Download or read book Chasing Ivan written by Tim Tigner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rumor has it there's a Russian you can turn to if you're very rich, and need dirty deeds done without a trace. The CIA calls him Ivan the Ghost because he's operated for years without leaving a trail or revealing his face. Until now. For the first time in history, Ivan appears to have slipped. The CIA's new director sets Agent Kyle Achilles on an intercept course, surveilling the daughter of a British politician. Then Ivan pulls off a masterful con, and Emily vanishes. With Emily's life, his career, and America's reputation at stake, Achilles partners with an unlikely new agent he meets in Monte Carlo. Together they attempt to get one step ahead of the legendary Russian, while rubbing elbows with the ultra-rich in a high-tech international chase.

Download or read book Love and Pain written by W.S. Long and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequel to Love and Murder After their too-thrilling courtship that included capturing his former lover's killer, Jake Chandler has started a new life for himself with FBI agent Xavier. Living together is wonderful, but moving to Washington D.C. has resulted in temporary jobs that don’t last long. When Jake finally lucks out on a too-good-to-be-true position with a big law firm, Xavier suspects Jake’s new boss is crooked. With some sleuthing, snooping, and close calls, Jake gets deeper into trouble at work, and conflicts with Xavier make his world start to crumble. When a key witness is shot to death in front of Jake, they both begin to realize how high the stakes are. Can Jake and Xavier get through these threats and find happiness with each other?

Download or read book The Skull written by Adam Shand and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has never been a more feared or respected policeman in Australia than Brian “Skull” Murphy. Bestselling author Adam Shand tells the story of the last of the super cops. Through dramatic recreations, The Skull follows Brian Murphy on the beat as he collars big-time crims and small-time thugs, rubs shoulders with corrupt officials and flashy assassins, and uses a combination of old-school persuasion and self-styled ‘slychology’ to recruit his network of informers. Murphy ventures into the grey areas of law enforcement and the criminal underworld of the ’70s and ’80s, where he confronts such renowned villains as Christopher Dale Flannery, the Kane brothers and Ray Chuck. Fast-paced and gritty, The Skull is the life and times of a legendary crime-fighter. ‘An energetic writing style that often captures the emotion of some truly extraordinary scenes.’ —NineMSN ‘A fascinating read ... an insider’s insight into Melbourne’s underworld.’ —Examiner ‘An enjoyably racy biography of a police officer’ —Sydney Morning Herald

Download or read book To Be a Revolutionary written by J. Guadalupe Carney and published by Communication Center 1. This book was released on 1987 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Read to Your Kids written by Janet G. Balfour and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hard Air written by W. Scott Olsen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Air℗¡a book about extraordinary flying?flying under conditions that keep fighters on the carrier deck and rockets on the launch pad?a book about rescue missions and long, lonely flights to gather urgently needed information, about flights to places where no one should be flying: into hurricanes, firestorms, and deep, engine-killing cold. As a pilot himself, W. Scott Olsen brings to these tales a sense of wonder and adventure as well as a genuine, firsthand understanding of the dangers and rigors of such flying.

Download or read book Lights Camera Sub Action written by Mike Seares and published by In Depth Solutions. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1976 Mike Seares breathed from an aqualung for the first time. Those few simple breaths were to change his life forever. The sheer fantasy of floating weightless over coral reefs, mysterious shipwrecks and wondrous marine life had to be experienced to be believed. It was the ultimate adventure. And it is an adventure that through exploration and film has taken him to the oceans of the world, revealing sights few are privileged to witness. From filming World War II battleships a hundred and fifty feet down in the South China Sea, to recovering five hundred year old Lucayan Indian skulls deep inside the Blue Holes of the Bahamas. From supervising underwater stunts on the glossy horror flick Leviathan, to reassuring Indiana Jones before another hazardous ordeal. From car chases with Russian scientists in pursuit of an escaped beluga whale, to filming in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Simulator where astronauts train for complex missions in space. These and other challenges make up LIGHTS! CAMERA! SUB ACTION!

Download or read book Asylum written by Jeannette de Beauvoir and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martine LeDuc is the director of PR for the mayor's office in Montreal. When four women are found brutally murdered and shockingly posed on park benches throughout the city over several months, Martine's boss fears a PR disaster for the still busy tourist season, and Martine is now also tasked with acting as liaison between the mayor and the police department. The women were of varying ages, backgrounds and bodytypes and seemed to have nothing in common. Yet the macabre presentation of their bodies hints at a connection. Martine is paired with a young detective, Julian Fletcher, and together they dig deep into the city's and the country's past, only to uncover a dark secret dating back to the 1950s, when orphanages in Montreal and elsewhere were converted to asylums in order to gain more funding. The children were subjected to horrific experiments such as lobotomies, electroshock therapy, and psychotropic medication, and many of them died in the process. The survivors were supposedly compensated for their trauma by the government and the cases seem to have been settled. So who is bearing a grudge now, and why did these four women have to die? Not until Martine finds herself imprisoned in the terrifying steam tunnels underneath the old asylum does she put the pieces together. And it is almost too late for her...in Jeannette de Beauvoir's Asylum.

