Download or read book Against the Claw written by Shari Randall and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finger-licking delicious, Shari Randall's Against the Claw is the second in the Lazy Mermaid Lobster Shack series. Welcome back to the seaside village of Mystic Bay, where someone’s been found sleeping with the fishes. . . Ballerina Allie Larkin is still back home, healing up from a broken ankle and lending a hand at her aunt’s Lazy Mermaid Lobster Shack. But now that the famed restaurant is branching out into the world of catering, Allie’s help is needed more than ever—even on the lobster boat. The last thing she expects to find once she’s out on the bay, however, is the dead body of a beautiful young woman. When days pass and not even the police can ID the corpse, Allie takes it upon herself to learn the truth about what happened. Her investigation leads her all the way from the local piers to the secluded estates of Mystic Bay’s posh elite. But how can she crack this case when everyone seems dead-set on keeping their secrets beneath the surface? “Suspenseful and entertaining—left me longing to visit the Lazy Mermaid Lobster Shack!” —Donna Andrews on Curses, Boiled Again! “Delightful...Full of New England coastal charm...and clever sleuthing [that] will keep you turning the pages.”—Krista Davis, New York Times bestselling author of the Domestic Diva mysteries

Download or read book Nature Red in Tooth and Claw written by Michael Murray and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who believe in God often puzzle over how God could permit evil and suffering in the world. Nature Red in Tooth and Claw focuses specifically on non-human animal suffering, and whether or not it raises problems for belief in the existence of a perfectly good creator.

Download or read book Claws written by Will Weaver and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-01-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jed and Laura, two popular Minnesota high school students, find their seemingly perfect lives suddenly in chaos when they discover that each has a parent who is having an affair with the other.

Download or read book The Book of the New Sun written by Gene Wolfe and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, a torturer's apprentice, is exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners. Ordered to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est, Severian must make his way across the perilous, ruined landscape of this far-future Urth. But is his finding of the mystical gem, the Claw of the Conciliator, merely an accident, or does Fate have a grander plans for Severian the torturer . . . ? This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator.

Download or read book CLAW Resurgence written by Katie Berry and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prehistoric Terror Returns to Western Canada! The Sequel to Katie Berry's Award-winning Novel, CLAW: A Canadian Thriller is Here! Their shattered town rebuilt, the residents of Lawless, BC are once again ready to get on with their lives, the terrors from the past now behind them. A winter solstice festival is planned to celebrate both the holidays and the townspeople's determination to get things done. However, human nature and mother nature have different ideas. Between their caprices, Lawless is once again thrust into a maelstrom of avarice, vengeance and horrors from out of time. Battered by a huge snowstorm, the small mountain town must pull together and fight for their very lives against vicious predators from both the past and present now wreaking havoc in the surrounding valley. What Readers Say: "Couldn't put it down!" "It's a page-turner." "Great characters, both new and old." "Unexpected plot twists..." "More of what you loved from the first novel."

Download or read book Tooth and Claw written by Jo Walton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy-roman.

Download or read book The Wildcat s Claw Spirit Animals Fall of the Beasts Book 6 written by Varian Johnson and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four heroes of Erdas are fugitives on the run in this new chapter of the New York Times bestselling series! The Heroes of Erdas are wanted fugitives. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have saved their world from countless threats. They are guardians from across the globe, united by their legendary spirit animals under one banner. But now the young heroes are running for their lives, framed for a crime they didn't commit.Branded as traitors, the four must uncover the plot against them, all while unraveling the mysteries of a set of powerful relics tied to an ancient secret.Their search brings Conor home to Trunswick, where there will be no hero's welcome. They find the city transformed: the castle burned to ground and the townsfolk poor and desperate. With a handsome reward offered for their capture, who can the heroes trust?

