Download or read book Road Trips Blue Skies Dead Guys written by Jennifer Fischetto and published by Gemma Halliday Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Fischetto comes a ghost whisperer on the road... Reluctant ghost whisperer Gianna Mancini’s mother loves collecting murderabilia–objects once belonging to murder victims. It’s become quite a hobby, to the point where she has a basement full of items. When Gianna discovers there’s a ghost living down there—attached to the dead woman’s handbag—Gianna asks the departed to move on. But the senior citizen, Betty, is determined to first get revenge on the person who pushed her down a flight of stairs. And she knows exactly who it is. Her best friend. In an effort to help Betty go to the light, Gianna, Ma, Betty, and Gianna’s detective brother, Enzo, decide to take a road trip to Betty's hometown of Chance, MA to poke around to see if they can find clues to lead the police to this supposedly guilty best friend. But the more they dig, the more secrets stumble at their feet, and before long, they realize there’s a list of suspects who could’ve killed Betty for her handbag. The local police don’t appreciate out-of-towners nosing around any more than the people in Betty's former life. Before long Gianna finds herself being chased, kidnapped, and threatened. Can she get to the truth before this road trip takes a deadly turn? What critics are saying about the Gianna Mancini Mysteries: "Brilliant! Jennifer Fischetto has spun an entertaining tale." ~ Kings River Life Magazine "Quirky but oh so fun cozy mystery. If you like your cozy mysteries on the humorous side, then look no further!" ~ Fresh Fiction "Jennifer Fischetto serves up a delicious cozy mystery with this fun ghost story. If you are a fan of the genre this is a fun read that will leave you with a smile." ~ Night Owl Reviews

Download or read book Bird Watching for Boozers written by Stephen Molineux and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a college kid who joins his alcoholic novelist-wannabe father Mole Molineux and his cast of oddball friendsSuitcase, Beans, and Josh Keenanas they embark on a booze- and drug-filled bird-watching expedition through Pennsylvania and New Jersey. They jam to Creedence, ride a pony, find a pig in a blanket, preach the gospel to turkeys, and teach an Asian Brothel the wonders of Old Yeller as they head to the World Series of Birding. An offbeat coming-of-age tale about drinking, birding, and finding your place in the world.

Download or read book The World of Musicals 2 volumes written by Mark A. Robinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging, two-volume encyclopedia of musicals old and new will captivate young fans—and prove invaluable to those contemplating staging a musical production. Written with high school students in mind, The World of Musicals: An Encyclopedia of Stage, Screen, and Song encompasses not only Broadway and film musicals, but also made-for-television musicals, a genre that has been largely ignored. The two volumes cover significant musicals in easily accessible entries that offer both useful information and fun facts. Each entry lists the work's writers, composers, directors, choreographers, and cast, and includes a song list, a synopsis, and descriptions of the original production and important revivals or remakes. Biographical entries share the stories of some of the brightest and most celebrated talents in the business. The encyclopedia will undoubtedly ignite and feed student interest in musical theatre. At the same time, it will prove a wonderful resource for teachers or community theatre directors charged with selecting and producing shows. In fact, anyone interested in theatre, film, television, or music will be fascinated by the work's tantalizing bits of historical and theatre trivia.

Download or read book Clear and a Million written by Kent McInnis and published by Oghma Creative Media. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Success More Important Than Love? With Clear and a Million, bestselling author Kent McInnis brings us back to the flawed, feeling, and completely authentic characters from his hit debut, Sierra Hotel. Returning to civilian life sounded easy back when Rob Amity was flying jets for the U.S. Air Force. The reality of an empty apartment and the difficulty of finding his place in a civilian world soon have him rethinking his choices. Hoping to find something of the old camaraderie of the squadron flight line, Rob reaches out to his friend Captain Hal Freed, a decorated Vietnam combat veteran. They agree to a road trip on historic Route 66 in Rob’s sporty new Porsche, headed for the Grand Canyon. The adventures they find, however, are not quite the kind they seek. After the trip is cut short, Rob returns to Oklahoma and reconnects with his old flame Suzy Alexander. The widow of his late best friend is now a single mother living with her parents, and she’s as lonely and depressed as he is. As romance blooms anew with Suzy, her father helps Rob find a job in the booming local oil business. Intent on proving himself worthy of Suzy’s love, he throws himself into the work with abandon and quickly begins to climb the corporate ladder. Life seems to be coming together at last, until Rob’s obsession with replacing the thrill of flying with money and security leads to trouble with Suzy. Can he find a way to balance the two and find some sort of happiness for himself? Or will he be forced to make an impossible choice between love and success?

