Author: Nic Schuck
Publisher: Panhandle Books
ISBN: 1087952166
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
A gritty and violent tale of family drama set mostly in the fictional lumber town of Sullivan, Florida, a sleepy forgotten place on the Florida-Alabama border. Panhandlers: a novel in stories, follows Hank Ackerman as he grows up in poverty and attempts to escape the same demons that haunted his father. Sometimes dreams are all people have and it's those dreams of far-off places that can be the difference between embarking on a life of adventure or being complacent in the life you were born into.
Panhandlers
Author: Nic Schuck
Publisher: Panhandle Books
ISBN: 1087952166
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
A gritty and violent tale of family drama set mostly in the fictional lumber town of Sullivan, Florida, a sleepy forgotten place on the Florida-Alabama border. Panhandlers: a novel in stories, follows Hank Ackerman as he grows up in poverty and attempts to escape the same demons that haunted his father. Sometimes dreams are all people have and it's those dreams of far-off places that can be the difference between embarking on a life of adventure or being complacent in the life you were born into.
Publisher: Panhandle Books
ISBN: 1087952166
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
A gritty and violent tale of family drama set mostly in the fictional lumber town of Sullivan, Florida, a sleepy forgotten place on the Florida-Alabama border. Panhandlers: a novel in stories, follows Hank Ackerman as he grows up in poverty and attempts to escape the same demons that haunted his father. Sometimes dreams are all people have and it's those dreams of far-off places that can be the difference between embarking on a life of adventure or being complacent in the life you were born into.
An Invisible Thread
Author: Laura Schroff
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451648979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title, that may also include a folder.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451648979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title, that may also include a folder.
Wasp Box
Author: Jason Ockert
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0991640411
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
“Wasp Box is a thrilling debut that will no doubt soon garner lots of positive attention from readers and critics alike. It is that rare novel that manages to be profound while also being profoundly entertaining.” – Wraparound South “What develops in Wasp Box is horrific, beautiful, bizarre, poignant and mesmerizing. The sensory and visceral detail will cause readers to claw at their legs and necks, jam fingers into their ears, or hop on one foot to shake from the head what may lurk inside. Wasp Box portrays families at their best and worst, strongest and weakest, closest and most distant. Above all, it offers a portrait of the resilience and reliance necessary to survive.” – The Rumpus “Jason Ockert's first novel is strangely magnificent. Deep down, Wasp Box is a love story: A soldier searches for a way to come home to his sweetheart, a man attempts to be a better father to his son, a quiet boy and an odd girl find companionship in each other and an old man struggles to cope without his deceased wife. But it's also a story filled with a quiet, lurking dread. It touches on the fear that lives inside all of us, a fear that literally surfaces when a soldier returned from war births a swarm of parasitic wasps that have been nesting in his brain, feeding on his insides. Are you cringing yet? Good. Those are just the first two pages.” – Bookslut When a soldier returning home to a small New York town inadvertently transports an invasive species of deadly parasitic wasps, he sets off a frightening chain of events that throws an entire community into an unpredictable crisis. Escalating in its psychological, emotional, and narrative intensity, Ockert’s gripping first novel examines the choices individuals make in the face of danger, the limits of personal strength, and the value of family loyalty when the familiar world unravels.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0991640411
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
“Wasp Box is a thrilling debut that will no doubt soon garner lots of positive attention from readers and critics alike. It is that rare novel that manages to be profound while also being profoundly entertaining.” – Wraparound South “What develops in Wasp Box is horrific, beautiful, bizarre, poignant and mesmerizing. The sensory and visceral detail will cause readers to claw at their legs and necks, jam fingers into their ears, or hop on one foot to shake from the head what may lurk inside. Wasp Box portrays families at their best and worst, strongest and weakest, closest and most distant. Above all, it offers a portrait of the resilience and reliance necessary to survive.” – The Rumpus “Jason Ockert's first novel is strangely magnificent. Deep down, Wasp Box is a love story: A soldier searches for a way to come home to his sweetheart, a man attempts to be a better father to his son, a quiet boy and an odd girl find companionship in each other and an old man struggles to cope without his deceased wife. But it's also a story filled with a quiet, lurking dread. It touches on the fear that lives inside all of us, a fear that literally surfaces when a soldier returned from war births a swarm of parasitic wasps that have been nesting in his brain, feeding on his insides. Are you cringing yet? Good. Those are just the first two pages.” – Bookslut When a soldier returning home to a small New York town inadvertently transports an invasive species of deadly parasitic wasps, he sets off a frightening chain of events that throws an entire community into an unpredictable crisis. Escalating in its psychological, emotional, and narrative intensity, Ockert’s gripping first novel examines the choices individuals make in the face of danger, the limits of personal strength, and the value of family loyalty when the familiar world unravels.
