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Old Joliet Prison: When Convicts Wore Stripes

By: Amy Kinzer Steidinger

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Old Joliet Prison: When Convicts Wore Stripes

By: Amy Kinzer Steidinger

In 1857, convicts began breaking rock to build the walls of the Illinois State penitentiary at Joliet, the prison that would later confine them. For a century and a half, thousands of men and women were sentenced to do time in this historic, castle-like fortress on Collins Street. Its bakery fed victims of the Great Chicago Fire, and its locks frustrated pickpockets from the world's fair. Even newspaper-selling sensations like the Lambeth Poisoner, the Haymarket Anarchists, the Marcus Train Robbers and Fainting Bertha became numbers once they passed through the gates. Author Amy Steidinger recovers stories of lunatics and lawmen, counterfeiters and call girls, grave robbers and politicians.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467147362

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9781467147361

So Many Fragile Things

By: Amy Kinzer Steidinger

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So Many Fragile Things

By: Amy Kinzer Steidinger

Here's a strange mixture of religion and fanaticism... Love and murder... Deep within the pages of the Moser family book lies a secret. The leather-bound book sits high upon a shelf, quietly gathering dust because most of the Mosers aren't very interested in what's gone on long ago. They're busy going to work, raising their children, and living their lives. They go to the Moser family reunion in the summers. They eat watermelon, laugh with cousins they grew up with on the farm, and stroll over to watch their children in the swimming pool next to the park pavilion. The elderly Moser aunts sit at the picnic table, telling family stories as they leaf through the family photo albums. They know the secret. But they won't admit it. They've shoved it to the back of the closet for too many years. They have no intention of letting it out now. In 1994, I was working as a genealogist, researching a family's history. While paging through volumes of Amish, Mennonite & Apostolic Christian relatives, I came to the story of a mother and her three young children who had all died on the same day-March 13, 1900. Was it an accident? An illness of some kind? I soon learned that the husband and father of this young family had murdered them after being excommunicated from the Amish church. The sensational trial would demand answers of the church itself.

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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1646705874

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9781646705870

Joliet Prison Blues: A Century of Stories

By: Amy Steidinger

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Joliet Prison Blues: A Century of Stories

By: Amy Steidinger

Named warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary in 1913, Edmund Allen arrived with a glamorous new wife and ambitious plans of reform that did away with years of striped uniforms and humiliating practices. Two years later, his wife was found murdered in her bed, shocking the country and throwing the prison into chaos. Over the past century, life behind bars at Joliet has often been a national spectacle. Infamous inmates like Leopold and Loeb, John Wayne Gacy, Baby Face Nelson and James Earl Ray drew headlines, and iconic scenes in movies like The Blues Brothers ensured that the prison walls themselves were instantly recognizable. From overlooked prisoner profiles to the kind of dramatic incidents that incited riots or inspired Hollywood, Amy Steidinger's stories cover the modern era of Old Joliet Prison.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467147354

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Turning Up the Heat

How Global Warming Threatens Life in the Sea

By: Amy Mathews-Amos,Ewann Agenbroad Berntson

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How Global Warming Threatens Life in the Sea

By: Amy Mathews-Amos,Ewann Agenbroad Berntson

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI) present the full text of the report entitled "Turning up the Heat: How Global Warming Threatens Life in the Sea," written by Amy Mathews-Amos and Ewann A. Berntson. Scientific evidence suggests that marine species and ecosystems are already affected by global climate change. The consequences of global warming on marine life include the fact that some organisms cannot survive in warmer waters, while others may shift their distribution poleward.

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DIANE Publishing

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0788188399

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9780788188398

Joliet Prison Blues: A Century of Stories

By: Amy Steidinger

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By: Amy Steidinger

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Amy Fisher

My Story

By: Amy Fisher,Sheila Weller

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My Story

By: Amy Fisher,Sheila Weller

The Long Island Lolita" recounts the details of her alleged affair with Joey Buttafuoco, her career as a teenaged prostitute, and the shooting of Mary Jo Buttafuoco

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Pocket Books

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0671865595

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9780671865597

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Old Joliet Prison: When Convicts Wore Stripes

Old Joliet Prison: When Convicts Wore Stripes

So Many Fragile Things

So Many Fragile Things

Joliet Prison Blues: A Century of Stories

Joliet Prison Blues: A Century of Stories

Turning Up the Heat

Turning Up the Heat

Joliet Prison Blues: A Century of Stories

Joliet Prison Blues: A Century of Stories

Amy Fisher

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