Download or read book Kidnapped to the Center of the Earth written by Family Vision Press and published by Family Vision. This book was released on 1993 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Mole Troll snatches a baby troll and takes her to the center of the earth. Now, it's up to the Troll family to rescue her. Full-color illustrations.
Download or read book Kidnapped by the Billionaire An Age Gap Romance written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This man might be handsome, but he's a psycho. "Um, who are you?" I ask. "I'm Tristan Ashton." I pale, instantly recognizing the name. My dad subscribes to a lot of business magazines, and they would often mention Tristan Ashton, the 50-something billionaire recluse who made his enormous fortune from developing a few medical devices. All kinds of rumors have swirled around him, including many unsavory ones. What does he want with me? WORD COUNT: 4,100 A sexy short story about a young woman and a handsome billionaire!
Download or read book Disappearing Earth written by Julia Phillips and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National Book Award Finalist Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award National Best Seller "Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester "A genuine masterpiece" --Gary Shteyngart Spellbinding, moving--evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world--this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls--sisters, eight and eleven--go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty--densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska--and into a region as complex as it is alluring, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer's virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.
Download or read book Ransom Kidnapping in Italy written by Alessandra Montalbano and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organized crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, and children were abducted from across the country between the late 1960s and the late 1990s, held hostage by members of the Sardinian banditry, Cosa Nostra, and the ’Ndrangheta. Subjected to harsh captivities and psychological abuse, the victims spent months and even years in isolation while law enforcement and the state struggled to find them. Ransom Kidnapping in Italy examines this Italian criminal phenomenon. Alessandra Montalbano argues that abduction is a key vantage point from which to understand modern Italy: it troubled the law, terrified society, ignited juridical and parliamentary debates, and mobilized citizens. Bringing together archival and media materials with the victims’ accounts and diverse forms of cultural response, the book examines ransom kidnapping through the lenses of historiography, law, literary criticism, trauma studies, phenomenology, and political philosophy. Ransom Kidnapping in Italy traces how and at what price Italians became aware of living in a country that was being blackmailed by criminal organizations that arguably jeoparded the nation even more than terrorism.
Download or read book The Earth Gate written by Chris Comish and published by Chris Comish. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earth Gate takes you on an extraordinary adventure from Earth to the City of Shamballa, the Solar System, the Center of the Galaxy and beyond. Join the characters Ra-Sol-El, Qan Rahn, Master Sirius-Ra, Elohim Ha-ar-El, Sophia Magdelena and Yin Dek as they venture through the Cosmos and experience life in the Fifth Dimension. The Earth Gate is a journey through the Portal of Life filled with action, suspense and love as the characters discover multiple other dimensions and how to influence the physical world. Little do they know, there are beings known as the Slavers from Orion who will do anything to stop the reunification of Planet Earth with the Cosmos. Let the journey begin. Reviews "I have no reservations in highly recommending this groundbreaking work from a spiritual pioneer who has made it his life's mission to bring the Light to all mankind." -Mary Keating, Reiki master, owner and founder of Ai Kansha cat sanctuary "Chris is an amazing person with a strong will and unlimited talent. He can do anything that he puts his mind to." -Neal Parks, founder, Parks Paranormal Research and Investigation, host of the show Paranormally Speaking "Overall, The Earth Gate is a strong offering from a writer who has immersed himself in his subject matter. Comish, who maintains a "City of Shamballa" social network, genuinely believes in the supervening etheric realities that he depicts, and his conviction illuminates this engaging work of spiritualized science fiction." -ForeWord Clarion Reviews
Download or read book Dinner at the Center of the Earth written by Nathan Englander and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political thriller set against the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, from the Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year “Blends elements of spy thriller and love story, magical realism, and an all-too-real history of one of the world’s most intractable problems: peace between Israel and its neighbors." —The Boston Globe In the Negev desert, a nameless prisoner languishes in a secret cell, his only companion the guard who has watched over him for a dozen years. Meanwhile, the prisoner’s arch nemesis—The General, Israel’s most controversial leader—lies dying in a hospital bed. From Israel and Gaza to Paris, Italy, and America, Englander provides a kaleidoscopic view of the prisoner’s unlikely journey to his cell. Dinner at the Center of the Earth is a tour de force—a powerful, wryly funny, intensely suspenseful portrait of a nation riven by insoluble conflict, and the man who improbably lands at the center of it all.
Download or read book Trouble at The Cave written by Carla Tedrow and published by Family Vision. This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patti wants to be a detective just like her great-great grandfather Allan Pinkerton, so when the police have trouble finding the owners of The Cave, it's time for her to start investigating.
Download or read book Caveman Alien s Ransom written by Calista Skye and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being abducted by aliens was never on my bucket list. But I guess the aliens didn't get that memo, because one night I was beamed aboard a UFO. It dumped me and a bunch of other girls on an alien planet.A jurassic planet where giant, murderous dinosaurs walk around and everything wants to kill me.My only hope of surviving is the first man I met here. His name is Jax'zan, and he's an alien. And a caveman. As in, the hottest super-alpha caveman who ever lived. He's big and strong and doesn't talk much, but he's saved my life so many times now that I've lost count. My insides turn to hot mush whenever he fixes his smouldering eyes on me, and the scandalously sexy and unusual features his sensationally muscular body is rocking totally make me forget time and place.There's only one problem: He's holding me for ransom. And he wants to repopulate his woman-less planet. With me ... Expect steamy scenes, mysterious aliens with features like adult toys, deadly planets and the love story between a BBW from Earth and a sensationally hot alien warrior.Full-length romance novel with no cliffhangers and a happy-ever-after ending!
Download or read book Classics Illustrated written by William Bryan Jones, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its expanded third edition, this definitive work on Classics Illustrated explores the enduring series of comic-book adaptations of literary masterpieces in even greater depth, with twice the number of color plates as in the second edition. Drawing on interviews, correspondence, fanzines, and archival research, the book covers in full detail the work of the artists, editors, scriptwriters, and publishers who contributed to the success of the "World's Finest Juvenile Publication." Many previously unpublished reproductions of original art are included, along with new chapters covering editor Meyer Kaplan, art director L.B. Cole, and artist John Parker, and a complete issue-by-issue listing of significant international series.
Download or read book Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors From the silent era to 1965 written by Barry Monush and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled another comprehensive work for every film lover's library. In the first of two volumes, this book chronicles the careers of every significant film actor, from the earliest silent screen stars Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks to the mid-1960s, when the old studio and star systems came crashing down. Each listing includes: a brief biography, photos from the famed Screen World archives, with many rare shots; vital statistics; a comprehensive filmography; and an informed, entertaining assessment of each actor's contributions good or bad! In addition to every major player, Monush includes the legions of unjustly neglected troupers of yesteryear. The result is a rarity: an invaluable reference tool that's as much fun to read as a scandal sheet. It pulsates with all the scandal, glamour, oddity and glory that was the lifeblood of its subjects. Contains over 1,000 photos!
Download or read book Kidnapped In Space written by Chuck Swope and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapped In Space features 3 Stirring Stories with Intergalactic Investigator, Steve Titanic and his irrepressible partner Gordon Gatt. Story 1, Kidnapped In Space: While vacationing on a tropical asteroid they and famous scientist, Doctor Mogumber are kidnapped and taken captive by space pirate, Zeed.The Pirate really wants Dooctor Mogumber but Steve Titanic makes sure he and his partner, Gordon Gatt are taken too. Steve knows once the Pirate gets away with the Doctor his chances are minimal to save him. By getting kidnapped too, He and Gordon can take the pirate down from the inside. Story 2: A Silent Earth: When Space Germs are discovered and people start getting sick, Steve Titanic and his partner, Gordon Gatt are called upon by their chief to find the underground city that's sending the deadly germs. They also need to find and antidote for the space germs. Story 3, Amazonia Visits Earth: The beautiful alien, Amazonia decides to visit Earth to visit Steve Titanic and Gordon Gatt, who saved her from the space pirate, Zeed. Her space ship is fired upon by Earth's Space Patrol and once she lands, her ship is blown up. She is now a fugitive alien. After she's found and cleared by Steve and Gordon she gets mixed up with unscrupulous space cargo transporters who have their ships wrecked for the insurance then they sell the cargo elsewhere.
