title: Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder
author:  Leah Carroll 
description: It can't have been easy growing up the daughter of a cocaine addict who was executed in a sordid hit sanctioned by the Rhode Island mob in 1984. Carroll's memoir reveals the scarring effect of losing her mother, a petite Jewish woman who loved her child, photography, dogs, and drugs. The motherless four-year-old grew into a writer who pursued the truth about the murder, which was sloppily prosecuted by a system more interested in evidence of organized crime than justice. Carroll combines information she learned from police, court, and medical examiner records with anecdotes and family revelations about Joan Carroll. Carroll's father had issues of his own, namely his struggles with alcohol. Kevin Carroll was a trusted and charismatic longtime employee of the Providence Journal, but Leah, world-weary and skeptical by the age of 18, wasn't shocked when her father was found dead in a flophouse. Carroll's clear writing is authentic, but her tale is not as arresting as other memoirs of growing up victimized, such as Cylin and John Busby's The Year We Disappeared or Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle. Still, this one will find an audience among young adults. VERDICT Recommend to readers of gritty true crime or memoirs of hard-luck childhoods.Suzanne Gordon, Lanier High School, Gwinnett County, GA
zlib_text: BILLIONAIRE DADDY’S LITTLE LOVE
  A DDLG SMALL TOWN ROMANCE
  
  DAISY MARCH
  
  CONTENTS
  Chapter 1
  Christina
  Chapter 2
  Trent
  Chapter 3
  Christina
  Chapter 4
  Trent
  Chapter 5
  Christina
  Chapter 6
  Trent
  Chapter 7
  Christina
  Chapter 8
  Trent
  Chapter 9
  Christina
  Chapter 10
  Trent
  Chapter 11
  Christina
  Chapter 12
  Trent
  Chapter 13
  Christina
  Chapter 14
  Trent
  Chapter 15
  Christina
  Chapter 16
  Trent
  Chapter 17
  Christina
  Chapter 18
  Trent
  Chapter 19
  Christina
  
  Chapter 20
  Trent
  Chapter 21
  Christina
  Chapter 22
  Trent
  Chapter 23
  Trent
  Chapter 24
  Christina
  Epilogue
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  CHAPTER ONE
  
  T
  CHRISTINA
  he store was empty when Christina walked inside. She could hardly
  believe the place was finally hers.
  She only had to look down to see the proof. There was the key
  right there in her hand.
  She owned a store. All the saving had been worth it for this moment of
  standing in the doorway knowing it would soon be Christina’s To