Download or read book Island of Bones written by P. J. Parrish and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the bullet-ridden body of a woman, identified only by a strange ring on her finger, and a tiny skull wash up on shore, Detective Louis Kincaid makes a connection that takes him to a remote island rife with evil and betrayal.
Download or read book Island of Bones written by Joy Castro and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is “identity” when you’re a girl adopted as an infant by a Cuban American family of Jehovah’s Witnesses? The answer isn’t easy. You won’t find it in books. And you certainly won’t find it in the neighborhood. This is just the beginning of Joy Castro’s unmoored life of searching and striving that she’s turned to account with literary alchemy in Island of Bones. In personal essays that plumb the depths of not-belonging, Castro takes the all-too-raw materials of her adolescence and young adulthood and views them through the prism of time. The result is an exquisitely rendered, richly detailed perspective on a uniquely troubled young life that reflects on the larger questions each of us faces in a world where diversity and singularity are forever at odds. In the experiences of her past—hunger and abuse, flight as a fourteen-year-old runaway, single motherhood, the revelations of her “true” ethnic identity, the suicide of her father—Castro finds the “jagged, smashed place of edges and fragments” that she pieces together to create an island all her own. Hers is a complicated but very real depiction of what it is to “jump class,” to not belong but to find one’s voice in the interstices of identity.
Download or read book Island of Bones written by Imogen Robertson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third novel in the critically acclaimed Westerman and Crowther historical mystery series reveals the dark secrets of Crowther’s past England, 1783. For years, reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther has pursued his forensic studies—and the occasional murder investigation—far from his family estate. But an ancient tomb there will reveal a wealth of secrets. When laborers discover an extra body inside the tomb, the lure of the mystery brings Crowther home at last, accompanied by his partner in crime, the forthright Mrs. Harriet Westerman. What Crowther learns will rewrite his family’s past—and spill new blood in a land torn between old magic and modern justice. The next installment in a series described as “CSI: Georgian England” (The New York Times Book Review), Island of Bones is a riveting tale that will captivate fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Charles Finch.
Download or read book On the Bones of the Serpent written by Debbora Battaglia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabarl island—created, in myth, from the bones of a serpent—is a coral atoll in the Louisiade archipelago of Papua New Guinea. The Sabarl speak of themselves as true "islanders": persons separated from the means of both physical and social survival. The Sabarl struggle for continuity—of the physical and social person and of social relations, of cultureal values, of paternal influence in a matrilineal society—is the subject of Debbora Battaglia's sensitive ethnography of loss and reconstruction: the first major work on cultural responses to mortality in the southern Massim culture area and an important contribution to studies of personhood in Melanesia. The creative focus of Sabarl cultural life is a series of mortuary feasts and rituals known as segaiya. In assembling and disassembling commemorative food and objects in segaiya exchanges, Sabarl also assemble and disassemble the critical social relations such objects stand for. These commemorative acts create a collective memory yet also a collective experience of forgetting social bonds that are of no future use to the living. Sabarl anticipate this disaggregation in patterns of everyday life, which reveal the importance of categorical distinctions mapped in beliefs about the physical and metaphysical person. Using remembrance and forgetting as an analytic lens, Battaglia is able to ask questions critical to understanding Melanesian social process. One of the "new ethnographies" addressing the limits of ethnographic representation and the fragmented nature of knowledge from an indigenous perspective, her finely wrought study explores the dynamics of cultural practices in which decontruction is integral to construction, allowing a new perspective on the ephermeral nature of sociality in Melanesia and new insight into the efficacy of cultural images more generally.
Download or read book Red Bones written by Ann Cleeves and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Bones marks the third in a stellar suspense series set on the Shetland Islands from bestselling author Ann Cleeves--the basis for the hit BBC show Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall. When a young archaeologist discovers a set of human remains, the locals are intrigued. Is it an ancient find—or a more contemporary mystery? Then an elderly woman is fatally shot and Ann Cleeves's popular series detective Jimmy Perez is called in. As claustrophobic mists swirl around the island, Inspector Perez finds himself totally in the dark.
Download or read book How Winter Began written by Joy Castro and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ir�ne gives the wealthy businessmen what they want, diving headfirst into the filthy river, thinking only of providing for her baby daughter, Marisa, as the men salivate over her soaked body emerging onto the bank. A young boy tries to befriend the reticent younger sister of the town's cruelest bully, only to discover the family betrayal behind her quiet countenance. Josefa, a young bride, is executed for murdering the man who raped her. Joy Castro's How Winter Began traces these and other characters as they seek compassion from each other and themselves. Thematically linked by the lives of women, especially Latinas, and their experiences of poverty and violence in a white-dominated, wealth-obsessed culture, How Winter Began is a delicately wrought collection of stories. The question at the heart of this riveting book is how or whether to trust one another after the rupture of betrayal.
Download or read book Whale Island and the Mysterious Bones written by Karen Bonnet and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katey and WIll Longley survive a shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod. The brother and sister meet up with Captain Sharkley, who is traveling to an island from which there is no return, where he hopes to find mystical whale bones.
Download or read book Island of the Blue Dolphins written by Scott O'Dell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1960 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.
