Author : Nick Reding
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1608192075
Traces the efforts of a small Iowa community to counter the pervasiveness of crystal methamphetamine, in an account that offers insight into the drug's appeal while chronicling the author's numerous visits with the town's doctor, the local prosecutor and a long-time addict. Reprint. A best-selling book.
Author : Georgina Gentry
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 16,39 MB
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1420138383
TIMELESS LEGEND It is a painting with a ghost in it—according to the guidebook in the Pawnee museum. Journalist Blossom Ann Murdock, in Oklahoma to research her family's roots, thought the painting might spark a good article. Now, as shadowy images seem to flicker and move, she glimpses the figure of a majestic Indian warrior within the frame, his eyes filled with torment, his powerful arms outstretched. . . TIMELESS LOVE Suddenly, Blossom finds herself wrapped in the embrace of a Pawnee brave named Warcry. The modern world has vanished. Surrounding her is a rugged frontier where two tribes are locked in deadly conflict. . . where a white woman's love for an Indian is forbidden. . . and where Blossom knows she has kissed Warcry before, ridden by his side, slept in his arms. Theirs was a love lost in the past, two hearts separated too soon. Until they're given a chance to defy fate—and to let their passions flame anew. . . TIMELESS WARRIOR The award-winning author of novels set in the Old West, Georgina Gentry is "one of the finest writers of the decade" (Romantic Times). TIMELESS WARRIOR superbly recreates an exciting bygone era in a moving tale of a love that time cannot alter.
Author : Peter Donahue
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0295805552
Seattle, with its spectacular natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology spans seven decades and includes fiction, memoirs, histories, and journalism that define the city or use it as a setting, imparting the flavor of the city through a literary prism. Reading Seattle features classics by Horace R. Cayton, Richard Hugo, Betty MacDonald, Mary McCarthy, Murray Morgan, and John Okada as well as more recent works by Sherman Alexie, Lynda Barry, David Guterson, J. A. Jance, Jonathan Raban, and others. It includes cutting-edge work by emerging talents and reintroduces works by important Seattle writers who may have been overlooked in recent years. The writers featured in this volume explore a variety of neighborhoods and districts within the city, delineating urban spaces and painting memorable portraits of characters both historical and fictional.
Author : Ross Allison
Publisher : Clerisy Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1578605024
Seattle may not be as old as some would expect from a haunted city. But it has a large number of haunted sites and stories. Spooked in Seattle will lead readers on a journey through Seattle's neighborhoods and reveal the city's public locations, history, and tales of strange encounters. For those who love to venture off into corners in search of ghosts and the unknown, this book will set readers forth in the right direction. Spooked in Seattle features more than 150 haunted locations, historic and contemporary photos, top ten questions about ghosts, Seattle's top ten most haunted places, location maps and addresses, Seattle history and haunted facts, Seattle cemeteries and tombstone symbols, and more. Spooked in Seattle presents many locations throughout the city that are believed to be haunted, claim to have ghosts, or have undergone investigation. All of these stories are broken down into sections based on the city's neighborhoods with corresponding addresses to make finding them easier for the ghost enthusiasts. Maps and photos help bring to life the locations, making the Seattle ghosthunting experience easy and enjoyable.
Author : Justin Henderson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1467148857
Reprint. Originally published: Berkeley, California: Roaring Forties Press, 2016.
Author : Hy Conrad
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402721724
One of the writers for the highly acclaimed television show Monk presents a series of 14 unique solve-it-yourself mini-mysteries, all with a historical setting. At the end of each intriguing tale, armchair sleuths begin their own detective work with the aid of key questions and some crucial clues--including an interview with a witness, lab analysis of the evidence, or an examination of the crime scene. The historical settings range from ancient Rome to 1940s Hollywood, and the subjects include Jamaican pirates; death in Venice amid a masked ball; Jack the Ripper copycats.
Author : William C. Speidel
Publisher :
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 19,68 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Physicians
ISBN : 9780914890027
Author : Jill Bullock
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738580364
Located on the southernmost point of Puget Sound, the Olympia area was occupied by the Coastal Salish Indians for many generations before American settlers established a town site there in 1846. First the provisional territorial capital in 1853, incorporated as a town in 1859, it then became the permanent state capital when Washington attained statehood in 1889. The town was named for the majestic Olympic Mountains, visible on a clear day. The town's history and landmarks, including the capitol building, the waterfront, the downtown businesses, and the Olympia brewery, as well as the surrounding areas, were all visually documented by the picture postcard, which gained widespread popularity at the beginning of the 20th century.
Author : Teresa Nordheim
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1439669503
Early Seattle enticed settlers with an abundance of natural resources, potential wealth, stunning beauty and versatile climate. It offered gainful employment for fishermen, loggers and miners, but those who rushed west quickly discovered that all that glitters is not gold. The rapidly expanding city lacked one precious resource: women. Bored men yearned for entertainment, while prostitution, gambling and illegal alcohol grew in popularity. Over the years, politicians, police officers and crime bosses accepted graft to keep vice profiting and the city growing, including bootlegger Roy Olmstead and a brothel owner known as Madame Damnable. Teresa Nordheim, author of Murder & Mayhem in Seattle, introduces the wicked side of the Emerald City's history.
Author : Murray Morgan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0295743506
Skid Road tells the story of Seattle “from the bottom up,” offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City’s first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most colorful citizens. With his trademark combination of deep local knowledge, precision, and wit, Murray Morgan traces the city’s history from its earliest days as a hacked-from-the-wilderness timber town, touching on local tribes, settlers, the lumber and railroad industries, the great fire of 1889, the Alaska gold rush, flourishing dens of vice, the 1919 general strike, the 1962 World’s Fair, and the stuttering growth of the 1970s and ’80s. Through it all, Morgan shows us that Seattle’s one constant is change and that its penchant for reinvention has always been fueled by creative, if sometimes unorthodox, residents. With a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Mary Ann Gwinn, this redesigned edition of Murray Morgan’s classic work is a must for those interested in how Seattle got to where it is today.
