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Cities as Palimpsests?

Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism

Edited by Elizabeth Key Fowden, Suna Çağaptay, Edward Zychowicz-Coghill, Louise Blanke ...

Series Book 1 - Impact of the Ancient City
The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualize cities with deep, living pasts. This volume seeks to think through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where local inhabitants saw (and see) none, to impose distinctions that satisfy our own assumptions about historical periodization and ... Read more

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The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualize cities with deep, living pasts. This volume seeks to think through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where local inhabitants saw (and see) none, to impose distinctions that satisfy our own assumptions about historical periodization and
... Read more
Some Recollections of Arizona and Cochise

by Edward L. Keyes ...

In the July 1890 issue of The United Service, a Monthly Review of Military and Naval Affairs, Edward L. Keyes published an 8-page article "Some Recollections of Arizona and Cochise."In introducing his article, the author writes: "Arizona in 1872 was quite a different place from the Arizona of 1890. It was during the first-mentioned period that 'some spirit in my feet' led me there. No railroad ... Read more

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In the July 1890 issue of The United Service, a Monthly Review of Military and Naval Affairs, Edward L. Keyes published an 8-page article "Some Recollections of Arizona and Cochise."In introducing his article, the author writes: "Arizona in 1872 was quite a different place from the Arizona of 1890. It was during the first-mentioned period that 'some spirit in my feet' led me there. No railroad
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The Michigan Murders

The True Story of the Ypsilanti Ripper's Reign of Terror

by Edward Keyes ...

Edgar Award Finalist: The true story of a serial killer who terrorized a midwestern town in the era of free love—by the coauthor of The French Connection.In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen alive walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. One month later, her naked body—stabbed over thirty times and missing ... Read more

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Edgar Award Finalist: The true story of a serial killer who terrorized a midwestern town in the era of free love—by the coauthor of The French Connection.In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen alive walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. One month later, her naked body—stabbed over thirty times and missing
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Some Recollections of Arizona and Cochise

by Edward L. Keyes ...

"Edward L. Keyes, late of the Army ... informs us that Cochise died in his week up in the Dragoon Mountains." - The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette (1911)"Accounts of Cochise's death and burial...Edward L. Keyes has a reliable account, reportedly obtained from Taza." - Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief (2012)What events led to the eventual demise of Cochise, far up in the Dragoon ... Read more

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"Edward L. Keyes, late of the Army ... informs us that Cochise died in his week up in the Dragoon Mountains." - The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette (1911)"Accounts of Cochise's death and burial...Edward L. Keyes has a reliable account, reportedly obtained from Taza." - Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief (2012)What events led to the eventual demise of Cochise, far up in the Dragoon
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Double Dare

Inspired by the True Story of a Man Caught Between the Mafia and the Law

by Edward Keyes ...

A drug dealer turned informant navigates New York's underworld in a tale that "maintains tension" from an Edgar Award finalist ( The New York Times Book Review).A twenty-nine-year-old Italian immigrant, Tony Farrell has all the trappings of success: custom threads, an imported roadster, an apartment in an elegant duplex on Manhattan's Upper East Side, and a devoted girlfriend and business partner, ... Read more

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A drug dealer turned informant navigates New York's underworld in a tale that "maintains tension" from an Edgar Award finalist ( The New York Times Book Review).A twenty-nine-year-old Italian immigrant, Tony Farrell has all the trappings of success: custom threads, an imported roadster, an apartment in an elegant duplex on Manhattan's Upper East Side, and a devoted girlfriend and business partner,
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The Michigan Murders

The True Story of the Ypsilanti Ripper's Reign of Terror

by Edward Keyes ...

Narrated by Pete Cross ...

Unabridged

15 hours 3 min

In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. One month later, her naked body stabbed over thirty times and missing both feet and a forearm was discovered on an abandoned farm. A year later, the body of twenty-year-old Joan Schell was found, similarly violated. Over the next ... Read more

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In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. One month later, her naked body stabbed over thirty times and missing both feet and a forearm was discovered on an abandoned farm. A year later, the body of twenty-year-old Joan Schell was found, similarly violated. Over the next
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Letters from Hell (Unabridged)

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by Valdemar Adolph Thisted ...

Narrated by Barry Thompson, Edward Smith, Caitlin Keyes, Richard Brownie ...

