Terror Town

Author : Stuart M. Kaminsky
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429912662

Get Book

Terror Town by Stuart M. Kaminsky Pdf

Carl Zwick is an aging Chicago Cubs baseball player. Sometimes he feels like he's spent his life hitting into double plays, but he's finally gotten onto the right track. Then tragedy strikes him out. Anita Mills is a pretty single black mother just trying to get by. A random act of brutality in one of Chicago's rougher neighborhoods permanently ends her struggle. Richard Allen Smith walks the streets of ChiTown saying God has sent him. He has an unusual, rather nasty way of getting converts to see the light. What do these people have in common? Nothing, it would seem, except they are all part of Detective Abe Lieberman's very long day. Lieberman, a sad, baggy-eyed spaniel of a man with the patience of Job and the wisdom of Solomon is trying his best to make his beloved Chicago a better place. But when Lieberman and his partner, Bill Hanrahan, encounter these three very different situations they are find that there are ties that bind and ties that can cut a man's heart out. Abe Lieberman faces a Gordian knot that he must somehow untangle—and if he makes a mistake, someone very near to him could die. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : John Ferak
Publisher : WildBlue Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781952225673

Get Book

Terror Town, USA by John Ferak Pdf

The veteran true crime author chronicles the terrifying murders, surprising arrest and dramatic trial of Illinois serial killer Milton Johnson. In the summer of 1983, an elusive serial killer stalked the blue-collar industrial city of Joliet, Illinois. One overnight killing spree took five victims, including members of the Will County Sheriff’s Office. The following month brought a quadruple murder inside a shop known for its pottery classes. The plague of violence sparked the controversial New York City-based Guardian Angels to descend on Joliet, generating more unwanted media attention for the community. The National Enquirer labeled Joliet “Terror Town, U.S.A.” With an arrest that seemed to come out of nowhere, authorities linked their suspect to a chilling fourteen homicides, plus three women who miraculously survived their agonizing encounters. But with multiple murder trials on the horizon, it remained anyone’s guess whether Milton Johnson was guilty of mass murder and if so, would he die by means of lethal injection at the Illinois Department of Corrections?

Author : Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher : Hachette Children's Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1444005278

Get Book

Terror Town by Marcus Sedgwick Pdf

In the fifth laugh-out-loud adventure from BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD-shortlisted Marcus Sedgwick and Pete Williamson, Elf Girl and Raven Boy head to Terror Town to save the world from the Goblin King.

Author : Tilman Schwarze
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031460388

Get Book

Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life by Tilman Schwarze Pdf

This Book develops a novel and innovative methodological framework for operationalising Henri Lefebvre’s work for empirical research on the U.S. city. Building on ethnographic research on Chicago’s South Side, Tilman Schwarze explores the current situation of urbanisation and urban life in the U.S. city through a critical reading and application of Lefebvre’s writings on space, everyday life, the urban, the state, and difference. Focusing on territorial stigmatisation, public housing transformation, and urban redevelopment, this book makes an important contribution to critical urban scholarship, foregrounding the relevance and applicability of Henri Lefebvre’s work for geographical and sociological research on urban politics and everyday life.

Author : Michael Teitelbaum
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781684029730

Get Book

Terror at the Ghost Town Mine by Michael Teitelbaum Pdf

Jacob and Rich were excited about the chance to explore the old, abandoned ghost town. But they’d barely begun to walk the town’s streets when they heard a strange voice whisper, “Get out.” It was a warning they should have listened to, especially before they went into the dark, abandoned gold mine.

Author : James Roy Daley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0986815748

Get Book

Terror Town by James Roy Daley Pdf

Killer on the warpath. Monsters on the street. Vampires in the night. Zombies on the hunt. Welcome to Terror Town. The place where no one is safe. Nothing is sacred. All will die. All will suffer. From the twisted mind of James Roy Daley, author of THE DEAD PARADE, INTO HELL, and 13 DROPS OF BLOOD, comes one of the most violently brutal stories ever told. Terror Town isn't for the faint of heart. Adventure, fear, and mayhem await - delivered through an omnipresent viewpoint reminiscent of the early works of Stephen King and John Saul. Five stars Matt Hults, author of Husk Do you remember discovering Robert R. McCammon, or King's Carrie? Reading Terror Town you'll experience that same dark funhouse gravity. Spare but cinematic, the pace is crisp and moves well. Recommended Author, Simon McCaffery This book is the most disturbing, graphic, and disgusting book I've read in my entire life, hands down. I've never come across a story that is as horrifyingly brutal than this. That being said, you MUST read it Eliose J. Knapp, author of The Undead Situation The scariest book I have ever read in my life. Cynthia Gould, High Heels Lo Fi Twisted, unpredictable, and deliciously morbid, Terror Town has it all: horrifying creatures, vampires, zombies, and one of the best-written, sadomasochistic serial killers since 'Buffalo Bill.' Terror Town is the ultimate Scarefest Lipstick Indie

