Dead End Street

✏Book Title : Dead End Street
✏Author : Lee Thayer
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 1936
✏Pages : 274
✏ISBN : UOM:39015063554052
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Dead End Street Book Summary :

✏Book Title : Dead End Street
✏Author : Sheila Connolly
✏Publisher : Penguin
✏Release Date : 2016-06-07
✏Pages : 320
✏ISBN : 9780698150690
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Dead End Street Book Summary : The New York Times bestselling author of Privy to the Dead returns to Philadelphia for more history—and a chilling mystery . . . When the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society discovers it owns some unique real estate, a deadly plot unfolds . . . Society president Nell Pratt believes life is finally going her way. Everything’s running smoothly at work, and her love life is thriving. Then some unexpected news rocks her foundation. Two members of a local neighborhood rescue program, Tyrone Blakeney and Cherisse Chapman, inform Nell that her society owns an abandoned row house in a rundown area of Philadelphia and they insist on taking her to see the property before its date with the wrecking ball. But soon after they arrive at the house, Cherisse is fatally shot and Tyrone is badly injured. The police believe it’s just random violence in a bad neighborhood, but Nell thinks there’s more to it and is determined to find answers before someone else becomes history . . .

✏Book Title : Dead End Street
✏Author : Dean McCormick
✏Publisher : Trafford Publishing
✏Release Date : 2006
✏Pages : 330
✏ISBN : 9781412076951
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Dead End Street Book Summary : Drugs led baby boomers down dead end street.

✏Book Title : Dead End Street The 25th Murray Barber P I Case
✏Author : Julie Burns-Sweeney
✏Publisher : Lulu Press, Inc
✏Release Date : 2020-01-08
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : 9780244316662
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Dead End Street The 25th Murray Barber P I Case Book Summary : Murray has bought a quaint old cottage with his reward from the St Clair ruby. The neighbour's all seem very nice which is more than can be said for the raging Pharaoh who is rampaging around Aunt Pam's local museum! With hidden messages and disappearing residents, can Murray solve the history of his new home or will they ever leave Dead End Street...?

✏Book Title : Twisted Tales Of A Dead End Street
✏Author : C. A. King
✏Publisher : Lulu.com
✏Release Date : 2018-06-10
✏Pages : 146
✏ISBN : 9781988301365
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Twisted Tales Of A Dead End Street Book Summary : Nine neighbours were invited to the mysterious dinner party at 9 Nine Street. Their host, the owner of the mansion, had more planned for the evening than just roast beef. When the secret of their quiet street was revealed, everything changed, blurring the lines between the tangible and the paranormal. Was the number nine the difference between life and death? Would any of them survive long enough to uncover the truth? They would each soon find out this wasn't a simple case of who-done-it so much as one of what was being done and by whom.

✏Book Title : Raised on a Dead End Street
✏Author : Harlan Guillot, Jr.
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2014-10-28
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : 0692519491
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Raised on a Dead End Street Book Summary : Telling of the past and helping to recall of past years

✏Book Title : Dead End Street No Outlet
✏Author : Emma Redington Lee Thayer
✏Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
✏Release Date : 2019-11-01
✏Pages : 198
✏ISBN : 9781789129533
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Dead End Street No Outlet Book Summary : Dead End Street, first published in 1936 as part of the Red Badge Mystery Series, features private detective Peter Clancy, assisted by his valet Wiggars. Author Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874-1973) published 60 novels during her long career, all but one featuring detective Peter Clancy. Synopsis from the original edition: Albert Madison picked up a strange valet in an even more peculiar way. But the haunted look on his face remained. Sally Howard’s inordinate curiosity seemed harmless enough but it was to lead to something ... Then Patrolman Duffy was found murdered by a knife, his body having been dragged some distance and dumped into Spuyten Duyvil Creek. It was the cold-bloodedness of this crime and the total absence of clues that first aroused the suspicions of Peter Clancy. It was too slick, too harmless. The only conclusion was that poor Michael Duffy was “a pawn—that had to be taken—off the board.” Dead End Street is a thriller of the first order. In it the reader will find a twisting, complex plot, moving with lightning speed and gathering suspense as the astonishing denouement draws closer ... Peter Clancy is at his quick-witted best and the other characters, odd assortment though they be, are not likely to be soon forgotten.

