Download or read book Zero Stars Do Not Recommend written by MJ Wassmer and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2024-07-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when you're on holiday and the sun explodes? **AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** 'Five Stars, Would Recommend' GRADY HENDRIX 'Lord of the Flies crashes headfirst into The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' BENJAMIN STEVENSON Professional underachiever Dan Foster is finally taking a break. Sure, his life has been average at best and, yes, he has never has quite lived up to his potential. But after a few Bud Lights in paradise with his girlfriend Mara, things are starting to look up. Then the sun explodes. With the island suddenly plunged into darkness, the ultra-rich guests hijack the remaining supplies and declare themselves the new ruling class. Led by a fitness influencer turned ruthless dictator, martial law is declared and the hoi polloi are press-ganged into service. And it's just Dan's luck that he could land an even worse job while on holiday. As temperatures drop and class tensions rise, Dan might have found a way for himself and Mara to escape the island. But sneaking away would also mean abandoning the burgeoning revolution that he might-have-kind-of-sort-of single-handedly started. 'A must-read' BOOKLIST 'Totally original' ALICE BELL 'Fresh, fun and completely brilliant' SARAH BONNER

Download or read book Manhattan Ember written by Olive Collins and published by Olive Collins Author. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1866, onboard an immigrant ship bound for New York, events play out which have an everlasting effect on their lives, and the lives of their offspring. Marguerite Kelley, the daughter of an esteemed Irish immigrant grew up in a home that was dominated by the disappearance of her uncle. On a windy morning in November 1905, she is the first to hear about the discovery of a skeleton tucked under the eaves of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Manhattan. Suspecting the remains are that of her uncle who worked on the construction of the Cathedral, she wants to be the first person to break the news to Roisin, his widow, and to her Irish-born father Patrick Kilbane. She hopes the discovery will solve a mystery that has over-shadowed her family for a quarter of a century. Roisin Gallagher had many names and nicknames during her fifty-one years. As a child, she joined the thousands who departed Ireland’s shore for a better life. In New York, she was known as The Orphan Gallagher. She was married twice and took each of her husband’s names and when her second husband disappeared, she was known as the Widow Kilbane. Although a wealthy woman who witnessed great changes in the New World with a unique story of her own, it was the disappearance of her husband that preoccupied her most. Ger Kilbane was akin to a myth, a man who reportedly ‘fell off the face of the earth.’ Patrick Kilbane came to New York with aspirations as great as the ship on which he sailed. He and his brothers were fleeing more than poverty and oppression in Ireland. Patrick was happy to leave his family’s sordid history behind and begin anew in America. In New York, Patrick and his brothers worked on the building of St Patrick’s Cathedral and over the following twenty-five years he found great success as a businessman and Alderman in Five Points. When his daughter greets him with the news of the discovery of a skeleton in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, he realizes that it is as impossible to flee from his family’s past as it is for a man to disappear.

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Download or read book The Woman from Planet X written by Kirsten Weiss and published by misterio press. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A romantic vacation turns deadly… All Susan wants is some R&R with her boyfriend, Arsen—a quick getaway to small-town Nowhere, Nevada, home to the world’s biggest collection of the world’s biggest things. But when she discovers a murdered mystery knitter who’s been planting her creations around town, this detecting duo and Susan’s dog Bailey are on the case. These wacky amateur detectives will have to untangle this big mystery and fast. Because big trouble is on their tail. And if they don’t unravel the truth, a friend-in-need may wind up in jail. The Woman from Planet X is book six in the laugh-out-loud Wits’ End mystery series. A fast-paced and funny cozy mystery, packed with quirky characters, pets, and murder, it’s perfect for fans of Jana DeLeon, Janet Evanovich, and Donna Andrews. Get cozy and beam up this hilarious mystery now!

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Download or read book Big Bad written by Kirsten Weiss and published by misterio press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Big, Bad Murder in a Small Town Hi. I’m Alice, a thirty-something ex-bodyguard. I live to sleep in, but I rarely get the chance now that I’m living above my small-town’s dinner theater. Between self-absorbed actors slamming doors at all hours and the theater cat that won’t leave me alone... I swear he knows I’m allergic. Also, he led me straight to the corpse of the theater’s leading lady. Thanks, cat. Now my brother, the murdered woman’s co-star, is determined to solve the crime. He thinks his improv and questionable sword fighting skills somehow qualify him as a detective. Whether I like it or not, I’m going to have to solve this murder—and fast—before he gets in over his head. Or gets it taken off. Big Bad is the second book in the Big Murder Mystery series. If you like laugh-out-loud mysteries, relationships with heart, and stories about figuring out where you belong, you’ll love Big Bad. Buy the book and start the hilarious cozy mystery today. Mystery role-playing game in the back of the book!

Download or read book The Lefay Chronicles written by C. Robinson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-12-22 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume One explores Lily Anna's first two years at Arcadia Preparitory School for the gifted.

Download or read book The Baby Name Countdown written by Janet Schwegel and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensive list of names for a newborn, as well as methods for helping parents come a decision on naming.

