Magicide (25 page)
Authors: Carolyn V. Hamilton
Thanks for reading
Magicide!
Reviews are everything!
If you enjoyed this book, I would really appreciate it if you would go to Amazon, rate the book and write one or two lines about what you liked about it.
Carolyn
GROUP GUIDE
I’d be thrilled if you would recommend
Magicide
to your fiction reading group.
Here are some questions you might want to discuss:
1- What was your favorite scene in the story?
2 - Who was your favorite character?
3 - What do you think about Cheri’s relationship with her son, Tom?
4 - Have you ever had a situation where you felt your child’s life was in serious danger?
5 - If so, how did you handle it?
6 - What do you think about police work as viable employment? Do you think it would be possible to have a “normal” family life with such a job?
7 - Do you think it would be exciting to live in Las Vegas?
8 – What part of the story did you think was most bizarre?
9 – What part of the story did you find to be most scary?
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Other books by Carolyn V. Hamilton:
FICTION
HARD AMAZON RAIN
(An eco-adventure romance)
Burned-out art therapist Dianti Robertson dreams of building a library for an Amerindian village on the upper Amazon in Peru. She’s searching for a feeling of completion, and the library is a project completely different from her ongoing work with troubled children in America.
Roaming the Amazon River, English eco-activist Christian St. Cloud sails his trimaran, the
Rio Vida
, wherever he perceives a threat to the Amerindian way of life, opposing those whose greed would strip the people of all their natural resources. Christian is haunted by having been unable to save nine indigenous villages from being destroyed by a dam project in Venezuela.
Dianti and Christian strongly disagree on how best to aid indigenous people. Complicating their outspoken differences is the intensity of their unspoken physical attraction.
Dutch soldier-of-fortune Kees Wijntuin and a ruthless gold consortium threaten the area where Dianti lives. When two young Amerindians are kidnapped by the Dutchman and sold into slavery at the mining camp of Santo Ignacio, Dianti and Christian must join forces to rescue them.
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HARD AMAZON RAIN
ELIZABETH SAMSON, FORBIDDEN BRIDE
(a historical fiction based on a true story)
In the 18
th
century Dutch plantation colony of Suriname, where wealth is measured by the number of slaves one owns, the Free Negress Elisabeth Samson, educated and wealthy owner of several flourishing coffee plantations, wants only to marry her true love, a white man.
But can she overcome the strict Dutch laws forbidding marriage between black and white against the powerful forces of the colonial Governor, the white planters who make up the Court of Justice, and the Society of Suriname, who call her whore, covet her property, and accuse her of treason?
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ELISABETH SAMSON, FORBIDDEN BRIDE
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
COMING TO LAS VEGAS, A true tale of sex, drugs & Sin City in the ‘70s.
Carolyn V. Hamilton arrives in Las Vegas in 1973 to join a circus. When that job doesn’t work out, she opens the new MGM Grand Hotel/Casino as a cocktail waitress. This turns out to be more involved than a nice Lutheran girl from Seattle would think: parties, stealing, sex, drinking and drugs are the main entertainment for a bored crew of casino employees. Some waitresses date culinary union bosses, who have their own high drama of payoffs, fights for control, fire bombings and an 18-day culinary union strike. Each story told in this memoir—of the Martin Scorsese “
Casino
” era of Las Vegas—is true, and many are humorous as well as outrageous.
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COMING TO LAS VEGAS
MY MIND IS AN OPEN MOUTH
With his outlandish, machine-gun rapid-fire humor, comedian Cork Proctor has been knockin’ ‘em dead for sixty years … literally. From his first attempt at stand-up comedy as a gravedigger entertaining his co-worker to lounges and showrooms around the world — on land and sea — this left-handed, dyslexic, two-time high school dropout has not only seen it all, he tells it all.
INDUSTRY PRAISE FOR
MY MIND IS AN OPEN MOUTH:
Sit up, take a deep breath, pat down your hair, and straighten your tie. Cork Proctor is known for playing with the audience.
—Dick Clark, Television Host
Roastmaster General of the United States.
—Tip O’Neill, former Speaker of the House
Cork Proctor has been one of the funniest men in Las Vegas for many glowing years. Read his book: Giggle and laugh!
—Phyllis Diller, Comedienne
The fastest, funniest comedic mind and mouth in town.
—
Las Vegas Sun
His observations are intelligent, his delivery original. He is in command at all times, and like the drums he plays, his mind works in a double paradidle beat. In other words, I like him: Brash, bright, and brilliant!
—Shecky Greene, Comedian
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MY MIND IS AN OPEN MOUTH
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