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Author : Arthur M Jr Mills
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450072224
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Empty Lot Next Door written by Arthur M Jr Mills and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on true events of a haunting in Austin, Texas"--P. [1] of cover.
Author : Alan Mallach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558443761
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (437 download)
Download or read book The Empty House Next Door written by Alan Mallach and published by . This book was released on with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned city planner and housing advocate Alan Mallach presents effective strategiesfor community leaders, local officials, and nonprofits contending with vacant propertiesin the United States. Examples illustrate creative ways to reduce the harm caused byvacant properties, jump-start housing markets in struggling neighborhoods, create thepotential for future revival, and transform vacant properties into community assets.
Author : Joe Gwerder
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 1642375373
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Road 19 written by Joe Gwerder and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Road 19 is a very real place that represents the beginning foundation of what has become my family. And we're not just your typical family either. Some things that were, and are, prevelent in my family stand out as extraordinary for sure. Very big highs and debilitating lows have found us in many ways through several generations thus far. As honest as I can be about my family’s personal story, I must say, it is fascinating to realize all that took place! Yesterday, I was hurt, angry and confused. Today, I am happier and more aware. The difference was not created through therapy or found in a church. No drugs (prescribed or otherwise) have been used. In fact, no external source can be credited. One simple, yet complicated to admit reality is all it took. Through the creation of this book and my family’s story, I have come to realize… True understanding is found far beyond the obvious. Childhood exposures set me on a path of adult experiences that have seemed extremely frustrating at times. During most of my young adult years, I was simply in denial. I didn’t even want to look at any old family photos. Scars were deep, resentments were strong, so I set out to detach myself from my family’s past. I did this for a very long time… way too long in fact. Now, through the open-minded perspective that has thankfully found me as I have aged, I have looked deep into my family history. Far beyond the obvious that engulfed my attention span for many years, I found a lot of understanding… my understanding. Now, I wish to record a deep and somewhat detailed exposure of our legacy. I invite you in to our past. Joe
Author : Audrey Peyton
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450014410
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Ashes written by Audrey Peyton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rain kept up. Day after day after day it kept up. I stayed in my room. Della brought in my meals. Alan finished the rototilling and went to the nursery for seeds. He came to show me what vegetbles hed chosen to plant and shook a handful of seeds on to his palm. Look, Kit, absolutely perfect. Ill plant the leafy stuff now lettuce, spinach, cabbage, and Ill pollinate=by hand. In spring Ill plant squash, tomatoes and I dont care what you plant! Im sick. Dont you know Im sick? You killed Mom. You took her from me. She gave meaning to my life. Kit, I didnt kill Now Im back to the start. The nightmares I stroked my forehead. You dont know my nightmares. Thats because youve shut yourself up in this room. Why dont you get out there and start living? Dellas just a kid. She needs you, Kit. What about me? Dont I need someone? Yes, that little eleven year-old. She lost a mother. You lost a son. You could give each other so much. My son was white. If Mom had been black would you have cared for her? My eyes ached with those hateful tears. They lodged there like rocks, pushing against my eyeballs, yet still refusing to fall. I tried to picture Mom with a black face. I saw her only as she haunted me, peaceful and smiling while I read that stupid Bible to her. I had loved her so much that day her color would have been negligible. But to compare her face with Dellas black one, to suggest Della could ever take my sons place Sweet Jesus, no child but my own could take Marks place. Alans eyes turned to steel. He clenched his fist and shook the seeds in his palm, as if debating whether to fling them at me. He left the room. I stood and watched rain pelt the patio. A monstrous idea crept into my head. It Started to grow. No child but my own. My own. ********* February sixteenth. Marks birthday. The idea obsessed me completely now. I could think of nothing else. I would call him Mark. He would have my black hair, my pale skin, my dark eyes, my long body. And I I would have my son. Della entered with a dinner tray. I told her to send Alan in. He responded to my request almost two hours later. It was the first time Id seen him since he showed me the seeds. He said he and Della had been watching Gone with the wind. What did I want ? I didnt hedge. I want you to get me pregnant. What? I need someone to love. His mouth curled with contempt. As long as the kids white, huh? You effing snob! Dont you use that word to me. A cynical look darkened his eyes. The look turned to desire. He reached past me as if to switch off the lamp on the night table, but changed his mind and left it on. He slipped a hand inside my robe and cupped a breast No foreplay! I screeched, backing away. I dont want any foreplay. Just just do it! You bitch, he said, reaching toward me as I continued to back away. You bitch, he said again, and I knew by his trembling voice that he would stay.
