Summary of Gregg Olsen & Rebecca Morris's A Killing in Amish Country
Summary of Gregg Olsen & Rebecca Morris's A Killing in Amish Country

Author: Everest Media,

Publisher: Everest Media LLC

Published: 2022-05-28T22:59:00Z

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1669393518

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The quiet of the night was shattered when the rain began to fall and the wind picked up. The children were restless, and Harley was listening to the shower down the hall. He thought he heard a thunderclap, but he turned over and went back to sleep. #2 Around 8 a. m. , the house woke up. Susie, the oldest girl, went to help with the children, but Mary wanted breakfast. When Susie went to wake up Aunt Barbara, she knew something was wrong. #3 The chaotic scene that followed the shooting left the children confused and frightened. They tried to wake up their mother, but she looked into nothingness. Her lips were tinged a strange color. Someone pulled back the comforter, revealing an ugly hole in their mother’s chest.

A Killing in Amish Country
A Killing in Amish Country

Author: Gregg Olsen

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2016-07-05

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1466875240

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At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women depicted on the covers of her favorite "bonnet" stories - romance novels set in Amish America. Barbara had everything she'd ever wanted: five beautiful children, a home, her faith, and a husband named Eli. But while Barbara was happy to live as the Amish have for centuries - without modern conveniences, Eli was tempted by technology: cell phones, the Internet, and sexting. Online he called himself "Amish Stud" and found no shortage of "English" women looking for love and sex. Twice he left Barbara and their children, was shunned, begged for forgiveness, and had been welcomed back to the church. Barb Raber was raised Amish, but is now a Conservative Mennonite. She drove Eli to appointments in her car, and she gave him what he wanted when he wanted: a cell phone, a laptop, rides to his favorite fishing and hunting places, and, most importantly, sex. When Eli starts asking people to kill his wife for him, Barb offers to help. One night, just after Eli had hitched a ride with a group of men to go fishing in the hours before dawn, Barb Raber entered the Weaver house and shot Barbara Weaver in the chest at close range. It was only the third murder in hundreds of years of Amish life in America, and it fell to Edna Boyle, a young assistant prosecutor to seek justice for Barbara Weaver.

The Rational Optimist
The Rational Optimist

Author: Matt Ridley

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-06-07

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0061452068

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For two hundred years the pessimists have dominated public discourse, insisting that things will soon be getting much worse. But in fact, life is getting better—and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down all across the globe. Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people's lives as never before. In his bold and bracing exploration into how human culture evolves positively through exchange and specialization, bestselling author Matt Ridley does more than describe how things are getting better. He explains why. An astute, refreshing, and revelatory work that covers the entire sweep of human history—from the Stone Age to the Internet—The Rational Optimist will change your way of thinking about the world for the better.

The Annenbergs
The Annenbergs

Author: John E. Cooney

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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"This is the colorful and dramatic biography of two of America's most controversial entrepreneurs: Moses Louis Annenberg, 'the racing wire king, ' who built his fortune in racketeering, invested it in publishing, and lost much of it in the biggest tax evasion case in United States history; and his son, Walter, launcher of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and former ambassador to Great Britain."--Jacket.

Encyclopedia of Sports Films
Encyclopedia of Sports Films

Author: K Edgington

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2010-12-29

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 0810876531

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In this reference volume, more than 200 fictional feature-length movies with a primary focus on an athletic endeavor are discussed, including comedies, dramas, and biopics. Brief summaries and credit information are provided for an additional 200 films, and appendixes include made-for-teleivion movies and documentaries.

Summary of Gregg Olsen & Rebecca Morris's Overkill (True Crime Collection) From the Case Files of Notorious USA
Summary of Gregg Olsen & Rebecca Morris's Overkill (True Crime Collection) From the Case Files of Notorious USA

Author: Everest Media,

Publisher: Everest Media LLC

Published: 2022-04-29T22:59:00Z

Total Pages: 23

ISBN-13: 1669395154

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 We’ve written about dozens of crimes in our Notorious USA series. We’ve looked at the worst of the worst: husbands who killed their wives, women who killed their boyfriends, and children who died because they became inconvenient to a parent’s lifestyle.

Obama Vs. McCain
Obama Vs. McCain

Author: Barack Obama

Publisher: ARC Manor

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781604502497

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This book lists every legislation considered by the U.S. Senate between January 6, 2995 and May 22, 2008 and shows you how Senator Obama and Senator McCain voted on each of these issues.

Almost Like a Song
Almost Like a Song

Author: Ronnie Milsap

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 9780070423749

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The blind Country and Western singer recounts his difficult childhood, describes the highlights of his professional career, and discusses the people and events that contributed to his success

Hollywood Highbrow
Hollywood Highbrow

Author: Shyon Baumann

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0691187282

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Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.