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Book Synopsis The Missing Postman by : Fachtna Ó Drisceoil
Download or read book The Missing Postman written by Fachtna Ó Drisceoil and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postman Larry Griffin vanished during his rounds in Stradbally on Christmas Day 1929 but what really happened to Griffin? Fachtna Ó Drisceoil weaves the pieces of this mystery together, using new evidence which paints a sordid portrait of lies, half-truths, conspiracy, intimidation and Garda brutality in the 1920s.
Book Synopsis The Missing Postman by : Fachtna Ó Drisceoil
Download or read book The Missing Postman written by Fachtna Ó Drisceoil and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2011-04-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postman Larry Griffin vanishes during his rounds in Stradbally on Christmas Day 1929. The only clue to what happened was an abandoned bicycle on a deserted country road. The story of the Missing Postman as it became known, made the headlines nationally and overseas, when ten prominent local people were arrested and charged with his murder. The defendants included such pillars of the community as two local Civic Guards, the school teacher, the local publican, his wife and two of their children. &newpara;For eighty years the doors of Stradbally and the Garda files on the case remained firmly shut against anyone trying to investigate the story. Numerous successful libel actions taken by the former defendants further discouraged media interest. However all those involved have passed on. Government files, which cast new light on the case, have recently become available, and in this extraordinary new book, Ó Drisceoil weaves the pieces of the puzzle togther, and reveals the shocking answer to the question - What really happened to Larry Griffin?
Download or read book The Postman written by David Brin and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • “A moving experience . . . a powerful cautionary tale.”—Whitley Strieber He was a survivor—a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. Fate touches him one chill winter’s day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold. The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery. This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin’s The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction. “The Postman will keep you engrossed until you’ve finished the last page.”—Chicago Tribune
Book Synopsis Jolly Pocket Postman by : Allan Ahlberg
Download or read book Jolly Pocket Postman written by Allan Ahlberg and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once more the Jolly Postman rides - and flies - and shrinks! The Jolly Postman is setting off on his third adventure. . . but nothing goes quite to plan when he suffers a bump to the head, and shrinks to the size of a postage stamp! And from then it just gets curiouser and curiouser. . . Featuring a whole host of familiar characters and of course, beautiful pull-out letters and a magnifying glass, The Jolly Pocket Postman is the third story in the bestselling and award-winning series by Janet and Alan Ahlberg.
Book Synopsis The Postman Always Rings Twice by : James M. Cain
Download or read book The Postman Always Rings Twice written by James M. Cain and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling sensation—and one of the most outstanding crime novels of the 20th century—that was banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, and acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger. The basis for the acclaimed 1946 film. An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution—a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger.
Book Synopsis Mexico is Missing and Other Stories by : J. David Stevens
Download or read book Mexico is Missing and Other Stories written by J. David Stevens and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's America to do when, one day, Mexico suddenly disappears? That question, asked by the title story in Mexico Is Missing, sets the tone for a collection whose individual stories have been described as "provocative," "intensely relevant," and "wickedly macabre." Thematically and formally diverse, these pieces are unified by their devotion to the offbeat, even insane, moments of contemporary life. A widow hears a voice from her computer that claims to be God. An unnamed narrator develops an unhealthy fascination with his mailman. Several characters from a joke come to life and wonder what to do with themselves. A poet married to a porn star considers the real meaning of love. The subjects of this volume range widely. From Snoopy to Southern Baptists, from witch trials to infomercials, from the President's golf game to...well, the President's penis-anything is fair game in a collection that blends satire with a sincere desire to find meaning in the jumbled world that we daily inhabit. A literary critic and author, Stevens also demonstrates his formal range by juxtaposing traditional linear stories against micro-fictions and longer "fractured" narratives. The result is a book that traverses the literary map with impressive dexterity. Individually, the stories in Mexico Is Missing will provide various pleasures for every reader. But taken together, they represent a more profound effort to blend those diametric impulses-formal, cultural, and sociopolitical-which so often define contemporary experience. This collection of 23 short stories by J. David Stevens is clever, sardonic, and humorous. While you're laughing Stevens also gives you plenty of things to think about-spirituality, the negligence of the mass media, American politics, and relationships. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis The Missing Passenger of Munich by : Justin Tully
Download or read book The Missing Passenger of Munich written by Justin Tully and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-08 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Missing Passenger Of Munich is a story about what happened when a passenger got on an airplane at Munich Airport on June 27th 1982 and then disappeared before the plane landed at Madrid Aiport later the same day. Nobody saw him get off or what became of him. Almost thirty years later Gerd Reinhardt was looking around his late father's possessions when he came across a scrapbook that his father Jochen kept on the missing passenger of Munich. Days pass by and a man he used to work with arranges a meeting with the security staff at Munich Airport who decide to show them the contents of the file they had on the missing passenger. They decide to try and track down what happened to the man in question while speaking to people who had been on the flight with him before he disappeared, but can they really work out what happened to the missing passenger or will the mystery keep its secret for another thirty years...
