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Author: Bobby Martini
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780982991503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early 1960s, a bloody civil war broke out between the two powerful Irish Mob families in the Somerville Massachusetts neighborhood known as Winter Hill. More than 60 men were murdered. The events offer a true picture of an era in Boston's pre-Whitey Bulger history when the streets were protected by a close-knit group of Irish-Italian "businessmen."
Author: Jay Atkinson
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2006-03-28
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1400050766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor one year, writer Jay Atkinson worked as a private eye for the storied firm McCain Investigations, founded by the late Joe McCain, one of the most decorated police officers in Boston history. In this colorful narrative, Atkinson describes the cases he worked that year, chasing down an assortment of felons, thieves, and con artists, as well as the ghost of a real American hero, legendary cop Joe McCain. Big Joe was the genuine article, a detective so committed to his work that a gunshot wound suffered in the line of duty took thirteen years to kill him. In Legends of Winter Hill Atkinson traces Big Joe’s career from the day he put on his Boston Metropolitan Police uniform in the 1950s through the heyday of his run-ins with mafiosi, bad cops, and ruthless killers, up to his death in 2001. Atkinson also follows the career of Joe McCain’s son, Joe Jr., a tattooed motorcycle fanatic who took up the mantle of his father and became a cop himself. Legends of Winter Hill takes you into an alluring and gritty world where heroes go unsung every day and moral boundaries aren’t always black and white.
Author: William Tauro
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2020-11-09
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1642988499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMayor Joe Curtatone Stealing from Somerville: Death of an Urban City is an expose of abuses, a compilation of articles from Somerville News Weekly, a local newspaper. William Tauro is investigative journalist and publisher of newspaper. Tauro shows pervasive effects of Mayor Joseph Curtatone's six terms in office. Sources claim exit ramps leading to small businesses were closed to drive them out, as well as houses and properties being taken by eminent domain. The mayor and development partners
Author: Lee Somerville
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Published: 2013-11-06
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 0870206583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Wisconsin’s population moved from farmsteads into villages, towns, and cities, the state saw a growing interest in gardening as a leisure activity and source of civic pride. In Vintage Wisconsin Gardens, Lee Somerville introduces readers to the region’s ornamental gardens of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, showcasing the “vernacular” gardens created by landscaping enthusiasts for their own use and pleasure. The Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, established during the mid-nineteenth century, was the primary source of advice for home gardeners. Through carefully selected excerpts from WSHS articles, Somerville shares the excitement of these gardeners as they traded cultivation and design knowledge and explored the possibilities of their avocation. Women were frequent presenters at the WSHS annual meetings, and their voices resonate. Their writings, and those of their male colleagues, are a remarkable legacy we can draw on today—learning how Wisconsinites past created and enjoyed their gardens helps us appreciate our own. Filled with period and contemporary images, recommended plant lists, and garden layouts, Vintage Wisconsin Gardens will interest those curious about the history of the state’s cultural landscape and inspire readers to restore or reconstruct period gardens.
Author: Robert Somerville
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: 2021-03-11
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1603589678
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“In today’s ego-techno-centred world, Robert Somerville’s . . . Barn Club approach is a way forward that utilizes local traditions, local materials, and local hands to create a built environment that is more harmonious with the natural world and of course more beautiful.”—Jack A. Sobon, architect, timber framer, and author of Hand Hewn “Somerville knows more about wooden barn construction than almost anyone alive.”—The Telegraph Natural history meets traditional hand craft in this celebration of the elm tree and community spirit. When renowned craftsman Robert Somerville moved to Hertfordshire in southern England, he discovered an unexpected landscape rich with wildlife and elm trees. Nestled within London’s commuter belt, this wooded farmland inspired Somerville, a lifelong woodworker, to revive the ancient tradition of hand-raising barns. Barn Club follows the building of Carley Barn over the course of one year. Volunteers from all walks of life joined Barn Club, inspired to learn this ancient skill of building elm barns by hand, at its own quiet pace and in the company of others, while using timber from the local woods. The tale of the elm tree in its landscape is central to Barn Club. Its natural history, historic importance, and remarkable survival make for a fascinating story. This is a tale of forgotten trees, a local landscape, and an ancient craft. This book includes sixteen pages of color photographs, and black and white line drawings of techniques and traditional timber frame barns feature throughout. Perfect for fans of Norwegian Wood and The Hidden Life of Trees.
