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Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy

Author : Doug Stumpf
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060889543
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy written by Doug Stumpf and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazilian-born Gil is trying to find the American Dream. In the meantime, he polishes the shoes of the superrich and powerful on Wall Street—high-rolling traders as uninhibited as they are ruthless. Gil sees things as few other people do—from the ground up—and his perspective on the day-to-day insanity of the trading floor is priceless. But this fly on the wall overhears one or two things that maybe he shouldn't. And when a Glossy magazine journalist, desperate for a big break, persuades him to be an undercover source for what may be the biggest insider trading scam in Wall Street history, Gil is catapulted into a danger zone darker than anything he or the journalist could have imagined.

Outraged

Author : Robert J. Hoshowsky
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781978415959
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Outraged written by Robert J. Hoshowsky and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Murder That Changed a City The tragic story of Shoeshine Boy Emanuel Jaques has been the basis of novels, short stories, a documentary, a play, songs, a children's book on the dangers of abduction, and dozens of essays, but never a True Crime book...until now. The torture and killing of Emanuel over a 12-hour period above a seedy Toronto body rub parlour outraged citizens who demanded change to Toronto's Yonge Street strip, which by 1977 resembled New York's grimy 42nd Street with its many X-rated movie theatres, massage parlours, pornographic bookstores, and prostitutes. Through a series of original interviews, archival research, and previously unpublished documents, author Robert J. Hoshowsky recreates in detail Emanuel's brutal death, the hunt for the boy's killers, the shocking trial and press coverage, the controversial Yonge Street clean-up, and what remains one of the most sensational True Crime cases in Canadian history.

Kicking the Sky

Author : Anthony De Sa
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616203935
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Kicking the Sky written by Anthony De Sa and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was 1977 when a shoeshine boy, Emanuel Jaques, was brutally murdered in Toronto. In the aftermath of the crime, twelve-year-old Antonio Rebelo explores his neighborhood’s dark garages and labyrinthine back alleys along with his rapscallion friends. As the media unravels the truth behind the Shoeshine Boy murder, Antonio sees his immigrant family--and his Portuguese neighborhood--with new eyes, becoming aware of the frightening reality that no one is really taking care of him. So intent are his parents and his neighbors on keeping the old traditions alive that they act as if they still live in a small village, not in a big city that puts their kids in the kind of danger they would not dare imagine. Antonio learns about bravery and cowardice, life and death, and the heart’s capacity for love--and for cruelty--in this stunning novel.

The Shoe Shine Boy

Author : Wallace Brazzeal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975446058
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Shoe Shine Boy written by Wallace Brazzeal and published by . This book was released on 2006-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one brief summer a thirteen-year-old became a Texas Shoeshine Boy, creating a story to add to the family history...a springboard to link the threads together. The Houston Ice Houses played cowboy songs to lonesome folks whose shoes needed a good shine. It was a place sandwiched between a boy growing up and a country expanding beyond its borders. It was as simple as two people discovering each other and as uncharted as the heavens above. But these thoughts could only be understood later, when growing older seasons memories and makes sense from a perspective far in the future. A place where all such stories are weaved and knitted into a tapestry that can only be seen and read after a life well-lived, where tear-drops are not lost in rain, but merge with all sorrows into the oceans of humanity.

The Shoeshine Boy

Author : Walter Reinhard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977533213
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (332 download)

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Download or read book The Shoeshine Boy written by Walter Reinhard and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The International Man

Author : Douglas R. Casey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book The International Man written by Douglas R. Casey and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shoeshine Girl

Author : Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062290649
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Shoeshine Girl written by Clyde Robert Bulla and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who ever heard of a shoeshine girl? The last thing Sarah Ida wants to do is spend the summer with her Aunt Claudia. But when her parents send her away because of problems at home, that is exactly what she has to do. With no allowance and no fun to be had, Sarah Ida decides to look for a job. But who will hire a ten year old? Al, the shoeshine man, will! Sarah loves her job, even if it means getting knee-deep in shoe polish everyday. Then something terrible happens and it looks like the shoeshine stand will have to close forever. If Sarah Ida wants to keep it open, she'll have to learn a few lessons about growing up along the way ...

