The Gangster Of Love

Author : Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gangster of Love written by Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alternating between the Philippines and the United States, namely New York and Los Angeles, The Gangster of Love is the story of Rocky Rivera, who plays in a dissolute rock band with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Elvis Chang; Rocky's spirited and deeply traditional mother, Milagros; her troubled and bedeviled brother, Voltaire; her wonderfully eccentric uncle, Marlon; and her best friend, the wildly unpredictable, enigmatic Keiko. These, along with other characters real and imagined, form a family story spanning generations and cultures. Together they grow to and through adulthood, acquiring spouses, lovers, companions, children, and in-laws; making a place for themselves in the world; shattering myths, icons, and expectations; struggling to find that point where alienation and assimilation, identity and dignity, coincide."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Vincent Bakker
Publisher : Vincent Bakker
ISBN 13 : 1495337324
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gangster of Love written by Vincent Bakker and published by Vincent Bakker. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only biography of Johnny "Guitar" Watson (1935-1996) paints an intriguing portrait of the American blues funk composer. His fans appreciate his historical role in black American music. Rappers honored him with samples. In this book tens of musicians reveal the life story of the struggling guitarist who became eternal with Gangster Of Love and A Real Mother For Ya. Besides hundreds of others, the love bandit had three First Ladies he lived with for years. They tell their untold love stories and explain how they stimulated his music as Muse, and how they financed his music business as Maecenas, helping him to produce gold albums by working as prostitute, thief or booster. His musicians reveal: how did he compose his incredible oeuvre? This book includes: The first complete Discography with 284 songs, Hundreds of songs composed or produced by Watson for others, songs he features on, his songs covered or sampled by others, Index with hundreds of related artists, Extended stories of Frank Zappa on John Watson and Watson on Zappa, 660 References, 300 Illustrations, of which 4 in full color. EXTENDED EDITION (First Edition April 2009), corrected by music author Fred Rothwell (UK), with 50% more pages and 150% more Illustrations.

Author : Lorenzo Carcaterra
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345459547
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gangster written by Lorenzo Carcaterra and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2002-07-30 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love. Violence. Destiny. These powerful themes ricochet through Lorenzo Carcaterra’s new novel like bullets from a machine gun. In Gangster, he surpasses even his bestselling Sleepers to create a brutal and brilliant American saga of murder, forgiveness, and redemption. Born in the midst of tragedy and violence and raised in the shadow of a shocking secret, young Angelo Vestieri chooses to flee both his past and his father to seek a second family—the criminals who preside over early 20th century New York. In his bloody rise from soldier to mob boss, he encounters ever more barbaric betrayals—in friendship, in his brutal business, in love—yet simultaneously comes to understand the meaning of loyalty, the virtue of relationships, and gains a perspective on the lonely, if powerful, life he has chosen. As the years pass, as enemies are made and defeated, as wars are fought and won, the old don meets an abandoned boy who needs a parent as much as protection. By taking Gabe under his wing and teaching him everything he knows, Angelo Vestieri will learn, in the winter of his life, which is greater: his love for the boy he cherishes, or his need to be a gangster and to live by the savage rules he helped create. A sweeping panoramic with riveting characters, a unique understanding of the underworld philosophy, and a relentless pace, Gangster travels through the time of godfathers and goodfellas to our own world of suburban Sopranos. But this is more than just an authentic chronicle of crime. Setting a new standard for this acclaimed author, Gangster is a compassionate portrait of one man's fight against his fate—and an unforgettable epic of a family, a city, a century.

Author : Derek L. Saunders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781452096582
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gangster Love written by Derek L. Saunders and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about the friendship between three guys and the lengths they would go through for each other. "There is nothing they wouldn't do!"

Author : C.S. Poe
Publisher : Emporium Press
ISBN 13 : 1952133254
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gangster written by C.S. Poe and published by Emporium Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1881—Special Agent Gillian Hamilton, magic caster for the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam, has recovered from injuries obtained while in Shallow Grave, Arizona. Now back in New York City, Gillian makes an arrest on New Year’s Eve that leads to information on a gangster, known only as Tick Tock, who’s perfected utilizing elemental magic ammunition. This report complicates Gillian’s holiday plans, specifically those with infamous outlaw, Gunner the Deadly, who promised they’d ring in 1882 together. The two men stand on the cusp of a romance that needs to be explored intimately and privately. But when Gillian’s residence is broken into by a magical mechanical man who tries to murder him on behalf of Tick Tock, he and Gunner must immediately investigate the city’s ruthless street gangs before the illegal magic becomes a threat that cannot be contained. This might be their most wild adventure yet, but criminal undergrounds can’t compare to the dangers of the heart. Gillian must balance his career in law enforcement with his love for a vigilante, or lose both entirely. The novel-length follow-up to The Engineer, in the exciting new steampunk series, Magic & Steam. Also available as an audiobook! Magic & Steam series reading order: #1 The Engineer #2 The Gangster #3 The Doctor Keywords: gay romance, steamy, opposites attract, law enforcement, vigilante, gilded age, big city, mad scientist, cogs, magic, mm romance, urban, gangsters, partners-in-crime

Author : Gangster of Love
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780140245158
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Gangster... written by Gangster of Love and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's the Ann Landers of anomie, the antidote for sniveling sensitivity, a caustic balm for our broken hearts--he's the Gangster of Love. This collection of his columns features questions from anxious readers, and the Gangster's more or less helpful replies--which are loaded with quirky counsel on sticky problems and endless anecdotes.

