LIBROS DEL AUTOR: hood

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  • Whisper Through the Pines
    D.K. Hood
    Branches rip at her clothes as she sprints through the mist, deeper into the pine forest. In a clearing ahead a figure appears and cracks a twisted smile. The girl doesn’t even have time to turn back before her world turns dark...When Detective Jenna Alton and her deputy, David Kane are called to the dense woods surrounding Black Rock Falls during the Halloween season, they enc...
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    11,68 €

  • The Tenth Earth
    Chandra Hood / Shawn Renée Hood
    Do you believe in magick?Under the surface of what Lelo thinks is real is a world shrouded in magick, waiting to be seen. With the help of Laszlo, the Magician, Lelo traverses this hidden realm to save the Tenth Earth from destruction. On his journey through the Five Nations, Lelo faces fierce warriors, grim soldiers, warring factions, dark magic, greedy oligarchs, the demons o...
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    32,33 €

  • Pas une trace
    D.K. Hood / Elisabeth Luc
    Elle se réveille au bruit de pas devant sa maison isolée. Se dirigeant vers la fenêtre, elle scrute les bois sombres qui l’entourent et se fige. Une grande silhouette vêtue d’un long manteau sombre tient une arbalète pointée droit sur elle. Elle cligne des yeux alors qu’un éclair illumine le ciel. Mais lorsqu’elle rouvre les yeux, la silhouette a disparu... Lorsque le corps d’u...
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    12,50 €

  • SPEAKING TO BROKEN CANDLES
    Hood Lubowa
    Sometimes on the rocky journey of life, self-discovery and the limitations around us unfurl, and persistence at some point is accentuated. This book moves us through the demarcations between love and lust, the poison of untamed hatred and jealousy, and the elusive nature of wealth. While it takes us on an odyssey, through some tantalizing abstruse worldly mysteries, it also sho...
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    14,37 €

  • The Weight of Someone Else’s Sin
    Jeff Hood
    Clarance Goode, Jr. has been on Oklahoma’s death row for nearly nineteen years for three murders he did not commit.No DNA. No fingerprints. No weapons. No physical evidence of any kind placing him at the Thompson house on the night of August 25, 2005. What the state had was the word of a woman who had threatened her brother’s life and was never charged, the word of a man who to...
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    7,95 €

  • Clear by Fire
    Joshua Hood
    Inspired by the experiences of a real-life decorated combat veteran, this blistering military thriller transports you “to the front lines of the War on Terror with such vivid detail that it leaves you looking for cover” (Scott McEwan, coauthor of American Sniper).Mason Kane was a loyal American soldier and a proud member of the elite, off-the-books Anvil Program—a group of blac...
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    19,42 €

  • THE LIE OF THE CLEAN KILL
    Jeff Hood
    There is no clean way to take a human life.For a century, we have pretended otherwise. The rope became the chair. The chair became the gas chamber. The gas chamber became the needle. Each method was sold as more humane than the last. Each one proved to be a lie.Now, Idaho has made the firing squad its primary method of execution. The first state in modern history to do so.Somew...
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    21,88 €

  • Keepers of the Fire - Starting a Fire
    Larry D Hood
    Keepers of the Fire is written in a few styles, one is a prose type writing, but also tells the story of people in their journey of discovery in their faith. I quote scripture and share real events, research, biographies and guides, including devotionals. 6 ...
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    16,70 €

  • I Will Lose Nothing
    Jeff Hood
    Dennis Sochor was scheduled to die at Florida State Prison. The state called him condemned. Scripture says otherwise.In these six pieces, author, activist, and death row spiritual advisor Jeff Hood accompanies Dennis through his final days...a man who refused a last meal so he could fast and pray, who renamed the gurney his 'journey gurney,' who gave away everything he owned wh...
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    7,95 €

  • Nobody Is There
    Jeff Hood
    On August 18, 2026, the State of Florida executed William Silvia. The Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood was in the chamber. His hand was on Will’s leg when the poison started.William heard voices. Conversations constantly all around him, and nobody was ever there. In 2012, this very sick man asked the State of Florida to help him die faster. The State said yes and held him to it for fourteen ...
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    6,81 €

