Download or read book The Devil s Mercedes written by Robert Klara and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1938, Mercedes-Benz began production of the largest, most luxurious limousine in the world. A machine of frightening power and sinister beauty, the Grosser 770K Model 150 Offener Tourenwagen was 20 feet long, seven feet wide, and tipped the scales at 5 tons. Its supercharged, 230-horsepower engine propelled the beast to speeds over 100 m.p.h. while its occupants reclined on glove-leather seats ... Armor plated and equipped with hidden compartments for Luger pistols, the 770K was a sumptuous monster with a monstrous patron: Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party ... Most of the 770Ks didn't make it out of the rubble of World War II. But several of them did. And two of them found their way ... to the United States"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Wonderful Williams and the Magnificent Seven written by Kwame Shauku and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonderful Williams came to San Francisco from Lexington, Mississippi. She fell in love with a smooth talking Drug Dealing Pimp who proceeded to get her hooked and hookin'. Perhaps a bit slow and unaccustomed to the Fast Life, Wonderful managed to move up to Bottom Lady in her Pimps Stable. When he is ruthlessly gunned down, and on her own, she gets busted for soliciting a cop which is a bum rap, in the joint, she learns Martial Arts among other things. When finally released from the joint, she vows to never go back. Wonderful embarks on her Journey into Womanhood. This is the beginning of this series, and it promises to keep you coming back for more.

Download or read book Serena s Lovers written by Ellen De Rossi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serena Mariposa Paloma De Vinci lives the jet-setting life-literally. An international air hostess for American Airlines, she has seen it all from her base at New York City, but nothing in her career could have possibly prepared her for what awaits on her next visit to Rome. Leonardo, her father, a handsome and vivacious Catholic priest, adores his beautiful daughter. He has a fun surprise for her: a bubble-gum-pink Mini Cooper convertible. But that is not the most intriguing surprise of the visit. At his office in Vatican City, he introduces her to Father Alejandro Sebastian De Mateo, his private secretary. He is everything she's ever desired in a man-tall with long, blond hair and the most intensely green eyes she's ever seen. Her thoughts immediately turn to dark, decadent, and delicious sin when she looks at him. He is beautiful beyond imagination, charming, sexy, special, and utterly unavailable. Will their steamy romance have a happy Hollywood ending-or will reality trump the fantasy?

Download or read book Hollywood Heroine written by Sarah Kuhn and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth book in the smart, snarky, and action-packed Heroine series continues the adventures of Asian-American superheroines Evie Tanaka, Aveda Jupiter, and Bea Tanaka in a demon-infested San Francisco. Over the years, the adventures of superheroines Aveda Jupiter and Evie Tanaka have become the stuff of legend--and now they'll be immortalized in their very own TV show! The pair head to LA for filming, but Aveda struggles to get truly excited. Instead, she's preoccupied wondering about the fate of the world and her role in it. You know, the usual. Now that Otherworld activity has been detected outside the Bay Area, Aveda can't help but wonder if the demon threat will ever be eradicated. When the drama on set takes a turn for the supernatural, Evie and Aveda must balance their celebrity commitments with donning their superhero capes again to investigate. And when the evil they battle reveals a larger, more nefarious plot, it's time for the indomitable Aveda Jupiter to rise to the occasion and become the leader she was meant to be on a more global scale--and hopefully keep some semblance of a personal life while doing so.

Download or read book Living Politics Making Music written by Jan Fairley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Jan Fairley (1949-2012) was a key figure in making world music a significant topic for popular music studies and an influential contributor to such world music magazines as fRoots and Songlines. This book celebrates her contribution to popular music scholarship by gathering her most important work together in a single place. The result is a richly informed and entertaining volume that will be of interest to all scholars in the field while also serving as an excellent introduction for students interested in popular music as a global phenomenon. Fairley’s work was focused on the problems and possibilities of cross-cultural musical influences, fantasies and flows and on the importance of performing circuits and networks. Her interest in the details of music-making and in the lives of music-makers means that this collection is also an original and illuminating study of music and politics. In drawing on Jan Fairley’s journalism, this volume also offers students a guide to various genres of world music, from Cuban son to flamenco, as well as an insight into the lives of such world music stars as Mercedes Sosa and Silvio Rodríguez. This is inspiring as well as essential reading.

