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Twilight of Crooks

Author : Mwalimu Johnnie MacViban
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733752633
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Twilight of Crooks written by Mwalimu Johnnie MacViban and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1977. Jason Makelekele treads where angels fear to tread as he investigates the murder of an oil tycoon for his column. During a trip to Bonn, Germany, he is disavowed by his country and becomes a stateless person. While he wonders if he will ever see the family and friends he has left behind, Cold War Germany is historically charged with what will be remembered as the German Autumn-a set of events associated with kidnappings by the Red Army Faction. Midway between neo-noir, political novel and postmodern romp, Twilight of Crooks takes liberties with history, changing names and events such that the line between history and alternative history becomes blurred.

Twilight Man

Author : Liz Brown
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698184734
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Twilight Man written by Liz Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Twilight Man is biography, romance, and nonfiction mystery, carrying with it the bite of fiction." -- Los Angeles Review of Books “In Twilight Man, Liz Brown uncovers a noir fairytale, a new glimpse into the opulent Gilded Age empire of the Clark family.” —Bill Dedman, co-author of The New York Times bestseller Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune The unbelievable true story of Harrison Post--the enigmatic lover of one of the richest men in 1920s Hollywood--and the battle for a family fortune. In the booming 1920s, William Andrews Clark Jr. was one of the richest, most respected men in Los Angeles. The son of the mining tycoon known as "The Copper King of Montana," Clark launched the Los Angeles Philharmonic and helped create the Hollywood Bowl. He was also a man with secrets, including a lover named Harrison Post. A former salesclerk, Post enjoyed a lavish existence among Hollywood elites, but the men's money--and their homosexuality--made them targets, for the district attorney, their employees and, in Post's case, his own family. When Clark died suddenly, Harrison Post inherited a substantial fortune--and a wealth of trouble. From Prohibition-era Hollywood to Nazi prison camps to Mexico City nightclubs, Twilight Man tells the story of an illicit love and the battle over a family estate that would destroy one man's life. Harrison Post was forgotten for decades, but after a chance encounter with his portrait, Liz Brown, Clark's great-grandniece, set out to learn his story. Twilight Man is more than just a biography. It is an exploration of how families shape their own legacies, and the lengths they will go in order to do so.

Twilight Crook

Author : Eva Chase
Publisher : Flirting with Monsters
ISBN 13 : 9781989096772
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book Twilight Crook written by Eva Chase and published by Flirting with Monsters. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Twilight of Democracy

Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385545819
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Twilight of Democracy written by Anne Applebaum and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document ... is Applebaum's answer." —Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism. From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum, an award-winning historian of Soviet atrocities who was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic trends in the West, explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. In this captivating essay, she contends that political systems with radically simple beliefs are inherently appealing, especially when they benefit the loyal to the exclusion of everyone else. Elegantly written and urgently argued, Twilight of Democracy is a brilliant dissection of a world-shaking shift and a stirring glimpse of the road back to democratic values.

Twilight of Innocence

Author : James Jessen Badal
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873388368
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Twilight of Innocence written by James Jessen Badal and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the events surrounding the 1951 disappearance of ten-year-old Beverly Potts in Cleveland, Ohio, discussing how it became the nation's first highly publicized missing child case and why it is still unsolved more than fifty years later.

City Twilight

Author : Dawad Philip
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681145471
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book City Twilight written by Dawad Philip and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City Twilight is the equilibrium articulated in this new collection: it is sun and horizon, the bridge between light and darkness, Jouvay and Las Lap, the book ends of the Carnival; and in the middle, the ordinariness of life and personal journey as the axis turns. City Twilight is an unknown steelband taking us through the unmasking of life in the bundles of the day's news dropped off at the news stand, fresh bread; a street sweeper after the commerce of the day, an evening landscape, language and experience.

Of Passion and Ink

Author : Dzekashu MacViban
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733752602
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Of Passion and Ink written by Dzekashu MacViban and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Limbe, the seaside city, to Kolofata in the north of Cameroon, Of Passion and Ink moves from stories of star-crossed lovers, mental health, dark fantasy, displacement, speculative futures to radicalization. These stories subvert what is believed to be the Cameroonian short story and offer exciting new directions.Selected from the Bakwa Magazine Short Story Prize, as well as commissioned, these stories herald new voices in Cameroonian fiction, by young writers who write in English and French.Stories by: Dipita Kwa, Bengono Essola Edouard, Monique Kwachou, Dzekashu MacViban, Howard M-B Maximus, Nkiacha Atemnkeng, A. Bouna Guazong, Rita Bakop, Momo Bertrand and Wise Nzikie Ngasa.

