Download or read book Through the Leopard s Gaze written by Njambi McGrath and published by Twenty in 2020. This book was released on 2020 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze, Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten to a pulp and left for dead. Thirteen-year-old Njambi, fearing her assailant would return to finish her, courageously escaped, walking through the night in the Kenyan countryside, risking wild animals, robbers and murderers, before being picked up by two shabbily dressed but safe men. She buries the memories of that fateful day and night, and years later ends up in London with a British husband and children. Then one day a simple unassuming wedding invitation arrives in her mailbox causing her to have to confront the remnants of a past she had thought was behind her. This is a book about survival, and courage when all else fails. It's a searingly honest examination of human cruelty and strength in equal measure.

Download or read book Murder is a Piece of Cake written by Valerie Burns and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed author Valerie Burns returns to her fresh, new culinary cozy series set in a charming small-town and featuring Madison Montgomery, a social media expert turned bakery owner and sleuth. This light, fast-paced mystery will appeal to fans of Joanne Fluke, Laura Childs, Ellery Adams, and Ellie Alexander. With small town New Bison’s Spring Festival just around the corner, the pressure is on Maddy to continue her late great-aunt Octavia’s legacy. That means scoring the top prize and transforming Baby Cakes into Southwest Michigan’s must-visit bakery, even though her inexperience in the kitchen brings nightmares of humiliating tagged photos and scathing reviews. There’s another reason for lost beauty sleep. A second bakery is opening in town under the ownership of CJ Davenport, a shrewd investor with a reputation for sabotaging anyone who gets in his way. And savvy, flashy Maddy tops his list. It’s a sticky spot to be in—more so when Davenport turns up dead with a Baby Cakes’s knife stuck in his back. Maddy’s whole life just went from #thriving to barely surviving. Now, supported by the crafty Baker Street Irregulars and her new boyfriend, she must find the courage to face off against a killer who could very well get her name trending for the first and last time . . . Praise for Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder “Snappy dialogue, a well-drawn supporting cast and an irresistible canine companion all add delicious flavor. Gulp this book down or savor it, but consuming it will guarantee a sustained sugar high.” —New York Times Book Review

Download or read book A Land Without Jasmine written by Wajdi Al-Ahdal and published by Garnet Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2013 Said Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. A Land without Jasmine is a sexy, satirical detective story about the sudden disappearance of a young female student from Yemen's Sanaa University. Each chapter is narrated by a different character, beginning with Jasmine herself. The mystery surrounding her disappearance comes into clearer focus with each self-serving and idiosyncratic account provided by an acquaintance, family member, or detective. The hallucinatory ending, although appropriately foreshadowed, may come as a Sufi surprise for the reader. Less mystically inclined readers may want to reread this tale to construct an alternative ending. This short novel has echoes of both the Sherlock Holmes stories and The Catcher in the Rye as, in addition to the mystery and a murder, the novel contains candid discussions of coming of age in a land of sexual repression. Wajdi al-Ahdal is a satirical author with a fresh and provocative voice and an excellent eye for the telling details of his world.

Download or read book Crooked Cats written by Nayanika Mathur and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big cats—tigers, leopards, and lions—that make prey of humans are commonly known as “man-eaters.” Anthropologist Nayanika Mathur reconceptualizes them as cats that have gone off the straight path to become “crooked.” Building upon fifteen years of research in India, this groundbreaking work moves beyond both colonial and conservationist accounts to place crooked cats at the center of the question of how we are to comprehend a planet in crisis. There are many theories on why and how a big cat comes to prey on humans, with the ecological collapse emerging as a central explanatory factor. Yet, uncertainty over the precise cause of crookedness persists. Crooked Cats explores in vivid detail the many lived complexities that arise from this absence of certain knowledge to offer startling new insights into both the governance of nonhuman animals and their intimate entanglements with humans. Through creative ethnographic storytelling, Crooked Cats illuminates the Anthropocene in three critical ways: as method, as a way of reframing human-nonhuman relations on the planet, and as a political tool indicating the urgency of academic engagement. Weaving together “beastly tales” spun from encounters with big cats, Mathur deepens our understanding of the causes, consequences, and conceptualization of the climate crisis.

Download or read book Fellowship of the Snow Leopards written by Joy O'Dwyer and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can conquer your fears and slay your dragons! Children are as much the hope for the future of humanity as this earth is the center of our existence. A belief in magic is the glue that keeps it all together. The Planet Shilough and their higher level beings, fairies and elves, have been watching our planet as environmental destruction, cynicism, and consumerism plague our world. Michaela thirteen-year-old Vancouverite who lives in fear of bullies and pain from the tragic loss of his fatheremerges as an unlikely hero. He is filled with wonderment as he explores Shilough and is schooled in higher laws. Plagued with insecurities, he begins to realize that the most powerful force in the universe is love. He learns of the sacred and eternal nature of all beings. He comes to understand that on a planet with no incongruity, the vibratory levels are so high, that anything is possible. The ways that Michael overcomes obstacles bent on his destructionfrom a schoolyard bully on earth to a nine-headed serpent on Shiloughteach us powerful lessons. As Pancras, Chancellor to the Faerie Queen, explains to Michael, as he struggles with acceptance of his divine destiny, The greatest battle that you will ever face is the one within your own mind. Conquer the dragons within, and you will never fear any dragons without. In this other world expos, could some of the methods that Michael uses to overcome his fears apply to us? Could we harness other energy sources that cause less environmental destruction? Could music play such a pivotal role in aligning our planet? What lessons do we learn from the Cronusans? What about life after death? How can we heal our planet?