  • The Abolition Classics
    Jeff Hood
    Locked out of the statehouse, the argument went looking for a reader. Four novels, a poem written in a prison cell, the first English translation of a Catalan address, and the study that went looking for deterrence in the returns and came back empty.After the Civil War, the American abolition movement lost the floor it had spent thirty years winning. The scaffold went behind th...
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    23,05 €

  • The Abolition Classics
    Jeff Hood
    The decade the argument almost won. A systematic American theology of abolition, the most quoted journalism ever written against the gallows, Frederick Douglass tying the scaffold to the auction block, and a novel that makes a murderer’s soul the reader’s problem.Between 1844 and 1869 the movement produced everything it would need. Charles Spear made abolition a system and wrot...
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    23,08 €

  • The Abolition Classics
    Jeff Hood
    These are the decades when the argument learned to work in a legislature.In 1790, English law prescribed hanging for one hundred and sixty offenses. Stealing could get you killed. By 1841 a committee of the New York State Assembly was recommending that the death penalty be ended outright, and the legislature ordered ten times the usual number of copies printed.This volume cover...
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    17,11 €

  • The Abolition Classics
    Jeff Hood
    Every state in history has killed people. For most of that history, nobody thought it needed defending.The argument against it is supposed to begin in 1764. That year, an Italian named Cesare Beccaria published a short book saying the state had no right to take a life, and Europe began to listen. Every history of the death penalty starts there.This volume exists because that da...
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    17,69 €

  • The Abolition Classics
    Jeff Hood
    In a study in Florence around 1760, a thirty-year-old nobleman named Giuseppe Pelli worked out the argument that would make Cesare Beccaria famous - and then put the manuscript in a drawer, where it stayed for two hundred and fifty years. Four years later, Beccaria published substantially the same case in Livorno. Within a decade, Tuscany had abolished the death penalty outrigh...
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    17,21 €

  • Essays on the Punishment of Death
    Jeff Hood / Kat Bodrie
    In 1844 a Boston minister sat down to end the death penalty by argument alone.Charles Spear gave sixteen essays to the task. He went at the gallows from every side. He counted the jurors who would not convict because conviction meant a hanging. He counted the men who watched an execution in the morning and killed someone by nightfall. He counted the innocent...the farmer hanged...
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    14,13 €

  • Observations on the Criminal Law of England
    Jeff Hood / Samuel Romilly
    In 1810, England had more than two hundred capital offenses on its statute books. Stealing five shillings from a shop was a hanging offense. So was stealing forty shillings from a house. And almost nobody was hanged for either. Of more than eighteen hundred people committed for trial in London for theft from a dwelling in seven years, eight were executed. The law said death. Th...
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    6,78 €

  • Under Sentence of Death or The Last Day of a Condemned Man
    Jeff Hood
    In 1829, Victor Hugo sat down to write the last weeks of a man the state intended to kill. He did not name the man. He did not name the crime. He understood that naming either would let the reader off.This is that book, set in Tehran in 2026.A man sits in Ward 209 of Evin Prison. He has been convicted of enmity against God. He has been convicted of spreading corruption on earth...
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    7,82 €

  • The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of Death
    Jeff Hood
    Basil Montagu did not write an argument against the death penalty. He did something harder to answer. He collected them.Beginning in 1809, a London barrister set out to gather every serious published opinion on capital punishment into one place and let the accumulated weight settle the question. He included his opponents. Paley, the most formidable defender of the English gallo...
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    6,97 €

  • An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
    Jeff Hood
    In 1764 a twenty-six-year-old Milanese aristocrat published a small book, anonymously, because he was afraid of what would happen to him. Within three years it had been translated across Europe, placed on the Index of Forbidden Books, and read by Voltaire, Blackstone, Jefferson, and Benjamin Rush. Within twenty-two years the Grand Duke of Tuscany had read it and abolished the d...
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    9,95 €

