Hell's Playground

Hell's Playground
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Total Pages : 470
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433076039118
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Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Hell's Playground by : Ida Vera Simonton

Weird Wisconsin

Weird Wisconsin
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Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9780760759448
ISBN-13 : 0760759448
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Weird Wisconsin by : Linda S. Godfrey

The Devil's Playground

The Devil's Playground
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9781493039036
ISBN-13 : 1493039032
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis The Devil's Playground by : Gary L. Bloomfield

The Devil's Playground is a timely account of what it is like to serve along perhaps the most dangerous and sensitive strip of land in the world. In recent months two bullet-riddled attempted escapes from North to South brought worldwide headlines. And with Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un exchanging threats, the world hopes for a diplomatic solution, but watches with bated breath. Author Gary L. Bloomfield, a military journalist in what is called “the demilitarized” zone between North and South Korea in the 1970s, combines his personal experience with interviews and historical insights to present a fresh, up-to-date, account of what it is like to serve on perhaps the most contentious strip of land in the world today. The Devil’s Playground combines history with current events that today have the rest of the world watching, hoping there is no explosion, which could lead to a nuclear war. While world attention is focused on the Koreas, few people understand what is at stake and what happens there every day. Here is the unfiltered answer. Formed in 1953 after the Korean War ended in a stalemate, the demilitarized zone is anything but. It is in fact one of the most heavily-armed regions in the world--a powder keg just waiting for someone to light the fuse. There have been more than 40,000 truce violations ranging from minor fisticuffs to brutal killings, from moving heavy artillery into the zone to assassination attempts in downtown Seoul since the Armistice Agreement was signed. The demilitarized zone is also the focus of an intense propaganda war—with thousands of flyers sent across the border each year from both sides. Few people realize that over the years North Korea has trained 100,000 men for guerrilla warfare across the border, and it is unknown how many have already secreted themselves in South Korea. It is the duty of the American and South Korean soldiers there to stop them. Gary Bloomfield presents here the first unvarnished accounts of the tension and the impact serving on the line can bring. Just one example: Though firefights are rare, US soldiers often hear North Korean soldiers and their laughter and the taunts, but they rarely see their tormentors. Life along the demilitarized zone is a war of nerves, a game of cat and mouse, though it’s hard to tell who’s chasing whom. Bloomfield covers it all in unsparing detail and offers fascinating previously little-known details. Life along the demilitarized zone is a war of nerves, a game of cat and mouse, though it’s hard to tell who’s chasing whom. Bloomfield covers it all in unsparing detail and offers fascinating details. Here is Guardpost Ouellette, which some American soldiers call the edge of the world; or Radar Site #4, overlooking the truce village of PanMunJom to the west, a hilltop where the tension is thick 24 hours a day; deadly minefields and miles of razor-sharp concertina wire and the desperate people who try of pass over them. Here also are the trigger-happy, shoot-to-kill sentries along the border on both sides; concrete bunkers with 24-hour guards armed with machine-guns, and spotlights, trip flares and other sensing devices concealed everywhere add to the heavily-fortified barrier against a North Korean attack. And of course the details of the Tree Incident in 1976, which nearly triggered World War III. The Devil's Playground is a living history with the spit of real life and a vivid look at brinksmanship in its most precarious state.

The Forger’s Tale

The Forger’s Tale
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Publisher : Ohio University Press
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9780821442302
ISBN-13 : 0821442309
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis The Forger’s Tale by : Stephanie Newell

Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria. How was it possible for an unconventional, boy-loving Englishman to gain a social status among the local populace enjoyed by few other Europeans in colonial West Africa? In The Forger’s Tale: The Search for Odeziaku Stephanie Newell charts the story of the English novelist and poet John Moray Stuart-Young (1881–1939) as he traveled from the slums of Manchester to West Africa in order to escape the homophobic prejudices of late-Victorian society. Leaving behind a criminal record for forgery and embezzlement and his notoriety as a “spirit rapper,” Stuart-Young found a new identity as a wealthy palm oil trader and a celebrated author, known to Nigerians as “Odeziaku.” In this fascinating biographical account, Newell draws on queer theory, African gender debates, and “new imperial history” to open up a wider study of imperialism, (homo)sexuality, and nonelite culture between the 1880s and the late 1930s. The Forger’s Tale pays close attention to different forms of West African cultural production in the colonial period and to public debates about sexuality and ethics, as well as to movements in mainstream English literature.

