Book Description
A fascinating new look at the history of this town in Derbyshire.
Author : Liam Clarke
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445639904
A fascinating new look at the history of this town in Derbyshire.
Author : Sharon Anne Cook
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 145974988X
A former United Church minister massacres his family. What led to this act of femicide, and why were his victims forgotten? On May 2, 1963, Robert Killins, a former United Church minister, slaughtered every woman in his family but one. She (and her brother) lived to tell the story of what motivated a talented man who had been widely admired, a scholar and graduate from Queen’s University, to stalk and terrorize the women in his family for almost twenty years and then murder them. Through extensive oral histories, Cook and Carson painstakingly trace the causes of a femicide in which four women and two unborn babies were murdered over the course of one bloody evening. While they situate this murderous rampage in the literature on domestic abuse and mass murders, they also explore how the two traumatized child survivors found their way back to health and happiness. Told through vivid first-person accounts, this family memoir explores how a murderer was created.
Author : Andre Fleche
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,32 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0807835234
The Revolution of 1861
Author : Donald H. Thompson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 2009-09-25
Category : Photography
ISBN : 161423535X
Historic photographs document the history of one of Vermont's finest spots, Lake Bomoseen. Lake Bomoseen- the largest lake entirely within Vermont's borders- once attracted thousands of visitors each year. Its resorts and restaurants welcomed travelers of all stripes, from Walt Disney and Harpo Marx to humble groups of workers and families. Crowds flocked to beaches and picnic areas during the daytime, and headliners like Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong kept the Casino at the lake buzzing late into the night. Donald H. Thompson describes these and other glamorous moments in Lake Bomoseen's past and explains how the area has evolved since the last hotels and dance halls closed their doors. Carefully researched and accompanied by dozens of rare images, this is the definitive history of one of Vermont's finest spots.
Author : Berry Robinson Sulgrove
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Indianapolis
ISBN :
A detailed history of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, from its settlement in the early 19th century. Covers general history, political history, business and industrial interests, social history, architecture and the history of each township within Marion County.
Author : John Aberth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 2011-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1442207965
Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. Geographically, these diseases have spread across the entire globe; temporally, they stretch from the sixth century to the present. John Aberth considers not only the varied impact that disease has had upon human history but also the many ways in which people have been able to influence diseases simply through their cultural attitudes toward them. The author argues that the ability of humans to alter disease, even without the modern wonders of antibiotic drugs and other medical treatments, is an even more crucial lesson to learn now that AIDS, swine flu, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and other seemingly incurable illnesses have raged worldwide. Aberth's comparative analysis of how different societies have responded in the past to disease illuminates what cultural approaches have been and may continue to be most effective in combating the plagues of today.
Author : Chelsea M. Cameron
Publisher : HQN Books
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373778295
"Refreshed version of My favorite mistake, newly revised by the author."
Author : Fiona Mountain
Publisher : Snowglobe Books
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2021-07-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781838424626
From the award-wining author of 'Lady of the Butterflies, ' 'Bloodline' and 'Pales as the Dead.' * A missing singer * A doomed love story * A family split by secrets & lies 1967: Enigmatic young folk singer Molly Marrison disappears on the cusp of fame. 2002: Silva is working as a housemaid at Chatsworth House when her father suddenly dies, leaving her with one instruction - find Molly. The only clue is a haunting song, centuries old, that Molly recorded before she vanished. Silva needs the help of song collector, Robbie Nightingale. Silva and Robbi were teenage sweethearts, but they've not spoken for decades. If they try to find Molly, what else will they discover? For Molly is not the only girl to have disappeared. Silva's mother, Sukey, vanished when Silva was a child, leaving her with scars that Robbie once tried but failed to heal.
Author : Robert E. Bartholomew
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1438444850
"The lake surface was glass. My girlfriend and I were fishing from our anchored rowboat in about fifteen feet of water, facing the New York shore. 'Ron, what's that?' I turned. About thirty feet away I saw three dark humps ... protruding about two feet above the surface. The humps were perhaps two or three feet apart. They didn't move. We didn't either. We watched in disbelief for about ten seconds. The humps slowly sank into the water. There was no wake, no telltale sign of movement. Unexplained. Eerie. Unsettling." — from the Foreword by Ronald S. Kermani Scotland may have Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, but we have Champ, the legendary serpent-like monster of Lake Champlain. The first recorded sighting of Champ, in 1609, has been attributed to the lake's namesake, French explorer and cartographer Samuel de Champlain. This is pure myth, but there have been hundreds of sightings since then. Robert E. Bartholomew embarks on his own search, both of the lake firsthand and through period sources and archives—many never before published. Although he finds the trail obscured by sloppy journalism, local leaders motivated by tourism income, and bickering monster hunters, he weighs the evidence to craft a rich, colorful history of Champ. From the nineteenth century, when Champ was a household name, to 1977, when he appeared in Sandra Mansi's controversial photograph, Bartholomew covers it all. Real or imaginary, Champ and his story will fascinate believers and skeptics alike.
Author : John David Smith
Publisher :
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781606351802
In this second volume of the series, John David Smith has selected essays by David Blight, Eugene Genovese, Mark Neely, Jr., Brooks Simpson, and other scholars that examine slavery, abolitionism, emancipation, Lincoln and race, and African Americans as soldiers and veterans.