David Gordon
Author
Series
Joe the bouncer volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In David Gordon's diabolically imaginative new thriller, The Bouncer, nothing and no one is as expected--from a vial of yellow fragrance to a gangster who moonlights in women's clothes. Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and whose best friend from Catholic school happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Ex-black-ops-specialist-turned-strip-club-bouncer Joe Brody has a new qualification to add to his resume: an alliance of New York City's mob bosses has deemed him its "sheriff." In the straight world, when you "see something" you "say something" to the law. In the bent world, they call Joe. Still reeling from a particularly difficult operation, and having plummeted back into the drug and alcohol addiction that got him kicked out of the military as...
Author
Series
Joe the bouncer volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Expulsed Harvard student and ex-Special Forces operative suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome so severe that it turned him to drug and alcohol abuse, Joe Brody is getting his life back together, living with his grandmother in Queens and taking what should be a simple job as a bouncer at a strip club where he can spend most of his night reading the classics. The only catch is that his childhood friend Gio Caprisi, now head of New York's Italian...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book offers an alternative to perspectives of distributive justice which fail to resolve economic inequality and exacerbate social problems by ignoring the real causes of inequality. The main impact of the book is to highlight the importance of self-ownership and private property, showing how market participation advances liberty and prosperity.
The idea that we should pay reparations to disadvantaged racial groups as compensation for
...5) The pigeon
Author
Series
Joe the bouncer volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Harvard dropout and ex-Special Forces operative Joe Brody is climbing the ranks in the criminal underworld. After successfully executing multiple missions for the various crime syndicates that run New York City, he has come to earn the trust and respect of the city's most dangerous denizens. Which is why his newest task--retrieving a pet pigeon snatched from a rooftop coop in Brooklyn--has Joe puzzled...until he learns that the bird is valued at...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ancient and modern masters alike have shown us that mindfulness is the direct path to emotional healing and spiritual awakening.
In Mindful Dreaming, psychologist David Gordon shows how every dream corresponds to one of the four universal stages of healing and growth that Joseph Campbell called the Mythic "search for bliss." Dreams teach us to recognize the spiritual lessons of each phase of the Journey and urge us to learn ten perennial steps to...
Author
Series
Joe the bouncer volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Strip club bouncer and retired Special Forces operative Joe Brody, who moonlights as a fixer for the most powerful crime families in New York, must take out a shadowy figure named Zahir who has been invading the mob's territories to sell a powerful new brand of heroin.
Author
Language
English
Description
People once thought that sharks weren't very smart. It turns out those people were WRONG! Wise-cracking sharks set the record straight in this funny, fact-filled book for young shark lovers.
Sharks have their own way of thinking. And their way of thinking has made them one of the top predators in the ocean. Sharks can sniff out injured animals over great distances. As hunters, they use their special electro-sense to zero in on hidden prey. They...
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Three little rigs look for help when the big, bad wrecking ball comes to destroy their garages. "Little rig, little rig, let me come in!" "Not by the chrome on my chinny chin chin." "Then I'll crash and I'll bash and I'll smash your house in." When the three little rigs set out to build their own garages, each one thinks that his is going to be the strongest. But then the big bad wrecking ball comes to call and threatens to smash their new homes to...
13) Uh-oh, Max
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
220L
Language
English
Description
Max is having so much fun that he keeps getting stuck! Will anyone in Trucktown be able to help him out?
14) Smash! Crash!
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Getting dirty and being loud are what is expected of Jack Truck and Dump Truck Dan as they set out to do the jobs they were meant to do and have some fun along the way in Trucktown.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
280L
Language
English
Description
The trucks speculate about what could be inside a beautifully wrapped gift box.
Everyone in Trucktown wants to know what is inside Kat's beautifully wrapped box. But will she ever take a peek at her mystery gift?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
380L
Language
English
Description
Receiving a mysterious valentine from an unknown sender, a fretful Melvin searches throughout Trucktown to discover the sender's identity, an effort he nearly abandons before hearing a beeping sound in the distance.
17) Big tree down!
Author
Lexile measure
AD 640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a summer thunderstorm knocks down Big Tree, a young boy watches his neighborhood come together to clean up and plant Little Tree"--
18) Dizzy Izzy
Author
Lexile measure
40L
Language
English
Description
What makes Izzy dizzy? He tries jumping, zooming, skidding, and spinning, but nothins works. Until finally...Izzy is dizzy! Or is he?
19) Kat's maps
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
300L
Language
English
Description
Kat loves maps! She makes them for her room, her block, and her town. Then one day she gives a map to Jack that leads to a surprise! When Jack follows Kat's map all through Trucktown, what will he find at the end?
20) Truckery rhymes
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
For generations, Trucks have been sharing these beloved tales, rowdy rhymes, and honk-along songs. Finally these classics have been gathered into one big, noisy, high-octane collection! All the favorite truckery rhymes are here, from "Peter Peter Payload Eater" to "Little Dan Dumper", all the way to "Pop! Blows the Diesel."