The Panhandling Bible
Author: Sticky Fingers
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781541353893
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Make Easy Money Panhandling! This book is all you need, to earn up to $300 a day! The Panhandlers' Bible is like "Begging For Dummies," easy to read, full of useful techniques and tools, and written to help you make big money FAST! Learn how to get people to open their wallets for you. Find the best locations, the best type of signs to fly, and discover what groups of people are likely to give you the most. It's all here. This book is the result of decades of research, and hundreds of interviews with panhandlers across the country. Learn what works for them, and how to make panhandling work for you. Many people just like you, struggling to get by in a world without jobs, have discovered the secret to making a good living, by panhandling like a pro. You have heard the rumors, on the street and in the media, about panhandlers making over $100,000 a year. Inside the pages of this book are the secrets of the richest beggars in the country. Find out exactly how they do it, and how you can do it too.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781541353893
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Make Easy Money Panhandling! This book is all you need, to earn up to $300 a day! The Panhandlers' Bible is like "Begging For Dummies," easy to read, full of useful techniques and tools, and written to help you make big money FAST! Learn how to get people to open their wallets for you. Find the best locations, the best type of signs to fly, and discover what groups of people are likely to give you the most. It's all here. This book is the result of decades of research, and hundreds of interviews with panhandlers across the country. Learn what works for them, and how to make panhandling work for you. Many people just like you, struggling to get by in a world without jobs, have discovered the secret to making a good living, by panhandling like a pro. You have heard the rumors, on the street and in the media, about panhandlers making over $100,000 a year. Inside the pages of this book are the secrets of the richest beggars in the country. Find out exactly how they do it, and how you can do it too.
Spectacle
Author: Lauren Goodwin Slaughter
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0991640470
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
In Spectacle, Lauren Goodwin Slaughter's second full-length collection, the poet deepens her commitment to the enduring and eternal subjects of womanhood, motherhood, and family, and deftly considers how those devotions intersect in ways joyful, mysterious, and cruel within personal and political landscapes. Slaughter’s poems seek out and explore authentic, raw humanity, at times employing the gaze of Dutch photographer and artist, Rineke Dijkstra—several of whose photographic portraits are included in the collection alongside ekphrastic poems—as a lens to view what Dijkstra calls the "uninhibited moment.” When artistic eye meets the fierceness of subject, the result is poetry deeply rooted in its lyricism and empathy, grounded in its depth of emotion, and unflinching in its alertness to the poet's beloveds and world.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0991640470
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
In Spectacle, Lauren Goodwin Slaughter's second full-length collection, the poet deepens her commitment to the enduring and eternal subjects of womanhood, motherhood, and family, and deftly considers how those devotions intersect in ways joyful, mysterious, and cruel within personal and political landscapes. Slaughter’s poems seek out and explore authentic, raw humanity, at times employing the gaze of Dutch photographer and artist, Rineke Dijkstra—several of whose photographic portraits are included in the collection alongside ekphrastic poems—as a lens to view what Dijkstra calls the "uninhibited moment.” When artistic eye meets the fierceness of subject, the result is poetry deeply rooted in its lyricism and empathy, grounded in its depth of emotion, and unflinching in its alertness to the poet's beloveds and world.
Address Unknown
Author: James Wright
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351533924
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Describes the nature of homelessness, its multiple causes, and its demographic, economic, sociological, and social policy antecedents. Finding the origins of the problem to be social and political rather than economic, Wright (human relations, Tulane) outlines remedies based on existing and modified
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351533924
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Describes the nature of homelessness, its multiple causes, and its demographic, economic, sociological, and social policy antecedents. Finding the origins of the problem to be social and political rather than economic, Wright (human relations, Tulane) outlines remedies based on existing and modified
Native Moments
Author: Nic Schuck
Publisher: Panhandle Books
ISBN: 1087936136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
In the tradition of other great ex-patriot stories like The Sun Also Rises or All the Pretty Horses, Native Moments is a coming-of-age adventure set among the lush landscape of Costa Rica. After the death of his brother, Sanch Murray leaves for a surf trip as a way to cope and sets out on a quixotic search for an alternative to the American Dream. Set in 1999 Costa Rica, Sanch and his friend Jake Higdon wander the dirt roads of Tamarindo and surrounding areas chasing waves as a way to live out the romantic fantasy lifestyle of traveling surfers. Jake Higdon, six years Sanch's senior, takes on the role of the wise leader and Sanch as his young apprentice. Sanch's adventure leads to encounters with people who share world views he had never considered and could potentially shape his own changing perceptions about life. Through sometimes humorous episodes such as trying his hand as a matador at a roadside rodeo or in his not so humorous battle with dysentery, Sanch explores life's beauty and wonder alongside the darker undercurrents of humanity. Along his journey, Sanch befriends a shamanic traveler named Rob, young revolutionaries from Venezuela, numerous expatriates from around the world trying to escape whatever it is that keeps chasing them, and a beautiful local girl named Andrea, who Sanch suspects is a prostitute but can't help falling for.
