State & Local
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:John Glatt [Glatt, John]

THIRTY-THREE THE KILLING At 1:00 P.M. on Friday April 3, Francisco Picado rented a red Chevy Scion from Rent Max in Miami, paying $118 in cash that he had been ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-09-14 | Author:David Pietrusza [Pietrusza, David]

ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN COULD EASILY HAVE walked away from gambling and loan-sharking and entered the world of legitimate business. In 1912 he was offered a $25,000-per year position as a stockbroker. ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-14 | Author:Frank McCourt [McCourt, Frank]

My father applied for a plot out the road in Rosbrien and the government lent him a spade and a fork for the work. He took my brother Malachy and ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-27 | Author:Don Felder [Felder, Don]

By the end of the afternoon, when I’d mixed the whole thing to mono, there was a little bit of everything that had ever happened to me in that song. ...
( Category: Pop March 26,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Philip Connors

3 June Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-24 | Author:Michael Sandel

An Egalitarian Nightmare “Harrison Bergeron,” a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., plays out this worry as dystopian science fiction. “The year was 2081,” the story begins, “and everybody was ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1994-10-04 | Author:Jim Thompson

13 Many Texas fortunes are old to the point of antiquity, their origins dating back to the copquistadores and huge Spanish land-grants. The founders were cattle-raisers—beef cattle; so also were ...
( Category: Dogs March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:J.D. Robb

"This," McNab said as he took in a gulp of tropical air, "is living." "We're not living. We're investigating. There'll be no living until we've completed the investigative purpose of ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-03-01 | Author:Nelson DeMille

Twenty-one In retrospect, I should have tried the Atlantic crossing with my family and never returned to America; a sort of decolonization of the Sutters and the Stanhopes. We could ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-08-29 | Author:Gow, Kailin [Gow, Kailin]

Chapter 11 Before the celebration feast was to begin, we were given a few hours to rest, relax, and perhaps most importantly, to bathe. I had not had access to ...
( Category: Golf March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-28 | Author:James Agee

Chapter 12 Andrew had shut the door but they could hear him, trying to talk quietly. He was talking, indeed, very quietly, close to the mouthpiece with his hand around ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2001-08-14 | Author:Ralph Ellison

Chapter 14 The odor of Mary's cabbage changed my mind. Standing engulfed in the fumes filling the hall, it struck me that I couldn't realistically reject the job. Cabbage was ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1978-01-02 | Author:Alistair MacLean

Schmidt said: ‘Why should those damn things be kept so secret when you’ll let the world know everything else?’ ‘You will understand well enough inside the next two days or ...
( Category: Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Annie Dillard

9 Flood It’s summer. We had some deep spring sunshine about a month ago, in a drought; the nights were cold. It’s been gray sporadically, but not oppressively, and rainy ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:J.D. Robb

Chapter Twelve Prologue 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Epilogue Her puke green police ...
( Category: Police Procedurals March 25,2014 )