Download or read book The Unclaimed written by Pamela Prickett and published by Crown. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rare and compassionate look into the lives of Americans who go unclaimed when they die and those who dedicate their lives to burying them with dignity.”—Matthew Desmond, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Poverty, by America For centuries, people who died destitute or alone were buried in potters’ fields—a Dickensian end that even the most hard-pressed families tried to avoid. Today, more and more relatives are abandoning their dead, leaving it to local governments to dispose of the bodies. Up to 150,000 Americans now go unclaimed each year. Who are they? Why are they being forgotten? And what is the meaning of life if your death doesn’t matter to others? In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, eight years in the making, sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans uncover a hidden social world. They follow four individuals in Los Angeles, tracing the twisting, poignant paths that put each at risk of going unclaimed, and introducing us to the scene investigators, notification officers, and crematorium workers who care for them when no one else will. The Unclaimed lays bare the difficult truth that anyone can be abandoned. It forces us to confront a variety of social ills, from the fracturing of families and the loneliness of cities to the toll of rising inequality. But it is also filled with unexpected moments of tenderness. In Boyle Heights, a Mexican American neighborhood not far from the glitter of Hollywood, hundreds of strangers come together each year to mourn the deaths of people they never knew. These ceremonies, springing up across the country, reaffirm our shared humanity and help mend our frayed social fabric. Beautifully crafted and profoundly empathetic, The Unclaimed urges us to expand our circle of caring—in death and in life.
Download or read book The Book of the Unclaimed Dead written by Alejandro Escudé and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unclaimed written by Laurie Wetzel and published by Wise Ink. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, Maddy Page's life was pretty routine--morning runs, attending school, and avoiding the spotlight the rest of her family thrives in. But even with all the effort she puts into being unremarkable, someone's noticed. And who wouldn't want to be noticed by MJ? He's handsome, funny, and makes her feel safe--a feeling she's never experienced outside her dreams. MJ is supposed to be on a mundane assignment--save a mortal from a demon on a killing spree. But before he can make contact with his charge, Maddy happens. While every mortal is supposed to have a file as well as a Guardian Angel, she doesn't. She's immune to his compulsions and has abilities mortals shouldn't have. Worse yet, she isn't aware she has them. MJ knows he should focus on his job, but the mysteries surrounding Maddy are frighteningly addictive. And she's in more danger than either of them realizes. With no Guardian and no file, if she dies, neither Heaven nor Hell can claim her soul.
Download or read book Unclaimed Baggage written by Jen Doll and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A New York Times Staff Pick* *An NPR Best Book of 2018* *A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2018* In Jen Doll's young adult debut novel, Unclaimed Baggage, Doris—a lone liberal in a conservative small town—has mostly kept to herself since the terrible waterslide incident a few years ago. Nell had to leave behind her best friends, perfect life, and too-good-to-be-true boyfriend in Chicago to move to Alabama. Grant was the star quarterback and epitome of "Mr. Popular" whose drinking problem has all but destroyed his life. What do these three have in common? A summer job working in a store called Unclaimed Baggage cataloging and selling other people's lost luggage. Together they find that through friendship, they can unpack some of their own emotional baggage and move on into the future.
Download or read book Unclaimed Experience written by Cathy Caruth and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her afterword serves as a decisive intervention in the ongoing discussions in and about the field.
Download or read book The Stars Now Unclaimed written by Drew Williams and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drew Williams's The Stars Now Unclaimed, the first volume of The Universe After series, is a fun, adventure-filled space opera set in a far-future galaxy. "The only thing more fun than a bonkers space battle is a whole book packed with bonkers space battles. Come for the exploding spaceships, stay for the intriguing universe."—Becky Chambers, author of A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the dark ages. Hot on her trail is the Pax--a collection of fascist zealots who believe they are the rightful rulers of the galaxy and who remain untouched by the Pulse. Now Jane, a handful of comrades from her past, and a telekinetic girl called Esa must fight their way through a galaxy full of dangerous conflicts, remnants of ancient technology, and other hidden dangers. And that's just the beginning . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Unclaimed written by Courtney Milan and published by Courtney Milan. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica Farleigh is desperate. She’s a courtesan, and when she’s asked to seduce Sir Mark and destroy his good name in exchange for enough money to solve all her problems, she agrees. There is, after all, no such thing as a good man, and she should know. She’s known men all her life. Sir Mark Turner wrote the book on male chastity—literally—and made a name for himself as an upright moralist. But he’s also a romantic, and he’s been waiting for the right woman to share his life, his heart, and yes, his bed. Jessica can’t fall in love with him. She can’t let herself respect him. And by the time she realizes she’s in love with him, it’s too late. The only way to win the freedom she needs is to destroy the most honorable man she’s ever met. Note: This book was originally released in 2011. This is a rerelease with an added epilogue.
