Download or read book The Sanibel Sunset Detective written by Ron Base and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tree Callister is not much of a private detective. His first client just turned up at the door and he's twelve years old. What's more, the kid has the grand total of $7 with which to hire Tree to find his mother. Everyone on Sanibel Island, Florida where Tree lives, thinks the former newspaper reporter is out of his mind. His only defender is his wife Freddie, and even she has doubts. Then a headless body shows up, along with a threatening thug, a couple of suspicious detectives, and a former girlfriend now an ex-FBI agent who suspects Tree knows more than he is admitting. Before long, Tree is up to his neck in the kind of murder and mystery he only imagined as a boy reading the private detective novels he loved. Ron Base's new novel, "The Sanibel Sunset Detective," is full of fast-paced action, humor, unexpected plot twists, and memorable characters. Steeped in the sun-drenched atmosphere of Sanibel and Captiva, two of Florida's most beautiful and unusual islands, this is the first in a series of Tree Callister adventures.
Download or read book If the Other Guy Isn t Jack Nicholson I ve Got the Part written by Ron Base and published by Chicago : Contemporary Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Base examines the complex chemistry of movie stardom--a potent mix of greed and cunning, ego and casting, dedication and just plain dumb luck.
Download or read book Magic Man written by Lori L. Clark and published by Lori L. Clark. This book was released on 2014-08-17 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saraya is not your ordinary prostitute. She prefers to think of herself as a working girl. Someone who has worked her way up on the world. She just happens to do it on her back, maybe on her knees. The Magic Man was where it all began, but if her first love, Elias, has anything to say about it... it will be her last. This short story contains swearing, sex and adult situations. Recommended for mature (18+) audiences.
Download or read book My Sister s Keeper written by Jodi Picoult and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age 13, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister Kate can somehow fight the leukemia that has palgued her since childhood.
Download or read book Another Sanibel Sunset Detective written by Ron Base and published by West-End Books. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Tree Callister's Sanibel Island. Meet some of his friends. THE MYSTERIOUS WOMAN. She tries to seduce Tree in Paris and Key West and she may be trying to kill him on Sanibel Island. TWO SHADY CHARACTERS. A former director of the Pakistani Secret Service, Miram Shah, wants Tree to find his missing fiancee. Accused Serbian war criminal Javor Zoran has lost his true love. He insists Tree find her. Could both men be looking for the same woman? THE DOCTOR WITH A MACHETE. Actually, Dr. Edgar Bunya says the correct name for his machete is a cutlass. Dr. Edgar plans to use it to cut off Tree s hands. THE DEAD BODIES. From Key West to Sanibel Island, Tree keeps stumbling across corpses. The cops don t like this one bit. His marriage is in jeopardy, his son is in trouble, his life is being threatened, and time is running out for Tree Callister in his most dangerous and action- packed adventure yet. There is Another Sanibel Sunset Detective, and it finds author Ron Base at his page-turning best!
Download or read book Rough Enough written by Richard H. McBee, Jr. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rough Enough is a work of historical non-fiction detailing ten years in the life of Richard McBee's great grandfather, a teenager who goes off half cocked to fight the Civil War! Richard Clow is 17 when the excitement of the final year of Civil War conflict entices him to enlist in the Union Army. Very quickly he finds that even getting to the battle front can have its own challenges: tewo weeks in a thug dominated holding camp followed by the ship voyage from Hell in getting from Boston to the Petersburg front. His thirteen letters home to his sisters describe poignant military experiences, bloody battles to take Petersburg, close calls, and the stresses of war. These are mingled with his daily observations of the Virginian countryside, hardships and small joys by a young man who has a flair for description. The accompanying text documents the changes from snotty nosed youth to blooded infantryman. It describes parallel battle situations and how the stresses of the battlefield lead Richard Clow towards a "Soldier's Heart" PTSD type syndrome. What is it that makes this young man reenlist two years after the war and join the 13th Infantry fighting in the mountains and plains of Montana and the Dakotas from ill designed forts. As his heart grows weary of battles, Clow shares his dreams of married life with his sister as he describes yet another ambush oo travelers through Indian territory. Clow's post military marital bliss is cut short by the specter of death which nearly wipes out his immediate family. With a heavy heart he again seeks solace in the wilderness and the cold creeks and gun ruled world of Deadwood in the heart of the Black Hills gold rush. As he strikes it rich and then goes on to live out his dreams of being a farmer, rancher and Oregon hotelier, we see how perseverance in the face of overwhelming life struggles can lead to a family and forty more years of productive life on the waning frontier.
