Download or read book Ghost Retrieval and Cappuccino written by Bambi Harris and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been a year since Penny Lane was murdered, and, even though she is no stranger to chaos, sometimes she is so afraid she wants to bolt the door and avoid people. In Ghost Retrieval and Cappuccino, her afterlife journey continues as old fears resurface, bringing with them an entity that appears to feed off of them. After Penny moves with her dog Rufus to a new home in the medieval era, she begins an assignment as a counselor for a newly commissioned ghost retrieval team. When Penny is teamed up with Avery, the handsome and secretive leader, and Eric, a beatnik angel, she must decide which one is telling the truth and which one is out to deceive her. Known for empathizing with spirits better than anyone, Penny counsels frightened and stubborn ghosts, witnesses their deaths, and learns more about the guardians who protect the deceased. As she ends one mission and begins another, Penny attempts to rescue lost souls and soon realizes she may solve her own murder in the process. Ghost Retrieval and Cappuccino continues Penny Lanes intriguing investigation of the spirit world and brings to life the journeys of its many endearing characters.
Download or read book Ghost Black written by Matthew S. Cox and published by Division Zero Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything Risa Black believes is a lie. Her angel is dead, the cause she’s killed for is as false as her metal eyes, and the one man she thought she could trust has deceived her for sixteen years. Smothered by deepening layers of conspiracy, she decides to embark upon the most frightening mission of her life: leaving the Martian Liberation Front. After eight years of trying to free Mars with high explosives, and a reputation as a less-than-sane killer who hears the voices of angels in her head, Risa didn’t expect to walk away clean. Her former bosses won’t let go easy, agents on both sides of the war want her dead, and truth is in short supply. A politically connected enemy threatens to purge the Front of those unwilling to play by their rules. To survive, Risa must become that which she has so long denied being—an assassin. With bombs poised to bury her former life and everyone associated with it deep beneath the surface of Mars, Risa has thirty minutes to make an impossible choice: save the life of her daughter by killing her best friend, or disarm the bombs and let her child die.
Download or read book Ancient Gods and the Angel Caf written by Bambi Harris and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poor Penny Lanethe afterlife just isnt getting any easier. She has barely had time to recover from her grueling life lesson (let alone her own murder) and a brutal course in mortal mapping. She now finds herself thrown unexpectedly into her craziest mission yet. The aliens are at it again, fighting a civil war that threatens to tear their society apartas surely as the tremors, fires, and other instigated disasters menace their separate afterlife world. Fortunately, Roy, the cowboy archangel, has a plan. He has gathered a select army of humans, aliens, and angels to bring peace to this embattled world. They seek to settle the dispute between the warrior aliens and their weaker counterparts and to subdue the powers of their tyrant leaders. Along with every friend she has made since her murder, Penny is reunited with her ghost retrieval team, including the handsome and charismatic Avery and the groovy archangel, Eric, for a mission that is equal parts unique and dangerous. The humans and angels are forced to venture out across a mysterious and unpredictable landscapethe once-experimental and ancient plane of existence of the Titans and Olympians. In Ancient Gods and the Angel Caf, Penny Lanes chaotic yet hope-filled journey continues, and this time, she is sharing her epic adventure with all of her favorite fellow adventurers.
Download or read book Mortal Mapping and Melancholy written by Bambi Harris and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penny Lanes afterlife adventures continue at the elite Apollo Academy. Now the bonds of true friendship and loyalty are tested as she faces the hardest lesson of her afterlife. PENNY LANE SURE HAS GONE through a lot since her death. Shes mastered the job of melting, has served as a counselor in a ghost retrieval unit, and had even been thrown into involuntary time travel. Now she is in for the biggest adventure of her life: she is going to school! Penny and her handsome friend, Avery, have been handed their new assignments as students at the elite Apollo Academy, but the biggest lesson for Penny isnt one assigned by any teacher. Penny is about to learn that things dont always go the way she hopes they will. Her closest friend, the archangel Eric, has been sent away on a mysterious mission, and now Avery seems to have lost interest in her. Poor Penny cant ?gure out why all of her other friends back home have mysteriously abandoned her. But not all hope is lost. As Penny struggles to understand why she has found herself suddenly alone, she is comforted by her new companions, classmates Elly and Alexander. She must try and ?nd the answers before her despair sends her to the underground.
