Download or read book Alfie Carter written by BJ Mayo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seemingly never-ending Cabinda War (1975—) has left multitudes dead in its wake and thousands of children homeless and orphaned. Jackaleena N’denga, a young Angolan girl, has become the sole survivor of one specifically brutal village massacre carried out by a band of guerrilla boy-soldiers. Jackaleena’s resilience leads her to an orphanage on the west coast of Africa, known as Benguela by the Sea, where she and other children are taken in and protected. Her brilliant mind and endless questions capture the heart of her mentor, Margaret, who ensures her that her survival thus far—especially being the only survivor from her village—must mean she has big things ahead of her. When the opportunity arises, she must find her purpose. Not without a plan, Jackaleena stows away on a mercy ship that has made its yearly visit to the orphanage and is now preparing to return to America. Her journey takes her across the ocean, into the arms of New York City's customs officials, and finally into placement in a temporary foster home in Texas. Enter Alfie Carter—a workaholic, small-town detective who is also battling memories of his past. His life is forever changed when he meets a young African girl looking for her higher purpose.
Download or read book Rivals written by Tommy Greenwald and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the award-winning Game Changer comes a gripping novel about two student-athletes searching for stardom, a young reporter searching for the truth, and a crosstown basketball rivalry that goes too far The people of Walthorne love their basketball—and one of the things they love most is the special rivalry between the Walthorne North Middle School Cougars and the Walthorne South Middle School Panthers. As the season begins, two star players are feeling the heat: Austin Chambers, captain of Walthorne North, worries that he’s not good enough to live up to his father’s legacy, while across town, the brilliantly talented Carter Haswell, captain of Walthorne South, is already under pressure to get a scholarship that might ease his family’s financial stress. While both boys do whatever they can to make sure their team wins, Alfie Jenks, a school sports reporter, discovers that behind-the-scenes scandals are just as much a part of youth sports as on-the-court action. When she blows the story wide open, the whole season is jeopardized. Told through a series of flashbacks, newspaper reports, social media posts, and interviews, Rivals will have readers tearing through the pages to see what happens next—and asking themselves if winning has become more important than doing the right thing.
Download or read book Hit and Run written by John Creasey and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two routine car accidents raise little suspicion, but then a third appears to be attempted murder. When a fourth occurs it is time to involve Inspector Roger ‘Handsome’ West of Scotland Yard, its most diligent and down to earth detective. A ruthless killer is on the loose, but why use this method and what do the victims have in common?
Download or read book The Egyptian Curse written by Dan Andriacco and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1924: When Alfie Barrington is stabbed to death outside his club, suspicion quickly falls on his widow, the lovely Sarah - and on her former beau, Enoch Hale. The American journalist has an alibi, but he doesn't know her name and Scotland Yard can't find her. Determined to solve this case without the help of his friend Sherlock Holmes, Hale launches and investigation that brings him into contact with Leonard and Virginia Woolf, bohemian writers and publishers; P.G. Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster; Howard Carter, discoverer of King Tut’s tomb; and one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. A second murder sparks journalistic speculation of a curse related to Alfie’s time in Egypt as a competitor of Carter and his patron, Lord Carnarvon. Hale doesn’t buy that, but he doesn’t come up with a better solution until it is almost too late. And in the end, it is once again Sherlock Holmes who puts it all together. This exciting historical mystery concludes the Enoch Hale - Sherlock Holmes trilogy that began with The Amateur Executioner and continued with The Poisoned Penman.
Download or read book The Last Boat Home written by Rachel Sweasey and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-order this epic of story of love, loss and second chances, The Last Boat Home will captivate readers of Fiona Valpy, Lorna Cook and Hazel Gaynor. 1940: When Daisy, a paintress at the local pottery, looks out across Poole Harbour, waiting for the ‘little ships’ to bring the retreating soldiers home from Dunkirk, she prays her husband will be among them. But Alfie is declared missing, presumed dead, and Daisy must learn to live as a widow. Then a chance encounter with a French soldier throws Daisy’s life even further off course, with heartbreaking consequences that will span generations. 1996: Decades later, Felicity is just holding herself together after the sudden loss of her husband. Needing escape, she travels to a small seaside town in the South of France and is surprised to find a piece of home in the window of a small shop. How did a jug from her home-town’s pottery find its way to the Cote d’Azur? Seeking answers, she opens the door to the shop, and on the possibility of finding happiness after all hope seemed lost...
Download or read book Exploring Seriality on Screen written by Ariane Hudelet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-25 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collective book analyzes seriality as a major phenomenon increasingly connecting audiovisual narratives (cinematic films and television series) in the 20th and 21st centuries. The book historicizes and contextualizes the notion of seriality, combining narratological, aesthetic, industrial, philosophical, and political perspectives, showing how seriality as a paradigm informs media convergence and resides at the core of cinema and television history. By associating theoretical considerations and close readings of specific works, as well as diachronic and synchronic approaches, this volume offers a complex panorama of issues related to seriality including audience engagement, intertextuality and transmediality, cultural legitimacy, authorship, and medium specificity in remakes, adaptations, sequels, and reboots. Written by a team of international scholars, this book highlights a diversity of methodologies that will be of interest to scholars and doctoral students across disciplinary areas such as media studies, film studies, literature, aesthetics, and cultural studies. It will also interest students attending classes on serial audiovisual narratives and will appeal to fans of the series it addresses, such as Fargo, Twin Peaks, The Hunger Games, Bates Motel, and Sherlock.
