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The Ticket Out

A Crime Novel

By: Helen Knode

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Ann Whitehead is sick of her job. She's a movie critic for a counterculture rag in Los Angeles and she needs a break badly. Instead of a break, she gets a murder. A woman dies in Ann's bathtub: the victim is a film school grad and Industry hopeful. It's the kind of story Ann was born to write, but the disgraced LAPD detective leading the investigation is determined to stop her. The search for the killer turns into a search for the victim's missing script, the story of another woman murdered in 1944. Suddenly there are two killers, and a complicated conspiracy spanning decades. Ann is smack in the middle and everyone she meets wants into the film business--whatever the price. There's never been a thriller hitched as brilliantly to the underbelly of Hollywood as this one. Helen Knode is a startling and original voice.

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0544026896

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Wildcat Play

A Mystery

By: Helen Knode

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Wildcat Play

A Mystery

By: Helen Knode

“This book is a blast—a gutsy, funny heroine and a story that’s a pulse-pounding thrill ride” (Janet Evanovich). Ann Whitehead has spent some time as a hipster Hollywood film critic, but she grew up in the grittier and less glamorous world of the oil and gas industry. So she’s not at all out of her element when her grandfather’s friend, who owns an oil company in the San Joaquin Valley, gets her a job with a contractor drilling his wildcat well. Ready for a lifestyle change after a close call with a killer, she welcomes the hard work, and even loves her crusty old boss. Then a guy on her crew is killed by a falling hammer. Sheriffs rule it an accident, but Ann’s LAPD squeeze, Det. Doug Lockwood, says it’s murder. Of course, Ann can’t resist the challenge of chasing a killer—until the killer starts chasing her . . . Wildcat Play is a wild ride, full of bad behavior and belly laughs, eccentric characters and small-town atmosphere—starring a heroine who never does anything halfway. “Conspiracy, murder, and family secrets eventually explode in an exciting conclusion.” —Publishers Weekly “I fell in love with the people, the place and most of all the words.” —Michael Connelly

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HMH

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0547546203

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The Ticket Out

By: Helen Knode

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The Ticket Out

By: Helen Knode

Ann Whitehead is sick of her job. She's a movie critic for a counterculture rag in Los Angeles and she needs a break. Instead of a break, she gets a murder. A beautiful woman dies in Ann's bathtub and Ann feels compelled to investigate. The victim is a film school grad and Industry hopeful: it's the Hollywood story Ann has always wanted to write. LAPD is also working the murder. Douglas Lockwood is the lead investigator, a talented detective whose career has been derailed by scandal. Ann falls hard for him but won't let herself know it. She's too busy chasing leads, digging at the victim's past, and turning Lockwood into a journalistic challenge: he never talks to the media. On his side, Lockwood wishes Ann would go away. He doesn't need a girl journalist running loose, messing with his crime scene and upsetting the witnesses. Ann's search for the killer becomes a search for the victim's missing script. The lost script tells of another murder, yet another dead woman, in L.A. in 1944. Suddenly there are two killers and a complicated conspiracy spanning decades. As the number of dead and dying women grows, Ann has a revelation: the people she meets want into Hollywood so bad they'll commit any crime to get there.

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Mariner Books

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0156029057

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9780156029056

Wildcat Play

A Mystery

By: Helen Knode

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Wildcat Play

A Mystery

By: Helen Knode

A nomad writer is roughing it on a wildcat drilling operation in a meth-ridden former boom town in California. She suspects foul play after a co-worker is killed, but will she be the next victim?

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0151004293

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9780151004294

Helen Keller

The Story of My Life and Selected Letters

By: Helen Keller

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Helen Keller

The Story of My Life and Selected Letters

By: Helen Keller

Despite being stricken blind and deaf, Hellen Keller would go on to be an excellent writer; this autobiography and selected works will uplift and inspire.

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Chartwell Books

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0785834249

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9780785834243

Helen Keller

By: Helen Keller

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Helen Keller

By: Helen Keller

A different portrayal of Keller, who is usually remembered for her work aiding blind and deaf-blind people. Deaf and blind herself from the age of 19 months, Keller did indeed devote her adult life to helping those similarly afflicted - she was also a crusading Socialist, championing the poor and oppressed from all walks of life and leading a fight against the less obvious evil of social blindness. John Davis has collected her political writing and speeches, including her arguments for women's suffrage, her opposition to the world wars and support for Eugene V. Debs.

