Download or read book The Dead Duck Bounced written by John Humphries and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What became of Harold Prettyman, a German agent captured by the British during World War Two? Eighty years later, an investigation by reporter Jack Flynt seems to end at a new dormer bungalow with white pebble-dash walls, not the grey stone terraced house in the Welsh valleys from which, according to a recently declassified MI5 file, Prettyman operated a radio transmitter from the attic alerting German U-Boats to Allied shipping movements. Dead ducks are news stories destined for the News Editor's spike and Flynt suspects he has found one until a letter arrives at the bungalow with the same coded message --Many Happy Returns Harold Prettyman--used by Prettyman and his accomplice in 1940. But there are no Allied food convoys in the North Atlantic and, believing the letter a hoax Flynt's newspaper moves him to another assignment—the disappearance of a Foreign Office diplomat suspected of fleeing to Moscow like his predecessors Burgess and Maclean. But Scotland Yard seems more interested in the Coal Miner, a missing Van Gogh masterpiece looted by the Red Army Trophy Brigade as war reparations, but now the focus of an exhibition at Tate Britain after being returned to its owner by the Commission for the Recovery of Looted Art in Europe. The painting discovered hanging on the kitchen wall of the apartment of a dead Trophy Brigade officer had been taken in lieu of pension. Private homes, art galleries and museums across the Russian Federation continue to hold large quantities of booty from the Second World War, worthless since President Putin banned the repatriation of cultural artifacts, but priceless in the West. So, is the Coal Miner exhibited at the Tate the missing Van Gogh or a forgery made by a copyist at the Hermitage in St Petersburg? A zig-zag trail leads Flynt's search for Harold Prettyman into the world of Diplomatic Bags, fakes, and money laundering.
Download or read book The Dead Cat Bounce written by Sarah Graves and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-10-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: dead cat bounce n. Stock market jargon for a small, temporary rise in a stock's trading price after a sharp drop. Since she bought her rambling old fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things broken. But her latest problem isn't so easily repaired. Along with the rotting floor joists and sagging support beams, there's the little matter of the dead man in Jake's storeroom, an ice pick firmly planted in his cranium. Not much happens in her tiny Maine town, but that's about to change. Jake's unknown guest turns out to be a world-famous corporate raider, local boy turned billionaire Threnody McIlwaine. When Jake's best friend, quiet and dependable Ellie White, readily confesses to the murder, cops and journalists swarm into snowbound Eastport. Jake smells a cover-up, and begins poking into past history between McIlwaine and Ellie's family. But someone doesn't like nosy neighbors...and Jake's rustic refuge may become her final resting place.
Download or read book Bouncing back written by Joan Rivers and published by Thorndike Pr. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author combines inspirational thoughts with humor to describe how she overcame a series of personal tragedies and setbacks, including her husband's suicide, financial disaster, and estrangement from her daughter.
Download or read book The Dead Cat Bounce written by Bill Overmyer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environment of the stock market is complex and interrelated. As you explore the pathways of a steep stock market decline you will discover the safest time to invest. You will become a veteran fire sale shopper and you will be waiting to reward yourself with profits in the next four severe stock market declines in your lifetime.
