Download or read book Bantering With The Evidence written by SJ WILKE and published by SJ WILKE. This book was released on with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banter, an ex-gun-for-hire, now works for the police force. Her uncanny ability to solve cases has made her in high demand. After spending time on leave over the summer, she is looking forward to working back in the office, until she has an auto accident. She now finds herself back on the couch under doctor’s orders to rest while she heals for a couple of months. To keep herself from going stir crazy, the police force sends her cold cases to review and solve. What Banter finds are some of the most unusual and mind twisting cases. Her investigations are pointing to solutions that even her most avid supporters are doubting. Just how many cases can someone sitting on a couch solve? And are all of them cold cases?

Download or read book Bantering With A Gun written by SJ WILKE and published by SJ WILKE. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banter used to work as a hired gun until she teamed up with Detective Corey Van Baine. After solving a mass murder case and him figuring out who she really is, Corey forces her into retirement. That is short-lived when a new killer stumps his department and he needs her help. Is it a serial killer, or another hired gun on a killing spree? Or something altogether different? No one can tell, but with the body count climbing, Banter finds herself enlisted to help on the case. However, a stalker is now plaguing Banter and she, who once was the hunter, is now the hunted. She must use all her skill and the advice of a five-year-old boy to survive and to crack both cases.

Download or read book Bantering With Herself written by SJ WILKE and published by SJ WILKE. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banter, an ex-gun-for-hire, now works for the police force. Her uncanny ability to solve cases has made her in high demand. But not all of the attention is good. Someone is stealing from the evidence room, and the goods keep showing up in her office. Locks are getting picked. Files are getting lost. Evidence is pointing at her, but Corey and her group don’t believe she is the one doing this, but others are talking. She is supposed to be just a consultant, helping people with cases, but she finds herself back out in the field. When she has to go rummaging through garbage cans, she makes a find of a lifetime. A find that alters her life, her marriage, and her relationship with Corey and his sons.

Download or read book Bantering With A Dandy written by SJ WILKE and published by SJ WILKE. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banter, an ex-gun-for-hire, now works for the police force. She is also a bit of a tom-boy, therefore, dresses and makeup aren’t her thing. However, she finds herself working undercover in a bar as a dolled-up dame trying to snag a drug lord, who wears a strong cologne that she can smell a mile away. Meantime, she is now a wife and mother with two young boys who create their own challenges with a husband who starts coming home late. And then there is the police force that needs a few updates to capture the criminals of the day. Banter feels like she has become the mother hen to the entire police force, which is having a few growing pains adapting to Banter and how she operates.

Download or read book Bantering With A Runaway written by SJ WILKE and published by SJ WILKE. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banter, an ex-gun-for-hire, now works for the police force. She is in high demand because of her uncanny ability to solve cases. However, she is now a mom to a newborn that is causing home to be anything but quiet and serene. She finds she can’t go anywhere without a baby attached to her. If that isn’t enough, Patsy, the bloodhound, points out a discarded teenager that needs a home, then Colo keeps going missing. Doesn’t he know that Banter can track him? Or maybe he does. And he is calling for help. When they discover a child molester is on the loose, she has the nightmare every parent dreads. Banter needs to go hunting. Events have gotten personal. Until the unthinkable happens, and it is Banter who ends up on trial.

Download or read book Cricket in the 21st Century written by Souvik Naha and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which cricket has reflected and reproduced some of the social and political tensions of the twenty-first century. Cricket’s struggle for global recognition and the shifting concerns about cricket’s perceived ‘character’ provide two of the most significant meta-narratives to shape the game’s historical and future development. However, in contrast to the degree of continuity these narratives appear to support, the game is currently undergoing a particularly rapid and radical phase of change. This book illustrates some of these dominant processes, that can be broadly categorized as the changing political economy of the game, the nation-specific manifestations of cricket’s political-economic landscape, and the intro- and retrospection within the English game. Cricket is not only thriving across the world, its global spread reveals narratives of migration, national and international politics, astute governance, empowerment of people, and cultural practices of everyday life. New ethical, political, and identity-related concerns have arisen with the reworking of the objectives and methods of playing and watching cricket. The chapters in this volume employ cricket as a useful conceptual tool to analyse the dynamics underwriting interactions between races, sexes, classes, and polities. Cricket in the 21st Century will be a fascinating read for students, scholars as well as general readers with an interest in the sociology and history of sport and global political economy. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Download or read book Martin Luther King Jr Homosexuality and the Early Gay Rights Movement written by Michael G. Long and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Luther King, Jr., was not an advocate of homosexual rights, nor was he an enemy; however both sides of the debate have used his words in their arguments, including his widow, in support of gay rights, and his daughter, in rejection. This fascinating situation poses the problem that Michael G. Long seeks to address and resolve.

