Download or read book The Big Sting written by Rachelle Delaney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visit to Leo's grandfather's farm turns upside down when his grandmother's beehives are stolen. A light-hearted and funny middle-grade novel for fans of Rebecca Stead and Lynda Mullaly Hunt. Eleven-year-old Leo is an "armchair adventurer." This, according to Dad, means he'd choose adventures in books or video games over real-life experiences. And while Leo hates the label, he can't argue with it. Unlike his little sister Lizzie, Leo is not a risk-taker. So when he, Lizzie, Mom and Dad leave the city to visit Grandpa on Heron Island, Leo finds all kinds of dangers to avoid — from the deep, dark ocean to an old barn on the verge of collapse. But nothing on the island is more fearsome than Grandpa himself — Leo has never met anyone so grumpy! According to Mom, Grandpa is still grieving the recent death of his wife, a beekeeper beloved by everyone on the island. Despite Leo's best efforts to avoid it, adventure finds him anyway when Grandma's beehives go missing in the dead of night. Infuriated, Grandpa vows to track down the sticky-fingered thieves himself . . . with risk-averse Leo and danger-loving Lizzie (plus a kitten named Mayhem) in tow.
Download or read book The Big Sting written by Peter Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Real Justice A Police Mr Big Sting Goes Wrong written by Richard Brignall and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2015-02-07 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of June 23, 1990, teenage friends Kyle Unger and John Beckett made a last-minute decision to attend a music festival near Roseisle, Manitoba. They were loners, not the popular kids at school. But on this night they seemed to finally fit in. They had fun, played games, drank, and hung around bonfires with other people. The next morning, a sixteen-year-old girl was dead. By the next week, Kyle was charged with her murder. Due to insufficient evidence he was let go, but the Mounties were convinced he was the killer. They laid a trap, called the Mr. Big operation, for Kyle. With offers of money, friends, and a new criminal lifestyle, the RCMP got Kyle to confess to the murder. But the confession was false -- he had not been the killer. He was convicted and sent to prison. For the next twenty years Kyle fought for his freedom. He was finally acquitted in 2009. This book tells the story of an impressionable but innocent teenager who was wrongfully convicted based on the controversial Mr. Big police tactic. [Fry reading level - 4.9
Download or read book The Mr Big Sting written by Mark Stobbe and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the police create an imaginary criminal gang to trick homicide suspects into a confession and a prison cell There are people in prison who got away with murder until they told the boss of a powerful criminal gang all about it. When the handcuffs were snapped on, the killers learned they’d been duped — that “Mr. Big” was actually an undercover police officer. These killers ended up with lots of time to think about how tricky police can be. In this captivating book, we learn why Mr. Big is so good at getting killers to confess — and why he occasionally gets confessions from the innocent as well. We meet murderers such as Michael Bridges, who strangled his girlfriend and buried her in another person’s grave. Bridges remained free until he told Mr. Big where the body was buried. We also meet people like Kyle Unger, who lied while confessing to Mr. Big and went to prison for a crime he did not commit. The “Mr. Big” Sting is essential reading for anyone interested in unorthodox approaches to justice, including their successes and failures. It sheds light on how homicide investigators might catch and punish the guilty while avoiding convicting the innocent.
Download or read book The Mr Big Sting written by Mark Stobbe and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a hundred Canadians "got away with murder" until an undercover police officer tricked them into confessing. Learn about the controversial "Mr. Big" police tactic that catches the guilty and occasionally traps the innocent.
