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The Picker Who Perished/ A Too Good to be Threw Consignment Shop Mystery
A light-hearted mystery featuring Wendy Sam Miller, fanny-rich owner of a Sarasota Florida consignment shop, who must convince the police, and the oh-so-attractive Detective Litwin, that her friend and merchandise picker Ilene did not die in an accidental fall but was murdered. But why was she murdered? Who would want her dead? And what does the mysterious list Ilene left behind mean? Can Wendy Sam solve the mystery... and run her shop at the same time? What with competitors like Evil Thalia and the sexy antique dealer Henri Pousse, who may or may not be a thief called Harry the Grass, and a bevy of Sarasotans with their own agendas, Wendy Sam has to figure out whats going on. Did Ilene fall... or was she pushed because she was pushing some powers-that-be in this seaside town? Delightful characters and sunny climes provide an appealing venue for this author's first mystery. Kate Holmes is the author of Too Good to be Threw, The Complete Operations Manual for Resale & Consignment Shops, and an industry icon. Visit her Too Good to be Threw site for consignment, resale, and thrift store shopkeepers and read the first chapter of The Picker Who Perished there. "It looks as if Kate Holmes has a winner in her book, THE PICKER WHO PERISHED, and she doesn't even have to wait to find it on consignment." --Roundtable Reviews Watch for Wendy Sam Miller in more Too Good to be Threw Consignment Shop Mysteries by Kate Holmes..
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The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City
The establishment and liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto has become an icon of the Holocaust experience. Remarkably, a full history of the Ghetto has never been written, despite the publication over some sixty years of numerous memoirs, studies, biographical accounts, and primary documents. The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City is this history, researched and written with painstaking care and devotion over many years and now published for the first time in English. The authors explore the history of the ghetto’s evolution, the actual daily experience of its thousands of inhabitants from its creation in 1941 to its liquidation following the uprising of 1943. Encyclopedic in scope, the book encompasses a range of topics from food supplies to education, religious activities to the Jundenrat’s administration. Separate chapters deal with the mass deportations to Treblinka and the famous uprising. A series of original maps, along with biographies, a glossary, and a bibliography, completes this masterful work. .
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Published & Perished: Memoria, Eulogies & Rememberences of American Writers
We know the names on both sides of these coins; both the authors whose lives are celebrated, and the names of their friends performing the celebration And what a list it is: Emerson on Thoreau, Henry James on Lowell, Howells on Twain, O'Hara on Fitzgerald, Tate on Eliot, Davenport on Merton, Merrill on Bishop. If there is a published pantheon in which the best of a writer's life and work is recorded for posterity by their closest friends, this book contains the holy scriptures. Hhere is a selection of well considered (and often shockingly honest) appraisals of the greatest names in American literature memorialized, eulogized, and sometimes criticized by their dearest friends and their closest peers. All are personal; many are poignant and in every case the reader reaches the final sentences knowing far more about the subject than before, not as they would from a scholarly entry in a biographical dictionary, but at first hand, close up, encomia written in flesh and blood. These memoria consistently manifest an urgency on the writers' part to convey the personal, the intimate, the unknown. Katherine Anne Porter writes of Flannery O'Connor, "I want to tell what she looked like and how she carried herself and how she sounded standing balanced lightly on her aluminum crutches," John O'Hara starts his appraisal of Fitzgerald with the observation, "It is granted that Scott Fitzgerald was not a lovable man, but most of the time he was a friendly one, and that characteristic, in a man of his professional standing, is as much as anyone can ask." Personal, forthright, and honest, these appreciations sound the notes of our literary past that still resonate in our minds..
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Mundo que perecio, El: World That Perished, The
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Fire Mountain: How 30,000 Perished and One Man Survived the World's Worst Volcanic Disaster
History, travel writing, and human tragedy collide in a heart-stopping work of narrative nonfiction.On May 8th, 1902, Mont Pelée in Saint-Pierre, Martinique, erupted, killing almost 30,000 people instantly and completely destroying the city known as the Paris of the Caribbean. It was a spectacular, biblical, horrifying disaster, without a doubt the most sensational event of its time. Days later, rescue teams heard cries from the rubble and uncovered Ludger Sylbaris, a twenty-seven-year-old laborer who had spent the night of the eruption in jail for his involvement in a bar fight and turned out to be-against all odds-the only known survivor. He was soon world famous, traveling across America as part of Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth.Using written eyewitness accounts and historical research, Peter Morgan spins this tale and more into a spellbinding narrative. Framed by Martinique's painful history, the disaster reveals layer upon layer of corruption: a French governor more concerned with public image than the safety of his fellow islanders, the moral conflict of a scientist who knew the risks but was told to keep them quiet, and the tangle of colonial attitudes that ultimately caused the death of thousands. With deft, literary strokes, in a book rich in detail, Peter Morgan delivers all the political intrigue, drama, heroism, and villainy of the greatest suspense novel - and every word is true. .
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