If It Aint One Thing

Author : Cheryl Robinson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780451214058
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If it Ain't One Thing written by Cheryl Robinson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After making her share of mistakes in life, Winona Fairchild returns home to Detroit in an attempt to turn everything around and meets Porter Washington, a man with his own dark secrets and devastating failures. By the author of When I Get Free. Original.

Author : Sharron Doyle
Publisher : Augustus Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780975945360
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If it Ain't One Thing, It's Another written by Sharron Doyle and published by Augustus Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly textured story of deceit; If It Ain't One Thing It's Another, is the most riveting tale of the decade. Every once in a while an author comes along with dazzling talents. In her debut novel Sharron Doyle broke us off with this sensational tale of vengeance, thirst and hunger. Streetwise, Petie is grinding on the road to infamy. His throne is toppled and his rule is coming to an end. He will not be kingpin, but he's bent on taking his family, his mistress, best friends and fellow hustler through their most traumatic experiences. On lockdown, Petie is no snitch and does not cooperate with the justice department. After being released Petie's twisted method of exacting revenge on his enemies will shock and open the eyes of every reader. He comes armed to the nines ready to get rid of those who snitched or betrayed him. His enemies find out that if ain't one ohing it's another: this is revenge at all cost. This story brings you on a fast paced journey through the life of hustling where the grit of the streets and greed of the hustle are presented sumptuously in a magnificently convoluted plot. Mixed with zesty scenes, this clever, sexy tale from the streets you will not want to put down until it ends. From the Polo Grounds in Harlem, Sharron Doyle delivers brilliantly with a terrific drama from the inside out. If It Ain't One Thing It's Another will be forever etched in your mind.

Author : Tony Breeze
Publisher : Tony Breeze
ISBN 13 : 9781872758237
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Father's House written by Tony Breeze and published by Tony Breeze. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play opens in the arid summer of 1929 with an American farmer, Joe MacDonald and his family living in poverty on a run-down rented farm in the dustbowl. The ramshackle farm buildings are overshadowed by a large tree growing next to the house. The farm is owned by a local businessman, Cornelius Spenk, who has fingers in every pie. Spenk’s son is friendly with one of MacDonald’s sons, Billy. The MacDonalds also have a daughter, Becky, another small son nicknamed Peewee and an ornery grandmother living with them. There is a sandstorm in progress and during the storm we see MacDonald in his daily struggle as he carries in a heavy sack of grain. After he’s gone a black vagrant comes on and hides in the woodshed. The storm abates and the children come out to play a game of baseball. When the ball goes into the woodshed the vagrant is discovered and the alarm raised. Joe rushes out with a gun and with his wife, Mattie, he confronts the hobo who is asked what he was doing in the shed. He apparently refuses to speak until Mattie points out that he’s actually unable to speak because he hasn’t got a tongue. They find out that the hobo’s name is Abe, short for “Absalom, bringer of peace.” The kindly Mattie decides to take the vagrant in, against her husband’s better judgment and he slowly becomes a friend of the family, which is very much against the wishes of the racist farm owner, Cornelius Spenk The latter has a twin brother, Franklyn, who is the local doctor, treating grandmother, and has all the kindly qualities that Cornelius doesn’t have. In the first act we see all the pressures on the luckless Joe, the back-rent owed to Spenk, the problems of farming in the dustbowl, etc and when he is persuaded by his wife that their daughter is in need of a separate room constructing away from the boys, he brings in a load of timber but is caught in his preparations by Spenk who denies him permission to build. The tree next to the farm is a magnet for the mischievous Peewee who has his mind set on moving to a better life in the promised land of California. He is constantly climbing the tree to see if he can see that far. On once occasion he is rescued from falling by the hobo, Abe, but eventually he climbs the tree once too often and at the end of the first act we hear him fall to the earth with a thud. Billy rushes to town to tell his pa who, unknown to him, is being forced to pay off some of the back-rent he owes Spenk by working as a temporary hotel doorman. Act Two finds the injured Peewee being visited by the kindly doctor who wants to help but the family are without insurance cover and at the time there is no national health service so the boy’s healing is left in the hands of Mother Nature. The child is now paralyzed and on one of his unpaid visits the doctor suggests that the parents should try and think of something to encourage Peewee to get better. They scratch their heads for an answer until Joe comes up with an idea that sounds absurd to his wife – he decides to build a tree house. Much against his wife wishes the construction begins with Abe helping and the end result is a very simple platform with a ladder, which is shown to Peewee but is so plain that it doesn’t have the desired result. Joe becomes even more depressed until Abe points to a quote in his pocket bible “My father’s house has many rooms,” which is a message to Joe to extend the tree house. Joe decides to try Abe’s suggestion and between them they set off to build the biggest tree house anyone has ever seen. The improved version is eventually shown to Peewee and Joe is pleased to see that it gets some response from him but unfortunately word goes round the area and sightseers begin to come from far and wide. Gran is disturbed one day by the sightseers whilst trying to eat her meal and has to be physically restrained from shooting one of them. Then Cornelius Spenk picks up his son and says that he will be back later to speak to Joe about the construction. Joe thinks that he’s in for trouble but his situation with the injured Peewee has strengthened his resolve not to take the tree house down, even if and when Spenk tells him to. Much to his surprise Spenk does just the opposite, he likes it and has realized that he can make money from the sightseers so he offers Joe a business partnership with Joe to be the sitting caretaker. To persuade Joe, Spenk offers to try to get him into a secret local organization that he’s in. Joe knows this won’t go down well with Mattie and he stalls for time. While all this has been going on their daughter Becky is preparing for the annual Speaking Competition and is taken to town to do some research by Abe on the tractor. When she is late back and eventually turns up they learn that Becky has had trouble from some of the other girls and that there’s been a fight in which she has been helped by Abe. Cornelius Spenk then arrives and wants to take Abe back to town. Joe thinks it’s about the fight and tries to put it off till the next day until Spenk draws a pistol and takes Abe in by force. It transpires that an allegation has been made by one of the girls against Abe of a serious sexual assault behind the library and the vagrant is kept in custody while the Speaking Competition is being held. Joe calls to see Abe in the jail and on leaving is given a handwritten note by him. He then goes on with the family to the speaking competition and learns from Spenk that in the allegations against Abe he is supposed to have sweet-talked the girl into going behind the library with him and Joe realizes Abe has been set up. He points out to Spenk that Abe doesn’t have a tongue with which to sweet-talk anybody but Spenk dodges the issue and tells Joe to keep his mouth shut, that he’ll sort out the evidence and that the tree house is now a legally registered company on Wall Street. Joe then has a big moral dilemma because he really does need the money from the sightseers in order to get treatment for Peewee. Becky gives her talk and surprises the audience by outlining how badly black folks have been treated in American history. While she is delivering her speech we hear in the background the sound of a lynch mob and see someone dressed in the white robes of the KKK go to Abe’s cell and take him out. Billy rushes to the Competition to tell his pa but by then it is too late. Joe then has the difficult decision of what to do – he decides to face his demons and tells the audience everything that has happened and reads the note that Abe gave him, which describes how he lost his tongue. The last scene sees Joe rushing home to pack the truck for a new life in California and his last defiant act is to take an axe to the tree house. This is the same day that the infamous Wall Street Crash took place.

