Iron Dogs

Iron Dogs

Author: Cliff Robertson

Publisher: Pneuma Springs Publishing

Published: 2008-09-30

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1905809352

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Who is the Mole? Two men are murdered a third survives. They are thousands of miles apart yet they have one common denominator. They all testified against a career criminal called Banks. He went to jail but escaped and is seeking revenge. The survivor is Peterson. Peterson has been hiding in Canada's frozen north but a minor offence leads to him being finger printed. A renegade police man on the pay of Banks discovers his whereabouts and passes on the information to Banks who makes his own way north to kill Peterson. A senior officer known only as "Chief" must get to Peterson before Banks and his men. Robert Laye, a police officer working in the area and Maddy Pearson, a young woman working for Peterson combine forces to help the "Chief" and solve the mystery of the mole. A blizzard, murder and retribution all combine to make this a thrilling tale with a twist in the tail - naturally.


The Theft of the Iron Dogs

The Theft of the Iron Dogs

Author: E.C.R. Lorac

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2024-12-03

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1464216517

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First published in 1946 and set in the fell country of Lunesdale over the course of a rainy September, The Theft of the Iron Dogs is the very picture of a cosy crime mystery and showcases Lorac's masterful attention to detail and deep affection for both Lunesdale and its residents. While hot on the heels of serial coupon-racketeer Gordon Ginner, Chief Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard receives word of an intriguing incident up in Lancashire – the summer cottage of local farmer Giles Hoggett has been broken into, with an assortment of seemingly random items missing which include a complete reel of salmon line, a large sack, and two iron dogs from his fireplace. What first appears to Insp. MacDonald as a simple break-in quickly spirals into a mystery of contested land grabs for fishing between farmers, made all the more enticing to MacDonald when a body is then found in the river – the body of Gordon Ginner. It's up to Insp. MacDonald, aided by the locals of Lunesdale, to determine who broke into Hoggett's cottage, where his irons dogs have gone, and how Ginner met his watery end.


Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English

Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English

Author: Michael B. Montgomery

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2021-06-22

Total Pages: 3218

ISBN-13: 1469662558

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The Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English is a revised and expanded edition of the Weatherford Award–winning Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, published in 2005 and known in Appalachian studies circles as the most comprehensive reference work dedicated to Appalachian vernacular and linguistic practice. Editors Michael B. Montgomery and Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller document the variety of English used in parts of eight states, ranging from West Virginia to Georgia—an expansion of the first edition's geography, which was limited primarily to North Carolina and Tennessee—and include over 10,000 entries drawn from over 2,200 sources. The entries include approximately 35,000 citations to provide the reader with historical context, meaning, and usage. Around 1,600 of those examples are from letters written by Civil War soldiers and their family members, and another 4,000 are taken from regional oral history recordings. Decades in the making, the Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English surpasses the original by thousands of entries. There is no work of this magnitude available that so completely illustrates the rich language of the Smoky Mountains and Southern Appalachia.


Language and Material Culture

Language and Material Culture

Author: Allison Paige Burkette

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 9027267944

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This innovative and provocative work introduces complexity theory and its application to both the study of language and the study of material culture. The book begins with a wide-ranging theoretical background, covering the areas of dialect geography, the anthropological study of material culture, and a general introduction to the study of complex adaptive systems. Following this general introduction, the principles of complexity theory are demonstrated in data drawn from linguistics and material culture studies. Language and Material Culture further highlights the principles of complexity through a series of case studies, using data from the Linguistic Atlas, colonial American inventories and the Historic American Building Survey. LMC shows that language and material culture are intertwined as they interact within the same cultural complex system. The book is designed for students in courses that focus on language variation, American English and material culture, in addition to general courses on applications of complex systems.


Planet Dog

Planet Dog

Author: Sandra Choron

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780618517527

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C.1 ST. AID B & T. 09-18-2007. $14.95.


The Overseer's Cabin

The Overseer's Cabin

Author: Édouard Glissant

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2011-05-01

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0803234791

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The story of one Martinican family whose legacy has all but been erased.