Download or read book The Sparrows of Montenegro written by BJ Mayo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tree “Bigfoot” Smith and Cedar Jones first meet on the day they join the US Cavalry’s Fourth Cavalry Regiment based out of the Historic Fort Concho in what is now San Angelo, Texas, in 1870. Their journey takes them into the heart of the dangerous Llano Estacado region known as the Comancheria. The area is ruthlessly defended by a band of Quahadi Comanche and their stoic leader, Lonely Horse. The Troop encounters a large group of Comanches and the gun-running Comancheros at Mushaway Mountain, close to Gail, Texas. A quick battle ensues that leaves eight men dead. Post Cavalry life finds Tree Smith and Cedar Jones as cowhand and cook on the large Rolling J cattle ranch in South Texas bordering the Rio Grande River. The ranch employs two Vaqueros from the village of Montenegro in Mexico, just across the river, whom Tree befriends. The quiet life on the Rolling J ranch is brought to an abrupt halt when a local sheriff warns that a band led by the cold-blooded, sadistic killer known as Gato Montes has been preying on the ranches along the Rio Grande. After the sheriff is nearly killed by these men, Tree is tasked with tracking them down, only this time, he is traveling alone and the dangers are greatly multiplied. His epic journey takes him back into the Llano Estacado where he is captured by Lonely Horse and taken to Mushaway Mountain where the Comanche carry out their own form of frontier justice. Tree’s return journey puts him on the same path as Marco, a Mexican goat herder, who rides with him to the Mexican Village of Montenegro, where Tree meets Julia, who changes his life forever after he becomes involved in and bears witness to the wonderful celebration of Dia de los Muertos.
Download or read book Black Swan written by Carolyn Landon and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frank and powerful memoir of the life of an Aboriginal woman, from her early years on the Lake Tyers mission to discovery of her talent as a painter.
Download or read book Can a Bee Sting a Bee written by and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of Schott’s Miscellany, The Magic of Reality, and The Dangerous Book for Boys comes Can a Bee Sting a Bee?—a smart, illuminating, essential, and utterly delightful handbook for perplexed parents and their curious children. Author Gemma Elwin Harris has lovingly compiled weighty questions from precocious grade school children—queries that have long dumbfounded even intelligent adults—and she’s gathered together a notable crew of scientists, specialists, philosophers, and writers to answer them. Authors Mary Roach and Phillip Pullman, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, chef Gordon Ramsay, adventurist Bear Gryllis, and linguist Noam Chomsky are among the top experts responding to the Big Questions from Little People, (“Do animals have feelings?”, “Why can’t I tickle myself?”, “Who is God?”) with well-known comedians, columnists, and raconteurs offering hilarious alternative answers. Miles above your average general knowledge and trivia collections, this charming compendium is a book fans of the E.H. Gombrich classic, A Little History of the World, will adore.
Download or read book The Trouble with Men written by Phil Powrie and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original essays focusing on masculinity and film, particularly the representation of European masculinity. Spilt into four sections -- stars, class and race, fathers and bodies -- areas covered include the Carmen films, Yiddish cinema, romantic comedy and beur cinema.
Download or read book Sugar and Spice written by M C Dutton and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DS Jaswinder Singh is only just hanging on to his job when a piece of dull routine work in Dagenham, where a clue hangs tantalisingly in the air, turns into a race against time to catch a group of dangerous paedophiles.There are young lives at stake, and only Jazz and his crew DS Boomer, DC Ashiv Kumar and Mad Pete are daring enough to poke a stick into this hornet’s nest. Upon discovering that high-powered individuals, whose influence has made them untouchable, are involved with a paedophile ring, Jazz has his work cut out to hunt down these men that the government are trying to protect. As the murderous group are slowly uncovered, the detectives find themselves hunted by their own police force and MI5. Sugar and Spice follows Jazz as he fearlessly walks into trouble, careless for his crew’s wellbeing. This third book in ‘The Singhing Detective’ series uses dark humour to relieve the tension created by the dramatic climaxes and tells a story of hard work, loyalty and cunning. Inspired by the work of Agatha Christie, Robert Graves and Clive Cussler, M C Dutton’s topical novel will appeal to fans of her previous books, which have also been enjoyed by members of the police force.
Download or read book The Mystery of the Goodfellowes Code written by Mark Trenowden and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient pact, a daring theft, a carved message and an untimely disappearance set the scene for a cryptic mystery. When Monty and Herbert start their first term at Sennocke School neither of them can envisage the journey that lies ahead of them to decipher a code that has remained a tantalising secret for two decades.
