Download or read book The Ominous Drag written by Michael S. Abdul-Karim and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Wendy Zhu did not leave her rented room in a house she shared with four other students that fateful afternoon on 6 May 1992 she would now be successful medical specialist practicing in either Australia or China married with children and loving family and relatives. That was not Wendy Zhu' destiny that afternoon Wendy was hit by Mitsubishi van driven by Fatima Singh and dragged for four kilometers. She still had signs of life when she was brought to nearby hospital wrapped in blanket but soon after was pronounced dead. What transpired in the ensuing quest for justice is nothing short of cutting edge argument dealing with the criminal and civil aspects of offences and charges under the umbrella of the Motor Traffic Act and the question of admissibility of witness statement and expert reports. What transpired at the hearing of the case against Fatima Singh and her husband Rajah leaves you at the edge of your seat'. This is Michael Saadey Abdul-Karim fifth book. His other books are: Observation Status', Customised Down Under', The Thumbprint Will', and Unholy Prayer'.
Download or read book Dunkirk written by Sean Longden and published by Constable. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TRUE STORY OF THE 41,000 BRITISH SOLDIERS WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND AFTER THE EVACUATION OF DUNKIRK, MAY 1940 'Meticulously researched, very well written and deeply moving' Andrew Roberts 'Few readers will be unmoved by Sean Longden's account' Dominic Sandbrook At 2am on the morning of the 3rd of June 1940, General Harold Alexander searched along the quayside, holding onto his megaphone and called "Is anyone there? Is anyone there?" before turning his boat back towards England. Tradition tells us that the dramatic events of the evacuation of Dunkirk, in which 300,000 BEF servicemen escaped the Nazis, was a victory gained from the jaws of defeat. For the first time, rather than telling the tale of the 300,000 who escaped, Sean Longden reveals the story of the 40,000 men sacrificed in the rearguard battles. On the beaches and sand dunes, besides the roads and amidst the ruins lay the corpses of hundreds who had not reached the boats. Elsewhere, hospitals full of the sick and wounded who had been left behind to receive treatment from the enemy's doctors. And further afield - still fighting hard alongside their French allies - was the entire 51st Highland Division, whose war had not finished as the last boats slipped away. Also scattered across the countryside were hundreds of lost and lonely soldiers. These 'evaders' had also missed the boats and were now desperately trying to make their own way home, either by walking across France or rowing across the channel. The majority, however, were now prisoners of war who were forced to walk on the death marches all the way to the camps in Germany and Poland, where they were forgotten until 1945. 'Sean Longden is a rising name in military history, and is able to uncover the missing stories of the Second World War' Guardian
Download or read book Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church earlier for Younger Members of the English Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dragging Wyatt Earp written by Robert Rebein and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dragging Wyatt Earp essayist Robert Rebein explores what it means to grow up in, leave, and ultimately return to the iconic Western town of Dodge City, Kansas. In chapters ranging from memoir to reportage to revisionist history, Rebein contrasts his hometown’s Old West heritage with a New West reality that includes salvage yards, beefpacking plants, and bored teenagers cruising up and down Wyatt Earp Boulevard. Along the way, Rebein covers a vast expanse of place and time and revisits a number of Western myths, including those surrounding Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, the Cheyenne chief Black Kettle, George Armstrong Custer, and of course Wyatt Earp himself. Rebein rides a bronc in a rodeo, spends a day as a pen rider at a local feedlot, and attempts to “buck the tiger” at Dodge City’s new Boot Hill Casino and Resort. Funny and incisive, Dragging Wyatt Earp is an exciting new entry in what is sometimes called the nonfiction of place. It is a must- read for anyone interested in Western history, contemporary memoir, or the collision of Old and New West on the High Plains of Kansas.
Download or read book Eulalia written by Brian Jacques and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Brian Jacques gives us another tales of Redwall, filled with “The Knights of the Round Table with paws” (The Sunday Times) along with their friends and enemies. The aged Badger Lord of Salamandastron sends a young haremaid on a quest to find his successor Gorath—held captive by Vizka Longtooth and his scurrilous crew of Sea Raiders, bound for plunder and conquest.
Download or read book Family Reunion written by Carol Smith and published by Mysterious Press. This book was released on 2001-02-07 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol Smith, the acclaimed author of Friends for Life, returns with a spellbinding tale of terror and suspense as a family reunion becomes a setting for murder. Odile Annesley, the once-beloved matriarch of the Annesley clan, has been living in a self-imposed exile for 40 years following a family tragedy. But with her 80th birthday approaching, she decides it's time to contact her family and give them details about her will. Her grandchildren think this is the perfect opportunity to get to know each other better and plan a family reunion in France to celebrateGrandmere's birthday with her. As they grow closer while preparing for the big reunion, terribleaccidents begin happening throughout the extended family. And when they finally arrive at Grandmere's, they discover a house set to welcome them...and an unmarked grave. In their search to find the murderer, all of their lives are put in jeopardy-and no one can predict the family secrets that will be revealed.
