Author: Kenneth Butler
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1645301656
Size: 80.60 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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A Pound of Flesh By: Kenneth Butler Thirty-three-year-old poet Paxton Graham is recovering in a Boston hospital from injuries sustained when a bomb detonates in a local restaurant. FBI agents inform him that the attack was the work of an animal rights group, and the chief conspirator is none other than his wife, Erika. Paxton’s big problem with this information? Erika’s been dead for six years, a result of an accident caused by Paxton’s drunk driving. Paxton refuses to believe the agents’ claim and after losing his job, apartment, and pet hamster all in the same afternoon, accepts a business offer to manage a store in a small town on the New England coast. Here he encounters Hayley, an eighteen-year-old poetry freak, who he allows to complicate his already unmanaged life. A public sex scandal ensues, transforming Paxton into a local pariah while he uncovers more evidence that Erika may in fact be alive. He finds himself involved in a clandestine transaction involving Grigori Rasputin’s preserved penis that takes him and Hayley through the wilds of Maine to a late sexologist’s laboratory/museum. A Pound of Flesh will both entertain readers and lead many to reconsider some of their assumptions. It speaks to the lack of a standard notion of ethical behavior and the lengths to which people—especially the wealthy and politically passionate—will go to preserve the appearance of virtue. In the end though, Paxton’s journey challenges and inspires hope for redemption for even the most downtrodden among us.

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ISBN: 9781429552325
Size: 19.20 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Sexual dominance and submission
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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Marja was once Lexander's pleasure slave until the master found himself bound by her love. Together, they have vowed to free all slaves by destroying pleasure houses throughout the world, but this requires Marja to infiltrate slave quarters to sow the seeds of revolution and risk losing the man she loves in the process.

Author: Daina Ramey Berry
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807047627
Size: 70.16 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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"Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives--including from before birth to after death--in the American domestic slave trades. Covering the full "life cycle" (including preconception, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, the senior years, and death), historian Daina Berry shows the lengths to which slaveholders would go to maximize profits. She draws from over ten years of research to explore how enslaved people responded to being appraised, bartered, and sold. By illuminating their lives, Berry ensures that the individuals she studies are regarded as people, not merely commodities. Analyzing the depth of this monetization of human property will change the way we think about slavery, reparations, capitalism, and nineteenth-century medical education"--

Author: Sophie Jackson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476795622
Size: 10.42 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Orange Is the New Black meets Jennifer Probst’s New York Times bestselling Marriage to a Billionaire trilogy, featuring a strong-minded prison tutor who discovers that her sexy bad-boy student is far more than he appears to be. Haunted by nightmares of her father’s street murder fifteen years ago, Kat Lane decides to face her fears and uphold his legacy of helping others by teaching inmates at a New York prison. There she meets arrogant Wesley Carter, who’s as handsome as he is dangerous, as mysterious as he is quick-witted, and with a reputation that ensures people will keep their distance. As teacher and student, Kat and Carter are forced to leave their animosities at the door and learn that one should never judge a book by its cover. As Carter’s barriers begin to crumble, Kat realizes there’s much more to her angry student than she thought, leaving them to face a new, perilous obstacle: their undeniable attraction to one another. When Carter is released and Kat continues to tutor him on the outside, the obstacles mount. Can they fight the odds to make their relationship work? Will Kat’s family and friends ever accept her being with someone of his background? And will Kat’s discovery of Carter’s role on the night her father died force them apart forever...or unite them?

