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Book The Shooting of Rabbit Wells

Download or read book The Shooting of Rabbit Wells written by William Loizeaux and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a frigid winter's night in 1972, in a peaceful and prosperous New Jersey community, William "Rabbit" Wells was accidentally killed by a policeman. What put a white cop and a black youth on a tragic collision course? Looking for the "why" of Rabbit's death, William Loizeaux tells a story of such stirring empathy and terrible beauty that it reaches out to us across a quarter century and cries out its relevance for today.

Book The Shooting of Rabbit Wells

Download or read book The Shooting of Rabbit Wells written by William Loizeaux and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What put a white cop and a black youth on a tragic collision course? This moving account is more timely than ever. On a frigid winter’s night in 1973, William “Rabbit” Wells, a young man of mixed race, was shot and killed by a white policeman named William Sorgie outside a bar in Bernardsville, New Jersey. The shooting, later ruled an accident, stunned local residents and the nation. For thirty years, author William Loizeaux, who went to high school with Rabbit, hasn’t been able to forget what happened. With clear-eyed compassion and unsparing honesty, The Shooting of Rabbit Wells re-creates the lives of both victim and killer, and the forces that brought them together. At the story’s center is Rabbit Wells himself. Part African-American, part Cherokee, part white, Rabbit never knew his father and was neglected by his mother. Here is a memoir, a biography, and the story of a writer’s search for the scattered remains of a catastrophe. A stirring and powerful document, it is also a work of terrible beauty: by giving us the life of Rabbit Wells, Loizeaux makes us understand—and feel—how unacceptable and irreparable the loss was, and how deeply the bullet that killed him is lodged in the American identity.

Book Into the Wind

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Loizeaux
  • Publisher : One Elm Books
  • Release : 2021-03-02
  • ISBN : 1947159461
  • Pages : 157 pages

Download or read book Into the Wind written by William Loizeaux and published by One Elm Books. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A character-driven novel about the unlikely friendship between a 10-year-old boy and an elderly woman. The old woman badgers the boy into taking her sailing, but when the weather turns bad, it becomes a wild sail. It becomes the last trip before she goes into the hospital where she dies: but not before the two of them share memories of their last sail together. Hazel helps build the boy's confidence during a tough time in his home life. Both moving and joyful, Into the Wind is a poignant story about loss and love in a boy's life, and the surprising and sustaining bonds that can grow between the old and young.

Book Anna

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Loizeaux
  • Publisher : Arcade Publishing
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9781559701976
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Anna written by William Loizeaux and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several weeks after Anna's death, William Loizeaux began a journal, a chronicle of dates and anniversaries, of memories and remembrances. Anna: A Daughter's Life is at once an effort to recreate her life and to measure his grief, to find reasons to go on while knowing the past would not let go its hold. Who can make sense of the death of a child? Where is the design to the enormity of that loss? Anna's death tore a hole in the fabric of her parents' lives, forcing them to confront what had seemed unimaginable.

Book Clarence Cochran  A Human Boy

Download or read book Clarence Cochran A Human Boy written by William Loizeaux and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Clarence Cochran wakes up one evening, he's shocked. Where are his antennae and his beautiful wings? And what is this strange pair of shorts that he's wearing? Clarence has changed from a cockroach into a tiny human boy! The other cockroaches are disgusted. Only Clarence's mother understands. "Be who you are," she says. "You will do wonderful things." And when the entire roach community – happily living in the messy Gilmartin kitchen – is threatened with extermination, Clarence does, setting out on a dangerous journey to enlist the help of ten-year-old Mimi Gilmartin in a quest to save his family and friends. Expressive drawings add visual punch to this funny, thoughtprovoking modern fable that shows how even the most hostile species can find a way to coexist.

Book Black Nonfiction Books  Their Authors  and Their Publishers

Download or read book Black Nonfiction Books Their Authors and Their Publishers written by Harry B. Dunbar and published by Queenhyte Pub. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tumble Inn

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Loizeaux
  • Publisher : Syracuse University Press
  • Release : 2014-09-11
  • ISBN : 0815653034
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book The Tumble Inn written by William Loizeaux and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of their high school teaching jobs and discouraged by their failed attempts at conceiving a child, Mark and Fran Finley decide they need a change in their lives. Abruptly, they leave their friends and family in suburban New Jersey to begin anew as innkeepers on a secluded lake in the Adirondack Mountains. There they muddle through their first season at the inn, serving barely edible dinners to guests, stranding themselves in chest-deep snowdrifts, and somehow, miraculously, amid swarms of ravenous black flies, conceiving a child, a girl they name Nat. Years later, when Mark and Fran are nearing middle age and Nat is a troubled teenager, Mark’s life is ripped apart, forever changed, and he must choose between returning to his old home in New Jersey or trying to rebuild what is left of his life and family in the place of his greatest joy and deepest sorrow. The Tumble Inn is a moving drama about home and about the fragility and resilience of love.

