Download or read book The Butcher s Son written by Dorien Grey and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick Hardesty, working for a public relations firm, is assigned the task of helping elect a rabidly homophobic police chief governor. Dick’s being gay himself, coupled with rumors that the chief had one of his identical twin sons murdered for being gay doesn’t make Dick’s job easier. He soon finds himself caught up in a whirlwind of politics, drag clubs, a do-good reverend’s homeless shelter, and an arsonist torching the city’s gay bars.
Download or read book The Butcher s Son written by Grant McKenzie and published by Polis Books. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For one man, the past will never stay buried. Ian Quinn has spent his life protecting children from the monsters that live among us. As a Child Protection Officer, Ian places their lives above his own, and has no qualms about getting his hands dirty when it comes to protecting those who can't protect themselves. Years ago, Ian was unable to protect his own daughter when she was killed, and has channeled the anger and sadness into his vocation. Ian has tried to bury his past. But the past is far from done with him. Ian's own father left years ago, leaving Ian and his sister alone. But out of the blue Ian is called by an attorney, claiming his father has recently died and named Ian in his will. Ian had assumed his father was long dead, and confused as to what he could possibly be needed for. When Ian goes to the lawyer's office, he is given three items: The first is a key. The second is a deed to his grandfather's old butcher shop. The Third is a letter from his from his father that reads simply and cryptically: "Sorry for everything, son, but it's your burden now."
Download or read book The Butcher s Sons written by Scott Alexander Hess and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Reviews Best Book awardee, The Butcher's Sons is a gritty, intimate portrait of three young Irish-American brothers whose lives irrevocably change during a heat wave in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, circa 1930. Bound by blood but separated by forbidden secrets, brothers-Dickie, Walt and Adlai-run a butcher shop for their alcoholic father, whose broken spirit has isolated him from the world. When Dickie makes a rash decision, involving an organized crime family, a chain of events are triggered changing the brothers' lives and forcing them to come together-at first, with a sense of camaraderie, but ultimately, with something much fiercer, more brutal. Shot through with themes of honor, betrayal, race and sexual identity "Hess' masterful, elegant style weaves these diverse elements into a seamless narrative that touches the heart of what it means to be human." With a new introduction by journalist Ian MacAllen. "A brutal and lyrically gorgeous story of three Irish brothers' during the 1930s as they transgress social and moral norms to satisfy their desires, despite the dire consequences." - John Copenhaver, Lambda Literary Review "At once gritty, poetic, and romantic, Hess' masterful, elegant style weaves these diverse elements into a seamless narrative that touches the heart of what it means to be human." - Kirkus Reviews "This more modern retelling of King Lear brings the kingdom down to the streets, but the heart-wrenching cruelty of fate shows up in the same Shakespearean way...Hess weaves all three of these points of view together under the sweltering heat of Hell's Kitchen in the 1930's. The Butcher's Sons is told with such vibrancy and aroma, you can almost feel the sweat seeping out of your skin." - Luke Goldstein Blogcritics Editors Pick 5 Star Review
Download or read book Son of a Butcher written by Reid Matthias and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Son of a Butcher is book IV of the Amicable circle which continues the narrative of the small town of Amicable, Iowa. It details the story of Butcher's son, J.T., who possesses almost miraculous visual powers. With these, he notices, during his father's funeral, his Watcher. Intrigued by this newcomer to town, J.T. and his new best friend, Murgatroyd MacDonald, a young English immigrant, attempt to discover the identity of the Watcher and ultimately if his intensions are good. Throughout Son of a Butcher, the reader will find the spectrum of emotions similar to the rest of the Amicable Circle but with a true nail-biting finale. Will the people of Amicable uncover the Watcher's designs, or will Rhonda, the butcher's wife, be pulled under by the malevolence of a dark plan?
Download or read book The Butcher s Son written by Matthew Madrigale and published by Infinity Pub. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the coming-of-age-story about Matt Dante whose Charles Dickens-like tale portrays a dysfunctional family and the banished Dante Butchers whom he is forbidden to meet.Dante journeys downward toward insanity as he encounters depression, alcoholism, suicide, lust, loneliness, and adolescent sexual frustration. Like all great classical heros, Matt uses his anguish and inner pain to escape his mediocre destiny by using his imagination to create a fantasy world; escaping reality, the horror of his hometown and the Dante family, where his only savior is a cigar chomping butcher.
Download or read book The Butcher s Boy written by Kenny Dima and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy finds a job at the local butcher's shop during the long school summer holiday. He meets the butcher's son who has had a tragic childhood and is in desperate need of a friend. The moment they cast eyes on each other the chemistry begins to blend. It's love at first sight for these two teenagers but how can they remain together when Jimmy's mum wants to move abroad.