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Ocean Press

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1876175605

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9781876175603

The Story of My Life

By: Helen Keller

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The Story of My Life

By: Helen Keller

The Story of My Life (1903) is the autobiography of Helen Keller. Written while she was an undergraduate student at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Story of My Life was a joint effort between Keller, her teacher Anne Sullivan, and Anne's husband John Macy. "Gradually I got used to the silence and darkness that surrounded me and forgot that it had ever been different, until she came--my teacher--who was to set my spirit free. But during the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, 'the day is ours, and what the day has shown.'" After losing her hearing and sight as an infant, Helen Keller received a life-changing education from her dedicated teacher Anne Sullivan, herself vision impaired. As she learned to communicate through signs, she found an innate determination to surpass the expectations of those around her, eventually becoming the first deafblind person to obtain her Bachelor of Arts. Her autobiography is a rich retelling of the first twenty-one years of Keller's life, a period marked by tragedy and miracle alike, shaping her into one of the twentieth century's leading civil rights activists and public speakers. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Helen Keller's The Story of My Life is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

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Mint Editions

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1513291998

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9781513291994

Helen Keller

Selected Writings

By: Helen Keller

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Helen Keller

Selected Writings

By: Helen Keller

Here is Helen Keller's endlessly fascinating life in all its variety: from intimate personal correspondence to radical political essays, from autobiography to speeches advocating the rights of disabled people.

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NYU Press

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0814758290

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9780814758298

To Love this Life

Quotations

By: Helen Keller

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To Love this Life

Quotations

By: Helen Keller

Presents quotations by deaf-blind humanitarian Helen Keller on such topics as faith, happiness, human nature, education, and triumph over adversity. Also includes a chronology, a selected bibliography, and several photographs. To Love This Life is a beautiful and moving souvenir of one of the world's most admired women. This memorable collection of quotations from Helen Keller brings words of wisdom, courage, and inspiration from a remarkable individual who above all wanted to make a difference in the lives of her fellow men and women. They offer profound statements on the meaning of being human and on life in all its complexity, revealing the wit and wisdom of an unforgettable woman.

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American Foundation for the Blind

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0891283471

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9780891283478

The Story of My Life

By: Helen Keller

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The Story of My Life

By: Helen Keller

An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Life is Helen Keller’s account of her triumph over deafness and blindness. Popularized by the stage play and movie The Miracle Worker, Keller’s story has become a symbol of hope for people all over the world. This book–published when Keller was only twenty-two–portrays the wild child who is locked in the dark and silent prison of her own body. With an extraordinary immediacy, Keller reveals her frustrations and rage, and takes the reader on the unforgettable journey of her education and breakthroughs into the world of communication. From the moment Keller recognizes the word “water” when her teacher finger-spells the letters, we share her triumph as “that living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!” An unparalleled chronicle of courage, The Story of My Life remains startlingly fresh and vital more than a century after its first publication, a timeless testament to an indomitable will.

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Bantam Classics

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0553213873

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9780553213874

The Story Of My Life - The Classic Autobiography of Helen Keller

By: Helen Keller

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The Story Of My Life - The Classic Autobiography of Helen Keller

By: Helen Keller

The Story Of My Life - The Autobiography of Helen Keller - First published in 1903 - The book was the basis for the well-known movie "The Miracle Worker" by William Gibson. - It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. I have, as it were, a superstitious hesitation in lifting the veil that clings about my childhood like a golden mist. The task of writing an autobiography is a dicult one. When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. The woman paints the child's experiences in her own fantasy. A few impressions stand out vividly from the first years of my life; but "the shadows of the prison-house are on the rest." Besides, many of the joys and sorrows of childhood have lost their poignancy; and many incidents of vital importance in my early education have been forgotten in the excitement of great discoveries. In order, therefore, not to be tedious I shall try to present in a series of sketches only the episodes that seem to me to be the most interesting and important.

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Independently Published

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1790628245

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9781790628247

Byline of Hope

Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller

By: Helen Keller

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Byline of Hope

Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller

By: Helen Keller

Helen Keller's never-before-collected writings for magazines and newspapers are reproduced in Byline of Hope, with introductions by Towson University journalism professor Beth A. Haller. Keller's articles for Ladies' Home Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times and the 1930s periodical Home show the passion and scope of her thinking on topics like feminism, socialism and eduction. Readers can follow Keller's development from her early work with its Victorian era diction and charm and watch as her thinking evolves on issues of the day. Much of what Keller wrote is still timely in the 21st century. Byline of Hope shows how truly brilliant and far-seeing this woman was.

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Advocado Press

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0962706418

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9780962706417

The Story of My Life

By: Helen Keller

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The Story of My Life

By: Helen Keller

The Story of My Life" is the Autobiography of Helen Keller, a classic American story of overcoming great hardship. Helen Keller, born in 1880, fell ill at age six. While the illness did not last long it left her both deaf and blind. Helen's family soon contacted the "Perkins Institute for the Blind" and the Institute sent Anne Sullivan, who herself was visually impaired, to help educate Helen. "The Story of My Life" is a story of a young woman's struggle to deal with a great physical handicap. Included here in this edition is a selection of Helen's letters and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy.

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Digireads.Com

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1420929550

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9781420929553

Hetty's Strange History

By: Helen Jackson

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Hetty's Strange History

By: Helen Jackson

A classic novel by Helen Hunt Jackson, which was first published anonymously in 1877 in the "No Name Series.

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1483958604

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9781483958606

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