Download or read book Bloody Bananas written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When supermarket employee Nelson Grant is found bludgeoned to death next to a half empty crate of bananas, the case seems a complete mystery. For Nelson Grant was well liked by his colleagues, so who could possibly want him dead? But then Detective Inspector Helen Shepherd and her team discover that the crate contained more than just bananas and the case suddenly acquires a whole new dimension. This is a mystery novelette of 12300 words or approximately 45 print pages in the Helen Shepherd Mysteries series, but may be read as a standalone.
Download or read book Living on Mars the play written by Bill Reed and published by Reed Independent. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry had one good eye until the surgeon lost even that one’s lens down some drain. He had a wife he could call his own until she started to shack up very noisily with some young turk Australian postgraduate in his (Henry’s) own home. He had a housekeeper until she left in built-up disgust claiming Henry continuously confessed to some vague past unspeakable crime. Henry also had this itch which his new housekeeper – his wife’s cousin – could keep in check with her very personal fingernails. Then there was his house-full of irreplaceable objects until his new housekeeper’s husband came along and proceeded to methodically clean him out. Try as he might, though, Henry couldn’t get rid of was his famous father’s specimen jars of Australian Aboriginal parts... an internationally acclaimed collection which no one, not even the housekeeper’s husband, wanted to rid him off. All this was obviously conspiring to rob him of his morning banana. The thing is he didn’t even have his Australia anymore since fate’s blindness had him stranded there in Port Moresby, where even people he didn’t know were outside gathering into an angry mob just because (he thinks) he is he. Unfair is unfair no matter how incapable you are of looking at it. Still, Henry always had the driven-self of living on Mars, if only he could have gotten around to it.
Download or read book Living on Mars written by Bill Reed and published by Reed Independent. This book was released on 2016-01-16 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harvesting of 6 full-length plays by Bill Reed which have not been published in book or ebook form before, yet were performed by professional companies.
Download or read book Blood written by Ellen Datlow and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of “mesmerizing tales, each one creepier than the next” that go beyond the traditional vampire myths (Library Journal). When we think of vampires, an image instantly arises: fangs sunk deep into the throat of the victim. But bloodsucking is merely one form of vampirism. For this brilliantly original anthology, multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow solicited stories from many of the most powerfully dark voices in contemporary horror, who conjure tales that will chill readers to the marrow. In addition to the traditional fanged creatures, Datlow presents stories about the leeching of emotion, the draining of the soul, and other dark deeds of predation and exploitation, infestation, and evisceration . . . tales of life essence, literal or metaphorical, stolen. Seventeen stories by such acclaimed authors as Elizabeth Bear, Richard Bowes, Kathe Koja, Margo Lanagan, Carol Emshwiller, and Lisa Tuttle redefine the terror of vampirism.
Download or read book The Beast from the Sea of Blood written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They seek a treasure and find a monster… Thurvok, the sellsword, and his friends Meldom, thief, cutpurse and occasional assassin, the sorceress Sharenna and Meldom’s sweetheart Lysha are on the hunt for a legendary pirate treasure, when they find themselves marooned on a desolate isle. To add insult to injury, there is no treasure on the island. There are, however, monsters… This is a short story of 5400 words or 20 print pages in the Thurvok sword and sorcery series, but may be read as a standalone. Includes an introduction and afterword.
Download or read book The Black Isle written by Sandi Tan and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “ambitious, supernatural coming-of-age story” (The LA Times) is a sweeping tale of ghosts in the modern world, and one woman's struggle to create her own destiny. There are ghosts on the Black Isle. Ghosts that no one can see. No one...except Cassandra. Uprooted from Shanghai with her father and twin brother, young Cassandra finds the Black Isle's bustling, immigrant-filled seaport, swampy jungle, and grand rubber plantations a sharp contrast to the city of her childhood. And she soon makes another discovery: the Black Isle is swarming with ghosts. Haunted and lonely, Cassandra at first tries to ignore her ability to see the restless apparitions that drift down the street and crouch in cold corners at school. Yet despite her struggles with these spirits, Cassandra comes to love her troubled new home. And soon, she attracts the notice of a dangerously charismatic man. Even as she becomes a fearless young woman, the Isle's dark forces won't let her go. War is looming, and Cassandra wonders if her unique gift might be her beloved island's only chance for salvation . . . Taking readers from the 1920s, through the Japanese occupation during WWII, to the Isle's radical transformation into a gleaming cosmopolitan city, The Black Isle is a sweeping epic--a deeply imagined, fiercely original tale from a vibrant new voice in fiction.
