Author: De Wet Potgieter
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1770229094
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In this book, investigative journalist De Wet Potgieter follows the trail of a number of criminals in South Africa’s history. These violent crimes, perpetrated from the late 1980s into the new millennium, vary from fanatical far-rightists who killed their innocent countrymen, to assassins who executed high-profile, state-sanctioned murders. He takes the reader behind the scenes of some of the most controversial events in our country and, with his fearless style of writing, pulls you right into the belly of the beast. In Gruesome, he shares information that has never before been made public. What really happened on the night of 17 June 1992 in Boipatong? What motivated the horrific attack on Alison Botha? What caused the ostensibly conformist policeman André Stander to become an unscrupulous bank robber? Who was the first person to see the connection between Gert van Rooyen’s victims and a probable human-trafficking network? Potgieter relates how, as a journalist, he went about reporting on each of these interesting, gruesome cases. This book takes you back to the bloody newspaper headlines of yesterday.
Gruesome
Author: De Wet Potgieter
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1770229094
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In this book, investigative journalist De Wet Potgieter follows the trail of a number of criminals in South Africa’s history. These violent crimes, perpetrated from the late 1980s into the new millennium, vary from fanatical far-rightists who killed their innocent countrymen, to assassins who executed high-profile, state-sanctioned murders. He takes the reader behind the scenes of some of the most controversial events in our country and, with his fearless style of writing, pulls you right into the belly of the beast. In Gruesome, he shares information that has never before been made public. What really happened on the night of 17 June 1992 in Boipatong? What motivated the horrific attack on Alison Botha? What caused the ostensibly conformist policeman André Stander to become an unscrupulous bank robber? Who was the first person to see the connection between Gert van Rooyen’s victims and a probable human-trafficking network? Potgieter relates how, as a journalist, he went about reporting on each of these interesting, gruesome cases. This book takes you back to the bloody newspaper headlines of yesterday.
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1770229094
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In this book, investigative journalist De Wet Potgieter follows the trail of a number of criminals in South Africa’s history. These violent crimes, perpetrated from the late 1980s into the new millennium, vary from fanatical far-rightists who killed their innocent countrymen, to assassins who executed high-profile, state-sanctioned murders. He takes the reader behind the scenes of some of the most controversial events in our country and, with his fearless style of writing, pulls you right into the belly of the beast. In Gruesome, he shares information that has never before been made public. What really happened on the night of 17 June 1992 in Boipatong? What motivated the horrific attack on Alison Botha? What caused the ostensibly conformist policeman André Stander to become an unscrupulous bank robber? Who was the first person to see the connection between Gert van Rooyen’s victims and a probable human-trafficking network? Potgieter relates how, as a journalist, he went about reporting on each of these interesting, gruesome cases. This book takes you back to the bloody newspaper headlines of yesterday.
The Gruesome Guide to World Monsters
Author: Judy Sierra
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 076361727X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Make room in your suitcase for this monstrously entertaining guide to fantastic creatures around the world — and how to elude them. I did not make any of this up. Do you know why you should have baby teeth handy when visiting the Midwest? Or why you should bring a cucumber with you when swimming in Japan? How good are you at solving Russian riddles? From Boston to Bejing, from Moscow to Mali, any place you visit has its own terrifying tales of very real creatures. Complete with handy "gruesomeness ratings," this guide offers all the important facts on some sixty-three folkloric monsters and how (if possible!) to survive an encounter with them. Meticulously researched by Judy Sierra and illustrated in grotesque detail by Henrik Drescher, here is the ultimate resource for any world traveler, armchair or otherwise, hoping to make it home alive.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 076361727X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Make room in your suitcase for this monstrously entertaining guide to fantastic creatures around the world — and how to elude them. I did not make any of this up. Do you know why you should have baby teeth handy when visiting the Midwest? Or why you should bring a cucumber with you when swimming in Japan? How good are you at solving Russian riddles? From Boston to Bejing, from Moscow to Mali, any place you visit has its own terrifying tales of very real creatures. Complete with handy "gruesomeness ratings," this guide offers all the important facts on some sixty-three folkloric monsters and how (if possible!) to survive an encounter with them. Meticulously researched by Judy Sierra and illustrated in grotesque detail by Henrik Drescher, here is the ultimate resource for any world traveler, armchair or otherwise, hoping to make it home alive.
Zeke Meeks vs the Gruesome Girls
Author: D.L. Green
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1404879668
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Third-grader Zeke Meeks already has two sisters, so he is bitterly disappointed when his new neighbor proves to be a girl--can Charlie change his mind and prove to him that boys and girls can play together?
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1404879668
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Third-grader Zeke Meeks already has two sisters, so he is bitterly disappointed when his new neighbor proves to be a girl--can Charlie change his mind and prove to him that boys and girls can play together?
The Graveyard Rats
Author: Henry Kuttner
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 161210536X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Mason had decided that the rats had to go… they had other plans… (note: very short story!)
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 161210536X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Mason had decided that the rats had to go… they had other plans… (note: very short story!)
Gruesome Grown-ups
Author: Jamie Rix
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1842557386
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Grizzliness is out there. Every child has the makings of mischievousness, and can be lured into committing dastardly deeds. The six stories in each of the Grizzly Tales books show the rise and hard fall of vile and villainous children. In this book, parents and teachers are to blame for the murk and misery of the children's lives. Luckily, there are top tips for dealing with gruesome grown-ups - although no child is clever enough to defeat the Darkness completely ... We are completely reinventing the Grizzly Tales format for today's readers - ingenious concepts to link the separate stories, new format, design and illustrations, but still capturing Jamie Rix's legendary brilliant for creating stories that linger in the mind long after the lights go out at night!
