Download or read book The Secret of the Coconut Groves written by G. H. Teed and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctor Huxton Rymer is always looking for the easy money. In this story he arrives in Cochin, India with Mary Trent after their small ship flounders in an adventure. Here he finds a 'Coconut Pearl' and this gives him a new idea. But as so frequently happens, the master detective, Sexton Blake and assistant, Tinker arrive at the same location to assist with a copra business. Suspense and thrills follow the heroes and villain in exotic India.
Download or read book Coconut Grove written by Deepika Shetty and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food as the essence of sustenance for human beings has evolved over civilizations. Today each country has its distinct cuisine and within countries, there are diverse culinary delicacies that are steeped in history. India with its vast cultural vicissitudes has many specific food habits, some of which have been handed down generations, giving each state their unique identity. Karnataka is indeed a cultural potpourri of people who have inherited various culinary practices through civilizations and many of the delicacies have ingrained recipes based on the local availability of various ingredients. Spices are also another salient feature of Indian cooking practices and no state or region is an exception to the use of spices local and general in throwing up mouth-watering dishes with distinct local flavours In this book the author shares her recipes she grew up on, with little personal anecdotes woven into it, and explains how entwined our lives are with food. It is coastal cuisine with distinct flavours that are part of Mangaluruean cuisine. They are simplified for you to embrace it, making it a part of your dinner table wherever you come from, whatever your heritage.
Download or read book The Secret Weapon of Africa written by Yao Foli Modey and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was in the middle of the harmattan season, and the weather was hot and humid. The scorching rays of the sun had sucked the moisture out of every plant in the land and had turned the green leaves into dark yellow in color. Many of the leaves had fallen to the ground and had begun to decompose into dark loamy soil--rich, fertile land, innocent and untouched. And that was the way it was in ancient times. That was the way it was until the Oburoni slave traders arrived on the continent and changed everything, imposing their greed and guns on the inhabitants. The dry, humid air left many people panting for breath and sweating profusely. The women complained bitterly, the children suppressed their discomfort, but the men simply ignored the weather because they had bigger problems on their minds. They'd been thinking about the death and the devastation that the Oburoni intruders, these uninvited aliens, had unleashed on the land.
Download or read book The Cryptogram written by William Murray Graydon and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cryptogram - A Story of Northwest Canada. Also known as "Our Lady of the Snows." This novel is a stirring romance of North-West Canada, published first in 1897. It tells the tale of a Hudson's Bay employee who becomes impossibly confused in romance and espionage in early Canada.
Download or read book The Secret Place written by Shelilah Peters and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This romantic story is about Leah and Nick, who meet on a beach in Hawaii when Nick is eleven and Leah is eight. Leah is a descendent of Hawaiian royalty and a dead shipping business. Nick comes from a long line of doctors, and his parents expect him to become a trauma surgeon. Every summer, Nick returns to his summer home with his parents and spends the summers with Leah, surfing, hiking, fishing, and frolicking on the beach. They are young, innocent, and carefree. They meet at their special spot they call the Secret Place, dreaming of the future, sharing their deepest thoughts and aspirations. As the years pass, they form a close relationship that will challenge their love for each other. At eighteen, Nick leaves for medical school, and Leah pursues her career in art. On the fortieth anniversary of his parents, Nick returns to his summer home, having completed medical school. He and Leah reconnect after five years and fall deeply in love. But as fate would have it, circumstances stop them from being together, and they go their separate ways. Nick is conflicted with his pursuit of becoming a doctor and his love for Leah. Leah is caught in a predicament she cannot run from. Find out how they reach each other again and reconnect despite the twists and turns of life.