Download or read book Leopard s Fury written by Christine Feehan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ruthless criminal unleashes his most feral desires in this Leopard novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. With her own bakery in San Antonio, Evangeline Tregre made a new life far from the brutal lair of shifters she was born into. Though she is all too aware of her leopard-shifter blood, she never felt the sensation of a wild animal stirring inside her. Not until Alonzo Massi walked into her bakery. The powerful shifter is as irresistible as he is terrifying, but his icy demeanor tells her to keep her distance. Alonzo knows better than to let himself get involved with someone like Evangeline. She doesn’t deserve the type of danger that follows him, or the threat of his Amur leopard. But even with his lean muscle and iron will, Alonzo isn’t strong enough to stay away from the one woman who can make him feel at peace. And when their secret lives draw a mortal threat, Alonzo unleashes the feral passion he keeps pent up inside himself.

Download or read book Spotting His Leopard A paranormal shifter romance written by Georgette St. Clair and published by Georgette St. Clair. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolf shifter Tyler Witlocke, who’s taking a most unusual vacation, just slapped a copper collar and a pair of handcuffs on his fated mate – right after meeting her. Unfortunately, it’s not for fun and games – Gwenneth is a ruthless criminal who’s left a trail of bodies behind her, and he’s got no choice but to take her in. However, everything is not as it appears on the Fertility Island. Is Tyler’s fated mate a vicious killer, or is she a pawn in a dark, far reaching conspiracy? Their answers lie in the temple of a fertility goddess, deep in a lush, tropical jungle. But after a lifetime on the run, can Gwenneth trust Tyler enough to let him past her defenses before it’s too late? Keywords: Paranormal Romance, Shifter Romance, Wolf Shifter Romance, Witch, Steamy, Pack, Romance series, Strong heroine, Claiming, Kidnap, Jealous, Sexy, Alpha, Alpha shifter, Alpha female, Enemies-to-lovers, New York, Sheriff, Honky Tonk, Workplace, Paranormal Suspense, Paranormal Shifter Suspense, -- Other readers of Georgette St. Clair enjoyed books by: Milly Taiden, Sam Crescent, Lee Savino, Jasmine Mas , Reece Barden, Heather G. Harris, Alicia Montgomery, Linsey Hall, Kim Richardson, Sara Snow

Download or read book The Hunt written by Sofia Foskaris and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranu and his father must face a terrible truth, learning that Ranu’s mother has died in an attempt to feed her family. Only later do they realize that the mysterious events that have been occurring may not be a coincidence… Ranu had a pleasant life for some time, until his mother, Leia, died. Ever since, he has had a phobia. Water. As things seem to get worse, Ranu can’t stop feeling that something or someone is watching his every move… Tran thought everything was well until that one fateful night, when everything went wrong. Since then, he’s been lost on how to raise his cub, knowing the bond with his own son is breaking. Overwhelmed and confused, he feels as if he should’ve taken Leia’s place, but when he finds someone else...can he ever let go of the past to be happy again? Terra always believed in hope and destiny. Even as everything she cared about started to be taken over by unwanted power, she always thought things would get better. When she has trekked some way from her original home to start over...is this what she really wanted, to escape, but to leave everyone behind within the danger? As these three leopards learn to face their fears and find strength within themselves, everything might not be as it seems. Someone is watching, waiting, for the perfect moment to pounce. Ranu and Terra know a dangerous secret, and must be careful on what they do...in order to not be the ones...hunted.

Download or read book The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards written by Kristopher Jansma and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award Honorable Mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award "F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson" (The Village Voice) in this inventive and witty debut about a young man’s quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe—from the author of Why We Came to the City As early as he can remember, the narrator of this remarkable novel has wanted to become a writer. From the jazz clubs of Manhattan to the villages of Sri Lanka, Kristopher Jansma’s hopelessly unreliable—yet hopelessly earnest—narrator will be haunted by the success of his greatest friend and literary rival, the brilliant Julian McGann, and endlessly enamored with Evelyn, the green-eyed girl who got away. A profound exploration of the nature of truth and storytelling, this delightful picaresque tale heralds Jansma as a bold, new American voice.

