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Kill and Tell

The Father Koesler Mysteries: Book 6

By: William Kienzle

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Kill and Tell

The Father Koesler Mysteries: Book 6

By: William Kienzle

This is the good old Dorothy Sayers/John Dickson Carr school of homicide with civilized people doing what civilized people do best: dispatching each other." —Los Angeles Times "Bill Kienzle does have a way with a tale. And a nifty way of mixing Church dogma and gossip into the plot." —New York Daily News "Each Kienzle novel seems to top the last. As we have said before, give us this day our daily Kienzle." —West Coast Review of Books From William X. Kienzle, author of the classic mystery, The Rosary Murders. Auto executive Frank Hoffman is on his way up at The Company. Someone would like him out of the way—permanently. Father Robert Koesler discovers at least four people who would benefit personally and professionally from Hoffman's death, but can he pinpoint the villain before it's too late? Mystery writer William X. Kienzle take his Father Koesler beyond the church walls into the boardrooms and back rooms of big business. There Koesler finds out more than he cares to know of the machinations of ambitious executives striving to reach the top at The Company. But is ambition the motive for attempted murder? In Kill and Tell, Kienzle's sixth book featuring Father Koesler, the two have become as inseparable as Agatha Christie and Miss Marple. Here we meet once again our old friend Walter Koznicki and are introduced to a new cast of characters, drawn no less finely, and revolving around auto executive Frank Hoffman. It's up to Father Koesler to discover the "who" and "why," which he does with a startling understanding of the personalities involved.

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401

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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1449423639

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9781449423636

The Tithe-Proctor

By: William Carleton

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The Tithe-Proctor

By: William Carleton

Reproduction of the original: The Tithe-Proctor by William Carleton

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286

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3734023386

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9783734023385

The Male Element

By: William F. Keefe

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The Male Element

By: William F. Keefe

Modern society, and in particular modern American society, survives, grows, and prospers on the mantra of progress. "Find a better way and don't look back"-that's the rubric that provides the driving power behind America's passion for advancement, invention, novelty. Well and good, say the thoughtfully inclined. But what of ethics, the branch of philosophy that asks us to judge whether human actions are right or wrong? Is anyone on the right side if ethics is not considered-in, say, performing an abortion? In the cloning of humans? In male "motherhood?" Such issues, plus others like artificial insemination and the embryonation of women, come to the point of open, violent conflict in William F. Keefe's novel The Male Element. Ethicist James Vandorn takes it upon himself to rid his peaceful community of what he considers crimes against nature. Those so-called crimes center on embryologist, Dr. Emlyn Brand's experiments with simians and then with volunteer human subjects. Brand's target: a "pregnant man." Can the outcome be settled peaceably once each man decides that his cause is the valid one? Blood flows. A fetus is aborted by the violence that also leads to a protagonist's death.

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334

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Trafford Publishing

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1426924739

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9781426924736

Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry

By: William Carleton

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Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry

By: William Carleton

Describes the Ireland of the 19th-century tenant farmer.

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476

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0389209090

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9780389209096

Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals

By: William Ratigan

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Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals

By: William Ratigan

In this breathtaking chronicle of the most spectacular shipwrecks and survivals on the Great Lakes, William Ratigan re-creates vivid scenes of high courage and screaming panic from which no reader can turn away. Included in this striking catalog of catastrophes and Flying Dutchmen are the magnificent excursion liner Eastland, which capsized at her pier in the Chicago River, drowning 835 people within clutching distance of busy downtown streets; the shipwrecked steel freighter Mataafa, which dumped its crew into freezing waters while the snowbound town of Duluth looked on; the dark Sunday in November 1913 when Lake Huron swallowed eight long ships without a man surviving to tell the tale; and the bitter November of 1958 when the Bradley went down in Lake Michigan during one of the greatest killer storms on the freshwater seas. An entire section is dedicated to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald -- the most famous maritime loss in modern times -- in Lake Superior in 1975. Chilling watercolor illustrations, photographs, maps, and news clippings accentuate Ratigan's compelling and dramatic storytelling. Sailors, historians, and general readers alike will be swept away by these unforgettable tales of tragedy and heroism.

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402

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467435155

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9781467435154

Teach the Best and Stomp the Rest

The American Schools... Guilty As Charged?

By: William C. Knaak,Jean T. Knaak

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Teach the Best and Stomp the Rest

The American Schools... Guilty As Charged?

By: William C. Knaak,Jean T. Knaak

This book is an experienced analysis of the failures of American schools to provide learning for a majority of its students including those known as the forgotten half-and the reasons for those failures. It explores who is being educated, and what is known about learning in terms of prerequisites, brain differences and cultures. The book describes the failed initiatives of more money, class size reduction, school choice, magnet schools, vouchers, and merit pay for teachers. Charter schools don't cut it for a majority of our children. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race To the Top (RTT) are expensive, unmitigated disasters. The American schools have mostly missed the promise of change and technology and are now engaged in massive fallacious testing, resulting in little benefit to the nation and significant harm to the children. Outrageously priced Higher Education has little to offer to improve the national education malaise, and lumbers on in its dismal, disorderly state. However, American schools in their INNOCENCE are a product of and restricted by their governmental, economic, civic, and ecologic environment. As described in the closure of the book, The Future, the major structural changes needed to re-create our national learning system have overrun national planning and thinking capacity. Fortunately, there are promising patterns of change in progress.

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1466988630

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9781466988637

Book's by William Ratigan

Kill and Tell

Kill and Tell

The Tithe-Proctor

The Tithe-Proctor

The Male Element

The Male Element

Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry

Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry

Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals

Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals

Teach the Best and Stomp the Rest

Teach the Best and Stomp the Rest

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