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Dark Days, Bright Nights

Author : Matthew O'Brien
Publisher : Central Recovery Press
ISBN 13 : 1949481433
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Dark Days, Bright Nights written by Matthew O'Brien and published by Central Recovery Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and enlightening oral account of homelessness in the Las Vegas storm drains and the hard work of re-entering mainstream society. Are you aware that hundreds of people live underground in the flood channels of Las Vegas? Few people were until Matthew O'Brien grabbed a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton for protection and explored the storm-drain system in depth. This research resulted in his landmark book Beneath the Neon. Now the drains have been covered by CNN, Fox News, NPR, Dr. Phil, the New York Times, the BBC, Al Jazeera, and many other media outlets. They have even found their way on to popular TV shows, including CSI, Criminal Minds, and into mainstream movies. But the fact that several of these drug- and gambling-addicted tunnel dwellers have clawed their way out of the drains and turned around their lives has received far less attention. Dark Days, Bright Nights shares their harrowing stories and provides a unique perspective on one of America's most fascinating cities. It also paints a larger picture of homelessness and recovery in America. These stories are the happy (though not Hollywood) ending to the infamous tunnel tale. The narrative is complemented by bios and stark, black-and-white images of the survivors, putting a scarred, knowing face to the unblinkingly honest accounts.

When The Sunlight Goes Dark

Author : Oliver W. Tuthill Jr.
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book When The Sunlight Goes Dark written by Oliver W. Tuthill Jr. and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobby Clantinani’s most fervent dream was to become the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, but he only weighed one-hundred and fifty-four pounds. His father, Oran, expected big things from Bobby and he ruled his family like a tyrant. Oran’s biggest hope was his oldest son, Ted, who was a heavyweight contender heading for a championship bout. While Ted is being lined up for a shot at one of the heavyweight crowns, Bobby is fighting on the second circuit, consisting of high school gymnasiums, rundown hotels, roller rink arenas, and junior college parking lots. Feeling alienated and alone, Bobby finds solace in the arms of Ted’s fiancé, Judith Tesch, a strikingly beautiful boxing groupie who Bobby adores and loves. He also finds a father figure in the form of Benny Bear, a seventy-four year old African American cut man who once fought as a welterweight. Then tragedy hits when Ted is badly injured in the ring, and Oran disappears. Bobby finds himself caught up in the intractable darkness of professional boxing where a man can lose his soul, yet seek absolution in the power of the almighty dollar.

Who We Are Now

Author : Michelle Fishburne
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469671247
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Who We Are Now written by Michelle Fishburne and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelle Fishburne did the unthinkable during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic: she motor-homed 12,000 miles all over the United States and sat down with hundreds of people face to face. People shared what their lives were like, what made them struggle, and what surprised them. The personal histories in this book show a diversity of American lives, from the young college student who finds unexpected fame on TikTok to a special-education teacher sharing the challenges of remote learning. Everyone's story is different. Some, like Fishburne, lost their jobs. Others lost family, friends, and even their own health and well-being. And yet among the difficulties, many found something that had eluded them before the pandemic. These testimonies offer a glimpse into what people across America lost and found during the pandemic's critical first year. Fishburne lets us hear people's stories as if we were there, in real time, at the beginning of COVID-19, when employment was uncertain, schools were online, and American life more unpredictable than ever before.

Everything You Love Will Burn

Author : Vegas Tenold
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568589956
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Everything You Love Will Burn written by Vegas Tenold and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their path to political power Six years ago, Vegas Tenold embedded himself among the members of three of America's most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups-the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist Workers Party. At the time, these groups were part of a disorganized counterculture that felt far from the mainstream. But since then, all that has changed. Racially-motivated violence has been on open display at rallies in Charlottesville, Berkeley, Pikesville, Phoenix, and Boston. Membership in white nationalist organizations is rising, and national politicians, including the president, are validating their perceived grievances. Everything You Love Will Burn offers a terrifying, sobering inside look at these newly empowered movements, from their conventions to backroom meetings with Republican operatives. Tenold introduces us to neo-Nazis in Brooklyn; a millennial Klanswoman in Tennessee; and a rising star in the movement, nicknamed the "Little Fü by the Southern Poverty Law Center, who understands political power and is organizing a grand coalition of far-right groups to bring them into the mainstream. Everything You Love Will Burn takes readers to the dark, paranoid underbelly of America, a world in which the white race is under threat and the enemy is everywhere.

The Dark Place Behind the Eyes

Author : M.L. Flaniken
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 146282790X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Place Behind the Eyes written by M.L. Flaniken and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what if the eyes you behold are found in the DARK PLACE BEHIND THE EYES? The Studio: An embittered woman will have to share her studio apartment with a resident from the DARK PLACE BEHIND THE EYES. Commuter Chick: A daily commute to work leads to a hellish ride into the DARK PLACE BEHIND THE EYES. 20/20: Prescription glasses help millions of people see better. However, for one man, a pair of glasses will help him see what lurks in the DARK PLACE BEHIND THE EYES. Spare Change: The drop of a few coins in a strangers palm could send your soul to the DARK PLACE BEHIND THE EYES.

