Download or read book Skulduggery in the Latin Quarter written by David Benjamin and published by Last Kid Books. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A madcap pursuit of the most famous "lost book," T.E.Lawrence's first draft of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, of the 20th century. Bookseller Chester Quinn is joined by brilliant, beautiful sleuth Circe Evans in a chase that covers the breadth of Paris. A cast of odd and funny characters battles the most dastardly literary criminal in the world, and his evil crew of Paris gangsters.
Download or read book The Pretender written by Robert W. Service and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pretender: A Story of the Latin Quarter But, after all, I went on to reflect, money is not so utterly a nuisance. Pleasant indeed to think that when most are pondering over the problem of the per manent meal - ticket, you are yourself well settled on the sunny side Of Easy Street. Poets have piped of Ar cady, have chorused of Bohemia, have expressed their enthusiasm for Elysian fields, but who has come to chant the praise of Easy Street? Yet surely it is the kindliest Of all? Behind its smiling windows are no maddening constraints, no irking servitudes, no tyranny Of time. Just sunshine, laughter, mockery Of masters - Oh, a thousand times blessed, golden, glori ous Easy Street! Here I lighted a fresh cigarette and settled more snugly in that chair Of kingly comfort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book The Pretender written by Robert William Service and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The French Consul written by Lucien Bodard and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Istanbul written by Bettany Hughes and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul -- resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. For much of its history it was the very center of the world, known simply as "The City," but, as Bettany Hughes reveals, Istanbul is not just a city, but a global story. In this epic new biography, Hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey from the Neolithic to the present, through the many incarnations of one of the world's greatest cities--exploring the ways that Istanbul's influence has spun out to shape the wider world. Hughes investigates what it takes to make a city and tells the story not just of emperors, viziers, caliphs, and sultans, but of the poor and the voiceless, of the women and men whose aspirations and dreams have continuously reinvented Istanbul. Written with energy and animation, award-winning historian Bettany Hughes deftly guides readers through Istanbul's rich layers of history. Based on meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, this captivating portrait of the momentous life of Istanbul is visceral, immediate, and authoritative -- narrative history at its finest.
Download or read book The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked written by David Benjamin and published by Last Kid Books. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Benjamin's eponymous character in The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked grew up in the era - between child labor and Little League - when parental disregard set kids free to devise and play their own games, make their own rules, argue their own disputed calls and roam free from dawn to darkness with absolutely no adult supervision. It was a time, between the end of World War II and the wholesale intrusion of parents into child's play, that Benjamin calls "free-lance childhood." It allowed a timid, bookish and intensely observant kid to explore the outdoors, range for miles on his bicycle, go fishing, go hunting, play baseball, football, soccer, go to the movies with a fellow rascal named Chucky Dutcher and get kicked out of high-school basketball games. This was an interval in American culture that has been overlooked by historians and sociologists alike. It comes to life in vivid and often hilarious microcosm, chronicled by a gifted and often lyrical writer.
Download or read book Bastard s Bluff written by David Benjamin and published by Last Kid Books. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police Chief Jim Otis in the little town of Hercules is mystified by an outbreak of hate crimes. The problem seems to emanate from the secluded compound occupied by Norman Klinghofer atop a historic wooded redoubt known locally as Bastard's Bluff. Otis is doubtful of Norman's guilt, but must delve deep into local history and private grudges, and he has to cope with a gung-ho FBI agent to unravel the truth. Otis' precocious daughter Natalie becomes, unexpectedly, the fly in the FBI's ointment.
Download or read book The Real Guide written by Prentice Hall and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1992-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative guide for the adventurous traveler includes a detailed overview of Florida as well as all the practical details travelers expect in a guidebook. Includes coverage of organizations for travelers with special needs, recommendations on background reading and films, women's travel resources, and more. Maps and line drawings.
Download or read book Sumo written by David Benjamin and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sumo is a fresh and funny introduction to the fascinating world of sumo, Japan's national sport. Author David Benjamin peels away the veneer of sumo as a cultural treasure and reveals it as an action-packed sport populated by superb athletes who employ numerous strategies and techniques to overcome their gargantuan opponents. Sumo provides an engaging, witty, behind-the-scenes look at sumo today.