✏Book Title : Dead End Road
✏Author : Richard Kunzmann
✏Publisher : Pan Macmillan
✏Release Date : 2010-12-10
✏Pages : 400
✏ISBN : 9780330539746
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Dead End Road Book Summary : Detective Harry Mason has rejoined the South African Police Service after a two-year leave of absence, and moved over to the specialised Serious and Violent Crimes unit, headed by the tough and fiery veteran commander Superintendent Carl ‘Blackie’ Swarts. Soon afterwards, Harry is assigned to investigate the slaying of a minor politician and his family, in a township west of Johannesburg. The case, at first seemingly unsolvable, is abruptly saved by an enigmatic grassroots anarchist whom Harry befriended during the apartheid riots of the ’80s, and soon the SVC is hot on the heels of one of the country’s most secretive and violent vigilante groups, known as ‘The Guardians’, headed up by two brothers whose brutality is legendary amongst the poor inhabitants of Johannesburg’s squatter camps. As the investigation slices away at the layers of secrecy surrounding this group, other secrets surface – truths that ultimately pose a threat to Harry’s unit, and to the city at large. When Harry is abruptly gunned down by unseen assassins during a dawn raid on a remote village, and a bomb is detonated in the judicial heartland of Johannesburg, his former police partner and long-time friend, Detective Jacob Tshabalala, is forced to take matters into his own hands, and expose a splinter faction of vigilantes operating within the police service itself – a faction whose connections stretch all the way into parliament itself.

✏Book Title : The Dead End Boys
✏Author : S. T. Lamb
✏Publisher : iUniverse
✏Release Date : 2013-10-29
✏Pages : 280
✏ISBN : 9781475994124
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Dead End Boys Book Summary : When they were ten years old, the Dead End Boys—Ben, Rob, Mike, and Brian—witnessed a triple murder attempt by a notorious gangster known as “Slim Jimmy” near their home in Southern New Jersey. In the face of police questioning and fear of consequences from the Mafia, they learned at an early age that in order to protect themselves and their families, sometimes big secrets need to be kept. What’s more, the incident cemented the boys’ deep, lifelong bond. Now in their twenties, the Dead End Boys decide to vacation in Miami, Florida, to get relief from the brutally cold winter in the northeast, maybe party a bit, and possibly meet some girls. But one morning, Ben awakes alone in an abandoned field with no recollection of what happened. He knows he must find his friends. The clues lead him to the Florida Keys, where the Dead End Boys have been set up to run drugs for the Cuban mafia that has its grip on Miami. This group of young men, who learned to trust only each other at a young age, are about to put those lessons of loyalty to the test once more.

✏Book Title : Dead End
✏Author : R. L. Stine
✏Publisher : Simon Pulse
✏Release Date : 1995
✏Pages : 147
✏ISBN : 0671868373
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Dead End Book Summary : Promising to keep their mutual secret involving a car ride on a foggy night and a death on a dead end road, Natalie Erickson and her friends become the victims of a desperate killer who decides to ensure everyone's silence. Original.

✏Book Title : Frosted Glass
✏Author : Michael J. Vaughn
✏Publisher : Dead End Street
✏Release Date : 2004-05
✏Pages : 108
✏ISBN : 0974841021
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Frosted Glass Book Summary : A painful break-up/break-down chases high-tech marketing wiz Sandy Lowiltry from her Silicon Valley home. She comes to rest on the Oregon Coast, where she seeks solace in the opera-themed sanctuary of the Hotel Bel Canto and the arms of a handsome eccentric who spends his days combing the beach for sea glass. Sandy soon learns what the tourist ladies already know - it's easy to fall for Frosted Glass Man. Besides great sex and alarmingly intricate campsite cuisine, Frosty offers do-it-yourself mythologies that would melt even the coldest heart. But will it be enough to quiet the whisper of ambition, the voice inside Sandy's head that chides her for settling? Will she really leave behind Silicon Valley for love in such a strange package?