Download or read book The Unclaimed Baby written by Sherryl Woods and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *
Download or read book The Unclaimed Daughter written by C. G. H. and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unclaimed Victim written by D. M. Pulley and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living decades apart, two women get caught in the web of an infamous serial killer. In 1938, at the height of the Great Depression, a madman hunts his victims through the hobo jungles of Cleveland, terrorizing the city. Ethel Harding, a prostitute struggling to survive both the cold streets and the Torso Killer, takes refuge with a devout missionary sect--only to find that its righteous facade conceals the darkest of secrets. Sixty years later, the police find the butchered body of Alfred Wiley in the woods. But before his daughter, Kris, can even identify the remains, things he never told her begin to surface one by one--a mysterious private eye who'd been tracking him, an eerie website devoted to the unsolved "Torso" murders, missing archives, stolen books, and an abandoned Bible factory harboring vagrants. The more she learns about her father's obsession with the Torso Killer, the more Alfred's death appears to be related, pulling Kris further into Cleveland's hellish past. Living decades apart, Ethel and Kris must unravel the truth behind the city's most notorious serial killer...or die trying.
Download or read book Unclaimed Property written by Tracey L. Reid and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unclaimed Property: A Reporting Process and Audit Survival Guide breaks the unclaimed property process down into manageable steps that you can either handle on your own or with the help of a professional in the field. Author Tracey Reid presents a thorough introduction to every aspect of unclaimed property laws, clarifying what unclaimed property is, how the escheat laws apply to your particular circumstance, and how you can bring your enterprise into compliance with the least amount of manpower and cash outlay possible.
Download or read book Unclaimed Money written by Edward Preston and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of Dust written by David Maisel and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esteemed photographer David Maisel has created a somber and beautiful series of images depicting canisters containing the cremated remains of the unclaimed dead from an Oregon psychiatric hospital. Dating back as far as the nineteenth century, these canisters have undergone chemical reactions, causing extravagant blooms of brilliant white, green, and blue corrosion, revealing unexpected beauty in the most unlikely of places. This stately volume is both a quietly astonishing body of fine art from a preeminent contemporary photographer, and an exceptionally poignant monument to the unknown deceased.
Download or read book Unclaimed Terrain written by Ajay Navaria and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrator of the lead story in this collection occupies an 'unclaimed terrain', as do many of Ajay Navaria's characters. Journeying from a Dantewada village in India's east to the town of Nagpur and from there to Mumbai, the Byronic protagonist is raped, works as a masseur and then as a gigolo even while pursuing his education. The city teaches him the many meanings of labour, and he is freed - if ultimately destroyed - by its infinite possibilities for self - invention. As complex as they are political, Navaria's characters - ranging from a brahmin labourer to a dalit male prostitute - are neither black nor white, neither clearly good nor evil. They inhabit a grey zone; they linger in the transitional space between past object and future subject, between caste and democracy. Unclaimed Terrain represents Giramondo's commitment to South Asian literature and to writing which explores social difference and inequality.
