Download or read book Secret Greenwich written by David C. Ramzan and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Greenwich explores the little-known and colourful history of Greenwich in South East London through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
Download or read book Secret Connecticut A Guide to the Weird Wonderful and Obscure written by Anastasia Mills Healy and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that there’s a Connecticut hotel room with a real helicopter inside? Can you guess who inspired the character of Indiana Jones, who was president before George Washington, and who flew before the Wright Brothers? Find the state’s most interesting and offbeat stories in Secret Connecticut: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. Are you interested in taking a safari or racing a chariot? Had you ever heard that Martin Luther King Jr. spent two summers in Connecticut? Included are more than eighty engaging stories that provide insight into one of America’s oldest states. Inside are tales of pirates, an underground prison, and a possessed doll. Aren’t you curious about the spectacular stained glass church that was unknowingly built in the shape of a fish by a famous architect? From the world’s smallest Native American reservation to professionally coiffed cows and a replica of Marie Antoinette’s palace, you’ll find intrigue around every corner of this small but surprising state. Author Anastasia Mills Healy brings to life the long history of intriguing people, places, and events that will fascinate even life long residents of Connecticut.
Download or read book Hotbed written by Joanna Scutts and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dazzling story of the Greenwich Village feminists who blazed the trail for the movement’s most radical ideas On a Saturday in New York City in 1912, around the wooden tables of a popular Greenwich Village restaurant, a group of women gathered, all of them convinced that they were going to change the world. It was the first meeting of “Heterodoxy,” a secret social club. Its members were passionate advocates of free love, equal marriage, and easier divorce. They were socialites and socialists; reformers and revolutionaries; artists, writers, and scientists. Their club, at the heart of America’s bohemia, was a springboard for parties, performances, and radical politics. But it was the women’s extraordinary friendships that made their unconventional lives possible, as they supported each other in pushing for a better world. Hotbed is the never-before-told story of the bold women whose audacious ideas and unruly acts transformed a feminist agenda into a modern way of life.
Download or read book Greenwich Park written by Katherine Faulkner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “gloriously tangled game of cat and mouse” (Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author) explores the anxieties of impending motherhood, unreliable friendship, and the high price of keeping secrets. Perfect for fans of the thrillers by Paula Hawkins and Robyn Harding. In this “outstanding debut thriller” (Booklist, starred review), Helen’s idyllic life—handsome architect husband, gorgeous Victorian house, and cherished baby on the way—begins to change the day she attends her first prenatal class. There, she meets Rachel, an unpredictable single mother-to-be who doesn’t seem very maternal: she smokes, drinks, and professes little interest in parenthood. Still, Helen is drawn to her. Maybe Rachel just needs a friend. And to be honest, Helen’s a bit lonely herself. At least Rachel is fun to be with. She makes Helen laugh, invites her confidences, and distracts her from her fears. But her increasingly erratic behavior is unsettling. And Helen’s not the only one who’s noticed. Her friends and family begin to suspect that her strange new friend may be linked to their shared history in unexpected ways. When Rachel threatens to expose a past crime that could destroy all of their lives, it becomes clear that there are more than a few secrets laying beneath the broad-leaved trees and warm lamplight of Greenwich Park.
Download or read book Murder in Greenwich Village written by Liz Freeland and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early twentieth-century New York, a young social butterfly discovers the darker side of the big city . . . First in this suspenseful historical mystery series. A year before World War I breaks out, the sidewalks of Manhattan are crowded with restless newcomers chasing the fabled American Dream, including a sharp-witted young woman who discovers a talent for investigating murder . . . New York City, 1913. Twenty-year-old Louise Faulk has fled Altoona, Pennsylvania, to start a life under dizzying lights. In a city of endless possibilities, it’s not long before the young ingénue befriends a witty aspiring model and makes a splash at the liveliest parties on the Upper East Side. But glitter fades to grit when Louise’s Greenwich Village apartment becomes the scene of a violent murder and a former suitor hustling for Tin Pan Alley fame hits front-page headlines as the prime suspect. Driven to investigate the crime, Louise finds herself stepping into the seediest corners of the burgeoning metropolis—where she soon discovers that failed dreams can turn dark and deadly . . . Praise for the Louise Faulk Mystery series “Maisie Dobbs fans will be pleased.”—Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Conrad s Secrets written by R. Hampson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conrad's Secrets explores a range of knowledges which would have been familiar to Conrad and his original readers. Drawing on research into trade, policing, sexual and financial scandals, changing theories of trauma and contemporary war-crimes, the book provides contexts for Conrad's fictions and produces original readings of his work.
