Moonshine and Murder or Legends and Lies

Moonshine and Murder or Legends and Lies
Author: Wendy Hazle
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2015-09-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1329528468

On the night of June 13, 1937, gunfire shattered the peace at Owens Chapel Baptist Church. Amid the screams and blood, one man lay dead, another stumbled out of the church with a bullet in his chest. Bertha Perry struggled to control the bleeding from her abdomen, and Lorene Potter labored to breath through collapsed lungs. Others were surprised to find themselves bleeding from stray bullets. What caused two men to open fire in a church crowded with the faithful gathered for the start of Revival Week? Both men had family not more than 15 feet from where they began their deadly gunfight. What secrets brought tragedy to so many families in that terrifying ten minutes? Moonshine and Murder or Legends and Lies will shed light on the tragedy that has haunted Lawrence County for almost 80 years.

Bootleg

Bootleg
Author: Karen Blumenthal
Publisher: Flash Point
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2011-05-24
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1466801581

It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places. Over time, their protests, petitions, and activism paid off—when a Constitional Amendment banning the sale and consumption of alcohol was ratified, it was hailed as the end of public drunkenness, alcoholism, and a host of other social ills related to booze. Instead, it began a decade of lawlessness, when children smuggled (and drank) illegal alcohol, the most upright citizens casually broke the law, and a host of notorious gangsters entered the public eye. Filled with period art and photographs, anecdotes, and portraits of unique characters from the era, this fascinating book looks at the rise and fall of the disastrous social experiment known as Prohibition. Bootleg is a 2011 Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year title. One of School Library Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011. YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist in 2012.

Killers of the Flower Moon

Killers of the Flower Moon
Author: David Grann
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0307742482

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE “A shocking whodunit…What more could fans of true-crime thrillers ask?”—USA Today “A masterful work of literary journalism crafted with the urgency of a mystery.” —The Boston Globe In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. Look for David Grann’s latest bestselling book, The Wager!

Moonshine, Magic & Murder

Moonshine, Magic & Murder
Author: January Bain
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1839435011

FROM AWARD-WINNING ROMANCE AUTHOR JANUARY BAIN Book three in the Manitoba Tea & Tarot Mysteries series Charm McCall has a gift for solving small-town murders, but can she stop something threatening the entire McCall clan? Charm McCall is on the hunt once more—this time to figure out who the ghost is that her cat has been seeing, why she's being shown an ancient treasure map by, gulp, a dead guy and why her Auntie T.J. has suddenly disappeared, bagpipes and all. That would be more than enough, but with the upcoming Sadie Hawkins dance and its accompanying Promise Bags to create and spell, she's about run off her feet. Not to mention that now it's legal to sell marijuana in Canada, orders for pot brownies are rolling in and threatening to crash her online store. Charm needs all the help she can get to deal with the arrival of her mother and the beyond painful host of problems that creates for her family, save Auntie T.J.'s hiney and discover who the real murderer is...that is, if she wants her romance with Snowy Lake's sexy Mountie, Ace Collins, to have any hope at all.

Age of Legend

Age of Legend
Author: Michael J. Sullivan
Publisher: Legends of the First Empire
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-01-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781943363445

Each culture has its own myths and legends, but only one is shared, and it is feared by all. With Age of Myth, Age of Swords, and Age of War, fantasy master Michael J. Sullivan riveted readers with a tale of unlikely heroes locked in a desperate battle to save mankind. After years of warfare, humanity has gained the upper hand and has pushed the Fhrey to the edge of their homeland, but no farther. Now comes the pivotal moment. Persephone's plan to use the stalemate to seek peace is destroyed by an unexpected betrayal that threatens to hand victory to the Fhrey and leaves a dear friend in peril. Humanity's only hope lies in the legend of a witch, a forgotten song, and a simple garden door.

