Peace Pipe Dreams
Title | Peace Pipe Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Darrell Dennis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN | 9781771000406 |
Playwright, broadcaster, actor and comedian, Darrell Dennis looks at European-First Nations interactions in Canada from the moment of first contact to today.
Pipe Dream
Title | Pipe Dream PDF eBook |
Author | Solomon Jones |
Publisher | Villard |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2001-09-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0375506594 |
The lawyer turned on the tape recorder, handed his client a cigarette, and lit it for him. Black drew hard, squinting as the smoke rushed into his lungs. "Where do you want to start?"the lawyer said, lighting a cigarette of his own. "I guess there’s only one place to start; at Broad and Erie." Johnny Podres, a politician whose record against corruption had been propelling him straight to the mayor’s office, is found murdered in a North Philly crack house. Enter Samuel Jackson, a.k.a. Black, a drug addict who knows better, a man embittered by the fact that he can’t seem to escape from his addiction to crack cocaine or, for that matter, from himself. Though he was once a family man with a wife and son, Black’s only concern these days is getting his next high, that is, until he stumbles across a friend and fellow addict, Leroy, and both become prime suspects in the Podres murder. Black and Leroy hook up with two female pipers: Clarisse, a registered nurse who is slowly losing to crack any semblance of a respectable life, and Pookie, who already has lost it. Soon the hunt is on for all four as they try to stay one step ahead of a police department under tremendous pressure to solve the case—because if a killer isn’t found soon, this could blow up into one of the biggest scandals in Philadelphia history. Solomon Jones weaves a suspenseful story against the backdrop of corruption in the Philadelphia police department and centers it on a group of drug addicts who, in the process of fleeing the law, come to terms with their own addiction, leading to some devastating consequences.
Pipe Dreams
Title | Pipe Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Slater |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2020-02-18 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 006302828X |
The inspiring autobiography by the eleven-time world champion and star of The Ultimate Surfer—includes many personal photos. From Beach Blanket Bingo to Baywatch to Blue Crush, surfing has fascinated people, and Kelly Slater is arguably the greatest surfer of all time. He has won more world championships than any other competitor, and he continues to change peoples’ minds about what can and can’t be done on a surfboard. His wild ride has included fame, fortune, and a high-profile relationship with Pamela Anderson. Not bad for a skinny kid from a broken home in Cocoa Beach, Florida. In Pipe Dreams, Kelly journeys to oceans around the world to take on thunderous walls of water and shares the outrageous stories, solemn moments, and undeniable spirit that have made him a superstar—and taught him how to triumph over adversity. “Slater has many lively stories to tell, about his friendships with the many great surfers at the famous ‘Pipeline’ area of Oahu, his run-ins with surfing groupies and his ill-fated role in the TV series Baywatch.” —Publishers Weekly
Dreams from My Father
Title | Dreams from My Father PDF eBook |
Author | Barack Obama |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 463 |
Release | 2007-01-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307394123 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World). “Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Praise for Dreams from My Father “Beautifully crafted . . . moving and candid . . . This book belongs on the shelf beside works like James McBride’s The Color of Water and Gregory Howard Williams’s Life on the Color Line as a tale of living astride America’s racial categories.”—Scott Turow “Provocative . . . Persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither.”—The New York Times Book Review “Obama’s writing is incisive yet forgiving. This is a book worth savoring.”—Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here “One of the most powerful books of self-discovery I’ve ever read, all the more so for its illuminating insights into the problems not only of race, class, and color, but of culture and ethnicity. It is also beautifully written, skillfully layered, and paced like a good novel.”—Charlayne Hunter-Gault, author of In My Place “Dreams from My Father is an exquisite, sensitive study of this wonderful young author’s journey into adulthood, his search for community and his place in it, his quest for an understanding of his roots, and his discovery of the poetry of human life. Perceptive and wise, this book will tell you something about yourself whether you are black or white.”—Marian Wright Edelman
Pipedreams
Title | Pipedreams PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Hartford |
Publisher | Retrobate Books LLC |
Pages | 552 |
Release | 2012-05-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780615640013 |
The long strange trip begins. It's 2468. Following the economic and natural upheavals of the twenty-first century, the great cataclysm known as Helter-Skelter caused civilization to disintegrate. There are no great nations, no highly organized governments, no telecommunications, no electricity, no internal combustion engines. But you can still get concert tickets on a Saturday night, and Honkweed is cheap and plentiful. Or it was, until recently....
Pipe Dreams
Title | Pipe Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Maya K. Peterson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 423 |
Release | 2019-05-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108475477 |
A long environmental history of the Aral Sea region, focusing on colonization and development in Russian and Soviet Central Asia.
The Long, Bitter Trail
Title | The Long, Bitter Trail PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Wallace |
Publisher | Hill and Wang |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2011-04-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1429934271 |
An account of Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830, which relocated Eastern Indians to the Okalahoma Territory over the Trail of Tears, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs which was given control over their lives.