A Spell In The Pokey

Author : Hugh Walthall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 197?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:228506435

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Author : Kieran Mulvaney
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780547504766

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The Great White Bear by Kieran Mulvaney Pdf

This “up-close [and] graceful account” of the polar bear combines historical accounts, research, and the author’s own encounters in the Arctic (Kirkus Reviews). Polar bears are creatures of paradox: They are white bears whose skin is black; massive predators who can walk almost silently; Arctic residents whose major problem is not staying warm, but keeping cool. Fully grown they can measure ten feet and weigh close to two thousand pounds, but at birth they are just twenty ounces. Human encounters with these legendary creatures can be both exhilarating and terrifying. Tales throughout history describe the ferocity of polar bear attacks on humans. But human hunters have exacted a far larger toll, obliging Arctic nations to try to protect their region’s iconic species before it’s too late. Now another threat to the polar bears’ survival has emerged, one that is steadily destroying sea ice and the life it supports. Without this habitat, polar bears cannot exist. The Great White Bear celebrates the story of this unique species. Through a blend of history, myth, personal observations, and scientific accounts, Kieran Mulvaney tells the story of the polar bear: its history, its life, and its uncertain fate.

Author : Adrian McKinty
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743253550

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Dead I Well May Be by Adrian McKinty Pdf

The acclaimed debut from the New York Times bestselling author of The Chain, this Irish bad-boy thriller—set in the hardest streets of New York City—brims with violence, greed, and sexual betrayal. "I didn't want to go to America, I didn't want to work for Darkey White. I had my reasons. But I went." So admits Michael Forsythe, an illegal immigrant escaping the Troubles in Belfast. But young Michael is strong and fearless and clever—just the fellow to be tapped by Darkey, a crime boss, to join a gang of Irish thugs struggling against the rising Dominican powers in Harlem and the Bronx. The time is pre-Giuliani New York, when crack rules the city, squatters live furtively in ruined buildings, and hundreds are murdered each month. Michael and his lads tumble through the streets, shaking down victims, drinking hard, and fighting for turf, block by bloody block. Dodgy and observant, not to mention handy with a pistol, Michael is soon anointed by Darkey as his rising star. Meanwhile Michael has very inadvisably seduced Darkey's girl, Bridget—saucy, fickle, and irresistible. Michael worries that he's being followed, that his affair with Bridget will be revealed. He's right to be anxious; when Darkey discovers the affair, he plans a very hard fall for young Michael, a gambit devilish in its guile, murderous in its intent. But Darkey fails to account for Michael's toughness and ingenuity or the possibility that he might wreak terrible vengeance upon those who would betray him. A natural storyteller with a gift for dialogue, McKinty introduces to readers a stunning new noir voice, dark and stylish, mythic and violent—complete with an Irish lilt.

Author : Lloyd E. Chiasson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313057052

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Illusive Shadows by Lloyd E. Chiasson Pdf

As Chiasson and his contributors illustrate, trials are media events that can have long-reaching significance. They can, and have, changed the way people think, how institutions function, and have shaped public opinions. While this collection on ten trials is about withcraft, slavery, religion, and radicalism, it is, in many ways, the story of America. Trials are the stuff of news. Those rare moments when justice, or a reasonable facsimile, is meted out. And what offers up more high drama, or melodrama, than a highly publicized trial? Most news events enjoy short life spans. They happen; they are reported; they are quickly forgotten. As Chiasson and his contributors make clear, a trial often is a lingering, living thing that builds in tension. It is, every once in a long while, a modern Shakespearean drama with a twist: The audience becomes members of the cast because, every once in a long while, society finds itself the defendant. Trials can have lasting importance beyond how the public perceives them. A trial can have long-reaching significance if it changes the way people think, or how institutions function, or shapes public opinion. Ten such American trials covering a span of 307 years are covered here. In each, the sociological underpinnings of events often has greater significance than either the crime or the trial. The ten trials included are the Salem witch trials, the Amistad trial, the Sioux Indian Uprising trials, the Ed Johnson/Sheriff Shipp trial, the Big Bill Haywood trial, the Ossian Sweet trial, the Clay Shaw trial, the Manuel Noriega trial, and the Matthew Shepard trial. While the book is about ten crimes, the subsequent trials, and the media coverage of each, it is also a book about witchcraft, about religion, slavery, and radicalism. It paints portraits of a racist America, a capitalistic America, an anarchist America. It relates compelling tales of compassion, greed, stupidity, and hate beginning in 17th-century colonial times and ending in present-day America. In many ways, it is the story of America.

