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A confessed Mafia hit man describes the New Jersey Campisi family's reckless and violent criminal doings and his own defiance of the code in working for their undoing
Author : Paul Hoffman
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 1976
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780399117695
A confessed Mafia hit man describes the New Jersey Campisi family's reckless and violent criminal doings and his own defiance of the code in working for their undoing
Author : Mindy Starns Clark
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0736941746
Fast-paced and inspirational, The Million Dollar Mystery series is from bestselling author Mindy Starns Clark. Attorney Callie Webber investigates nonprofit organizations for the J.O.S.H.U.A. Foundation and awards the best of them grants up to a million dollars. In this series, Callie comes across a mystery she must solve using her skills as a former private investigator. A young widow, Callie finds strength in her faith in God and joy in her relationship with her employer, Tom. --- In book number three of The Million Dollar Mystery series, Callie suddenly finds herself involved in the life of a young wife and mother whose husband has disappeared...possibly the victim of foul play. Callie has come to the beautiful Smoky Mountains hoping to award a million-dollar grant to the charity set up in the woman’s late husband’s honor. But in the search for a missing migrant worker, a body is discovered, which puts the grant on hold and her new romance with her mysterious boss in peril. Trusting in God, Callie forges steadily ahead through a mire of clues that lead her deeper and deeper into danger.
Author : Nancy Kelly Allen
Publisher : Charlesbridge
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 1999-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1607341573
Farmer Worth discovers that a special tree on his farm produces different kinds of money, depending on what animal fertilizer he uses.
Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2015-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755155335
Paul Pry, one of Gardner’s least-known and strangest characters is showcased here. He picks ‘Mugs’ Magoo out of the gutter and forma a partnership which makes the big shots of the underworld look pathetic.
Author : Milton Meltzer
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Depressions
ISBN : 9780451624420
American's years of hardship from the stock market crash to the new deal.
Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 18,98 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 : Vicki Anderson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786483024
With their rakish characters, sensationalist plots, improbable adventures and objectionable language (like swell and golly), dime novels in their heyday were widely considered a threat to the morals of impressionable youth. Roundly criticized by church leaders and educators of the time, these short, quick-moving, pocket-sized publications were also, inevitably, wildly popular with readers of all ages. This work looks at the evolution of the dime novel and at the authors, publishers, illustrators, and subject matter of the genre. Also discussed are related types of children's literature, such as story papers, chapbooks, broadsides, serial books, pulp magazines, comic books and today's paperback books. The author shows how these works reveal much about early American life and thought and how they reflect cultural nationalism through their ideological teachings in personal morality and ethics, humanitarian reform and political thought. Overall, this book is a thoughtful consideration of the dime novel's contribution to the genre of children's literature. Eight appendices provide a wealth of information, offering an annotated bibliography of dime novels and listing series books, story paper periodicals, characters, authors and their pseudonyms, and more. A reference section, index and illustrations are all included.
Author : Alexander Cockburn
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 32,50 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781904859031
For all who dare look, this timely book shows how voting for the lesser evil candidate still leaves the American people with evil. It calls on progressives to begin a new movement outside the death-embrace of the Democratic Party.
Author : Michael Connelly
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2002-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759527407
The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren't for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It's on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he's been "chasing the dime"--doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can't get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help a woman he has never met, he steps into a world of escorts, websites, sex, and secret passions. A world where his success and expertise mean nothing...and where he becomes the chief suspect in a murder case, trapped in the fight of his life.
Author : Amy Tincher-Durik
Publisher : HGTV
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780696218491
Features: Design-conscious readers can examine creative makeovers that cost less than $1,000; Highlights 20 rooms from the show, including before-and-after photos; In-depth instruction for projects from stencilling walls to customising furniture; Show's talented design team provides plenty of practical tips and foolproof techniques to restyle, recolour, remake, and rearrange any room of the home; Includes a room arranging kit with dozens of templates; Provides detailed buying resource information.