Author: Margaret McCulloch
Publisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 1458214893
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
When Cody Campbell hires migrant workers for his shipping business, he has no idea how much trouble he's just brought upon himself. Even so, Ricardo Lopez is hard working, as is his crew?including the beautiful Anita Lopez. Although Cody already has a relationship with his secretary, he quickly drops her for his exotic new employee. When Ricardo Lopez's brother is murdered, he and Anita return to Mexico for his burial rites. They return a few months later and Anita is pregnant with Cody's child. Their happy reunion is interrupted when she and Ricardo are arrested for bank robbery. All is not as it seems as the trial commences. Everyone is a suspect as the bodies pile up?even Cody, who struggles to care for his newborn son with Anita in prison. Are the migrant workers behind all the crime in Cody's small town, or is someone more nefarious at the reigns? Hopefully, the case will be closed ? before they all end up dead. Thanks to my family and friends who believed in me and encouraged me to publish my work.
Campbell Farm and the Migrant Murders
Author: Margaret McCulloch
Publisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 1458214893
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
When Cody Campbell hires migrant workers for his shipping business, he has no idea how much trouble he's just brought upon himself. Even so, Ricardo Lopez is hard working, as is his crew?including the beautiful Anita Lopez. Although Cody already has a relationship with his secretary, he quickly drops her for his exotic new employee. When Ricardo Lopez's brother is murdered, he and Anita return to Mexico for his burial rites. They return a few months later and Anita is pregnant with Cody's child. Their happy reunion is interrupted when she and Ricardo are arrested for bank robbery. All is not as it seems as the trial commences. Everyone is a suspect as the bodies pile up?even Cody, who struggles to care for his newborn son with Anita in prison. Are the migrant workers behind all the crime in Cody's small town, or is someone more nefarious at the reigns? Hopefully, the case will be closed ? before they all end up dead. Thanks to my family and friends who believed in me and encouraged me to publish my work.
Publisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 1458214893
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
When Cody Campbell hires migrant workers for his shipping business, he has no idea how much trouble he's just brought upon himself. Even so, Ricardo Lopez is hard working, as is his crew?including the beautiful Anita Lopez. Although Cody already has a relationship with his secretary, he quickly drops her for his exotic new employee. When Ricardo Lopez's brother is murdered, he and Anita return to Mexico for his burial rites. They return a few months later and Anita is pregnant with Cody's child. Their happy reunion is interrupted when she and Ricardo are arrested for bank robbery. All is not as it seems as the trial commences. Everyone is a suspect as the bodies pile up?even Cody, who struggles to care for his newborn son with Anita in prison. Are the migrant workers behind all the crime in Cody's small town, or is someone more nefarious at the reigns? Hopefully, the case will be closed ? before they all end up dead. Thanks to my family and friends who believed in me and encouraged me to publish my work.
Love, War, and Betrayal
Author: Margaret McCulloch
Publisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 1458216047
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Ernie Tennyson, a southern Georgia farm boy, is on the verge of becoming a mana dangerous time for a teenager in 1967. Before he knows it, he has been drafted and is on his way to serve his country in Vietnam. On his first mission, he is brutally stabbed by the Viet Cong and left to die in the jungle, where a young woman named Anna Ming finds him and rescues him. Despite her best efforts to conceal his presence and their growing love from her father, Ernie is captured by the North Vietnamese and imprisoned. His time in the camp is so traumatic that he returns home to the United States a profoundly wounded man. Stripped of his memory, the soldier fights to readjust to civilian life. Promised to another man, Anna Ming must now conceal another secret: the baby she carries. Her enraged father sends her to China, where she gives birth to a stillborn baby girl. When Anna finally reaches Ernie by phone, he doesnt know who she is. Ernie is further confused when a Vietnamese woman named Laquan shows up and claims she is his wife, forming an unwelcome presence in his life. After a tragic accident brings his memory back, he sends the romantic imposter back to Vietnam and tries to find Anna. Shortly after Annas father tells Ernie that she is dead, the old man is murdered. With the help of Annas grandmother, can Ernie solve the murder and finally marry the woman he loves?
Publisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 1458216047
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Ernie Tennyson, a southern Georgia farm boy, is on the verge of becoming a mana dangerous time for a teenager in 1967. Before he knows it, he has been drafted and is on his way to serve his country in Vietnam. On his first mission, he is brutally stabbed by the Viet Cong and left to die in the jungle, where a young woman named Anna Ming finds him and rescues him. Despite her best efforts to conceal his presence and their growing love from her father, Ernie is captured by the North Vietnamese and imprisoned. His time in the camp is so traumatic that he returns home to the United States a profoundly wounded man. Stripped of his memory, the soldier fights to readjust to civilian life. Promised to another man, Anna Ming must now conceal another secret: the baby she carries. Her enraged father sends her to China, where she gives birth to a stillborn baby girl. When Anna finally reaches Ernie by phone, he doesnt know who she is. Ernie is further confused when a Vietnamese woman named Laquan shows up and claims she is his wife, forming an unwelcome presence in his life. After a tragic accident brings his memory back, he sends the romantic imposter back to Vietnam and tries to find Anna. Shortly after Annas father tells Ernie that she is dead, the old man is murdered. With the help of Annas grandmother, can Ernie solve the murder and finally marry the woman he loves?
Public Executions
Author: Christopher S. Kudlac
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313087229
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The death penalty is one of the country's most controversial issues. The fairness of its application is debated in coffeehouses, classrooms, political arenas, and the media. However, despite its representation in the media, most death cases receive surprisingly little national media attention. In fact, of the 1000 people executed in the United States since 1977, and the 3,500 inmates currently awaiting execution, only a handful of cases can be recalled by the public. Those that are memorable are so because only a few are dramatically represented in the media. Why is it that those that receive the most serious penalty are virtually nameless, while the death penalty in general is one of the most discussed aspects of the criminal justice system? What makes some executions more newsworthy than others? What are the implications of this coverage for the public's understanding of this significant issue? This book looks at those death row cases that received the most intensive media coverage from the 1970s through the present, and why. At the same time, it focuses on changes in public opinion about the death penalty and how newspaper coverage and evolving mass sentiment relate to one another. Kudlac covers such celebrated cases as Karla Faye Tucker, Timothy McVeigh, Aileen Wuornos, John Wayne Gacy, and others that captured the attention of the American public and affected public opinion about the death penalty through the help of the media. He considers issues such as religion, politics, race, gender, and class as he reveals the reasons for our attention to certain cases above others. The book concludes with a consideration of where we go from here. With new investigative techniques that have helped to exonerate some death row inmates, and various other considerations that have come into play in recent cases, the future of the death penalty will continue to be shaped by the media and the public.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313087229
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The death penalty is one of the country's most controversial issues. The fairness of its application is debated in coffeehouses, classrooms, political arenas, and the media. However, despite its representation in the media, most death cases receive surprisingly little national media attention. In fact, of the 1000 people executed in the United States since 1977, and the 3,500 inmates currently awaiting execution, only a handful of cases can be recalled by the public. Those that are memorable are so because only a few are dramatically represented in the media. Why is it that those that receive the most serious penalty are virtually nameless, while the death penalty in general is one of the most discussed aspects of the criminal justice system? What makes some executions more newsworthy than others? What are the implications of this coverage for the public's understanding of this significant issue? This book looks at those death row cases that received the most intensive media coverage from the 1970s through the present, and why. At the same time, it focuses on changes in public opinion about the death penalty and how newspaper coverage and evolving mass sentiment relate to one another. Kudlac covers such celebrated cases as Karla Faye Tucker, Timothy McVeigh, Aileen Wuornos, John Wayne Gacy, and others that captured the attention of the American public and affected public opinion about the death penalty through the help of the media. He considers issues such as religion, politics, race, gender, and class as he reveals the reasons for our attention to certain cases above others. The book concludes with a consideration of where we go from here. With new investigative techniques that have helped to exonerate some death row inmates, and various other considerations that have come into play in recent cases, the future of the death penalty will continue to be shaped by the media and the public.