Download or read book Jolie Blon s Bounce written by James Lee Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And soon, what began as a duel of wits has turned into a dance of death."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Dead Rise Again on Christmas Eve written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 1121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On this Christmas Eve let these hand-picked horror classics give you unforgettable shivers and goosebumps:_x000D_ The Strange Visitation (Marie Corelli)_x000D_ The Night of Christmas Eve (Nikolai Gogol)_x000D_ The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle)_x000D_ What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy)_x000D_ Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)_x000D_ The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki)_x000D_ Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould)_x000D_ The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James)_x000D_ The Christmas Banquet (Nathaniel Hawthorne)_x000D_ The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens)_x000D_ Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (Charles Dickens)_x000D_ The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)_x000D_ The Ghost's Touch (Fergus Hume)_x000D_ Glámr (Sabine Baring-Gould)_x000D_ The Ghosts at Grantley (Leonard Kip)_x000D_ A Terrible Christmas Eve (Lucie E. Jackson)_x000D_ Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe)_x000D_ The Ghost: A Christmas Story (William Douglas O'Connor)_x000D_ Thurlow's Christmas Story (John Kendrick Bangs)_x000D_ The Mystery of My Grandmother's Hair Sofa (John Kendrick Bangs)_x000D_ The Abbot's Ghost; or Maurice Treherne's Temptation (Louisa M. Alcott)_x000D_ Old Applejoy's Ghost (Frank R. Stockton)_x000D_ Wolverden Tower (Grant Allen)_x000D_ The Christmas-Eve Vigil (James Bowker)_x000D_ Told After Supper (Jerome K. Jerome)_x000D_ The Box with the Iron Clamps (Florence Marryat)_x000D_ Joseph: A Story (Katherine Rickford)_x000D_ The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (Charles Dickens)_x000D_ The Ghost of Christmas Eve (J. M. Barrie)_x000D_ The Dead Sexton (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)_x000D_ Uncle Cornelius His Story (George MacDonald)_x000D_ The Grave by the Handpost (Thomas Hardy)_x000D_ Number Ninety (Bithia Mary Croker)_x000D_ At Chrighton Abbey (Mary Elizabeth Braddon)_x000D_ The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step (Catherine L. Pirkis)_x000D_ Between the Lights (E. F. Benson)_x000D_ Transition (Algernon Blackwood)_x000D_ The Kit-Bag (Algernon Blackwood)_x000D_
Download or read book The Harder I Fall The Higher I Bounce written by Max James and published by Made For Success Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a fascinating book and should be on the reading list of every young aspiring entrepreneur…”—Harry Pearce, Vice Chairman of General Motors (Retired) Want to talk about tenacity? Resilience under pressure? Leadership that stands for character and integrity? Max James comes to mind—Air Force Academy graduate, pilot, shot down twice in Vietnam to become the original founder and CEO of American Kiosk Management, a billion-dollar global presence in North America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand with 5 million repeat customers, 600 staffed locations, 1000 automated stores, and 54,000 employees. Through personal stories and business adventures, Max James delivers insightful business lessons within the pages of his new business memoir The Harder I Fall, The Higher I Bounce. In recognition of his groundbreaking contributions to the specialty retail field, Max James became the first inductee into the $25 Billion Specialty Retail Hall of Fame. He also received the Distinguished Graduate award for the year 2010 from the Air Force Academy for “extraordinarily significant contributions to our nation and his communities, for recognition of accomplishments that are inspirational and elevate the reputation and standing of the U.S. Air Force Academy. Additionally, Max has been featured in Fortune Magazine and dozens of media and television appearances for his work in business and charitable contributions. Max James has spent the past decade leading the charge as the Chairman of the Air Force Academy Foundation committee for the CCLD (Center for Character and Leadership Development), now called Polaris Hall. Max and his wife Linda Johansen-James, reside in Las Vegas and enjoy the beauty of the Southwest. They have three children, seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Download or read book London and Westminster Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bouncing Back Up written by Chuck Dozier and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a continuation of the story that began in my first book, The Second Time Around. It depicts marriage disappointments and disillusions from a male perspective. Most men are fundamentally good and can resist the temptations of infidelity when given a choice. The challenges of dealing with a wife that constantly pushes them to the margin of her life can often be too much for some men to bear. As a young man right out of college, Norman, was assigned by his company to a territory in southern Pennsylvania. While living there Norman met Gail, an attractive middle-aged woman that was ten years his senior with a teenage daughter. Gail and Norman became inseparable and very much in love. Neither of them felt any pressure to get married. After six years Norman was promoted and had to transfer to another part of the country. Fearing that their age difference would cause their relationship to fade, Gail opted to stay in Pineville and they drifted apart. Many years later when their paths crossed again Gail realized that she was still in love with the man that she had considered her soul mate. This book tells what happens as the star-crossed lovers struggle to forge a relationship that seems to be destined for a life of together ever-after. With admirers from several different angles, Norman struggled to maintain his fidelity to his marriage and disappointments in the effort threatened to derail his resurgent relationship with his wife.
