Download or read book Lenny written by William Lynn Smith and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lenny is the story of the meeting of two different cultures, two different social classes, and two different generations in one improbable friendship. It takes the reader through time and distance from a present-day cemetery burial back to the forties when a young black man joined the Red Tail fighter squadron that protected American Bombers through to the sixties when a young white man started his railroad career and how their two lives intertwined.
Download or read book Lenny s Dare written by M. H. Bittner and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1941, the Schultz family lives a modest suburban life in a small town in central New Jersey -- even as the shadow of war grows closer. Though painfully aware of the dire political climate of the time, they work hard to instill their children with wholesome American values rather than crippling existential fears. Lenny, oldest of the five children, succeeds at school, plays alley ball with his friends and siblings, and occasionally listens to the radio or his father’s conversations, which all seem to center around the events in Europe. Life is good. That is, until the neighborhood bully, Louis, comes along. A neglected child doomed to inherit the violent, racist ways of his alcoholic father, Louis increasingly antagonizes Lenny, culminating in a foolhardy dare to see which of them is brave enough to enter the Prescotts' allegedly haunted mansion. Lenny accepts Louis's challenge not out of spite or a desire to be seen as brave, but out of a need to prove to the world what he already knows to be true: that Louis, like all bullies, tyrants, and war-mongering dictators, is a coward. The only hope for liberation lies in direct confrontation, not appeasement. Can Lenny keep the evil at home at bay while the forces of evil are gathering abroad? Lenny’s Dare: A Novel of Youth in a Time of War captures the essential incongruity of pre-WWII American life -- a world where children at home grew, played, and went to school while great forces abroad gathered like clouds portending the deadliest storm the world had ever seen.
Download or read book Lenny The Leprechaun written by Ciarán S. McCreanor and published by To Purchase This Book. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lenny and his friends discover that their little Town is in danger of the fearsome red Giant (Dearge Mor a colossal Giant.) The four giants of Ireland have been summoned to protect the island and its people.The Leprechaun's pot of gold is the only thing that can stop the Púca spirits of Dearge mor's conquest of destruction. Leprechaun's adventures with his friends the Gnomes must help the mortals but closely followed by Trolls who wish to reclaim the Leprechaun's gold and return it to Troll mountain"I'm Lenny the Leprechaun with me pot of gold, I love to sing and dance and I love to say hello, cause I'm a cheeky leprechaun just to let you know that you'll never get your hands on me lovely pot of gold."
Download or read book Monster written by Diane Hoh and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a legend of a monster that preys on Salem University students—and now there is deadly proof that it’s real Abby McDonald works harder than anyone to keep her straight A’s, along with her scholarship, even at the cost of not having much of a social life. Her understanding boyfriend, David, wants her to relax a little, but Abby is driven to succeed. She can’t let her emotions get in the way. Plunging into a demanding schedule, she blows off the rumors of a vicious monster on campus—it must be a fraternity prank or drama club performance. The only time left to tackle her annoying chemistry project is late at night, which happens to be when her strange classmate Stan likes to work too. It’s better to be with someone than to be alone . . . right? When the monster attacks someone close to her, Abby can no longer deny the rumors and discovers the shocking truth. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Diane Hoh including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Download or read book Before My Memory Fades written by Timothy Ian Mitchell and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating memoir recounts Timothy Ian Mitchell’s boyhood dream of becoming a RCMP officer and the first five years of his service as a Mountie on the Canadian Prairies. Deeply honest, often moving, and intermittently funny, the anecdotes at the core of this book vividly detail Mitchell’s experiences and encounters with other members of the Force, perpetrators and victims of crime, and a variety of other people and places that impacted his early career and influenced his entire life. Whether he was enforcing traffic regulations, investigating a robbery, or marching on Red Serge duty, Mitchell was honoured and grateful to be recognized as a Canadian Mountie.
Download or read book Lenny and Mel s Summer Vacation written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lenny and Mel kick off their incredible summer vacation by doing something huge, something they haven't done since last summer: nothing. They loaf. They doze. They dig into the fridge and come up with new and exciting lunch foods. They're bored -- and it's great! Then August hits, and it's time to go to the cabin. This means piling into the car with Grandma and their parents at the crack of dawn, and driving miles away to breathe fresh air, climb trees, and play with sticks. Yuck. Dad says it'll be an "adventure." But Lenny and Mel know this is parent code for "bad stuff." Why can't they just do what they want this summer?