Author : Kandace L. Fisher-McLean
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319467867
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Perceptions of Community Crime in Ferguson, MO written by Kandace L. Fisher-McLean and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Brief is based on a research study of aging adults' perceptions and fear of crime in their community of Ferguson, Missouri. The study, which was conducted by coincidence just prior to the death of Michael Brown, presents unique insights into the community environment prior to those events, which sparked protests and turmoil in Ferguson and beyond. This qualitative study employs sampling and semi-structured interviews to survey older adults aging in place in Ferguson about their perceptions of crime, social disorder, racial integration and community transformation. The author also draws comparisons to other US cities, and recommendations for future research. While the study is only preliminary, it will be of interest to anyone researching the intersection of race, crime, and community, or particularly the protests surrounding the events in Ferguson, Missouri, as a starting point for comparison.
Author : William L. Di Carlo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456895834
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (568 download)
Download or read book Keeping the Graveyard Shift Alive written by William L. Di Carlo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to all those people who work 3rd Shift, the Graveyard Shift; these people are a special breed of mankind that go to work in the dark and often, come home in the dark. These people feel isolated often, even though they may be surrounded by millions of people who are asleep, and only the next day will their body be found—cold and stiff at their post by the ‘day dwellers’.
Author : Tony Morgan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503555585
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Book of Morgan written by Tony Morgan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original title of this collection was The Many Realities of Ynot Nagromthis because some of the people who may have read my novels and/or a few of the short stories contained in this volume have asked me if I consider myself a science fiction writer. As you will see, many of these thirty stories and essays are far from that genre; therefore, I do not consider myself to be such a writer. Rather, I see myself at times consumed with the possibilities of alternative realities. For instance, what if there was a way the South would have been able to win the battle of Gettysburg and, with it, the Civil War, the Titanic had missed the iceberg, we were able to build a Super Hadron Collider the circumference of the moon, which then opened a parallel universe to ours, and George Custer had not chosen to leave his two Gatling guns behind on his way to the Little Bighorn? As the cover proclaims, I have also included my literary essays, short stories, and personal tales for all of you. And as the Koran begins, Not a word of this book should you doubt. Tony Morgan
Author : Thomas Small
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471135756
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Path of Blood written by Thomas Small and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Path of Blood tells the gripping and horrifying true story of the underground army which Osama Bin Laden created in order to attack his number one target: his home country, Saudi Publishing in paperback to coincide with the documentary film release, Path of Blood tells the horrifying true story of the underground army which Osama Bin Laden created in order to attack his number one target: his home country, Saudi Arabia. His aim was to conquer the land of the Two Holy Mosques, the birthplace of Islam and, from there, to re-establish a Muslim Empire that could take on the West and win. Thomas Small and Jonathan Hacker use new insider evidence to expose the real story behind the Al Qaeda. Far from the image of single-minded holy warriors they presented to the world, the bands of soldiers are shown to be riven by infighting and lack of discipline. Yet the threat they posed was unquestionable. Ill-disciplined or not, these were men who killed with impunity, and who tried to acquire a nuclear bomb. Drawing on unprecedented access to Saudi government archives, interviews with top intelligence officials in the Middle East and in the West, as well as with captured Al Qaeda militants, and with access to exclusive captured video footage from Al Qaeda cells, Path of Blood tells the full story of the terrorist campaign and the desperate attempt by Saudi Arabia's internal security services to put a stop to it.
Author : Phyllis Hoffman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491738235
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Butterfly Girl written by Phyllis Hoffman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phyllis Hoffman knew something was wrong with her child from the start of her pregnancy. When her baby girl was twelve months old, their pediatrician said, ?Troy is fine. She has a neurotic Jewish mother.? When Troy was two, a professor at the University of Miami told Phyllis and her husband to put Troy away and forget about her. Despite the advice, this mother never stopped trying to do what she knew was best for her daughter. Their experiences in the public school system were at times harrowing and outrageous. Visits to specialists, hospitals, and major universities resulted in conflicting diagnoses. When Troy was six, she and Phyllis flew to Wichita, Kansas, to enroll in a special school. Phyllis struggled to reassure Troy that she was loved and would be safe in that strange place. Four years later, a psychiatrist there told Phyllis that Troy had childhood schizophrenia and that she was the schizophrenogenic mother. A mother's frustration evolved into inspiration. Phyllis earned her Master's degree, taught children with disabilities and then established a private, nonprofit school for children with special needs. Twenty-five years later, her dream of a supervised apartment community was realized. Butterfly Girl is about their struggles ? with each other and with the system. It's not over.
Author : Jim Minick
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496231457
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Without Warning written by Jim Minick and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without Warning captures the story of the deadliest tornado in the history of Kansas, chronicling a massive disaster as it unfolds and the many challenges of rebuilding.
Author : Dick Sproul
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304143597
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Mule Ship written by Dick Sproul and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick and shipmates were cast into an open lifeboat, sailing or drifting for 32 days, running out of food and with only enough water to stay alive. Striving to reach the west coast of Australia, they were hampered by wrong information, faulty flares and confusion. Under the hot Indian Ocean sun, he remained focused, often recalling his Los Angeles childhood before the war. After weeks afloat and putting 12 hundred miles behind them they could not be sure the rescue submarine was friend or foe.
