Download or read book Twin Cities Noir written by Julie Schaper and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Local editors Schaper and Horwitz have assembled a noteworthy collection of noir-infused stories mixed with laughter...The Akashic noir short-story anthologies are avidly sought and make ideal samplers for regional mystery collecting." --Library Journal "Crime fans who missed the first round will find this expanded version worthwhile." --Publishers Weekly "The best pieces in the collection turn the clich s of the genre on their head . . . and despite the unseemly subject matter, the stories are often surprisingly funny." --City Pages (Minneapolis) "If you've never read an Akashic Noir book, Twin Cities Noir is a fine place to start." --San Francisco Book Review/Sacramento Book Review "A fun...read...particularly ripe for picking by locals who'll delight in recognizing their stomping grounds in the stories, but with enough unexpected turns to make it worthwhile for those outside the Midwest, too." --KnightsArts Brand-new stories from John Jodzio, Tom Kaczynski, and Peter Schilling, Jr., in addition to the original volume's stories by David Housewright, Steve Thayer, Judith Guest, Mary Logue, Bruce Rubenstein, K.J. Erickson, William Kent Krueger, Ellen Hart, Brad Zellar, Mary Sharratt, Pete Hautman, Larry Millett, Quinton Skinner, Gary Bush, and Chris Everheart. "St. Paul was originally called Pig's Eye's Landing and was named after Pig's Eye Parrant--trapper, moonshiner, and proprietor of the most popular drinking establishment on the Mississippi. Traders, river rats, missionaries, soldiers, land speculators, fur trappers, and Indian agents congregated in his establishment and made their deals. When Minnesota became a territory in 1849, the town leaders, realizing that a place called Pig's Eye might not inspire civic confidence, changed the name to St. Paul, after the largest church in the city . . . Across the river, Minneapolis has its own sordid story. By the turn of the twentieth century it was considered one of the most crooked cities in the nation. Mayor Albert Alonzo Ames, with the assistance of the chief of police, his brother Fred, ran a city so corrupt that according to Lincoln Steffans its 'deliberateness, invention, and avarice has never been equaled.' As recently as the mid-'90s, Minneapolis was called 'Murderopolis' due to a rash of killings that occurred over a long hot summer . . . Every city has its share of crime, but what makes the Twin Cities unique may be that we have more than our share of good writers to chronicle it. They are homegrown and they know the territory--how the cities look from the inside, out . . ."

Download or read book Long Legs in the Twin Cities written by Samantha Koshiol and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long Legs in the Twin Cities captures the dating tales from a 20-something lesbian with borderline personality disorder and what has been learned through the journey of drug dependency, jail-time, trust-fund babies, manipulative exes, straight women with boyfriends, step-parenting, soul-crushing losses of loved ones and more. Each chapter details a different gal Koshiol had romantic links to and what transpired during their courses together. Some more short-lived than others, and some more tragic than the last. Long Legs began as a therapeutic writing project after experiencing a particularly tough to swallow break-up, and continued on when Koshiol realized how helpful facing her demons on the page had become. This is a very raw, honest and sometimes ugly take on self-reflection and awareness that assisted Koshiol's growth throughout her young adult life.

Download or read book Subterranean Twin Cities written by Greg A. Brick and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Subterranean Twin Cities, geologist, historian, and urban speleologist Greg Brick takes us on an adventurous, educational, and-thankfully-sanitary journey beneath the streets and into the myriad tunnels, caves, and industrial spaces that make up the Twin Cities' fascinating and surprisingly vast underground landscape. In this groundbreaking tour, the first of its kind of the Twin Cities, Brick mines the stories that lie below the city surface.

Download or read book Insiders Guide to Twin Cities written by Jason Gabler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insiders' Guide to Twin Cities is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to Minneapolis and St. Paul. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of the cities and the surrounding environs.

Download or read book In the Dark written by Brian Freeman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brutal unsolved murder case from Jonathan Stride's past is reopened and deadly secrets emerge, in bestselling author Freeman's newest thriller.

Download or read book Twin Cities written by Charles Adams and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Black Minneapolis cop and inner-city football coach faces racial reckoning after the murder of George Floyd inflames his city and forces him to explore the tensions in the neighborhood where he grew up. Charles Adams is a product of the Minneapolis’s North Side, the city’s poorest neighborhood, and of North High, the state’s poorest school. After graduation he joined the Minneapolis Police Department, overcoming racial prejudice within its ranks to become his alma mater’s resource officer. North High was in rapid decline, a building designed for 1,700 students down to about 200. Once the centerpiece of the community, the school was on the verge of folding. Then something magical happened. Adams stepped in as football coach, and transformed a winless team into state champions. With that success came renewed pride in the school and neighborhood both. As North High began to thrive, Adams was hailed as a model of what a Black man from a Black neighborhood might be. That lasted until Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, which brought a rain of chaos upon Minneapolis. Working to maintain order in a riotous city, Adams feared for his life, his relationship to his community forever changed. The memoir of a life divided, Twin Cities is the story of what happens when a man gives everything to his city in an effort to help kids envision a better future, only to have his city turn on him in response. Adams navigates the space between reality and perception, between law and justice, with the insight and wisdom he has gained from his unique experience.

Download or read book Hi Harry written by Judy Newton and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Judy first began corresponding with an elderly man in Belfast in 2001, she was a former teacher who was interested in learning more about Ireland. She and Harry exchanged almost daily emails and immediately became friends. Harry soon realized Judy needed to tell someone about her abusive marriage to find an inner peace. He encouraged her to write her story. Hi Harry is the true story of how alcohol turned a loving husband into the violent man Judy was married to for ten years. He was a Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde personality, keeping Judy forever on edge: Who would he be today? The abuse she suffered slowly escalated until finally she knew the next time Mr. Hyde appeared, he would kill her. Emotionally destroyed, with little self-worth or confidence left, Judy relied on her dedication to her four children to find the courage to escape and make a new life for her family. Hi Harry is her story—a true testament to the power of a mother’s love.

