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The Last Three Miles

Author : Steven Hart
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595587489
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book The Last Three Miles written by Steven Hart and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigative history of Depression Era power brokers and labor wars in the construction of the Pulaski Skyway across the New Jersey Meadowlands. In the 1930s, as America’s love affair with the automobile began, cars and trucks leaving the nation’s largest city were dumped out of the Holland Tunnel onto local roads winding through New Jersey swampland. The Pulaski Skyway, America’s first “superhighway,” would change all that by connecting the hub of New York City to the rest of the country. But the corrupt and violent path to its completion would change much more for Jersey City’s residents and labor unions. Jersey City mayor Frank Hague—dictator of the Hudson County political machine and a national political player—was a prime mover behind the ambitious transit project. Hague’s nemesis in this undertaking was union boss Teddy Brandle. Construction of the last three miles of the Pulaski Skyway, then simply known as Route 25, marked an epic battle between big labor and big politics, culminating in a murder and the creation of a motorway so flawed it soon became known as “Death Avenue”—appropriately featured in the opening sequence of HBO’s hit series The Sopranos. A book in the tradition of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker and Henry Petroski’s Engineers of Dreams, The Last Three Miles brings to vivid life a riveting and bloodstained chapter in the heroic age of public works. “A revealing look into how local politics can affect the design and construction of our national infrastructure, sometimes with disastrous results. Hart uses his considerable narrative talent to tell an engaging human story about what might seem otherwise to be but an enormous black steel structure.” —Henry Petroski, author of Engineers of Dreams and Success Through Failure

Three Miles Past

Author : Stephen Graham Jones
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504096290
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Three Miles Past written by Stephen Graham Jones and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Indian Lake trilogy: Three stories that uncover what’s lurking just beyond your headlights . . . Take a road trip into your darkest nightmares with three stories from the modern master of horror and “one of the best writers working today” (NPR). Here, Bram Stoker Award–winning author Stephen Graham Jones gives evil an all-too-familiar face, whether it’s the man from the dog shelter, a colleague at a work convention, or even just your phone. Horror can reach you everywhere and when you least expect it . . . In “Interstate Love Affair,” a serial killer’s unique way of disposing of his victims’ bodies gives roadkill an even more gruesome meaning. “No Takebacks” tracks how an app goes from an idea to coding to letting loose its creator’s darkest impulses. And there’s nowhere to hide during “The Coming of Night,” when a predator’s latest kill sets off a creepy-crawly timebomb inside of him. Buckle up for page-turning scares from “a genuine horror superstar” (Esquire).

The Last Miles

Author : George Cole
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472032600
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Last Miles written by George Cole and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007-07-17 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the final recordings of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century

Three Miles Down

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250844851
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Three Miles Down written by Harry Turtledove and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove, the modern master of alternate history, a novel of alien contact set in the tumultuous year of the Watergate scandal. It's 1974, and Jerry Stieglitz is a grad student in marine biology at UCLA with a side gig selling short stories to science fiction magazines, just weeks away from marrying his longtime fiancée. Then his life is upended by grim-faced men from three-letter agencies who want him to join a top-secret "Project Azorian" in the middle of the north Pacific Ocean—and they really don't take "no" for an answer. Further, they're offering enough money to solve all of his immediate problems. Joining up and swearing to secrecy, what he first learns is that Project Azorian is secretly trying to raise a sunken Russian submarine, while pretending to be harvesting undersea manganese nodules. But the dead Russian sub, while real, turns out to be a cover story as well. What's down on the ocean floor next to it is the thing that killed the sub: an alien spacecraft. Jerry's a scientist, a longhair, a storyteller, a dreamer. He stands out like a sore thumb on the Glomar Explorer, a ship full of CIA operatives, RAND Corporation eggheads, and roustabout divers. But it turns out that he's the one person in the North Pacific who's truly thought out all the ways that human-alien first contact might go. And meanwhile, it's still 1974 back on the mainland. Richard Nixon is drinking heavily and talking to the paintings on the White House walls. The USA is changing fast—and who knows what will happen when this story gets out? Three Miles Down is both a fresh and original take on First Contact, and a hugely enjoyable romp through the pop culture, political tumult, and conspiracies-within-conspiracies atmosphere that was 1974. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Want Not

