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Book The Hippie House

Download or read book The Hippie House written by Katherine Holubitsky and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "summer of love" is a time of idealistic freedom and experimentation for Emma, her cousin Megan, and the young people of Pike Creek. While her brother Eric's band practices in what Uncle Pat has dubbed the Hippie House, the girls suntan on their small lake and hitchhike into town to hang around the Drop-In Center. They find the growing crowd of long-haired musicians and hangers-on that begin to show up at the farm both enticing and a bit scary. The beginning of the school year brings excitement and change for Emma. But when eighteen-year-old Katie Russell disappears, her teenage sense of immortality is suddenly shattered. A month later, when Eric discovers Katie's body in the Hippie House, the entire community is thrown into turmoil. There are plenty of suspects in the brutal murder, but for months the case remains unsolved. And while others speculate, Eric agonizes that the killer may have been one of the many drifters who passed through the Hippie House during the summer.

Book Going to Hell to Get the Devil

Download or read book Going to Hell to Get the Devil written by J. Christopher Schutz and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1968 burning of the Lazy B Stables in Charlotte, North Carolina, attracted little notice beyond coverage in local media. By the mid-1970s, however, the fire had become the center of a contentious and dubious arson case against a trio of Black civil rights activists, who became known as the “Charlotte Three.” The charges against the men garnered interest from federal law enforcement agents, investigative journalists— including one who later earned a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the trials—numerous New Left and Black Power activists, and Amnesty International, which declared the defendants “political prisoners.” In Going to Hell to Get the Devil, J. Christopher Schutz offers the first comprehensive examination of this controversial case and its outcome. In the 1960s and 1970s, Charlotte’s leaders sought to portray their home as a placid, business-friendly, and racially moderate community. When New Left and Black Power activists threatened that stability, city leaders employed a variety of means to silence them, including the use of law enforcement against African Americans they deemed too zealous. In the Charlotte Three case, prosecutors paid prisoners for testimony against the Black activists on trial, resulting in their convictions with lengthy prison sentences. The unwanted publicity surrounding the case of the Charlotte Three became a critical pivot point in the Queen City’s post–World War II trajectory. Going to Hell to Get the Devil tells more than the story of an arson case; it also tells the story of the South’s future, as the fate of the Charlotte Three became emblematic of the decline of the African American freedom struggle and the causes it championed.

Book Journal   Federal Home Loan Bank Board

Download or read book Journal Federal Home Loan Bank Board written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Records   Briefs New York State Appellate Division

Download or read book Records Briefs New York State Appellate Division written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vagrant Nation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Risa Lauren Goluboff
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0199768447
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book Vagrant Nation written by Risa Lauren Goluboff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "People out of Place reshapes our understanding of the 1960s by telling a previously unknown story about often overlooked criminal laws prohibiting vagrancy. As Beats, hippies, war protesters, Communists, racial minorities, civil rights activists, prostitutes, single women, poor people, and sexual minorities challenged vagrancy laws, the laws became a shared constitutional target for clashes over radically different visions of the nation's future"--

Book Journal

Download or read book Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Not So Terrible Time at the Hippie Hotel

Download or read book My Not So Terrible Time at the Hippie Hotel written by Rosemary Graham and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced to go with her father to a house on Cape Cod where divorced parents spend "Together Time" with their kids, teenaged Tracy finds the experience bearable after meeting a local boy named Kevin.

