The Kindness of the Hangman

The Kindness of the Hangman
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Publisher : Higgins Bay Publishing
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 057814445X
ISBN-13 : 9780578144450
Rating : 4/5 (5X Downloads)

Synopsis The Kindness of the Hangman by : Henry Oster

A young German boy's true story of tragedy and triumph, from the depths of despair in Auschwitz and Buchenwald to an extraordinary life in America.

The Hangman's Daughter

The Hangman's Daughter
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 453
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ISBN-10 : 9780547745015
ISBN-13 : 054774501X
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis The Hangman's Daughter by : Oliver Pötzsch

Hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is being practiced in the small town of Schongau in 1659 after a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder.

Hangman's Game

Hangman's Game
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 333
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ISBN-10 : 9781250067159
ISBN-13 : 1250067154
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Hangman's Game by : Bill Syken

After losing his starting position as a college quarterback to a shoulder injury, Nick Gallow has remade himself as a punter. Now in his fifth year in the pros with the Philadelphia Sentinels, Nick spends most of his time on the sidelines. He no longer makes winning plays, and when the team visits a hospital, the sick kids would rather talk to the players they've actually heard of. But Nick is unexpectedly thrust back into the spotlight when he witnesses the murder of the new all-star draft pick on the eve of the team's summer minicamp. Nick has no plans to get involved. Despite the murder, his focus is squarely on an uppity rookie player eyeing his roster spot. But after a second attack hits closer to home and the police go after the wrong man, Nick finds himself driven by the chance to be a hero again. In Hangman's Game, Syken offers a seasoned sportswriter's take on the contemporary culture of football and the will to play on despite the game's toll on the body and mind.

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
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Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Total Pages : 121
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ISBN-10 : 9781465518514
ISBN-13 : 1465518517
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter by : Ambrose Bierce

The Hangman's Secret

The Hangman's Secret
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Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : 9781683319030
ISBN-13 : 1683319036
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis The Hangman's Secret by : Laura Joh Rowland

Intrepid photographer Sarah Bain and her motley crew of detectives are back to hunt criminals in the seedy underbelly of Victorian London—but little do they know, the darkness may lurk closer than they first divined Photographer Sarah Bain and her friends, Lord Hugh Staunton and sometime street urchin Mick O’Reilly, are private detectives with a new gig—photographing crime scenes for London’s Daily World newspaper. The Daily World is the latest business venture of their sole client, Sir Gerald Mariner, a fabulously wealthy and powerful banker. One cold, snowy January morning, Sarah, Hugh and Mick are summoned to the goriest crime scene they’ve ever encountered. A pub owner named Harry Warbrick has been found hanged and decapitated amid evidence of foul play. His murder becomes a sensation for being England’s top hangman but was met with the same fate that he inflicted on hundreds of criminals. Sir Gerald announces that the Daily World—meaning Sarah and her friends—will investigate and solve Harry Warbrick’s murder before the police do. The contest pits Sarah against the man she loves, Police Constable Barrett. She and her friends discover a connection between Harry Warbrick’s murder and the most notorious criminal he ever executed—Amelia Carlisle, the “Baby-Butcher,” who murdered hundreds of infants placed in her care. Something happened at Amelia’s execution. The Official Secrets Act forbids the seven witnesses present to divulge any information about it. But Harry had a bad habit of leaking tips to the press. Sarah and her friends suspect that one of the other witnesses killed Harry to prevent him from revealing a secret related to the execution. What is the secret, and who hanged the hangman? From award-winning author Laura Joh Rowland, The Hangman’s Secret builds suspense about the darkness that lurks within and the deadly secrets that beg to be revealed.

The Hangman's Ghost

The Hangman's Ghost
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Publisher : Graeme Hague
Total Pages : 58
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ISBN-10 :
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis The Hangman's Ghost by : G.M.Hague

Jacob Good was a man who could expect to see many ghosts. Angry spirits, and the wraiths of men and women filled with hate for Jacob, parading their soured souls in front of him, surrounding Jacob with their rage. After all, Jacob had killed a lot of people. As the Principal Hangman at Willengarten Prison it was Jacob’s responsibility to dispatch the condemned prisoners to the next world. He believed all the guilty should be hanged, if that was their fate. Now a frightening, tragic ghost is taunting Jacob as he's about to retire, making his life a nightmare, demanding that Jacob make sure the last guilty murderer doesn't miss their appointment with Jacob's noose. But who is to be Jacob's final victim? And do they deserve to escape the rope or not? Will Jacob's last killing be a dreadful mistake?

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: The monk and the hangman's daughter. Fantastic fables. Fables from "Fun." Aesopus emendatus. Old saws with new teeth. Fables in rhyme

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: The monk and the hangman's daughter. Fantastic fables. Fables from
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 398
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015059407877
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: The monk and the hangman's daughter. Fantastic fables. Fables from "Fun." Aesopus emendatus. Old saws with new teeth. Fables in rhyme by : Ambrose Bierce

The London

The London
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 870
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015086852202
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis The London by :

Dread Pirate Fleur and the Hangman's Noose

Dread Pirate Fleur and the Hangman's Noose
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9781409096948
ISBN-13 : 1409096947
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Dread Pirate Fleur and the Hangman's Noose by : Sara Starbuck

Fleur has been reunited with the crew of the pirate ship the Black Dragon, and is especially happy to be home with her best friend Tom and her gruff uncle William the Heartless. They set sale for the Americas, a continent in the suspicious grip of the infamous witch trials at Salem. When Fleur discovers her mother - who she has long believed dead - is on trial for witchcraft, she mounts a daring rescue mission, which results in William being captured and transported to London to the Tyburn gallows. Fleur knows she must do everything in her power to save him, and captains the Black Dragon on its most treacherous journey yet. But dealing with rough waters and an ambush from the Royal Navy is nothing compared to the danger posed by her own mother Rose, the ultimate in unscrupulous pirate queens...

Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women's Travel Writing

Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women's Travel Writing
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 340
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0820449059
ISBN-13 : 9780820449050
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women's Travel Writing by : Kristi Siegel

Women experience and portray travel differently: Gender matters - irreducibly and complexly. Building on recent scholarship in women's travel writing, these provocative essays not only affirm the impact of gender, but also cast women's journeys against coordinates such as race, class, culture, religion, economics, politics, and history. The book's scope is unique: Women travelers extend in time from Victorian memsahibs to contemporary «road girls», and topics range from Anna Leonowens's slanted portrayal of Siam - later popularized in the movie, The King and I, to current feminist «descripting» of the male-road-buddy genre. The extensive array of writers examined includes Nancy Prince, Frances Trollope, Cameron Tuttle, Lady Mary Montagu, Catherine Oddie, Kate Karko, Frances Calderón de la Barca, Rosamond Lawrence, Zilpha Elaw, Alexandra David-Néel, Amelia Edwards, Erica Lopez, Paule Marshall, Bharati Mukherjee, and Marilynne Robinson.