Download or read book The Callie Gang written by Nicole Wilson and published by Nicole Wilson. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we know what cats think and how they live? The answer is simple: We have a cat tell us about her life. In this delightful children's book, Livvy is one of five kittens in a litter. She lives in a barn in the Pacific Northwest with her mother, Callie the calico cat, and her sister, Pinky, and brothers, Rascal, Cosmo, and Shadow. Callie moved into the barn after she was abandoned by her former owner. There she meets the old barn cat Marble, who has been living there for many years. Callie and Marble become best friends. Shortly after her arrival, Callie gives birth to her litter of kittens, who soon became known as The Callie Gang. Together they encounter many adventures and have a great time growing up together. Reading is made easy in this Beginner Chapter Book. Learn about cats in a fun way by reading Livvy's story about The Callie Gang and their mishaps. Author Nicole Wilson grew up in Duesseldorf, Germany, and now lives in the greater Seattle area with her husband and her cats. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/TheCallieGang.htm

Download or read book Callie Gang Who Said Cats Don t Talk written by Nicole Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of kittens grow up and learn about life together in a barn.

Download or read book The Dark Flood written by Deon Meyer and published by Grove Atlantic. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disappearances ensnare two South African detectives in a web of corruption in this stunning thriller by the Barry Award–winning author of The Last Hunt. Assigned to investigate the disappearance of a young university student and brilliant computer programmer detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido hit dead ends. But the trail—including the death of a fellow police officer—leads to a series of gun heists and the alarming absence of certain weapons from the police registry, the ramifications of which could be devastating. As Griessel and Cupido intensify their search, real estate agent Sandra Steenberg confronts her own crisis: state corruption has caused the real estate market to crash, exacerbating the dire financial straits facing her family. She puts aside her misgivings to work for a notorious billionaire and playboy, only to have him disappear on her. Now Griessel is forced to juggle between the man’s bitter wife, protective lawyer, and Steenberg, the last person to see him alive. With propulsive and intricate plotting, sharp prose, and an ending that takes one’s breath away just when the dust seems to have settled, The Dark Flood spotlights the state capture and corruption that has overtaken the country, lending political weight to a powerful story. Praise for the Benny Griessel series “[An] outstanding series.” —The Wall Street Journal “Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters.” —Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times–bestselling author “The undisputed champion of South African crime. Meyer grabs you by the throat and never lets you go.” —Wilbur Smith, New York Times–bestselling author

Download or read book Weeps Indigo Series Box Set 1 4 written by J.K. Jones and published by J.K. Jones. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unleash the Unraveling Mystery of "Weeps Indigo: A Fall from Grace" Trilogy - Now Available as an Epic Box Set! Step into a world of dark secrets, breathtaking betrayals, and heart-pounding revelations as you embark on an unforgettable journey through the twisted pages of the "Weeps Indigo" trilogy. Book 1: Weeps Indigo: A Fall from Grace Dangerous. Forbidden. Addictive. Richard's obsession with Beau is all-consuming, his desire for the enigmatic bad boy burning hotter than a wildfire. As the sheriff of Byrmonville, he knows he should stay away. But every time he sees Beau, his resolve crumbles. The way he smirks, the way he moves, it's like a drug Richard can't resist. But the stakes are high. Richard has a wife, a family, and a career to protect. One wrong move could destroy everything he's worked for. And with Beau's dangerous reputation, he knows he's playing with fire. Book 2: Cage the Night: A Battle Within Insanity. It's consuming. Terrifying. Addictive. Richard Clayson's obsession with Beau has turned into a nightmare, a never-ending spiral of madness. His thoughts are consumed with the perfect image of Beau, a seductive beauty that's driving him to the brink of insanity. He's willing to do anything to keep his addiction alive, even if it means risking everything he's ever known. But when his dark secret is exposed, Richard's world crumbles. He's pushed to the edge of reason, and there's no turning back. The consequences of his actions are dire, and the price he has to pay is steep. The demons in his head are getting louder, pushing him further and further down the rabbit hole of his obsession. He's lost everything, his family, his job, his sanity. Book 3: Defend the Mirage: A Story of Redemption Finished. Ended. Concluded. Teetering on the edge of ruin, Richard Clayson's life is a crumbling disaster. His once-promising career and marriage are now nothing more than smoldering ruins. His obsession with Beau Blackwell, which began in an interrogation room, has brought him to the brink of self-destruction. Richard knows that his infatuation is his downfall, but can he find a way back from the abyss? As the dust settles, there are no clear answers. Richard and Beau's relationship is complicated, messy, and fraught with danger. Is there any hope for reconciliation, or will they always be bitter enemies? Book 4: Recapture the Sunlight Ensnared. Trapped. Committed. What kind of nightmare had he stumbled into? Richard Clayson was a walking paradox. A symbol of law and order, yet his mere presence aroused a wild and dangerous yearning in Beau. He never expected to find himself engaged to Richard. But here they were. Dive into the dark, enigmatic world of "Weeps Indigo: A Fall from Grace" and experience an enthralling blend of mystery, magical realism, and spine-tingling suspense. This box set is a must-have for fans of gripping romantic suspense and heart-pounding adventures! Warning: this a dark M/M romance, M/M suspense romance, M/M romance age-gap, M/M straight-to-gay romance, cheating husband romance, this is the final installment to the Weeps series and it ends with a HEA.