Author : Tan Teng Phee
Publisher : Strategic Information and Research Development Centre
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789672464594

Get Book

Behind Barbed Wire by Tan Teng Phee Pdf

"Behind Barbed Wire looks behind the façade to ask what it was really like to be moved to, and live in, a 'New Village'. Tan, who himself lived in New Villages growing up, combines archival sources and oral history to give us a rounded account . . . We need Tan's book, because up to now the outsider's view has predominated, and outsiders have their own agenda." Karl Hack, in the Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society This unique book revisits the moment in the Malayan Emergency when some 500,000 women, children and men were uprooted from their homes and moved into new settlements, guarded day and night by police and troops. A majority were rural Chinese: market gardeners, shopkeepers, rice farmers, tin miners and rubber tappers who had long made Malaya their home and had lived through the hardships of the Japanese Occupation. Based upon newly accessible archival materials and painstaking multilingual interviews with more than 80 informants in four New Villages, Tan Teng Phee rewrites the history of the Emergency, exposing the voices of those at the heart of this lauded ‘social experiment’. In Francis Loh’s words, these were ordinary villagers ‘caught in the crossfire between the British security forces and the Malayan Communist Party’ whose lives were turned inside-out and re-ordered completely, with daily curfews, body searches and food controls alongside the carrots and sticks of registration, (re)education, sanitation, psychological warfare and swift punishment. Highlighting the disciplinary aims of British policy, as well as the ways in which villagers resisted this discipline through ‘weapons of the weak’, this book forms a unique history from below of the Malayan Emergency, and of a resettlement programme which shaped the social and geographical landscape of Malaysia for generations to come.

Author : Nancy Foner
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610442091

Get Book

Wounded City by Nancy Foner Pdf

New York has eight million deeply personal and unique stories of pain and perseverance from September 11, 2001. But the toll of tragedy is greater than the anguish it inflicts on individuals—communities suffer as well. In Wounded City, editor Nancy Foner brings together an accomplished group of scholars to document how a broad range of communities—residential, occupational, ethnic, and civic—were affected and changed by the World Trade Center attacks. Using survey data and in-depth ethnographies, the book offers sophisticated analysis and gives voice to the human experiences behind the summary statistics, revealing how the nature of these communities shaped their response to the disaster. Sociologists Philip Kasinitz, Gregory Smithsimon, and Binh Pok highlight the importance of physical space in the recovery process by comparing life after 9/11 in two neighborhoods close to ground zero—Tribeca, which is nestled close to the city's downtown, and Battery Park City, which is geographically and structurally separated from other sections of the city. Melanie Hildebrandt looks at how social solidarity changed in a predominantly Irish, middle class community that was struck twice with tragedy: the loss of many residents on 9/11 and a deadly plane crash two months later. Jennifer Bryan shows that in the face of hostility and hate crimes, many Arab Muslims in Jersey City stressed their adherence to traditional Islam. Contributor Karen Seeley interviews psychotherapists who faced the challenge of trying to help patients deal with a tragedy that they themselves were profoundly affected by. Economist Daniel Beunza and sociologist David Stark paint a picture of organizational resilience as they detail how securities traders weathered successive crises after evacuating their downtown office and moving temporarily to New Jersey. Francesca Polletta and Lesley Wood look at a hopeful side of a horrible tragedy: civic involvement in town meetings and public deliberations to discuss what should be done to rebuild at ground zero and help New Yorkers create a better future in the footprints of disaster. New Yorkers suffered tremendous losses on September 11, 2001: thousands of lives, billions of dollars, the symbols of their skyline, and their peace of mind. But not lost in the rubble of the World Trade Center were the residential, ethnic, occupational, and organizational communities that make up New York's rich mosaic. Wounded City gives voice to some of those communities, showing how they dealt with unforeseen circumstances that created or deepened divisions, yet at the same brought them together in suffering and hope. It is a unique look at the aftermath of a devastating day and the vitality of a diverse city. A Russell Sage Foundation September 11 Initiative Volume

Author : Eric Kraft
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466884151

