The Gangster We Are All Looking For


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The highly acclaimed novel that reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing eyes of a child finding her place and voice in a new country. “A brilliant evocation of human sorrow and desire.... Heartbreaking and exhilarating.” —The New York Times Book Review In 1978 six refugees—a girl, her father, and four “uncles”—are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child’s imagination, the world is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects, and waits for her mother to join her. But life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited. As the girl grows, her matter-of-fact innocence eddies increasingly around opaque and ghostly traumas: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland, the memory of a brother who drowned and, most inescapable, her father’s hopeless rage.




Raging Currents


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Book Summary From the ages of two and four, when their mother was found dead, to the ages of eleven and thirteen, when the only father that they ever knew died as well Eugene Lee aka “Gee” and his older brother Rodrick Lee,aka Rod,lives were already set and destined for the wrong path. And after being outcasted by their mother’s family because how she chose to live when she was alive. The only person left to try and raise them on the mean small city streets of Shelby, North Carolina was their older sister Tawanna who still young herself. Even though she tried and done all she could, it just wasn’t enough to stop them from becoming a part of the same thing that so many other vulnerable and troubled youth like them had fell a victim to the streets. As they got older they find themselves completely consumed inside of a life that has very few winners or happy endings. Gene fights through the ranks over the years and become the leader of the notorious crew.”The East Side Money Getta’s or ESMG, but when tragedy strikes close to home he tries to break free from the crazy world that he helped to create. But will it be that simple? Will the diaries that their mother left behind explain what really happen to her? Will they tell him who their real father is? This is a tale about family and fate, love lost and love found, murder and motive, truth and betrayal, money and power. Who will be alive when the book ends? How will it end? Will the story flow and the end smooth, or will it end in,” Raging Currents”




High Alert


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This book is broken down into two basic parts. Part one is how the Retired Senior Volunteer Patrol makes a difference in people’s lives due to their daily duties as volunteers with the San Diego Police Department. The everyday duties of RSVP’s are described in detail by providing interesting stories about each of the categories of jobs. Gregg and his wife Melody set no limits for their time spent going over-and-above volunteer requirements. Part two is about the special equipped license plate reader car that was used exclusively by the author in finding stolen cars, stolen license plates, and cars wanted for felony crimes. Gregg and Melody spent every available moment of their patrol time seeking stolen cars, and in the process became the most successful of all the RSVP volunteers at finding stolen cars setting a record for stolen car recoveries that will probably never be beat.




Government Reports Annual Index


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Sections 1-2. Keyword Index.--Section 3. Personal author index.--Section 4. Corporate author index.-- Section 5. Contract/grant number index, NTIS order/report number index 1-E.--Section 6. NTIS order/report number index F-Z.







Hark! A Vagrant


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Since Kate Beaton appeared on the comics scene in 2007 her cartoons have become fan favourites and gathered an enormous following, appearing in the New Yorker, Harper and the LA Times, to name but a few. Her website, Hark! A Vagrant, receives an average of 1.2 million hits a month, 500 thousand of them unique. Why? Because she's not just making silly jokes. She's making jokes about everything we learned in school, and more. Praised for their expression, intelligence and comic timing, her cartoons are best known for their wonderfully light touch on historical and literary topics. The jokes are a knowing look at history through a very modern perspective, written for every reader, and are a crusade against anyone with the idea that history is boring. It's pretty hard to argue with that when you're laughing your head off at a comic about Thucydides. They also cover whatever's on her mind that week - be it the perils of city living or the pop-cultural infiltration of Sex and the City, featuring an array of characters, from a mischievous pony, to reinvented superheroes, to a surly teen duo who could be the anti-Hardy-Boys. Perceptive, sharp and wonderfully irreverent, Hark! A Vagrant is as informative as it is hilarious, and a comic collection to treasure.







Full Gallop


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THE STORY: A play based on the life of Diana Vreeland, who stood at the center of American style for five decades. As editor of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue magazines, and as a member of the International Cafe Society, she chronicled the extraordinary