Download or read book The Brahmin Girl written by John Picciano and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BRAHMIN GIRL This is a fictional story of the brutal murders of two women, spanning a forty-five-year period: Libby Browne, a 17-year-old savant, murdered in the remote forests of Maine in 1965 and Darcy Farrell, an FBI agent, shot to death in the tidewater reaches of the Chesapeake Bay in 2010. It is told in the first-person narrative voices of three individual characters: Carrabassett Police Chief Tom Bradley; then graduate Northeastern criminology student Darcy Farrell; and retired FBI agent Lyle Beckwith. While engaged in a summer intern program in Carrabassett, Maine, in 1985, Farrell breaks open and solves the twenty-year-old cold case murder of Libby Browne. Twenty-five years later, Beckwith becomes consumed with finding and avenging the 2010 murder of his then wife Darcy, focusing on a shortlist of prime suspects, all of whom are his former crime subjects, identified by the FBI's psychological profile team. Grieving and emotionally distraught, he identifies and pursues the killer on his own rogue, clandestine initiative, rejecting help from the FBI. This compelling and suspense-driven novel was honored as a finalist in the 2022 Page Turner Book Awards in London.
Download or read book Nightmare Alley written by Mark Osteen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic film noir offers more than pesky private eyes and beautiful bad girls—it explores the quest for the not-so-attainable American dream. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Desperate young lovers on the lam (They Live by Night), a cynical con man making a fortune as a mentalist (Nightmare Alley), a penniless pregnant girl mistaken for a wealthy heiress (No Man of Her Own), a wounded veteran who has forgotten his own name (Somewhere in the Night)—this gallery of film noir characters challenges the stereotypes of the wise-cracking detective and the alluring femme fatale. Despite their differences, they all have something in common: a belief in self-reinvention. Nightmare Alley is a thorough examination of how film noir disputes this notion at the heart of the American Dream. Central to many of these films, Mark Osteen argues, is the story of an individual trying, by dint of hard work or, more often, illicit enterprises, to overcome his or her origins and achieve material success. In the wake of World War II, the noir genre tested the dream of upward mobility and the ideas of individualism, liberty, equality, and free enterprise that accompany it. Employing an impressive array of theoretical perspectives (including psychoanalysis, art history, feminism, and music theory) and combining close reading with original primary source research, Nightmare Alley proves both the diversity of classic noir and its potency. This provocative and wide-ranging study revises and refreshes our understanding of noir's characters, themes, and cultural significance.
Download or read book Rama II written by Arthur C. Clarke and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1990-11-01 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a space trip that no reader will want to miss.”—Playboy Years ago, the enormous, enigmatic alien spacecraft called Rama sailed through our solar system as mind-boggling proof that life existed—or had existed—elsewhere in the universe. Now, at the dawn of the twenty-third century, another ship is discovered hurtling toward us. A crew of Earth's best and brightest minds is assembled to rendezvous with the massive vessel. They are armed with everything we know about Raman technology and culture. But nothing can prepare them for what they are about to encounter on board Rama II: cosmic secrets that are startling, sensational—and perhaps even deadly. “Offers one surprise after another.”—The New York Times “A masterpiece . . . one of the year’s best hard SF epics.”—The Houston Post
Download or read book Spooktacular Tales written by Dianne de Las Casas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a popular performer and well-known storyteller, this entertaining compendium reveals the secrets for suspenseful storytelling and features 25 spooky stories for audiences of all ages. Experienced performer and artist Dianne de Las Casas coaches students and adults in the art of telling scary stories. The book details de Las Casas's process for becoming a master storyteller and offers ways you can establish trust with audiences, provides tips for telling spooky tales, and shares methods for managing audience participation. Each of the 25 included stories is accompanied by one of various identifying icons, with selections ranging from suspenseful to comical to thrilling—foregoing those stories that contain gore or the grotesque. A brief section explains the benefits of scary stories, such as providing a safe way to exercise and develop our fear system, strengthening our coping skills by desensitizing us to unpleasant things, and building caution for actual frightening situations. Each tale is illustrated with a "scare-o-meter," an icon that rates how frightening the story is and identifies the most appropriate audiences for its telling.
Download or read book Hyperbolic Realism written by Samir Sellami and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What comes after postmodernism in literature? Hyperbolic Realism engages the contradiction that while it remains impossible to present a full picture of the world, assessing reality from a planetary perspective is now more than ever an ethical obligation for contemporary literature. The book thus examines the hyperbolic forms and features of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Roberto Bolaño's 2666 – their discursive and material abundance, excessive fictionality, close intertwining of fantastic and historical genres, narrative doubt and spiraling uncertainty – which are deployed not as an escape from, but a plunge into reality. Faced with a reality in a permanent state of exception, Pynchon and Bolaño react to the excesses and distortions of the modern age with a new poetic and aesthetic paradigm that rejects both the naive illusion of a return to the real and the self-enclosed artificiality of classical postmodern writing: hyperbolic realism.
