Download or read book The Snow Raven written by Connie Dial and published by Josie Corsino Mysteries. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1980's are a time when the streets of Hollywood are no longer the home of movie legends or a place where dreams of fame and glory might come true. Restaurants like the Brown Derby are replaced by Denny's and fast food. Nearly every block in the area has a cheap souvenir shop, voucher hotel for parolees or a dingy bar aka street gang hangout. The cinema's famous boulevard is overrun with drug dealers, drunks, homeless teenagers and sleezy impersonators who dress like Darth Vader or Superman to hustle unsuspecting tourists. Heroin, cocaine and marijuana can be purchased on most street corners or in the alleys and legendary Sunset Boulevard has prostitutes standing near the curb, three-deep soliciting passing motorists. Narcotics Detective Josie Corsino thrives in this decadent world - chasing drug dealers, destroying crack houses and raiding opium dens until the early morning hours. Her desire to do this consuming job makes family life nearly impossible. Her husband and son need her, and she needs to be on the street. The detectives in her squad don't fit the spit and polish image of the Adam 12 LAPD. They're grubby, unshaven, disrespectful to authority, and generally do police work in an effective, if not by-the-book way. She's comfortable balancing on the edge of legality to make a good arrest until one night an informant tells her and her partner that a Hollywood cop has stepped over the line and is selling rock cocaine. In Josie's mind there's nothing worse than dirty cops. She learns the hard way that they can be vicious, clever and determined to do anything including murder to avoid capture. The search to find the traitor in blue nearly kills her best friend and puts Josie in the middle of a drug war involving an organized crime family. Finding the corrupt cop is the only way she and her partner can salvage their reputations and keep the killer from striking again.
Download or read book Ravens in Winter written by Bernd Heinrich and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Summit Books, 1989.
Download or read book Raven Child and the Snow Witch written by Linda Sunderland and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anya lives with her mother and father in the shadow of the icy glacier where the Snow Witch reigns. Every spring, Anya's mother journeys to the glacier to pick the blue gentian flowers that grow there. But this time, she does not return. She has been captured by the Snow Witch and imprisoned in the ice.Anya and her father set off with the ravens to rescue her. It's a treacherous journey, and there is no knowing what they will find; but the strength of Anya's love conquers all; the Snow Witch is defeated and Anya's mother is saved.
Download or read book The Raven Speaks written by Mattie Simms and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE RAVEN SPEAKS is a story that is part fictional and part true. I chose Kenner, Louisiana, a beautiful southern city for the distinguished setting of this book. The Raven is a symbolic figure used to guide the main character Mr. Daniels into spiritual truth. Mr. Daniels is chosen to advise the world that a spiritual change is coming and that Human kind must prepare for this change. THE RAVEN SPEAKS is a spiritual journey that carries you beyond this earthly depth to a celestial height beyond imagination. Mattie Simms was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi. She is the youngest of three children. The offspring of her father a Blacksmith and mother a Literature Professor. She accredits her mother for her interest in writing. Some of her poetry was published in the GREAT AMERICAN POETRY ANTHOLOGY and the NATIONAL LIBRARY OF POETRY. Her love for children inspired her to write more books. Some of her catalog includes THE CHRISTMAS WELL, THE PETS FIREWORKS, and THE "Q" KIDS and THE "Q" KIDS HEALTH CENTER BOOK. Mattie Simms currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Presently, she is working on UNVEILED THOUGHTS her first book of poetry. www.TheQKidsKanlearn.com
Download or read book Snow Crash written by Neal Stephenson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1994-10-27 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED MATERIAL After the Internet, what came next? Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash. A cyberdrug that reduces avatars in the digital world to dust, but also infects users in real life, leaving them in a vegetative state. This is bad news for Hiro, a freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter, and mouthy skateboard courier Y. T.. Together, investigating the Infocalypse, they trace back the roots of language itself to an ancient Sumerian priesthood and find they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination. In this special edition of the remarkably prescient modern classic, Neal Stephenson explores linguistics, computer science, politics and philosophy in the form of a break-neck adventure into the fast-approaching yet eerily recognizable future. 'Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century' William Gibson 'Brilliantly realized' New York Times Book Review 'Like a Pynchon novel with the brakes removed' Washington Post 'A remarkably prescient vision of today's tech landscape' Vanity Fair
Download or read book Raven Mysteries of the Ancestors written by Jonathan Johnson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aliens do exist and so does magic and metahumans. People think that the world is so good, but a young boy is about to learn otherwise. Join Raven a 9-year-old boy as he travels back to the past to meet his ancestors. There Raven collects 3 artifact and 9 power crystals so that in the present Raven can activate the portal to the future. Join Raven as he goes to the ice age the dawn of the dinosaurs and the birth of Egypt itself. Our hero will meet giants, dragons, zombies, scorpions, and even face of against his own family to stop the darkness and the alien known as Tryjon 5 from merging earth with his own planet. Can Raven survive the prophecy can Raven save the past from the future.
Download or read book The Raven the Reindeer written by T. Kingfisher and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Gerta¿s friend Kay is stolen away by the mysterious Snow Queen, it¿s up to Gerta to find him. Her journey will take her through a dangerous land of snow and witchcraft, accompanied only by a bandit and a talking raven. Can she win her friend¿s release, or will following her heart take her to unexpected places? A strange, sly retelling of Hans Christian Andersen¿s "Snow Queen," by T. Kingfisher, author of "Bryony and Roses" and "The Seventh Bride."
