The Salem Witch Trials Legend
The Salem Witch Trials Legend

Author: Drac Von Stoller

Publisher: Drac Von Stoller

Published:

Total Pages: 3

ISBN-13:

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It’s October, and Halloween was just around the corner. A young girl was named Sarah after one of her descendants Sarah Good who was accused of witchcraft and was hanged after the Salem Witch trials in 1692 decided to visit the Salem Witch trial site on Halloween night. Sarah only lived about a mile away from the famous Salem Witch trial site and was a dream she was ready to make come true. As darkness set in Sarah told her parents she would be visiting a friend and would be back after midnight but that was a lie because she was going to visit the Salem Witch trial site and conjure up a dead witch named Sarah Good. Sarah gathered her things and drove off into the night to her destination. Sarah had visited the place the day before during the daylight hours to see where the best place to enter was without being noticed by law enforcement officers who may be patrolling the area. Sarah was so excited to be a direct descendant of a famous witch and thought that if she did conjure Sarah Good up from the dead it would be an unforgettable moment. It’s going to be one she wished she never conjured up. Sarah parked her car off the side of the road just about a block away from her destination. She gathered her things from her car and set off into the foggy night as her heart was pounding with excitement. Then as she was nearing her destination a police car was headed in her direction with lights flashing and siren blaring and she thought he was going to slowly drive up beside her to see what she was doing on this dark foggy road but the police car was in hot pursuit of an escaped inmate who just killed a guard at the prison in a stolen car. Sarah knew the officer would question her and tell her parents to come to pick her up but his car just kept speeding down the foggy dark road past her and she felt a sigh of relief and just kept walking until she finally entered the Salem Witch trial site in Danvers, MA. As she entered the site, she paused for a moment to catch her breath and pressed onward through the dense fog.

Trials of the Century [2 volumes]
Trials of the Century [2 volumes]

Author: Scott P. Johnson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2010-10-06

Total Pages: 858

ISBN-13: 1598842625

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This comprehensive set of essays documents the most important criminal, civil, and political trials in the United States from colonial times to the present, examining their impact on both legal history and popular culture. Crime and punishment are of perennial interest across the human species. Trials of the Century: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture and the Law examines some of the most important (and infamous) cases in American history, placing them in both historical and legal context. Among the landmark cases considered in these two volumes are the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, the Scopes "Monkey" Trial, and the O.J. Simpson murder trial. A number of civil lawsuits and political trials are also included, such as the impeachment trials of Presidents Andrew Johnson and William Jefferson Clinton. Entries in the encyclopedia detail the events leading to each trial and introduce the key players, with a focus on judges, lawyers, witnesses, defendants, victims, media, and the public. In addition, the aftermath of the trial and its impact are analyzed from a scholarly, yet straightforward, perspective, emphasizing how the trial affected the law and society at large.

The Miler
The Miler

Author: Steve Scott

Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13:

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Meet Steve Scott, outstanding world-class athlete with an indefatigable zest for life and will to win. Here is the story of the track star and the man, whose talent and determination have taken him to the pinnacle of worldwide track and field for the better part of his twenty-seven-year career. A three-time Olympian blessed with the miler's prized combination of strength and speed, he earned a top-ten track and field world ranking eleven times and distinction as America's number-one miler from 1977 to 1986. The Miler takes us inside Scott's training regimen and mental preparation techniques, then invites us behind the scenes into the controversial topics of drug abuse, track-and-field politics, and under-the-table payoffs that transformed mile racing in the United States and abroad. Scott recounts his evolution from promising high school runner to disciplined international elite athlete. He also covers the modern history of the sport, from the days when athletes had to wait hours after meets to pick up their meager appearance fees to the current era of powerful sports agents, lucrative sponsorships, and bigmoney prizes.

