Download or read book Waterproof Justice written by Grace Hawthorne and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its heyday, Basin Street was the Park Avenue of prostitution. In 1947, Minnie Tucker runs the last great sporting house in the French Quarter. Ruby Smith comes to New Orleans with a new husband and high hopes, only to find her marriage is a sham. She needs a job and a place to live and Minnie needs an honest bookkeeper, so she hires Ruby who easily manages both sets of Minnie’s books. Ruby is just settling into her new life when she sees Anthony Scapesi, son of Don Scapesi, head of the local Mafia, kill a man. As the only witness, Ruby knows she must leave town. She ends up in Waterproof, a backwater on the Mississippi where she thinks she can hide. True to her Choctaw heritage, Ruby is a woman of few words. However, she is drawn into small town life. Bitsy Verner, a self-appointed matchmaker wastes no time in introducing her to Sheriff Nate Houston, a widower. Nate has recently returned from WWII with a piece of shrapnel in his knee. He just wants peace and quiet to heal his mind and body. However, keeping peace in Waterproof isn’t easy. First there is Bud Garvey, the town troublemaker. Then there’s Luther. He is a permanent fixture in the sixth grade and no one expects him to amount to much. But when Nate hires him, we learn Luther has an uncommon ability to see straight to the heart of a problem. On the home front, Nate’s daughter, Carrie, is coping with becoming a teenager. And finally there’s Miss Laura, his mother-in-law who—like Bitsy—is vitally interested in Nate’s love life. Nate is attracted to Ruby but prefers to do things on his own terms. When Bud Garvey’s pickup is stolen, he insists that Nate arrest Arlan Walker although it’s clear the boy was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Arlan refuses to identify his brother as the driver and the case ends up in court. In a fit of anger, Judge Swetman commandeers the trial and sentences Arlan to 15 years in Angola, the bloodiest maximum-security prison in America. A brutal killing at the prison prompts Arlan to escape during a hurricane. He is presumed dead and when Luther and Carrie find him, they persuade Nate to help the boy. In the meantime, Anthony Scapesi follows Ruby to Waterproof and attempts to silence her. Ruby returns to Minnie’s. In an effort to find her, Tony captures Luther and beats him severely. Tony demands an answer and finally Luther gives him one. However, rather than giving Tony what he wants, it turns out to be his undoing. With Arlan safe and Tony gone, Nate goes to New Orleans to meet Ruby at Minnie’s and arrives on the night Louis Armstrong comes back to Basin Street where he delivered coal to houses in The District when he was a boy. It is a night no one will ever forget.
Download or read book Justice written by A.B. White and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-12-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Download or read book I Am Justice written by Paul Kenyon and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighty miles off the Libyan coast water is leaking rapidly into the bottom of a dilapidated wooden boat. Twenty-seven men, crammed in side-by-side, desperately attempt to bail it out, but the boat is sinking. In the distance one of their number spots a ship and, forcing the last moments of life from the engine, they move towards it. But the crew refuses to allow them on board. Instead the men scramble onto the floats of a huge industrial tuna net, and watch as their boat rolls over and disappears into the heaving Mediterranean. Like tens of thousands of others Justice set off from his rural village with an idealised vision of an new life in England - the 'home' country - desperate just to earn his way and help his orphaned brother and sister left behind. During his long journey to the African coast, he's captured, jailed and tortured, before escaping and heading northwards again. Once in Tripoli he's duped into handing over his life savings for a trip in a wreck of a boat across miles of open sea to almost certain death. But there is also compassion here and he meets old and wise souls along the way. The tuna net is not the end of Justice's story. It is an extraordinary tale of courage, and an important account of a life caught between cultures, on the edge of survival.
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Download or read book Crossing the Moss Line written by Grace Hawthorne and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-07-10 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner: 5th Annual Beverly Hills International Book Awards - Regional Fiction category Runner-Up: BookLife Shelf Unbound 2016 Best Indie Book - Southeast Region ~~~ Newton's third law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. "Crossing the Moss Line" is a tragicomedy that connects actions to slippery choices and unintended consequences. Like when…. …the Geechee people are brought to Georgia, …Cora Strayhorn causes an accident, …the Donegan sisters are resurrected, …Lucile Dupree gets thwarted again, …Granny Johnson tricks the bank man, …Matt Reeve finally gets caught, …Sadie Glanzrock takes control, …Butch Dupree and his gang run amuck, …Bird Hamlin disappears, …Dr. Buzzard works some white magic, …the Mayor sets up a secret poker game, …Hattie Tuscano agrees to run a cathouse, …and an unexpected guest comes to visit. Then Katie-bar-the-door!
Download or read book Thunder and White Lightning written by Grace Hawthorne and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scots-Irish who settled in the North Georgia mountains were—as Margaret Mitchell would say—people with gumption. In Thunder and White Lightning readers meet two families and a host of real-life characters who face the world head-on with a quirky sense of humor and a hankering for adventure. They find that red clay is only good for two things: corn, which they turn into moonshine to support their families and pay their taxes and dirt tracks, which are perfect for racing hopped-up whiskey cars, stock cars and eventually, for NASCAR. The characters—real and fictional—are independent, patriotic, fractious, funny and unpredictable, but they are never boring. They outrun revenuers, go to jail, build new stills, laugh and fall in love, fight in WWII, learn that prosperity isn’t always easy, bet their future on a second-hand Plymouth and finally take the checkered flag with red dust flying. In other words, it’s the Downton Abbey of North Georgia.
Download or read book Lost River written by Grace Hawthorne and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody in Lost River has a story of survival, even the dogs. There are big stories like the Bataan Death March, the Spanish Flu epidemic and POW camps in Georgia. And small stories like how Inky got his name, how Boot found a home, how the women hornswoggled the men in an election and how a little doohickey saved the town from financial ruin. Small towns and the people who live in them are tough, resilient, optimistic and sometimes downright funny. It's only when you learn their back stories that you can appreciate who they really are. Welcome to Lost River.
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