Download or read book Thirteen Bones written by Tom King and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thirteen Bones is fiction, incorporating facts uncovered by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery--TIGHAR--during twenty years of investigation into Earhart's and Noonan's disappearance. It includes the flurry of telegrams that went between Settlement Scheme Administrator Gerald B. Gallagher and his superiors in Fiji, reporting the discovery and deciding what to do about it. It proposes a geopolitical reason that the British authorities did not report the discovery to the Americans--even though the bones were suspected to be Earhart's"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book The Rattled Bones written by S.M. Parker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unearthing years of buried secrets, Rilla Brae is haunted by ghostly visions tied to the tainted history of a mysterious island in this haunting novel from the author of "The Girl Who Fell."
Download or read book Skull and Bones written by John Drake and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in the rip-roaring adventure series of ‘Treasure Island’ prequels for fans of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and Flashman
Download or read book Islands of Salt written by Konrad A. Antczak and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early-modern Venezuelan Caribbean did not lure seafarers with the saccharine delights of cane sugar but with the preserving qualities of solar sea salt. In this book, the historical archaeological study of this salty commodity offers a unique entryway into the hitherto unknown maritime mobilities and daily lives of the seafarers who camped at the saltpans of Venezuelan islands from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries, cultivating and harvesting the white crystal of the sea.For the first time, this study offers a comprehensive documentary history of the saltpans of La Tortuga Island and Cayo Sal in the Los Roques Archipelago, uncovering the surprising importance of their salt. Long-term archaeological excavations at the campsites by these saltpans have brought to light the plethora of material remains left behind by seafarers during their seasonal and temporary salt forays. The exhaustive analysis of the thousands of recovered things - pipes, punch bowls, plates, teapots, buttons, bones - contrasted with documentary evidence, not only enables us to understand where these things came from but also by whom they were used. By engaging the evidence through my theoretical framework of assemblages of practice, I demonstrate how seafarers and things were vibrantly entangled in the everyday assemblages of practice of salt cultivation, dining and drinking.This multisited approach spanning 256 years, reveals that seafarers were fervent buyers of fashionable products, drinking hot tea from porcelain tea bowls, using colorful ceramic chamber pots for their hygienic needs and imbibing exotic rum punch by the scorching saltpans of the uninhabited Venezuelan islands. Intended for scholars, students and the interested public alike, this historical archaeological study positions humble seafarers in the limelight, not as the anonymous movers of international trade and facilitators of imperial interests, but as avid trans-imperial and extra-imperial consumers of the fruits of those very empires.
Download or read book Island of Bones written by P. J. Parrish and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "New York Times" bestselling author brings back detective Louis Kincaid for a fast-paced, fascinating thriller about a mysterious private island which harbors a dark--and deadly--family secret. Original.
Download or read book Island of Bones written by P. J. Parrish and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the bullet-ridden body of a woman, identified only by a strange ring on her finger, and a tiny skull wash up on shore, Detective Louis Kincaid makes a connection that takes him to a remote island rife with evil and betrayal.
Download or read book Island of Bones written by Imogen Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther investigates an ancient tomb where an extra body and clues about Crowther's haunting past are discovered.
Download or read book Island of Bones written by Gaby Triana and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunted Key West resort. Murder off the Havana coast. Pirates. A deadly hurricane.When Ellie Whitaker leaves her dead-end job and ex behind to spread her grandmother's ashes in tropical paradise, the last thing she expected was to face more ghosts of the past. But darkness lurks inside her grandmother's former home turned resort. Ellie's presence stirs up its energies. As a hurricane creeps closer to the island, she must hurry to discover long-buried truths. About her treasure-hunting grandfather's death in 1951. About the curse her grandmother left behind. About the innkeeper next door with an evil secret. And the spectral visions she keeps having. Some there to help her. And some to make sure Ellie becomes a ghostly resident of haunted Key West forever.
Download or read book Island of Bones written by Marta Sprout and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-26 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fabulous-- I love main character Kate Bowers... she's one for the ages."- Lee Child, International Bestselling Author of the Jack Reacher SeriesWould you risk your life for total strangers?When she is assaulted while on vacation in Key West, the unforgettable Kate Bowers marshals her skills as a former homicide detective. As she hunts down her assailant, she discovers a high-end sex trafficking operation on a luxury super-yacht. That's only the first complication. The president's daughter is missing and in mortal danger. When a U.S. company produces a viable quantum chip, a rogue senator tries to sell it to North Korea, hoping for a massive payoff. But China won't let this technology fall into the hands of a rival. This could be war.Bowers is in the middle of it all. The game is on.Join the BREATH-TAKING MANHUNT and Order Your Copy Today!"Hard-edged and gripping, brimming with reality, intensity and passion. This one packs a powerful punch." - Steve Berry, International Bestselling Author"There are a lot of fine thriller writers, but few are as thrilling as Marta Sprout. Her stories can be by turns terrifying, classy, heartwarming, quirky or hilarious. One thing is certain, she'll keep you eagerly turning pages--if you dare! World-class."- David Farland, Bestselling Author and Hollywood Greenlighter"ISLAND OF BONES is a breathtaking, action-packed thrill-ride. Kate Bowers strength, compassion, and a fierce streak honed in combat, makes this story a must read."- Robert Dugoni, International Bestselling Author of The Tracy Crosswhite Series"Set in colorful Key West... filled with twists and turns coming at the reader from all angles?This is an action packed non-stop thriller that transports the reader along on a roller coaster ride with never a dull moment? Kate Bowers? is a terrific blend of brains, strength of character, and pure guts the type of strong character that we all love to root for to succeed against all odds. Those who enjoy suspenseful stories will be glad they decided to read this spellbinding thriller."- Gary W. Noesner, Chief, FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit (retired)
