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James Brockman rose from shady character to preeminent defense attorney in Houston, Texas representing clients including gang leaders, jilted spouses, wealthy storekeepers and drunken on-duty policemen. These high-profile true crime and murder accounts take place between 1895 and 1910. They cross racial lines, revealing instances of separate and unequal justice in segregated Texas that had a lasting effect on the city and the state. His career gained national recognition, including his involvement in the most famous American murder case of the young twentieth century, when he himself was murdered leaving a dubious legacy.
Believe in guardian angels? If not, you may well become a believer after reading Not Your Time to Die, thanks to Rollos hip guardian angel, Leslie. When you travel with Rollo Flowers through lifes difficulties, certain death, and emotional adversities, you be looking over your shoulder and wishing for your own guardian angel. Rollo, an aged athlete, ends up competing in the Rio Olympics and becomes a true inspiration for all ages. Throughout his heart-pounding, stride-for-stride final race, Rollos exhilaration and excitement can be felt until he crosses the finish line to a shocking conclusion. Through carefully crafted prose, Ron Stock encourages the reader to thoughtfully reflect on when it is anyones time to die, especially their own. Recalling your own past narrow escapes with death may well make you wonder whether a guardian angel was looking out for you too. Not Your Time to Die is a wonderful, imaginative story that fondly and humorously reflects on our own mortality.
In an ideal universe, theirs might have been the perfect love story from two separate worlds. But in the heart of the Bible Belt South, in America of the mid-twentieth century, their young love was forbidden because of their skin color. She was white, lovely, and privileged, growing up in a Tara-like Victorian home. He was Latino, dark-skinned, and working classthe grandson of a Mexican revolutionary who had fought with Pancho Villa. And an innocent waltz at a school May Fetea waltz that they were not permitted to dance togethercame to symbolize their societys racial divide. In The Prince of South Waco, author Tony Castro narrates his sensitive rite-of-passage memoir of growing up Latino in ...
A description of the geologic framework, extent, and grade of placer deposits of the area.
What’s scarier than a murderer? Someone with the charisma to compel others to kill for them . . . or to kill themselves. Meet these cult leaders—and get an inside look at their beliefs and how they controlled others. Some cults, led by leaders like Charlie Manson, Jim Jones, and David Koresh, are notorious. But others are less well known, such as Shoko Asahara and his doomsday cult, Aum Shinrikyo, who orchestrated the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Or Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret, who founded the Order of the Solar Temple, a doomsday cult that led to the death of 51 members by murder or suicide. Then there is Marshall Applewhite, leader of Heaven’s Gate, who, along with 38 fo...
Nearly twenty years after they happened, the ATF and FBI assaults on the Branch Davidian residence near Waco, Texas remain the most deadly law enforcement action on American soil. The raid by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents on February 28, 1993, which resulted in the deaths of four ATF agents and six Branch Davidians, precipitated a 51-day siege conducted by the FBI. The FBI tank and gas assault on the residence at Mount Carmel Center on April 19 culminated in a fire that killed 53 adults and 23 children, with only nine survivors. In A Journey to Waco, survivor Clive Doyle not only takes readers inside the tragic fire and its aftermath, but he also tells the larger story of h...
This is a true story of how groups of people organized to preserve the environment and defeated gigantic mining companies. Native Americans, sports people, environmental groups, lake and property owners and ordinary citizens prevented a copper and zinc mine that threatened the environment.