The Devil's Playground

The Devil's Playground
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Publisher : Dell
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9780440244943
ISBN-13 : 0440244943
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis The Devil's Playground by : Jenna Black

Morgan Kingsley, a kick-ass exorcist, can deal with Lugh, the supersexy demon living inside her, but does he have to moan softly during her intimate moments with her mortal lover? Understandably, Brian is reluctant to share the pleasures of Morgan’s flesh with a gorgeous rogue from the Demon Realm. But personal matters will have to wait when the opportunistic owner of the Seven Deadlies demon club in Philadelphia enlists Morgan’s help in heading off a crisis: It seems that demons have started showing up at the hot spot in alarming numbers and in the unwilling bodies of rough trade club-goers. Morgan is sure that Dougal, Lugh’s sworn enemy, is behind this, but why? To find out, Morgan must summon every ounce of power at her command—or risk becoming just another casualty in an all-out demon war.

The Science of Playwriting

The Science of Playwriting
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015031015681
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Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis The Science of Playwriting by : Moses Louis Malevinsky

Boundary Waters

Boundary Waters
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 432
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ISBN-10 : 9781439120019
ISBN-13 : 1439120013
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Boundary Waters by : William Kent Krueger

Former small-town sheriff Cork O’Connor leads a desperate search-and-rescue mission into the unforgiving Minnesota wilderness in this “gritty, bloody adventure” (Publishers Weekly) from critically acclaimed author William Kent Krueger’s award-winning mystery series. The Quetico-Superior Wilderness: more than two million acres of forest, white-water rapids, and uncharted islands on the Canadian/American border. Somewhere in the heart of this unforgiving territory, a young woman named Shiloh—a country-western singer at the height of her fame—has disappeared. Her father arrives in Aurora, Minnesota, to hire Cork O’Connor to find his daughter. Cork joins a search party that includes an ex-con, two FBI agents, and a ten-year-old boy. Others are on Shiloh’s trail as well—men hired not just to find her, but to kill her. As the expedition ventures deeper into the wilderness, strangers descend on Aurora, threatening to spill blood on the town’s snowy streets. Meanwhile, out on the Boundary Waters, winter falls hard. Cork’s team of searchers loses contact with civilization, and like the brutal winds of a Minnesota blizzard, death—violent and sudden—stalks them.

The Story Teller

The Story Teller
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Publisher : Writing WIth Power
Total Pages : 195
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ISBN-10 : 9781458008367
ISBN-13 : 1458008363
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The Story Teller by : Max M Power

Will a man, after years of torment, finally find peace? Can two friends save the life of a man who once saved theirs? See what happens when a slave is forced to fight for survival. Witness how a storm can change lives forever. Want to have an encounter with a vampire? Tag along with a Bounty Hunter as he tracks down a child molester. Travel back in time as a man tries to save his family from a horrific crime. Go deep beneath the waves as a Russian and American submarine hunt each other. Come see what happens when a woman finds out she is a vampire and the ruler of Hell's Playground. Sixty-five years of marriage revolved around a single note. Two people wondered what might have been after years of separation. Will an invisible man finally be seen?

Heaven is a Playground

Heaven is a Playground
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 0803294271
ISBN-13 : 9780803294271
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Heaven is a Playground by : Rick Telander

In 1974, Rick Telander intended to spend a few days doing a magazine piece on the court wizards of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant. He ended up staying the entire summer, becoming part of the players' lives and eventually the coach of a loose aggregation known as the Subway Stars. Telander tells of everything he saw: the on-court flash, the off-court jargon, the late-night graffiti raids, the tireless efforts of one promoter-hustler-benefactor to get these kids a chance at a college education. He lets the kids speak for themselves, revealing their grand dreams and ambitions. But he never flinches from showing us how far their dreams are from reality. The roots of today's inner-city basketball can be traced to the world Telander presents in "Heaven is a Playground," the first book of its kind. Rick Telander is a senior writer for "Sports Illustrated" and the winner of the 1987 Notre Dame Club Award for Excellence in Sports Journalism.

Reality

Reality
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Total Pages : 642
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433081895991
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Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Reality by :