✏Book Title : Ray Davies
✏Author : Johnny Rogan
✏Publisher : Random House
✏Release Date : 2015-03-05
✏Pages : 768
✏ISBN : 9781847923318
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Ray Davies Book Summary : NOW UPDATED WITH A NEW EPILOGUE In the summer of 1964, aged twenty, Ray Davies led the Kinks to fame with their number one hit ‘You Really Got Me’. Within months, they were established among the pop elite, swamped by fans and fast becoming renowned for the rioting at their gigs. But Ray’s journey from working-class Muswell Hill to the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame was tumultuous in the extreme, featuring breakdowns, bitter lawsuits, spectacular punch-ups and a ban from entering the USA. His relationship with his brother Dave is surely the most ferocious and abusive in music history. Based on countless interviews conducted over several decades, this richly detailed and revelatory biography presents the most frank and intimate portrait yet of Ray Davies.

✏Book Title : Right in the City Vol Ii
✏Author : Douglas W. Ayres
✏Publisher : Trafford Publishing
✏Release Date : 2012-03-27
✏Pages : 368
✏ISBN : 9781466919846
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Right in the City Vol Ii Book Summary : The follow-on volume to the Author's RIGHT IN THE CITY - A Dog's Tale (Volume I), continues with humorous, instructive, and downright frightening anecdotes, ranging from the United Nations, U.S. Congress, States, Provinces, other nations, and a wide variety of U.S. State and Local governments.

✏Book Title : Ecstatic Trails
✏Author : Rob Campbell
✏Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
✏Release Date : 2013-10-22
✏Pages : 256
✏ISBN : 9781466855304
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Ecstatic Trails Book Summary : Los Angeles is a hiker's perfect playground: from enchanted canyons to bountiful beaches, the range of terrain provides an almost endless variety of trails, vistas, and even weather conditions. Organized by level of difficulty, beginning with the most forgiving trails and building up to the toughest, Ecstatic Trails emphasizes the experience of the hike, guiding you to romantic hikes, trails that are right for children, thrill hikes, day trips you can build around a picnic, or intense paths perfect for solitary exploration. Everything a novice hiker or experienced trailblazer needs is here, including: --detailed maps --driving directions --restrictions, including whether dogs are permitted --the amount of time each hike is likely to take --featured elements and trail descriptions From wildflower walks to dramatic waterfall treks, from sunset outings to trails that provide cool breezes in the midst of summer, Ecstatic Trails is packed with a year's worth of happy hiking.

✏Book Title : Confessions of a Lyric Poet
✏Author : James J. Aldridge
✏Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
✏Release Date : 2008-08-30
✏Pages : 172
✏ISBN : 9781465325587
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Confessions of a Lyric Poet Book Summary : In this lyric poet book may be of your dreams that you feel about life as we see it.

✏Book Title : The Philosophy of Art The Question of Definition
✏Author : Tiziana Andina
✏Publisher : A&C Black
✏Release Date : 2013-04-11
✏Pages : 208
✏ISBN : 9781441136510
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Philosophy of Art The Question of Definition Book Summary : Drawing on the philosophies of art developed by the continental authors and studies of Anglo-American philosophers, this book presents a panorama of the philosophy of art. It discusses definitions offered from the analytical school including Arthur Danto's representationalism, Dipert's theories of artefactualism, Dickie's institutional and procedural theories and Levinson's historical and cultural theories. From the continental theories it reflects on Hegel's notion of philosophy of art, Martin Heidegger's and Hans Georg Gadamer's hermeneutic tradition and Alexius Meinong's theory of objects. This range of definitions and theories are judged and defended using a form of representationalism that begins with the results of Arthur Danto's thinking and integrates the aesthetic reflection of the Baumgarten School. The result is not only a presentation of philosophy of art from the beginning of the twentieth century to present day, but a study that proposes a theory capable of synthesizing the finest contributions of the analytic and continental traditions.

