Author: Richard Curry
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1646104110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Witness Red and Other Short Stories By: Richard Curry Within this collection are two stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat. In “Red, Witness and Protector,” Samantha Johnson, a young red headed orphan with a talent for electronics, safe cracking, chemistry and trouble, has been given the worst jobs possible by the local organized crime bosses. Jobs she has done well while keeping her eyes and ears open and her mouth shut. Now, she must find a way to get her sister Ayanna and herself out before the hammer falls. But leaving will not be easy. Red is resourceful and cunning, but will it be enough to keep her sister alive? In “Daddy Werewolf,” Hayley Roamer is just about the cutest young lady ever. She has a mischievous streak, as well as very little fear of the world around her. But to slap a wolf? What is she thinking?
Witness Red and Other Short Stories
Author: Richard Curry
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1646104110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Witness Red and Other Short Stories By: Richard Curry Within this collection are two stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat. In “Red, Witness and Protector,” Samantha Johnson, a young red headed orphan with a talent for electronics, safe cracking, chemistry and trouble, has been given the worst jobs possible by the local organized crime bosses. Jobs she has done well while keeping her eyes and ears open and her mouth shut. Now, she must find a way to get her sister Ayanna and herself out before the hammer falls. But leaving will not be easy. Red is resourceful and cunning, but will it be enough to keep her sister alive? In “Daddy Werewolf,” Hayley Roamer is just about the cutest young lady ever. She has a mischievous streak, as well as very little fear of the world around her. But to slap a wolf? What is she thinking?
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1646104110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Witness Red and Other Short Stories By: Richard Curry Within this collection are two stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat. In “Red, Witness and Protector,” Samantha Johnson, a young red headed orphan with a talent for electronics, safe cracking, chemistry and trouble, has been given the worst jobs possible by the local organized crime bosses. Jobs she has done well while keeping her eyes and ears open and her mouth shut. Now, she must find a way to get her sister Ayanna and herself out before the hammer falls. But leaving will not be easy. Red is resourceful and cunning, but will it be enough to keep her sister alive? In “Daddy Werewolf,” Hayley Roamer is just about the cutest young lady ever. She has a mischievous streak, as well as very little fear of the world around her. But to slap a wolf? What is she thinking?
The Witness Wore Red
Author: Rebecca Musser
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 145552784X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
You've watched Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, the top 5 true-crime docuseries on Netflix. Now discover the revealing memoir of one woman featured in the series who was forced into polygamous marriage and her brave struggle to protect others from the same fate. Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" outside world. Covered head-to-toe in strict, modest clothing, she received a rigorous education at Alta Academy, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' school headed by Warren Jeffs. Always seeking to be an obedient Priesthood girl, in her teens she became the nineteenth wife of her people's prophet: 85-year-old Rulon Jeffs, Warren's father. Finally sickened by the abuse she suffered and saw around her, she pulled off a daring escape and sought to build a new life and family. The church, however, had a way of pulling her back in-and by 2007, Rebecca had no choice but to take the witness stand against the new prophet of the FLDS in order to protect her little sisters and other young girls from being forced to marry at shockingly young ages. The following year, Rebecca and the rest of the world watched as a team of Texas Rangers raided the Yearning for Zion Ranch, a stronghold of the FLDS. Rebecca's subsequent testimony would reveal the horrific secrets taking place behind closed doors of the temple, sending their leaders to prison for years, and Warren Jeffs for life. The Witness Wore Red is a gripping account of one woman's struggle to escape the perverse embrace of religious fanaticism and sexual slavery, and a courageous story of hope and transformation.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 145552784X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
You've watched Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, the top 5 true-crime docuseries on Netflix. Now discover the revealing memoir of one woman featured in the series who was forced into polygamous marriage and her brave struggle to protect others from the same fate. Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" outside world. Covered head-to-toe in strict, modest clothing, she received a rigorous education at Alta Academy, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' school headed by Warren Jeffs. Always seeking to be an obedient Priesthood girl, in her teens she became the nineteenth wife of her people's prophet: 85-year-old Rulon Jeffs, Warren's father. Finally sickened by the abuse she suffered and saw around her, she pulled off a daring escape and sought to build a new life and family. The church, however, had a way of pulling her back in-and by 2007, Rebecca had no choice but to take the witness stand against the new prophet of the FLDS in order to protect her little sisters and other young girls from being forced to marry at shockingly young ages. The following year, Rebecca and the rest of the world watched as a team of Texas Rangers raided the Yearning for Zion Ranch, a stronghold of the FLDS. Rebecca's subsequent testimony would reveal the horrific secrets taking place behind closed doors of the temple, sending their leaders to prison for years, and Warren Jeffs for life. The Witness Wore Red is a gripping account of one woman's struggle to escape the perverse embrace of religious fanaticism and sexual slavery, and a courageous story of hope and transformation.
