Who S Running This Town Anyway

Author : John C. Buechner Ph. D.
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780595516469

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Who's Running This Town, Anyway? by John C. Buechner Ph. D. Pdf

This little book does not prophesize that the sky is falling on cities and towns. It does not suggest that officeholders lack commitment and dedication. It is argued here that city and town councils are generally locked into governance structures that restrict them from being more effective. Councils are bombarded with demands, requests, and even threats, and often are unable to satisfy all constituencies. The fundamental premise is this: For councils to fulfill their roles more effectively requires a transformation not of the structure of governance but of a government's culture, using different and possibly new leadership styles. Councils must change rigid habits, arrangements, and thoughts and adopt an outside-in culture, one that discards unnecessary processes, procedures, and structures; allows extensive probing and questioning of premises and arrangements; and avoids the status quo in making decisions. Councils in large and small towns must comprehend the changing nature of society beyond their city limits and how these changes influence the behavior of citizens. An outside-in culture suggests the need to elect and appoint people who exhibit renaissance leadership skills and talents.

Author : Larissa Self
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644585214

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The Restoration of Hope by Larissa Self Pdf

THE RILEY COOPER SERIES OF HOPE Book Two Nearly a year has passed since the human race had been decimated by an unknown virus. With her husband's whereabouts still unknown and the world no longer familiar to her, Riley Cooper, along with her family, find solace within their community of friends now living in Jackson, Wyoming. Fully aware that the longevity of their survival will largely depend on the growth of their community, the inhabitants of Jackson begin their search for other survivors. In doing so, they discover the terrifying truth of what humanity has become, leaving Riley and her family faced with the unimaginable possibility that hope is lost.

Author : Marta Perry,Patricia Davids
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488035456

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An Amish Family Christmas and Amish Triplets for Christmas by Marta Perry,Patricia Davids Pdf

Christmas Brings Love to Amish Country An Amish Family Christmas by Marta Perry and Patricia Davids In Heart of Christmas, Amish teacher Susannah Miller suddenly has two new students: the children of her former love. Can the joy of the season reunite lonely hearts in time for Christmas? And in A Plain Holiday, when a snowstorm strands nanny Sally Yoder, her young charges and Ben Lapp on a remote farm at Christmastime, Sally and Ben might discover that love is the true holiday spirit. Amish Triplets for Christmas by Carrie Lighte After arriving in Willow Creek to help with the fall harvest, Amish widower Sawyer Plank asks schoolteacher Hannah Lantz to be his triplets’ nanny. The children flourish under Hannah’s watch, and though Sawyer never dreamed he’d find happiness again, he can’t pretend he’s not falling for her. But with the holiday season heralding Sawyer’s return to Ohio, can he make his Christmas wish to stay a family come true?

Author : Utah. Supreme Court,Albert Hagan,John Augustine Marshall,John Maxcy Zane,James A. Williams,Joseph M. Tanner,George L. Nye,John Walcott Thompson,August B. Edler,Alonzo Blair Irvine,Harmel L. Pratt,William S. Dalton,H. Arnold Rich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:32044078427358

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Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah by Utah. Supreme Court,Albert Hagan,John Augustine Marshall,John Maxcy Zane,James A. Williams,Joseph M. Tanner,George L. Nye,John Walcott Thompson,August B. Edler,Alonzo Blair Irvine,Harmel L. Pratt,William S. Dalton,H. Arnold Rich Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103147682

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The Pacific Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Victor Headley
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781529000818

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Yardie by Victor Headley Pdf

Now a major film directed by Idris Elba, Yardie by Victor Headley shines a light on the brutal underworld of 90s London gang culture. At Heathrow Airport’s busy immigration desk, a newly arrived Jamaican strolls through with a kilo of top-grade cocaine strapped to his body. And keeps on walking . . . By the time the syndicate get to hear about the missing consignment, D is in business – for himself – as the Front Line’s newest don. But D’s treachery will never be forgotten – or forgiven. The message filters down from the Yardie crime lords to their soldiers on the streets: Find D. Find the merchandise. And make him pay for his sins . . .

