The Smack

Author : Richard Lange
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316327596

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The Smack by Richard Lange Pdf

Rowan Petty is a conman down on his luck. He's flat broke, living out of cheap hotels, and wondering how it all went wrong. His car quits on him in Reno, and he takes a job there on the bottom rung of a lousy phone scam. When he's not swindling lonely widows, he tries to turn nickels into dimes at the poker table. One snowy night, he crosses paths with a sweet-talking hooker who's tired of the streets, and sparks fly. When an old friend of his turns up spreading a rumor about two million dollars in army money smuggled out of Afghanistan and stashed in an apartment in Los Angeles, it seems like a chance at the score of a lifetime. So Petty and the hooker head south, and straight into trouble. A wounded vet, a washed-up actor, and Petty's estranged daughter are all players in the dangerous game they find themselves caught up in. For the winner: a fortune. For the loser: a bullet to the head. Propulsive, suspenseful, and written with a searing lyricism, The Smack shows once again that "Lange is a writer firing on all cylinders who belongs in the top tier of novelists working today" ( Omaha World-Herald).

Author : Melvin Burgess
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781429996587

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Smack by Melvin Burgess Pdf

Winner of the 1996 Carnegie Medal in Literature and the Guardian Prize for fiction, two of England's most prestigious awards, Smack tells a penetrating story about heroin use, a topic that is becoming familiar in the news and one of importance to teens everywhere. The story begins with Tar, a fourteen-year-old, who runs away from home. He convinces his girlfriend, Gemma, to come with him, and it is not long before they are engulfed in a loose community of people living in abandoned buildings. Everything seems to be turning out so well: they have a roof over their heads, food to eat, and a brand-new group of friends. And when Tar and Gemma try their first hit of smack, they think life will keep on getting better. But before long, they find they've lost control. The search for the next hit becomes all-consuming--until a disaster forces Gemma to take matters into her own hands. Insightful, haunting, and real, Smack is the Go Ask Alice of the '90s. It's a book that every teenager should read--then pass along to a friend.

Author : Eric C. Schneider
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812203486

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Smack by Eric C. Schneider Pdf

Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. Schneider explains what is distinctively urban about this undisputed king of underworld drugs. During the twentieth century, New York City was the nation's heroin capital—over half of all known addicts lived there, and underworld bosses like Vito Genovese, Nicky Barnes, and Frank Lucas used their international networks to import and distribute the drug to cities throughout the country, generating vast sums of capital in return. Schneider uncovers how New York, as the principal distribution hub, organized the global trade in heroin and sustained the subcultures that supported its use. Through interviews with former junkies and clinic workers and in-depth archival research, Schneider also chronicles the dramatically shifting demographic profile of heroin users. Originally popular among working-class whites in the 1920s, heroin became associated with jazz musicians and Beat writers in the 1940s. Musician Red Rodney called heroin the trademark of the bebop generation. "It was the thing that gave us membership in a unique club," he proclaimed. Smack takes readers through the typical haunts of heroin users—52nd Street jazz clubs, Times Square cafeterias, Chicago's South Side street corners—to explain how young people were initiated into the drug culture. Smack recounts the explosion of heroin use among middle-class young people in the 1960s and 1970s. It became the drug of choice among a wide swath of youth, from hippies in Haight-Ashbury and soldiers in Vietnam to punks on the Lower East Side. Panics over the drug led to the passage of increasingly severe legislation that entrapped heroin users in the criminal justice system without addressing the issues that led to its use in the first place. The book ends with a meditation on the evolution of the war on drugs and addresses why efforts to solve the drug problem must go beyond eliminating supply.

Author : Jo Watson Hackl
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780399557415

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Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe by Jo Watson Hackl Pdf

11 days. 13 clues. And one kid who won't give up. Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe is "part treasure hunt, part wilderness adventure, and all heart" (Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee). How far would you go to find something that might not even exist? All her life, Cricket's mama has told her stories about a secret room painted by a mysterious artist. Now Mama's run off, and Cricket thinks the room might be the answer to getting her to come back. If it exists. And if she can find it. Cricket's first clue is a coin from a grown-over ghost town in the woods. So with her daddy's old guidebook and a coat full of snacks stolen from the Cash 'n' Carry, Cricket runs away to find the room. Surviving in the woods isn't easy. While Cricket camps out in an old tree house and looks for clues, she meets the last resident of the ghost town, encounters a poetry-loving dog (who just might hold a key to part of the puzzle), and discovers that sometimes you have to get a little lost . . . to really find your way. 2020 Mississippi Library Association Children's Author Award 2019 Southern Book Award Winner--Children's Category "A tale of adventure, full of mystery." --Robert Beatty, New York Times bestselling author of Serafina and the Black Cloak "An unforgettable story about a gutsy girl who will steal your heart." --Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces "Lyrical and endearing, this debut is a genuine adventure tale." --Kirkus Reviews, Starred

