Download or read book Night of the Jaguar written by Joe Gannon and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Joe Gannon's debut novel, Night of the Jaguar, a former Sandinista guerrilla comandante turned cop investigates a series of murders that appear to be political executions. Sandinista Police Captain Ajax Montoya is six days sober and losing his mind. How else to explain his nights waking in bed, his hand wrapped around that bloody-minded stiletto from the old days, or the presence outside his window, a face with no eyes watching him? How far the heroic have fallen. Ajax was once the gallant comandante guerrillero. A hero of the Nicaraguan revolutionaries in their long uprising against the Ogre and his hated National Guard. Back then he'd been the guy who got the bloody missions -- as a lowly grunt with that blade, or the commander of an entire front. Back then he knew what was what and who to trust. But as the clarity of war gave way to the hazy reality of peace, Ajax fared less well. And after he took the fall for an assassination he had no part of, he tumbled into a bottle, and maybe out of his mind. Now he's a homicide investigator in Managua solving murders and sweating through the nightmares from his guerilla days. When he's called to investigate a robbery turned gruesome murder, Ajax recognizes the marks of a surprising enemy - the CIA mercenary army known as The Contra. This isn't just a random murder; this is an execution, a call to war. Or is it? And why does no one want to know but Ajax? As the bodies pile up and a red-headed gringa who should be his enemy enchants his thoughts, Ajax questions whether he can stay sober, sane, and alive long enough to figure it all out.

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Download or read book Night of Sorrows A Novel written by Frances Sherwood and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Night Sorrows" plunges readers into the conflicting New Worlds of the mysterious Malintz'n, born as an Aztec princess and sold as a slave, and her dashing and ruthless lover-master, conquistador Hernn Cortz.

Download or read book Jaguar written by Anita Ganeri and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2011 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering fascinating insight into life in the rain forest, this book follows a jaguar through its day as it sleeps, eats, and moves.

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Download or read book Jaguar Fever written by Terry Spear and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 in the Heart of the Jaguar Series She's being pursued by everyone, in more ways than one. Even in an exotic world of humans, jaguars, and tantalizing creatures who shift between the two, Maya Anderson stands out from the crowd. Interest from human suitors is bad enough, but when male shifters give chase, the real trouble starts. Who's the hunter and who's the prey? Investigating the black marketing trade of exotic animals keeps Wade Patterson more than busy. When he and Maya both get entangled in a steamy jungle mission, it becomes impossible to tell who is being hunted or who the hunters are. Wade is desperate to survive this deadly game of cat and mouse. But it's Maya's piercing eyes that keep him awake at night. Heart of the Jaguar Series: Savage Hunger (Book 1) Jaguar Fever (Book 2) Jaguar Hunt (Book 3) Jaguar Pride (Book 4) Praise for Savage Hunger: "Dark, sultry, and primal romance...will leave readers breathless."—Fresh Fiction "Humor, tenderness, and pure hot loving...an awesome and exciting new world."—Long and Short Reviews, 5 stars "A sizzling page-turner, Terry Spear is wickedly talented."—Night Owl Reviews Reviewer Top Pick, 5 Stars "Spear paints a colorful, vivid portrait of the lush jungle and deadly beauty...of jaguars."—Publishers Weekly

Download or read book When We Were Ghouls written by Amy E. Wallen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Amy E. Wallen's southern, blue-collar, peripatetic family was transferred from Ely, Nevada, to Lagos, Nigeria, she had just turned seven. From Nevada to Nigeria and on to Peru, Bolivia, and Oklahoma, the family wandered the world, living in a state of constant upheaval. When We Were Ghouls follows Wallen's recollections of her family who, like ghosts, came and went and slipped through her fingers, rendering her memories unclear. Were they a family of grave robbers, as her memory of the pillaging of a pre-Incan grave site indicates? Are they, as the author's mother posits, "hideous people?" Or is Wallen's memory out of focus? In this quick-paced and riveting narrative, Wallen exorcizes these haunted memories to clarify the nature of her family and, by extension, her own character. Plumbing the slipperiness of memory and confronting what it means to be a "good" human, When We Were Ghouls links the fear of loss and mortality to childhood ideas of permanence. It is a story about family, surely, but it is also a representation of how a combination of innocence and denial can cause us to neglect our most precious earthly treasures: not just our children but the artifacts of humanity and humanity itself.

