A slow-boil, modern noir, Of Sound Mind finds audiometry technician Richard Keene settling into his new, center-city apartment just as he reaches his thirtieth birthday. Formerly confined to a mental institution, Richard struggles to adapt to a world of adult freedom. He possesses abnormally acute powers of hearing and suffers from claustrophobia, yet he feels unleashed to dare fate in high places — in short, he is a bundle of neuroses. When he believes he hears a strangulation murder committed behind the closed door of a neighboring apartment in his high-rise, Richard confronts a chance for redemption that he knew would come someday. For the incident eerily parallels the defining experience of his childhood, the night he heard — through the walls of his row house — the death struggle of the little girl next door. But just how reliable are Richard’s perceptions?
There's much more to southern New Jersey than the Pine Barrens and the Jersey Devil, and this collection by journalists Jim Waltzer and Tom Wilk tells readers all about it. Oceanside and bayside towns offer a box seat from which to observe the region's rich history and the summery lore of the wonders of nature. And the land-locked towns boast their own homespun and hellraising traditions and idiosyncrasies. Waltzer and Wilk have compiled almost fifty stories about the state's southernmost counties. While the focus is on Atlantic City and its remarkable people, outsize structures, and quirky events, the storytelling ranges across the wider region to provide an insider's look at history as it was being made. You'll encounter gangsters and gamblers, baseball hitters and hurricanes, famous piers and hotels, landmark theaters and eateries, splashy events and unheralded oddities - in sum, a cross-section of the region's character and characters. The authors divide their book into six sections - entertainment (recalling the 1969 Atlantic City Pop Festival); famous and infamous events (describing the 1944 hurricane that nearly destroyed Atlantic City); innovations and innovators (introducing readers to Sara Spencer Washington, an African American entrepreneur who founded a million-dollar business in the 1940s); leisure and recreation (taking us to the weekly Cowtown Rodeo in Pilesgrove Township); room and board (recounting the fascinating history the Seaview Country Club, now the Seaview Marriott Resort, home to a worldclass golf course since 1912); and sports legends, like baseball player John Henry Lloyd, known as the black Honus Wagner. This is just a sampling of the rich and varied stories Waltzer and Wilk have collected for New Jerseyans' reading pleasure.
This exciting account of the 1921 heavyweight boxing title fight between champion Jack Dempsey and Frenchman Georges Carpentier relates how it originated and how it became a template for modern sports promotion. Immortalized as the battle of the century by Ring Lardner, the Dempsey-Carpentier heavyweight title bout marked America's first experience with the intersection of show business, high society, politics, and the underworld at a single sporting event. The Battle of the Century: Dempsey, Carpentier, and the Birth of Modern Promotion offers the definitive history of this landmark event's genesis and impact. To explain why the fight had such a far-reaching influence on mass entertainment and modern culture, newspaperman Jim Waltzer invites readers to travel the path to the 1921 heavyweight championship. Along the way, they will meet a cast of outsize characters, including the savage defending champion (and alleged World War I slacker) Jack Dempsey, French pretty-boy war hero Georges Carpentier, promoter Tex Rickard, Dempsey's slippery manager Doc Kearns, and Jersey City boss Frank Hague. As the tale unfolds, so does an understanding of the forces that shaped the Roaring Twenties and established promotional hype as the MO of business.
The author chronicles the history of the world's most popular board game,racing the origins of each "property" within Atlantic City, New Jersey,hile recalling the evolution of the game. Original.
As crime lords from across the country gather in Atlantic City for a sit-down in 1929, a fisherman hooks a severed human arm in the ocean and police discover that it belongs to the missing local rackets boss, ACE CHAMBERS. The apparent gangland murder, however, soon becomes a personal morality tale of race and revenge. Among the suspects fingered by the police is WILSON SHAY, a land developer and man-about-town transplanted from South Carolina. Young Negro RUBEN PIERCE, who works as a dishwasher and moonlights pushing rolling-chairs on the Boardwalk, seems to know something that the police don't. He has the courage to act on his knowledge, but his pregnant wife MARIAN is fearful of the outcome. Chanteuse ABIGAIL MOSS, who divides her affections between Shay and Chambers, also may be hiding something.Haunted by his family heritage and the horrors of the World War, Shay stays a step ahead of the police until he must come clean with the tenacious Ruben, as their drama plays out at the vintage seashore by turns threatening and beautiful.
Richard Keene is a former mental patient who thinks he's overheard a murder in his high-rise apartment house, but who's going to believe him? Richard has an obsession to prove himself and not only solve the case, but chase a ghost from his past.
The author chronicles the history of the world's most popular board game,racing the origins of each "property" within Atlantic City, New Jersey,hile recalling the evolution of the game. Original.
This exciting account of the 1921 heavyweight boxing title fight between champion Jack Dempsey and Frenchman Georges Carpentier relates how it originated and how it became a template for modern sports promotion. Immortalized as the battle of the century by Ring Lardner, the Dempsey-Carpentier heavyweight title bout marked America's first experience with the intersection of show business, high society, politics, and the underworld at a single sporting event. The Battle of the Century: Dempsey, Carpentier, and the Birth of Modern Promotion offers the definitive history of this landmark event's genesis and impact. To explain why the fight had such a far-reaching influence on mass entertainment and modern culture, newspaperman Jim Waltzer invites readers to travel the path to the 1921 heavyweight championship. Along the way, they will meet a cast of outsize characters, including the savage defending champion (and alleged World War I slacker) Jack Dempsey, French pretty-boy war hero Georges Carpentier, promoter Tex Rickard, Dempsey's slippery manager Doc Kearns, and Jersey City boss Frank Hague. As the tale unfolds, so does an understanding of the forces that shaped the Roaring Twenties and established promotional hype as the MO of business.
Waltzer and Wilk have compiled almost fifty stories about the state's southernmost counties. Although the focus is on Atlantic City and its remarkable people, outsize structures, and quirky events, the storytelling ranges across the wider region to provide an insiders look at history as it was being made. You'll encounter gangsters and gamblers, baseball hitters and hurricanes, famous piers and hotels, landmark theaters and eateries, splashy events and unheralded oddities 3/4 in sum, a cross-section of the regions character and characters.
Richard Keene is a former mental patient who thinks he's overheard a murder in his high-rise apartment house, but who's going to believe him? Richard has an obsession to prove himself and not only solve the case, but chase a ghost from his past.
“If you have been still enough for long enough, your eyes will have attuned and begun to read the seasurge fluently, so you recognize the blunt curve and flourished tail of a diving otter. Home your eyes in on that portion of the sea, permit nothing else to move, and you will see the otter eel-catching, resurfacing.” It is a special privilege and a richly rewarding experience to observe a wild animal hunting, interacting with its young or its mate, exploring its habitat, or escaping a predator. To watch wildlife, it’s essential not only to learn an animal’s ways, the times and places you may find it, but also to station yourself, focus, and wait. The experience depends on your stillness, silence, and full attention, watching and listening with minimal movement so that your presence is not sensed. With decades of close observation of wild animals and birds, Jim Crumley has found himself up close and personal with many of our most elusive creatures, studying their movements, noting details, and offering intimate insights into their extraordinary lives. Here, he draws us into his magical world, showing how we can learn to watch wildlife well.
Make the most of your assets, financial and otherwise: “Brings to investment what the periodic table brought to chemistry—clarity, order, and understanding.” —Michael H. Shuman, author of Put Your Money Where Your Life Is If you want to build a better life and a better world—and really be prepared for any possible future in these turbulent times—you need to become a resilient investor. This trailblazing guide will expand your ideas of investing way beyond Wall Street. Your time, your energy, and the things you own are investments too, and you’ll learn to diversify them in ways that move you toward your life goals. The Resilient Investment Map lays out all your assets—personal and physical as well as financial—and then provides three essential, timely strategies (Close to Home, Sustainable Global Economy, and Evolutionary Investing) that will help you grow each of them. The goal is to become more resilient: able to anticipate disturbance, rebuild as necessary, and improve when possible. You’ll discover that the choices making you more resilient also enhance our communities, our economy, and the planet—building real wealth for all.
Sublime writing... a genuinely important book” --Ken Lussey. Hundreds of years after their extinction in these isles, beavers are back in Britain. These highly skilled engineers of the natural world have been reintroduced at several sites across the UK and, even as they become established, are already having a dramatic effect on our wild landscapes. Here, leading nature writer Jim Crumley reveals the pioneering lifestyle of these intriguing and secretive creatures and considers the ecological and economic impact of the beaver reintroductions. Employing his trademark beautiful prose and empathy for life in the wild, Crumley considers the future for Britain’s beavers and makes the case for giving them their freedom.
The SHAKING trilogy: part one SHAKING. The younger members of the family were being re-housed in the peripheral housing scheme and life including Jim‘s with cerebral palsy. Annie and Johnnie get re-housed in a five-apartment flat. They live through the Blitz. Cathie meets Jimmy and have a troubled sectarian marriage, experiences a difficult birth with Jim. Jimmy is demobed after serving in the War. He gets a job as a slater and plasterer and gets "plastered" (drunk) quite often! He falls from roofs. Separations and reunions. They move to different homes in the city. They discover that Jim; their first child has cerebral palsy, because of the accident with the forceps at birth. There are changes in the lives of the other members of Annie and Johnnie's family. Jim's school days cause trouble at home and school. He attends a school for handicapped. He then attends a school for "able-bodied" children. Life's difficulties increase with ridiculed and bullying He learns about sex He questions his faith.This affects his health and schooling -when he is there and not away receiving speech and physiotherapy Jimmy goes out to the library goes missing. Eventually arriving in Hong Kong, Months later, he arrives home with serious problems. Trilogy 2 "HEAD-BOY" and 3 "STILL SHAKING
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