Broke Down

Broke Down
Author: Sharan Daire
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre:
ISBN:

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My car broke down on an icy road in the middle of nowhere. I've got no money in the bank, no place to stay, and no food for my kids. Can it get any worse? Sure. A police car pulls up. The county sheriff calls his twin brother to tow my car for repairs that'll probably cost more than the beater is worth. They say don't worry about it. They only want to help. Sure they do. These gorgeous guys just happen to have two friends who own a luxurious motel called Little Cypress Lodge. I walk into this incredible hotel and it's like I've entered a new fantasy world. It's warm, there's plenty of food for my kids, and they say I can stay. For free. As long as I need a place.The four of them even want to hire me to do some modeling work for their new fashion line. Crazy, right?Me. The broke down, homeless single mom.If I can keep up the act long enough to make some deposits on a new place, I can start a new life for me and my kids. If I don't lose my heart first.

The Day the Computers Broke Down

The Day the Computers Broke Down
Author: Laura Normand
Publisher: Heinemann/Raintree
Total Pages: 31
Release: 1996
Genre: Birthdays
ISBN: 9780817244262

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When all the computers go out on her birthday, Kerri's entire computer-controlled town shuts down, but her old-fashioned grandmother saves the day.

Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
Author: Ishmael Reed
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2000-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1564787443

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"Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick. A bullwhacker so unfeeling he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling women. A desperado so onery he made the Pope cry and the most powerful of cattlemen shed his head to the Executioner's swine." And so begins the HooDoo Western by Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo Jumbo and one of America's most innovative and celebrated writers. Reed demolishes white American history and folklore as well as Christian myth in this masterful satire of contemporary American life. In addition to the black, satanic Loop Garoo Kid, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down features Drag Gibson (a rich, slovenly cattleman), Mustache Sal (his nymphomaniac mail-order bride), Thomas Jefferson and many others in a hilarious parody of the old Western.

All Broke Down

All Broke Down
Author: Cora Carmack
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062326236

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In this second book in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cora Carmack’s New Adult, Texas-set Rusk University series, which began with All Lined Up, a young woman discovers that you can’t only fight for what you believe in . . . sometimes you have to fight for what you love Dylan fights for lost causes. Probably because she used to be one. Environmental issues, civil rights, education—you name it, she’s probably been involved in a protest. When her latest cause lands her in jail for a few hours, she meets Silas Moore. He’s in for a different kind of fighting. And though he’s arrogant and not at all her type, she can’t help being fascinated with him. Yet another lost cause. Football and trouble are the only things that have ever come naturally to Silas. And it’s trouble that lands him in a cell next to do-gooder Dylan. He’s met girls like her before—fixers, he calls them, desperate to heal the damage and make him into their ideal boyfriend. But he doesn’t think he’s broken, and he definitely doesn’t need a girlfriend trying to change him. Until, that is, his anger issues and rash decisions threaten the only thing he really cares about, his spot on the Rusk University football team. Dylan might just be the perfect girl to help. Because Silas Moore needs some fixing after all.

When They Broke Down the Door

When They Broke Down the Door
Author: Fatemeh Shams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2016
Genre: Persian poetry
ISBN: 9781933823805

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The power of poetry to map the human heart has been a hallmark of Persian culture for at least a thousand years, and Fatemeh Shams wields it unforgettably. As a member of the Iranian diaspora living in the West, her voice is often one of anguished separation, and many of her poems touch on politics, but as translator Dick Davis says in his introduction to this volume, her approach is "inward and personal rather than public and propagandistic." Frequently, her focus on the individual extends to erotic passion - "It was night, your hands were full of moonlight . . ." - or addresses its obverse, of loneliness: "I sleep in my own corpse's arms . . ." Whether she is writing in free verse or in traditional literary forms, her remarkable technical abilities and the strength of her feelings always shine through. Shams's verse makes real for us her vision of the world as only poetry can. Introduced and Translated by Dick Davis. Original Persian text faces the English translations of the poems.

Breakdown of Will

Breakdown of Will
Author: George Ainslie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2001-03-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521596947

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Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals are more like populations of bargaining agents than like the hierarchical command structures envisaged by cognitive psychologists. The forces that create and constrain these populations help us understand so much that is puzzling in human action and interaction: from addictions and other self-defeating behaviors to the experience of willfulness, from pathological over-control and self-deception to subtler forms of behavior such as altruism, sadism, gambling, and the 'social construction' of belief. This book integrates approaches from experimental psychology, philosophy of mind, microeconomics, and decision science to present one of the most profound and expert accounts of human irrationality available. It will be of great interest to philosophers and an important resource for professionals and students in psychology, economics and political science.

Regulatory Breakdown

Regulatory Breakdown
Author: Cary Coglianese
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-08-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0812207491

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Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation brings fresh insight and analytic rigor to what has become one of the most contested domains of American domestic politics. Critics from the left blame lax regulation for the housing meltdown and financial crisis—not to mention major public health disasters ranging from the Gulf Coast oil spill to the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion. At the same time, critics on the right disparage an excessively strict and costly regulatory system for hampering economic recovery. With such polarized accounts of regulation and its performance, the nation needs now more than ever the kind of dispassionate, rigorous scholarship found in this book. With chapters written by some of the nation's foremost economists, political scientists, and legal scholars, Regulatory Breakdown brings clarity to the heated debate over regulation by dissecting the disparate causes of the current crisis as well as analyzing promising solutions to what ails the U.S. regulatory system. This volume shows policymakers, researchers, and the public why they need to question conventional wisdom about regulation—whether from the left or the right—and demonstrates the value of undertaking systematic analysis before adopting policy reforms in the wake of disaster.

The Breakdown

The Breakdown
Author: B a Paris
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2017-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1489217118

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From the bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust? It all started that night in the woods. Cass Anderson didn't stop to help the woman in the car, and now that woman is dead. Ever since, silent calls have been plaguing Cass and she's sure someone is watching her every move. It doesn't help that she's forgetting everything, too. Where she left the car, if she took her pills, the house alarm code – and whether the knife in the kitchen really had blood on it. Bestselling author B A Paris is back with a brand new psychological thriller full of twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Thank God My Car Broke Down

Thank God My Car Broke Down
Author: Nicolette Gardener
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2007-02
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781424162123

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Thank God My Car Broke Down is the inspirational story of Sylvia Gordon, a therapist in her early thirties who gets diagnosed with cervical cancer. The doctors suggest a full hysterectomy. Seeing her lifelong dream of motherhood go down the drain, she embarks on an emotional journey in search for an alternative cure. She finds herself stranded on a Native-American reservation after her car breaks down in the desert. Her beliefs and life are turned upside down when faced with the wisdom and guidance of Mary and Joe Many Faces. Sylvia then takes a deep look into her soul and her own past. This story is an emotional roller coaster where misfortune reveals itself to be a blessing in disguise.

Why We Broke Up

Why We Broke Up
Author: Daniel Handler
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-12-27
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0316194581

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I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box of matches, a protractor, books, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings, a comb from a motel room, and every other item collected over the course of a giddy, intimate, heartbreaking relationship. Item after item is illustrated and accounted for, and then the box, like a girlfriend, will be dumped.