Download or read book Slipping the Noose written by Meg Caddy and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rollicking historical novel from Australian writer Meg Caddy takes us into the world of real-life pirate Anne Bonny, picking up her story where history left off.
Download or read book The Thirteenth Turn written by Jack Shuler and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a rope, a symbol, and rough justice in America. The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one that is all too deeply connected to America's past -- and present. The last man to be hanged in the United States was Billy Bailey, who was executed in Delaware in 1996 for committing a double murder. Even today, hanging is still legal, in certain situations, in New Hampshire and Washington. And the noose remains a potent cultural symbol. An incident in Jena, Louisiana, in 2006, in which nooses were used to menace black students, made national news. Yet little has changed: according to author Jack Shuler, there have been nearly 100 "noose incidents" just in the last two years. The Thirteenth Turn unravels these stories, from Judas Iscariot, perhaps the most infamous hanged man, to the killing of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the murderers at the heart of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and beyond. In his travels across America, Shuler traces the evolution of this dark practice. As he investigates the death of John Brown, or the 1930 lynching that inspired the song "Strange Fruit," he finds that the very places that perpetrated these acts now seek to forget them. Shuler's account is a kind of shadow history of America: a reminder that vigilantes and hangmen play a crucial role in our national story. The Thirteenth Turn is a courageous and searching book that reminds us where we come from, and what is lost if we forget.
Download or read book Tying the Noose written by Steve Higgs and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Devil s Ballast written by Meg Caddy and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cutthroat and daring new YA release, featuring one of history’s greatest anti-heroines.
Download or read book The Noose Of A New Moon written by Helen Harper and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devereau Webb is in uncharted territory. He thought he knew what he was doing when he chose to enter London's supernatural society but he's quickly discovering that his new status isn't welcome to everyone. He's lived through hard times before and he's no stranger to the murky underworld of city life. But when he comes across a young werewolf girl who's not only been illegally turned but who has also committed two brutal murders, he will discover just how difficult life can be for supernaturals - and also how far his own predatory powers extend. The Noose Of A New Moon follows on from the events in Midnight Smoke, the third book in the the Firebrand series although it can be read separately.
Download or read book Noose and Hook written by Lynn Emanuel and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2010-03-14 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I have long believed that Lynn Emanuel is one of the most innovative and subversive poets now writing in America. Her aesthetic and artistic choices consistently invoke a complex hybrid poetics that radically reimagines the shape of our poetic discourse. The brilliant, shattering, and disturbing poems of Noose and Hook are not only wry critiques of recent poetic and cultural activity in this country but also compelling signposts to what yet might be possible in our future. This is Lynn Emanuel's most exquisite and powerful book yet.”—David St. John
Download or read book Noose Jumpers written by Trevor H. Cooley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Noose Jumper Era - A chaotic time of lawlessness in the Old West when a growing tide of outlaws engaged in a race to become famous. Three young men emerge from a small town in the territory of New Mexico. They are bound by a pact and guided by mysterious powerful beings that no one else can see. Together they must face off against the Sheriff of Puerta de la Muerte, a wicked man who cannot be struck by bullets. Are they destined to become legends, or are they just mere Noose Jumpers? Noose Jumpers is written by Trevor H, Cooley, author of the highly acclaimed Bowl of Souls series.
Download or read book The Money Noose Jon Corzine and the Collapse of MF Global written by Scott E.D. Skyrm and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Skyrm makes complex financial scenarios accessible to all interested readers in an informative and entertaining manner. We can all learn something from this book.” —Thomas Peterffy, Chairman, CEO, and President of Interactive Brokers “Skyrm put together the story of MF Global like no one else could in providing the ultimate autopsy covering destructive financial engineering that’s played such a big role in our capital markets.” —Lawrence G. McDonald, New York Times best selling author of A COLOSSAL FAILURE OF COMMON SENSE “God is in the details...first come the reporters, then the lawyers. Skyrm’s book is the necessary antidote. Only someone who has ‘done’ it can explain it. Perhaps the best ‘counterfactual’ rationale for reading The Money Noose: If John Corzine had been able to before, there would likely have been no after.” —Stan Jonas, Managing Partner, Axiom Management Partners In 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. MF Global was bankrupt less than a year after the law’s passage. THE MONEY NOOSE is a general accounting of the facts that led to MF Global’s collapse, as well as the story of the major players involved. It is a chaotic story, one in which individual actions taken in and of themselves are relatively minor. But the sum of those individual actions equal the same end result. This book is designed to tell the story of MF Global, what went wrong and how things came to an abrupt end. In those regards, it’s an incredible story.
Download or read book Noose and Collar written by Joel Eliot Helander and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1307 Days Under the Noose written by Rafail Kosovsky and published by Rafail Kosovsky. This book was released on 2008 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true and amazing story of a Jew surviving in German captivity during World War II.
Download or read book A Noose of Light written by Seamus Cullen and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1986 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hymns of the Atharvaveda written by Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Barbed Wire Noose written by Harold Adams and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a blizzard envelops a Depression-era South Dakota town, Detective Carl Wilcox investigates a bizarre murder whose trail confronts him with the horrors of the past
Download or read book Waer written by Meg Caddy and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As night fell, something stirred the darkness. Birds shrieked, rising into the air as the peace cracked and fell apart. Flashes of crimson uniform cut the smothering black of the woods. The smell of smoke lifted through the boughs and choked the leaves. A drum beat out a steady pulse as soldiers tore over the dead leaf matter, hacking their way through the web of forest. The prisoner ran. When Lowell Sencha finds the strange girl lying as if dead on the riverbank, he is startled to find that she is like them: waer. Human, but able to assume the form of a wolf. The Sencha family’s small community has kept itself sequestered and unnoticed, free from persecution. The arrival of a fellow traveller, and a hunted one at that, threatens their very survival. Sure enough, the soldiers of the blood-purist Daeman Leldh soon descend on the village searching for her, burning and slaughtering. Lowell and the mysterious stranger are among the few to escape. And now they must find their way to the city of Luthan where, she says, they will find people to help them bring down Daeman Leldh. If she can persuade them not to kill her. This brilliant young adult fantasy debut from young Australian writer Meg Caddy sees the emergence of an exciting new talent in speculative fiction.
Download or read book The Art of Attack written by Henry Swainson Cowper and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hymns of the Atharvaveda written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twisted Noose written by Jon Sharpe and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1983 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wild western beauty leads Skye Fargo on the trail to a hangman's noose with a different twist ...
