Jack Death

Jack Death
Author: M. L. Windsor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2016
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1939547288

Jack and Nadine, two middle-schoolers with very unusual parents, live ordinary lives until a villain destroys the Magical Creature Reserve, releasing ghastly creatures into their midst.

Death on Demand

Death on Demand
Author: Michael DeCesare
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2015-07-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442242140

Death on Demand explores the polarizing role of Jack Kevorkian—“Dr. Death”—as the most visible leader of the right-to-die movement. From a feature on the cover of Time magazine to interviews on shows like 60 Minutes, Kevorkian was a high-profile figure in the right-to-die movement, capturing constant media attention as he helped more than one hundred people kill themselves. The book opens with the death of Janet Adkins in 1990—Kevorkian’s first assisted suicide—then travels back to Kevorkian’s medical school days and follows his nearly four decades as a lone activist. Death on Demand draws on Kevorkian’s interviews and published work as well as newspaper and magazine articles to describe the doctor’s publicity stunts, criminal trials, years in prison, and activities after he was paroled. Author Michael DeCesare examines Kevorkian’s actions in the context of the right-to-die movement to understand his crucial role in bringing the controversial practice of assisted suicide into the public conversation.

Pioneer Girl Perspectives

Pioneer Girl Perspectives
Author: Nancy Tystad Koupal
Publisher: South Dakota State Historical Society
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781941813089

"A publication of the Pioneer Girl Project."

Dead End in Norvelt

Dead End in Norvelt
Author: Jack Gantos
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 142996250X

Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a fiesty old neighbor with a most unusual chore—typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town. As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launced on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels . . . and possibly murder. Endlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most unexpected things in a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is confusing, and the future is completely up in the air.

The Death of Jack and Jill

The Death of Jack and Jill
Author: Kevin Dowdy
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2011-09-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1452019673

This book, remind me on what a true friend should be, for all what Jack and Kevin went through while they were growing up. And down to they last year in college, is so funny when it involve two best and one girl, here is where friendship it put the test. It shows you what true love is and one thing you have to be carefull of your friend around your girl."

Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life

Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life
Author: Jack Santino
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1994
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780870498138

However, the essays in this volume also suggest that there is something ironic and unsettling about the immense popularity of a holiday whose main images are of death, evil, and the grotesque. Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life is a unique contribution that questions our concepts of religiosity and spirituality while contributing to our understanding of Halloween as a rich and diverse reflection of our society's past, present, and future identity.

The Last Death of Jack Harbin

The Last Death of Jack Harbin
Author: Terry Shames
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2014-01-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1616148721

Small town mystery and veteran's issues collide as retired police chief Samuel Craddock investigates a murder. Right before the outbreak of the Gulf War, two eighteen-year-old football stars and best friends from Jarrett Creek signed up for the army. Woody Patterson was rejected and stayed home to marry the girl they both loved, while Jack Harbin came back from the war badly damaged. The men haven't spoken since. Just as they are about to reconcile, Jack is brutally murdered. With the chief of police out of commission, trusted ex-chief Samuel Craddock steps in--again. Against the backdrop of small-town loyalties and betrayals, Craddock discovers dark secrets of the past and present to solve the mystery of Jack's death.

Murder Without Death

Murder Without Death
Author: Jack E. Birge
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2007-05-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1467821756

Big Jack

Big Jack
Author: J. D. Robb
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2010-02-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0425234908

Lieutenant Eve Dallas's search for a precious fortune leads her into untold danger in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb. In New York City in 2059, someone is pursuing missing gems from a decades-old heist...someone who’s willing to kill for them. Sharp-witted and sexy, Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas is used to traveling in the shadowy corners outside the law. And in a future where crime meets cutting-edge technology, she will attempt to track down the diamonds once and for all—and stop the danger and death that has surrounded them for years. Want more of the story? Look for Hot Rocks by #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts and see where it all began. Big Jack was previously published in Remember When

Justice for Jack

Justice for Jack
Author: Sqi Taylor
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2009-08
Genre: Crime
ISBN: 1598588621

Sqi Taylor (pronounced SKY) has lived an amazing life, including over ten years of work in law-enforcement, 20 years working with both juvenile and adult offenders and being a foster parent to over 60 youth. She has worked with prisons, directed two non-profit agencies, owned her own business and was once nominated as a "Woman of Distinction" in her community. In Casper, Wyoming she and a handful of believers founded a Therapeutic Riding Academy for people with physical, mental, emotional, financial or spiritual disabilities. Her pen name is an "on-air name" her daughter Lacy gave her, while working as a radio personality as a second job to make ends meet. Interestingly enough, "Sqi" was a female action hero in a card collection of crime fighting characters. Writing mostly as a passionate hobby for over 30 years, this was the "ONE" story she was absolutely compelled to share with the world. A tantalizing, 23 year-old unsolved homicide case, turned into over six years of research, ultimately leading back to a much older unsolved murder in Wyoming in 1949 and a mysterious death in Oklahoma in the 1970's. Eventually, all roads led back to, or were connected with the person who was finally arrested, tried and convicted of Jack Humphrey's murder, nearly twenty-nine years after his death. Whenever innocent blood is spilled in a cold, bizarre manner the emotional, mental and physical devastation is made even greater by either intentional or unintentional actions we naturally blame on "the system." Sad to say, it's not the system, just some people in it, the choices and decisions they make. Mishaps, mistakes, legal or local bias, laziness, political or personal agenda's more often than we realize, only repeatedly, re-victimize families or people we love or that love us. What followed the gruesome, senseless, slaying of Jack Humphrey was one of the most shocking, cruel and riveting persecutions of a victim's family anyone could imagine. How did the murder of an honest, hard-working family man of average means, become such a politically sensitive, unsolved murder case and remain so, for over a quarter of a century? That's the billion dollar question you ultimately must answer for yourself Throughout this tumultuous journey it's clear that good men and women then and now, risk careers, their families, lives and reputations every day, either fighting for truth and justice or falling to the temptation of the oldest and still deadliest of sins: Lust, Lies, Sloth, Greed and Murder For any one left to navigate through a very tricky, risky, tedious and complex maze, filled with paper and people, Justice for Jack is a must read