Download or read book Whispers from an Empty Coffin written by Kathleen Belfiore Schuman and published by Trafford. This book was released on 2005 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A testament to American veterans past and present, and what began as a simple family tree project, evolved this true-life tale of an 'ordinary' man's extraordinary life.
Download or read book Prisoners of War written by Bob Moore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War between the European Axis powers and the Allies saw more than twenty million soldiers taken as prisoners of war. While this total is inflated by the unconditional surrender of all German forces in Europe on 8 May 1945, it nonetheless highlights the fact that captivity was one of the most common experiences for all those in uniform - even more common than frontline service. Despite this, and the huge literature on so many aspects of the war, prisoner of war histories have remained a separate and sometimes isolated element in the wider national chronicles of the conflict constructed in the post war era. Prisoners of every nationality had their own narratives of military service and captivity. While it is impossible to encompass their collective histories, let alone the individual experiences of all twenty million prisoners in a single volume, Bob Moore uses a series of case studies to highlight the key elements involved and to introduce, analyse, and refine some of the major debates that have arisen in the existing historiography. The study is divided into three broad sections: captivity in Eastern and Western Europe during the war itself, comparative studies of specific categories of prisoners, and the repatriation and reintegration of prisoners after the war.
Download or read book EMPTY GRAVES written by TG REAPER and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of T.G. Reaper's best work. Ranging from apparitions to Zombies!
Download or read book The Fountains of Silence written by Ruta Sepetys and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping, extraordinary portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship. Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming promise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid with his parents hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth through the lens of his camera. Photography--and fate--introduce him to Ana, whose family's interweaving obstacles reveal the lingering grasp of the Spanish Civil War--as well as chilling definitions of fortune and fear. Daniel's photographs leave him with uncomfortable questions amidst shadows of danger. He is backed into a corner of difficult decisions to protect those he loves. Lives and hearts collide, revealing an incredibly dark side to the sunny Spanish city. Master storyteller Ruta Sepetys once again shines light into one of history's darkest corners in this epic, heart-wrenching novel about identity, unforgettable love, repercussions of war, and the hidden violence of silence--inspired by the true postwar struggles of Spain. Includes vintage media reports, oral history commentary, photos, and more. Praise for The Fountains of Silence "Spain under Francisco Franco is as dystopian a setting as Margaret Atwood’s Gilead in Ruta Sepetys’s suspenseful, romantic and timely new work of historical fiction . . . Like [Shakespeare's family romances], 'The Fountains of Silence' speaks truth to power, persuading future rulers to avoid repeating the crimes of the past." --The New York Times Book Review “Full of twists and revelations…an excellent story, and timely, too.” --The Wall Street Journal "A staggering tale of love, loss, and national shame." --Entertainment Weekly * "[Sepetys] tells a moving story made even more powerful by its placement in a lesser-known historical moment. Captivating, deft, and illuminating historical fiction." --Booklist, *STARRED REVIEW* * "This gripping, often haunting historical novel offers a memorable portrait of fascist Spain." --Publishers Weekly, *STARRED REVIEW* * "This richly woven historical fiction . . . will keep young adults as well as adults interested from the first page to the last." --SLC, *STARRED REVIEW* * "Riveting . . . An exemplary work of historical fiction." --The Horn Book, *STARRED REVIEW*
Download or read book The Eight Shades of the Netherworld written by Al Ghalibie and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Bible, the number (8) has a special meaning for God, as He chose the 8th day to mark the beginning of the new week. Everything that has a new beginning in the Bible has the number (8) associated with it. Number (8) is the personal number of Jesus. When we add together the (letter values) of the name Jesus in Greek, we get 888. Jesus was called The Christ, the (numerical value) of this title is 1480 (185 x 8). He was Saviour which has the value of 1408 (2 x 8 x 88). Messiah has a (numerical value) of 656 (82 x8). Jesus also called himself the Son of man. The term occurs 88 times and is valued at 2960 (370 x 8). Jesus said, "I am the truth": the (numerical value) of "the truth" is 64 (8 x 8). The last book in the Bible is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which has exactly 888 Greek words.
