Download or read book Adventures In A Midwest Purgatory written by Michael Oellig and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of four disenchanted cynics navigate a desperate world of rapidly declining taste in entertainment and opinion, armed only with a love for alcohol and socially unacceptable behavior as a means to lash out against a culture that is increasingly leaving them in the minority. Throughout the course of their adventures, they grapple with overrated pop idols, disgraced movie stars and washed up child actors in a twisted world where nothing is sacred and all bets are off. So crack open a forty of your favorite malt liquor, kick back, and let the chips fall where they may. Keep track of them, though. That's all we've got to eat until payday.

Download or read book Purgatory written by Tom Whitfield and published by Blue Room Books. This book was released on 2022-02-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theo is knee deep in mystery--again. And it all began with a trip to the auction to help Zeb purchase a classic limo to use in the Miss Shiloh parade. Faster than you can say "come and get it", an orphaned teenager is dropped at his door, a mobster hits town intent on making that limo his own, and a dead body is found floating in Shiloh Creek. But when Pepper and Woogie are kidnapped, Theo, Mitch, John, Hank, Camille, and more show the bad guy a thing or two about messing with folks in a small town. "Amid the patchwork of furrowed cotton and peanut fields...down home country fun at its finest....But when one of Shiloh's citizens purchases an armored limo with a checkered history at a Sheriff's used-car auction, the town's tranquility is shattered by the accumulation of dead bodies and broken hearts. Here's a story that will keep you reading to the wee hours." --Jedwin Smith, I AM ISRAEL, Our Brother's Keeper, and Fatal Treasure

Download or read book Eggs in Purgatory written by Laura Childs and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTRODUCING THE CACKLEBERRY CLUB MYSTERY SERIES! The New York Times bestselling author of the Scrapbooking Mysteries and the Tea Shop Mysteries cooks up a delicious series full of friendship, murder, and one spectacular breakfast after another.... Suzanne, Toni, and Petra lost their husbands but found independence—and in each other, a life raft of support, inspiration, fresh baked goods, and their own business. But when the Cackleberry Club cafe opened its doors in the town of Kindred, who’d have guessed that the cozy oasis would become the scene of a crime? Suzanne’s lawyer is found in his car out back of the Cackleberry with egg on his face and blood on the dash. Suzanne’s taking the crime personally. The murder not only reveals a scandal in her late husband’s past, but a stranger fleeing a messianic sect is begging Suzanne for help. Now, discovering a link between a dead man with secrets and a runaway cultist may be putting Suzanne’s own life on the line.

Download or read book Ride South to Purgatory written by James C. Work and published by Leisure Books. This book was released on 2003-03-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his two brothers are murdered, Pasque Pendragon goes to live at his uncle's Wyoming ranch, and winds up tracking down a man who had proposed a bizarre shootout.

Download or read book Purgatory Ridge written by William Kent Krueger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When mayhem descends on a tiny logging town, former sheriff Cork O’Connor is called upon to investigate a murder in this “wonderful page-turner” (The Denver Post) that “prolongs suspense to the very end” (Publishers Weekly) by Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger. Not far from Aurora, Minnesota (population 3,752), lies an ancient expanse of great white pines, sacred to the Anishinaabe tribe. When an explosion kills the night watchman at wealthy industrialist Karl Lindstrom’s nearby lumber mill, it’s obvious where suspicion will fall. Former sheriff Cork O’Connor agrees to help investigate, but he has mixed feelings about the case. For one thing, he is part Anishinaabe. For another, his wife, a lawyer, represents the tribe. Meanwhile, near Lindstrom’s lakeside home, a reclusive shipwreck survivor and his sidekick are harboring their own resentment of the industrialist. And it soon becomes clear to Cork that danger, both at home and in Aurora, lurks around every corner…

Download or read book A Season in Purgatory written by Dominick Dunne and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1994 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestseller is Dunne at his spellbinding best--a masterfully orchestrated story of power, courage and deceit. Revolving around an Irish Catholic family of unrelenting social and political ambitions, A Season in Purgatory is a seductive look at an affluent world of privilege and secrets.