Author : Amadeo Bordiga
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004421653

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The Science and Passion of Communism by Amadeo Bordiga Pdf

Amadeo Bordiga was one of the greatest figures of the Third Communist International. The Science and Passion of Communism presents his Soviet and internationalist battles in the revolutionary post-WWI period until that against Stalinism, and those in the post-WWII period against the triumphant U.S. capitalism and for an original, updated re-presentation of Marxist critique of political economy.

Author : Rafael Catalá,James D. Anderson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081081918X

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Index of American Periodical Verse 1984 by Rafael Catalá,James D. Anderson Pdf

The Index of American Periodical Verse is an important work for contemporary poetry research and is an objective measure of poetry that includes poets from the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean as well as other lands, cultures, and times. It reveals trends in the output of particular poets and the cultural influences they represent. The publications indexed cover a broad cross-section of poetry, literary, scholarly, popular, general, and "little" magazines, journals, and reviews.

Author : Nancy Ashworth
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781496933676

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SHARING HEARTS by Nancy Ashworth Pdf

Skinny and Pokey decide they have to close down their daughter?s house and mercantile in St. Louis after Lora?s death. Seeing they are dreading doing it their grandchildren volunteer to go with them. Lots of fun, action and adventure happens in the city of St. Louis and on the way going and returning home. Beth Ann says goodbye to her old life as Jake, Glory and Carrie Lynn see a way of life they have never imagined before. Joe and Elizabeth?s love deepens as their lives blend even more together. Through many trials and tribulation each learns more about life, love and giving of themselves and of their blessings.

Author : Daisy Pettles
Publisher : Hot Pants Press, LLC
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ghost Busting Mystery by Daisy Pettles Pdf

Veenie Goens and Ruby Jane Waskom would like to retire, but they lack a nest egg. In fact, they barely have a nest. They co-own a ramshackle, but cozy home, that’s overrun with quirky characters. Determined to supplement their social security, the amateur aging women sleuths, who live in the small town of Knobby Waters, Indiana, decide to go pro with their one natural talent: nosiness. They sign on as detectives with the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency, run by Harry Shades, an incompetent womanizer. Their knees aching, but their spirits high, the senior sleuths’ first crime case, the Ghost Busting Mystery, finds the lifelong friends chasing ghosts, bank robbers and hillbilly hoodlums through the barnyards of rural Indiana. Follow Ruby Jane and Veenie’s antics in the Ghost Busting Mystery, an award-winning feel-good, funny mystery voted the Best Humor Book 2019 by the Indie Reader. This is Book 1 in the humorous Shady Hoosier Detective Agency Cozy Mystery Series.

Author : BradyGames
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780744015515

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Skylanders SWAP Force Character Upgrade Edition by BradyGames Pdf

A new Skylanders adventure featuring the all new SWAP Force Skylanders. You can mix and match the top and bottom halves of these amazing Skylanders to create 256 different combinations, each with its own powers and abilities.

Author : Christopher Fowler
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101887042

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Bryant & May: Strange Tide by Christopher Fowler Pdf

