Westside Wilmington Chronicles
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Westside Wilmington Chronicles
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Author : Juan Carlos Diaz
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2023-02-19
Westside Wilmington Chronicles written by Juan Carlos Diaz and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-19 with Fiction categories.
Released from prison after serving twenty-two years, former hit man Sammy Ortega is looking to turn his life around by publishing a memoir that describes his life as a hit man in excruciating detail. Upon his release, however, his best friend Ace asks him to assist in robbing the stash houses and businesses that are run by Sammy’s former bosses the Zepedas family, a Puerto Rican crime syndicate that runs the drug trade out of the state of Delaware. Meanwhile, as Ortega is helping take down his former crew one by one, his memoir is rapidly climbing the New York Times Best Sellers list. However, a shadow from his past will not let Sammy enjoy his success, for it will drag him back to the life he so desperately wants to escape.
Westside Chronicles
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Author : Jan Loomis
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2012-10-16
Westside Chronicles written by Jan Loomis and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-16 with History categories.
Los Angeles sprawled westward toward the sand and sea of Santa Monica Bay throughout the twentieth century as land-grant ranchos gave way to capitalists and promoters. Developers subdivided the coastal land into neighborhoods and communities: Santa Monica, Brentwood, Bel-Air, Westwood, Venice, Ocean Park, Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Marina del Rey. These became places known to the nation at large for movie stars, moguls and business tycoons; for Will Rogers, Henry Huntington and UCLA; and for estate homes, amusement piers and surfing beaches. Join Jan Loomis, a former West L.A. magazine publisher and historian, as she tells the stories behind how it all came to be West Los Angeles.
Leopold S Ice Cream
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Author : Melanie Bowden Simón
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-27
Leopold S Ice Cream written by Melanie Bowden Simón and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-27 with categories.
The three young Leopold brothers, George, Peter, and Basil, traveled from Greece to Ellis Island to begin their American experience in the early 1900s, eventually finding their way to Savannah, Georgia, where they established a humble fruit and ice cream stand in 1919 that became a cornerstone of the community, and later an iconic venue in the heart of an international destination.Leopold's Ice Cream, founded on integrity, hard work, and commitment to the community, has defined memories for locals and visitors for decades with a genuine commitment to excellence and hospitality. Peter Leopold's youngest son, Stratton, who worked in the family business since the age of ten, harnessed his family's values and traditions to forge his own successful path in the film industry for more than forty years. Today, Stratton and his wife, Mary, continue to honor the family legacy, serving the renowned, one-hundred-year-old artisan ice cream recipes in a classic soda fountain setting to visitors from around the world, and shipping pints to customers across the country. This book lovingly captures a glimpse of Leopold's Ice Cream over the last century, as family and guests vividly bring to life its history with personal memories, letters, photos, and recipes. Praise for Leopold's Ice Cream"Though Stratton ventured to Hollywood to become a successful film producer for more than four decades, traveling to far reaches of the world, he never forgot his roots. . . The Leopold's story is the embodiment of the American Dream across two generations. I salute Leopold's Ice Cream in its centennial year and look forward to the next home delivery of my favorite butter pecan ice cream!" -President Jimmy Carter"Leopold's is by far the best place to get ice cream in the heart of Savannah." -Ben Affleck, Academy Award?-winning actor, director, producer, and screenwriter "Leopold's is simply the most delicious temptation." -Helen Mirren, Academy Award?-winning actress "Leopold's-it's the best ice cream ever." -Taylor Hackford, Academy Award?-winning film director
2011 National Gang Threat Assessment
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Author : Federal Bureau of Investigation
language : en
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Release Date : 2011-12-01
2011 National Gang Threat Assessment written by Federal Bureau of Investigation and has been published by Morgan James Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-01 with True Crime categories.
Gangs continue to commit criminal activity, recruit new members in urban, suburban, and rural regions across the United States, and develop criminal associations that expand their influence over criminal enterprises, particularly street-level drug sales. The most notable trends for 2011 have been the overall increase in gang membership, and the expansion of criminal street gangs' control of street-level drug sales and collaboration with rival gangs and other criminal organizations.
Ethics Beyond Rules
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Author : Keith D Stanglin
language : en
Publisher: Zondervan
Release Date : 2021-08-17
Ethics Beyond Rules written by Keith D Stanglin and has been published by Zondervan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-17 with Religion categories.
An introduction to ethics that will help Christians rediscover a moral reasoning rooted in Scripture and navigate the ethical crises of our time. How should Christians live? How should we interact with one another? Why do we think the way we do about right and wrong? How should we approach today's complex moral questions? Keith Stanglin realigns our ethical thinking around the central question: What does real love require? applying it to our ethical reasoning on many of the social issues present in today's culture: abortion sexual ethics consumerism technology race and politics Moral evaluation must be based on more than our subjective feelings or the received wisdom or majority opinion of our community. But thinking objectively and reasonably about our ethical commitments is a process that's rarely taught in contemporary education or even in churches. Ethics Beyond Rules is a clear and accessible introduction for thoughtful Christians who want to lead moral lives—who want to define their moral code by firm biblical standards while acknowledging the complex nature of the issues at hand. Stanglin's love-based framework for moral decision-making engages Scripture and the historic Christian faith, giving Christians the tools to clear-mindedly consider the ethical problems of today and the foundation to confront new issues in the years to come.
