Author: B. R. Mason
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781478734307
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
When Police Officer Jacqueline "Jake" Kilborn stops at Carlson's Convenience Store to get a soda for lunch, she walks past the four motorcycles parked out front without a second thought. But when the towering Nordic beauty steps through the door, a bullet slams into her shoulder. She has walked in on a robbery in progress. Despite her injury, the former Marine officer kills three of the suspects and critically wounds the fourth: Charles "Ace" Foster, a twisted sociopath fond of using large knives. At his trial, as Foster is dragged from the courtroom in shackles, he screams obscenities at the witnesses and Officer Kilborn, threatening to cut them to pieces when he gets the chance. Several years later the sadistic biker is released from prison early due to overcrowding and Chief Jake Kilborn begins receiving threatening letters signed only with a crudely drawn ace of spades. Unsure when and where Foster will strike first, she and her department are on full alert in an effort to stop him before he can make good on his threats. Things are complicated by the arrival of a handsome biker and Jake is at odds over her growing attraction to the Harley-riding stranger and her fear that he is in league with Foster. Soon Jake will find herself the unwilling focal point in a battle of wills involving obsession, love, seduction, fear, betrayal, and murder-all because of a man she loves...
My Friend, My Lover, My Killer
Author: B. R. Mason
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781478734307
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
When Police Officer Jacqueline "Jake" Kilborn stops at Carlson's Convenience Store to get a soda for lunch, she walks past the four motorcycles parked out front without a second thought. But when the towering Nordic beauty steps through the door, a bullet slams into her shoulder. She has walked in on a robbery in progress. Despite her injury, the former Marine officer kills three of the suspects and critically wounds the fourth: Charles "Ace" Foster, a twisted sociopath fond of using large knives. At his trial, as Foster is dragged from the courtroom in shackles, he screams obscenities at the witnesses and Officer Kilborn, threatening to cut them to pieces when he gets the chance. Several years later the sadistic biker is released from prison early due to overcrowding and Chief Jake Kilborn begins receiving threatening letters signed only with a crudely drawn ace of spades. Unsure when and where Foster will strike first, she and her department are on full alert in an effort to stop him before he can make good on his threats. Things are complicated by the arrival of a handsome biker and Jake is at odds over her growing attraction to the Harley-riding stranger and her fear that he is in league with Foster. Soon Jake will find herself the unwilling focal point in a battle of wills involving obsession, love, seduction, fear, betrayal, and murder-all because of a man she loves...
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781478734307
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
When Police Officer Jacqueline "Jake" Kilborn stops at Carlson's Convenience Store to get a soda for lunch, she walks past the four motorcycles parked out front without a second thought. But when the towering Nordic beauty steps through the door, a bullet slams into her shoulder. She has walked in on a robbery in progress. Despite her injury, the former Marine officer kills three of the suspects and critically wounds the fourth: Charles "Ace" Foster, a twisted sociopath fond of using large knives. At his trial, as Foster is dragged from the courtroom in shackles, he screams obscenities at the witnesses and Officer Kilborn, threatening to cut them to pieces when he gets the chance. Several years later the sadistic biker is released from prison early due to overcrowding and Chief Jake Kilborn begins receiving threatening letters signed only with a crudely drawn ace of spades. Unsure when and where Foster will strike first, she and her department are on full alert in an effort to stop him before he can make good on his threats. Things are complicated by the arrival of a handsome biker and Jake is at odds over her growing attraction to the Harley-riding stranger and her fear that he is in league with Foster. Soon Jake will find herself the unwilling focal point in a battle of wills involving obsession, love, seduction, fear, betrayal, and murder-all because of a man she loves...