London’s most brilliant but unconventional detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, must plumb the depths of a particularly murky mystery. The Peculiar Crimes Unit faces its most baffling case yet—and if Bryant and May can’t rise to the challenge, the entire unit may go under. Near the Tower of London, along the River Thames, the body of a woman has been discovered chained to a stone post and left to drown. Curiously, only one set of footprints leads to the tragic spot. “The Bride in the Tide,” as the London press gleefully dubs her, has the PCU stumped. Why wouldn’t the killer simply dump her body in the river—as so many do? Arthur Bryant wonders if the answer lies in the mythology of the Thames itself. Unfortunately, the normally wobbly funhouse corridors of Bryant’s mind have become, of late, even more labyrinthine. The venerable detective seems to be losing his grip on reality. May fears the worst, as Bryant rapidly descends from merely muddled to one stop short of Barking, hallucinating that he’s traveled back in time to solve the case. There had better be a method to Bryant’s madness—because, as more bodies are pulled from the river’s depths, his partner and the rest of the PCU find themselves in over their heads. Fiendishly fun and rich in London lore, Bryant and May: Strange Tide is Christopher Fowler at his best, delivering more twists and turns than the Thames itself. Praise for Christopher Fowler’s ingenious novels featuring the Peculiar Crimes Unit “Fowler, like his crime-solvers, is deadpan, sly, and always unexpectedly inventive.”—Entertainment Weekly “An imaginative funhouse of a world where sage minds go to expand their vistas and sharpen their wits.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review “[Fowler] takes delight in stuffing his books with esoteric facts; together with a cast of splendidly eccentric characters [and] corkscrew plots, wit, verve and some apposite social commentary, they make for unbeatable fun.”—The Guardian “Mr. Fowler’s small but ardent American following deserves to get much larger.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “The most delightfully, wickedly entertaining duo in crime fiction.”—The Plain Dealer “Captivating.”—The Seattle Times “Dazzling.”—The Denver Post “Thrilling.”—Chicago Tribune

Author : Maurice R. Cloughley
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 0920663419

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The Spell of the Midnight Sun by Maurice R. Cloughley Pdf

In all their postings, Maurice and Katie enthusiastically explored their surroundings, on foot, by canoe or by dog team, camping in tents or igloos, and relishing the spectacular landscapes."

Author : Axel Gearman
Publisher : Axel Gearman
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781737990659

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Two Ways Out of Stockton by Axel Gearman Pdf

A gritty, real-life adventure of a young boy who grows into a troubled, yet functioning, man determined to forge a different path than his estranged father. A story of love and loss; life and death; perception and reality; and betrayal and forgiveness. When five-year-old Axel Gearman’s parents divorce, he is made to tell his father he no longer wants to see him. Wanting to be a good boy, he obliges and spends the next several decades not seeing or knowing his dad. Now an adult, Axel has become a loving father and husband with a good job, a nice home, and some deep-seated issues. After receiving an unexpected phone call informing him of his father’s impending death, Axel makes a cross-country journey to reunite with him, settle his affairs and find closure. Two Ways Out of Stockton provides a candid glimpse into the hard complexities of family and regret with a dash of humor. The musical and pop culture references bring life to the often relatable, and sometimes heartbreaking, moments throughout this touching memoir. Add to the reading experience with the "Two Ways Out Of Stockton (Soundtrack)", available on Spotify.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Caricature
ISBN : HARVARD:HWXNTZ

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Judy, Or the London Serio-comic Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joan Rock Clokey,Joe Clokey
Publisher : Dynamite Entertainment
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781524104375

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Gumby Imagined by Joan Rock Clokey,Joe Clokey Pdf

Clay animated superstar Gumby has made an indelible impact on our culture and continues to enchant and entertain generations. Filmmaker Art Clokey’s personal story is one of mystical adventure, tragedy, triumph, art, and most of all, love. This lavish career-spanning retrospective explores the legendary creator’s life and complete works. All of his many creations, including Gumby and Davey & Goliath, are interwoven with a rich tapestry of rare photos and stories — the ingredients for a fascinating tale.

Author : Elli Woollard
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780571311101

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Woozy the Wizard: A Spell to Get Well by Elli Woollard Pdf

'In the faraway village of Snottington SneezeLived a wizened old wizard with knocketty knees.'Woozy the Wizard is a well-meaning wizard who just wants to help his friends. But sometimes his spells (and he) get all mixed up! So then he has to get back on his broom with his pet pig and zoom around the village trying to put things right . . . 'Your spells sometimes flop but you see, we don't mind;We love you, dear wizard, because you are kind.'