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Crooked Plow (Portuguese: Torto Arado) is a novel by Brazilian author Itamar Vieira Junior. It tells the story of two Afro-Brazilian sisters, Bibiana and Belonísia, who experience a life-altering tragedy in childhood. The sisters live as tenant farmers with their family in Chapada Diamantina in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The novel won ...
Crooked is a novel by author Austin Grossman, published in 2015 by Mulholland Books. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a cosmic horror fantasy and secret history of the Cold War and the Watergate scandal , narrated by a fictionalized Richard Nixon .
Crooked House is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1949 [1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 23 May of the same year. [2] The action takes place in and near London in the autumn of 1947.
Crook Manifesto is a 2023 novel by Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday.It returns to the fictional world of his previous book, Harlem Shuffle.It is a work of crime fiction and a family saga that takes place in Harlem during three periods: 1971, 1973, and 1976, the year of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron is an American television movie aired by CBS in January 2003, which was based on the book Anatomy of Greed by Brian Cruver. [1] The film, which stars Brian Dennehy, Christian Kane and Mike Farrell, and was directed by Penelope Spheeris, was a ratings hit for the network. [2] [3]
Jaspers' Warp, sometimes referred to as Crooked World, [Note 1] [1] is a superhero comic book storyline from the British Captain Britain strip printed across several Marvel UK titles between 1981 and 1984. The story is noted as one of the few Marvel Comics works by writer Alan Moore, and among the earliest works by artist Alan Davis. It has ...
Robert Henry Thouless (15 July 1894 – 25 September 1984) was an English psychologist and parapsychologist. [1] He is best known as the author of Straight and Crooked Thinking (1930, 1953), which describes flaws in reasoning and argument.
The crooked man is reputed to be the Scottish General Sir Alexander Leslie, who signed a covenant securing religious and political freedom for Scotland. The "crooked stile" in the poem was the alliance between the parliaments of England and Scotland or the border between the two, depending on the source. "They all lived together in a little ...