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Jerkwater Town

Author : F. James Greco
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491743522
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Jerkwater Town written by F. James Greco and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last three years, former investigative reporter Nick Lanouettea recovering sex addict struggling to stay on the wagonhas been attempting to start over with his wife in Portland, Oregon. But after he receives a call about a shirttail Mafioso possibly being framed for the murder of San Diegos mob chief, Frank Bompensiero, Nicks latent reportorial instincts are rekindled. To reach the truth, Nick tiptoes at the edge of sexual entanglement with Maria Gallo, a pretty, rub-and-tug masseuse who has a personal interest in the investigation. After pawing through eight decades of historic events that touch upon Italian immigration, union activities, Prohibition, and Mafia prominence in San Diego, Nicks probing leads him to uncover the family history of Vittorio ErbiMarias former lover, the father of her son, and the man convicted of Bompensieros murder. Maria, who is certain of Vitos innocence, hopes to persuade a skeptical Nickwith whatever of her talents it requiresthat she is right. In this mystery tale that interweaves historical events with the present, an investigative reporter and an unlikely friend partner together in a dangerous investigation to find out who bumped off San Diegos mob chief. Now only time will tell if one of them will pay the ultimate price for the truth.

The City in Slang

Author : Irving Lewis Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195357760
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The City in Slang written by Irving Lewis Allen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York. In The City in Slang, Irving Lewis Allen traces this flowering of popular expressions that accompanied the emergence of the New York metropolis from the early nineteenth century down to the present. This unique account of the cultural and social history of America's greatest city provides in effect a lexicon of popular speech about city life. With many stories Allen shows how this vocabulary arose from city streets, often interplaying with vaudeville, radio, movies, comics, and the popular songs of Tin Pan Alley. Some terms of great pertinence to city people today have unexpectedly old pedigrees. Rush hour was coined by 1890, for instance, and rubberneck dates to the late 1890s and became popular in New York to describe the busloads of tourists who craned their necks to see the tall buildings and the sights of the Bowery and Chinatown. The Big Apple itself (since 1971 the official nickname of New York) appeared in the 1920s, though first in reference to the city's top racetracks and to Broadway bookings as pinnacles of professional endeavor. Allen also tells fascinating stories behind once-popular slang that is no longer in use. Spielers, for example, were the little girls in tenement districts who danced ecstatically on the sidewalks to the music of the hurdy-gurdy men and, when they were old enough, frequented the dance halls of the Lower East Side. Following the trail of these words and phrases into the city's East Side, West Side, and all around the town, from Harlem to Wall Street, and into the haunts of its high and low life, The City in Slang is a fascinating look at the rich cultural heritage of language about city life.

Dictionary of Word Origins

Author : Jordan Almond
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806517131
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Word Origins written by Jordan Almond and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary gives the intriguing origins of hundreds of everyday words and expressions. Useful for reference and fun just for browsing, Dictionary of Word Origins is also a great way to expand vocabulary and enjoy doing it.

Jerkwater

Author : K. R. Lobel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986449816
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book Jerkwater written by K. R. Lobel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the citizens of Jerkwater Montana, the 1970's are a time of challenges and discovery. From the parent of a severely injured Viet Nam soldier to the hippie invasion and a revolution by high fashion, these people face life with compassion and humor - mostly.Join them in the comedy/drama that is the soap-opera we call life.

Town Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Town Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jerkwater

Author : Jamie Zerndt
Publisher : Jamie Zerndt
ISBN 13 : 1072842475
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Jerkwater written by Jamie Zerndt and published by Jamie Zerndt. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Mercer, Wisconsin, where tensions over Native American fishing rights are escalating, JERKWATER is told from three alternating points-of-view: Shawna Reynolds, a young Ojibwa woman who doesn’t much care for white people to begin with, and who is quickly being pulled in a direction she may no longer have a desire to resist; Kay O’Brien, Shawna’s 64-year-old, usually drunk, neighbor who is still grieving the loss of her husband; And Kay’s son, Douglas, who now finds himself in charge of running the family’s auto repair shop while dealing with his own feelings of guilt. JERKWATER is a story about the racial tensions churning just beneath the surface of what often appears to be placid, everyday American life.