Download or read book The Growing Pains of Jennifer Ebert Aged 19 Going on 91 written by David M. Barnett and published by Trapeze. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The characters jump right off the page and into your heart.' Reader review From the bestselling author of CALLING MAJOR TOM comes a heartwarming comedy about unlikely friendships and community. Fans of The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes by Ruth Hogan, The Man I Think I Know by Mike Gayle, The Map of Us by Jules Preston, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, and Checking Out by Nick Spalding will love this. Nineteen-year-old Jennifer is regretting her hasty move into Sunset Promenade, an unusual retirement home taking in students to save money. Despite their differences in age, Jennifer and the older residents thrive and embark on a series of new adventures. But when Sunset Promenade is threatened with closure, cracks begin to show, and this quirky group of friends must work together to save their home. The Growing Pains of Jennifer Ebert, aged 19 going on 91 is a funny, warm and uplifting novel about the importance of friendship, the value of community, and how it's never too late to have the time of your life... 'I loved every word of this book and would advise people take an afternoon off, find a comfy spot and lose yourself for a few hours in the world of Sunset Promenade.' Reader review Readers are loving The Growing Pains of Jennifer Ebert 'Brilliant page turner' 'this is a lovely book' 'a really good read' 'a wonderful story' ******************* Previously published as The Lonely Hearts Cinema Club
Download or read book Paradise Fermenting written by Gerd Balke and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A German photographer on assignment in Sri Lanka, stumbles across a beautiful American woman. Together they narrowly escape a suicide bombing by a local terrorist group. Taking a break from work, in a country that most would describe as paradise, they find that first impressions are totally misleading. Paradise is a personal experience, as are appearances, and what may be lovable for some can by quite barbaric for others. The real paradise however - the actual Garden of Eden - they never thought truly existed. Not until an American anthropology professor assures them that it does. He is convinced of having found the biblical paradise, but seems to have forgotten that it is a place where sin originated. Chasing their individual dreams, a group of drifters joins him on the journey to paradise, but instead of the heaven they expect, they find nothing but their worst nightmares.
Download or read book Performing Nature written by Gabriella Giannachi and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume explore the borderland between ecology and the arts. Nature is here read by a number of contributors as 'cultural', by others as an 'independent domain', or even as a powerful process of exchange 'between the human and the other-than-human'. The four parts of the volume reflect these different understandings of nature and performance. Informed by psychoanalysis and cultural materialism, contributors to the first part, 'Spectacle: Landscape and Subjectivity', look at ways in which particular social and scientific experiments, theatre and film productions and photography either reinforce or contest our ideas about nature and human-human or human-animal relations and identities. The second part, 'World: Hermeneutic Language and Social Ecology', investigates political protest, social practice art, acoustic ecology, dance theatre, family therapy and ritual in terms of social philosophy. Contributors to the third part, 'Environment: Immersiveness and Interactivity', explore architecture and sculpture, site-specific and mediatised dance and paratheatre through radical theories of urban and virtual space and time, or else phenomenological philosophy. The final part, 'Void: Death, Life and the Sublime', indicates the possibilities in dance, architecture and animal behaviour of a shift to an existential ontology in which nature has 'the capacity to perform itself'.
Download or read book The Long Way Round written by John Nesling and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia as post World War 2 English emigrants embarking under an Australian government subsidised plan to populate the country. It a was time when there were jobs for anyone anywhere throughout the length and breadth of Australia, thus making it possible to travel, work and explore during a more innocent time in a land climatically and socially conducive to such idyllic possibilities. The period covered is 16 years, from 1954 to 1970, of which five years are spent in New Zealand. Throughout this time children are born and a young family evolves. Many emigrants simply settled around the major cities for no other apparent reason than that it was where they had disembarked. For some this was traumatic and sometimes tragic. The book attempts – however briefly - to address such themes and the themes of emigrants in general. As the Vietnam War emerges an attempt is made to define Australia’s political choices in relation to her geographical environment. Ostensibly written for family and friends, the story strives towards a wider audience, but is entirely biographical and factual, except where a few forgotten names – very few – have been substituted with others.
