Author: Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780440147558
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: Thomas Abt
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541645715
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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From a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities. Coupling the latest social science with firsthand experience as a crime-fighter, Abt proposes a relentless focus on violence itself -- not drugs, gangs, or guns. Because violence is "sticky," clustering among small groups of people and places, it can be predicted and prevented using a series of smart-on-crime strategies that do not require new laws or big budgets. Bringing these strategies together, Abt offers a concrete, cost-effective plan to reduce homicides by over 50 percent in eight years, saving more than 12,000 lives nationally. Violence acts as a linchpin for urban poverty, so curbing such crime can unlock the untapped potential of our cities' most disadvantaged communities and help us to bridge the nation's larger economic and social divides. Urgent yet hopeful, Bleeding Out offers practical solutions to the national emergency of urban violence -- and challenges readers to demand action.

Author: Joan Brady
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1849839514
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 515

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Hugh Freyl is a blind lawyer, scion of Illinois' most influential family. He recounts this story from the grave. David Marion is Freyl's protege and a young convicted killer whose release from prison Freyl has orchestrated. He now stands accused of Hugh Freyl's murder. None from Freyl's powerful inner circle will stand up for David's innocence. The perfect scapegoat for their misdoings, he alone bears the burden of proof. Revealing the inner-workings of an untouchable elite with all their tricks, entitlements and intricate financial schemes, Brady shows us a place that could be any small American city - a place where innocence can backfire and where fear is the only effective weapon against a corrupt government.

Author: Gary Indiana
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
ISBN: 9781852423322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Gary Indiana's essays, like his fiction, take no prisoners. In his fifteen years of writing cultural criticism, he has altered the way we look at ourselves and our society. Ignoring good taste, Indiana writes discomforting home truths, because his views of home are unique and never comfortable. His insights are acute, brash, bracing, intelligent; his subjects and speculations range from Rodney King's beating to Mary McCarthy's friendship with Hannah Arendt to the presidential campaign of 1992. Let it Bleed collects for the first time some of the most engaging, provocative, and exciting writing that has been seen and produced in a long time.

Author: Sean Egan
Publisher: Unanimous, Limited
ISBN: 9781903318775
Category : Rock groups
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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With a central spotlight on the creation of what many consider the Stones' masterpiece, 'Let it Bleed', Sean Egan draws a picture of where the band were at in the bleak aftermath of Brian Jones' death, and how the making of the album catapulted them to the next stage of their extraordinary career.

Author: Steve Niles
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506715346
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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A brand-new Criminal Macabre story by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night)! A noir tale of mysteries, vampires, love, and betrayal. Supernatural detective Cal McDonald, found wandering the streets as a disheveled vagrant, is ripped from his self-imposed retirement to resume his monster-killing career. But Cal is reluctant to return to the fray. What has the hard-bitten investigator so shaken? It's a long story that begins with a beautiful woman who happens to be a vampire . . . and ends with a bang. Collects Criminal Macabre: The Big Bleed Out #1-#4.

Author: Pamela Des Barres
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524704741
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Author of the international bestseller I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, Pamela Des Barres shares with women the art of memoir writing. For the last fourteen years, Pamela Des Barres has been teaching an eight-week women's "femoir" writing workshop. She found that the music-loving ladies who showed up at her door had pent-up stories to tell. Many of them had read her two memoirs, which were wildly personal and deeply confessional, and felt comfortable opening up and experiencing that same freedom of expression. In this book, Des Barres guides women through the process of writing their memoirs. She has developed exercises to help her "dolls" recall, remember, relive, and reveal their memories, transgressions, temptations, their sleepless nights and brilliant afternoons, loves and losses, fears and regrets, secrets, sins, and sorrows. The assignments in Femoir have proven incredibly cathartic for her students. Just as intimate as one of her in-person workshops, this book includes some of Des Barres's own stories, as well as those of the women she's taught. Every person has an incredible story to tell—they just need to figure out how to tell it. By understanding themselves better through these writing exercises, women learn to be more fearless, free-spirited, and willing to try something new.

Author: Caitlin Crews
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373131925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187

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Furious and formidable: to challenge a Corretti… Jilted at the altar, his arranged marriage in tatters, Alessandro Corretti escapes the hounding press and salacious headlines on his yacht, where he can lick his wounds in private. Aboard his boat, dressed as a servant, is Elena—the woman who tore up his heart six months ago. Elena…his enemy's prize and forbidden to his touch. But at sea there are no rules, and Alessandro will take what he wants. Yet a Corretti should know that passion has consequences. And if Elena is carrying his child? She'll be bound to him forever.

Author: George Meredith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Author: William W. Johnstone
Publisher: Lyrical Press
ISBN: 1616507861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Jake Silver was a teenage misfit, a misunderstood genius who'd been cruelly tormented by his own sadistic father and others in his little Louisiana hometown. Jake was the perfect disciple for Them. They'd come from another world; disembodied begins who understood Jake's need for revenge. . .They would offer Jake the power to finally take it. . .All they wanted in return was his help in bringing others of their kind to Jake's world. It begins so slowly, so innocently, even Jake didn't see the danger. . .until it was too late to realize that he had helped unleash a devastating power in the universe--and opened a gateway for a horrific struggle between mere human beings and. . . Them