Author : Jonathan Miles
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544114639
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Want Not written by Jonathan Miles and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “shrewd, funny, and sometimes devastating” novel about the things we desire and the things we throw away (Entertainment Weekly). A New York Times Notable Book A highly inventive, corrosively funny story of our times, Want Not exposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair—a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by the dissolution of his marriage and his father’s losing battle with Alzheimer’s; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate, whose brute talent for squeezing money out of unlikely places has yielded him a royal existence, trophy wife included. Want and desire propel these characters forward toward something, anything, more, until their worlds collide, briefly, randomly, yet irrevocably, in a shattering ending that will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. “Its pleasures are endless."—Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End “Terrific…The novel may begin with prickly satire, it may dig deep into America’s disposable lifestyle, but it ultimately pivots to scenes of surprising tenderness…a novel to hoard.”—The Washington Post “Leaps nimbly from topic to topic…from freeganism to conspicuous consumption; from Manhattan's Alphabet City to residential New Jersey to the backwoods of Tennessee; and from neighbors with nothing but geographical location in common to sisters who share nothing but blood….Sitting down with Want Not is like finding yourself opposite the most interesting person at a dinner party. It pulls you in immediately; makes you shake your head in wonder and delight at your new companion's wit, originality, and compelling turns of phrase; and, best of all, surprises you into laughter.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “For readers who relish extravagant language, scathing wit and philosophical heft, Want Not wastes nothing.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

42 Miles

Author : Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618618675
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book 42 Miles written by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As her thirteenth birthday approaches, JoEllen decides to bring together her two separate lives--one as Joey, who enjoys weekends with her father and other relatives on a farm, and another as Ellen, who lives with her mother in a Cincinnati apartment near her school and friends.

Three Mile an Hour God

Author : Kosuke Koyama
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334061474
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Three Mile an Hour God written by Kosuke Koyama and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Love has its speed. It is a spiritual speed. It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed. It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not, at three miles an hour. It is the speed we walk and therefore the speed the love of God walks.' Once we grasp that in Christ God chooses to walk amongst us, it changes our whole understanding of the speed of love, and the speed of theology. In Three Mile an Hour God, renowned Japanese theologian Kosuke Koyama reflects beautifully on a theme lost to western theology and western culture in general – the need for slowness. With a new foreword from John Swinton

96 Miles

Author : J. L. Esplin
Publisher : Starscape
ISBN 13 : 9781250192288
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book 96 Miles written by J. L. Esplin and published by Starscape. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A suspense thriller, survival story, and a story of the love between brothers. You'll turn the pages and be surprised again and again.”—Gary D. Schmidt, Newbery Honor Award-winning author of The Wednesday Wars “Fast-paced, believable, funny, and poignant. 96 Miles is a great read from the first sentence to the surprising and satisfying ending. I give Esplin’s debut novel 100%. Don't miss it!”—Roland Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Peak 21 days without power. 2 brothers on a desperate trek. 72 hours before time runs out... The Lockwood brothers are supposed to be able to survive anything. Their dad, a hardcore believer in self-reliance, has stockpiled enough food and water at their isolated Nevada home to last for months. But when they are robbed of all their supplies during a massive blackout while their dad is out of town, John and Stew must walk 96 miles in the stark desert sun to get help. Along the way, they’re forced to question their dad’s insistence on self-reliance and ask just what it is that we owe to our neighbors, to our kin, and to ourselves. From talented newcomer J. L. Esplin comes this story of survival and determination as two young brothers confront the unpredictability of human nature in the face of desperate circumstances.

All That’s True

Author : Jackie Lee Miles
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402240864
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book All That’s True written by Jackie Lee Miles and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My life was close to being perfect until my brother Alex got killed. Then my mother started drinking and my father started having sex with Donna, my best friend's stepmother. She's not even thirty years old." With an equal mix of joy and sorrow, All That's True follows Andi's poignant-and sometimes laugh out loud-journey to young adulthood, where she struggles with the elusive nature of truth and the devastating consequences of deception. "Jackie Lee Miles is a wise and perceptive writer with a keen understanding of human frailties."-Julie Cannon, author of Truelove and Homegrown Tomatoes "Perfect in voice and detail, chock full of girl talk and seat-of-the pants crises, Miles' book is a winner." -Rosemary Daniell, award-winning author of Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives "Miles is a fascinating new voice in Southern fiction. Readers will rejoice." -Karin Gillespie, author of Bet Your Bottom Dollar "For those of us looking for relationships that feel authentic, you will find them in this novel!" -Edward Mooney, Jr. author of The Pearls of the Stone Man

