Download or read book Obituaries in the Performing Arts 2018 written by Harris M. Lentz III and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2018, including movie icon Burt Reynolds, "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin, celebrity chef and food critic Anthony Bourdain, bestselling novelist Anita Shreve and influential Chicago blues artist Otis Rush. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2018 are included. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers.
Download or read book Strange Stars Alien Shadows written by Ann K. Schwader and published by Lindisfarne Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann K. "Ankh" Schwader is a well-known science fiction, fantasy, and horror poet, but she is also a prose writer. Here at last is a collection of her dark fiction, including all her Cthulhu Mythos tales to date. Included are "Home Visitor" and "Twenty Mile," both of which have received honorable mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, as well as "Mail Order Bride" and "Lost Stars," possibly her best work to date. With a preface by the author, a foreword by Robert M. Price, and cover and interior artwork by Steve Lines. Edited by Kevin L. O'Brien.
Download or read book Feast Day of Fools written by James Lee Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIS CELEBRATED THIRTIETH NOVEL! James Lee Burke returns to the Texas border town of his bestseller Rain Gods, where a serial killer presumed dead is very much alive . . . and where sheriff Hackberry Holland, now a widower, fights for survival—his own, and that of the citizens he’s sworn to protect. When alcoholic ex-boxer Danny Boy Lorca witnesses a man tortured to death in the desert, Hackberry’s investigation leads him to Anton Ling, a mysterious Chinese woman known for sheltering illegals. Ling denies any knowledge of the attack, but something in her aristocratic beauty seduces Hack into overlooking the fact that she is as dangerous as the men she harbors. And when the soulless Preacher Jack Collins reemerges, the cold-blooded killer may prove invaluable to Hackberry. This time, he and the Preacher have a common enemy.
Download or read book Cell Mates Soul Mates written by Angela Devlin and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of relationships and bonds struck up between prisoners and outsiders - by one of the UK's leading women writers on criminal justice and with a Foreword by one of the UK's leading 'agony aunts'.
Download or read book Going Straight written by Angela Devlin and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short biographical accounts by people who have given up crime to lead a law-abiding life (including the international film actor Stephen Fry and former public enemy No. 1 and Great Train Robber, Bruce Reynolds).
Download or read book The Angel Maker written by Ridley Pearson and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban legend, or frightening fact? "One of the better fictional detectives ever penned," Seattle's Lou Boldt, and forensic psychologist Dephne Matthews suspect illegal organ harvesting is behind recent assaults on teenage runaways. The trail leads them down dark streets and darker corners of the mind, as they find themselves pursuing a twisted surgeon with his own ideas of mortality and social justice. Packed with action, The Angel Maker takes the reader on a joy ride from Seattle's homeless to an abandoned homesteading cabin and kennel hidden away in the forests of the Northwest. Daphne Matthews, intent on rescuing a teenage runaway from the madman's scalpel, puts her own life on the line, finding herself face to face with the Angel Maker. "Award-winning author Ridley Pearson carves out and serves up a thriller that will make you look twice at your local veterinarian." -- Book Magazine
Download or read book Making the Corps written by Thomas E. Ricks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sixty-three men came to Parris Island to become Marines. Not all of them made it. This is the story of boot camp Platoon 3086, the Marine Corps, and America."--Cover.
Download or read book The Murder of Billie Jo written by Sion Jenkins and published by Metro Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1997 Billie-Jo Jenkins was murdered at her home in Hastings, Sussex. In July 1998 her foster father Siôn was convicted and sent to prison for life. After a monumental legal battle, in which there were an unprecedented six court hearings, Siôn Jenkins was finally acquitted in February 2006 after a gross miscarriage of justice. Having already faced three criminal trials, Siôn Jenkins had to undergo a fourth - a trial by media which continues to this day. Now, Siôn Jenkins puts on record what actually happened; the whole story from the beginning.
