From the author of The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart and set in the boom years of the West Virginia coalmining industry, this is an epic story of personal ambition, exile and return, and a grand heist.Keystone, West Virginia, 1910In the hot August rain the townspeople gather to witness the first public hanging in over a decade. At the gallows are none other than poker player, Abe Baach, and his lover, the madam of the town’s brothel, one Goldie Toothman.Abe split to...

The Book of Lost InnocenceNine dark, unforgettable tales of magic, love, honour, sacrifice and the blood-soaked cost of a happy ending.A queen of the damned will burn the world to find true love.A scarred woman trades her soul for fleeting beauty.A young woman scales a forbidden hill to slay her fears.A loyal warrior risks everything when he falls for the Emperor’s bride.And five more haunting journeys where innocenc...

From the author of The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, comes this sweeping novel of love and war, power and oppression, faith and deception, over the course of three defining american decades.Loyal Ledford works the swing shift tending furnace at the Mann Glass factory in Huntington, West Virginia. He courts Rachel, the boss's daughter, a company nurse with spike-straight posture and coal-black h...

Ce 21 août 1910 devait être le dernier jour de leur vie. Au petit matin, Abe Baach et Goldie Toothman sont debout sur la potence. La corde autour du cou, ils attendent leur exécution. Mais à peine ont-ils prononcé leurs ultimes paroles que soudain, tout bascule.Abe, surnommé le « Keystone Kid », est le plus grand joueur de poker de la Virginie-Occidentale ; Goldie, la tenancière de son plus fameux bordel. Sept ans plus tôt, les « amants terribles » des Appalaches ont été séparés ; a...

Zwei böse Buben auf Abwegen … "Reite mich, du geiles Luder" von Glenn Taylor jetzt als eBook bei venusbooks. Eigentlich wollen Hotch und Bernie nur einen Abstecher in die Werkstatt machen, um neue Ersatzteile zu besorgen und ihren Freund Chuck abzuholen. Doch schon die Hinfahrt wird zum unerwartet geilen Roadtrip: Wohin sie auch kommen, warten alleinstehende, willige Frauen – und jede will nach allen Regeln der Kunst befriedigt werden. Weil die Freunde unersättlich sind, kehren sie abschli...

Over the last 150 years, the Public Analyst profession has hidden its light under a bushel, with the notable exception of Fredrick Accum, one of the first Public Analysts who published the names and addresses of food adulterers, this group of chemists has quietly protected the public from food fraud and adulteration. Using their forensic skills to find traces of poison and other deleterious materials in our food and guiding the Courts and legal profession through complex scientific evidenc...

Food fraudsters be warned!Sophisticated science was at the centre of detecting and prosecuting this new crime of food fraud. The ground-breaking case, a first of its kind, needed new sentencing guidelines for judges, new working arrangements for prosecutors and police and an EU-wide agreement on techniques and standards used for prosecution, which were agreed on the hoof in response to a crime detected in over 40 countries.In 2013 thousands of consumers, retailers and food ...

Entfache meine Leidenschaft! "Reife Früchtchen" von Glenn Taylor jetzt als eBook bei venusbooks. Daniel ist groß, sportlich, und sieht unglaublich gut aus – die perfekte Mischung, finden die Frauen. Alle himmeln ihn an, doch Daniel scheint kein Interesse zu haben. Denn, was niemand weiß: Er hat ein dunkles sexuelles Geheimnis. Doch als er zufällig die wesentlich ältere Corinna kennenlernt, ändert sich sein Leben schlagartig: Sie ist die Frau, der er vollständig vertrauen kann. Sie erfüllt ...

From the author of The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart and set in the boom years of the West Virginia coalmining industry, this is an epic story of personal ambition, exile and return, and a grand heist.Keystone, West Virginia, 1910In the hot August rain the townspeople gather to witness the first public hanging in over a decade. At the gallows are none other than poker player, Abe Baach, and his lover, the madam of the town’s brothel, one Goldie Toothman.Abe split to...

Finalist for the 2023 Weatherford Fiction AwardSome called her the Everywhen Woman. She claimed to be 321 years of age. In 2038, after the big storm and the great flood and the bad times, Betty Baach wrote these words down and sometimes spoke them aloud, at her homeplace on Freon Hill. She referred to them as songs. All stories are songs, she’d always say.Set in West Virginia, The Songs of Betty Baach is a magical guide to resisting despair and a c...

This book is about a group of guys who became a real family on and off the football field. It will tell you about the things that these kids went through just in order to be able to play in the leagues that they were in. It also lets you see how and what they were playing for and how they stayed together throughout the season as well as during the off-season also. The book talks about how they had to find Rasse in order to make the travel games that were more than one hundred miles away fo...

A powerful novel of love and war, righteousness and redemption, and the triumph of the human spirit.Orphan Loyal Ledford lives a very ordinary life in Huntington, West Virginia. By day a History major, by night a glass-blower at the Mann Glass factory where he courts the boss's daughter Rachel. Preferring to read rather than talk about the war raging in Europe, he focuses his mind upon work and study. However when Pearl Harbour is attacked, Ledford, like so many ...