Author: Christopher Boehm
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812212419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Blood Revenge
Author: Christopher Boehm
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812212419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812212419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Blood Revenge
Author: David Thor
Publisher: Cosacinco Press
ISBN: 9780982487709
Category : Revenge
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In an extraordinarily relevant novel, Blood Revenge catalogs two independent decisions by two families and the unplanned convergence of their decisions-a non-stop story of vengeance and intrigue pitting east vs. west. 1972 - Xiamen Island China In one stroke, Tan and Jin Yi moved to eradicate new age reform from within the ranks of the Chinese ruling party. At the same time they make the decision to silently relocate their adolescent children to a location in the western hemisphere. What Tan and Jin Yi did not know, could not know, was that, another family drama was playing out almost one thousand miles to the north... 2009 - Mobile, Alabama James Bali was just beginning a twelve-hour shift when the call came in. The local coast guard base had radioed ahead that a cutter had rescued victims from an unknown tragedy. They reported that one survivor was recovered from an oil platform in the Gulf... Dr. Bali and a hospital nurse moved quickly to the helicopter. Bali briefly consulted with one of the coast guard pilots. With the help of the pilot, the doctor climbed into the aircraft to check on the patient. His first thought was that he was staring at some kind of rubber corpse and that this was all some kind of joke, or possibly a coast guard training scenario. But he quickly discarded that idea. Dr. Bali stood silently and shook off a confused stare...
Publisher: Cosacinco Press
ISBN: 9780982487709
Category : Revenge
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In an extraordinarily relevant novel, Blood Revenge catalogs two independent decisions by two families and the unplanned convergence of their decisions-a non-stop story of vengeance and intrigue pitting east vs. west. 1972 - Xiamen Island China In one stroke, Tan and Jin Yi moved to eradicate new age reform from within the ranks of the Chinese ruling party. At the same time they make the decision to silently relocate their adolescent children to a location in the western hemisphere. What Tan and Jin Yi did not know, could not know, was that, another family drama was playing out almost one thousand miles to the north... 2009 - Mobile, Alabama James Bali was just beginning a twelve-hour shift when the call came in. The local coast guard base had radioed ahead that a cutter had rescued victims from an unknown tragedy. They reported that one survivor was recovered from an oil platform in the Gulf... Dr. Bali and a hospital nurse moved quickly to the helicopter. Bali briefly consulted with one of the coast guard pilots. With the help of the pilot, the doctor climbed into the aircraft to check on the patient. His first thought was that he was staring at some kind of rubber corpse and that this was all some kind of joke, or possibly a coast guard training scenario. But he quickly discarded that idea. Dr. Bali stood silently and shook off a confused stare...
Blood in the Water
Author: Silver Donald Cameron
Publisher: Steerforth
ISBN: 1586422936
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
“Fascinating! [A] must-read for all concerned about how humans manage to live together. Or not.” —Margaret Atwood “Superb... an instant true crime classic.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A masterfully told true story, perfect for fans of Say Nothing and Furious Hours: a brutal murder in a small Nova Scotia fishing community raises urgent questions of right and wrong, and even the very nature of good and evil. In his riveting and meticulously reported final book, Silver Donald Cameron offers a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing and its devastating repercussions. Cameron’s searing, utterly gripping story about one small community raises a disturbing question: Are there times when taking the law into your own hands is not only understandable but the responsible thing to do? In June 2013, three upstanding citizens of a small town on Cape Breton Island murdered their neighbor, Phillip Boudreau, at sea. While out checking their lobster traps, two Landry cousins and skipper Dwayne Samson saw Boudreau in his boat, the Midnight Slider, about to vandalize their lobster traps. Like so many times before, the small-time criminal was about to cost them thousands of dollars out of their seasonal livelihood. Boudreau seemed invincible, a miscreant who would plague the village forever. Meanwhile the police and local officials were frustrated, cowed, and hobbled by shrinking budgets. One of the men took out a rifle and fired four shots at Boudreau and his boat. Was the Boudreau killing cold blooded murder, a direct reaction to credible threats, or the tragic result of local officials failing to protect the community? As many local people have said, if those fellows hadn't killed him, someone else would have...
Publisher: Steerforth
ISBN: 1586422936
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
“Fascinating! [A] must-read for all concerned about how humans manage to live together. Or not.” —Margaret Atwood “Superb... an instant true crime classic.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A masterfully told true story, perfect for fans of Say Nothing and Furious Hours: a brutal murder in a small Nova Scotia fishing community raises urgent questions of right and wrong, and even the very nature of good and evil. In his riveting and meticulously reported final book, Silver Donald Cameron offers a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing and its devastating repercussions. Cameron’s searing, utterly gripping story about one small community raises a disturbing question: Are there times when taking the law into your own hands is not only understandable but the responsible thing to do? In June 2013, three upstanding citizens of a small town on Cape Breton Island murdered their neighbor, Phillip Boudreau, at sea. While out checking their lobster traps, two Landry cousins and skipper Dwayne Samson saw Boudreau in his boat, the Midnight Slider, about to vandalize their lobster traps. Like so many times before, the small-time criminal was about to cost them thousands of dollars out of their seasonal livelihood. Boudreau seemed invincible, a miscreant who would plague the village forever. Meanwhile the police and local officials were frustrated, cowed, and hobbled by shrinking budgets. One of the men took out a rifle and fired four shots at Boudreau and his boat. Was the Boudreau killing cold blooded murder, a direct reaction to credible threats, or the tragic result of local officials failing to protect the community? As many local people have said, if those fellows hadn't killed him, someone else would have...
