Author: Isaac Wright, Jr.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250277493
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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An empowering memoir of courage and hope in the face of injustice—and the basis for the ABC television show, For Life—Marked for Life is the true story of Isaac Wright Jr.’s battle to win his freedom after being wrongfully imprisoned for crimes he didn’t commit, and a critical indictment of America’s judicial system. “If I waited around for someone to save me, I’d be waiting my whole life. Unless I took the reins of this thing myself, I was going to die in prison. If that was my destiny, then I was going to die fighting. The desperation of that equation kept me up most nights. I would never find a gladiator. So I had to become him.” In the summer of 1989, Isaac Wright Jr. was a 28-year-old independent music producer, who’d struck out on his own and became one of hip hop’s early success stories. With his dance crew Uptown Express, Wright won recognition on Star Search, toured with Run-DMC, and transitioned into management, co-founding his wife Sunshine’s music group, The Cover Girls. They’d settled in the New Jersey suburbs to raise their six-year-old daughter, never imagining that Wright would fall victim to gross police misconduct and a corrupt district attorney. Accused of being a drug “kingpin” and incarcerated in Somerset County while the prosecutor and police built their case of lies against him, Wright realized he would get no help from any defense attorneys—white men uninterested in uncovering the truth or in proving the innocence of a black man. Pressured to take a plea deal offer of 20 years behind bars, Wright chose to take the law into his own hands by educating himself in the legal system so he could represent himself in court. Studying statutes and cases in the jail’s law library, Wright became an adept legal mind. But despite acquiring knowledge that he put to use in defending his fellow inmates, he lost his trial and was sentenced to Trenton State Prison for life, plus 70 years in 1991. For the next five years, Wright would continue learning law, become a paralegal with the prison’s Inmate Legal Association, and appeal his case. Threatened by corrupt correction officers and convicts, his family falling apart, Wright fought for his life with every legal means at his disposal, eventually uncovering the smoking gun that unraveled the conspiracy perpetrated by law enforcement officials against him. Marked for Life is not just the story of how Isaac Wright Jr. won his freedom. It is the story of how he found his true calling as a gladiator fighting on behalf of the oppressed and marginalized communities victimized by an unjust system of law.
Author: Emelie Schepp
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1474050840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS READERS CHOICE AWARD 2016 In Lindö, on the Swedish coast, a man has been found brutally murdered in his own home.
Author: Steve Bonge
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780764314360
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Take a look through the lens of acclaimed photographer Steve Bonge, who has traveled worldwide for years to capture the best of modern tattoo art. On the other side you'll meet an incredible assembly of personalities--men and women, young and old, who have adorned their bodies in spectacular ways. Hundreds of gorgeous color photos both hone in on intricate details, and pull back to encompass a culture of people who are unafraid to show their true colors. Enhanced with comments from prominent tattoo artists of the past and present, this book is an eye-popping saturnalia of freedom and counter-culture. It will taunt and bewitch, amaze and inspire, and expose you to images you'll never forget.
Author: Crystal Woodman Miller
Publisher: Th1nk Books
ISBN: 9781576839362
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Miller shares her remarkable story of hope and faith. After surviving the Columbine shootings, Miller dedicated her life to offer support in the midst of tragedy. (Practical Life)
Author: Cynthia Demola
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781643493305
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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In this compelling real-life novel, Cynthia Demola-Oliveira exposes the secret shame that held her bound and how she courageously faced her fear to redirect her own path to her destiny. This gripping, heartfelt story chronicles her life. You will ride on an emotional roller coaster that details the true story of heartache, deception, and painful relationships. Everyone has setbacks and triumphs, but when Cynthia began to realize the fulfillment of childhood dreams, the prison of betrayal and romantic failures she found herself trapped in for much of her young life became dismantled. Her desire is that while reading this story, you will be set free from whatever it is that is holding you back from reaching your destiny.