Witness (Scholastic Gold)
Author: Karen Hesse
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545345944
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse emerses readers in a small Vermont town in 1924 with this haunting and harrowing tale. Leanora Sutter. Esther Hirsh. Merlin Van Tornhout. Johnny Reeves . . .These characters are among the unforgettable cast inhabiting a small Vermont town in 1924. A town that turns against its own when the Ku Klux Klan moves in. No one is safe, especially the two youngest, twelve-year-old Leanora, an African-American girl, and six-year-old Esther, who is Jewish.In this story of a community on the brink of disaster, told through the haunting and impassioned voices of its inhabitants, Newbery Award winner Karen Hesse takes readers into the hearts and minds of those who bear witness.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545345944
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse emerses readers in a small Vermont town in 1924 with this haunting and harrowing tale. Leanora Sutter. Esther Hirsh. Merlin Van Tornhout. Johnny Reeves . . .These characters are among the unforgettable cast inhabiting a small Vermont town in 1924. A town that turns against its own when the Ku Klux Klan moves in. No one is safe, especially the two youngest, twelve-year-old Leanora, an African-American girl, and six-year-old Esther, who is Jewish.In this story of a community on the brink of disaster, told through the haunting and impassioned voices of its inhabitants, Newbery Award winner Karen Hesse takes readers into the hearts and minds of those who bear witness.
Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001
Author: Carolyn Forché
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393347664
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
A groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery. A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance—while their authors awaited execution, endured imprisonment, fought on the battlefield, or labored on the brink of breakdown or death. All bear witness to historical events and the irresistibility of their impact. Alongside Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, this volume includes such writers as Anne Askew, tortured and executed for her religious beliefs during the reign of Henry VIII; Phillis Wheatley, abducted by slave traders; Samuel Bamford, present at the Peterloo Massacre in 1819; William Blake, who witnessed the Gordon Riots of 1780; and Samuel Menashe, survivor of the Battle of the Bulge. Poetry of Witness argues that such poets are a perennial feature of human history, and it presents the best of that tradition, proving that their work ranks alongside the greatest in the language.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393347664
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
A groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery. A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance—while their authors awaited execution, endured imprisonment, fought on the battlefield, or labored on the brink of breakdown or death. All bear witness to historical events and the irresistibility of their impact. Alongside Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, this volume includes such writers as Anne Askew, tortured and executed for her religious beliefs during the reign of Henry VIII; Phillis Wheatley, abducted by slave traders; Samuel Bamford, present at the Peterloo Massacre in 1819; William Blake, who witnessed the Gordon Riots of 1780; and Samuel Menashe, survivor of the Battle of the Bulge. Poetry of Witness argues that such poets are a perennial feature of human history, and it presents the best of that tradition, proving that their work ranks alongside the greatest in the language.
Witnesses of Remembrance
Author: Kunwar Narain
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9357087591
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A new selection of far-reaching poems from an outstanding literary doyen of our times. Kunwar Narain is widely regarded as one of India’s finest contemporary poets and thinkers, with a universal appeal. Awarded with the Jnanpith, his work bears witness to how the lived and the written coalesce. His poems say more than their words—taking us into and out of the morass of our bizarre worlds, signalling inner disquiets in their solicitudes, waking us up to hope in the interstices between lines, and creating entire worldviews in their collectivity. This is the first book-length translation of the author’s poetry to appear after his passing away in 2017. It has an eclectic, wide-ranging selection of poems from his latest five collections. This bilingual edition is also substantive, with over a hundred poems—translated and introduced by Apurva Narain, who has spent years with his father’s poems. Among the most accomplished translators of Hindi poetry into English today, he brings here a compelling level of precision and evocation that Kunwar Narain’s poems demand—slowly expansive as they are in their visionary insights, tender intimations, austere surfaces and silent remembrances; conversing with their readers and urging them to re-read. and is among the most accomplished translators of Hindi poetry into English today.