Download or read book Currencies of Imagination written by Ivan V. Small and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vietnam, international remittances from the Vietnamese diaspora are quantitatively significant and contribute important economic inputs. Yet beyond capital transfer, these diasporic remittance economies offer insight into an unfolding transformation of Vietnamese society through the extension of imaginations and ontological possibilities that accompany them. Currencies of Imagination examines the complex role of remittances as money and as gifts that flow across, and mediate between, transnational kinship networks dispersed by exile and migration. Long distance international gift exchanges and channels in a neoliberal political economy juxtapose the increasing cross-border mobility of remittance financial flows against the relative confines of state bounded bodies. In this contradiction Ivan V. Small reveals a creative space for emergent imaginaries that disrupt local structures and scales of desire, labor and expectation. Furthermore, the particular characteristics of remittance channels and mediums in a global economy, including transnational mobility and exchangeable value, affect and reflect the relations, aspirations, and orientations of the exchange participants. Small traces a genealogy of how this phenomenon has shifted through changing remittance forms and transfer infrastructures, from material and black market to formal bank and money services. Transformations in the affective and institutional relations among givers, receivers, and remittance facilitators accompany each of these shifts, illustrating that the socio-cultural work of remittances extends far beyond the formal economic realm they are usually consigned to.

Download or read book Transmigration Ancient Continent written by Ye FenFan and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xin An, a famous surgeon from a traditional Chinese medicine family with a bright future, had been secretly murdered for breaking a fake medicine deal. When he woke up again, he was in another world. It was a world where there were no men or women, only males and females. As for her, she was a rare female. Her face was covered with strange veined patterns cursed by the Beast God and evaded by her clansmen like a plague. This was not the worst case scenario. The clan had made a rule that if she was unable to find a partner that could accept her within half a year, she had to leave this place!

Download or read book Caught written by Red Garnier and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First released in the LEGALLY HOT anthology, this sensual short story from bestselling author Red Garnier will pull you in and not let go. Available for the first time ever as a stand-alone e-book, get lost in the sexy story of a man come back to stake his claim on the woman he cannot live without... After his parents were murdered, young Cody was put in foster care...and Megan, his first true love, has thought about him ever since. Now Cody is back, and he's ready to show that his desire for her knows no bounds--and that her darkest, sexiest dreams of him are about to be a reality...in Caught.

Download or read book Baba Yaga written by Sibelan Forrester and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baba Yaga is an ambiguous and fascinating figure. She appears in traditional Russian folktales as a monstrous and hungry cannibal, or as a canny inquisitor of the adolescent hero or heroine of the tale. In new translations and with an introduction by Sibelan Forrester, Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales is a selection of tales that draws from the famous collection of Aleksandr Afanas'ev, but also includes some tales from the lesser-known nineteenth-century collection of Ivan Khudiakov. This new collection includes beloved classics such as "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and "The Frog Princess," as well as a version of the tale that is the basis for the ballet "The Firebird." The preface and introduction place these tales in their traditional context with reference to Baba Yaga's continuing presence in today's culture--the witch appears iconically on tennis shoes, tee shirts, even tattoos. The stories are enriched with many wonderful illustrations of Baba Yaga, some old (traditional "lubok" woodcuts), some classical (the marvelous images from Victor Vasnetsov or Ivan Bilibin), and some quite recent or solicited specifically for this collection

Download or read book How Was School Today written by Paul Higgins and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Was School Today? explores the richly complex school experiences of Katie, a fifth-grader, in a very small school that educates children of varying ages and academic capabilities together. Katie's experiences provide an opportunity to wonder about the school experiences of any child. How Was School Today? goes inside a world about which parents typically know very little, and about which teachers may wish to learn more.

Download or read book Before They Were Titans written by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literary greatness. The ten new critical essays here, written by leading specialists in nineteenth-century, Russian literature, give fresh, sophisticated readings to works from the first decade of the literary life of each Russian author—for Dostoevsky, the 1840s; for Tolstoy, the 1850s. Collectively, these essays yield composite portraits of these two artists as young men finding their literary way. At the same time, they show how the early works merit appreciation for themselves, before their authors were Titans.

Download or read book Diasporic Lives written by Marlene Calvin and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Americans and Jamaicans share a common past of forced dispersion from their original homelands and enslavement in the Americas. The legacies of white supremacy, racism and Euro-centrism are still influential in both societies today. The conditions of alienation and violence which are represented in African American and Jamaican cultural texts are tied to the sociological development of both societies. The processes of having to prove their humanity, as cultural communities and as individuals, have caused many African diasporic people to become alienated from - and violated by - the societies they live in.

Download or read book FALLING OLD WOMEN written by Daniil Harms and published by Vladimir Djambov. This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memory Hardcover written by Lois McMaster Bujold and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy. Miles Vorkosigan secret agent extraordinaire now a civilian with a serious medical disability hanging over his own head, has the knowledge needed to deal with impending disaster on Barrayar.