L.A. Outlaws
Title | L.A. Outlaws PDF eBook |
Author | T. Jefferson Parker |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 454 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780451226112 |
Investigating the latest crime scene of a celebrity thief who has been staging lucrative heists and donating the spoils to charity, rookie deputy Charlie Hood is forced to make an ethics-testing decision when the thief is targeted by a professional killer. Reprint.
L.A. Outlaws
Title | L.A. Outlaws PDF eBook |
Author | T. Jefferson Parker |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 454 |
Release | 2009-02-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 110105249X |
For fans of Michael Connelly and CJ Box, here is the first thrilling adventure in the Charlie Hood series from New York Times bestseller and Edgar-award winner T. Jefferson Parker, now featuring an excerpt from his upcoming novel The Room of White Fire. In this town, it pays to be bad . . . Allison is an L.A. celebrity, a folk hero, and a modern-day Jesse James who loves a good armed robbery. She has a compulsion to steal, a knack for publicity, and the conscience to give it all to charity. In fact, one of her biggest fans is a cop. And no one’s ever been hurt—until last night. Now she and the rookie deputy are on the run for their lives.
Legendary Louisiana Outlaws
Title | Legendary Louisiana Outlaws PDF eBook |
Author | Keagan LeJeune |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 2016-03-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807162582 |
From the infamous pirate Jean Laffite and the storied couple Bonnie and Clyde, to less familiar bandits like train-robber Eugene Bunch and suspected murderer Leather Britches Smith, Legendary Louisiana Outlaws explores Louisiana's most fascinating fugitives. In this entertaining volume, Keagan LeJeune draws from historical accounts and current folklore to examine the specific moments and legal climate that spawned these memorable characters. He shows how Laffite embodied Louisiana's shift from an entrenched French and Spanish legal system to an American one, and relates how the notorious groups like the West and Kimbrell Clan served as community leaders and law officers but covertly preyed on Louisiana's Neutral Strip residents until citizens took the law into their own hands. Likewise, the bootlegging Dunn brothers in Vinton, he explains, demonstrate folk justice's distinction between an acceptable criminal act (operating an illegal moonshine still) and an unacceptable one (cold-blooded murder). Recounting each outlaw's life, LeJeune also considers their motives for breaking the law as well as their attempts at evading capture. Running from authorities and trying to escape imprisonment or even death, these men and women often relied on the support of ordinary citizens, sympathetic in the face of oppressive and unfair laws. Through the lens of folk life, LeJeune's engaging narrative demonstrates how a justice system functions and changes and highlights Louisiana's particular challenges in adapting a system of law and order to work for everyone.
Hood
Title | Hood PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Donoghue |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 350 |
Release | 2013-08-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062316818 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of Room, Hood is a tale of grief and lust, frustration and hilarity, death and family. “Hood is thoroughly contemporary in how richly it depicts a beloved's death to review a couple's bumpy love history...This book's real pleasures lie in its intimate insights, its accurate characters and its sharp, rich observations... the greatest achievement of Hood is how it captures the domesticity of erotic passion” – Boston Globe Penelope O’Grady and Cara Wall are risking disaster when, like teenagers in any intolerant time and place—here, a Dublin convent school in the late 1970s—they fall in love. Yet Cara, the free spirit, and Pen, the stoic, craft a bond so strong it seems as though nothing could sever it: not the bickering, not the secrets, not even Cara’s infidelities. But thirteen years on, a car crash kills Cara and rips the lid off Pen’s world. Pen is still in the closet, teaching at her old school, living under the roof of Cara’s gentle father, who thinks of her as his daughter’s friend. How can she survive widowhood without even daring to claim the word? Over the course of one surreal week of bereavement, she is battered by memories that range from the humiliating, to the exalted, to the erotic, to the funny. It will take Pen all her intelligence and wit to sort through her tumultuous past with Cara, and all the nerve she can muster to start remaking her life. Donoghue’s Hood is a masterfully crafted narrative of relationships and a daring, deft exploration of the love’s imperfection—and how it can nonetheless dominate our lives as we grow and change.
L.A. Outlaws LP
Title | L.A. Outlaws LP PDF eBook |
Author | T. Jefferson Parker |
Publisher | HarperLuxe |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1975-12-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780061470400 |
Gay L.A.
Title | Gay L.A. PDF eBook |
Author | Lillian Faderman |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 458 |
Release | 2009-08-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520260619 |
Charts LA's gay history, from the first missionary encounters with Native American cross-gendered 'two spirits' to cross-dressing frontier women in search of their fortunes, and from the 1960s gay liberation movement to the creation of gay marketing in the 1990s.
L.A. Outlaws
Title | L.A. Outlaws PDF eBook |
Author | T. Jefferson Parker |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 562 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Large type books |
ISBN | 9780739492239 |
Los Angeles is gripped by the exploding celebrity of Allison Murietta, her real identity unknown, a modern-day Jesse James. After one job ends up with ten gangsters lying dead, Rookie Deputy Charlie Hood, who discovers the bodies and starts an affair with the eyewitness, must choose between a deeply held sense of honor and a passion that threatens to consume him completely.