Small Market provides an eye opening look into the reality that is the world of television news for budding journalists breaking into the business. All too often people who aspire to become news anchors or reporters think their first job out of college will be as glamorous as those of the nation's top anchors and reporters, like Katie Couric and Charles Gibson. After working a while in a small market, or small city, young journalists usually find that isn't always the case. They aren't making lots of money, working with the best equipment, or interviewing people with global influence. Small Market spotlights the experiences of journalists who have gone before them to enlighten these young journalists about the potential issues and challenges they could face in their small markets. The book also motivates them not to give up on their careers, as so many have, and to keep their heads up in the face of adversity.
Saladin had spent nearly a decade in the New York City drug trade and he was not sure how long his good fortune would last. The 1980's saw the introduction which brought about a cascade of violence not many were prepared to handle. The calm, declined man had to quickly learn to think on his as events would make any choice dangerous. The increased violence in the business, Saladin to seek a fragile alliance with three mutual friends to stave off the unsolicited advances of chief know as Cash and the Notorious Reverend. The task of holding the alliance together was made more difficult as wealth increased amongst them. As Saladin fights to keep the alliance he also must fight the demons on his life. The unsolved murder of his mentor as well as his philandering ways put added stress on making his choice very difficult. Can Saladin make the right choice while holding the alliance together? Will Cash and The Reverend force Saladin to choose before he was ready? In the end will Saladin keep his money and the love of his life Sunshine or will he be left broke and alone? One thing Saladin knows for sure is that Troubles Comes in 3's.
After King DC prison episode. He refuse to leave the street life. King DC is at it again. Up to his old tricks. In high pursuit to enhance his stable. His baby Mama, Vanessa desperately tries to involve him in a family life with her and his son Marquavious. Cindy tries to slow King DC down with her web of tricks. Cindy desperately devise a plan to pull King DC out the game. King DC three sons Marquavious, Miracle and Maynard admire their Father's abilities to manage women. They watch their father every move and wish to be like him. In the process of investigating Dee-Dee's whereabouts, King DC catch Rain to be his number one Lady of Leisure. Unfortunately, Dee-Dee is in a situation with a ruthless guerilla pimp name Scorpio. Fortunately, King DC is able to swipe his baby Mama Dee-Dee as well as Scorpio's whole stable. Which include Rain, Porcha, Brazil, Sunshine and Snow.This bring vengence to Scorpio heart. Pimp Scorpio commits a murder and takes Dee-Dee, Porcha, Sunshine, Snow and Brazil down the river with him. King DC recruits Sparkle, Diamond and Asia after retiring in the game. King DC life goes for a turn for the worse.
This is a story of a street guy by the name of Taylor Cheese Jones. He handles his matters in the city of Philadelphia. For Taylor, things in life couldnt be better. He drives the best Cars and dates the most beautiful women. Yet, a series of unfortunate circumstances take place. Taylors once perfect world is turned upside down. He attempts to hold everything together as he deals with heat from the Cops - a bad investment and a snitch amongst his crew. If anyone could get through this, it is Taylor. He considers himself street wise but his smarts continue to get tested
My novel, Revenge, weaves thrill, suspense, and jewels of wisdom into a plot that raises the bar on urban fiction. Delvin a/k/a Smoke and Kenric a/k/a Lil Man are best friends that were raised together in the 'hood. They both had loving fathers that were involved in the Black Panther Party in the 60's. After graduating high school, Smoke and Lil Man chose entirely different paths. Smoke chose college while Lil Man chose the streets. However, avoiding the pull of the streets would prove to be a daunting task for Smoke. After being framed for a drug charge by his ex-girlfriend, railroaded by a crooked public defender and prosecutor, and witnessing the death of his mother in the courtroom Smoke is bent on revenge. However, his father, daughter, and best friend all hang in the balance, leaving Smoke to make the toughest decision of his life. The decision becomes even more complicated when he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his court appointed lawyer and others. Presenting complex ethical choices, sexual passion, greed, loyalty and betrayal, Revenge will take Smoke and Lil Man through an episode of life that may lead them to an early grave or a prison cell for life.