American Indian Stories
Author: Zitkála-Šá
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
American Indian Stories is the second story collection by Dakota author Zitkála-Šá. In contrast to her earlier collection Old Indian Legends, which is a collection of traditional Dakota legends, American Indian Stories is a collection of stories about contemporary Dakota life. Many center on the interactions and conflicts between Dakota and settler society, especially the challenges posed by the assimilationist Indian residential school system. The first few stories (through “Why I Am a Pagan”) are autobiographical in nature, drawing on Zitkála-Šá’s own experience as a student and then teacher in residential schools. Her story “The Softhearted Sioux” about a Sioux man’s loss of cultural and religious identity was even attacked as “trash” by her employer at the Carlisle School, Richard Henry Pratt (the coiner of the infamous slogan “kill the Indian, save the man”). This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
American Indian Stories is the second story collection by Dakota author Zitkála-Šá. In contrast to her earlier collection Old Indian Legends, which is a collection of traditional Dakota legends, American Indian Stories is a collection of stories about contemporary Dakota life. Many center on the interactions and conflicts between Dakota and settler society, especially the challenges posed by the assimilationist Indian residential school system. The first few stories (through “Why I Am a Pagan”) are autobiographical in nature, drawing on Zitkála-Šá’s own experience as a student and then teacher in residential schools. Her story “The Softhearted Sioux” about a Sioux man’s loss of cultural and religious identity was even attacked as “trash” by her employer at the Carlisle School, Richard Henry Pratt (the coiner of the infamous slogan “kill the Indian, save the man”). This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
The Green River Serial Killer
Author: Pennie Morehead
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 0828322775
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
This first book by Pennie Morehead chronicles the life of Judith, the wife of Gary Ridgway, the infamous serial killer of more than 48 women. It contains 112 original photographs and letters, many published here for the first time, and reveal the relationship between Gary and his unsuspecting wife, Judith, who was living some of the happiest years of her life while married to a killer. Ms. Morehead also gives an in depth analysis of Gary's handwritten letters from a professional graphologist point of view. As of this date, despite the diligence of many investigators on this case in locating the victims of the Green River Serial Killer, there remain several bodies of those victims that still need to be discovered.
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 0828322775
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
This first book by Pennie Morehead chronicles the life of Judith, the wife of Gary Ridgway, the infamous serial killer of more than 48 women. It contains 112 original photographs and letters, many published here for the first time, and reveal the relationship between Gary and his unsuspecting wife, Judith, who was living some of the happiest years of her life while married to a killer. Ms. Morehead also gives an in depth analysis of Gary's handwritten letters from a professional graphologist point of view. As of this date, despite the diligence of many investigators on this case in locating the victims of the Green River Serial Killer, there remain several bodies of those victims that still need to be discovered.
Masterpieces of American Indian Literature
Author: Willis Goth Regier
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803289970
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The five complete and unabridged works collected here are parts of a long and passionate testimony about American Indian culture as related by Indians themselves. Deep emotions and life-shaking crises converge in these pages concerning identity, family, community, caste, gender, nature, the future, the past, solitude, duty, trust, betrayal, leadership, war, and apocalypse. Each work is also regarded as a classic of Native literature and has much to teach. ø The Life of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (1847) by George Copway, a Canadian Ojibwe writer and lecturer, describes his unique and difficult cultural journey from the tiny village of his youth to the legislatures of the world, speaking for the rights and sovereignty of Indians. ø The Soul of the Indian (1911) by Charles Eastman, a physician and mixed-blood Sioux, depicts ?the religious life of the typical American Indian as it was before he knew the white man.? ø American Indian Stories (1921) by Zitkala-?a, one of the most famous Sioux writers and activists of the modern era, includes legends and tales from oral tradition, childhood stories, and allegorical fiction. ø Coyote Stories (1933) by Mourning Dove, an Okanagan writer, retells the popular trickster tales of Coyote, the most resilient character in all of American literature. ø Black Elk Speaks (1932) as told through John G. Neihardt, is the spacious religious vision and candid life story of a Lakota holy man. Neihardt and Black Elk collaborated to produce a unique and inspirational work.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803289970
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The five complete and unabridged works collected here are parts of a long and passionate testimony about American Indian culture as related by Indians themselves. Deep emotions and life-shaking crises converge in these pages concerning identity, family, community, caste, gender, nature, the future, the past, solitude, duty, trust, betrayal, leadership, war, and apocalypse. Each work is also regarded as a classic of Native literature and has much to teach. ø The Life of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (1847) by George Copway, a Canadian Ojibwe writer and lecturer, describes his unique and difficult cultural journey from the tiny village of his youth to the legislatures of the world, speaking for the rights and sovereignty of Indians. ø The Soul of the Indian (1911) by Charles Eastman, a physician and mixed-blood Sioux, depicts ?the religious life of the typical American Indian as it was before he knew the white man.? ø American Indian Stories (1921) by Zitkala-?a, one of the most famous Sioux writers and activists of the modern era, includes legends and tales from oral tradition, childhood stories, and allegorical fiction. ø Coyote Stories (1933) by Mourning Dove, an Okanagan writer, retells the popular trickster tales of Coyote, the most resilient character in all of American literature. ø Black Elk Speaks (1932) as told through John G. Neihardt, is the spacious religious vision and candid life story of a Lakota holy man. Neihardt and Black Elk collaborated to produce a unique and inspirational work.
