Download or read book Billie s Ghost written by Chad Hautmann and published by Plume. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this moving story of love, loss, redemption, and jazz, a woman who looks like singer Billie Holiday offers solace to a grieving widower.
Download or read book Ghost Academy written by E C Farrell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I wake up at Locklear Academy, I have no memory of how I got here... or any memories at all. Oh, yeah, and did I mention that I'm dead? If I ever want to pass on, I'm going to have to recover my past. Easier said than done. But Locklear, aka Ghost Academy, specializes in helping spirits take care of their unfinished business. There are just a few problems. First, the X-ers, an extremist group whose main goal is to forcibly send ghosts like me into the great whatever beyond, painfully and without that sense of peace we crave. Then there's the polter-ghost who has been following me around since I got here. But my biggest distraction comes in the form of Rafe: a fox shifter with the most adorable dimples, carrying around way more guilt than any ghost deserves. Maybe I shouldn't have a crush in the afterlife, but I'm dead, not blind. As my memories start to resurface, so do the threats from the X-ers. The clock is ticking and every moment I'm here becomes more dangerous. Not just because of the X-ers, but because the more time I spend with Rafe, the less I want to move on.Ghost Academy is a YA paranormal academy / urban fantasy that will contribute to your reading related insomnia. This is book one of the Ghost Academy Duology and a spin off of Blakemore Academy.
Download or read book Ghost Beads written by Billie Annette and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost Beads By: Billie Annette Ghost Beads is Billie Annette’s second poetry collection. Once again, her unique perspective of life will grip readers’ innermost selves and shake their minds to delve further into these thought-provoking poems. The prose within will awaken and challenge minds. Appreciating the prose within, readers will want more. Early readers of this work are quoted are quoted: “This is a treasure to be discovered!” “I cried, I was angry, I laughed.” “I am left to think alone in my mind and contemplate the beauty of life and love.” “I am so honored to read these poems. I want to first say that I am crying… you gifted me with these words as if you see through my soul.”
Download or read book Billie Bradley And Her Inheritance Or The Queer Homestead At Cherry Corners written by JANET D. WHEELER and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Billie Bradley And Her Inheritance: Or The Queer Homestead At Cherry Corners" by means of Janet D. Wheeler is an interesting novel that delves into the life of Billie Bradley and her adventures in Cherry Corners. The story unfolds as Billie abruptly inherits a peculiar abode in Cherry Corners, presenting her with a unique set of demanding situations and mysteries to get to the bottom of. As she navigates the intricacies of her newfound inheritance, Billie encounters quirky characters, reveals own family secrets, and embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Wheeler's narrative skillfully blends elements of mystery, adventure, and humor, keeping readers captivated by using the unfolding occasions. The old fashioned putting of Cherry Corners offers a charming backdrop for the story, and Wheeler weaves a story that isn't simplest interesting but also wealthy in man or woman development. The novel explores themes of circle of relatives, identification, and resilience, making it a compelling read for those who revel in tales that combine mystery with a touch of humor and coronary heart. With its enticing plot and well-crafted characters, "Billie Bradley And Her Inheritance" offers readers an fun literary escapade into the specific global of Cherry Corners.
Download or read book Ghost Of A Chance written by Flo Fitzpatrick and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter Laughing Six straight men in the cast plus free Tex-Mex food? My friend Lida sure knew how to persuade me. I signed on the dotted line and dusted off my dance shoes. I knew Bad Business on the Brazos would have them rolling in the aisles and standing up to cheer, whichever came first. But I didn't expect the ghost problem. As in the ghost of Don Mueller, the actor who was killed during the last performance of this show fifty years ago. He's flirting with me in a spectral kind of way. . .and a ghost can make interesting things happen to a girl. Like the gorgeous man on stage with me: Rafe Montez, my secret crush--also known as He Whose Perfect Profile Should Be On A Coin. I'm talking six feet of chiseled yumminess here. Lida thinks Rafe is only acting, but that kiss we share in Act II sure feels real to me. As in earth-shaking, can't-breathe real. . . Flo Fitzpatrick is a performer, teacher, and choreographer, with a BFA in dance and a masters degree in Drama. She first attempted to write a novel at the age of eight, but she was persuaded not to submit the piece by her brothers, who were skeptical that her characters could travel across the Atlantic from New York to London--by train. A transplanted Texan, Flow currently lives in New Jersey with her husband Ed and their two Border Collie wannabes, Lucy and Hawk.
