Down and out in a Doublewide and Other Tales of Modern Life
Down and out in a Doublewide and Other Tales of Modern Life

Author: Anthony Scavillo

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2022-10-28

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1663246211

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Ellen Schneider is a young Christian who doesn’t believe in the word impossible. As she boards an airplane for France with three of her girlfriends, she excitedly looks forward to her adventure in a foreign country. But all of that is about to change when she hears a loud boom and the plane goes dark. In a collection of diverse short stories, Anthony Scavillo shares fascinating sometimes shocking insights into American life while portraying characters trapped in difficult situations and often unable to resolve the problems confronting them. Eight-year-old Angel loves ice cream sundaes, late evening snacks, and treats at fast food restaurants. Even though her parents try their best to make her happy, they are never home. Will Angel find a way to love herself unconditionally? For weeks, Marge and her husband, David, have barely been speaking. Now it is their tenth wedding anniversary and she cannot help but wonder if it will be their last. Mary feels much older than her fifty-eight years. When she receives a stunning diagnosis, Mary’s faith is tested in ways she never imagined. Down and Out in a Double-Wide and Other Tales of Modern Life asembles modern tales that delve into the American psyche while questioning our deepest beliefs.

Manufactured Insecurity
Manufactured Insecurity

Author: Esther Sullivan

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2018-08-07

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0520968352

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Manufactured Insecurity is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth investigation of the social, legal, geospatial, and market forces that intersect to create housing insecurity for an entire class of low-income residents. Drawing on rich ethnographic data collected before, during, and after mobile home park closures and community-wide evictions in Florida and Texas—the two states with the largest mobile home populations—Manufactured Insecurity forces social scientists and policymakers to respond to a fundamental question: how do the poor access and retain secure housing in the face of widespread poverty, deepening inequality, and scarce legal protection? With important contributions to urban sociology, housing studies, planning, and public policy, the book provides a broader understanding of inequality and social welfare in the United States today.

Double Wide
Double Wide

Author: Leo W. Banks

Publisher: Cutting Edge Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780997832341

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"After fastball phenom Prospero Stark's baseball career craters in a Mexican jail, he retreats to a trailer park in the scorching Arizona desert. He lives in peaceful anonymity with a collection of colorful outcasts until someone leaves his former catcher's severed hand on his doorstep. Beautiful, hard-living reporter Roxanne Santa Cruz, who keeps a .380 Colt and a bottle of Chivas in her car, joins Stark to help him uncover his friend's fate, a dangerous pursuit that pits them against a ruthless gang of drug-dealing killers."--Back cover.

Tales From A**Hole Road
Tales From A**Hole Road

Author: Tim Stevich

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1525540467

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When Christine and Tim Stevich decided to renovate a unique old house they had lived in for over a decade, located outside a small, rural town, they thought they had made the right decision. After renovating it into their dream home, they celebrated and settled down to enjoy their quiet new lifestyle. Unfortunately, some in their community had a different idea. With no warning or reason, people from the area began shouting at them from the road, honking at all hours of the night, and even creeping onto their property to look through the windows. Soon, hostile interactions with these people turned into a daily occurrence, and they began to fear for their safety. As the harassment grew uglier and more persistent, the Stevichs turned to the police and town council, only to find them unsympathetic and unable to restore peace to their neighborhood. They were alone and trapped in an unfathomable hell. This is the horrifying story of one couple’s experience with ongoing and vicious harassment. It recounts the daily assaults they endured, the methods they used to cope and defend themselves, and ultimately, how their terrible ordeal came to an end. To anyone who has or continues to face a similar situation, this book stands as a rallying call to do anything you can to secure your peace.

Collected Tales from the Rio Grande
Collected Tales from the Rio Grande

Author: Valley Byliners

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2010-04-08

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1450219772

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The authors of COLLECTED TALES FROM THE RIO GRANDE are current or former residents of the Rio Grande Valley, who know the joys and tribulations of living along a contentious border with Mexico. From this wealth of talent and experience, the Valley Byliners Editorial Committee selected and edited the stories and poems that make up this volume. Don Cliff ord has written for and edited several prize winning military and civilian publications. Jack King once taught English and Art in the Texas State Technical College Upward Bound program. Marianna Nelson helped keep the project on track with pertinent insights from the Byliner membership. But in the long run, this book would not have been possible without the collective eff orts of all the talented writers presented here.