✏Book Title : Witness the Dead
✏Author : Craig Robertson
✏Publisher : Simon and Schuster
✏Release Date : 2013-07-04
✏Pages : 528
✏ISBN : 9780857204219
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Witness the Dead Book Summary : 'Doing for Glasgow, what Rankin did for Edinburgh' Mirror Scottish Police are called to a murder scene in Glasgow's Northern Necropolis. The body of a young woman lies stretched out over a tomb in what looks like a ritualistic murder. Her body bears a three letter message from her killer, daubed in lurid red lipstick. In the 1970s, Danny Neilson was the detective working on the infamous Red Silk murders. Still haunted by the memory of the unsolved investigation, he spots a link between the new murders and those carried out by Red Silk - details that no copycat killer could have known about. But Archibald Atto, the man suspected of the killings all those years ago, is rotting in jail, so Danny has to face up to his fear that they never caught their man. Neilson goes with police photographer Tony Winter, to visit Archibald Atto in prison. But Atto will not speak to them unless it is on his terms. As clues begin to surface, they learn that they are dealing with a killer whose agenda is so terrifying and history so twisted that it will take the combined efforts of police forces past and present to make an arrest. Delivering brilliant crime fiction for fans of Stuart MacBride and Ian Rankin, Craig Robertson is the author of the acclaimed Random, Snapshot, Cold Grave, Witness the Dead, The Last Refuge and In Place of Death.

✏Book Title : Saigon 1967
✏Author : Noel McKeehan
✏Publisher : Lulu.com
✏Release Date : 2012-04-01
✏Pages : 138
✏ISBN : 9781105646065
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Saigon 1967 Book Summary : This is the story of how a young American - that would be the author - psychologically survived the absurd waste of time, money and life that was the Vietnam War. In the spirit of full disclosure, this is not a What did you do in the war, Daddy sort of book. This is a How I best remember getting through it sort of book. To that end, the tongue engages the cheek just enough to attempt to take the edge off the deadly seriousness of the whole thing. Everything told here is true and happened in the manner described. I should point out, however, that I report events as if I were Pogo - Walt Kelly's brilliantly conceived observer of the ebb and flow of things. Through Pogo's eyes things always looked ridiculous.

✏Book Title : Dead End Kids
✏Author : Mark S. Fleisher
✏Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
✏Release Date : 1998-10-15
✏Pages : 296
✏ISBN : 0299158837
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Dead End Kids Book Summary : Dead End Kids exposes both the depravity and the humanity in gang life through the eyes of a teenaged girl named Cara, a member of a Kansas City gang. In this shocking yet compassionate account, Mark Fleisher shows how gang girls’ lives are shaped by poverty, family disorganization, and parental neglect.

✏Book Title : Daily Dose of Dogs Aka Cats with Your Coffee
✏Author : Chrystal Parker
✏Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
✏Release Date : 2012-03-28
✏Pages : 586
✏ISBN : 9781469188553
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Daily Dose of Dogs Aka Cats with Your Coffee Book Summary : This is, first and foremost, a book about private animal rescue. The stories are true. As a result, these pages are filled with sadness and joy, loss and hope, heartbreak and compassion. Within the stories, personalities emerge, and the love affair between author and animal is apparent. During the course of one year, the author blogs the stories from her past alongside the rescues that occur in real time. Along the way, she discovers a growing support system in the blogosphere. Those connections offer not only emotional succor but also very tangible aid. The world of private animal rescue is candidly revealed in a series of short vignettes.

✏Book Title : War Stories Some Memories from the Firehouse Years
✏Author : Lew LeBlanc
✏Publisher : Lulu.com
✏Release Date : 2014-06-13
✏Pages : 264
✏ISBN : 9780692289693
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏War Stories Some Memories from the Firehouse Years Book Summary : A Captain from a suburban Fire Department shares over 100 stories from his 30-year career in this collection of anecdotes. It's not all guts and glory and running into burning buildings. There's also downtime, station life, and side jobs. He has seen people at their best and at their worst and everything in between. Just when you think you've seen it all, what looks like a routine call turns out to be anything but routine. Put it all together and you have an interesting study of human nature.Many of these stories will make you laugh, some will make you cry, and others will just make you stop and think. See life through his eyes, that of a career firefighter.This book is not just for firefighters. A glossary ensures that everyone can enjoy the stories, including those who may not be familiar with Fire Department jargon.

