Bullets and Bad Times
Author: Robert J. Randisi
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Published:
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1612323588
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert J. Randisi
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Published:
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1612323588
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: W. B. Longley
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780770104191
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter Manseau
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1612195067
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shocked by the epidemic of gun violence in America, acclaimed writer Peter Manseau found himself absorbed by the 'melancholy accidents' that appeared in 19th century newspapers: daily accounts of accidental gun deaths that seemed as unfortunate as they were unavoidable. In Melancholy Accidents, Manseau collects, annotates and introduces many of these articles, painting a devastating portrait of America's long, bloody relationship with firearms.
Author: Tom Lee
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 2024-05-02
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1783785063
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A powerful and deeply personal exploration of mental health, and an indelible account of the legacy of familial illness and living with a fracturing mind Like many people, Tom Lee remembers the presence - somewhere out of sight, on the outskirts of town - of the local psychiatric hospital. It was a place that inspired jokes, rumours and dread, a place where the strange and deranged were kept away. But among those people were, at different times, Tom's own parents. Afterwards, those times were not much spoken about and before long the hospital closed, as part of the nationwide shutting down of psychiatric institutions. For many years, Tom believed that he had dodged the bullet of the mental illness that had marked the lives of his parents. But then, quite out of the blue, he has a crisis of his own and finds himself returning to the past for clues. The Bullet is an attempt to piece together and understand what happened to his parents and what happened to him. It is also a story about how we have tried and spectacularly failed to care for people suffering with mental illness, and about the terrifying fragility and unknowability of the human mind.
Author: Brian Clements
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2017-12-05
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0807025593
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A powerful call to end American gun violence from celebrated poets and those most impacted Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by dozens of our best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, Brenda Hillman, Natasha Threthewey, Robert Hass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Juan Felipe Herrera, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Each poem is followed by a response from a gun violence prevention activist, political figure, survivor, or concerned individual, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams; Senator Christopher Murphy; Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts; survivors of the Columbine, Sandy Hook, Charleston Emmanuel AME, and Virginia Tech shootings; and Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir, and Lucy McBath, mother of Jordan Davis. The result is a stunning collection of poems and prose that speaks directly to the heart and a persuasive and moving testament to the urgent need for gun control.
Author: Ronald Tierney
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Published: 2011-05-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1780100558
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →PI Deets Shanahan takes on the search of his lifetime - When seventy-one-year-old private investigator Deets Shanahan learns from a snippet of news on the Internet that his brother - who disappeared when they were kids - could be somewhere in Thailand, he immediately sets out, accompanied by his lover, Maureen, to find his errant sibling. But it turns out that this is much more than finding a missing person who wants to stay missing, and treasure, deceit and murder soon interrupt their search on the streets of Bangkok and on the beaches of Phuket . . .
Author: Robert J. Randisi
Publisher:
Published: 2013-02
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781612325880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Men fell prey to her angel eyes... and killing ways. There are two men after Liz Archer. One wants her as his lover, the other wants her stone-cold dead. A DEADLY TRIANGLE After checking into the Clearwater Hotel in the Dakota Territory, Liz Archer meets Sheriff Al Toliver. He's heard about her mean reputation with a gun and warns her that youngster Clay Hammet is aiming to make a name for himself by outdrawing Liz in a gunfight! The sheriff keeps a careful eye on both of them, knowing he'll have to face the winner afterwards. Tumbling into bed with Liz makes his job a lot tougher. Into this red-hot triangle rides Liz's old friend, Tate Gilmore, who's just in time for the bullet-ridden showdown.
Author: Claudia Brenner
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In May 1988 a horrific shooting attack left 28-year-old Rebecca Wight dead. Her partner, Claudia Brenner, was seriously wounded. In this profoundly personal, emotionally riveting, politically energizing account of the murder and its aftermath, the author writes about her path to recovery and activism"--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Dale Concannon
Publisher:
Published: 2004-02-29
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ever since the game began – possibly as far back as the 11th century – golf and war have been oddly connected. In 1457, for example, the King of Scotland banned "gowlf" because his subjects were spending more time on the local links than they were at archery practice – bows and arrows being the country’s main weapons of defense at the time. In August of 1940 – hightailing it home after a raid on Aberdeen, Scotland – a German aircraft dropped a bomb over nearby Stonehaven Golf Club. The large crater that it left between the first and second fairway is still there today and is considered the courses’ most famous hazard. Local golfers refer to it as "Hitler’s Bunker." Those stories, and many more, are included in Bullets, Bombs & Birdies: Golf in the Time of War. Until now, most history books on golf have tended to skip over the wartime years as if the game was completely abandoned during those tenuous times. This new book by Dale Concannon clearly shows that over many centuries of conflict, dedicated practitioners of the Royal and Ancient game have let nothing – not mortar shells, the threat of gas attacks or even incarceration in a POW camp – get in the way of a round of golf.