Home on the Range

Author : James R. Dickenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780700607587
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Home on the Range written by James R. Dickenson and published by . This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home on the Range chronicles the epic drama of the settling and development of the High Plains, as viewed through the saga of journalist James Dickenson's family and the wheat-farming community of McDonald, Kansas. With a reporter's sharp eye for detail and human drama, as well as a lucid understanding of the grand sweep of history, Dickenson paints a highly personal portrait of American rural life and its tenacious struggle to survive. By turns lyrical, nostalgic, and unflinchingly realistic, Dickenson weaves a fascinating narrative in which shootouts, lynchings, human chicanery, and nature's treachery test the community's unswerving faith in hard work, tradition, and themselves.

Now You Know More

Author : Doug Lennox
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550025309
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Now You Know More written by Doug Lennox and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a follow up to the runaway bestseller Now You Know: The Book of Answers, which went through five printings and sold over 20,000 copies! In this second book, Lennox continues to trace the history and reasons for hundreds of expressions in our everyday language, as well as customs and habits in the same entertaining format as its predecessor.

Now You Know Big Book of Answers 2

Author : Doug Lennox
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550028715
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Now You Know Big Book of Answers 2 written by Doug Lennox and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doug Lennox serves up a mammoth selection of some of his most cherished Q&As culled from his previous books. Also featured in this wide-ranging compendium are 150 brand-new questions answered with Dougs inimitable flair for unearthing intriguing arcana.

The Bachelor

Author : Noelani Sky
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663206384
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book The Bachelor written by Noelani Sky and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pann Waterford is a mixed bag hero of outlaw know how and defender of principal, and he's an action packed force of nature in his own right. He loves women. He loves everything about women, and considers it his unique mandate to ensure that large numbers of them are satisfied. This mission while not unique, has its own power of attraction and so many adventures and calamaties are soon to giving rise to life. Pann will unexpectedly find his life completely overtaken by a woman so winsome, he can finally see himself satisfied by only one. He was hoping for a smoothe transition to monagamy, but when a man has slept with most of his hometown and county, that may not be so easy. Love is elusive and costly for him when his past becomes his nemesis. Francesca Copper is a beautiful spirit with a trail of tears behind her. She had found the world to be so hurtfully dangerous that she held herself away from everyone but her family and a few friends. The world however; did notice that an angel was missing, and the one man who most would consider totally unsuitable for this virtuous lady, may hold the key to the warmth and assurance that would see her for a life time. If she would just give him a chance.

National Defense Migration

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book National Defense Migration written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cowboys, Outlaws, and Family

Author : R. Hess
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664132708
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Cowboys, Outlaws, and Family written by R. Hess and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowboys, Outlaws, and Family, A Western Adventure brings to life the stories of the characters in her first book Second Chance, A Western Adventure; the Preston family and their bunkhouse crew. The Preston Ranch embraces the New Year as 1900 ushers in a new decade and ends the nineteenth century. Building a new house will continue during spring roundup, and one member of the crew suffers a disastrous accident during spring branding. June finds several members of the family traveling to Portland, Oregon, and the ranch foreman takes two young cowboys to check on the herd and captures four desperadoes during their ride. The year closes the nineteenth century with moving one thousand head of cattle to high ground to avoid flooding conditions at the ranch. The year’s hard work is celebrated with New Year’s Eve games, and news of an upcoming wedding in the twentieth century.

Tales from the Fringe

Author : Rodney Lewis
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595197973
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Fringe written by Rodney Lewis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-08-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful young dancer/prostitute running for her life from a gun-toting maniac in a autumn death-hunt on the Great Plains... A young man relentlessly pursued by a beautiful, bloodthirsty vampiress... A down-and-out security guard caught in the vise-grip dilemma between the law and his conscience... A practical joke-turned-experiment in hypnosis gone horribly and hilariously awry... These are some of the stories you'll encounter in Tales From the Fringe, a collection of eight stories ranging from horror to humor, and all residing on the fringe of the bizarre. This collection of fascinating short stories is a fiction sampler for adult fiction lovers of all ages!

