Download or read book Athini and Wisteria s Milan Catwalk Mystery Adventure written by A.B. Milamalfi and published by XinXii. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you like books with unusual characters? Fashion, cats, and dogs? “Athini and Wisteria are two young, beautiful, and glamorous “Sloane” EuroCat Fashionistas, living in prestigious Chelsea. Travelling abroad to the “in” places and parties, living the high life, enjoying the social scene, and social calender. At these events, they very often end up involved in escapades. Their owners are wealthy, titled philanthropists and adore them, indulging them with the best of everything. The kittys are very smart, playful, and adventurous. They combine their love of fashion, high end of course, with their love of going to all the posh events and dos wherever they may be and end up solving mysteries there.” “Enjoy meeting them on their second adventure... at Milan Fashion week. The fashionista kittys are beyond excited to be at Milan Fashion Week’s Spring/Summer Collection. Their favourite fashion designer, Simona Valbruzzo, is opening with her show - headlining the event for the glitterati and fashion elite. Backstage chaos ensues with models, dresses, and the fashion team. The kittys are in a race against the clock. Simona’s reputation is now on the line. Their friends quickly rally round to help solve this mystery involving a supermodel and to save the show from disaster.”

Download or read book Leisha s Song written by Lynn Slaughter and published by Fire & Ice Young Adult Books. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leisha knows something’s wrong. Her beloved vocal coach at boarding school would never have resigned and disappeared like this in the midst of preparing her prize students for a major vocal competition. Leisha’s determined to find her, make sure she’s okay. Cody, a sensitive cellist, insists on helping her. Sparks fly, clues multiply, and romance blossoms, despite the disapproval of their families. Leisha’s desire to be with Cody and pursue music rather than medicine puts her on a direct collision course with her African-American grandfather, the only parent she’s ever had. But an even more immediate threat looms—because as Leisha draws closer to the truth about her teacher’s disappearance, she puts her own life in grave danger.

Download or read book The Blood of Gutoku A Jack Riddley Mystery in Japan written by J. W. Traphagan and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Riddley is an anthropologist all too ready to retire - he is done with university politics and is eager to start his new life in a sleepy village in northern Japan. What wasn't involved in his retirement plan is for a murder to occur just as he arrives in town. With Jack's passion for ethnography, he cannot help but get involved with the investigation, eager to discover not only who committed these crimes, but why. Even a village of retirees has its secrets - abandoned traditions, family rifts, and childhood traumas - all of which are perfect motives for murder. "If you are a fan of Clavell's Shogun looking for another entrée to Japanese culture in the form of a rattling good yarn, look no further!" Kelly Smith, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Clemson University "Retired anthropologist Jack Riddley helps police in rural Japan solve a perplexing mystery. In so doing, he reveals much about both Japanese culture and the nature of anthropological inquiry. Beautifully written, engaging, and insightful, this book is a winner." Richard Scaglion, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh

Download or read book Fatal Pose written by Barna Donovan and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MUSCLES, MAYHEM, MURDER Venice, California: Where you'll find the hottest beaches, hottest gyms, and hottest bodies. This is where ex-bodybuilder turned private investigator, Gunnar Marino, runs his business. The World BodyBuilding Federation: The most successful health and fitness empire in the world. But WBBF President of Operations, Laura Preston, suddenly finds herself in the middle of a blackmail scheme, with bodybuilder Brad Holt threatening to expose a shattering secret from her past. Where two adversaries meet: After Holt dies at a contest from what appears to be a dangerously unhealthy dieting regime, Marino is hired to look into whether or not his demise might have been the perfect act of murder. But the deeper Marino digs into the case-pressed by a personal obligation to Holt's sister-the more unsettled he is by Holt's background, questioning the morality of seeking justice for a corrupt murder victim and pursuing a prime suspect who might have been a victim herself. A showdown no one might walk away from: Finding himself in an escalating battle of wills and wits with Laura Preston, Marino is aided by a group of athletes he employs as an investigative staff, and Dr. Erika Lindstad, his former lover and ex-bodybuilder in her own right. But the more troubled Marino gets by the case, he realizes that he has no choice but to see the investigation to its conclusion...because suddenly he and everyone he cares for are targeted for death.

Download or read book God Loves Messed Up People written by Gene Heil and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gene Heil spent his life in service to God and country. He spent 20 years in the military and dedicated his life to the Lord. Heil is an ordained minister, and served as an elder in the church, took part in prison outreach, and has devoted himself to prayer. He desires to see lives changed.

