One Evil Summer Includes Book And Watch

Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher : Archway Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780671003845
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Evil Summer/Includes Book and Watch written by R. L. Stine and published by Archway Paperbacks. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attending summer school while a baby-sitter watches her two younger siblings, Amanda Conklin thinks that the kind and trustworthy Chrissy is a perfect guardian, until she learns of the sitter's deadly nature. Reprint.

Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher : Simon Pulse
ISBN 13 : 9780671785963
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Evil Summer written by R. L. Stine and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chrissy is perfect--perfectly evil.

Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher : Pocket Books
ISBN 13 : 9780671019037
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Evil Summer written by R. L. Stine and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Theodore
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809387496
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evil Summer written by John Theodore and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1924, fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks was abducted while walking home from school, killed by a chisel blow to his head, and later found stuffed in a culvert in a marshy wasteland at the Illinois-Indiana state line. Acid had been poured over his naked body. Evil Summer examines the shocking kidnapping and murder of Franks by two University of Chicago students, Nathan “Babe” Leopold and Richard “Dickie” Loeb, both from families of privilege. In this new examination of the crime, author John Theodore takes readers into the minds of the two criminals as he focuses on three months in 1924. Theodore covers the killing, the confessions, the defense, and the sentencing surrounding the horrific murder, placing the killers’ actions and Clarence Darrow’s historic defense into the context of 1920s Chicago. Theodore deftly investigates the psychological dimensions of the crime, revealing the murderers’ fantasies, relationships, sexuality, and motives. The author examines the killers’ past, outlining Loeb’s obsession with detective fiction and crime and his editorial on random killing—written at age nine—and Leopold’s nightly master-slave fantasies and fascination with Nietzsche. Evil Summer, which includes twenty-three illustrations, meticulously traces the murder from inception to confession, including such details as the special-delivery ransom letter sent to Jacob Franks and the discovery of Leopold’s horn-rimmed eyeglasses lying on a railroad embankment near Bobby’s dead body. Theodore re-creates such scenes as the convergence of hundreds of people in front of the Franks home, Bobby’s body lying in a small white casket in the library, and Loeb being voyeuristically drawn to the home while Bobby’s classmates carry the casket to the hearse. Worldwide press coverage reflected the public fascination with the case in what was then called “the trial of the century.” The story became a media circus: Chicago’s six daily newspapers battled vigorously for readers, two Daily News cub reporters became part of the story, and the Chicago Tribune carried a voting ballot asking readers whether radio station WGN should broadcast the courtroom spectacle. The changing drama was delivered to Chicagoans every morning and evening, and the public feasted on every press run. More than a crime story, Evil Summer illuminates the dark side of American life in the 1920s, including the excesses of privileged youth, the troubled childhoods, the random victimization, the anti-Semitism, and the sexuality.

Author : Daniel Abraham
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429910151
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Shadow in Summer written by Daniel Abraham and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From debut author Daniel Abraham comes A Shadow in Summer, the first book in the Long Price Quartet fantasy series. The powerful city-state of Saraykeht is a bastion of peace and culture, a major center of commerce and trade. Its economy depends on the power of the captive spirit, Seedless, an andat bound to the poet-sorcerer Heshai for life. Enter the Galts, a juggernaut of an empire committed to laying waste to all lands with their ferocious army. Saraykeht, though, has always been too strong for the Galts to attack, but now they see an opportunity. If they can dispose of Heshai, Seedless's bonded poet-sorcerer, Seedless will perish and the entire city will fall. With secret forces inside the city, the Galts prepare to enact their terrible plan. In the middle is Otah, a simple laborer with a complex past. Recruited to act as a bodyguard for his girlfriend's boss at a secret meeting, he inadvertently learns of the Galtish plot. Otah finds himself as the sole hope of Saraykeht, either he stops the Galts, or the whole city and everyone in it perishes forever. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher : Archway Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780671023027
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summer Horror written by R. L. Stine and published by Archway Paperbacks. This book was released on 1998 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how dangerous summer vacation can be in this Fear Street collection.

Author : Michel Houellebecq
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473523613
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Submission written by Michel Houellebecq and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the political left to block the Front National’s alarming ascendency, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged and, for our narrator François – misanthropic, middle-aged and alienated – life is set on a new course. Submission is a devastating satire, comic and melancholy by turns, and a profound meditation on faith and meaning in Western society.

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ISBN 13 : 9780780739178
Total Pages : pages
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Author : John Theodore
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809327775
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evil Summer written by John Theodore and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1924, fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks was abducted while walking home from school, killed by a chisel blow to his head, and later found stuffed in a culvert in a marshy wasteland at the Illinois-Indiana state line. Acid had been poured over his naked body. Evil Summer examines the shocking kidnapping and murder of Franks by two University of Chicago students, Nathan “Babe” Leopold and Richard “Dickie” Loeb, both from families of privilege. In this new examination of the crime, author John Theodore takes readers into the minds of the two criminals as he focuses on three months in 1924. Theodore covers the killing, the confessions, the defense, and the sentencing surrounding the horrific murder, placing the killers’ actions and Clarence Darrow’s historic defense into the context of 1920s Chicago. Theodore deftly investigates the psychological dimensions of the crime, revealing the murderers’ fantasies, relationships, sexuality, and motives. The author examines the killers’ past, outlining Loeb’s obsession with detective fiction and crime and his editorial on random killing—written at age nine—and Leopold’s nightly master-slave fantasies and fascination with Nietzsche. Evil Summer, which includes twenty-three illustrations, meticulously traces the murder from inception to confession, including such details as the special-delivery ransom letter sent to Jacob Franks and the discovery of Leopold’s horn-rimmed eyeglasses lying on a railroad embankment near Bobby’s dead body. Theodore re-creates such scenes as the convergence of hundreds of people in front of the Franks home, Bobby’s body lying in a small white casket in the library, and Loeb being voyeuristically drawn to the home while Bobby’s classmates carry the casket to the hearse. Worldwide press coverage reflected the public fascination with the case in what was then called “the trial of the century.” The story became a media circus: Chicago’s six daily newspapers battled vigorously for readers, two Daily News cub reporters became part of the story, and the Chicago Tribune carried a voting ballot asking readers whether radio station WGN should broadcast the courtroom spectacle. The changing drama was delivered to Chicagoans every morning and evening, and the public feasted on every press run. More than a crime story, Evil Summer illuminates the dark side of American life in the 1920s, including the excesses of privileged youth, the troubled childhoods, the random victimization, the anti-Semitism, and the sexuality.

Author : R.L. Stine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671894323
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Next Door written by R.L. Stine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauren and Crystal would do anything to get to go out with Scott. But neither of them realize that Scott's last girlfriend is dead.