Author: Alexes Harris
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610448553
Size: 51.84 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Over seven million Americans are either incarcerated, on probation, or on parole, with their criminal records often following them for life and affecting access to higher education, jobs, and housing. Court-ordered monetary sanctions that compel criminal defendants to pay fines, fees, surcharges, and restitution further inhibit their ability to reenter society. In A Pound of Flesh, sociologist Alexes Harris analyzes the rise of monetary sanctions in the criminal justice system and shows how they permanently penalize and marginalize the poor. She exposes the damaging effects of a little-understood component of criminal sentencing and shows how it further perpetuates racial and economic inequality. Harris draws from extensive sentencing data, legal documents, observations of court hearings, and interviews with defendants, judges, prosecutors, and other court officials. She documents how low-income defendants are affected by monetary sanctions, which include fees for public defenders and a variety of processing charges. Until these debts are paid in full, individuals remain under judicial supervision, subject to court summons, warrants, and jail stays. As a result of interest and surcharges that accumulate on unpaid financial penalties, these monetary sanctions often become insurmountable legal debts which many offenders carry for the remainder of their lives. Harris finds that such fiscal sentences, which are imposed disproportionately on low-income minorities, help create a permanent economic underclass and deepen social stratification. A Pound of Flesh delves into the court practices of five counties in Washington State to illustrate the ways in which subjective sentencing shapes the practice of monetary sanctions. Judges and court clerks hold a considerable degree of discretion in the sentencing and monitoring of monetary sanctions and rely on individual values—such as personal responsibility, meritocracy, and paternalism—to determine how much and when offenders should pay. Harris shows that monetary sanctions are imposed at different rates across jurisdictions, with little or no state government oversight. Local officials’ reliance on their own values and beliefs can also push offenders further into debt—for example, when judges charge defendants who lack the means to pay their fines with contempt of court and penalize them with additional fines or jail time. A Pound of Flesh provides a timely examination of how monetary sanctions permanently bind poor offenders to the judicial system. Harris concludes that in letting monetary sanctions go unchecked, we have created a two-tiered legal system that imposes additional burdens on already-marginalized groups.

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Size: 37.57 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Debt
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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One in three adults in this country has a debt that has been turned over to a private collection agency. Thousands of debtors are arrested and jailed each year because they owe money. Millions more are threatened with jail. The debts owed can be as small as a few dollars and can involve every kind of consumer debt, from medical bills to car payments to student loans. Arrests stemming from private debt are devastating communities across the country, and amount to a silent financial crisis that, due to longstanding racial and economic inequalities, is disproportionately affecting people of color and low-income communities.

Author: Sophie Jackson
Publisher: BASTEI LÜBBE
ISBN: 3736300239
Size: 41.89 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 544
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Die Fanfiction-Sensation aus Großbritannien, die Millionen von Lesern begeisterte! Seit Kat Lane ihren Vater durch einen brutalen Raubüberfall verlor, wird sie von Panikattacken geplagt. Trotzdem versucht sie an das Gute im Menschen zu glauben und nimmt einen Job als Literaturdozentin in einem New Yorker Gefängnis an. Sie weiß, dass dies ihre Chance ist, sich ihren Ängsten endlich zu stellen, - aber auch, dass sie sich in große Gefahr begibt. Denn Straftäter Wesley Carter ist genauso gutaussehend wie bedrohlich. Er übt eine magische Anziehungskraft auf Kat aus, die nicht ahnt, dass sie die Dämonen ihrer Vergangenheit mit jedem Moment, den sie mit Carter verbringt, unaufhaltsam zurück in ihr Leben lässt ... "Sophie Jackson beweist mit diesem Roman, dass für die Liebe absolut nichts unmöglich ist! Unbedingte Leseempfehlung!" Romantic Times

Author: Alex Gray
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062659227
Size: 53.97 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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In the depths of a freezing winter, Glasgow finds itself at the mercy of not one, but two serial killers This is Detective Inspector Lorimer’s worst nightmare and beyond anything he’s faced in his many years on the force. Can he find a link between the brutal slaying of prostitutes in the back streets of the city and the methodical killing of several unconnected businessmen? When the latest victim turns out to be a prominent Scottish politician, the media’s spotlight is shone on Lorimer’s investigation. Psychologist and criminal profiler Solly Brightman is called in to help solve the cases, but his help may be futile as they realize that someone on the inside is leaking confidential police information. Meanwhile two killers haunt the snowy streets and Lorimer must act fast, before they strike again…

Author: Simon Brett
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1448300177
Size: 80.16 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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While she has never felt the need to change her figure, Mrs Pargeter is happy enough to accompany her friend Kim to a health farm. Until, in the night, she sees a body being wheeled out. What Mrs Pargeter doesn’t realise is that this suspicious death will set her on a trail of detection which will bring her into direct conflict with her late husband’s business associates.

Author: Sophie Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788891517562
Size: 32.18 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Fiction
Languages : it
Pages : 409
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