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Author: Julian R. Pace
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1425134629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlimpses through the experiences of a taxi driver into the incredible diversity of the human phenomenon, everything form the weird and the violent to the most loving and inspiring- and sometimes all of them together.
Author: Daniel J. Monti
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1611475910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPartisans on both the left and right wings of America's theory class and political spectrum believe we're in trouble, big trouble. The economy is limping along. Inequality has reached unprecedented levels. And we seem to be on the verge of being overwhelmed by immigrants who don't look and act anything like our grandparents did much less the men and women who founded our country. Angry, scared, disengaged and distrustful when we aren't openly antagonistic toward each other, Americans can't figure out who we are as a people and openly fret about our best days being behind us. To make matters worse, our political system, the one place we're supposed to be able to work on behalf of a broader public good with people who aren't like us, appears even more broken than these other parts of our culture. There's some unexpected good news, however, and it's coming from one of the last places in America you'd expect different people to be getting along: Boston. Bostonians -- well known for their unwelcoming and sometimes violent treatment of newcomers and unwillingness to find common ground with people deemed outsiders -- aren't acting broken or taking their resentments out on each other these days. They've turned instead to calmer ways of talking about each other and treating each other in public. Far from being disconnected and afraid, people in Boston are better connected and more respectful of each other, and their city is better organized and more orderly than at any time in its long and storied history. Bostonians have learned to get along with the strangers among them in ways their ancestors never knew or expected the rest of us would be willing to entertain much less master. They have their civic act together. Engaging Strangers explores how the people of Boston have learned to practice a more congenial and respectful set of civic virtues. In this book, the author provides a model for civic conduct for the rest of America to study and follow.
Author: Craig Holden
Publisher: Island Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0440224748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBank Arbaugh, a cop whose daughter has been missing for seven years, and his partner, Mark Steiner, must find a missing teenage girl, and before long, the two cases intersect
Author: Michael Wiley
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2011-06-21
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1429983116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Shamus Award for Best Novel Working late-night surveillance at a luxury condominium development, Chicago private investigator Joe Kozmarski encounters a burglary crew. Two of the crew members show up in a police cruiser dressed in uniform. In the chaos that follows, Kozmarski shoots and kills one of the thieves, who, like the rest of the crew, is one of Chicago's Finest. And just like that Kozmarski finds he's in for many a bad night's sleep. Kozmarski joins the burglary crew, working as an inside agent for his old friend Lieutenant Bill Gubman. Facing dangerous suspicions from both the criminal gang and the uncorrupted ranks of the police department, uncertain about who wishes to help him stay alive and who wishes to kill him, Kozmarski takes his wildest ride yet. A Bad Night's Sleep pushes full throttle through the streets of Chicago to a stunning conclusion.
Author: John Irving
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009-10-27
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 1588369005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County—to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto—pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.” What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author’s unmistakable voice—the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.
Author: Sally Glover
Publisher: Sally Glover
Published: 2023-05-30
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1738662004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe was the high school sweetheart who disappeared without a trace. Now he wants a second chance at her heart. Can two wounded souls learn to love again? When a Hollywood movie takes over sleepy Orcas Island, Rose Hardy is hardly impressed—even when she discovers August Quinn is among the crew. She's got a plan to save the family farm, and nothing's going to stop her—not even a wild night with her ex. Rose was just eighteen when her mom died and August left town in the middle of the night. With the support of friends and her beloved grandfather, she pursued a singular focus: to keep her mother’s legacy alive. But when a record-breaking heat wave hits and threatens to take away everything she's worked for, she’s forced to find out who she can trust—and who she can’t. Much changed in August’s decade away from Orcas Island…just not his love for Rose. Trouble is, after an accident shattered his leg, he’s convinced he’s half the man she needs. And when his doubts get the better of him, he does the only thing he knows how: disappears. Struggling to reconcile between her head and her heart, Rose must learn to find happiness again. Set on a rugged island at the edge of the Pacific, Second Chance Rose will have you rooting for love and the power of second chances. This is book 2 in the Wildflower Romance series. Each can be read as a complete standalone. HEA guaranteed!
Author: Hannes Bertschi
Publisher: Asiatype, Inc.
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9783952286005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: D Dennis Hudson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-09-25
Total Pages: 687
ISBN-13: 019536922X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough Hudson died without completing 'The Body of God', the work has been edited and brought to fruition by Margaret Case. The book is a detailed study of a renowned Tamil Hindu temple, the Vaikuntha Perumal (ca. 770 CE). Hudson uses this temple as an illustration of a major current and historical stage in South Indian Vaisnava religion.
Author: Jaimie Admans
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2018-10-05
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0008296898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne night will change their lives forever... Georgia Bailey is closing up her little charity shop in Oakbarrow when she gets a mysterious late night call from a stranger, threatening to jump off the town’s bridge.
Author: Eleanor Steafel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-03-30
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1526643537
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