Author: Stephen Bowman
Publisher: Critics Choice Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781555472252
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
It happened in the idyllic village of Villisca, Iowa. The Porters were murdered--without one of them rousing while the killer went from room to room. The murders and the ensuing investigation captured the nation's imagination, proving that what could happen in Villisca, Iowa, could happen anywhere.
Morning Ran Red
Author: Stephen Bowman
Publisher: Critics Choice Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781555472252
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
It happened in the idyllic village of Villisca, Iowa. The Porters were murdered--without one of them rousing while the killer went from room to room. The murders and the ensuing investigation captured the nation's imagination, proving that what could happen in Villisca, Iowa, could happen anywhere.
Publisher: Critics Choice Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781555472252
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
It happened in the idyllic village of Villisca, Iowa. The Porters were murdered--without one of them rousing while the killer went from room to room. The murders and the ensuing investigation captured the nation's imagination, proving that what could happen in Villisca, Iowa, could happen anywhere.
Morning Ran Red
Author: Stephen Bowman
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595131085
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
On June 10, 1912, the village of Villisca, Iowa awoke to discover a mass murder had occurred while the town slept. An entire household of eight people had been axed to death in their beds. Within 24 hours, in spite of limited mass communications, the story was national and international news, knocking the White Star Titanic off the front page and captivating the general public. The mass murder became a catalyst to a growing nation starting to realize the 20th century, with all of its advancements, held new forms of terror and insecurity. If the mass murder could happen in this idyllic little village, it could happen anywhere. Author Stephen Bowman's version of the story has been compared to Capote's IN COLD BLOOD mystery as it recreates the gruesome murder and the aftermath in an expose of rural family strife and local mores toward bigotry, superstition and caste system which still exists in rural America today. The suspenseful mystery brings to life a vivid cast of characters. Through the main characters, the themes of rural life and prejudice are revealed as they each struggle with conflicts between self-respect, family honor and justice. The crime remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the 20th century
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595131085
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
On June 10, 1912, the village of Villisca, Iowa awoke to discover a mass murder had occurred while the town slept. An entire household of eight people had been axed to death in their beds. Within 24 hours, in spite of limited mass communications, the story was national and international news, knocking the White Star Titanic off the front page and captivating the general public. The mass murder became a catalyst to a growing nation starting to realize the 20th century, with all of its advancements, held new forms of terror and insecurity. If the mass murder could happen in this idyllic little village, it could happen anywhere. Author Stephen Bowman's version of the story has been compared to Capote's IN COLD BLOOD mystery as it recreates the gruesome murder and the aftermath in an expose of rural family strife and local mores toward bigotry, superstition and caste system which still exists in rural America today. The suspenseful mystery brings to life a vivid cast of characters. Through the main characters, the themes of rural life and prejudice are revealed as they each struggle with conflicts between self-respect, family honor and justice. The crime remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the 20th century
When the Missouri Ran Red
Author: Jim R. Woolard
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 1496734084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Set in the final devastating months of the American Civil War, this powerhouse of a novel from award-winning author Jim R. Woolard follows one man’s harrowing journey from Confederate captive to Union prisoner to unchained force of vengeance . . . Autumn, 1864. Rebel bushwhackers have seized and looted a small town in Missouri. Wounded and left for dead by his half-brother, seventeen-year-old Owen Wainwright is captured and conscripted by the Confederate Army. As the troops’ blacksmith, he witnesses the horrors of war firsthand: the savagery of General Selby’s Iron Brigade, the massacres of Union troops, the bloody battles at Lexington, Westport, and Mine Creek. Against all odds, Owen survives with the help of an unlikely ally—a new friend in arms and the only person he trusts. But if fate is cruel, war can be crueler . . . Caught in the crossfire of a deadly Yankee ambush, Owen is arrested and jailed in a Union prison. Beaten and brutalized by guards, he begins to give up hope—until a U.S. marshal comes to him with an unusual offer. Owen’s traitorous half-brother is wanted for murder. If Owen agrees to help the U.S. marshal infiltrate the Texas winter camp of Confederate guerillas—and bring his half-brother to justice—Owen will have both his freedom and his revenge. But the risks are great. The price of getting caught is death. Filled with raw human drama, blistering battle scenes, and vivid historical details, When the Missouri Ran Red is destined to be a classic in the field and a treasure for Civil War buffs.
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 1496734084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Set in the final devastating months of the American Civil War, this powerhouse of a novel from award-winning author Jim R. Woolard follows one man’s harrowing journey from Confederate captive to Union prisoner to unchained force of vengeance . . . Autumn, 1864. Rebel bushwhackers have seized and looted a small town in Missouri. Wounded and left for dead by his half-brother, seventeen-year-old Owen Wainwright is captured and conscripted by the Confederate Army. As the troops’ blacksmith, he witnesses the horrors of war firsthand: the savagery of General Selby’s Iron Brigade, the massacres of Union troops, the bloody battles at Lexington, Westport, and Mine Creek. Against all odds, Owen survives with the help of an unlikely ally—a new friend in arms and the only person he trusts. But if fate is cruel, war can be crueler . . . Caught in the crossfire of a deadly Yankee ambush, Owen is arrested and jailed in a Union prison. Beaten and brutalized by guards, he begins to give up hope—until a U.S. marshal comes to him with an unusual offer. Owen’s traitorous half-brother is wanted for murder. If Owen agrees to help the U.S. marshal infiltrate the Texas winter camp of Confederate guerillas—and bring his half-brother to justice—Owen will have both his freedom and his revenge. But the risks are great. The price of getting caught is death. Filled with raw human drama, blistering battle scenes, and vivid historical details, When the Missouri Ran Red is destined to be a classic in the field and a treasure for Civil War buffs.
Rudder
Author: Thomas Fleming Day
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
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Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The Breeder and Dairyman
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
McEvoy Magazine
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers
Author: Thad Sitton
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292723024
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Around a campfire in the woods through long hours of night, men used to gather to listen to the music of hounds’ voices as they chased an elusive and seemingly preternatural fox. To the highly trained ears of these backwoods hunters, the hounds told the story of the pursuit like operatic voices chanting a great epic. Although the hunt almost always ended in the escape of the fox—as the hunters hoped it would—the thrill of the chase made the men feel “that they [were] close to something lost and never to be found, just as one can feel something in a great poem or a dream.” Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers offers a colorful account of this vanishing American folkway—back-country fox hunting known as “hilltopping,” “moonlighting,” “fox racing,” or “one-gallus fox hunting.” Practiced neither for blood sport nor to put food on the table, hilltopping was worlds removed from elite fox hunting where red- and black-coated horsemen thundered across green fields in daylight. Hilltopping was a nocturnal, even mystical pursuit, uniting men across social and racial lines as they gathered to listen to dogs chasing foxes over miles of ground until the sun rose. Engaged in by thousands of rural and small-town Americans from the 1860s to the 1980s, hilltopping encouraged a quasi-spiritual identification of man with animal that bound its devotees into a “brotherhood of blood and cause” and made them seem almost crazy to outsiders.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292723024
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Around a campfire in the woods through long hours of night, men used to gather to listen to the music of hounds’ voices as they chased an elusive and seemingly preternatural fox. To the highly trained ears of these backwoods hunters, the hounds told the story of the pursuit like operatic voices chanting a great epic. Although the hunt almost always ended in the escape of the fox—as the hunters hoped it would—the thrill of the chase made the men feel “that they [were] close to something lost and never to be found, just as one can feel something in a great poem or a dream.” Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers offers a colorful account of this vanishing American folkway—back-country fox hunting known as “hilltopping,” “moonlighting,” “fox racing,” or “one-gallus fox hunting.” Practiced neither for blood sport nor to put food on the table, hilltopping was worlds removed from elite fox hunting where red- and black-coated horsemen thundered across green fields in daylight. Hilltopping was a nocturnal, even mystical pursuit, uniting men across social and racial lines as they gathered to listen to dogs chasing foxes over miles of ground until the sun rose. Engaged in by thousands of rural and small-town Americans from the 1860s to the 1980s, hilltopping encouraged a quasi-spiritual identification of man with animal that bound its devotees into a “brotherhood of blood and cause” and made them seem almost crazy to outsiders.
CEO's Acquisitive Love
Author: Han Yan
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1648840493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
A marriage contract, Xu An Yi became the bride of the official scenery.He said gently and estranged to her: "An An, you and I have to marry each other, when the matter is settled, we will get a divorce."She nodded, but bitterness spread in her heart.When the day came when the dust settled, Guan Jingyi would not be willing to let go."Stay with me!"Xu JinNian trembled as he pushed him away, "Bastard, let go of me! I'm going to look for the director!"His black eyes narrowed and his thin lips curled up into a sneer. He grabbed her lower jaw and said, "You want to find a wild man? You should at least pass my test! "
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1648840493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
A marriage contract, Xu An Yi became the bride of the official scenery.He said gently and estranged to her: "An An, you and I have to marry each other, when the matter is settled, we will get a divorce."She nodded, but bitterness spread in her heart.When the day came when the dust settled, Guan Jingyi would not be willing to let go."Stay with me!"Xu JinNian trembled as he pushed him away, "Bastard, let go of me! I'm going to look for the director!"His black eyes narrowed and his thin lips curled up into a sneer. He grabbed her lower jaw and said, "You want to find a wild man? You should at least pass my test! "
The Red Suitcases
Author: Lyndsey Norton
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 9781477237830
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Fakesh is in town! He seems to be targeting the Airports, or is he playing a dangerous game of hide and seek? Will Becky Castle discover his true purpose? Or will she be distracted by personal events that she has no control over? Major Geoffrey Jackson has some secrets to divulge, but is being reticent with his friends and Bob is home from Iraq and, as usual, Becky cant get enough of him, but as their relationship is maturing, she finds out more about Bobs past than she bargained for! Again Inspector Castle puts her life on the line to try and catch Fakesh and save London from the ultimate threat!
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 9781477237830
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Fakesh is in town! He seems to be targeting the Airports, or is he playing a dangerous game of hide and seek? Will Becky Castle discover his true purpose? Or will she be distracted by personal events that she has no control over? Major Geoffrey Jackson has some secrets to divulge, but is being reticent with his friends and Bob is home from Iraq and, as usual, Becky cant get enough of him, but as their relationship is maturing, she finds out more about Bobs past than she bargained for! Again Inspector Castle puts her life on the line to try and catch Fakesh and save London from the ultimate threat!
Furyborn
Author: Claire Legrand
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492675318
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
"Epic feminist fantasy."—Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author "Truly not to be missed..."—Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author Experience the epic start of 2018's must-read YA fantasy series in this 4 chapter sampler featuring two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it. When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. If she fails, she will be executed...unless the trials kill her first. One thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a fairy tale to Eliana Ferracora. A bounty hunter for the Undying Empire, Eliana believes herself untouchable—until her mother vanishes. To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain and discovers that the evil at the empire's heart is more terrible than she ever imagined. As Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world—and of each other.
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492675318
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
"Epic feminist fantasy."—Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author "Truly not to be missed..."—Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author Experience the epic start of 2018's must-read YA fantasy series in this 4 chapter sampler featuring two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it. When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. If she fails, she will be executed...unless the trials kill her first. One thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a fairy tale to Eliana Ferracora. A bounty hunter for the Undying Empire, Eliana believes herself untouchable—until her mother vanishes. To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain and discovers that the evil at the empire's heart is more terrible than she ever imagined. As Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world—and of each other.