Author : James Dressler
Publisher : Writers Exchange E-Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921314865

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Dance With the Devil by James Dressler Pdf

Tom Holloway and his Southern friends are excited about their prospects in joining the war effort, but the only thing they know of battle is what they've read about in newspapers. They envision the whole thing as an adventure, something to prove their manhood, to make them into men, and a diversion from their sometimes boring school regimen. Ultimately, they anticipate becoming heroes on a winning team. Words from a grizzled war veteran makes Tom wonder whether his ideas of war are more romantic than realistic. As he marches off with his friends to battle with the Yankees, he remembers the harsh illumination he'd been given from a soldier with experience. Watching friends and comrades die in a volley of gun- and cannon-fire on blood-soaked ground teaches the foursome the truth of war. Will hell, hunger, cold, fatigue, fear and resignation be the only comrades they have left?

Author : Pepper Espinoza
Publisher : JMS Books LLC
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781646563241

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Dead Man's Corner by Pepper Espinoza Pdf

Eliza Quinn first meets Ford when he tracks his rival Corbett to her homestead. Ford recruits Eliza to his fight, and they defeat Corbett’s attack, but her homestead is lost in the process. But when they travel to the frontier’s closest town, Dead Man’s Corner, they face Corbett’s brother Ben, a ruthless man with powerful friends. He plans to exact his vengeance against Ford, and destroy anybody or anything who stands in his path. Despite the danger to herself, Eliza can’t turn her back on Ford, and is caught up in the fight to the bitter end. Will she win the fight for her future ... and their love?

Author : Theresa Leigh
Publisher : LuxLife Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sweet Crazy Song (Crown Creek) by Theresa Leigh Pdf

Meet the Kings. They’ll warm your heart… then get it racing. Fall in love with the wild, passionate, scandalous men, and the strong, confident women of this big family as they find lasting love in the quaint small town of Crown Creek. Each book is connected or can be read as a standalone. Crown Creek is a small town. Too small to fit something as big as Jonah King's ego. My best friend's older brother is a huge rockstar now. If he believes that lets him get away with screwing over his family the way he did, he's wrong. I always hated what he did to them. I always hated him. But then he shows up again. A different man from the one I remember. He's humbled. Grieving. Lost. And suddenly I’m singing a different tune. Instead of shouting, I’m saying, “touch me.” I’m saying, “kiss me again.” I’m saying, “please… please.” I’m saying, “I had you all wrong. And I’m sorry." But I want a future and there’s no future with Jonah King. I’m a small-town kindergarten teacher and he’s a big time celebrity. We come from different worlds. But the music we make together is too beautiful to ignore. CROWN CREEK is one big series about one special small town, following the lives and loves of interconnected families and friends. The same characters show up in multiple books and each book can be read as a standalone. Or they can be read in the following order for one long series. THE KINGS: Sweet Crazy Song - Jonah’s story (FREE) Lost Perfect Kiss - Gabe’s story Soft Wild Ache - Beau’s story His Secret Heart - Finn’s story CROWN CREEK STANDALONES: Last Good Man - Willa and Cooper’s story

Author : Stephen J. Wayne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000045353857

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Is this Any Way to Run a Democratic Election? by Stephen J. Wayne Pdf

Appropriate as a supplement for American government or election courses, this text offers an overview of major issues in electoral politics. Some of the key topics examined include political participation, the role of money and the media, and the importance of political parties. Divided into nine chapters, "American Electoral Politics evaluates the degree to which American elections are democratic and suggests ways to close the gap between theory and political practice.Each chapter opens with a compelling vignette of a United States election.Pedagogy includes an end-of-chapter exercise, class discussion questions, and web site addresses for further exploration.The text offers suggested readings and an end-of-text glossary.Stephen J. Wayne is a respected presidency scholar and has advised many elected officials.

Author : Howard Blinder
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781456764982

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Snapshot by Howard Blinder Pdf

excerpt from 'Little Paul' I have to be careful climbing this time. I have been up on the pump tower lots of times before but never with a heavy rope tied around my waist. The rope is gently tugging at my middle as I continue to climb. I don't wipe the sweat from my face because my hands will get slippery. The water pump tower has a pipe railing about chest-high that runs all the way around following the little walkway on the top. I wrap the rope around the pipe rail and start working out the slack. This is really hard to do because the rope is heavy, especially now that it is almost off the ground. There is a small hill about two thirds of the way to the barn. The rope is still on the ground there. I am trying to pull it up until I am sure that all of it is off of the hill. That will be my landing spot. The rope is tied tight, with a good knot that I learned at 4-H. I look at the long, gray, curving rope stretching the one hundred or more yards from me to the barn. I am really pleased with my work. The view from here is beautiful. Looking over the barn, I can see my house, then the big front pasture and then the main road. It all looks so small from up here. Climbing once more up the pump tower, the snatch block pulley that I found tied to a beam in the barn is now hanging from my belt, which is wrapped around my neck, just like a big necklace. I am very excited as I reach the platform. It only takes a second to remove the belt and snatch block from my neck. I carefully unbuckle my belt and thread it back through my pant loops. Now I open the snatch block and then clamp it over the rope and snap it closed again. It's time.

