Download or read book Dirty Ransom written by Amelia Wilde and published by Amelia Wilde. This book was released on with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have one thing to trade for my brother’s life: my body. I’d seduce a hundred billionaires to save my brother. As it turns out, I only have to seduce one. The criminals threatening my family want secrets. Billionaire Jett Brandon’s secrets, to be specific. So I’ll get them using the only tactics available to me. My lips. My whispers. My body, offered up to him. But I won’t fall for him. I won’t notice the way his eyes burn with desire. I won’t lose myself in his possessive touch. And I won’t melt at the sound of my name on his lips. I won’t. I won't. Because even if I fall hopelessly in love with Jett Brandon, I can never have him. How could I? I’m robbing him blind. And sooner or later, he’ll catch me red-handed.
Download or read book Dirty Rogue written by Amelia Wilde and published by Amelia Wilde. This book was released on with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the money in the world won't erase the demons of my past. I have all the money a person could dream of. That doesn’t make me any less of a monster. A liar. A criminal. And the secret that made me this way? It can never see the light of day. That means I can never let anyone get close to me. Ever. I’ll go to parties. I’ll spend my fortune. But I’ll never let anybody in. The first time I see Quinn Campbell, she’s soaked to the skin and cursing the world. She’s so gorgeous I don’t feel the rain. I can’t let it be the last time. But she shouldn’t let me get anywhere close. I’ll destroy her. And I’ll love it.
Download or read book Dirty Little Secrets written by John P. Champlin and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spring of 1945 is going to be his best spring in several years. With his Navy career behind him, and a bank roll thanks to his Navy separation pay, he set out to determine what the future holds. Phil Storm doesn't realize the personal pain he will deal with as he walks into the backrooms of New York City. Dirty Little Secrets by author John Champlin takes the clean and pretty face off of the City and exposes its corrupt, rotten and tainted undertow. Phil will keep you on edge as you wonder how he will free himself from each adverse situation. You will find yourself unable to put this book down as you wonder what will happen next in the lives of the Robert Wayne Dunsworth Coleman's family and their Dirty Little Secrets. The bad boys can break bones but they are unable to break Phil Storm's spirit and desire.
Download or read book On the Dirty Plate Trail written by Sanora Babb and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Runner-up, National Council on Public History Book Award, 2008 The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices was a relatively brief interlude in the history of migrant agricultural labor. Yet it attracted wide attention through the publication of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and the images of Farm Security Administration photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein. Ironically, their work risked sublimating the subjects—real people and actual experience—into aesthetic artifacts, icons of suffering, deprivation, and despair. Working for the Farm Security Administration in California's migrant labor camps in 1938-39, Sanora Babb, a young journalist and short story writer, together with her sister Dorothy, a gifted amateur photographer, entered the intimacy of the dispossessed farmers' lives as insiders, evidenced in the immediacy and accuracy of their writings and photos. Born in Oklahoma and raised on a dryland farm, the Babb sisters had unparalleled access to the day-by-day harsh reality of field labor and family life. This book presents a vivid, firsthand account of the Dust Bowl refugees, the migrant labor camps, and the growth of labor activism among Anglo and Mexican farm workers in California's agricultural valleys linked by the "Dirty Plate Trail" (Highway 99). It draws upon the detailed field notes that Sanora Babb wrote while in the camps, as well as on published articles and short stories about the migrant workers and an excerpt from her Dust Bowl novel, Whose Names Are Unknown. Like Sanora's writing, Dorothy's photos reveal an unmediated, personal encounter with the migrants, portraying the social and emotional realities of their actual living and working conditions, together with their efforts to organize and to seek temporary recreation. An authority in working-class literature and history, volume editor Douglas Wixson places the Babb sisters' work in relevant historical and social-political contexts, examining their role in reconfiguring the Dust Bowl exodus as a site of memory in the national consciousness. Focusing on the material conditions of everyday existence among the Dust Bowl refugees, the words and images of these two perceptive young women clearly show that, contrary to stereotype, the "Okies" were a widely diverse people, including not only Steinbeck's sharecropper "Joads" but also literate, independent farmers who, in the democracy of the FSA camps, found effective ways to rebuild lives and create communities.
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Download or read book Ransom Kidnapping in Italy written by Alessandra Montalbano and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organized crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, and children were abducted from across the country between the late 1960s and the late 1990s, held hostage by members of the Sardinian banditry, Cosa Nostra, and the ’Ndrangheta. Subjected to harsh captivities and psychological abuse, the victims spent months and even years in isolation while law enforcement and the state struggled to find them. Ransom Kidnapping in Italy examines this Italian criminal phenomenon. Alessandra Montalbano argues that abduction is a key vantage point from which to understand modern Italy: it troubled the law, terrified society, ignited juridical and parliamentary debates, and mobilized citizens. Bringing together archival and media materials with the victims’ accounts and diverse forms of cultural response, the book examines ransom kidnapping through the lenses of historiography, law, literary criticism, trauma studies, phenomenology, and political philosophy. Ransom Kidnapping in Italy traces how and at what price Italians became aware of living in a country that was being blackmailed by criminal organizations that arguably jeoparded the nation even more than terrorism.
