Finders Keepers, Losers Weep

Finders Keepers, Losers Weep
Author: Carl Douglass
Publisher: Publication Consultants
Total Pages: 819
Release: 2015-11-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 159433384X

Finders Keepers, Losers Weep: A Novel of Innocence Betrayed and the Search for Restitution is loosely based on an actual event reported in the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, by Michael D. Sorkin entitled, Federal Agents Raid St. Charles Home by Mistake. Informer Told ATF that the house was center of illegal guns ring. Randolph Kennedy, his wife, Irene, and their little daughter Annie are ready to sit down for supper. Randolph is cleaning his handgun and is about to put it away. A massive crash announces a no-knock raid by a powerful force of ATV agents. Randolph wheels and fires at the first man in black he sees, killing the agent instantly. Before the melee is over, four agents, Irene, and Annie Kennedy are dead; and two agents and Randolph are wounded; their house is a total wreck; and Randolph is roughly hauled off to jail. This sets off a series of actions and reactions which eventually brings down the President of the United States.

English Pronunciation in Use Intermediate with Answers

English Pronunciation in Use Intermediate with Answers
Author: Mark Hancock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0521185122

A new edition of our best-selling pronunciation title, now in full colour and with a new section on understanding fast, authentic speech.

Our Mother... HIS FOOL

Our Mother... HIS FOOL
Author: B. Gainous
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2010-04-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1450082114

A horrific tale of childhood despair, Our Mother... His Fool is a saga of mother-made poverty, manipulation, mental abuse, depravity, scorn, and misery. This is an account of the life of nine children and how one woman’s search for love and marriage doomed them to over twenty years of exploitation, cruelty, and neglect. “The Pulpit Nemesis” was the black hole of The Gainous Clan sucking the very life from them. He treated them as if they were his personal slaves. They built an empire for him as their world crumpled at his feet. Aside from constantly promising marriage to Annastein, he was well known for “keeping company” with the single women in the church, stealing their time and money as well. His affections didn’t rest with just the single women of the church. He had a special plan for seducing and manipulating the “Seven” sisters of the Gainous Clan. The Reverend, well known for "pimping his flock from the pulpit". How is this family able to reclaim their adult lives? Or can they?

The Jumping-Off Place

The Jumping-Off Place
Author: White Kiser Dolores White Kiser
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2010-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440198187

Maria lifted her hand to knock, but stopped when she heard a woman speaking. "Pastor, I met the most pathetic-looking girl yesterday," the voice said. "Where was that?" "Here at the church . . ." Maria felt her face burning with shame. She had fallen into disgrace, but not far enough to endure the term "pathetic." * * * "Did you come to the Ladies' Aid Meeting?" the woman asked. "Yeah. I came for aid," Maria answered, trying to control the bitterness in her voice. "I came for aid yesterday, but you asked me to eat and I did. I came again today to see if you needed a janitor to clean the church, but I know you don't, so I'll leave." * * * Maria Grant feels she at her wit's end-hungry, weary, and bedraggled-all for the love of a boy. Why did she leave her loving family to be near Orville? He didn't care one iota for her. She had sunk so low, all because of Orville.

Nancy

Nancy
Author: John Stanley
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2021-07-23
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1770465944

Classic comics from the writer of Melvin Monster Created by Ernie Bushmiller, the beloved Brillo-headed Nancy starred in her own comic book series for years, written by arguably the greatest children's comics writer of all time, John Stanley. Most famous for scripting the adventures of Marjorie Henderson Buell's Little Lulu, John Stanley is one of comics' secret geniuses. He provided a visual rough draft for all the comics he wrote and then handed off these "scripts" for someone else to render the finished art. No matter what comic he was writing, he breathed life into his characters. In Stanley's comics, Nancy is no longer a crabby cipher, but a hilarious, brilliant, scheming, duplicitous, honest, and loyal little kid — a real little kid. Her adventures with her best friend, the comically destitute Sluggo, involve moneymaking schemes to afford ice-cream sodas, botched trips to the corner store for Nancy's Aunt Fritzi, and comically raucous attempts to remove loose teeth. Drawn & Quarterly is launching several kid-friendly volumes of Nancy and Sluggo as companion volumes to Melvin Monster and Dark Horse's Little Lulu volumes. The books will be designed by Seth (The Complete Peanuts; Melvin Monster; Clyde Fans; It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken) to fill a children's comic niche that has been largely ignored for the last few decades.

The Rich People Have Gone Away

The Rich People Have Gone Away
Author: Regina Porter
Publisher: Hogarth
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2024-08-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593241878

A diverse group of New Yorkers are brought together by the search for a missing woman—in this electric novel of secrets, connection, and community. “Riveting . . . mines the delicate and treacherous terrain in which human relationships and social divisions are rooted.”—Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife, Darla, head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their upscale Park Slope building has this privilege: not Xavier, the teenager in the Cardi B T-shirt, nor Darla’s best friend, Ruby, and her partner, Katsumi, who stay behind to save their Michelin-starred restaurant. During an upstate hike on the aptly named Devil’s Path, Theo divulges a long-held secret—and when Darla disappears after the ensuing argument, he finds himself the prime suspect. As Darla’s and Theo’s families and friends come together to search for her, with Ruby and Katsumi stepping in to broker peace, past and present collide with startling consequences. Set against the pulse of an ever-changing city, The Rich People Have Gone Away connects the lives of ordinary New Yorkers to tell a powerful story of hope, love, and inequity in our times—while reminding us that no one leaves the past behind completely.

The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198734905

This unique and thoroughly revised collection contains over 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English, drawing on the resources of the Oxford Languages team for the most up-to-date research. Lively and compelling, it is filled with favourites - old and new - with a strong emphasis on meanings of proverbs catalogued.

Botched Boundaries

Botched Boundaries
Author: Hadley Hoover
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2019-03-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0359531849

Years ago, Nell Crane built a wall of silence around herself and a serious lie. The barrier held firm until a reporter's sharp mind and pointed questions kicked a hole in it. With the whole wall in danger of giving way, Nell risks full exposure for what she is: a criminal. Ethan Crane is a man of high principles who has believed his wife shares his values and honors honesty and self-discipline. When Nell's illicit act and continuing deceit are revealed, their lives take a devastating blow. Boundaries shatter, trust crumbles. The Cranes wonder if naming their masonry business Rock Solid mocks everything they've worked so hard to achieve. Nell must decide her next step. Can she persist in lying, in hopes that doing so will preserve her pride? Or, must she face truth and justice, head-on, and live with the consequences?

Getting and Keeping New Teachers

Getting and Keeping New Teachers
Author: Bruce S. Cooper
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2009-11-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1607092190

Retaining new teachers has never been easy and when the teachers are on the fast track in urban settings, turnover and retention are real problems. This book examines how schools can work to recruit, support, and somehow hold on to new teachers, many of whom have only limited formal preparation and experience in the classroom. Getting and Keeping New Teachers explores the orientation of new teachers, their lives in urban schools, and the key role of school leadership and strong collegiality, all of which combine in some cases to support and retain new teachers in important ways.