A New HUD

A New HUD
Author: United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Publisher:
Total Pages: 90
Release: 1999
Genre: Community development
ISBN:

In The Black

In The Black
Author: Fran Harris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1982138327

If you want your kids to grow up financially fit, here's the book for you! Fran Harris, an entrepreneur since age nine, shows you how to help your children become better savers, smarter spenders, and more informed consumers. Packed with exercises teaching fundamental financial skills, In the Black covers all the basics of money management, including: -Credit and debt -The banking system -Saving for college -And much more! In the Black is a road map full of ideas and tools that enable you to learn with your children. Harris's tips, anecdotes, and time-honed financial know-how guarantee a learning process filled with hours well spent and money well saved!

Black Heroes

Black Heroes
Author: Errol Hill
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1989
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781557830272

Includes plays by Langston Hughes, Randolph Edmonds, May Miller, William Branch, Edgar White, Phillip Hayes Dean, and Ron Milner

The Novel

The Novel
Author: Michael Schmidt
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 1299
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0674369068

The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied landscape that invites exploration rather than a linear journey. In The Novel: A Biography, Michael Schmidt does full justice to its complexity. Like his hero Ford Madox Ford in The March of Literature, Schmidt chooses as his traveling companions not critics or theorists but “artist practitioners,” men and women who feel “hot love” for the books they admire, and fulminate against those they dislike. It is their insights Schmidt cares about. Quoting from the letters, diaries, reviews, and essays of novelists and drawing on their biographies, Schmidt invites us into the creative dialogues between authors and between books, and suggests how these dialogues have shaped the development of the novel in English. Schmidt believes there is something fundamentally subversive about art: he portrays the novel as a liberalizing force and a revolutionary stimulus. But whatever purpose the novel serves in a given era, a work endures not because of its subject, themes, political stance, or social aims but because of its language, its sheer invention, and its resistance to cliché—some irreducible quality that keeps readers coming back to its pages.

Make 'Em Laugh

Make 'Em Laugh
Author: Michael Kantor
Publisher: Twelve
Total Pages: 713
Release: 2008-12-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0446555754

From the most popular routines and the most ingenious physical shtick to the snappiest wisecracks and the most biting satire of the last century, Make 'Em Laugh illuminates who we are as a nation by exploring what makes us laugh, and why. Authors Laurence Maslon and Michael Kantor draw on countless sources to chronicle the past century of American comedy and the geniuses who created and performed it-melding biography, American history, and a lotta laughs into an exuberant, important book. Each of the six chapters focuses a different style or archetype of comedy, from the slapstick pratfalls of Buster Keaton and Lucille Ball through the wiseguy put-downs of Groucho Marx and Larry David, to the incendiary bombshells of Mae West and Richard Pryor . And at every turn the significance of these comedians-smashing social boundaries, challenging the definition of good taste, speaking the truth to the powerful-is vividly tangible. Make 'Em Laugh is more than a compendium of American comic genius; it is a window onto the way comedy both reflects the world and changes it-one laugh at a time. Starting from the groundbreaking PBS series, the authors have gone deeper into the works and lives of America's great comic artists, with biographical portraits, archival materials, cultural overviews, and rare photos. Brilliantly illustrated, with insights (and jokes) from comedians, writers and producers, along with film, radio, television, and theater historians, Make 'Em Laugh is an indispensible, definitive book about comedy in America.

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2001
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780826213693

The sixteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people. Each volume will include a biographical and literary chronology by Arnold Rampersad, as well as an introduction by a Hughes scholar lume introductions will provide contextual and historical information on the particular work.

Until One Of Us Is Dead

Until One Of Us Is Dead
Author: Andy Rausch
Publisher: Next Chapter
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2021-12-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

When his young granddaughter Allie is suddenly abducted from a restaurant in rural Missouri, police officer Denny Davis' life takes a devastatingly dark turn. After thirteen years, a fruitless manhunt has turned him into a troubled alcoholic plagued by guilt - but a twist of fate leads him stumbling down an unexpected path. Trapped in a sinister game and shocked at its players, can Denny find revenge - and redemption - as he finally comes face to face with the perpetrator? This book contains graphic violence and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.

Wash

Wash
Author: H WEBB, JR.; Willa Mae Abrams Webb
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 645
Release: 2011-10-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1463436785

Wash, an engaging page-turner, is creative non-fiction, about a black, freed, slave struggling for his manhood in the post civil war south. It is a love story of a young man living out the principles taught in his Christian, God fearing, home. Wash’s story of former slave descendents encountering constant challenges to their faith, family, friends, and future reflects a universal experience. His struggles to honor these commitments create conflict, confusion, and tragedy. Daily efforts to become educated and improve the lot of his family, friends and himself are frustrated by racist policies of he new south. He pursues the lofty goal of farm ownership. Wash’s distress and degrading experiences force him to mature quickly, accept reality, and new responsibilities. His intelligence and humble manner depict many southern stereotypes used to overcome injustice and assure survival in the reconstruction of the south. He advances his cause by using the oppressive self-interests of white society to achieve his goals of farm ownership and community harmony, through hard work. He gains his farm, gives a portion of his land to establish educational and a religious institutions. He marries and begins a family that must be uprooted in order that his children find education and work in their aspiration to become productive citizens.

Make 'Em Pay

Make 'Em Pay
Author: George Hayduke
Publisher: Lyle Stuart
Total Pages: 209
Release: 1986-10-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780818404214

A book of ultimate revenge techniques from a master trickster--over 130 topics arranged alphabetically to find the appropriate dirty trick, scheme, or stunt for any special target.

Bad Paper

Bad Paper
Author: Jake Halpern
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2014-10-14
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0374711240

The Federal Trade Commission receives more complaints about rogue debt collecting than about any activity besides identity theft. Dramatically and entertainingly, Bad Paper reveals why. It tells the story of Aaron Siegel, a former banking executive, and Brandon Wilson, a former armed robber, who become partners and go in quest of "paper"—the uncollected debts that are sold off by banks for pennies on the dollar. As Aaron and Brandon learn, the world of consumer debt collection is an unregulated shadowland where operators often make unwarranted threats and even collect debts that are not theirs. Introducing an unforgettable cast of strivers and rogues, Jake Halpern chronicles their lives as they manage high-pressure call centers, hunt for paper in Las Vegas casinos, and meet in parked cars to sell the social security numbers and account information of unsuspecting consumers. He also tracks a "package" of debt that is stolen by unscrupulous collectors, leading to a dramatic showdown with guns in a Buffalo corner store. Along the way, he reveals the human cost of a system that compounds the troubles of hardworking Americans and permits banks to ignore their former customers. The result is a vital exposé that is also a bravura feat of storytelling.