Download or read book The Robber Ghost written by Karin Anckarsvard and published by Voyager Books/Libros Viajeros. This book was released on 1968-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Robber Ghost written by Karin Anckarsvärd and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Robber Ghost Translated from the Swedish by Annabelle Macmillan Illustrated by Paul Galdone written by Karin Anckarsvard and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghost Burglar written by Jack Burch and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard C. Welch was called the most prolific burglar of modern times. He eluded police up and down the East Coast for years and was finally caught only because he shot prominent heart surgeon, Dr. David Halberstam, who then hit Welch with his car as Welch fled the scene. Halberstam died and Welch was sentenced to 143 years plus life. Sent to an "escape-proof" prison in Illinois, Welch managed to trick federal officials to sending him to a facility on the Chicago River on the promise of becoming a snitch. There, he broke out with the help of an enforcer from the Aryan Nation he had hired. This book is the whole story of a Rochester, N.Y. plumber who turned thievery into a business, even to the point of keeping books and filing taxes with the IRS for a "legitimate" antiques and silver trading business.
Download or read book The Ghost in the Glass House written by Carey Wallace and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A YA novel set in a seaside New England town in the 1920s, where twelve-year-old Clare discovers a mysterious glass house and falls in love with Jack, the ghost of a boy who can't remember how he died.
Download or read book Mickelsson s Ghosts written by and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critically acclaimed final masterwork of John Gardner: an American novel haunted with macabre and cerebral elements.
Download or read book Stalin s Ghost written by Martin Cruz Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gorky Park's Detective Arkady Renko returns to his Moscow base in Smith's latest entry in the internationally bestselling series about Russian crimes, broken hearts, and the mysteries of the soul.
Download or read book Georgie and the Robbers written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgie overcomes his timidity just enough to scare some robbers.
Download or read book Ghost Thief written by Kathryn White and published by Ginn. This book was released on 2005 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pocket Chillers is part of Pocket Reads, a superb collection of quality books that really capture children's imaginations! Pocket Reads have fantastic breadth and variety of genre, with Pocket Facts, Pocket Tales and Pocket Sci-Fi making up the rest of the collection of independent readers. The fiction books are beautifully illustrated and are guaranteed to appeal to even the most reluctant of readers. The non-fiction readers are equally as stunning and will captivate and excite children with fascinating facts. The 105 pocket-sized fiction and non-fiction readers have each been carefully levelled to the National Curriculum and Book-Banded to ensure children make progression. You can therefore be assured that every reading experience is one that counts.
Download or read book Ghosts and Robbers written by Daniel Corrick and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the nineteenth century, German "Schauerliteratur" was so popular as to permanently associate that land with the Gothic and the ghostly. Translations of short pieces published in journals like The German Museum and Blackwood's Magazine started a vogue for this new kind of fiction amongst the English reading public. The present anthology, the first of its kind in a decade, collects together examples of these tales from many of the great masters of the genre, including Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué, Johann Karl August Musäus, Louisa Drachmann, and Heinrich Clauren. Featuring bandits, cursed knights, tragic spectres, witch cults, diabolical bargains and the thirsting dead, the pieces in this volume mark the point at which the Gothic novels of the eighteenth century met the psychological intensity of Romanticism in the birth of the modern horror story.
