Author: Chris Herring
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982132132
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrating how Pat Riley, Patrick Ewing, John Starks, Charles Oakley, and Anthony Mason resurrected the iconic franchise through oppressive physicality and unmatched grit. For nearly an entire generation, the New York Knicks have been a laughingstock franchise. Since 2001, they’ve spent more money, lost more games, and won fewer playoff series than any other NBA team. But during the preceding era, the Big Apple had a club it was madly in love with—one that earned respect not only by winning, but through brute force. The Knicks were always looking for fights, often at the encouragement of Pat Riley. They fought opposing players. They fought each other. Hell, they even occasionally fought their own coaches. The NBA didn’t take kindly to their fighting spirit. Within two years, league officials moved to alter several rules to stop New York from turning its basketball games into bloody mudwrestling matches. Nevertheless, as the 1990s progressed, the Knicks endeared themselves to millions of fans; not for how much they won, but for their colorful cast of characters and their hardworking mentality. Now, through his original reporting and interviews with more than two hundred people, author Chris Herring delves into the origin, evolution, and eventual demise of the iconic club. He takes us inside the locker room, executive boardrooms, and onto the court for the key moments that lifted the club to new heights, and the ones that threatened to send everything crashing down in spectacular fashion. Blood in the Garden is a portrait filled with eye-opening details that have never been shared before, revealing the full story of the franchise in the midst of the NBA’s golden era. And rest assured, no punches will be pulled. Which is just how those rough-and-tumble Knicks would like it.
Author: Truman Capote
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0812994388
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.
Author: Andy Done-Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781916376519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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In 2013, the skeletal remains of two elderly people, William and Patricia Wycherley, were unearthed from the back garden of the house they had mysteriously left 15 years earlier. But why were their relatives still getting Christmas cards from them until the year before they were found? Why were they still on the electoral role and why were they still replying to letters from their doctor? Suspicion soon falls on their daughter Susan Edwards, who tells a tale of family feud and a freak accident which led to her parents' deaths and a forced cover-up. But is she telling the truth, or have she and her husband Christopher Edwards concocted the story so they can literally get away with murder? Based on real events, A Garden of Bones explored one of the most brutal and notorious murders in recent times and is told through the eyes of a down-at-heel news reporter looking for the scoop that could revive his career; a senior detective looking for the next step up the greasy career ladder; and Susan Edwards - the downtrodden daughter whose fantasist personality makes it hard to know what is real and what is not.
Author: Francesca Lia Block
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060763841
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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A collection of magic realistic stories of transformation.
Author: Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956720399
Category : Afro-Caribbean cults
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Palo Mayombe: The Garden of Blood and Bones is an initiate's account of this much maligned cult whose central nigromantic mystery is the prenda, the cauldron containing the human skull or bones, reanimated by living spirit. Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold traces the roots of Palo Mayombe back to Kongolese sorcery, the warrior and leopard societies, and the impact of the Portugese Mission. The original African faith is carried in chains across the abysmal waters of Kalunga and it flowers in Cuba as a New World Creole religion and cult. Yet Palo Mayombe can only be truly understood in the light of a highly developed African cosmology. In drawing parallels with the ancient Greek practice of necromancy, and the grimoire tradition, Frisvold also considers the Western tradition, showing what we have lost in our denial of the dead and the cult of the ancestors. The magical head of Palo Mayombe in its three-legged iron cauldron has implications for understanding our own histories, whether Odin, Baphomet, Bran, John the Baptist or Orpheus. The Misa Espiritual suggests one way in which we can reforge that vital connection and resurrect both our dead and ourselves. The Garden of Blood and Bones gives explicit detail of the workings of Palo Mayombe for good and ill, the method of divination, the herbs, animals, trees and plants, powders, baths and waters, the songs and chants. It presents a complete living system one which embraces both the arts of healing and resurrection, and those that remove life. This study confronts the sinister and violent aspects of the cult, but rather than purveying lurid sensationalism expresses the deep dignity and integrity of its nature; it is intended to serve as a guide for practising Paleros and those seeking initiation. With access to rare materials, pamphlets, booklets and unpublished field notes, this is the most comprehensive study of Palo Mayombe to date. Santeros and practitioners of Vodou will also find much to ponder within these pages.
Author: Tessa Gratton
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446453367
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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A stunning blend of romance, horror and magic. All the beauty is yours now, Mab, all the beauty of the world. Take it. For Mab, blood magic is as natural as breathing. Wild and confident, she uses magic to understand her whole world. Will tries to dismiss all he sees and feels around Mab, but cannot prevent the strangeness and beauty of her craft from drawing him closer. When one of Mab's spells taps into a powerful curse, a terrifying foe is unleashed. Hiding in the shadows of the forest, it seeks to manipulate Will and gain Mab's power - threatening to destroy everything they love.
Author: James Dale Davidson
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN: 9780446353168
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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The authors discuss a new way of judging and interpreting global events as the necessary context of investment strategy
Author: Lorene M. Morris
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 147976647X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Blood In The Garden is a fictional depiction of the times and characters from Creation to the Flood, based upon Scriptural references. The line of Adam became swallowed up by the children of Cain through many struggles until only eight people were saved on the ark. Yet they experience laughter, romance, faith, violence, and supernatural experiences that in many ways mimic our world today. From God's slaughter of the lambs for clothing in the Garden at Creation, the book ends with a picture of the Lamb of God in the Garden of Gethesame. There is blood in the garden.
Author: Chad Wickwire
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662460740
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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The Blood Garden series was a concept I created to explain what may have happened to the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden, and Echoes of Silence is a story, a story where a man can see past the veil and directly into the garden, the darkness that now resides there since the fall of mankind, and his personal inner demons that haunt him and about how he then deals with what he saw when he glimpsed into the garden. He must explore and deal with his reality.
Author: Chad Wickwire
Publisher: Page Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781662460739
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Book Description
The Blood Garden series was a concept I created to explain what may have happened to the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden, and Echoes of Silence is a story, a story where a man can see past the veil and directly into the garden, the darkness that now resides there since the fall of mankind, and his personal inner demons that haunt him and about how he then deals with what he saw when he glimpsed into the garden. He must explore and deal with his reality.