✏Book Title : Launch out into the Deep
✏Author : Eld.J.W. Aikens
✏Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
✏Release Date : 2009-02-03
✏Pages : 109
✏ISBN : 9781465326539
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Launch out into the Deep Book Summary : The Launch Out project is the beginning of the process to get you to look at life in the shallow waters of life and decide if that is where you choose to remain or if you in fact desire a more exciting and fulfilling life now and life eternal as your goal. Launch out into the deep. Its not just for today but for generations to come.

✏Book Title : A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century
✏Author : Jane Vandenburgh
✏Publisher : Catapult
✏Release Date : 2009-04-01
✏Pages : 396
✏ISBN : 9781582439815
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century Book Summary : A true story of 1950s California, teenage rebellion, and a family torn apart by illicit desire: “Intense, controlled, a memoir-as-fever-dream” (The New York Times). Born into “a certain kind of family”—affluent, white, Protestant—Jane Vandenburgh came of age when the sexual revolution was sweeping the cultural landscape, making its mark in a way that would change our manners and mores forever. What began as an all-American life went spectacularly awry. Her father, an architect with a prominent Los Angeles firm, was repeatedly arrested in police raids on gay bars. Ultimately placed in a psychiatric hospital to be “cured” of his homosexuality, he committed suicide when she was nine. Her mother—an artist and freethinker—lost custody of her children when she was committed to a mental hospital. The author and her two brothers were then raised by an aunt and uncle who had seven children and problems of their own. In the midst of private trauma and loss, Vandenburgh delights in revealing larger truths about American culture and her life within it. Quirky, witty, and uncannily wise, A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century is a brilliant blend of memoir and cultural commentary full of hard-won insights that explode across the page “like a string of Chinese firecrackers” (Washington Post).

✏Book Title : Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities
✏Author : Patrick M. Condon
✏Publisher : Island Press
✏Release Date : 2012-02-13
✏Pages : 216
✏ISBN : 1597268208
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities Book Summary : Questions of how to green the North American economy, create a green energy and transportation infrastructure, and halt the deadly increase in greenhouse gas buildup dominate our daily news. Related questions of how the design of cities can impact these challenges dominate the thoughts of urban planners and designers across the U.S. and Canada. With admirable clarity, Patrick Condon discusses transportation, housing equity, job distribution, economic development, and ecological systems issues and synthesizes his knowledge and research into a simple-to-understand set of urban design rules that can, if followed, help save the planet. No other book so clearly connects the form of our cities to their ecological, economic, and social consequences. No other book takes on this breadth of complex and contentious issues and distills them down to such convincing and practical solutions. And no other book so vividly compares and contrasts the differing experiences of U.S. and Canadian cities. Of particular new importance is how city form affects the production of planet-warming greenhouse gases. The author explains this relationship in an accessible way, and goes on to show how conforming to seven simple rules for community design could literally do a world of good. Each chapter in the book explains one rule in depth, adding a wealth of research to support each claim. If widely used, Condon argues, these rules would lead to a much more livable world for future generations—a world that is not unlike the better parts of our own.

✏Book Title : Massachusetts Appeals Court reports
✏Author :
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 1992
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : UCAL:B5002245
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Book Title : The Structure of the Ordinary
✏Author : N. J. Habraken
✏Publisher : MIT Press
✏Release Date : 2000
✏Pages : 359
✏ISBN : 0262581957
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Structure of the Ordinary Book Summary : The author's central argument is that built environment is universally organized by the Orders of Form, Place, and Understanding. These three fundamental, interwoven principles correspond roughly to physical, biological, and social domains.

