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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

A biography of a young African-American man who escaped the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets when he returned home.

The Tourists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 339

The Tourists

Wandering the streets of Manhattan while thinking about the lives of his three former Yale classmates, a disaffected professional considers how their respective quests for happiness have remained unfulfilled in spite of their financial successes. A first novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Show Them You're Good
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Show Them You're Good

The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace presents a “carefully observed journalistic account [that] widens our view of the modern ‘immigrant experience’” (The New York Times Book Review) as he closely follows four Los Angeles high school boys as they apply to college. Four teenage boys are high school seniors at two very different schools within the city of Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the nation with nearly 700,000 students. In this “exceptional work of investigative journalism…laced with compassion, insight, and humor” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Jeff Hobbs stunningly captures the challenges and triumphs of...

The Bullet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

The Bullet

Nothing is what it seems in NPR correspondent Mary Louise Kelly’s “riveting, twisty tale” (Hallie Ephron, author of Night Night, Sleep Tight), in which a woman discovers a decades-old bullet at the base of her neck. Caroline Cashion is stunned when an MRI reveals that she has a bullet lodged near the base of her skull. It makes no sense: she has never been shot. She has no scar. When she confronts her parents, she learns the truth: she was adopted when she was three years old, after her real parents were murdered in cold blood. Caroline had been there the night of the attack, and she’d been hit by a single gunshot to the neck. Buried too deep among vital nerves and blood vessels, the...

We All Looked Up
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

We All Looked Up

The lives of four high school seniors intersect weeks before a meteor is set to pass through Earth's orbit, with a 66.6% chance of striking and destroying all life on the planet.

Crash and Burn
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Crash and Burn

In this follow-up to his memoir Too fat to fish, the comedian and radio personality focuses on his drug addiction and life-threatening depression with an unflinching eye and his signature wit. A veteran comedian and radio personality, Lange was addicted to heroin and prescription drugs. He details his very public meltdown, and explains how he turned his life and career around.

What Baptists Believe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 112

What Baptists Believe

Short essays on the major doctrines which have formed the foundations of Southern Baptist life and thought.

Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 964

Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk

"The bulk of the book is about Tcl scripting and the aspects of C programming to create Tcl extentions is given a lighter treatment."--Author.

100 Sideways Miles
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

100 Sideways Miles

Finn Easton, sixteen and epileptic, struggles to feel like more than just a character in his father's cult-classic novels with the help of his best friend, Cade Hernandez, and first love, Julia, until Julia moves away.

  • Language: en
  • Pages: 68

"God's Grandeur" and Other Poems

Excellent sample of strikingly original poems includes The Wreck of the Deutschland, "Carrion Comfort," "The Caged Skylark," and more.