Book Dynamic Well Testing in Petroleum Exploration and Development

Download or read book Dynamic Well Testing in Petroleum Exploration and Development written by Huinong Zhuang and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data accumulation, analysis, and interpretation technology are critical in hydrocarbon exploration and extraction to maximize petroleum recovery and development. Dynamic Well Testing in Petroleum Exploration and Development presents modern petroleum exploration and well testing interpretation methods, emphasizing their application and development under special geological and development conditions in oil and gas fields. More than 100 case studies and 250 illustrations—many in full color—aid in the retention of key concepts. Extensive analysis of pressure data acquired from well testing through advanced interpretation software can be tailored to specific reservoir environments. This timely, state-of-the-art reference will be of particular interest to petroleum geoscientists and engineers working for oil and gas companies worldwide. Includes graphs that can be used as templates to accurately plot hydrocarbon reservoir data accumulation, analysis, and interpretation Field-practical case studies break information down into real-world examples which can be put into practice—not found in other books on well testing Illustrations—many in full color—help you retain key concepts

Book Charles Manson  Coming Down Fast

Download or read book Charles Manson Coming Down Fast written by Simon Wells and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *The definitive and bestselling account of Charles Manson* 'A sprawling, fast-paced account of Manson's life' The Times 'Fascinating' Daily Mail __________ Los Angeles, California. 1969. Seven people are found shot, stabbed and beaten to death in Beverley Hills. Among them is actress Sharon Tate, the beautiful young wife of Roman Polanski. It soon became apparent that a happyish cult known as 'The Family' was responsible. Their charismatic and manipulative leader, Charles Manson, took the public's imagination. As the world watched in morbid fascination, the sensational and horrifying details of the case slowly emerged. Coming Down Fast is the definitive and most revealing account of one of the most notorious criminals in history, charting Manson's terrifying rise from petty-criminal to one of the most recognisable icons in criminal history. Including never-before-published photographs, this is the definitive book about Charles Manson.

Book Manual of British Rural Sports     Fifth Edition  Etc  With Plates

Download or read book Manual of British Rural Sports Fifth Edition Etc With Plates written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Uncommon Prayer Book  Fantasy and Horror Classics

Download or read book The Uncommon Prayer Book Fantasy and Horror Classics written by M. R. James and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not publishing his first collection of short stories - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) - until the age of 42. Modern scholars now see James as having redefined the ghost story for the 20th century and he is seen as the founder of the 'antiquarian ghost story'. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions with a brand new introductory biography of the author.

Book Anna

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Loizeaux
  • Publisher : Arcade Publishing
  • Release : 2011-04-18
  • ISBN : 9781611451153
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Anna written by William Loizeaux and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exorcism of grief, an outpouring of a father's fiercely tender love and an agnostic's attempt to come to terms with what seems a senseless, devastating tragedy.

Book Illustrated Sporting   Dramatic News

Download or read book Illustrated Sporting Dramatic News written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Download or read book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil written by John Berendt and published by Random House. This book was released on 1994-01-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.

Book Harper s New Monthly Magazine

Download or read book Harper s New Monthly Magazine written by Henry Mills Alden and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important American periodical dating back to 1850.

Book The Tumble Inn

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Loizeaux
  • Publisher : Syracuse University Press
  • Release : 2014-09-11
  • ISBN : 9780815610427
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Tumble Inn written by William Loizeaux and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of their high school teaching jobs and discouraged by their failed attempts at conceiving a child, Mark and Fran Finley decide they need a change in their lives. Abruptly, they leave their friends and family in suburban New Jersey to begin anew as innkeepers on a secluded lake in the Adirondack Mountains. There they muddle through their first season at the inn, serving barely edible dinners to guests, stranding themselves in chest-deep snowdrifts, and somehow, miraculously, amid swarms of ravenous black flies, conceiving a child, a girl they name Nat. Years later, when Mark and Fran are nearing middle age and Nat is a troubled teenager, Mark’s life is ripped apart, forever changed, and he must choose between returning to his old home in New Jersey or trying to rebuild what is left of his life and family in the place of his greatest joy and deepest sorrow. The Tumble Inn is a moving drama about home and about the fragility and resilience of love.

Book The Petroleum Gazette

Download or read book The Petroleum Gazette written by Frank F. Murray and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: