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Doing Time is the compelling, true-to-life story of a young woman, Annabel Lee, who is wrongly convicted and imprisoned for a crime committed by her wayward husband. Beginning before her birth, the story opens in the rural American South of the1950s, and tracks the brutal relationship into which Annabel Lee is born. As she grows, Annabel Lee cannot escape the cycle of violence and abuse that surrounds her. Naively, she elopes with her teenaged lover in the vain hope for an escape from her cruel past, only to discover that she has entered upon an equally harrowing stint in a women's prison. In the unlikely fellowship behind bars, and through her relationships with inmates, staff and particularly the prison's chaplain, Annabel Lee courageously moves from the scarred existence as a victim to the life of a survivor. Filled with the local color of life in rural North Carolina between the 1950s and 1970s, Doing Time is a poignantan-and at times humorous-story of multi-generational trauma and abuse, and the journey of the human spirit to healing and redemption.
Life in an enchanted retirement community opens the residents to their deeper selves-for mirth or madness, good or ill.
MS Acc11.153 comprises research materials relating to a book by Glassop about James Cook which was almost completed at the time of his sudden death. The collection includes typescripts titled "The Great Navigator", "The Transit of Venus" and "The Plane Man", correspondence, miscellaneous objects including a Captain Cook figurine, flashcards, matchbox and Christmas tags, and miscellaneous newspaper clippings (8 boxes, 1 folio box, 1 oversize packet).
A planned marriage of state sets off a remarkable chain of events. As the princess is being delivered to her royal groom, several individuals and groups plot to kidnap her and disrupt the political arrangement for various reasons. Some of the groups are politically motivated, some want to hold the princess for ransom. One of the individuals is her lover, who is determined that she shall not marry another man. One of the individuals is a would-be lover, who conjures a demon to disrupt the arrangement. The various groups encounter and interact with each other, often violently, all trying to keep the others from the desired goal. When one group acquires the princess, the other groups try to steal her for themselves. The princess keeps escaping from her captors, being generally as violent as they are. The demon meanwhile gets out of control and menaces everybody. The story is light-hearted and action-filled.
What would lead ordained minister and Vietnam veteran, Kyle Weston, to commit suicide by hanging himself in the church-and wearing a T-shirt proclaiming 'Death from Above?' Why would he send letters to both his best friend, Rev. Jon Braddock, and his 'enemies' prior to his death, arranging for all of them to find his body at the same time?It is these questions and more that Jon seeks to answer in the wake of his loss. And the journey is more unsettling than he could have imagined. No Good Deed examines America's two great conflicting passions: war and religion, and their interaction over four decades.
An animal scientist uncovers the deliberate dumping of toxic waste, but the notoriety opens the door to further intrigue, danger and murder.
J.J. Graves and her husband, Sheriff Jack Lawson, are sworn to protect and serve. But with a secret out in the open and the election all but lost, J.J. and Jack have to figure out how to work together while their marriage is torn apart. Because death doesn’t stop for anyone.