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Carter Beats the Devil

2009-07-23 Fiction
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Release : 2009-07-23
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 101/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Carter Beats the Devil by : Glen David Gold

Download or read book Carter Beats the Devil written by Glen David Gold. This book was released on 2009-07-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Carter, dubbed Carter the Great by Houdini himself, was born into privilege but became a magician out of need: only when dazzling an audience can he defeat his fear of loneliness. But in 1920s America the stakes are growing higher, as technology and the cinema challenge the allure of magic and Carter's stunts become increasingly audacious. Until the night President Harding takes part in Carter's act only to die two hours later, and Carter finds himself pursued not only by the Secret Service but by a host of others desperate for the terrible secret they believe Harding confided in him. Seamlessly blending reality and fiction, Gold lays before us a glittering and romantic panorama of our modern world at a point of irrevocable change.

Carter Beats the Devil

2001-09-05 Fiction
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Release : 2001-09-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Carter Beats the Devil by : Glen Gold

Download or read book Carter Beats the Devil written by Glen Gold. This book was released on 2001-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harding and which could end up costing Carter the reputation he has worked so hard to create."--BOOK JACKET.

The Night the Lights Went Out

2021-10-12 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2021-10-12
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 720/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Night the Lights Went Out by : Drew Magary

Download or read book The Night the Lights Went Out written by Drew Magary. This book was released on 2021-10-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, darkly funny comeback story of learning to live with a broken mind after a near-fatal traumatic brain injury—from the acclaimed author of The Hike “Drew Magary has produced a remarkable account of his journey, one that is filled with terror, tenderness, beauty, and grace.”—David Grann, bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon Drew Magary, fan-favorite Defector and former Deadspin columnist, is known for his acerbic takes and his surprisingly nuanced chronicling of his own life. But in The Night the Lights Went Out, he finds himself far out of his depths. On the night of the 2018 Deadspin Awards, he suffered a mysterious fall that caused him to smash his head so hard on a cement floor that he cracked his skull in three places and suffered a catastrophic brain hemorrhage. For two weeks, he remained in a coma. The world was gone to him, and him to it. In his long recovery from his injury, including understanding what his family and friends went through as he lay there dying, coming to terms with his now permanent disabilities, and trying to find some lesson in this cosmic accident, he leaned on the one sure thing that he knows and that didn't leave him—his writing. Drew takes a deep dive into what it meant to be a bystander to his own death and figuring out who this new Drew is: a Drew that doesn't walk as well, doesn't taste or smell or see or hear as well, and a Drew that is often failing as a husband and a father as he bounces between grumpiness, irritability, and existential fury. But what's a good comeback story without heartbreak? Eager to get back what he lost, Drew experiences an awakening of a whole other kind in this incredibly funny, medically illuminating, and heartfelt memoir.

A Hanging at Cinder Bottom

2016-04-26 Hanging
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Release : 2016-04-26
Genre : Hanging
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Book Rating : 832/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Hanging at Cinder Bottom by : Glenn Taylor

Download or read book A Hanging at Cinder Bottom written by Glenn Taylor. This book was released on 2016-04-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart and set in the boom years of the West Virginia coalmining industry, this is an epic story of personal ambition, exile and return, and a grand heist. Keystone, West Virginia, 1910 In the hot August rain the townspeople gather to witness the first public hanging in over a decade. At the gallows are none other than poker player, Abe Baach, and his lover, the madam of the town's brothel, one Goldie Toothman. Abe split town seven years prior and has been playing cards up and down the coast ever since. But when he returns to Keystone to reunite with Goldie and to set the past right, he finds a brother dead and his father's saloon in shambles - and suspects the same men might be responsible for both. Only then, in facing his family's past, does the real swindle begin.

Inamorata

2005-02-22 Fiction
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Release : 2005-02-22
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 117/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Inamorata by : Joseph Gangemi

Download or read book Inamorata written by Joseph Gangemi. This book was released on 2005-02-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Truly wicked . . . an historical thriller on a par with The Alienist.” —Steven Katz, screenwriter of Shadow of the Vampire It is the 1920s, and Spiritualism is all the rage. With séances taking place in parlors across the country and Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arguing metaphysics in the papers, the media embraces the feverish obsession with the paranormal. Twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate Martin Finch is sent by Scientific American on the investigative opportunity of a lifetime: an examination of the powers of Philadelphia “society psychic” Mina Crawley. But Finch, prepared to debunk a fraud, instead finds himself falling under the spell of the beguiling Mrs. Crawley—and uncovering a truth darker than anyone could have imagined.

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