Download or read book The Bee Sting written by Raymond L. Robinson and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a land where everyone is insane, your sanity may be your biggest downfall or your greatest weapon. This story is about the fantastic world where a young man by the name of Richard lives. Armed with a weapon that he receives from a pile of rotting corpses, Richard must escape the institution that has held him prisoner for so long. Partnering up with a severed hand named Resk and a young girl who has been created in an underground room of a madman's laboratory, Richard is just trying to survive in this wacky world filled with cannibalistic nuns. Is trying to get home really supposed to be this difficult? "How do you make it without dying?" "You don't..." Sometimes, escaping your fears isn't enough and you must stand and fight, even if it means losing your life...a couple times... What would you do to see your love? The dark world of severed hands, rock monsters, cannibalistic nuns, and madmen awaits you in this exciting tale of a young man who just wants to escape the institution that he's been imprisoned in for so long. With the help from a friend on the inside, his escape becomes a reality. But what has he gotten himself into? Has he been institutionalized for so long that the world has left him behind, or does everyone know something that he doesn't? In the tremendous amount of confusion that swarms all around him, he is left with the love for his friend Sharon, the girl created in a laboratory. But will his love for her save him or destroy him? With nuns lurking around every corner, sniffing him out, where can he and Sharon seek refuge? In this land full of madness, nothing is what it seems... Born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, I moved to Pennsylvania when I was three. I went to school at Northwestern, in a small town called Albion. At a young age, I had incorporated a many hobbies into my life, which made it very difficult for my parents to ever really ground me for messing up in their eyes. They could take away my toys, my computer, my video games, and my time with my friends, but they couldn't take my writing or imagination, so if I were to get grounded from one thing, I would switch my attention to another one. I've always enjoyed writing very much. With my free time in school, I created one comic series and various stories. Some still have yet to be finished, but as I continue through this life, I am continually thinking of new ideas for short stories, novels, and comics. Note to the readers: There are times when we all want to escape our lives for one reason or another. Some people do it by working themselves to the extreme, some by dreaming in their beds no matter the time of day, and some by keeping their minds in a perpetual state of fantasy that they themselves or someone else has created for them. Sometimes reality seems a bit more like fantasy, you find yourself wondering, "How could reality be real?" Maybe it's not. Sometimes that fantasy is our reality. I invite you into one of my fantasies. Enter a realm where the normality of real life washes away to become something much greater, where unconditional love becomes the driving force behind the reason for putting yourself in terrible danger. Enter into one of my escapes from reality.
Download or read book The Big Sting written by Peter Edwards and published by Seal Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Real Justice A Police Mr Big Sting Goes Wrong written by Richard Brignall and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of June 23, 1990, teenage friends Kyle Unger and John Beckett made a last-minute decision to attend a music festival near Roseisle, Manitoba. They were loners, not the popular kids at school. But on this night they seemed to finally fit in. They had fun, played games, drank, and hung around bonfires with other people. The next morning, a sixteen-year-old girl was dead. By the next week, Kyle was charged with her murder. Due to insufficient evidence he was let go, but the Mounties were convinced he was the killer. They laid a trap, called the Mr. Big operation, for Kyle. With offers of money, friends, and a new criminal lifestyle, the RCMP got Kyle to confess to the murder. But the confession was false -- he had not been the killer. He was convicted and sent to prison. For the next twenty years Kyle fought for his freedom. He was finally acquitted in 2009. This book tells the story of an impressionable but innocent teenager who was wrongfully convicted based on the controversial Mr. Big police tactic. [Fry reading level - 4.9]
Download or read book The Jersey Sting written by Ted Sherman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2009 the blog Gawker stated "Everybody in New Jersey Was Arrested Yesterday." Now for the first time, the real story behind the biggest corruption bust in New Jersey's notoriously corrupt history Among the forty-four people arrested in July 2009 were three mayors, five Orthodox rabbis, two state legislators, and the flamboyant deputy mayor of Jersey City, Leona Beldini, once a stripper using the stage name "Hope Diamond." At the center of it all was a dubious character named Solomon Dwek, who perpetrated a $50 million Ponzi scheme before copping a plea and wearing a wire as a secret FBI undercover informant, setting up friends, partners, rabbis, and dozens of politicians. Mr. Dwek played his role like an extra in a mob movie. On surveillance tape, he repeatedly referred to his fraudulent "schnookie deals," which is Yiddish for, well, schnook. Full of impossible-to-make-up detail and fresh revelations from the continuing trials and investigations, this book—the inside, untold account of a federal sting operation that moves from the streets of Brooklyn to the diners of Jersey City, and all the way to Israel—is a wonderful tour de force of investigative journalism by the reporting team that broke this amazing story.