Book Synopsis The Missing Tile & Other Stories by : Saeed Ibrahim
Download or read book The Missing Tile & Other Stories written by Saeed Ibrahim and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Missing Tile and Other Stories is a collection of short stories and Saeed Ibrahim’s second book after the widely acclaimed family saga, Twin Tales from Kutcch. The fifteen stories in this collection are slice-of-life, character-based portraits reflecting on various aspects of human behaviour. Drawing us into the lives of ordinary people, their cares and concerns and their very human foibles and failings, these people-centric stories are sure to resonate with a large spectrum of readers, both young and old alike. Although the stories are set in India, the underlying themes are universal in their relevance. Some are light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek pieces on the quirks and idiosyncrasies in people’s behaviour, whilst others offer surprising insights into human nature’s compassionate and humane side. The tenor in the funny stories is entertaining and in the more serious ones connected with socially relevant issues; inspiring and thought-provoking. A notable feature is that the various stories in the collection celebrate India’s diversity, pluralism, and composite culture, which regrettably have been threatened in recent times. Danesh Bharucha’s imaginative sketches bring to life the characters in the stories and are skillfully adapted to suit the ambience and mood of these evocative tales.
Download or read book Off White written by Michelle Fine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a fascinating new introduction on the proliferation and development of the field of whiteness studies and updated essays throughout, this much-anticipated second ddition continues to redefine our understanding of race and society. Also inlcludes three maps.
Book Synopsis Amusing Ourselves to Death by : Neil Postman
Download or read book Amusing Ourselves to Death written by Neil Postman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1986 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.
Book Synopsis The Jolly Postman, Or, Other People's Letters by : Allan Ahlberg
Download or read book The Jolly Postman, Or, Other People's Letters written by Allan Ahlberg and published by Puffin PB. This book was released on 1986 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip hip hooray, The Jolly Postmanis 20 years old! Still as exciting to children as the day it first published, this international award winner and its two successors have sold more than 6 million copies around the world. This gorgeous anniversary edition has a free letter set keepsake containing 10 special Jolly Postman letters, 10 decorated envelopes and a sticker sheet.
Book Synopsis A Shirt Box Full of Songs by : Barbara Dickson
Download or read book A Shirt Box Full of Songs written by Barbara Dickson and published by Headline. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From singing to the postman when she was two years old to her annual sell-out tours in the 2000s, Barbara Dickson has been captivating her fans for the best part of sixty years. In her autobiography she describes the joys of growing up in Fife with her talented brother and loving parents, of moving to Edinburgh to find her place in the world and the stresses and strains of trying to make a living on the Scottish folk scene. Not content to have just a successful singing career, she turned to another: acting. A regular on prime-time television, Barbara also took to musicals and was the original lead role in Spend, Spend, Spend. Her hugely successful time onstage earned her many acting accolades but her pursuit of perfection led to complete exhaustion from which she fought hard to recover. Barbara writes beautifully about the close relationships she cultivated over these years with people such as Willy Russell, Elaine Paige and Billy Connolly. The result is a warm, fascinating story encompassing the best of British music, stage and television.
Book Synopsis Amusing Ourselves to Death by : Neil Postman
Download or read book Amusing Ourselves to Death written by Neil Postman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever. "It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNN Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals. “A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one.” –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
Book Synopsis The Case of the missing thief by : Reyansh Anand
Download or read book The Case of the missing thief written by Reyansh Anand and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five best friends – Sam, his sister Oliver, William, James, and his sister Elie return home from their boarding school for the summer break only to find themselves in the middle of a police case. Their idyllic English town – Greengrass has been witnessing a lot of robberies and the police seem clueless. The kids take it upon themselves to solve this case and preserve the sanctity of their lovely hometown. In this remarkable adventure written from a kid’s point of view, the readers will enjoy a complex mystery plot with numerous quirky everyday characters. This fun read has many twists and turns and builds intriguing suspense.
Download or read book Mildred Pierce written by James M. Cain and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mildred Pierce, noir master James M. Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable. Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter.
Book Synopsis Life in the nineteenth century. The postman's knock. The twenty-thousand-pound widow. To Brighton and back again. On some clubs, and their ends. Through the parks. Some Scotswomen. The Dibdins. Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton. Edward Wortley Montagu. Royal and imperial jokers by : Dr. Doran (John)
Download or read book Life in the nineteenth century. The postman's knock. The twenty-thousand-pound widow. To Brighton and back again. On some clubs, and their ends. Through the parks. Some Scotswomen. The Dibdins. Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton. Edward Wortley Montagu. Royal and imperial jokers written by Dr. Doran (John) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Missing Beaumont Children by : Michael Madigan
Download or read book The Missing Beaumont Children written by Michael Madigan and published by . This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The case of the "Missing Beaumont Children" has been forged into Australia's psyche and soul like no other crime. A crime so shocking that it has often been described as a defining moment in this country's history. After 50 years of intense police investigation the whereabouts of Jane (9), Anna (7) and Grant Beaumont (4) is still a mystery; Australia's most famous unsolved crime. On the morning of January 26, 1966 the three children set off from their Somerton Park home to Glenelg Beach on a bus to enjoy a brief excursion at Adelaide's most popular beach only a few kilometres away. Apart from a brief sighting from the Beaumont family's postman early on that afternoon, there have been no other sightings of the children since. The 'mystery' of the children's disappearance has often overshadowed the 'misery' the Beaumont parents have had to endure. This book takes the reader inside the trauma of Nancy and Grant; from the panic and heartbreaking first few days to the utter despair in later years. Only seven years after the Beaumont disappearance, two girls Joanne Ratcliffe (11) and Kirste Gordon (4) were abducted from Adelaide Oval during a football match. Were the two abductions connected? How could they not be connected? Author Michael Madigan delves into the sordid world of the numerous 'persons of interest' who have at times been suspects in this case and forensically answers the question 'who could do such a thing?'