Almost there is a compelling true story of a young Rap Artist who went from Rapper & Producer to Record Company Executive. Ease takes you on a ride throughout his twenty-year career as an Artist trying to break into the music industry. While on the road to achieving his dreams of success, Ease not only faces betrayal by trusted friends and record executives, but faces a test of his own courage in the near death experience in the mean streets of Cali. This heartfelt autobiography shares Ease's accomplishments as well as his down falls, including the mistakes he made that may have cost him millions. Intriguing and suspenseful, Ease gives u blow-by-blow details on his run-ins with the Feds and Drug Enforcement Agency investigating his label as a drug operation and front for money laundering. His brief encounters with music industry heavy weights LA & Babyface, Russell Simmons, M.C. Hammer, Ice-T, N.W.A. and the late great Roger Troutman and Notorious B.I.G. Ease also shares his thoughts on the industry as a whole, and its design to keep Artists in debt. And last but not least, Ease shares his struggle and frustrations of growing up in Dayton, Ohio once known as the Funk Capital of the world, to having no outlets to the modern-day music scene.
Meet the killer b's, Brian, Brandy & Billy. Three of the most different people in the world. See what happens when their lives intercept. When greed, lust, love and revenge are stirred together producing the perfect cocktail to get drunk on murder. First up meet Brian the over achieving spoiled rotten psycho who just can't get enough, killing that is. Then there is Brandy the quiet girl next door who nobody notices until she wants them to. She's more into sex than killing but sometimes they can both be fun. Lastly there's Billy, mentally challenged and doesn't know how to communicate. He could just save the world, twice.
Darryl Grimason vividly and lyrically conveys in this book the all-consuming passion for fishing that has inspired him since boyhood. Whether describing a nostalgic attachment to his first special fishing rod, the pleasures of angling for wild brown trout on Lough Corrib or the capture of a Giant Bluefin Tuna off the Donegal coast, his enthusiasm for the subject is infectious. Set against the elemental power of the ocean, and the ever-changing moods of Ireland's lakes and waterways, Reading the Water gives a mesmerising account of the author's lifelong love affair with fishing that is both deeply personal and universally appealing.
Twenty years ago, we just didn't have the enormous weight of evidence from our contemporary messengers of God, our near-death experiencers, the gifted psychic mediums, our ancient spiritual teachers, and last but not least the brilliant and courageous scientists and medical doctors. Now, through part 1 and part 2 of Relax...You're Not Going to Die, we're finally able to address and answer some of the most perplexing questions about God and life and why our lives are the way they are. We know now that God is not "working in mysterious ways" but has a definitive plan in place for each and every one of us. This is a time of our spiritual awakening. Your life is more perfect than you know. We are all magnificent, divine, immortal spiritual beings that choose this earthly life for the spiritual growth it offers. You are invited to examine and explore the overwhelming evidence.
He played deception like music, the way Miles played his horn. Every note moved her until she almost had no will of her own. Pregnant and alone, 26 year old Dahlia Reynolds recounts the events that led to her imprisonment in Thailand, an unlikely place for a Sista from Waycross, Georgia. Nervously awaiting the ultimate punishment, Dahlia realizes how far she is from Washington, DC, her best friends, Stacy and El, her job as a Pentagon analyst and from Antoine Blackwell, her occasional lover. This could be the end of a journey full of treachery and deceit launched by a mystery from her family's past and a quilt she inherited from a slave ancestor, all started with a chance encounter with a much older man. Mackenzie Powell stole Dahlia's heart and holds the key to a treasure that made her an unknowing pawn in a high stakes game of murder and intrigue that began deep inside a South African mine before she was born. Dahlia was swept away by the Bentley driving Mackenzie's classy good looks and debonair charm, but "Mac" has a secret and only The Stone has the power to unlock it and make sense of what appears to be a series of unrelated events. She wonders: Is Mac hero or villain?
