By The Side Of The Road

Author : Marla Bernard
Publisher : WildBlue Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781957288475

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By the Side of the Road by Marla Bernard Pdf

The true crime story of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of a Missouri teen and her family’s journey to justice. In the early hours of March 22, 1989, two friends—career criminals with violent felony convictions—drove around the eastern Kansas City area in a stolen car committing a series of crimes. The weather was mild for late March in Kansas City; the sky was clear, and there was the pale remnant of a Full Moon that bore the dubious name of Death Moon, the last full moon of winter. A little before 7 a.m., fifteen-year-old Ann Harrison walked to the end of her driveway on Kansas City’s east side to wait for the bus to take her to Raytown South High School. Ten minutes later, she disappeared but no one saw what happened. As if waiting for her return, her belongings were still stacked carefully by the side of the road. By the Side of the Road is the true crime story of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Ann Harrison and the long journey forced upon her family who had to wait nearly three decades to see her killers brought to final justice.

Author : Anne Tyler
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385694865

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Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler Pdf

From the beloved and bestselling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These surprises, and the ways they throw Micah's meticulously organized life off-kilter, risk changing him forever. An intimate look into the heart and mind of a man who finds those around him just out of reach, and a funny, joyful, deeply compassionate story about seeing the world through new eyes, Redhead by the Side of the Road is a triumph, filled with Anne Tyler's signature wit and gimlet-eyed observation.

Author : Kathleen Stewart
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691212883

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A Space on the Side of the Road by Kathleen Stewart Pdf

A Space on the Side of the Road vividly evokes an "other" America that survives precariously among the ruins of the West Virginia coal camps and "hollers." To Kathleen Stewart, this particular "other" exists as an excluded subtext to the American narrative of capitalism, modernization, materialism, and democracy. In towns like Amigo, Red Jacket, Helen, Odd, Viper, Decoy, and Twilight, men and women "just settin'" track a dense social imaginary through stories of traumas, apparitions, encounters, and eccentricities. Stewart explores how this rhythmic, dramatic, and complicated storytelling imbues everyday life in the hills and forms a cultural poetics. Alternating her own ruminations on language, culture, and politics with continuous accounts of "just talk," Stewart propels us into the intensity of this nervous, surreal "space on the side of the road." It is a space that gives us a glimpse into a breach in American society itself, where graveyards of junked cars and piles of other trashed objects endure along with the memories that haunt those who have been left behind by "progress." Like James Agee's portrayal of the poverty-stricken tenant farmers of the Depression South in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this book uses both language and photographs to help readers encounter a fragmented and betrayed community, one "occupied" by schoolteachers, doctors, social workers, and other professionals representing an "official" America. Holding at bay any attempts at definitive, social scientific analysis, Stewart has concocted a new sort of ethnographic writing that conveys the immediacy, density, texture, and materiality of the coal camps. A Space on the Side of the Road finally bridges the gap between anthropology and cultural studies and provides us with a brilliant and challenging experiment in thinking and writing about "America."

Author : Frank Rowsome, Jr.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1979-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780452267626

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Verse by the Side of the Road by Frank Rowsome, Jr. Pdf

"In the fall of 1925, young Allan Odell conceived the idea of using consecutive signs along the roadside. . . . In 1963 the last signs were taken down, ending the most famous outdoor advertising venture ever.”—1977 Minnesota Almanac The whole story is in this book, plus all the jingles used. The signs are gone now, except for one set on permanent display at The Smithsonian. You can have them all, always, in your own library with this book. “Rowsome’s volume indexes each of the 600 jingles . . . and as you down the list, preferably reading aloud, it might evoke visions of 1940 Chevies, roadside diners, signs that said EATS. . . . Why were the Burma-Shave jingles so universally loved? Because they were light-hearted and humorous in hard times and war times.”—Bov Swift, Knight News Service

Author : Jonathan Kirsch
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307567635

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The Harlot by the Side of the Road by Jonathan Kirsch Pdf