Download or read book Long Ride Book 3 written by Kathryn Thomas and published by E-Book Publishing World Inc.. This book was released on with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is book 3 and the finale of the Black Sparks MC romance series! Once you go biker, you never go back. I thought I’d moved on. But even though I let go of the bad boy, he never let go of me. Nicholas Stone will either drag me to his bed and take me to heaven… Or drag me to hell and watch me burn. LIANA I left home to chase a dream. Instead, I stumbled into a nightmare. My police officer ex has gone insane since our break-up. He’s everywhere I look. Lurking in my shadows. Haunting me. I flee, back to the only place I’ve ever felt safe. But the devil waiting for me in my hometown isn’t much better. In the eight years I’ve been gone, Nicholas Stone has become so much more. More powerful. More tatted. More irresistible. But just when I start to think that, if I let my guard down, I can be safe in his arms… A gift arrives from a not-so-secret admirer. My ex has discovered where I went. He sees who I’m with. And I know that my troubles are far from over. In fact, they’re just beginning. NICHOLAS I’ve never forgotten the girl who broke my heart. But I’ve filled the hole she left with nothing but pure savagery. The biker life suited me. It lets me get my hands dirty. There’s no feeling quite like the wind in your face, an open stretch of highway, and your enemies’ cries for mercy still ringing in your ears. But Liana’s return threatens to undo the man I’ve become. I need to know why she’s back after all these years. There must be something she’s hiding. And yet, she refuses to admit it. Until the ugly truth comes roaring back with a vengeance and a death wish. But there’s something different this time around. Liana is mine. And if her ex thinks he can come anywhere near her again, I’ll have to teach him the hard way: Never, ever mess with a biker.
Download or read book You are what You Make Yourself to be written by Phillip Pepper and published by Hyland House Publishing. This book was released on 1980 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of an Aboriginal family from Gippsland, Victoria - Phillip Peppers reminiscences of his own family beginning with his great-grandfather, Nathaniel Pepper of Wotjoballuk tribe at Ebenezer Mission, 1858; includes history of Aboriginal/European relations in Gippsland; reminiscences of traditional life-style and customs; effect of government policies; life on Aboriginal mission stations - Ebenezer, Ramahyuk and Lake Tyers; includes Kurnai vocabulary.
Download or read book Along Came a Lady written by Christi Caldwell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brooding, illegitimate son of a duke meets his match in the determined woman hired to transform him into a gentleman from USA Today bestselling author Christi Caldwell—perfect for fans of Bridgerton. Rafe Audley lives to thwart his father, the Duke of Bentley. The ne’er do well who abandoned his children claims he wants to make up for his failures, but Rafe only cares about protecting the people of his mining community and providing for his three siblings, who've been his sole responsibility since childhood. So far, Rafe has turned away the duke's man of affairs, solicitor, and other interlopers, until the clever duke sends the unlikeliest of people to convince Rafe to join English High Society—a bold and intriguing woman. Edwina Dalrymple has never failed a charge. She's quite adept at successfully transforming young women of the gentry and daughters of newly minted lords to take their place in society. Taming a bastard son of a duke will be child's play, plus this job promises to enhance her reputation within the ton. All she has to do is fetch the wayward Rafe and groom him to be presentable to Polite Society. As the tenacious teacher and her domineering, stubborn, refuses-to-be-taught pupil engage in a fiery battle of wills, their chemistry ignites and the true lesson becomes clear: opposites attract and hearts must be heard.
Download or read book Bricks and Mortality Campbell Carter Mystery 3 written by Ann Granger and published by Headline. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cold-blooded killer stalks a Cotswold village... Inspector Jess Campbell and Superintendent Ian Carter unveil a ruthless killer and encounter a case of mistaken identity in Bricks and Mortality, the third Cotswold village mystery in Ann Granger's Campbell and Carter series. The perfect read for fans of M.C. Beaton, Frances Evesham and ITV's Midsomer Murders. 'Characterisation, as ever with Granger, is sharp and astringent' - The Times In the cold light of dawn, a dead body is found entombed in the smouldering remains of a burnt-out Cotswold manor. Key House has stood empty for years, but its owner, Gervase Crown, is rumoured to have been seen in Weston St Ambrose prior to the blaze. Could he be responsible for the fire and the tragic death that followed, or was he in fact the intended target? As Inspector Jess Campbell and Superintendent Ian Carter begin their investigation it becomes clear that Gervase wasn't the most popular and his return reawakens old memories, not all of which are good. What readers are saying about Bricks and Mortality: 'A great, light mystery to curl up with in front of the fire' 'A good classic style detective story. Good prose, interesting life-like characters. An author you can trust' 'Another great story from this excellent author'
Download or read book Two Tribes written by Charlie Owen and published by Headline. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant new novel in the hooligan cop series by the acclaimed author of HORSE’S ARSE