The Plus One
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Author : Sarah Archer
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2019-07-02
The Plus One written by Sarah Archer and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-02 with Fiction categories.
A brilliant but socially inept robotics engineer builds her own wedding date--and learns more about love than she ever expected--in this hilarious and heartwarming debut novel. "Prepare to fall in love!" --Aimee Agresti, author of Campaign Widows When she couldn't find Mr. Right, she built him. Dating is hard. Being dateless at your perfect sister's wedding is harder. Meet Kelly. Twenty-nine, go-getter, a brilliant robotics engineer, and perpetually single. So when her younger sister's wedding looms and her attempts to find a date become increasingly cringeworthy, Kelly does the only logical thing: she builds her own boyfriend. Ethan is perfect: gorgeous, attentive, and smart--all topped off by a mechanical heart endlessly devoted to her. Not to mention he's good with her mother. When she's with him, Kelly discovers a more confident, spontaneous version of herself--the person she'd always dreamed she could be. But as the struggle to keep Ethan's identity secret threatens to detonate her career, Kelly knows she has to kiss her perfect man good-bye. There's just one problem: she's falling for him.
Concealed
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Author : Esther Amini
language : en
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Release Date : 2020
Concealed written by Esther Amini and has been published by eBookIt.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Esther Amini grew up in Queens, New York, during the free-wheeling 1960s. She also grew up in a Persian-Jewish household, the American- born daughter of parents who had fled Mashhad, Iran. In CONCEALED she tells the story of being caught between these two worlds: the dutiful daughter of tradition-bound parents who hungers for more self-determination than tradition allows. Exploring the roots of her father's deep silences and explosive temper, her mother's flamboyance and flights from home, and her own sense of indebtedness to her two Iranian-born brothers, Amini uncovers the story of her parents' early years in Mashhad, Iran's holiest Muslim city; the little known history and persecution of Mashhad's underground Jews; the incident that steeled her mother's resolve to leave; and her parents' arduous journey to the United States, where they found themselves facing a new threat to their traditions: the threat of freedom. Determined to protect his only daughter from corruption, Amini's father prohibits talk, books, higher education, and tries to push her into an early Persian marriage. Can she resist? Should she? Focused intently on what she stands to gain, Amini eventually comes to see what she also stands to lose: a family and community bound together by food, celebrations, sibling escapades, and unexpected acts of devotion by parents to whom she feels invisible. In this poignant, funny, entertaining and uplifting memoir, Amini documents with keen eye, quick wit, and warm heart, how family members build, buoy, wound, and save one another across generations; how lives are shaped by the demands and burdens of loyalty and legacy; and how she rose to the challenge of deciding what to keep and what to discard.
Spirits Of Savannah
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Author : Louis Clausi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-08-22
Spirits Of Savannah written by Louis Clausi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-22 with categories.
"Spirits of Savannah" is a work of historical fiction, recounting a collection of personal paranormal experiences, ghostly encounters, and city legends.Savannah is set in a mystical, alluring environment that is said to sit upon an energy vortex. Maps show that the city is surrounded by peculiar magnetic anomalies and vibrates at a frequency that differs from other cities along the east coast. There is speculation that the magnetic presence stimulates hallucinations in people, who then, with no other explanation, perceive and prescribe those experiences a paranormal encounters. Or, perhaps the magnetism is a stimulant for people to glimpse into a realm they might not otherwise see or believe - the dimension of the dead.What it comes down to is that the city has a story to tell at every turn. Be it a historic incident, a dark moment, a legend, or a fantastic memory, the energy of the past clings to the energy of the present.
The Persian Room Presents
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Author : Patty Farmer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-01-16
The Persian Room Presents written by Patty Farmer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-16 with categories.
Golden Gulag
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Author : Ruth Wilson Gilmore
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2007-01-08
Golden Gulag written by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-08 with Social Science categories.
Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom. In an informed and impassioned account, Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity. Detailing crises that hit California’s economy with particular ferocity, she argues that defeats of radical struggles, weakening of labor, and shifting patterns of capital investment have been key conditions for prison growth. The results—a vast and expensive prison system, a huge number of incarcerated young people of color, and the increase in punitive justice such as the "three strikes" law—pose profound and troubling questions for the future of California, the United States, and the world. Golden Gulag provides a rich context for this complex dilemma, and at the same time challenges many cherished assumptions about who benefits and who suffers from the state’s commitment to prison expansion.