The End Of Our Thing
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The End Of Our Thing
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Author : Gaurav Garg
language : en
Publisher: Gaurav Garg
Release Date : 2025-06-10
The End Of Our Thing written by Gaurav Garg and has been published by Gaurav Garg this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-10 with History categories.
In the mid-20th century, the American Mafia operated under a shield of secrecy so profound that its very existence was a matter of debate. To its initiated members, it was a sacred brotherhood, a family, a hidden nation with its own laws and rituals. They called it Cosa Nostra—Our Thing. And for a time, under the quiet, corporate leadership of Frank "The Prime Minister" Costello, their thing was more peaceful and profitable than ever before. But that peace is shattered when Vito Genovese, a man of raw ambition and unparalleled brutality, returns from exile to claim the throne he believes is his. So begins a decades-long war for the soul of the organization, a struggle pitting Costello’s modern, diplomatic approach against Genovese’s old-world philosophy of terror and violence. This is the definitive story of that rivalry, a conflict fought not just with guns in back alleys, but with strategy in boardrooms, testimony in televised hearings, and betrayal in the deepest corners of the federal prison system. It details how the ambition of these two titans led directly to the Mafia's most public humiliations: the farcical Apalachin summit, where the organization’s national scope was laid bare, and the subsequent Valachi hearings. Based on extensive historical fact, this novel reveals how Vito’s relentless paranoia inadvertently created Joe Valachi, the man who would stand before the world and give their secret society its name. This is the story of how the personal war between two dons became the reckoning for the entire American underworld, arming the government with the knowledge and the laws to hunt them to near extinction, and bringing about The End of Our Thing.
The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of
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Author : Thomas M. Disch
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2000-07-05
The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of written by Thomas M. Disch and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-05 with Fiction categories.
A popular insider offers a fascinating history of science fiction filled with provocative critiques, tidbits, and insights that reveal much about our cultural and literary history.
A Couple Of Things Before The End
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Author : Sean O'Beirne
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2020-02-04
A Couple Of Things Before The End written by Sean O'Beirne and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with Fiction categories.
This brilliant collection mixes the storytelling originality of George Saunders and Lydia Davis with a sensibility all its own, taking the reader on an extraordinary tour of an old and a new Australia. A woman on a passenger ship in 1958 gets involved with a young, wild Barry Humphries. A man looks back to the 1970s and his time as a member of Australia’s least competent scout troop. In 1988, a teenage boy recalls his sexual initiation, out on the tanbark. In 2015, two sisters text in Kmart about how to manage their irascible, isolated mum. Then, in the near future, a racist demagogue addresses the press the day after his electoral triumph. As the cities heat up and lose their water, a lady from one of the ‘better suburbs’ makes every effort to get her family into an exclusive gated community. Outstandingly original, bitingly satirical and written in a remarkable range of voices, A Couple of Things Before the End is a powerful vision of where we are – and where we may be headed. ‘These voices, so superbly heard and rendered, threw me into fits of laughter and slyly broke my heart.’ —Helen Garner ‘Astonishing ... an inventive collection of missives from the end of history. Complicated and savage and difficult and funny and melancholy, it’s both harsh and a caress. How do we speak and write into a future? I think Sean O’Beirne is showing us one way of doing it.’ —Christos Tsiolkas ‘O’Beirne inflects his identifiably Australian characters with a darkly comic and empathetic voice ... altogether, this collection invokes [our] questionable past, ironic present and disturbing future.’ —Books+Publishing
Verity
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Author : Colleen Hoover
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-10-05
Verity written by Colleen Hoover and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-05 with Fiction categories.
Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed—soon to be a major motion picture—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Late and It Ends With Us. #1 New York Times Bestseller · USA Today Bestseller · Globe and Mail Bestseller · Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.
Captive Images
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Author : Katherine Biber
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-05-07
Captive Images written by Katherine Biber and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-07 with Law categories.
Captive Images examines the law’s treatment of photographic evidence and uses it to investigate the relationship between law, image and fantasy. Based around the scholarly examination of a bank robbery, in which a surveillance camera captures the robbery in progress, Katherine Biber draws upon critical writing from psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, art, law, literature and feminism to 'read' this crime, its texts and its images. The result is an interdisciplinary study of crime that unfolds a compelling narrative about race relations, national identity and fear. This book is an essential read for all levels of law students studying, or interested in, law, criminology and cultural studies.
Our Thing
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Author : Nicci Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-10-03
Our Thing written by Nicci Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-03 with categories.
The Last Lecture
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Author : Randy Pausch
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2008-04-08
The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-08 with Self-Help categories.
After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned—about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have—in this life-changing classic. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." —Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull over the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave—"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"—wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have . . . and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.
Evolution 18
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Author : James Asmus
language : en
Publisher: Image Comics
Release Date : 2019-09-25
Evolution 18 written by James Asmus and has been published by Image Comics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-25 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
It's the end of the world as we know it, and everyone feels terrified. With nowhere left to run from the apocalypse all around them, hard choices will have to made, blood will have to be shed, and a species might have to die.
Hard Rules Sneak Peek Chapters 1 4
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Author : Lisa Renee Jones
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date : 2017-07-04
Hard Rules Sneak Peek Chapters 1 4 written by Lisa Renee Jones and has been published by St. Martin's Griffin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-04 with Fiction categories.
Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in Hard Rules, the smoldering, scorching first novel in the explosively sexy Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. This sneak peek at the first four chapters also includes a bonus scene and an excerpt from book two, Damage Control. How bad do you want it? The only man within the Brandon empire with a moral compass, Shane Brandon is ready to take his family’s business dealings legitimate. His reckless and ruthless brother, Derek wants to keep Brandon Enterprises cemented in lies, deceit, and corruption. But the harder Shane fights to pull the company back into the light, the darker he has to become. Then he meets Emily Stevens, a woman who not only stirs a voracious sexual need in him, but becomes the only thing anchoring him between good and evil. Emily is consumed by Shane, pushed sexually in ways she never dreamed of, falling deeper into the all-encompassing passion that is this man. She trusts him. He trusts her, but therein lies the danger. Emily has a secret, the very thing that brought her to him in the first place, and that secret could destroy them both.
The Wire And Philosophy
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Author : David Bzdak
language : en
Publisher: Open Court
Release Date : 2013-05-20
The Wire And Philosophy written by David Bzdak and has been published by Open Court this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-20 with Philosophy categories.
By many accounts, HBO’s The Wire was and remains the greatest and most important television drama of all time. Conceived by writers David Simon and ex-Baltimore homicide detective Ed Burns, this five-season, sixty-episode tour de force has raised the bar for compelling, intelligent television production. With each season addressing a different arena of life in the city of Baltimore, and each season’s narratives tapping into those from previous seasons, The Wire was able to reveal the overlapping, criss-crossing, and colliding realities that shape—if not control—the people, institutions, and culture of the modern American city. The Wire and Philosophy celebrates this show’s realism as well as its intellectual and philosophical clarity. Selected philosophers who are fans of The Wire tap into these conflicts and interconnections to expose the underlying philosophical issues and assumptions and pursue questions, such as, Can cops really tell whether they are smarter than their perps? Or do they fall victim to intellectual vanity? Do individuals really have free will to resist the temptations—of gangs, of drugs, or corruption—that surround them? Is David Simon a modern-day Marx who sees capitalism leading ultimately to its own collapse, or is Baltimore’s story uniquely its own?