✏Book Title : Eye of the Beast
✏Author : Terry Adams
✏Publisher : Addicus Books
✏Release Date : 2012-09-01
✏Pages : 300
✏ISBN : 9781938803505
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Eye of the Beast Book Summary : In the summer of 1993, James Wood brought terror to the unassuming town of Pocatello, Idaho. Little did the friendly community realize it had opened its arms to serial killer. Wood, the stranger in town, was polite and soft-spoken. He looked quite ordinary—he was a master at appearing normal. In late June, Wood abducted and murdered Jeralee Underwood, the eleven-year-old daughter of a devout Mormon family. The entire region was shocked and outraged. Now, author Terry Adams teams with lead investigator Scott Shaw and forensic psychologist Mary Brooks-Mueller to bring readers a unique perspective on this case. Shaw takes us into the heart of an exhaustive investigation, while Brooks-Mueller shows us the mind of a true sexual psychopath. Having spent years researching this case, the authors are skillful in recreating this true story about James Woods—one of the nation's most unusual serial killers. The case that rocked the Mormon Church.

✏Book Title : Excuses Are Useless and Truthless
✏Author : Abdul A. Muhammad
✏Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
✏Release Date : 2012-08-24
✏Pages : 57
✏ISBN : 9781477158784
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Excuses Are Useless and Truthless Book Summary : EXCUSES ARE USELESS AND TRUTHLESS Is a powerful short book filled with quotes, short stories and poetry that will motivate the already motivated and most importantly those who are lacking a self-starter kit. Well this is it,written for High school students, young adults, or a more mature audience. Everyone from employees to entrepreneurs to students and bosses etc. should read this book. Its powerful quotes,stories and poetry will keep you hooked from beginning to end. So enjoy as you read and thank you for making the right decision, because even if you dont buy this, you are staring at it at this very moment and have soaked in the face value of his book. Remember, we are all one and all have been given equally prosperity or poverty as our destiny. The fact that you have embarked upon the journey that this book will put you on, shows what you have chosen. Prosperity!

✏Book Title : The Private Investigator s Handbook
✏Author : Chuck Chambers
✏Publisher : Penguin
✏Release Date : 2005
✏Pages : 280
✏ISBN : 0399531696
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Private Investigator s Handbook Book Summary : Drawing on his more than two decades of experiences, a private detective shares insider advice on how to catch a cheating spouse, uncover hidden assets and monetary fraud, use the Internet to gain information, trail a subject, protect one's privacy, uncover and preserve legal evidence, and more. Original.

✏Book Title : The Dead End Kids of St Louis
✏Author : Bonnie Stepenoff
✏Publisher : University of Missouri Press
✏Release Date : 2010-05-24
✏Pages : 192
✏ISBN : 9780826272140
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Dead End Kids of St Louis Book Summary : Joe Garagiola remembers playing baseball with stolen balls and bats while growing up on the Hill. Chuck Berry had run-ins with police before channeling his energy into rock and roll. But not all the boys growing up on the rough streets of St. Louis had loving families or managed to find success. This book reviews a century of history to tell the story of the “lost” boys who struggled to survive on the city’s streets as it evolved from a booming late-nineteenth-century industrial center to a troubled mid-twentieth-century metropolis. To the eyes of impressionable boys without parents to shield them, St. Louis presented an ever-changing spectacle of violence. Small, loosely organized bands from the tenement districts wandered the city looking for trouble, and they often found it. The geology of St. Louis also provided for unique accommodations—sometimes gangs of boys found shelter in the extensive system of interconnected caves underneath the city. Boys could hide in these secret lairs for weeks or even months at a stretch. Bonnie Stepenoff gives voice to the harrowing experiences of destitute and homeless boys and young men who struggled to grow up, with little or no adult supervision, on streets filled with excitement but also teeming with sharpsters ready to teach these youngsters things they would never learn in school. Well-intentioned efforts of private philanthropists and public officials sometimes went cruelly astray, and sometimes were ineffective, but sometimes had positive effects on young lives. Stepenoff traces the history of several efforts aimed at assisting the city’s homeless boys. She discusses the prison-like St. Louis House of Refuge, where more than 80 percent of the resident children were boys, and Father Dunne's News Boys' Home and Protectorate, which stressed education and training for more than a century after its founding. She charts the growth of Skid Row and details how historical events such as industrialization, economic depression, and wars affected this vulnerable urban population. Most of these boys grew up and lived decent, unheralded lives, but that doesn’t mean that their childhood experiences left them unscathed. Their lives offer a compelling glimpse into old St. Louis while reinforcing the idea that society has an obligation to create cities that will nurture and not endanger the young.