Dead Beats

Author : Marilyn Johnson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061850365
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dead Beat written by Marilyn Johnson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A light-hearted look at the history and practice of “the ultimate human-interest story,” the obituary. “What a wonderful surprise—a charming, lyrical book about the men and women who write obituaries. The Dead Beat is sly, droll, and completely winning.”— David Halberstam Where can readers celebrate the life of the pharmacist who moonlighted as a spy, the genius behind Sea Monkeys, the school lunch lady who spent her evenings as a ballroom hostess? The obituary page, of course. Enthralled by these fascinating former lives, Marilyn Johnson tumbled into the little known world of the obituary page to find out what made it so compelling. She sought out the best obits in the English language, and chased the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. Surveying Internet chat rooms, surviving a mass gathering of obituarists, and making the pilgrimage to London to savor the most caustic and literate obits of all, she leads us into the cult and culture behind this fascinating segment of our daily news.

Author : Rachel Pollack
Publisher : Wave Blue World Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781949518030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Beats written by Rachel Pollack and published by Wave Blue World Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DEAD BEATS is a 168-page anthology of music-themed horror comics stories, ranging in tone from grim to darkly comic but all centering around the curiosities for sale at one peculiar record store. Best described as Tales from the Crypt meets High Fidelity, DEAD BEATS will appeal to fans of classic comics horror anthologies like Vault of Horror, Creepy, and Eerie, and of more modern fare like Flinch. Edited by Eric Palicki (All We Ever Wanted) and Joe Corallo (Ringo Award-winning editor of Mine!), DEAD BEATS features all-new original stories by Magdalene Visaggio (GLAAD award nominee for Kim & Kim, Eisner award nominee for Eternity Girl), Rachel Pollack (Doom Patrol, Arthur C. Clarke award winning novelist of Unquenchable Fire) and Richard Case (Doom Patrol, The Sandman), Vita Ayala (Livewire, James Bond), Daniel Kibblesmith (Santa's Husband, writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert), Ivy Noelle and Steenz (Dwayne McDuffie award-winning creators of Archival Quality), Tony Patrick (Batman and The Signal), Kwanza Osajyefo (Black, Ignited), Sweeney Boo (Eat and Love Yourself, Captain Marvel), Tres Dean (For Your Consideration: Dwayne the Rock), Nadia Shammas (Squire, Care Bears) and many other new and veteran creators.

Author : Scott Reynolds Nelson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307474321
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Nation of Deadbeats written by Scott Reynolds Nelson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pundits will argue that the 2008 financial crisis was the first crash in American history driven by consumer debt. But in this spirited, highly engaging account, Scott Reynolds Nelson demonstrates that consumer debt has underpinned almost every major financial panic in the nation’s history. From William Duer’s attempts to profit off the country’s post-Revolutionary War debt to an 1815 plan to sell English coats to Americans on credit, to the debt-fueled railroad expansion that precipitated the 1857 crash: in each case, the chain of banks, brokers, moneylenders, and insurance companies that separated borrowers and lenders made it impossible to distinguish good loans from bad. Bound up in this history are stories of national banks funded by smugglers, fistfights in Congress over the gold standard, America’s early dependence on British bankers, and how presidential campaigns were forged in controversies over private debt. An irreverent, wholly accessible, eye-opening book.

Author : Chris Lackey
Publisher : Original Fiction
ISBN 13 : 9781906838492
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deadbeats written by Chris Lackey and published by Original Fiction. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the run from the mob, a trio of 1920's Chicago Jazz musicians take a job from an elderly reverend, playing for what they think is his wife's funeral in the backwoods of Illinois. Unfortunately, the funeral is actually an elaborate cult ritual to raise the spirit of an evil sorcerer who swiftly begins raising the dead and terrorizing the innocent townsfolk.

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Publisher : Eddie Clark
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Beat Dad A Dead Man Walking written by and published by Eddie Clark. This book was released on with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Butcher
Publisher : Orbit Books
ISBN 13 : 9780356500331
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Beat written by Jim Butcher and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago's preeminent wizard, Harry Dresden, is coping with his new roommate--vampire half-brother Thomas, but Harry soon has problems bigger than Thomas' clutter to deal with. Marva, one of Harry's vampire foes, summons him with a threat to his police-lieutenant friend, Karrin Murphy. Marva demands Harry get the "Word of Kemmler" for her, or she'll frame Murphy for murder.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Author : Val McDermid
Publisher : PI Kate Brannigan
ISBN 13 : 9780008344894
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Beat written by Val McDermid and published by PI Kate Brannigan. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning first novel in the Kate Brannigan series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid. 'This is crime writing of the very highest order' The Times

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Total Pages : 1182 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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