Download or read book Damnable Tales written by Richard Wells and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated anthology gathers together classic short stories from masters of supernatural fiction including M. R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Arthur Machen, alongside lesser-known voices in the field including Eleanor Scott and Margery Lawrence, and popular writers less bound to the horror genre, such as Thomas Hardy and E. F. Benson. These are damnable tales, selected and beautifully illustrated by Richard Wells. They stalk the moors at night, the deep forests, cornered fields and dusky churchyards, the narrow lanes and old ways of these ancient places, drawing upon the haunted landscapes of folk-horror – a now widely used term first applied to a series of British films from the late 1960s and 1970s: Witchfinder General (1968), Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), and The Wicker Man (1973). But as this collection shows, writers of uncanny fiction were dabbling in the dark side of folklore long before. These twenty-two stories take the reader beyond the safety and familiarity of the town into the isolated and untamed wilderness. Unholy rites, witches’ curses, sinister village traditions and ancient horrors that lurk within the landscape all combine to remind us that the shiny modern, urban world might not have all the answers...

Download or read book Wing Claw 2 Cavern of Secrets written by Linda Sue Park and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second installment of the spellbinding Wing & Claw series, Newbery Medal-winning author Linda Sue Park takes a young apothecary hero to new heights of danger, exciting adventure, and intriguing botanical magic. Raffa Santana has spent all winter hiding in the harsh wilderness of the Sudden Mountains, and now it’s time to return home. Home, where his parents will help him fight back against the vile Chancellor who has captured and altered the wild creatures of the Forest of Wonders. Home, where Raffa’s beloved companion, Echo the bat, will recover from his mysterious sickness. To get there, Raffa must make a treacherous journey across Obsidia. Along the way, he will discover a luminous plant that might be the key to saving the creatures stuck in the Chancellor’s grasp… if only Raffa can unlock the plant’s secrets and deliver the cure to the captive animals. Cavern of Secrets masterfully explores one boy’s responsibility to his friends, family, and the wider world.

Download or read book The Tiger Claw written by Shauna Singh Baldwin and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of What the Body Remembers, an extraordinary story of love and espionage, cultural tension and displacement, inspired by the life of Noor Inayat Khan (code name “Madeleine”), who worked against the Occupation after the Nazi invasion of France. When Noor Khan’s father, a teacher of mystical Sufism, dies, Noor is forced to bow, along with her mother, sister and brother, to her uncle’s religious literalism and ideas on feminine propriety. While at the Sorbonne, Noor falls in love with Armand, a Jewish musician. Though her uncle forbids her to see him, they continue meeting in secret. When the Germans invade in 1940, Armand persuades Noor to leave him for her own safety. She flees with her family to England, but volunteers to serve in a special intelligence agency. She is trained as a radio operator for the group that, in Churchill’s words, will “set Europe ablaze” with acts of sabotage. She is then sent back to Occupied France. Unwavering courage is what Noor requires for her assignment and her deeply personal mission — to re-unite with Armand. As her talisman, she carries her grandmother’s gift, an heirloom tiger claw encased in gold. The novel opens in December 1943. Noor has been imprisoned. She begins writing in secret, tracing the events that led to her capture. When Germany surrenders in 1945, her brother Kabir begins his search through the chaos of Europe’s Displaced Persons camps to find her. In its portrayal of intolerance, The Tiger Claw eerily mirrors our own times, and progresses with moments of great beauty and white-knuckle tension towards a moving and astonishing denouement.

Download or read book Wing Claw 3 Beast of Stone written by Linda Sue Park and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third and final installment in the enchanting Wing & Claw trilogy, Newbery Medal-winning author Linda Sue Park sends her young apothecary to the front lines of a fearsome battle, where he must rely on his talents and his friends to defend what he knows is right. Raffa Santana is a healer, not a fighter. As a gifted apothecary, he has amazing instincts for unleashing the potential of magical-seeming plants. But his skills have failed to free the animals that the heartless Chancellor captured and turned against the people of Obsidia—directly threatening Raffa’s friends and family. Now Raffa and his ragtag group of allies are preparing to confront the Chancellor’s armies in battle. Great beasts, small animals, and humans alike will be joining the fight, and Raffa’s heart yearns to prevent injuries—and worse—on both sides of the battle. After all, the Chancellor’s creatures will be fighting against their will. Can Raffa’s instincts for apothecary arts bring a tolerable resolution to an impossibly unfair fight?

