A Fistful Of Nothing

Author : Dan Glaser
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781496025197
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fistful of Nothing written by Dan Glaser and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Depression never ate the country alive. WWII refuses to put out its raging fires. Every major city across fifty states has been blown sky-high by blitzing.This is 1952, America. The only choice the denizens of a war-torn Los Angeles have left is to plunge into the deep dark of the metro tunnels and make a new life in the ruins of the subway rails below—with elbow grease, neon, and blood. In the crumbling catacombs beneath Hollywood, an ex-private eye named Jim “Jimbo” Maynard scours the dead, dark underworld for payoff on a gamble gone wrong, but stumbles instead on a subterranean metropolis divided by vice, vendettas, mysteries, and murder plots. In order to hunt down the butchers of two seemingly unrelated corpses, Jim will come up against warring mob bosses, backstabbing bookies, mad inventors, tin titans, bootleg rum-running, corrupted coppers, and electromagnetic revolvers. Welcome to The Hollywoodholes. Welcome to your chrome coffin.

Author : Jean Shepherd
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0385188439
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fistful of Fig Newtons written by Jean Shepherd and published by Crown. This book was released on 1987-11-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the wild and wacky world of favorite funnyman Jean Shepherd, a dozen truer-than-life tales of tailgating on the Jersey Tumpike, infuriating infants, and other everyday catastrophes, defeats, and humiliations that are the familiar fate of Americans everywhere. Jean Shepherd was one of America’s favorite humorists, his most notable achievement being the creation of the indefatigable Ralphie Parker and his quest for a BB gun in the holiday classic A Christmas Story. But he was so much more, a comic Garrison Keillor–like figure whose unique voice transcended the airwaves and affected a whole generation of nostalgic Americans. A Fistful of Fig Newtons is classic Jean Shepherd—sidesplittingly funny and sardonically irreverent. It is a brilliant comic assessment of American life—all of them delivered in Jean Shepherd’s witty, classy, unforgettable style.

Author : Kim Harrison
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062262823
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fistful of Charms with a Bonus Excerpt written by Kim Harrison and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a limited time and a special price, catch up with Rachel Morgan in Kim Harrison's bestselling Hollows series, plus receive a sneak peek at the next book in the series, Ever After! In A Fistful of Charms, the evil night things that prowl Cincinnati despise witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan. Her new reputation for the dark arts is turning human and undead heads alike with the intent to possess, bed, and kill her—not necessarily in that order. Now a mortal lover who abandoned Rachel has returned, haunted by his secret past. And there are those who covet what Nick possesses—savage beasts willing to destroy the Hollows and everyone in it if necessary. Forced to keep a low profile or eternally suffer the wrath of a vengeful demon, Rachel must nevertheless act quickly. For the pack is gathering for the first time in millennia to ravage and to rule. And suddenly more than Rachel's soul is at stake.

Author : Toby Green
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022664474X
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fistful of Shells written by Toby Green and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning its west coast had traded with Europeans since the fifteenth century. Until at least 1650, this was a trade of equals, using a variety of currencies—most importantly, cowrie shells imported from the Maldives and nzimbu shells imported from Brazil. But, as the slave trade grew, African kingdoms began to lose prominence in the growing global economy. We have been living with the effects of this shift ever since. With A Fistful of Shells, Toby Green transforms our view of West and West-Central Africa by reconstructing the world of these kingdoms, which revolved around trade, diplomacy, complex religious beliefs, and the production of art. Green shows how the slave trade led to economic disparities that caused African kingdoms to lose relative political and economic power. The concentration of money in the hands of Atlantic elites in and outside these kingdoms brought about a revolutionary nineteenth century in Africa, parallel to the upheavals then taking place in Europe and America. Yet political fragmentation following the fall of African aristocracies produced radically different results as European colonization took hold. Drawing not just on written histories, but on archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters, Green lays bare the transformations that have shaped world politics and the global economy since the fifteenth century and paints a new and masterful portrait of West Africa, past and present.

Author : Greg Rucka
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fistful of Rain written by Greg Rucka and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated.

Author : Joe Ciardiello
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1683962273
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fistful of Drawings written by Joe Ciardiello and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gorgeous graphic memoir, Joe Ciardiello gracefully weaves together his Italian family history and the mythology of the American West while paying homage to the classic movie and TV Westerns. Featuring John Ford, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Sophia Loren, and many more, this book is a paean to Hollywood and a love letter to the Western.

Author : Spencer Quinn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451665172
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fistful of Collars written by Spencer Quinn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private investigator Bernie and his canine partner Chet are picked to keep an eye on the notorious bad boy actor Thad Perry when people who may know a secret about the star start turning up dead.

Author : Om Swami
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 8184957920
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fistful of Love written by Om Swami and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man was sitting with his friends in a local inn. After a couple of drinks, he asked his friends, “Do you love me?” “Of course, we do,” they replied. “So do you know what I need?” No one answered. “If you don’t know what I need then how can you say you love me?” To love and to be loved is the most basic human need. No wonder we are attracted to people who give us attention, care about us, and love us. Yet, love also remains the greatest challenge in most relationships. Why? A Fistful of Love is a collection of insightful, thought-provoking nuggets of wisdom appreciated by millions around the world. This book is full of humour and narratives most beautifully woven into learnings of life that will make you stop and think. A must read. Om Swami is a mystic living in the Himalayan foothills. He has a bachelor’s degree in business and an MBA from Sydney, Australia. Prior to renunciation, he founded and ran a multi-million dollar software company successfully. He is the author of the best-seller If Truth Be Told: A Monk’s Memoir, and a soon-to-be-released book on Kundalini.

Author : Malena Crawford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996638401
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fistful of Honey written by Malena Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her world is ending, but only she can stop all of existence from meeting the same fate... This stunning novel begins when a pending divorce and job loss force Alena Ford out of her elite life in Manhattan's Upper East Side, and into a gritty section of Brooklyn. Stripped of everything, she is forced to face the demons of her past and the ghosts in her heart. When Alena befriends her eccentric neighbor Gloria, the woman's stunning amethyst necklace and Black Madonna painting draw her into a world of ancient secrets, dark forces, and powerful magic. It is a world in which black women are divine. Alena finds that it is up to her to save humanity from a universal evil, the Shetani. To succeed, Alena must first conquer her own darkness; if she loses, the fate of the world is at stake. A brilliantly crafted story that seamlessly grapples race, oppression, divinity, and the redemptive power of forgiveness. "Riveting and engaging. A Fistful of Honey is an epic, spellbinding tale filled with heart-pounding action. Crawford offers a thrilling sensory experience reminiscent of Octavia Butler's sci-fi and fantasy classics that will transport you between times and worlds; across the plains of Africa, to the rice fields of the deep south." -Debrena Jackson Gandy, New York Times bestselling author of Sacred Pampering Principles: An African-American Woman's Guide to Self-Care

Author : Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780441011773
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fistful of Sky written by Nina Kiriki Hoffman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gypsum LaZelle waited twenty years for her magical abilities to manifest themselves—and now she isnÂ't ready for them at all.