Many don't know of the Knights Templar. Others say they were dissolved and faded into the sunset in the Fourteenth Century. They did not. Jonathan Knight, a former CIA agent is a member of the Knights Templar. Tasked with stopping the senseless slaughter of millions and the implementation of Sharia Law into Western nations, Jonathan and his team of intelligence agents are going to need divine intervention and nerves of steel to carry out their mission. Julie is a popular social media blogger whom Jonathan Knight has contacted to share important information to her millions of followers--information that will expose a plot involving world leaders. There's one problem--Julie has been kidnapped.
Living in God’s Kingdom: a practical study guide is an attempt to devote ourselves “to the apostles’ teaching” (Acts 2:42) so “we reach unity in the faith” (Ephesians 4:12–13). It is to learn from Paul, as Menno Simons did, that “no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 3:11). This is a Tri-Conference work involving the Christian Mennonite Conference, Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference, and Evangelical Mennonite Conference. Each chapter draws together the classical themes of Christian theology and Anabaptist emphases. The book includes the Apostles’ Creed and introduces the history and work of each conference. The material is suitable for classes of various ages and settings. The book can serve as a group study guide for six or more weeks, depending on how leaders select from and move through the lessons. A leader’s guide for the chapters has been developed, providing many questions and resources. Because of Jesus Christ, sent for our salvation, this book is presented to our churches to help potential, fresh, and older believers to follow Christ in life within his Church and Kingdom.
On This Day in Comedy is not just an encyclopedia, but a celebration of comedy. In humorous prose the book takes readers through the often-neglected subcultures of comedy in America, acknowledging the inclusiveness of the performers as well as shows and films that made this art form so vital to comics of all backgrounds. It's artistically criminal that a search for Native American or Asian comedy information yields a virtually blank slate. Look for Middle Eastern comics and you'll be provided information on the region's comic book revolution, and search results for Latin comedy are confined to a series of outdated articles. This encyclopedia will offer rare and in some cases never-before-seen photos and obscure facts, making it an indispensable comedy essential.
The Plague Merchants describes the horrifying feasibility of a genetically engineered virus, formed from AIDS and influenza, that creates a doomsday weapon. If unleashed in a crowded subway, the resulting plague can sweep across the country, spread by airborne contagion, annihilating every other person. The creator of this weapon of mass destruction is the world-renowned and enigmatic molecular biologist Michelle Exeter, cloistered in a testing facility of the Neogenics biotechnology company in the Texas Hill Country. Her clandestine biological-weapons research is underwritten by covert Defense Department funds funneled through United States Senator Prentiss Standridge and company CEO Charles Dunn. A delirious Hispanic, found wandering the roadside near the research laboratory, is rescued by two policemen. His death in the local ER from fulminant lung hemorrhage mystifies physician Hector Morales, and he solicits the aid of Dr. Betty Freeman, a Neogenics director, in identifying the cause of death. Within 72 hours one of the policemen exposed to the Hispanic dies a similar death, asphyxiating from hemorrhage into his lungs, confirming its infectiousness. When the scientific director of the company discovers the scope of viral-weapons production he is brutally silenced, his death made to appear a suicide. Then Chairman of the board, Nobel laureate Hadley Thorne, promptly disappears after his visit to the Hill Country research laboratory to shut down the illicit viral-weapons program. Dr. Freeman tenaciously pursues the mystery of these deaths and disappearances, suffering the disbelief of her family and police when she accuses Dr. Michelle Exeter of developing a viral-warfare weapon. Dr. Exeter, realizing that soon her life's work will be exposed by Betty Freeman and that she will be disarmed by the authorities, rushes to release her deadly recombinant virus in retribution for the Gulf-War attack by the United States that killed her unborn child and her mother. Only Betty Freeman can prevent the impending viral epidemic that would wipe out half the United States as the authorities refuse to believe her Cassandra warnings. In a race against the clock, Betty chases Michelle and her engineer father, Abdel Azziz, from Texas to Washington, DC where Michelle plans to release her deadly air-borne virus at the Washington Mall during the July 4th festivities. In a standoff of biblical proportions, Betty confronts Michelle in the Metrorail-subway station beneath the crowded Mall.
