Slumming Angels

Author : Bruce Glikin
Publisher : Amber Fields Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780966345810
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slumming Angels written by Bruce Glikin and published by Amber Fields Publishing. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slumming Angels is a detective mystery set in Houston, Texas in the 1990's. The protagonist, Trip Chandler, is a no-nonsense tough guy from the old school. His penchant for finding trouble and attracting beautiful women, coupled with a sharp tongue and quick fists, is a recipe for disaster. In Chandler's maiden voyage, he gets involved with a sixtyish Texas oilman and his drop-dead gorgeous mistress, a blonde nymphomaniac that can reduce the toughest-tough guy, to a flaccid puddle of warm water. This one includes big bucks, quick sex, blackmail, and of course murder.

Author : Dean Kirby
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473880289
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angel Meadow written by Dean Kirby and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A record of how a city of great wealth ignored the desperate poverty at its very heart . . . It is a lesson in the price of capitalism.” —North West Labour History Journal “It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have left their handwriting in perfectly legible characters on the walls.” —Manchester Guardian, 1870 Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel Meadow, the vilest and most dangerous slum of the Industrial Revolution. In the shadow of the world’s first cotton mill, 30,000 souls trapped by poverty are fighting for survival as the British Empire is built upon their backs. Thieves and prostitutes keep company with rats in overcrowded lodging houses and deep cellars on the banks of a black river, the Irk. Gangs of “scuttlers” stalk the streets in pointed, brass-tipped clogs. Those who evade their clutches are hunted down by cholera, typhoid and tuberculosis. Lawless drinking dens and a cold slab in the dead house provide the only relief from a filthy and frightening world. In this shocking book, journalist Dean Kirby takes readers on a hair-raising journey through the gin palaces, alleyways and underground vaults of this nineteenth-century Manchester slum considered so diabolical it was re-christened “hell upon earth” by Friedrich Engels. ENTER ANGEL MEADOW IF YOU DARE . . . “In this book the author expertly achieves driving home the grim horror that was Angel Meadow. These were conditions at the bottom of human endurance and conditions that go beyond imaginations of modern-day citizens.” —Crime Traveller

Author : Christina Zanfagna
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520296206
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels written by Christina Zanfagna and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the 1990s, Los Angeles was home to numerous radical social and environmental eruptions. In the face of several major earthquakes and floods, riots and economic insecurity, police brutality and mass incarceration, some young black Angelenos turned to holy hip hop—a movement merging Christianity and hip hop culture—to “save” themselves and the city. Converting street corners to open-air churches and gangsta rap beats into anthems of praise, holy hip hoppers used gospel rap to navigate complicated social and spiritual realities and to transform the Southland’s fractured terrains into musical Zions. Armed with beats, rhymes, and bibles, they journeyed through black Lutheran congregations, prison ministries, African churches, reggae dancehalls, hip hop clubs, Nation of Islam meetings, and Black Lives Matter marches. Zanfagna’s fascinating ethnography provides a contemporary and unique view of black LA, offering a much-needed perspective on how music and religion intertwine in people's everyday experiences.

Author : Norris Magnuson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592449972
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salvation in the Slums written by Norris Magnuson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did advocates of the social gospel carry the burden of humanitarian aid during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Were evangelicals content merely to maintain the status quo and avoid ameliorating the plight of the needy? Focusing upon the period from the Civil War to about 1920, this study attempts to portray the sizeable body of Christians whose extensive welfare activities and concern sprang similarly from their passion for evangelism and personal holiness, writes the author. He meticulously traces the urban welfare activities of the Salvation Army, the Volunteers of America, the Christian Missionary and Alliance, multiple rescue missions and homes, and the religious journal 'Christian Herald'.

Author : Emilio Iasiello
Publisher : Douglas A Owen (pub-9568136019008422)
ISBN 13 : 1928094643
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl Behind the Glass written by Emilio Iasiello and published by Douglas A Owen (pub-9568136019008422). This book was released on 2020 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few crazy nights of bar hopping The ashes of a long lost friend And Mike still has to go to work the next day! Legal clerk Mike comes to a realization that his life of sex, drugs, and rock n roll are coming to an end. His job is just a paycheck, and the endless nights of shots and sex must end. It all comes to a head when a long lost friend's ashes turn up on his doorstep, along with the unfinished manuscript they were working on together. With one last kick at the can, Mike takes his friend out on the town for one last run at binge drinking and bar hopping. Along the way, he gains self-realization. And with the end of the self-discovery journey, he decides to take that dangerous step into the unknown. His future is not yet written. And he wants to change the narrative. One crazy night after another brings Mike full circle. And everywhere he looks, there is a girl behind the glass smiling at him.

