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Jack Clark Ink
Hack Writing & Other Stories
by Jack Clark
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 74,840.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: July 20, 2016
by
Jack Clark Ink.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography, Nonfiction » Biography » Editors, journalists, & publishers, Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Secondary, Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Leadership, Nonfiction » Transportation » Public Transportation
These 17 stories first appeared in the Chicago Reader. From the Back Cover: The center of attention is a young man with at least twenty stab wounds in his chest. He looks scared all right, but even more than that he looks poor. Dressed in the clothes they died in, they all look poor . . . After they are wheeled into the hallway and their clothes...
Back Door to L.A.
by Jack Clark
Series: Eddie Miles novels, Book 2.
Price:
$8.99 USD.
Words: 61,430.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: September 13, 2016
by
Jack Clark Ink.
Categories:
Fiction, Fiction » Urban, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
Eddie Miles is a Chicago cabdriver who spends most of his waking hours behind the wheel of his night-shift taxi. His only friends are a small circle of fellow cabbies. He lost his wife to divorce years ago, and the right to see his nine year old daughter, Laura. They then moved 2000 miles away to sunny California. When Laura shows up unexpectedly in Chicago one day, Eddie thinks it’s the answer...
Westerfield's Chain
by Jack Clark
Series: The Nick Acropolis novels, Book 1.
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 84,570.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: October 1, 2002
by
Jack Clark Ink.
Categories:
Fiction, Fiction » Urban, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled
"Westerfield's Chain," was first published by St. Martin's in 2002, and was a Shamus Award Finalist. KirkusReviews said: "When someone asks ex–homicide cop Nick Acropolis if he misses being on the job, he replies, "Every fucking day," acknowledging a painful truth. He misses the work, the camaraderie, but most of all the self-respect, that sense of himself as someone who matters, acquired over...
On the Home Front
by Mary Jo Clark
Series: Mary Jo Clark books, Book 1.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 43,320.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: September 17, 2002
by
Jack Clark Ink.
Categories:
Nonfiction » History » Biography, Nonfiction » Relationships & Family » Dating, Nonfiction » Biography » Woman biographies, Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir, Nonfiction » History » North America » USA
"Jack Clark's wondrous celebration of his working-class mother and her natural gifts as a storyteller has touched me deeply. "Hooray for Mary Jo Ryan Clark and her boy Jack." --Studs Terkel "The book itself is a marvel of writerly restraint... Some are private moments--being 4 years old, getting shiny new shoes and remembering looking down at them as she toed circles in the sawdust on a butcher...
Private Path: The Desk Calendars of Mary Jo Ryan , 1937--1943
by Mary Jo Clark
Series: Mary Jo Clark books, Book 2.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 58,800.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: April 7, 2012
by
Jack Clark Ink.
Categories:
Nonfiction » History » Biography, Nonfiction » Relationships & Family » Dating, Nonfiction » Biography » Woman biographies, Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir
When Mary Jo Clark died at age 90, she left behind a library that nobody knew existed. In the back of a desk drawer, and in a sealed carton, her children found seven desk calendars, chronicling the years1937 to 1943. On thousands of three by four inch pages, Mary Jo tells the story of her young adulthood. But it’s also the story of her generation, which has been dubbed ‘ The Greatest Generation...