The Duke Is Dead
The Duke Is Dead

Author: Michael David

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2021-08-26

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1982284005

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A collection of short stories; crime, sci-fi, fantasy, realism, and satire by the Hans Christian Andersen of adult fiction. Questioning The Unknown. When we gaze up at the stars, the question that eludes Mankind, is there life on other worlds? Maybe on some far-away planet, there are other beings like ourselves also wondering if they too are alone, and maybe one day our paths may cross, and when it does, we may have to ask ourselves another question, do we embrace peace or go to war? Well, there's an old saying that comes to mind, seek, and you shall find. They may already be among us. Peace On Earth. The ghouls were miserable and scared. Their master was losing his evil influence, and it was driving them crazy with despair. It was a sad day indeed when there was peace on Earth. When people reunited, and there was love in the world. Races intermingled, and mixed babies were born. Nations got together, and there was one flag for us all. It was a very cold day in Hell. Jokers Are Wild. As he laid down his cards, four kings and a jack, the banker gave me a superior smile, then his greedy paws reached out for the pot, but I stopped him and turned over my cards and watched the joy drain out of his face as I showed him a straight flush. “Better luck next time.” Someone threw down a dollar and told the scarecrow, “And don't forget your bus-fare home.” Live And Die In New York. It was Christmas Eve, and the streets were alive with festive joy. Wise guys killed and got smoked, couples drank and got drunk, and the virgins got laid. But for the perverts, pimps, junkies, and whores, and the shyster lawyers that represented them all, and the cops that were tasked with upholding the law. It was just another day. And a variety of other stories with characters you would love, hate, and enjoy. The writer has a humorous mind. His dialogue and characters are sharp. A unique talent that doesn't waste words. An entertaining read...

Duke Hamilton is Dead!
Duke Hamilton is Dead!

Author: Victor Louis Stater

Publisher: Hill & Wang

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780809040339

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Examines the chaotic state of the British aristocracy in early eighteenth-century Britain

The Mysterious Life and Faked Death of Jesse James
The Mysterious Life and Faked Death of Jesse James

Author: Daniel J. Duke

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-06-09

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1620559676

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A deep investigation into historical documents that prove the notorious outlaw Jesse James faked his own death • Presents the legend of Jesse James and counters it with the real story, based on family records • Provides photographic evidence, a journal of Jesse James’s, and historical records that prove James faked his death, verified by experts and civic authorities • Debunks the 1995 DNA test results of James’s supposed remains The story of the notorious outlaw Jesse James’s assassination at the hands of Robert Ford has been clouded with mystery ever since its inception. Now, James’s great-great-grandchildren Daniel and Teresa Duke present the results of more than 20 years of exhaustive research into state and federal records, photographs, newspaper reports, diaries, and a 1995 DNA test in search of the truth behind Jesse James’s demise. Explaining how the accepted version of the history of Jesse James is wrong, the authors confirm their family’s oral tradition that James faked his own death in 1882 and lived out his remaining days in Texas. They methodically unravel the legend surrounding his death, with evidence vetted by qualified experts and civic authorities. They share the journal of their great-great-grandfather, kept from 1871 to 1876 and verified to be written in James’s handwriting. They reveal forensically confirmed photographs of James before and after his supposed killing, including one of James attending his own funeral. Examining James’s life both before and after his faked death, they provide an account of where he lived and who he associated with, including his interactions with secret societies. They compare the contradictory newspaper reports of James’s death with accounts by his family and associates, which support that the man buried as James was actually his cousin, and reveal how James tricked authorities into believing he had been killed. Further supporting their claim, the authors debunk the DNA test results of the exhumation of James’s body in 1995. The Dukes detail the ways in which the test was fraudulent, an assertion supported by the deputy counselor for Clay County at the time of the testing. Backed by a wealth of evidence, the descendants of Jesse James conclusively prove what really happened to America’s Robin Hood.