Download or read book Into the Clear Blue Sky written by Rob Jackson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the world’s leading climate scientists, a heart- and mind-changing book that offers a hopeful and attainable vision for restoring the atmosphere and ending the climate crisis. Climate change is here. From the millions displaced by the floods in Pakistan to Californian and Canadian towns incinerated by wildfires, we are experiencing the anguish that climate change causes. Fossil fuels are making the planet unlivable, and they are deadly. We know that we must cut emissions if we are going to limit the catastrophes, but is that enough? In Into the Clear Blue Sky, climate scientist and chair of the Global Carbon Project Rob Jackson explains that we need to redefine our goals. As he argues here, we shouldn’t only be trying to stabilize the Earth’s temperature at some arbitrary value. Instead, we can restore the atmosphere itself in a lifetime—and this should be our moral duty. Restoring the atmosphere means reducing the amount of greenhouse gases in the air to pre-industrial levels—starting with super-potent methane—to heal the harm we have done. Emissions must be cut, first and foremost. But to safeguard a livable planet for future generations, we must repair the damage we have caused. Jackson introduces us to the brilliant leaders and innovators behind some of the boldest and game-changing climate solutions under development. When it comes to greenhouse gas mitigation, our choices matter, because it is easier to stop emissions from happening than to remove greenhouse gases from the air later. But while mitigation is crucial, no number of solar panels, electric cars, and veggie burgers alone will be enough to halt climate change. Decades of inaction have convinced Jackson that we need to remove greenhouse gases from the air using everything from nature to cutting-edge technologies. Into the Clear Blue Sky is a heart- and mind-changing book. Guided by one of the leading scientists in this fight and a deeply gifted storyteller, we learn why we should all feel hopeful. One way or another, we will restore the planet together. The question is how, and how long will it take?

Download or read book Reflections on Roadkill between Mobility Studies and Animal Studies written by Matthew Calarco and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roadkill is a recurrent but often unthought feature of modern life. Yet, consideration of the broader significance of the myriad social, ethical, and political issues related to roadkill has largely gone missing from mainstream scholarship and activism. This neglect persists even in fields such as mobility studies and animal studies that would otherwise seem to have a vested interest in the topic. This book aims to bring roadkill to the foreground of current discussions among scholars and activists in these fields in order to demonstrate that roadkill is a uniquely important site from which to understand and contest the machinations of the dominant social order. It argues that a careful examination of roadkill can help both to uncover the hidden violence of contemporary human-centered systems of mobility and to develop alternative modes of mobility for a renewed social life in common with our more-than-human kin.

Download or read book The Blue Skies of Autumn written by Elizabeth Turner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 11th2001, 32-year-old Elizabeth Turner was working at Channel 4 when news broke of the attacks on the World Trade Centre. Surrounded by TV screens, like her colleagues, she watched as the horror unfolded. But for Elizabeth, the atrocities were all the more painful - her husband Simon was at a meeting in the restaurant at the top of the towers as the planes crashed into them. Elizabeth was seven months pregnant with their first child. As the destruction unfolded, and Simon did not call, Elizabeth's world crumbled, and she spiralled into an abyss of grief more painful than most of us can imagine. This immensely moving memoir packs a powerful emotional punch, and hooks the reader from the first page. The author eloquently describes how she had to hit rock bottom before she could start rebuilding a life for herself and her young son William. That she was able to recover at all is testament to the power of the human spirit. But more than this, Elizabeth has forged a completely new life and career and is now living what she calls her 'ultimate life'. Her story offers hope that there is a way through the worst experiences - not with quick-fix solutions but by moving deep within yourself to bring about complete healing and recovery.