Download or read book Purgatory written by Rosetta Allan and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'You don't want to be digging there,' Ma says like he can hear her. No one can hear her, just us boys. We're the dead Finnegans – Ma, Thomas, Ben and me. Ten-year-old John Finnegan can't leave his garden. Ever since they were murdered he, his brothers and his ma have been stuck there, caught between the worlds of the living and the dead. Unseen and unnoticed, he watches the events after his life unfold – including the actions of his murderer. James Stack is born dirt-poor on an Irish tenant farm and the great famine shadows his childhood. But his clever sister's lace making may save the family – until Aileen is sent to the other side of the world on a convict ship. To save her, James joins the redcoats and follows her across dangerous waters to a hopeful new land. But can he ever leave the death and hunger of his homeland behind? Based on the 1865 Otahuhu murders, Purgatory is a startling, gripping novel from an immensely talented new author.

Download or read book Purgatory written by Mike Schuhler and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant Radburn has been here before, this island they call Purgatory, and he never wanted to go back.When Devon MacArthur and his son, Peter, knock on his door, looking for his assistance getting rid of a...problem...Grant finds himself once again navigating the choppy, frigid waters of Lake Superior, toward the towering mountain and the dense forests that haunt his dreams.But something is different this time...Something is wrong. And it has something to do with the tolling of the bells. The island isn't as uninhabited as it seems.Will any of them make it out alive?

Download or read book Purgatory written by William W. Johnstone and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Season in Purgatory written by Thomas Keneally and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stealing medical supplies for the hospital and moving frequently to avoid detection and capture, [David Pelham, a young British doctor] conducts a private war of life against death in the midst of the larger war of life against life, drawing from Moja the strength he needs to endure."--Pbk. cover.

Download or read book Purgatory Bay written by Bryan Gruley and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve years ago Jubilee Rathman's family was brutally murdered. Now she lives on Purgatory Bay near Bleak Harbor, plotting revenge on the people she considers responsible. She blames former reporter Michaela 'Mikey' Deming for getting her family in trouble with the Detroit mob. As retribution, Jubilee kidnaps Mikey's sister and daughter. Bleak Harbor police chief Katya Malone, is determined to find them, but Jubilee is more cunning than Malone can imagine. -- adapted from jacket

Download or read book Purgatory Curve written by Ernest Francis Schanilec and published by Ernest Francis Schanilec. This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two elderly hog farmers, who lived close to New Dresden, had accumulated substantial wealth. They purchased a computer, and hired Tom Hastings to help them learn how to use it. One of the brothers was killed in a train/pickup crash, which Hastings witnessed from the sidewalk. Some of the people in the area, including Hastings, didn't believe that the crash was an accident. Jolene Hunt, a friend of Hastings, had emotional ties to the victim. An elderly woman's memory divulged deadly information to her, which led to gripping adventures. The farmer's only known relative, an antagonistic nephew, used threats and the force of violence to impede Hunt's fight for justice. Investigations by local law enforcement were unproductive because of corruption from within.

Download or read book The Everlost written by Neal Shusterman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick and Allie don't survive the crash, and now they are in limbo, stuck halfway between life and death, in a netherworld known as Everlost. Everlost is home to those who didn't make it to their final destination: A magical yet dangerous place filled with shadows where lost souls run wild. Shocked and frightened, Nick and Allie aren't ready to rest in peace just yet. They want their lives back. Desperate for a way out, their search takes them deep into the uncharted regions of Everlost. But the longer they stay, the more they forget about their past lives. And with all memory of home fading fast and an unknown evil lurking in the shadows, Nick and Allie may never escape this strange, terrible world. In this imaginative, supernatural thriller, Neal Shusterman explores questions of life, death, and what just might lie in between.