Download or read book National Debt written by Great Britain. Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secrets of Unclaimed 400 Billion Dollars Lost Fortunes Held By The U S Government How To Claim Your Share written by Daniel Okoronkwo and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OVERVIEW Secrets of Unclaimed $400 Billion Dollars Lost Fortunes Held By the U.S. Government; How To Claim Your Share. AN AUTHORITATIVE GUIDE FOR OWNERS OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY AND CAREER LOCATORS. AN INCREDIBLE HOW-TO-DO-IT BOOK THAT COULD CHANGE YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE !! Nine out of ten Americas based on reliable sources have some kind of money sitting latent in government treasuries, state and federal. You could be one of those. For many many years, forgotten money continue to grow and crowd government treasuries because owners and next of kin to deceased relative owners cannot be found. Within the last ten yeaes lost or forgotten unclaimed assets of individuals have skyrocketted to over $400 Billion dollars, and continue to grow. Government is waiting and has been making effort to find owners to come forth and claim their money, but the rate is minimal. The funds continue to pile up year after year in government treasuries. New York unclaimed property alone is estimated to be over $5 billion. California figure stands at $3 billion. Many other states figures are in millions and millions of dollars. These forgotten money accumulate from daily business transactions of individuals. After a while people forget all about it, and then the funds are turned over to the state treasury for safekeeping until the owner comes forward to claim it.These assets are from checking and savings accounts; insurance proceeds; corporation stocks and dividends; U.S.savings bonds; security deposits with utility companies; uncashed government checks; gift certificates and credit memo issued by department stores; royalties paid to owners of minerals, inventions, authors, music recordings, motion pictures, other forms of creativity; and contents of safe deposit box from banks. This book offers an opportunity to learn how to claim your share of unclaimed funds. It is also a manual for Locators who wish to make a living assisting owners and heirs, who cannot claim the funds themselves, for a fee and hefty reward as much as 50%. The book target audience are schools, libraries, senior citizen centers, hospitals, community centers, online booksellers, military installations and bases, and anywhere Americans reside or do business, as .they may be the rightful owners or heirs of this huge unclaimed funds to be claimed. Library of Congress Ref: #: TX 6 844 125 Addendum to Book Free Preview It is established and documented by authorities that unclaimed property belonging to millions of Americans throughout the United States, stood at $400 billion dollars in 2005, held at state and federal treasuries. Government is urging people to come forth to claim their money, but the rate of claim is very slow. People wonder if they have unclaimed money held by the government. Definitely they do. This book will show the procedure on how to claim your funds. It will also prepare aspiring Locators the permissible way to operate to conform to government rules, for his important position, to assist owners claim their funds speedly, in full amount without hassle. How People Loose their Money: Individuals loose or forget their money in many ways, but typically by accident, forgetfulness, or death. The money is still yours, but you must follow the procedure as elaborated in my book and put a claim. Also, great many owners and beneficiaries cannot claim their money themselves due to physical handicap, in the hospital, or mentally impaired. These exigencies prompted the idea of elaborate exposition on the Locator job as a career, not a hobby, and shows what he or she need to do to perform his job with dignity, trust, and in a professional manner.. Vital Records and Resources for the Locator: The resources for the Locator to function efficiently are presented in great detail in the book, including, how to perform heir searches in the absence of a compute
Download or read book Auburn s Unclaimed National Championships written by Michael C. Skotnicki and published by . This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because major college football has never had a playoff system to produce a true champion, controversy has surrounded the issue of which team could be declared a National Champion, even as far back as the early years of the last century. The sports media and followers of college football filled that vacuum by creating polls and mathematical systems to name various teams as National Champions, even retroactively naming champions for college football's early years. Some colleges have seized every opportunity to glorify their football teams by claiming a National Championship for every year possible. An exception has been Auburn University, which has not done all it can to celebrate its success on the gridiron and officially claims a National Championship for only two seasons, 1957 and 2010. Auburn even declines to claim a National Championship for its undefeated 1913 team, although that squad is recognized as a National Champion in the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book. Auburn's Unclaimed National Championships seeks to alter this position of the Auburn University Athletic Department and is perhaps one of the most important books ever written about the Auburn University football program. Author Michael Skotnicki argues that until a playoff system is instituted by the NCAA to establish a true major college football National Champion, multiple teams can make a legitimate claim to a National Championship and the concept of a true single National Champion for any season is mythical. Skotnicki notes that many universities have claimed National Championships for seasons where they were not named such by the two most well-know selectors, the Associated Press and the Coaches Poll, with two universities even adding retroactive National Championship claims to past seasons as recently as this year (2012). This well-researched text brings needed attention to the entire history of Auburn football and makes the case for the position that in addition to the 1957 and 2010 National Championship seasons claimed by the Auburn Athletic Department, there are seven other seasons - 1910, 1913, 1914, 1958, 1983, 1993, and 2004 - for which Auburn should be recognized as a National Champion. Skotnicki, an appellate attorney, provides a history for each of these seasons, brings them to life, and makes the case for why Auburn's claim to recognition as a National Champion for each of those years is as strong or stronger than the teams accepted as national champions in those seasons. Skotnicki argues that in only claiming two National Championship seasons, Auburn University is forsaking much of its great football history, and that it should claim a total of nine National Championships.