Author: Ed Winn
Publisher: Buster's Books
ISBN: 9780965848916
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Short true stories for everyone mostly Florida stories & children's stories.

Author: Ed Winn
Publisher: Buster's Books
ISBN: 9780965848909
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Author: Ed Winn
Publisher: Buster's Books
ISBN: 9780965848923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Early & present history about Florida's St. Johns River.

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Civil Defense
Publisher:
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 1162

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 946

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Author: David M. Caulfield
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514406225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 587

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This story is about times of heavy sadness and light comedy, times of severe sorrow and complete joy, times of overwhelming fear and extreme courage, times of bitter defeat and sweet victory. It is also about attempted rape and murder, depression and healing, loss and redemption. It is a story of the epic battles of American history that pitted the rich and powerful against the poor and powerless. [email protected]

Author: Linda Tirado
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425277976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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The real-life Nickel and Dimed—the author of the wildly popular “Poverty Thoughts” essay tells what it’s like to be working poor in America. ONE OF THE FIVE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF THE YEAR--Esquire “DEVASTATINGLY SMART AND FUNNY. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. TIRADO IS THE REAL THING.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, from the Foreword As the haves and have-nots grow more separate and unequal in America, the working poor don’t get heard from much. Now they have a voice—and it’s forthright, funny, and just a little bit furious. Here, Linda Tirado tells what it’s like, day after day, to work, eat, shop, raise kids, and keep a roof over your head without enough money. She also answers questions often asked about those who live on or near minimum wage: Why don’t they get better jobs? Why don’t they make better choices? Why do they smoke cigarettes and have ugly lawns? Why don’t they borrow from their parents? Enlightening and entertaining, Hand to Mouth opens up a new and much-needed dialogue between the people who just don’t have it and the people who just don’t get it.

Author: Joanne M. Queenan
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477133623
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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A soup kitchen is not, should not, be a permanent destination. Not for the clients, not for the staff. Ultimately, perhaps a touch altruistic, we would love to drum ourselves out of business. Kenny Rogers sang, You know when to hold em, and know when to fold em. And that s how it was with me. Like Antonio, I had the scars to prove my tenure at the kitchen. We all did. Burns, carpel tunnel, frozen shoulders, the beat goes on. In addition to being at the kitchen, the cumulative burdens and challenges of going to school, doing field work, homework, papers, a thesis, some health problems, I thought it would be a good point to move on. I knew it was time to hang my hat. My partner had already left to start her own business. The kitchen was moving to an expanded facility, a old grocery store a few blocks away. The program needed someone in one piece. A fresh face would be a healthy way to start in the new space. Doing social work there was not like building a house. Seeing the fruit of our labor was rare. We could only hope that the reason why we didn t see the client come through the line anymore was that the client s life improved. I did wonder if any of the services I offered straightened the path on someone s life journey? Did any of the support and tools improve conditions for them? Was I really able to quench someone s need? Did I give our people hope? Victor Hugo said the word which God has written on the brow of every man is Hope. I hope what I did in those years was meaningful. I hope it was enough.

Author: Tim Capehart
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435703650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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Nearly half of the fourteen (+ one) stories in Seeking the Link have appeared elsewhere in print. Several won awards, of the local variety. Each is a short study in detail of a few moments in the lives of the ordinary people who inhabit the words. These often atmospheric stories are at turns quirky, moody, nostalgic, or pleasingly silly. All are written in a voice Ethan Mordden described as "surprisingly self assured." There's something to please everyone in Capehart's debut fiction collection.Two of these stories appeared in the Dayton Daily News "Leaving" and "Accidents." Two appeared in the online edition of the Dayton Daily News "Back Roads" and "Working to See the Cup." "Skipping Stones" appeared in The Wooster Review. "Pictures" was published first in Christopher Street and then translated into Dutch and published under the title "foto's" in Uitkomst.

Author: Men's Journal Editors
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307422704
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 610

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For the past decade, Men’s Journal has set the standard for travel and adventure writing by publishing the work of America’s finest authors and literary journalists. Wild Stories collects thirty-two of the best pieces to appear in the magazine, written by its most esteemed contributors, including Jim Harrison, Sebastian Junger, P. J. O’Rourke, Rick Bass, Thomas McGuane, George Plimpton, Hampton Sides, Doug Stanton, Tim Cahill, and Mark Bowden. Each of the four chapters in Wild Stories showcases Men’s Journal’s diversity and taut storytelling power. “The Adventures” is a series of razor-sharp travel narratives, from a road trip across India on the perilous Grand Trunk Road to a search for grizzlies in Romania. “The Sporting Life” is a look into obscure corners of the sports world, where golf’s bush-league wannabes try to make it to the PGA and a group of cyclists out-suffer one another in pursuit of the mythic Hour Record. “Men’s Lives” includes profiles of singular adventurers such as Yvon Chouinard and Ned Gillette, and captures the rewards of such quintessentially male traditions as building a cabin on your own plot of land. And “The Reporting” collects definitive accounts of the most newsworthy disasters, as well as riveting dispatches from war zones in Somalia, Sudan, and Colombia, and from environmental hot spots in Alaska and Montana. Commemorating Men’s Journal’s tenth anniversary, Wild Stories is a diverse and entertaining anthology that explores the magazine’s basic creed: Life is an adventure. From the first page to the last, these are stories you’ll never forget. From the Hardcover edition.