Download or read book Murder at Meadowlark written by Doris Hay and published by Rainbow Crush. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luella Genova has never been great at speaking her mind. When community-spirited high school student Chandelle Jervais asks her to bring one of her famous lasagnas to the potluck at Meadowlark Retirement Residence, the aging widow would rather stay home and swallow a bottle of pills. Who’d have thought lasagna could change a lady’s life? When Luella arrives at Meadowlark, a woman has just died—not an uncommon occurrence in a home for seniors, but Luella smells a rat. Even the old woman’s family is satisfied to believe that she died of natural causes, but that only makes Luella more suspicious. The only way to prove it was murder… is to find the killer! Book One in the Lasagna Lady Mysteries series.
Download or read book Meadowlark written by Sheila Simonson and published by Uncial Press. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lark agreed to run a writers' workshop, she didn't bargain for murder. Lark Dodge has been dragooned into helping Bianca Fiedler, heir of Hollywood stars turned organic farmer, run a workshop for science writers, a.k.a. journalists. When one of the farm managers is found dead and covered with ice cubes in a bin used to store broccoli, it would be prudent to cancel the workshop, but Bianca insists it’s too late, and Bianca tends to get her way. While it seems likely that one of the farm’s quirky inhabitants must be guilty, Lark and her husband Jay find themselves trapped in a hunt for the killer.
Download or read book Tales from the Meadowlark Cafe written by Dena Miller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonnie, a cute blonde waitress at the Meadowlark Caf in Southeast County, Nebraska, solves murders without ever leaving the coffee shop. Her high school friends, Pug Peterson, now local crop duster, and former high school sweetheart, Eddie Joe Tootsie OToole (named for his favorite candy), do the legwork. One-man police force Augie Schroeder, also a high school chum, Sheriff E. L. (thats his name) Klipstein and new, young Coroner Ron Adelman, confirm Bonnies suspicions when she needs them. Klipstein wishes Bonnie would just butt out. Perry Powell, short a jib of a full set of sails, has input too.
Download or read book Meadowlark written by Colleen Hastings and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After twenty years, Erin Hale was home. She had traveled the world doing art exhibits and wanted nothing more than to settle down under the big sky of Montana. Jerry Von Hyde had other plans. He wanted her land and would stop at nothing to get it--until he was stopped. Unaware, Erin had two guardian angels--one good and one evil--and they both loved her. Cord Mathews quietly watched over her for a year until a dangerous encounter brought them together. Cord and Erin would stand side by side to fight fire, blizzards, and murder.
Download or read book Skylark Meets Meadowlark written by Thomas C. Gannon and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AøNative rereading of both British Romanticism and mainstream Euro-American ecocriticism, this cross-cultural transatlantic study of literary imaginings about birds sets the agenda for a more sophisticated and nuanced ecocriticism. Lakota critic Thomas C. Gannon explores how poets and nature writersøin Britain and Native America have incorporated birds into their writings. He discerns an evolution in humankind?s representations?and attitudes toward?other species by examining the avian images and tropes in British Romantic and Native American literatures, and by considering how such literary treatment succeeds from an ecological or animal-rights perspective. ø Such depictions, Gannon argues, reveal much about underlying cultural and historical relationships with the Other?whether other species or other peoples. He elucidates the changing interconnections between birds and humans in British Romanticism from Cowper to Clare, with particular attention to Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, and Keats. Gannon then considers how birds are imagined by Native writers, including early Lakota authors and contemporary poets such as Linda Hogan and Joy Harjo. Ultimately he shows how the sensitive and far-reaching connections with nature forged by Native American writers encourage a more holistic reimagining of humankind?s relationship to other animals.
Download or read book Mesozoic Murder written by Christine Gentry and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-01-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gentry's appealing heroine, who gets ample opportunity to display her resourcefulness and fortitude, and the intriguing milieu in which she operates, should ensure both a warm reception and a speedy encore."—Publishers Weekly Ansel Phoenix draws dinosaurs for magazines, books, and museum displays. But one morning, digging with students out in the field, she unearths the body of colleague and ex-lover Nick Capos. Shocked and grieved over the murder, and not trusting the Big Toe police who've an axe to grind with her father, Ansel decides to investigate what Capos had been doing during the last few months of his life. She soon suspects he was working on a secret, possibly illegal project worth killing for. Her list of possible suspects grows by the hour as someone starts stalking her across the Montana landscape—a master predator who will stop at nothing. Why is Nick's fossil collection missing and why had he developed a recent interest in Baltic amber? Ansel must also deal with the challenges of her own half-Anglo, half-Blackfoot heritage; with her ranching family and the changes threatening their rural community; and with more than one Mesozoic mystery....
Download or read book Pendulum written by Jan Young and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the 1920s, this story mixes small town mid-American life with prohibition, the Chicago mob and courtroom drama in a tale with one surprising twist and turn after another
Download or read book The Odditorium written by Melissa Pritchard and published by Bellevue Literary Press. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O, The Oprah Magazine “Title to Pick Up Now” & Oprah.com Book of the Week San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year Library Journal Best Stories Collection of the Year “Emotionally rich.” —New York Times “Ambitious, lush and even thrilling.” —Los Angeles Times “Ripping good yarns.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “The stories in this strange and original collection bend genres—horror, mystery, Western—into wondrous new shapes.” —O, The Oprah Magazine In each of these eight lyrical and baroque tales, Melissa Pritchard transports readers into spine-tingling milieus that range from the astounding realm of Robert LeRoy Ripley’s “odditoriums” to the courtyard where Edgar Allan Poe once played as a child. Whether she is setting the famed figures of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, including Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull, against the real, genocidal history of the American West, or contrasting the luxurious hotel where British writer Somerset Maugham stayed with the modern-day brothels of India, her stories illuminate the many ways history and architecture exert powerful forces upon human consciousness. Melissa Pritchard is a Flannery O’Connor, Janet Heidinger Kafka, and Carl Sandburg award-winning author whose previous short fiction collections were New York Times Notable Book and Editors’ Choice selections. She lives in Arizona.