Download or read book The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham written by Selina Hastings and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham’s own true story has never been fully told. At last, the fascinating truth is revealed in a landmark biography by the award-winning writer Selina Hastings. Granted unprecedented access to Maugham’s personal correspondence and to newly uncovered interviews with his only child, Hastings portrays the secret loves, betrayals, integrity, and passion that inspired Maugham to create such classics as The Razor’s Edge and Of Human Bondage. Hastings vividly presents Maugham’s lonely childhood spent with unloving relatives after the death of his parents, a trauma that resulted in shyness, a stammer, and for the rest of his life an urgent need for physical tenderness. Here, too, are his adult triumphs on the stage and page, works that allowed him a glittering social life in which he befriended and sometimes fell out with such luminaries as Dorothy Parker, Charlie Chaplin, D. H. Lawrence, and Winston Churchill. The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham portrays in full for the first time Maugham’s disastrous marriage to Syrie Wellcome, a manipulative society woman of dubious morality who trapped Maugham with a pregnancy and an attempted suicide. Hastings also explores Maugham’s many affairs with men, including his great love, Gerald Haxton, an alcoholic charmer and a cad. Maugham’s courageous work in secret intelligence during two world wars is described in fascinating detail—experiences that provided the inspiration for the groundbreaking Ashenden stories. From the West End to Broadway, from China to the South Pacific, Maugham’s restless and remarkably productive life is thrillingly recounted as Hastings uncovers the real stories behind such classics as “Rain,” The Painted Veil, Cakes & Ale, and other well-known tales. An epic biography of a hugely talented and hugely conflicted man, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham is the definitive account of Maugham’s extraordinary life.
Download or read book The Secret Heiress written by Judith Gould and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her “signature mix of glamour, wealth, and intrigue” (Booklist), this is New York Times bestselling author Judith Gould at her irresistible best—as unknown forces conspire against a woman summoned into the shadows of a deadly masquerade... Nikki and Ariadne are identical twins with only their beauty in common—separated at birth by the schemes of a tyrannical father, and reared continents apart. It was Nikki who came of age in the glittering shadow of the mad tycoon, and is heiress to his empire. As cold and sharp as a cut diamond, she’s accustomed to the good things in life. Raised in obscurity, Ariadne is generous, brilliant, naïve, and unaware of her bloodline. Until a persuasive team of strangers offers Ariadne an opportunity as intimidating as it is irresistible—the chance to reclaim her share of the family empire. Little does she realize but she’s about to be plunged into deadly game of deception orchestrated by a privileged few—and that she will find protection in the arms of a bodyguard who shows her a passion like no other. Here, in this new world of luxury and glamour, the kisses of a stranger can’t be trusted, and the truth that hides in the shadows may be her undoing.
Download or read book The Mystery of the Banana Plantation written by G. H. Teed and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A down and out, Dr. Huxton Rymer is captured during a burglary; fortunately his captor is looking for an accomplice in another venture he has going on. Rymer welcomes an opportunity and they partner up, with a swindle sale of an island Banana Plantation in Costa Rica. Britisher, David Greig, visiting New York, buys the plantation only to be told that his title is void as he arrives at the island. Greig narrowly escapes death when he goes to claim the island. He travels to London to contract Sexton Blake to resolve the issue and the problem of duplicate ownership.
Download or read book The Pontin Secret written by Sushila Fonseca and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teetering on the verge of a huge debt trap, Tina must act fast and sagaciously to not be destroyed by it. With their distinct personalities and unexpected demands, her family further burdens her. How does she survive? What does she do? Will she be compelled to leave Pontin Mansion? The past catches up with the present as Tina plans for the future. Mystery and romance collaborate to entertain the reader.
Download or read book Enlightenment Is the Secret to Fly written by Devinder Sharma and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each one of us is confronted with the same question at sometime or the other, "Who am I"? There is no one person within struggling with a monkey on their shoulders. Either we tame this monkey and experience true happiness, joy and enlightenment or surrender which take us on the road to disillusionment, surrender to the meandering mind and a wasted life. Search for one's soul is a difficult road but there is light at the end. The path whether religious, humanistic, mystic or scholarly or work centered releases energy within and creates opportunity to break out of our shackles. Sincere effort is rewarded with direction, provoked by unfathomable forces. As one traverses the path of self discovery milestones have no meaning, but what matters is to find wings to fly. Enlightenment is the Secret to Fly, wrestles with "Who am I"? The novel a fictional story takes the reader on a tour of beliefs, thoughts, customs and sensibilities of Indian spiritual and religious thought and explores concepts of happiness, joy and enlightenment. The protagonist is a middle aged company executive who wants to opt out from the rat race and his efforts brings him to a sadhu who has achieved enlightenment at a young age and the novel follows the life of this sadhu from childhood, schooling, his tragedies, training in a hermitage and his eventual enlightenment, his leaving the hermitage and his travels. As he travels in the Himalayas he encounters people from many parts of the world seeking peace, happiness, tranquility and a meaning in their sufferings and life. Life outside his hermitage is very different and he is saddened with the injustice, insensitivity and the unhappy lives of people. He seeks a different enlightenment and believes that institutions including hermitages where he spent many years, temples, organized religion or governments unable to provide the means for peace and happiness in spite of the many organized entities intruding in peoples lives individual unhappiness and disillusionment were increasing. Since what men seek lie within hence solutions to ones discontent is personal. He finds a simple solution at the end of his travels that will end mans misery and brings joy back in their lives.
