Author: Michael Dahl
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1496538870
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Charlie finds himself on the hidden 13th floor of the Abracadabra Hotel. He discovers both Tyler and the magician Brack. Brack was trapped there by a mysterious figure he could not identify.
The Prisoners of the Thirteenth Floor
Author: Michael Dahl
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1496538870
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Charlie finds himself on the hidden 13th floor of the Abracadabra Hotel. He discovers both Tyler and the magician Brack. Brack was trapped there by a mysterious figure he could not identify.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1496538870
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Charlie finds himself on the hidden 13th floor of the Abracadabra Hotel. He discovers both Tyler and the magician Brack. Brack was trapped there by a mysterious figure he could not identify.
Hocus Pocus Hotel
Author: Michael Dahl
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434259838
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Abracadabra Hotel, built by and for magicians, has long been know to locals as the Hocus Pocus Hotel. Charlie Hitchcock has never stepped inside until Tyler Yu tells him to meet him there ...or else. As if the hotel's storied past isn't enough, it turns out that the place is inhabited by magicians, and while Charlie and Ty solve magical mysteries, the bully and the brain form an unlikely friendship.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434259838
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Abracadabra Hotel, built by and for magicians, has long been know to locals as the Hocus Pocus Hotel. Charlie Hitchcock has never stepped inside until Tyler Yu tells him to meet him there ...or else. As if the hotel's storied past isn't enough, it turns out that the place is inhabited by magicians, and while Charlie and Ty solve magical mysteries, the bully and the brain form an unlikely friendship.
Among Ourselves, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of the Employees of Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
History of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, U. S. A.
Author: Samuel W. Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tennessee, East
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tennessee, East
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Texas Tough
Author: Robert Perkinson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429952776
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolution In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history of American imprisonment from the days of slavery to the present, shows how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric became the national template. Drawing on convict accounts, official records, and interviews with prisoners, guards, and lawmakers, historian Robert Perkinson reveals the Southern roots of our present-day prison colossus. While conventional histories emphasize the North's rehabilitative approach, he shows how the retributive and profit-driven regime of the South ultimately triumphed. Most provocatively, he argues that just as convict leasing and segregation emerged in response to Reconstruction, so today's mass incarceration, with its vast racial disparities, must be seen as a backlash against civil rights. Illuminating for the first time the origins of America's prison juggernaut, Texas Tough points toward a more just and humane future.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429952776
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolution In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history of American imprisonment from the days of slavery to the present, shows how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric became the national template. Drawing on convict accounts, official records, and interviews with prisoners, guards, and lawmakers, historian Robert Perkinson reveals the Southern roots of our present-day prison colossus. While conventional histories emphasize the North's rehabilitative approach, he shows how the retributive and profit-driven regime of the South ultimately triumphed. Most provocatively, he argues that just as convict leasing and segregation emerged in response to Reconstruction, so today's mass incarceration, with its vast racial disparities, must be seen as a backlash against civil rights. Illuminating for the first time the origins of America's prison juggernaut, Texas Tough points toward a more just and humane future.
No Escape
Author: Joanne Mariner
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
VI. BODY AND SOUL
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
VI. BODY AND SOUL
The Return of Abracadabra
Author: Michael Dahl
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1496524861
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The biggest bully in school recruits the kid with a photographic memory to help solve the mysteries in the hotel where he lives.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1496524861
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The biggest bully in school recruits the kid with a photographic memory to help solve the mysteries in the hotel where he lives.
Afterburn
Author: Colin Harrison
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312978707
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
With his family in danger of dying out--the son is dead, the daughter is infertile and the wife is on the verge of Alzheimer's--a millionaire searches for a woman who will give him an heir. In this way, high-flying businessman Charlie Ravich meets Christina, a gangster.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312978707
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
With his family in danger of dying out--the son is dead, the daughter is infertile and the wife is on the verge of Alzheimer's--a millionaire searches for a woman who will give him an heir. In this way, high-flying businessman Charlie Ravich meets Christina, a gangster.
Annual Report of the Prison Association of New York
Author: Prison Association of New York
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 1482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 1482
Book Description
Blood in the Water
Author: Heather Ann Thompson
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400078245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive history of the infamous 1971 Attica Prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victim's decades-long quest for justice. • Thompson served as the Historical Consultant on the Academy Award-nominated documentary feature ATTICA “Gripping ... deals with racial conflict, mass incarceration, police brutality and dissembling politicians ... Makes us understand why this one group of prisoners [rebelled], and how many others shared the cost.” —The New York Times On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated with officials for improved conditions during the four long days and nights that followed. On September 13, the state abruptly sent hundreds of heavily armed troopers and correction officers to retake the prison by force. Their gunfire killed thirty-nine men—hostages as well as prisoners—and severely wounded more than one hundred others. In the ensuing hours, weeks, and months, troopers and officers brutally retaliated against the prisoners. And, ultimately, New York State authorities prosecuted only the prisoners, never once bringing charges against the officials involved in the retaking and its aftermath and neglecting to provide support to the survivors and the families of the men who had been killed. Drawing from more than a decade of extensive research, historian Heather Ann Thompson sheds new light on every aspect of the uprising and its legacy, giving voice to all those who took part in this forty-five-year fight for justice: prisoners, former hostages, families of the victims, lawyers and judges, and state officials and members of law enforcement. Blood in the Water is the searing and indelible account of one of the most important civil rights stories of the last century. (With black-and-white photos throughout)
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400078245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive history of the infamous 1971 Attica Prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victim's decades-long quest for justice. • Thompson served as the Historical Consultant on the Academy Award-nominated documentary feature ATTICA “Gripping ... deals with racial conflict, mass incarceration, police brutality and dissembling politicians ... Makes us understand why this one group of prisoners [rebelled], and how many others shared the cost.” —The New York Times On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated with officials for improved conditions during the four long days and nights that followed. On September 13, the state abruptly sent hundreds of heavily armed troopers and correction officers to retake the prison by force. Their gunfire killed thirty-nine men—hostages as well as prisoners—and severely wounded more than one hundred others. In the ensuing hours, weeks, and months, troopers and officers brutally retaliated against the prisoners. And, ultimately, New York State authorities prosecuted only the prisoners, never once bringing charges against the officials involved in the retaking and its aftermath and neglecting to provide support to the survivors and the families of the men who had been killed. Drawing from more than a decade of extensive research, historian Heather Ann Thompson sheds new light on every aspect of the uprising and its legacy, giving voice to all those who took part in this forty-five-year fight for justice: prisoners, former hostages, families of the victims, lawyers and judges, and state officials and members of law enforcement. Blood in the Water is the searing and indelible account of one of the most important civil rights stories of the last century. (With black-and-white photos throughout)