Download or read book Elysium Warriors and the Banished Star written by Bambi Harris and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penny Lane has lived in her new world, Elysium Sphere for over a year now. She has left her death far behind her and now rules alongside her handsome soulmate, Avery. The residents, made up of aliens, ancients and angels, are all slowly settling in to their new roles as assistants to Earth's replacement, Virtus. Peace seems to fill the air until one day Penny wakes with a feeling of dread, and her intuition is always right. That very day she bumps into one of her dearest friend's brothers and soon discovers it is Lucifer and he wants her to help him in his quest. Though he is not the evil monster he has been portrayed as, he also does not have anyone's best interest at heart except his own. Having been forced to return to the afterlife after Earth was destroyed, he has nowhere to go and he is not going to surrender lightly. With the cherubim and seraphim not agreeing to his demands, Lucifer is eager to start a war and Elysium Sphere is where he takes his army! Penny and her dear friends, Roy, Eric, Pauline, and Jeremiah are joined by many allies to engage in a quickly organized war. For the first time Penny faces the potential loss of those she holds dearest and the destruction of her new world. Elysium Warriors and the Banished Star is the second book of The Elysium Scrolls and is continues The Afterlife Series in a time of permanent change that is both solemn and inspiring.
Download or read book Armageddon and Further Unpleasantries written by Bambi Harris and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penny Lane is having one heck of a time in the afterlife. Ever since her murder, she's had one crazy, chaotic, and grueling adventure after another. What's a dead girl to do but just carry on and go along for the ride? Between her work in melting and ghost retrieval, her studies at the Apollo Academy, and a mission on the alien afterlife, she's barely had a moment's rest! For Penny, the afterlife is a nonstop dash. When she nally gets the opportunity to settle down, catch her breath, and pool her talents in ghost counseling and mortal mapping, she gets a pleasant surprise: she's back in her own medieval cottage again. There, she happily juggles work and play, making the time to hang out with her best friends, the groovy archangel Eric and her secret desire, the enigmatic Avery. Penny also has to contend with the departure of someone close and if that's not enough excitement, an old sixteenth-century ame has renewed his interest in her. Of course, she hasn't even sipped her morning cappuccino before even bigger events threaten to fracture the serenity. Together with a band of angels and the deceased elite, Penny and her pals return to Earth in a wild ride of destruction and delight that will change their worlds forever.
Download or read book Past Lives and Borrowed Bodies written by Bambi Harris and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her murder well behind her, Penny has a new adventure to contend with: uncontrollable time travel. And shes made a powerful enemy right off the bat. Claudius, the evil, ancient Roman merchant, needs to get Penny and her abilities as a seer out of the picture, so he sends her jumping in and out of other peoples bodies in a wild race through time. Pennys trip takes her to plague-infested Europe, the hippie era, the Vietnam War, and beyond. Despite the constant change of address (and body and time), Penny still manages to communicate with her allies: the moody and handsome Avery, cowboy Roy, and her vintage-loving angel, Eric. They frantically try to get her back to her new home in Gods garden, but Claudius is a twisted puppet master. He has hidden her in time and has quite a selection of exhaustiveand exhaustingmisadventures planned for her. But not all is despair and confusion. Penny uses her many skills to comfort people along her journey, and she is reunited with family she didnt know she hadeventually experiencing some of her own past lives. Pennys inspiring journey of self-improvement and hard-earned life lessons is another fun ride on the astral plane in this third installment in the popular Afterlife series.
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 Extraction written by Rex Hunter and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaded N.Y.P.D. detective Mike Kiley has never tracked a serial killer like Barry Lister, D.D.S. Driven by bizarre secret fantasy, Lister grows more brutal in his methods--until the woman Mike loves trembles before him--feeding his crazed hunger--locked in a grotesque seduction that would either save her life or end it.
Download or read book Not A Lot of Reasons to Sing but Enough written by Kyle Tran Myhre and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OF WHAT FUTURE ARE THESE THE WILD, EARLY DAYS? An exploration of the role that artists play in resisting authoritarianism with a sci-fi twist. In poetry, dialogue and visual art the book follows two wandering poets as they make their way from village to village, across a prison colony moon full of exiled rebels, robots, and storytellers. Part post-apocalyptic road journal, part alternate universe history of Hip Hop, and part “Letters to a Young Poet”-style toolkit for emerging poets and aspiring movement-builders, it's also a one-of-a-kind practitioners' take on poetry, power, and possibility. NOT A LOT OF REASONS TO SING is a: -post-apocalyptic road journal -alternate universe history of Hip Hop -“Letters to a Young Poet” -toolkit for emerging poets and aspiring movement-builders it's also a one-of-a-kind practitioners' take on poetry, power, and possibility.
Download or read book What Makes That Black written by Luana and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all can name some of the Africanist aesthetic-structures that fuel African American and American art ... Syncopation, Improvisation, Call and Response, Cool, Polyrhythm, or Innovation as an ambition- But there are many, many more. What Makes That Black? The African-American Aesthetic identifies and defines seventy-four elements of the aesthetic through text and illustration. Using the magnificent camerawork of R.J. Muna, Sharen Bradford, Jae Man Joo, Rachel Neville, James Barry Knox, and more- as they point their cameras at Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and jazz artists such as Cécile McLorin Salvant and Wynton Marsalis- a specific artistic consciousness or sensibility visually unfolds. Luana even joins the camera crew as she shoots Oakland Street Graffiti.
Download or read book JavaScript Allong written by Reginald Braithwaite and published by Justin Kelly. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JavaScript Allongé solves two important problems for the ambitious JavaScript programmer. First, JavaScript Allongé gives you the tools to deal with JavaScript bugs, hitches, edge cases, and other potential pitfalls. There are plenty of good directions for how to write JavaScript programs. If you follow them without alteration or deviation, you will be satisfied. Unfortunately, software is a complex thing, full of interactions and side-effects. Two perfectly reasonable pieces of advice when taken separately may conflict with each other when taken together. An approach may seem sound at the outset of a project, but need to be revised when new requirements are discovered. When you “leave the path” of the directions, you discover their limitations. In order to solve the problems that occur at the edges, in order to adapt and deal with changes, in order to refactor and rewrite as needed, you need to understand the underlying principles of the JavaScript programming language in detail. You need to understand why the directions work so that you can understand how to modify them to work properly at or beyond their original limitations. That’s where JavaScript Allongé comes in. JavaScript Allongé is a book about programming with functions, because JavaScript is a programming language built on flexible and powerful functions. JavaScript Allongé begins at the beginning, with values and expressions, and builds from there to discuss types, identity, functions, closures, scopes, and many more subjects up to working with classes and instances. In each case, JavaScript Allongé takes care to explain exactly how things work so that when you encounter a problem, you’ll know exactly what is happening and how to fix it. Second, JavaScript Allongé provides recipes for using functions to write software that is simpler, cleaner, and less complicated than alternative approaches that are object-centric or code-centric. JavaScript idioms like function combinators and decorators leverage JavaScript’s power to make code easier to read, modify, debug and refactor, thus avoiding problems before they happen. JavaScript Allongé teaches you how to handle complex code, and it also teaches you how to simplify code without dumbing it down. As a result, JavaScript Allongé is a rich read releasing many of JavaScript’s subtleties, much like the Café Allongé beloved by coffee enthusiasts everywhere. License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source is available from Github * https://github.com/justinkelly/javascript-allonge
Download or read book Mystic Brews Collection 1 written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-18 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into this Witchy-Paranormal Mystery Series set in the rural Welsh countryside today! A magical café where the deceased demand answers, cats are snarky, and chickens ghostly! When her quirky Aunt Rose asks her to help open a hip espresso café near the Welsh and English border, Barista April Storm jumps at the chance to start fresh. But she gets an extra shot of strife when a famous deceased cricketer wants her to spill the coffee beans on his killer. April is forced into the role of supernatural detective. Assisted by her spectral ex, a magical secret agent, and an over-caffeinated snarky cat named Punkin, she finds herself in hot water when the clue trail reveals an escaped infernal. And if she can’t get control of her own recently awakened power, the next murder she has to solve may be her own. Can April serve up justice before a brewing disaster boils over? This collection includes books 1 to 3 from the Mystic Brews cozy mystery series. Lattes and Spirits Tall, Dark and Troll and A Double shot of Ghosts If you like sassy heroines, quirky characters, and a side of spells with your cuppa joe, then you’ll love Alyn Troy’s otherworldly adventure. Buy Mystic Brews Collection 1 to froth up some whodunnit fun today!