  • Considerations
    Jeff Hood
    Benjamin Rush signed the Declaration of Independence. The year after the Bill of Rights was ratified he published the first sustained American argument that the state should stop killing people.This is that argument, newly modernized.Rush was a Philadelphia physician. He founded the first American antislavery society. He founded the first prison reform society in the country. I...
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    6,72 €

  • Argument Against Capital Punishment
    Edward Livingston / Jeff Hood
    In 1833, Edward Livingston handed the Louisiana legislature a complete criminal code with no death penalty in it. He was a former mayor of New York, a future Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson, and the most respected legal mind in the country. Jeremy Bentham built a correspondence around him. Victor Hugo counted him among the men of the age who had deserved most and best o...
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    6,87 €

  • Tell Me Your Lies
    D.K. Hood
    She’s writing your story. She knows your secrets. She’ll kill to keep them.Alani Fairchild just landed her dream job. Isabelle Croft wants Alani to write her memoir, revealing all about her star-studded life as an actress and spilling the secrets that bind her picture-perfect family. And she will pay Alani whatever it takes to make her say yes.  Gravel crunching beneath her sne...
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    11,65 €

  • The Second Girl
    D.K. Hood
    ’Absolutely addictive from start to finish... I was completely hooked and flying through the pages... The kind of thriller where you tell yourself you’ll read one more chapter and suddenly it’s 2am and you’re still going!' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐One story. Two sides. A deadly secret waiting to be revealedI grew up watching actress Isabelle Croft on TV. I idolized her beauty a...
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    11,65 €

  • Against the Death Penalty
    Jeff Hood
    Three years before Cesare Beccaria published the book that changed European criminal law, a Florentine civil servant sat down and wrote the first systematic case against the death penalty in the modern West.Then he stopped. He never finished it. He never published it. The manuscript sat in a family archive for more than two centuries before scholars found it and understood what...
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    7,23 €

  • The Shadow of a Shade
    Tom Hood
    A chill seems to linger in the corridors, as if the walls themselves remember secrets best left undisturbed. With every creak of the floorboards and flicker of candlelight, the boundaries between the living and the supernatural blur, drawing readers into the heart of a Victorian ghost story that pulses with suspense and shadow. This is a world where the haunted mansion is as mu...
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    16,11 €

  • A Daughter’s Burden
    Evelyn Hood
    THE QUEEN OF SCOTTISH SAGAS. A gritty historical novel of finding happiness from Sunday Times bestselling author Evelyn Hood! Must-read for fans of Catherine Cookson, Dilly Court and Lindsey Hutchinson ’I loved it and am sure you will too’ Fenella J. Miller Will achieving independence mean forgoing happiness?Scotland, 1918As the war ends, Jenny Gillespie plans a new life in Gla...
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    17,47 €

  • The Women of Westervoe Farm
    Evelyn Hood
    THE QUEEN OF SCOTTISH SAGAS. A sweeping story of two sisters’ journey to find happiness. From Sunday Times bestselling author Evelyn Hood comes a novel that fans of Catherine Cookson and Dilly Court will adore Can she secure her family’s future?Isle of Bute, Scotland, 1945Celia Scott, matriarch of a farming family on Bute, expects her grandson Martin to take over Westervoe farm...
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    16,88 €

  • The Women of Westervoe Farm
    Evelyn Hood
    THE QUEEN OF SCOTTISH SAGAS. A sweeping story of two sisters’ journey to find happiness. From Sunday Times bestselling author Evelyn Hood comes a novel that fans of Catherine Cookson and Dilly Court will adore Can she secure her family’s future?Isle of Bute, Scotland, 1945Celia Scott, matriarch of a farming family on Bute, expects her grandson Martin to take over Westervoe farm...
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    21,85 €

  • A Daughter’s Burden
    Evelyn Hood
    THE QUEEN OF SCOTTISH SAGAS. A gritty historical novel of finding happiness from Sunday Times bestselling author Evelyn Hood! Must-read for fans of Catherine Cookson, Dilly Court and Lindsey Hutchinson ’I loved it and am sure you will too’ Fenella J. Miller Will achieving independence mean forgoing happiness?Scotland, 1918As the war ends, Jenny Gillespie plans a new life in Gla...
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    21,61 €