Download or read book Million Mile Road Trip written by Rudy rucker and published by Transreal Books. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three teens ride a car across the universe and back. Look out for the flying saucers! "Tipping his hat to Thomas Pynchon, Jack Kerouac, and Douglas Adams, Rucker immerses readers in a fantastical roadtrip adventure that’s a wild ride of unmitigated joy. . . . he ties everything together with internal consistency, playful use of language that keeps his ideas alien yet accessible, and a solid grounding in fourth-dimensional math. This wacky adventure is a geeky reader’s delight."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

Download or read book Blue Skies Green Hell written by Marilyn Lazzari-Wing and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue Skies, Green Hell, a thriller written by a bush pilot's wife, is a riveting tale setin the 1950s when pioneers of the sky flew single-engine aircraft over unforgiving wilderness and impenetrable jungle in Venezuela. Marilyn and Frank live in a place called the last frontier on the Orinoco River where he establishes a multi-aircraft service that flies supplies and medicine to remote and inaccessible communities. Together they challenge the odds and take the exhilaration of flying to new heights. Their world is fierce weather with no weather reports, aircraft with limited range radios, and planes with six basic instruments. A search and rescue effort ends when they make a forced landing in no man's land. A flight to Miami turns sour as their twin-engine C-46 conks out over the Caribbean. Best friends die in fiery crashes. Aston age Indian appears where he shouldn't be. This is drama from the cockpit of vintage aircraft.

Download or read book It s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Trip On the Road of the Longest Two Week Family Road Trip in History written by Kevin James Shay and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Trip chronicles the adventures of a single Dad taking his two kids on a 6,950-mile odyssey across the USA and back during his two-week vacation. Along the way, they set a record for the longest family road trip in a roughly two-week span, certified by RecordSetter, a competitor of Guinness World Records. And they did it in their trusty 2001 Honda CRV with more than 165,000 miles. They rode roller coasters and water slides, tried to locate some Hollywood celebrities, met some aliens at a UFO center in Sedona, sat on a ledge on top of the country's tallest building in Chicago, spray painted Cadillac Ranch, dodged mule poop at the Grand Canyon, and bought a pressed coin at Old Faithful. They also visited Mount Rushmore, Vegas, Dallas, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and many points in between. Their book also lends tips, websites and other info on attractions, fun facts, and more resources, so you can take your own Great American Adventure.

Download or read book Road Trips written by A. D. Hopkins and published by Stephens Press, LLC. This book was released on 2003 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the best pleasure trips a person could take in the American Southwest are explored through gorgeous photography, first-person accounts by experienced travelers, maps, helpful hints, and detailed route instructions. About half of the trips are entirely on asphalt or minor dirt roads that can be experienced in a sedan. The rest are recommended for heartier vehicles, perhaps, with four-wheel drive. All trips are within 250 miles of Las Vegas and includes areas such as La Verkin Falls, Zion and Bryce Canyons, the historic town of Eureka (NV), Death Valley, Wheeler Pass, Titus Canyon, Arizona Bay, Toroweap, and more.

Download or read book Zig Zag Boy A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood written by Tanya Frank and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “By turns an eloquent meditation on the power of nature and a terrifying exposé of…parenting a mentally ill child into adulthood.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice A compassionate, heartrending memoir of a mother’s quest to accept her son’s journey through psychosis. One night in 2009, Tanya Frank finds her nineteen-year-old son, Zach—gentle and full of promise—in the grip of what the psychiatrists would label a psychotic break. Suddenly and inexplicably, Tanya is thrown into a parallel universe: Zach’s world, where the phones are bugged, his friends have joined the Mafia, and helicopters are spying on his family. In the years following Zach’s shifting psychiatric diagnoses, Tanya goes to war for her son, desperate to find the right answer, the right drug, the right doctor to bring him back to reality. She struggles to navigate archaic mental healthcare systems, first in California and then in her native London during lockdown. Meanwhile, the boy she raised—the chatty, precocious dog-lover, the teenager who spent summers surfing with his big brother, the UCLA student—suffers the effects of multiple hospitalizations, powerful drugs that blunt his emotions, therapies that don’t work, and torturous nights on the streets. Holding on to startling moments of hope and seeking solace in nature and community, Tanya learns how to abandon her fears for the future and accept the mysteries of her son’s altered states. With tenderness, lyricism, and generous candor, this compelling story conveys the power of a mother’s love. Zig-Zag Boy is both a moving lamentation for things lost and a brave testament to the people we become in difficult circumstances.