Download or read book Wild Rain written by Christine Feehan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-01-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan explores the dark past of a woman on the run—and her dark desire for the only man she dares to trust—in this wild novel in the Leopard series. With a new identity, a staged death, and a chance to flee the treachery that stalks her, Rachel has escaped from a faceless assassin. Now, thousands of miles from home, under the lush canopy of the rainforest, she’s found sanctuary. But in this world teeming with unusual creatures walks the most exotic of them all. His name is Rio. A native of the forest imbued with a fierce prowess, he is something to be desired. Possessed of secrets of his own, he is something to be feared. As Rachel’s past looms as oppressively as the heat of the forest and Rio unleashes the secret animal instincts that course through his blood, Rachel fears that her isolated haven has become an inescapable hell...

Download or read book Leopard s Prey written by Christine Feehan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan takes readers to the sultry streets of New Orleans in this Leopard novel—where the nights have never felt so torrid or so dangerous… From a tough stint in the armed forces to stalking the unknown as a bayou cop, leopard shifter Remy Boudreaux has been served well by his uncanny gifts. And right now, New Orleans could use a homicide detective like Remy. A serial killer is loose, snatching victims from the French Quarter with pitiless rage and unnatural efficiency. But something else is drawing Remy into the twilight—a beautiful jazz singer bathed night after night in a flood of bloodred neon. Sultry, mysterious and as seductive as her songs, she’s luring Remy deeper into the shadows than he ever imagined. And as their passions swell, his keen instinct for survival will be challenged like never before. By a killer—and by a woman.

Download or read book The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia written by GlaireD. Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the aristocratic villas and court culture of C?ba, during its 'golden age' under the reign of the Umayyad dynasty (r. 756-1031 AD), this study illuminates a key facet of the secular architecture of the court and its relationship to the well-known Umayyad luxury arts. Based on textual and archaeological evidence, it offers a detailed analysis of the estates' architecture and gardens within a synthetic socio-historical framework. Author Glaire Anderson focuses closely on the C?ban case study, synthesizing the archaeological evidence for the villas that has been unearthed from the 1980s up to 2009, with extant works of Andalusi art and architecture, as well as evidence from the Arabic texts. While the author brings her expertise on medieval Islamic architecture, art, and urbanism to the topic, the book contributes to wider art historical discourse as well: it is also a synthetic project that incorporates material and insights from experts in other fields (agricultural, economic, and social and political history). In this way, it offers a fuller picture of the topic and its relevance to Andalusi architecture and art, and to broader issues of architecture and social history in the caliphal lands and the Mediterranean. An important contribution of the book is that it illuminates the social history of the C?ban villas, drawing on the medieval Arabic texts to explain patterns of patronage among the court elite. An overarching theme of the book is that the C?ban estates fit within the larger historical constellation of Mediterranean villas and villa cultures, in contrast to long-standing art historical discourse that holds villas did not exist in the medieval period.

Download or read book Popular Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1925-09 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Download or read book Eve In the Beginning written by H.B. Moore and published by Mirror Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-11-22 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today bestselling author H. B. Moore, comes . . . EVE: IN THE BEGINNING The first love story on earth . . . Haunting . . . Lyrical . . . Unforgettable . . . In a world where everything is perfect, yet the same day after day, Eve must decide if she wants to live forever in the garden with Adam and never know what lies beyond the walls. When she makes a choice with terrible consequences, the pain of mortality is swift. As she and Adam explore their new world, and her body changes, Eve discovers the sweetness of first love with the man who has always been at her side.

Download or read book The Trouble with Death and Demon Gods written by Kat Simons and published by T&D Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trouble’s Last Stand… Magical Protector Cary Redmond has not been enjoying her test year. Discovering she absorbs magic, figuring out how to release that magic, and dealing with enemies from her past regularly complicates her life. Her seventh year has been overflowing with Trouble. And way too many demons and vampires. Now, with only two months left to go, Cary must face her greatest enemy again. Not to stop him. But to protect him. Family squabbles suck. And when they involve demons, chances of realm destruction are high. Cary will need all the help she can get in this epic stand against the forces of evil. Because if she can’t stop the demons this time… Her world will burn. keywords: Urban fantasy romance; contemporary fantasy; urban fantasy; paranormal romance; dark fantasy; horror fantasy; series paranormal romance; shapeshifter romance; witches and wizards; werewolves and shifters; vampire paranormal; demons and devils; series urban fantasy; paranormal shifters; magic and mayhem

Download or read book In Search of El Dorado written by Harry Collingwood and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Harry Collingwood's 'In Search of El Dorado' takes readers on a thrilling adventure as they journey alongside the characters in pursuit of the legendary city of gold. Collingwood's storytelling prowess shines as he crafts a tale of exploration, danger, and discovery. With vivid descriptions of exotic landscapes and heart-pounding escapades, the narrative immerses readers in the quest for the fabled El Dorado."

Download or read book Cleopatra Confesses written by Carolyn Meyer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Cleopatra, the third (and favorite) daughter of King Ptolemy XII, comes of age in ancient Egypt, accumulating power and discovering love.