With his parents working overseas, Matsu stays at the home of his tsundere childhood friend, Yuki, and her gorgeous mother, Yasuko. While Yasuko is kind and caring, Yuki is a roughhousing dark-skinned kogal prodigy who loves to assert her iron will on Matsu. But it's not all bad for the young man, because when she has him locked up, he can feel her plump thighs and big bust smash against his body!
In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law--he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his antiwar stances in the sixties--but nothing could prepare him for the wretched bog that constituted the world of a Harbor Boss. Director of Harbors and Marine Services was a position so mired in corruption that its previous four directors ended up in federal prison. Nelson inherited angry constituents, prying journalists, shell-shocked employees, and a tobacco-stained office still bearing a busted door that had been smashed in by the FBI. Undeterred, Nelson made it his personal mission to become a "pneumacrat," a public servant who, for the common good, always follows the spirit--if not always the letter--of the law. Dirty Waters is a wry, no-holds-barred memoir of Nelson's time controlling some of the city's most beautiful spots while facing some of its ugliest traditions. A guide like no other, Nelson takes us through Chicago's beloved "blue spaces" and deep into the city's political morass. He reveals the different moralities underlining three mayoral administrations, from Harold Washington to Richard M. Daley, and navigates us through the gritty mechanisms of the Chicago machine. He also deciphers the sometimes insular world of boaters and their fraught relationship with their land-based neighbors. Ultimately, Dirty Waters is a tale of morality, of what it takes to be a force for good in the world and what struggles come from trying to stay ethically afloat in a sea of corruption.
The spring of 1945 is going to be his best spring in several years. With his Navy career behind him, and a bank roll thanks to his Navy separation pay, he set out to determine what the future holds. Phil Storm doesn't realize the personal pain he will deal with as he walks into the backrooms of New York City. Dirty Little Secrets by author John Champlin takes the clean and pretty face off of the City and exposes its corrupt, rotten and tainted undertow. Phil will keep you on edge as you wonder how he will free himself from each adverse situation. You will find yourself unable to put this book down as you wonder what will happen next in the lives of the Robert Wayne Dunsworth Coleman's family and their Dirty Little Secrets. The bad boys can break bones but they are unable to break Phil Storm's spirit and desire.
***FOR EVALONLY!!!***** Reading this book, we are shocked to realize how a family can be broken when they are forgotten, ignored or judged by those institutions whose mission is to offer them support. We discover the true story of a tragedy that not only brought its victim into despair, solitude and eventually death, but also imprisoned his close ones into silence. Fortunately, the situation of criminal act victims and their families has changed but only because they have let their voice be heard, as Pierre has done on behalf of his father and his family. But at what cost? The answer is in his book: At the cost of his fathers inner life. The day of the abduction marked the beginning of Charles journey into solitude which continued to deepen until his death. Being abducted and having his reputation and honor destroyed resulted into isolation, as if he had been dehumanized After 40 years, I hope that this book will help towards re-establishing the reputation of the victim and his family, and that shedding light at the end of this very long tunnel of suffering will be their reward.
For centuries, sailors have noted that it's not the oceans that cause harm, but the hard bits around the edges. A parallel can be drawn to recreational sailors who are comfortable sailing in local or coastal waters but have not totally mastered the skills of returning the boat to the slip. Watching neighbors expertly guide their boats into slips and hearing them discuss terms like prop walk and spring lines, they realize there may be a gap in their knowledge. Now for the good news - this is the book you've been looking for. It is the most complete book written on everything you should know about docking your monohull or catamaran. Covering boat characteristics, environmental effects, and different scenarios, you will find a technique to safely dock your boat under any condition. Designed to be read in conjunction with American Sailing's 118 Docking Endorsement course, it is also a stand-alone book for any sailor wanting to improve boat handling skills. You will find everything you need to know in this 137-page book. - Learn why your boat handles like it does - Learn how to assess the variable effects - Learn to use external clues to assist your maneuvering - Learn to use spring lines and prop walk to your advantage - Impress your boat neighbors with your new skills - Learn to love docking
Johnny Amsterdam, Manhattan’s toughest private dick, takes it hard when his favorite nightclub chanteuse books a playdate with murder. When popular cartoonist Lawrence Lariar decided to moonlight as a mystery writer, creating comic book artist turned amateur sleuth Homer Bull was a natural. From the 1940s through the 1960s, Lariar continued to switch from sketching caricatures to sketchy characters, writing hardboiled crime fiction under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Michael Stark, Adam Knight, Michael Lawrence, and Marston La France, and creating a series of memorable gumshoes. Now his classic whodunits are available as ebooks. Working out of Times Square, PI Johnny Amsterdam has met a lot of endangered hard-luck souls. Warbler Kay Randall wasn’t one of them. With the looks and voice of an angel, she didn’t deserve a knife in the heart as a swan song. Only when Amsterdam sets out to find her killer, does he realize the sweet recording star might have had a flip side. How else can he explain such a bevy of gal-pals? Like Jordice, a swinging hat check girl who could be bringing out the worst in any number of men; Serena, a kinky, hopped-up, trigger-happy nightmare in black lace who likes to play rough; and Norma—freaky, painted like a doll, perpetually pickled, and dancing with death, she digs morticians. From grungy Greenwich Village pads to the dicey Brooklyn piers, lone wolf Johnny Amsterdam is on the prowl. But this is New York after dark. He’s also the prey. Naked and Alone is the 1st book in the PI Johnny Amsterdam Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.