Download or read book Dead Men S Clubs written by Charlie Ryan and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Munch Malone is one seriously inept golfer, but that hasnt dimmed his enthusiasm for the game. Now, at seventy, Munch, a high handicapper, has drawn some unlikely attentionfrom the afterlife. From on high, two golfersboth quite deceasedhave been scouring Earth on a quest to find the perfect golfer. But there are so many golfers on so many golf courses. If they are ever to play the game they both loved so much in life again, they need just the right golfer for a grand experiment from the Great Beyond. And then they find Munch. Target acquired, they settle back into their easy chairs in the great clubhouse in the sky, drinks in hand, to watch as their experiment plays itself out down on terra firmaon high-definition television, of course. Meanwhile, down on Earth, Munch is going about his life, oblivious to the role he is about to play in their game. Hes just invested in clubs that once belonged to scratch golfers his secret strategy for success in the USGA Senior Mens Amateur Championship. But his destiny to win the Open is derailed as Vegas operatives plot to steal his clubs. The escapade romps across The Greenbriers Old White Golf Course and into the hotels underground bunkeras the adventure is spiced up by sexual twists and Glocks being drawn on the course. Now, its a battle of willsboth terrestrial and heavenlyto see if Munchs destiny or his ineptitude will reign supreme.

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases written by Yuri Dolgopolov and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, cliches, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.

Download or read book Evidence of a Commuter Train written by Stanley B. Trice and published by Stanley B. Trice. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uncommon life of train commuters unveils itself in these twenty stories about Phil, Angie, Tony, Clyde, Paula, and others who hope they don’t sleep past their stop again. Filled with drama, comedy, and adventure, these stories show people connecting with their fellow commuters by what happens on the train. Will Phil and Angie find love? Can Tony find the emerald ring a ghost hid on the train? How can an overweight Clyde escape from a locked train bathroom after the lights go out and his stop is coming? Near the train tracks, there is Paula’s house where women escape into their art and from the memories of commuting. These are just some of the stories about people experiencing life on and off a commuter train. Riding a commuter train is a salvation when the highways shut down and agony when the rails shut down. It is a time to catch up on sleep, play video games, listen to music, socialize, knit, read a book, or write a book.

Download or read book Built to Last Hidden Hearts Book 1 written by Kate McBrien and published by Kate McBrien. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-week road trip. Two relationship-phobic adults. What could go wrong? Max Carmichael finally has a shot to work with a legendary music producer and be something more than a band manager. But first, he has to demonstrate his skill by taking a road trip to scout new acts. The new job will give him the money he needs to help his parents with their struggling London pub and his little sister, who needs rehab. And if he has to spend one week with a free-spirited American woman who drives him crazy, he'll do it. Even if she is a seductive redhead. Max doesn't do redheads. Ever. Althea Grayson has been living on Santorini for years. She's a trained chef who aspires to open a restaurant that serves amazing food to everyone, not just the people who can afford it. The only thing standing in her way is money. A paid road trip as a traveling companion is a means to an end; it will pay her way back to San Francisco to claim her trust fund and put her on a path to seeing her dream come true. And If she has to spend a week with a grumpy Englishman who drives her nuts, she'll do it. Even if he is a sexy beast. NOTE: Max and Althea are secondary characters from the Indigo Series. It is not necessary to read the Indigo Series before reading Built to Last.