Download or read book Heroine Complex written by Sarah Kuhn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian-American superheroines Evie Tanaka and Aveda Jupiter protect San Francisco from perilous threats in the first book in Sarah Kuhn's snarky and smart fantasy trilogy • "The superheroine we’ve been waiting for." —Seanan McGuire Being a superheroine is hard. Working for one is even harder. Evie Tanaka is the put-upon personal assistant to Aveda Jupiter, her childhood best friend and San Francisco’s most beloved superheroine. She’s great at her job—blending into the background, handling her boss’s epic diva tantrums, and getting demon blood out of leather pants. Unfortunately, she’s not nearly as together when it comes to running her own life, standing up for herself, or raising her tempestuous teenage sister, Bea. But everything changes when Evie’s forced to pose as her glamorous boss for one night, and her darkest secret comes out: she has powers, too. Now it’s up to her to contend with murderous cupcakes, nosy gossip bloggers, and supernatural karaoke battles—all while juggling unexpected romance and Aveda’s increasingly outrageous demands. And when a larger threat emerges, Evie must finally take charge and become a superheroine in her own right...or see her city fall to a full-on demonic invasion.

Download or read book Coming Clean written by Jorge L. Valdés and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was a walking bankroll, wearing $150,000 worth of jewelry and carrying as much as $40,000 cash in my pockets. Yet my friends asked: "how are you doing?" I'd sometimes reply, "miserable. I hate every second of my life, and I do not know why." Jorge ValdesAll his dreams for wealth and power came true. Then the nightmare began.As a young man in his twenties with an insatiable thirst for money and power, Jorge Valdes worked his way up inside Colombia's powerful Medellin drug cartel. His key position as head of U.S. Operations brought him into direct contact with presidents, generals, Hollywood celebrities, hired killers and kidnappers. This Cuban immigrant, raised in poverty, was living the high life in more ways than one. His deeds took him from the lap of luxury to the depths of prison and back again.Then an incredible thing happened: Jorge Valdes encountered a person much more powerful than the strongest drug lord, someone who offered something more satisfying than women, drugs, money, prestige and power.Reading more like a fast paced novel of intrigue than a traditional biography, coming clean: the true story of a cocaine drug lord and his unexpected encounter offers an insider's view of the drug industry and the greed that drives it. Told that he would never be anything but a twice convicted drug dealer; today, dr. Jorge l. Valdes, who holds a master degree from Wheaton college and a PhD. In new testament studies from Loyola University in Chicago, is a renowned national speaker who brings a message of hope, forgiveness and the power to change. He has been featured in numerous magazine covers and appeared in many national and international television and radio programs.

Download or read book Joyous Journeys written by Dale Sheets and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a light-hearted account of Dales journeys on the Seine River and in Paris, on the Rhine and Mosel Rivers through the heart of France, and of a religious pigrimage to the Oberammergau Passion Play in Bavarian Germany. For fun, he also tosses in an amusing autobiography of a cat named Molly who refused to be a mouser, which he wrote for his great granddaughter and kids of all ages.

Download or read book Magician in Black written by Michael J. Merry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At least 62 verified plots to assassinate Adolph Hitler took place between 1932 and 1944. None succeeded. When threats appeared in the early 30's, Hitler told Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS, he required someone who might 'be trusted with his life'. Based on these needs, Himmler had his protégé, Reinhard Heydrich, head of the German Security Services, seek someone to perform the task. His choice was Dieter Goff, a WWI veteran, now a police officer in Berlin. Goff became known as 'The Magician in Black' due to his talent for extracting confessions without violence. Hitler, Goebbels, and Göering all admired him for his success, and as head of the Führer Protection Unit of the SD, he became a Brigadier. However, in 1937, disillusioned with Hitler, he defected to the Americans and helped to found what was to be the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, later the CIA. This is Goff's story.

Download or read book Mrs Pringle of Fairacre written by Miss Read and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the eyes of many Fairacre friends, we trace Mrs. Pringle's life and her stormy standing as the redoubtable cleaner of the town's school. However maddening she is, life at Fairacre would be poorer without her.