Author : M.E. Lyons
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481717057
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 52 Weeks of Grace written by M.E. Lyons and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . The busiest time of the enemy is after Sunday worship and before Bible Study; simply because if he can hinder us after a Word from God and before a Word of God, the seed has been withheld. In this devotional guide we will delve into a few inspirationally given verses that will shun the enemy from planting any ill-gotten seeds into our minds and cause the great divide between us and God!

Author : Vanessa Humphrey
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434952282
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Little Bit of This and A Whole Lot of That written by Vanessa Humphrey and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald J. Howard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stubby Jenks written by Donald J. Howard and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nanci A. Smith
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469189348
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When My Heart Speaks . . . written by Nanci A. Smith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, Nanci A. Smith, pens her intimate thoughts and feelings onto paper in "When My Heart Speaks...A Journey of Life Through Poetry, Short Stories, and Quotes." You will read of heartbreak, fear, loss, yet also of faith, freedom, frienship and love. As you read further into this book, you will experience first hand the transformation of the authors life, of how she changed her thinking to ultimately change her life. You will read and feel the positive energy of knowing that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel, and that true happiness can and is found despite bad times. "When My Heart Speaks..." is the true testimony of this authors belief that "out of every bad thing, something great will happen." Follow Nanci on her journey of life as she takes her experiences of life into a level of happiness, joy, laughter and love. "When my heart speaks, I listen...and then I write." Nanci A. Smith

Author : Albert Wang
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557547598
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Albert Wang: October 2009-December 2009 written by Albert Wang and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Diary of Albert Wang: October 2009-December 2009" starts its narrative a little bit before his 33rd birthday. Encompassing much controversy as the first (most likely) public journal executed as a transcript of this performance artist's text messages during this time period, this book provides a profound look into the artist/writer's daily activities ranging from the business-like to the sexual/passionate tone. The secret life of a run-of-the-mill Salt Lake City resident and displaced New Yorker reveals too many details without flinching yet enveloping the essence of a single Asian male obsessed with daily text messaging and living as a work of art just like On Kawara with his date paintings and postcards. The reader will be taken on this intellectually salacious, experimental journey.

Author : M. L. Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fielding Manor written by M. L. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth B. Comins
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marion Berkley written by Elizabeth B. Comins and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marion Berkley" by Elizabeth B. Comins. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.