Book Description
Final volume in the critically acclaimed "Connected" series of novels. Follow this last chapter in the life of gangster Trouble Ventura through his diaries, stories and poetry.
Author : Dr. Joe Ferry
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 2019-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0359479901
Final volume in the critically acclaimed "Connected" series of novels. Follow this last chapter in the life of gangster Trouble Ventura through his diaries, stories and poetry.
Author : Ronald V. Micci
Publisher : Independently published
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2016-09-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1520122012
A small-time Capone hood named Johnny Pepys (“peeps,” after Samuel Pepys, the famous English diarist), is called upon to take dictation of the wounded kingpin’s memoirs, and soon finds himself caught between a deal he made with Bugsy Moran and Capone’s hostile and suspicious underlings. A humorous parody of “The Untouchables.” Stage Play (7m/3f) 45 min.
Author : Bunnie Cheatom
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1682894053
Ivan Johnson is a crime figure who grew up in Detroit. From the age of fifteen after watching his dad die in his arms, he takes over his dad’s business. He embarks on a fast life that includes a drug addiction, a few stormy romances, and a couple of prison sentences. His aggression and street fame led to him becoming a murderer. One of his latest victims, Marcus Washington strikes the most guilt in him as he stands trial for a double homicide. The victim’s wife, Sandra Washington, captures Ivan’s attention. After seeing her pain, Ivan begins to write Sandra a series of letters detailing his life story from his childhood to the murder of Sandra’s husband.
Author : Kate Wiseman
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 29,57 MB
Release : 2018-05-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781999863319
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 19,77 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Audio-visual education
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Author : Thi Diem Thuy Le
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307792250
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.
Author : Danny King
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Third volume in Danny King's comedy crime "Diaries" series.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Audio-visual education
ISBN :
Author : Sudhir Venkatesh
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 2008-01-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1440631891
A New York Times Bestseller "A rich portrait of the urban poor, drawn not from statistics but from vivid tales of their lives and his, and how they intertwined." —The Economist "A sensitive, sympathetic, unpatronizing portrayal of lives that are ususally ignored or lumped into ill-defined stereotype." —Finanical Times Foreword by Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of Freakonomics When first-year graduate student Sudhir Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago’s most notorious housing projects, he hoped to find a few people willing to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty--and impress his professors with his boldness. He never imagined that as a result of this assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade embedded inside the projects under JT’s protection. From a privileged position of unprecedented access, Venkatesh observed JT and the rest of his gang as they operated their crack-selling business, made peace with their neighbors, evaded the law, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang’s complex hierarchical structure. Examining the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, and often corrupt struggle to survive in an urban war zone, Gang Leader for a Day also tells the story of the complicated friendship that develops between Venkatesh and JT--two young and ambitious men a universe apart. Sudhir Venkatesh’s latest book Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy—a memoir of sociological investigation revealing the true face of America’s most diverse city—is also published by Penguin Press.
Author : Robert Klitgaard
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 1990-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This is an account of the author’s two-and-a-half year adventure in Equatorial Guinea, and his efforts to get this small bankrupt African nation on the path of structural development.