A Dead Man S Apartment

Author : Edward Allan Baker
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822215136

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A Dead Man's Apartment by Edward Allan Baker Pdf

A DEAD MAN'S APARTMENT. Lonnie, a married but lonely truck driver, and Nickie, his mistress, a married but lonely hardware store clerk, meet twice a week in an apartment to talk and kiss. They have chosen a day to tell their spouses they are leaving them, but when the day comes, there is a message on Lonnie's answering machine: "You're a dead man." Lonnie wants to put off telling their spouses until he finds out who is after him, but when Nickie's brother, Al, reveals that Lonnie left his own message on the machine, Lonnie admits to being too scared to make the big move. Lonnie loses his secret life, but he realizes he loves his wife and that all this is for the best anyway. (2 men, 2 women.) ROSEMARY WITH GINGER. Two sisters meet in a closed-down diner and slowly reveal the strife they're experiencing at home: Rosemary, an alcoholic, is about to lose custody of her children, the pain of which leads her to drink more and to tolerate an abusive relationship with her boyfriend; Ginger finds herself in a loveless marriage, but more important, she needs to explain to Rosemary why she divulged Rosemary's alcoholism to her ex-husband, thus creating the custody battle. The sisters wrangle, accuse and attack, but mostly discover that, without each other, they have nothing. In the end, some hope is evident as the sisters rediscover their common bonds. (2 women.) FACE DIVIDED. In the emergency room of a Providence, Rhode Island hospital, Debbie waits for her husband. Their daughter, Jess, has fallen down the basement steps. That, at least, is what she tells the nurses, and this is the story she's sticking to. When Freddie arrives, he angrily confronts Debbie about the telltale signs of childabuse that mark their daughter. Debbie refuses to admit the truth and desperately talks about their simple life together before they were married and how she wants things back the way they were. Freddie warns Debbie that they'll lose their daughter, but Debbie won't cooperate. In the end, Freddie goes along with her story, all the while knowing that the state will do what it has to do and that Debbie will go on living in a dream world. (1 man, 2 women.)

Author : Terry Mcguin
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645849025

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The Haunted House by Dead Man's Curve by Terry Mcguin Pdf

Scotty Chase and his four best friends make plans for their trick-or-treat night while walking their pets. They run into four girls who live in their neighborhood, walking their pets too. A squirrel causes some problems. They keep having a hard time keeping their pets on their leashes. All but two of their pets eat candy. The guys' plan is to scare the girls at the haunted house, scare someone at Deadman's Curve, toilet-paper some houses, and egg one house in particular. Something goes wrong when they go to the haunted house. Their pets break their leashes and go under the haunted house, where they find something surprising. They are in their neighborhood but not. It is really strange. Time flies when you're having fun. Scotty gets help after a couple of their pets are dognapped, and six of his friends are taken hostage. Scotty and Scooter get attacked by two Rottweilers and a German shepherd. Something happens to their pets. Don't eat the candy there. Scotty ends up being a daddy. Scotty gets some reinforcements to help keep the kids safe. Someone betrays Scotty and his friends. Scotty plans a rescue, and they get a strong ally. Scotty has trouble with his morals. Something happens to one of the kids, and Scotty loses it. There's a man down. Two big surprises happen.

Author : Iain Lawrence
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780823448814

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Deadman's Castle by Iain Lawrence Pdf

For most of his life, Igor and his family have been on the run. Danger lurks around every corner--or so he's always been told. . . . When Igor was five, his father witnessed a terrible crime--and ever since, his whole family has been hunted by a foreboding figure bent on revenge, known only as the Lizard Man. They've lived in so many places, with so many identities, that Igor can't even remember his real name. But now he's twelve years old, and he longs for a normal life. He wants to go to school. Make friends. Stop worrying about how long it will be before his father hears someone prowling around their new house and uproots everything yet again. He's even starting to wonder--what if the Lizard Man only exists in his father's frightened mind? Slowly, Igor starts bending the rules he's lived by all his life--making friends for the first time, testing the boundaries of where he's allowed to go in town. But soon, he begins noticing strange things around them--is it in his imagination? Or could the Lizard Man be real after all? Iain Lawrence is a winner of Canada's Governor General's Children's Literature Prize and the California Young Reader Medal. In Deadman's Castle, he brings readers a mystery filled with intrigue and moments of heart-stopping danger. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Author : Bruce Banta
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462872541