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9357087591
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A new selection of far-reaching poems from an outstanding literary doyen of our times. Kunwar Narain is widely regarded as one of India’s finest contemporary poets and thinkers, with a universal appeal. Awarded with the Jnanpith, his work bears witness to how the lived and the written coalesce. His poems say more than their words—taking us into and out of the morass of our bizarre worlds, signalling inner disquiets in their solicitudes, waking us up to hope in the interstices between lines, and creating entire worldviews in their collectivity. This is the first book-length translation of the author’s poetry to appear after his passing away in 2017. It has an eclectic, wide-ranging selection of poems from his latest five collections. This bilingual edition is also substantive, with over a hundred poems—translated and introduced by Apurva Narain, who has spent years with his father’s poems. Among the most accomplished translators of Hindi poetry into English today, he brings here a compelling level of precision and evocation that Kunwar Narain’s poems demand—slowly expansive as they are in their visionary insights, tender intimations, austere surfaces and silent remembrances; conversing with their readers and urging them to re-read. and is among the most accomplished translators of Hindi poetry into English today.
Hostile Witness
Author: Rebecca Forster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
A prominent judge is dead, a sixteen-year-old girl is accused, and her distraught mother turns to her old college roommate, Josie Bates, for help. Brilliant but flawed, Josie left the legal fast track behind after her talent in a courtroom brought a tragic result. But when Hannah is charged as an adult, Josie cannot turn her back. The deeper she digs, the more Josie realizes that politics, the law and family relationships create a combustible and dangerous situation. When the horrible truth is uncovered it can save Hannah Sheraton or destroy them both.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
A prominent judge is dead, a sixteen-year-old girl is accused, and her distraught mother turns to her old college roommate, Josie Bates, for help. Brilliant but flawed, Josie left the legal fast track behind after her talent in a courtroom brought a tragic result. But when Hannah is charged as an adult, Josie cannot turn her back. The deeper she digs, the more Josie realizes that politics, the law and family relationships create a combustible and dangerous situation. When the horrible truth is uncovered it can save Hannah Sheraton or destroy them both.
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (General Press)
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789354995248
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First published in 1925, 'The Witness for the Prosecution' is a short story and play by Agatha Christie, an English writer best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, specifically those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. When affluent spinster, Emily French is found murdered, skepticism falls on Leonard Vole, the man to whom she impatiently bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heiliger, can provide them with an alibi. However, when questioned, Romaine notifies the police that Vole returned home late that night covered in blood. During the trial, Ms. French's housekeeper, Janet, gives damning proof against Vole, and, as Romaine's cross-examination begins, her motives come under scrutiny from the courtroom. The packed courtroom waited as Romaine mounted the stand to deliver the testimony that has made this the masterpiece of suspense and shock. The ultimate question is whether justice will prevail or not.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789354995248
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First published in 1925, 'The Witness for the Prosecution' is a short story and play by Agatha Christie, an English writer best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, specifically those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. When affluent spinster, Emily French is found murdered, skepticism falls on Leonard Vole, the man to whom she impatiently bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heiliger, can provide them with an alibi. However, when questioned, Romaine notifies the police that Vole returned home late that night covered in blood. During the trial, Ms. French's housekeeper, Janet, gives damning proof against Vole, and, as Romaine's cross-examination begins, her motives come under scrutiny from the courtroom. The packed courtroom waited as Romaine mounted the stand to deliver the testimony that has made this the masterpiece of suspense and shock. The ultimate question is whether justice will prevail or not.
Tales of Vandelite and Other Short Stories
Author: Daryl Reiley
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1591600103
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1591600103
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Complete Christie
Author: Matthew Bunson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671028316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Painstakingly researched, this illustrated reference captures the spirited imagination of Dame Agatha and the intriguing atmosphere of her tales. Includes a comprehensive Christie biography, cross-referenced with plot synopses and character listings. Photos throughout.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671028316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Painstakingly researched, this illustrated reference captures the spirited imagination of Dame Agatha and the intriguing atmosphere of her tales. Includes a comprehensive Christie biography, cross-referenced with plot synopses and character listings. Photos throughout.
The Doctor's Red Lamp
Author: Various
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Doctor's Red Lamp is one of the series book the doctor's recreation series. The book discusses a short story on how doctors go about in their daily life. This book is loaded with curiosities of medicine and ancient practice. A great story worth reading for everyone interested in the doctor's affairs and daily life.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Doctor's Red Lamp is one of the series book the doctor's recreation series. The book discusses a short story on how doctors go about in their daily life. This book is loaded with curiosities of medicine and ancient practice. A great story worth reading for everyone interested in the doctor's affairs and daily life.