Author : Tanya Tucker
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 1998-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786889365
Tanya chronicles her rise to the top of country music fame, and tells her story about her struggle up from poverty. She became a country music superstar as an adult but not without going through some painful struggles. She talks about her eventual addiction and struggle with cocaine, her infamous brutal affair with Glen Campbell, and tells stories of other celebrities, such as Waylon Jennings, Tammy Wynette, Elvis Presley, Don Johnson, Andy Gibb, Cher, and Clint Eastwood.
Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429926643
The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.
Author : Sandra Nickel
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781620143698
"A picture book biography of Ignacio (Nacho) Anaya, a waiter at the Victory Club in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, and the events surrounding the creation, in 1940, of the globally-popular tortilla chip, cheese, and jalapeño pepper snack that bears his name-nachos"--
Author : Colson Whitehead
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,17 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345804341
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this Pulitzer Prize-winning follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers and “should further cement Whitehead as one of his generation's best" (Entertainment Weekly). Look for Colson Whitehead’s bestselling new novel, Harlem Shuffle!
Author : Wouter van Reek
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Abstraction
ISBN : 9781592701193
Winner of the Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava Golden Apple 2011, Coppernickel Goes Mondrian is a graphically sophisticated march into modernity.
Author : Wright Thompson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0525505660
The instant New York Times bestseller! From one of America's most beloved sportswriters and the bestselling author of Pappyland, a collection of true stories about the dream of greatness and its cost in the world of sports. "Wright Thompson's stories are so full of rich characters, bad actors, heroes, drama, suffering, courage, conflict, and vivid detail that I sometimes thinks he's working my side of the street - the world of fiction." - John Grisham There is only one Wright Thompson. He is, as they say, famous if you know who he is: his work includes the most read articles in the history of ESPN (and it's not even close) and has been anthologized in the Best American Sports Writing series ten times, and he counts John Grisham and Richard Ford among his ardent admirers (see back of book). But to say his pieces are about sports, while true as far as it goes, is like saying Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is a book about a cattle drive. Wright Thompson figures people out. He jimmies the lock to the furnaces inside the people he profiles and does an analysis of the fuel that fires their ambition. Whether it be Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods or Pat Riley or Urban Meyer, he strips the away the self-serving myths and fantasies to reveal his characters in full. There are fascinating common denominators: it may not be the case that every single great performer or coach had a complex relationship with his father, but it can sure seem that way. And there is much marvelous local knowledge: about specific sports, and times and places, and people. Ludicrously entertaining and often powerfully moving, The Cost of These Dreams is an ode to the reporter's art, and a celebration of true greatness and the high price that it exacts.
Author : Simon Leeder
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1457551470
The Power of the Nickel is a motivational book by Simon Leeder who found himself living in his car with only a nickel to his name. After he recognized the wake-up call that nickel represented – he realized he had a choice. A choice to barely survive or to overcome his circumstances. In The Power of the Nickel, Leeder shares his journey from living a hopeless mindset to a mindset of determination and perseverance that led him to a successful career and personal life. The author’s candor and transparency reveals his thoughts and fears along the way making this a delightful and inspiring read. The author invites the reader to explore his/her own thoughts and limiting mindset while providing suggestions and ideas for changing negative thoughts. This book provides thought provoking action steps to take anyone from their limited mindset to one of accomplishing their goals and dreams.
Author : Orion
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,74 MB
Release : 1983-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0671762680
From Simon & Schuster, Dreams is Orion's bedside guide to dream interpretation—including the hidden meanings and secrets. From abacus to zoo, Dreams is a concise dictionary of dreams and is your guide to understanding the knowledge that comes through to you in your dreams form the innermost depths of your being.
Author : Neil Nakadate
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 13,59 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0253011116
A “clear-eyed, carefully researched but nonetheless passionate book” that is “rich with the closely observed details of internment camp life” (Lauren Kessler, author of Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family). During World War II, 110,000 Japanese Americans were removed from their homes and incarcerated by the US government. In Looking After Minidoka, the “internment camp” years become a prism for understanding three generations of Japanese-American life, from immigration to the end of the twentieth century. Nakadate blends history, poetry, rescued memory, and family stories in an American narrative of hope and disappointment, language and education, employment and social standing, prejudice and pain, communal values and personal dreams. “Poetic yet sharply honest, the family story unfolds within the larger context of the national saga. You’ll wince but read it anyway. Your soul will be better for it.” —Nuvo “This book is highly readable and contains fascinating details not usually covered in other books on Japanese-American history.” —Oregon Historical Quarterly
Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2011-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307779041
From the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, an explanation of recent sexual culture and the loosening of marriage bonds in recent history. "Finally someone is offering a new, utterly plausible explanation...of loosening marriage bonds. According to Barbara Ehrenreich...it is men who started walking off, in search of freedom from their stifling role of breadwinner/success-machine. The shock—and exhilaration—of this book comes from the recognition that here is a woman who has dared to look beyond the everyday assumptions about love and commitment to examine which bonds between men and women can endure and which may last forever.”--Vogue