ShoeShine Boy

Author : Charles Belim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984407163
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book ShoeShine Boy written by Charles Belim and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy

Author : Harry Stone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy written by Harry Stone and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From Shoeshine to Star Wars

Author : Walt Jourdan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781537535685
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book From Shoeshine to Star Wars written by Walt Jourdan and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Shoeshine to Star Wars: The Chronicles of Walt Jourdan is a compelling memoir that chronicles the life of father and son as they overcome obstacles and face the challenges that only a migrant trying to create meaning in life in the US can face...[it] is both engaging and inspirational, a story I'd love to see on screen. Five Stars." ~ Christian Sia for Readers' Favorite "Walt and Lee Jourdan have created something special. The voice of the book resides in Walt's voice-similar to Jake Lamotta's "Raging Bull" and Louie Armstrong's autobiography. Five Stars" ~ Paul Croshaw, Writer/Director. Little Walt is a nine-year-old Colored boy in 1937 Oakland, California. The Great Depression is in full swing, offering little opportunity for Little Walt to do more than shine shoes and sell magazines to help his family make ends meet. Big Walt, his father, quit school after eighth grade, but applied his resourcefulness to own and operate several businesses, including a boarding house, barber shop, cab company, gas station, a baseball team, a used car lot, and an illegal gambling house. Little Walt had to use his own resourcefulness to break the mold, and he went on to achieve success on the gridiron, as a sailor in the Korean War, and in a society bent on maintaining a culture of subservience for African Americans. But it was not to be a smooth upward trajectory for Little Walt. He struggled to maintain focus after family tragedies, and faced many obstacles, both cultural and personal, as he endeavored to raise a family - ultimately ending in a place no one could have predicted when he lugged his shoeshine box ten miles a day as a nine-year old boy. Forewords by Randall Cunningham, NFL MVP, and Susan Toler Carr, daughter of the first Black NFL official.

Banksy: Completed

Author : Carol Diehl
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262046245
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Banksy: Completed written by Carol Diehl and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's more to Banksy than the painting on the wall: the first in-depth investigation into the mysteries of the world's most famous living artist. Banksy is the world's most famous living artist, yet no one knows who he is. For more than twenty years, his wryly political and darkly humorous spray paintings have appeared mysteriously on urban walls around the globe, generating headlines and controversy. Art critics disdain him, but the public (and the art market) love him. With this generously illustrated book, artist and critic Carol Diehl is the first author to probe the depths of the Banksy mystery. Through her exploration of his paintings, installations, writings, and Academy Award-nominated film, Exit through the Gift Shop, Diehl proves unequivocally that there's more to Banksy than the painting on the wall. Seeing Banksy as the ultimate provocateur, Diehl investigates the dramas that unfold after his works are discovered, with all of their social, economic, and political implications. She reveals how this trickster rattles the system, whether during his month-long 2013 self-styled New York "residency" or his notorious Dismaland of 2015, a full-scale dystopian "family theme park unsuitable for children" dedicated to the failure of capitalism. Banksy's work, Diehl shows, is a synthesis of conceptual art, social commentary, and political protest, played out not in museums but where it can have the most effect--on the street, in the real world. The questions Banksy raises about the uses of public and private property, the role of the global corporatocracy, the never-ending wars, and the gap between artworks as luxury goods and as vehicles of social expression, have never been more relevant.

Macaroni Boy

Author : Katherine Ayres
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 030753801X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Macaroni Boy written by Katherine Ayres and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Great Depression, a boy who faces bullying stumbles upon a mystery and comes of age in this novel that integrates fact and opinion and has a rich 1930’s vocabulary. Extra material: An Author’s Note is included in the back of the book. Mike Costa has lived his whole life in The Strip, Pittsburgh’s warehouse and factory district. His father’s large Italian family runs a food wholesale business, and Mike is used to the sounds and smells of men working all night to unload the trains that feed the city. But it’s 1933, and the Depression is bringing tough times to everyone. Money problems only add to Mike’s worries about his beloved grandfather, who is getting forgetful and confused. Mike is being tormented at school by a loud-mouth named Andy Simms, who calls Mike “Macaroni Boy.” But when dead rats start appearing in the streets, that name changes to “Rat Boy.” Around the same time Mike notices that his grandfather is also physically sick. Can whatever is killing the rats be hurting Mike’s grandfather? It’s a mystery Mike urgently needs to solve in this atmospheric, fast-paced story filled with vibrant period detail.