Download or read book Candles for the Dead written by Frank Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-07-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British police procedural in which Inspector Paget investigates the murder of a female bank employee. One of the suspects is the bank manager, fearful she might accuse him of sexual harassment.
Download or read book The Secret of Zoom written by Lynne Jonell and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can two friends foil a dastardly plan and save orphans from a fate worse than death? Christina lives in a big, old stone mansion on the edge of a dark forest surrounded by barbed wire. Deep within the forest is the laboratory where her father works—and where her mother was blown to bits years ago. Christina's father knows just how dangerous the world can be, so he keeps her safe at home, forbidding her from talking to the very interesting orphans down the road. But when an orphan boy named Taft talks to her, she's thrilled to help him search for a secret tunnel. But soon she discovers there's more to the orphanage, the lab, and the mystery of her mother's accident than she ever suspected. Sinister things are in the works—and the secret of zoom is the most dangerous secret of all! “This exciting tale, with just a touch of fantasy and humor, is a winner. ... Jonell displays pitch-perfect skills in an expertly crafted story that never flags and that includes plenty of heart-stopping situations to keep readers fully engaged.” —School Library Journal, Starred Review
Download or read book Revolutionaries written by Joshua Furst and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Austin Chronicle Best Book of the Year Fred, given name Freedom, is the sole offspring of Lenny Snyder, the infamous pied piper of 1960s counterculture. From a young age, Fred has been exploited by his father and used to enhance Lenny's mystique. Now middle-aged, Fred looks back on life with this charismatic, brilliant, and volatile ringmaster, who is as captivating in these pages as he was to his devoted disciples back then. We see Lenny in his prime and then as he gradually loses his magnetic confidence and leading role at the end of the sixties. Lenny demands loyaty but gives none back in return; he preaches love but treats his family with almost reflexive cruelty. And Fred remembers all of it--the chaos, the spite, the affection. A kaledoscopic saga, this novel is at once a profound allegory for America and a deeply intimate portrait of a father and son.
Download or read book Daddy s Tavern written by Curtis Gibson and published by Curtis Gibson. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daddyas Tavern is a neighborhood mystery novel, an unconditional love story, and a powerful family drama, all brought together for a memorable and emotional roller coaster ride. Daddyas Tavern is at the center of a decaying neighborhoodaa brutal world of cruelty, murder, and a mysterious man with a camera who is killing the neighborhood children, and heas refining his aart.a Daddyas Tavern has been the neighborhoodas meeting place since it was first built after the Great Chicago Fire. Local businessmen often held court to resolve local problems, a tradition that tragically continues with the new owner.
Download or read book In Cotton Wool written by William Babington Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book sets forth the life-history of a man endowed with naturally good impulses, who secured love, friendship, general popularity; but who, by reasons of an insidiously growing egoism, gradually lost all that fate had given to him." -- Hutchinson & Co. catalog, page 16.
Download or read book Spilled Blood written by Brian Freeman and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TWISTY PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM BESTSELLING BRIAN FREEMAN 'A great read from a rising star in the crime genre' Crimesquad 'This gripping psychological thriller is a cut above the rest' Candis Magazine It's every parent's worst nightmare. Chris Hawk's daughter has been accused of murder...and she looks guilty as sin. Chris rushes to the small town in Minnesota where his ex-wife and his only child, Olivia, now live, determined to defend his daughter. He discovers two towns at war: Barron, where a chemical works has brought jobs and fortune, and St Croix, Olivia's downriver home, where the same chemical works are believed to have brought death: a cancer cluster with mysterious origins. Olivia is at the centre of this feud. So is the girl she's suspected of killing. If Chris is to find out what really happened, he needs to learn everything about his daughter...but he's beginning to realise he hardly knows her at all. Chris wants to believe Olivia is innocent, but belief is only the first step. Now he has to prove it. And all the while, the Barron boys are waiting, baying for her blood.
Download or read book Highway Disciple written by Dan Lee and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the tragic death of Lenny (Leopard) Richardson’s wife, the outlaw motorcycle club member was at his breaking point. Through a series of life-threatening events that transpired on his motorcycle journey from Phoenix, Arizona, to Treasure Valley, Idaho, a traveling minister at a roadside church in the desert helped Lenny discover a way to put his dreadful life and sinful past behind him and use his motorcycle as a tool to spread the Word of God to the rest of the world. But positive changes in his life would not come without resistance from the outlaw club Lost Rabbles, law enforcement, and the new people that he met, and not even his faith in Jesus would be able to stop the grave threat that continued to pursue him.
Download or read book Transnational Feminism and Global Advocacy in South Asia written by Gita Rajan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational feminism has been critical to feminist theorizing in the global North over the last few decades. Perhaps due to its broad terminology, transnational feminism can become vague and dislocated, losing its ability to name specific critiques of and responses to empire, race, and globalization that are emboldened by its transnational remit. This volume encompasses an expansive engagement and exploration of transnational South Asian feminist movements, networks, and critiques within the context of the popular and the diaspora in South Asia. The contributing authors address key issues in a global context, especially as they operate both in a situated and the diasporic imaginary of South Asia. While the idea of the popular in South Asia has often been circumscribed by the spaces and cultural politics of Bollywood, this interdisciplinary volume takes an innovative turn to examine how academics, advocates, activists, and artists envision the inroads and consequences of nationalism, globalization and/or empire, which continually remake communities and alter needs and allegiances. Through ethnography, literature, dance, cinema, activism, poetry, and storytelling, the authorsd analyse popular and social justice using a focused, multidisciplinary gendered lens. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.
Download or read book Veil of Lies written by Jeri Westerson and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A great read, through and through. Westerson's finely wrought portrait of gritty Medieval London is embued with great wit and poignancy. Crispin Guest is a knight to remember." -- Cornelia Read, author of A Field of Darkness, on Veil of Lies. Crispin Guest is a disgraced knight, stripped of his rank and his honor - but left with his life - for plotting against Richard II. Having lost his bethrothed, his friends, his patrons and his position in society. With no trade to support him and no family willing to acknowledge him, Crispin has turned to the one thing he still has - his wits - to scrape a living together on the mean streets of London. In 1383, Guest is called to the compound of a merchant - a reclusive mercer who suspects that his wife is being unfaithful and wants Guest to look into the matter. Not wishing to sully himself in such disgraceful, dishonorable business but in dire need of money, Guest agrees and discovers that the wife is indeed up to something, presumably nothing good. But when he comes to inform his client, he is found dead - murdered in a sealed room, locked from the inside. Now Guest has come to the unwanted attention of the Lord Sheriff of London and most recent client was murdered while he was working for him. And everything seems to turn on a religious relic - a veil reported to have wiped the brow of Christ - that is now missing.
Download or read book Fatal Charms and The Mansions of Limbo written by Dominick Dunne and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1999-03-09 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominick Dunne has met them all--stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty--and now his two provocative collections of Vanity Fair portraits are in one irresistible volume. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of million-dollar European retreats, here are the movers and shakers--and the people who pretend to be. Among colorful profiles and revealing glimpses of Elizabeth Taylor, Claus von Bülow, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Aaron Spelling, discover who dumped an heiress the night before the wedding to run off with the best man . . . what happens when the ex-husband of a movie legend becomes president . . . why a beautiful singer fell in with the mob . . . and, in Dunne's most personal story, how a lying murderer and a limelight-loving judge denied justice to his family after his daughter's life was brutally destroyed. Filled with pathos and wit, insight and sass, this candid, controversial volume gives you an extraordinary peek into the rarefied world of the rich, the royal, and the ruined. For Dunne is the man who knows all their secrets--and now those secrets are out.
Download or read book Unfinished Business written by Barbara Seranella and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California mechanic-cum-sleuth Miranda "Munch" Mancini has seen her share of creeps in her rough-and-tumble life, but the one who has just assaulted two of her customers -- leaving one dead -- really takes the cake. Munch isn't a woman easily cowed, but her own dark history of sexual assault comes flooding back, threatening to drown her in a pool of terrifying memories. For Munch, the best defense has always been a good offense, and so she takes off after the predator...only to find the tables have suddenly turned, and his twisted intentions have shifted to her.