Download or read book THE ANTHROPOLOGIST written by Micah Campbell and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Liar Zar, the world's greatest anthropologist, in her home dimension as she assists humans who have been pulled through the fabric of time and space. From would-be revolutionaries to eldritch abominations, she's seen and hugged most. Armed with her trusty baseball bat or blaster pistol, she faces fear every day and offers it comforting words. When one day the bridge across the divide is broken and leaves the humans in her world stranded with no way home, she finds that her place in the world is much smaller than she had previously believed. Together with friends and family, she finds herself thrust into an insidious plot that threatens the fragile peace of the world. Thankfully she's not alone. A tale of found family, misadventures, realized love, and daring adventures into the unknown. Warning: a science fiction leaning toward the fantastic and the weird, as well as complicated math.
Download or read book Danger at Dead Man s Pass Adventures on Trains 4 written by M. G. Leonard and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danger at Dead Man's Pass, the fourth book in the middle grade Adventures on Trains series by M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman with black-and-white illustrations from Elisa Paganelli, finds amateur sleuth Hal Beck dealing with a family curse and a possibly haunted railway line. Curses aren't real...are they? Twelve-year-old artist and budding railway detective Hal Beck is back on the case. This time, he and his Uncle Nat have been invited by Baron Essenbach to help solve a mystery...a supernatural one. Because Essenbach thinks there might be something going on with his wife's family, the Kratzensteins. They are powerful German railway tycoons who are very rich—and maybe cursed. After all, legend says that an ancestor of the Kratzensteins once made a deal with the devil. Hal and Uncle Nat agree to help going undercover to spend time with the family and investigate. As more and more weirdness happens, can Hal solve this paranormal puzzle before it's too late?
Download or read book The Ghost of Gracie Flynn written by Joanna Morrison and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gracie Flynn may be dead, but she's not gone. Three university friends are divided by a tragic death. Eighteen years later, chance reunites them. Robyn is still haunted by memories of her best friend Gracie, and Cohen's heart has never healed. Only Sam seems to have moved on and found success and happiness. But death rocks their lives again when Sam's body is found in mysterious circumstances. And the ghost of Gracie Flynn has a story to tellabout the night that changed their lives forever.The Ghost of Gracie Flynn is a crime mystery novel with a paranormal twist.
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Apocalypse written by R M Christofides and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By connecting Shakespeare's language to the stunning artwork that depicted the end of the world, this study provides not only provides a new reading of Shakespeare but illustrates how apocalyptic art continues to influence popular culture today. Drawing on extant examples of medieval imagery, Roger Christofides uses poststructuralist and psychoanalytic accounts of how language works to shed new light on our understanding of Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear. He then links Shakespeare's dependence on his audience to appreciate the allusions made to the religious paintings to the present day. For instance, popular television series like Battlestar Galactica, seminal horror movies such as An American Werewolf in London and Carrie and recent novels like Cormac McCarthy's The Road. All draw on imagery that can be traced directly back to the depictions of the Doom, an indication of the cultural power these vivid imaginings of the end of the world have in Shakespeare's day and now.
Download or read book The Naga Warriors 1 written by Akshat Gupta and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To prepare for the future, our ancestors created the Naga sadhus—a clan of warriors for the protection of Dharma, as proclaimed by Adi Guru Shankaracharya in the eighth century. This sect of Shiva devotees has stood firm, living selflessly and fighting fearlessly. For centuries, they have died the death of heroes, serving and saving Dharma and the temples. In the year 1757, 111 Naga sadhus borrowed the majestic weapons of the idols of their gods. Fueled by their belief in Lord Shiva, they gathered an invincible courage to protect the temples of Gokul. They stood as an indestructible wall, led by Ajaa, a fearless Naga warrior, against the Afghan army of 4000 men, a cavalry of 200 horses and 100 camels, and 20 cannons. The brutal Afghan army was led by Sardar Khan, the most ruthless commander of Emperor Ahmed Shah Abdali, ill-famed for the demolition of temples and building a history of genocide in Bharat. The fight continues. This is the Naga warrior’s commitment to courage and determination. This is the clash of Shiva devotees against the devils that lie under men’s skin. This is the Battle of Gokul.
Download or read book Reunion in Carmel written by Tim Comstock and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widowed Will Kempton, a former narcotics cop, flees the hard streets and rough memories of Jersey with his two young children to become police chief of the tiny tourist town of Carmel, California. His biggest headaches in Carmel are squeaky desk chairs, local blowhards, and parking tickets -- until a series of murders and frightening intrusions wrecks the idyllic scene. It slowly becomes clear to Will and his outmatched police force that they are dealing with a madman who will stop at nothing for revenge. Will and his team race to stay one step ahead of the criminal, while keeping themselves safe and putting out fires in local politics.