Download or read book Oscar s Ghost written by Laura Lee and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the legal and emotional battle that raged between two of Oscar Wilde's closest friends – both former lovers – following the playwright's death
Download or read book The Orchid Thief written by Susan Orlean and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean—and the reader—will have more respect for underdog determination and a powerful new definition of passion. In this new edition, coming fifteen years after its initial publication and twenty years after she first met the “orchid thief,” Orlean revisits this unforgettable world, and the route by which it was brought to the screen in the film Adaptation, in a new retrospective essay. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. Praise for The Orchid Thief “Stylishly written, whimsical yet sophisticated, quirkily detailed and full of empathy . . . The Orchid Thief shows [Orlean’s] gifts in full bloom.”—The New York Times Book Review “Fascinating . . . an engrossing journey [full] of theft, hatred, greed, jealousy, madness, and backstabbing.”—Los Angeles Times “Orlean’s snapshot-vivid, pitch-perfect prose . . . is fast becoming one of our national treasures.”—The Washington Post Book World “Orlean’s gifts [are] her ear for the self-skewing dialogue, her eye for the incongruous, convincing detail, and her Didion-like deftness in description.”—Boston Sunday Globe “A swashbuckling piece of reporting that celebrates some virtues that made America great.”—The Wall Street Journal
Download or read book Only a Ghost Knows written by Mary Elizabeth Sheffield and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy Fletcher is a skilled Psychic, but her profession hasnt been easy, since she was raised by strict, religious parents who disapproved of her talents. But troubled spirits do not stay silent, and Amys calling is one she follows with her whole heart. Responding to a frantic call from her closest friend, Amy travels across country to help solve a haunting at the Dandelion Care Home. She unwittingly finds herself being the victim of intrigue, a romance cloaked in deception, and attempted murder. After meeting the homes owner, Mrs. Dorothy Cruella Green, whose nickname was well-earned, Amy realizes that she has a hidden agenda putting everyones lives at risk. Dorothys desperation to sell her haunted home is thwarted with objects moving, music coming through the walls, and lonesome cries wailing at night. As Amy stubbornly pushes forward to put this ghost to rest, she gets unexpected help from the homes lone employee, the peculiar Jamaican caretaker, Tandi Davis. Only Tandi understands the houses past tragedies and is there to protect those who are dead and alive. Skillfully maneuvering through the spirit world, Amy slowly unravels a mystifying murder which helps her solve the mysteries surrounding the haunted home.
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women written by Marie O'Regan and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25 chilling short stories by outstanding female writers. Women have always written exceptional stories of horror and the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these, from Amelia B. Edwards's 'The Phantom Coach', published in 1864, through past luminaries such as Edith Wharton and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, to modern talents including Muriel Gray, Sarah Pinborough and Lilith Saintcrow. From tales of ghostly children to visitations by departed loved ones, and from heart-rending stories to the profoundly unsettling depiction of extreme malevolence, what each of these stories has in common is the effect of a slight chilling of the skin, a feeling of something not quite present, but nevertheless there. If anything, this showcase anthology proves that sometimes the female of the species can also be the most terrifying . . .
Download or read book Ghost Stories from the American South written by W. K. McNeil and published by august house. This book was released on 1985 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Southern legends and folk tales about haunted houses, supernatural events, and the appearances of ghosts
Download or read book The Big Book of Missouri Ghost Stories written by Troy Taylor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hauntings lurk and spirits linger in the Show Me State Reader, beware! Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Author Troy Taylor shines a light in the dark corners of Missouri and scares those spirits out of hiding in this thrilling collection. From a headless ghost who stalks the aptly named “Murder Rocks”, to a large hairy monster that roams the banks of the Missouri River, there’s no shortage of bone-chilling tales to keep you up at night. It’s even rumored that the devil himself came to St. Louis in 1949, but nobody knows for sure if he ever left. Around the campfire or tucked away on a dark and stormy night, this big book of ghost stories is a hauntingly good read.
Download or read book The Robber Bridegroom written by Eudora Welty and published by HMH. This book was released on 1978-11-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a classic fairy tale and turns it into a novel set along the eighteenth-century frontier of the Natchez Trace. In the clammy forests of Louisiana, somewhere between New Orleans and the muddy Mississippi River, the berry-stained bandit of the woods, Jamie Lockhart, saves the life of a gullible planter. In reward, Jamie is given shelter—only to kidnap the planter’s lovely young daughter, Rosamund. It’s an impulsive act that will have far-reaching consequences, and will set in motion a series of fantastic, murderous, and flamboyantly uncivilized romantic adventures. With legendary figures of Mississippi’s past—including notorious riverboatman Mike Fink and the thrill-killing Harp brothers—mingling side-by-side with characters from legendary fairy tales and the author’s own imagination, The Robber Bridegroom in an exuberant cocktail of fantasy, folklore and history along the treacherous Natchez Trace. The basis of the popular musical that has run both on and off Broadway, The Robber Bridegroom is “a modern fairy tale, where irony and humor, outright nonsense, deep wisdom and surrealistic extravaganzas becomes a poetic unity through the power of a pure exquisite style” (The New York Times). “As sly and irresistible as anything in Candide. For all her wild, rich fancy, Welty writes prose that is as disciplined as it is beautiful.” —The New Yorker