At Her Beck and Call

Author : Dawn Atkins
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1552548775
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book At Her Beck and Call written by Dawn Atkins and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former stripper Autumn Beshkin is an urban girl eyeinga new profession. To climb this career ladder she'skeeping her clothes on and taking an accounting job.Small-town living isn't as exciting as she's used to, butit's only temporary. Then she meets her sexy new boss,Mayor Mike Fields. The attraction between them steamsup the office, and suddenly her visit here promiseshedonistic pleasure. Luring the conservative mayor into some not-so-mayoralactivities isn't difficult for a woman of Autumn's talents.And the results are sizzling! But just as she's eyeing theexit ramp out of town, Mike suggests turning this fling intoa commitment. Is he—and his traditional town—reallyready for the uncut version of Autumn?

A Local Kid (Does Only O. K. )

Author : Ben L. Bassham
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475928335
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book A Local Kid (Does Only O. K. ) written by Ben L. Bassham and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Local Kid (Does Only O.K.) is a witty and affectionate account of one boy's growing up in Rogers, Arkansas in the late forties and the fifties in the days before malls, credit cards, and big-box stores when people shopped and found entertainment in what is now the "historic" town center. A 1960 graduate of Rogers High School, Bassham recalls his checkered employment history as a soda jerk, dishwasher, fry cook, carpenter, and sports reporter (at age 17) for the old Rogers Daily News. Begun as a family history for his two daughters, this "remembrance" of his home town in the years after World War II grew into something more: a collection of lessons learned at the Presbyterian church; of triumphs and (mostly) disappointments on the gridiron and the basketball court; his brief career as a clarinetist under the spell of local musical prodigy Maxie Gundlach; Ben's love of the cars that graced dealers' showrooms; his devotion to fifties' television shows, and the many hours spent watching movies at the old Victory Theater. A cast of colorful local personalities comes alive in his portraits of town "characters," its leading citizens (including "Cactus" Clark, Joe Bill Hackler, Rev. Robert Moser, Heston Juhre, and others), and the author's eccentric relatives. Junk food consumed, clubs joined and abandoned, favorite "parking" spots, old days at the Monte Ne "Pyramids," and fun times on the White River in pre-Beaver Dam days are also lovingly recalled in this enjoyably off-beat autobiography.

Telephony

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Telephony written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Merry-Go-Round Man

Author : John B. Rosenman
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Merry-Go-Round Man written by John B. Rosenman and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you believe you can shape your future, determine your destiny? One spring day in 1954, three sixth grade boys make a bet: the one who can climb first to the top of a small green merry-go-round outside their school will be “Champ for life!” For the rest of his days he’ll be “on Easy Street!” So they engage in a “mad scramble . . . clambering over each other with murderous intent,” and eventually one of them reaches the summit and stands triumphant, lording it over the others. He is the merry-go-round man. The Merry-Go-Round Man is a novel about three boys growing up in the so-called innocent days of the Eisenhower fifties. It’s about rites of passage, loss of innocence, sexual initiation, racism, and much more . Of the three boys, Johnny Roth is central. He possesses two transcendent gifts which are only beginning to emerge as the novel begins. One of them is the ability to box or fight, something he deeply fears. The other ability is artistic and mystical. He is a natural expressionistic painter of vast potential. Unfortunately, Johnny’s father, an orthodox Jew, hates both of these pursuits, and his opposition tears Johnny apart. Of the two other boys, Lee Esner grows up to be a gifted football player with what looks like a lucrative pro career ahead of him. He also has a flair for attracting beautiful girls. Is he the merry-go-round man? The third boy, Jimmy Wiggins, is black and from the ghetto. Attending an elite white school with Johnny and Lee, his naïve love for a pretty white girl is destroyed by her cruel racism. Another rite of passage. Symbols such as a burning Buddhist monk make us ask whether anyone is really The Merry-Go-Man in life.