Download or read book The Westminster Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms Second Edition written by Christine Ammer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senior moment. Think outside the box. Idioms like these can't be understood just from the words that make them up. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms explores the meanings of idioms, including phrasal verbs such as kick back, proverbs such as too many cooks spoil the broth, interjections such as tough beans, and figures of speech such as elephant in the room. Since the publication of the first edition 15 years ago, author Christine Ammer has made extensive revisions that reflect new historical scholarship and changes in the English language. This second edition defines over 10,000 idiomatic expressions in greater detail than any other dictionary available today. English language learners will find this dictionary especially useful.
Download or read book To Break or Bounce written by Dr. Shelley Plumb and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We can either break under the weight of life’s challenges—or we can bounce back and thrive! The action in Shelley Plumb’s powerful story of rediscovery and emotional healing takes place over the course of a single day—the day of her grandmother's funeral. As she wanders her grandmother's property, a place where she spent much of her childhood, the author is inundated with vivid memories. Reflecting back on the major events of her life, Plumb comes to terms with a painful truth: Her responses to those events, combined with a relentless drive to push herself harder and harder, have left her feeling totally lost, unmoored, and without a clear vision of who she is. We follow her as she relives real-life events from the past—from her mother's shocking and sudden death when Plumb was a child to divorce, sexual harassment, her grandmother's death, and the delicate balance between being a professional woman and a wife and mother. Her reflections also bring forth important realizations about the foundations we build our lives on. If they are not solid, says Plumb, we won’t be able to handle stresses when they come our way. By the end of the day, Plumb makes sense of past memories and offers anyone of us who has ever felt lost in our own lives a way to find the stability, balance, and resilience we need to bounce back and take control of our futures. Readers will thank Plumb for a beautiful story and her generous and honest insights about relationships, how important it is to set boundaries, heal past wounds, and to let those we love and trust come close to us once again. Dr. Shelley Plumb is a podiatric physician, video coach, prominent speaker, and Executive Producer at PlumbTalk Productions.
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Download or read book Literary Outlaw The Life and Times of William S Burroughs written by Ted Morgan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Almost indecently readable . . . captures [Burroughs’s] destructive energy, his ferocious pessimism, and the renegade brilliance of his style.”—Vogue With a new preface as well as a final chapter on William S. Burroughs’s last years, the acclaimed Literary Outlaw is the only existing full biography of an extraordinary figure. Anarchist, heroin addict, alcoholic, and brilliant writer, Burroughs was the patron saint of the Beats. His avant-garde masterpiece Naked Lunch shook up the literary world with its graphic descriptions of drug abuse and illicit sex—and resulted in a landmark Supreme Court ruling on obscenity. Burroughs continued to revolutionize literature with novels like The Soft Machine and to shock with the events in his life, such as the accidental shooting of his wife, which haunted him until his death. Ted Morgan captures the man, his work, and his friends—Allen Ginsberg and Paul Bowles among them—in this riveting story of an iconoclast.
Download or read book Speaking of Animals written by Robert Palmatier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1995-04-30 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other nonhuman source has served as the basis for more metaphors than animals. Speaking of Animals is a dictionary of animal metaphors that are current in American English. It is comprehensive, historical, and metaphor-based. Each entry refers to the other dictionaries that catalog that same metaphor, and the dates of first appearance in writing are supplied, where possible, for both the metaphor and the name of the source. The main text is organized alphabetically by metaphor rather than by animal or animal behavior; all the metaphors are classified according to their animal source in a list at the end of the book. An animal metaphor is a word, phrase, or sentence that expresses a resemblance or similarity between someone or something and a particular animal or animal class. True metaphors are single words, such as the noun tiger, the verb hog, and the adjective chicken. Phrasal metaphors combine true metaphors with other words, such as blind tiger, hog the road, and chicken colonel. Other animal metaphors take the form of similes, such as like rats leaving a sinking ship and prickly as a hedgehog. Still others take the form of proverbs, such as Don't count your chickens before they hatch and Let sleeping dogs lie. The horse is the animal most frequently referred to in metaphors, followed closely by the dog. The Bible is the most prolific literary source of animal metaphors, followed closely by Shakespeare.
