The Man On The Street

Author : Trevor Wood
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787478351
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man on the Street written by Trevor Wood and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GRITTY, NEWCASTLE-SET CRIME FOR FANS OF IAN RANKIN AND ROBERT GALBRAITH. LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA JOHN CREASEY DAGGER AND A THEAKSTON'S NEW BLOOD AUTHOR FOR 2020. 'Fresh, original, authentic and gritty - should be an instant classic' LEE CHILD 'Intricate, expertly paced with a shocking conclusion ... Jimmy is a character you root for from page one ... Simply supberb' M. W. CRAVEN, author of THE PUPPET SHOW It started with a splash. Jimmy, a homeless veteran grappling with PTSD, did his best to pretend he hadn't heard it - the sound of something heavy falling into the Tyne at the height of an argument between two men on the riverbank. Not his fight. Then he sees the headline: GIRL IN MISSING DAD PLEA. The girl, Carrie, reminds him of someone he lost, and this makes his mind up: it's time to stop hiding from his past. But telling Carrie, what he heard - or thought he heard - turns out to be just the beginning of the story. The police don't believe him, but Carrie is adamant that something awful has happened to her dad and Jimmy agrees to help her, putting himself at risk from enemies old and new. But Jimmy has one big advantage: when you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose.

Author : Martin Howe
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1838599053
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man in the Street written by Martin Howe and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man in the Street is a powerful novel exploring the impacts of fascism and the enduring failings of the political class. Inspired by Martin Howe's recently uncovered family secret, the book parallels tumultuous historical events with contemporary insecurity and populist politics.

Author : Meredith Nicholson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368939440
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The man in the street: Papers on American topics written by Meredith Nicholson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Author : Jonathan Maberry
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250783984
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kagen the Damned written by Jonathan Maberry and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kagen the Damned marks the first installment of an exciting new series of dark epic fantasy novels from bestselling author Jonathan Maberry. Sworn by Oath Kagen Vale is the trusted and feared captain of the palace guard, charged with protection of the royal children of the Silver Empire. But one night, Kagen is drugged and the entire imperial family is killed, leaving the empire in ruins. Abandoned by the Gods Haunted and broken, Kagen is abandoned by his gods and damned forever. He becomes a wanderer, trying to take down as many of his enemies as possible while plotting to assassinate the usurper, the deadly Witch-king of Hakkia. While all around him magic—long banished from the world—returns in strange and terrifying ways. Fueled by Rage To exact his vengeance, Kagen must venture into strange lands, battle bizarre and terrifying creatures, and gather allies for a suicide mission into the heart of the Witch-king’s empire. Kings and gods will fear him. Kagen the Damned

Author : Sandra Cisneros
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345807197
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.

Author : Jules Feiffer
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062059076
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man in the Ceiling written by Jules Feiffer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-06-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's bad at sports and not much better at school, but Jimmy sure can draw terrific cartoons. And his dream, like that of his Uncle Lester, who writes flop Broadway musicals'is to be recognized for what he loves doing most.

Author : Dan Rottenberg
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812219661
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Made Wall Street written by Dan Rottenberg and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2006-05-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of detective work, Dan Rottenberg has succeeded in writing the first biography of this exceptionally influential and elusive man.

Author : Louna Lahti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783836560108
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Author : Ann Petry
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547525346
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Street written by Ann Petry and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES “How can a novel’s social criticism be so unflinching and clear, yet its plot moves like a house on fire? I am tempted to describe Petry as a magician for the many ways that The Street amazes, but this description cheapens her talent . . . Petry is a gifted artist.” — Tayari Jones, from the Introduction The Street follows the spirited Lutie Johnson, a newly single mother whose efforts to claim a share of the American Dream for herself and her young son meet frustration at every turn in 1940s Harlem. Opening a fresh perspective on the realities and challenges of black, female, working-class life, The Street became the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies.

Author : David M. Kennedy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608194132
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Shoot written by David M. Kennedy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country. In some neighborhoods in America, one out of every two hundred young black men is shot to death every year, and few initiatives of government and law enforcement have made much difference. But when David Kennedy, a self-taught and then-unknown criminologist, engineered the "Boston Miracle" in the mid-1990s, he pointed the way toward what few had imagined: a solution. Don't Shoot tells the story of Kennedy's long journey. Riding with beat cops, hanging with gang members, and stoop-sitting with grandmothers, Kennedy found that all parties misunderstood each other, caught in a spiral of racialized anger and distrust. He envisioned an approach in which everyone-gang members, cops, and community members-comes together in what is essentially a huge intervention. Offenders are told that the violence must stop, that even the cops want them to stay alive and out of prison, and that even their families support swift law enforcement if the violence continues. In city after city, the same miracle has followed: violence plummets, drug markets dry up, and the relationship between the police and the community is reset. This is a landmark book, chronicling a paradigm shift in how we address one of America's most shameful social problems. A riveting, page-turning read, it combines the street vérité of The Wire, the social science of Gang Leader for a Day, and the moral urgency and personal journey of Fist Stick Knife Gun. But unlike anybody else, Kennedy shows that there could be an end in sight.