Discovering the dead body of a young child, a victim of an apparent hit-and-run accident, a police officer conducts a covert investigation when the case is thwarted by both the mayor and the police chief, who want attention diverted from the primary suspect, a promising high-school football hero. Reprint.

Lost Souls

Literature & Fiction

COLLINS, Michael

United States

Penguin??Books

The solitude of the Upper Michigan Peninsula is Michael Collins’s heart of darkness in this compelling story of the unquiet dead. Frank Cassidy’s parents burned to death almost thirty years ago; now his uncle is dead—shot by a mysterious stranger who lies in a coma in the local hospital. Frank, working menial jobs to support his unfaithful wife and two children, heads north in a series of stolen cars to dispute his cousin’s claim to the family farm. Once there, Frank wants answers, but realizes that what he is searching for—and the promise of the American Dream—is quickly receding from his grasp. Brilliant and unsettling, The Resurrectionists is an ironic yet chilling display of American culture in the seventies and a compassionate novel about a man struggling to overcome the crimes and burdens of his past.

The Resurrectionists

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

The Story of Christianity: A Celebrationof 2,000 Years of Faith

Religion & Spirituality

Oxford University Press

Before 1914, the City of London was the premier international financial centre. However, following the disruption of the world markets caused by World War I and the Great Depression of the 1930s, other industrial nations quickly and effectively challenged Britain's influence. Critics of the banks claim that, even before 1914, there were serious deficiencies in the financial provision provided by banks to the domestic industrial sector, and that these deficiencies handicapped Britain's competitive advantage in world markets, leading to the decline of their influence and power. This book examines these claims, and bringing to bear important new data that presents the debate in a novel and revealing framework, expounds an economic rationale for historical bank behaviour.

Commercial Banks and Industrial Finance in England and Wales, 1860-1913

Business & Money

Baker, Mae

Economics

A collection of nine stories. The title story tells of an Irish emigrant travelling to New York with a suitcase of meat. The story conveys all the horrors and physicality of such a journey. The other stories form a web of abandoned lives, political treachery and the very texture of Irish life.

The Meat Eaters

JONATHAN CAPE.

LOST SOULS begins with the discovery of the body of a small girl, dressed as an angel, concealed in a pile of autumn leaves. It looks as if the child might have been the victim of a hit and run. It's Halloween. The streets had been full of children. But how did a three-year old come to be hiding there alone in the dark, dressed only in her flimsy costume? And why were the child's feet bare? A ghastly crime, a bungled cover-up, several guilty secrets, innocence defiled, a community isolated, a lowering landscape across which a host of dysfunctional characters stalk, a twisting plot and Michael Collins's uniquely stylish and blackly humorous prose make this latest novel a gripping read. As always the landscape and people are vividly evoked. This novel is full of unforgettable images from its haunting and chillingly beautiful beginning to its brilliant denouement.

Literary

Orion Pub Co

North America is truly Michael Collins's heart of darkness. And it is a territory mapped with infinite precision in this new novel of murder and menace set in the frozen wastes of a winter town on the shores of Lake Michigan. Twenty years ago, when Frank was five, his parents burned to death in this former mining town. Now his uncle is dead too, shot by a mysterious stranger. When Frank hears that the stranger bears the name of a man who died twenty years before, he decides to head North. To dig up the dead. "The Resurrectionists" is marked by the same spirit and pace that characterised his Booker-shortlisted "Keepers of Truth". It's dark, sharp, fast, and blackly comic - a unique combination from a uniquely talented writer.

Resurrectionists

Contemporary

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

McArthur & Company

Midnight in a Perfect Life

This fourth edition integrates all significant developments that have occurred since the last revision of this casebook in 2010, with particular emphasis on changes wrought by the Federal Courts Jurisdiction and Venue Clarification Act of 2012. These changes include new principal cases to reflect significant changes in the law concerning venue and removal, as well as scores of amended problems and notes to reflect all changes produced by the 2012 Act, including, among others, diversity and alienage jurisdiction. Additionally, the fourth edition includes a full discussion and analysis of all relevant opinions by the Supreme Court during the intervening terms, as well as discussion of a host of important lower court opinions.

The Law of Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials, 4th (American Casebook Series)

Friedman, Joel

Rules & Procedures

West Academic Publishing

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