That Old Black Magic

Author : Tom Clavin
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569768137
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book That Old Black Magic written by Tom Clavin and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a love story and a tribute to the entertainment mecca, this exploration shines a spotlight on one of the hottest acts in Las Vegas in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The illuminating depiction showcases the unlikely duo--a grizzled, veteran trumpeter and vocalist molded by Louis Armstrong and a meek singer in the church choir--who went on to invent "The Wildest." Bringing together broad comedy and finger-snapping, foot-stomping music that included early forays into rock and roll, Prima and Smith's act became wildly popular and attracted all kinds of star-studded attention. In addition to chronicling their relationships with Ed Sullivan, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, and other well-known entertainers of the day--and their performance of "That Old Black Magic" at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration--the narrative also examines the couple's ongoing influence in the entertainment world. Running concurrent with their personal tale is their role in transforming Las Vegas from a small resort town in the desert to a booming city where the biggest stars were paid tons of money to become even bigger stars on stage and television.

Where All Light is Left to Die

Author : Robert S. Wilson
Publisher : Empire of Blood Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where All Light is Left to Die written by Robert S. Wilson and published by Empire of Blood Books. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When those with a special gift can catch your soul in that dark realm between here and hereafter and bring you back to life, who will save us all from the jealous void? Lurking between the crowds of men and women, there are those among us who feed on something other than plants and animals. Predators with a unique kind of prey. Predators of those who prey on women and children... Predators with a taste for justice. James Benton might be the last man on earth. Racing to get to work, he finds random abandoned cars, smoldering pile-ups, and something even stranger. Everywhere he goes there's no grass, no people, not even a bird in the sky. Alone in a barren world, James travels west in search of someone, anyone who might have survived The Quiet. When Art Gibson's collie, Ginger, goes out of control, barking and digging at Dead Man's Hill, Art makes a chilling discovery: someone is trapped inside. Alive. Once rescued, the man himself is even stranger. Naked and unable to speak, he is taken to the hospital. As he recovers from an unknown shock, the fate of an entire universe is at stake. Thirteen tales in all. Awakened from the mind of Robert S. Wilson. Ripped from their slumber and stretched across the fabric of space and time, silently screaming into the farthest reaches of the cold dead void... where all light is left to die. Table of Contents: 1. The Death Catcher (Short story) 2. Playing with Fire (Flash fiction) 3. The Singularity (Short story) 4. The Last Time I Saw My Brother Nathan (Flash fiction) 5. Self-Aware: A Ray Garret/Lifeline Techno Thriller (Short story) 6. The Boy in the Elevator (Short story) 7. Forcipules (Short story) 8. Calling Me Home (Flash fiction) 9. The Resurrection of Tommy Derringer: An Empire of Blood Short Story 10. The Quiet: A Novella 11. The Suits (Flash fiction) 12. Through the Mindhole: A Novelette 13. The Nesting Place: A Novella 14. Through the Mindhole: A Poem (The full poem written for and used in Through the Mindhole)

Vegas

Author : John Gregory Dunne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781961341326
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Vegas written by John Gregory Dunne and published by . This book was released on 2025-06-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best book about Sin City ever written . . . [Dunne's] grotesqueries aren't drug-induced, they're very real. His is the genuine Vegas." (Esquire) "In the summer of my nervous breakdown, I went to live in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada." So begins John Gregory Dunne's neglected classic of first-person writing, a mordant, deadpan, grotesque tale that blurs the line between autobiography and fiction, confession and reportage. Panicked by his own mortality, despondent over his many failings as a writer and a man, Dunne leaves his wife, Joan Didion, and their three-year old child for the solitude of a crummy apartment off the Vegas Strip. His plan: to write a book about the city he describes as a "prison of yesterdays." In his desperation, he connects with a remarkable trio of characters: Artha, a student at cosmetology college by day, a sex worker by night; Buster Mano, a private detective whose specialty is tracking down errant husbands; and Jackie Kasey, a lounge comic who opens for Elvis at $10,000 a night and wonders why he is still only a "semi-name." Pimps, bail bondsmen, parking-lot moguls, used-car tycoons, ex-jockeys, and women who look as if they had "spent a lifetime meeting guys in Vegas or Miami Beach or Louisville for the Derby"--these are the people who wander through the lives of Artha, Buster, and Jackie; and, for a dark season, their world becomes Dunne's. Vegas captures a low point in American culture and in one American life with rare vitality, honesty, and perception. Sad, powerful, wildly funny, Vegas is like no memoir before or since.

Beneath the Neon

Author : Matthew O'Brien
Publisher : Huntington Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 0929712390
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Beneath the Neon written by Matthew O'Brien and published by Huntington Press Inc. This book was released on 2007-03-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O’Brien’s adventures in subterranean Las Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a raging flood. He parties with naked crackheads. He learns how to make meth, that art is most beautiful where it’s least expected, that in many ways, he prefers underground Las Vegas to aboveground Las Vegas, and that there are no pots of gold under the neon rainbow.