Download or read book Braided Lives written by Piercy, Marge and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marge Piercy carries her portrait of the American experience back into the Fifties—that closed, repressive time in which forces for the upheavals of the Sixties ticked away underground. Spanning twenty years, and teeming with vivid characters, Braided Lives tells the powerful, unsentimental story of two young women coming of age. Jill, fiercely independent, dark, Jewish, an intellectual with Detroit street smarts, is a poet, curious, avid of life—a “professional student” and sometime thief. Donna, Jill’s cousin and closest friend, is blond, pretty, and alluring. Together, they grow and change at college in Ann Arbor, where the life of poets and painters contrasts sharply with the working-class neighborhood where Jill’s family lives. In Michigan, and afterward in New York City, the two women taste love and betrayal, friendship and pain, independence and fear as they reach a deepening understanding that to control their lives they must fight. And though their fates differ as widely as their personalities, both reflect the danger that sex posed at a time when abortions were illegal and an affair could destroy a woman’s life, making the outcome of a chance encounter or a night of love a matter of life and death. Braided Lives is an enduring portrait of the past that has led to our tenuous present. In her new introduction to this edition, Marge Piercy reflects on both the most autobiographical of her novels, and the ongoing battles to ensure the hard-fought victories of the Sixties and Seventies, particularly around sex and reproductive rights.

Download or read book Wolf Valley written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the road to Paradise . . . “We can sympathize with a man being short on cash, times being such as they are.” He eyed Ellis’s horse and said, “We just lost our pack mule two days ago. I always say, a good riding animal is just as good as legal tender when a man finds himself in a spot.” “Funny, I always say that myself,” said Ellis, his hat against his chest. His smile remained as he continued to stand in silence, leaving the man unsure of what to say or do next. Finally the man cleared his throat and said, “So, if you have no cash, we’ll be obliged to take the animal off your hands.” “There he stands,” said Ellis, giving a nod toward the big bay. “Take him whenever you’re ready.” But in spite of his invitation, the riders made no move forward. Studying the resolve in Ellis’s cold gray eyes, the bearded man said, as if it had just dawned on him, “You’ve got a gun cocked behind that hat, don’t you?” “You can count on it,” said Ellis, his smile still showing beneath his broad dark mustache. *Preview of Ralph Cotton's Black Mesa at the end of this book.

Download or read book Destruction in the Desert written by Winter Morgan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things have started to return to normal in Brett’s life, and he’s happily participating in a practical joke competition with Poppy and Joe. But when Joe goes missing, Brett wonders if it’s just his next joke, or something more serious. And then they discover the crater. Another portal has opened, and Brett and Poppy have to jump in to find their friend. This time, they are taken to a desert, into a world that they believed only existed in stories, to a city that is doomed. But they find Joe, who is fearlessly helping them survive as an evil villain cuts off their supplies. Brett and Poppy join in, teaching the residents of the city the elements of crafting potions. But even armed with this new knowledge, they worry that it would be enough to save the city. Join Brett and his friends as they work to save the Desert City in the third installment of the Unofficial Minecrafters Time Travel Adventure series from bestselling author Winter Morgan!

Download or read book The Selected Works of Eric Partridge written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 2733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the books look at many and diverse aspects of language, focusing in particular on English. Included in the collection are a variety of insightful dictionaries and reference works that showcase some of Partridge’s best work. The books are creative, as well as practical, and will provide enjoyable reading for both scholars and the more general reader, who has an interest in language and linguistics.

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Underworld written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.

Download or read book Cage the Night written by J.K. Jones and published by J.K. Jones. This book was released on with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insanity. It's consuming. Terrifying. Addictive. Richard Clayson's obsession with Beau has turned into a nightmare, a never-ending spiral of madness. His thoughts are consumed with the perfect image of Beau, a seductive beauty that's driving him to the brink of insanity. He's willing to do anything to keep his addiction alive, even if it means risking everything he's ever known. But when his dark secret is exposed, Richard's world crumbles. He's pushed to the edge of reason, and there's no turning back. The consequences of his actions are dire, and the price he has to pay is steep. The demons in his head are getting louder, pushing him further and further down the rabbit hole of his obsession. He's lost everything, his family, his job, his sanity. And yet, the voice in his head still whispers Beau's name, urging him to do the unthinkable. Will Richard give in to his madness, or will he find the strength to break free from the chains of his obsession? Warning: this a dark M/M romance, M/M suspense romance, M/M romance large age gap, M/M straight-to-gay romance, and a cheating husband romance. Please be advised.