National Defense Migration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Migrant labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Migrant labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Corridors of Migration
Author: Rodolfo F. Acu–a
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816528028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A comprehensive history reconstructs the migration patterns of Mexican laborers, connecting them to social, economic, and political developments that have shaped the American Southwest, while describing the racism and capitalist exploitation suffered by the laborers as well as the collective forms of resistance and organizing engaged in by the laborers themselves.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816528028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A comprehensive history reconstructs the migration patterns of Mexican laborers, connecting them to social, economic, and political developments that have shaped the American Southwest, while describing the racism and capitalist exploitation suffered by the laborers as well as the collective forms of resistance and organizing engaged in by the laborers themselves.
Racial Violence In Kentucky
Author: George C. Wright
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807120731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
"Wright vividly portrays the clash between racist militants and blacks who would not submit to terror. The book makes clear the brutality concealed beneath the surface veneer of moderation." -- Journal of Southern History In this investigative look into Kentucky's race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George C. Wright brings to light a consistent pattern of legally sanctioned and extralegal violence employed to ensure that blacks knew their "place" after the war. In the first study of its kind to target the racial patterns of a specific state, Wright demonstrates that despite Kentucky's proximity to the North, its black population was subjected to racial oppression every bit as severe and prolonged as that found farther south. His examination of the causes and extent of racial violence, and of the steps taken by blacks and concerned whites to end the brutality, has implications for race relations throughout the United States.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807120731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
"Wright vividly portrays the clash between racist militants and blacks who would not submit to terror. The book makes clear the brutality concealed beneath the surface veneer of moderation." -- Journal of Southern History In this investigative look into Kentucky's race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George C. Wright brings to light a consistent pattern of legally sanctioned and extralegal violence employed to ensure that blacks knew their "place" after the war. In the first study of its kind to target the racial patterns of a specific state, Wright demonstrates that despite Kentucky's proximity to the North, its black population was subjected to racial oppression every bit as severe and prolonged as that found farther south. His examination of the causes and extent of racial violence, and of the steps taken by blacks and concerned whites to end the brutality, has implications for race relations throughout the United States.
National Defense Migration: Los Angeles and San Francisco Hearings. March 6, 7, and 12, 1942. Problems of evacuation of enemy aliens and others from prohibited military zones
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Migrant labor
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Migrant labor
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Guardian Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guardian (Manchester, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 1848
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guardian (Manchester, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 1848
Book Description
The Other Great Migration
Author: Bernadette Pruitt
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603449485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country’s demographics but also black culture. In her thorough study of migration to Houston, Bernadette Pruitt portrays the move from rural to urban homes in Jim Crow Houston as a form of black activism and resistance to racism. Between 1900 and 1950 nearly fifty thousand blacks left their rural communities and small towns in Texas and Louisiana for Houston. Jim Crow proscription, disfranchisement, acts of violence and brutality, and rural poverty pushed them from their homes; the lure of social advancement and prosperity based on urban-industrial development drew them. Houston’s close proximity to basic minerals, innovations in transportation, increased trade, augmented economic revenue, and industrial development prompted white families, commercial businesses, and industries near the Houston Ship Channel to recruit blacks and other immigrants to the city as domestic laborers and wage earners. Using census data, manuscript collections, government records, and oral history interviews, Pruitt details who the migrants were, why they embarked on their journeys to Houston, the migration networks on which they relied, the jobs they held, the neighborhoods into which they settled, the culture and institutions they transplanted into the city, and the communities and people they transformed in Houston.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603449485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country’s demographics but also black culture. In her thorough study of migration to Houston, Bernadette Pruitt portrays the move from rural to urban homes in Jim Crow Houston as a form of black activism and resistance to racism. Between 1900 and 1950 nearly fifty thousand blacks left their rural communities and small towns in Texas and Louisiana for Houston. Jim Crow proscription, disfranchisement, acts of violence and brutality, and rural poverty pushed them from their homes; the lure of social advancement and prosperity based on urban-industrial development drew them. Houston’s close proximity to basic minerals, innovations in transportation, increased trade, augmented economic revenue, and industrial development prompted white families, commercial businesses, and industries near the Houston Ship Channel to recruit blacks and other immigrants to the city as domestic laborers and wage earners. Using census data, manuscript collections, government records, and oral history interviews, Pruitt details who the migrants were, why they embarked on their journeys to Houston, the migration networks on which they relied, the jobs they held, the neighborhoods into which they settled, the culture and institutions they transplanted into the city, and the communities and people they transformed in Houston.
