Download or read book Jonah s Luck written by Fergus Hume and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Jonah's Luck' is a mystery novel written by Fergus Hume. It revolves around a man named Herries, who sees himself as having the same bad luck as the Biblical figure Jonah. He had always been Jonah the unlucky, and Jonah he would remain, so far as his limited vision could see, until the end of his life, in his eyes. Throughout five and twenty years of existence he had suffered nothing but trouble. Everything went wrong with him. This new disaster was all of a piece with the rest of the pattern, that was being woven,--against his will, it would seem--on the looms of life. He wondered, with a sigh, why God permitted so many troubles to befall him, since he could see no good reason for their coming to him so persistently. Then out of sheer desire to do something, he searched his pockets for the remains of his poor fortune.
Download or read book Jonah s Luck written by Fergus Hume and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Luminous Heart of Jonah S written by Gina B. Nahai and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An intriguing murder-mystery journey anchored within the Iranian-Jewish community of Los Angeles.” —Washington Independent Review of Books Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award Finalist for the Jewish Book Council’s JJ Greenberg Memorial Award The Soleymans, an Iranian Jewish family, have been tormented for decades, from Tehran all the way to Los Angeles, by a crafty and unscrupulous financier who has futilely claimed to be an heir to their fortune. Now, their nemesis has nearly achieved his goal—until he suddenly turns up dead behind the wheel of his Aston Martin. The possible suspects are legion: his long-suffering wife, numerous members of the Soleyman clan, the scores of investors he bankrupted in a Ponzi scheme, or perhaps even his disgruntled bookkeeper and longtime confidant. This “fascinating” blend of murder mystery and generation-spanning family saga (BookPage) pulls back the curtain on a close-knit community, yet at the same time “feels more universal than anything . . . an engrossing, expansive epic that charts not only thousands [of] years of Iranian Jewish life, but the brutality of one family’s survival amidst revolution and cultural upheaval” (Kirkus Reviews). “A brilliant, funny, poignant, and thrilling novel about an Iranian Jewish family’s struggle to find its identity in exile in America. Part murder mystery, part comic novel . . . a book you will not be able to put down.” —New York Times–bestselling author Reza Aslan “With touches of magic realism, extraordinary characters, and a spiraling, multigenerational plot involving fraud, a murder mystery, epic suffering, heroic generosity, women’s struggle for freedom, and the clash between East and West, Nahai’s mythic, tragic, often beautiful immigrant family saga illuminates timeless questions of prejudice, trauma, inheritance, loyalty, and love.” —Booklist, starred review “A riveting tale. . . . Readers will be well rewarded.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Download or read book Lucky Jonah written by Richard Scrimger and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could escape your life with just one click? Bullied by his brother and living in the shadow of his cute, athletic best friend, Jonah is crippled by self-loathing and insecurity. Then a mysterious stranger hands him a disposable camera with the power to transport him into someone else’s body—and someone else’s life. But with a limited number of shots and trouble mounting click by click, will this unhappy boy find a new life? Or will his deepest, darkest secret follow him wherever he goes? Richard Scrimger’s Lucky Me is a hilarious take on a Freaky Friday-esque switcheroo with an outsized identity crisis.
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Download or read book The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States The fishermen of the United States written by George Brown Goode and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Honey You Are My Lucky Star Book 1 written by NovelCat and published by NovelCat. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I am on the operation table, I am still in love with my husband Callen, not knowing he is the one who asks the doctor to induce my baby. He says I can only keep this child by signing his divorce agreement. But after I sigh it, he tells me the operation is already finished. I spend one year recovering from my failed marriage. But I've never imagined I will meet my ex-husband again, and the mistress, now his wife. They insult me as a divorced woman who only deserves to die alone at home. However, at that time, a mysterious man appears and claiming I am his woman. Not only does he protects me from the annoying ex, but he also knows everything about me and offers me help at any time. I think I've met my Mr.Right, only to find he only regards me as a plaything...
Download or read book Haunted Maine written by Charles A. Stansfield Jr. and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things that go bump in the night, disembodied voices, footsteps in an empty stairwell, an icy hand on your shoulder…let your imagination run wild as you read about Maine's most extraordinary apparitions, sinister spooks, and bizarre beasts. You may know of Davy Jones' curse to sailors or Big Squaw Mountain's Eternal Flame, but perhaps you haven't heard about: the phantom pirate ship, which haunts the coast's waters, the destroyed vessel on the sea floor below; Robert Cartier's bewitched axe, which beheaded its owner and floats aimlessly throughout the Maine woods; and flying canoes, used in a deal with the devil by lonely loggers, who quickly regretted their agreement.
Download or read book Honey You Are My Lucky Star BOOK 2 written by NovelCat and published by NovelCat. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I am on the operation table, I am still in love with my husband Callen, not knowing he is the one who asks the doctor to induce my baby. He says I can only keep this child by signing his divorce agreement. But after I sigh it, he tells me the operation is already finished. I spend one year recovering from my failed marriage. But I've never imagined I will meet my ex-husband again, and the mistress, now his wife. They insult me as a divorced woman who only deserves to die alone at home. However, at that time, a mysterious man appears and claiming I am his woman. Not only does he protects me from the annoying ex, but he also knows everything about me and offers me help at any time. I think I've met my Mr.Right, only to find he only regards me as a plaything...