Download or read book Youth Gangs and Community Intervention written by Robert Chaskin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although a range of program and policy responses to youth gangs exist, most are largely based on suppression, implemented by the police or other criminal justice agencies. Less attention and fewer resources have been directed to prevention and intervention strategies that draw on the participation of community organizations, schools, and social service agencies in the neighborhoods in which gangs operate. Also underemphasized is the importance of integrating such approaches at the local level. In this volume, leading researchers discuss effective intervention among youth gangs, focusing on the ideas behind, approaches to, and evidence about the effectiveness of community-based, youth gang interventions. Treating community as a crucial unit of analysis and action, these essays reorient our understanding of gangs and the measures undertaken to defeat them. They emphasize the importance of community, both as a context that shapes opportunity and as a resource that promotes positive youth engagement. Covering key themes and debates, this book explores the role of social capital and collective efficacy in informing youth gang intervention and evaluation, the importance of focusing on youth development within the context of community opportunities and pressures, and the possibilities of better linking research, policy, and practice when responding to youth gangs, among other critical issues.

Download or read book Elvis and the Tropical Double Trouble written by Peggy Webb and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Callie Valentine Jones can't think of a better way to check out of her personal Heartbreak Hotel then to accept her cousin Lovie's timely invite to get away in Cozumel, where her brainy beau is digging up bones for research. But the moment Callie and her loyal good luck charm Elvis arrive, trouble greets them in the form of a skeleton too fresh to be ancient history and too dead to spell anything but homicide. Suspicious minds blame ghosts and gods, but Callie knows the guilty party is all too human--and for once, she's determined not to get involved. That determination flies right out the window when Lovie and Elvis go missing. It's now or never, if Callie wants to save her cousin and her canine from someone who's got murder always on his mind. "Prepare to laugh out loud." --Library Journal

Download or read book Illegal Affairs written by Shelia Dansby Harvey and published by Dafina Books. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvey's sexy, explosive debut novel is set in the heart of Texas where four very attractive, ambitious students are looking for love and top honors at a highly competitive law school.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society written by Pyrooz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society is the premier reference book on gangs for practitioners, policymakers, students, and scholars. This carefully curated volume contains 43 chapters written by the leading experts in the field, who advance a central theme of "looking back, moving forward" by providing state-of-the-art reviews of the literature they created, shaped, and (re)defined. This international, interdisciplinary collective of authors provides readers with a rare tour of the field in its entirety, expertly navigating thorny debates and the at-times contentious history of gang research, while simultaneously synthesizing flourishing areas of study that advance the field into the 21st century. The volume is divided into six cohesive sections that reflect the diverse field of gang studies and capture the large-scale cultural, economic, political, and social changes occurring within the world of gangs in the last century; anticipating immense changes on the horizon. From definitions to history to theory to epistemology to technology to policy and practice, this unprecedented volume captures the most timely and important topics in the field. When readers finish this book, they will be more confident in what we know and do not know about gangs in our society"--

Download or read book Happy Holidays Animated written by William D. Crump and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 20th century, animated Christmas cartoons have brightened the holiday season around the world--first in theaters, then on television. From devotional portrayals of the Nativity to Santa battling villains and monsters, this encyclopedia catalogs more than 1,800 international Christmas-themed cartoons and others with year-end themes of Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and the New Year. Explore beloved television specials such as A Charlie Brown Christmas, theatrical shorts such as Santa's Workshop, holiday episodes from animated television series like American Dad! and The Simpsons, feature films like The Nutcracker Prince and obscure productions such as The Insects' Christmas, along with numerous adaptations and parodies of such classics as A Christmas Carol and Twas the Night before Christmas.

Download or read book Apocalypse Recon written by Paul Mannering and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Badass bikers and National Guard soldiers fight for survival against the savage victims of a mysterious infection. Minty McInness, former Marine, Gulf War veteran and the right-hand man of the charismatic madman who leads the motorcycle gang The Locusts, has seen it all. When the badass bikers raid a drug dealer’s house for fun and profit they find a lot more than crack cocaine and piles of money. The drugs are contaminated and they turn the users into bloodthirsty monsters with a contagious bite—sparking an apocalypse of bloodshed and terror that threatens to engulf the nation. A National Guard recon team on a desperate mission finds the city awash in panic and bloodshed and joins Minty in a fight to survive against the growing legion of infected. On a desperate mission for answers before the outbreak spreads, Minty and his people are going to have to fight their way through Hell.

Download or read book Ambush written by Roxie Odell and published by Dark Shadow Publishing. This book was released on with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Steamy Hot Alpha Biker Romance Series When Callie McCallister hooks up with luscious drummer Adam Marin in a biker bar for a no-strings-attached night of unbelievably hot sex, she feels like the pure Alpha male sexy biker and she make a connection. When a second chance encounter with Adam leaves her heartsick, Callie moves on and goes on the hunt for a hot biker type she can keep. After a string of dates from a biker website, fate pairs Callie with the gorgeous Harley riding Adam time and again. He lets her climb his walls and to get inside where they share passion, the truth and a happily ever after. Black Riders MC Series: Stalked Ambush Hunted