Download or read book Santa s Subpoena written by Rebecca Zanetti and published by RAZ INK LLC. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So Much for Peace During the Holidays Anna Albertini has her hands full during the holiday season. Her boyfriend Aiden is back in town after being undercover across the country for the last three months, and his sudden over-protectiveness is a little too much. In addition, Nonna’s latest matchmaking scheme has been so far thwarted by the two most stubborn candidates alive, and Nonna is out of patience and bringing out the big guns. Anna is forced to both protect her sister and run interference, when she’d like to jump in and find a happily ever after for everyone instead. To add to her already hectic life, her life-long stalker is about to make a move and doesn’t hide that frightening fact, although Anna is more than ready for him. In fact, she’s willing to draw him out to finally bring him down—regardless of the consequences. Finally, Santa has been arrested and charged for murder, needing a good lawyer. Who would arrest Santa? Anna can’t let this stand. It’s a good thing Christmas is a time of magic and miracles, because she’s going to need one.
Download or read book Aliens written by Marvel Various and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2024-10-02 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if…Carter Burke had lived? For years, fans of James Cameron's legendary Aliens film questioned whether Carter Burke, a company man more hateable than the Xenos themselves, had actually survived the traumatic events on the terraforming colony Hadley's Hope. Now the actor behind the beloved villain, Paul Reiser, joins his son Leon and a star-studded team of writers and producers for the twisted escape of a man who should have died! Thirty-five years later, Burke is eking out a cursed existence on a backwater asteroid. With his once-promising career in the toilet, Burke's only remaining purpose is to care for his daughter, Brie - who already hates him. So what happens when she finds out what he's up to now, and the Xenomorphs hit the fan? Has Burke learned his lesson, or is his fate only to suffer a different, even more horrible death?! Collecting ALIENS: WHAT IF…? #1-5.
Download or read book Elmet written by Fiona Mozley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 AND THE PFD/SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD AND THE POLARI PRIZE 'A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable' The Economist 'A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievement' TLS 'Pastoral idyll, political exposé, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a traditional children's story that turns into a gangster film: Hansel and Gretel meets The Godfather' Sunday Times Daniel is heading north. He is looking for someone. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and Cathy has turned menacing and fearful. They lived apart in the house that Daddy built for them in the woods with his bare hands. They foraged and hunted. Cathy was more like their father: fierce and full of simmering anger. Daniel was more like their mother: gentle and kind. Sometimes, their father disappeared, and would return with a rage in his eyes. But when he was at home, he was at peace. He told them that the little copse in Elmet was theirs alone. But that wasn't true. Local men, greedy and watchful, began to circle like vultures. All the while, the terrible violence in Daddy grew. Brutal and beautiful in equal measure, Elmet is a compelling portrayal of a family living on the fringes of contemporary society, as well as a gripping exploration of the disturbing actions people are capable of when pushed to their limits.
Download or read book My Father s Son written by Stephen W. Trout and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A secret from Christians past haunts him following the murder of one friend, the suicide of another, and his wifes fatal car accident. Christian searches for a connection between his secret and these recent deaths. At the core of My Fathers Son is the dysfunctional relationship between Christian and his father. This father-son dynamic is a central theme as the relationships between the four main characters and their fathers unfold. Discovering Christians secret is only the beginning; each succeeding chapter brings a new revelation. In the end, this is a story of the redemptive power of friendship, family, and love.
Download or read book Mine written by Atlas Rose and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family is everything... I always knew my father was a cold, heartless bastard. But the moment he took Elle Castlemaine and her pathetic daughter into our home, barely a month after our mom died, he unleashed something savage inside me. I didn't care they lost their home. Didn't care their father was behind bars. Didn't care he betrayed the notorious Stidda Mafia boss, Benjamin Rossi, and now their lives were in danger. All I cared about was her. Ryth. I wanted to hurt her. Wanted to make her squirm. I wanted to make her pay for the moans coming from my father's bedroom. When he slipped a ring onto her mother's finger, Ryth became mine. Mine to bully. Mine to break. And I'll use my brothers to do it. She'll become our favorite obsession. Our sick, tormented game. She'll become the only thing I think about, until not thinking about her tears me apart. I'll hate her. I'll hate her so much it hurts...
