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Midwestern Strange chronicles B.J. Hollars’s exploration of the mythic, lesser-known oddities of flyover country. The mysteries, ranging from bipedal wolf sightings to run-ins with pancake-flipping space aliens to a lumberjack-inspired “hodag hoax,” make this book a little bit X-Files, a little bit Ghostbusters, and a whole lot of Sherlock Holmes. Hollars’s quest is not to confirm or debunk these mysteries but rather to seek out these unexplained phenomena to understand how they complicate our worldview and to discover what truths might be gleaned by reexamining the facts in our “post-truth” era. Part memoir and part journalism, Midwestern Strange offers a fascinating, funny, and quirky account of flyover folklore that also contends with the ways such oddities retain cultural footholds. Hollars shows how grappling with such subjects might fortify us against the glut of misinformation now inundating our lives. By confronting monsters, Martians, and a cabinet of curiosities, we challenge ourselves to look beyond our presumptions and acknowledge that just because something is weird, doesn’t mean it is wrong.
English professor Gavin Dozier hasn't had much luck when it comes to love. When his last boyfriend cheated on him, he was driven to experiment with women. Sex with Marian, though, had its own dangers, and before he knew it, he was a father. Now estranged, the only thing Gavin and Marian have in common is their daughter Evie, a precocious seven-year-old who stays with Gavin every other weekend. While out with her daddy, Evie meets the heavily-tattooed Brody Phelps, a sketch artist with serious talent who still dresses like a brooding punk rocker, even though he's in his thirties. Brody is instantly attracted to the sexy college professor, but knows Gavin is out of his league -- the man has a kid, which probably means he isn't gay, and besides, Brody never even graduated from high school. Guys like Gavin don't go for guys like him. But when Evie leaves Gavin's cell phone behind, Brody has the perfect excuse to meet up with them again. To his surprise they hit it off, and when he asks Gavin out, the professor accepts. Even though Evie brought them together, will her demanding personality pull them apart? Is Gavin ready to trust his heart to someone else again? Can Brody overcome his own fears of inadequacy and let Gavin in? And what will Marian have to say when the father of her child starts dating again?
The Strange Case Of Donald Mallory
Adam J. Kugler
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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A Stranger In My Own Hometown: A Brendan O'Brian Legal Thriller
J. W. Kerwin
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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A fun read with a serious message.The Council for Islamic Religious Respect (CIRR) has filed suit against a crusading newspaper reporter for defaming Islam and linking the group to terrorists.CIRR has seemingly unlimited funds and a wily attorney who thinks nothing of lying to the judge. But the reporter has Brendan O'Brian, America's most politically incorrect defense attorney. .What unfolds is a tense, and often amusing, duel of wits both in and out of the courtroom. And when a seemingly unrelated personal injury case O'Brian is handling for a long-time client turns out to be anything but ordinary, events take a surprising turn. .Though set in the winter of 1992-93, this sequel to Slow Death in the Fast Lane explores issues making headlines today, including: Muslim immigration to the West, the true nature of Islam, and the role culture plays in maintaining a cohesive society.
Literary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. "In this fine catalog, bibliphilia and the history of print culture intersect finally and productively with Italian American studies. Historians, artists, poets, and radical activists will certainly find here what they seek. But Periconi is also initiating a much bigger discussion about collectors, archives, and their silences. Let the questions fly, whether in Italian or English." Donna R. Gabaccia, Professor of History, University of Minnesota"This unique and remarkable catalogue raisonnee may well represent the cornerstone of a long needed Italian American Archive, the entry-point to the social, political and literary micro-history of one of the largest migrations in modern times. Witnesses and protagonists of the struggle of living and negotiating two or three languages and cultures constitute the warp and woof of our layered identities, microcosms of the past that will shape our future. Bravo and grazie to Periconi " Peter Carravetta, Alfonse M. D'Amato Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies, SUNY at Stony Brook"
A groundbreaking examination of the legacy of Italian-language publishing in pre-war America. Strangers in a Strange Land showcases the wide range of literary works that entertained, educated, and inflamed an Italian-language audience during a period of critical historical development. This illustrated record of the exhibition on 2012 show at the Grolier contains essays by Martino Marazzi, Francesco Durante, and Robert Viscusi, as well as a bibliography of over 800 primary and secondary Italian-language works printed in America.
The woman who would be known as Mother Shipton was born Ursula Southeil towards the end of the fifteenth century. Popular legend recounts how she was born in a cave near the town of Knaresborough in North Yorkshire, northern England. Following the death of her husband, young Ursula returned to the cave where she lived the rest of her days. She gained fame in her own lifetime as a prophetess and seer, as well as a witch by some. In a 1537 letter, King Henry viii referred to the "witch of York" and this is generally thought a contemporary reference to Shipton. Her fame lived on after her death in 1561 and grew as time transformed story to legend. Her Knaresborough cave near the River Nidd remains a popular tourist attraction to this day.This 1686 edition, presented here in facsimile form, is one of the earliest collections of Mother Shipton's prophecies.
Partisans on both the left and right wings of America’s theory class and political spectrum believe we’re in trouble, big trouble. The economy is limping along. Inequality has reached unprecedented levels. And we seem to be on the verge of being overwhelmed by immigrants who don’t look and act anything like our grandparents did much less the men and women who founded our country. Angry, scared, disengaged and distrustful when we aren’t openly antagonistic toward each other, Americans can’t figure out who we are as a people and openly fret about our best days being behind us. To make matters worse, our political system, the one place we’re supposed to be able to work on behalf of a broader public good with people who aren’t like us, appears even more broken than these other parts of our culture. There’s some unexpected good news, however, and it’s coming from one of the last places in America you’d expect different people to be getting along: Boston. Bostonians — well known for their unwelcoming and sometimes violent treatment of newcomers and unwillingness to find common ground with people deemed outsiders — aren’t acting broken or taking their resentments out on each other these days. They’ve turned instead to calmer ways of talking about each other and treating each other in public. Far from being disconnected and afraid, people in Boston are better connected and more respectful of each other, and their city is better organized and more orderly than at any time in its long and storied history. Bostonians have learned to get along with the strangers among them in ways their ancestors never knew or expected the rest of us would be willing to entertain much less master. They have their civic act together. Engaging Strangers explores how the people of Boston have learned to practice a more congenial and respectful set of civic virtues. In this book, the author provides a model for civic conduct for the rest of America to study and follow.
New England. 1648. The Piscataqua Settlement. A young woman has been found dead, her violated body stripped naked and thrown in a river. Her husband, a reclusive and learned man, has mysteriously halted his legal proceedings against the most likely suspect, who has disappeared into the wilderness. The settlement's elders call on a young Englishman, Richard Browne, to discover the truth about what happened. But the more he learns, the more puzzling the crime becomes, and the more he finds himself drawn to the wife of the missing suspect. Based on an actual unsolved murder from the records of colonial America, Robert J. Begiebing's The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin is at once a spellbinding mystery and a fascinating evocation of life in early America.
The decision to not deploy reoriented, trained Iraqi divisions and other allied forces in numbers significant enough to adequately stabilize the situation in Iraq in 2003–04 resulted in significant shortages of manpower and equipment that eventually led to a less-than-satisfactory ending to the campaign, and significantly challenged the entire Coalition effort in the first year of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The roles and missions assumed by allies were vitally important in the under-resourced effort to bring order to the chaos of Iraq but would remain relatively unheralded throughout most of the campaign.Colonel Tiso’s account of this time offers unique insights into the challenges of planning the Iraqi campaign and the intricacies and challenges of multinational service through the lens of his assignments as a war planner at U.S. Central Command, Senior Military Adviser of the Arab Peninsula Shield Force and the Polish-led Multinational Division (Central-South), and Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (C-3) of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team tasked to develop the New Iraqi Army. His observations cast significant light on the missions these units undertook and the challenges they confronted.His firsthand account of operational planning for war in Iraq captures the concerns of the military planners and senior commanders to liberate and stabilize the country, enabling the reader to better understand the challenges of operational war planning, coalition warfare, the difficulty of stabilizing Iraq after the fall of Baghdad, the development of the New Iraqi Army, and ultimately a deeper understanding of America’s “long war” in Iraq.
