Download or read book Whatever Happened to Frankie King written by Jay Neugeboren and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024-11-26 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankie King was a precocious student and a promising basketball player at Brooklyn’s James Madison High School in the early 1950s. Sportswriters were comparing Frankie to the greatest college and professional players of all time, and he was recruited as a starting guard at the University of North Carolina. But Frankie dropped out before playing a single game. This graphic novel follows King’s enigmatic life from its auspicious start in the limelight to his very reclusive existence in New York City, where he authored more than forty novels, including a popular series of cozy cat mysteries written under a woman’s pseudonym. Whatever Happened to Frankie King is the story of a unique and sometimes troubled life as well as a meditation on dreams realized, lost, and abandoned.

Download or read book Jingle Bell Rock written by Tamie Dearen and published by Tamie Dearen. This book was released on with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's only one problem with my upcoming royal wedding. . . I didn't choose the groom! MARKI I'm a secret princess on the run. You'd be running, too, if your uncle was going to make you marry Carlisle the Argyle. I need a fake husband fast! Except I have my head stuck on a shrub. (Long story...) And wouldn't you know it -- the person who answers the door and finds me in this predicament isn't the granny matchmaker I was expecting. It's a man! I can't tell what he looks like, because of the whole head-stuck-on-a-shrub thing, but he sounds super hot. I'm hoping for a miracle so he never sees my face... like maybe a tornado or an earthquake or a zombie attack. But I'm not that lucky... the story of my life! DRAKE I only kissed her to keep her safe from her abusive ex. It didn't mean anything. (Lie #1) And it barely affected me. (Lie #2) And I'm not the least bit attracted to her, because she's all wrong for me. (Lie #3) Now my head is so messed up I'm willing to fly around the world and make a fool of myself to get her attention. (That's a solid truth!) Jingle Bell Rock is a sweet royal romcom with a fake relationship and lots of very real laughter! Grab your copy of this fun, sweet romantic comedy from USA Today bestselling author Tamie Dearen.

Download or read book A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock written by Lydia Adamson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting jobs and cat-sitting assignments have been elusive for Alice Nestleton lately . . . but there's plenty of sleuthing work to be done. A prominent theater director has requested her help for his pet charity: Sustenance House. It seems an anonymous benefactor has vanished (along with his much-needed holiday donation), and Alice must find out what's going on before the homeless shelter has to close its doors to the poor forever. But when a board member shoots himself during a meeting -- and a murderous Scrooge tries to keep Alice out of the picture -- things get messy.

Download or read book Sleuths in Skirts written by Frances A. DellaCava and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Cat Dog Lover s Soul written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul spoke directly to the hearts of all readers whose lives have ever been changed by the love of a pet. Now the coauthors bring readers this volume, honoring the unique and enduring love that people share with their cats and dogs.

Download or read book Mystery Women Volume Three Revised written by Colleen Barnett and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.

Download or read book Jingle Bell Rock written by Lori Foster and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just in time for Christmas come six tempting tales of romance--by Lori Foster, Donna Kauffman, Susan Donovan, Janelle Denison, Alison Kent, and Nancy Warren--filled with nice men, who are equally just as naughty and who manage to make the season so bright that it is downright hot. Reprint.

Download or read book Sequels written by Janet G. Husband and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Download or read book A Cat of One s Own written by Lydia Adamson and published by Signet. This book was released on 2000-01-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice helps her friend Amanda adopt an unusual looking cat and assists her with the basics of cat ownership. But within days, the cat is nabbed and his owner is stabbed to death with an ice pick trying to rescue it. Alice finds herself sniffing out Amanda's secret past before she's caught up in a lethal game of cat and mouse.

Download or read book Wolf at the Door written by Ann Campbell and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brand new mystery series introduces reluctant pet-owner Annie O'Hara and her ill-tempered canine Claudius. Fate has thrown them together, but before they can adjust to one another, a mutilated dead body is discovered -- and Claudius is the number one suspect...

Download or read book Shock and Paw written by Cate Conte and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth installment in a charming cozy mystery series set on an island off the New England coast and featuring the cat cafe owner Maddie and her cat JJ. Beware the cats of Christmas past... It’s the holiday season on Daybreak Island, and Maddie James is looking forward to stepping out of the limelight, watching the island’s Christmas decoration competition from afar, spending time with her boyfriend and family, running tours for visitors as part of the festivities and spreading holiday cheer through cute cats in jingle bell collars. But trouble hits close to home when word gets out that Donna Carey, the publisher of the island’s only daily newspaper where Maddie’s best friend Becky is editor, may be selling the business. Becky is a diehard journalist and to her, selling the only newspaper on the island is a fate worse than death. She publicly opposes the potential sale, wreaking havoc on her relationship with her big boss. Maddie is sympathetic, but she has her own problems - like getting pulled into a role on the Christmas event committee despite her best efforts to stay far removed, and solving the case of a mysterious cat breeder trying to sell expensive designer cats as holiday gifts on the island. But then Donna winds up dead—electrocuted by her own Christmas decorations—and it appears to be more than an accident. To make matters worse, Becky becomes suspect number one. Maddie is thrown into another murder investigation in order to save her best friend from a Christmas behind bars.