Author : Anne Elizabeth Moore
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1646221591
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Gentrifier written by Anne Elizabeth Moore and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both intelligence and humor, this memoir brings a new perspective to a Detroit that finds itself perpetually on the brink of revitalization. In 2016, a Detroit arts organization grants writer and artist Anne Elizabeth Moore a free house—a room of her own, à la Virginia Woolf—in Detroit’s majority-Bangladeshi “Banglatown.” Accompanied by her cats, Moore moves to the bungalow in her new city where she gardens, befriends the neighborhood youth, and grows to intimately understand civic collapse and community solidarity. When the troubled history of her prize house comes to light, Moore finds her life destabilized by the aftershocks of the housing crisis and governmental corruption. This is also a memoir of art, gender, work, and survival. Moore writes into the gaps of Woolf’s declaration that “a woman must have money and a room of one’s own if she is to write”; what if this woman were queer and living with chronic illness, as Moore is, or a South Asian immigrant, like Moore’s neighbors? And what if her primary coping mechanism was jokes? Part investigation, part comedy of a vexing city, and part love letter to girlhood, Gentrifier examines capitalism, property ownership, and whiteness, asking if we can ever really win when violence and profit are inextricably linked with victory.
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Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book CARL RENDA V INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AIRCRAFT, AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA, 366 MICH 58 (1962) written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1
Author : Wendi Lee
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 0312274378
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)
Download or read book He Who Dies written by Wendi Lee and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ex-Marine turned private investigator Angela Matelli comes from a large family that have moved away from their original East Boston home. While Angela and her siblings have all chosen different lifestyles and professions, there is one inviolable rule that remains in all their lives - everyone goes to their Mother's house for Sunday dinner. So when Angela's brother Albert missed twice in a row, Mrs. Matelli is certain that something bad has happened to her son. Albert, widely believed by the family to be hooked up with the local mob, has always been scrupulous about Sunday dinner and now Mrs. Matelli wants to hire her daughter Angela to look into his disappearance. Against her better judgment, Angela - using her mother's key - breaks into Albert's apartment to find the dinner table set, an open bottle of wine, and a three-day old corpse in other room. The corpse, luckily, isn't Albert but Angela suspects someone is using the body to try and set her brother up. As she digs further into her brother's life she quickly discovers that his boss in the mob claims to nothing about Albert's troubles, the police are after him to explain the corpse in his apartment, and his partners in the Itty-Bitty Kitty toy factory are desperate for his return. Now it's up to Angela to uncover what each of these things has to do with the others - and who is trying so desperately to get to her brother - before it is too late.
Author : Nalini Jones
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307549194
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book What You Call Winter written by Nalini Jones and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed of interconnected stories that move within and around a small Catholic community in India, this debut collection heralds the arrival of a graceful, sparkling new voice. Nine-year-old Marian Almeida covets the green dress her parents have set aside for her birthday, but when her desire gets the best of her, dangerous events ensue. Roddy D'Souza sees his long-dead father bicycling down the street, and wonders if his own life is nearing its close. Essie, having sent her son to boarding school, weighs his unhappiness against the opportunities his education will provide. With empathy and poise, Nalini Jones creates in What You Call Winter a spellbinding work of families in an uncertain world.
Author : Sheldon Cohen
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456607421
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)
Download or read book A Jewish Story written by Sheldon Cohen and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2014-08-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Jewish family, victimized by anti-Semitism in Poland and Germany, flees to Minsk, Byelorussia and eventually to the Minsk forests when the Soviet Union is invaded by Nazi Germany in World War II. They become Jewish partisan fighters, and in an unusual collaboration with other Jews, a Polish-Jewish World War I veteran, a Byelorussian Christian, and two Russian partisan leaders, they join forces to wreak havoc behind Nazi lines. The author hopes that A Jewish Story will help the reader to better comprehend the European Jewish experience including two world wars, learn about the geopolitical factors that resulted in the rise of Adolph Hitler and his quest to control Europe and destroy Europe's Jews, and allow those who hear fanatical leaders making modern day threats believe and take to heart the famous saying of George Santayana, "Those that cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Author : Jon David Douglas
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465330666
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Cody written by Jon David Douglas and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-08-18 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Codys mother dies before she can answer the fifteen-year-olds question: Who is my father? Homeless, Cody is first aided by a kindly landlady, later abruptly forced into a sadistic foster home. He flees in desperate search for his real father, but is caught and put into a juvenile facility, from which he narrowly escapes. Free again, he hitchhikes across country, running into people who help, but hindered by others. Jobless and penniless, he learns to survive on the brutal streets. Cody discovers shocking facts about his mother, and as he continues his search, discovers truths about himself before he finds a solution.
