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Book The Impersonator

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Miley
  • Publisher : Minotaur Books
  • Release : 2013-09-17
  • ISBN : 1250028175
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book The Impersonator written by Mary Miley and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1917, Jessie Carr, fourteen years old and sole heiress to her family's vast fortune, disappeared without a trace. Now, years later, her uncle Oliver Beckett thinks he's found her: a young actress in a vaudeville playhouse is a dead ringer for his missing niece. But when Oliver confronts the girl, he learns he's wrong. Orphaned young, Leah's been acting since she was a toddler. Oliver, never one to miss an opportunity, makes a proposition—with his coaching, Leah can impersonate Jessie, claim the fortune, and split it with him. The role of a lifetime, he says. A one-way ticket to Sing Sing, she hears. But when she's let go from her job, Oliver's offer looks a lot more appealing. Leah agrees to the con, but secretly promises herself to try and find out what happened to the real Jessie. There's only one problem: Leah's act won't fool the one person who knows the truth about Jessie's disappearance. Set against a Prohibition-era backdrop of speakeasies and vaudeville houses, Mary Miley's Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition winner The Impersonator will delight readers with its elaborate mystery and lively prose.

Book The Impersonator

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shawn Lane
  • Publisher : JMS Books LLC
  • Release : 2023-02-18
  • ISBN : 168550356X
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book The Impersonator written by Shawn Lane and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2023-02-18 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Benjamin Pomeroy has hot club sex with Trey, a gorgeous new employee at the Las Vegas hotel where he works, he loses his job as the Elvis impersonator when the hotel’s new CEO, Maxwell Orton, decides Elvis doesn’t fit the hotel’s image. Originally from New Orleans, Orton is fond of Mardi Gras, thus the Masquerade Ball to introduce himself to the executive staff of the hotel. Because he lost his job, Ben agrees to impersonate his older brother, an executive at the hotel, for money when his brother doesn’t want to cancel his plans. It’s an idiotic idea and he knows it, but he finds himself at the Masquerade Ball anyway. He’s intent on staying two hours and getting out fast when he has yet another encounter with the sexy, mysterious Trey. But soon Ben realizes he can’t easily escape the fact that his enigmatic lover is Orton himself.

Book The Impersonator

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  • Author : Mary Imlay Taylor
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book The Impersonator written by Mary Imlay Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Impersonators

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  • Author : Jessica Anderson
  • Publisher : Sydney University Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 0975086057
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book The Impersonators written by Jessica Anderson and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Impersonators portrays the breakdown of family relationships and the endurance of love in a materialistic age sensitively, perceptively and humorously. When Sylvia Foley returns to Australia after twenty years, she finds her father, Jack Cornock, ill. This and his obstinate silence provoke speculation about his will among the families of his two marriages. Sylvia becomes enmeshed in the webs of their alliances and disaffections. The Impersonators received the Miles Franklin Award in 1980, and the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Fiction in 1981.

Book Fan Cultures

Download or read book Fan Cultures written by Matt Hills and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans are one of the most widely-studied groups of media consumers. Emphasising the contradictions of fandom, Matthew Hills discusses how media fans have been conceptualised in cultural theory.

Book THE GREAT IMPERSONATION  Spy Thriller Classic

Download or read book THE GREAT IMPERSONATION Spy Thriller Classic written by E. Phillips Oppenheim and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "THE GREAT IMPERSONATION (Spy Thriller Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. German Leopold von Ragastein meets his doppelganger, Englishman Everard Dominey, in Africa, and plans to murder him and steal his identity in order to spy on English high society just prior to World War I. However, doubts of the returned Dominey's true identity begin to arise in this tale of romance, political intrigue, and a (literally) haunting past. E. Phillips Oppenheim, the Prince of Storytellers (1866-1946) was an internationally renowned author of mystery and espionage thrillers. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions.

Book Language and Identities

Download or read book Language and Identities written by Carmen Llamas and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language and Identities offers a broad survey of our current state of knowledge on the connections between variability in language use and the construction, negotiation, maintenance and performance of identities at different levels - individual, group, regional and national. It brings together over 20 specially commissioned chapters, written by distinguished international scholars, on a range of topics around the language/identity nexus. The collection deals sequentially with identities at various levels, both social and personal. Using detailed, empirical evidence, the chapters illustrate how the multi-layered, dynamic nature of identities is realised through linguistic behaviour. Several chapters in the volume focus on contexts in which we might expect to observe a foregrounding of factors involved in the definition and delimitation of self and other: for example, cases in which identities may be disputed, changing, blurred, peripheral, or imposed. Such a focus on complex contexts allows clearer insight into the identity-making and -marking functions of language. The collection approaches these topics from a range of perspectives, with contributions from sociolinguists, sociophoneticians, linguistic anthropologists, clinical linguists and forensic linguists.