Index of Trademarks Issued from the United States Patent Office

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1416 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Index of Trademarks Issued from the United States Patent Office written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fortune Smiles

Author : Adam Johnson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812997484
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Fortune Smiles written by Adam Johnson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award–winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master’s Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world. “MASTERFUL.”—The Washington Post “ENTRANCING.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE.”—The New York Times Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear. In “Nirvana,” a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finds solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In “Hurricanes Anonymous,” a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind. WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • USA Today AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BuzzFeed • The Daily Beast • Los Angeles Magazine • The Independent • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews “Remarkable . . . Adam Johnson is one of America’s greatest living writers.”—The Huffington Post “Haunting, harrowing . . . Johnson’s writing is as rich in compassion as it is in invention, and that rare combination makes Fortune Smiles worth treasuring.”—USA Today “Fortune Smiles [blends] exotic scenarios, morally compromised characters, high-wire action, rigorously limber prose, dense thickets of emotion, and, most critically, our current techno-moment.”—The Boston Globe “Johnson’s boundary-pushing stories make for exhilarating reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Opium’s Orphans

Author : P. E. Caquet
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789145597
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Opium’s Orphans written by P. E. Caquet and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-07-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upending all we know about the war on drugs, a history of the anti-narcotics movement’s origins, evolution, and questionable effectiveness. Opium’s Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the “war on drugs.” A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug suppression was born of historical accident, not rational design. The war on drugs did not originate in Europe or the United States, and even less with President Nixon, but in China. Two Opium Wars followed by Western attempts to atone for them gave birth to an anti-narcotics order that has come to span the globe. But has the war on drugs succeeded? As opioid deaths and cartel violence run rampant, contestation becomes more vocal, and marijuana is slated for legalization, Opium's Orphans proposes that it is time to go back to the drawing board.

Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy

Author : Elizabeth Kiem
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616952644
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy written by Elizabeth Kiem and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely YA thriller—part John Le Carré and part The Americans—about a Bolshoi ballerina trapped by family secrets and a legacy of espionage. The Bolshoi Saga: Marina Marina is born into privilege. A talented young dancer with Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet at the height of the Cold War, she seems destined to follow in the footsteps of her mother Svetlana, a Soviet Artist of the People. But when Svetlana disappears without explanation, Marina and her father have to get out. Fast. They defect to America, hoping they’ve escaped Russia’s secret police, hoping they can make a fresh start in New York. Instead they discover the web of intrigue around Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach is as tangled as the one they left behind.

Days Come and Go

Author : Hemley Boum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949641356
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Days Come and Go written by Hemley Boum and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chronicles the beauty and turmoil of a rapidly changing Cameroon through the story of three generations of women"--

N. F. Simpson: Collected Plays

Author : N. F. Simpson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571304915
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book N. F. Simpson: Collected Plays written by N. F. Simpson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: N. F. Simpson was one of the leading exponents of the theatre of the absurd, and is best known for his play A Resounding Tinkle, made famous by its premiere at the Royal Court in 1957, and later to star Peter Cook. But beyond that he was a major force in the satire boom of the sixties, and wrote much exceptional comedy for film and TV for the likes of John Cleese, Beryl Reid, Hattie Jacques and Eric Sykes, as well as a number of brilliantly funny plays for theatre, which starred big names such as Harold Pinter and Kenneth Williams. His influence on everyone from Peter Cook's much-loved character E. L. Wisty to Monty Python's Flying Circus helped spawn a generation of incredible comic talent. Plays included in the collection are A Resounding Tinkle, The Hole, Gladly Otherwise, One Way Pendulum, The Cresta Run, Was He Anyone? and his final work, If So, Then Yes, first performed in 2010. This collection celebrates the work of this lost comic genius, and seeks to put his reputation back at the heart of British - and world - comedy.

Secondary Superheroes of Golden Age Comics

Author : Lou Mougin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476675139
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Secondary Superheroes of Golden Age Comics written by Lou Mougin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Superman debuted in 1938, he ushered in a string of imitators--Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Captain America. But what about the many less well-known heroes who lined up to fight crooks, super villains or Hitler--like the Shield, the Black Terror, Crimebuster, Cat-Man, Dynamic Man, the Blue Beetle, the Black Cat and even Frankenstein? These and other four-color fighters crowded the newsstands from the late 1930s through the early 1950s. Most have since been overlooked, and not necessarily because they were victims of poor publication. This book gives the other superheroes of the Golden Age of comics their due.

Private Peaceful

Author : Michael Morpurgo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849435715
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Private Peaceful written by Michael Morpurgo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young First World War soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn. During the night he looks back at his short but joyful past growing up in rural Devon: his exciting first days at school; the accident in the forest that killed his father; his adventures with Molly, the love of his life; and the battles and injustices of war that brought him to the front line. Winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year, Private Peaceful is by the third Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo, award-winning author of War Horse. His inspiration came from a visit to Ypres where he was shocked to discover how many young soldiers were court-martialled and shot for cowardice during the First World War. This edition also includes introductory essays by Michael Morpurgo, Associate Director of Private Peaceful production Mark Leipacher, as well as an essay from Simon Reade, adaptor & director of this stage adaptation of Private Peaceful.

General Crook and the Western Frontier

Author : Charles M. Robinson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806133584
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book General Crook and the Western Frontier written by Charles M. Robinson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General George Crook was one of the most prominent soldiers in the frontier West. General William T. Sherman called him the greatest Indian fighter and manager the army ever had. General Crook and the Western Frontier, the first full-scale biography of Crook, uses contemporary manuscripts and primary sources to illuminate the general's personal life and military career.

The Crown of Thorns

Author : Linus Tongwo Asong
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956558567
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book The Crown of Thorns written by Linus Tongwo Asong and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Asong's sense of the human predicament is astounding...It is above all, the story of guilt in a world ridden with self-interest."- Professor Rudy Wiebe, University of Alberta --