Download or read book Hangman s Bridge written by Curtis Bent and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a variety of activities ranging from pulling weeds in Delta asparagus and sugar beet fields to playing hang tag during a two-a-day summer football practices on Delta bridges, Curtis shares vivid experiences with the reader that the Delta and the San Joaquin Valley offer. All is not simply fun and games in Curtis' rite of passage as he becomes aware of the profound impact that water holds on his family and environment of the state of California. Through personal experiences, Curtis shares basic facts with the reader such as the following: it takes five gallons of water for a walnut to reach market; a levee is reinforced with junked cars for eight miles to save the agricultural fields; or there is only one river in the U.S that has not been dammed, the Yellowstone. Through the supportive, enlivened narrative of his family, friends, and acquaintances, Curtis weaves a compelling story that includes his establishing a school for challenged youth. As the main character, Lou, processes the gathered information, Lou takes a radical stand to confront the abuses that impact our socioeconomic culture. The novel culminates in a violent conclusion, to which the reader is asked, "What would you do?"
Download or read book Bad Day at Hangmans Bridge written by James Kardas and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1953 small-town Vermont, Bad Day At Hangmans Bridge is the story of Billy Bump, a young boy abandoned by his father in his fifth year. But that was three years ago and he had to admit that things were looking up. He had recently met Kirk Rivers, a solitary man living on life's edge, and they embark upon a heartfelt friendship that leads Kirk into a budding romance with Billy's winsome mother. But there is danger ahead as Billy's rascally sidekick Charlie Bullard sets in motion a series of perilous events that leaves Billy and Kirk clinging to life, which ultimately leads to their redemption.
Download or read book The Hangman written by Daniel Cole (Novelist) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The town didn't know why a hangman came riding in one day. When asked for whom was his rope, he replied, "Those who serve me well." One after another went to the gallows, and the others hardly raised their voices in protest. Finally, only one is left and no others speak in this behalf.
Download or read book Hangman written by Daniel Cole and published by Orion. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hangman s Replacement written by Taona D. Chiveneko and published by Chiveneko Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you had to interview the candidates for a country's new hangman, what questions would you ask them? If your family was on the verge of starvation, and becoming a hangman was the only job available, would you apply? If you were hired, what would you do if the prisoners looked like your loved ones? If you knew that another good man was taking the job out of desperation, would you do anything to prevent him from getting it? What if that man's recruitment would somehow guarantee your own survival, would you encourage his candidacy? All these questions were asked of people who never thought they would find themselves in such a position, until they became mired in the chaos surrounding the hangman's replacement.
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Download or read book Alpine County written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alpine County is named for its massive peaks, thrust up from molten earth and scoured by glaciers, reminding European settlers of their own Alps. The Washoe Indians enjoyed this precipitous Eden with over 60 alpine lakes long before famous trailblazer Jedediah Smith, his pack animals dying, made it through these mountains. At first, few settlers ventured here, but a silver strike led hopeful residents to carve out a county, making Silver Mountain, then a town of 3,500, their seat of government. But the silver boom ended, and in 1875 Markleeville took the reins, as Silver Mountain was by then a ghost town. Although Alpine is now the least populated county in California, thousands come each year to hike, camp, or--following the tradition of famous Snowshoe Thompson--ski at popular Bear Valley and Kirkwood, or visit the delightful village of Markleeville, Grover Hot Springs, and other enchanting lake resorts.
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Download or read book The Monk and the Hangman s Daughter written by Ambrose Bierce and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautiful tale of "The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter" is a collaboration by G. A. Dantziger and Ambrose Bierce.Dantziger translated the germ of the story from the German of Richard Voss and elaborating upon it, and Mr. Bierce revising the context.Great literary art is shown in the naive story of how the young neophyte unconsciously falls in love with the social pariah, the daughter of the hangman, and the tragic climax of this love is told in a way that will move even the stoic reader.That the same pen which is thrust through "the fools and villains and pretenders" of San Francisco, and which maintains a sustained note of condemnation from the first page to the last in "Black Beetles in Amber," has moved through the pages of "The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter," seems at first sight unbelievable. And yet what is more natural after all than that the mind which extols the modest and flays the arrogant should be all the more capable of appreciating the charm of youth and innocence and purity. For of such a kingdom is Benedicta, the child of the brain of these two writers and the German across the seas-and a more beautiful character has never come into being within the covers of a book.
Download or read book Backpacker written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
Download or read book The Stone of Destiny written by Paul Doherty and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of grisly deaths are linked to the sacred Stone of Scone in this compelling medieval mystery featuring friar-sleuth Brother Athelstan. "This abbey is a strange place, Brother Athelstan. A hall of ghosts, a place of flitting shadows. The dead throng here. I can hear them whispering as they ride the air." During the harsh winter of 1381 murder stalks the streets of London in all its grisly forms. The city's prostitutes are falling prey to a silent, deadly assassin known as The Flayer who carefully peels his victims' skins for his collection. At the same time, Westminster Abbey, which houses the sacred Stone of Scone, is plagued by a series of hideous poisonings. Could there be a connection between these brutally violent deaths and the stone, which the English crown cherishes as a symbol of its rule over Scotland? Then there are the two former Upright Men, leaders of the Great Revolt, who are found mysteriously hanged in the Piebald Tavern, close to Brother Athelstan's parish church of St Erconwald - and Athelstan is faced with his most baffling investigation to date. Can he navigate this deadly maze of murder and intrigue and pull the various threads together?
Download or read book The Hangman s Game written by Karen King-Aribisala and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guyanese woman sets out to write a historical novel based on the 1823 Demerara slave rebellion and the fate of the English missionary who is condemned to hang for his part in it, but who dies in prison before his execution. She has wanted to document fact through fiction, but the characters make an intrusion into her life.
Download or read book The Hangman s Garden written by Patricia Bow and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05-25 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nora Brooke drowned last year. Her heart stopped: long enough to leave, deep inside, a shadow of death that opened her to other shadows. Coming to Holdfast Island for remedial school, Nora finds a garden in the woods: an old, overgrown prison yard. She enters by a gate that then vanishes, glimpses a restless figure who is suddenly gone, and finds thousands of blue flowers like watching eyes. She finds friends, especially irrepressible Jack McKie. And Adam: seen in the prison ruin and met underwater while swimming, when Nora nearly drowns again. A local boy, they think, until they learn of an old tragedy. Three teens died here: Ursula stabbed, Graham hanged, Adam drowned. Triple suicide? Or murder? Adam says he loved Ursula but lost her. Now he's bound here. Questions swarm. Why does Nora sleepwalk nearly to her death? Why is Jack suddenly accident-prone, like Graham? Who haunts the prison, where the warden, Adam's grandfather, was called the Hangman? What will happen if Nora sets Adam free?
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