Download or read book The Butcher s Boy written by Thomas Perry and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003-06-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Edgar Award–winning novel by the “master of nail-biting suspense”(Los Angeles Times) Thomas Perry exploded onto the literary scene with The Butcher’s Boy. Back in print by popular demand, this spectacular debut, from a writer of “infernal ingenuity” (The New York Times Book Review), includes a new Introduction by bestselling author Michael Connelly. Murder has always been easy for the Butcher’s Boy—it’s what he was raised to do. But when he kills the senior senator from Colorado and arrives in Las Vegas to pick up his fee, he learns that he has become a liability to his shadowy employers. His actions attract the attention of police specialists who watch the world of organized crime, but though everyone knows that something big is going on, only Elizabeth Waring, a bright young analyst in the Justice Department, works her way closer to the truth, and to the frightening man behind it. Praise for The Butcher’s Boy “A stunning debut . . . a brilliantly plotted thriller.”—The Washington Post “A shrewdly planned and executed thriller.”—The New York Times Book Review “Thomas Perry has hit the mark.”—Houston Chronicle “Totally enthralling.”—The New Yorker
Download or read book The Butcher written by Jennifer Hillier and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Creep and Freak whom #1 bestselling author Jeffery Deaver praised as a “top-of-the-line thriller writer,” a high-octane novel about lethal secrets that refuse to die—until they kill again. A rash of grisly serial murders plagued Seattle until the infamous “Beacon Hill Butcher” was finally hunted down and killed by police chief Edward Shank in 1985. Now, some thirty years later, Shank, retired and widowed, is giving up his large rambling Victorian house to his grandson Matt, whom he helped raise. Settling back into his childhood home and doing some renovations in the backyard to make the house feel like his own, Matt, a young up-and-coming chef and restaurateur, stumbles upon a locked crate he’s never seen before. Curious, he picks the padlock and makes a discovery so gruesome it will forever haunt him… Faced with this deep, dark family secret, Matt must decide whether to keep what he knows buried in the past, go to the police, or take matters into his own hands. Meanwhile Matt’s girlfriend, Sam, has always suspected that her mother was murdered by the Beacon Hill Butcher—two years after the supposed Butcher was gunned down. As she pursues leads that will prove her right, Sam heads right into the path of Matt’s terrible secret. “A tense, suspenseful, thoroughly creepy thriller” (Booklist), The Butcher will keep you guessing until the bitter, bloody end. Don’t miss this “thrill ride that will have your attention from start to finish” (Suspense Magazine).
Download or read book The Butcher s Son written by Jeremy Good and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-17 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rock-star, a music archaeologist and a Neo-Nazi - something, or someone, ties them together.1942 - A Bavarian castle explodes, killing the new Führer, Heinrich Himmler. Among the dead - SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. The only survivor - a Jew by the name of Benjamin Bernstein, and the only one who really knows what happened that night.1976 - Heydrich's widow dies in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her son Jose, a Professor of Music Archaeology, discovers two safety deposit boxes and their grisly contents. For him, Europe and an enigmatic rock star hold the key to uncover the truth of the past and what his parents really did during the war. What he discovers is worse than he could have possibly imagined.In the end it is Jose who has to stop the inevitable finale of what was begun thirty-four years previously - the resurrection of the Fourth Reich!Artist, George Underwood, writes of The Butcher's Son; "Good's writing style is brilliant. He captures the atmosphere of the dark dealings of the Neo-Nazis fantastically well."
Download or read book Was Nicholas Ap Roberts that Butcher s Son of Stratford upon Avon who is Recorded by Aubrey as Having Been an Acquaintance of Shakespeare in the Early Days of that Great Poet And was Shakespeare an Apprentice to Griffith Ap Roberts Two Shakespearian Questions Suggested by J O H MS Note written by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Butcher s Crossing written by John Williams and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Gabe Polsky. In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
Download or read book The Butcher s Tale Murder and Anti Semitism in a German Town written by Helmut Walser Smith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-11-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most dramatic explorations of a German town in the grip of anti-Semitic passion ever written. In 1900, in a small Prussian town, a young boy was found murdered, his body dismembered, the blood drained from his limbs. The Christians of the town quickly rose up in violent riots to accuse the Jews of ritual murder—the infamous blood-libel charge that has haunted Jews for centuries. In an absorbing narrative, Helmut Walser Smith reconstructs the murder and the ensuing storm of anti-Semitism that engulfed this otherwise peaceful town. Offering an instructive examination of hatred, bigotry, and mass hysteria, The Butcher's Tale is a modern parable that will be a classic for years to come. Winner of the Fraenkel Award and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2002.
Download or read book Dead Man s Hand written by James J. Butcher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of his renowned father, James J. Butcher’s debut novel is a brilliant urban fantasy about a young man who must throw out the magical rule book to solve the murder of his former mentor. On the streets of Boston, the world is divided into the ordinary Usuals, and the paranormal Unorthodox. And in the Department of Unorthodox Affairs, the Auditors are the magical elite, government-sanctioned witches with spells at their command and all the power and prestige that comes with it. Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby is…not one of those witches. After flunking out of the Auditor training program and being dismissed as “not Department material,” Grimsby tried to resign himself to life as a mediocre witch. But he can’t help hoping he’ll somehow, someway, get another chance to prove his skill. That opportunity comes with a price when his former mentor, aka the most dangerous witch alive, is murdered down the street from where he works, and Grimsby is the Auditors’ number one suspect. Proving his innocence will require more than a little legwork, and after forming a strange alliance with the retired legend known as the Huntsman and a mysterious being from Elsewhere, Grimsby is abruptly thrown into a life of adventure, whether he wants it or not. Now all he has to do is find the real killer, avoid the Auditors on his trail, and most importantly, stay alive.