Download or read book Timewise written by Robert Leet and published by Porter Field Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ron Larsen started as an unassuming teenager with no more ambition than winning a little extra cash playing chess when he met a beautiful, eccentric physicist, Regina Russo, with whom he falls in love. Eventually she becomes his mentor and launches him into a journey of discovery of what time is-and what it is not. As they plunge into experiments too dangerous to be revealed, they find themselves trapped between unquenchable curiosity and the fear of being discovered. Forced into secrecy, they battle a rogue FBI agent who is convinced they are terrorists. Ultimately, Ron realizes he has become enmeshed inside the very mathematical equations he has sought to solve.

Download or read book The Enemies Within written by Kirsten Beckworth and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the long hot summer of 2018 and four colleagues' situations are about to reach boiling point. Keiran's managed to keep his dark secrets hidden in the past. However, a face from it could undo all of his not so good work since. Andrew's under serious strain from tragedy and disgrace tearing his family apart. Matters aren't helped by job competition from Keiran and his influence on Lynsey who's even more desperate to do better. Meanwhile Michael's hopes of post divorce happiness with Maxine are threatened by her discovery of a ruthless kindred spirit. And when these worlds collide, it's the innocent who suffer the worst collateral damage ....

Download or read book The Shade Under the Mango Tree written by Evy Journey and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two heartbreaking losses, Luna wants adventure. Something and somewhere very different from the affluent, sheltered home in California and Hawaii where she grew up. An adventure in which she can also make some difference. She ends up in place where she gets more than she bargained for.Lucien, a worldly, well-traveled young architect, finds a stranger's journal at a café. He has qualms and pangs of guilt about reading it. But they don't stop him. His decision to go on reading changes his life.Months later, Luna and Lucien meet at a bookstore where Luna works and which Lucien frequents. Fascinated by his stories and adventurous spirit, Luna goes to a rural rice-growing village in a country steeped in an ancient culture and a deadly history. What she finds there defies anything she could have imagined. Will she leave this world unscathed?An epistolary tale of courage, resilience of the human spirit, and the bonds that bring diverse people together.

Download or read book Lessons on Seduction written by Estelle Pettersen and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When college student Sapphire Blake finds herself fresh out of a breakup, she is ready to embark on a new journey in her life. A dark, sensual journey. Freeing herself from the expectations set by her family, friends, and church, an innocent and unworldly Sapphire begins experimenting with her new casual lover, Vera Richland. Julian Richland is ridiculously handsome, smart, and intimidating. This university professor finds himself enthralled in a sensual relationship with a woman willing to pay top money for his time in the bedroom. To pay off his debts and continue leading his lavish lifestyle, Julian discovers the world filled with sex, drugs, and lies may not be for him as he first thought. With his contract almost up, Julian has his sights set on a new endeavor. When the pair are introduced by none other than Julian's own sister, sparks are ignited as Julian sees past the conservative stigma Sapphire believes the world has placed on her. Instead, he sees a sexy vixen-and he can't help but admit he wants her.As the couple begins a dangerous, passionate liaison, secrets become exposed and lives are threatened. Will Julian be able to save his relationship with Sapphire and rekindle the fiery flame they share? Or, will fate have another ending in store? Find out in this thrilling and erotic new adult romance novel.

Download or read book The Silent Symphony written by Marcel M Du Plessis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassius Wortham leaves all he knows behind to make it as a writer in the City, a nameless, walled metropolis at the crossroads of the world. But things are not as they seem. His roommate might have mob connections, his artist friend has addiction issues, and the waitress at the poetry club has political aspirations. Not to mention the invisible spirit of history that follows them around waiting to chronicle a looming catastrophe. An overseas turmoil brings tides of refugees to the walls of the City. Ambitious leaders play at social engineering. The loudest voices are drowned in the growing silence. Only Cas, his friends and their ghostly tagalong hold the key to the future, for in the end the silent will decide the fate of the City. Listen...and you too may hear the instruments of the Silent Symphony.

Download or read book Hysterical Memories written by Eugene Wallace and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the story of a man's life that has been riddled and ruffled with emotionally unstable personality disorder, a known mental illness. Despite spending a considerable part of his life at various rehabilitation facilities, Eugene's life was largely marred with crazy-bound incidences. He was a convicted drug dealer with a history of violence. His case was so bad that he even attacked his dad with a claw hammer. He was everything you could think of when it came to drugs and crime. However, from the lowest depths of a mentally unstable man, Eugene rose to become one of UK's finest chefs of all time.

