Download or read book Death on Crimson Sails written by Lee Rene and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Hathorne and her friends Pyrtle, Cassie, and Velda live in the quiet fishing village of Maidenhead, Massachusetts. They are childhood chums who meet each Sunday for gossip and quilting. Their idyllic existence comes to an abrupt end when Lucy's charming and mysterious cousin makes a dramatic entrance aboard a red-sailed schooner. Sebastian Hathorne brings lethal bounty to Maidenhead: a poisoned crew and a cache of medical cadavers destined for the Harvard Medical School. His arrival during the blustery gale portends the hair-raising events to come. Nothing has prepared the girls or the young men who love them for the terrors ahead.

Download or read book The Mass in My Life written by Rosemary Lunardini and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mass in My Life is the story of a Catholic laywoman's lifelong experience of the Mass. She recaptures childhood experiences, traces a path to adulthood, and in her elder years finds a wondrous gratitude for the Mass. Along the way, family, friends, pastors, favorite authors, and the Mass itself lighten her way as she seeks, in the words of an old missal, "the God who is the joy of my youth." Personal and family memories are recalled side-by-side with selected prayers of the Mass from her collection of missals that covers seven decades. The meaning of the Mass unfolds as the years go by, marked by ordinary days as well as rites of passage. Each chapter focuses on a milestone or period in the author's life and a prayer from the Order of the Mass. The two themes, life and Mass, interweave chronologically in a unique twofold structure. There are rich and sometimes troubling memories of personal and family life here, but always an attentive longing for the Mass which the author sees as the transforming experience of her life.

Download or read book The Hour of Death written by Jane Willan and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Willan’s The Hour of Death will be a Christmas delight for fans of G. M. Malliet, set on an island in Wales. Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn make sleuthing a work of art. But will they paint themselves into a corner when they investigate the Village Art Society president’s death? As Yuletide settles upon Gwenafwy Abbey, the rural Welsh convent’s peace is shattered when Tiffany Reese, president of the Village Art Society, is found dead on the floor of the parish hall. Sister Agatha, whose interests lie more with reading and writing mystery stories than with making the abbey’s world-renowned organic gouda, is not shy about inserting herself into the case. With the not-entirely-eager assistance of Father Selwyn, she begins her investigation. Sister Agatha has no shortage of suspects to check off her naughty-or-nice list, until finally, Tiffany’s half-brother, Kendrick Geddings, emerges as the prime suspect. There never was any love lost between Tiffany and Kendrick, and of late they had been locked in a vicious battle for control of the family estate. But if Sister Agatha thinks she has the case wrapped up, she’ll have to think again. As the days of Advent tick by, Sister Agatha is determined to crack the case by Christmas in The Hour of Death, Jane Willan’s perfectly puzzling second Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn Mystery.

Download or read book Her Name Was Helen written by Paul Mackan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.

Download or read book Death and Douglas written by J. W. Ocker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas has grown up around the business of death. Generations of his family have run the Mortimer Family Funeral Home. The mortician and gravediggers are all his buddies. And the display room of caskets is an awesome place for hide and seek. It’s business as usual in Douglas’s small New England town. Until one day an incredibly out of the ordinary murder victim is brought to the funeral home. And more startling: others follow. On the cusp of Halloween, a serial killer has arrived. And unsatisfied with the small-town investigation, Douglas enlists his friends to help him solve the mystery. With sumptuous descriptions of a bucolic town and it’s quirky people, fascinating yet middle grade–appropriate insider information about the funeral process, and a crackling mystery with a heart-pounding conclusion—Death and Douglas has something for readers young and old.

Download or read book The Complete Folktales of A N Afanas ev Volume III written by Jack V. Haney and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up to now, there has been no complete English-language version of the Russian folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev. This translation is based on L. G. Barag and N. V. Novikov’s edition, widely regarded as the authoritative Russian-language edition. The present edition includes commentaries to each tale as well as its international classification number. This third volume contains 305 tales, those numbered 319–579, as well as forty-five additional tales from among those denied publication by the Russian censors. The folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev represent the largest single collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the world. Widely regarded as the Russian Grimm, Afanas’ev collected folktales from throughout the Russian Empire in what are now regarded as the three East Slavic languages, Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian. In his lifetime, Afanas’ev published more than 575 tales in his most popular and best-known work, Narodnye russkie skazki. In addition to this basic collection, he prepared a volume of Russian legends, many on religious themes; a collection of mildly obscene tales, Russkie zavetnye skazki; and voluminous writings on Slavic folklife and mythology. His works were subject to the strict censorship of ecclesiastical and state authorities that lasted until the demise of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Overwhelmingly, his particular emendations were stylistic, while those of the censors mostly concerned content.

Download or read book Love Saves the Day written by Tim Lawrence and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-02 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening with David Mancuso's seminal “Love Saves the Day” Valentine's party, Tim Lawrence tells the definitive story of American dance music culture in the 1970s—from its subterranean roots in NoHo and Hell’s Kitchen to its gaudy blossoming in midtown Manhattan to its wildfire transmission through America’s suburbs and urban hotspots such as Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newark, and Miami. Tales of nocturnal journeys, radical music making, and polymorphous sexuality flow through the arteries of Love Saves the Day like hot liquid vinyl. They are interspersed with a detailed examination of the era’s most powerful djs, the venues in which they played, and the records they loved to spin—as well as the labels, musicians, vocalists, producers, remixers, party promoters, journalists, and dance crowds that fueled dance music’s tireless engine. Love Saves the Day includes material from over three hundred original interviews with the scene's most influential players, including David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Tom Moulton, Loleatta Holloway, Giorgio Moroder, Francis Grasso, Frankie Knuckles, and Earl Young. It incorporates more than twenty special dj discographies—listing the favorite records of the most important spinners of the disco decade—and a more general discography cataloging some six hundred releases. Love Saves the Day also contains a unique collection of more than seventy rare photos.

Download or read book Death Comes for the Deconstructionist written by Daniel Taylor and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jon Mote is hired to investigate the murder of his erstwhile mentor, literary star Richard Pratt, the grad school dropout feels woefully unequal to the task. Skittering on the edge of madness, his only source of hope is the dogged love of his developmentally disabled sister, Judy, who serves as cheerleader, critic and moral compass. Soon the siblings find themselves haunting the neighbourhoods of Minneapolis and St Paul, Minnesota – from crime scenes to the halls of academe – exposing a series of suspects along the way. When he stumbles upon Pratt’s terrible secret, Mote is prompted to discover an equally dreadful mystery in his own past – a revelation that accelerates his descent into darkness and puts both himself and Judy at grave risk. ‘Daniel Taylor’s oddly reluctant Sherlock Holmes is accompanied by the most unusual and heartwarming Watson in my reading experience.’ Paul J. Willis, author of The Alpine Tales

Download or read book Cut Off His Tale written by Joan Boswell and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The starter's gun explodes and Hollis Grant excitedly begins her very first marathon race, only to stumble almost immediately over a body lying in the road, the body of the Rev. Paul Robertson, her soon-to-be ex-husband. When the crush of runners passes and the medics arrive, it becomes clear that the Reverend has not collapsed from the rigors of the race, but has been brutally stabbed. Although Hollis had emotionally distanced herself from her husband some time ago, her challenge now is to find out who, among his many detractors, would hate the Reverend enough to stick a knife in his back. As Hollis and Detective Rhona Simpson probe the secretive life of Paul Robertson, they discover multiple motives for hatred and murder.

Download or read book The Way It Was written by Alvin Fuhrman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alvin Fuhrman began a storied career with Muenster Telephone Company during ice storms in 1949. "The Way It Was" is Alvin's story of how the company, under his leadership, ultimately went from just 12 telephones still working because of that tell-tale freeze to the primary communication provider not just for Muenster but for the surrounding area, as well. It's the story of how Alvin and his wife Gracie teamed to weather their own unthinkable personal storms and emerged closer and stronger because of their shared commitment to one another and to those who looked to them for leadership. It's the story of the people who joined Alvin and Gracie over the years to create a better company, a better community and a better life for thousands of family members, friends and neighbors. Mainly, "The Way It Was" is a story about life - as it was, as it is, and as it should be lived.

Download or read book Gemini written by William Kelley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-07-27 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gemini is the story of young Bascomb McGoslin and his search for love and spiritual fulfillment—a search which became a desperate flight from the life and the world he had known before. Behind Bascomb’s headlong escape was June Cyzmanski—a willful, beautiful creature as hungry for love as he, but with an honesty he had not yet achieved. Torn by his passion for Cyz and by his guilt over their love affair, Bascomb was impelled to seek absolution for his sins within the religious life. Gemini is many things. It is a bold and honest portrait of a man trapped by his own keen intelligence in a nightmare of doubt and ignorance. It is a fascinating and faithful recreation of seminary life. And, above all, it is a haunting story of love—between man and woman, man and God. William Kelley was born in 1929, the fourth of seven children. His first novel, Gemini was a best seller when first published in 1959. He has an extensive background as both writer and producer, having written numerous movies and series for television as well as 7 novels. He received an Academy Award for best screenplay in 1986 for Witness.

Download or read book Mister Death s Blue Eyed Girls written by Mary Downing Hahn and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrated from several different perspectives, tells the story of the 1956 murder of two teenaged girls in suburban Baltimore, Maryland.

