Macdonnell Tom (17 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 292 pages. Lower edge of pages "wavy", but there is no visible water damage or marking on the pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: VERY GOOD Minus. Globe and Mail, Tornoto-Tibor Kolley cover. (illustrator). PBO (Paperback Original) True First Ed. 237 pages. B&W photos to interior covers ; SCARCE Title; "The shocking true account of a teenage runaway - and the mother who tried to save her." >>>Creasing & surface scratching to Covers; reading creasing to paper spine. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Bargain book!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. In Very Good Condition. No Pin Holes or Tape Marks. With Creases. For More Information On Condition. Please View All Images. Vintage 1979 Royal Genealogical Chart approximately 35 x 48 inches Published by Elm Tree Books / Hamish Hamilton 1979 US Distributor: British Heritage Magazine Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Usa.

hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages age toned.?Dust jacket is in good condition with moderate wear, small tears and light chips present.? Pictures available upon request.? nd.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition 1989. Some sun fading on dust jackt. Signed on Title page. Wrapped in mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 292 pgs. Includes dust jacket. Four pages at beginning of book have detached from spine. Black & white photos. Clean. No highlighting or underlining.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Hbk 292pp an excellent clean tight unmarked copy in sleeve-protected dj as new this is an original printing copy and is in stock for immediate dispatch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dedication on the FEP.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Photographs (illustrator). SIGNED, dated and inscribed to the title page by the author. Gently read. Interior is clean excepting the author's parent's names in ink to the dedication page. Bit of discolouration to the white boards. Unclipped dustjacket is gently bumped to extremities with mild shelfwear and a bit of age toning to show. This visit to the "colony" in 1939 by a young Queen Elizabeth was akin to rock stars touring the sticks. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. BOOK:Corners, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Moderately Scuffed; Moderately Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Tragedy of Kristy McFarlane. DESIGN BY: Brant Cowie/Artplus Ltd. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Simon Harworth. DESIGN: Brant Cowie/Artplus Ltd. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; Preface 1. The Disappearance 2. The Street 3. A Short Visit Home 4. Kristy 5. Working Girl 6. Kristy 7. Sheila 8. Home and Away 9. A Child in Need of Protection 10. The Bucket 11. Montreal 12. Kristy 13. Losing Patience 14. Kristy 15. Molly 16. Disappearing Act 17. Golden Life 18. Dick Tracy 19. Kristy 20. Capture 21. Solo 22. H.M. The Queen versus Mark Richard Morgan 23. Day in Court 24. Sentence 25. February 11, 1987; Afterword. SYNOPSIS: On August 29, 1984, a fourteen-year-old high school student named Kristy McFarlane disappeared from the Toronto Eaton Centre. Seventy-two hours later, her worried mother, Sheila, was invited down to 52 Division's police station to pick up her daughter. Sheila was horrified to hear what Kristy had been doing those last few days; she had taken up with a fast-talking young pimp, been given drugs, seduced, and sent out onto the street to turn tricks. The episode was the beginning of a two-and-a-half year nightmare for mother and daughter as both Sheila and "the street" struggled to hold Kristy. The final tragedy of Kristy's death in February of 1987 was wholly unexpected. Never Let Go is Sheila's and Kristy's story, as seen by both women. Kristy's own accounts of her adventures on the streets of Toronto and Montreal make for fascinating reading; her dealings with her pimps, the attacks by angry "dates", her flight from various social agencies and the Juvenile Task Force officers, her friendships with other prostitutes, her many arrests, her understanding of the rules of "the game", her constant frustration with her determined mother, and above all, her love for her. Sheila's fierce love and her resolve to win her daughter back led her to patrol Toronto's "Track" areas nightly for weeks at a time, to risk being chased by pimps, to personally confront everyone who might have some idea as to Kristy's whereabouts. She finally succeeded in seeing Kristy's pimp sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment following Kristy's grudging agreement to testify at his trial. Never Let Go is a gritty view of how street society operates, and a revealing look at a level of society few outsiders understand. It is a compelling examination of one of the most disturbing problems of our time and moving testimony to a tremendous personal tragedy. Never Let Go will change your view of our city streets forever. Tom MacDonnell has worked as a broadcast journalist in Winnipeg, Halifax, and Toronto since 1974, primarily with CBC Radio. He has had a great many radio plays and documentaries broadcast and has occasionally contributed to such publications as Maclean's magazine and the Globe and Mail. His first play, Victory, was staged at the Neptune Theatre in Halifax in 1986. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Susan. This is his first book. - and - "I wouldn't even try to explain the total shock of being told in a police station at 2:00 a.m. that your child is a prostitute." On August 29, 1984, fourteen-year-old Kristy McFarlane disappeared from Toronto's largest shopping centre. When her mother, Sheila, was called to 52 Division police station seventy-two hours later, she learned that her daughter had been seduced by a young pimp, given drugs, and put out on the street to turn tricks. "You never forget your first date. You never forget. We went, and it was okay, I wasn't afraid of him. Then he drove me back, and I was at the corner of Jarvis and Wellesley again, and he had given me a hundred dollars." For the next two and a half years Sheila fought the toughest battle of her life to save her daughter from "the street" as Kristy continued to run: "I wasn't concerned whether I was having a good time or not. I was just living the way it came. I made my living, and when it was over, I'd have my normal life." Then everything changed. On February 11, 1987, Kristy's lifeless body was found in the stairwell of a downtown Toronto hotel. Never Let Go is the gritty and fascinating true story of Kristy and her mother, a testimony to their love for each other and especially to her mother's courage. It is also a shocking account of one of society's greatest urban problems, teen prostitution, told by a teenager who lived it for the last years of her short life. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.