Southern Gospel

Southern Gospel

Author: Travis Gibson

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2003-12

Total Pages: 603

ISBN-13: 1413403948

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JONELL EVERSOLE AND THE REVEREND BUDDY JAMES HAGEN LIVE WHAT THEY THINK ARE NORMAL, QUIET LIVES IN A SMALL SOUTHERN TOWN. SHE'S THE DAUGHTER OF A WELL-KNOWN LOCAL BUSINESSMAN, THE WIFE OF AN ASSISTANT PASTOR AND THE OWNER OF A DOWNTOWN ANTIQUE SHOP. JONELL'S LIFE IS DEVOTED TO FAMILY AND CHURCH UNTIL EVENTS CAUSE HER TO BECOME INVOLVED IN TRYING TO SOLVE A POTENTIALLY SCANDALOUS MYSTERY TARGETING THE WEALTHIEST FAMILY IN TOWN. HER EMPLOYEE, MARTY, IS SOMEHOW INVOLVED, MAKING JONELL EVEN MORE CURIOUS AS SHE UNCOVERS SITUATIONS SHE WOULD HAVE NEVER BELIEVED COULD OCCUR IN HER QUIET HOMETOWN. MEANWHILE, THE REVEREND HAGEN, PASTOR OF THE LARGEST CHURCH IN TOWN, IS SUDDENLY IN DANGER OF LOSING HIS CHURCH, HIS FAMILY AND HIS CAREER AS HIS PAST CATCHES UP WITH HIM AND HIS LIFE BECOMES FILLED WITH FRUSTRATION AND FEAR. BOTH JONELL AND BUDDY FACE SHOCKING REVELATIONS CAUSING THEM TO RE-EVALUATE THEIR PREVIOUSLY CALM, RELATIVELY UNEVENTFUL LIVES.


Bugsy Siegel

Bugsy Siegel

Author: Michael Shnayerson

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0300226195

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The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip "[A] brisk-reading chronicle of Siegel’s life and crimes."—Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal "Fast-paced and absorbing. . . . With a keen eye for the amusing, and humanizing detail, [Shnayerson] enlivens the traditional rise-and-fall narrative."—Jenna Weissman Joselit, New York Times Book Review In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel (1906–1947) rose from desperate poverty to ill‑gotten riches, from an early‑twentieth‑century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own making in Las Vegas. In this captivating portrait, author Michael Shnayerson sets out not to absolve Bugsy Siegel but rather to understand him in all his complexity. Through the 1920s, 1930s, and most of the 1940s, Bugsy Siegel and his longtime partner in crime Meyer Lansky engaged in innumerable acts of violence. As World War II came to an end, Siegel saw the potential for a huge, elegant casino resort in the sands of Las Vegas. Jewish gangsters built nearly all of the Vegas casinos that followed. Then, one by one, they disappeared. Siegel’s story laces through a larger, generational story of eastern European Jewish immigrants in the early‑ to mid‑twentieth century.


Karma

Karma

Author: Percell Smith

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2021-02-12

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1665504900

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Karma in the Life After is about young a street hustler who died but he didn’t know that he was dead. He was transformed into a fly in the afterlife. He suffered the pain of dying as a fly. He also was seeing old friends whom had died years before him. They were living a miserable life in the afterlife. He was able to see his friends dying over and over. They were getting killed in the shape of animals and insects. Somehow, he was able to see them dying as humans. If they were not dying, they were going through a lot of pain. They did so much wrong on earth that they never got a chance to meet the creator. The young hustler was able to see the mysteries and answers to questions he always had in real life. He was living as a fly in the afterlife and was attracted to the things real flies were attracted to. He often prayed and hope it was all a dream. He no longer knew the time of day or the day of the week. Everyday seemed to be the same. When he met his guardian in the new life he didn’t know if he was there to help him or make fun of him. Then he realized he only died when his guardian disappeared. He was able to see the things that others could’ve own if they lived an honest life. During this afterlife he realized that he didn’t want to die. He now realized that the life he lived wasn’t a good one. He did not want to live as an insect that was being killed every ten minutes. He didn’t want to eat dog poop forever and he was no longer wanted to see his friends die over and over. Everything was becoming too painful to watch.


Bugsy's Special Event

Bugsy's Special Event

Author: Constance Hobbs

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-09-01

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 0955678374

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A short story about a group of pets that have given up life in their homes for a life in the country. Bugsy, a rabbit, has been a bit down of late and his friends get together to give him a special day to cheer him up.


Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul

Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul

Author: Jonathan Boyarin

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0823239004

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This is a narrative ethnography, in journal form, documenting the life of a small Orthodox Jewish congregation on the Lower East Side of New York in the summer of 2008. The text focuses on the arrival of a newer generation of congregants who are both younger and more transient than the previous immigrant generation. The synagogue and its social life are also portrayed as a microcosm of the gentrification of the neighborhood and resistance to that gentrification.


Other Covenants

Other Covenants

Author: Harry Turtledove

Publisher: Ben Yehuda Press

Published: 2022-12-06

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1953829813

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What if there are other timelines, other histories, other Jews? Would they still have a covenant with the one God, or would they know strange gods? Would they have survived banishment, pogrom and Holocaust? What if the Holocaust had not occurred? Or what if it had succeeded beyond Hitler's darkest dreams? Some of the world's greatest speculative fiction authors explore these roads not taken, and many others, in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, the first-ever anthology of Jewish alternate history fiction.


A Savage Encounter

A Savage Encounter

Author: Bria S.

Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing

Published: 2019-05-27

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1648407765

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Koi Mathis is infamously known as Honey in the streets. She had to grow up fast after becoming a mom at the tender age of fourteen. Her son’s father, Shawn, was the first to introduce her to the fast life. After Shawn received life in prison, Koi had finally had enough of the struggle life. The true hustler inside of her was born, and she began making a living for herself through the underworld. Despite her come-up, Koi constantly feels the pressure of womanhood and living three separate lives. She’s a mom first, part-time exotic dancer, and a high ranking undercover hit woman. Koi consistently applies pressure to each body that has the unfortunate fate of meeting their demise by the barrel of her favorite piece of steel. For years after Shawn’s imprisonment, Koi felt as if she would be single for life. That is until one night she’s introduced to a big-time hustler named, Jizzle. Jizzle is tough as nails in the streets, but he knows how to court a lady correctly. He’s a gentle thug at heart, and his soft interior is a welcomed anomaly in Honey’s lifestyle. There is just something about Jizzle that makes it hard for Koi to resist all of the effort that he puts forward to win her over. All things seem to align well for Honey until she receives an ultimatum regarding a hit that would force her to make one of the hardest decisions in her life, but give her the biggest payout she has ever seen. She is torn between conducting business as usual, or taking a chance that can positively change the trajectory of her life forever. Can Jizzle crack Honey’s hard shell, or will she let a tranquil thug pass her by? Will she take the hit that could change her life forever, or choose to let life flourish instead? Honey is lethal in the streets, and a true savage by any means. Take a ride and encounter Honey’s world.


Suicide Kings

Suicide Kings

Author: Daniel Abraham

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2010-12-28

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9780765357144

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From the #1 New York Times bestseller, the third of a new generation of Wild Cards tales.


The Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle

Author: Cary Trantham

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2011-09-28

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1463433026

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The Atlantians started to experience instability in the umbilical cord or worm hole that connected them to earth. Human species and their vehicles (boats, planes, etc); were slipping through these unstable portals into the Universe of Atlantis. On Mother Earth, the area where these occurrences were happening was designated as the "Bermuda Triangle" The Atlantians watched in horror as the entire Earth began to suffer from the effects of the exploration and removal of fossil fuels. The Earth's crust had become very unstable and underwater earthquakes were on the increase. The Atlantians knew that unless the Earth humans realized and did something about the damage to Gaia from the use and exploration of fossil fuels, she would be damaged beyond recovery and all would die. They were very concerned as it was unsure if their parallel universe could survive without Gaia. They were also unsure if the umbilical cord that connected the two universes could be severed. If Gaia exploded, the Atlantian civilization may also come to an end. The Atlantians put their faith into a young girl from Earth. She had slipped into their world through an unstable portal but was defying science as she could move freely between the two worlds.


Mafioso - Part 7: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE

Mafioso - Part 7: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE

Author: Nisa Santiago

Publisher: Melodrama Publishing

Published: 2023-04-04

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1620781301

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With one of their own missing, the remaining West family spins out of control. Searching for a ghost will take all of Scott’s resources to gain traction against his elusive enemy. Additionally, his past nemesis wants a rematch. With Scott’s attention bifurcated between wars, does he have enough time on his clock to get revenge? Meyer, crippled by a growing addiction, is further devastated when someone close to his heart is pitted against him, and he’s forced to make a choice. Love or loyalty? Money or marriage? Freedom or forever? Which will he choose? Waiting in the cut is the Garcia cartel. And Javier has plans to put the uppity negro, Scott, where he belongs—an unmarked grave.