Bloody Revenge
Author: Thomas J. Scheff
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367008932
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
As violence erupts in endless cycles and old grievances reemerge throughout the world, we are challenged to examine the underpinnings of protracted conflict. In this bold new work, Thomas Scheff argues that the roots of protracted conflict lie in unacknowledged feelings of shame and rage. Scheff builds from the assumption that the social bond is a real and palpable phenomena and that in every type of human contact the bond is either built, maintained, repaired, or damaged. He then demonstrates how damaged bonds are the basic cause of conflict. When one side or the other in a dispute is humiliated or threatened in such a way as to disturb fundamental bonds, the feelings that follow are often not acknowledged. Threats to the social bond give rise to violent emotions, shame, and rage. Unless these feelings are resolved, the stage is then set for cycles of insult, humiliation, and bloody revenge. According to Scheff, it is by recognizing the emotional source of conflict and repairing the broken social bond that both sides achieve cognitive and emotional understanding, allowing them to trust and cooperate, and perceive themselves as "all in the same boat." Thus, secure social bonds ensure clear boundaries-even during competition or conflict-that help keep wars limited and make disagreements productive.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367008932
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
As violence erupts in endless cycles and old grievances reemerge throughout the world, we are challenged to examine the underpinnings of protracted conflict. In this bold new work, Thomas Scheff argues that the roots of protracted conflict lie in unacknowledged feelings of shame and rage. Scheff builds from the assumption that the social bond is a real and palpable phenomena and that in every type of human contact the bond is either built, maintained, repaired, or damaged. He then demonstrates how damaged bonds are the basic cause of conflict. When one side or the other in a dispute is humiliated or threatened in such a way as to disturb fundamental bonds, the feelings that follow are often not acknowledged. Threats to the social bond give rise to violent emotions, shame, and rage. Unless these feelings are resolved, the stage is then set for cycles of insult, humiliation, and bloody revenge. According to Scheff, it is by recognizing the emotional source of conflict and repairing the broken social bond that both sides achieve cognitive and emotional understanding, allowing them to trust and cooperate, and perceive themselves as "all in the same boat." Thus, secure social bonds ensure clear boundaries-even during competition or conflict-that help keep wars limited and make disagreements productive.
Blood Mountain Covenant
Author: Charles E. Hill
Publisher: Pentland Press (NC)
ISBN: 9781571973788
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The struggle of the Lance family to live a life of honor in spite of the murder of one of its members.
Publisher: Pentland Press (NC)
ISBN: 9781571973788
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The struggle of the Lance family to live a life of honor in spite of the murder of one of its members.
Revenge of the Vampir King
Author: Nancy Kilpatrick
Publisher: Macabre Ink
ISBN: 9781952979323
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Vampires and humans are at war! Moarte, King of the Vampirii, is a prisoner of his Sapiens enemy. The beautiful Sapiens Princess Valada, believing that Moarte killed her mother, tortures him, even to the point of breaking the bones in his wings so he cannot escape. She intends to incinerate him to ash in sunlight, but Moarte escapes. Moarte hungers for revenge. When, through an act of betrayal, Valada is captured by the vampirii, his first instinct is to drain her blood and annihilate her. But he realizes he can get revenge in other ways, using her as a tool to gain the upper hand in this conflict. But who is manipulating whom? Both want revenge, and control of the other, and Moarte wants to drink Valada's blood. Dark desires lead down a path neither had envisioned, a threatening spiral that can destroy empires. Hunter and hunted change places again and again in this novel of twisted, violent passions. Seeds of deception are sown amidst love and hate, loyalty and betrayal, obsession and indifference, in an erotic tale of warring races, foes since the beginning of time, and two unlikely adversaries aligning to battle a common enemy. "Nancy Kilpatrick infuses her vampires with the hot blood of life and erotic passion. Vampires have never had it so good." F. Paul Wilson Author of the Repairman Jack series, The Keep, Midnight Mass "Kilpatrick knows that great secret of horror stories: that they are intensely personal!" Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Author of The Saint Germain series "Nancy Kilpatrick's writing is both eloquent and erotic her stories seduce the reader through the mutual attraction of dread and desire." Stephen Jones Editor: Dark Terrors; Best New Horror series
Publisher: Macabre Ink
ISBN: 9781952979323