Download or read book A Kidnapped Santa Claus written by L. Frank Baum and published by Sheba Blake Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kidnapped Santa Claus is a Christmas-themed short story written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz; it has been called "one of Baum's most beautiful stories" and constitutes an influential contribution to the mythology of Christmas. A Kidnapped Santa Claus was first published in the December 1904 edition of The Delineator, the women's magazine that would print Baum's Animal Fairy Tales in the following year. The magazine text was "admirably illustrated" with "pen drawings of marked originality" by Frederick Richardson, who would illustrate Baum's Queen Zixi of Ix in 1905. The story opens with a quick overview of Santa's castle in the Laughing Valley. Its focus soon switches to the five Caves of the Daemons in nearby (though unnamed) mountains. These creatures are pagan daemons rather than Christian demons, in that they are not servants of Satan or necessarily evil. Four of the five, the Daemons of Selfishness, Envy, Hatred, and Malice, certainly are bad, but the fifth, the Daemon of Repentance, is a more ambiguous figure. The Daemons of the Caves resent Santa Claus because children under the influence of his gifts rarely visit their caves. They decide to frustrate his efforts and counter his influence. (The Daemon of Repentance goes along with the plan, since children cannot reach his remote cave without passing through the caves of his compatriots beforehand.) The Daemons first try to tempt Santa Claus to their own vices; they visit him one by one, and attempt to lure him into selfishness, envy, and hatred. Santa Claus merely laughs at their clumsy efforts. (The obvious model for these episodes is the Temptation of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels.) Failing at temptation, the Daemons instead kidnap Santa Claus; they lasso him as he is riding in his sleigh on Christmas Eve, and bind him in their caverns.
Download or read book Project Thirteen written by Liam Higham and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dispose of the body and find a new one. Project Thirteen begins immediately." A dozen failures. A search for a new body. On faraway planet Nordelta, paranoid despot Rashmir Fendel commissions scientist after scientist to create the perfect weapon. Imbued with a mysterious substance, these projects fail time and time again until Ignatius Dragomirov creates Project Thirteen. When peacekeeping organisation the Byzantium Order catches wind of this experiment, they pounce, only to lose their quarry on planet Earth. While Project Thirteen remains stranded, she must adapt to survive this new environment. Camouflage. Patience. Vulnerability. All things she must become accustomed to in her first few dangerous days of life. But how does one defeat perfection?
Download or read book The Maypop Kidnapping written by C. M. Surrisi and published by Carolrhoda Books ®. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the coastal village of Maiden Rock, Maine, Quinnie Boyd's teacher has disappeared. Quinnie thinks it's a kidnapping case, but her mom, the town sheriff, just thinks the teacher has left town. Still, Quinnie's going to follow her instincts that something's wrong. Her investigation takes her through a damp and smelly marsh, a lobster pound, and more of Maine's messiest places. She even gets help from her glamorous new neighbor, Mariella. As the girls hunt for clues around Maiden Rock, they encounter a cast of unlikely characters. And if Quinnie's hunch is right, the search may lead them right into danger . . . This hilarious and page-turning debut is the perfect whodunit story for middle school sleuths.
Download or read book Animated TV Specials written by George W. Woolery and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys 434 films including the popular favorites, classics, and special TV-movie presentations. With 103 illustrations.
Download or read book Abducted written by Susan A. Clancy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are tiny. They are tall. They are gray. They are green. They survey our world with enormous glowing eyes. To conduct their shocking experiments, they creep in at night to carry humans off to their spaceships. Yet there is no evidence that they exist at all. So how could anyone believe he or she was abducted by aliens? Or want to believe it? To answer these questions, psychologist Susan Clancy interviewed and evaluated "abductees"--old and young, male and female, religious and agnostic. She listened closely to their stories--how they struggled to explain something strange in their remembered experience, how abduction seemed plausible, and how, having suspected abduction, they began to recollect it, aided by suggestion and hypnosis. Clancy argues that abductees are sane and intelligent people who have unwittingly created vivid false memories from a toxic mix of nightmares, culturally available texts (abduction reports began only after stories of extraterrestrials appeared in films and on TV), and a powerful drive for meaning that science is unable to satisfy. For them, otherworldly terror can become a transforming, even inspiring experience. "Being abducted," writes Clancy, "may be a baptism in the new religion of this millennium." This book is not only a subtle exploration of the workings of memory, but a sensitive inquiry into the nature of belief.
Download or read book Media Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
