950s, looks at the conflict between the lure of the streets and a mother's teachings. The highly innovative Jazz-Set is Milner's tribute to jazz - a play that works like a jazz composition, where the musicians and music are one and characters' life experiences and memories are "played" as music. Urban Transition (1995) picks up on themes introduced in What the Wine-Sellers Buy to examine how the drug subculture has made its way into current mainstream culture. Ron Milner is one of America's most prolific and foremost playwrights. His plays have become required texts in many of the emerging repertory theaters of the Black and progressive theater communities. Four Plays will be of interest to students of the theater, theater scholars, and those interested in African American and American literature.
Download or read book Pigeon English written by Stephen Kelman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a ruckus at lunch time. It was the best one so far. Nobody knew why they were fighting . . . You actually thought they were going to kill each other. You wanted them to stop. It wasn't funny anymore. Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on a London housing estate. The (second) best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on in marker pen - unaware of the danger growing around him. But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and the police appeal for witnesses draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own. In doing so, he unwittingly breaks the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe, and Harri will come face to face with the very real dangers surrounding him. A powerful, unforgettable tale, importantly relevant for young adult readers of today. Stephen Kelman's 2011 Man-Booker-prize-shortlisted novel has been adapted for the stage by Fringe-First-winner Gbolahan Obisesan (Mad About the Boy). The stage adaptation received its world premiere at Bristol Old Vic in a Bristol Old Vic Young Company and the National Youth Theatre co-commission on 7 August 2013, before transferring to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Download or read book The Office and Philosophy written by J. Jeremy Wisnewski and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when you thought paper couldn’t be more exciting, this book comes your way! This book—jammed full of paper—unites philosophy with one of the best shows ever: The Office. Addressing both the current American incarnation and the original British version, The Office and Philosophy brings these two wonders of civilization together for a frolic through the mundane yet curiously edifying worlds of Scranton’s Dunder-Mifflin and Slough’s Wernham-Hogg. Is Michael Scott in denial about death? Are Pam and Jim ever going to figure things out? Is David Brent an essentialist? Surprisingly, The Office can teach us about the mind, Aristotle, and humiliation. Even more surprisingly, paper companies can allow us to better understand business ethics. Don’t believe it? Open this book, and behold its beautiful paper... Join the philosophical fray as we explore the abstract world of philosophy through concrete scenes of the unexamined life in The Office. You may discover that Gareth Keenan is secretly a brilliant logician, that Dwight Schrute is better off deceiving himself, that David Brent is an example of hyperreality, and that Michael Scott is hopelessly lost (but you probably already knew that!).
Download or read book Mighty Real An Anthology of African American Same Gender Loving Writings written by edited by R. Bryant Smith and Darius Omar Williams and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of African-American Same Gender Loving Literature featuring both new and established writers. Grounded in a poignant and truthful sensibility, imbued with the realities of sex and love, Smith and Williams present a culmination of poems, short stories, radical essays, sermons, plays and interviews honoring notable figures within the SGLBT community.
Download or read book The Truth about James Y A Series Book 2 written by Sarah Tork and published by Sarah Tork . This book was released on with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age 17+ His beautiful green eyes held me selfishly, all because he wanted to remain as one of the Popular Kings at school and for our relationship to be what it’s always been. A Secret. When James first kissed Annabelle all those weeks ago, she did something she never should have. She let him in. Now before her heart crashed beyond repair, he had to be pushed out of her heart. Once and for all.
Download or read book Memini written by and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steel Resolve written by Ruth Nineke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his high school Steel supplies everyone's drugs. Fearless and terrifying, he runs the school because he's willing to push limits. His operation is small and tight, his trust hard-won. He demands total loyalty and respect, especially from those closest to him - his girlfriend, Lisa, and his best friend, TJ.When his ex, Linsey, exposes Lisa as a cheater Steel loses it. Childhood insecurities unleash ferocious violence and ambition in the teenager. He's lost his would-be saving grace to his complete opposite - a preppy, straight laced, rich kid. Determined to protect himself from future betrayal, Steel decides to toughen up by selling more.Inspired by Lisa's bold move Linsey is ready to be with TJ. It's impossible to convince him to stop selling, let alone drop Steel. When an unlikely ally approaches Linsey with a plan to get out, the chance is too sweet to pass. Linsey knows if Steel disappeared everyone would be happier for it. Relationships are rocked when her scheming backfires in a big way.
Download or read book Londonstani written by Gautam Malkani and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A talented new writer whose portrayal of the serious business of assimilation and young masculinity is disturbing and hilarious Hailed as one of the most surprising British novels in recent years, Gautam Malkani's electrifying debut reveals young South Asians struggling to distinguish themselves from their parents' generation in the vast urban sprawl that is contemporary London. Chronicling the lives of a gang of four young middle-class men-Hardjit, the violent enforcer; Ravi, the follower; Amit, who's struggling to come to terms with his mother's hypocrisy; and Jas, desperate to win the approval of the others despite lusting after Samira, a Muslim girl-Londonstani, funny, disturbing, and written in the exuberant language of its protagonists, is about tribalism, aggressive masculinity, integration, alienation, bling-bling economics, and "complicated family-related shit."
Download or read book The Justice Series 5 Book Bundle written by T. E. Woods and published by Alibi. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 1788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter thrillers and the novels of Lisa Gardner and Karin Slaughter, the Justice series from T. E. Woods combines heart-pounding suspense with moral weight and razor-sharp characters. These intense thrillers revolve around a mysterious woman known only as The Fixer—an elite assassin who kills in the name of justice. Now the first five volumes of this riveting series are available in one addictive ebook bundle: THE FIXER THE RED HOT FIX THE UNFORGIVABLE FIX FIXED IN BLOOD FIXED IN FEAR Also includes a preview of the upcoming sixth Justice novel from T. E. Woods! Never a doubt. Never a mistake. Always for justice. Never for revenge. She’s the person you hire when you need something fixed—permanently. With a strict set of criteria, she evaluates every request and chooses only a few. No more than one job per country, per year. She will only step in if it’s clear that justice will not be served any other way. Her jobs are completed with skill and precision, and never result in inquiry or police investigation. The Fixer is invisible—and quite deadly. . . . In the office of a clinical psychologist in Olympia, Washington, a beautiful young woman is in terrible emotional pain. She puts up walls, tells lies, and seems to speak in riddles, but the doctor is determined to help her heal, despite the fact that she claims to have hurt many people. As their sessions escalate, the psychologist feels compelled to reach out to the police, but it might be too late. In Seattle, a detective gets a call from his son. A dedicated journalist, he wants his father’s expertise as he looks into a suspicious death. Together they follow the trail of leads toward a stone-cold hired killer—only to find that death has been closer than either could have imagined. 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