Download or read book Civil Aeronautics Board Reports written by United States. Civil Aeronautics Board and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Seeing written by Chai Jing and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Katy Tur, Jane Pauley, and Peter Jennings, Chai Jing shows us the power of television news and the complex challenges of reporting in China. After becoming a radio DJ in college and a TV interviewer at 23, Chai Jing is thrust into the spotlight when she takes on a position as a news anchor at CCTV, China’s official state news channel. Chai struggles to find her role in a male-dominated news organization, discovering corruption, courage, and hope within the people she meets while honing her talent for getting people to reveal themselves to her. In eleven propulsive and deeply felt chapters, Chai recounts her investigations into SARS quarantine wards, a childhood suicide epidemic, the human cost of industrial pollution, and organized crime, while looking back at her growth as a journalist. Chai Jing shares the philosophical and emotional complexity of the ethical challenges that are always present in such revealing reporting, while she also finds hope and purpose, time and again, in the vital and intimate stories of her interviewees. This candid memoir from one of China’s best-known journalists provides a rare window into the issues which concern us most, and which face contemporary China and the whole world.

Download or read book Farm Mechanics written by Bernard Lyman Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book No Rest for a Heartbreaker written by Claire Chwalek and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Rest for a Heartbreaker By: Claire Chwalek Meet Cassidy Cahill and delve into the ups and downs of her relationships, friendships, and family throughout a portion of her life. She finds herself as she ages, learning many things about life and love. It is romantic in all the ways rom-coms can be, but it also diverts from the normal tropes, specifically destabilizing the idea of soulmates and fate/destiny. Readers can relate to the way she reacts to both every day occurrences and when life throws a curveball her way.

Download or read book Surviving Chadwick written by Phillip Wilhite and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CALIFORNIA, 1973. After being awarded a scholarship to attend an elite boarding school in Ojai, California, fifteen-year-old Isaiah Issacson is plucked from his inner-city Oakland neighborhood and thrust into a newand frightening atmosphere. But Isaiah doesnt embrace this new life. Most of the students at Chadwick are rich, spoiled, and white. Unfortunately, his parents, Southern-born and part of the 1950s exodus by African Americans to the West Coast, view Isaiahs scholarship as an opportunity to fulfill Martin Luther Kings dreams of racial and educational equality. Too bad Isaiah doesnt see it that way. Coming from a drastically different background, Isaiah has a difficult time relating to any of the students, and he soon clashes with instructors and fellow classmates. After he meets the beautiful and intelligent Jenaye Gardner and begins a promising love affair, things begin to spiral more out of control. Isaiah has only one goal in mind: to get kicked out of the most elite boarding school in California. Fifteen years later. Isaiah is at a turning point in his life, successful in business, he has the opportunity to attend the Chadwick reunion, and to reconnect with his first love. Will this be the beginning of the next chapter in his life?

Download or read book Visions of Justice written by Mike Holst and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torch Brennan was bored with his early retirement from the Minneapolis Police force. He couldn't forget the many years of living life on the edge that he?d once led, and how now, it seemed he had little purpose in life. Than came a chance to go back and work on a cold case. It was a case that had eluded him for years, and the one ?blemish? on his stellar record. They said it was ?new evidence evidence that would shed a convincing light on who had done it?and so the hunt was back on. Then, along with the evidence, came a new twist. The man, whom he had pursued for so many years, looked more and more innocent with each passing day. Suddenly, he was pursuing him, not to convict him, but to help him prove his innocence. Either way, guilty or innocent, he had to find him. In his search for Barry, the evidence trail would take Torch from the streets of Minneapolis to the primitive forests of Alaska and back again. For Barry, proving his innocence was as elusive as it was for the police to prove his guilt, until his subconscious mind slowly started to unravel and bit-by-bit the truth was revealed. This is Mike Holst's tenth published fiction novel. As always, it is a story that is written so vividly and real that you will forget its fiction, and wonder when and where it happened. In addition to being an author, Mike lives and writes in North Central Minnesota, where he has been long active as a columnist and freelance writer.

Download or read book The Millers and the Saints written by Rex D. Hamann and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the 1902-1960 rivalry between the Minneapolis Millers and St. Paul Saints, this book focuses on the 18 seasons during which one or the other of the Twin City rivals captured the American Association championship. Each chapter includes an introduction explaining the general status of the pennant-winning team--including biographical information on key players--followed by detailed game accounts and a season summary with critical statistics. Written in the present tense, the game accounts are the meat of the book, immersing the reader in the action of baseball as it was played decades ago. Woven into the game accounts are items of interest--player inquiries, team standings in the pennant race--which help the reader develop a range of viewpoints.

Download or read book True Love written by Cazoel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hector Longman, the black elegant and handsome young man and Angel Louw, the brilliant, intelligent and beautiful young white girl have known each other since from their childhood. He has been in love with her but it has been a secret in his heart for a long time until he could not keep anymore. They then badly and madly felled in love with each other. Mr Louw, Angel's father wasn't pleased about the choice of his daughter; he needed her to be married by a white and rich man. He tried by all his mighty to destroy their relationship but Hector persisted on loving Angel with true love that convinced Mr Louw to bless him on marrying his one in million girl, Angel Louw.