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Book The Killeen

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  • Author : Mary Leland
  • Publisher : Atheneum Books
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book The Killeen written by Mary Leland and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic Killeen

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  • Author : Gerald D. Skidmore
  • Publisher : HPN Books
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1935377264
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Historic Killeen written by Gerald D. Skidmore and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Killeen, Texas, written by Gerald D. Skidmore, who was managing editor of the Killeen Daily Herald for 42 years and worked 13 years for the Killeen Chamber of Commerce.

Book Orphan Monster Spy

Download or read book Orphan Monster Spy written by Matt Killeen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like Inglourious Basterds for tweens, this clever YA title features Sarah, a blond, blue-eyed Jewish girl in 1939 Germany."--The New York Post After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah finds herself on the run from the Nazis in Third Reich-ruled Germany. While trying to escape, Sarah meets a mysterious man with an ambiguous accent, a suspiciously bare apartment, and a lockbox full of weapons. He's part of the secret resistance against the Reich, and he needs her help. Sarah is to hide in plain sight at a boarding school for the daughters of top Nazi brass, posing as one of them. She must befriend the daughter of a key scientist to gain access to the blueprints for a bomb that could destroy the cities of Western Europe, and steal them. Sarah may look like the rest of the girls, innocent, blonde-haired, and young, but she refuses to become one of the monsters she's surrounded by. She's a brilliant con artist, convincing them she's one of them even as she lives in terror of being found out. And she's determined to get her revenge on them all.

Book Killeen

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  • Author : Annette S. Lucksinger
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0738596043
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Killeen written by Annette S. Lucksinger and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Killeen is aptly called "a tale of two cities." Killeen was founded on May 15, 1882, when the first Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company (GC&SF) locomotive arrived from east Bell County. The original town contained 360 acres purchased from Susan Spofford for $960. GC&SF honored its assistant general manager, Frank Patrick Killeen, by naming the new town for him, although he probably never visited his namesake. During its first 60 years, Killeen developed into a busy agricultural center specializing in cotton and wool. It remained a town of approximately 1,200 until 1942, when a tank destroyer center was opened nearby and became Killeen's close neighbor--physically, economically, and socially--displacing farms and ranches and converting the town from an agricultural to a military-based economy. That conversion and Killeen's boomtown future were sealed in 1950, when Camp Hood, the tank destroyer center named for Confederate general John Bell Hood, became a permanent military installation and was renamed Fort Hood.

Book Ghosts of Killeen  Texas

Download or read book Ghosts of Killeen Texas written by Chet Southworth and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killeen and the surrounding area has long been known by paranormal researchers and ghost hunters as a habitat for haunts; a virtual Mecca for the paranormal. Native American burial grounds, knife and gunfights, bank robberies, stage holdups, men and women died many horrible and torturous violent deaths over the centuries in this central Texas community. Most of them lie buried in peace. But not all. This book is no means a full and complete tally of all of the haunted locations within the area. More tales come to light all of the time as more and more witnesses come forward. Witnesses who were embarrassed and thought no one would believe their experiences: or thought that people would mock or ridicule them. The chapters within will reveal some of the more haunted locations that have been identified in and around the City of Killeen. Stories of hauntings that were taken from the very lips of witnesses. Witnesses whose voices still quivered in fear, remembering what they had seen, heard, and even felt.

Book Never Hug a Nun

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  • Author : Kevin Killeen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9780985007102
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Never Hug a Nun written by Kevin Killeen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Killeen's debut novel, winner of a Silver Benjamin Franklin award from the Independent Book Publishers Association, is written with a keen sense of comic timing, and is a sweet, laugh-out-loud look at the innocence of childhood in the leafy Webster Groves suburbs of 1960s Saint Louis. From falling for a girl with no-good-for-sports stick arms and beautiful penmanship to jumping freight trains, smoking cigarettes, robbing the local Ben Franklin--and, in his spare time, trying to get to heaven--Patrick Cantwell is learning all about life at Mary Queen of Our Hearts parochial school. By the time Patrick graduates second grade he's practically a grown-up, complete with a broken heart, a police record, and memories of the Beatles at Busch Stadium.

Book The Killeen

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  • Author : Mary Leland
  • Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
  • Release : 1985-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780241115886
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book The Killeen written by Mary Leland and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Short History of Modern Ireland

Download or read book A Short History of Modern Ireland written by Richard Killeen and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Short History of Modern Ireland is concise, comprehensive and original in approach. It combines a strong narrative with explanation and interpretation. Locating Ireland within a European context throughout the period, it also stresses the influence of the Anglo-American world. Written in an accessible style, it assumes no previous knowledge of Irish history. It is, therefore, the perfect introduction to the subject for visitors to Ireland, and illuminating for Irish people themselves. Book jacket.

Book Journal

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  • Author : Irish Memorials Association
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1034 pages

Download or read book Journal written by Irish Memorials Association and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Devil  Darling  Spy

Download or read book Devil Darling Spy written by Matt Killeen and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage spy. A killer disease. And the monster who would use it. Sarah is used to spying in the champagne-fuelled parties of Nazi Berlin. But now she must track a deadly virus through central Africa and unmask the mysterious White Devil before the disease can be turned into a weapon. SURVIVE. DECEIVE. RESIST. They think she is a terrified little girl. But she is a warrior set to burn them all.