Conversations with a Stranger: 2nd Edition: A Search for God
Larry J. Tate
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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Is there a God? And if so, what's that got to do with me in this ho hum of everyday life? Larry Tate probes these age-old questions in Over a Cup of Coffee, a quest to find proof that God exists. Through a coincidental encounter with a stranger in a coffee shop, one man has the courage to ask daunting life questions that would shape the course of his future. Finding their first meeting so compelling, the two now-friends continued their dialogue with discussions to follow, slowly unearthing proofs implying God's existence. However, what they ultimately stumbled upon was far beyond anything they could have ever imagined. Eavesdrop on these choice encounters and find out for yourself what was birthed from the conversations between these two strangers.
"These kisses of his...they're demanding and possessive. They're hungry and deep. They're the kisses of a man who wants more of a woman-who wants everything-and isn't going to stop until he gets it." Author Olivia Rossi hasn't been able to write a word since tragedy struck two years ago and ripped her world apart. Heartbroken and still haunted by the past, she accepts an offer to spend the summer at a friend's apartment in Paris in search of healing and her lost muse. What she finds instead is James, an enigmatic stranger who ignites in her an unexpected and all-consuming passion. Agreeing to tell each other nothing more than their first names, Olivia and James embark on a torrid affair. But the more time they spend together, the more Olivia begins to realize her summer fling is turning into a powerful connection...and that the magnetic man she's falling in love with might not be what he seems at all.
Phoenix newspaper columnist Alexander Strange loves his job writing about news of the weird, but his own life turns bizarre when shots riddle his uncle's Scottsdale, Arizona home.Who would want Superior Court Judge Leonard D. Strano dead? And why?Alexander has twenty-four hours to find out or he'll have a death on his hands. Maybe his own.To solve the mystery he must cobble togetheir an unlikely alliance of newspaper and television reporters, a sketchy bailiff, and a retired madam, all the while dodging a pair of dubious FBI agents, wild dogs, a freeway sniper, and raging forest fires.And how in the world did he end up in those high heels?
Weird news reporter Alexander Strange is munching grouper balls and sipping a Cuba Libre when a naked body floats up near his fishing trawler in Goodland, Florida. The face of the corpse has been devoured by sea creatures, but Alexander knows who she is, and from the ligature marks on her neck, it appears she's been strangled. Or hanged. And now the cops think Alexander may be responsible. He needs help, and it arrives in the form of a retired urinal-mat-salesman-turned detective who swears he owes his life to a mysterious guardian angel. Then Alexander meets a public defender whose client has just been found hanged in the county jail. Two hangings? Days apart? This is too weird. They team up to discover who is behind this mayhem. And the clock is ticking. They better get to the bottom of this soon or they may find themselves at the end of a rope.
Phoenix newspaper columnist Alexander Strange enjoys his job writing about news of the weird, but his own life becomes bizarre when shots riddle his uncle's Scottsdale, Arizona home.Who would want Superior Court Judge Leonard D. Strano dead? And why? Strange has twenty-four hours to find the answers or he'll have a death on his hands. Maybe his own.To solve the mystery, he must cobble together an unlikely alliance of newspaper and television reporters, a sketchy bailiff, and a retired madam--all the while dodging the intrusive eyes of a pair of dubious FBI agents, packs of wild dogs, a freeway shooter, and an uncontrolled forest fie.And how in the world did he end up in those high heels?