Download or read book Bobby Gets a Bee Sting Early Reader Children s Picture Books written by B. Isabel Wilson and published by Mendon Cottage Books. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobby Gets a Bee Sting - Early Reader - Children's Picture Books
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Download or read book The Wolfpack written by Peter Edwards and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joined by award-winning Mexican journalist Luis Nájera, leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards introduces a motley assortment of millennial bikers, gangsters and Mafia whose bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival in Canada of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations: the drug cartels of Mexico. A man watching the Euro Cup on a restaurant patio is shot dead on a busy Sunday afternoon in Toronto. Another dies in a sidewalk ambush just outside a bus-tling college campus. Two men in a Vancouver hotel lobby are gunned down in an attack that sends an American soccer star scrambling for cover. In Mexico, a Canadian is killed at a Nuevo Vallarta coffee shop, his death barely registering amidst the terrifying death tolls of President Calderón’s war on drugs and the cartels’ response; while a Montreal cop is beaten within an inch of his life in a Playa del Carmen nightclub. An infamous heckler from an NBA Toronto Raptors game turns up dead in a bullet-riddled car in a midtown lane-way. Throughout the 2010s, these and other disparate acts of violence entered the public awareness like iso-lated tragedies—but there was nothing isolated about them. In this masterly investigation, veteran journalists Peter Edwards and Luis Nájera introduce readers to the common cause of a near-decade of chaos. Meet the Wolfpack, millennial-aged gangsters from across the spectrum of Canada’s underworld. Vying to fast-track their way into the criminal void left by the death of Montreal godfather Vito Rizzuto, the Wolfpack sought advantage in a steady supply of cocaine from El Chapo Guzmán’s Sinaloa cartel, among the deadliest and most far-reaching of criminal organizations. The juniors had just stepped into the big leagues. This is the roiling landscape of The Wolfpack, a brilliant examination of a time of criminal disruption and rapid adaptation, when one gang’s unchecked ambition unwittingly gave away the most hotly contested corner of the Canadian underworld without a fight. Brazen criminal disruptors or entitled upstarts looking to get rich without paying their dues--whatever you think of them, you will never forget the Wolfpack.
Download or read book Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods written by Laura Lee Hope and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1917 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - "Bunny! Bunny! Wake up! It's time!" "Wha - what's matter?" sleepily mumbled little Bunny Brown, making his words all run together, like molasses candy that has been out in the hot sun. "What's the matter, Sue?" Bunny asked, now that he had his eyes open. He looked over the side of his small bed to see his sister standing beside it. She had left her own little room and had run into her brother's. "What's the matter, Sue?" Bunny asked again.
Download or read book Sting Like a Bee written by Leigh Montville and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful portrait of Muhammad Ali from the New York Times bestselling author of At the Altar of Speed and The Big Bam. It centers on the cultural and political implications of Ali's refusal of service in the military—and the key moments in a life that was as high profile and transformative as any in the twentieth century. With the death of Muhammad Ali in June, 2016, the media and America in general have remembered a hero, a heavyweight champion, an Olympic gold medalist, an icon, and a man who represents the sheer greatness of America. New York Times bestselling author Leigh Montville goes deeper, with a fascinating chronicle of a story that has been largely untold. Muhammad Ali, in the late 1960s, was young, successful, brash, and hugely admired—but with some reservations. He was bombastic and cocky in a way that captured the imagination of America, but also drew its detractors. He was a bold young African American in an era when few people were as outspoken. He renounced his name—Cassius Clay—as being his 'slave name,' and joined the Nation of Islam, renaming himself Muhammad Ali. And finally in 1966, after being drafted, he refused to join the military for religious and conscientious reasons, triggering a fight that was larger than any of his bouts in the ring. What followed was a period of legal battles, of cultural obsession, and in some ways of being the very embodiment of the civil rights movement located in the heart of one man. Muhammad Ali was the tip of the arrow, and Leigh Montville brilliantly assembles all the boxing, the charisma, the cultural and political shifting tides, and ultimately the enormous waft of entertainment that always surrounded Ali. Muhammed Ali vs. the United States of America is an important and incredibly engaging book.
Download or read book Cruising the Big U written by Ade Salzer; Jo Salzer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jo and Ade spent over three fantastic years crusing the Big U in a 43' Selene Trawler, Wandering Star. Besides having fun, their vision was to demonstrate that you don't have to cross oceans and go around the world to have the incredible adventure of a lifetime.
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Download or read book What Caused the Big Bang written by Rem Blanchard Edwards and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically explores answers to the big question, What produced our universe around fifteen billion years ago in a Big Bang? It critiques contemporary atheistic cosmologies, incl. Steady State, Oscillationism, Big Fizz, that affirm the eternity & self-sufficiency of the universe without God. It defends and revises Process Theology and arguments for God's existence from the universe's life-supporting order & contingent existence.
