Is Every Cab Driver Called Roger

Author : Mounira Chaieb
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956551813
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is Every Cab Driver Called Roger? written by Mounira Chaieb and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of anecdotes - a product of my reflections on both my personal and professional life as a young Tunisian female journalist, coming to work for the 'largest broadcaster in the world' and live in the big city, that is London all by myself. The book traces the Tunisia I grew up in in the sixties - few years after it gained its independence from France, where my parents and I belonged to very different worlds. I come from a traditional family and society where a girl - no matter how educated - only leaves her parents' house to her husband's. So, for my family to allow me that, was something totally unheard of. The book highlights some of the most impressionable experiences I had while working in the Bush House offices in my home department; on secondment to other departments or on work trips abroad for the BBC and other places. At some point and for many years, I was the only Tunisian in the whole organisation. This book also traces what I make of the changes that Tunisia has been through over the years, especially since 2011 and the beginning of what's referred to as 'The Arab Spring' that started there and spread like wildfire to other countries in the region. London is also the place where I met my late husband, the Pan-Africanist Dr Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem. We met by chance three times in three different places before we could speak and the rest as they say is history! I was probably the first Tunisian girl to marry a Nigerian. This book tackles the many challenges our union faced, the issue of identity for our two mixed-race daughters - something very rare back home - and for myself as a Tunisian - British or British-Tunisian, having spent longer in the UK than I did in Tunisia.

Author : Chris Matthews
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982134860
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Country written by Chris Matthews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “quintessentially American” (Policy Magazine) memoir of politics and history from Chris Matthews, New York Times bestselling author and long-time host of MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews. In This Country, Chris Matthews “has written a love letter to his country” (Joy Reid, host of The ReidOut and author of The Man Who Sold America), offering a panoramic portrait of post-World War II America through the story of his remarkable life and career. It is a story of risk and adventure, of self-reliance and service, of loyalty and friendship. It is a story driven by an abiding faith in our country. Raised in a large Irish-Catholic family in Philadelphia at a time when kids hid under their desks in atomic war drills, Chris’s life etched a pattern: take a leap, live an adventure, then learn what it means. As a young Peace Corps graduate, Chris moved to DC and began knocking on doors on Capitol Hill. With dreams of becoming what Ted Sorensen had been for Jack Kennedy, Chris landed as a staffer to Utah Senator Frank Moss, where his eyes were opened to the game of big-league politics. In the 1970s, Matthews mounted a campaign for Congress as a Democratic maverick running against Philadelphia’s old political machine. He didn’t win the most votes, but his grit put him on the path to a top job in the White House. As a speechwriter for President Carter, Matthews witnessed the triumphs and tragedies of that administration; from the diplomatic brilliance of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty to the disaster of the Iran hostage crisis. After Carter’s defeat, Chris became chief of staff to legendary Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill, a perch that gave him an on-the-job PhD in American politics during the Reagan years. Chris than leapt to the other side of the political matrix as a columnist and reporter. For the San Francisco Examiner, he covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first all-races election in South Africa, the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, and every American presidency from Reagan to George W. Bush. Chris would go on to pioneer cable news with a fast-paced, no-nonsense television program. His show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, would become a political institution for twenty years. As Chris charts his political odyssey, he paints an animated picture of a nation searching for its soul. He reflects with grace and wisdom, showcasing the grand arc of the American story through one life dedicated to its politics.

Author : John Creasey
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 0755146468
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doorway To Death written by John Creasey and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger West of Scotland Yard’s boss simply does not like his methods. He must therefore be more conventional when faced with an attractive girl who is brutally killed. The chief suspect proves to be innocent and the plot deepens as blackmail and forgery enter the fray. West therefore has to act and quickly, but now doing things his way.