Sex. Violence. Scandal. These are words we rarely associate with the sacred text of the Bible. Yet in this brilliant new book, Jonathan Kirsch shows that the Old Testament is filled with some of the most startling and explicit stories in all of Western literature. These tales of seduction and rape, voyeurism and exhibitionism, intermarriage and illegitimacy, assassination and murder have been suppressed by religious authorities throughout history precisely because they are so shocking. "You mean that's in the Bible?" is the common reaction of the contemporary reader to the stories that Kirsch retells and explores. In The Harlot by the Side of the Road, Kirsch recounts these suppressed and mistranslated tales in the grand storytelling tradition. Here is the tale of Dinah, the young Israelite daughter raped by a princely suitor. The price for her hand in marriage? The circumcision of every man in his kingdom. Here, too, is the story of Lot's daughters, who, when faced with the possibility that they are the last survivors on earth, must copulate with their drunken father to continue their race. And the story of Tamar, the harlot by the side of the road, who must disguise herself as a prostitute and seduce her father-in-law in order to bear the child who has been promised her. Kirsch places each story within the political and social context of its time, and delves into the latest biblical scholarship to explain why each story was originally censored. He also brings to light when and where each story was first written down, and how it found its way into the Bible. And he shows how these stories have something important to say to contemporary readers who might never pick up a Bible. Kirsch reveals that the Bible's real power lies in its unflinching lessons in human nature. And he illuminates the surprising modernity of the Bible's characters: these were, like us, people delicately balanced between their destructive and generous natures. Certain to excite controversy and ignite intellectual debate, The Harlot by the Side of the Road will undoubtedly be one of the year's most talked-about books.

Author : Jean Bremer
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781665746120

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The House by the Side of the Road by Jean Bremer Pdf

Helen is a young social worker in Chicago who can’t find one of her clients, Marty Munoz. Marty was released from detention, and it is Helen’s responsibility to get him through the first six months, but he has not checked in for a week. Despite a snowstorm, she heads south to check out a house where his roommates say he may have gone. The only house she finds in the area is an abandoned, dilapidated, overgrown mess, but she decides to get as close as she can. Maybe Marty is there but can’t get back to the train due to the weather? When Helen enters, beautiful sights, sounds, and smells welcome her. Lively conversation floats from the dining room, and there she finds Marty. In the short week he’s been at the house, Marty has been transformed; he looks different and sounds different and is happier than she’s ever seen him. When Helen leaves the house that night, she wonders if she has walked out of a dream, or is what she saw something miraculous? Just as the house looks broken and crumbling on the outside, it is exquisite on the inside, just as the residents appear to have fallen to the lowest rungs of society—but is that who they are inside? Helen quickly learns appearances can be deceiving.

Author : Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817316945

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The House by the Side of the Road by Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson Pdf

This book is a firsthand account of the behind-the-scenes activity of King and his lieutenants--a mixture of stress, tension, dedication, and the personal interaction at the movement's heart--told by Richie Jean Jackson, who carefully created a safe haven for the civil rights leaders and dealt with the innumerable demands of living in the eye of events that would forever change America.

Author : Murad
Publisher : BlueRose Publishers
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A tea stall by the side of the road by Murad Pdf

A Tea-Stall by the Side of the Road is a collection of short stories based on anecdotes, folklore and urban legends from all over the country. Presented in the first person narrative, these stories are based on actual experiences. A tea-stall, popularly called a ‘tapri’ in India, is a place where people gather to gossip, share news and views, tales and anecdotes. It is also the favoured place for inspiration and the author’s preferred spot for writing his book. The book is well-suited to be read over a relaxing cup of tea, around the coffee table or around a campfire on a weekend getaway trip. It has stories from all genres including humour, drama, horror and romance. Thus, there is something good for every mood and taste.

