Download or read book Rat Fire written by Theodore H. Hughes and published by Cornell East Asia Series. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together twelve short stories by colonial Korean proletarian writers, as well as two works written in 1946 under U.S. military occupation. The volume provides a diverse, ever-changing portrait of the complex movements of people and ideas that constituted both colonial Korea and the Japanese empire, adding the tumultuous experiences of those from the Korean peninsula to the existing international canon of socialist and feminist literature.
Download or read book Rat on Fire written by George V. Higgins and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It sometimes seems like a good idea to put a match to the problem you'd most like to be without. When it's a slum full of blacks who don't pay the rent, and your buildings are all insured, then it's the best idea of all. But if you pay Jimmy and Leo to do it for you, you may find you've got another problem. One of the best loved titles from this American master of literary low life.
Download or read book The Rat on Fire written by George V. Higgins and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting, blistering hot novel about the shady side of the law and the business side of the Boston underworld by the one and only George V. Higgins. Jerry Fein is a small-time lawyer, occasional booking agent, and full-time slumlord. But he’s nobody’s fool. So when the tenants of his dilapidated buildings refuse to pay rent because of rats, Jerry knows just the man to help him—Leo Proctor, a professional arsonist, who can make a fire marshal look the other way for a little cash. But the heat is on over at the police station as well, and a couple of cops are suddenly feeling pressure from their superiors to produce, and something has got to give. Full of hardnosed cops and lawyers a little too familiar with both sides of the law, The Rat on Fire is another Higgins masterpiece and an unflinching portrait of the Boston crime world.
Download or read book The Rat on Fire written by George V. Higgins and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting, blistering novel about the shady side of the law and the business side of the Boston underworld by the one and only George V. Higgins. Jerry Fein is a small-time lawyer, occasional booking agent, and full-time slumlord. But he’s nobody’s fool. So when the tenants of his dilapidated buildings refuse to pay rent because of rats, Jerry knows just the man to help him—Leo Proctor, a professional arsonist, who can make a fire marshal look the other way for a little cash. But the heat is on over at the police station as well, and a couple of cops are suddenly feeling pressure from their superiors to produce tangible results, and something has got to give. Full of showboating politicians, hardnosed cops, and lawyers a little too familiar with both sides of the law, The Rat on Fire is another Higgins masterpiece and an unflinching portrait of the Boston crime world.
Download or read book Rat Island written by William Stolzenburg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the highly controversial practice of rescuing endangered island species by killing their predators, explaining how rats and other animals introduced to the Bering Sea midway by shipwrecks have decimated native bird populations.
Download or read book Fire Rat written by Willard Gellis and published by . This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carnage and metaphysics combine in this rapid-fire, hard-edged combat poetry. --Big Foot NY.
Download or read book Rat Roach Friends to the End written by David Covell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends. Enemies. And friends again! This is a story of two friends. Rat and Roach. They get along great! Except when Rat makes a mess . . . Or Roach cooks too fancy . . . Or Rat HUGS TOO TIGHT!! In fact, why are these two friends? Rat and Roach aren't so sure either, but they're more unhappy when they aren't friends. Here is a book that shows friendship in a whole new, wonderful, hilarious light.
Download or read book Rat written by Lesley Choyce and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of bullies at school, Colin decides to take a stand. Branded a rat, he finds that standing up for what you believe in can be empowering.
Download or read book Why Rat Comes First written by and published by Children's Book Press (CA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why Rat comes first in the Chinese calendar cycle of twelve years.
Download or read book Rat written by Andrzej Zaniewski and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be published simultaneously in nine countries, Rat is an allegorical novel--about the laws that govern society, about our mythologies, truths and lies, behaviors and institutions, love and hope--as reflected in the gutters, drains and sewers where our close relative, the rat, lives.
Download or read book Misunderstood written by Rachel Toor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares the author's experiences with her pet rat Iris, offering anecdotes of her antics and other rat owners and discussing how to care for rats, health concerns, life spans, and eating habits.
Download or read book Rat on Fire written by Outlet and published by . This book was released on 1988-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Brown Rat in the United States written by David Ernest Lantz and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of recommendations. pp. 53.
Download or read book Rat on a Rat written by Liza Morado and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author reflects on memories of country life in northern Baltimore County during her early years. Her childhood is full of delightful memories. However, it was lonely living in the country and finding friends to share her childhood was challenging until a new family moved into an adjacent farm - opening a lifelong friendship. All was well until 2011. Without any reason or explanation, the author experienced a door angrily slammed in her face, thus ending a 50-year friendship. Incensed at being robbed of her dignity, she decided she was not keeping his secrets anymore and tipped the Justice Department. One thing leads to another and the author soon discovers correlations she never expected to the only unsolved hijacking in U.S. history.
Download or read book Rat written by T.K. Wade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old, maniacal rat who wants to control others. A white slave rat who never knew freedom. A son coming to terms with his father's evil ways. The lives of rats are cruel and deadly. Enter into their world and discover the darkness within. ""Rat"" by T.K. Wade follows the adventures of an evil rat named Cornelius Wolfington the Fourth. He will stop at nothing to control his destiny even at the expense of those around him.
Download or read book Space Station Rat written by Michael J. Daley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After escaping from her scientist captors, Rat finds herself aboard a space station When Rat—a lavender-colored, highly intelligent rat—escaped from her cage and found a hiding place in a nearby crate, she had no idea she’d be headed for the stars. A space station, she quickly discovers, is no place for a rat. It’s hard to find food amid the humans and robots aboard the craft, and even harder to move around undetected. Meanwhile, Jeff, whose parents are scientists, is the only kid on board. He’s got no friends to play with, and his robot babysitter is constantly bossing him around. To make matters worse, all of his friends are off at summer camp back on Earth and too busy having a great time to email him. So Jeff is beyond excited when he gets an email from an anonymous pen pal. Little does he know that his new buddy doesn’t live on Earth—and isn’t even human!
Download or read book The Rats in the Walls written by H.P. Lovecraft and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Rats in the Walls" by H.P. Lovecraft, a man restores his ancestral estate in England, only to be haunted by mysterious noises within the walls. As he investigates, he uncovers horrifying secrets about his family's dark past and the ancient horrors lurking beneath the mansion.
