The Trouble In Room 519

Download or read book The Trouble in Room 519 written by Thomas Aiello and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-08-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At approximately seven o’clock in the evening on May 7, 1950, Gordon Malherbe Hillman filled an empty bottle with water, capped it, and walked into his mother’s room in the pair’s fifth-floor suite at Boston’s luxurious Copley Plaza Hotel. He then edged up behind the semi-invalid woman and bludgeoned her to death. Hotel staff had planned to evict the two the following day after several weeks of unpaid rent. Mounting debts had finally broken the fifty-year-old Hillman, a now-struggling author of mixed success, but it had not always been that way, as Thomas Aiello shows in his study of the life and work of this forgotten midcentury figure. As a youth, Hillman attended the prestigious Noble and Greenough School near Boston. Pursuing a career as a writer, he published several dozen pieces of short fiction and a critically acclaimed novel, Fortune’s Cup (1941). Hollywood studios purchased the rights to two of his stories and made them into films, The Great Man Votes (1939) and Here I Am a Stranger (1940). But Hillman remained, for the most part, a middling magazine writer like the majority of fiction authors working during the Depression. Although most did not resort to acts of manic violence, Hillman’s tenuous position in literary circles, along with his gradual descent into financial ruin, proved a far more common tale than the stories of literary success often pored over by critics and historians of this period. In The Trouble in Room 519: Money, Matricide, and Marginal Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century, Aiello weaves a compelling true crime narrative into his exploration of the economics of magazine fiction and the strains placed on authors by the publishing industry prior to World War II. Examining Hillman’s writing as exemplary of Depression-era popular fiction, Aiello includes eight stories written by Hillman and originally published in prominent midcentury American magazines, including Collier’s, Liberty, and McCall’s, to provide additional context and insight into this trying time and tragic life.

Download or read book Room 519 written by Trisha Linde and published by Trisha Linde. This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind closed doors at The Scarlet Hotel, anything can happen… maybe even the impossible love. Omega Reese has decided it’s time to make some changes. He’s been coasting for far too long, always taking the easy route. Living at home? Easy. Working for his dad? Easy. Even dating his high school boyfriend long after their relationship has gone stale… Easy. But easy is soon a thing of the past. Who knew making waves could go so catastrophically wrong? When his life takes a turn for the worse, the last person Reese expects to be his savior is his ex-boyfriend's older brother. Lee is mean, hot-headed, and borderline dangerous. And Lee has always hated Reese… hasn't he? Alpha Lee has always played second fiddle to his younger brother. No matter what he does, he can’t measure up to the perfect golden boy—class valedictorian, walking in their father’s footsteps—so he just stopped trying. If he can’t get it right, he might as well get it spectacularly wrong. After a particularly embarrassing stunt landed Lee in jail, his father had no problem sending him away for a few years. Lee hoped in that time that he would forget all about his family. His perfect parents, his spoiled brother, but most of all, he wished he could forget Reese. Too nice, too docile, too hot for his own good… and of all the things Lee's brother had, the only thing he ever wanted was Reese. When Lee comes home and finds Reese single and in need of saving, he realizes this might finally be his chance. To win him over, though, he’s going to have to change his bad-boy ways. Easier said than done. Room 519 is the seventh standalone book in the m/m mpreg romance series, The Scarlet Hotel, from bestselling author Trisha Linde. Each book features a new couple and begins and ends in a different room at The Scarlet Hotel. Room 519 features an omega learning to speak up, an alpha trying to reinvent himself, an enemies-to-lovers romance, and a baby that might just save them both.

Download or read book Animals and Race written by Jonathan W. Thurston-Torres and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intersection of race and species has a long and problematic history. Western thinking specifically has demonstrated a societal need to try to conceive of race as a purely biological fact rather than a social construct. This book is an academic-activist challenge to that instinct, prioritizing anti-racism in its observation of the animal–race intersection. Too often, as Bénédicte Boisseron has indicated, this intersection typically appears in the form of animal activists instrumentalizing racial discrimination as a vehicle to approach animal rights. But why does this intersection exist, and, perhaps more importantly, how can we challenge it moving forward? This volume examines those two critical questions, taking an interdisciplinary approach in moving across subjects including art history, film studies, American history, and digital media analysis. Our interpretation of animals has, for centuries, been fundamental in the development of Western race thinking. This collection of essays looks at how this perspective contributes to the construction of racial discrimination, prioritizing ways to read the animal in our culture as a means for working to dismantle this conception.

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Download or read book Hope for Tomorrow written by Paul M. Carhart and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of a creative drought, seventeen-year-old musical prodigy, Rembrandt Fairlight, finds himself at a crossroads in a time of world wide renaissance. Despite his past creative accomplishments, Remy feels that his life leans only toward the creative and he believes that finding out about the father he never knew will provide the key to who he really is.However, the world is also at a crossroads and is in danger of being consumed by an even more sinister tyranny than his mother and stepfather had helped to overturn eleven years before. At the threshold of this secret insurrection is young Hope Anstace, who will do anything to defend her family's estate against the mysterious raiders who have been pillaging her homeland. When they are thrown together, Remy discovers that Hope needs his help in her fight as much as he needs her to find his destiny. However, Hope has already started down a dangerous path of her own.The sequel to Chance for the Future, Hope for Tomorrow is a coming of age tale of adventure and romance that proves that clarity can sometimes be best found in chaos and that love can survive whatever may come.

Download or read book Angel Face written by Steven Henry and published by Clickworks Press. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pretty face can get away with murder Ask any cop: domestic disturbances are the worst. Family squabbles are ugly, emotional, vicious fights that can turn deadly in a heartbeat. And when the family you’re talking about is the Mafia, you’d better be ready for anything. The Lucarelli Family’s new boss is consolidating his grip on the Mob. But not everyone is happy with Vinnie the Oil Man’s leadership. A routine trip to court lands Detective Erin O’Reilly in the line of fire when gangsters start shooting right on the courthouse steps. To keep her promise to a dying man, Erin finds herself working with Witness Protection to guard a gangster’s son. Meanwhile, when a young woman in Brooklyn is savagely murdered, evidence points to the victim’s Mafia connections. Erin and her trusty K-9 Rolf sniff out a terrified witness who can point them to the killer… if the woman can be convinced to testify. Then Erin gets a job offer from the most unlikely source imaginable. All she has to do is silence the witness—permanently. Erin and her lover, reformed bomb-maker Morton Carlyle, will have to lay it all on the line in a desperate plan which could nail a murderer and save an innocent woman’s life… or blow apart everything they’ve been trying to build.

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