Download or read book Sail Away written by Nicola Rodriguez and published by Fernhurst Books Limited. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You long to escape the daily grind, buy a boat and sail away. This book will inspire your dreams and show you how to turn them into a reality – be it an extended cruise or years away. Written by a yachting journalist who has sailed away for 8 years, together with the contributions of 100 other blue-water cruisers, there are tales a plenty of what it is like to do it from around the world – west, east, north and south. There is also practical advice on everything from choosing a boat to crossing oceans. You'll be guided through each step of the preparation before casting off on your adventure of a lifetime. There's information on everything the would-be blue-water sailor needs to consider, including safety, communications, children, ocean passages and budgeting. Learn about routes and destinations around Europe, the Caribbean, the Pacific and beyond to help you cruise the Mediterranean or Baltic, cross the Atlantic or circumnavigate the world. Colour photographs and charts will inspire and inform in this essential guide for the 21st century blue-water sailor. Fully updated for 2019 with new sections on visiting the Baltic and high and low latitudes. Contributors include John Ridgway, Jeanne Socrates, Tom Cunliffe, Ellen Massey Leonard, Behan Gifford, Nigel Wollen, Andrew Wilkes, Jane Russell and Jeremy Wyatt.
Download or read book Jonah s Luck written by Fergus Hume and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonah's Luck written by Fergus Hume who was a prolific English novelist. This book is one of many works of him. It has already Published in 1906.
Download or read book What are the Chances of That written by Andrew C. A. Elliott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chance fills every day of our lives and affects every decision we make. Yet, for something woven so closely into the fabric of our being, we are not very good at thinking about uncertainty and risk. In this lively and engaging book, Andrew C. A. Elliott asks why this is so. He picks at the threads and, in showing how our world is built on probability rather than certainty, he identifies five obstacles to thinking about uncertainty that confuse us time after time. Elliott takes us into the casino, but this is not an invitation to gamble. He looks at financial markets, but this is not a guide to investment. There's discussion of health, but this is not a medical book. He touches on genetics and evolution, and music-making, and writing, because chance is at work there too. Entering many different fields, What are the Chances of That? is always following the trail of chance and randomness. One purpose of the book is to go cross-country, to show that there are connected ways of thinking that disrespect boundaries and cut across the domains of finance, and gambling, and genetics, and public health, and creativity. Through it, one visits the vantage points that give a broad view of the landscape and sees how these different areas of life and knowledge are connected - through chance. What are the Chances of That? discusses chance and the importance of understanding how it affects our lives. It goes beyond a mathematical approach to the subject, showing how our thinking about chance and uncertainty has been shaped by history and culture, and only relatively recently by the mathematical theory of probability. In considering how we think about uncertainty, Elliott proposes five “dualities” that encapsulate many of the ambiguities that arise.
Download or read book The Devil and the Deep written by Chris Hillier and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written about safety at sea, collision avoidance and safe boating, but how many of them can tell you how to avoid sea monsters? In this little reference book, Chris Hillier takes a lighthearted look at over a hundred of the myths and superstitions surrounding life afloat.
Download or read book Captains Courageous written by Rudyard Kipling and published by EDCON Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring The Classics To Life Series. These novels have been adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite the reluctant reader as well as the enthusiastic one. Let the Classics introduce Kipling, Stevenson, and H.G. Wells. Readers will embrace the notion of Crusoe's lonely reflections, the psychological reactions of a Civil War soldier at Chancellorsville, and the tragedy of the Jacobite Cause in 18th Century Scotland. Knowledge of Classics is a cultural necessity and these will improve fluency, vocabulary and comprehension through a high Interest / low readability format. Each eBook is divided into 10 short high quality illustrated chapters - Was written using McGraw-Hill's Core Vocabulary - Has been measured by the Fry Readability Formula - Defines and uses in context new vocabulary, prior to each chapter.
Download or read book The Dundee Whalers 1750 1914 written by Norman Watson and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2003-11-24 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of what was Britain's leading whaling port. Today, Dundee captains and the city's whaling fleet have a permanent place in the geography of the world. Cape Adams, Cape Milne, Artic Bay and Eclipse Sound recall an era when the city's stoutly built ships, manned by heroic adventurers, discovered new routes, made new friends, but seldom sailed far from danger. In Dundee itself, streets such as Whale Lane and Baffin Street serve as reminders of an era in which Dundee dominated the whaling grounds. Moreover, the Dundee fleet has excelled as polar exploration ships, providing vessels for Captain Scott, Ernest Shackleton and Admiral Byrd, leaving a permanent reminder of the city's historic role at Dundee Island, Antarctica. An appendix lists all the ships and their captains.
