Download or read book Dark Ambition written by Ann Brocklehurst and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, Nonfiction Category Longlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors Tim Bosma was a happy young father with a promising future when he listed his pickup truck for sale online, went for a test drive with two strangers, and never returned. The story of the Hamilton man’s strange disappearance in May 2013 captured headlines across the country and took over social media, resonating with everyone who had ever taken a test drive or bought and sold goods online. When Dellen Millard and Mark Smich were eventually arrested and charged with Bosma’s murder, the mystery only deepened. Millard was the wealthy heir to an aviation business. Smich was his ne’er-do-well best friend from a middle-class family. There was no obvious reason why the pair had made it their deadly mission to steal a truck, murder its owner, and incinerate the body. Tim Bosma was their randomly chosen “thrill kill” target. Veteran journalist and private investigator Ann Brocklehurst had a front-row seat at Millard’s and Smich’s 2016 trial, where many of the questions about their shocking crime were finally answered. Others still linger, waiting to be further explained at two more murder trials set for 2017. Both Millard and Smich have been charged with the first-degree murder of Laura Babcock, who disappeared in summer 2012. And Millard alone faces murder charges in the death of his father, which previously has been ruled a suicide. Compelling and suspenseful, Dark Ambition chronicles an unfathomable crime and its chilling perpetrators.
Download or read book Dark Ambition written by Allan Topol and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secretary of state has been murdered in his home. It looks like a robbery gone wrong. It seems the prime suspect is the politician's gardener. But in Washington, D.C., nothing is as it seems. Justice Department lawyer Ben Hartwell is assigned the unenviable task of finding the truth. His greatest obstacle--and ally--is the lawyer for the accused. Together they uncover a lifetime of political intrigues, private indiscretions, personal ememies-and questionable ties to the Chinese Government--in the victim's high-level career. But was the secretary of state merely a puppet in a vast conspiracy? And if so, who cut the strings? The answers could expose America's darkest secrets--and silence anyone who digs too deep.
Download or read book The Dark Side of Ambition written by Robert S. Telford and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Who wouldn't want to be a big star on Broadway some day? You'd do almost anything to get there, wouldn't you?" "Wait a minute! You wouldn't kill somebody just for that, would you?" "Yeah? Well I know somebody who did." "You mean actually killed someone?" "Well, she made sure that the gal got killed." "Wow! Did she get caught? "That's a whole 'nother story. Let me tell you!"
Download or read book Dark Ambitions Code of Honor Book 3 written by Irene Hannon and published by Revell. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Army Night Stalker Rick Jordan usually has his camp for foster children to himself during the winter months. But someone has visited recently--leaving a trail of blood. One of the two clues left behind tips Rick off to the identity of his visitor, who soon turns up dead. The police deem it an accident, but Rick isn't convinced. With the help of private investigator Heather Shields, he sets out to decipher the remaining clue. Except someone doesn't want them to succeed--and will stop at nothing to keep them from finding the truth. With her trademark psychological suspense ratcheting up the tension on every page, bestselling and award-winning author Irene Hannon takes you on a search for a cold-blooded killer with an ambitious goal and deadly intent.
Download or read book Beautiful Ambition written by Tara Brooke and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers guidance on changing your life in thirty days through goal setting, knowing yourself, good decision making, forgiveness, friendship, money management, relationship management, healthy eating, and exercise.
Download or read book Treasury of Wisdom Wit and Humor Odd Comparisons and Proverbs written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Treasury of Wisdom Wit and Humor Odd Comparisons and Proverbs written by Adam Wooléver and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treasury of Wisdom Wit and Humor Odd Comparisons and Proverbs written by Adam Woolbever (comp.) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dangerous Ambition written by Susan Hertog and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the 1890s on opposite sides of the Atlantic, friends for more than forty years, Dorothy Thompson and Rebecca West lived strikingly parallel lives that placed them at the center of the social and historical upheavals of the twentieth century. In Dangerous Ambition, Susan Hertog chronicles the separate but intertwined journeys of these two remarkable women writers, who achieved unprecedented fame and influence at tremendous personal cost. American Dorothy Thompson was the first female head of a European news bureau, a columnist and commentator with a tremendous following whom Time magazine once ranked alongside Eleanor Roosevelt as the most influential woman in America. Rebecca West, an Englishwoman at home wherever genius was spoken, blazed a trail for herself as a journalist, literary critic, novelist, and historian. In a prefeminist era when speaking truth to power could get anyone—of either gender—ostracized, blacklisted, or worse, these two smart, self-made women were among the first to warn the world about the dangers posed by fascism, communism, and appeasement. But there was a price to be paid, Hertog shows, for any woman aspiring to such greatness. As much as they sought voice and power in the public forum of opinion and ideas, and the independence of mind and money that came with them, Thompson and West craved the comforts of marriage and home. Torn between convention and the opportunities of the new postwar global world, they were drawn to men who were as ambitious and hungry for love as themselves: Thompson to the brilliant, volatile, and alcoholic Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis; West to her longtime lover H. G. Wells, the lusty literary eminence whose sexual and emotional demands doomed any chance they may have had at love. Tragically, both arrangements produced troubled sons, whose anger and jealousy at their mothers’ iconic fame eroded their sense of personal success. Brimming with fresh insights obtained from previously sealed archives, this penetrating dual biography is a story of twinned lives caught up in the crosscurrents of world events and affairs of the heart—and of the unique trans-Atlantic friendship forged by two of the most creative and complex women of their time.
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Download or read book Age of Ambition Chasing Fortune Truth and Faith in the New China written by Evan Osnos and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction. An Economist Best Book of 2014. A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy-or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation. What we don't see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatically changes. As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In Age of Ambition, he describes the greatest collision taking place in that country: the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party's struggle to retain control. He asks probing questions: Why does a government with more success lifting people from poverty than any civilization in history choose to put strict restraints on freedom of expression? Why do millions of young Chinese professionals-fluent in English and devoted to Western pop culture-consider themselves "angry youth," dedicated to resisting the West's influence? How are Chinese from all strata finding meaning after two decades of the relentless pursuit of wealth? Writing with great narrative verve and a keen sense of irony, Osnos follows the moving stories of everyday people and reveals life in the new China to be a battleground between aspiration and authoritarianism, in which only one can prevail.
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Download or read book A Dreadful Temptation or A Young Wife s Ambition written by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel explores the dark side of ambition and the consequences that come with it. Set in a world of high society and filled with intrigue, scandal, and betrayal, the story follows the life of Xenie Carroll, a young and beautiful woman. Xenie Carroll marries a wealthy old man for his money but finds herself struggling with the dreadful temptation to pursue her desires at any cost.
Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie written by Joanna Baillie and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