Download or read book Epistemology for the Rest of the World written by Stephen Stich and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the heyday of ordinary language philosophy, Anglophone epistemologists have devoted a great deal of attention to the English word 'know' and to English sentences used to attribute knowledge. Even today, many epistemologists, including contextualists and subject-sensitive invariantists are concerned with the truth conditions of "S knows that p," or the proposition it expresses. In all of this literature, the method of cases is used, where a situation is described in English, and then philosophers judge whether it is true that S knows that p, or whether saying "S knows that p" is false, deviant, etc. in that situation. However, English is just one of over 6000 languages spoken around the world, and is the native language of less than 6% of the world's population. When Western epistemology first emerged, in ancient Greece, English did not even exist. So why should we think that facts about the English word "know," the concept it expresses, or subtle semantic properties of "S knows that p" have important implications for epistemology? Are the properties of the English word "know" and the English sentence 'S knows that p' shared by their translations in most or all languages? If that turned out to be true, it would be a remarkable fact that cries out for an explanation. But if it turned out to be false, what are the implications for epistemology? Should epistemologists study knowledge attributions in languages other than English with the same diligence they have shown for the study of English knowledge attributions? If not, why not? In what ways do the concepts expressed by 'know' and its counterparts in different languages differ? And what should epistemologists make of all this? The papers collected here discuss these questions and related issues, and aim to contribute to this important topic and epistemology in general.

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Download or read book Jaguar and Five Rabbit written by Norris Ray Peery and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within these pages lives a story of love, of friendships, and of families, which are imbedded within a place and time, where the most diametrically opposite of human values existed and survived side-by-side, where heaven and hell daily rubbed their social elbows, and each of their elements were ever threatening the survival of their counterpart. Here is a story of people caught between the gears and wheels of their god's invisible machinery that daily drives their universe. Here is portrayed both the physical and psychological landscape of a time whose structures, writings, and beliefs have now been systematically destroyed by a new foreign master and a new foreign religion, which has a so-called "Modern Strategy" about blood sacrifice and intellectual domination. Here is the story of lovers, whose powerful desire to be forever together, is the magic that guides them through an ever-fluxing nightmare that is their reality. The story opens in the capitol city of the Aztec Empire during the night of November the 8th in the year 1516 CE.

Download or read book Sleep Well My Lady written by Kwei Quartey and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the follow-up to the acclaimed series debut The Missing American, PI Emma Djan investigates the death of a Ghanaian fashion icon and social media celebrity, Lady Araba. Hard-hitting talk show host Augustus Seeza has become a household name in Ghana, though notorious for his lavish overspending, alcoholism, and womanizing. He’s dating the imposing, beautiful Lady Araba, who leads a selfmade fashion empire. Fearing Augustus is only after her money, Araba’s religious family intervenes to break them up. A few days later, just before a major runway show, Araba is found murdered in her bed. Her driver is arrested after a hasty investigation, but Araba’s favorite aunt, Dele, suspects Augustus Seeza was the real killer. Almost a year later, Dele approaches Emma Djan, who has finally started to settle in as the only female PI at her agency. To solve Lady Araba’s murder, Emma must not only go on an undercover mission that dredges up trauma from her past, but navigate a long list of suspects with strong motives. Emma quickly discovers that they are all willing to lie for each other—and that one may still be willing to kill.

Download or read book The Legends of Now written by Frieda Livesey and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BE THE LOVE YOU ARE. FEEL YOUR INNER-FLOW AS YOU READ. a feast of soul-food for all to cherry-pick from The Legends of NOW, is a love anthology of self-empowering and inspiring writings. These stories, poems and brief essays explore the nature of existence, the power of universal love and its individuated self-direction. This is Frieda Livesey's first published work and comes after many years of writing about her relationship with the universe and the steady inner strength of all that is love-alone, beyond any and all words, as a vibration. Her passion is to share what she is learning, step by step, with all others interested in exploring their inner landscapes more deeply. She shares her experience through her business, Heart to Heart Healing. She facilitates universal life-force-healing energy work through sharing her inspired soul readings, animal and human energy field-balancing, intuitive meditation classes and inspirational workshops.

Download or read book A Very Jaguar Christmas written by Terry Spear and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're looking for a little winter heat, this steamy jaguar shifter romance by USA Today bestselling author Terry Spear has everything you need: A fierce jaguar shifter who puts everything on the line to protect her ward A fearless military man who can tear down any obstacle stupid enough to get in his way A shift of fate that brings them together for a holiday they'll never forget There are all kinds of surprises under the mistletoe, but neither of them thought being captured by the shifter would be the best Christmas present ever... As a protector of all jaguar-kind, Guardian agent Demetria MacFarlane isn't surprised to get a call near Christmas—but when she's sent to protect a cub whose species she didn't even know existed, her holiday season gets complicated. And it doesn't help that her partner is a distraction of the hottest kind. Hotshot JAG agent Everett Anderson can handle dangerous poachers and wildlife traffickers, no problem...but kids? Everett fears he'll be stuck cub-sitting under the Christmas tree, but working with one sexy Guardian she-cat may be the best present he's ever gotten.