Download or read book Miscarriages of Justice written by Clive Walker and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors examine the various steps within the criminal justice system which have resulted in the conviction of the innocent, and suggest remedies as to how miscarriages might be avoided in the future. The contributors comprise academics, campaigners and practitioners.
Download or read book Remember Me written by Christopher Pike and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Shari Cooper wakes up the morning after her friend's birthday party she doesn't realize that she is really dead.
Download or read book The Longest Injustice written by Alex Alexandrowicz and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 1999-07-31 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Alexandrowicz spent 22 years in custody protesting his innocence. This book explains how something which began with a plea bargain in the belief that he would serve a 'short' sentence turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare. His 'Prison Chronicles' are placed in perspective by Professor David Wilson. The Longest Injustice contains the full story of Anthony Alexandrovich - known universally as 'Alex'. Principally, the book is about his 29-year fight against his conviction as a seventeen-year-old for aggravated burglary, wounding with intent, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Twenty-two of these years were spent in prison where Alex was a discretionary life sentenced prisoner, and where he steadfastly maintained his innocence. He continues to do so after release, and is taking his case through the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which was set up in 1995 to investigate alleged miscarriages of justice. Alex's own recollections are supplemented by analysis of the dilemma facing people in British prisons who are determined to maintain their innocence, and the book highlights the considerable disincentives and disadvantages to them of doing so. Authors Alex Alexandrowicz spent 22 years in some of Britain's most notorious gaols much of this time as a Category A high security prisoner. His Prison Chronicles are a first hand account in which he explains why he believes he was wrongly convicted (a matter currently with the Criminal Cases Review Commission) and vividly recreates his experiences of the early years following his arrest. Institutionalised by the system and apprehensive of the outside world he now lives alone in Milton Keynes where he continues the long fight to clear his name from a flat which has grown to resemble a prison cell. David Wilson is professor of criminology at the Centre for Criminal Justice Policy and Research at the University of Central England in Birmingham. A former prison governor, he is editor of the Howard Journal and a well-known author, broadcaster and presenter for TV and radio, including for the BBC, C4 and Sky Television. He has written three other books for Waterside Press: Prison(er) Education: Stories of Change and Transformation (with Ann Reuss) (2000), Images of Incarceration: Representations of Prison in Film and Television Drama (with Sean O'Sullivan) (2004), and Serial Killers: Hunting Britons and Their Victims (2007).
Download or read book Resurrection and Reclamation written by Elrod Stanton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blandings Castle written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I envy those who’ve never read [Wodehouse] before—the prospect of reams of unread Wodehouse stretching out in front of you is…something which is enticing to contemplate." —Tony Blair Welcome to Blandings Castle, home of the well-intentioned but often distracted Lord Emsworth—and there are quite a few distractions at this stately country house. Head gardener Angus McAllister has resigned before the Shrewsbury Agricultural Show, when Emsworth needs him most; Lady Constance, Emsworth’s officious sister, has caged her daughter in the castle to keep her away from the persistent Beefy Bingham; and the Blandings pigman, Wellbeloved, has been sent to prison for drunken and disorderly conduct just days before Emsworth’s adored sow can win first prize at the 87th Annual Shropshire Show. Through P.G. Wodehouse’s expert wit, we witness Lord Emsworth trying to solve these predicaments and others, with the unexpected help (and hindrance) of a lively array of characters.
Download or read book Battle of the Oceans written by Warren Armstrong and published by New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation [1944]. This book was released on 1944 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I m Still Standing written by Bob Turney and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2002-06-29 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Bob Turney's original book about how he gave up a life of crime and became a beacon of the penal reform movement (he also wrote 'Wanted' and 'Going Straight' (with Angela Devlin) - that has been an inspiration to thousands of people faced with disadvantages and obstacles in their lives. Bob frequently visits the USA where he has been in demand as a public speaker with his messages of hope.
Download or read book 30 Secrets to Saving Money on Your Auto Insurance written by Chris Newbold and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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