My Best Friend's Murder
Author: Polly Phillips
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1398501441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
'A perfectly-paced page-turner that cleverly explores the "frenemy" relationship . . . A really gripping read full of secrets, lies and dark motivations' Philippa East, author of Little White Lies * You’re lying, sprawled at the bottom of the stairs, legs bent, arms wide. If I squint, you could be playing Sleeping Bunnies. Or maybe Twister. I wish I could tell you how the blood pooling around your head looks like a halo. But you’re past listening. I need to let the paramedics in. And then I have to be careful. Because as the energy trickles out of your body it’s pumping into mine. And while this could be a tragic accident, if anyone’s got a motive to hurt you, it’s me. * Bec and Izzy have been best friends their whole lives. They’ve been through a lot together – the death of Bec’s mother, the birth of Izzy’s daughter, Bec’s engagement. But there’s a darker side to their friendship, too – and Bec is about to reach breaking point. Then Izzy is found broken and bloodied at the bottom of the stairs. It could have been an accident – perhaps she fell – but if the police decide to look for a killer, then Bec is sure to be their prime suspect. * This is The Rumour meets The Holiday, a compulsive thriller with a toxic but layered friendship at its heart that keeps you in the dark until the final few breathless pages . . .
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1398501441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
'A perfectly-paced page-turner that cleverly explores the "frenemy" relationship . . . A really gripping read full of secrets, lies and dark motivations' Philippa East, author of Little White Lies * You’re lying, sprawled at the bottom of the stairs, legs bent, arms wide. If I squint, you could be playing Sleeping Bunnies. Or maybe Twister. I wish I could tell you how the blood pooling around your head looks like a halo. But you’re past listening. I need to let the paramedics in. And then I have to be careful. Because as the energy trickles out of your body it’s pumping into mine. And while this could be a tragic accident, if anyone’s got a motive to hurt you, it’s me. * Bec and Izzy have been best friends their whole lives. They’ve been through a lot together – the death of Bec’s mother, the birth of Izzy’s daughter, Bec’s engagement. But there’s a darker side to their friendship, too – and Bec is about to reach breaking point. Then Izzy is found broken and bloodied at the bottom of the stairs. It could have been an accident – perhaps she fell – but if the police decide to look for a killer, then Bec is sure to be their prime suspect. * This is The Rumour meets The Holiday, a compulsive thriller with a toxic but layered friendship at its heart that keeps you in the dark until the final few breathless pages . . .