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Vampires and humans are at war! Moarte, King of the Vampirii, is a prisoner of his Sapiens enemy. The beautiful Sapiens Princess Valada, believing that Moarte killed her mother, tortures him, even to the point of breaking the bones in his wings so he cannot escape. She intends to incinerate him to ash in sunlight, but Moarte escapes. Moarte hungers for revenge. When, through an act of betrayal, Valada is captured by the vampirii, his first instinct is to drain her blood and annihilate her. But he realizes he can get revenge in other ways, using her as a tool to gain the upper hand in this conflict. But who is manipulating whom? Both want revenge, and control of the other, and Moarte wants to drink Valada's blood. Dark desires lead down a path neither had envisioned, a threatening spiral that can destroy empires. Hunter and hunted change places again and again in this novel of twisted, violent passions. Seeds of deception are sown amidst love and hate, loyalty and betrayal, obsession and indifference, in an erotic tale of warring races, foes since the beginning of time, and two unlikely adversaries aligning to battle a common enemy. "Nancy Kilpatrick infuses her vampires with the hot blood of life and erotic passion. Vampires have never had it so good." F. Paul Wilson Author of the Repairman Jack series, The Keep, Midnight Mass "Kilpatrick knows that great secret of horror stories: that they are intensely personal!" Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Author of The Saint Germain series "Nancy Kilpatrick's writing is both eloquent and erotic her stories seduce the reader through the mutual attraction of dread and desire." Stephen Jones Editor: Dark Terrors; Best New Horror series
Revenge
Author: Yoko Ogawa
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1250016177
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
"It's not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book... [and] one may detect a slight bow to the American macabre of E.A. Poe. Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as another saying goes. But this collection may linger in your mind -- it does in mine -- as a delicious, perplexing, absorbing and somehow singular experience." -- Alan Cheuse, NPR Sinister forces collide---and unite a host of desperate characters---in this eerie cycle of interwoven tales from Yoko Ogawa, the critically acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor---who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture. Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders---their fates converge in an ominous and darkly beautiful web. Yoko Ogawa's Revenge is a master class in the macabre that will haunt you to the last page. An NPR Best Book of 2013
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1250016177
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
"It's not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book... [and] one may detect a slight bow to the American macabre of E.A. Poe. Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as another saying goes. But this collection may linger in your mind -- it does in mine -- as a delicious, perplexing, absorbing and somehow singular experience." -- Alan Cheuse, NPR Sinister forces collide---and unite a host of desperate characters---in this eerie cycle of interwoven tales from Yoko Ogawa, the critically acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor---who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture. Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders---their fates converge in an ominous and darkly beautiful web. Yoko Ogawa's Revenge is a master class in the macabre that will haunt you to the last page. An NPR Best Book of 2013
BLOOD ROSE
Author: K Sriharsha
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1647339375
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
When Mary got an opportunity to teach the kindergarten students in a historic school, her heart started to heal from her tragic past. Though the love and affection from the children helped her to recover, a girl named ‘Rose’, who has been absent in her class everyday, breaks into her nightmares. Her promise to Aditya kept her away from distractions until Mary’s mind is puzzled to see her dreams painted by Jennifer, the principal of the school. The spine-chilling mysteries and heart-warming emotions unfolds along with the blooming petals of a bright red rose in Jennifer’s garden. Witness the journey of a red rose from cradle to coffin in the exotic wet-green lands of Ooty.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1647339375
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
When Mary got an opportunity to teach the kindergarten students in a historic school, her heart started to heal from her tragic past. Though the love and affection from the children helped her to recover, a girl named ‘Rose’, who has been absent in her class everyday, breaks into her nightmares. Her promise to Aditya kept her away from distractions until Mary’s mind is puzzled to see her dreams painted by Jennifer, the principal of the school. The spine-chilling mysteries and heart-warming emotions unfolds along with the blooming petals of a bright red rose in Jennifer’s garden. Witness the journey of a red rose from cradle to coffin in the exotic wet-green lands of Ooty.
The Revenge of Captain Blood
Author: Paul Shipton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199185955
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199185955
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
A Lady's Revenge
Author: Edie Cay
Publisher: Scarabskin Books
ISBN: 9781734439717
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A LADY'S REVENGE is a Regency romance with a feminist twist. The brooding aristocrat who boxes is our heroine--who still wears the lavish ballgowns. The hero, a stockbroker and prizefighter, bumbles around the edges of Society figuring out how the world works now that he has a jingle in his pocket. When these two collide, it's trouble.
Publisher: Scarabskin Books
ISBN: 9781734439717
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A LADY'S REVENGE is a Regency romance with a feminist twist. The brooding aristocrat who boxes is our heroine--who still wears the lavish ballgowns. The hero, a stockbroker and prizefighter, bumbles around the edges of Society figuring out how the world works now that he has a jingle in his pocket. When these two collide, it's trouble.