Get Book

On the Wing by Eric Kraft Pdf

In Taking Off, the first installment of Eric Kraft's beguiling trilogy, Peter Leroy built an aerocycle in his parents' garage, working from designs he found in Impractical Craftsman magazine. Cheered on by the gathered residents of his small Long Island beach community, Peter readied his contraption for the adventure of a lifetime: a solo cross-country flight to New Mexico and back. Now Peter is ready to fly---and in On the Wing, he tells the hilarious tale of his journey across a mid-century America populated by eccentrics, crackerbarrel philosophers, and figments of the national imagination. In small hops, mostly consisting of "taxiing" and "landing," he visits roadside attractions and unusual towns: one where every casual expression and idiom is questioned (hence a diner offering "Real Diner Cooking" rather than real home cooking); another where he is chased with pitchforks and shotguns by citizens still traumatized by Orson Welles's "War of the Worlds"; a remote crossroads where he finds himself under attack by a low-flying plane; and finally a town near Roswell, New Mexico, where Peter becomes a phenomenon to rival Roswell's reputation for alien invasion. Along the way, Peter encounters other on-the-roaders, and finds himself pursued by a mysterious dark-haired girl, who continues to appear in different guises and seems strangely familiar, though he can't quite place her face. And, in a parallel contemporary journey undertaken with his wife, Albertine, the adult Peter revisits his long-ago journey, navigating as Albertine drives a vintage automobile through a much-changed America, and misremembering every step of the way. On the Wing is a playful but profound novel about an Icarus who does not crash and burn, but grows older, wiser, and productively forgetful as he reimagines his boyhood to create the story of his life.

Author : Parker Anderson,Darlene Wilson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781439678961

Get Book

Haunted Mining Towns of Arizona by Parker Anderson,Darlene Wilson Pdf

Spectral miners and lingering spirits Once Arizona's biggest economic base, mines and the towns that sprang up around them can be found scattered across the state. Stories of paranormal encounters in places like Jerome, Bisbee and Prescott persist, while ghost towns are rumored to host a multitude of lingering spirits. In Ajo, the dead are said to wander through the old Phelps Dodge Hospital, and legend has it that the shades of miners long gone still work the Vulture Mine, looking for the next big gold strike. Do the spirits of Geronimo and his warriors still roam the land they fought so hard to keep? Join historian Parker Anderson and paranormal expert Darlene Wilson as they uncover the fascinating history and haunts of Arizona's mining towns.

Author : Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher : Orion Children's Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781444007220

Get Book

Elf Girl and Raven Boy: Dread Desert by Marcus Sedgwick Pdf

Elf Girl and Raven Boy get hot and bothered in the desert as they come a few steps (with sand in their shoes) closer to finding the Singing Sword and the Tears of the Moon. They bump into a grumpy camel, a grumpier genie, Sultanas, Sandpeople and scorpions as they try to save the world from the Goblin King.

Author : E.B. Dart
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781546205135

Get Book

Terror Town by E.B. Dart Pdf

Los Angeles is a very busy place. When youre a third-generation mortician like Robert Thompson, it can be overwhelming at times. Sometimes you want to sweep your wife off her feet and fly across the country. October in New England is outstanding. You might want to just relax and take long walks or maybe have a picnic. Thats what Robert and Marsha Thompson thought. They had no idea that their choice of bed and breakfast was located in the belly of the Beast. They had no idea that they were driving headfirst into murder and mayhem. Ride along with them if you dare. Next stop . . . Terror Town.

Author : George G. Gilman
Publisher : New English Library
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988-10-01
Category : Western stories
ISBN : 045043110X

Get Book

Terror Town by George G. Gilman Pdf

Author : Laura McGehee
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781680761696

Get Book

Ed & Bo Try to Graduate #1 by Laura McGehee Pdf

Ed & Bo are your average teenagers with a taste for the finer things in life; like pizza rolls, salt and vinegar chips, and long naps. Life is pretty awesome until they're faced with the greatest challenge since that time they lost the keys to Ed's Mom's car - they have to participate in an extra credit business competition or fail 12th grade. The boys must balance rivalries, secret crushes, not-so-secret crushes, and discussions of life's greatest mysteries as they try to graduate. Ed & Bo Try to Graduate is Book #1 from Stoopid, an EPIC Press series. Some titles may contain explicit content and/or language.

Author : Diane Marger Moore
Publisher : WildBlue Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781952225819

Get Book

16 Minutes by Diane Marger Moore Pdf

A grizzly arson case leads an Indianapolis prosecutor to an infant’s coldblooded killer in this chilling true crime by the author of Inconvenience Gone. On the morning of March 6, 1993, an intense fire broke out in a tiny nursery. Sixteen minutes later, firefighters had extinguished the blaze. The room was burned so severely, that virtually nothing was recognizable . . . but they were told to look for a baby. What they discovered was almost too gruesome for words. Not only the baby’s charred remains, but an unsettling fact: the child’s parents were home at the time the fire broke out. The arson squad declared the fire suspicious and investigators determined it was arson. But if it truly was arson, what was the motive? Along with the tenacious and determined Detective Leslie Van Buskirk, Marion County Prosecutor Diane Marger Moore persisted for more than two years to get justice for Baby Matthew Wise. In 16 Minutes, she recounts the incredible story—and the shocking revelations she made.