Download or read book Claws of Rage written by Anna Starobinets and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Far Woods is threatened by a crime wave in this third chapter of the fanciful Beastly Crimes series. To Chief Badger, all clues point to the Arctic Fox as the culprit — but is it actually The Claws of Rage, a nefarious group of non-pedigreed agitators?

Download or read book Scarface Claw Hold Tight written by Lynley Dodd and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What a peaceful morning! The sun is out and Scarface Claw is busy doing what a cat does best - he's lazing around in a sunny spot. A sunny spot that unfortunately happens to be the roof of a truck... Suddenly, there was a shudder and sway, the whirr of an engine, then off and away. Off goes the truck down the drive - with Scarface ON TOP! Who will come to poor Scarface Claw's rescue? Featuring trucks, trailers and even Gran's scooter, Scarface Claw's latest escapade is perfect for reading aloud again and again. Buckle up for another adventure from the creator of the much-loved Hairy Maclary and Friends series!

Download or read book Tiger s Claw written by Dale Brown and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Air Force captain and New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown is an acknowledged master when it comes to bringing military action to breathtaking life and he has received glowing accolades since his debut publication, Flight of the Old Dog. Tiger’s Claw proves once again that every rave has been well deserved. Set in the near future, Tiger’s Claw imagines a scenario in which tensions escalate between an economically powerful China and a United States weakened by a massive economic downfall, bringing the two superpowers to the brink of total destruction. Brown’s popular protagonist, retired Air Force lieutenant-general Patrick McLanahan (of A Time for Patriots, Rogue Forces, and other Brown bestsellers), is back with his son Brad McLanahan and they’re preparing for the impending apocalyptic clash of men and military technology. The incomparable Dale Brown scores again with a frighteningly possible story of war and global politics that’s ideal for fans of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor.

Download or read book Ice Claw written by David Gilman and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second novel in David Gilman’s supercharged, sophisticated Danger Zone series — perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz, James Patterson and the Jason Bourne movies. High in the freezing French Pyrenees, Max Gordon’s race to win an extreme sports challenge has become a race for survival. He witnesses the last moments of a mysterious Basque monk, who screams a cryptic clue before plummeting to his death. The clue? A prophecy that foretells a cataclysmic ecological event that will kill millions of people across Europe. Max is desperate to find a solution, but instead, he’s accused of causing the monk’s death, and the hunt is on to find him. How can Max prove his innocence when nobody will trust him … and when he can trust no one?

Download or read book The Eagle s Claw written by Jeff Shaara and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In a “riveting” (Booklist) tale that picks up where To Wake the Giant left off, Jeff Shaara transports us to the Battle of Midway in another masterpiece of military historical fiction. Spring 1942. The United States is reeling from the blow the Japanese inflicted at Pearl Harbor. But the Americans are determined to turn the tide. The key comes from Commander Joe Rochefort, a little known “code breaker” who cracks the Japanese military encryption. With Rochefort’s astonishing discovery, Admiral Chester Nimitz will know precisely what the Japanese are planning. But the battle to counter those plans must still be fought. From the American side, the shocking conflict is seen through the eyes of Rochefort and Admiral Nimitz, as well as fighter pilot Lieutenant Percy “Perk” Baker and Marine Gunnery Sergeant Doug Ackroyd. On the Japanese side, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is the mastermind. His key subordinates are Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, aging and infirm, and Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi, a firebrand who has no patience for Nagumo’s hesitation. Together, these two men must play out the chess game designed by Yamamoto, without any idea that the Americans are anticipating their every move on the sea and in the air. Jeff Shaara recounts in electrifying detail what happens when these two sides finally meet, in what will be known ever after as one of the most definitive and heroic examples of combat ever seen. In The Eagle’s Claw, he recounts, with his trademark you-are-there immediacy and signature depth of research, one single battle that changed not only the outcome of a war but the course of our entire global history. The story of Midway has been told many times, but never before like this.

Download or read book Tooth and Claw written by T. C. Boyle and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of short stories from T.C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares his apartment with a wildcat won in a drunken bet; the drive-time shock jock hallucinating from sleep deprivation for a publicity stunt; the suburban woman who joins a pack of dogs, eating rabbits and baying at the moon. With a unique deftness of touch and a keen eye for the telling detail, Boyle has mapped the strange underworld of America.