Author : Thi Diem Thuy Le
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307792250
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gangster We Are All Looking For written by Thi Diem Thuy Le and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly acclaimed novel that reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing eyes of a child finding her place and voice in a new country. “A brilliant evocation of human sorrow and desire.... Heartbreaking and exhilarating.” —The New York Times Book Review In 1978 six refugees—a girl, her father, and four “uncles”—are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child’s imagination, the world is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects, and waits for her mother to join her. But life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited. As the girl grows, her matter-of-fact innocence eddies increasingly around opaque and ghostly traumas: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland, the memory of a brother who drowned and, most inescapable, her father’s hopeless rage.

Author : Leo Sullivan
Publisher : Sullivan Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1946789402
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keisha & Trigga 4 written by Leo Sullivan and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic saga has come to an end...but has justice been served? After finding love in the midst of the most treacherous circumstances, Keisha and Trigga decide to leave everything behind them and focus on their marriage and new baby. But when Trigga overhears interesting news regarding the baby’s paternity, it leaves him doubting the loyalty of the only woman he’s loved. After all they’ve endured to be together, will this new challenge ruin them? Lloyd, still the thorn in everyone’s side, is more merciless than he’s ever been being that he’s a street nigga with absolutely nothing to lose. But luck strikes when someone comes to his aid to finally nail Keisha and Trigga for good. However, it’s the last person anyone would suspect. Austin’s intentions when it comes to his cousin’s empire, slowly begins to come to the light and the more they are revealed to Lloyd, the more he is unwilling to let Austin run free in his streets. When Lloyd calls on his infamous Ground Patrol to teach Austin a lesson, he feels that he’s finally rid himself of his conniving cousin for good. The problem is, Austin has never been one to not get his way. And, just as he plans to show NeTasha, if he claims something as his, he won’t stop until it is. Even if that means joining with an unlikely ally.

Author : Miss J
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bound by A Gangsta's Love written by Miss J and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen-year-old Makani Hughes is young, intelligent, beautiful, and living a very carefree life. So much so that she lets her carefree life get in the way of her studies, causing her to be expelled from school. Enter Reed Cook: a man sixteen years her senior. He promised to take care of her, but six years and two kids-who don't belong to Makani-later, all those promises are gone out the window. Being bound to her company, Skintastic, and taking care of her stepchildren, Makani starts looking for ways to get out of her emotionally and verbally abusive relationship with Reed. Makani gets the chance and confidence to leave her relationship once she meets the dark and mysterious Gio Mancini.A former kingpin, Horace 'Gio' Mancini has gone from running the streets of New York to running legit businesses in California. Gio has been in an open marriage with his wife, Piper, for a decade, allowing him to quench his dark desires of women obeying his every command as he's being called Master Gio. Entry into Gio's lifestyle wasn't for the easy, weak, or the vanilla, but from the first time he laid eyes on the very naïve Makani, he knew she had to be his.

Author : Envy Mayes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781532766145
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Love of My Own written by Envy Mayes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nashay Harris had a promising future and dreams of becoming the best lyrical singer you would ever meet. Well at least it was her dream until tragedy struck and left her alone in a cold world to fend for herself. She quickly became what one would call a "Troubled teen" but it's because of the amount of torment she endured in her young life. Things started to change for her once she caught the attention of a local hustler named Ikey Montez. One couldn't tell if those changes were good or bad once they realized Ikey is the leader of a powerful, ruthless organization commonly known as GGC. They are the most loved and feared gang in all of Atlanta, GA. A family bond is quickly created between Nashay, Ikey and his cousin, Zayboy. Ikey and Zayboy came together to make a pact to always look out for Nashay or die trying. Throughout the course of this relationship, bonds grow stronger, feelings grow deeper and they are each tested. On the other side of town, enemies are coming together to join forces against the unsuspecting GGC and they're here to take everything they got. This crew is willing to do any and everything that they feels needs to be done to get rid of Ikey and take his spot. Nashay tries desperately to build a new life for herself and right when she came close, everything she loves is snatched away from her. Ikey and Zayboy are both arrested on drug and murder chargers which leaves Nashay alone again. Will she be able to maintain to her lifestyle without the very people that saved her? Or will she end up back at square one, in the same streets that she fought so hard to leave? Follow the tale to find out.