Download or read book Along the Infinite Sea written by Beatriz Williams and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Her Last Flight comes another riveting novel of the Schuyler sisters—where the epic story of star-crossed lovers in pre-war Europe collides with a woman on the run in the swinging '60s... In the autumn of 1966, Pepper Schuyler's problems are in a class of their own. To find a way to take care of herself and the baby she carries—the result of an affair with a married, legendary politician—she fixes up a beautiful and rare vintage Mercedes and sells it at auction. But the car's new owner, the glamorous Annabelle Dommerich, has her own secrets: a Nazi husband, a Jewish lover, a flight from Europe, and a love so profound it transcends decades. As the many threads of Annabelle's life before the Second World War stretch out to entangle Pepper in 1960s America, and the father of her unborn baby tracks her down to a remote town in coastal Georgia, the two women must come together to face down the shadows of their complicated pasts. AN INDIE NEXT AND LIBRARY READS PICK A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR THE BEST OF SKIMMREADS 2016

Download or read book Two Lives Up on the Hill written by John J. Riley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Marie Cameron and Tom O’Leary whose lives are lived in the beautiful village of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. Marie, a lawyer, lives a quality and privilege life. Tom, a carpenter, lives a plain and simple life. Their combined stories make for an unforgettable tale that spans 40 years.

Download or read book Prussian Blue written by Emilian Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History John A Davis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Korea continues to taunt the United States by detonating nuclear weapons and launching long-range missiles across the Pacific. This threat is suddenly overshadowed by the destruction of the US fleet by a group of highly coordinated Islamic terrorists as it sails through the Straits of Hormuz and into the Persian Gulf. As the crisis escalates, little attention is paid to several blue, bloated and grossly disfigured Asian sailors who wash ashore in Galveston, Texas. Likewise, the North Korean cargo ship 'Seoul' is able to slip into Whiskey Bay, Louisiana unnoticed, where she offloads her cargo: highly radioactive weapons of mass destruction. As more Asian sailors become deathly ill from the many weeks spent at sea in close proximity to their lethal cargo, they are transferred to a small hospital in Carencrow, Louisiana for treatment. Dr. Rex Bent, an emergency room physician, immediately becomes suspicious and notifies the proper authorities. With their coup de grace in jeopardy the extremists realize that not only Dr. Bent but also his wife and confidante, Sharon, must be eliminated without raising suspicion. Pursued and hounded like traitors who had betrayed their country, the Bents are in a race against time, determined to discover the significance of 'Prussian Blue'."

Download or read book Systemic Thinking written by John Boardman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Systemic thinking" is the process of understanding how systemsinfluence one another within a world of systems and has beendefined as an approach to problem solving by viewing "problems" asparts of an overall system, rather than reacting to a specificpart, outcome, or event. This book provides a complete overview of systemic thinking,exploring a framework and graphical technique for understanding andidentifying new ways to more efficiently solve problems and createsolutions. Demystifying the conjunction of systems concepts andsystemic diagramming techniques, this comprehensive pocket guideintroduces and explains the basis of systemigrams, how to create asystemigram and a SystemiShow, illuminates multiple complexproblems, and provides an overview of what purpose they serve fortoday's industry professionals. Systemic Thinking: Building Maps for Worlds ofSystems: Includes illustrative systemigrams and case studies Includes the SystemiTool software, developed by theauthors Provides an overview of systemic thinking, particularly withregard to systemigrams Incorporates graphical representations of systemigrams Instructs how and when to implement a systemigram when aproblem arises An invaluable book for industryprofessionals—specifically, technical leaders in industry andbusiness trying to confront complex problems—SystemicThinking is also ideal for postgraduate students in engineeringand business management.

Download or read book Ireland written by Martin Gostelow and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cities of the Emerald Isle are buzzing with self-confidence as the economy grows at a giddy rate. But there will always be an unhurried Ireland of music and folklore, of eccentrics and the world's greatest conversationalists. From Dublin's fair city to the wilderness of Connemara, this enchanting island is packed with variety: mountains and pastures, castles and cottages, ancient monuments and elegant squares. This Way Ireland explores its history and culture and introduces its friendly, smiling people.

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Download or read book Roman Nights written by Dorothy Dunnett and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Russell, an astronomer working at the Maurice Frazer Observatory, is enjoying herself in Rome - that is, until her lover, Charles Digham, fashion photographer and writer of obituary verses, has his camera stolen. The thief ends up as a headless corpse and Johnson Johnson, enigmatic portrait painter, spy and sleuth, is on hand.