Murder by the Sea
Author: Lesley Cookman
Publisher: Headline Accent
ISBN: 1908917016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
'With fascinating characters and an intriguing plot, this is a real page turner' KATIE FFORDE praise for the series An addictive and unputdownable crime mystery novel perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Faith Martin, J.R. Ellis, LJ Ross, Miss Marple and Midsummer Murders! Lesley Cookman's bestselling series featuring super sleuth Libby Sarjeant is back for its fourth instalment! Nobody wants to be 'a nuisance to a killer', but is it too late? Psychic investigator Fran Castle gets a request from the police to help when a body discovered on a rocky island in the middle of Nethergate Bay thoroughly stumps them. Libby Sarjeant, Fran's sleuthing partner, is on the case too, refusing to abandon Fran to solve the case alone. Together they delve into the shameful world of the exploitation of illegal immigrants. Libby's partner, Ben, is concerned that her occasionally over-enthusiastic investigations might get her into trouble. His worries seem justified as Libby and Fran get on the trail of a war-time fascist spy. No one wants to be 'a nuisance to a killer', and Libby and Fran may have just acquired that dangerous position... _____________________________________________________________ Praise for the bestselling series: 'I could not put down... Would recommend this series to everyone' ***** Amazon review 'Great story, great read... this hooked me from the beginning and didn't let go until the end' ***** Amazon review 'These are wonderful mysteries, with great characters and good plots. I highly recommend them...' ***** Amazon review '...if you miss the good old days of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers then why not give Lesley Cookman's excellent books a go' ***** Amazon review
Publisher: Headline Accent
ISBN: 1908917016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
'With fascinating characters and an intriguing plot, this is a real page turner' KATIE FFORDE praise for the series An addictive and unputdownable crime mystery novel perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Faith Martin, J.R. Ellis, LJ Ross, Miss Marple and Midsummer Murders! Lesley Cookman's bestselling series featuring super sleuth Libby Sarjeant is back for its fourth instalment! Nobody wants to be 'a nuisance to a killer', but is it too late? Psychic investigator Fran Castle gets a request from the police to help when a body discovered on a rocky island in the middle of Nethergate Bay thoroughly stumps them. Libby Sarjeant, Fran's sleuthing partner, is on the case too, refusing to abandon Fran to solve the case alone. Together they delve into the shameful world of the exploitation of illegal immigrants. Libby's partner, Ben, is concerned that her occasionally over-enthusiastic investigations might get her into trouble. His worries seem justified as Libby and Fran get on the trail of a war-time fascist spy. No one wants to be 'a nuisance to a killer', and Libby and Fran may have just acquired that dangerous position... _____________________________________________________________ Praise for the bestselling series: 'I could not put down... Would recommend this series to everyone' ***** Amazon review 'Great story, great read... this hooked me from the beginning and didn't let go until the end' ***** Amazon review 'These are wonderful mysteries, with great characters and good plots. I highly recommend them...' ***** Amazon review '...if you miss the good old days of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers then why not give Lesley Cookman's excellent books a go' ***** Amazon review