Download or read book The Shining Horrific Volume II written by A.A. Garrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author A.A. Garrison continues to showcase his "darkly radiant" brand of horror, by venturing back into the macabre terrain traveled in the original 'Shining Horrific.' Volume II expands upon its predecessor with several stories of a hybrid bent - sci-fi, a dark Western, classic zombie romps, and the bizarre-grotesque - as well as delivering more of the original collection's pure-horror fare.There are nineteen tales in all, comprising a novel-length read. With a careful mix of involving novelettes and just-long-enough shorts, there's something for everybody.Now, once again come explore that twilight country of the shining horrific ...

Download or read book Flunky written by Steve Vivian and published by Bitingduck Press LLC. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had a great time reading Flunky ...a good, ribald academic comedy. OCoTony Award winner Mark Medoff, author of Children of a Lessor God and The Homage Money is oil to dignity's water. So muses John Deyme, the eager bumbler of FLUNKY . Fully ambitious and fully talentless, John is determined to impress West Central College president Don Boyle, a savvy practitioner of rough-and-tumble, Chicago-style patronage and politics. As associate dean, John greases the skids for the mercurial Boyle's schemes. John becomes an academic bag man, buying off Boyle's enemies and manipulating faculty union elections. John's willingness to roll in the dirt of realpolitik impresses his superiors, and soon he is assigned dicier tasks, such as destroying public housing to pave the way for West Central's campus expansion. Along the way, John has comic clashes with faculty union zealots, with Jo Ann Staulen, the college's grim PC Dean, and with his drinking pal and fellow flunky Bruce Herrig. John's personal life is also an ever messier tangle: he loves and quickly loses Lydia Fairview, a fellow administrator slyly on the make; he has an affair with Lauren, a neurotic car saleswoman; and he tramples the one purely good thing in his lifeOCofriendship with the Kwangs, his Korean immigrant neighborsOCoby becoming more than neighborly with Kim Kwang, a high school senior. Boson Books also offers A Self-Made Monster, and Prelude to Hemlock by Steve Vivian. For an author bio and photo, reviews and a reading sample, visit bosonbooks.com."

Download or read book Rock Obituaries Knocking On Heaven s Door written by Nick Talevski and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascination with tragedy and the subsequent theatre of voyeurism are part of human nature, especially when it involves our icons, celebrities and musicians. Knocking On Heaven's Door is the definitive book of rock 'n' roll, pop, R&B and blues deaths. Often, only the biggest selling artists are written about and sometimes it is the death of a personality that cements their iconic status. Knocking On Heaven's Door not only covers the rock legends who lived hard and died young, this detailed reference contains over 1,000 obituaries of music industry personalities, famous and obscure from mid-fifties to the present day. Alphabetical entries of all the important individuals, including: noteworthy producers, managers, songwriters, record company founders A&R men and even critics, puts all the information at your finger tips. Nick Talevski has spent a decade researching this comprehensive and authoritative reference book and it will be an indispensable and practical addition to every music library, full of irresistible and intriguing information.

Download or read book Memory in Death written by J. D. Robb and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb presents a memorable tale of suspense set in 2059 New York City, as Lieutenant Eve Dallas walks a tightrope between her professional duties and her private demons. Eve Dallas is one tough cop. It should take more than a seemingly ordinary middle-aged lady to make her fall apart. But when that lady is Trudy Lombard, all bets are off. Just seeing Trudy at the station plunges Eve back to the days when she was a vulnerable, traumatized young girl—and trapped in foster care with the twisted woman who now sits smiling in front of her. Trudy claims she came all the way to New York just to see how Eve is doing. But Eve’s fiercely protective husband, Roarke, suspects otherwise—and a blackmail attempt by Trudy proves his suspicion correct. Eve and Roarke just want the woman out of their lives. But someone else wants her dead. And when her murder comes to pass, Eve and Roarke will follow a circuitous and dangerous path to find out who turned the victimizer into a victim.

Download or read book J D Robb IN DEATH COLLECTION books 21 25 written by J. D. Robb and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 2459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection including books 21-25 in J. D. Robb's #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series, the incomparable Eve Dallas—a hard-shelled homicide detective whose logical mind, fierce heart, and brilliant police work in a futuristic New York City have attracted millions of fans—takes on five unforgetable cases... ORIGIN IN DEATH MEMORY IN DEATH BORN IN DEATH INNOCENT IN DEATH CREATION IN DEATH

Download or read book Irish Songs Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Chord Songbook). Here are the basics you'll need to play 45 Irish favorites, including: Danny Boy * The Foggy Dew * Girl I Left Behind Me * Harrigan * I'll Tell Me Ma * The Irish Rover * MacNamara's Band * Molly Malone (Cockles & Mussels) * My Wild Irish Rose * The Rose of Tralee * Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby) * When Irish Eyes Are Smiling * and more!