Download or read book Flames after Midnight written by Monte Akers and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “well-written and compelling history” of a 1922 racist reign of terror in a small Texas town—now updated with a shocking deathbed confession (USA Today). What happened in Kirven, Texas, in May 1922, has been forgotten by the outside world. But in Flames After Midnight, historian Monte Akers uncovers the true story behind a young white woman's brutal murder and the burning alive of three black men who were almost certainly innocent of it. This was followed by a month-long reign of terror as white men killed blacks while local authorities concealed the identity of the white murder suspects and allowed them to go free. Akers paints a vivid portrait of a community desolated by race hatred and its own refusal to face hard truths. He sets this tragedy within the story of a region prospering from an oil boom but plagued by lawlessness, and traces the lynching's repercussions down the decades to the present day. In an epilogue, Akers reveals new information that came to light as a result of this book's publication, including an eyewitness account of the burnings from an elderly man who claimed to have castrated two of the men before they were lynched.
Download or read book Southwest of Love and Murder written by Brenda Whiteside and published by Love and Murder Series. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery writer Phoebe Anderson owes her success to killing her first husband on paper seventeen years earlier. Now someone has actually done it. When she decides to take a few days away on the ranch of her best friend's brother-in-law, she doesn't expect romance to find her...or murder to follow her. Mason Meadowlark is happy with his wild cowboy ways, avoiding love since the death of his baby and the end of his marriage twenty years ago. When Phoebe shows up, he fights to control his emotions but soon wonders if she just might be worth the risk of opening his heart again. With an obsessed fan close on her heels, Phoebe is thrown into her own murder mystery...and the next target on his list is Mason.
Download or read book Mystery Women Volume Three Revised written by Colleen Barnett and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.
Download or read book The Killing Game written by Nancy Bush and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One woman becomes the focus of a killer’s warped game of revenge in this tense thriller by the New York Times-bestselling author of Nowhere to Hide. The Rules Are Simple: It’s the ultimate test of strategy and skill. The killer chooses each opponent carefully, learning each one’s weaknesses. Every meticulously planned move is leading to a devastating checkmate. Because in this game, all the pretty pawns must die. First You Play Andi Wren is fighting to keep her late husband’s company safe from vindictive competitors. When she receives an ominous note—Little birds must fly—she turns to P.I. Luke Denton. But though Luke has personal reasons for wanting to take down Wren Development’s opponents, his investigation suggests this is deeper and far more dangerous than a business grudge. Then You Die. . . In a basement on the outskirts of town, police detectives unearth piles of skeletons. As they learn the shocking truth about each victim’s identity, their case collides with Andi’s, revealing a killer’s ruthless plot—and a chilling, lethal endgame.
Download or read book Sleuths in Skirts written by Frances A. DellaCava and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.
Download or read book Firefly Life Signs written by James Lovegrove and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serenity races against time to save Inara's life in an original Firefly tie-in novel that reads like a lost episode from the show A deadly disease Months after Inara leaves Serenity, Mal and the crew finally learn the reason for her sudden departure: she is dying of a terminal illness. It is Kiehl's Myeloma, a form of cancer that's supposedly incurable, and Inara has very little time left. A disreputable scientist Through their shock and despair, rumors of a cure reach the crew. Expert Esau Weng is said to have developed a means to treat Inara's condition, but he has been disgraced and incarcerated for life on a notorious Alliance prison planet. An infamous prison On the planet of Atata, inmates are abandoned with no guards and left to survive as best they can. What's more, terraforming the planet did not take properly, so the world is a frozen wasteland. To save Inara, the Serenity crew must infiltrate the prison...
Download or read book William Gaddis written by Aaron Tillman and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of William Gaddis.
Download or read book Death Among the Stacks The Body in the Law Library written by Louise Hathaway and published by Louise Hathaway`. This book was released on with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did an Inspector from the Government Printing Office get crushed between two rows of electronic compact shelving? This murder/mystery is an Agatha Christie-type whodunit with multiple suspects whom the book's detective assembles together in one room for "the big reveal" in its final pages. Death-by-compact-shelving may seem like a stretch, but it almost happened at a library where this book's author worked. You will never look at librarians and library shelving the same after reading it.
Download or read book This Scorched Earth written by William Gear and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Scorched Earth is an amazing tour de force depicting a family’s journey from near-devastation in the Civil War to their rebirth in the American West, from New York Times bestselling author William Gear. The Civil War tore at the very roots of our nation and destroyed most of a generation. In rural Arkansas, the Hancocks were devastated by that war. They not only lost everything, but experienced an unimaginable hell. How does a traumatized human being put themselves back together? Where does a person begin to heal his or her broken mind...and does one choose damnation or redemption? For the Hancock siblings: Doc, Sarah, Butler, and Billy, the American frontier becomes a metaphor for the wilderness within—raw, and capable of being shaped. Self-salvation, however, always comes with a price. Their journey is a testament to the power of love...and the American spirit. This is their story. And ours. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