Download or read book The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion written by Margaret Killjoy and published by Tor.com. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy pits utopian anarchists against rogue demon deer in this dropkick-in-the-mouth punk fantasy that Alan Moore calls "scary and energetic." Searching for clues about her best friend’s mysterious suicide, Danielle ventures to the squatter, utopian town of Freedom, Iowa, and witnesses a protector spirit — in the form of a blood-red, three-antlered deer — begin to turn on its summoners. She and her new friends have to act fast if they’re going to save the town — or get out alive. “Intelligent and fiercely imagined.” —Alan Moore “A dark story of the human need for power.” —Eileen Gunn “Daring anti-fantasy.”— Nick Mamatas “A unique bite of punk culture.” — Delilah S. Dawson “Important, thought-provoking...thrilling ride.” —Lewis Shiner “Always vivid.”—Tobias Buckell “As relatable as it is harrowing.” —Leanna Renee Hieber “Utterly engrossing...it refuses to let you go.” —Mur Lafferty At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Stray Son written by Richard Slota and published by Rainbowdash Publishers LLC. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stray Son sets the supernatural solidly amidst the bizarrely mundane life of Patrick Jaworsky, Vietnam vet, married with two children, whose current job is picking up bodies for a mortuary. And when a young but familiar looking Marine keeps crossing his path, nothing is normal again, and, we find, as in real life, it never really was. Patrick and his family are swept back and forth in time in a gorgeous 1937 Packard on their way to two funerals, his grandmother's in 1942, and his father's in 2000. Haunted by an array of surprisingly tender and horrifying ghosts, Patrick meets not only the brutal family he's been estranged from for 30 years, but his past. And beyond. In a startling unraveling of memories and revelations, he comes to terms with his scarring past, and has a cascading domino effect on those around him. This gutsy, lyrical, sad, hilarious journey into the past and present--and what often passes for love--is an emotional, metaphysical roller coaster. Through Patrick's eyes, we look long and hard, if tenderly, into our own hall of mirrors. And at the things we were taught never to talk about. A hell of a story and an amazing first novel!
Download or read book You May Now Kill the Bride written by Kate Weston and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bride-to-be drops dead at her bachelorette weekend, with all of her bridesmaids as suspects for her murder, in this wry thriller full of deadly twists and characters you’ll love to hate. “I laughed, I gasped, and said ‘I do’ to this chilling romp sparkling with humor, Prosecco, and murder.”—Julia Seales, bestselling author of A Most Agreeable Murder Who will be left standing when the bouquet is thrown? Lauren, Saskia, Dominica, Farah, and Tansy have been best friends since grade school. They wonder if that was the last time they all actually liked each other. As adults, their lives have splintered. Tansy runs a vegan café and is preparing for a shotgun marriage to awful Ivan. Farah is engaged and is fast becoming a complete bridezilla. Dominica is a successful divorce attorney with no time for anything but work. Lauren has had a total “failure to launch” in her career and love life, consumed by a man who has spent years stringing her along. Saskia has married into wealth and a different circle of friends in a fancy part of London. Some days it seems that the only thing holding the group together is an event that happened in their youth twenty years ago—an incident they’ve all sworn to keep secret in order to protect one another. When the group is reunited at Tansy’s bachelorette-cum-wellness-retreat weekend, it doesn’t take long for old grudges to surface. Then the bride-to-be chokes to death on a poisoned drink, and all of the bridesmaids are suspects. Kate Weston explores the complexities of female friendship in this searingly funny, page-turning thriller. One of these bridesmaids may be a killer, and the group had better watch their sash-covered backs, because your oldest friends aren’t always your closest. . . .