Echoes of a Distant Summer

Author : Guy Johnson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588361993
Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Echoes of a Distant Summer written by Guy Johnson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You done lived a tough life, boy, and I know I’m part responsible for that. I ain’t askin’ you to excuse me or forgive me. Just know I did the best I knew to do. I was just tryin’ to make you tough enough to deal with the world. To stand tall among men, I knew you had to be strong and have yo’ own mind.” “You were preparing me for war, Grandfather.” Guy Johnson, the author of the critically acclaimed debut Standing at the Scratch Line, continues the Tremain family saga. Jackson St. Clair Tremain hasn’t spoken to his grandfather King in nearly twenty years. Disgusted by the violence and bloodlust that seemed to be his grandfather’s way of life, Jackson chose to distance himself from King and live a simpler life. But now King is gravely ill, and his impending death places Jackson’s life—as well as those of his family and friends—in jeopardy. Reluctantly, Jackson travels to Mexico to see King. But after a brief reconciliation, his grandfather is assassinated, and Jackson suspects that his grandmother Serena may have had a hand in it. Jackson takes control of King’s organization, and as he does, he reflects on the summers he spent in Mexico as a child and the lessons he learned there at the knee of his strong-willed, complex grandfather. In Echoes of a Distant Summer, Guy Johnson introduces us to a new hero, Jackson St. Clair Tremain, who learns that, like his grandfather, he must be willing to protect those he loves—at all costs.

Standing at the Scratch Line

Author : Guy Johnson
Publisher : Villard
ISBN 13 : 037550656X
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Standing at the Scratch Line written by Guy Johnson and published by Villard. This book was released on 2001-06-12 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in the steamy bayous of New Orleans in the early 1900s, LeRoi "King" Tremain, caught up in his family's ongoing feud with the rival DuMont family, learns to fight. But when the teenage King mistakenly kills two white deputies during a botched raid on the DuMonts, the Tremains' fear of reprisal forces King to flee Louisiana. King thus embarks on an adventure that first takes him to France, where he fights in World War I as a member of the segregated 369th Battalion—in the bigoted army he finds himself locked in combat with American soldiers as well as with Germans. When he returns to America, he battles the Mob in Jazz Age Harlem, the KKK in Louisiana, and crooked politicians trying to destroy a black township in Oklahoma. King Tremain is driven by two principal forces: He wants to be treated with respect, and he wants to create a family dynasty much like the one he left behind in Louisiana. This is a stunning debut by novelist Guy Johnson that provides a true depiction of the lives of African-Americans in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Clean Your Boots, Sir? Or, The History of Robert Rightheart

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781927077580
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book Clean Your Boots, Sir? Or, The History of Robert Rightheart written by and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clean Your Boots, Sir? This is a captivating story about a hard-working shoeshine boy who is willing to clean the filthy old boots of a farmer, knowing that he doesn't pay very well. Later, a small act of honesty, when he thought no one was looking, causes him to become successful for the rest of his life. An absolute gem of a book for teaching how important it is to have a good character.

Guide to Early Retirement

Author : Incomes Data Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to Early Retirement written by Incomes Data Services and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to early retirement practice in the UK, with particular reference to related pension scheme and old age benefits - notes labour costs, examines redundancy, employee's Motivation and disability reasons for retiring early, and outlines characteristics of the job release scheme, phased retirement and flexible retirement age plans for aiding the transition from work. References.

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

Author : Yiyun Li
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679604065
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Gold Boy, Emerald Girl written by Yiyun Li and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner, a MacArthur Fellow, and one of The New Yorker’s top 20 fiction writers under 40, gives us exquisite stories in which politics and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition. A professor introduces her middle-aged son to a favorite student, unaware of the student’s true affections. A lifelong bachelor finds kinship with a man wrongly accused of an indiscretion. Six women establish a private investigating agency to battle extramarital affairs in Beijing. Written in lyrical prose and with stunning honesty, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl introduces us to worlds strange and familiar, creating a mesmerizing and vibrant landscape of life.