Download or read book The Practice of Concern written by John W. Traphagan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan explores ideas and practices related to religious ritual and health among older people in northern Japan. Drawing on more than three years of ethnographic fieldwork, Traphagan considers various forms of ritual performance and contextualizes these in terms of private and public spheres of activity. An important theme of the book is that for Japanese the expression of concern about family, friends, the community, and the nation is a central symbolic element in religious ritual practice. The book has important implications for research into religion and health, because it suggests that, in order to carry out successful cross-cultural research, it is necessary to move beyond conceptualizations of religion -- largely centering on concepts of belief, faith, forgiveness -- that have shaped much of the work in this area to date, because, as consideration of the Japanese context shows, the theological language of Western religions is not necessarily adequate to the task of understanding how health and religion are tied together in other cultures. Traphagan argues that there is a need to focus on how religious rituals are markers that symbolically convey information about embodied experience and how these markers express and are expressions of concerns about health and well-being. The Practice of Concern provides a detailed examination of Japanese religious practices both within the home and in the community, as well as a thorough discussion of Japanese concepts of health, well-being, and aging. In addition to those who are interested in medical anthropology, this book will be useful to gerontologists who are concerned with cross-cultural studies in aging. Because of the rich ethnographic detail presented, the book also provides an excellent introduction to Japanese religious and ritual practice and Japanese culture and society more broadly. This book is part of the Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology Series, edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. "[T]he book's basic argument is indeed innovative... well worth reading." -- Pacific Affairs "John Traphagan demonstrates why cross-cultural studies are critically necessary if we are to understand the range of meanings and experiences of age and aging in a pluralistic world." -- Journal of Japanese Studies "Gerontologists will find the book illuminating in its treatment of aging in cultural context in Japan as well as the meaning and significance of ritual and religion in this society. The key concepts of aging--ritual--health/wellness are intertwined; Traphagan does an excellent job of explaining the linkages as well as the cultural factors responsible for maintaining these links." -- Journal of Intergenerational Relationship "In addressing the full spectrum of topics concerning older adults' health and well-being along with the vast array of Japanese religious rituals, The Practice of Concern is uniquely ambitious in scope. At the same time, it is a thoughtful, ethnographically grounded account of rural life in Japan that produces useful insights for anyone with an interest in the cross-cultural study of aging and religion." -- Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging

Download or read book Embracing Uncertainty written by John W. Traphagan and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here you have the product of my thinking as an anthropologist who has studied and traveled to Japan for over thirty years. In one sense, the book is an anthropological memoir in which I work through ideas of uncertainty and undifferentiation evident in the writings of Dogen as they relate to ethics and culture, but also explore other thinkers like philosopher Richard Rorty and anthropologist Clifford Geertz. I describe what I call the ethnographic outlook, which has the potential to generate humility, as a potentially powerful means to transform both self and society. A central goal of the book is to explore the idea that all knowledge is inherently uncertain, including knowledge of right and wrong, and that the quest for certainty leads to many of the problems we see in the modern world. The book threads a discussion of jazz improvisation as a way of thinking about the human experience and presents the idea of the lead sheet as a metaphor for culture and the ongoing process of change that is the world.

Download or read book Neptune s Window written by L L Lewin and published by Triple L Press. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you had a glimpse into what others are oblivious to? According to the zodiac, the planet Neptune represents illusions, mystery, and the unconscious mind. Aries Dade is a teenage medium who has the ability to look inside those illusions and speak to the afterworld. But for some reason, she can't communicate with her recently deceased mother. With the help of a few spirits, she tries to discover the truth behind her mother's death. But can she trust the spirits? Aries and her father move to Newport Beach, California to start over. Little do they know they are unlocking a world of lies, betrayals, and deception. And everyone they come in contact with is somehow intertwined with her mother's death. When the star quarterback and a bad-boy senior vie for her attention, Aries senses something isn't right. Meanwhile, the rich, popular girls make her life a living hell to keep her from finding out the truth. First Glance is the first novel in the Neptune Window's trilogy. Do you dare to glance inside the window?

Download or read book Kate in the Land of Myths and Wonders written by J. P. H. Tan and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Kate's fifteenth birthday, she decides to take a weekend trip to Chiccago with her best friend, Gus, but a cataclysmic flood sweeps through the city streets and sends her tumbling into a world completely different from her own. In this land, lightning bolts act as magical staircases...mythical creatures come to life...and the exciting journey takes her from one mysterious realm to another. It is here that Kate, a girl with special needs and challenges, will finally be forced to grow up and confront some hard truths about herself. Kate runs into someone unexpected, and the teens are about to have the adventure of a lifetime! They will be whisked to the end-times, a distant land full of dangers and disasters where the evil queen Evrisx sets her sights on the young girl. Evrisx, with her unnatural powers and taste for human flesh, could not only harm Kate - she could doom the entire world with her actions! Will the teens be able to escape the disasters and return home? Enter the land of myths and wonders with Kate to find out.