Download or read book Coal Black Heart written by John Demont and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new work of history, told through the stories of a teeming cast of characters. The history of coal is the story of the last two centuries of the industrialized world. Coal has powered that world, and controlled the destinies of millions. And nowhere has that influence run more deeply than in Nova Scotia, where the industry’s rise and decline has transformed society twice. Coal Black Heart is a global history that centres unapologetically on one province, and the generations of people whose lives there have been shaped by this dominating industry. There are the miners. There are the moonshiners and brooding social reformers and charismatic preachers who gave the mining towns their particular feel and flair. And there are the profiteers whose greed led to disaster. This is history as great storytelling - enthralling, involving, deeply moving, and it is a very personal narrative. A brilliant reporter, journalist, and author who has spent most of his career examining Nova Scotia’s weave of land, people, and history - and who grew up listening to its stories - John DeMont was born to write this book.
Download or read book From Rings to Ringlets written by Marcel Haigy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true tale of a cherubic angel, born of Scottish, Welsh, and Turkish decent. Early that morning in the middle of a blinding snow storm, with the temperature hovering near zero, the bedlam began. An antiquated oblong oak table in Grandma Lloyd's kitchen, was scrubbed and sanitized in preparation of my exalted arrival, plus being the first grandchild and a boy, held great momentous value! For better or worse, his story is a result of growing up on the rough side of a rough world. After many fights, both amateur and professional, I met an old friend who was in the beauty business. Attracted by the lure of money, I changed my name, got a manicure and became an International Hairdressing Champion. This is a recounting of the adventures of both worlds and the activities and ventures in between, some legitimate and some...well...! It is a true and fascinating story, as one New York writer once penned, "From Ring to Ringlets".
Download or read book The Middle of Somewhere written by Suzanne Stryk and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s no such thing as the middle of nowhere. Everywhere is the middle of somewhere for some living being. That was Suzanne Stryk’s mantra as she journeyed through her home state on a mission to re-create Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. The founding father’s work surveys the region’s natural history and, as one might expect from a philosopher-statesman living more than 230 years ago, is fact packed and formally written. The Middle of Somewhere takes a different approach—to interpret Virginia land and life from a contemporary perspective and an artist’s point of view. Stryk kayaks pristine swamps in river country, wanders the galleries of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, hikes rocky trails crisscrossing the Appalachians, and strolls the dusty streets of old coal towns. In these sacred spaces she encounters frogs, millipedes, ravens, dragonflies, sparrows, turtles, and many other species that claim a particular place as home. Weaving in historical anecdotes and personal memories, Stryk relates her encounters with all of these beings in their “somewheres.” The creatures in their habitats and the people she meets are characters in the book, a tapestry of essays, lush sketches, and ephemera. Stryk’s multimedia collages, composed of dead bugs, tourist pamphlets, road maps, pressed leaves, rusty farm equipment, animal bones, and handwritten directions, all artistically arranged over USGS topographic maps, bring the narrative to life. Stryk’s personal reflections and conversational tone make readers feel as if they are traveling across Virginia with a friend, one who is at times funny and at other times deeply reflective. As we accompany her, she challenges us to travel slowly, tread lightly, and look closely at each somewhere that defines a place.
Download or read book Getting Out of Jersey written by Matthew Paul Esham and published by MP Esham. This book was released on 2010 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Daniel Ryan returns home from the destruction of Rome all he wants to do is escape his fractured memories, but he finds his small town plagued by strange and disturbing events. As he struggles to figure out what is going on in his head he finds himself drawn closer and closer to a withdrawn and mysterious young lady – and the answers he may not want to know.