Author: Global Green USA
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2012-06-22
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1597267465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlueprint for Green Affordable Housing is a guide for housing developers, advocates, public agency staff, and the financial community that offers specific guidance on incorporating green building strategies into the design, construction, and operation of affordable housing developments. A completely revised and expanded second edition of the groundbreaking 1999 publication, this new book focuses on topics of specific relevance to affordable housing including: how green building adds value to affordable housing the integrated design process best practices in green design for affordable housing green operations and maintenance innovative funding and finance emerging programs, partnerships, and policies Edited by national green affordable housing expert Walker Wells and featuring a foreword by Matt Petersen, president and chief executive officer of Global Green USA, the book presents 12 case studies of model developments and projects, including rental, home ownership, special needs, senior, self-help, and co-housing from around the United States. Each case study describes the unique green features of the development, discusses how they were successfully incorporated, considers the project's financing and savings associated with the green measures, and outlines lessons learned. Blueprint for Green Affordable Housing is the first book of its kind to present information regarding green building that is specifically tailored to the affordable housing development community.
Author: Mary Somerville
Publisher:
Published: 1831
Total Pages: 710
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Larry Leavitt
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Published: 2019-07-30
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 1950860124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the 1950s and ‘60s, Buddy McLean had the reputation as the toughest man walking the streets of Boston. Hundreds challenged him. No one could take him. In the same time span, the young truck driver/longshoreman from Somerville began building a criminal enterprise. Years later, it became known as the Winter Hill Gang. In 1961, Buddy faced confrontation with the ruthless and violent McLaughlin brothers of nearby Charlestown. When he wouldn’t concede to them, a feud started. More than sixty people died. From those who knew Buddy McLean best, this is his life story.
Author: Jacquie Somerville
Publisher:
Published: 2019-08-30
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781689442374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpending years in passionless partnerships, Jacquie Somerville never completely threw her body, heart and soul over the bar, never entirely losing herself in the bliss and sheer pleasure of unbridled intimacy. That is until at 46, a Beautiful and passionate young American man entered her world and rocked and shocked her carefully curated life. This is the story of how that troubled, loving, sexy, crazy, deep, messed up, passionate, wild young man took her to staggering emotional depths of despair and physical heights of ecstasy few ever experience. It's about how loving him split open her heart and exposed her soul to the true meaning of unconditional love and to the staggering and underestimated power of white-hot passion. She discovered that a human being possessed by love feels capable of doing the impossible; that pushing the envelope, sexual experimentation, and saying YES results in a connection so deep it can never be broken. Not even by murder or betrayal.This sensational story is also told from the stage in Jacquie's live one -woman show, One Woman After Dark. For tickets go to www.onewomanafterdark.comJacquie Somerville is a bestselling author, entertainer and passion coach. She was born and raised in South Africa, is a Canadian citizen and a resident of Los Angeles, California.For more go to www.jacquiesomerville.com
Author: Rowan Somerville
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781843517054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the midst of the Second Intifada, two acts of extreme violence lead to an act of extraordinary humanity. A suicide bomb was detonated outside a nightclub in Tel Aviv, killing twenty-two people, mostly young Israelis. The next day, in an apparently retributive act of violence, an Israeli settler shot Palestinian pharmacist, Mazan Al-Joulani in the neck, rendering him brain-dead. From the ashes of these deadly events rose an incredible act of generosity when the family of Al-Joulani agreed to donate his heart to a dying Israeli. The son of pioneering cardiologists, Rowan Somerville travelled to the Levant to speak with survivors and their families, interviewing the surgeon who performed the transplant, and meeting the family of the suicide bomber Saeed Hotari. In this close look at humanity at work, Somerville's writing is at once personal and objective, an outsider's unbiased view of events steeped in, but overcoming, prejudice. The close observations and fastpaced narrative style have the immediacy of a contemporary thriller.
