Crime album stories
Author | : Eugenia Parry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783908247616 |
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Author | : Eugenia Parry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783908247616 |
Author | : Eugenia Parry |
Publisher | : Scalo Publishers |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : |
Proceeding from an intriguing photo album documenting some 30 murders committed in Paris between 1887 and 1902, Parry investigates the ever eluding question of why people commit capital crimes. 60 duotones.
Author | : Kathryn Harrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 1400063485 |
In essays written over the course of more than a decade, Harrison has created a beautifully detailed and rigorously honest family album. She writes for the first time in almost two decades about her affair with her father, and how she has reckoned with the girl she once was. Harrison writes about the birth of her youngest daughter, and how she finally came to understand her own mother's attitudes toward parenting. And she reflects on the loss of her beloved father-in-law, and how he managed to repair something her own father had broken.
Author | : Emily Dodd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2019-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781999955618 |
Author | : Trevor Noah |
Publisher | : One World |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2016-11-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0399588183 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid “Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s history that must never be forgotten.”—Esquire Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Esquire, Newsday, and Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.
Author | : Mary Fortune |
Publisher | : Shelburne, Ont. : Battered Silicon Dispatch Box |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Authors, Australian |
ISBN | : 9781552463567 |
Author | : Paul Slade |
Publisher | : Soundcheck Books |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2015-11-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 099294807X |
The Gory Stories Behind The Murder Ballads Cheerfully vulgar, revelling in gore, and always with an eye on the main chance, murder ballads are tabloid newspapers set to music, carrying word of the latest ‘orrible murders to an insatiable public. Victims are bludgeoned, stabbed or shot in every verse and killers often hanged, but the songs themselves never die. Instead, they mutate – morphing to suit local place names as they criss cross the Atlantic and continue to fascinate each generation’s biggest musical stars. Paul Slade traces this fascinating genre’s history through eight of its greatest songs. Stagger Lee’s “biographers” alone include Duke Ellington, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Dr John, The Clash and Nick Cave. No two tell his story in quite the same way. Covering eight classic murder ballads, including “Knoxville Girl”, “Tom Dooley” and “Frankie & Johnny”, Slade investigates the real-life murder which inspired each song and traces its musical development down the decades. Billy Bragg, The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey, Laura Cantrell, Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family and a host of other leading musicians add their own insights.
Author | : Thomas Hoobler |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2009-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0316052531 |
Turn-of-the-century Paris was the beating heart of a rapidly changing world. Painters, scientists, revolutionaries, poets -- all were there. But so, too, were the shadows: Paris was a violent, criminal place, its sinister alleyways the haunts of Apache gangsters and its cafes the gathering places of murderous anarchists. In 1911, it fell victim to perhaps the greatest theft of all time -- the taking of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Immediately, Alphonse Bertillon, a detective world-renowned for pioneering crime-scene investigation techniques, was called upon to solve the crime. And quickly the Paris police had a suspect: a young Spanish artist named Pablo Picasso....
Author | : Gary C. King |
Publisher | : Bleak House Books |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2013-06-25 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1490547223 |
Bizarre, compelling, terrifying and authentic true crime stories of murder and mayhem. In these pages you will find a story about a tormented serial killer and how he resorted to cannibalism, a female celebrity's fan who had an obsession to murder her, torture murders, crimes of passion, among many others—chilling crimes that could only be perpetrated by the twisted minds and gruesome obsessions of coldblooded killers, the stuff that horror movies and novels are made of, brought to you from the vault of bestselling true crime author and serial killer expert Gary C. King. There are 15 terrifying, heart-pounding stories in all, guaranteed to keep you awake and your doors locked as only King, the Master of True Crime, can write them!
Author | : Lauren Gilmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2015-06-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781938753152 |
"Everyone talking over each other--radios tuned to different stations."There are no bows in this collection. Lauren Gilmore gives readers poems that grapple with life's loose ends. Outdancing the Universe is for those who "have always slept best between mile markers." She chronicles how illusory "home" can often be, and the quiet frustration that comes from seeking it. Gilmore welcomes you to the human race--"the only species masochistic enough / to keep track of time."