Download or read book Spin a Web of Death written by Ric Thompson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death is stalking the wealthy Crozier textile family in the town of Rochfield. Can DCI Andrew Sutherland and his team catch the killer before more of the family are murdered? Set if the fictional town of Rochfield in early 90s Yorkshire, this is the first in the Rochfield Mystery series. Another 'Televisual Treat' – television for the imagination, and a book that will keep you guessing right to the explosive end. Watch out for more books in this series. Cover design by John Thompson
Download or read book Treading Air written by Ariella Van Luyn and published by Affirm Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920s Queensland, Lizzie O?Dea wants to get away from her dad and the memories of her mum that haunt her. At the races she meets attractive, war-scarred Joe and sees her chance to escape. But life with Joe isn?t what she dreamt it would be. Finding herself on the fringes of society, Lizzie discovers a new sense of independence and sexuality, love and friendship. It?s a precarious life, though, always on the edge of collapse. Two decades later, Lizzie is sick and worn out. Lying in a Brisbane lock hospital, she thinks about Joe, who?s been lost to her for many years. But she?s a survivor. There?s hope yet. Set between Brisbane and Townsville, and based on real events that the author uncovered from historical archives, Treading Air is the remarkably vivid tale of a young Australian working-class rebel who clashed with the expectations of her world.
Download or read book Macdeath written by Ian Wood and published by Ian Wood. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macbeth from Ian Wood A novella in horrendous acts Macbeth was Shakespeare's shortest tragedy for a reason! It was appalling! Not only is it historically about as inaccurate as you can get (Macbeth was a real Scots king, but he defeated Duncan in battle, not by murder, and then he ruled for almost two decades before he was also killed in battle), it's also very poorly done. From the insane author of: Asshat's Fables Baker Street Bar Trek Dire Virgins Dune With the Wind It's a Wonderful Lie! Merde on the Prurient Express Misadventures Mindgame Raw Stars Thoracic Pearl Fallen Condom Urinals
Download or read book Tales from the Toolbox A collection of behind the scenes tales from Grand Prix mechanics written by Michael Oliver and published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dead Drop written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homeless teen Chris certainly isn't the most reliable of witnesses. And so no one takes her seriously when she walks into a police station and claims that her boyfriend Max, nicknamed Zorro, has been kidnapped. Detective Inspector Helen Shepherd is initially inclined to dismiss Chris as well. But then Chris mentions a ransom demand, a mysterious phone call demanding an envelope in exchange for the safe return of Max. Chris claims she has no idea what the kidnappers are talking about. But when Helen and her team investigate the abandoned warehouse that Max and Chris have made their home, she notices unusual activities in the area. But what precisely do the kidnappers want? And whatever happened to Max? This is a mystery novelette of 8700 words or approximately 28 print pages in the Helen Shepherd Mysteries series, but may be read as a standalone.
Download or read book Bank Job written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first glance, the robbery in a small bank branch doesn't seem overly mysterious. After all, the CCTV footage clearly shows a masked robber threatening bank clerk Jim Carling with a gun before disabling the cameras. However, the robber knew a bit too much about the inner workings of the bank, so Detective Inspector Helen Shepherd quickly suspects that the robber had inside help. But who of the five bank employees is the insider? And what happened to Jim Carling after the robber took him hostage? This is a crime novelette of 9300 words or approx. 30 print pages altogether in the Helen Shepherd Mysteries series, but may be read as a standalone.
Download or read book Ruddy Gore written by Kerry Greenwood and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Ruddy Gore, the next historical mystery featuring the unstoppable, elegant amateur sleuth. Can Miss Fisher use her theater ties to take care of a phantasm haunting a Gilbert and Sullivan show? "The appeal of this story is the glimpse it provides into the 1920s theater world and the opportunity it affords to observe Phryne and Lin Chung's romance from its inception."—Booklist Perfect for Fans of Rhys Bowen and Jacqueline Winspear Inspired the Netflix show Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Movie Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears Currently Streaming on Acorn TV One of the top-selling, best murder mystery books of 2018 Running late to the Hinkler gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, Phryne Fisher meets some thugs in a dark alley and handles them convincingly before they can ruin her silver dress. Phryne then finds that she has rescued the handsome Lin Chung and his grandmother and is briefly mistaken for a deity. Denying divinity but accepting cognac, she later continues safely to the theatre. But it seems the lead is dressed for death, as the performance is interrupted by a most bizarre death onstage. What links can Phryne possibly find between the ridiculously entertaining plot of Ruddigore, the Chinese community of Little Bourke Street, and the actors treading the boards of His Majesty's Theatre? Drawn backstage and onstage, Phryne must solve an old murder, find a new murderer and of course, banish the theatre's ghost—who seems likely to kill again.