Book My Life After Hate

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arno Michaels
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2010-11-07
  • ISBN : 0983129053
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book My Life After Hate written by Arno Michaels and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Geek to God  the novel

Download or read book From Geek to God the novel written by Eddy Parisi and published by Eddy V. Parisi. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something different! A romantic comedy with action, humor, some geeky nerdy stuff, mild erotic and the most interesting Christian fantasy you will ever read! The book touches back to the 60's highlighting a lot of the old 60's and 70's Rock-N-Roll. Based on real-life experiences. The first 60% is true, but there is a Yellow Brick road type of fantasy journey where the main character meets a series of people out of the Bible that educate him about his life, what happens after life and a very interesting fact about Hell!. You love Tommy because he has a heart of gold, he is a funny class clown and encounters a strange childhood in S. Calif. After high school he went on a road trip that is unbelievable and bizarre, but true experiences. After that he fell in love and had to get a job, with no education he bluffs his way into a high paying job, there he finds his inner genius and makes worldwide developments. Soon enough he is a master Geek! This eventually causes him loss of love and the ability to be social. He gets in an accident and has a yellow brick road type of journey where he meets characters and has an outer body experience, what happens after that you must read to find out! By the way, if you met Jesus, would you argue with him? Tommy did.

Book The Way You Make Me Feel

Download or read book The Way You Make Me Feel written by Nina Sharma and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nina Sharma’s thoughtful debut is equal parts memoir, criticism, and long-ranging conversation with a new friend. A love story for the ruminative reader that is generous with both scrutiny and romance.” —Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A hilarious and moving memoir in essays about love and allyship, told through one Asian and Black interracial relationship When Nina Sharma meets Quincy while hitching a ride to a friend’s Fourth of July barbecue, she spots a favorite book, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, in the back seat of his cramped car, and senses a sadness from him that’s all too familiar to her. She is immediately intrigued—who is this man? In The Way You Make Me Feel, Sharma chronicles her and Quincy’s love story, and in doing so, examines how their Black and Asian relationship becomes the lens through which she moves through and understands the world. In a series of sensual and sparkling essays, Sharma reckons with caste, race, colorism, and mental health, moving from her seemingly idyllic suburban childhood through her and Quincy’s early sweeping romance in the so-called postracial Obama years and onward to their marriage. Growing up, she hears her parents talk about the racism they experienced at the hands of white America—and as an adult, she confronts the complexities of American racism and the paradox of her family’s disappointment when she starts dating a Black man. While watching The Walking Dead, Sharma dives into the eerie parallels between the brutal death of Steven Yeun’s character and the murder of Vincent Chin. She examines the trailblazing Mira Nair film Mississippi Masala, revolutionary in its time for depicting a love story between an Indian woman and a Black man on screen, and considers why interracial relationships are so often assumed to include white people. And as she and Quincy decide whether to start a family, they imagine a universe in which Vice President Kamala Harris could possibly be their time-traveling daughter. Written with a keen critical eye and seamlessly weaving in history, pop culture, and politics, The Way You Make Me Feel reaffirms the idea that allyship is an act of true love.

Book The Perfect  100 000 House

Download or read book The Perfect 100 000 House written by Karrie Jacobs and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A home of one’s own has always been a cornerstone of the American dream, fulfilling like nothing else the desire for comfort, financial security, independence, and with a little luck, even a touch of distinctive character, or even beauty. But what we have come to regard as almost a national birthright has recently begun to elude more and more prospective homebuyers. Where housing is concerned, affordable and well-crafted rarely exist together. Or do they? For years, founding editor-in-chief of Dwell magazine and noted architecture and design critic Karrie Jacobs had been confronting this question both professionally and personally. Finally, she decided to see for herself whether it was possible to build the home of her own dreams for a reasonable sum. The Perfect $100,000 House is the story of that quest, a search that takes her from a two-week crash course in housebuilding in Vermont to a road trip of some 14,000 miles. In the course of her journey Jacobs encounters a group of intrepid and visionary architects and builders working to revolutionize the way Americans thinks about homes, about construction techniques, and about the very idea of community. By her trip’s end Jacobs, has not only had a practical and sobering education in the economics, aesthetics, and politics of homebuilding, but has been spurred to challenge her own deeply held beliefs about what constitutes an ideal home. The Perfect $100,000 House is a compelling and inspiring demonstration that we can live in homes that are sensible, modest, and beautiful.