Author : Carey Rockwell
Publisher : VM eBooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revolt on Venus written by Carey Rockwell and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHAPTER 1 "Emergency air lock open!" The tall, broad-shouldered officer, wearing the magnificent black-and-gold uniform of the Solar Guard, spoke into a small microphone and waited for an acknowledgment. It came almost immediately. "Cadet Corbett ready for testing," a voice crackled thinly over the loud-speaker. "Very well. Proceed." Seated in front of the scanner screen on the control deck of the rocket cruiser Polaris, Captain Steve Strong replaced the microphone in its slot and watched a bulky figure in a space suit step out of the air lock and drift away from the side of the ship. Behind him, five boys, all dressed in the vivid blue uniforms of the Space Cadet Corps, strained forward to watch the lone figure adjust the nozzles of the jet unit on the back of his space suit. "Come on, Tom!" said the biggest of the five boys, his voice a low, powerful rumble as he rooted for his unit mate. "If Tom makes this one," crowed the cadet next to him, a slender boy with a thick shock of close-cropped blond hair, "the Polaris unit is home free!" "This is the last test, Manning," replied one of the remaining three cadets, the insigne of the Arcturus unit on the sleeve of his uniform. "If Corbett makes this one, you fellows deserve to win." Aboard the rocket cruiser Polaris, blasting through the black void of space two hundred miles above Earth, six Space Cadets and a Solar Guard officer were conducting the final test for unit honors for the term. All other Academy units had been eliminated in open competition. Now, the results of the individual space orientation test would decide whether the three cadets of the Arcturus unit or the three cadets of the Polaris unit would win final top unit honors.

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Publisher : Mansion Comics
ISBN 13 : 0984726608
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dick's Die Hard written by and published by Mansion Comics. This book was released on with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Sloan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520089044
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock written by Jane Sloan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-03-08 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A concise and intelligent synthesis of what we know and think about Hitchcock and a road map to future work on the subject. . . . There is no complete index to Hitchcock's career like this one and critics and historians will mine Sloan's work with enormous profit. . . . The 'Critical Survey' section constitutes an invaluable contribution to the project of metacriticism."—Matthew Bernstein, author of Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent

Author : Jeanette Shaw
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479720151
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killing Me Softly written by Jeanette Shaw and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some relationships are not what it’s supposed to be. There are some folks in life you can trust, and some you can’t. Marriage is a beautiful thing, and shouldn’t be played with not only because it’s a serious thing dealing with people’s lives. You need to be very sure of what you’re doing. You’re not only committing yourself to that person you are making a vow in front of God...That should never be broken. A part of the vow is for better or worst. What makes a partner change their ways? Could it be money, another women or Man, drugs, or is it just in them? What make them do the things they do? Why do some of them have skeletons in their closets? I want you to know that skeletons get lonely too and they do come out.

Author : Ronald Thompson
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1606935690
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Danced With the Devil written by Ronald Thompson and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Wilson, a young man unsure of his own identity, is torn between his feelings of being a woman trapped in a man's body and his parents' staunch upbringing. A drifter with no plans for the future, he makes a fatal mistake and commits an accidental murder. He must escape the law, and worst of all, the Mob, in order to survive.

Author : Louis Shalako
Publisher : Long Cool One Books
ISBN 13 : 0991671635
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Murder written by Louis Shalako and published by Long Cool One Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventor Theo Duval appeared to be having the perfect life. A locked room with the only key in the decedent’s pocket, a book on hypnotism, and one very rich and very dead inventor, present Inspector Gilles Maintenon of the Surete with a problem. Why would a young, healthy, successful man, one with a beautiful fiance, and a thriving company ever want to kill himself?

Author : Diane Cohen Schneider
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1647422221
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Andrea Hoffman Goes All In written by Diane Cohen Schneider and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrea Hoffman is an overeducated, underemployed, and unmotivated recent college graduate—until an unexpected robbery blasts her out of her funk and into a job in the finance world of early-1980s Chicago. At first, it seems like a bad fit. But the world of finance has its own weird charm, and she grows increasingly fascinated by the strange language of trading, the complexity of the stock market, and her colleagues, who navigate it all with a ruthless confidence. Even though she has two strikes against her—Jewish and female—Andrea’s quick wit and strong work ethic propel her into an actual sales job and her career takes off. But this is the Wall Street of the eighties, and along with making a lot more money, Andrea adopts a new, fast life of cocktails, cocaine, and casual sex. Drunk on her achievements, she gradually realizes that at some point, she’s going to have to decide what success really means to her.