Download or read book The Movies of the Eighties written by Ron Base and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hank Greenberg written by John Rosengren and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball during the Great Depression of the 1930s galvanized communities and provided a struggling country with heroes. Jewish player Hank Greenberg gave the people of Detroit—and America—a reason to be proud. But America was facing more than economic hardship. Hitler’s agenda heightened the persecution of Jews abroad while anti-Semitism intensified political and social tensions in the U.S. The six-foot-four-inch Greenberg, the nation’s most prominent Jew, became not only an iconic ball player, but also an important and sometimes controversial symbol of Jewish identity and the American immigrant experience. Throughout his twelve-year baseball career and four years of military service, he heard cheers wherever he went along with anti-Semitic taunts. The abuse drove him to legendary feats that put him in the company of the greatest sluggers of the day, including Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, and Lou Gehrig. Hank’s iconic status made his personal dilemmas with religion versus team and ambition versus duty national debates. Hank Greenberg is an intimate account of his life—a story of integrity and triumph over adversity and a portrait of one of the greatest baseball players and most important Jews of the twentieth century. INCLUDES PHOTOS
Download or read book The Sanibel Sunset Detective Goes to the Movies written by Ron Base and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sanibel Sunset Detective is back-and he's in bigger trouble than ever! The last thing Tree Callister wants is to get involved in the movie that is being shot on Sanibel Island. But the film deals with the Hollywood life of his best pal, Rex Baxter. Cast as Rex is the legendary movie star John Twist who was lured out of retirement to play the role. Twist is a nasty, difficult drunk who needs a minder to make sure he stays sober. Tree, against his better judgment, gets dragged into the job. As filming begins, everyone involved soon comes to despise Twist. Tree has his hands full trying to keep the aging star in line. It gets more complicated-not to mention dangerous-when a sketchy character named Shell Dean shows up accompanied by his shifty associate, Mr. Dix. Shell wants to hire Tree to find his fiancée who, he says, has been abducted by a certain famous actor currently shooting a movie in the area. Two dead bodies show up, Rex's movie is about to collapse-and a storm is brewing. One wrong move and Tree goes to prison for the rest of his life. Or he ends up dead. As readers of the thirteen previous novels know only too well, he is adept at making all the wrong moves. Tree finding himself nailed to a cross clad in a loincloth makes The Sanibel Sunset Detective Goes to the Movies the craziest, most unlikely Tree Callister adventure yet!
Download or read book The Sanibel Sunset Detective Saves the World written by Ron Base and published by West-End Books. This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American astronaut Becky McPhee is experiencing the euphoria of her first spacewalk as she makes repairs to the International Space Station when she hears... A Voice... Returning to earth, Becky announces that the Voice has told her the planet will cease to exist during the coming solar eclipse of the sun. The world, already recovering from a devastating pandemic, is thrown into turmoil. Becky retreats to the home of her wealthy father, Dwight McPhee, on Sanibel Island, Florida. Becky is besieged by herds of reporters and thousands of believers desperate to be near her as the world ends. Dwight brings in a trio of former Navy SEALs to protect her. He also hires a local guy. A private detective named Tree Callister. Then Becky disappears. Tree is blamed for her apparent abduction. A one-eyed FBI agent suspects Tree is part of a kidnapping plot. Tree's first wife, now a notorious international oligarch, only complicates matters as do a pair of feuding Russian gangsters. And then there is the body Tree discovers in a secluded cabin outside Everglades City. With ten days to go before the apocalypse, it becomes increasingly clear that only one unlikely detective can save the world. The last person anyone could imagine-Tree Callister! Ron Base's thirteenth Sanibel Sunset Detective novel may be the wildest, funniest, most thrilling Tree Callister adventure yet!
Download or read book The Four Wives of the Sanibel Sunset Detective written by Ron Base and published by West-End Books. This book was released on 2015-11-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one detective end up married four times? A good question, Tree Callister wishes he had the answer. All he knows is that three of his ex-wives have arrived on Sanibel Island, off the west coast of Florida, much to the chagrin of Freddie, his fourth wife. What's more, all his ex-wives are in trouble. Before Tree knows it, he is up to his neck in complications, including a jailed ex-wife, his best friend under arrest, a Russian oligarch who doesn't like him, cops out to get him... A murder or two. And, oh yes, Marilyn Monroe shows up unexpectedly. At a time when he is supposed to be retired and enjoying a quiet life on an island paradise, Tree finds himself in bigger jams than ever, trying to stay alive while he searches for a killer and asks himself that age old question: how does a private detective get married so many times? Ron Base's latest Tree Callister adventure, The Four Wives of the Sanibel Sunset Detective, tries to find the answer. Sort of.
Download or read book The Devil and the Sanibel Sunset Detective written by Ron Base and published by West-End Books. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beat the Devil! Two boys are caught in the midst of a raging nighttime storm on a Sanibel Island beach. Then lightning strikes and for those boys nothing will ever be the same. One of the youths is Tree Callister who grows up to be an unlikely private detective on Sanibel Island. The other boy, Tree's half-brother, Samuel Callister, known to everyone as Scratch, grows up and becomes--well, what did happen to Scratch, anyway? There is a secretive organization known as BlackHeart, two wealthy brothers who married the same alluring woman, a mysterious figure dressed in black known as the Watcher. And let's not forget Gladys, the new receptionist at the Sanibel Sunset Detective Agency who knows how to use the gun in her purse. From the beaches of Sanibel and Captiva Island, to a Florida gun show, to a historic Ferris wheel in Vienna, Austria, the twelfth novel in the Sanibel Sunset Detective series will keep readers turning pages and wondering how the devil Tree Callister will ever beat the devil!
