13 Hangmen
Title | 13 Hangmen PDF eBook |
Author | Art Corriveau |
Publisher | Abrams |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2012-04-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1613123590 |
Some people won’t believe any of this story. You might be one of them. But every single word is true. Tony DiMarco does catch a murderer, solve a mystery, and find a treasure—all in the first few days he moves, unexpectedly, to 13 Hangman’s Court in Boston. The fact that he also turns thirteen at the same time is not a coincidence. So begins the story of Tony and his friends—five thirteen-year-old boys, all living in the same house in the same attic bedroom, but at different times in history! None are ghosts, all are flesh and blood, and somehow all have come together in the attic room, visible only to one another. And all are somehow linked to a murder, a mystery, and a treasure.
13 Hangmen
Title | 13 Hangmen PDF eBook |
Author | Art Corriveau |
Publisher | Amulet Books |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2014-03-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781484415160 |
Tony DiMarco, who had just turned thirteen, catches a murderer, solves a mystery, and discovers a treasure during the first few days in his new home at 13 Hangmen Court in Boston. In the attic bedroom of the house, Tony comes together with four other
A Handbook on Hanging
Title | A Handbook on Hanging PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Duff |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1999-10-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780940322677 |
A Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great. This coruscating and, in contemporary America, very relevant polemic makes clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be--justice, vengeance, a deterrent--it is certainly killing.
How I Got a Life and a Dog
Title | How I Got a Life and a Dog PDF eBook |
Author | Art Corriveau |
Publisher | Abrams |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2012-03-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1613123604 |
Nicky Flynn’s life just got a whole lot harder. His parents are going through a messy divorce, and as a result he’s starting a new life, in a new city, in a new school. Now his mom has brought home Reggie, an eighty-pound German shepherd fresh from the animal shelter, who used to be a seeing-eye dog. At first Nick isn’t sure about this canine intrusion—it’s just another in a series of difficult changes. Soon, however, Nick is on the path to finding out why a seeing-eye dog would be left at an animal shelter, and along the way discovers that Reggie is a true friend that Nick can rely on. But when he tries to reconnect with his dad, Nick puts everything on the line, including the life of his new best friend. Art Corriveau is a brilliant new voice for middle-grade fiction. How I, Nicky Flynn, Got a Life (and a Dog) is a heartfelt and honest look at the effects of divorce and the wonders of friendship. F&P Level: T F&P Genre: RF
Fast Forward, Play, and Rewind
Title | Fast Forward, Play, and Rewind PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Oberman |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 469 |
Release | 2020-10-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1493050931 |
The Doors, James Brown, the Grateful Dead, the Sir Douglas Quintet, David Bowie—the list goes on. . . . From 1967 to 1973, Michael Oberman interviewed more than three hundred top musical artists. Collected together for the first time, Fast Forward, Play and Rewind presents more than one hundred interviews Oberman conducted with the most important musical artists of the day Along the way, Oberman touches on the influence of his brother, who interviewed the Beatles and other top artists from 1964 to 1967. He also recounts stories from his later career working for the major Warner-Elektra Atlantic recording company and producing concerts for Cellar Door Productions and managing recording artists. Want to know the true story of how David Bowie became Ziggy Stardust? That and dozens more true tales that might seem like fiction are waiting inside the pages of Fast Forward, Play and Rewind. Each short interview is an invitation for readers to relive (or live for the first time) one of the greatest periods in rock 'n' roll history.
Hangmen
Title | Hangmen PDF eBook |
Author | Martin McDonagh |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2015-10-01 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0571328881 |
I'm just as good as bloody Pierrepoint. In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and sycophantic pub regulars, dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news, a peculiar stranger lurks, with a very different motive for his visit. Don't worry. I may have my quirks but I'm not an animal. Or am I? One for the courts to discuss. Martin McDonagh's Hangmen premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2015.
The Practice of Execution in Canada
Title | The Practice of Execution in Canada PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Leyton-Brown |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2010-04-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0774859326 |
It is easy to forget that the death penalty was an accepted aspect of Canadian culture and criminal justice until 1976. The Practice of Execution in Canada is not about what led some to the gallows and others to escape it. Rather, it examines how the routine rituals and practices of execution can be seen as a crucial social institution. Drawing on hundreds of case files, Ken Leyton-Brown shows that from trial to interment, the practice of execution was constrained by law and tradition. Despite this, however, the institution was not rigid. Criticism and reform pushed executions out of the public eye, and in so doing, stripped them of meaningful ritual and made them more vulnerable to criticism.