Crazy Pete

Author : Pete Earley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425213896
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crazy written by Pete Earley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A magnificent gift to those of us who love someone who has a mental illness…Earley has used his considerable skills to meticulously research why the mental health system is so profoundly broken.”—Bebe Moore Campbell, author of 72 Hour Hold Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son—in the throes of a manic episode—broke into a neighbor's house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law. This is the Earley family's compelling story, a troubling look at bureaucratic apathy and the countless thousands who suffer confinement instead of care, brutal conditions instead of treatment, in the “revolving doors” between hospital and jail. With mass deinstitutionalization, large numbers of state mental patients are homeless or in jail-an experience little better than the horrors of a century ago. Earley takes us directly into that experience—and into that of a father and award-winning journalist trying to fight for a better way.

Author : Dan Coughlin
Publisher : Gray & Company, Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1598510681
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crazy with the Papers to Prove it written by Dan Coughlin and published by Gray & Company, Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cleveland sports journalist Dan Coughlin shares stories of some of the more unique individuals and events he covered over the course of his forty-five-year career.

Author : Pete Earley
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307808319
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hot House written by Pete Earley and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning account of life behind bars at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, where the nation’s hardest criminals do hard time. “A page-turner, as compelling and evocative as the finest novel. The best book on prison I’ve ever read.”—Jonathan Kellerman The most dreaded facility in the prison system because of its fierce population, Leavenworth is governed by ruthless clans competing for dominance. Among the “star” players in these pages: Carl Cletus Bowles, the sexual predator with a talent for murder; Dallas Scott, a gang member who has spent almost thirty of his forty-two years behind bars; indomitable Warden Robert Matthews, who put his shoulder against his prison’s grim reality; Thomas Silverstein, a sociopath confined in “no human contact” status since 1983; “tough cop” guard Eddie Geouge, the only officer in the penitentiary with the authority to sentence an inmate to “the Hole”; and William Post, a bank robber with a criminal record going back to when he was eight years old—and known as the “Catman” for his devoted care of the cats who live inside the prison walls. Pete Earley, celebrated reporter and author of Family of Spies, all but lived for nearly two years inside the primordial world of Leavenworth, where he conducted hundreds of interviews. Out of this unique, extraordinary access comes the riveting story of what life is actually like in the oldest maximum-security prison in the country. Praise for The Hot House “Reporting at its very finest.”—Los Angeles Times “The book is a large act of courage, its subject an important one, and . . . Earley does it justice.”—The Washington Post Book World “[A] riveting, fiercely unsentimental book . . . To [Earley’s] credit, he does not romanticize the keepers or the criminals. His cool and concise prose style serves him well. . . . This is a gutsy book.”—Chicago Tribune “Harrowing . . . an exceptional work of journalism.”—Detroit Free Press “If you’re going to read any book about prison, The Hot House is the one. . . . It is the most realistic, unbuffed account of prison anywhere in print.”—Kansas City Star “A superb piece of reporting.”—Tom Clancy

Author : Pete Chiarella
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781985824133
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Whole Bag of Crazy written by Pete Chiarella and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am known as 42nd Street Pete, a character that I created as a living reminder of that lost decade, the '70s. I was one of a million nameless, faceless kids with no direction and no future. We all had the ugly specter of the Vietnam War hanging like a sword over our heads. We weren't college material; we were clerks, gas station attendants, custodians, the like. Pretty much cannon fodder for the front lines. Most of us knew that we stood a good chance of being drafted and coming back in a bag, so we lost ourselves in the explosion of drugs, alcohol, sex, violence, and music that were the '70s." Hustler, pot fiend, porn expert.Take a walk down a dark alley with 42nd Street Pete as he recounts his tales growing up on "The Deuce." Criminal activity, classic undesirable cinema, pot, booze, pros, cons. The '70s: uncut, uncensored. If you really remember the '70s, you were lucky to have survived them.

Author : Pete Schulte
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 153208062X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Are My Fireworks written by Pete Schulte and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s been over 15 years since Schulte’s last collection of stories, Ju-Ju Belle & Other Stories. Since then, a lot has changed for the author. Namely, marriage, baby, new jobs, and a move to suburbs. That said, he is still writing the same offbeat, edgy stories that will make you smile and wonder and maybe scratch your head. His new collection, You Are My Fireworks: Stories and Poems, won’t disappoint in either volume or quality. The titular story, You Are My Fireworks, concerns a lonely grocery clerk confronted by a kindly, if eccentric, apparition. His Fourth of July is nothing like expected. Then there’s ‘The Growlers.’ In this story a recently laid off man turns to drinking before getting set straight by his wife. Although now sober, he begins acting in an animalistic way, even to the point of howling at the moon. Could he be turning into a suburban...werewolf? The longest story of the collection is called ‘Tuborg, the Littlest Guard Dog.’ Tuborg is the runt of a large litter of puppies. When adoption time comes, nobody wants Tuborg because he’s too scrawny to even notice. Finally, the last customer of the day decides against his better judgement to adopt Tuborg. He decides to make Tuborg the guard dog of his very large back yard. Tuborg is determined to be the best guard dog he can be, but he has no idea what awaits him in that zany back yard. A cattle drive, a circus, a marching band? Oh, yes. They’re all ready to pass through the gate. Can Tuborg stop them – or maybe even join them? Perhaps a little of both in this funny, touching story. You Are My Fireworks is a collection of stories that will make you smile and maybe touch your heart. I hope you will give them a try.

Author : M. A. DuVernet
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796029483
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bones of Skull Island written by M. A. DuVernet and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunter Burrows enjoys digging for lost dinosaur bones or Indian treasure with his father, Mitch. The treasures they find are anything from beautiful agates to gold coins to bones of creatures over 700,000 years old. Their family getaway soon turns from a typical day of digging and discovery to an eventful journey surging with great mystery as they uncover the jaw bone of an ancient hobbit. Not only does Hunter have to wrestle a dead object, be captured by the ghost of evil Pirate Pete, but he also meets a girl who leads him into the most unpredictable of situations. Together they encounter the Giant Makki, unravel the mystery of Surly Max, befriend the animals of the Baja and fulfill the prophecy of the Whispering Tree. Plus, he learns a little bit more about who he is by digging deep within himself.

Author : Pete Anderson
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857121227
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crazy Diamond - Syd Barrett and the Dawn of Pink Floyd written by Pete Anderson and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing investigation into the life of a reclusive cult genius. Syd Barrett was Pink Floyd's founder, singer, guitarist and principal composer, who left the group in 1968 amidst tales of acid-induced madness. Barrett's brief flash of erratic brilliance is now the stuff of rock legend, and his post-Floyd recordings have become cult classics. Revised in 2006, this book draws on years on research to relate the story of an epic rock tragedy.

Author : Donald E. Kieso
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118014472
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intermediate Accounting, , Problem Solving Survival Guide written by Donald E. Kieso and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING by Kieso, Weygandt, and Warfield is, quite simply, the standard by which all other intermediate accounting texts are measured. Through thirty years and thirteen best-selling editions, the text has built a reputation for accuracy, comprehensiveness, and student success. The Fourteenth Edition maintains the qualities for which the text is globally recognized, and continues to be your students? gateway to the profession! Volume I is comprised of Chapters 1-14. Each study guide chapter is comprised of a detailed chapter review, demonstration problems, true/false, multiple-choice, matching questions, and copmrehensive exercises. This book is a bound paperback with three-hole punches for convenient storage in a binder.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1977-01-13 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Author : Pete Johnson
Publisher : Louis the Laugh
ISBN 13 : 9781782701606
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Parents Are Driving Me Crazy written by Pete Johnson and published by Louis the Laugh. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you SACK your DAD? My dad's a new stay-at-home dad and is already a TOTAL DISASTER. He COOKS meals no one can EAT, messes up all the laundry and expects me to clean my room MYSELF. Can you believe he doesn't even take my dirty cups downstairs? Worst of all, Dad has decided I'm his new BEST FRIEND and never stops TALKING TO ME. He must be STOPPED. But HOW? "Pete Johnson is a hilarious writer"#8212Mail on Sunday