Download or read book Under the Bridge and Back Again written by Mike Bradford and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003-12-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Winthorpe Mysteries, Part One Under the Bridge and Back Again By: Mike Bradford Set in Louisville, Kentucky, this first presentation of the Winthorpe Mysteries tells the story of the growth of a man and the forming of a family. It is a romance, but the driving forces are suspense, deception and bloody murder. The man, Davis Winthorpe, is a jaded, cynical, user of people. In the beginning of these stories he is a lonely man without any useful purpose beyond paying his bills and being his own boss. The villain describes him as a two-bit call-him-when-you-need-him errand boy. His sweetheart gives him the name of Taskmaster. In the end of the matter, Davis and Kitty Winthorpe transform into a dynamic team of creative problem solvers. They each make their own journey toward personal acceptance and individual worth. Winthorpe, through his business, is used as a stooge by a relentless property developer, one Harry M. Snapp. The hero is sent upon a wild goose chase by the villain to create a smoke screen as an alibi and cover up for murder. Harry Snapp’s wife is shot in the head, one time. At the supposed time of the shooting Snapp has Winthorpe out for a ride on the historic riverboat, The Belle of Louisville. Martha Snapp is shot as Harry and Davis go upriver, under the bridge and back again. Harry Snapp is guilty, and Winthorpe knows it. In the end, only two people know the truth. Sent to New York City on what the villain assumes is an impossible mission, Winthorpe discovers information which reveals Harry Snapp to be a liar. In the city he meets his love interest, Kitty Servideo. Together they pursue both the evil intent of Snapp and each other in what proves to be a sensual blending of lonely hearts and lust for adventure. Kitty is a dynamic vivacious schemer who brings out the best in Davis Winthorpe while constantly frustrating him with her unpredictable nature, and her own deep dark secret over promises once made to her dying mother. Humor, caprice and serendipity blend into a suspenseful unfolding of the truth about Harry. Davis and Kitty do become man and wife, and Harry is found to be guilty. Harry is guilty of murder all right, but he didn’t kill his wife. In the final chapter Winthorpe uncovers the truth. SYNOPSIS, Under the Bridge and Back Again page two Martha Snapp, Harry’s wife, is guilty too. She beat Harry at his own game. She showed him up in front of the boy’s club. Harry declares that it takes balls of brass to do the things he does. When Martha shows that a woman can beat him at the game, she is marked for murder. She committed the one sin Harry could not forgive. The story, twenty-six chapters in length, is set in Louisville, Kentucky. It explores the attraction of Louisville’s riverfront and the separate society that exists in the special part of town known as Old Louisville. Pursuit of the truth about Harry takes Kitty and Davis to Atlanta for one hot night, and to the coast of North Carolina in a capricious chase after the one witness to the crime. The Sense of place and character development is strong with the two central characters forming an attractive relationship with the reader that leaves the reader wondering what the two are going to do next. In addition, there is a subplot that begins in Under the Bridge and slowly unfolds as the stories proceed. Kitty Servideo, Mrs. Winthorpe, has a secret. The Winthorpe Mysteries are ongoing in nature. The author knows more about this man who makes his living performing tasks. Subsequent stories include The Hole in the Bottom of the Sea, While Searching for Air, Patterns in the Sand and The Mistress of Tavern Hill.

Download or read book Water Under The Bridge written by Susan Sallis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emmie Dart was nearly forty years old and servant to old Canon James when Walter asked her to marry him. He was the Canon's son, younger than she was, and a gentleman - even though a rather dilettante drifter who had really done very little with his life. But Walter had a secret in his past that he asked Emmie to share with him - and she, in turn, told him of her harsh and cruel background that made her feel unworthy to be anyone's wife. In spite of everything the marriage worked. Walter became Station Master at the lazy, sundrenched little country station of Dymock. Emmie set about rearing her three children, all so different. As Walter and Emmie watched their children grow, marry, have children of their own, so three women began to dominate the family - Dorothy, who was proud, loyal, strong, and frequently extremely angry with the James family into which she had married, Kildie, illegitimate, manipulative, and causing constant strife and drama, and Holly, the third generation, whose loving spirit often held them all together. It was more than fifty years before Walter James's secret was revealed - a secret that nearly broke the family apart.