On a chilly October morning, Barrett "Bear" Raines finds himself on the campground of Linton Loyd, one of the richest men in Florida, watching Linton clean his latest catch. Barrett does not understand why he, an African-American detective for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, has been invited to the rich man's playground, but soon discovers that Linton wants something from him: Linton wants Barrett to run for county sheriff and Linton will help sponsor the campaign. Barrett doesn't know what to make of the appealing offer and decides to think about it. The following week at work, Barrett learns of a case in which illegal immigrants are being forced to bale straw under rigged contracts and the department wants to find out just how wide spread the problem is. Barrett agrees to accompany Jarold Pearson, an old acquaintance and game warden, to the woods of Linton Loyd's straw baling company. However, the men find more than a group of scared migrant workers: in a secluded tin shack, they discover the body of a young woman pinned to the wall, almost as if she had been crucified. Based on evidence at the scene, Linton's only son becomes the prime suspect, but what does that do for Barrett's chance at sheriff? In a setting mysterious in itself, where an ancient woman could really be the witch people call her, Barrett faces horrible crime and a solution that continually changes shape, as elusive as the strange lights that flicker in his native swamps.
Free Market Criminal Justice explains how faith in democratic politics and free markets has undermined the rule of law in US criminal process. It argues that, to strengthen the rule of law, US criminal justice needs less democracy, fewer market mechanisms, and more law.
At a library used book sale, Ponicsán picked up a copy of Nora Ephron’s bestseller, “I Feel Bad About My Neck.” It inspired him over the next several years to answer her observations from the male point of view and over a different bodily part, and to direct it to Ephron’s audience. Part memoir, part parody, part social analysis. (Publisher’s note: This is not just a guy’s book, or an old guy’s book..It’s amusing and full of interesting tales and insights for any gender, and maybe let’s women take a look into the other gender’s view). “…light-hearted…waxing alternately philosophical and vinegary as he takes us on a trip through Hollywood’s movie business, the Watts riots, breakfast cereal, sex and invasive medical procedures. There are engaging digressions into the life of a script doctor, politics, porn, the benign-neglect style of parenting his folks practiced and the beauty of non-attachment. He moves it all along smoothly, never letting truth stand in the way of a good story…If you like charming stories, good writing and a few laughs, ignore the title and buy this book.” -Brady T. Brady, published short stories in the anthology Editor’s Choice III Fiction from U.S. Small Press and in the Hawaii Review and the San Francisco Reader, among others.
Now a major movie starring Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne, directed by Richard Linklater! Darryl Ponicsan's debut novel The Last Detail was named one of the best of the year and widely acclaimed, catapulting him to fame when it was first published. The story of two career sailors assigned to escort a young seaman from Norfolk to the naval prison in Portsmouth, New Hampshire—and of the mayhem that ensues—was made into an award-winning movie starring Jack Nicholson. Last Flag Flying, set thirty-four years after the events of The Last Detail, brings together the same beloved characters—Billy Bad-Ass Buddusky, Mule Mulhall, and Meadows—to reprise the same journey but under very different circumstances. Now middle-aged, Meadows seeks out his former captors in their civilian lives to help him bury his son, a Marine killed in Iraq, in Arlington National Cemetery. When he learns that the authorities have told him a lie about the circumstances of his son's death, he decides, with the help of the two others, to transport him home to Portsmouth. And so begins the journey, centered around a solemn mission but, as in the first book, a protest against injustice and celebration of life too, at once irreverent, funny, profane, and deeply moving. Last Flag Flying is now a major movie from Amazon Studios, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, and Laurence Fishburne.
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