Download or read book Lattes and Spirits written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical café where the deceased demand answers, cats are snarky, and chickens ghostly! When my quirky Aunt Rose asks me, an American barista, to help open a hip espresso café near the Welsh and English border, I jump at the chance. What better way to celebrate my 36th birthday and try to ignore the second anniversary of my boyfriend’s death? Misty Valley isn’t just your average Welsh village. This one is full of fae like pixies, orcs, and leprechauns, and now me. My special power, other than making great espresso? I can see and hear ghosts. So, when the spirit of my ex-boyfriend Jake shows up with more than the ghostly chickens he died with (don’t ask, it’s complicated), I find out just how strange my new life in Misty Valley is. Jake’s new ghostly friend, Sir Reginald, disappeared a year before I arrived. Now that I’m here, the deceased cricket player wants me to figure out who murdered him. And figure out why. Everyone agrees he’s the most cricket of all cricket players. Who’d want to do in a chap like him? First I find out I’m a witch, now I have to be a supernatural detective? I’d worry about that, but my new bestie seems to be a top secret agent for the fae queen. Yeah, I told you this is a weird little village. And, since I’m a new witch, I’ve inherited not only a wand, but also a snarky talking cat named Punkin who is addicted to coffee beans. Seems that he had an incident with too many beans, the fae queen’s ball gown, and now I’m stuck with him. And our attempt to solve the mystery of Sir Reginald’s death, is making the killer very nervous. My new friends and I find ourselves in hot water right away. Just locating the car wreck that killed Sir Reginald reveals an escaped infernal that wants to eat my new cat, then eat the rest of us. Can we serve up justice before a brewing disaster boils over? Lattes and Spirits is the first book in the delightful Mystic Brews paranormal cozy mystery series. If you like sassy heroines, quirky characters, and a side of spells with your cuppa joe, then you’ll love Alyn Troy’s otherworldly adventure. Read the full Mystic Brews Series Lattes and Spirits Tall, Dark and Troll A Double Shot of Ghosts Coffee Grounds and Ghostly Hounds A French Press of Murder Italian Roast and Wedding Ghosts The Art of the Brew Frappes and Flying Machines The Marocchino Sparrow A Royal Brew
Download or read book Buzz Books 2016 Spring Summer written by and published by Publishers Lunch. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our eighth Buzz Books edition evokes all the excitement of Winter Institute with substantial pre-publication excerpts from 40 adult titles. Young adult excerpts from spring/summer titles can be found in a separate volume. Enjoy access to the newest voices the publishing industry is broadcasting for the upcoming season as you discover breakout books from established authors, sparkling debuts from soon-to-become literary stars, and fascinating memoirs and inspirational nonfiction. Familiar names include Louise Erdrich, Chris Cleave, Tracy Chevalier, Joe Hill, and Emma Straub, along with L.S. Hilton’s Maestra, already stirring buzz from Hollywood to London and back again as one of the year’s big new thriller discoveries. Major debuts by Michener Center Fellow Flynn Berry, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, Danny Johnson, Paul Krueger, Joe Okonkwo, Phaedra Patrick, and H.P. Wood are among our dozen new authors. Rounding out this generous sampler are books from well-known nonfiction writers, including Nathaniel Philbrick’s Valiant Ambition, and Chuck Klosterman’s But What If We’re Wrong?—as well as books that will have people talking, such as Lindy West’s Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman and Vishen Lakhiani’s The Code of the Extraordinary Mind. From publishing itself, we offer literary manager Kemper Donovan’s LA-based debut novel and new memoirs from Tin House editor Rob Spillman (All Tomorrow’s Parties), literary agent Betsy Lerner (The Bridge Ladies). As always, there’s also a great preview from Publishers Lunch of more than 100 additional, noteworthy spring/summer books to have on your radar. Start reading books right now that are sure to show up on bestseller lists, win awards, and be chosen by booksellers as top picks. Then invite your reading friends and book groups to download their own free copy of the ebook from any major ebookstore or at buzz.publishersmarketplace.com. And for the best in children’s literature, be sure to look for Buzz Books 2016: Young Adult Spring/Summer, also available now.
Download or read book The Portable Community written by Robert Owen Gardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the various ways in which individuals use music and culture to understand and respond to changes in their natural and built environments. Drawing on over 15 years of ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and participant observation, the author develops the thesis that the relationships, networks, and intimate forms of social interaction in the “portable” community cultivated at bluegrass festival events are significant cultural formations that shape participants’ relationships to their localities. With specific attention to the ways in which the strength of these relationships are translated into meaningful sites of community identity, place, and action following devastating local floods that destroyed homes and businesses, displacing residents for years, The Portable Community: Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life sheds light on the strength of such communities when tested and under external threat. A study of the central role of arts and music in grappling with social and environmental change, including their role in facilitating disaster relief and recovery, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in symbolic interactionism, the sociology of music, culture, and the sociology of disaster.
Download or read book Faithless A Jane Doe Thriller written by Steven Ramirez and published by Glass Highway. This book was released on 2021-05-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her only memory is dying from her wounds… Jane wakes up in a lab. She's alone, immersed in a sterilized tank with wires and tubes connected to her. She looks around. There are others–test subjects like her. Except they're all dead. What makes her different? She has no answers, but she wants them. Wants them with a powerful drive that courses through her like the life she lost in a night raid in Afghanistan. It's a life she shouldn't have now. Someone brought her back without her memories–no doubt for a reason. Only it seems they changed their minds. Men in gray suits are trying to kill her now. They shoot her, but she heals. As she flees, she leaves a trail of bodies. She knows they will pursue her unceasingly. Let them come. Jane wants answers because none of this is accidental. Who is she? How was she brought back? What are the limits of her body? What causes the fever that rages in her? And one thing she wants to know above all. Should she thank the people who did this–or kill them?
