FREE KINDLE BOOK PACK #3 – {10-20-2012}
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Letters from Alcatraz
Michael Esslinger
Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs, True Accounts, Organized Crime, True Crime, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century, Nonfiction
Rating: 4.3 – {7 Reviews}
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EAL LETTERS FROM ALCATRAZ INMATES! Letters from Alcatraz features an impressive collection of original correspondence from inmates both on-and-off the Rock. Their letters capture the true essence of life in prison, with fresh and historical insights to their sufferings and occasional triumphs. It is a finer example of history from one of America’s most historical treasures. This rare collection features many never before published personal letters from Al Capone, George Machine Gun Kelly, Robert Stroud – the Birdman of Alcatraz, Alvin Karpis, Henri Young, John & Clarence Anglin, Roy Gardner and numerous others. Also included are narratives on the Battle of Alcatraz and other harrowing escape attempts.
The letters are all presented in their original unedited form… revealing in their authenticity, representing their lives suspended in slow motion while serving time on the Rock and other prisons. They are confessionals of earnestness and probe their introspective thoughts. Sometimes deep, and sometimes they are almost too overwhelmingly honest in their descriptive accounts. Many represent their torn and textured histories in crime and the intricately layered stories of life at Alcatraz.
Letters from Alcatraz is an epic exploration of a secret cloak and dagger culture once hidden behind a mythical curtain. This book is much more than a mere exercise in myth busting. Paired with its contextual and intrinsic complexities, Letters from Alcatraz grants readers privileged access to the formidable confinement conditions endured by these inmates along with their compelling portraits, and a thorough overview of the rich history of Alcatraz Island. The depth of feeling in its story, its setting, its cast and sheer inimitability, these are their lives in prose and the stories of the forgotten…
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The Glass Madonna
Donna Meredith
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Genre Fiction, Coming of Age, Family Saga, Literary, Chick-Lit, Contemporary Women, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction
Rating: 4.9 – {43 Reviews}
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onna Meredith’s award-winning debut novel, “The Glass Madonna,” tells the powerful story of a woman’s determination to create her own destiny. Coming of age was supposed to be easy in the 70s. After all, women have been liberated and love is free. Why does Sarah Stevens find life so hard? Union rules and tradition still ban women from making glass, an art form Sarah views as part of her family heritage. And regard for virginity is not as dead as Sarah thinks when she gives hers up to a college boyfriend. Her husband, unable to get past his jealousy, isolates her in a backwoods trailer and tells her he always wanted to marry a virgin. Unintentionally reinforcing his criticism, Aunt Livvie treasures a family heirloom, a glass figurine of the Madonna. It shines with perfect purity no real woman could achieve.
The novel weaves together stories of three generations of glass workers who emigrate from Germany to West Virginia. From Aunt Livvie, Sarah learns about women in her family who overcame wrenching losses, brutal working conditions, and rape. Her aunt’s stories and wisdom, and her family’s unconditional love give Sarah the courage to forge a new life for herself and her child. “The Glass Madonna” underscores the importance of the women’s movement in freeing women (and men) from debilitating secrets and ruinous marriages. The protagonist, Sarah, is a woman who will steal your heart.
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Vada Faith
Barbara A. Whittington
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Chick-Lit, Contemporary Women, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
Rating: 4.5 – {24 Reviews}
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hen Vada Faith answers an advertisement in a local newspaper for a surrogate mother, she believes all her dreams are about to come true. She’s always wanted to be known as “somebody.” Somebody besides a high school beauty queen in the small town of Shady Creek, West Virginia. Somebody besides the wife of football hero, John “Wasper” Waddell. More than the mother of twins. More than the town’s most sought after beautician, in the shop she owns with her twin sister, Joy Ruth. She’s tired of living in the run down Victorian home her husband inherited from his Grandma Belle, even if Eleanor Roosevelt might have once sat in the wicker chair still on their front porch.
Vada Faith longs for a new home in the fancy subdivision of Crystal Springs.
Then, Roy and Dottie Kilgore swoop into town, wanting a child of their own, and bringing money to burn.
In going after her own dreams, Vada Faith nearly destroys the lives of those she loves.
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Life Among the Dead
Daniel Cotton
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Action & Adventure, Horror, Fiction
Rating: 4.5 – {44 Reviews}
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here’s over a million people in the city of Waterloo. Today, most of them have died, and now they are hungry. Corporal Dan Williamson is caught in the middle of the outbreak. He is desperately trying to reach his wife who is somewhere amid the urban decay. There are other souls out there, other tales of survival among the horror. Dan will soon learn that the living may prove to be an even bigger threat than the dead. 168,000 words.
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COMMANDO: Operation Arrowhead
Jack Badelaire
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Action & Adventure, War, Fiction, Men’s Adventure
Rating: 4.8 – {4 Reviews}
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orporal Thomas Lynch won fame at the Battle of Arras, and felt the shame of defeat at Dunkirk. A year later, as a member of Britain’s elite No. 3 Commando, Lynch wants nothing more than to go back over the Channel and kick open Hitler’s Fortress Europe, guns blazing.
Introduced by his commanding officer to the enigmatic Lord Pembroke, Lynch is offered a chance to be part of a special team of hand-picked Commandos. Their assignment: sneak into occupied France and ally with the French partisans to fight back against the Nazis.
Lynch readily accepts the challenge, but when the mission goes awry from the very beginning, and the motives of the partisan leader become suspect, the Commandos begin to wonder about their role in the mission: trusted allies with the partisans, or worms dangling as bait for a hungry fish?
COMMANDO: Operation Arrowhead is a military action – adventure novel written in the spirit of classic war movies such as The Guns of Navarone, The Dirty Dozen, and Where Eagles Dare, as well as the WW2 fiction of authors like Max Adams, James Holland, Iain Gale, and Michael Asher.
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