Download or read book Money Laundering written by John Madinger and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many changes have occurred in the twenty-five years that have passed since the enactment of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986. The law has been amended, new underlying crimes have been added, and court decisions have modified its scope. The Act remains an important tool in combating criminal activity. Now in its third edition, Money Laundering: A Guide for Criminal Investigators covers the basics of finding ill-gotten gains, linking them to the criminal, and seizing them. Providing a clear understanding of money laundering practices, it explains the investigative and legislative processes that are essential in detecting and circumventing this illegal and dangerous activity. Highlights of the Third Edition include Important court decisions and changes in federal law since the Second Edition New trends in crime and terrorism financing The rise of money laundering in connecting with major frauds, including the Bernie Madoff case Law and policy shifts related to terrorism and financing since the Obama administration New methods for financial intelligence and the filing of Suspicious Activity Reports How changes in technology have enabled launderers to move funds more easily and anonymously Knowledge of the techniques used to investigate these cases and a full understanding of the laws and regulations that serve as the government’s weapons in this fight are essential for the criminal investigator. This volume arms those tasked with finding and tracing illegal proceeds with this critical knowledge, enabling them to thwart illegal profiteering by finding the paper trail.
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Download or read book 7 Days and 7 Nights written by Wendy Wax and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of an on-camera publicity stunt, arrogant radio host Matt Ransom agrees to be locked up in a tiny apartment with his competition, earnest psychologist Dr. Olivia Moore, his former lover, who has never forgotten--or forgiven--the long-ago affair that left her heart broken. Original.
Download or read book Dingley Falls written by Michael Malone and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Dingley Falls, where the only thing certain is that life will never be the same.
Download or read book Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs written by Blaize Clement and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A knockout read. For anyone who loves mysteries, animals, or just plain great writing, this is a book to savor."—Laurien Berenson, author of Doggie Day Care Murder on Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter In this fifth installment of the wildly popular Dixie Hemingway mystery series, a mysterious young girl is missing. Lieutenant Guidry, the hunky homicide detective with whom Dixie has an on-again, off-again relationship, is trying to find the girl because she may be a material witness to a murder. Finally Dixie must go it alone to confront criminals who will stop at nothing to get what they want.
Download or read book Ransom s Mark written by Wendy Lawton and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 13-year-old Olive Oatman's wagon train is raided by outlaw Yavapai Indians, she and her sister are captured. After enduring harsh treatment, they are ransomed by a band of Mohaves. Olive struggles to adjust to her new life, but finds comfort in her faith and in an unexpected friendship. When the time comes for her to return to the white world, she is afraid she will never fit in. But she learns to see the Mohave design tattooed on her chin as a sign of God's love and deliverence, a mark of ransom.
Download or read book Ransom s Bride written by Ginger Hanson and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a cavalry officer returns home at the end of the Civil War and discovers his fiance is dead, he finds comfort and true love in the arms of her loyal sister. Original.
Download or read book The Folk lore Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ransom s folly and other stories written by Richard Harding Davis and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forever an Ex written by Victoria Christopher Murray and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Personal Librarian, three Los Angeles women who’ve helped each other overcome heartbreak are reunited eight years later when their troublesome exes come back into the picture in this follow up to Victoria Christopher Murray’s bestselling novel The Ex Files. Sheridan, Kendall, and Asia first bonded when they met seven years ago at a church prayer support group and now, their friendship has blossomed into a strong sisterhood. They've helped each other through the tragedies of their breakups and together, they've celebrated their triumphs. But now, their exes are back, wreaking havoc on lives they've work so hard to rebuild. Sheridan has found love again after her ex-husband left her for a man. But old wounds are reopened when her ex-husband appears with his fiancée—a woman! And all of Sheridan's insecurities and doubts come rushing back. Kendall's former husband is now married to Kendall's sister, Sabrina. And though Kendall has refused to interact with either one in the last seven years, she's forced to reunite with Sabrina when their father is diagnosed with cancer. Asia has done her best to move away from her married boyfriend, a former star with the LA Lakers. But when they share a kiss, old desires are rekindled and Asia decides that it's time for her and Bobby Johnson to get back together again. With her trademark writing that “has the kind of momentum that prompts you to elbow disbelief aside and flip the pages in horrified enjoyment” (The Washington Post), Forever an Ex is Murray's best novel yet.
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