One Young Girl's Story
One Young Girl's Story

Author: Brandi Summer

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2024-02-05

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13:

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This is a book about a young girls life the struggles of being overweight and being body shamed. Having someone she thought loved her abuse her and make her feel at a very young age that she was dirty and that no one really even carried about her. She had no were to turn or no one she could tell. This book tells of murrder and ghosts and so many twist and turns along the way you won't be able to stop reading just to find out if she makes it to the end or if the life she Was handed is more than anyone can stand. Does she find the happiness she has alway dreamed of, or does it all come crashing down around her. I wrote this book in hopes that it might help one person going through something they I think it is impossible to get through. You can take a minute to talk to the one you believe and ask for some help. It will make you feel better

Corrections and Beyond: My Story of Doing Time on the Other Side of the Bars
Corrections and Beyond: My Story of Doing Time on the Other Side of the Bars

Author: Dr. Ivan Godfrey

Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.

Published: 2021-09-23

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1637105339

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When Ivan Godfrey began his career as a corrections officer in the New York State Corrections System, it was still reeling from the brutal retaliation to the prison riots at Attica. As a young African American, he grew up in the Bronx, then he worked in prisons, such as the notorious Sing-Sing Prison. In fact, Ivan often met inmates he knew on the streets from his New York City neighborhood. His memoir is a wonderful testament to his determination to strive for a better life and take care of his growing family while working in some of the most dangerous prisons in America. It is also a one-of-a-kind window into the life of a young Black prison guard as he struggled to climb the ladder of success despite inherent and overt racial barriers. Now he is an assistant professor, teaching criminal justice and behavioral science at SUNY Ulster CC, forensic mental health at Russell Sage College, and forensic social work and the criminal justice system at the University at Albany School of Social Welfare. Dr. Ivan Godfrey's memoir is an inspiring journey from the streets of the Bronx to the daily psychological and physical violence while working for over twenty years in the NY State Correction System and finally to the halls of academia.

From the Appalachians to the Alleghenies
From the Appalachians to the Alleghenies

Author: T. C. Conner

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-02-25

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 0982672209

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Humorous and witty short stories about living on a farm, being nearly eaten by a mule, growing up poor, owning your first car, buying your first home, road rage, auto-racing and hunting.

The Advocate
The Advocate

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2001-08-14

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13:

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The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

Mobile Home
Mobile Home

Author: Megan Harlan

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0820357936

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Uprooting ourselves and putting down roots elsewhere has become second nature. Americans are among the most mobile people on the planet, moving house an average of nine times in adulthood. Mobile Home explores one family’s extreme and often international version of this common experience. Inspired by Megan Harlan’s globe-wandering childhood—during which she lived in seventeen homes across four continents, ranging in location from the Alaskan tundra to a Colombian jungle, a posh flat in London to a doublewide trailer near the Arabian Gulf—Mobile Home maps the emotional structures and metaphysical geographies of home. In ten interconnected essays, Harlan examines cultural histories that include Bedouin nomadic traditions and modern life in wheeled mobile homes, the psychology of motels and suburban tract housing, and the lived meanings within the built landscapes of Manhattan, Stonehenge, and the Winchester Mystery House. More personally, she traces the family histories that drove her parents to seek so many new horizons—and how those places shaped her upbringing. Her mother viewed houses as a kind of large-scale plastic art ever in need of renovating, while her father was a natural adventurer and loved nothing more than to travel, choosing a life of flight that also helped to mask his addiction to alcohol. These familial experiences color Harlan’s current journey as a mother attempting to shape a flourishing, rooted world for her son. Her memoir in essays skillfully explores the flexible, continually inventive natures of place, family, and home.