Supremely creepy. . . . As thrilling as it is disturbing. Boston Globe
In 1871, young children were disappearing from Boston s working-class neighborhoods. The few who returned told desperate tales of being taken to the woods and tortured by a boy not much older than themselves. The police were skeptical these children were from poor families, so their testimony was easily discounted. And after the Great Boston Fire of 1872 reduced much of downtown to rubble, the city had more pressing concerns. Finally, when the police apprehended Jesse Pomeroy for the crimes, he, like any twelve-year-old, was sent off to reform school. Little thought was given to the danger he might pose to society, despite victims chilling reports of this affectless Boy Torturer.
Sixteen months later, Jesse was released in the care of his mother, and within months a ten-year-old girl and a four-year-old boy went missing, their mutilated bodies later discovered by police. This set off a frantic hunt for Pomeroy, who was now proclaimed America s youngest serial killer. When he was captured and brought to trial, his case transfixed the nation, and two public figures Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes each probed the depths of Pomeroy s character in a search for the meaning behind his madness.
Roseanne Montillo takes us inside those harrowing years, as a city reeling from great disaster reckoned with the moral quandaries posed by Pomeroy s spree."
Автор: McDonald Roseanne Название: From a Tree to a Chair ISBN: 1947860763 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781947860766 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3166.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Look around you. Do you see something made of wood? A chair or a table, a toy or a tool, perhaps even the building you're in right now? Have you ever wondered where these items come from? Prepare to find out Beginning in a busy logging site deep in the woods, we'll follow the journey of a tree as it is harvested, processed into lumber, and carefully crafted into a beautiful set of chairs. With a deep respect for the trees and the useful things they give us, this book reveals all the hard work that goes into making the things we take for granted every day.
Описание: Bomb meets Code Girls in this fascinating narrative nonfiction look at the little-known female scientists who were critical to the invention of the Atomic Bomb, and the moral implications of their work.
Автор: Watt Roseanne Название: Moder Dy ISBN: 1846974879 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846974878 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1741.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Written in English, interspersed with Shetlandic dialect throughout, this eagerly awaited debut collection from Shetland poet Roseanne Watt contains profound, assured and wilfully spare poems that are built from the sight, sound and heartbeat of the land as much as from the sea.
Автор: Bennett Roseanne Название: When the Past Calls Your Name ISBN: 1975682416 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781975682415 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2067.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is a story of intrigue set on the beautiful Outer Banks of North Carolina. Dr. Emmaline Jolie is an advocate for the rights of victims. She is an expert witness and she has a blog that is read by thousands. Someone is trying to kill her and the field is littered with candidates.Retired soldier and cop, Finn Jensen is a reclusive writer who has many secrets and wants to keep them just that...secret. He is writing and expose on the connection between the Department of Defense and the man whom the GOP has tapped to be the next president.Detective Tighe Coker has caught a particularly frustrating murder case in the sleepy bedroom community of Haymarket, Virginia. He is finally able to find a single clue that he hopes will lead him to the killer of Katie Sanders...the dead woman's relationship with Emma Jolie.What happens when these people meet during the storm of the decade, as the clock begins to tick down on a presidential election that someone will do anything to win?
The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein.
Montillo recounts how--at the intersection of the Romantic Age and the Industrial Revolution--Shelley's Victor Frankenstein was inspired by actual scientists of the period: curious and daring iconoclasts who were obsessed with the inner workings of the human body and how it might be reanimated after death.
With true-life tales of grave robbers, ghoulish experiments, and the ultimate in macabre research--human reanimation--The Lady and Her Monsters is a brilliant exploration of the creation of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's horror classic.
--The Lady and Her Monsters
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