Download or read book Frostbite written by David Wellington and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Cheyenne Clark, there's a bad moon on the rise . . . There's one sound a woman doesn't want to hear when she's lost and alone in the Arctic wilderness: a howl. When a strange wolf's teeth slash Cheyenne's ankle to the bone, her old life ends, and she becomes the very monster that has haunted her nightmares for years. Worse, the only one who can understand what Chey has become is the man–or wolf–who's doomed her to this fate. He also wants to chop her head off with an axe. Yet as the line between human and beast blurs, so too does the distinction between hunter and hunted . . . for Chey is more than just the victim she appears to be. But once she's within killing range, she may find that–even for a werewolf–it's not always easy to go for the jugular.
Download or read book The Donnellys written by James Reaney and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-05-12 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the true story of an Irish family with seven sons and one daughter immigrating to Biddulph Township near London, Ontario, in 1844, The Donnellys tells the tale of mystery and truths stranger than fiction. It is the story of a secret society and a massacre that shocked the Canadian public, a story overlooked by the artistic community until Reaney's play elevated the events to the level of legend. First published in 1975, this script takes its place among other true Canadian classics on university and college course listings and in the hearts of drama lovers everywhere. The Donnellys is a trilogy comprised of Sticks & Stones, St. Nicholas Hotel and Handcuffs, three tense and mythic tragedies that garnered critical praise at the 1973 Tarragon Theatre opening and continue to acquire accolades from professors, actors and artistic directors across the country. As with the drama of Yeats, Eliot, O'Neill, Brecht and Beckett, this rendering of a generation of Irish settlers and their brutal murder at the hands of more than thirty vigilante killers is controversial and exciting to this day. Foreword, Afterword and Chronology by James Noonan.
Download or read book The Donnellys written by James Reaney and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1983 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story, these three plays explore the saga of a secret society and massacre that stunned the Canadian public in 1880.
Download or read book Cult Telefantasy Series written by Sue Short and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Prisoner in the 1960s to the more recent Heroes and Lost, a group of television series with strong elements of fantasy have achieved cult status. Focusing on eight such series, this work analyzes their respective innovations and influences. Assessing the strategies used to promote "cult" appeal, it also appraises increased opportunities for interaction between series creators and fans and evaluates how television fantasy has utilized transmedia storytelling. Notable changes within broadcasting are discussed to explain how challenging long-form dramas have emerged, and why telefantasy has transcended niche status to enjoy significant prominence and popularity.
Download or read book Hidden Truth written by Morgan James and published by Morgan James. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josephine To say we despise each other is an understatement. John's hatred of my family runs deep, and our past is a tangled web laced with deceit and betrayal. I came to Pine Ridge for a fresh start, but when the discovery of a hidden key draws the attention of a stranger with a dark secret, John might be the only person who can keep me safe… John I've never forgotten Josephine—and I sure as hell haven't forgiven what happened all those years ago. But when the past catches up with us, we find ourselves ensnared in a decades-old quest for vengeance—and this time, we may not make it out alive. Don't miss the rest of the books in the Retribution Series! Unrequited Love (Jack and Mia #1) Undeniable Love (Jack and Mia #2) Unbreakable Love (Jack and Mia #3) Pretty Little Lies (Eric and Jules #1) Beautiful Deception (Eric and Jules #2) Hidden Truth (John and Josephine) Sinful Illusions (Fox and Eva #1) Sinful Sacrament (Fox and Eva #2)
Download or read book Forgotten Souls written by T. G. Arsenault and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burial processions are depressing, tearful events. Sadder still, when people make their last visits to a cemetery on the same day they bury acquaintances, friends, and even loved ones. With a simple toss of dirt, a final goodbye muttered into the wind, and moral obligations complete, most will never return. The dead are left to their solitude, their misery … neglected and forgotten. Beneath sacred grounds, cemeteries fight to keep these forgotten souls within their crumbling gates, to protect them against the sinister forces that consistently pull from the molten pits of another world. But their hold is weakening.
