Trailer Park Parable

Author : Tyler Zed
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798888451939

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Trailer Park Parable by Tyler Zed Pdf

“Attempted murder victim told the Brainerd Dispatch she believes her sixteen-year-old son saved her.” This is the news article detailing the event that would drastically change Tyler Zed’s life and that of his family forever. Growing up in a small town in Minnesota, Tyler and his two brothers filled their days with chaotic fun, from playing hockey to building forts to making their own home movies. The household was also full of addiction and abuse that ultimately led to their father attempting to murder their mother on Christmas Eve 2007. Trailer Park Parable follows Tyler and his family before Christmas Eve 2007, the events leading to that night, and the years afterward. It trails the boys as they deal with varying degrees of PTSD and their own battles with addiction, before they eventually turned their creative coping mechanisms, like their YouTube channels, into million-subscriber successes. From living in a trailer park to running a multi-million-dollar business, Trailer Park Parable highlights a true, American-dream story, countering a popular narrative that tells us you may as well not even try, the system is rigged against you.

Author : Tyler Zed,Dylan Wheeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732731500

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101 Facts That'll Convince Your Liberal Friends to Walk Away by Tyler Zed,Dylan Wheeler Pdf

Author : Dave Pelzer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101213094

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A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer Pdf

A Man Named Dave, which has sold over 1 million copies, is the gripping conclusion to Dave Pelzer’s inspirational and New York Times bestselling trilogy of memoirs that began with A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy. "All those years you tried your best to break me, and I'm still here. One day you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself." These words were Dave Pelzer's declaration of independence to his mother, and they represented the ultimate act of self-reliance. Dave's father never intervened as his mother abused him with shocking brutality, denying him food and clothing, torturing him in any way she could imagine. This was the woman who told her son she could kill him any time she wanted to—and nearly did. The more than two million readers of Pelzer's New York Times and international bestselling memoirs A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy know that he lived to tell his courageous story. With stunning generosity of spirit, Dave Pelzer invites readers on his journey to discover how he turned shame into pride and rejection into acceptance.

Author : David Novak
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Audiobooks
ISBN : PSU:000061166608

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The Education of an Accidental CEO by David Novak Pdf

Novak, the CEO of Yum Brands, speaks about his unplanned journey to the top and how the lessons he has learned along the way have inspired his unusual--and highly successful--management style and approach to business.

Author : Kevin T. McEneaney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313381669

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Russell Banks by Kevin T. McEneaney Pdf

This book provides comprehensive, up-to-date commentary and critical guidance on the writings of Russell Banks. Despite being a globally successful writer who has been published for over 30 years and is credited with two successful movies based on his work, there is but one prior study of Russell Banks's work in English, which is now nearly a decade old. Russell Banks: In Search of Freedom offers the only modern, complete commentary on his work and establishes Banks as one of the leaders in the postmodern, neorealist tradition of American fiction. This critical guide contains a brief biography of Banks, describing the details of his life that shaped his philosophies, plot themes, and settings, such as New England and the Caribbean. Russell Banks then illustrates how Banks moved beyond his working-class origins and explored problems in race, communication, sexual and family relations, religion, popular culture, landscape, and more recently, the upper class. The final chapter explains Banks's unique vision of American history and liberty.

Author : Russell Banks
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780676970951

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Affliction by Russell Banks Pdf

Wade Whitehouse, divorced, estranged from his young daughter, spends his days as a well-driller, snow-plow operator, and policeman, his nights in a wind-swept trailer park. But when a union boss is killed in an apparent hunting accident near Wade's home, and he is convinced that it is murder, he seizes the event as a chance to right many wrongs—unaware that as he unravels the mystery he himself will become unravelled. Soon his hunger for justice and self-respect become inseparable from a desperate violence.

