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...ically talented hero knew for himself. After being left at a Catholic orphanage as a young child, at the age of nine he is unwittingly adopted into a gang of thieves. Will he be able and maintain his innocence and escape their clutches? And will he ever be able to discover his true parentage? Brother Ernest Ryan was a Holy Cross Brother, the founder of and a prolific autho...

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...A gang of street kids, an anonymous radio announcer, a detective from the future, a presidential assassination attempt and a frequently mistaken narrator all play a part in this jumble of introductions to an open-source novel i...

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...Live for God. Live for your mother. Die for your gang. When Mexican drug cartels fight for control along the border, Juarez becomes the murder capital of the world. In El Paso, Texas it's drug business as usual: a grifter sets out to buy her freedom, a car salesman runs ...

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... of yesterday’s tomorrows! Witness the otherworldly genesis of Wild Marjoram in a Chicagoland speakeasy as the violence of the all-female Killdeer Gang reaches vigilante-inspired fever pitch in "The Birth." Flying taxis fight for space over New York as Johnny Grant, Private Eye, sifts streets rife with murder and corruption in "The Maltese Spectrum." It's class-wa...

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...posing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph Andrews. It is a satire of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and Jonathan Wild, the infamous gang leader and highwayman. He implicitly compares the Whig party in Parliament with a gang of thieves being run by Walpole, whose constant desire to be a Great Man (a common epithet for Walpole) should culminate only in the ...

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...for duplicitous and unjust social schemes has reached its logical culmination in Oasis, a flesh-crawlingly evil dystopia ruled by the most unpleasant gang of conmen and women you're ever likely to encounter. A couple of young scientists who have recently invented a new means of transport, begin to question the morality of the Oasis social order, and decide to do somethi...

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...g. Lindoro warned him to stay clear, but he went in not long before the wreckers arrived and didn’t leave, so he must have hidden when the demolition gang arrived and died in the conflagration.’ ‘I hope that fucking priest didn’t get his hands on him first!’ ‘It doesn’t bear thinking about.’ ‘It’s all over then.’ Jarek turned and peered into the rainforest as if sear...

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... Texas outlaws, which draws an unexpected interest: a captain of the Texas Rangers offers him a pardon and a ranger's badge if he will infiltrate the gang of the shadowy figure known as Cheseldine who wields vast power in West Texas, and make it possible for the Rangers to break the gang's hold on the region's towns. Duane accepts, never guessing in his wildest nightmares ...

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... supporters from house to house. Many opposition supporters, mostly from Raila's Luo tribe, bored the heaviest brand of the retribution. The ruthless gang of hired mercenaries paraded and reportedly forcibly circumcised both the young and the old with blunt metals as the crowds cheered wildly....

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...k everything up, he’ll let us live in peace, love, health and harmony with everyone and everything for ever and ever... as long as we’re part of your gang.’ ‘It’s not a gang—it’s a congregation. But...yes.’ ‘Imagine, Reggie, you and me—lovers for eternity.’ Reginald’s expression was enigmatic. Henry turned an unattractive shade of grey. ‘No, no! There will be none of that...

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...a ?Scientific Revolution.? -- 20. Linotype‘s Digital Demise-Smoke and the acrid smell of hot lead in the back shop blend with the clickety-clack of a gang of wondrous Linotypes in full cry. Then suddenly, they’re gone. -- 21. The Seeds of Cyberspace-?As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, new scientific knowledge will flow to those who can...

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...rid smell of hot lead in the back shop blend with the clickety-clack of a gang of wondrous Linotypes in full cry. Then suddenly, they’re gone. 21.... ... smell of hot lead in the back shop blended with the clickety-clack of a gang of wondrous Linotypes in full cry. Linotype‘s Digital Demise The f... ..., the smoke and acrid smell of hot lead meld with the clickety-clack of a gang of wondrous Linotypes in full cry. Journeymen printers’ unique cream-w...

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...hi­ nese, Puerto Ricans, Jews. Outside the school, I had to deal with the gangs which were prevalent in New York. One day, a muscu­ lar, tough-lookin... ... didn't have to do anything. It was soon learned by the tough boy and his gang members that Joe was my cousin. And because Joe was as big and as old... ...t Joe was my cousin. And because Joe was as big and as old as the largest gang mem­ ber, the word went out to keep hands off me. In fact, the tough ... ...he Impossible • 35 he didn't take any more of my money, nor did any other gang members, either. Some friends and I experimented with alcohol one da...

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...er sinks back with the dirt." It tossed that card like a coin from its gangling talon tips. The card enlarged to a life-sized form and moved towar... ...where aiming guns for the open windows of busses and targeting other rival gangs had no consequences. "I am a man now. I don't want to hear bull... ...sions into the senator's mighty halls. No, he shouldn't be with this chain gang of prisoners going to the warden's home, dragging the noodles that bou...

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...es tend to attract more bad apples, Irish Dan had recently assembled a small gang of n’er-do-wells, much like himself. As self-appointed leader, he... ...feet. But Irish Dan was a exception to the rule. In recent months, he and his gang had been arming up with both Winchesters and handguns. The mor... ...Winchesters and handguns. The morning of November fourth found Irish Dan’s gang working their way north to the stage trail, from a night’s mischi... ...un across along the way. The morning dawned bright for a change, and McVey’s gang made the stage trail around nine- thirty. “We’ll go west,” he grum... ...opper Creek and turned west on the creek trail. Davy, the youngest of McVey’s gang, voicing the concerns of the others, finally asked McVey why the... ...sked McVey why they were taking such a strange route? Bothered again by his gang’s lack of trust, McVey angrily responded, “We need to get to Ca... ...hip, he more than made up for in his ability to annoy people. So the rag-tag gang headed west alongside the creek. With no instrument to help him n... ...just felt right. An hour later it must have felt right because he turned the gang back north, believing they were well down the road from both the ... ...d miscalculated and wasn’t as far west as he’d hoped. Irish Tom McVey and his gang were not several stations down the trail as he’d planned, but he...

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...picted these roadside sights in the 1880s, and the early twentieth century Our Gang film comedies carried them forward. In Watermelon Magic: Seed...

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...inued their long journey, this time (as a rail link had not yet been constructed) along the river Ganges by wooden, gaily-painted barges towed by a ... ...ver bank. Had it spotted a corpse amidst all the flotsam and jetsam of the muddy waters of Mother Ganga? The barges passed little Indian villages an... ... the British.’ From Allahabad, another sacred city at the confluence of the two holy rivers, the Ganges and the Jumna, the party left the river boat... ...ry you will taste in India,’ they left the Grand Trunk Road and followed the course of the River Ganges into the foothills of the Himalayas. There i... ...e causing many casualties and dysentery was still a threat. One of the Gurkha children developed gangrenous chickenpox and its resemblance to smallp...

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...viction for tax fraud. In the 1920s, the FBI was not authorized to investigate gangsters and organized crime. Capone's first arrest - by the... ...amendments to confer suffrage on black males. The Union army consigned black labor gangs to work on the plantations of loyal Southerners and forcib...

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...ighting against, you see every day: wars between religions, countries and gangs, the teasing and mocking that goes on in playgrounds at schools, and...

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... to say, I find that a little odd, Clint, since it was your cattle he and his gang rustled.” “I know it was, your honor, but that should put me i... ... of my knowledge, he never actually got away with any. We caught him and his gang on their way to Indian country. I guess he thought he could sell ... ...t me. “I’m not sure, your honor, but I was there when we caught up with his gang. I was also there when the Comanche’s returned him to us. I was s... ... After all, this is the same man who turned on him, lost his job and formed a gang to steal his cattle. Like the judge asked, I was brought up to b...

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...ias had come, except that when she'd been a child her two brothers used to gang up on and terrorize her with their purely older-sibs' testosterone-ind... ...pping his head into the room around the half-opened door. "Hail, hail, the gang's all here!" "All of them?" "Jamilah just drove up with her two. I'm g... ...take the kids in the kitchen for a couple of snacks before the rest of the gang gets here." "Bet!" the kids exclaimed. "Which reminds me. You are comi... ... "Oh he is, is he?" "That's what Gramma said." "Well you tell the starving gang we'll be there in a jiff." "Bet!" Zee bobbed her head up and down befo... ... when she saw Amber's blonde head peeking around the doorjamb. "All right, gang..." Therese tucked her agenda notes into her pocket folder as she glan...

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...ut what about the men we left back on the beach?” “Leave it to the police. There’s still gang wars in L.A.” “So, what’s your game plan?” Barkley a... ... just liked the same things -- Drinking, women and dancing. Chacon had been a leader of a gang with a line of prostitutes. He had overstepped his te... ... a line of prostitutes. He had overstepped his territory, which had angered several other gang leaders. Chacon was raised in the barrio, and had se... ... barrio, and had seen what drugs had done to his people. He vowed that neither he nor his gang would ever deal in drugs, but prostitution was anothe... ...and clean, and could quit anytime they wanted. Chacon was becoming too big for the other gang leaders, but more importantly, they were losing their...