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"Based on true events of a haunting in Austin, Texas"--P. [1] of cover.
Author : Arthur M Jr Mills
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2010-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1450072224
"Based on true events of a haunting in Austin, Texas"--P. [1] of cover.
Author : Jim Minick
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 2023-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1496231457
Without Warning captures the story of the deadliest tornado in the history of Kansas, chronicling a massive disaster as it unfolds and the many challenges of rebuilding.
Author : Dick Sproul
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1304143597
Dick and shipmates were cast into an open lifeboat, sailing or drifting for 32 days, running out of food and with only enough water to stay alive. Striving to reach the west coast of Australia, they were hampered by wrong information, faulty flares and confusion. Under the hot Indian Ocean sun, he remained focused, often recalling his Los Angeles childhood before the war. After weeks afloat and putting 12 hundred miles behind them they could not be sure the rescue submarine was friend or foe.
Author : Anne Elizabeth Moore
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1646221591
Taking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both intelligence and humor, this memoir brings a new perspective to a Detroit that finds itself perpetually on the brink of revitalization. In 2016, a Detroit arts organization grants writer and artist Anne Elizabeth Moore a free house—a room of her own, à la Virginia Woolf—in Detroit’s majority-Bangladeshi “Banglatown.” Accompanied by her cats, Moore moves to the bungalow in her new city where she gardens, befriends the neighborhood youth, and grows to intimately understand civic collapse and community solidarity. When the troubled history of her prize house comes to light, Moore finds her life destabilized by the aftershocks of the housing crisis and governmental corruption. This is also a memoir of art, gender, work, and survival. Moore writes into the gaps of Woolf’s declaration that “a woman must have money and a room of one’s own if she is to write”; what if this woman were queer and living with chronic illness, as Moore is, or a South Asian immigrant, like Moore’s neighbors? And what if her primary coping mechanism was jokes? Part investigation, part comedy of a vexing city, and part love letter to girlhood, Gentrifier examines capitalism, property ownership, and whiteness, asking if we can ever really win when violence and profit are inextricably linked with victory.
Author : Alan Mallach
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2018-05
Category : Abandoned buildings
ISBN : 9781558443754
Renowned city planner and housing advocate Alan Mallach presents effective strategies for community leaders, local officials, and nonprofits contending with vacant properties in the United States. Examples illustrate creative ways to reduce the harm caused by vacant properties, jump-start housing markets in struggling neighborhoods, create the potential for future revival, and transform vacant properties into community assets.
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Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 1962
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Author : Nalini Jones
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307549194
Composed of interconnected stories that move within and around a small Catholic community in India, this debut collection heralds the arrival of a graceful, sparkling new voice. Nine-year-old Marian Almeida covets the green dress her parents have set aside for her birthday, but when her desire gets the best of her, dangerous events ensue. Roddy D'Souza sees his long-dead father bicycling down the street, and wonders if his own life is nearing its close. Essie, having sent her son to boarding school, weighs his unhappiness against the opportunities his education will provide. With empathy and poise, Nalini Jones creates in What You Call Winter a spellbinding work of families in an uncertain world.
Author : Jon David Douglas
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2003-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465330666
Codys mother dies before she can answer the fifteen-year-olds question: Who is my father? Homeless, Cody is first aided by a kindly landlady, later abruptly forced into a sadistic foster home. He flees in desperate search for his real father, but is caught and put into a juvenile facility, from which he narrowly escapes. Free again, he hitchhikes across country, running into people who help, but hindered by others. Jobless and penniless, he learns to survive on the brutal streets. Cody discovers shocking facts about his mother, and as he continues his search, discovers truths about himself before he finds a solution.
Author : Anne Rivers Siddons
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 2007-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1416553444
The house next door to the Kennedys appears to be haunted by an all-pervasive evil, and the couple watches as a succession of owners becomes engulfed by the sinister force, until the Kennedys set out to destroy the house themselves.
Author : James Farrell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1524565024
From meeting Charles Lindbergh at Pan Am back in the 60s up till the megamerger of United Airlines with Continental Airlines in the mid-2000s, Jim has seen the rapid growth of the airline industry firsthand. From the jet era inception with the Boeing 707, to the historic introduction of the 747, which he witnessed himself, right up to the 787 introduced by United, he has been on a wild roller coaster ride that took him from Pan Am to Eastern Airlines to American Airlines to Continental and finally to United. Its a ride he hopes will capture the readers interest and take them to exciting places never witnessed before.