Download or read book Gold Under the Bridge written by Marilyn Gutierrez and published by Anvil Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meredita and her family's life story represents that of the many families the author has known at Quirino Aveneu Bridge and in other places in Manila. Affected by their untiring, endless attempts to get out of poverty or deal with it to survive, the author tried to capture all these details from what Mercedita's family chose to share over the years. The interaction was based on a relationship shaped by events an NGO volunteer organized in the community, like a street library and monthly fora. This book takes the position that the poorest are first and foremost human beings, essential partners in the fight against poverty more than they are problems to be solved.

Download or read book Level 1 Under the Bridge written by Ms Lynda Edwards and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2019 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Water Under the Bridge written by The Writing Rose and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry, from multiple times, about too much and too little.

Download or read book Waters Under the Bridge written by Isobelle and David 'Khyber' Close and published by BookPOD. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Close’s English mother Isobelle Harwood never knew her mother, who died from TB just after childbirth and his Irish father Jack Close never knew his father, who was jailed for bigamy. To the Irish, ‘close’ means ‘near-enough’ while Jack always was, legally speaking, a bastard. These sociological factors shaped their working-class family struggles before, during and after World War Two in England and reappear as ‘family karma’ down the generations of this now-scattered clan. His mother’s childhood memories of orphanage life in the 1920s were followed by years of domestic servitude in the houses of her rich or unscrupulous ‘betters’ until she trained as a nurse during the war. She calls this story ‘Finding Myself’, which is part 1 of this book. Isobelle saw a photograph of and became pen-pals with an Irish nurses’ brother called Jack, a sailor on Atlantic convoy duties who she married on Victory in Europe Day in May 1945. David was born in June the following year. The second section ‘Knowing Myself’ reveals their married life until Isobelle’s battle with life-threatening TB when she was thirty years old in 1953. On recovery, her doctors claimed that if she lived in a dry climate and had no more children she would have a life-expectancy of ten more years. However, she produced two more offspring and managed to ride for an hour on a camel in China at the age of seventy-six. Part 3 contains David’s childhood memories of England, Ireland and in 1961 the first ten years of family life in Oz. Some of his father Jack’s wartime exploits and then his untimely death in 1982 lead the reader into the last section titled Release Retrospectives containing his mother’s mature reflections on grief, life and the all and everything, as well as her Back to Britain and Silk Road Diaries. Her son David’s lifelong troubled relationship with his father is explored in his other autobiographical works, but his two chapters titled ‘Close encounters of the personal secret kind’ and ‘Conflicts and growth amidst grief’ explore three of the Close family’s personal experiences of communications from beyond the grave – pointing towards reincarnation being cosmic reality central to any ‘Divine Plan’ and the healing answer to why we are here…

Download or read book Shots on the Bridge written by Ronnie Greene and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harrowing story of blue on black violence, of black lives that seemingly did not matter. On September 4, 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in New Orleans, two groups of people intersected on the Danziger Bridge, a low-rising expanse over the Industrial Canal. One was the police who had stayed behind as Katrina roared near, desperate to maintain control as their city spun into chaos. The other was the residents forced to stay behind with them during the storm and, on that fateful Sunday, searching for the basics of survival: food, medicine, security. They collided that morning in a frenzy of gunfire. When the shooting stopped, a gentle forty-year-old man with the mind of a child lay slumped on the ground, seven bullet wounds in his back, his white shirt turned red. A seventeen-year-old was riddled with gunfire from his heel to his head. A mother’s arm was blown off; her daughter’s stomach gouged by a bullet. Her husband’s head was pierced by shrapnel. Her nephew was shot in the neck, jaw, stomach, and hand. Like all the other victims, he was black—and unarmed. Before the blood had dried on the pavement, the shooters, each a member of the New Orleans Police Department, and their supervisors hatched a cover-up. They planted a gun, invented witnesses, and charged two of their victims with attempted murder. At the NOPD, they were hailed as heroes. Shots on the Bridge explores one of the most dramatic cases of police violence seen in our country in the last decade—the massacre of innocent people, carried out by members of the NOPD, in the brutal, disorderly days following Hurricane Katrina. It reveals the fear that gripped the police of a city slid into anarchy, the circumstances that drove desperate survivors to the bridge, and the horror that erupted when the police opened fire. It carefully unearths the cover-up that nearly buried the truth. And finally, it traces the legal maze that, a decade later, leaves the victims and their loved ones still searching for justice. This is the story of how the people meant to protect and serve citizens can do violence, hide their tracks, and work the legal system as the nation awaits justice. Named one of the top books of 2015 by NewsOne Now, and named one of the best books of August 2015 by Apple Winner of the 2015 Investigative Reporters and Editors Book Award