Unabridged

10 hours 56 min

"Letters from Hell" is a didactic Christian fantasy novel, with a faint resemblance to C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters." Otto, the narrator, has died in the prime of life. Through letters, he relates the torments and regrets that are a consequence of the self-centered and dissipated life he led in the world. He also describes the fates of other lost souls who inhabit Hell. (In this work, Hell ... Read more

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"Letters from Hell" is a didactic Christian fantasy novel, with a faint resemblance to C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters." Otto, the narrator, has died in the prime of life. Through letters, he relates the torments and regrets that are a consequence of the self-centered and dissipated life he led in the world. He also describes the fates of other lost souls who inhabit Hell. (In this work, Hell
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Songs from Vagabondia (UNABRIDGED)

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by BLISS CARMAN ...

Narrated by Edward Edgin, Arthur Stengel, Guy Key, Anita Stoner ...

Unabridged

1 hour 14 min

This is the famous collection "Songs from Vagabondia", a collaboration between Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey, which at once catapulted both poets to extensive fame. The poems in this volume are widely read until today, as they carry a lot of meaning but convey this in a light tone and quick rhymes. ... Read more

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This is the famous collection "Songs from Vagabondia", a collaboration between Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey, which at once catapulted both poets to extensive fame. The poems in this volume are widely read until today, as they carry a lot of meaning but convey this in a light tone and quick rhymes.
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Evidence of Love

A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs

by John Bloom, Jim Atkinson ...

Narrated by Charles Constant ...

Unabridged

12 hours 32 min

Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires.On a ... Read more

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Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires.On a
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A Checklist for Murder

The True Story of Robert John Peernock

by Anthony Flacco ...

Narrated by Anthony Flacco ...

Unabridged

11 hours 5 min

Robert Peernock appeared to have the ideal life; working as a pyrotechnics engineer and computer expert and coming home to his wife and daughter, he projected the American dream. Even when he and his wife separated, it seemed amicable, just a small bump for the well-to-do family. But there was madness in his house: in private, Peernock was violent, subtly manipulative, and bordering on psychotic. ... Read more

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Robert Peernock appeared to have the ideal life; working as a pyrotechnics engineer and computer expert and coming home to his wife and daughter, he projected the American dream. Even when he and his wife separated, it seemed amicable, just a small bump for the well-to-do family. But there was madness in his house: in private, Peernock was violent, subtly manipulative, and bordering on psychotic.
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To Kill and Kill Again

The Terrifying True Story of Montana's Baby-Faced Serial Sex Murderer

by John Coston ...

Narrated by A. T. Chandler ...

Unabridged

8 hours 40 min

The twelve-year rampage of "Missoula Mauler" Wayne Nance—and the shocking end to his murder spreeTo his neighbors, Wayne Nance, a furniture mover from Missoula, Montana, appeared to be an affable, considerate, and trustworthy guy. No one knew that Nance was the "Missoula Mauler," a psychopath responsible for a series of sadistic sex slayings that rocked the idyllic town between 1974 and 1986.Nance ... Read more

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The twelve-year rampage of "Missoula Mauler" Wayne Nance—and the shocking end to his murder spreeTo his neighbors, Wayne Nance, a furniture mover from Missoula, Montana, appeared to be an affable, considerate, and trustworthy guy. No one knew that Nance was the "Missoula Mauler," a psychopath responsible for a series of sadistic sex slayings that rocked the idyllic town between 1974 and 1986.Nance
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A Death in White Bear Lake

The True Chronicle of an All-American Town

by Barry Siegel ...

Narrated by Charles Constant ...

Unabridged

16 hours 51 min

In 1962, Jerry Sherwood gave up her newborn son, Dennis, for adoption. Twenty years later, she set out to find him—only to discover he had died before his fourth birthday. The immediate cause was peritonitis, but the coroner had never decided the mode of death, writing "deferred" rather than indicate accident, natural causes, or homicide. This he did even though the autopsy photos showed Dennis ... Read more

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In 1962, Jerry Sherwood gave up her newborn son, Dennis, for adoption. Twenty years later, she set out to find him—only to discover he had died before his fourth birthday. The immediate cause was peritonitis, but the coroner had never decided the mode of death, writing "deferred" rather than indicate accident, natural causes, or homicide. This he did even though the autopsy photos showed Dennis
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