Author: John Arnold
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781537555300
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Three ducks escape from a university lab experiment and find sanctuary in a fraternity house. They discover human beings can be their friends - and enemies. Their adventures begin righting wrongs - and getting even.
Author: Steven Levenson
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 163670008X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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In If I Forget, Michael Fischer reunites with his sisters to celebrate their father’s seventy-fifth birthday. Each deeply invested in their own version of family history, the siblings clash over everything from Michael’s controversial scholarly work to the pressures of caring for their ailing parent. As destructive secrets bubble to the surface, the three negotiate how much of the past they’re willing to sacrifice for a chance at a new beginning. This debut collection also includes The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin and The Language of Trees.
Author: Steven Levenson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 0822230070
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Tom Durnin did the time for his white-collar crime. Now, he's determined to win back the respect he believes he deserves—even if that means ripping apart the new life his family has so carefully put together in his absence. Tom's son warily allows his father to camp out on his couch, hoping the man who let everyone down has finally turned a new page. After a lifetime of empty promises, can Tom find a place in a family that has worked so hard to move on without him? Steven Levenson gives us this funny, raw and moving play about the price we pay for defaulting on those we love.
Author: D'Arcy O'Connor
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470676159
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Their names resonate with organized crime in Montreal: the Matticks, MacAllisters, Johnstons and Griffins, and Peter Dunie Ryan. They are the Irish equivalent of the infamous Rizzuto and Cotroni families, and the "Mom" Bouchers and Walter Stadnicks of the Hells Angels. Award-winning producer, journalist and author D’Arcy O’Connor narrates the genesis and rise to power of one of Montreal’s most powerful, violent and colorful criminal organizations. It is the West End Gang, whose members controlled the docks and fought the Hells Angels and Mafia for their share of the city’s prostitution, gambling, loan sharking and drug dealing. At times, they did not disdain forging alliances with rival gangs when huge profits were at stake, or when a killing needed to be carried out. The West End Gang—the Irish Mafia of Montreal—is a legendary beast. They sprang out of the impoverished southwest of the city, some looking for ways to earn enough just to survive, some wanting more than a job in an abattoir or on a construction site. In that sense, they were no different from other immigrants from Italy and other European countries. A shortcut to wealth was their common goal. And Montreal, with its burgeoning post-WWII population, was ripe for the picking. The Irish Mob made headlines with a spectacular Brinks robbery in 1976, using the money to broker a major heroin and cocaine trafficking ring. It took over the Port of Montreal, controlling the flow of drugs into the city, drugs which the Mafia funnelled to New York. The West End Gang had connections to the cocaine cartel in Colombia; hashish brokers in Morocco and France; and marijuana growers in Mexico. The gang imported drugs on an enormous scale. One bust that took place off the coast of Angola in 2006 involved 22.5 tonnes of hashish, destined for Montreal. The West End Gang is a ripping tale that unveils yet another chapter in Montreal’s colorful criminal underworld.
Author: Mihoko Oka
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811673691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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This book is divided into two parts. One is the state of trade in East Asia before and after the collapse of the tributary system to the Ming Dynasty, and the other is the war of aggression in which Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Japan sent a large number of troops to the Korean Peninsula with a view of conquering China at the end of the sixteenth century. With regard to East Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the contributors in this book share a problem awareness in terms of using trade and war as subjects to clarify multi-ethnic, borderless, and multilayered situations. Although there are many chapters related to Japan, this book tries to grasp the interaction between Japan as a region of East Asia and neighboring countries from a global perspective, not the one singular national history.
Author: Estela Vazquez Perez
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 1977273726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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Anthony Samuel Colbert, a welder by trade and a criminal by choice, is dead. The criminal underworld is in an uproar over a theft of millions of dollars Colbert's passing exposed, and the attentions of police now looking into all their trafficking activities. The police are perplexed by the circumstances in which Colbert was discovered, and the supernatural elements that seem to be balking their efforts to solve the case. And Colbert himself, beyond the grave, is now in Hell. Shadowed by evil, he fights to protect his family from what still haunts him. But will he find peace? And can he keep his family away from this terror?
Author: Sarasa Nagase
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
ISBN: 1975334183
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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New route unlocked! Much of the Regalia of Saints, Demons, and Maidens series may have been cleared, but life goes on. Aileen prepares for Valentine’s Day with equal measures of excitement and trepidation, while Claude wrestles with his acute bouts of jealousy, as per usual. Meanwhile, Rachel makes her move in her dizzying game of wits with Isaac as they exchange gifts and guess at the other’s intentions. And when all the heroines, villainesses, and final bosses gather in one place, who knows what sort of mayhem will ensue? Between fond memories and exciting new times, the game of love is never over!
Author: Lynda Beauregard
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 1512458163
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! There's something fishy going on in the lake at Camp Dakota . . . and it sure isn't the fish! The campers have discovered some smelly, green gunk in the water. Yuck! The creek seems to be source of the pollution, but how can they stop it? And why is a trash-covered duck leading them on a wild goose chase? Look in the back of the book for experiments and more to help you become a science detective too!
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author: John A. Pearce
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1649670060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
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Sulphur Springs native Frank Webster Pearce was a soldier in Texas’ own 36th Infantry Division and the 111th Engineer Combat Battalion. The Division’s story has been told before, but never from start to finish by a combat engineer, whose footprints stirred the sands of three invasion beaches, wallowed through the mud, and trudged in the snow of every battle. From training in the United States to the war’s end in Austria, Pearce chronicled it all.. With the combination of diary, numerous letters home, and official division reports, this is the most complete look ever produced on the 111th Engineers and their war against Hitler’s Germany. This is a primary account written daily as the events unfolded. It was the war years. Here you find out how to properly bury a man in the water soaked Italian soil, a fool proof way to smuggle liquor from the US to the soldiers overseas, the foul stench of death reeking across the battlefield, and the beauty of exploding artillery shells in the night sky. These are his thoughts and letters as he wrote them—raw and unfiltered.
