Bøker av Joe West

Freddie Bickel is a degenerate and a louse. He is not a good man. He never wanted to be. But how things have changed.Freddie has spent his life being angry while mostly drunk and high. He has never been much of a friend or an employee, but sometimes life doesn't come with choices. Some days all any man can do is hang on hoping he won't die or go to prison. So far, Freddie is doing pretty good.Sunday Jones is a young and pretty woman in her 20s but isn't ready for life as a grown-up. Unable to adult alone, her mother Jerusalem is glad to keep her daughter at home, to help run her life. Most of all, Jerusalem wants to have a family again, but that is going to require more than good intentions.Freddie has a crush on Sunday, and she knows it. But her mother Jerusalem has taken a shine to the lousy security guard, despite his obvious flaws and has no problem using her daughter as the bait that will trap Freddie.Even though Freddie is willing to make a deal -to be Jerusalem's common-law husband and father to this weirdly strung together family, as well as a personal drug dealer to them all- Freddie cannot seem to say no to Sunday's autistic son, Octavius. In exchange for all this, Freddie wants only one thing; to have a home he has no right to claim as his own but one he has dreamed of having all his life.For the first time in his miserable, wasted existence, Freddie Bickel will get to see what it is like to wear golden handcuffs; to be a husband and father, a man with responsibilities far greater than he could expect or imagine in order to have what he has always wanted - a place in this world where he belongs.Now all he has to do is not fuck everything up... like usual.

Amber's life isn't what she expected it to be, but she does know what it shouldn't be. As this young coming of age woman is just starting to identify her self worth her entire life is snatched away by a mentally troubled killer named Hector. What are his devious plans for Amber? Is there any way to survive this maelstrom of torture and mind games?

Have you ever had such a strange dream when you woke up you didn't know what to do with it? Like, how do I even react to that? What do I do with this information? What was my brain trying to tell me? Inside the cover of this book you will not find any answers but someone who shares the same frame of mind as you. I have on average one outlandish nightmare a week. I have finally put several of them together in one horrifyingly juicy book to haunt your dreams as well. My dreams no longer bring me fear, they bring me happiness when I wake up and I have a completely new story to share with the world. For you it means another terrifying tale to have to survive through. Get ready for horror like you've never seen before.

The year 2020 brought the importance of legislator use of communication technologies, including social media, into American national consciousness. This book examines how communication technologies influence policymakers from quantitative and qualitative perspectives, predicts legislator behaviors, and provides advice for stabilizing America.

Legislator Use of Communication Technology examines the impact of communication technology on the policy process in the United States using data from a 2016 survey of state legislators. This book utilizes control systems and electrical engineering concepts to examine communication technologies' impact on policy processes in the United States.