The Mad Ones

Author : Kait Kerrigan
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
ISBN 13 : 0573708290
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mad Ones written by Kait Kerrigan and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... 18-year-old Samantha Brown sits in a hand-me-down car with the keys clutched in her hand. Caught between a yearning for the unknown and feeling bound by expectation, she telescopes back to a time before her world had fallen apart. As she relives her senior year, we meet Sam’s well-intentioned helicopter mother Bev and her high school sweetheart of a boyfriend Adam, but it’s her painfully alive best friend Kelly that haunts her. Kelly was everything Sam is not – impetuous and daring. She pushed Sam to break rules and do the unexpected. When Kelly’s killed in a car wreck, Sam loses not only her best friend but also the part of herself that was learning to be brave. Now, Sam has to make a decision. Will she follow her mother’s dreams for her, or will she summon the courage to drive away from her friends and family into a future she can’t imagine?

Author : Tom Folsom
Publisher : Weinstein Books
ISBN 13 : 9781602861244
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mad Ones written by Tom Folsom and published by Weinstein Books. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mad Ones chronicles the rise and fall of the Gallo brothers, a trio of reckless young gangsters whose revolution against New York City’s Mafia was inspired by Crazy Joe Gallo’s forays into Greenwich Village counterculture. Crazy Joe, Kid Blast, and Larry Gallo are steeped in legend, from Bob Dylan’s eleven-minute ballad “Joey” to fictionalizations central to The Godfather trilogy and Jimmy Breslin’s The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight. Called the toughest gang in the city by the NYPD, the Gallos hailed from the rough Red Hook neighborhood on the Brooklyn waterfront. As low-level Mafiosi, they were expected to serve their don quietly, but the brothers stood apart from typical gangsters with their hip style, fierce ambition, and Crazy Joe’s manic idealism. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of the Gallos’ war against the powerful Cosa Nostra, an epic crime saga that culminates in Crazy Joe’s murder on the streets of Little Italy, where he was gunned down mid-bite into a forkful of spaghetti in 1972. The Mad Ones is a wildly satisfying entertainment and a significant work of cultural history.

Author : Diane Magras
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735229287
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mad Wolf's Daughter written by Diane Magras and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***A New York Times Editors’ Choice*** A Scottish medieval adventure about the youngest in a war-band who must free her family from a castle prison after knights attack her home--with all the excitement of Ranger's Apprentice and perfect for fans of heroines like Alanna from The Song of the Lioness series. One dark night, Drest's sheltered life on a remote Scottish headland is shattered when invading knights capture her family, but leave Drest behind. Her father, the Mad Wolf of the North, and her beloved brothers are a fearsome war-band, but now Drest is the only one who can save them. So she starts off on a wild rescue attempt, taking a wounded invader along as a hostage. Hunted by a bandit with a dark link to her family's past, aided by a witch whom she rescues from the stake, Drest travels through unwelcoming villages, desolate forests, and haunted towns. Every time she faces a challenge, her five brothers speak to her in her mind about courage and her role in the war-band. But on her journey, Drest learns that the war-band is legendary for terrorizing the land. If she frees them, they'll not hesitate to hurt the gentle knight who's become her friend. Drest thought that all she wanted was her family back; now she has to wonder what their freedom would really mean. Is she her father's daughter or is it time to become her own legend?

Author : Tom Folsom
Publisher : Weinstein Books
ISBN 13 : 160286103X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mad Ones written by Tom Folsom and published by Weinstein Books. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mad Ones chronicles the rise and fall of the Gallo brothers, a trio of reckless young gangsters whose revolution against New York City’s Mafia was inspired by Crazy Joe Gallo’s forays into Greenwich Village counterculture. Crazy Joe, Kid Blast, and Larry Gallo are steeped in legend, from Bob Dylan’s eleven-minute ballad “Joey” to fictionalizations central to The Godfather trilogy and Jimmy Breslin’s The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight. Called the toughest gang in the city by the NYPD, the Gallos hailed from the rough Red Hook neighborhood on the Brooklyn waterfront. As low-level Mafiosi, they were expected to serve their don quietly, but the brothers stood apart from typical gangsters with their hip style, fierce ambition, and Crazy Joe’s manic idealism. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of the Gallos’ war against the powerful Cosa Nostra, an epic crime saga that culminates in Crazy Joe’s murder on the streets of Little Italy, where he was gunned down mid-bite into a forkful of spaghetti in 1972. The Mad Ones is a wildly satisfying entertainment and a significant work of cultural history.

Author : Omar Swartz
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809322565
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The View from On the Road written by Omar Swartz and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through careful analysis of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Omar Swartz argues that Kerouac's influence on American society is largely rhetorical. Kerouac's significance as a cultural icon can be best understood, Swartz asserts, in terms of traditional rhetorical practices and principles. To Swartz, Kerouac is a rhetor who symbolically reconstructs his world and offers arguments and encouragements for others to follow. Swartz proposes that On the Road constitutes a "rhetorical vision," a reality-defining discourse suggesting alternative possibilities for growth and change. Swartz asserts that the reader of Kerouac's On theRoadbecomes capable of responding to the larger, confusing culture in a strategic manner. Kerouac's rhetorical vision of an alternative social and cultural reality contributes to the identity of localized cultures within the United States.

Author : Michael Patrick Emery
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 145753987X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ask the Mad Poet written by Michael Patrick Emery and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask the Mad Poet: Observations from My Homeland in a Time of Convoluted Realities begins with the title poem, an invitation to “Ask the Mad Poet” (what better commentator on a mad world?), and ends with “I Ask a Few Questions,” a long, surreal overview of the poet’s generation based on a dream. In between, the fifty-four other poems, written from 2007 through 2014, include history, social commentary, celebrations, and, in “Mater Dei, Mater Gaia,” advocacy for Mother Earth. These are the poems of an aging man, lived beyond his three score ten, much of it working with the dispossessed, who feels a call to witness truth to power on behalf of the earth, the least among us, and the way things really are: a cry for balance in a world where the kings are in the counting house, the peasants fight for crumbs, and Mother Gaia burns.

Author : William Howell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781503196933
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mad Ones written by William Howell and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gutter-grey life of besmirched streets and tedious routines just aint for everyone, hell, some people have just gotta be their own last great adventure, kick ordinaries in the teeth with both feet and give into their addiction to private anarchy. At least that's where Tallahassee's hunger erupts. His bleak future plagued by monotony and ugly with capitalism, a life he doesn't want. In fact the bastard wants out of that life so bad his veins shake and shake under the flow of adrenaline, so much that the shiny cuffs of a humdrum existence just snap and drop away.Without a plan Tallahassee arrived in Antigua on a cheap- flight whim, his eyes instantly wrenched opened like two earthquakes ripping through the soft ground. His reason for running off lies in the desirous search for more, his soul set on an impulsive life where every heartbeat pounds his chest like the drums before war. He's a wolf, set on a journey away from the beaten tracks and well away conformity, his shedded naivety desperate to be submerged in a epoch of risky undertakings and absolute exploit. An unstable lust that first finds him when The Crossing is proposed, and with it the rush of the unknown, an enlightening thrill no one can truly run from, the ecstasy of adventure so taught across Tallahassee's lungs that the white fangs of the big blue carve themselves as little more than the beginning of a mad, mad journey, a kismet for the ones mad to live.From the author of the Number 1 Best-Seller "Affable in Adversity: The Bereavement B*tch"

Author : Tom Folsom
Publisher : Weinstein Books
ISBN 13 : 160286103X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mad Ones written by Tom Folsom and published by Weinstein Books. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mad Ones chronicles the rise and fall of the Gallo brothers, a trio of reckless young gangsters whose revolution against New York City’s Mafia was inspired by Crazy Joe Gallo’s forays into Greenwich Village counterculture. Crazy Joe, Kid Blast, and Larry Gallo are steeped in legend, from Bob Dylan’s eleven-minute ballad “Joey” to fictionalizations central to The Godfather trilogy and Jimmy Breslin’s The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight. Called the toughest gang in the city by the NYPD, the Gallos hailed from the rough Red Hook neighborhood on the Brooklyn waterfront. As low-level Mafiosi, they were expected to serve their don quietly, but the brothers stood apart from typical gangsters with their hip style, fierce ambition, and Crazy Joe’s manic idealism. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of the Gallos’ war against the powerful Cosa Nostra, an epic crime saga that culminates in Crazy Joe’s murder on the streets of Little Italy, where he was gunned down mid-bite into a forkful of spaghetti in 1972. The Mad Ones is a wildly satisfying entertainment and a significant work of cultural history.

Author : William Howell
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502843821
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mad Ones written by William Howell and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gutter-grey life of besmirched streets and tedious routines just aint for everyone, hell, some people have just gotta be their own last great adventure, kick ordinaries in the teeth with both feet and give into their addiction to private anarchy. At least that's where Tallahassee's hunger erupts. His bleak future plagued by monotony and ugly with capitalism, a life he doesn't want. In fact the bastard wants out of that life so bad his veins shake and shake under the flow of adrenaline, so much that the shiny cuffs of a humdrum existence just snap and drop away. Without a plan Tallahassee arrived in Antigua on a cheap- flight whim, his eyes instantly wrenched opened like two earthquakes ripping through the soft ground. His reason for running off lies in the desirous search for more, his soul set on an impulsive life where every heartbeat pounds his chest like the drums before war. He's a wolf, set on a journey away from the beaten tracks and well away conformity, his shedded naivety desperate to be submerged in a epoch of risky undertakings and absolute exploit. An unstable lust that first finds him when The Crossing is proposed, and with it the rush of the unknown, an enlightening thrill no one can truly run from, the ecstasy of adventure so taught across Tallahassee's lungs that the white fangs of the big blue carve themselves as little more than the beginning of a mad, mad journey, a kismet for the ones mad to live. From the author of the Number 1 Best-Seller "Affable in Adversity: The Bereavement B*tch"

Author : Ann Charters
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312113476
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kerouac written by Ann Charters and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1994-10-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary methods and examine the dozen books comprising what he called 'the legend of Duluoz.' Nearly all of his books have been in print internationally since his death in 1969, and his writing has been discovered and enjoyed by new readers throughout the world. Kerouac's view of the promise of America, the seductive and lovely vision of the beckoning open spaces of our continent, has never been expressed better by subsequent writers, perhaps because Kerouac was our last writer to believe in America's promise--and essential innocence--as the legacy he would explore in his autobiographical fiction.