The Window
Author: Tiffany Simar
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312469994
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The Window is Tiffany Simar's seventh book. This is a book of solely poetry which is something that Miss Simar has been wanting to accomplish for a while now. The pieces in this book are of a variety and pick up from where her lyric/poetry book, My True Heart left off. This book may carry a "Parental Advisory" but don't let that keep you from purchasing a copy. The Window will open you up to more of what the author is about and her views on life, love, etc. Enjoy: -)
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312469994
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The Window is Tiffany Simar's seventh book. This is a book of solely poetry which is something that Miss Simar has been wanting to accomplish for a while now. The pieces in this book are of a variety and pick up from where her lyric/poetry book, My True Heart left off. This book may carry a "Parental Advisory" but don't let that keep you from purchasing a copy. The Window will open you up to more of what the author is about and her views on life, love, etc. Enjoy: -)
The Trial Path, Impressions of an Indian Childhood and Why I am a Pagan
Author: Zitkala-Sa
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465559434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
IT was an autumn night on the plain. The smoke-lapels of the cone-shaped tepee flapped gently in the breeze. From the low night sky, with its myriad fire points, a large bright star peeped in at the smoke-hole of the wigwam between its fluttering lapels, down upon two Dakotas talking in the dark. The mellow stream from the star above, a maid of twenty summers, on a bed of sweet-grass, drank in with her wakeful eyes. On the opposite side of the tepee, beyond the centre fireplace, the grandmother spread her rug. Though once she had lain down, the telling of a story has aroused her to a sitting posture. Her eyes are tight closed. With a thin palm she strokes her wind-shorn hair. “Yes, my grandchild, the legend says the large bright stars are wise old warriors, and the small dim ones are handsome young braves,” she reiterates, in a high, tremulous voice. “Then this one peeping in at the smoke-hole yonder is my dear old grandfather,” muses the young woman, in long-drawn-out words. Her soft rich voice floats through the darkness within the tepee, over the cold ashes heaped on the centre fire, and passes into the ear of the toothless old woman, who sits dumb in silent reverie. Thence it flies on swifter wing over many winter snows, till at last it cleaves the warm light atmosphere of her grandfather’s youth. From there her grandmother made answer: “Listen! I am young again. It is the day of your grandfather’s death. The elder one, I mean, for there were two of them. They were like twins, though they were not brothers. They were friends, inseparable! All things, good and bad, they shared together, save one, which made them mad. In that heated frenzy the younger man slew his most intimate friend. He killed his elder brother, for long had their affection made them kin.” The voice of the old woman broke. Swaying her stooped shoulders to and fro as she sat upon her feet, she muttered vain exclamations beneath her breath. Her eyes, closed tight against the night, beheld behind them the light of bygone days. They saw again a rolling black cloud spread itself over the land. Her ear heard the deep rumbling of a tempest in the west. She bent low a cowering head, while angry thunder-birds shrieked across the sky. “Heya! heya!” (No! no!) groaned the toothless grandmother at the fury she had awakened. But the glorious peace afterward, when yellow sunshine made the people glad, now lured her memory onward through the storm.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465559434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
IT was an autumn night on the plain. The smoke-lapels of the cone-shaped tepee flapped gently in the breeze. From the low night sky, with its myriad fire points, a large bright star peeped in at the smoke-hole of the wigwam between its fluttering lapels, down upon two Dakotas talking in the dark. The mellow stream from the star above, a maid of twenty summers, on a bed of sweet-grass, drank in with her wakeful eyes. On the opposite side of the tepee, beyond the centre fireplace, the grandmother spread her rug. Though once she had lain down, the telling of a story has aroused her to a sitting posture. Her eyes are tight closed. With a thin palm she strokes her wind-shorn hair. “Yes, my grandchild, the legend says the large bright stars are wise old warriors, and the small dim ones are handsome young braves,” she reiterates, in a high, tremulous voice. “Then this one peeping in at the smoke-hole yonder is my dear old grandfather,” muses the young woman, in long-drawn-out words. Her soft rich voice floats through the darkness within the tepee, over the cold ashes heaped on the centre fire, and passes into the ear of the toothless old woman, who sits dumb in silent reverie. Thence it flies on swifter wing over many winter snows, till at last it cleaves the warm light atmosphere of her grandfather’s youth. From there her grandmother made answer: “Listen! I am young again. It is the day of your grandfather’s death. The elder one, I mean, for there were two of them. They were like twins, though they were not brothers. They were friends, inseparable! All things, good and bad, they shared together, save one, which made them mad. In that heated frenzy the younger man slew his most intimate friend. He killed his elder brother, for long had their affection made them kin.” The voice of the old woman broke. Swaying her stooped shoulders to and fro as she sat upon her feet, she muttered vain exclamations beneath her breath. Her eyes, closed tight against the night, beheld behind them the light of bygone days. They saw again a rolling black cloud spread itself over the land. Her ear heard the deep rumbling of a tempest in the west. She bent low a cowering head, while angry thunder-birds shrieked across the sky. “Heya! heya!” (No! no!) groaned the toothless grandmother at the fury she had awakened. But the glorious peace afterward, when yellow sunshine made the people glad, now lured her memory onward through the storm.