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : OSU:32437121366310

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The Law Times Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords, the Privy Council, the Court of Appeal ... [new Series]. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : OXFORD:555006007

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The Law Journal Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry D. Barton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112103321115

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The Law Journal Reports by Henry D. Barton Pdf

Author : Christina M. Lyon
Publisher : Institute for Public Policy Research
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1860301193

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Loving Smack Or Lawful Assault by Christina M. Lyon Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555018046

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The Shipwrecked mariner by Anonim Pdf

Author : Édouard Laboulaye
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780691181868

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Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men by Édouard Laboulaye Pdf

Wry political fairy tales from a nineteenth-century politician that speak to our current times Édouard Laboulaye (1811–1883), one of nineteenth-century France’s most prominent politicians and an instrumental figure in establishing the Statue of Liberty, was also a prolific writer of fairy tales. Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men brings together sixteen of Laboulaye’s most artful stories in new translations. Filled with biting social commentary and strong notions of social justice, these rediscovered tales continue to impart lessons today. Inspired by folktales from such places as Estonia, Germany, Iceland, and Italy, Laboulaye’s deceptively entertaining stories explore the relationships between society and the ruling class. In “Briam the Fool,” the hero refuses the queen’s hand after he kills the king. In “Zerbino the Bumpkin,” the king and prime minister are idiots, while the king’s daughter runs away with a woodcutter to an enchanted island. And in the title story, “Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men,” a superficial prince is schooled by a middle-class woman who smacks him when he won’t engage in his lessons and follows him across Europe until he falls in love with her. In these worlds, shallow aristocrats come to value liberty, women are as assertive and intelligent as men, and protagonists experience compassion as they learn of human suffering. With an introduction by leading fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes that places Laboulaye’s writing in historical context, Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men presents spirited tales from the past that speak to contemporary life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : CORNELL:31924064838158

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Reports of Cases Relating to Maritime Law by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020784172

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The London and Leith Smack and Steam Yacht Guide; Comprehending a ... Topographical Description of the Coast Between London, Leith and Aberdeen; a ... Table of Distances from Point to Point; and an Appendix, Etc by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1254 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Judges
ISBN : CHI:48643270

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The Federal Cases by Anonim Pdf

Author : Melvin Burgess
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408118313

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Junk by Melvin Burgess Pdf

Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down - not to anyone or anything. Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, somehow, finally you have to come down. Commissioned and produced by Oxford Stage Company, Junk premiered at The Castle, Wellingborough, in January 1998 and went on to tour throughout the UK in 1998 and 1999. "John Retallack's excellent adaptation of Melvin Burgess's controversial Carnegie Medal winning novel is splendidly unpatronising...a truly cautionary tale" (Independent)

Author : M. E. Kerr
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781480455467

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Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! by M. E. Kerr Pdf

M. E. Kerr’s first novel—hailed by the New York Times as a “timely, compelling,” and “brilliantly funny” look at adolescence and friendship It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn—Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf’s dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job. Now his father has suddenly developed an allergy to Tucker’s cat, Nader, a nine-month-old calico Tucker found underneath a Chevrolet. Tucker’s beloved pet finds a new home with overweight, outrageous Susan “Dinky” Hocker, the only person to answer Tucker’s ad. As Tucker starts paying regular visits to Dinky’s house to check up on Nader, his life begins to change. Dinky introduces Tucker to her strange cousin, Natalia Line, a compulsive rhymer whom Tucker finds fascinating. And enter P. John Knight, who’s fat like Dinky . . . and now, like Nader. With this odd cast of characters, a little world is created for big kids who need to go on diets. And who also, all of them, need to find out who they are. A story of friendship, self-image, and surviving adolescence, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! is also about the terror—and exhilaration—of daring to be yourself. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of M. E. Kerr including rare images from the author’s collection.