Author: Emelie Schepp
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 9780778319658
Category : Berzelius, Jana (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Public prosecutor Jana Berzelius battles a sinister past she can't quite remember. Now a respectable prosecutor in Norrkoping, Sweden, Berzelius takes a special interest when a teenage girl is found on a train from Denmark, suffering from a heroin overdose after swallowing multiple capsules of the drug in her native Thailand. It seems she's come to Sweden with a friend but refuses to disclose any details. The Norrkoping police, led by DCI Henrik Levin, whose mind is preoccupied by his pregnant wife, try to track down any leads to this girl, known only as Pim. Soon another body crops up, a 20-year-old Swedish drug user named Robin Stenberg, who has a connection to Berzelius she'd like to keep hidden. Forensics expert Anneli Lindgren and her domestic partner, Chief Investigator Gunnar Ohrn, worry about their troubled 20-year relationship; and Detective Inspector Mia Bolandera's flippancy may get her thrown off the team. All the while, Levin and his team are being overseen by the National Crime Squad from Stockholm while they search for a ringleader known only as "The Old Man" and Berzelius relentlessly pursues Danilo, both within and outside the law.
Author: James Hamilton-Paterson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681771977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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A dramatic and fascinating account of aerial combat during World War I, revealing the terrible risks taken by the men who fought and died in the world's first war in the air. Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly forgotten in the war's massive overall death toll, some 50,000 aircrew would die in the combatant nations' fledgling air forces. The romance of aviation had a remarkable grip on the public imagination, propaganda focusing on gallant air 'aces' who become national heroes. The reality was horribly different. Marked for Death debunks popular myth to explore the brutal truths of wartime aviation: of flimsy planes and unprotected pilots; of burning nineteen-year-olds falling screaming to their deaths; of pilots blinded by the entrails of their observers. James Hamilton-Paterson also reveals how four years of war produced profound changes both in the aircraft themselves and in military attitudes and strategy. By 1918 it was widely accepted that domination of the air above the battlefield was crucial to military success, a realization that would change the nature of warfare forever.
Author: Tessa Wegert
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1448308429
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Senior Investigator Shana Merchant must dredge up dark secrets and old grudges if she's to solve the murder of a prominent local citizen in the Thousand Islands community she now calls home. "Wegert nicely balances plot and characterization. Fans of Denise Mina’s Alex Morrow will be pleased" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review The body is discovered on Wolfe Island, under the shadow of an enormous wind turbine. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant, arriving on the scene with fellow investigator Tim Wellington, can't shake the feeling that she knows the victim - and the subsequent identification sends shockwaves through their community in the Thousand Islands of Upstate New York. Politics, power, passion . . . there are dark undercurrents in Shana's new home, and finding the killer means dredging up her new friends and neighbors' old grudges and long-kept secrets. That is, if the killer is from the community at all. For Shana's keeping a terrible secret of her own: eighteen months ago she escaped from serial killer Blake Bram's clutches. But has he followed her, to kill again? The Shana Merchant novels are a brilliant blend of chilling psychological thriller and gripping police procedural, set in an atmospheric island community with a small-town vibe.
Author: Kaje Harper
Publisher: Kaje Harper
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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Asking a necromancer for help is scary; falling for him may be downright terrifying. Darien Green's afraid he's going insane. The voices in his head are getting louder, weirder, and more numerous. But tattoos appearing on his skin say that there might be a magical reason, something other than his own brain going around the bend. He's worked up the nerve to ask the local necromancer for help. Now he just has to survive his encounter with tall, dark, and talks-to-ghosts. Necromancer Silas Thornwood doesn't appreciate being woken out of his bed by a stranger pounding on his door. But when that stranger turns out to be a half-frozen young man with an unexpected appeal, Silas can't turn him away. Even Grim, his cat-familiar, agrees— in a world of death and demons, protecting gorgeous, ghost-ridden Darien is Silas's next difficult job.
Author: Paul Magrs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781590215258
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Welcome to Phoenix Court! It's a weird mix of people round here on this housing scheme, but everyone's reasonably friendly. Everyone's got their secrets, though, and sometimes there's magic waiting just around the corner... In book 1, Mark Kelly, tattooed from head to toe, finds his daughter kidnapped and a surreal rescue begins.