Author : Trace Adkins
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345499349

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A Personal Stand by Trace Adkins Pdf

Country music superstar Trace Adkins isn’t exactly known for holding back what’s on his mind. And if the millions of albums he’s sold are any indication, when Trace talks, people listen. Now, in A Personal Stand, Trace Adkins delivers his maverick manifesto on politics, personal responsibility, fame, parenting, being true to yourself, hard work, and the way things oughta be. In his inimitable pull-no-punches style, Trace gives us the state of the union as he sees it, from the lessons of his boyhood in small-town Louisiana to what he’s learned headlining concerts around the world. Trace has worked oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, been shot in the heart, been inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, and braved perhaps the greatest challenge of all: being the father of five daughters. And shaped by these experiences, he’s sounding off. • I’m incredibly frustrated with the state of American politics. If there were a viable third party, I’d seriously consider joining it. • If anybody wonders who the good guys are and who the bad guys are in this world, just look at the way we teach our children as opposed to the way the fundamentalist Muslims teach their children. • Organized labor now exists for the sake of organized labor, and not for the workers it once protected. • I believe the easiest way to solve the illegal immigration enforcement problem is to go after the employers who hire illegal aliens. • As a society, we’re unwilling to sacrifice our luxuries and our conveniences in order to conserve. We won’t change until we’re forced to. • The war on terror is like herpes. People can live with it, but it’ll flare up from time to time. Brash, ballsy, persuasive, and controversial, A Personal Stand isn’t just the story of Trace Adkins’s life; it’s the story of what life can teach all of us.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Public works
ISBN : UOM:39015081287537

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Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives ... by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Flood Control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Disaster relief
ISBN : LOC:0018357551A

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Disaster Assistance Legislation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Flood Control Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : UCAL:B3605981

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Public Works by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045561623

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Disaster Assistance Legislation, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Flood Control ... 91-2, on H.R. 17518, and Related Bills by United States. Congress. House. Public Works Pdf

Author : Douglas D. Webster
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825446900

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The Parables by Douglas D. Webster Pdf

A comprehensive study of Jesus's parables that emphasizes personal reflection and application Jesus's parables used familiar situations to convey deep spiritual truths in ways that are provocative and subversive of the status quo. Prayerfulness was pictured by a persistent widow. The joy of salvation in the homecoming of a lost son. Love of neighbor by a marginalized Samaritan. If we're not careful, we can easily miss details in the parables that reveal their subtle meanings as well as their contemporary relevance. Drawing on scholarship on the parables as well as theological, pastoral, and practical insights, Douglas Webster guides the reader through each of Jesus's parables, pointing out the important nuances that allow us to understand them and be transformed by them. Reflection questions at the end of each chapter can be used for personal or group study, and an appendix for pastors provides guidance for preaching the parables. Pastors, Bible teachers, and serious students of Scripture will find this tour through Jesus's parabolic teaching to be a feast for both the mind and the soul.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307400840

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Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Pdf

A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize. Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of Oryx and Crake, nothing will ever look the same again. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief. With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter.

Author : Gustavo Pérez Firmat
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292742864

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Life on the Hyphen by Gustavo Pérez Firmat Pdf

An expanded, updated edition of the classic study of Cuban-American culture, this engaging book, which mixes the author’s own story with his reflections as a trained observer, explores how both famous and ordinary members of the “1.5 Generation” (Cubans who came to the United States as children or teens) have lived “life on the hyphen”—neither fully Cuban nor fully American, but a fertile hybrid of both. Offering an in-depth look at Cuban-Americans who have become icons of popular and literary culture—including Desi Arnaz, Oscar Hijuelos, musician Pérez Prado, and crossover pop star Gloria Estefan, as well as poets José Kozer and Orlando González Esteva, performers Willy Chirino and Carlos Oliva, painter Humberto Calzada, and others—Gustavo Pérez Firmat chronicles what it means to be Cuban in America. The first edition of Life on the Hyphen won the Eugene M. Kayden National University Press Book Award and received honorable mentions for the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Book Award.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2150 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015018407786

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency Pdf