Man On The Fence

Author : John R. Day (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944378004
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man on the Fence written by John R. Day (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congressman Tate Daniels had second-guessed almost every decision he'd ever made - with good reason. All he wanted out of life was to play for his beloved Detroit Tigers, take over the family farm, and settle down with the girl of his dreams. Funny how life works out. To make matters worse, Tate had managed to alienate his friends that he'd known since their first Little League game back in 1965. Perhaps it would be better to belive in fate than to take responsibility for his current position. One thing Tate now knows for certain - as he lie [sic] on the floor with a bullet in his chest - this isn't right.

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593087585
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fences written by August Wilson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less. This is a modern classic, a book that deals with the impossibly difficult themes of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. Now an Academy Award-winning film directed by and starring Denzel Washington, along with Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Viola Davis.

Author : Shane Parrish
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593719972
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Mental Models, Volume 1 written by Shane Parrish and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the essential thinking tools you’ve been missing with The Great Mental Models series by Shane Parrish, New York Times bestselling author and the mind behind the acclaimed Farnam Street blog and “The Knowledge Project” podcast. This first book in the series is your guide to learning the crucial thinking tools nobody ever taught you. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields. Mastering a small number of mental models enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others miss, and avoid the common mistakes that hold people back. The Great Mental Models: Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts shows you how making a few tiny changes in the way you think can deliver big results. Drawing on examples from history, business, art, and science, this book details nine of the most versatile, all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making and productivity. This book will teach you how to: Avoid blind spots when looking at problems. Find non-obvious solutions. Anticipate and achieve desired outcomes. Play to your strengths, avoid your weaknesses, … and more. The Great Mental Models series demystifies once elusive concepts and illuminates rich knowledge that traditional education overlooks. This series is the most comprehensive and accessible guide on using mental models to better understand our world, solve problems, and gain an advantage.

Author : M.T. Pope
Publisher : Urban Books
ISBN 13 : 1599831546
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Both Sides of the Fence 2: written by M.T. Pope and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years after their home was almost torn apart by infidelity, Mona and Shawn Black are just getting back to normal . . . or so it seems. Both Shawn and Mona are still keeping secrets from each other and their immediate family. Back to his old tricks, James Parks exits prison older but not wiser, and his bitter rage seeks revenge. He again manipulates the lives of the Black family with knowledge of secrets that they hold locked away. He uses any and everyone in his path to get his payback; that is, until he stumbles onto someone who offers him something he vowed to do away with forever: love. Will Mona and Shawn learn that it is best not to keep secrets and just let the chips fall where they may? Will James bury the hatchet to try his hand at love once again? Is there still hope for these wayward souls, or will they be swallowed up by their lies and secrets once again? Secrets, lies, deception, murder, lust, and revenge rule the pages of this sophisticated drama. Let's see what happens when the gates of their lives swing wide open once again.

Author : Takeo Ujo Nakano
Publisher : Lorimer
ISBN 13 : 145940260X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Within the Barbed Wire Fence written by Takeo Ujo Nakano and published by Lorimer. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takeo Nakano immigrated to Canada from Japan in 1920, later marrying and starting a family in his adopted homeland. Takeo's passion was poetry, and he cultivated the exquisite form known as tanka. Then came the Second World War. Takeo Nakano was one of thousands of Japanese men forcibly separated from his family in 1942 and interned in labour camps in the British Columbia interior. Takeo was one of those who protested the forced labour in the camps and the separation from his family. His punishment was to be sent even further away, to an isolated internment camp in northern Ontario. This book, first published in 1982, is a rare first-person account of the experience of internment. This new edition includes a foreword by his daughter, Leatrice M. Willson Chan, with whom he collaborated in preparing his memoir.

Author : Ottessa Moshfegh
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 052552276X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book McGlue written by Ottessa Moshfegh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut novella from one of contemporary fiction's most exciting young voices, now in a new edition. Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation--he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies sobriety. A-sail on the high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard on a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection. They said I've done something wrong? . . . And they've just left me down here to starve. They'll see this inanition and be so damned they'll fall to my feet and pass up hot cross buns slathered in fresh butter and beg I forgive them. All of them . . . : the entire world one by one. Like a good priest I'll pat their heads and nod. I'll dunk my skull into a barrel of gin.

Author : John R. Day
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944378011
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man on the Fence written by John R. Day and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man on the Fence is a nostalgic journey of boyhood firends as they grow into men, husbands, and fathers until life's twists and turns create a rift that has the potential to turn deadly.

Author : Gary B. Boyd
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546266720
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fence written by Gary B. Boyd and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ephraim Calvert wanted one thing: freedom from his past. Without the constraints of his past looming over him like a dark cloud, he could enjoy the life he deserved. The Texas frontier offered the opportunity to start anew and to rid himself of his past. Ephraim learned that everyone has a past and everyone has secrets. Secrets define people. To guard their secrets, people build fences. Before his struggle to build a good future on the wreckage of the past could be successful, he had to understand the secrets and accept the fences. Texas was worth the fight, no matter the cost.

Author : Red Steagall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967761015
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fence that Me and Shorty Built written by Red Steagall and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gabriel Woodhouse
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546221956
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Black Men Jump the Fence? written by Gabriel Woodhouse and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy percent of black women are unmarried and are twice as likely as white women to remain unwed. Of those who do marry, black women more likely to marry down as black women in college outnumber black men to 2:1. Black women are also impacted by the insurgence of interracial marriages. In 2015, for instance, newlywed intermarriages for black men were 24 percent compared to 12 percent for black women. Through interviews, this book explores the reasons African American men chose to date or marry white women and other women outside of their race. With some advice from a matchmaker, minister, and African American men, the book will benefit women who are seeking to improve their relationships with their mates and find their happiness in life. It is my hope that the book will inspire black women and women of all races and nationalities to date whomever they choose without compromising their lifestyles or standards to do so.