Download or read book The Ghost a Reed Billie Novel written by Dustin Stevens and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Months into the new hybrid role that was created for Detective Reed Mattox and his K-9 partner Billie, things have returned to some semblance of normalcy. A summer spent working the graveyard shift out of the 8th Precinct with the Columbus Police Department and only the occasional side job for the state Bureau of Criminal Investigations. A stretch allowing them to put the chaos of the spring behind them and to largely avoid any interaction with the governor who selected them for the role. Their moment of peace ends abruptly with a call to the small town of Piketon in the middle of the night. A request for outside presence to oversee an investigation into the sudden and inexplicable death of seventeen-year-old Bridger Van Cott. The star quarterback of the local high school team was found dead behind the wheel of his Trans Am six days before the season opener, the vehicle festooned in the colors of the team?s rival and first opponent. For a community still reeling from a tragedy of national proportions just a few years prior, the newest incident has the potential to become volatile. Reed and Billie?s first task is to tamp the simmering tensions and avoid. a collision brewing between neighboring communities, Their second, to determine what happened to the young man who was already awarded a full scholarship to play major college football next year. Someone with no known enemies or medical conditions and a crime scene containing no signs of a break in or struggle.
Download or read book With Powder on My Nose written by Billie Burke and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from her successful 1949 memoir “With a Feather on My Nose,” here we have a further biography, first published in 1959, from famous Broadway and early silent film actress Billie Burke, best known as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in The Wizard of Oz and widow of Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld of Ziegfeld Follies fame. Co-author Cameron Shipp, a ghost writer who had also worked with Mack Sennett and Lionel Barrymore, assisted in assembling Miss Burke’s copious notes and transcribed her enthusiastic monologues into this wonderful biography filled with good-humoured advice on marriage, career, exercise, food (included are some delicious recipes!), and even perfecting the art of lying about your age! A most enjoyable trip down a career film star’s memory lane.
Download or read book Billie Starr s Book of Sorries written by Deborah E. Kennedy and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Funny yet bitingly realistic look at small-town life...A grim literary mystery and a hopeful family story, this genre-blending novel manages to be both charming and heartbreaking.” —Kirkus “An enthralling suspense thriller...Exquisite prose matches deep characterization. Kennedy deserves to win an Edgar.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Sometimes, a woman has to rescue herself. Jenny Newberg, Queen of Bad Decisions, is about to make another one. In a small town where everyone knows everyone’s business, down-on-her-luck single mother Jenny is on a first-name basis with the debt collector at the bank, who is moving toward foreclosure. She is constantly apologizing to her precocious young daughter, Billie Starr, who is filling a book with her mother’s sorries, and it seems to Jenny that no apology will ever be enough. Then a pair of strangers in black suits offers her a hefty check to seduce someone known as the Candidate. Finally, something will go her way. But nothing ever goes as Jenny plans, and she is swept into the Candidate’s orbit. Surrounded by a wide universe of new ideas, she realizes how constrained her life has been by the expectations of everyone around her, and she starts to see how much more she might be capable of. And when her world is rocked to its core and Billie Starr may be in danger, Jenny is forced to do what she once thought impossible: trust in herself and her own power to make things right. Shimmering with rage and sparkling with subtle humor, Billie Starr's Book of Sorries showcases Edgar Award-nominee Deborah E. Kennedy's singular voice and shines a light on the town of Benson, Indiana, where lakes, grudges, and family rifts run deep – but so does a mother’s love.
Download or read book A Dad for Billie written by Susan Mallery and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery’s beloved story about how the hardest mistakes can sometimes lead to the best surprises… From the moment a baseball smashes through his window, banker Adam Barrington’s life is never quite the same. The guilty party, an eight-year-old tomboy, soon turns his household upside down. But that shock is nothing compared to when Adam discovers who Billie's mother is… Jane Southwick knows that coming back home won’t be easy, and that living next door to Adam again will be sweet torture. But it’s pure joy to see the delightful bond growing between him and her daughter—despite the guilty secret that clutches at Jane’s heart.
Download or read book Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance Or The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners written by Janet D. Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billie Bradley fell heir to an old homestead that was unoccupied and located far away in a lonely section of the country.
Download or read book Ghost written by Jason Reynolds and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school's track team, gifted runner Ghost finds his goal challenged by a tragic past with a violent father.
Download or read book Ghost Detective written by Scott William Carter and published by Flying Raven Press. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unseen written by Karin Slaughter and published by Dell. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Detectives, lovers, and enemies face off in an unforgettable battle between righteous courage and deepest evil, from “one of the best crime novelists in America” (The Washington Post). WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC • “Compelling . . . Slaughter balances a complex plot with believable twists while sensitively exploring her realistic characters’ emotions and problems.”—South Florida Sun-Sentinel Will Trent is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent, working undercover in Macon, Georgia, posing as Bill Black, a scary ex-con who trails an air of violence wherever he goes. The cover has worked and he has caught the eye of a wiry little drug dealer who thinks he might be a useful ally. But there’s a problem. Cut off from the support of the woman he loves, Sara Linton, Will finds his demons catching up with him. Although she has no idea where Will has gone, or why, Sara herself has come to Macon because of a cop shooting. Her stepson, Jared, has been gunned down. Suddenly, without even knowing it, Sara finds herself involved in the same case that Will is working—with danger swirling around both of them. A novel of fierce intensity, shifting allegiances, and shocking twists, Unseen is an electrifying thriller and a piercing study of human nature: what happens when good people face the unseen evils in their lives.
