Bad Axe County

Bad Axe County
Title Bad Axe County PDF eBook
Author John Galligan
Publisher Atria Books
Pages 336
Release 2020-07-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1982110716

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Dennis Lehane meets Megan Miranda in this “dark beauty of a novel” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) about the first female sheriff in rural Bad Axe County, Wisconsin, as she searches for a missing girl, battles local drug dealers, and seeks the truth about the death of her parents twenty years ago—all as a winter storm rages in her embattled community. Fifteen years ago, Heidi White’s parents were shot to death on their Bad Axe County farm. The police declared it a murder-suicide and closed the case. But that night, Heidi found the one clue she knew could lead to the truth—if only the investigators would listen. Now Heidi White is Heidi Kick, wife of local baseball legend Harley Kick and mother of three small children. She’s also the interim sheriff in Bad Axe. Half the county wants Heidi elected but the other half will do anything to keep her out of law enforcement. And as a deadly ice storm makes it way to Bad Axe, tensions rise and long-buried secrets climb to the surface. As freezing rain washes out roads and rivers flood their banks, Heidi finds herself on the trail of a missing teenaged girl. Clues lead her down twisted paths to backwoods stag parties, derelict dairy farms, and the local salvage yard—where the body of a different teenage girl has been carefully hidden for a decade. As the storm rages on, Heidi realizes that someone is planting clues for her to find, leading her to some unpleasant truths that point to the local baseball team and a legendary game her husband pitched years ago. With a murder to solve, a missing girl to save, and a monster to bring to justice, Heidi is on the cusp of shaking her community to its core—and finding out what really happened the night her parents died. With “striking prose, engaging characters, and a searing story of crimes rooted in the heartland,” Bad Axe County is a “darkly irresistible thriller” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) that you won’t be able to put down.

That Deadman Dance

That Deadman Dance
Title That Deadman Dance PDF eBook
Author Kim Scott
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 335
Release 2012-03-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1608197417

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Set in Western Australia in the first decades of the nineteenth century, That Deadman Dance is a vast, gorgeous novel about the first contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the new European settlers. Bobby Wabalanginy is a young Noongar man, smart, resourceful, and eager to please. He befriends the European arrivals, joining them as they hunt whales, till the land, and establish their new colony. He is welcomed into a prosperous white family, and eventually finds himself falling in love with the daughter, Christine. But slowly-by design and by hazard-things begin to change. Not everyone is happy with how the colony is progressing. Livestock mysteriously start to disappear, crops are destroyed, there are "accidents" and injuries on both sides. As the Europeans impose ever-stricter rules and regulations in order to keep the peace, Bobby's Elders decide they must respond in kind, and Bobby is forced to take sides, inexorably drawn into a series of events that will forever change the future of his country. That Deadman Dance is inevitably tragic, as most stories of European and native contact are. But through Bobby's life, Kim Scott exuberantly explores a moment in time when things could have been different, when black and white lived together in amazement rather than fear of the other, and when the world seemed suddenly twice as large and twice as promising. At once celebratory and heartbreaking, this novel is a unique and important contribution to the literature of native experience.

Dead Man Dancing

Dead Man Dancing
Title Dead Man Dancing PDF eBook
Author John Galligan
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 304
Release 2021-05-11
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1982110740

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It's a time for celebration in Bad Axe County as the town gathers for the annual Syttende Mai--Norwegian Independence Day--festival. During this rollicking family-oriented event filled with dancing and food, Sheriff Heidi Kick discovers a dark and shocking event--a migrant worker has been savagely beaten but refuses to explain what happened. Then, a sudden murder of a band member shatters the festival. Something is deeply wrong in Bad Axe County. As she looks for answers, Heidi plunges into a secret underworld where high-stakes cage fights double as combat training for the White Nationalist movement. Then all hell breaks loose for Heidi when her husband disappears and a secret he's been keeping from Heidi is revealed.