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1842557386
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Grizzliness is out there. Every child has the makings of mischievousness, and can be lured into committing dastardly deeds. The six stories in each of the Grizzly Tales books show the rise and hard fall of vile and villainous children. In this book, parents and teachers are to blame for the murk and misery of the children's lives. Luckily, there are top tips for dealing with gruesome grown-ups - although no child is clever enough to defeat the Darkness completely ... We are completely reinventing the Grizzly Tales format for today's readers - ingenious concepts to link the separate stories, new format, design and illustrations, but still capturing Jamie Rix's legendary brilliant for creating stories that linger in the mind long after the lights go out at night!
Phineas Gage
Author: John Fleischman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618494781
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. Phineas, a railroad construction foreman, was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived to live another eleven years and become a textbook case in brain science. At the time, Phineas Gage seemed to completely recover from his accident. He could walk, talk, work, and travel, but he was changed. Gage "was no longer Gage," said his Vermont doctor, meaning that the old Phineas was dependable and well liked, and the new Phineas was crude and unpredictable. His case astonished doctors in his day and still fascinates doctors today. What happened and what didn't happen inside the brain of Phineas Gage will tell you a lot about how your brain works and how you act human.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618494781
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. Phineas, a railroad construction foreman, was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived to live another eleven years and become a textbook case in brain science. At the time, Phineas Gage seemed to completely recover from his accident. He could walk, talk, work, and travel, but he was changed. Gage "was no longer Gage," said his Vermont doctor, meaning that the old Phineas was dependable and well liked, and the new Phineas was crude and unpredictable. His case astonished doctors in his day and still fascinates doctors today. What happened and what didn't happen inside the brain of Phineas Gage will tell you a lot about how your brain works and how you act human.
Gruesome House
Author: Joy Cowley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927130469
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
'The Joy Cowley Club' is a new series from author Joy Cowley, featuring trios of stories about the following characters: Barbie Lamb, the Gruesomes, a pair of everyday siblings who visit a fun fair, Oscar - the little brother who tries to keep up, and the classroom equipment that comes to life.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927130469
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
'The Joy Cowley Club' is a new series from author Joy Cowley, featuring trios of stories about the following characters: Barbie Lamb, the Gruesomes, a pair of everyday siblings who visit a fun fair, Oscar - the little brother who tries to keep up, and the classroom equipment that comes to life.
Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids
Author: Jamie Rix
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439014465
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Getting a haircut? eating spaghetti? Having a birthday party? You may think these all sound like very ordinary things to do. But read on and see just how grizzly they can be
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439014465
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Getting a haircut? eating spaghetti? Having a birthday party? You may think these all sound like very ordinary things to do. But read on and see just how grizzly they can be
Gruesome Harvest
Author: Ralph Keeling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494257033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
On May 8, 1945 the shooting ended in Europe. But, shockingly, the war against Germany went on. Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill had decreed that the German people must suffer-and suffer they did. Driven from their homes, looted of their property, decimated by famine and disease, raped, robbed, and enslaved, millions of Germans-most of them women and children-bore the brunt of what Time magazine called "history's most terrifying peace". Gruesome Harvest was one of the first books in America to sound the alarm against the victor's postwar war against the Germans. Bristling with contemporary documentation, burning with humanitarian and patriotic outrage, this informed, riveting classic dares to tell the shameful story of how American and Allied policy makers undertook the political, economic, and social destruction of the German people even as they presumed to instruct them in "justice" and "democracy." Today, as the propaganda war against the Germans wears on in the media and academic life, Gruesome Harvest, written in 1947 by a courageous American, when the decimation of the German race was still official U.S.-Allied policy, tells a vital story, one that must not be suppressed or forgotten. "If war should come, whichever side may claim ultimate victory, nothing is more certain that victor and vanquished alike would glean a gruesome harvest of human misery and suffering."-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, July 31, 1939, to the House of Commons.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494257033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
On May 8, 1945 the shooting ended in Europe. But, shockingly, the war against Germany went on. Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill had decreed that the German people must suffer-and suffer they did. Driven from their homes, looted of their property, decimated by famine and disease, raped, robbed, and enslaved, millions of Germans-most of them women and children-bore the brunt of what Time magazine called "history's most terrifying peace". Gruesome Harvest was one of the first books in America to sound the alarm against the victor's postwar war against the Germans. Bristling with contemporary documentation, burning with humanitarian and patriotic outrage, this informed, riveting classic dares to tell the shameful story of how American and Allied policy makers undertook the political, economic, and social destruction of the German people even as they presumed to instruct them in "justice" and "democracy." Today, as the propaganda war against the Germans wears on in the media and academic life, Gruesome Harvest, written in 1947 by a courageous American, when the decimation of the German race was still official U.S.-Allied policy, tells a vital story, one that must not be suppressed or forgotten. "If war should come, whichever side may claim ultimate victory, nothing is more certain that victor and vanquished alike would glean a gruesome harvest of human misery and suffering."-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, July 31, 1939, to the House of Commons.
The Dragon and the Gruesome Twosome
Author:
Publisher: Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 9781845077631
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
George and his dragon are off on a magical adventure but this time it is in a fairytale kingdom whose subjects are under attack from two fearsome troll twins, Gobbledegook and Balderdash. The twins are destroying everything and everyone in their path. Something must be done - and George has a plan! Also in this series: The Egg,, The Great Dragon Rescue and The Dragon Snatcher
Publisher: Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 9781845077631
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
George and his dragon are off on a magical adventure but this time it is in a fairytale kingdom whose subjects are under attack from two fearsome troll twins, Gobbledegook and Balderdash. The twins are destroying everything and everyone in their path. Something must be done - and George has a plan! Also in this series: The Egg,, The Great Dragon Rescue and The Dragon Snatcher