The Burglar's Christmas
Title | The Burglar's Christmas PDF eBook |
Author | Willa Cather |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 21 |
Release | 2021-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1496229509 |
The Burglar's Christmas was originally published near the beginning of Willa Cather's writing career in 1896 under the pseudonym of Elizabeth L. Seymour. The story follows William Crawford on the cold streets of Chicago as he contemplates the multiple failures plaguing his life, including his time at college and careers in journalism, real estate, and performing. Distraught, he tries one more role: thief. Attempting to burgle a residence and caught in the act by the lady of the house, William must come to terms with the choices that led him to that moment. Cather provides a heartwarming short story of redemption and love at Christmas, a timely reminder that kindness is in everyone, just waiting to be uncovered.
The Burglar's Christmas
Title | The Burglar's Christmas PDF eBook |
Author | Willa Cather |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 2021-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1496229517 |
The Burglar’s Christmas was originally published near the beginning of Willa Cather’s writing career in 1896 under the pseudonym of Elizabeth L. Seymour. The story follows William Crawford on the cold streets of Chicago as he contemplates the multiple failures plaguing his life, including his time at college and careers in journalism, real estate, and performing. Distraught, he tries one more role: thief. Attempting to burgle a residence and caught in the act by the lady of the house, William must come to terms with the choices that led him to that moment. Cather provides a heartwarming short story of redemption and love at Christmas, a timely reminder that kindness is in everyone, just waiting to be uncovered.
A Crime for Christmas
Title | A Crime for Christmas PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Keene |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1991-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780833531339 |
Nancy Drew and the Hardy boys are in New York city together to investigate a pair of big-time cat burglers who are going to try to steal the spectacular crown jewels of Sarconne.
The Burglar's Breakfast
Title | The Burglar's Breakfast PDF eBook |
Author | Lesley Sims |
Publisher | USBORNE |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Burglars |
ISBN | 9780746048566 |
Alfie Briggs, a burglar, returns from a hard night's thieving to find that someone has burgled his breakfast.
The Burglar and the Blizzard
Title | The Burglar and the Blizzard PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Duer Miller |
Publisher | Alpha Edition |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-04-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789356152892 |
The book "" The Burglar and the Blizzard: A Christmas Story "" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
The Burglary
Title | The Burglary PDF eBook |
Author | Betty Medsger |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 789 |
Release | 2014-01-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307962962 |
The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists—quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans—that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of Investigation. It begins in 1971 in an America being split apart by the Vietnam War . . . A small group of activists—eight men and women—the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI, inspired by Daniel Berrigan’s rebellious Catholic peace movement, set out to use a more active, but nonviolent, method of civil disobedience to provide hard evidence once and for all that the government was operating outside the laws of the land. The would-be burglars—nonpro’s—were ordinary people leading lives of purpose: a professor of religion and former freedom rider; a day-care director; a physicist; a cab driver; an antiwar activist, a lock picker; a graduate student haunted by members of her family lost to the Holocaust and the passivity of German civilians under Nazi rule. Betty Medsger's extraordinary book re-creates in resonant detail how this group of unknowing thieves, in their meticulous planning of the burglary, scouted out the low-security FBI building in a small town just west of Philadelphia, taking into consideration every possible factor, and how they planned the break-in for the night of the long-anticipated boxing match between Joe Frazier (war supporter and friend to President Nixon) and Muhammad Ali (convicted for refusing to serve in the military), knowing that all would be fixated on their televisions and radios. Medsger writes that the burglars removed all of the FBI files and, with the utmost deliberation, released them to various journalists and members of Congress, soon upending the public’s perception of the inviolate head of the Bureau and paving the way for the first overhaul of the FBI since Hoover became its director in 1924. And we see how the release of the FBI files to the press set the stage for the sensational release three months later, by Daniel Ellsberg, of the top-secret, seven-thousand-page Pentagon study on U.S. decision-making regarding the Vietnam War, which became known as the Pentagon Papers. At the heart of the heist—and the book—the contents of the FBI files revealing J. Edgar Hoover’s “secret counterintelligence program” COINTELPRO, set up in 1956 to investigate and disrupt dissident political groups in the United States in order “to enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles,” to make clear to all Americans that an FBI agent was “behind every mailbox,” a plan that would discredit, destabilize, and demoralize groups, many of them legal civil rights organizations and antiwar groups that Hoover found offensive—as well as black power groups, student activists, antidraft protestors, conscientious objectors. The author, the first reporter to receive the FBI files, began to cover this story during the three years she worked for The Washington Post and continued her investigation long after she'd left the paper, figuring out who the burglars were, and convincing them, after decades of silence, to come forward and tell their extraordinary story. The Burglary is an important and riveting book, a portrait of the potential power of nonviolent resistance and the destructive power of excessive government secrecy and spying.
Daisy and the Trouble with Piggy Banks
Title | Daisy and the Trouble with Piggy Banks PDF eBook |
Author | Kes Gray |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2015-07-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1448194288 |
Daisy's getting into more trouble than ever before! When her best friend Gabby turns up at Daisy's house with the most awesome, immense, water-squirting micro-scooter Daisy's ever seen, Daisy knows she's got to have one too! Trouble is, they cost a LOT of money. So Daisy and Gabby hatch a money-making plan...