Download or read book Joe Gould s Secret written by Joseph Mitchell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a notorious New York eccentric and the journalist who chronicled his life: “A little masterpiece of observation and storytelling” (Ian McEwan). Joseph Mitchell was a cornerstone of the New Yorker staff for decades, but his prolific career was shattered by an extraordinary case of writer’s block. For the final thirty-two years of his life, Mitchell published nothing. And the key to his silence may lie in his last major work: the biography of a supposed Harvard grad turned Greenwich Village tramp named Joe Gould. Gould was, in Mitchell’s words, “an odd and penniless and unemployable little man who came to this city in 1916 and ducked and dodged and held on as hard as he could for over thirty-five years.” As Mitchell learns more about Gould’s epic Oral History—a reputedly nine-million-word collection of philosophizing, wanderings, and hearsay—he eventually uncovers a secret that adds even more intrigue to the already unusual story of the local legend. Originally written as two separate pieces (“Professor Sea Gull” in 1942 and then “Joe Gould’s Secret” twenty-two years later), this magnum opus captures Mitchell at his peak. As the reader comes to understand Gould’s secret, Mitchell’s words become all the more haunting. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joseph Mitchell including rare images from the author’s estate.
Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Agent is set in the seedy world of Adolf Verloc, a storekeeper and double agent in late-Victorian London who pretends to sympathize with a group of international anarchists but reports on their activities to both the Russian embassy and the British government. As he is drawn further into a terrorist bombing plot, his family also becomes involved, with devastating consequences. Based on a real-life failed anarchist plot, The Secret Agent is both intimately engaged with its historical moment and profoundly relevant today. This new Broadview Edition helps to recreate the historical context that informed Conrad’s preoccupations with global terrorism, human degeneration, the relativity of time, and the position of women.
Download or read book Murder in Greenwich written by Mark Fuhrman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1999-01-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley, presents new evidence that points the finger of suspicion to Martha's neighbors, and discusses how the police mishandled the case and may have prevented the crime from being solved.
Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Conrad J. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. The main character of The Secret Agent, Mr Verloc keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.
Download or read book The Gods of Greenwich written by Norb Vonnegut and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget about Bernie Madoff or Gordon Gekko—there's a new villain on Wall Street... Norb Vonnegut didn't realize how close he skirted to non-fiction when he was writing his spectacular debut Top Producer. Penned before tumultuous revelations and scandals rocked the financial world in late 2008, Vonnegut's novel depicts, with an insider's solid knowledge, the tricks that the industry's real top producers pull in their frenzied pursuit of billions. Now Vonnegut sets his electrifying follow-up in the high-rolling world of hedge funds, lending his seasoned perspective to a riveting thriller. Jimmy Cusack is the tough kid from a blue-collar neighborhood who made good on Wall Street. Well, almost. After a sterling start to his career, things have soured. His hedge fund has collapsed. The bank is foreclosing on his upscale condominium. And his wife is two months pregnant. That's the good news. When Cusack takes a "must-have" job with Leeser Capital, a Greenwich fund impervious to the capital market woes, his real troubles begin. Vonnegut's unique insider's perspective and his intuitive, darkly humorous writing are once again on full display in this fast-talking suspense thriller. A high-stakes poker game of a book, The Gods of Greenwich is a timely and gripping read that will keep you glued to the edge of your seat until the last card is played.