Download or read book Peace Child written by Don Richardson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Cannibals to Christ-Followers--A True Story In 1962, Don and Carol Richardson risked their lives to share the gospel with the Sawi people of New Guinea. Peace Child tells their unforgettable story of living among these headhunters and cannibals, who valued treachery through fattening victims with friendship before the slaughter. God gave Don and Carol the key to the Sawi hearts via a redemptive analogy from their own mythology. The "peace child" became the secret to unlocking a value system that had existed through generations. This analogy became a stepping-stone by which the gospel came into the Sawi culture and started both a spiritual and a social revolution from within. With an epilogue updating how the gospel has impacted the Sawi people, this missionary classic will inspire a new generation of readers who need to hear this remarkable story and the lessons it teaches us about communicating Christ in a meaningful way to those around us.
Download or read book The Sea Shell Islands written by Elinore M. Dormer and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Juan Ponce de Leon officially discovered the Sea Shell Islands, Sanibel and Captiva, in 1513 when he turned landward on the Gulf Coast of Florida and sailed south 'as far as some islands that make out to sea.' An abundant food supply attracted Indians before the Age of Discovery and their gold, gleaned from shipwrecks, brought the Spanish conquistadores, Slavers, pirates, marauding Seminoles -- all were part of the colorful, often tempestuous, history of these islands, now famous for sea shells. Mrs. Dormer's descriptions are informative and always lively, whether she's discussing and re-creating the accidental discovery of Sanibel and Captiva, making conjectures about a possible earlier visit by Amerigo Vespucci, or delving into the personal histories of some of the first permanent settlers on the two tiny isles. She makes it clear why such personages as Thomas A. Edison, Theodore Roosevelt and Edna St. Vincent Millay were drawn there as well. the present also is very real in The Sea Shell Islands as Islanders fight to keep the charms of another era against the almost insurmountable odds of explosive growth."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Heart of the Sanibel Sunset Detective written by Ron Base and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Detective Tree Callister thinks he's dying. He could be right. Humphrey Bogart doesn't give him much hope. A floppy-eared hound dog named Clinton insists on talking to him. Meanwhile, a mysterious list sends Tree and his wife Freddie from Sanibel Island to Savannah, Georgia to Washington, D.C. Along the way they encounter a demented ex-football player, a crooked small-town sheriff who likes to use his Taser, and two women in love married to the same man. A plane explodes. A dead body shows up. All hell breaks loose. And Tree discovers it's hard to worry about dying when all sorts of people are trying to kill you.
Download or read book The Life of Dr Samuel A Mudd written by Nettie Mudd and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 1955-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Samuel Mudd have prior knowledge of the impending assassination of Abraham Lincoln and willingly provide aid to John Wilkes Booth after Lincoln's murder? Historians are still divided over this issue nearly 140 years later. In 1906, Nettie Mudd published this passionate plea for her father's innocence. It includes testimony from Mudd's trial and letters written to and by him from Fort Jefferson, where he was imprisoned until 1869. Though President Andrew Johnson pardoned Mudd, the family continued to try to get the conviction overturned. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were both sympathetic to the cause but claimed no authority in the matter. The Supreme Court has refused to hear the case. Not only is this book a well-reasoned case for Mudd's acquittal, it's a fascinating look into the Mudd family and the early attempts to clear his name. The letters from Mudd to his adored wife are very revealing of at least a part of Mudd's character. For the first time, this long-out-of-print book is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample. This edition is Expanded, Annotated.
Download or read book Art and Race Matters The Career of Robert Colescott written by Raphaela Platow and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive volume devoted to the life and work of pioneering African American artist Robert Colescott, accompanying the largest traveling exhibition of his work ever mounted. Robert Colescott (1925-2009) was a trailblazing artist, whose august career was as unique as his singular artistic style. Known for figurative satirical paintings that exposed the ugly ironies of race in America from the 1970s through the late 1990s, his work was profoundly influential to the generations of artists that have followed him, such as Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, and Henry Taylor, among many others. This volume surveys the entirety of Colescott's body of work, with contributions by more than ten curators and writers, including a substantive essay by the show's cocurator, the renowned Lowery Stokes Sims. It provides a detailed stylistic analysis of his politically inflected oeuvre, focusing on Colescott's own consideration of his work in the context of the grand traditions of European painting and contemporary polemic. In addition, the book features reminiscences and thought pieces by a variety of family, friends, students, curators, dealers, and scholars on his work as well as a selection of writings by the artist himself. Relying on previously unpublished transcripts of lectures, reviews, and archival materials provided by institutions and individuals, the book will provide a fuller story of the artist's life and career.