Download or read book My Brother s Advocate a Sister s Promise written by Pamela Jey and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 12 years, the case of a young mans suspicious death in Delaware has gone cold. John Edwards, a Kevin Spacey look-alike and veteran police officer-turned investigator, joins up with amateur investigator Sarah Hunter in a quest to solve the mystery. But as they gather facts for the case, John and Sarah must come to terms with their own grisly pasts...and deal with their growing feelings for one another. The truth behind this young mans tragic death is within their reach, however, dark forces outside of their control are working against them. If they are going to make it through, they will have to discover strengths they never new they had and learn to trust in something bigger than themselves in the suspense-filled ride of My Brothers Advocate.
Download or read book The Ghosts of Paris written by Tara Moss and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping story of secrets and intrigue set in postwar London and Paris. The search for a missing husband forces investigator and former war reporter Billie Walker to face the ghosts of her own painful past, and sets her on a collision course with an underground network of Nazis ... It's 1947. The world continues to grapple with the fallout of the Second World War, and former war reporter Billie Walker is finding her feet as an investigator. When a wealthy client hires Billie and her assistant Sam to track down her missing husband, the trail leads Billie back to London and Paris, where Billie's own painful memories also lurk. Jack Rake, Billie's wartime lover and briefly, husband, is just one of the millions people who went missing in Europe during the war. What was his fate after they left Paris together? As Billie's search for her client's husband takes her to both the swanky bars at Paris's famous Ritz hotel and to the dank basements of the infamous Paris morgue, she'll need to keep her gun at the ready, because something even more terrible than a few painful memories might be following her around the city of lights ... 'The romance of Paris, the adrenaline rush of a deadly chase, a soul-shattering secret, and a resilient heroine make for a gripping read' Booklist 'Postwar Sydney, London, and Paris come alive ... A richly detailed historical mystery that spotlights social issues like postwar persecution of LGBTQ communities in both Sydney and Paris. [A] riveting series.' Library Journal, starred review Praise for The War Widow: 'A terrific read' Lynda La Plante 'It's a cracking thriller, with a marvellous, strong, flamboyant heroine. Loved it.' Joanne Harris, award-winning author of Chocolat 'Retro noir with a gutsy heroine and atmospheric setting ... vivid, page-turning historical crime, better written than most' Sydney Morning Herald 'Billie Walker is a character you will cheer for' Vancouver Sun 'A cinematic and important feminist noir - dark as midnight velvet, and tough as steel. Do not miss this!' Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author of The First To Lie
Download or read book Bop Apocalypse written by Martin Torgoff and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: !--[if gte mso 9] ![endif]-- The gripping story of the rise of early drug culture in America, from the author of the acclaimed Can't Find My Way Home With an intricate storyline that unites engaging characters and themes and reads like a novel, Bop Apocalypse details the rise of early drug culture in America by weaving together the disparate elements that formed this new and revolutionary segment of the American social fabric. Drawing upon his rich decades of writing experience, master storyteller Martin Torgoff connects the birth of jazz in New Orleans, the first drug laws, Louis Armstrong, Mezz Mezzrow, Harry Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, swing, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, the Savoy Ballroom, Reefer Madness, Charlie Parker, the birth of bebop, the rise of the Beat Generation, and the coming of heroin to Harlem. Aficionados of jazz, the Beats, counterculture, and drug history will all find much to enjoy here, with a cast of characters that includes vivid and memorable depictions of Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Jackie McLean, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Borroughs, Jack Kerouac, Herbert Huncke, Terry Southern, and countless others. Bop Apocalypse is also a living history that teaches us much about the conflicts and questions surrounding drugs today, casting many contemporary issues in a new light by connecting them back to the events of this transformative era. At a time when marijuana legalization is rapidly becoming a reality, it takes us back to the advent of marijuana prohibition, when the templates of modern drug law, policy, and culture were first established, along with the concomitant racial stereotypes. As a new opioid epidemic sweeps through white working- and middle-class communities, it brings us back to when heroin first arrived on the streets of Harlem in the 1940s. And as we debate and grapple with the gross racial disparities of mass incarceration, it puts into sharp and provocative focus the racism at the very roots of our drug war. Having spent a lifetime at the nexus of drugs and music, Torgoff reveals material never before disclosed and offers new insights, crafting and contextualizing Bop Apocalypse into a truly novel contribution to our understanding of jazz, race, literature, drug culture, and American social and cultural history.
Download or read book The Devil s Line written by Marrisse Whittaker and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cop targets those who shatter the innocence of the young in this novel by the author of The Magpie, finalist for the Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction. DSI Billie Wilde is back at work after a shocking case that saw her life thrown into utter turmoil. But she refuses to let the past drag her down. When a teenage girl is killed, her body discovered on train tracks, Billie sets about focusing all her attention on finding out who is responsible and why. As Billie and the police find a link between the girl’s murder and a County Lines gang—traffickers notorious for exploiting the vulnerable—the case takes a sinister turn. Someone has been using children to peddle drugs. Someone who will stop at nothing to get what they want. Someone who is closer to home than Billie can imagine . . .