Download or read book Red Rising written by Pierce Brown and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pierce Brown’s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. “Red Rising ascends above a crowded dystopian field.”—USA Today ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness “I live for the dream that my children will be born free,” she says. “That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.” “I live for you,” I say sadly. Eo kisses my cheek. “Then you must live for more.” Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity’s overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society’s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even if it means he has to become one of them to do so. Praise for Red Rising “[A] spectacular adventure . . . one heart-pounding ride . . . Pierce Brown’s dizzyingly good debut novel evokes The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, and Ender’s Game. . . . [Red Rising] has everything it needs to become meteoric.”—Entertainment Weekly “Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow.”—Scott Sigler “Red Rising is a sophisticated vision. . . . Brown will find a devoted audience.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga: RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER
Download or read book Archangels of Funk written by Andrea Hairston and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Run from your past. Hide from your future. Protect your present. The Water Wars have scrambled the world. Flood refugees are on the run. Disrupters and the nostalgia militia roam the roads wreaking havoc. Invisible Darknet Lords troll the internet, solidifying their power, while Cinnamon, her three Circus-Bots, and two dogs work with a community of farmers, Motor Fairies, and Wheel-Wizards to provide housing, health care and education for flood refugees. As Cinnamon confronts threats from the Darknet Lords and the nostalgia militia, she must determine how best to honor her elders and her history while building a future for herself and her charges. It’s not going to be easy. Praise for Archangels of Funk: “Andrea Hairston creates original, layered, complex worlds that are a treat to explore, but what I love most is the people she creates for them. Archangels of Funk is brimming with characters who face adversity with love, hope, art, stories, history, and their bonds with each other. It's a celebration of radiant creativity as a bulwark against despair.” ―Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Bloody Ground written by John F. Day and published by . This book was released on 2014-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John F. Day's stark description of life in the coalfields of Eastern Kentucky in the 1930s is a classic of Appalachian literature, "an eloquent preface," as Thomas D. Clark has written, to what became "a broader state and national concern about Appalachia." Published on the eve of the Second World War, Bloody Ground was greeted at first with acclaim-and, in some quarters, indignation-but then was almost forgotten as the nation's attention focused on the war. In the forty years that have passed since the writing of Bloody Ground, dramatic changes have swept over Appalachia, but the dilemma that John Day described has not been resolved.
Download or read book Sunset of Blacks written by ANAND KRISHNA PANICKER and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT STAYS IN THE WORLD AND KEEPS CHASING US FOREVER Foreword by Dr. Okechukwu Ekemezie.'Mr. Konrad finds an abandoned baby on his door step in Germany. Within minutes of his arrival, they share the enlivening touch. Konrad believes there is something that bonds him to Bako. For Konrad, Bako’s origin was an invitation into a world of mysteries, highly classified information, and scientific tech. For Bako, a series of nightmares lead him to a whole new fatal world of reveals. Will he be able to overcome the most formidable hurdles? Will Konrad trace Bako’s roots? Police Inspector Kariyappa and Forensics Scientist Buker joins to investigate the barbaric crime in the woods, will they catch the culprits? This is the story of a set of individuals who chose a different path to follow their purpose. The ones who broke the stereotypes, whom the society labelled as the odds. A pack of multi-potentials who cut their roots to change the destiny of their race. Will they make it? To find the sole purpose, to refine it like a piece of gold. You can live the life hat gives meaning to your life. You could be the last piece of a puzzle. To break free of everything and run the world as the dominant, the chosen or the fellow radical man.
Download or read book You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News written by The Editors of Cracked and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This witty collection of trivia is perfect for those who hate to be wrong and love to shock their friends with their knowledge of hilarious and astounding facts.
Download or read book Out Here on Our Own written by J. J. Anselmi and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-10 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.J. Anselmi’s Out Here on Our Own tells the story of Rock Springs, Wyoming, a mining boomtown with a history of brutal racial violence, widespread addiction, prostitution, and a staggeringly high per-capita suicide rate—yet a place that has proved remarkably resilient. Anselmi stitches together an array of original interviews with people who’ve seen those things firsthand, tracing the boom-bust trajectory of a town known for its corruption, vice, and violence. Amid such horrors as the massacre of Chinese miners in 1885 and the ongoing methamphetamine and opioid epidemics, the town has fought hard to keep its identity of rugged individualism intact. In 2022 Rock Springs is slipping into yet another bust. Anselmi’s narrative offers searing personal accounts of a community in crisis, whose problems are fanned by severely limited mental health resources, dying industries, and Wyoming’s still-pervasive idea that people should deal with their troubles alone. In a community’s own words, Out Here on Our Own depicts a place that’s as tough and weathered as the sagebrush and sandstone surrounding it.
Download or read book Organized Labor in the Nonferrous Mining Industry the History of the Western Federation of Miners and the International Union of Mines Mills and Smaller Workers written by Ronald C. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Belknap and Beyond written by Curtis Helvey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belknap And Beyond is a work of fiction based on experiences I had teaching near the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. The story is about a Native family who has a member in jail from a meth murder. The youngest son has to help the older brother who is in prison even though he never trusted him before. It is about people recovering from modern problems and Native American culture. There is also another character introduced after a family tragedy who relocates to Bozeman. If you enjoy real life experiences this book is for you.