Download or read book Hotel Scarface written by Roben Farzad and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wild, true story of the Mutiny, the hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami’s cocaine cowboys heyday—and an inspiration for the blockbuster film, Scarface... In the seventies, coke hit Miami with the full force of a hurricane, and no place attracted dealers and dopers like Coconut Grove’s Mutiny at Sailboat Bay. Hollywood royalty, rock stars, and models flocked to the hotel’s club to order bottle after bottle of Dom and to snort lines alongside narcos, hit men, and gunrunners, all while marathon orgies burned upstairs in elaborate fantasy suites. Amid the boatloads of powder and cash reigned the new kings of Miami: three waves of Cuban immigrants vying to dominate the trafficking of one of the most lucrative commodities ever known to man. But as the kilos—and bodies—began to pile up, the Mutiny became target number one for law enforcement. Based on exclusive interviews and never-before-seen documents, Hotel Scarface is a portrait of a city high on excess and greed, an extraordinary work of investigative journalism offering an unprecedented view of the rise and fall of cocaine—and the Mutiny—in Miami.
Download or read book Songs in the Shade of the Cashew and Coconut Trees written by Nathalie Soussana and published by Secret Mountain. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songs about children playing in the schoolyard, sisters braiding each other's hair at the beach, and parents dancing late into the night mesh together thanks to the music. A wide array of styles--nursery rhymes from Gabon, lullabies from Cape Verde, and rumbas from the Congo--are performed in more than a dozen languages. Luminous artwork and homegrown instruments round off this wonderful celebration of history, language, and culture. Lyrics appear in their original language and in English, along with notes on culture, a world map, and a code for song downloads and print-outs.
Download or read book The Case of the Stricken Outpost written by G. H. Teed and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jinn written by Matthew B. J. Delaney and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is May 1943. On the remote island of Bougainville, in the South Pacific, a squad of United States Marines beats their way through the thick jungle. They've landed to do battle with the Japanese soldiers on the island, but in short order, they begin to realize that the forbidding battleground holds an ancient secret a hundred times more terrifying than any enemy army---especially when they start finding the bodies. Flash-forward to July 2008. In the slums---and the skyscrapers---of Boston, a new kind of depraved serial killer is stalking human prey and terrifying the city. The bodies have been found posed and mutilated in bizarre ways that the two police officers in charge of the case have never seen before---and never want to see again. Are the two scenarios connected? Detectives Jefferson and Brogan have no idea that to solve the biggest case of their careers, their investigation must take them around the world and through time and history---from a mysterious salvaged submarine with a shocking secret, to an inhumane prison where the inmates are even more scared than usual of "the Pit," and finally back to the beginning: the sinister island in the South Seas where something inhuman has been biding its time. Matthew B.J. Delaney's Jinn won the 2003 International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel.
Download or read book The Mitcham Murder Mystery written by G. H. Teed and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Malone, private detective is hired by the three Crabbe bothers who believe they will be charged with the murder of their uncle. The case is almost open-and-shut against the youngest, a reckless lad. One complication is that there appeared to be no exit available to the killer. In any case, there are forces which don't want Malone to be on this mystery. His life is in peril.
Download or read book Bootleg Island written by G. H. Teed and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Britisher followed his words with a swift blow when New York's gang chieftain tried to take his girl. From his pocket the gangster fired, and that was the incident that brought Sexton Blake to the bootleggers' headquarters, Rum Row, the region of dark intrigue, perilous excitement. And there he met also, Mademoiselle Roxane." Sexton Blake meets Mademoiselle Roxane in Canada!
Download or read book The Lumber Looters written by G. H. Teed and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story such as this is one to set your blood tingling. The clean, pure air of the frozen Canadian timber-lands, brisk and stirring action, and a plot embodying villainy versus daring detective work- that is the gist of it. Moreover, the author writes about a land he knows and loves. Not only does he take Sexton Blake there, but he takes you there, in spirit, too.