Download or read book Lion in the Valley written by Elizabeth Peters and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshoor is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through the bustling streets and marketplace of Cairo. The brazen moonlight abduction of Ramses—and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and death—have alerted Amelia to the likly presence of her arch nemesis the Master Criminal, notorious looter of the living and the dead. But it is far more than ill-gotten riches that motivates the evil genius this time around. For now the most valuable and elusive prized of all is nearly in his grasp: the meddling lady archaeologist who has sworn to deliver him to justice . . . Amelia Peabody!
Download or read book The Death of Expertise written by Tom Nichols and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the early 1990s, a small group of "AIDS denialists," including a University of California professor named Peter Duesberg, argued against virtually the entire medical establishment's consensus that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Science thrives on such counterintuitive challenges, but there was no evidence for Duesberg's beliefs, which turned out to be baseless. Once researchers found HIV, doctors and public health officials were able to save countless lives through measures aimed at preventing its transmission"--
Download or read book United States Policy in Latin America written by John D. Martz and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paper reprint of the 1988 cloth edition. Original essays offer a historical perspective on US policy toward Latin America from the Kennedy to the Reagan administration. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book They Shot Kennedy written by David Benjamin and published by Last Kid Books. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a kid named Cribbsy, the month of November, 1963, was a private train wreck weeks before JFK undertook his fatal motorcade in Dallas. Cribbsy is tangled in a half-dozen romantic crises. He's hounded by malevolent dwarfs. He's under threat of suspension by a vicious vice-principal. He's at war with his English teacher. Every time he sets foot in the halls, he faces death at the hands of a delusional gridiron gladiator. Cribbsy's trials trace America's loss of innocence. Kennedy has faced down Khrushchev over Cuban missiles, but every kid grows up with the haunting certainty that his life--all life--will end beneath a mushroom cloud. As the nation mourns JFK, Cribbsy's troubles mount. He becomes an unwitting felon. He receives an unexpected overture from the yummiest girl in school. He faces a showdown with his raging nemesis. He knows what happened in the Art Room. And he has a conversation--both crushing and illuminating--with the Playmate of the Month.
Download or read book Under the Eagle Eagles of the Empire 1 written by Simon Scarrow and published by Headline. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME! UNDER THE EAGLE is the gripping first novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling EAGLES OF THE EMPIRE series. A must read for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. Praise for Simon Scarrow's compelling novels: 'Gripping and moving' The Times AD 42, Germany. Tough, brutal and unforgiving. That's how new recruit Cato is finding life in the Roman Second Legion. He may have contacts in high places, but he could really use a friend amongst his fellow soldiers right now. Cato has been promoted above his comrades at the order of the Emperor and is deeply resented by the other men. But he quickly earns the respect of his Centurion, Macro, a battle-hardened veteran as rough and ready as Cato is quick-witted and well-educated. They are poles apart, but soon realise they have a lot to learn from one another. On a campaign to Britannia - a land of utter barbarity - an enduring friendship begins. But as they undertake a special mission to thwart a conspiracy against the Emperor they rapidly find themselves in a desperate fight to survive...
Download or read book Almost Killed by a Train of Thought written by Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A polymath as well as novelist and journalist, David Benjamin, in his "weekly screeds," has ranged across subjects from sports to technology, to movies and memories,, from Paris to Tokyo to Wisconsin and beyond. This sampling of Benjamin's humor and imagination hearkens to the most esteemed forebears of the art of "1,000 fearful words," from Hazlitt to Twain to Russell Baker and Gail Collins.
Download or read book The Tailor of Panama written by John le Carré and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and The Night Manager, now an AMC miniseries He is Harry Pendel: Exclusive tailor to Panama’s most powerful men. Informant to British Intelligence. The perfect spy in a country rife with corruption and revolution. What his “handlers” don’t realize is that Harry has a hidden agenda of his own. Deceiving his friends, his wife, and practically himself, he’ll weave a plot so fabulous it exceeds his own vivid imagination. But when events start to spin out of control, Harry is suddenly in over his head—thrown into a lethal maze of politics and espionage, with unthinkable consequences. . . . Praise for The Tailor of Panama “Entertaining . . . a riotous, readable novel . . . A worthy successor to Graham Greene’s most wicked entertainments.”—The New York Times “Riveting . . . Le Carré has cut another masterpiece.”—Los Angeles Times “What makes le Carré the reigning grand master of espionage fiction? . . . Craft, certainly; he maintains an almost magnificent control of material, pace, dialogue, characterization.”—The Baltimore Sun “Brilliant . . . Le Carré remains fair in front of his field, a startlingly up-to-date storyteller who writes as well about the shadows around the power elite as anyone alive.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