Circle H Ranch

Author : Richard Kohn
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453562087
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Circle H Ranch written by Richard Kohn and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Circle H Ranch, On the Arizona Border is the story of present day life on a southeastern Arizona ranch along the Mexican border. The ranch owner has to deal with his workers being shot at. Gangs are bringing drugs and weapons into the US. They will kill anyone that gets in their way. The rancher hires a part time forklift operator. He turns out to be able to do more than load and unload trucks. Can he save the people on the ranch? Why wont the government help? The news said that a military helicopter, on a training mission, crashed in a storm along the border. Did the storm cause the crash or did something else? Why arent the survivors talking? Did twelve men coming into the country illegally die in a car crash near Benson or did they die somewhere else ands the government just says thats where they died? How was this related to the ten illegals that died in a similar crash in New Mexico? What is the Mexican Army doing in Arizona in force? Why did the Mexican Federal Police chase a US citizen into Arizona from Mexico? Join Sam, his Auntie, Vegas, and Harold and find out the answers to these questions. Circle H Ranch All the shooting sequences in this book are as accurate as I can make them. All the guns used by the good guys I have access to. All the shots can be duplicated on paper targets. None of the shots or shooting sequences are difficult for anyone that has good shooting skills. The matches mentioned in the book really exist. Tuesday Night Steel has run continuously since 1982. The match currently draws one hundred and twenty to one hundred eighty shooters every Tuesday night. Any safe shooter can enter any of the matches after a brief class before the match. For more information on the matches go to www.riosaladosportsmans.com.

MICHAEL JACKSON:

Author : J. Randy Taraborrelli
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446565687
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book MICHAEL JACKSON: written by J. Randy Taraborrelli and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major biography includes the behind-the-scenes story to many of the landmarks in Jackson's life: his legal and commercial battles, his marriages to Lisa Marie Presley and Debbie Rowe, his passions and addictions, his children; objective and revealing, it carries the hallmarks of all of Taraborrelli's best-sellers: impeccable research, brilliant storytelling and definitive documentation. So much has how been said and written about the life and career of Michael Jackson that it has become almost impossible to disentangle the man from the myth. This book is the fruit of over 30 years of research and hundreds of exclusive interviews with a remarkable level of access to the very closest circles of the Jackson family - including Michael himself. Cutting through tabloid rumours, J. Randy Taraborrelli traces the real story behind Michael Jackson, from his drilling as a child star through the blooming of his talent to his ever-changing personal appearance and bizarre publicity stunts.

Millennium Book Three: Inferno

Author : Judith Reeves-Stevens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471106993
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Millennium Book Three: Inferno written by Judith Reeves-Stevens and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The True Reckoning is only seconds away, and only the crew of Deep Space Nine can prevent it from happening. But the Pah-wraiths and their followers, Gul Dukat and the merciless Grigori, will do anything to stop them. Does the answer lie within the realm of the Prophets, opponents of the Pah-wraiths from time immemorial? Or is the real answer hidden in the fact that nearly seven years ago, a Ferengi barkeeper was not killed by the Cardassians?

Armor

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Armor written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

World War II and Nevada

Author : Charles Weller
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1647791472
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book World War II and Nevada written by Charles Weller and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II and Nevada is an in-depth examination of the state’s role in the war. Nevada’s geographic location, land, sky, mineral resources, and the sacrifices of its people were crucial to victory—and transformed the state. The war brought the first significant development of the gaming industry; the introduction of a huge, permanent military presence; the diversification of its population; and a shift in political and economic power within the region. Nevada’s previously unexamined role in the internment of Japanese Americans is explored, and so too is the role of women and minority groups in support of the war. The book concludes with a comprehensive list of those killed, wounded, or made prisoners of war during the conflict. Weller provides the most thorough analysis of Nevada’s war effort to date and historians will find the book a valuable addition to their World War II history collections.

Doug Aitken

Author : Doug Aitken
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 9780870700453
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Doug Aitken written by Doug Aitken and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry and Anne Pasternak. Text by Klaus Biesenbach, Peter Eleey, Doug Aitken.

This Time, This Place

Author : Jack Valenti
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
ISBN 13 : 030734665X
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book This Time, This Place written by Jack Valenti and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the nation at war in the 1940s, 22-year-old Jack Valenti flew combat in Italy. He was in that fateful Dallas motorcade in 1963, flew back to Washington with the new president, and for three years worked in the inner circle of the White House as special assistant to President Johnson. Then, for the next 38 years, with American society and popular culture undergoing a revolutionary transformation, Valenti was the public face of Hollywood in his capacity as head of the Motion Picture Association of America. From growing up poor in a neighborhood of Greek and Italian immigrants in Houston to rising to the highest summits both of national government and Hollywood, Valenti has led several lives. Here is a candid reflection of the life of a brilliantly successful man who helped to shape politics and entertainment in the second half of the twentieth century.

A Promise to Ball

Author : Shadney D. H.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524622192
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book A Promise to Ball written by Shadney D. H. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a poor black man from Michigan, playing in the big leagues was just a dream. When his dreams become a reality, he thinks all his problems are overuntil someone comes in and threatens everything hes worked for. Follow Marcus on his journey to success, where he learns whom he can trust and who are just in it for themselves. A Promise To Ball 2... Coming soon!