Author: Michael Wallis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393342182
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
"This engaging biography exactly and vividly catches the tone of a region, a time, and a man."—Larry McMurtry From the best-selling author of Billy the Kid and Route 66, a true-life story of a notorious outlaw that magnificently re-creates the vanished, impoverished world of Dust Bowl America. Michael Wallis evokes the hard times of the era as he follows the life of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd from his coming of age, when there were no jobs and no food, to his descent into a life of petty crime, bootlegging, murder, and prison. Before long he was one of the FBI's original "public enemies." After a series of spectacular bank robberies he was slain in an Ohio field in 1934 at the age of thirty. Pretty Boy is social history at its best, portraying, with a sweeping style, the larger story of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives were so intolerably shattered by the Depression.
Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd
Author: Michael Wallis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393342182
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
"This engaging biography exactly and vividly catches the tone of a region, a time, and a man."—Larry McMurtry From the best-selling author of Billy the Kid and Route 66, a true-life story of a notorious outlaw that magnificently re-creates the vanished, impoverished world of Dust Bowl America. Michael Wallis evokes the hard times of the era as he follows the life of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd from his coming of age, when there were no jobs and no food, to his descent into a life of petty crime, bootlegging, murder, and prison. Before long he was one of the FBI's original "public enemies." After a series of spectacular bank robberies he was slain in an Ohio field in 1934 at the age of thirty. Pretty Boy is social history at its best, portraying, with a sweeping style, the larger story of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives were so intolerably shattered by the Depression.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393342182
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
"This engaging biography exactly and vividly catches the tone of a region, a time, and a man."—Larry McMurtry From the best-selling author of Billy the Kid and Route 66, a true-life story of a notorious outlaw that magnificently re-creates the vanished, impoverished world of Dust Bowl America. Michael Wallis evokes the hard times of the era as he follows the life of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd from his coming of age, when there were no jobs and no food, to his descent into a life of petty crime, bootlegging, murder, and prison. Before long he was one of the FBI's original "public enemies." After a series of spectacular bank robberies he was slain in an Ohio field in 1934 at the age of thirty. Pretty Boy is social history at its best, portraying, with a sweeping style, the larger story of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives were so intolerably shattered by the Depression.
Federal Reporter
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
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The Federal Reporter
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia
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Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Pages : 448
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An Army Awakens
Author: Adam Blade
Publisher: Orchard Books
ISBN: 1408355639
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
X-Men meets Beast Quest at the school for superheroes! An epic new adventure series from bestselling author Adam Blade - with amazing comic-book style illustrations. TEAM HERO VS THE AGENT! IT IS TIME FOR JACK, RUBY AND DANNY TO FACE THE DREADED AGENT. CAN THEY RESTORE THE SHARDS OF ETHER BEFORE THEY ARE USED FOR UNSPEAKABLE EVIL? There are FOUR thrilling adventures to collect in this series - don't miss out! Book 1: The Secret Jungle, Book 2: Ninja Strike, Book 3: The Night Thief, Book 4: An Army Awakens And don't forget Adam Blade's other series: Beast Quest and Sea Quest
Publisher: Orchard Books
ISBN: 1408355639
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
X-Men meets Beast Quest at the school for superheroes! An epic new adventure series from bestselling author Adam Blade - with amazing comic-book style illustrations. TEAM HERO VS THE AGENT! IT IS TIME FOR JACK, RUBY AND DANNY TO FACE THE DREADED AGENT. CAN THEY RESTORE THE SHARDS OF ETHER BEFORE THEY ARE USED FOR UNSPEAKABLE EVIL? There are FOUR thrilling adventures to collect in this series - don't miss out! Book 1: The Secret Jungle, Book 2: Ninja Strike, Book 3: The Night Thief, Book 4: An Army Awakens And don't forget Adam Blade's other series: Beast Quest and Sea Quest
The Daily Washington Law Reporter
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Vols. for 1902- include decisions of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and various other courts of the District of Columbia.
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Vols. for 1902- include decisions of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and various other courts of the District of Columbia.
Ruby & Spear
Author: Todd Walton
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553378139
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Although Vic resists at first, he finds himself inexorably drawn to the roughest neighborhood in Oakland - to Tillsbury Park, where many of the legendary great men got their start.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553378139
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Although Vic resists at first, he finds himself inexorably drawn to the roughest neighborhood in Oakland - to Tillsbury Park, where many of the legendary great men got their start.
Spyplane
Author: Norman Polmar
Publisher: Zenith Press
ISBN: 9780760309575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Book discusses the requirement for and the design, development, and operation of the U-2, from 1954 when the design began, to the current overflights of the Balkans and Iraq. Includes extensive discussions of U-2 overflights of hostile countries (USSR, China, North Korea, North Vietnam) and NASA's use of the U-2.
Publisher: Zenith Press
ISBN: 9780760309575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Book discusses the requirement for and the design, development, and operation of the U-2, from 1954 when the design began, to the current overflights of the Balkans and Iraq. Includes extensive discussions of U-2 overflights of hostile countries (USSR, China, North Korea, North Vietnam) and NASA's use of the U-2.
Assassins' Dawn
Author: Stephen Leigh
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1101620005
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Neweden is a world whose gods are death and fate, and it’s here that the Hoorka have arisen: a guild of assassins, whose single law is that the victim must always retain a tiny but finite chance of escape. If the victim can survive until dawn, they may go free. But the rich and powerful don’t care to have their will thwarted, and so the Hoorka must deal with the consequences of their own ethics. Gyll, the leader of the Hoorka, also has dreams of taking the guild offworld into the growing society of the Alliance, which is trying to reconstruct a shattered, worlds-spanning empire. Is that dream a genuine possibility, or will exposure to other cultures doom the Hoorka entirely? Gyll must confront internal struggles within his own people, the dangerous politics of Neweden, and the twinned threat and promise of the Alliance. The Hag of Death dances around them, mockingly. Can the Hoorka survive to see the dawn of their own success, an Assassins’ Dawn?
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1101620005
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Neweden is a world whose gods are death and fate, and it’s here that the Hoorka have arisen: a guild of assassins, whose single law is that the victim must always retain a tiny but finite chance of escape. If the victim can survive until dawn, they may go free. But the rich and powerful don’t care to have their will thwarted, and so the Hoorka must deal with the consequences of their own ethics. Gyll, the leader of the Hoorka, also has dreams of taking the guild offworld into the growing society of the Alliance, which is trying to reconstruct a shattered, worlds-spanning empire. Is that dream a genuine possibility, or will exposure to other cultures doom the Hoorka entirely? Gyll must confront internal struggles within his own people, the dangerous politics of Neweden, and the twinned threat and promise of the Alliance. The Hag of Death dances around them, mockingly. Can the Hoorka survive to see the dawn of their own success, an Assassins’ Dawn?
The Homestead
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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1458
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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1458
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