Book Ireland in Brick and Stone

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  • Author : Richard Killeen
  • Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
  • Release : 2012-09-14
  • ISBN : 0717153622
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Ireland in Brick and Stone written by Richard Killeen and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland in Brick and Stone takes 50 buildings and other man-made constructions from different parts of Ireland and uses them to illustrate the history of the island over 1,500 years. All but three of the buildings are still surviving and they offer us a very personal way into history by teasing out the context in which each building was constructed, the uses to which it was put and the people associated with it. For example, Rockfleet Castle is a tower house in Co. Mayo, typical of a kind of building from the late medieval period to be found all over Ireland. It was a stronghold of the Burkes of Mayo, into which family Grace O'Malley – otherwise known as Granuaile – married in the 1540s. Ireland in Brick and Stone says very little about the castle itself but uses it as a chance to discuss the Burkes and other Norman settlers in late medieval Connacht, as well as the story of Granuaile herself. Another example from more modern times is the small Marian Shrine in the Liberties in Dublin, built for the centenary of Catholic Emancipation in 1929. It is used as a starting point to describe religious devotion and the power of the Catholic Church in twentieth-century Ireland. Other buildings in the book include Robinson & Cleaver's department store in Belfast; the English Market in Cork; Pearse's cottage in Connemara and Newtown Pery in Limerick. Liberally illustrated with evocative photographs this is a quirky and accessible take on Irish history.

Book Try to Kiss a Girl

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  • Author : Kevin Killeen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9780985808600
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Try to Kiss a Girl written by Kevin Killeen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The antics of Patrick Cantwell and his family return as they head to Grand Haven, Michigan for summer vacation. After another boy reveals the facts of life, Patrick's worldview changes and the idea of spending a week fishing and playing games with the family seems a less appealing. Patrick and his new friend decide to make a bet to see who can kiss a girl before the end of the week.

Book A Brief History of Ireland

Download or read book A Brief History of Ireland written by Richard Killeen and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries. Ireland has been shaped by many things over the centuries: geography, war, the fight for liberty. A Brief History of Ireland is the perfect introduction to this exceptional place, its people and its culture. Ireland has been home to successive groups of settlers - Celts, Vikings, Normans, Anglo-Scots, Huguenots. It has imported huge ideas, none bigger than Christianity which it then re-exported to Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. In the Tudor era it became the first colony of the developing English Empire. Its fraught and sometimes brutal relationship with England has dominated its modern history. Killeen argues that religion was decisive in all this: Ireland remained substantially Catholic, setting it at odds with the larger island culturally, religiously and politically. But its own culture and identity have stayed strong, most obviously in literature with a magnificent tradition of writing from the Book of Kells to the modern masters: Joyce, Yeats, Beckett and Heaney.

Book A Short History of the Irish Revolution  1912 to 1927

Download or read book A Short History of the Irish Revolution 1912 to 1927 written by Richard Killeen and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years of the Irish revolution were the crucible of modern Ireland. Richard Killeen's authoritative survey of the period is an ideal introduction to this tumultuous time. The Irish revolution began with the Ulster crisis of 1912 followed by the Irish Nationalist Party securing the passage of the Home Rule Act in 1914. By then, however, the Great War had broken out: the Act was suspended for the duration of the war, with the violent Ulster opposition to it still unresolved. But the war changed everything. Over thirty thousand Irish troops died. A radical nationalist minority rebelled against British rule at Easter 1916, an event that established itself as the foundation date of a new, more assertive nationalism. In 1918 Sinn Féin supplanted the old Nationalist party and formed its own assembly in Dublin. At the same time the IRA began an armed campaign against British Rule. By 1922, Britain had withdrawn from twenty-six of the thirty-two counties of Ireland which now constituted the Irish Free State. The Ulster problem had, however, never been resolved. The result was partition and the establishment of two states on the island — something unthinkable fifteen years earlier. A Short History of the Irish Revolution, 1912 to 1927: Table of Contents - Ulster Crisis - Nationalism Before 1916> - The Rising and the War - From the Rising to Partition - Partition and the Treaty - Two States

Book The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

Download or read book The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde written by Dr Jarlath Killeen and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde's two collections of children's literature, The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), have often been marginalised in critical accounts as their apparently conservative didacticism appears at odds with the characterisation of Wilde as an amoral aesthete. In this, the first full-length study of Wilde's fairy tales for children, Jarlath Killeen argues that Wilde's stories are neither uniformly conservative nor subversive, but a blend of both. Killeen contends that while they should be read in relation to a literary tradition of fairy tales that emerged in nineteenth century Europe; Irish issues heavily influenced the work. These issues were powerfully shaped by the 'folk Catholicism' Wilde encountered in the west of Ireland. By resituating the fairy tales in a complex nexus of theological, political, social, and national concerns, Killeen restores the tales to their proper place in the Wilde canon.

Book My Daughter s Wedding

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gretel Killeen
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2021-02-23
  • ISBN : 0733644899
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book My Daughter s Wedding written by Gretel Killeen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nora Fawn's daughter, Hope, disappeared four years ago. Nora has never known why. Refusing to answer her mother's calls, emails or texts, Hope maintained contact only with her big sister, Joy. Having once considered her mothering to be the greatest achievement of her life, Nora's spent these Hope-less years searching, aching, mother-guilting, working for a famous yet talentless artist and avoiding her own emotionally repressed mother, Daphne. But ... last night Hope rang out of the blue to say, 'I'm coming home, I'm getting married, the wedding is in three weeks and it's your job to organise it.' Desperate to prove her worth as a mother and regain her daughter's love, Nora commits to the task - assisted by her own increasingly dementia'd mother and her two best friends, Soula (an amateur bikini-line waxer) and Thilma (whom they found in a cab in the 1980s). My Daughter's Wedding is both hilarious and profound as it explores the confounding complexity, wild terrain, mountains, valleys and quicksand found in three generations of mother-daughter love.

Book Supreme Court

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  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1448 pages

Download or read book Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: