Download or read book Until the Twelfth of Never written by Bella Stumbo and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1993 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betty Broderick's family was her whole life. But at the peak of her husband's success as a lawyer the dream turned sour, as he began an affair and decided to divorce her. Betty was shattered and became obsessed with revenge, and ultimately it came with a double murder.

Download or read book Triple Tragedy in Alcolu written by Kendall Bell and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 16, 1944, the State of South Carolina executed 14-year-old George Stinney Jr., found guilty of killing 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker in the Clarendon County town of Alcolu. Betty June Binnicker and her 7-year-old companion, Mary Emma Thames, went missing on March 23, 1944. Searchers discovered their bodies early the next morning. Binnicker's bicycle, and its detached front wheel, had been placed on top of them. Deputies charged George Stinney Jr. with killing both girls. However, for reasons unknown, Stinney was tried only for the murder of Binnicker. 83 days after the deaths, with no appeals, George Stinney Jr. was electrocuted by the State of South Carolina. Rumors about Stinney's innocence or guilt began the day of his arrest. Since the original trial, a fictional book, movie, and several video productions loosely based on the George Stinney Jr. story added to those rumors, and some eventually came to be touted as fact. In December 2014, a judge vacated George Stinney Jr.'s conviction, ruling he did not receive a fair trial in 1944. Although the judge's ruling did not exonerate Stinney, it fed rumors that the girls may have been killed by someone else. This book is an attempt to separate fact from fiction, and an effort to give readers available information pertaining to the case. Guilty or innocent, George Stinney Jr. will forever be the youngest person executed in the United States during the Twentieth Century.

Download or read book Out of the Farlans written by Jean Duthie and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step back into the late eighteen hundreds and follow the journeys of four women, a grand mother, her two daughters and a granddaughter, as they struggle from the back breaking toil at the gutting farlans into the pathways that will bring them to greater fulfillment. Travel with them to the beauty and mystery of the Shetland Isles, to the excitement of Victorian Edinburgh, to the immense, herring harvests of East Anglia, and across the vast Atlantic, to find new lives and better opportunities. Each follows her own particular purpose, during which they learn about their potential, about the generosity of mankind, the tragedy of two World Wars and the Great Depression. Hard decisions, deep sorrow and loss, but often much joy and romance, colour their lives and the individual courage and response to their situations provide an interesting study of their varied personalities. They all differ, but through the three generations can be traced the same strength of character, the same resilience, a true courage and a positive outlook, which can be realized through hard work. Mary May, Maggie Ann, Betsy and Mary Bella belong to an era, when people are fiercely independent, believing firmly in the worthwhile values of diligence, honesty and dignity. These qualities they practice and have the great satisfaction of seeing them instilled in the next generation, which more than fulfills their dreams.

Download or read book Novels written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Our Mutual Friend written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Charles Dickens' lesser known works, Our Mutual Friend is nevertheless a classic well worth taking the time to read.

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Download or read book Our Mutual Friend written by Charles Dickens and published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 1231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in. The figures in this boat were those of a strong man with ragged grizzled hair and a sun-browned face, and a dark girl of nineteen or twenty, sufficiently like him to be recognizable as his daughter. The girl rowed, pulling a pair of sculls very easily; the man, with the rudder-lines slack in his hands, and his hands loose in his waistband, kept an eager look out. He had no net, hook, or line, and he could not be a fisherman; his boat had no cushion for a sitter, no paint, no inscription, no appliance beyond a rusty boathook and a coil of rope, and he could not be a waterman; his boat was too crazy and too small to take in cargo for delivery, and he could not be a lighterman or river-carrier; there was no clue to what he looked for, but he looked for something, with a most intent and searching gaze. The tide, which had turned an hour before, was running down, and his eyes watched every little race and eddy in its broad sweep, as the boat made slight head-way against it, or drove stern foremost before it, according as he directed his daughter by a movement of his head. She watched his face as earnestly as he watched the river. But, in the intensity of her look there was a touch of dread or horror. Allied to the bottom of the river rather than the surface, by reason of the slime and ooze with which it was covered, and its sodden state, this boat and the two figures in it obviously were doing something that they often did, and were seeking what they often sought. Half savage as the man showed, with no covering on his matted head, with his brown arms bare to between the elbow and the shoulder, with the loose knot of a looser kerchief lying low on his bare breast in a wilderness of beard and whisker, with such dress as he wore seeming to be made out of the mud that begrimed his boat, still there was a business-like usage in his steady gaze. So with every lithe action of the girl, with every turn of her wrist, perhaps most of all with her look of dread or horror; they were things of usage. 'Keep her out, Lizzie. Tide runs strong here. Keep her well afore the sweep of it.' Trusting to the girl's skill and making no use of the rudder, he eyed the coming tide with an absorbed attention. So the girl eyed him. But, it happened now, that a slant of light from the setting sun glanced into the bottom of the boat, and, touching a rotten stain there which bore some resemblance to the outline of a muffled human form, coloured it as though with diluted blood. This caught the girl's eye, and she shivered. 'What ails you?' said the man, immediately aware of it, though so intent on the advancing waters; 'I see nothing afloat.' The red light was gone, the shudder was gone, and his gaze, which had come back to the boat for a moment, travelled away again. Wheresoever the strong tide met with an impediment, his gaze paused for an instant. At every mooring-chain and rope, at every stationery boat or barge that split the current into a broad-arrowhead, at the offsets from the piers of Southwark Bridge, at the paddles of the river steamboats as they beat the filthy water, at the floating logs of timber lashed together lying off certain wharves, his shining eyes darted a hungry look. After a darkening hour or so, suddenly the rudder-lines tightened in his hold, and he steered hard towards the Surrey shore. Always watching his face, the girl instantly answered to the action in her sculling; presently the boat swung round, quivered as from a sudden jerk, and the upper half of the man was stretched out over the stern.

Download or read book The Best Works of Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Bleak House by Charles Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 2962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1: Dive into the intricate web of Victorian society with “Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens.” Dickens' novel explores themes of wealth, class, and morality as a diverse cast of characters navigates the complexities of inheritance and social expectations. The narrative weaves together humor, tragedy, and Dickensian wit in a compelling tale of societal contrasts. Book 2: Embark on a series of comic adventures with “The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.” Dickens' debut novel introduces readers to the eccentric Mr. Pickwick and his fellow members of the Pickwick Club as they travel through the English countryside. Filled with humorous episodes and memorable characters, this work captures the essence of Dickens' storytelling prowess. Book 3: Uncover the mysteries of the legal system and societal injustice in “Bleak House by Charles Dickens.” Dickens' novel weaves together multiple narrative strands, including the infamous case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Through vivid characters and intricate plotting, Dickens paints a scathing portrait of the flaws within the legal system and the impact of social inequalities on individuals.

Download or read book The Complete Works of Charles Dickens in 30 Volumes Illustrated written by Charles Dickens and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is impossible to overstate the importance of British novelist CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) not only to literature in the English language, but to Western civilization on the whole. He is arguably the first fiction writer to have become an international celebrity. He popularized episodic fiction and the cliffhanger, which had a profound influence on the development of film and television. He is entirely responsible for the popular image of Victorian London that still lingers today, and his characters-from Oliver Twist to Ebenezer Scrooge, from Miss Havisham to Uriah Heep-have become not merely iconic, but mythic. But it was his stirring portraits of ordinary people-not the upper classes or the aristocracy-and his fervent cries for social, moral, and legal justice for the working poor, and in particular for poor children, in the grim early decades of the Industrial Revolution that powerfully impacted social concerns well into the 20th century. Without Charles Dickens, we may never have seen the likes of Sherlock Holmes, Upton Sinclair, or even Bob Dylan. Here, in 30 beautiful volumes-complete with all the original illustrations-is every published word written by one of the most important writers ever. The essential collector's set will delight anyone who cherishes English literature...and who takes pleasure in constantly rediscovering its joys. This volume contains Part I of Our Mutual Friend, Dickens's final novel, which was originally serialized in standalone installments in 1864-65. A satire on avarice and the power of money to influence human behavior, it is Dickens's most sophisticated work, and the fullest expression of the writer's authority and persuasiveness.

Download or read book Our mutual friend part I written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of Charles Dickens With Illustrations written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book If Stilettos Could Speak written by A. S. Kingly and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the small town of Senoia, Georgia—where everything is a skip, hop, or short bus ride away—what could possibly go wrong? Aging Detective Garrett Sandoval stumbles upon strange events that result in a missing person’s case. Details of the crime send him down memory lane, back to a time when his career was just beginning. Years ago, women went missing in nightclubs. Now, their cases are reopened as a copycat shows up and more women disappear. Witnesses mention flickering lights and a popping sound before women vanish. All they leave behind are fancy high-heeled shoes. The case escalates, however, when the culprit leaves a note that says, “I’m back!” Maybe Sandoval doesn’t deal with a copycat but the original villain. An unlikely team comes together to solve this mystery, including several detectives, a burlesque dancer, and a writer, all following clues that lead down a dark and twisted path. Sandoval gets closer and closer to his old nemesis, while balancing on the metaphorical point of a stiletto with the past nipping at his heels.

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Download or read book Waters Under the Bridge written by Isobelle and David 'Khyber' Close and published by BookPOD. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Close’s English mother Isobelle Harwood never knew her mother, who died from TB just after childbirth and his Irish father Jack Close never knew his father, who was jailed for bigamy. To the Irish, ‘close’ means ‘near-enough’ while Jack always was, legally speaking, a bastard. These sociological factors shaped their working-class family struggles before, during and after World War Two in England and reappear as ‘family karma’ down the generations of this now-scattered clan. His mother’s childhood memories of orphanage life in the 1920s were followed by years of domestic servitude in the houses of her rich or unscrupulous ‘betters’ until she trained as a nurse during the war. She calls this story ‘Finding Myself’, which is part 1 of this book. Isobelle saw a photograph of and became pen-pals with an Irish nurses’ brother called Jack, a sailor on Atlantic convoy duties who she married on Victory in Europe Day in May 1945. David was born in June the following year. The second section ‘Knowing Myself’ reveals their married life until Isobelle’s battle with life-threatening TB when she was thirty years old in 1953. On recovery, her doctors claimed that if she lived in a dry climate and had no more children she would have a life-expectancy of ten more years. However, she produced two more offspring and managed to ride for an hour on a camel in China at the age of seventy-six. Part 3 contains David’s childhood memories of England, Ireland and in 1961 the first ten years of family life in Oz. Some of his father Jack’s wartime exploits and then his untimely death in 1982 lead the reader into the last section titled Release Retrospectives containing his mother’s mature reflections on grief, life and the all and everything, as well as her Back to Britain and Silk Road Diaries. Her son David’s lifelong troubled relationship with his father is explored in his other autobiographical works, but his two chapters titled ‘Close encounters of the personal secret kind’ and ‘Conflicts and growth amidst grief’ explore three of the Close family’s personal experiences of communications from beyond the grave – pointing towards reincarnation being cosmic reality central to any ‘Divine Plan’ and the healing answer to why we are here…

Download or read book The Works of Charles Dickens Our mutual friend written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: