Download or read book Lucky Lazlo written by Steve Light and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A naughty cat steals the rose Lazlo intends to give to the actress he loves, setting off a wild chase through the theater during a production of Alice in Wonderland. Includes author's note about theatrical superstitions.
Download or read book Lost Lake written by Sarah Addison Allen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Suley, Georgia, is home to Lost Lake Cottages and not much else. Which is why it's the perfect place for newly-widowed Kate and her eccentric eight-year-old daughter Devin to heal. Kate spent one memorable childhood summer at Lost Lake, had her first almost-kiss at Lost Lake, and met a boy named Wes at Lost Lake. It was a place for dreaming. But Kate doesn't believe in dreams anymore, and her Aunt Eby, Lost Lake's owner, wants to sell the place and move on. Lost Lake's magic is gone. As Kate discovers that time has a way of standing still at Lost Lake can she bring the cottages--and her heart--back to life? Because sometimes the things you love have a funny way of turning up again. And sometimes you never even know they were lost . . . until they are found"--
Download or read book Phantoms of the Forgotten written by Timothy Hopewell and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a noose circle around Brennan Garthan's neck, the prince in exile from Ganthrow. He must decide whether to step up and occupy the lands of a former ally or surrender and watch his people who sacrificed so much to lose everything. Meanwhile, a former enemy, Lazlo Malice, is released from a Lacorian prison with the task to kidnap Prince Brennan's son. Lazlo must choose between his homeland and honour. Loyalties break as War looms upon Brennan and he must choose between a pact that had lasted centuries or forging his own path in a foreign land.
Download or read book Shadows of the Crimson Nights written by Timothy Hopewell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadows of the Crimson Nights A nation in ruins, a royal family in exile, a forgotten evil waking from a long imprisonment. A prince wants to fight to get his homeland back. He rushes from one end of his country to the next till he finally finds himself on what was once allied soil. To reclaim his peoples strength, he will gather his men on foreign soil and lay siege to formal allies. Gaining allies from ragtag mercenaries, former enemies, and rebels, he will find a way to reclaim his homeland and return his familys birthright.
Download or read book Druid Ancestry written by Ophelia Kee and published by Ophelia Kee. This book was released on with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Druid Ancestry Lyons Gate Volume 1 A Dark and Twisted, Ancient Affair Lazlo Greyson is a wealthy CEO and sole heir to a lineage of Gaelic kings. Tired of shallow relationships with opportunistic socialites and fleeting encounters, Lazlo yearned for a deeper connection in his life. Enter Peter Elliot, a dubious character who had a reputation for trouble. Despite his reservations, Lazlo found himself ensnared by Elliot’s nefarious offer. Elliot arranged a shady meeting between Lazlo and Soraya Heffernon, an enchanting young woman who possessed an intriguing background as a trained orphan. With her captivating charm and undeniable allure, Soraya entrances Lazlo and all thoughts of steering clear of Elliot evaporate. Soraya Heffernon lived at a boarding school for girls selected by Elliot for his experimental medical procedures. He sold those who failed his test to the highest bidders. Soraya’s one chance to escape a sinister future lay in securing a wealthy sponsor. When Lazlo walks into her life, she must make a dangerous decision. Either stay and confront a black future or gamble everything by departing with a charming, affluent stranger whose hidden motives might not bring the salvation she hoped for. Druid Ancestry is the first volume in the dark urban fantasy miniseries, Lyons Gate. Set in the dream, this spinoff story from the Draoithe Saga tells the tale of a twisted druid king and his chance encounter with a little demon. Powerful magical forces and an ancient unknown prophecy conspire to grant a lonely man’s desire and an orphan girl’s hope. It’s not simply a story; it’s an experience. Welcome to the dream… Dark Urban Fantasy with Steamy Paranormal Romance Fated Mates 18+ HEA! NC! ***Warning: Adult Themes, Fantasy Violence, and/or Explicit Sexual Situations. Intended for a Mature Audience.
Download or read book A to Zoo written by Rebecca L. Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 3583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
Download or read book Nekropolis Dead Streets written by Tim Waggoner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-07-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MATT RICHTER'S GOING TO PIECES - LITERALLY. You've got to keep your head to survive in the teeming undead city known as Nekropolis. It's a pity crazed genius Victor Baron couldn't manage that. Now everyone wants a piece of him. Zombie detective Matt Richter and his glamorous she-vampire companion Devona are back on the case, with another wild and wonderful investigation.
Download or read book Talent Identification and Development in Sport written by Joseph Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifying talent in athletes and developing that ability to its fullest potential is a central concern of sport scientists, sports coaches and sports policy makers. This book offers a comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge in talent identification and development in sport, from the biological basis of ability to the systems and processes within sport through which that ability is nurtured. Written by a team of leading international experts, the book explores key factors and issues in contemporary sport, including: genetics secondary factors such as birth date, cultural context and population size perceptual motor skill acquisition and expertise sports development policy in-depth case studies, including European soccer, East African running and US pro sports. With an emphasis throughout on practical implications and processes for all those working in sport, the book offers an authoritative evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary systems for identifying and developing talent in sport. This is important reading for any student, researcher or practitioner with an interest in skill acquisition, youth sport, elite sport, sports coaching or sports development.
Download or read book Lazlo S Revenge written by Glen Thomas Hierlmeier and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the story above all, and Lazlos Revenge is an excellent story, inspired by true events in places devastated by war, and those who suffered greatly. Readers develop a personal relationship with the characters, Lazlo, Gertrude, Captain Koz, and others, leaving them wanting more. Max Fischer (Maxine Schoellkopf Fischer, fictional narrator of Lazlos Revenge), a writer and Swiss war correspondent whose parents lived the tragedies of the Great World Wars, set out to see the very places, and events her parents survived on their odyssey to escape danger and death. Lazlos Revenge is the story Max unearthed in her travels back through time. She is the fictional daughter of Hank and Roberta Fischer, the main characters in a previous book, Honor and Innocence: Against the Tides of War. Hank and Roberta are an unlikely couple to fall in love (Hank is an American soldier stationed in Germany after the war, and the German girl, Roberta, is the daughter of a Nazi SS Officer being sought by American and British security forces for war crimes). Max is their daughter, born at the end of the previous novel, and now returning to write their story of love and war. Fascinated by the characters who influenced the lives of her parents, in Lazlos Revenge, Max pursues her quest for understanding. She follows the life-story of Lazlo Floznik, the man who saved her parents lives, and helped them escape catastrophe in Europe, seeking safe refuge beyond the reach of security forces that sought to imprison them. The years leading up to World War I, the time between the wars, and the experiences of World War II release their secrets as she explores her family roots, a deeply emotional story bound by the intense love stories of Lazlo, and his father, Miklos, before him.
Download or read book The Lazarus Caper written by Glenn H. Davis and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Lazlo Daven, a rich Beverly Hills playboy, meets the beautiful Miriam Childs while on Spring Break at a Venice Beach nightclub. But when Lazlo and Miriam’s night turns into a nightmare and both end up dead, a mourning Madame Daven, Lazlo’s mother, turns to Dr. Gotham and his five-million-dollar promise of bringing her son back to life. With Dr. Gotham’s success, Lazlo returns, but his memories of the night are vague, and he begins to find he cannot remember how to do the things he once loved. And with Frey, Miriam’s father, out for blood, Lazlo must keep himself hidden from the world while trying to solve the mystery that surrounds that fateful night, and the new man he has become. About the Author Glenn H. Davis currently resides in Henderson, Nevada. He enjoys playing the guitar, weight training, chess, and writing.
Download or read book Pharmakon written by Dirk Wittenborn and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1950s America and madness is in the air. In a world where the 'cures' for craziness include coma therapy, cyanide treatment and full-frontal lobotomies, Dr. William T. Friedrich, a young and ambitious psychology professor at Yale, stumbles upon a tropical plant that seems to possess the secret ingredient of happiness. In Casper Gedsic, a fiercely intelligent, socially inept, near-suicidal maths student, he seems to have found the perfect guinea pig. But when his experiments goes awry, Casper's thirst for revenge turns murderous and his actions have consequences that will haunt Friedrich and his family forever...
Download or read book Pharmakon or The Story of a Happy Family written by Dirk Wittenborn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An honest, insightful , and ruefully funny look at the fate of one American family vis-à-vis the rise of modern psychopharmacology, Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family is nothing less than a contemporary epic. The novel follows William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in the early 1950s, who has stumbled upon a drug that promises happiness to those who ingest it and fame and fortune to the man who can synthesize it. But when a brilliant and troubled research subject commits murder, the consequences will haunt Friedrich and his family for years to come.
Download or read book The Expeditioners and the Secret of King Triton s Lair written by S. Taylor and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kit, Zander, and M. K. West are settling into their new lives as students at the Academy for the Exploratory Sciences when Kit finds another mysterious map left for him by their father, the brilliant, famous — and presumed dead — explorer Alexander West. Why did Alexander leave the maps behind, and why are government agents so determined to seize them? What is really going on in a mysterious and unknown stretch of the Caribbean, famous for its violent storms and shipwrecks? And what is the huge contraption M. K. is building in her workshop? As two world powers come to the brink of war, Kit must find a deadly hidden island and unlock its secrets, hoping he has the courage to follow the trail of maps, wherever it may lead.
Download or read book The Revolutionary s Confession written by George Grayson and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jay Behr and Kristina Zhang work to discover the secret that led to her brother's death. It is a secret that the Chinese espionage network will kill to keep buried.
Download or read book The Romanov Ransom written by Clive Cussler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo’s search for a Romanov fortune brings them into perilous contact with an ambitious neo-Nazi clan in this New York Times bestselling adventure. In 1918, a ransom of enormous size was paid to free the Romanovs from the Bolsheviks, but, as history knows, the Romanovs died anyway. And the ransom? During World War II, the Nazis stole it from the Russians, and after that--it vanished. Until now. When a modern-day kidnapping captures the attention of husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo, the couple soon learn that these long-lost riches may be back in play, held in trust by the descendants of a Nazi guerrilla faction called the Werewolves. It is their mission to establish the Fourth Reich, and their time is coming soon. As the Fargos follow the trail across Europe, Northern Africa, and South America, they know only one thing. This quest is greater than anything they have ever done--it is their chance to make someone answer for unspeakable crimes, and to prevent them from happening again.
Download or read book Kiss or Kill written by Lyn Stone and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Agent Renee LeBlanc was deep undercover, close to exposing the leader of a terrorist cell. Then he showed up in the midst of her op. Mark Alexander, the only man who had ever upset Renee's uncanny instincts—a man who could blow her cover with a word. The desire between them was as strong as ever, but who was Mark really—ally or foe? Hero or villain? Lover…or assassin? These were decisions she had to make. Heaven help her if she was wrong.
Download or read book Vampire Hunter D Volume 23 written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She might just look like an ordinary-if beautiful-young woman, but Iriya is anything but ordinary! A ruthless warrior clad in red armor, Iriya is a Hunter determined to exterminate the vampires that were once her parents and siblings. Now, half-vampire, half-human D has to decide to offer his assistance, get out of the way, or have a dangerous battle on his hands! This latest volume features six new illustrations by Final Fantasy designer Yoshitaka Amano and an unforgettable matchup between the coolest vampire hunter and the hottest berserker woman on the Frontier!