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A Dead Man's Chest by Bruce Banta Pdf

They killed Keith in the early afternoon, sending Davey running for his life. Both guided and misguided by the bewildering content of a taped message, Davey scrambles to fi nd his dead friends sea-chest and to discover its mysterious, lethal contents. He fi nds himself in a race with others who are after Keiths chest, people for whom abduction and torture are all in a days work. Forces on both sides of the law seem to want the contents of Keiths chest to stay buried, under bodies if necessary. While searching for Keiths sea-chest, Davey seeks within himself the courage and determination to follow the obscure, narrow, and treacherous path upon which Keith had set him, never knowing if its the path to safety or simply another dead end.

Author : Helen Prejean
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780307787699

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Dead Man Walking by Helen Prejean Pdf

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment and an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty • "Stunning moral clarity.” —The Washington Post Book World • Basis for the award-winning major motion picture starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn "Sister Prejean is an excellent writer, direct and honest and unsentimental. . . . She almost palpably extends a hand to her readers.” —The New York Times Book Review In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. She also came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute—men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing. Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment. Here Sister Helen confronts both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the fears of a society shattered by violence and the Christian imperative of love. On its original publication in 1993, Dead Man Walking emerged as an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty. Now, some two decades later, this story—which has inspired a film, a stage play, an opera and a musical album—is more gut-wrenching than ever, stirring deep and life-changing reflection in all who encounter it.

Author : Frankie Y. Bailey
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628158724

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A Dead Man's Honor  by Frankie Y. Bailey Pdf

Crime historian Lizzie Stuart goes to Gallagher, Virginia for a year as a visiting professor at Piedmont State University. She is there to do research for a book about a 1921 lynching that her grandmother, Hester Rose, witnessed when she was a twelve-year-old child. Lizzie's research is complicated by her own unresolved feelings about her secretive grandmother and by the disturbing pres­ence of John Quinn, the police officer she met while on vacation in England. When an arrogant but brilliant faculty member of Piedmont State University is murdered, Lizzie begins to have more than a few sleep­less nights. A Dead Man’s Honor is a haunting story that will keep you awake nights, too. Praise for Frankie Y. Bailey “She has a tremendous eye and ear.” —The Times Union, Albany, New York

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307959614

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Notes from a Dead House by Fyodor Dostoevsky Pdf

A beautiful hardcover edition of the first great prison memoir, Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. With an introduction by Richard Pevear. Sentenced to death for advocating socialism in 1849, Dostoevsky served a commuted sentence of four years of hard labor. The account he wrote afterward (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead) is filled with vivid details of brutal punishments, shocking conditions, and the psychological effects of the loss of freedom and hope, but also of the feuds and betrayals, the moments of comedy, and the acts of kindness he observed. As a nobleman and a political prisoner, Dostoevsky was despised by most of his fellow convicts, and his first-person narrator--a nobleman who has killed his wife--experiences a similar struggle to adapt. He also undergoes a transformation over the course of his ordeal, as he discovers that even among the most debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. Notes from a Dead House reveals the prison as a tragedy both for the inmates and for Russia. It endures as a monumental meditation on freedom. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

Author : Nick Oldham
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448314843

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Death at Dead Man's Stake by Nick Oldham Pdf

A life or death decision leads Sergeant Jessica Raker to swap the Metropolitan Police for trouble up north, but old enemies are on her tail . . . A split-second decision has life-changing consequences for Metropolitan Police firearms officer Jessica Raker when she fatally wounds the son of a notorious organized crime chief during a robbery in Greenwich - and discovers her husband has been having an affair. With her career, her marriage and her life in danger, Jess is sent back to her home town of Clitheroe in the Ribble Valley to take up a sergeant role in Lancashire police. But as she throws herself into dealing with a hostage situation up on Dead Man's Stake Farm and a body discovered in a reservoir on her first day, her enemies are plotting their revenge - and they're closer than she thinks . . .