Publisher: Panhandle Books
ISBN: 1087936136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
In the tradition of other great ex-patriot stories like The Sun Also Rises or All the Pretty Horses, Native Moments is a coming-of-age adventure set among the lush landscape of Costa Rica. After the death of his brother, Sanch Murray leaves for a surf trip as a way to cope and sets out on a quixotic search for an alternative to the American Dream. Set in 1999 Costa Rica, Sanch and his friend Jake Higdon wander the dirt roads of Tamarindo and surrounding areas chasing waves as a way to live out the romantic fantasy lifestyle of traveling surfers. Jake Higdon, six years Sanch's senior, takes on the role of the wise leader and Sanch as his young apprentice. Sanch's adventure leads to encounters with people who share world views he had never considered and could potentially shape his own changing perceptions about life. Through sometimes humorous episodes such as trying his hand as a matador at a roadside rodeo or in his not so humorous battle with dysentery, Sanch explores life's beauty and wonder alongside the darker undercurrents of humanity. Along his journey, Sanch befriends a shamanic traveler named Rob, young revolutionaries from Venezuela, numerous expatriates from around the world trying to escape whatever it is that keeps chasing them, and a beautiful local girl named Andrea, who Sanch suspects is a prostitute but can't help falling for.
Anti-social Patterns of Begging and Beggars
Author: Om Prakash Goyal
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
ISBN: 9788182051508
Category : Beggars
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The study brings forth the nature of erosion of social norms and cultural patterns among different groups of beggars who lived precariously at the margin of urban society. It also focuses on specific social, cultural and behavioural strategies by which the beggars managed to survive in their miserable socio-economic situation.
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
ISBN: 9788182051508
Category : Beggars
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The study brings forth the nature of erosion of social norms and cultural patterns among different groups of beggars who lived precariously at the margin of urban society. It also focuses on specific social, cultural and behavioural strategies by which the beggars managed to survive in their miserable socio-economic situation.
The Civil Rights of Homeless People
Author: Madeleine R. Stoner
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9780202364780
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Stoner's new book examines the collaboration between the human services and legal professions, as both deal with the complex and interrelated problems of homeless people. In surveying numerous class action lawsuits tried on behalf of the homeless, the author takes up such client-centered issues as rights to housing, minimum standards of health and welfare, education, family preservation, education, and voting. Her book will assist practitioners in their advocacy on behalf of homeless clients, while serving as a text for courses in social policy formulation and implementation.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9780202364780
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Stoner's new book examines the collaboration between the human services and legal professions, as both deal with the complex and interrelated problems of homeless people. In surveying numerous class action lawsuits tried on behalf of the homeless, the author takes up such client-centered issues as rights to housing, minimum standards of health and welfare, education, family preservation, education, and voting. Her book will assist practitioners in their advocacy on behalf of homeless clients, while serving as a text for courses in social policy formulation and implementation.
Exit Ramp
Author: David P. Spears II
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983671947
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Have you ever wondered how much that guy with the cardboard sign makes? One economics student did and he decided to find out. During the summer of his senior year at college, while earning a B.A. in Economics and Political Science, David P. Spears spent eighty hours undercover as a panhandler. Systematically recording every transaction at the exit ramp, Spears captured a rarely seen picture of how modern urban charity works. This book is the record of his adventures, part economic research, part investigative journalism. Both the numbers and the stories behind the numbers provide answers to the questions we've all been wondering: Who gives more to panhandlers-men or women? What percentage of drivers roll down their windows to donate? And most important of all, how much can a panhandler earn per hour? Get out your bi-weekly pay stub-by the end of this book you'll know if you make more or less than the guy with the cardboard sign.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983671947
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Have you ever wondered how much that guy with the cardboard sign makes? One economics student did and he decided to find out. During the summer of his senior year at college, while earning a B.A. in Economics and Political Science, David P. Spears spent eighty hours undercover as a panhandler. Systematically recording every transaction at the exit ramp, Spears captured a rarely seen picture of how modern urban charity works. This book is the record of his adventures, part economic research, part investigative journalism. Both the numbers and the stories behind the numbers provide answers to the questions we've all been wondering: Who gives more to panhandlers-men or women? What percentage of drivers roll down their windows to donate? And most important of all, how much can a panhandler earn per hour? Get out your bi-weekly pay stub-by the end of this book you'll know if you make more or less than the guy with the cardboard sign.