Andrea has long conversed with the dead, and has waited for the one who would help her on a most important quest to release these forgotten souls. She finds her partner in Darren, a recently graduated young man who is desperately searching for his calling. Together, the two set out on a journey to accomplish a seemingly insurmountable task, unaware of the horrible danger they are both in. If they should fail, humanity will pay the ultimate price on account of its negligence.
Download or read book Retribution Series Box Set 3 written by Morgan James and published by Morgan James. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scorching set contains books 6 & 7 of the Retribution Series: Sinful Illusions Eva will do anything to avenge her sister’s death—even if it means taking on the person responsible. But she gets far more than she bargains for when she breaks into the notorious criminal’s compound… Sinful Sacrament When Eva is kidnapped, Fox will do anything to bring her back safely. Each lead brings him closer to the truth—and a shocking betrayal no one ever expected. This bundle is perfect for readers who love alpha heroes, smart and sassy heroines, broody antiheroes, opposites attract, enemies to lovers, second chance, age gap, interracial romance and forbidden love with a dash of suspense, plenty of steam, and deeply protective heroes.
Download or read book Sinful Illusions Retribution Series 7 written by Morgan James and published by Morgan James. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't miss the first book in Fox and Eva's story, an interracial, age-gap romantic suspense from USA Today bestselling author of steamy romance Morgan James. Eva Revenge. It's been the only thing driving me for the past six months since my sister was murdered—and he's the one responsible. I want to break Fox the way he broke my family. To get what I want, I'll need to get close to him and win his trust. Although he stirs a dark need inside me that I never knew existed, my attraction to him is a distraction I can't afford. I'll give him my body… but he can never have my heart. Fox The first time I set eyes on Eva, I'm entranced. When the brazen young woman breaks into my home, I take it as a sign—she's meant to be mine. She's hell-bent on revenge, but the more I'm with her, the more I want to keep her. I'm the devil… and she's my fallen angel. Fox and Eva's story is perfect for readers who love dominant alpha heroes, smart and sassy heroines, enemies to lovers, age gap, opposites attract, captive romance, mafia romance, forbidden love with a dash of suspense, plenty of steam, and a swoon-worthy anti-hero. *Sinful Illusions is the sixth book in the Retribution Series. It ends on a cliffhanger and contains situations that may be uncomfortable for some readers. Eva and Fox's story concludes in Sinful Sacrament. Don't miss the rest of the books in the Retribution Series! Unrequited Love (Jack and Mia #1) Undeniable Love Jack and Mia #2) Unbreakable Love (Jack and Mia #3) Pretty Little Lies (Eric and Jules #1) Beautiful Deception (Eric and Jules #2) Sinful Illusions (Fox and Eva #1) Sinful Sacrament (Fox and Eva #2)
Download or read book Whisper in the Wind written by Venita Coelho and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'All the stories in the world are whispered in the wind. Listen! And the wind will blow one into your head.' These words, whispered by a madman, haunt Jamshed Fali Irani. The young heir to a business empire in Bombay, he is in Goa to try and pursue his dream of being a writer. Locked away in a crumbling, decrepit mansion, struggling to write as the monsoon rains down, the wind brings to him the cries of a little girl wandering the ruins nearby. Alice is trying to find her sister, Sara, who went missing years ago. Jamshed makes a reluctant promise to help her and finds himself drawn into a story that is darker and more intriguing than any he could have imagined. With his new friend, Tania, to whom he is increasingly drawn, Jamshed attempts to unravel the mystery behind Sara's disappearance. Jamshed's search leads him into a tangled tale of loyalty and deceit, at the heart of which lies murder. He has to find his way through a bewildering maze of contradictions as he tries to thread together answers to a mystery that involves a girl with the voice of an angel, a violin that plays the sorrows of the heart, and the bond between two friends who swear that not even death will do them part. In this vividly written Gothic novel, alive with the sights and smells of pre-Independence Goa, Venita Coelho tells a captivating, suspenseful, sweeping tale like no other.