Author : Jim Slawek
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595223213

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From Cop to Con by Jim Slawek Pdf

Fictional story of two policemen who become thieves convicted of crimes and eventually end up in prison.

Author : Shane Rhodes
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770565104

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Dead White Men by Shane Rhodes Pdf

Juxtaposing the seemingly benign names of dead white men that litter our geographies with the details of their so-called discoveries and ‘conquests,’ Dead White Men turns ideas of exploration, finding and keeping back on themselves. Engaging with European exploration and scientific texts from the 15th to the 19th centuries, this book reexamines histories many would like to forget.

Author : Darcy F. Morey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139788717

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Dogs by Darcy F. Morey Pdf

This book traces the evolution of the dog, from its origins about 15,000 years ago up to recent times. The timing of dog domestication receives attention, with comparisons between different genetics-based models and archaeological evidence. Allometric patterns between dogs and their ancestors, wolves, shed light on the nature of the morphological changes that dogs underwent. Dog burials highlight a unifying theme of the whole book: the development of a distinctive social bond between dogs and people; the book also explores why dogs and people relate so well to each other. Though cosmopolitan in overall scope, the greatest emphasis is on the New World, with an entire chapter devoted to dogs of the arctic regions, mostly in the New World. Discussion of several distinctive modern roles of dogs underscores the social bond between dogs and people.

Author : Robert Leslie Bellem
Publisher : eStar Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612106090

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Dead Man's Guilt by Robert Leslie Bellem Pdf

Everybody knew Kilgore had been killed trying to escape from San Quentin. Yet now this girl, who knew all the facts in the case, pleads with Dan to save her from the dead man!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : OSU:32437121366500

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The Law Times Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords, the Privy Council, the Court of Appeal ... [new Series]. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Skellos
Publisher : Éditions Camael
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9782925132004

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Kellia Heart by Skellos Pdf

After running away from a powerful corporation, Kellia joins forces with a man from another world to try and take them down, but a lifetime of imprisonment and experimentations done to her by that corporation will seem trivial compared to the dangers they’ll face to achieve their goal. In an epic battle spreading across two worlds, Kellia will face a nightmarish creature, dedicated to bringing her back to the corporation regardless of the possible collateral damages done to either worlds. While trying to save as many people as she can, Kellia will struggle with her convictions to avoid becoming as evil as her enemies.

Author : James J. Butcher
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593547083

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Dead Man's Hand by James J. Butcher Pdf

In the tradition of his renowned father, James J. Butcher’s debut novel is a brilliant urban fantasy about a young man who must throw out the magical rule book to solve the murder of his former mentor. On the streets of Boston, the world is divided into the ordinary Usuals, and the paranormal Unorthodox. And in the Department of Unorthodox Affairs, the Auditors are the magical elite, government-sanctioned witches with spells at their command and all the power and prestige that comes with it. Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby is…not one of those witches. After flunking out of the Auditor training program and being dismissed as “not Department material,” Grimsby tried to resign himself to life as a mediocre witch. But he can’t help hoping he’ll somehow, someway, get another chance to prove his skill. That opportunity comes with a price when his former mentor, aka the most dangerous witch alive, is murdered down the street from where he works, and Grimsby is the Auditors’ number one suspect. Proving his innocence will require more than a little legwork, and after forming a strange alliance with the retired legend known as the Huntsman and a mysterious being from Elsewhere, Grimsby is abruptly thrown into a life of adventure, whether he wants it or not. Now all he has to do is find the real killer, avoid the Auditors on his trail, and most importantly, stay alive.