Download or read book Ice Cold written by Tess Gerritsen and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stranded with her traveling companions in an eerily deserted Wyoming village during a blizzard, Maura discovers that they are being watched and pursues help when a party member is injured, an effort that turns nightmarish when she is abducted into the woods.
Download or read book Ice Blue written by Anne Stuart and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the thrilling Ice Series across the pacific with Ice Blue by of RITA Award-winner Anne Stuart Museum curator Summer Hawthorne considered the exquisite ice-blue ceramic bowl given to her by her beloved Japanese nanny a treasure of sentimental value—until somebody tried to kill her for it. The priceless relic is about to ignite a global power struggle that must be stopped at all costs. It's a desperate situation, and international operative Takashi O'Brien has received his directive: everybody is expendable. Everybody. Especially the woman who is getting dangerously under his skin as the lethal game crosses the Pacific to the remote and beautiful mountains of Japan, where the truth can be as seductive as it is deadly…. Previously published.
Download or read book Poems Through Time written by Time and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems Through Time is a collection of poems written from the perspective of the personification of Time. The poems in Poems Through Time reflect the relationship of Time within the Universe and attempt to paint a vivid picture of the human relationship with Time and the Universe.
Download or read book The Ultimate Decision written by Saumya Sharman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did five girls cross the road? Did you say `to get to the other side'? I am afraid that is not the answer. The answer is: `to escape from monsters and demented human beings'. This is a story of a magical and dangerous adventure of five daring friends on a big mission --to save an enchanted world and its people, and at the same time, retrieve an important family heirloom. With very little foresight, no adult supervision, and danger at every corner, how far can they go? Will they eventually end up giving up? Is it even worth trying? Read The Ultimate Decision to find out.
Download or read book The Heroes written by Charles Kingsley and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heroes, or, Greek Fairy Tales for my Children, is an 1889 book by Charles Kingsley. A collection of 15 tales including, How Perseus and his Mother came to Seriphos; How Perseus vowed a rash Vow; How Perseus slew the Gorgon; How Perseus came to the Æthiops, How Perseus came home again, How the Centaur trained the Heroes on Pelion; How Jason lost his Sandal in Anauros; How they built the ship ‘Argo’ in Iolcos; How the Argonauts sailed to Colchis; How the Argonauts were driven into the Unknown Sea; What was the end of the Heroes; How Theseus lifted the Stone; How Theseus slew the Devourers of Men; How Theseus slew the Minotaur; and, How Theseus fell by his Pride.
Download or read book Firearm Blueing and Browning written by R. H. Angier and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-02-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timeless information in an easy-to-use format with a new foreword added. Popular and little-known methods explained. Includes useful weights and measures charts.
Download or read book Blue Ice written by Alex Bernasconi and published by . This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue Ice is the new book from photographer Alex Bernasconi whose unique approach to wildlife photography has been honoured with multiple prestigious awards. Bernasconi's breathtaking panoramas reveal the spectacular beauty of the Antarctic landscape shaped by its extreme climate, while his wildlife portraits depict the surprising diversity of Species, highly adapted to the challenging conditions in which they live. A foreword by the British glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell, Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, explains the dynamics of the geography and ice masses, and the effects of climate change, while Dr Peter Clarkson draws on his personal experiences as a member of the British Antarctic Survey in his introduction, which also recounts the challenges of working and living in one of the harshest environments on Earth. Blue Ice provides a remarkable Visual record of an eco-system at risk, revealing the extraordinary, unexpected beauty of the Antarctic, the most remote and endangered place on Earth. AUTHOR: Alex Bernasconi is an award-winning nature, wildlife and landscape photographer. Born in 1968 in Milan, he has carved out a multi-faceted career as outdoorsman, sportsman, adventurer and traveller, his camera always with him to take up-close photographs of wildlife and its environment. His iconic images have appeared in magazines and books worldwide and he has won many prizes at prestigious international awards.
Download or read book Ice Cold Blue True Blue Mysteries written by Susan Page Davis and published by Christian Series Level III (24). This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An author's erratic behavior spurs questions from her niece, and then things turn deadly.
Download or read book Predatory Game written by Christine Feehan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world of #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan’s GhostWalker series, there are men and women who are invisible to their enemies, yet unprotected from the passions that could be their downfall.... Saber Winter is running from her past when she meets Jess Calhoun, an ex-Navy SEAL, physically and emotionally compromised by his own mysterious and violent history as a Ghostwalker. What Jess senses in Saber is a kindred spirit, a lost soul desperate for sanctuary. He offers her a home, a job, and a haven where she can safely reveal the secrets that shadow her. But danger follows her, too. Now, the riddles of both their pasts are about to collide, shattering the promise of their future with the ultimate betrayal.
Download or read book An Ice Cold Grave written by Charlaine Harris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heading for Doraville, North Carolina, to investigate the disappearance of a young boy, Harper Connelly and her brother Tolliver are stunned to discover that he is one of several teens who had vanished over the previous five years, but when she uses her talent to communicate with the dead to find the missing boy, she discovers that her knowledge has placed her in the sights of a killer. 175,000 first printing.
Download or read book The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Ecology for Kids written by Liz Lee Heinecke and published by Kitchen Pantry Scientist. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kitchen Pantry Scientist: Ecology for Kids features biographies of 25 leading ecologists, past and present, accompanied by accessible and engaging experiments and activities to bring the history and principles of ecology alive.