Book Marching Through Georgia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jerry Ellis
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2002-09-01
  • ISBN : 9780820324258
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Marching Through Georgia written by Jerry Ellis and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1864 William Tecumseh Sherman made Civil War history with his infamous March to the Sea across Georgia. More than a century later, Jerry Ellis set out along the same route in search of the past and his southern and Cherokee heritage. On Ellis's trek by foot from Atlanta to Savannah, he confronts the contradictions and complexities of his native region as he reflects on his own. From Macon's fabled Goat Man to Arthur "Cowboy" Brown, the Savannah street musician, we meet a vibrant, unregimented people, all of whom, like Ellis, are looking for their place with one eye on the past and one on the present.

Book The Age of Youth in Argentina

Download or read book The Age of Youth in Argentina written by Valeria Manzano and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age of Youth in Argentina: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality from Peron to Videla"

Book The Family

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ed Sanders
  • Publisher : Hachette Books
  • Release : 2023-04-11
  • ISBN : 0306834227
  • Pages : 769 pages

Download or read book The Family written by Ed Sanders and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first complete, authoritative account of the career of Charles Manson. A terrifying book." -- New York Times Book Review In August of 1969, during two bloody evenings of paranoid, psychedelic savagery, Charles Manson and his dystopic communal family helped to wreck the dreams of the Love Generation. At least nine people were murdered, among them Sharon Tate, the young, beautiful, pregnant, actress and wife of Roman Polanski. Ed Sanders's unnerving and detailed look at the horror dealt by Manson and his followers is a classic of the true-crime genre. The Family was originally published in 1971 and remains the most meticulously researched account of the most notorious murders of the 1960s. “br> Using firsthand accounts from some of the family's infamous members, including the wizard himself, Sanders examines not only the origins and legacy of Manson and his family, but also the mysteries that persist. Completely revised and updated, this edition features 25 harrowing black-and-white photos from the investigation. "One of the best-researched, best-written, thoroughly-constructed, and eminently significant books of our times. . . . A masterpiece." -- Boston Phoenix

Book A House of Straw

Download or read book A House of Straw written by Carolyn Roberts and published by Carolyn Roberts. This book was released on 2002-04-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is written partially as an experience and partially to assist others who want to build their own natural home and are wondering what its like to deal with building codes and the various aspects of construction.

Book Baches   Holiday Homes to Rent South Island

Download or read book Baches Holiday Homes to Rent South Island written by and published by Baches & Holiday Homes. This book was released on with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ultimate Evil

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maury Terry
  • Publisher : Quirk Books
  • Release : 2021-04-20
  • ISBN : 1683692853
  • Pages : 545 pages

Download or read book The Ultimate Evil written by Maury Terry and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true-crime cult classic that inspired the Netflix docuseries The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness and a companion podcast, The Ultimate Evil follows journalist Maury Terry’s decades-long investigation into the terrifying truth behind the Son of Sam murders. On August 10, 1977, the NYPD arrested David Berkowitz for the Son of Sam murders that had terrorized New York City for over a year. Berkowitz confessed to shooting sixteen people and killing six with a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver, and the case was officially closed. Journalist Maury Terry was suspicious of Berkowitz’s confession. Spurred by conflicting witness descriptions of the killer and clues overlooked in the investigation, Terry was convinced Berkowitz didn’t act alone. Meticulously gathering evidence for a decade, he released his findings in the first edition of The Ultimate Evil. Based upon the evidence he had uncovered, Terry theorized that the Son of Sam attacks were masterminded by a Yonkers-based cult that was responsible for other ritual murders across the country. After Terry’s death in 2015, documentary filmmaker Josh Zeman (Cropsey, The Killing Season, Murder Mountain) was given access to Terry’s files, which form the basis of his docuseries with Netflix and a companion podcast. Taken together with The Ultimate Evil, which includes a new introduction by Zeman, these works reveal the stunning intersections of power, wealth, privilege, and evil in America—from the Summer of Sam until today.