The Duke Is Dead
The Duke Is Dead

Author: Ankaret Wells

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-08-15

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 9780244506681

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It is seven years since the Cousins' War ended. King Roald has brought peace to the Three Kingdoms and driven the last heirs of the king he deposed into exile. His brother Thomas, Duke of Wharram, is a man for whom loyalty is the greatest virtue and family the highest cause. So when his sister Josiane, Duchess of Bergomance, finds herself widowed, her beloved stepdaughter Ambrosia beleaguered by suitors and her late husband's coffers mysteriously empty, who better to send than Thomas? But the ghosts of old wars are waiting in Bergomance, and new threats are rising. Some see heresy everywhere, and others look to an Empire in the east that has suddenly begun seeking allies. And into it all, a ship driven off course by storms brings a young man fleeing King Roald's mercenaries and throws him into Thomas's path. Nicolas �s Ithel, a man with dark eyes and a love of numbers, and an inheritance in his veins that could reignite the Cousins' War. Kingsblood.

Bill Duke
Bill Duke

Author: Bill Duke

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-11-09

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 153810556X

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While many film fans may not be familiar with Bill Duke’s name, they most certainly recognize his face. Dating back to the 1970s, Duke has appeared in a number of popular films, including Car Wash, American Gigolo, Commando, Predator, and X-Men: The Last Stand. Fewer still might be aware of Duke’s extraordinary accomplishments off-screen—as a talented director, producer, entrepreneur, and humanitarian. Bill Duke: My 40-Year Career on Screen and behind the Camera is the memoir of a Hollywood original. In an industry that rarely embraces artists of color, Duke first achieved success as an actor then turned to directing. After helming episodes of ratings giants Dallas, Falcon Crest, Hill Street Blues, and Miami Vice, Duke progressed to feature films like A Rage in Harlem, Deep Cover, Hoodlum, and Sister Act 2. In this candid autobiography, Duke recalls the loving but stern presence of his mother and father, acting mentors like Olympia Dukakis, and the pitfalls that nearly derailed his career, notably an addiction to drugs. Along the way, readers will encounter familiar names like Danny Glover, Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Whoopi Goldberg. From his Broadway debut in 1971 to the establishment of the Duke Media Foundation, which trains and mentors young filmmakers, Duke has been breaking the rules of what it means to triumph in the entertainment industry. Recalling pivotal moments in his life, Bill Duke: My 40-Year Career on Screen and behind the Camera is the story only Bill Duke could tell.

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue

Author: Piu Eatwell

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1631491245

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A Book Riot Best Book of the Year Goodreads Choice Award Finalist (History/Biography) “It’s Downton Abbey meets The Addams Family in [this] delightfully offbeat history.” —Library Journal At the close of the Victorian era, as now, privacy was power. The extraordinarily wealthy 5th Duke of Portland had a mania for it, hiding in his carriage and building tunnels between buildings to avoid being seen. In 1897, an elderly widow asked the court to exhume the grave of her late father-in-law, T. C. Druce, under the suspicion that he’d led a double life as the 5th Duke. The eccentric duke, Anna Maria contended, had faked his death as Druce, and her son should inherit the Portland millions. Revealing a dark underbelly of Victorian society, Piu Marie Eatwell evokes an era when the rise of sensationalist media blurred every fact into fiction and when family secrets and fluid identities pushed class anxieties to new heights.

Raising the Dead
Raising the Dead

Author: Sharon Patricia Holland

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2000-03-29

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0822380382

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Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death’s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through “the space of death” gives us, as cultural readers, a nuanced and appropriate metaphor for understanding what is at stake when bodies, discourses, and communities collide. Holland argues that the presence of blacks, Native Americans, women, queers, and other “minorities” in society is, like death, “almost unspeakable.” She gives voice to—or raises—the dead through her examination of works such as the movie Menace II Society, Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead, Randall Kenan’s A Visitation of Spirits, and the work of the all-white, male, feminist hip-hop band Consolidated. In challenging established methods of literary investigation by putting often-disparate voices in dialogue with each other, Holland forges connections among African-American literature and culture, queer and feminist theory. Raising the Dead will be of interest to students and scholars of American culture, African-American literature, literary theory, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies.

The Already Dead
The Already Dead

Author: Eric Cazdyn

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2012-04-16

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0822352281

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This book considers how a culture of crisis management&—what Cazdyn calls "the new chronic"&— has come to dominate all aspects of contemporary life, from biomedicine to economics to politics. Drawing from his own experiences battling leukemia and the subsequent effects of his illness on the process of becoming a Canadian citizen, Cazdyn unravels the logic of the new chronic where people find themselves suspended in a space between life and death.

The Duke's Assassin
The Duke's Assassin

Author: Stefano Dall'Aglio

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0300189788

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Part I. The eleven-year exile -- Part II. Anatomy of a murder.