Download or read book Cases in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York 1847 1848 written by New York (State). Court of Appeals and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Death Under the Bridge written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingrid Torfa lives between two worlds. In her life on the shore of Lake Superior she mingles with fishermen and farmers, quiet folk who keep to themselves. But her other life on a hilltop overlooking the lake she lives among the descendants of Vikings.On top of all that, she trains day and night to master magic, to one day take her grandmother's place maintaining the spells that hide the Viking village from modern eyes.But life as a witch requires more than casting spells. As resident peacemaker and unofficial impartial judge, her grandmother arbitrates disputes. The residents of both worlds hold her in high regard.Then a long simmering property dispute between two farming families comes to full boil: a murder. Now Ingrid must find the real culprit before the feuding families decide to mete out their own justice.Her grandmother needs her. But what if she fails?

Download or read book A Soldier for Napoleon written by Franz Joseph Hausmann and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fills a very noticeable gap in the history of the Napoleonic Wars by providing a good description of what it was like to be a member of the Royal Bavarian Army.HistoryNetThe letters and diaries of Lieutenant Franz Joseph Hausmann are here placed in the context of the military events of the period by renowned historian John Gill. They stem from Hausmanns first campaign in 1805 in the war against Austria, followed by the 1806 and 1807 campaigns in Prussia and Poland. In 1809 he was in action against the Tyrolean insurrection and he also fought at Abensberg and Zniam. He was only twenty-three when he embarked on the ill-fated 1812 invasion of Russia and served as part of the Bavarian corps that was shattered in this cataclysmic campaign. He survived to describe the 1813 campaign and the 1814 campaign in France when the Bavarians switched sides and fought against Napoleon.With additional commentary by John Gill on the Bavarian Army and its campaigns and battles, this book is an important, authoritative addition to the works on the Napoleonic Wars.

Download or read book Under the Bridge written by Michael B. Harmon and published by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wearing a police wire, a skateboarding street boy from Spokane confronts the drug dealer who threatens to kill his brother.

Download or read book Sleeping Under the Bridge written by Melissa Baker and published by Atmosphere Press. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the passer-by, Mel seemed like an ordinary teenager growing up in a middle-class suburban family in Sydney, Australia; but to those who wanted to get to know her, they could see she was hiding from the truth. Mel had encountered more than most had experienced in a lifetime before she had reached 17. She yearned for freedom, yet what prevailed were threats, abuse and being trapped in an underworld of shame. With all her might, she tried not to give in to the loneliness that stalked her and the fear that plagued her, whilst sleeping under the bridge. Can she reveal her secrets before it's too late? This gripping brave true story speaks into adults from all walks of life from children that have gone through sexual, physical and emotional abuse and how that affected their internal rhythm. Nothing could hold Mel together other than her determination to search for the true meaning of life itself.

