Peyton Place

Peyton Place PDF Author: Grace Metalious
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Book Description
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor.

Peyton Place

Peyton Place PDF Author: Grace Metalious
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Book Description
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor.

The 'Peyton Place' Murder

The 'Peyton Place' Murder PDF Author: Renee Mallett
Publisher: WildBlue Press
ISBN: 1952225612
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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This true crime history examines the surprising connection between an infamous small-town murder and the bestselling novel it inspired. Born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, Grace Metalious shocked the nation in 1956 with Peyton Place, her sexually charged debut novel about murder in a small town. It spawned a series of novels, two Hollywood movies, and a long-running television series on ABC. It also made Metalious a pariah in her hometown, where she became tabloid fodder until her untimely death at the age of thirty-nine. Unknown to most readers, the fictional story was inspired by a real crime known as “The Sheep Pen Murder,” which took place in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, in the late 1940s. Now historian Renee Mallett skillfully weaves together the lives of Metalious and Barbara Roberts, the confessed killer behind The Sheep Pen Murder. In The “Peyton Place” Murder, Mallett explores what happens when true crime and literature meet.

Unbuttoning America

Unbuttoning America PDF Author: Ardis Cameron
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080145610X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Book Description
In this lively account of the writing, publication, and legacy of the 1956 bestselling novel, "Peyton Place," Ardis Cameron tells how the story of a patricide in a small New England village became a cultural phenomenon.

The Seasons of Grace

The Seasons of Grace PDF Author: Dave O. Dodge
Publisher: Glue Pot Press
ISBN: 9781737942306
Category : Women authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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"'I am trapped,' she screamed silently, no one in the room hearing her inner pleas. 'I am trapped in a cage of poverty and mediocrity and If I don't get out I will die.' Only the sound of her typewriter could be heard that night echoing throughout the shack that she had called home. Grace Metalious wrote the stories that no one dared to write before that time. A midcentury tale of small-town life in New England to the hustle and bustle of New York City and to the unforgiving film studios of Hollywood, her story unfolds. Her infamous novel Peyton Place catapulted her from obscurity to the top of the literary world. This is a classic scenario where art imitates life and so does this novel. The young author coping with literary and financial success, without realizing it creates her own Peyton Place where she herself had to reside. The seasons of Grace is a fictional account based on the author's life; sometimes dark, sometimes shocking, but always authentic"--Back cover.

Return to Peyton Place

Return to Peyton Place PDF Author: Grace Metalious
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555536695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Book Description
The continuing story of Peyton Place is once again available in paperback

Goodnight Nobody

Goodnight Nobody PDF Author: Jennifer Weiner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743470125
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Having relocated to an alienating Connecticut suburb after a mugging in her native New York City, wife and mother Kate Klein undertakes a murder investigation during her children's school hours when a local mom is killed.

A Tangled Web

A Tangled Web PDF Author: Leslie Rule
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 0806539992
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Book Description
In the tradition of her acclaimed mother, Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me, bestselling author Leslie Rule exposes the trail of a sadistic sociopath, identity thief, and killer . . . It was a bleak November in 2012 when Cari Farver, thirty-seven, vanished from Omaha, Nebraska. Texts sent indicated that the hardworking mother had quit her job, abandoned her son, and cut ties with everyone. Cari’s boyfriend, Dave Kroupa, accepted the breakup at face value. Her mother, Nancy Raney, however, had doubts. “I need to hear your voice,” Nancy begged. When the texter refused to speak, Nancy reported Cari missing. While no one saw or spoke to Cari, more than 12,000 sinister emails and texts were sent in her name over the next years. Police believed Dave and his girlfriend, Shanna “Liz” Golyar, when they reported that the missing woman was cyberstalking them. The tormentor was eerily aware of Dave’s every move, knew when Liz visited and threatened the couple. It never occurred to Dave that Cari was a victim—that the real stalker had killed before, and was planning to kill again. Leslie Rule tracks the heart-pounding path to long-awaited justice—from a twisted past to the deadly deception and the high-tech forensics that condemned the killer to prison. “Rule's first true crime book hits the mark.” —Katherine Ramsland, author of Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader the BTK Killer “A deft, fascinating true crime story of obsession.” —Library Journal (Starred Review) With a New Update by the Author Includes Reading Group Guide

Peyton Place

Peyton Place PDF Author: David Trinidad
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933527819
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
This is the continuing story of Peyton Place in seventeen irrepressible syllables. One irreverent haiku for each weekly television episode.

Murder in Mobile

Murder in Mobile PDF Author: Cheryl Peyton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Alex Trotter reunites with four college friends to celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama ten years after their graduation. Their stay at the haunted, Civil-War-era Granada Inn has provided some unnerving happenings, but when there's a murder during the Mystic Goddesses ball, they need to put aside any fears to identify the killer who may be after one of them.

The Witch Haven

The Witch Haven PDF Author: Sasha Peyton Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 153445439X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Whisked away to Haxahaven Academy for Witches in 1911, seventeen-year-old Frances Hallowell soon finds herself torn between aligning herself with Haxahaven's foes, the Sons of St. Druon, to solve her brother's murder or saving Manhattan and her fellow witches.