Moonshiners and Prohibitionists

Moonshiners and Prohibitionists
Author: Bruce E. Stewart
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 081313000X

Homemade liquor has played a prominent role in the Appalachian economy for nearly two centuries. The region endured profound transformations during the extreme prohibition movements of the nineteenth century, when the manufacturing and sale of alcohol -- an integral part of daily life for many Appalachians -- was banned. In Moonshiners and Prohibitionists: The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia, Bruce E. Stewart chronicles the social tensions that accompanied the region's early transition from a rural to an urban-industrial economy. Stewart analyzes the dynamic relationship of the bootleggers and opponents of liquor sales in western North Carolina, as well as conflict driven by social and economic development that manifested in political discord. Stewart also explores the life of the moonshiner and the many myths that developed around hillbilly stereotypes. A welcome addition to the New Directions in Southern History series, Moonshiners and Prohibitionists addresses major economic, social, and cultural questions that are essential to the understanding of Appalachian history.

Wicked Hampton County

Wicked Hampton County
Author: Michael DeWitt Jr.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2023-05-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439678219

The Darker Side of Hampton County Hampton County is a rural county in South Carolina with a long and storied history, but it has a shady side. Author Michael DeWitt details the corruption, murders and crimes that remained in the memories of locals for years.>p/>

Cinderland

Cinderland
Author: Amy Jo Burns
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2015-09-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0807052272

A riveting literary debut about the cost of keeping quiet Amy Jo Burns grew up in Mercury, Pennsylvania, an industrial town humbled by the steel collapse of the 1980s. Instead of the construction booms and twelve-hour shifts her parents’ generation had known, the Mercury Amy Jo knew was marred by empty houses, old strip mines, and vacant lots. It wasn’t quite a ghost town—only because many people had no choice but to stay. The year Burns turned ten, this sleepy town suddenly woke up. Howard Lotte, its beloved piano teacher, was accused of sexually assaulting his female students. Among the countless girls questioned, only seven came forward. For telling the truth, the town ostracized these girls and accused them of trying to smear a good man’s reputation. As for the remaining girls—well, they were smarter. They lied. Burns was one of them. But such a lie has its own consequences. Against a backdrop of fire and steel, shame and redemption, Burns tells of the boys she ran from and toward, the friends she abandoned, and the endless performances she gave to please a town that never trusted girls in the first place. This is the story of growing up in a town that both worshipped and sacrificed its youth—a town that believed being a good girl meant being a quiet one—and the long road Burns took toward forgiving her ten-year-old self. Cinderland is an elegy to that young girl’s innocence, as well as a praise song to the curative powers of breaking a long silence.

Albion's Seed

Albion's Seed
Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 981
Release: 1991-03-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 019974369X

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WASHINGTON IRVING (Illustrated Edition)

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WASHINGTON IRVING (Illustrated Edition)
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 6313
Release: 2017-08-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8027202558

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WASHINGTON IRVING (Illustrated Edition)". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Washington Irving (1783-1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the 19th century. Contents: INTRODUCTION SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842 by Charles Dickens COLLECTIONS OF SHORT STORIES: THE SKETCH BOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT. Rip Van Winkle The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Old Christmas Roscoe The Wife TALES OF A TRAVELLER Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman Buckthorne and His Friends The Italian Banditti The Money Diggers BRACEBRIDGE HALL The Busy Man The Widow The Lovers Family Reliques An Old Soldier WOLFERT'S ROOST AND MISCELLANIES THE CRAYON PAPERS TRAVEL SKETCHES AND MEMOIRS: TALES OF THE ALHAMBRA ABBOTSFORD AND NEWSTEAD ABBY A TOUR ON THE PRAIRIES SATIRICAL WORKS: KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY OF NEW YORK LETTERS OF JONATHAN OLDSTYLE, GENT. HISTORICAL WORKS: THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN BONNEVILLE ASTORIA CHRONICLE OF THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON: VOLUME I THE STUDENT'S LIFE OF WASHINGTON DRAMAS: THE WILD HUNTSMAN ABU HASSAN POEMS: ECHO AND SILENCE ON PASSAIC FALLS RHYMED ADDRESS THE DULL LECTURE TO MISS EMILY FOSTER ON HER BIRTHDAY SONG THE LAY OF THE SUNNYSIDE DUCKS SIGNS OF THE TIMES WRITTEN IN THE DEEP DENE ALBUM EXTRACTS FROM ABU HASSAN SONG FROM THE WILD HUNTSMAN CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN WASHINGTON IRVING AND EDGAR ALLAN POE BIOGRAPHY: WASHINGTON IRVING by Charles Dudley Warner