Download or read book The Secret s Out written by Anthony Isaacs and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret's Out offers two program models-Footsteps for those incarcerated and Reentry for released parolees-to help avoid and decrease high numbers of behavioral problems by returning citizens currently experiencing addictions, socially diminished lifestyles, financial hardships, and homelessness. The Footsteps and Reentry models, once utilized and embraced, can restore a sense of purpose, stability, pride, and focus to our returning citizens. Footsteps has a unique program design (with ten specialized areas of focus) that deals with modern-day realities and addresses unique issues in practical and productive ways. Its holistic self-help approach empowers individuals to actively participate in the transformation of their lives. Its major goal is to assist our returning citizens, while incarcerated, with gaining the necessary skills and training to achieve independent living upon release. Correctional institutions must examine and address the unique issues men and women are confronted with when entering the prison. Often, these men and women are still suffering from immediate effects of broken relationships and shock of the newfound incarceration. As a result, it is often difficult for them to adjust to the many rules and regulations imposed on them by a structured environmental program. The Footsteps model is the foundation of the transformative thinking necessary for success upon release and the precursor for the second phase of the independent living framework: Reentry for returning citizens. The second phase of the transformation process is Reentry. The Reentry model was created and developed as a guide to assist the reentry community with having a framework for success with our returning citizens. It is very important that all reentry service providers speak the same language and have a clear understanding that there are different phases of the reentry process. In this way, we have a clear vision of the goals and can effectively monitor which phase a client has achieved and received services. The long-term goals of both program models are moving the clients toward independent living without risky behaviors that contribute to criminal mentality and negative outcomes. It is also important to assist the returning citizen in understanding what mental health is and how to maintain mental health wellness. There must be a discussion and exploration about the different ways stress and trauma impacts our well-being, as well as seeking and developing coping strategies, such as stress reduction activities. In addition, the overall physical health and well-being of the individual must be given a focus, and individuals must be educated about affordable methods of healthy eating to guide them in maintaining their physical health, healthy lifestyle, the importance of regular checkups, and having proper medical coverage and a primary-care physician. It is the ability to have and enjoy gainful employment and independent housing. It is the understanding of and enjoying a positive relationship with family and friends. The Secret's Out is a book that provides a blueprint for correctional administrators, correctional staff, public officials, reentry agencies and reentry organizations to use as a guide to effectively assist the men and women who have experienced incarceration and now seeking to gain the soft skills and training necessary to achieve employment and independent living.
Download or read book Circuit Breaking written by Robert Youdin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Circuit Breaking presents a comprehensive guide for clinicians to help people eliminate their substance abuse problems. Readers will learn that substance abuse is not caused by a disease, but is the consequence of their brains being chronically exposed to psychoactive substances that over time create brain circuits that drive compulsive substance abuse.
Download or read book Secret London written by Rachel Howard and published by Jonglez. This book was released on 2018 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to London's most peculiar and under-the-radar bars and restaurants is for serious foodies, intrepid drinkers, urban explorers -- and anyone curious to discover the infinite possibilities to have fun in London.
Download or read book Fish written by Harlan Walker and published by Oxford Symposium. This book was released on 1998 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of the discussions was not just fish but the diet of fishermen, and any foodstuff from the sea.
Download or read book Herd Register written by American Guernsey Cattle Club and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unseen London written by Mark Daly and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original edition of Unseen London. Peter Dazeley has gained access to the hidden interiors of some of London's most iconic buildings, from Tower Bridge to Battersea Power Station, Big Ben to the Old Bailey. His photographs of these buildings - some derelict, but many still working - are astonishing. Here is a collection of some 50 extraordinary locations, with a thoughtful text by Mark Daly which tells the story of how each of these places was created, how they are used, and what they reveal about the currents of power flowing through the city. Unseen London takes you backstage at some of the capital's great theatres, into the changing rooms of some of our greatest temples of sport, into the heart of the Establishment, the boiler room of the city's infrastructure and behind the scenes at some of the most opulent buildings in the Square Mile.
