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Author : Michael Dahl
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781496538871
Charlie finds himself on the hidden 13th floor of the Abracadabra Hotel. He discovers both Tyler and the magician Brack. Brack was trapped there by a mysterious figure he could not identify.
Author : Michael Dahl
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781434265098
Abracadabra, owner of the Abracadabra Hotel, has disappeared, and Charlie Hitchcock and Tyler Yu team up again to solve the mystery of the hidden thirteenth floor and try to foil a theft that could cost the hotel millions.
Author : Nigel Poor,Earlonne Woods
Publisher : Crown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780593238882
A “profound, sometimes hilarious, often heartbreaking” (The New York Times) view of prison life, as told by currently and formerly incarcerated people, from the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast Ear Hustle “A must-read for fans of the legendary podcast and all those who seek to understand crime, punishment, and mass incarceration in America.”—Piper Kerman, author of Orange Is the New Black When Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods met, Nigel was a photography professor volunteering with the Prison University Project and Earlonne was serving thirty-one years to life at California’s San Quentin State Prison. Initially drawn to each other by their shared interest in storytelling, neither had podcast production experience when they decided to enter Radiotopia’s contest for new shows . . . and won. Using the prize for seed money, Nigel and Earlonne launched Ear Hustle, named after the prison term for “eavesdropping.” It was the first podcast created and produced entirely within prison and would go on to be heard millions of times worldwide, garner Peabody and Pulitzer award nominations, and help earn Earlonne his freedom when his sentence was commuted in 2018. In This Is Ear Hustle, Nigel and Earlonne share their own stories of how they came to San Quentin, how they created their phenomenally popular podcast amid extreme limitations, and what has kept them collaborating season after season. They present new stories, all with the same insight, balance, and rapport that distinguish the podcast. In an era when more than two million people are incarcerated across the United States—a number that grows by 600,000 annually—Nigel and Earlonne explore the full and often surprising realities of prison life. With characteristic candor and humor, their moving portrayals include unexpected moments of self-discovery, unlikely alliances, inspirational resilience, and ingenious work-arounds. One personal narrative at a time, framed by Nigel’s and Earlonne’s distinct perspectives, This Is Ear Hustle reveals the complexity of life for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people while illuminating the shared experiences of humanity that unite us all.
Author : Steve Nix
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781450290876
The true story of one conscientious objector’s journey through the Federal Prison system in 1966-67 after refusing military induction. Arriving at his ninth prison, America’s most maximum security, he’s stripped of his name becoming only a number, 9307. Here he’s told under extremely unusual circumstances that James Earl Ray will kill Martin Luther King. About 6 ½ months later, this occurred. Out on parole, he immediately calls the F.B.I. with information about co-conspirators. They could care less and have him off the phone in about 45 seconds. By chance in 1970, he goes to a remote Western Pacific Island, Ponape, and ends up staying the next 40 years. Painting a scene from this island in prison, seen on this book cover, he never imagined he’d ever go there. Haunted by his connection to Martin Luther King, he agrees to help a German Businessman with land problems fueled by racism. It escalates over 20 years, cost 4 lives and the Author barely survives several attempts on his. All the while, he’s occasionally contacting the F.B.I and Attorney Generals Office in Tennessee, trying to generate a response. Finally he decided to write this book. Find out who some of these co-conspirators are.
Author : Joanne Mariner
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1564322580
VI. BODY AND SOUL
Author : Brian Wills
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781603743334
“I give him ten hours to live.” That’s what the doctor said after diagnosing twenty-two-year-old Brian Wills with one of the deadliest and fastest-growing cancers, known as Burkitt’s lymphoma. Incredibly, this rare tumor grew from the size of a golf ball to nine inches in diameter in only three days. Thus began Brian’s life-threatening battle—both physical and spiritual—to receive a full recovery by focusing on God’s powerful promises of healing. Through his incredible, true-life testimony of healing against all odds, find out how you can: Overcome the most hopeless of circumstances Learn how to apply God’s Word for healing Build your faith for the miraculous Discover joy in the midst of suffering Receive comfort in times of trial 10 Hours to Live includes many other testimonies of people who have been supernaturally healed by the power of God.