Download or read book THE LIGHT AT THE BRIDGE written by Rhonda Diane Pietrowski and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenny had lived with her grandmother since she was seven and her parents had died of the fever. She spent fi fteen years in the country helping her Granny with chores. She was now twenty-two and her grandmother seventy-two. Granny had often told Jenny she wanted her to be married and secure when she left her, but the crop of young men around had not appealed to Jenny. Although Jenny often had doubts about her, she loved her grandmother. But there was also something different about her. Jenny’s Granny had an uncanny way of knowing things before they happened. One morning, Granny insisted that Jenny bring a basket to their new neighbor, Jordan Foster. On the way there, she encounters an accident at the bridge when she hears someone scream. Jordan fi nds her knocked unconscious and when he calls for help, she disappears. A mysterious force in Jordan’s house attempts to help him fi nd her and as he recues her, begins a series of events that would unravel a complex web of past incidents that revolve around The Light At The Bridge

Download or read book Water Under the Bridge written by P. J. Heyman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is part one of the autobiography of Pamela Jean Heyman, a Kentish girl who grew up in the period before, during and after the Second World War and went on to migrate to Nigeria in search of interest and excitement. It covers the period from her birth in 1931 to the eve of her departure for Africa in 1956. Most of the story is set in and around Throwley, Ashford and Maidstone in the 1930s and 40s. The author, Jean, was born on her maternal Grandparents farm. Her Father left soon after the birth of her little brother. He remarried, and Jeans Mother moved to Maidstone where she took up a career in hairdressing, leaving Jean and her brother in the care of Grandma and Grandad and Auntie Kalla. In the tale that unfolds the old couple and their second daughter represents fortitude and loving stability, whereas Jeans Mother, on her frequent visits, represents glamour, laughter and colour. By the end of the 1930s Jeans Grandparents had to give up the farm due to ill health. Jean and her Brother went to live with their Mother and her new Husband and their half-Sister, Maureen. This period coincides with the outbreak of war and the beginning of its privations. The Authors life story serves as an evocative account of how country people lived in those days and how (not withstanding the trials and tribulations brought about by her Mothers third marriage), during and after the war she worked hard to improve her secretarial skills which enabled her to eventually obtain a position in the Federal Government of Nigeria in Lagos. Part two will recount this period.

Download or read book 2 Under the Bridge written by James Richard Langston and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whatever Touches Your Life 1983 By James Richard Langston Listen . . . hear the cricket, In the softness of the night, Stand quietly by a meadow, See the birds taking flight. Hear the whisper of a breeze, Blowing through trees of pine, Let whatever touches your life, Be in tune to touching mine. Touch the velvet of a rose, On an early summer’s day, Smell the sweet aroma, Of a field of new mown hay. Throw caution to the wild wind, Play it loose just one time, Let whatever touches your life, Be in tune to touching mine. Blink your eyes at the sun, As it sets behind the hill, Skip a rock across the pond, By the old rustic mill. Cheer your team on to victory, As it comes from behind. Let whatever touches your life, Be in tune to touching mine. Taste a frosty snowflake, As it falls upon your tongue, See a mother hen fret, As she hovers o’er her young. Stay in tune with mother nature, Give her reason, give her rhyme, Let whatever touches your life, Be in tune to touching mine.

Download or read book There and Back Again written by Pete Burleigh and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAGGIE: In 2019 we gave up the constraints of a frequently frantic existence to live and travel in a campervan for a year; to be in the flow of life; trusting the great mystery of the universe to guide us. We got far more than we expected. The truth is that the truth is stranger than fiction. PETE: On our adventures we encountered sea turtles on a remote island; a mystical prophet woman in an Aborigine rainforest; were bitten by a rare spider; visited most of the Lord of the Rings film locations with uncanny ramifications; collected Maori tea; encountered mysterious Broch energies, and many more weird and wonderful experiences This is: HISstory and HERstory Sit back and come with us on an adventure.

Download or read book Under the Bridge and Over the Moon written by Kevin Ireland and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prize-winning memoir, lovingly evoking New Zealand and the coming of age of a much-loved poet. Kevin Ireland leads the reader out the back, through the mangroves, under the bridge and over the moon in this delightful memoir. We meet the characters - for characters they are - who preceded him, give birth to him, laugh with him, fight over him, love and desert him. We explore with him the landscape of his childhood in Takapuna and Cambridge, we are his intrepid companions on fishing expeditions, we share his outrage at the indignities of the education system, and we linger with him over the books that finally become his life. Winner of the history and biography section of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.