American Indian Stories
Author: Zitkala-S̈a
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
American Indian Stories
Author: Zitkala-Sa
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 1984854429
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A groundbreaking Dakota author and activist chronicles her refusal to assimilate into nineteenth-century white society and her mission to preserve her culture—with an introduction by Layli Long Soldier, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for Whereas Bright and carefree, Zitkála-Šá grows up on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota with her mother until Quaker missionaries arrive, offering the reservation’s children a free education. The catch: They must leave their parents behind and travel to Indiana. Curious about the world beyond the reservation, Zitkála-Šá begs her mother to let her go—and her mother, aware of the advantages that an education offers, reluctantly agrees. But the missionary school is not the adventure that Zitkála-Šá expected: The school is a strict one, her long hair is cut short, and only English is spoken. She encounters racism and ridicule. Slowly, Zitkála-Šá adapts to her environment—excelling at her studies, winning prizes for essay-writing and oration. But the price of success is estrangement from her cultural roots—and is it one she is willing to pay? Combining Zitkála-Šá’s childhood memories, her short stories, and her poetry, American Indian Stories is the origin story of an activist in the making, a remarkable woman whose extraordinary career deserves wider recognition. The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 1984854429
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A groundbreaking Dakota author and activist chronicles her refusal to assimilate into nineteenth-century white society and her mission to preserve her culture—with an introduction by Layli Long Soldier, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for Whereas Bright and carefree, Zitkála-Šá grows up on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota with her mother until Quaker missionaries arrive, offering the reservation’s children a free education. The catch: They must leave their parents behind and travel to Indiana. Curious about the world beyond the reservation, Zitkála-Šá begs her mother to let her go—and her mother, aware of the advantages that an education offers, reluctantly agrees. But the missionary school is not the adventure that Zitkála-Šá expected: The school is a strict one, her long hair is cut short, and only English is spoken. She encounters racism and ridicule. Slowly, Zitkála-Šá adapts to her environment—excelling at her studies, winning prizes for essay-writing and oration. But the price of success is estrangement from her cultural roots—and is it one she is willing to pay? Combining Zitkála-Šá’s childhood memories, her short stories, and her poetry, American Indian Stories is the origin story of an activist in the making, a remarkable woman whose extraordinary career deserves wider recognition. The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.
Ten
Author: Rowan Hodge
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1482824329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 659
Book Description
Entertainment turns to horror across a long frozen winter. Ten episodes in ten cities. A new live-play detective show is sweeping the nation a ratings sensation where terrible crimes play out on stage for audiences to solve. But someone else knows the script and is shadowing the show as it traverses the United States. While home viewers countdown ten fictional murder mysteries from their living rooms, the cross-country killer is collecting gruesome keepsakes. When the FBI identifies a pattern involving three horrific crimes in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, Special Agent Lincoln Polk is assigned the case. This chase will push him to breaking point, testing loyalties and stirring memories buried in the past. Strap yourself in for an unrelenting rollercoaster ride through ten weeks of hell.
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1482824329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 659
Book Description
Entertainment turns to horror across a long frozen winter. Ten episodes in ten cities. A new live-play detective show is sweeping the nation a ratings sensation where terrible crimes play out on stage for audiences to solve. But someone else knows the script and is shadowing the show as it traverses the United States. While home viewers countdown ten fictional murder mysteries from their living rooms, the cross-country killer is collecting gruesome keepsakes. When the FBI identifies a pattern involving three horrific crimes in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, Special Agent Lincoln Polk is assigned the case. This chase will push him to breaking point, testing loyalties and stirring memories buried in the past. Strap yourself in for an unrelenting rollercoaster ride through ten weeks of hell.