Last Three Miles

Author : Steven Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781437974805
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Last Three Miles written by Steven Hart and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1927 opening of the Holland Tunnel meant that a flood of cars and trucks leaving Manhattan bound for points west were dumped into the streets of Jersey City and the Meadowlands. The answer was to create America¿s first superhighway connecting New York with the U.S. The $40 million project had the backing of Frank Hague, one of the most powerful political bosses of his day, and by 1930 all but the last three miles had been built. Completing that final link, now known as the Pulaski Skyway, touched off a labor war that pitted Hague against the powerful union boss Teddy Brandle, and led to a sensational murder trial. When the Skyway was opened in 1932, however, its design proved so badly flawed that newspapers called it ¿Death Avenue.¿

The Perfect Mile

Author : Neal Bascomb
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618391126
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Mile written by Neal Bascomb and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Ten Miles Past Normal

Author : Frances O'Roark Dowell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416995862
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Ten Miles Past Normal written by Frances O'Roark Dowell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Dowell comes a "funny and winning" ("Kirkus Reviews")tale of one teen's quest for normalcy--and the much more exciting detours shetakes along the way.

All That She Carried

Author : Tiya Miles
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 198485500X
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book All That She Carried written by Tiya Miles and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives. WINNER: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, Lawrence W. Levine Award, Darlene Clark Hine Award, Cundill History Prize, Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, Massachusetts Book Award ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Slate, Vulture, Publishers Weekly “A history told with brilliance and tenderness and fearlessness.”—Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward, in the United States. All That She Carried is a poignant story of resilience and love passed down against steep odds. It honors the creativity and resourcefulness of people who preserved family ties when official systems refused to do so, and it serves as a visionary illustration of how to reconstruct and recount their stories today FINALIST: MAAH Stone Book Award, Kirkus Prize, Mark Lynton History Prize, Chatauqua Prize ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, NPR, Time, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Smithsonian Magazine, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, Book Riot, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist

Miles to Go

Author : Miley Cyrus
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9781423119920
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Miles to Go written by Miley Cyrus and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There are multiple sides to all of us. Who we are and who we might be if we follow our dreams.” -Miley Cyrus Three years ago, Miley Cyrus was a virtual unknown. Her life in rural Tennessee was filled with family, friends, school, cheerleading, and the daily tasks of living on a farm. And then came a little show called Hannah Montana. Almost overnight, Miley would rocket to superstardom, becoming a television and singing phenomenon. Quiet days were replaced with sold-out concerts, television appearances, and magazine shoots. But through it all, Miley has remained close to her family and friends and has stayed connected to the Southern roots that made her so strong. In Miles to Go, Miley offers an honest, humorous, and often touching story of one girl's coming-of-age--from private moments with her pappy to off-roading with her dad, Billy Ray, to her run-ins with mean girls. Miley talks about suffering through drama and heartbreak and coming out the other end unscathed (relatively). And now for the first time, she will discuss it all—the milestones still left to reach (driver’s license! voting!), dreams to live out (travel to Asia! find true love!), and the lessons to be learned (remembernig to enjoy every moment!). This is a truly unique look inside the world of one of today’s biggest and brightest stars as she tackles looking back and moving forward.

Three Miles Up

Author : Elizabeth Jane Howard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781872621753
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Three Miles Up written by Elizabeth Jane Howard and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

3 Mph

Author : Polly Letofsky
Publisher : Globalwalk, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780983208501
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book 3 Mph written by Polly Letofsky and published by Globalwalk, Incorporated. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuing the spirit of adventure and an altruistic goal of raising global awareness and funds for breast cancer, Polly Letofsky broke down barriers and walked across four continents, 22 countries, and covered over 14,000 miles in five years to be the first American woman to successfully walk around the world.

Quarter Miles

Author : Devney Perry
Publisher : Devney Perry
ISBN 13 : 9781950692286
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Quarter Miles written by Devney Perry and published by Devney Perry. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katherine Gates has been in love with Cash Greer since the moment he saved her life from a runaway goat. According to Cash, she's the little sister he never had, the greatest roommate in the world and his favorite coworker. They're friends-best friends. In the dark days of her youth, it was her friendships that kept her alive and made life in a junkyard worth living. So she's learned to shove her feelings for Cash down deep, even if that means ignoring eyes that shine brighter than the Montana summer sun and the smile that illuminates the snowiest winter day. Except with every passing year, the denial takes its toll on her wounded heart until one day Katherine decides to take an impulsive road trip to the Oregon coast. Alone. That is, until Cash cons his way into the passenger seat. The farther they travel, the harder it is to pretend. And when she confesses her feelings, she learns that Cash has some secrets of his own. Secrets that will either bond them together. Or rip them apart.