Author : J. Lesley Graham
Publisher : Book Venture Publishing LLC
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781640695139
Tradition had the League of Star Warriors being rooted in the Tejas Rangers of the Statea United on the mythical First Earth. However, while the Tejas Rangers rode horses over the vast wastelands of a single planet, Star Warriors flew and lived on their thunderturkies, as their class of battle starships were called. They went from planet to planet. Rangers fought with six shot slug throwers, rifles, and shotguns. Star Warriors fought with the latest technological weapon systems, including a sling pistol, heavily armed thunderturkey, and Hawk star fighter. Rangers rode with other rangers and were controlled by the Tejas government. Star Warriors operated alone and were governed by the League of Star Warriors. Rangers went after common criminals. Star Warriors went after master criminals, powerful criminal organizations, and other evil people, who were above the law for one reason or another reason or another. Rangers brought lawbreakers before judges, who handed out justice. Star Warriors were judges, juries, and off time executioners. Unlike other law enforcement professionals and members of military organizations, Star Warriors were still Star Warriors even after they voluntarily retired or were barred from serving on active duty. The forehead of each Star Warrior was covered with tattoos identifying him as a Star Warrior, telling how many years he spent of active duty, and telling the number of times he had been wounded. People sought out those tattoos when they needed help because the local police couldn’t or wouldn’t help them. Jack Quantum had been medically retired. Yet, he still operated as a Star Warrior. He stopped two assignation attempts, and saved a small boy from suffering through a painful and ugly death. He unmasked a major drug lord and stopped his plans to take over the star trader he was flying on. Jack became the Master of the star trader after being critically injured during a firefight the star trader had with an overwhelming number of starships. Yet, he was instrumental in saving the starship and over forty thousand people as it blindly flew across the galaxy.
Author : Miriam Van Scott
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781466891197
The Encyclopedia of Hell is a comprehensive survey of the underworld, drawing information from cultures around the globe and eras throughout history. Organized in a simple-to-use alphabetic format, entries cover representations of the dark realm of the dead in mythology, religion, works of art, opera, literature, theater, music, film, and television. Sources include African legends, Native American stories, Asian folktales, and other more obscure references, in addition to familiar infernal chronicles from Western lore. The result is a catalog of underworld data, with entries running the gamut from descriptions of grisly pits of torture to humorous cartoons lampooning the everlasting abyss. Its extensive cross-referencing also supplies links between various concepts and characters from the netherworld and provides further information on particular theories. Peruse these pages and find out for yourself what history's greatest imaginations have envisioned awaiting the wicked on the other side of the grave.
Author : Stephen J. Cannell
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429902632
ONE IS his beloved. Leaving L.A.'s Parker Center, Shane Scully and his wife, Alexa, agree to meet at home...but Alexa never arrives. Then Shane's called to a crime scene on Mulholland Drive, where the victim, an apparent gang member, has been executed—and left in Alexa's car. Her gun is the likely murder weapon. THE OTHER Is his Nemesis. As Shane desperately tries to find Alexa, his leads point to a feud between two gangsta-rap record companies, both heavily manned by Crips and Bloods. At the center of this war is a ruthless, beautiful Lady Macbeth-like white woman raised in Compton. Married to a multi-millionaire rap mogul, she is known as the White Sister. It's his worst nightmare come true... Shane is no stranger to big trouble, but he's never before been smeared as a "racist cop" or thrown in jail while there's a hit out on him. Much worse is the unknown fate of Alexa, and the fact that in the mysterious White Sister—who holds the clue to a sinister conspiracy—he may have met his match.
Author : M. L. Daneel,Inus Daneel,Charles Edward van Engen,H. M. Vroom
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9042010959
This important book is needed today. The challenges that Christian churches face have changed immensely in the last quarter-century. One of the central issues facing the churches everywhere in the world is their missionary presence in their nations and societies. The authors of this volume are among the world's leading missiological thinkers and represent major Christian traditions in Europe, Africa, and North America. In this new century, the Christian church faces new situations that include, for example, the fall of communism; the globalization of culture; cultural and religious minorities and multiple religious majorities in nearly every country; ethnic and interreligious tensions; relativism and individualism in Western culture; the rise of a global impact of a postmodern world view; poverty in poor countries and in urban areas in wealthy countries; and the decline of Western cultural authority and, with notable exceptions, of religious authority generally. This book speaks of ways in which Christian churches are seeking to respond to these challenges. The purpose of this book is to describe some of the main challenges facing the churches in mission today, particularly with reference to inter-religious conversations all over the world. The title of this volume has been derived from the theme of the 24th General Assembly of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) at Accra in August, 2004 whose theme is, "That All May Have Life in Fullness."