Download or read book Life and Death in Narrow Creek written by Patsy Pridgen and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1982, and Dee Ann Bulluck has enjoyed three peaceful years as a young wife, mother, and technical college instructor since moving to a backyard apartment in small-town Narrow Creek, North Carolina. Then her landlord Floyd Powell dies while sitting in his recliner on a calm Saturday morning. Turns out, his death is due to something more sinister than his diet of honey buns and Pepsi Colas, and the major suspect is Miss Josie, his wife of thirty-five years. Convinced of Miss Josie’s innocence—and by the fact that if her landlady goes to jail, she and husband Joe will likely lose their sweet deal of an apartment—Dee Ann agrees to help Miss Josie prove she's blameless. Their bumbling investigation manages to reveal Floyd’s involvement in some unsavory enterprises, including bootlegging. The reappearance of Miss Josie’s long-lost beau and the meddling of her overbearing, big-city daughter complicate their amateur sleuthing. Her landlord may be dead, but Dee Ann is busy with life: Monday night choir practice at the Methodist church, house-hunting with Joe, and controlling mischievous three-year-old Heather. She barely has time to hide in Miss Josie’s closet to eavesdrop or creep through the woods looking for a still. Will Miss Josie wind up in the big house while Dee Ann ends up with no house? Like its heroine Dee Ann Bulluck, Life and Death in Narrow Creek is smart and sassy, witty and insightful. Readers will discover a cozy mystery warmed by the culture yet complicated by the social issues of the early 1980s in a small Southern town. Book Review: “Small-town stories have an irresistibly quaint allure; throw in a mystery, dark secrets, and down-home characters who may not be what they seem, and it can result in an enjoyable read, as it does in this case.” -- Kirkus Indie Reviews

Download or read book Pale in Death written by Ed Brock and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reporter Mark Freer learns that the body of an old girlfriend has been found, beaten to death, in the county where he now lives and works south of Atlanta. He left the girl, Amanda, years before due to her drug addiction but feels guilty because he played a part in beginning that addiction. Driven by that guilt, he begins to investigate Amanda’s death. He learns from an old junkie associate who also recently showed up in town that Amanda’s son, Kyle, is living with her parents and younger sister Dani in Atlanta’s north suburbs. He also learns that Amanda was last seen with an unknown three men. Freer contacts Dani and after she learns about Amanda’s death they both begin investigating. They track the three mystery men in a pimped up Cadillac through Atlanta’s seedier side, strip clubs and dog fighting, until they discover that one of the men is Jeremy Pivot, Amelia’s ex-boyfriend and father of Kyle. All this occurs at a time when Freer’s life is crumbling. His wife has left him, taking their young daughter with her back to her hometown, El Paso, Texas. He is bitterly disappointed with his career and the evil he reports on a daily basis weighs on his soul. Not to mention the fact that he’s been experiencing a massive toothache recently! All these factors push him to a point of desperate urgency to solve the mystery of Amelia’s death. Drawn partially from the real life experiences of author Ed Brock, a former police reporter, Pale in Death is a tour of Atlanta’s seedy side with characters that live and breathe. Acclaim for Pale in Death: “Publishing his first novel, crime reporter Brock offers us a tale featuring none other than an Atlanta crime reporter. Talk about writing what you know. But it's not just a crime novel, it's a dark noir tale of decay and despair.” —Dave Wilde, Amazon reviewer “Ed Brock's Pale in Death is a solid debut crime novel.” —Mej, Amazon reviewer “Brock delivers a nicely paced thriller that has an interesting cast of characters and is well plotted.” —Dman4227, Amazon reviewer “A roller coaster ride down a path of drug destruction and death, the result of which has a profound effect on a remorseful reporter who finds his past mistakes rushing forward to present him with a real and present danger. I enjoyed every minute of this read.” —Amazon reviewer “Fast paced and tightly plotted debut. It's short, which is good. The characters are well done.” —Kathleen G., Amazon reviewer

Download or read book Message from Daddy written by Marguerite Vardman MSN MDiv and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Message from Daddy sets you on the path to healing, after the loss of a loved one, and holds your hand every step of the way. Miss Vardman combines her medical and ministerial training, along with her decades of personal experience, to show you how to navigate that path. Reading Message from Daddy can help you: Develop an understanding of the end-of-life process that will help you and your family cope. Learn how to use affirmative prayer to bring hope to your daily routine. Use the concept of transition of the Spirit to add a new dimension to your healing process after the loss. Find out how to get your life back, through a step by step approach. Discover how to honor your feelings, develop a support network, stay in touch with Love, and trust God. Believe in Miracles again and know that you deserve them in your life! The words of wisdom and personalized true stories in Message from Daddy will help you create a strong inner belief that you can find happiness after a great loss.

Download or read book Churchill s School for Saboteurs written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secret life of Brickendonbury Manor & the WW2 assassins & saboteurs who set occupied Europe alight.

Download or read book Then Came Heaven written by Lavyrle Spencer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grief-stricken widower learns to open his heart again in this touching and emotionally charged novel from New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer… A man of unshakable faith, Eddie Olczak derives intense pleasure from the life he’s built with his beloved wife, Krystyna, and their two daughters. But when a tragic accident cuts Krystyna’s life short, Eddie is sure his heart is broken forever. Sister Regina, the girls’ teacher at St. Joseph’s school, has always felt a special affinity for the Olczak family, but the strict rules of the Benedictine sisterhood have kept her from getting too close. Now, as Sister Regina and Eddie cross paths, they realize there is a connection between them that goes beyond their shared love of Krystyna and the girls. Thrilled—and secretly frightened—they must summon the courage to look within their hearts and make their own choices.