Download or read book Bantering With Murder written by SJ WILKE and published by SJ WILKE. This book was released on with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banter is a gun for hire. After she does a hit in a park, she meets a good looking detective, Corey Van Baine, who is investigating the case. But he’s married. When Banter learns his marriage is on the rocks and his wife has left him, she becomes his unlikely therapist to help him overcome the devastation. However, Banter finds herself falling in love with him and suspects Corey is falling for her. A love affair enfolds via cellphones and brief glimpses as they do their jobs. Him, always one step behind her, trying to find out who she is, and she, leading him on… Until they find themselves working together on a mass murder case...and the bullets start flying.

Download or read book The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter written by Manuel Jobert and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter is the first book-length study analysing irony and banter together. This approach, inherited from Geoffrey Leech’s research, implies that the two notions are intrinsically related. In this thought-provoking volume, the various contributors (linguists, stylisticians, discourse analysts and literary scholars), while not necessarily agreeing on every aspect of this theoretical premise, discuss and develop the idea. In turn, they consider the workings of these two discursive practices in various corpora (face-to-face or digitally-mediated interactions, novels, comedy shows, etc.) thus providing a wealth of examples and case studies. This well-balanced positioning helps the reader to develop a better understanding of these complex discursive practices that play a crucial part in everyday interaction. Steering a course between traditional perspectives and new theoretical approaches, this innovative and exciting way of looking at irony and banter will no doubt open new avenues for research.

Download or read book The Pragmatics of Politeness written by Geoffrey N. Leech and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic British and American sources. Building on his earlier pioneering work on politeness, Geoffrey Leech takes a pragmatic approach that is based on the controversial notion that politeness is communicative altruism. Leech's 1983 book, Principles of Pragmatics, introduced the now widely-accepted distinction between pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of politeness; this book returns to the pragmalinguistic side, somewhat neglected in recent work. Drawing on neo-Gricean thinking, Leech rejects the prevalent view that it is impossible to apply the terms 'polite' or 'impolite' to linguistic phenomena. Leech covers all major speech acts that are either positively or negatively associated with politeness, such as requests, apologies, compliments, offers, criticisms, good wishes, condolences, congratulations, agreement, and disagreement. Additional chapters deal with impoliteness and the related phenomena of irony ("mock politeness") and banter ("mock impoliteness"), and with the role of politeness in the learning of English as a second language. A final chapter takes a fascinating look at more than a thousand years of history of politeness in the English language.

Download or read book It s Not Banter It s Racism written by Azeem Rafiq and published by Trapeze. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY OF ONE MAN WHO CHANGED THE FACE OF CRICKET FOREVER. 'Azeem's first legacy - a legacy carved at great personal expense - was to expose how cricket works. His second gift may be to expose how this country works, too.' Jonathan Liew When Azeem Rafiq was a young boy playing cricket near his home in Pakistan, he could never have foreseen that this sport would change his life forever. He fell in love with the game quickly and it wasn't long before the white flannels and green grass felt like home to him. When he moved to England, he became the youngest man to captain a Yorkshire side and the first person of Asian descent to do so. His talent was undeniable, and doors were opening for him. But there was something Azeem was bottling up and it was about to explode out of him and shake the whole cricket world, and wider society, out of their slumber. It's Not Banter, It's Racism is the never before-told truth behind the racism accusations that shocked a nation, from the moment Azeem spoke up to the resulting events that have altered his world entirely. With heartbreaking honesty, Azeem reveals why he will always use his voice in a society that would prefer him to be voiceless. 'Azeem has stood up to the world, spoken back against evil. He has had victories. He has failed. He extends charity to others and he says no: no to racism. Because we must be better than our worst.' Stan Grant 'Azeem's dream was to help England win the Ashes. That wasn't to be. But maybe, one day we'll reflect that his legacy to the game is far greater than winning any amount of Test series.' George Dobell 'A principled whistleblower who stood up for what was right, Azeem has changed cricket forever.' Jennifer Robinson

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Download or read book The Detective s Companion in Crime Fiction written by Lucy Andrew and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular role—either to act as the foil to the detective in order to accentuate their own abilities at solving crimes, or else to simply tell the story to the reader. Instead, essays in the collection explore the representations and functions of the detective’s sidekick across a range of forms and subgenres of crime fiction. By incorporating forms such as children’s detective fiction, comics and graphic novels and film and television alongside the more traditional fare of novels and short stories, this book aims to break down the boundaries that sometimes exist between these forms, using the sidekick as a defining thread to link them together into a wider conceptual argument that covers a broad range of crime narratives.

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Download or read book The Last of Philip Banter written by John Franklin Bardin and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1947 cult classic from acclaimed crime writer John Franklin Bardin, now available for the first time in eBook edition. Philip Banter is a little too fond of drink, and his marriage isn't what it should be. He's also troubled by a penchant for forgetting. That doesn't mean he's losing his mind. Then Philip finds a manuscript entitled "Confession" in his office. He reads about a surprise dinner party his wife held, of the conversation that took place, and —to his horror—of his own infidelity. But the "confession" turns out to be a prophecy, accurate in almost every detail. Is he the victim of a conspiracy to drive him mad, or did he type the manuscript himself? As the "confession" grows lengthier and more destructive, can he find the willpower to resist its terrifying inevitability?

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