Download or read book Snakes Guillotines Electric Chairs My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Band written by Dennis Dunaway and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alice Cooper became the stuff of legend in the early '70s, their shows were monuments of fun and invention. Riding on a string of hits like "I'm 18" and "School's Out," they became America's highest-grossing act, producing four platinum albums and hitting number one on the U.S. and U.K. charts with Billion Dollar Babies in 1973. As teenagers in Phoenix, Dennis Dunaway and lead singer Vince Furnier, who would later change his name to Alice Cooper, formed a hard-knuckles band that played prisons, cowboy bars and teen clubs. Their journey took them from Hollywood to the ferocious Detroit music scene. From struggling for recognition to topping the charts, the Alice Cooper group was entertaining, outrageous, and one-of-a-kind. Dennis Dunaway, the bassist and co-songwriter for the band, tells a story just as over-the-top crazy as their (in)famous shows. Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! is the riveting account of the band's creation in the '60s, strange glory in the '70s, and the legendary characters they met along the way.

Download or read book What the Eyes Don t See written by Mona Hanna-Attisha and published by One World. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, by a relentless physician who stood up to power. “Stirring . . . [a] blueprint for all those who believe . . . that ‘the world . . . should be full of people raising their voices.’”—The New York Times “Revealing, with the gripping intrigue of a Grisham thriller.” —O: The Oprah Magazine Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders, discovered that the children of Flint, Michigan, were being exposed to lead in their tap water—and then battled her own government and a brutal backlash to expose that truth to the world. Paced like a scientific thriller, What the Eyes Don’t See reveals how misguided austerity policies, broken democracy, and callous bureaucratic indifference placed an entire city at risk. And at the center of the story is Dr. Mona herself—an immigrant, doctor, scientist, and mother whose family’s activist roots inspired her pursuit of justice. What the Eyes Don’t See is a riveting account of a shameful disaster that became a tale of hope, the story of a city on the ropes that came together to fight for justice, self-determination, and the right to build a better world for their—and all of our—children. Praise for What the Eyes Don’t See “It is one thing to point out a problem. It is another thing altogether to step up and work to fix it. Mona Hanna-Attisha is a true American hero.”—Erin Brockovich “A clarion call to live a life of purpose.”—The Washington Post “Gripping . . . entertaining . . . Her book has power precisely because she takes the events she recounts so personally. . . . Moral outrage present on every page.”—The New York Times Book Review “Personal and emotional. . . She vividly describes the effects of lead poisoning on her young patients. . . . She is at her best when recounting the detective work she undertook after a tip-off about lead levels from a friend. . . . ‛Flint will not be defined by this crisis,’ vows Ms. Hanna-Attisha.”—The Economist “Flint is a public health disaster. But it was Dr. Mona, this caring, tough pediatrican turned detective, who cracked the case.”—Rachel Maddow

Download or read book There She Was written by Amy Argetsinger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post style editor’s fascinating and irresistible look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary. The sash. The tears. The glittering crown. And of course, that soaring song. For all its pomp and kitsch, the Miss America pageant is indelibly written into the American story of the past century. From its giddy origins as a summer’s-end tourist draw in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, it blossomed into a televised extravaganza that drew tens of millions of viewers in its heyday and was once considered the highest honor that a young woman could achieve. For two years, Washington Post reporter and editor Amy Argetsinger visited pageants and interviewed former winners and contestants to unveil the hidden world of this iconic institution. There She Was spotlights how the pageant survived decades of social and cultural change, collided with a women’s liberation movement that sought to abolish it, and redefined itself alongside evolving ideas about feminism. For its superstars—Phyllis George, Vanessa Williams, Gretchen Carlson—and for those who never became household names, Miss America was a platform for women to exercise their ambitions and learn brutal lessons about the culture of fame. Spirited and revelatory, There She Was charts the evolution of the American woman, from the Miss America catapulted into advocacy after she was exposed as a survivor of domestic violence to the one who used her crown to launch a congressional campaign; from a 1930s winner who ran away on the night of her crowning to a present-day rock guitarist carving out her place in this world. Argetsinger dissects the scandals and financial turmoil that have repeatedly threatened to kill the pageant—and highlights the unexpected sisterhood of Miss Americas fighting to keep it alive.

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