Book Information Security and Cryptology

Download or read book Information Security and Cryptology written by Moti Yung and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2008, held in Beijing, China, in December 2008. The 28 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 183 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital signature and signcryption schemes, privacy and anonymity, message authentication code and hash function, secure protocols, symmetric cryptography, certificateless cryptography, hardware implementation and side channel attack, wireless network security, public key and identity based cryptography, access control and network security, as well as trusted computing and applications.

Book The Banking Law Journal

Download or read book The Banking Law Journal written by Edward White and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journal devoted to banking law and practice for bankers and bank attorneys. Includes articles, notes on court cases, and summaries of legislation.

Book Mobituaries

Download or read book Mobituaries written by Mo Rocca and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From popular TV correspondent and writer Rocca comes a charmingly irreverent and rigorously researched book that celebrates the dead people who made life worth living.

Book Philip Roth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Debra B. Shostak
  • Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781570035425
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Philip Roth written by Debra B. Shostak and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at Philip Roth's writing life as a "book of voices," Debra Shostak listens in on the conversations that this prominent American novelist has conducted with himself and his times over forty years and twenty-four books. She finds that while Roth frequently shifts perspectives, he repeatedly returns to interrelated questions of cultural history, literary history, and, especially, selfhood.

Book Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Download or read book Last Night at the Telegraph Club written by Malinda Lo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Award A New York Times Bestseller "The queer romance we’ve been waiting for.”—Ms. Magazine Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible. But America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day. (Cover image may vary.)

Book Supreme Court of the State of New York

Download or read book Supreme Court of the State of New York written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Risen Emissary

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  • Author : Matt Edsand
  • Publisher : Edsand
  • Release : 2023-09-22
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book Risen Emissary written by Matt Edsand and published by Edsand. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attacking the colony was only part of the Vartok species' plan. Major Thomas and his unit face one of their darkest challenges ever as they fight the enemy in the colony. Meanwhile, the secret behind Crendall's appearance is finally unveiled, leading Captain Norman to face the new threat. And, at the most unexpected of moments, a legend surfaces. All according to the enemy's plan. At the same time, an Emissary arises from the ashes in the destroyed colony. What does the Emissary want? And, will the Vartok succeed in fulfilling their plan? Or can Major Thomas and his unit hold the line? If you love fast-paced action and plot twists then you will love Risen Emissary, Book 3 of Deception War.

Book Elvis After Elvis

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gilbert B. Rodman
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10-18
  • ISBN : 1136155139
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Elvis After Elvis written by Gilbert B. Rodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'For a dead man, Elvis Presley is awfully noisy. His body may have failed him in 1977, but today his spirit, his image, and his myths do more than live on: they flourish, they thrive, they multiply.' Why is Elvis Presley so ubiquitous a presence in US culture? Why does he continue to enjoy a cultural prominence that would be the envy of the most heavily publicized living celebrities? In Elvis after Elvis Gil Rodman traces the myriad manifestations of The King in popular and not-so-popular culture. He asks why Elvis continues to defy our expectations of how dead stars are supposed to behave: Elvis not only refuses to go away, he keeps showing up in places where he seemingly doesn't belong. Rodman draws upon an extensive and eclectic body of Elvis 'sightings', from Elvis's appearances at the heart of the 1992 Presidential campaign to the debate over his worthiness as a subject for a postage stamp, and from Elvis's central role in furious debates about racism and the appropriation of African-American music to the world of Elvis impersonators and the importance of Graceland as a place of pilgrimage for Elvis fans and followers. Rodman shows how Elvis has become inseparable from many of the defining myths of US culture, enmeshed with the American dream and the very idea of the 'United States', caught up in debates about race, gender and sexuality and in the wars over what constitutes a national culture.

Book Our Broken Elections

Download or read book Our Broken Elections written by John Fund and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the deeply contentious 2020 election stands a real story of a broken election process. Election fraud that alters election outcomes and dilutes legitimate votes occurs all too often, as is the bungling of election bureaucrats. Our election process is full of vulnerabilities that can be — and are — taken advantage of, raising questions about, and damaging public confidence in, the legitimacy of the outcome of elections. This book explores the reality of the fraud and bureaucratic errors and mistakes that should concern all Americans and offers recommendations and solutions to fix those problems.

Book Information Security Management Handbook

Download or read book Information Security Management Handbook written by Harold F. Tipton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-05-14 with total page 3280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered the gold-standard reference on information security, the Information Security Management Handbook provides an authoritative compilation of the fundamental knowledge, skills, techniques, and tools required of today's IT security professional. Now in its sixth edition, this 3200 page, 4 volume stand-alone reference is organized under the C