The Devil S Butcher Shop

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A well-researched account of the 1980 convict uprising at the New Mexico State Penitentiary at Santa Fe, tracing the prison system corruption, cronyism, and negligence that led to the riot.

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Genre : History
Author : Roger Morris
Publisher : UNM Press
Release : 1988
File : 284 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0826310621


The Devils Of Cardona

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"A thrilling quest for justice... [A] novel that is as exciting as it is enlightening from its first pages to its satisfying end.” —The New York Times Book Review “A page-turner in the proper sense… Mr. Carr has written a gripping and enjoyable novel.” —The Wall Street Journal The gripping story of the dangerous high-stakes worlds of politics and religion in sixteenth-century Spain as a mysterious Muslim killer retaliates against the Catholic Church. In March 1584, the priest of Belamar de la Sierra, a small town in Aragon near the French border, is murdered in his own church. Most of the town’s inhabitants are Moriscos, former Muslims who converted to Catholicism. Anxious to avert a violent backlash on the eve of a royal visit, an adviser to King Philip II appoints local magistrate Bernardo de Mendoza to investigate. A soldier and humanist, Mendoza doesn’t always live up to the moral standards expected of court officials, but he has a reputation for incorruptibility. From the beginning, Mendoza finds almost universal hatred for the priest. And it isn’t long before he’s drawn into a complex and dangerous world in which greed, fanaticism, and state policy overlap. And as the killings continue, Mendoza's investigation is overshadowed by the real prospect of an ethnic and religious civil war. By turns an involving historical thriller and a novel with parallels to our own time, The Devils of Cardona is an unexpected and compelling read.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Matthew Carr
Publisher : Penguin
Release : 2016-06-14
File : 418 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781101982754


The Loves And Life Of The Devils

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The Loves and Life of the Devils By: Evelyn Jenkins From her childhood, adolescence, and through four marriages, Evelyn Hudson’s memoir takes readers through her anger, frustration, and moments of joy throughout her tumultuous life. For seventy-four years, she has kept these emotions hidden, now finally revealed through The Loves and Life of the Devils.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Evelyn Jenkins
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Release : 2022-07-14
File : 108 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781638678243


The Abandoned Ones

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An expose of the shocking case of political corruption, human rights violations, and administrative bungling following the 1980 Cuban immigration accord.

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Genre : History
Author : Mark S. Hamm
Publisher : UPNE
Release : 1995
File : 270 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1555532306


Playing For The Devil S Fire

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Thirteen-year-old Boli and his friends are deep in the middle of a game of marbles. An older boy named Mosca has won the prized Devil's Fire marble. His pals are jealous and want to win it away from him. This is Izayoc, the place of tears, a small pueblo in a tiny valley west of Mexico City where nothing much happens. It's a typical hot Sunday morning except that on the way to church someone discovers the severed head of Enrique Quintanilla propped on the ledge of one of the cement planters in the plaza and everything changes. Not apocalyptic changes, like phalanxes of men riding on horses with stingers for tails, but subtle ones: poor neighbors turning up with brand-new SUVs, pimpled teens with fancy girls hanging off them. Boli's parents leave for Toluca and don't arrive at their destination. No one will talk about it. A washed out masked wrestler turns up one day, a man only interested in finding his next meal. Boli hopes to inspire the luchador to set out with him to find his parents. Phillippe Diederich was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Mexico City and Miami. His parents were forced out of Haiti by the dictatorship of Papa Doc Duvalier in 1963. As a photojournalist, Diederich has traveled extensively through Mexico and witnessed the terrible tragedies of the Drug Wars.

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Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Author : Phillippe Diederich
Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press
Release : 2016-02-29
File : 257 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781941026311


Devil S Call

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“The Revenant with witches.” —James Demonaco, screenwriter and director of The Purge series On a dark night in the summer of 1859, three men enter the home of Dr. Matthew Callahan and shoot him dead in front of his pregnant wife. Unbeknownst to them, Li Lian, his wife, hails from a long line of women gifted in ways that scare most folks—the witches of the MacPherson clan—and her need for vengeance is as vast and unforgiving as the Great Plains themselves. Written to the child she carries, Devil’s Call traces Li Lian’s quest, from the Nebraska Territory, to Louisiana, to the frozen Badlands, to bring to justice the monster responsible for shooting her husband in the back. This long-rifled witch will stop at nothing​—​and risk everything​—​in her showdown with evil.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : J. Danielle Dorn
Publisher : Inkshares
Release : 2017-07-18
File : 256 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781942645610


Book Review Index

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Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.

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Genre : Books
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Release : 1985
File : 848 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015078259689


Roald Amundsen S Sled Dogs

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This book is an analytical account of how Roald Amundsen used sledge dogs to discover the South Pole in 1911, and is the first to name and identify all 116 Polar dogs who were part of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition of 1910–1912. The book traces the dogs from their origins in Greenland to Antarctica and beyond, and presents the author’s findings regarding which of the dogs actually reached the South Pole, and which ones returned. Using crewmember diaries, reports, and written correspondence, the book explores the strategy, methodology, and personal insights of the explorer and his crew in employing canines to achieve their goal, as well as documents the controversy and internal dynamics involved in this historic discovery. It breaks ground in presenting the entire story of how the South Pole was truly discovered using animals, and how deep and profound the differences of perception were regarding the use of canines for exploration. This historic tale sheds light on Antarctic exploration history and the human-nature relationship. It gives recognition to the significant role that animals played in this important part of history.

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Genre : Science
Author : Mary R. Tahan
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2019-01-04
File : 628 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783030026929


The Devil S Trail

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He lit out of Texas with ten dollars and a swayback horse, a wanted man at age 13. Kid Parmlee's crime--he shot the man who shot his dog, Farty. Now, in the town of Fosterville, the Kid has found a hideaway--until his legend finds him. The West's scrawniest gunslinger has just been recruited onto a bounty hunt for a gang of criminals. For the Kid, it's the beginning of an explosive adventure of both sides of the law, in the company of bank robbers, back-shooters, friends, traitors, and one very beautiful woman named Doc--with a pot of gold waiting at the end of the trail. Spur Award-winning author Robert Conley continues the tall tale of little Kid Parmlee, a young man without a home, without fear, and with just enough sense to become a true legend of the frontier.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Release : 2002-02-18
File : 248 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781429925952


Rethinking The American Prison Movement

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Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America’s prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps of the nineteenth century to the rebellious protests of the 1960s and 1970s to the rise of mass incarceration and its discontents, Rethinking the American Prison Movement is invaluable to anyone interested in the history of American prisons and the struggles for justice still echoing in the present day.

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Genre : History
Author : Dan Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2017-10-30
File : 374 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317662228