Author : Douglas Bauer
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609380267

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Prairie City, Iowa by Douglas Bauer Pdf

Weary from the journalistic treadmill of "going from one assignment to the next, like an itinerant fieldworker moving to his harvests" and healing from a divorce, Douglas Bauer decided it was time to return to his hometown. Back in Prairie City, he helped on his father's farm, scooped grains at the Co-op, and tended bar at the Cardinal. The resultant memoir is a classic picture of an adult experiencing one's childhood roots as a grown-up and testing whether one can ever truly go home again. Bauer grew up "awkward with soil and with machines" in a small town east of Des Moines, As a teenager, he left the farm for college life twenty miles away and, after graduation, took a job with Better Homes and Gardens in Des Moines, writing in the junk-mail fictional persona of "Barbara Joyce,"asking millions of people to subscribe. After a few years he moved to Chicago to work as an editor and writer for Playboy and eventually as a freelance journalist. In the summer of 1975, he returned home to attend his grandmother's funeral and by autumn he moved back to Prairie City, where he stayed for the next three seasons. Bauer's book is neither a wistful nostalgia about returning to a simpler time and place nor a patronizing look at those who never leave the town in which they were born. What emerges is an unsentimental yet loving account of life in the Midwest. Not just a portrait of Prairie City, Iowa, but of everyone's small town, everywhere.

Author : Cori Todd
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465357199

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The Red in Her Eyes by Cori Todd Pdf

ATTENTION: I am pleased to announce that I will hosting Adult Book Discussion at the Cleveland Public Library where we will discuss my debut novel, "The Red in Her EYES", and everything else!!! Date: Saturday, August 25, 2012 Time: 2pm-until Address: 6901 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH (Addison Branch) The Red in Her EYES has been labeled as a page turner with unbelievable twists. Find out for yourself why once started, you wont be able to put it down! To read a short except go to www.CoriTodd.com. All it took was one pleasure-filled dream to get Tristyns fantasies twisted around the man who once stood as the center of her life and the man of her dreams, Trey Armstrong. Now that he has resurfaced, she cant seem to shake the feeling that something just isnt right . . . a feeling that only Trey can explain. Trey ended his college relationship with Tristyn before it could blossom. Now, seven years later, fate has graciously pushed her back into his life. After losing her once, he is now determined not to lose her again, even though he is not ready to make the ultimate commitment he knows she is waiting for. Plagued with thoughts of losing her again, he makes the only decision he has left. Unfortunately, that ultimate decision may cause him to lose more than he bargained for.

Author : Bruce Springsteen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501141539

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Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen Pdf

“Writing about yourself is a funny business…But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I’ve tried to do this.” —Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’s halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That’s how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as “The Big Bang”: seeing Elvis Presley’s debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song “Born to Run” reveals more than we previously realized. Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star’s memoir. This is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners, artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock and roll. Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many of his songs (“Thunder Road,” “Badlands,” “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” “The River,” “Born in the U.S.A.,” “The Rising,” and “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” to name just a few), Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences.

Author : Stefan Epp-Koop
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887554735

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We’re Going to Run This City by Stefan Epp-Koop Pdf

Stefan Epp-Koop’s "We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left After the General Strike" explores the dynamic political movement that came out of the largest labour protest in Canadian history and the ramifications for Winnipeg throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Few have studied the political Left at the municipal level—even though it is at this grassroots level that many people participate in political activity. Winnipeg was a deeply divided city. On one side, the conservative political descendants of the General Strike’s Citizen’s Committee of 1000 advocated for minimal government and low taxes. On the other side were the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party of Canada, two parties rooted in the city’s working class, though often in conflict with each other. The political strength of the Left would ebb and flow throughout the 1920s and 1930s but peaked in the mid-1930s when the ILP’s John Queen became mayor and the two parties on the Left combined to hold a majority of council seats. Astonishingly, Winnipeg was governed by a mayor who had served jail time for his role in the General Strike.