The Linda Wolfe Collection
The Linda Wolfe Collection

Author: Linda Wolfe

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 1014

ISBN-13: 1504049039

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Five torn-from-the-headlines true crime books from an Edgar Award–nominated author and “one of our best reporters” (John Leonard). Linda Wolfe delves deep into the crimes that defy explanation—and the twisted minds of those who commit them. In these five books, she combines masterful storytelling with brilliant psychological insight. Wasted: On an August night in 1986, Jennifer Levin left a Manhattan bar with Robert Chambers. The next morning, her strangled, battered body was found in Central Park. This New York Times Notable Book provides a “fascinating, horrifying, and heart-breaking” account of the so-called Preppie Murder, the crime that shocked a city and a nation (Ann Rule). The Professor and the Prostitute: The chilling case of a college professor who bludgeoned to death the prostitute he loved—plus eight other true crimes, including the bizarre story of the Marcus brothers, twin gynecologists, that inspired the David Cronenberg film Dead Ringers. Double Life: The riveting story of how the chief judge of the New York State Court of Appeals was brought down by his sexual obsession with a stunning socialite. The Murder of Dr. Chapman: Wolfe skillfully weaves court transcripts, love letters, and period recollections into an edge-of-your-seat historical thriller about a notorious crime of passion that rocked pre–Civil War America. Love Me to Death: Wolfe embarks on a search for the serial killer who murdered her friend in this “intriguing insider’s look into the convoluted mind of a killer” (The Plain Dealer).

The Trials of a Scold
The Trials of a Scold

Author: Jeff Biggers

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1250065127

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A portrait of one of America's first female muckrakers, who was convicted in a bizarre 1829 trial as a "common scold," describes the tenacity that earned her the first presidential interview ever granted to a woman.

Circle Back
Circle Back

Author: David Lafaille

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2021-12-05

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1669800148

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Denny Martel in Circle Back is thirty years old and several years into his career as a criminal trial lawyer. He has fought the good fight on hundreds of rape, robbery, and murder trials. The unrelenting stress of trial after trials has begun to take its toll. Denny’s romantic life has run into a dead end. Just as the prospect of an imminent burnout appears Denny is assigned the case of Jess Scolopendra, a beautiful woman accused of the brutal murder and dismembering of her husband Miles. As Denny assembles a defense, he is the target of Charlie Manson’s street posse and Jess’ sometimes mafia hit man boyfriend. Manson and his girls have been convicted and are facing death sentences. Bruno, the boyfriend has issues with Denny, some to do with Jess, others to do with an ex of Denny. All of this drama is set in the midst of the great Sylmar earthquake aftermath and the end of the Manson trial.

Legend
Legend

Author: Marie Lu

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-11-29

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 110154595X

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"Legend doesn't merely survive the hype, it deserves it." From the New York Times bestselling author of The Young Elites What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem. From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths - until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets. Full of nonstop action, suspense, and romance, this novel is sure to move readers as much as it thrills.

Tango of Death: The Creation of a Holocaust Legend
Tango of Death: The Creation of a Holocaust Legend

Author: Willem de Haan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-10-24

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9004525076

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This book traces the origins of the legend that Jewish musicians in concentration camps were forced to play a Tango of Death at the gas chambers and shows how in this legend the actual history is hidden, distorted, or even lost altogether.

American Legend
American Legend

Author: Buddy Levy

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-12-05

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1440684731

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David Crockett was an adventurer, a pioneer, and a media-savvy national celebrity. In his short-but-distinguished lifetime, this charismatic frontiersman won three terms as a U.S. congressman and a presidential nomination. His 1834 memoir enjoyed frenzied sales and prompted the first-ever “official” book tour for its enormously popular author. Down-to-earth, heroic and independent to a fault, the real Crockett became lost in his own hype, and he’s been overshadowed by a larger-than-life, pop-culture character in a coonskin cap. Now, American Legend debunks the tall tales to reveal the fascinating truth of Crockett’s hardscrabble childhood, his near-death experiences, his unlikely rise to Congress, and the controversial last stand at the Alamo that mythologized him beyond recognition. In this beautifully written narrative, Crockett emerges as never before: a rugged individual, a true American original, and an enduring symbol of the Western frontier. “A great myth-busting story [that] presents Davy Crockett as a man of genius and folly, which has the unlikely effect of making him all the more heroic.”—Martin Dugard, author of The Last Voyage of Columbus and Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone “As spellbinding and dramatic as any novel and as compelling as any reportage.”—Peter Hoffer, Distinguished Research Professor of History, The University of Georgia