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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Bolton takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime, meeting villains of all sorts along the way. There is no shortage of harrowing incidents of evil to recount from the town’s early industrial beginnings to its murderous heyday in the nineteenth century. This is the town where, in 1644, the English Civil War's only civilian massacre took place.



Glynis Cooper’s fascinating research has uncovered grisly events and sad or unsavoury individuals whose conduct throws a harsh light on the history of a city that was once known as the Geneva of the North. These extraordinary stories, rediscovered in The Bolton Evening News, in council archives and in police and court records, shed light on a bloody past that Bolton would prefer to forget.
 
JLM

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Has book reading become a lost art? With all the commercials on the Idiot box these days it's sad how much of a person's time is being wasted. I wonder if the exorbitant cost of books is partly to blame. Books sure improve the mind compared to the Idiot box.
 
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Minnesota school district drops two classic novels citing racial slurs
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February 8, 2018 5:05 PM EST
In this file photo, a copy of the Harper Lee classic novel To Kill A Mockingbird is held outside a high school.Ernest Doroszuk / Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network
DULUTH, Minn. — Two classic American novels will no longer be required reading in eastern Minnesota schools because they contain racial slurs.
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “To Kill a Mockingbird” will be dropped from the Duluth school district’s English classes next year. School officials said the move is part of an effort to be considerate to all students, particularly students of colour.
District Director of Curriculum and Instruction Michael Cary told the Star Tribune that the decision follows years of concerns shared by parents, students and community groups.
Cover of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
The controversy over the two classic novels has been debated in school districts across the country.
Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published in 1960. Lee writes about a small town in the south and a white Depression-era lawyer, who defends a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. The novel was taught to ninth graders in the Duluth school district.
Our kids don't need to read the 'N' word in school. They deal with that every day out in the community and in their life.
Stephan Witherspoon, Duluth NAACP President
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was written by Mark Twain. The 1885 novel is about a friendship between a young white boy and a runaway slave as they escape down the Mississippi River. It was taught in 11th grade.
“The feedback that we’ve received is that it makes many students feel uncomfortable,” said Cary. “Conversations about race are an important topic, and we want to make sure we address those conversations in a way that works well for all of our students.”
The books are still available for optional reading.
In this Aug. 20, 2007, file photo, author Harper Lee smiles during a ceremony honoring the four new members of the Alabama Academy of Honor at the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)
Stephan Witherspoon, president of the NAACP’s Duluth chapter, said the move is “long overdue” because the literature has “oppressive language.” He said there are other novels with similar messages that can be used instead.
“Our kids don’t need to read the ‘N’ word in school,” Witherspoon said. “They deal with that every day out in the community and in their life. Racism still exists in a very big way.”
The district hasn’t yet determined what books will replace the classic novels.
Duluth drops 'Huckleberry Finn,' 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from school curriculum - StarTribune.com
Minnesota school district drops two classic novels citing racial slurs | Toronto Sun
 
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Just finished Ghosts of the Medak Pocket by Carol Off.

Wow. Talk about idiocy and abuse of the Canadian military by the gov't!
 
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"A Newfoundlander in Canada" by Alan Doyle

A little education of our country with some humour thrown in!
 
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Re-reading Atlas Shrugged, it's one of those novels that needs to be read once a decade. Very profound.
 
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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
By Yasha Levine
February 06, 2018
https://www.amazon.com/Surveillance-Valley-Military-History-Internet/dp/1610398025

I read an awful lot of Non-Fiction books. You could search this Text Document using the search term
(e-Book) Including Brackets
.... and if any titles interested you, I would make it available to you.
TEXT DOCUMENT
http://108.162.97.108:9090/NEWS/Document-Listing.txt

Or: Search
(Audio Book) Including Brackets
TEXT DOCUMENT
http://108.162.97.108:9090/NEWS/Audio-Visual-Listing.txt

This search engine can be used to find books and tons of other stuff from usenet.
https://www.binsearch.info



 
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New book alleges munchkins sexually molested Wizard of Oz star Judy Garland
Brad Hunter
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April 5, 2018
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April 5, 2018 12:23 PM EDT
Judy Garland in the iconic Wizard of Oz. Her late husband claims in a re-released book that she was sexually molested by "drunk" Munchkins. MGM
The Munchkins were no friends of Dorothy.
In the re-released autobiography of tragic Wizard of Oz star Judy Garland’s late husband Sid Luft, he claims the iconic Kansas farm girl was allegedly molested by the pint-sized perverts.
Just 16 when she starred in the 1939 blockbuster, whispers about on-set antics by the lurid little people have been rife for years.
In Luft’s book (due out in September), Judy and I: My Life with Judy Garland, he claims the tiny terrors made life a living hell for the Somewhere Over the Rainbow singer.
ABC Australian reached out to the last living Munchkin, Jerry Maren, centre, to find out if the sex allegations were true. MGM
“They’d make Judy’s life miserable on set by putting their hands under her dress … The men were 40 or more years old. They thought they could get away with anything because they were so small,” Luft wrote.
Australia’s ABC News tried to track down the last living Munchkin to get his side of what really happened on the set of the family classic.
Jerry Maren, 98, is now in failing health and lives in a retirement home.
A member of the “Lollipop Guild” — he famously gave the discombobulated Dorothy a sucker after she obliterated the Wicked Witch of the East — Maren was implicated in the molestation.
Garland always claimed the half-pint hellraisers were boozehounds who would party through the night. Cops rounded them up with butterfly nets.
The stars of the beloved Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland, front. MGM
Years ago, Maren noted that the drinking shouldn’t shock anyone: Toto was paid more than the Munchkins.
“He has refuted these accusations in the past and I am sure he’d do the same now if he were able to,” Mark Povinelli, president of the Little People of America, told ABC.
“I appreciate your sincerity in trying to give a voice to the actors being referenced in the book but I was told that Jerry would rather not bring any more attention to it.”
Others close to the elderly dwarf also denied any concise carnal capers and Maren claimed Garland — who tragically died in 1969 — was “wonderful” to work with.
“We expected her to be a snobby movie star. She was more excited at meeting us than we were at meeting her,” he said, adding that for the Munchkins it was the first time in their lives they had met other little people.
bhunter@postmedia.com
New book alleges munchkins sexually molested Wizard of Oz star Judy Garland | Toronto Sun
 
coldstream

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I'm reading what the Editor called the Vampire Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A bit a nisnomer since none are really about Vampires but do deal with the Victorian fascination for the occult and mystical phenomena. They are every bit a intriguing and captivating as the author's Sherlock Holmes sagas, which most of these tales predate.
 
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Last week.


Twisted Prey - John Sandford
Hidden Prey - John Sandford
Light of the Day - James Lee Burke
Collected Shorts - Richard Matheson
Sea Change - Robert B. Parker


I love James Lee Burke, but Light of the Day could have been 100 pages shorter.
 
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Sin Killer by the Lonesome Dove guy.

Not sure how it relates to the whole epic.
 
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