The Ghosts Of Cotton Row

Author : Louis J. Cuccia
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 145023559X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghosts of Cotton Row written by Louis J. Cuccia and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-known Memphis detective Lou Cros heads up the investigation team to find a serial killer, nicknamed the Mangler, whose victims are homeless men. In a bizarre coincidence, the victims are linked to the Union Avenue Mission and the historic districts of Beale Street and Cotton Row. As part of his investigation, he searches for a homeless man who might be the only living person with information that could lead to the Manglers identity. Under intense pressure from the mayor to find the serial killer and solve the crime, Lou finds himself getting too close to some of denizens of the darker side of the street culture in MemphisGlitter, Big John Fagan, Boots, J, Bones, and a mysterious newcomer known only as Rocky. Pushed to his breaking point, Lou forces himself to search the abandoned Cotton Row District, where ghostly premonitions threaten not only his life but that of his partner, Sue Nash, as well.

Author : Franklin Richardson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1413400167
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down a Long Cotton Row and the Shadows of Love written by Franklin Richardson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sara Gardner Blow
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105835693
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghost of Thorn Hill written by Sara Gardner Blow and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose, a friend for a very short time, had died as a result of cancer. No mystery there, but shortly afterwards Rose's only son, just 12 years old is killed in a terrible auto accident. Even before his death, there was talk of a 'spirit or ghost' appearing in Rose's house. Maree had failed in her efforts to contact this 'ghost' because family members were in denial. She put the file away and tried to forget it. After a call from another friend, she decided it was time to investigate again. Maree Price is not your regular physic in the general sense. Maree goes about her mystery solving much like 'Miss Marple' solves cases in Agatha Christie novels. She likes to remain in the background and contact these 'spirits' in her own unique way. She says then they 'just come to her and solve the mystery', she is only the human vessel. A wonderful paranormal mystery with character.

Author : Jack Solomon
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820316342
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts and Goosebumps written by Jack Solomon and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts and Goosebumps is a rich collection of folktales and superstitions that capture the oral traditions of central and southeastern Alabama. In its pages one can glimpse the long-lost horse-and-buggy times, when people sat up all night with the dead and dying, hoed and handpicked cotton, drew water from wells, and met the devil rather regularly. The book is divided into three parts--tales, superstitions, and slave narratives. The spirits of treasure-keepers, poltergeists, murderers and the murdered, wicked men and good-men-and-true float through the book's first section. Sue Peacock, for example, recalls seeing the ghost of her brother, and E.C. Nevin describes a mysterious light in a swamp. In other tales, reports of supernatural experiences are proved to be rationally explicable--Lee Wilson's devil in the cemetery turns out to be a cow and chains rattling near New Tabernacle Church in Coffee County belong not to specters but to hogs. The superstitions are arranged according to subject and include such topics as love and marriage, weather and the seasons, wish making, bad luck, signs, and portents. Anonymous tellers confide that it is bad luck to carry ashes out after dark, to let a locust holler in your hand, to rock an empty rocking chair, to let your fishing pole cross someone else's, or to have a two-dollar bill (unless one corner has been removed). The slave narratives, selected from the Works Progress Administration Folklore Collection, are substantial and yield a fascinating view of nineteenth century African-American folk life, replete with sillies and lazy men, preachers and witches, brave little boys, and reluctant bridegrooms. Although the times and places have changed, the spirit of the folk is unaltered. Taken together, these folktales are marvelously diverse--by turns fearsome, fantastical, witty, ribald, charmingly innocent--showing people from all backgrounds, their endless vices and occasional virtues, their hopes, fears, and loves.

Author : Harriette Gillem Robinet
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439136238
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule written by Harriette Gillem Robinet and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1999 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A CBC Notable Children’s Book in the Field of Social Studies Two recently freed, formerly enslaved brothers work to protect the new life they’ve built during the Reconstruction after the Civil War in this vibrant, illustrated middle grade novel. Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the found family they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives.