Download or read book A Big Mystery Collection written by Kirsten Weiss and published by misterio press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Town. Big Murders. When things go south on an assignment, bodyguard Alice Summerland retreats to her hometown of Nowhere, NV. But small-town life has gotten a lot weirder since she’s been away. Her little brother’s moved into a treehouse. The mountain town’s now attracting tourists with the world’s largest collection of big things... Nowhere now has the world’s largest pizza cutter. And lawn flamingo. And ball of yarn... It’s also gotten a lot more murdery… Buy the first three books in the Big Murder Mystery series—Big Shot, Big Bad, and Big Bucks—in one special collection! Murder mystery games included in the back of each book! Get it now!

Download or read book Gnome Alone written by Kirsten Weiss and published by misterio press. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas is coming… and so is murder… It’s holiday season in small-town Doyle, and the town is pivoting from UFO tourism to Bigfoot Days. What’s the owner of a UFO-themed B&B to do? Stop the shift, of course. And control-freak Susan Witsend is just the woman to put the alien back in… Christmas? But when Bigfoot is blamed for a mass garden gnome theft, Susan is drafted to track down the kidnapped gnomes. The holiday season hits another sour note with the murder of a member of her caroling group. Are Susan’s organization skills up to juggling missing gnomes and tracking down a killer in time to ring in the festivities? Because as Susan and friends unwrap motives and alibis, she finds herself adding more names to the naughty list. She may have to face some hard truths about her own limits and about just how far a not-so-jolly killer will go… Gnome Alone is book five in the laugh-out-loud Wits’ End mystery series. A fast-paced and funny mystery packed with quirky characters, pets, and murder, it’s perfect for fans of Jana DeLeon, Janet Evanovich, and Donna Andrews. Get cozy and beam up this hilarious mystery today! Susan’s Bigfoot Investigation Protocol at the back of the book!

Download or read book The Throb of Fear written by Linda Christie and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Throb of Fear opens with Logan Baxter, an esteemed art dealer, being knocked unconscious before going missing. But who carried out this vicious attack and why? Kenny Kay, a private detective, is hired once again with devastating consequences. Discover what happens to Rosalinda Little, an artist, as she attempts to find Logan in a Goan orphanage. On her search, she stumbles across the most famous painting in the world! After two cold-blooded murders Rosa fears for her own survival and joins Logan's wife, Lynette Baxter in Florida, where they make some disturbing discoveries.

Download or read book Chasing My Rejected Luna written by MerandaH. and published by StarNovel (HK) Co., Limited. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daddy, please! Please don’t do this!” I begged with my hands. “It’s done, Tegan. The contract is signed. You will leave tonight to be the Alpha King’s contracted mate. You will bear him an heir within three months, or you will regret it!” He roared out, his face showing me just how angry he truly was. I silently wept at the cards fate played me. I will be nothing more than a baby-making machine for the cruelest Alpha known, Ezra Hendricks. Tegan Declan is a shy she-wolf who was born deaf. She is starting a new life as a disabled wolf in a new pack. She is the new contracted mate to the Alpha King, Ezra Hendricks. “Being deaf was a quality I would hate my son to have. As a wolf, you need all your senses to be able to lead, protect, and stay alive. Lacking hearing would not benefit anyone; it could lead to mass destruction and the loss of many lives. It would not be a good quality for a king. This brought me back to my question. What makes her think she is fit to be my Queen? I want to know what she thinks her strengths are. Would they outweigh her weaknesses?” This is book 1 of the trilogy series.

Download or read book Flight Patterns written by Karen White and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels tells the story of a woman coming home to the family she left behind—and to the woman she always wanted to be.... Georgia Chambers has spent her life sifting through other people’s pasts while trying to forget her own. But then her work as an expert on fine china—especially Limoges—requires her to return to the one place she swore she’d never revisit.... It has been ten years since Georgia left her family home on the coast of Florida, and nothing much has changed except that there are fewer oysters and more tourists. She finds solace in seeing her grandfather still toiling away in the apiary where she spent much of her childhood, but encountering her estranged mother and sister leaves her rattled. Seeing them after all this time makes Georgia realize that something has been missing—and unless she finds a way to heal these rifts, she will forever be living vicariously through other people’s remnants. To embrace her own life—mistakes and all—she will have to find the courage to confront the ghosts of her past and the secrets she was forced to keep.... READERS GUIDE INCLUDED

Download or read book Intimate Lies written by Robert Westbrook and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate Lies Her Son's Story F. Scott Fitzgerald, the brilliant author of The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night, was a man haunted by failure to live up to his own early successes. In 1937, desperate for money, nearly broken in spirit, he headed west for work as a Hollywood screenwriter and one last shot at staying sober There, living in Hollywood's legendary hotel, The Garden of Allah, Fitzgerald met the beautiful young gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, whose elaborate pose as a British aristocrat masked the true identity that haunted her all her life. Before her death in 1988, Graham bequeathed a Pandoras box of papers, diaries, notes, and correspondence to her son, acclaimed novelist Robert Westbrook with explicit instructions to write the full story of her life with Fitzgerald, which she herself could not tell. The result is Intimate Lies—the dramatic tale of an unusual love affair the turbulent romance between a great author at the end of his life and a false young woman escaping her past, set against the glittering ferment of 1930s Hollywood. "I was prepared to suffer any ordeal rather than reveal the truth about myself," Sheilah Graham wrote in 1958. Running from a childhood in the squalor of London's East End, desperate to hide her lack of education, Graham reinvented herself out of sheer imagination, spinning a web of daydreams and lies to those around her. But she was unable to conceal her true identity from Fitzgerald for long; he was fascinated by her mysterious past and quickly uncovered her secrets. Despite pressures of money and dwindling time, Fitzgerald set out to play Pygmalion, creating for Sheilah a fanciful "College of One.” Later he made her the heroine of his final novel, The Last Tycoon. Sheilah, in turn, instinctively understood Fitzgerald’s demons and cared for him with a survivor's strength as he alternated between wildly spectacular drunken episodes and quiet, doomed gallantry. Together they sought refuge in Hollywood, among such friends as Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley John O'Hara, and Ogden Nash. With Intimate Lies, Robert Westbrook brings a personal perspective and a sure writer's hand to this mesmerizing memoir, an unforgettable love story of unrelenting power and interest. Praise for Intimate Lies “The mood should be two people—free— He has an overwhelming urge toward the girl who promises to give life back to him . . . she is the heart of hope and freshness.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald, notes for The Last Tycoon “I was prepared to suffer any ordeal rather than reveal the truth about myself I thought, he has chosen me, I want him to be proud of the woman he has chosen. He must never feel that his girl is in reality a grubby little waif who has gotten to him by a series of deceptions.”—Sheilah Graham, writing in 1958

Download or read book Big Bucks written by Kirsten Weiss and published by misterio ipress. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another Small Town. Another Big Murder. I’m Alice, a thirty-something ex-bodyguard, and DNA tests are the Devil. My brother Charlie took one, and it turns out he’s only my half-brother. Our parents aren’t around to explain things, but Charlie tracked down his real father, in the fancy-pants spa town the hill over. Charlie’s father is loaded. Or he was until someone killed him. Now Charlie, high off helping me solve a murder last month, has decided he’s going to find his father’s killer. I’m not sure if it’s pride, or delusion, or… No, that’s not fair. Charlie cares. This hurt him. Bad. I’m going to have to solve this murder—and fast—before his rich new relatives eat him alive. Big Bucks is the third book in the Big Murder Mystery series. If you like laugh-out-loud mysteries, relationships with heart, and stories about figuring out where you belong, you’ll love Big Bucks. Buy the book and start the quirky cozy mystery today. Murder mystery game in the back of the book!

Download or read book 11 Verbal Reasoning Practice Papers 2 written by Chris Pearse and published by Galore Park. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practice exam papers to prepare children for the most challenging pre-tests and 11+ independent school entrance exams. Practice Papers 2 includes eight levelled exam papers that will test pupils' skills in verbal reasoning for a better chance of getting into the school of choice. - Develops exam techniques tested in all major pre-tests and 11+ independent school examinations including CEM, GL and ISEB - Features papers written to measured levels of difficulty to build ability - Teaches pupils to improve their response rates with timed papers - Builds exam-room confidence with practice in a variety of exam styles - Identifies weaker areas and improved results with detailed answers and commentary - Varied in length tests build in difficulty The brand new for 2016 11+ and pre-test range has been constructed to help pupils follow a three step revision journey .. Step 1) 11+ Verbal Reasoning Study and Revision Guide Step 2) Practice Papers 11+ Verbal Reasoning Practice Papers 1 11+ Verbal Reasoning Practice Papers 2 Step 3) Workbooks 11+ Verbal Reasoning Workbook Age 8-10 11+ Verbal Reasoning Workbook Age 9-11 11+ Verbal Reasoning Workbook Age 10-12

Download or read book The Biography of Alice B Toklas written by Linda Simon and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's fitting that Alice B. Toklas, 'wife' and literary impresario of Gertrude Stein, should be the subject of a biography . . . and this is a good one, sensitive and lively. . . . it's clear from this portrait that through her possessive affection she not only had a dominant influence on Stein's life but (for good or ill) on her highly idiosyncratic prose. With her acid tongue, shrewd judgment, vitality, and intense loyalty she was a fairly remarkable person in her-self."--Publishers Weekly. "Linda Simon writes beautifully of Alice's early years in California, of her Polish-Jewish family, of her growing alienation from her surroundings and gravitation toward artists, of her awareness of the isolating burden homosexuality would force on her. . . . entertaining, thoroughly researched. and well-written. . . .with a clear gaze fixed on undistorted truth."--Saturday Review. "A study that shows Toklas as she must have been, not 'Miss Stein's obedient shadow,'. . . but a multifaceted and complex creature with her own tastes and standards. . . . [her story] is an emotionally stirring experience."--Washington Post Book World. Linda Simon, in her preface to this Bison Book edition, calls Alice B. Toklas "a woman who, through a mixture of determination and good luck, invented a new narrative for her life" at a time when options for women were few. Simon is the author of Thornton Wilder: His World (1979), Good Writing (1988), and other books. She is now working on a biography of William James.