Dead Man Dancing

Dead Man Dancing
Title Dead Man Dancing PDF eBook
Author Marcia Talley
Publisher Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pages 224
Release 2013-04-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1780103298

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Driving a wedge between Ruth and her fianc, Hutch, is not what Hannah intends when she recommends J & K Dance Studios to her sister. Ruth is determined to shine on her wedding day, but when stunning dance teacher Kay Giannotti greets Hutch with a kiss, its clear this isnt the first time theyve met. Talked into auditioning for Shall We Dance?, a TV talent show, the auditions end in tragedy. Accident or murder? Hannah is on the case . . .

Dead Man's Dancer

Dead Man's Dancer
Title Dead Man's Dancer PDF eBook
Author Tom Brennan
Publisher Epicenter Press
Pages 134
Release 2015-07-05
Genre True Crime
ISBN 1935347535

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Mechele is young, attractive, and looking to cash in on her aesthetic assets when she moves from New Orleans to Alaska in 1994 to earn money for college tuition. Her charms ensnare the affections of three men, and the combined effects of jealously, lust, and greed take a deadly turn in this true crime story. Before a murder in the woods shatters her contented life, Mechele works as an exotic dancer at the Alaska Bush Company, where she spends her days pleasing a procession of hard-working men. John, Scott, and Kent are simultaneously smitten with Mechele, and offer affection in the form of lavish gifts and ultimately engagement rings. While the three men begin their affairs on the same path, violent murder blasts apart their parallel lives. One of the trio is shot in the back; another is accused of the murder. Dead Man's Dancer follows this murder case from 1996 throughout Mechele's tumultuous trial in 2006 that becomes a nationwide sensation. Shocking in its detailed portrayal of murder and convoluted love affairs, Dead Man's Dancer excites horror in readers that lingers far after the last page is turned.

To Remember the Faces of the Dead

To Remember the Faces of the Dead
Title To Remember the Faces of the Dead PDF eBook
Author Thomas Maschio
Publisher Univ of Wisconsin Press
Pages 256
Release 1994
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780299140946

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As he challenges classical semiological accounts of cultural representation in this ethnography of Melanesian religious phenomenology, Thomas Maschio shows that ritual and poetic performance are about the enactment, expression, and invention of the self. Maschio demonstrates how such emotions as nostalgia, anger, sadness, and grief are creatively transformed during the course of religious performance and expression into a form of cultural memory--one that juxtaposes a pattern of cultural meaning with the emotional feeling of plenitude the Melanesian Rauto call makai. Evoked during initiation, mourning, and agricultural rites, and figuring prominently in Rauto discourse about the self, makai joins personal memory to patterned sets of images and meanings that Westerners would call culture.

Bull Headed Saviour

Bull Headed Saviour
Title Bull Headed Saviour PDF eBook
Author Joseph Lamm
Publisher Xlibris Corporation
Pages 112
Release 2008-12-17
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1477162461

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A BOOK OF SOUL ENERGIES IN POEMS & LYRICS That Bull Headed Saviour exists, writes Joseph Lamm, is a testament to grace. When all is taken away, when we reach the pouring out of our self, it is our redemption. After completing the poetic narrative Andeans Ascent, Joseph Lamm found critical acclaim and modest chart success in music with the albums Watching The Coming Storm and Standing In The Tower. In 2003 he began work on a project that was born out of a passion for the writings of William Blake. Lamm also had high esteem for beat poet, author, and playwright Michael McClures body of work, especially his bold and daring collection Rain Mirror. The result of an emotional and physiological collapse as McClure himself described it, Rain Mirror was a foreshadowing of Lamms own parallel experience two years later, as a purging of his soul gave way to a wondrous spiritual awakening. Bull Headed Saviour entwines the beauty of nature, the emotion and desires of the heart, and the spirit of the soul toward a common celebration found within everyone. This collection contains many of the poems and lyrics that were written during this period, along with selected lyrics from the albums Watching The Coming Storm, Standing In The Tower, and his newest work, Hot As Sun, Vol.1.