Author : Martiniano Chapa Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728306051
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Los Mileros written by Martiniano Chapa Jr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2024-01-14 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like working in the fields? Well, it’s laborious work and sometimes dangerous, encountering rattlesnakes. Every year the family had to go out in the road to many towns to pick cotton. This was for six to seven months of the year to make enough money to support our family and to survive. Without the cotton fields, there was no way to make it. Working in the cold weather and summer months were the worst. I was one of twelve in my family. Our predicament was not a matter of choice, but a matter of being born. Back in the day, the cotton fields became our only salvation and provided opportunities for a better life. We traveled the road of hope; the road of struggles; the road of injustice, hate, and discrimination—the roads we traveled to make enough money just to pay our bills and eat. For over twenty years, those roads were traveled in the forties, fifties, and sixties. Working in the cotton fields was hope—a stepping stone to a better future, which was our hope.

Author : James Bell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984541285
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures of the Ghost Patrol written by James Bell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ghost Patrol got its name after being reported that all members were killed in the battle of Gettysburg. The Special Forces unit had gotten well-known for its successful raids on Yankee supply lines, either destroying them or carrying war materials to rebel camps. Now they were asked to attack supply trains and even to steal the whole train and bring it to the rebels who were in desperate need of all war supplies. Captain Sam, as his men liked to call him, was an excellent soldier. He handpicked his men and gave them special training. They were well-disciplined to fight hard and win. They could hit their targets hundreds of yards away with their long-range rifles. Captain Samuel Clifton was a plantation owner and a family man, who loved his beautiful wife and children. They loved to have parties where they were known for serving good food and having great entertainment.

Author : Carolan Ivey
Publisher : Entangled: Select Otherworld
ISBN 13 : 1640632093
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Ghost of a Chance written by Carolan Ivey and published by Entangled: Select Otherworld. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troy Brannon’s unusual gifts made him invaluable to the Navy SEALs...until he died in the line of duty. Now, he’s a ghost gone rogue, searching through time for the soul of a man lost in the Civil War. He figures a side trip to save a drowning woman won’t hurt. But as he pours his energy into her limp body, he realizes he’s made a terrible mistake. Carey Magennis knows it’s all over as icy seawater claims her, so she’s more than a little confused when she wakes and finds the ghost of the green-eyed, lion-hearted man who saved her haunting her. Troy knows that until her can untangle their auras, he’s along for the ride, and protecting Carey from her ex becomes his new mission. First on the agenda is not falling for her, even though she could be his only lifeline. The books in the Legends series are best enjoyed in order: Book #1 Beaudry’s Ghost Book #2 A Ghost of a Chance

Author : Charles Kiker
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481743554
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted by the Holy Ghost written by Charles Kiker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted by the Holy Ghost is a geographical, chronological and spiritual autobiography. The author describes the place of his birth: a farm in semi-arid Swisher County in the Texas Panhandle in depression/Dust Bowl days. He describes his schooling at a two-room rural school through elementary years, and his years at a small town high school. The author reflects upon the richness as well as the poverty of those days. He describes his struggles with his call to ministry as a haunting by the Holy Ghost. The reader is taken on a travelogue of the places in which the author and his wife ministered. The spiritual aspect of their lives is always on or just below the surface. At times the author waxes homiletical and theological, with occasional narrations of humorous incidents.

Author : Mat Osman
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghost Theatre written by Mat Osman and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wild and hallucinatory reimagining of Elizabethan London, with its bird worshippers, famed child actors, and the Queen herself; a dazzling historical novel about theatre, magic, and the dangers of all-consuming love London, 1601—a golden city soon to erupt in flames. Shay is a messenger-girl, falconer, and fortune teller who sees the future in the patterns of birds. Nonesuch is the dark star of the city’s fabled Blackfriars Theatre, where a cast of press-ganged boys perform for London’s gentry. When the pair meet, Shay falls in love with the performances—and with Nonesuch himself. As their bond deepens, they create the Ghost Theatre, an underground troupe that performs fantastical plays in the city’s hidden corners. As their fame grows the troupe fans the flames of rebellion among the city’s outcasts, and the lovers are drawn into the dark web of the Elizabethan court. Embattled, with the plague on the rise throughout the country, the Queen seeks a reading from Shay, a moment which unleashes chaos not only in Shay’s life, but across the whole of England too. A fever-dream full of prophecy and anarchy, gutter rats and bird gods, Mat Osman’s The Ghost Theatre is a wild ride from the rooftops of Elizabethan London to its dark underbelly, and a luminous meditation on double lives and fluid identities and the bewitching, transformative nature of art and power, with a bittersweet love affair at its heart. Set amid the vividly rendered England of Osman’s imagination and written in rich, seductive prose, The Ghost Theatre will have readers under its spell from the very first page.