Author : Guy Geltner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0691135339
Introduction -- Italian prisons : three profiles -- Venice -- Florence -- Bologna -- Conclusions -- Aspects of imprisonment -- Urban development -- Administration and bureaucracy -- Finance and economy -- Punitive imprisonment : jurisprudence, legislation, and practice -- Conclusions -- Prison life -- The terror of arrest -- First nights -- Familiar order : the wards -- Daily life : order and dissidence -- The world outside -- The journey's end : death, escape, release -- Conclusions -- The prison as place and metaphor -- Early imaginaries : martyrdom, monasticism, and purgation -- Excursus : jail-breaking saints -- From purgation to purgatory : God's great prison -- This world and the next : the urban prison -- Conclusions -- Conclusion : "marginalizing" institutions, instituting marginality -- Appendix 1: Prison inventory from Bologna, 1305 -- Appendix 2: Poems from the prison -- Appendix 3: Le stinche, a reconstruction -- Abbreviations and archives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Author : Michael Cannell
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781250204400
The riveting true story of the rise and fall of Murder, Inc. and the executioner-turned-informant whose mysterious death became a turning point in Mob history. In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was underway that threatened to end the careers and lives of New York’s most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of a coast-to-coast mob network known as the Commission. But the man responsible for coolly silencing hundreds of informants was about to become the most talkative snitch of all. In exchange for police protection, Reles was prepared to rat out his murderous friends, from Albert Anastasia to Bugsy Siegel—but before he could testify, his shattered body was discovered on a rooftop outside his heavily-guarded hotel room. Was it a botched escape, or punishment for betraying the loyalty of the country’s most powerful mobsters? Michael Cannell's A Brotherhood Betrayed traces the history of Murder, Inc. through Reles’ rise from street punk to murder chieftain to stool pigeon, ending with his fateful death on a Coney Island rooftop. It resurrects a time when crime became organized crime: a world of money and power, depravity and corruption, street corner ambushes and elaborately choreographed hits by wise-cracking foot soldiers with names like Buggsy Goldstein and Tick Tock Tannenbaum. For a brief moment before World War II erupted, America fixated on the delicate balance of trust and betrayal on the Brooklyn streets. This is the story of the one man who tipped the balance.
Author : Los Angeles County (Calif.). Bureau of Efficiency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Sheriffs
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047520726
Author : Barbara D'Amato
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466822511
For Chicago cop Suze Figueroa, home is a sanctuary, a quiet refuge from the crime, corruption, and tragedy she encounters everyday on the job. The creaky old Victorian house she shares with her little boy, her invalid sister, and her sister's family seems far removed from the threats and dangers of the mean city streets.. . . or so she believes. The truth is far more terrifying, for, unknown to Suze, a stranger has moved into the house: an intruder who waits in the attic by day and prowls her home at night, spying on both the unsuspecting adults and the defenseless children. While Suze spends her work day tracking down an elusive serial killer, she has no idea that a much more personal danger lives under her own roof, eating her food, handling her gun, and watching her loved ones.... Strips of yellow tape may keep curious bystanders away from crimes scenes, but nothing so simple can protect Suze and her family from the menace that has invaded the privacy--and the safety--of their own home. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Brian Naslund
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250309686
Brian Naslund's Fury of a Demon is the final installment in a fast-paced adventure series perfect for comic book readers and fans of heroic fantasy. War makes monsters of us all... The war against Osyrus Ward goes poorly for Bershad and Ashlyn. They are pinned in the Dainwood by monstrous alchemical creations and a relentless army of mercenaries, and running out of both options and allies. The Witch Queen struggles with her new powers, knowing that the secret of unlocking her dragon cord is key to stopping Ward's army, she pushes forward with her experiments. Meanwhile, with every wound Bershad suffers, he gets closer to losing his humanity forever, and as the war rages, the exile turned assassin turned hero isn't even sure if being human is something he wants. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.