Hands Through Stone

Author : James A. Ardaiz
Publisher : Linden Publishing
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781610351409

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Hands Through Stone by James A. Ardaiz Pdf

This fascinating and gripping portrayal is the only book-length account ever written about the illicit career of Clarence Ray Allen, one of the most sinister criminal masterminds and mass murderers in American history. Even hardened detectives were shaken by the scene at Fran's Market in rural Fresno County that night in 1980: four young people lay on the market's concrete floor, bloodily murdered by a killer without mercy or remorse. Then a grim investigation became even grimmer when the evidence led to the prime suspect--a convicted murderer already behind the stone walls of Folsom. A true crime story that reads like an intricately woven mystery, the book depicts the chilling scenes of murder, a dogged investigation, and the true story behind the Fran's Market murders and their psychopathic mastermind. Written by former prosecutor James Ardaiz, who was one of the first investigators on the scene at Fran's Market, ""Hands Through Stone"" provides an insider's view of the tortuous, multiyear investigation that brought a killer to justice.

Author : Abraham Verghese
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184001754

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Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Pdf

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

Author : Christian Giudice
Publisher : Milo Books Ltd
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hands of Stone by Christian Giudice Pdf

ROBERTO DURAN is a sporting legend. Often called the greatest boxer of all time, he held world titles at four different weights and is the only professional in history to have fought in five different decades. His bouts with fellow greats like Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler have gone down in fistic folklore and his pro record of 104 wins, 69 by KO, in 120 fights puts him in an elite group of fighters. They called him Manos de Piedra: “Hands of Stone”. American journalist Christian Guidice has written the first – and definitive – story of Duran’s extraordinary life both in and out of the ring. He has interviewed the fighter himself, his family and closest friends and scores of his opponents to separate truth from myth and get to the heart of one of the most intriguing sports stars of modern times. Duran was born in utter poverty in the Panama Canal Zone, the illegitimate son of a serving US soldier and a local girl. He grew up in the streets, fighting to survive. His talent with his fists was soon apparent, and on one fabled occasion he even knocked down a horse with a single punch for a bet. He grew into a fighter’s fighter, and his willingness to take on anyone, anywhere, anytime and never take a step back made him a huge favorite. From his wild early bouts to his stunning boxing debut in New York, Giudice traces the blazing trail of his career: the controversial title win over Scot Ken Buchanan; his unification of the lightweight crown against great rival Esteban DeJesus; his glorious defeat of Ray Leonard and the subsequent debacle of the No Más encounter; his ferocious comeback and redemption, and the long, eventful twilight of his matchless career. Here also are both the public and private sides of Duran: his volatility, his kindness and reckless generosity, his partying, his links with the notorious regime of General Noriega, and above all his chilling love of battle.

Author : Cathryn Clinton
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763656393

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A Stone in My Hand by Cathryn Clinton Pdf

FOUR STARRED REVIEWS! A Stone in My Hand is the haunting story of a sensitive, observant girl who finds her voice in 1988 Gaza City. (Age 11 and up) The year is 1988 in Gaza City, and it has been a month since eleven-year-old Malaak’s father left to seek work in Israel, only to disappear. Every day Malaak climbs to the roof and waits, speaking little to anyone, preferring the company of the little bird she has tamed. But her twelve-year-old brother, Hamid, has a different way of coping. He feels only anger, stoked by extremists who say violence is the only way to change their fate. Malaak’s mother begs him to stay away from harm, but Malaak lives in fear of losing her brother as well. What will it take for her to find her voice--and the strength to move past the violence that surrounds her?

Author : Alan Boye
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803261853

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Holding Stone Hands by Alan Boye Pdf

In 1878 approximately three hundred Northern Cheyennes under the leadership of Dull Knife and Little Wolf fled shameful conditions on an Indian Territory reservation in present-day Oklahoma. Settled there against their will, they were making a peaceful attempt to return to their homeland in the Tongue River country of Montana. Despite earlier promises that the Cheyennes could choose to leave the reservation, government officials declared them renegades and sent thousands of soldiers in pursuit. ø In 1995 Alan Boye set out on foot to follow Dull Knife's thousand-mile flight through the sparsely populated wilderness of America's high plains. Along the way he was joined by descendents of Dull Knife. Holding Stone Hands is the tale of two journeys. Boye provides a vivid, moving account of the Cheyenne's struggle to return to Montana. At the same time, he details the trek he and his Cheyenne companions made through four states and his growing understanding of why the Cheyenne's longing for their homeland was stronger than their desire to live.

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476746609

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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Pdf

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

Author : Jennifer L. Armentrout
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780373211340

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Stone Cold Touch by Jennifer L. Armentrout Pdf

As Layla's half-demon, half-gargoyle powers evolve, the demon prince Roth returns to bring her news that could change her world forever.

Author : William Gregory Wood-Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Achill Island (Ireland)
ISBN : WISC:89069082196

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The Rude Stone Monuments of Ireland. (Co. Sligo and the Island of Achill.) by William Gregory Wood-Martin Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UVA:X030737031

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Library of Universal Knowledge by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Washington Doane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Christian poetry, American
ISBN : NYPL:33433075805881

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Songs by the Way by George Washington Doane Pdf

Author : I. F. Stone
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780385260329

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The Trial of Socrates by I. F. Stone Pdf

In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek history to present an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its relevance to society today. The New York Times called this national best-seller an "intellectual thriller."

Author : John William Conway Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V001489860

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Bradshaw's hand-book to Brittany, etc by John William Conway Hughes Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : MINN:319510020627362

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The Columbian Cyclopedia by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Fawckner Nicholls,John Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Bristol (England)
ISBN : CHI:27816028

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Bristol Past and Present: Ecclesiastical history [by Taylor by James Fawckner Nicholls,John Taylor Pdf

Author : David J. Landegent
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781512773309

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Colossians by David J. Landegent Pdf

Some people cant see the forest for the treesthey get so bogged down in details that they lose sight of what its all about. Others cant see the trees for the forestthey miss the wondrous details all around them. So why not look instead at both the forest and the trees? This commentary on Pauls letter to the Colossians guides you in doing just that. Even though we will be exploring ancient biblical cultures and learning plenty about the Greek language, no prior academic training is needed. Technical terms have been set aside. Instead, with everyday language we will discover the big picture and revel in the fine details of this stunning letter, amazed by how God is still speaking these same words today to contemporary personal and social challenges. We will not then be tourists rapidly zipping through Colossians as if on a monotonous interstate highway. Instead we will be hiking our way through this letter, step by step, phrase by phrase, finding joy in Gods truth and growing in our faith. Come and join the journey.