The popularity of Jack Fitzgerald's Notebook resulted in a second collection of stories of unusual, supernatural and legendary events relating to Newfoundland and its inhabitants. Amazing Newfoundland Stories includes unique and entertaining tales of mystery, heroism, crime, shipwrecks, war and piracy.

Amazing Newfoundland Stories

History

Fitzgerald, Jack

Americas

Breakwater Books Ltd.

The third in a series of books containing entertaining short stories from Newfoundland's colourful past. This collection has the peculiar mixed with the astonishing, the magical and the almost unthinkable. A combination of archival research and oral history make this an enjoyable book for almost anyone.

Strange but True Newfoundland Stories

Creative Book Pub

Newfoundland Fireside Stories is the fourth book in a series of offbeat histories about Newfoundland places, people and historical events. In these stories Fitzgerald continues his research into the strange, the amazing and the almost unbelievable happenings culled from the archives of Newfoundland's history and folklore.

Newfoundland Fireside Stories

Ten steps to the gallows

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Jesperson Press

Ghosts, heroes, and oddities

Jesperson

Statistics for Criminal Justice and Criminology in Practice and Research―by Jack Fitzgerald and Jerry Fitzgerald―is an engaging and comprehensive introduction to the study of basic statistics for students pursuing careers as practitioners or researchers in both Criminal Justice and Criminology programs. This student-friendly text shows how to calculate a variety of descriptive and inferential statistics, recognize which statistics are appropriate for particular data analysis situations, and perform hypothesis tests using inferential statistics. But it is much more than a "cook book." It encourages readers to think critically about the strengths and limitations of the statistics they are calculating, as well as how they may be misapplied and misleading. Examples of statistics and statistical analyses are drawn from the worlds of the practitioner as well as the policymaker and researcher. Students will also gain a clear understanding of major ethical issues in conducting statistical analyses and reporting results, as well as insight into the realities of the life of researchers and practitioners as they use statistics and statistical analyses in their day-to-day activities.

Statistics for Criminal Justice and Criminology in Practice and Research: An Introduction

Politics & Social Sciences

FitzGerald, Jerry

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

Inexperienced travelers and introverts Olivia Haines and Ron Whittaker decide to take their honeymoon in Mexico aboard the cruise ship the Pan Americana. They agree to change their behaviors while on vacation and become more social with no idea what this extroverted performance might cost them. They quickly befriend several of their odd shipmates. There's the loud mouth heiress who wants to run their lives and her nemesis, Alan Paxton, who likes to make her rich life miserable. There's a retired Episcopal priest and his wife. Finally, Mallory Holmes: a blind and deaf young man with a frigid wife. These odd new friendships flounder, however, when Alan ends up murdered, and Mallory claims he's the perpetrator. The passengers arrive together back in Los Angeles, where the murder case unfolds. Ron's cousin takes the case, despite Mallory's insistence of his own guilt. Olivia and Ron are starting to regret their decision to "meet people" but even they believe Mallory is innocent. They take it upon themselves to find the real killer, and no one will be more surprised by the truth than the newly married couple.

Murder Impossible: The Case of the Deaf and Blind Assassin

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

iUniverse

Contessa transcends a life span of extraordinary breadth and variety. Contessa's story is not only a bombshell of an expose but is also an insightful treatment of the life and career of a sensitive, creative, talented, and enigmatic icon of the theater and film. It offers the reader the untold stories and details of her victories and defeats. Here is a totally candid and intimate self-portrait of a remarkable woman, her personal failures as well as her public successes. Contessa, the human being, is warm, witty, humorous and relentlessly honest. Her story of chaos shows how she fought back at life and won control over her own destiny. The fictitious Contessa is tempestuous, scintillating, poignant and passionate, open, honest and generous.High praise for Jack Fitzgerald's previous work-Fitzgerald has an uncanny knack of capturing American types and speech; it is in their conversation and present-day mores that Fitzgerald's talent shines. Fitzgerald is so adept with a pen he can make the improbably seem believable, utterly believable. -The International Herald Tribune Fitzgerald's manipulation of quick caricature is akin to the scheme that Ring Lardner employed to depict baseball riffraff, goofy pugilists and Tin Pan Alley trash. It is a humor achieved not by physical identification but by verbal. Just let one of his characters open his or her mouth and personality is stamped with jocose exactitude. -The International Herald Tribune Fitzgerald has an extraordinarily acute ear for the talk of ordinary people and records and edits it amusingly. -The International Herald Tribune

Contessa: The Unexpurgated and Intimate Autobiography of the Great Star

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

On any given hot summer night after eight hours of almost nonstop police work, it wasn't unusual for one of the men to say, "Anyone up for a couple of cold brews?" The answer was always yes. At least a few, sometimes more than a few of our third platoon would be looking forward to spending an hour or so "unwinding from the stress" with brother officers while enjoying a cold beer.Every precinct had a "cops" bar where we could gather without concern about running into the guy we locked up last week. The bad guys knew that bar was off-limits and they were not welcome. They stayed away. After that first cold beer the conversation would usually begin with, "Let me tell you what happened to me and my partner tonight. You won't believe it." The storyteller would embellish his most recent policing experience and a good storyteller would always add just enough drama to keep everyone interested. Of course there was always a follow-up by someone with another story and that's the way it would go until it was time to leave. Those stories became known as "War Stories," as in, "Do I have a war story for you guys tonight!"

War Stories: From a New York City Cop in the Seventies and Eighties

Professionals & Academics

Independently published

Peculiar Facts and Tales of Newfoundland pulls back the curtains of time to reveal a hidden side of everyday life in old-time Newfoundland. From gripping tales of the Irish influx into the country to the exciting transformation from the Gas Lamp Era to electricity, readers will be fascinated. Just as gripping are the tales of heroes and scoundrels, political shenanigans, and extraordinary characters. Readers will be delighted by the many pictures, some which challenge a few popular historical beliefs, included to enhance each chapter.Peculiar Facts and Tales of Newfoundland is a captivating collection of tales, oddities and pictures that sheds light on an age long forgotten in Newfoundland history.

Peculiar Facts and Tales of Newfoundland

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