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307267450

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy Pdf

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Author : Simon R. Green
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625798770

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The Dark Side of the Road by Simon R. Green Pdf

ISHMAEL JONES IS ON THE CASE. Paranormal private detective Ishmael Jones is invited to his employer's country house for Christmas just in time to become embroiled in a locked-room mystery with a supernatural twist. CALL HIM ISHMAEL . . . Ishmael Jones. He's used to keeping a low profile, living under the radar and on the dark side of the road. He makes his living solving mysteries and uncovering dark secrets some would prefer to stay hidden. But when he's invited by his employer—a man known only as "The Colonel"—to spend Christmas at the Colonel's sprawling country house, Ishmael Jones decides to come in from the dark for some holiday cheer. Jones arrives at the remote Belancourt Manor in the midst of a blizzard only to discover that the Colonel has gone missing. It soon becomes clear that the guests are harboring dark secrets—and that it will be up to Ishmael Jones to stop a savage killer. A locked-room, country house mystery with a supernatural twist as only Simon R. Green could write it. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Simon R. Green: “A macabre and thoroughly entertaining world.” —Jim Butcher on the Nightside series “A splendid riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, conveyed with trademark wisecracking humor, and carried out with maximum bloodshed and mayhem. In a word, irresistible.” —Kirkus, Starred Review of Simon R. Green's Night Fall “[F]or those who want a fantasy-genre mash-up that doesn’t slow down.” —Booklist on From a Drood to a Kill “Simon R. Green is a great favorite of mine. It’s almost impossible to find a writer with a more fertile imagination than Simon. He’s a writer who seems endlessly inventive.” —Charlaine Harris

Author : Louis Romano,John Gojcaj
Publisher : Vecchia Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667870823

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On The Side Of The Road by Louis Romano,John Gojcaj Pdf

On a dirt road in Barranquilla, Colombia, sometime in the 1970s, a mother of baby twin boys is forced to make the most difficult decision of her life. One of her sons grows to become a significant part of the Cali Cartel drug trafficking world. The other boy's life remains a mystery until the drug dealer's son begins searching for his lost twin.

Author : LeuAnna Taylor
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781098048860

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The View from the Side of the Road by LeuAnna Taylor Pdf

This book is a compilation of many little stories. Some are funny, some are observations, and some are pieces of everyday life and events, but all have a tie to a biblical teaching that shows how God moves in our lives and those around us in the big moments and the small moments of every day. Photos illustrate scenes from Northeast Ohio and travels away that add a little more depth to each story told. You will find hope and God's grace throughout this work.

Author : Sam Walter Foss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1069247661

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The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss Pdf

Author : Tammi Haynes
Publisher : www.publishamerica.com
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781413787344

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The Boy on the Side of the Road by Tammi Haynes Pdf

For six-year-old Noah McAllister, May 8, 1954, begins as any other ordinary day in Dawson, Georgia. However, this day is anything but ordinary. Like a bolt of lightning, tragedy is about to strike! No one in town will be left untouched, least of all the McAllister family. As Noah makes the quarter-mile trek home from school, he is unaware that just yards away, hidden behind the solid oaks that line the dirt lane leading to the McAllister farm, someone is watching. At first, lost in a private daydream, he doesnat hear the muffled whimper, or see the melon crate tucked in among the trees. When the sound comes again, he looks up and spies the crate. He rushes excitedly toward it, believing it contains a puppy or kitten. Instead, he finds an abandoned baby. Suddenly, a dark car explodes from behind the trees and careens onto the road. A second later itas gone, leaving behind a trail of dust as the only evidence it had been there at all. And so begins the chain of events that lead to murdera]and the downfall of the McAllister family.

Author : V'Laria Eves
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1491029633

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Things You Find on the Side of the Road by V'Laria Eves Pdf

Things You Find on the Side of the Road is a whimsical book about life and how we see others who are not like us. It garners thought and insight into the lives of others no matter how different they are. The main character is a woman who finds herself thrown into a new world she never thought much of, until it affects her life. She finds herself changed and with an outcome she never excepted to her adventure.