Download or read book The Butcher s Daughter written by Victoria Glendinning and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman in Tudor England fends for herself after Henry VIII closes her abbey in this historical novel perfect for fans of Wolf Hall and Philippa Gregory. In 1535, England is hardly a wellspring of gender equality; it is a grim and oppressive age where women―even the privileged few who can read and write―have little independence. In The Butcher’s Daughter, it is this milieu that mandates Agnes Peppin, daughter of a simple country butcher, to leave her family home in disgrace and live out her days cloistered behind the walls of the Shaftesbury Abbey. But with her great intellect, she becomes the assistant to the Abbess and as a result integrates herself into the unstable royal landscape of King Henry VIII. As Agnes grapples with the complex rules and hierarchies of her new life, King Henry VIII has proclaimed himself the new head of the Church. Religious houses are being formally subjugated, monasteries dissolved, and the great Abbey is no exception to the purge. The cosseted world in which Agnes has carved out for herself a sliver of liberty is shattered. Now, free at last to be the master of her own fate, she descends into a world she knows little about, using her wits and testing her moral convictions against her need to survive by any means necessary . . . The Butcher’s Daughter is the riveting story of a young woman facing head-on the obstacles carefully constructed against her sex. This dark and affecting novel by award-winning author Victoria Glendinning intricately depicts the lives of women in the sixteenth century in a world dominated by men. “A fresh perspective [of the Tudor Era]. . . . Glendinning’s research convincingly depicts the bustling and frequently ruthless world of Henry VIII’s England.” —Library Journal “Psychologically astute . . . and evincing deep knowledge of Tudor-era society. Glendinning thoughtfully explores womanhood’s many facets.” —Booklist “Unabashedly feminist . . . elegant, intelligent, compulsively entertaining. . . . [The Butcher’s Daughter] demonstrates the power of individuals with inner strength and determination to work for change when able to choose a life of their own design.” —Foreword Reviews (starred review)
Download or read book The Butcher s Daughter written by Sandra Lesher Stuban and published by . This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandra Lesher Stuban has written an inspirational autobiography about dealing with a devastating medical diagnosis. She grew up in rural Pennsylvania, the daughter of a butcher who instilled in her the solid values she would use throughout her adult life. She attended nursing school in Philadelphia, and after graduation, she joined the Army. She shares her adventures as an Army nurse and her successful career as a military officer. She was serving as a Lieutenant Colonel, when, at the age of thirty-eight, she was diagnosed with a chronically progressive disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig's disease. She was given a prognosis of two to three years to live, and was medically retired from the Army. She advanced quickly from being a strong, physically fit military officer, to being a ventilator dependent quadriplegic. She shares this journey of progressive paralysis along with her insights on living with a disability. Her perspective on the importance of family and friends, dependence on caregivers, raising a young son, and having a strong survivor's attitude, will be a source of inspiration for anyone facing such an obstacle in the road. She has lived with ALS for fourteen years, and still counting!
Download or read book The Butcher s Boy written by Duncan Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abused and orphaned at thirteen, red-haired Rosso flees his Venetian village with only the clothes on his back and his brother's bitter threats in his ears. He becomes one of the hundreds of shadowy figures roaming the medieval Italian countryside, threatened by warring kingdoms, deadly plagues, and often one another. But Rosso is not one to give in to suffering or fear, and his new, independent life takes a turn for the better when he meets two fellow travelers who offer him the kind of family he never had. Rosso and his friends set out on a series of adventures that will test and bind them. The abused son of a butcher becomes a shepherd, a soldier, a monk, and even a spy. With each new adventure, this unlikely hero finds himself more deeply enmeshed in the intrigues that will define the future of the continent. Rosso is a delightful debut that reminds us that hope endures in every time and for every person who seeks it, even for those who seem invisible.
Download or read book The Butcher s Boy written by Michael Robb and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Readers Favorite Award Winner for "Horror Fiction" The Butcher's Boy (The Ballad of Billy Badass) Is a Paranormal/Murder-Mystery/Chiller. Thirty-one years ago, Buxly the Butcher went on trial for killing his entire family. Now Janet, a newly divorced nurse has unknowingly purchased the place where the crime took place. What happens when her eleven year old son and their overprotective Rottweiler learn that the place is haunted by the victims of that grisly act? Can young Michael fight through the madness and terror to figure out what really happened so long ago? If he does, maybe the tormented souls can be put to rest, but if he fails, he just might become one of them. With only the help of his babysitter, a burned out house painter, and his dog, Lucy Fur, Michael is about to try. The only problem is, not everyone is who they seem to be, even the dead.