Author : Kenny Attaway
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467837008
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slum Beautiful written by Kenny Attaway and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slum beautiful is a remarkable, straight forward, poetic and eye stretching memoir of KyDeja Morgan’s (Slum Beautiful) struggling life. In her first 28 years of life she was molested, practiced blasphemous acts, robbed, sold drugs, used drugs, prostituted, and arrested and almost prosecuted for the murders of both her mother and brother. Like her other siblings, Slum was raised in a dysfunctional family that practiced open sex, used drugs, gambled and treated their home as a hangout for other addicts. Through her avowed journey in life, it would take Slum 28 years and 11 months, along with becoming homeless to find the beauty in her slum (mind, body, soul and surroundings.) she was able to connect, dig out and remove some of the most scattered and unraveling moments of her life thanks to the acts of soliloquy, prison and an unlikely fallen angel along the way. However, before Slum could share her newly found beauty she has to beat a slew of charges, including breaking and entering, robbery, murder-and come fourth with secrets that inadvertently prolonged her vicious life cycle. Slum Beautiful- in retrospect not only visits the most dangerous place on earth in our heart’s memory, but gives a mind-boggling, touch of retrograde amnesia exploring the inducement of dysfunction in Slum’s family that includes, molestation, sibling rivalry, systematic dependency, drug dependency, self hate, cultural hate, racism, and women and child abuse. Slum Beautiful explores how cycles of injustice begin, and how they can continue to plague without culminating. Penned with a poetic pen, conscience mind, and honest heart, Slum beautiful is the Pangaea of life before the evolution of such disheartening events, and then some. It is an internal reflection of yours and mine. Find your beauty, before the wrong hands do. Without further do, Kenny Attaway presents Slum Beautiful: the soliloquy of the kandy lady.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James A. Cates
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1636305601
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If This Is Heaven, Show Me Hell written by James A. Cates and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTRODUCTORY SECTION, PAGE 1 INTRODUCTORY SECTION, PAGE 1 We embrace the truth of an all-inclusive God and then act as though that God never hit the streets. This is a devotional for those who know better. Hope lives, in all places and at all times. These dialogues are unsettling by design. They are the stories of slumming angels, lost for a time, but able to find their way back. They highlight moments when God pulls up a chair beside those who are most in need. This devotional uses strong language and paints graphic scenes. It offers a point of contact for Christians who rebel against the church that cannot offer itself to all without judgement. It speaks to those whose lives, or the lives of those they love, have been so deeply damaged and scarred.

Author : Steve Glassman
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879728465
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest written by Steve Glassman and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Tony Hillerman's oddly matched tribal police officers, patrol the mesas and canyons of their Navajo reservation, they join a rich traditon of Southwestern detectives. In Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest, a group of literary critics tracks the mystery and crime novel from the Painted Desert to Death Valley and Salt Lake City. In addition, the book includes the first comprehensive bibliography of mysteries set in the Southwest and a chapter on Southwest film noir from Humphrey Bogart's tough hood in The Petrified Forest to Russell Crowe's hard-nosed cop in L.A. Confidential.

Author : Robert J. Mrazek
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 1683312708
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Man's Bridge written by Robert J. Mrazek and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Linwood Barclay, this exhilarating series debut by award-winning author Robert Mrazek features former Army officer Jake Cantrell as he tries to solve a series of murders at a small college town in upstate New York. Unfairly disgraced former army officer Jake Cantrell has only one friend left: Bug, a wolf-dog he saved while serving in Afghanistan. Together, they try to put his bitter past behind him and Jake settles for employment at the bottom rung of the campus security ladder of a small upstate New York college. But things only turn worse when the college’s richest and most powerful alumnus is found hanging from a campus footbridge on the eve of homecoming weekend. Jake is convinced the man was murdered, but with no credibility to his name, no one agrees—at least not until a second body is found hanging from the same bridge. But as a vicious hurricane sweeps up the Eastern seaboard, the clock is ticking and it’s only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Trusting his instincts, Jake puts his own life in peril as he attempts to uncover the buried secrets at the heart of the murders in acclaimed author Robert J. Mrazek’s Dead Man’s Bridge, the first in a new heart-pounding mystery series sure to keep readers hooked until the very last page.