Download or read book Nine Lives written by Patrick Quinlan and published by Strawberry Books. This book was released on 2022-04-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Patrick Quinlan: “A shocking, violent read, jam-packed with action and a cast of incredible characters” -- Independent Weekly (Australia) “A superb debut. A great crime novel. Brilliant is the word” -- Independent on Sunday * * * Susan Jones is dead, and yet alive. Susan is a former robotics scientist for Suncoast Cybernetics, who was murdered by the company. Her awareness is inside Number Nine, the incredible ninth generation prototype of Suncoast’s immensely successful Sexbot line of robotic companions - which Susan herself invented. Number Nine is on the run with Mr. Blue, the corporate assassin who killed Susan Jones. After a blood-soaked confrontation with militarized Suncoast security forces on the docks in Key West, Blue and Nine escape to Cuba. Suncoast CEO Howard Neale believes mind downloading confers immortality, and will be worth hundreds of billions of dollars to the company. Meanwhile company Chairman James Walsh is dying of cancer and wants to use the technology to save himself. They both need Number Nine to come back, and will stop at nothing to make her do so - including kidnapping her mother. Suncoast scientist Ravi Kapoor has invented the ultimate artificially intelligent home companion - a device he calls God. Howard wants Ravi to take over the mind downloading project in Susan’s absence - rushing straight to human trials with violent convicts at a secret maximum security prison in the remote scrub desert of southwest Texas. Ravi just wants to spend his time developing God. But God has other plans. Mr. Blue and Number Nine are on a collision course with Howard, Suncoast Cybernetics and now Eris - a Sexbot with the downloaded mind of a white supremacist previously on Death Row. A high-tech corporation becoming a law unto itself. Killer robots designed to look and act like small children. A sociopathic artificial intelligence who believes the time of humans is reaching its end. And a Sexbot harboring the awareness of an amoral killer set loose to run amok. Nine Lives is the sequel to Sexbot, by Patrick Quinlan. It’s a fast-paced, sexy, dystopian adventure, with twists, turns and shocking surprises. * * * Praise for Patrick Quinlan: “A turbo-charged tour de force.” -- Port City Life “A fast-paced thriller...the story moves at warp speed, capped by a cinematic chase...before ending in spectacular fashion.” -- Los Angeles Times “Tightly plotted, confidently written and very hip” -- Sunday Observer
Download or read book Aid Memoir written by Larry Hollingworth and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry Hollingworth, current visiting Professor of Humanitarian Studies at Fordham University in New York City, served as head of the UNHCR’s efforts in Bosnia throughout the lengthy conflict that plagued the former Yugoslavia in the early to mid ’90s. Aid Memoir follows Larry and his UN colleagues throughout multiple efforts to provide much-needed relief for besieged, isolated, and desperate communities riddled by senseless killing and aggression. The characters encountered throughout are at times thrilling, at times frightening. Larry spares no details, however troubling, and therefore shines a telling light on the reality of the situation that most will remember to have watched on their television screens.
Download or read book Forever Was A Day written by E. D. Arrington and published by E.D. Arrington. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. D. Arrington returns with: Forever Was A Day, the sequel to her spellbinding novel, Stay The Course. In this continuing saga, Lori faces possibly the toughest challenges of her short life's journey. Mere hours after attending her grandmother's ("Ma") funeral, Lori is sent away from the only home she knows, away from the only people she loves, to live in Alexandria, Virginia, with a relative she has just met. A relative who comes from the white-looking side of the family. A relative who has neglected to tell her husband one minor detail...that Lori looks like...a Negro. What Readers Said About Stay The Course: Stay The Course is a magnificent book. It's the kind of book that should be in every school in this country. Our children need to know what it was truly like in the '60s and '70s, and Stay The Course does just that. Our children need to know their history, and Stay The Course is full of facts.-Isolene Taylor, (Retired Teacher) Snow Hill, N.C. I enjoyed Stay The Course very much, chuckling at times and crying, too. The author tells a story of love, devotion, hope, despair, faith, and triumph. I am anxiously awaiting the sequel.-Beverley Brown, Falls Church, VA. I am a reading enrichment teacher. My students enjoyed Stay The Course. They learned so much about segregation.-Uzal Daniels, Los Angeles, CA I am overwhelmed at the impact Stay The Course had on me. The author really captured the "Old South" style.-Kris Chinn, Washington, D.C. As an assistant principal, I would recommend Stay The Course to be included as required reading for all children. It teaches so much about how to overcome life's challenges in a positive way-Tonya Johnson, Wilson, N.C.
Download or read book The Forgotten Ones written by Crystal Dawn and published by Eagle Eye Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ariel’s friends convince her to go out for a ladies night with them, she doesn’t realize her whole life is about to change. She meets Blake, a handsome enigmatic man hiding a big secret. That’s alright, because she has some secrets of her own she has no intention of sharing. The problems start when the secrets begin to come out and their lives become hopelessly entangled. Their relationship brings Ariel the attention she has hidden from for years and exposes her to an evil she never believed was real. Will the secrets revealed, tear them apart? Or will they discover a love that will stand the test of time? Will Blake’s ex-girlfriend cause him to regret meeting Ariel? Or will the men who chase Ariel, catch her, taking her from him forever?
Download or read book Jagged Dreams written by C. C. Saint-Clair and published by Bookmakers Ink. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Corvette written by Richard Woodman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frozen splendor of the Arctic Ocean and the absorbing drama of a nineteenth-century whale hunt unfold in The Corvette. Rewarded by promotion for his services at the Battle of Copenhagen, Commander Drinkwater is dispatched in haste to replace the captain of the Melusine, who has been shot in a duel. The ship sails as an escort to a whaling fleet on its annual expedition to the Greenland Sea in pursuit of right whales. During the whale hunt, the loss of one of the vessels sets off a chain of misfortune. Disaster, death, and treachery result. To repair his ship, Drinkwater seeks shelter off the Greenland coast and finds more hazards than the Arctic alone can produce. It is here that Drinkwater makes the most difficult decision of his career.