Download or read book Fox and I written by Catherine Raven and published by Spiegel & Grau. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After receiving her PhD in biology, Raven lived in an isolated cottage in Montana, teaching remotely and leading field classes in Yellowstone National Park. Her only regular visitor was a fox, with whom she developed a friendship and from whom she learned about growth, loss, and belonging.
Download or read book The Raven s Gift written by Jonathan Turk and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted scientist and kayak adventurer undertakes a journey of spiritual healing Jon Turk has kayaked around Cape Horn and paddled across the Pacific Ocean to retrace the voyages of ancient people. But, the strangest trip he ever took was the journey he made as a man of science into the realm of the spiritual. In a remote Siberian village, Turk met an elderly Koryak shaman named Moolynaut who invoked the help of a Spirit Raven to mend his fractured pelvis. When the healing was complete, he was able to walk without pain. Turk, finding no rational explanation, sought understanding by traversing the frozen tundra where Moolynaut was born, camping with bands of reindeer herders, and recording stories of their lives and spirituality. Framed by high adventure across the vast and forbidding Siberian landscape, The Raven’s Gift creates a vision of natural and spiritual realms interwoven by one man’s awakening.
Download or read book Raven Winter written by Susanna Bailey and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brand new novel from the critically-acclaimed author of Snow Foal and Otters' Moon. Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson and Gill Lewis.
Download or read book The Owl the Raven the Dove written by G. Ronald Murphy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study takes five of the Grimm brothers' best-known tales and argues that the Grimms saw them as Christian fables. The author examines the arguments of previous interpreters of the tales, and demonstrates how they missed the Grimms' intention.
Download or read book The Raven Heir written by Stephanie Burgis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of Robert Beatty and Shannon Hale comes a magical new middle grade fantasy series about a young shapeshifter trying to save her family. Deep within an enchanted forest lies a castle where a set of triplets and their sorceress mother have lived for years--safe from the decades-long war for the Raven Throne that rages in the kingdom. Cordelia, one of the triplets, has the power to become any animal with just a thought, and she yearns to discover more about the world outside her castle. But one day, the world comes to her, when the eldest of the triplets becomes the newest heir to the throne. Knowing that being named heir means certain death, Cordelia's mother hid the truth about which child is the eldest when she hid them in the forest. When her family is captured, it's up to Cordelia to use her powers to keep her siblings hidden and discover the truth about the Raven Heir--before it's too late. From the author of The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart comes a thrilling new fantasy full of magic, adventure, and the power of family. Acclaim for The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart A Kids' Indie Next List Pick An Amazon Best Book of the Month A Mighty Girl Best Book of the Year A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year A VOYA Top Shelf Pick
Download or read book Raven Rabbit Deer written by Sue Farrell Holler and published by Pajama Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy greets animal neighbors on a snowy walk, learning their names and tracks from his beloved grandfather
Download or read book Snow White Blood Red written by Ellen Datlow and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy tales retold—with a twist—from “some of our best storytellers” including Neil Gaiman, Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and others (The Washington Post). In this “no holds barred . . . nightmarish . . . provocative” collection, bestselling and award-winning fantasy masters put a dark, disturbing, and erotic spin on your favorite bedtime stories—and give you something entirely new to trouble your dreams (The New York Times Book Review). A boy is haunted through adulthood by a soul-eating creature that lies forever in wait under Neil Gaiman’s “Troll Bridge”; a melancholy amphibian shares his most private fantasies with a therapist in Gahan Wilson’s “The Frog Prince”; in Tanith Lee’s “Snow-Drop,” a lonely artist invites seven circus performers into her home to satisfy an obsession; in Steve Rasnic Tem’s “Little Poucet,” a band of lost brothers find refuge and terror with a hungry family in the woods; and Wendy Wheeler delves into the deviant psyche of the predatory male in “Little Red.” Also featuring Nancy Kress, Charles de Lint, Melanie Tem, Patricia A. McKillip, Jack Dann, and others, all paying a revisit to our favorite fairy tales in ways you’ve never dared to imagine.
Download or read book Snow Day in May written by Christine Evans and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raven is having the worst week ever. Her best friend Belle has just moved away, and tomorrow is Voices of History Day. Raven and Belle were working on their project together, and now Raven has to present alone—in front of the whole class. But when Raven stumbles upon the Wish Library and asks for school to be canceled, she faces a whole new challenge—and finds that just maybe she had the bravery she needed all along.
Download or read book The Raven s Gift written by Don Rearden and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Morgan and his wife can barely contain their excitement upon arriving as the new teachers in a Yup’ik village on the windswept Alaskan tundra. Lured north in search of adventure, the couple hope to immerse themselves in the ancient Arctic culture. But their move proves disastrous when a deadly epidemic strikes and the isolated community descends into total chaos. When outside help fails to arrive, John’s only hope lies in escaping the snow covered tundra and the hunger of the other survivors by making the thousand-mile trek across the Alaskan wilderness for help. Along the way, he encounters a blind Yup’ik girl and an elderly woman who need his protection as badly as he needs their knowledge of the terrain and their companionship to survive. And as the harsh journey and constant danger push him beyond his limits, John discovers a new sense of hope and the possibility of loving again.
Download or read book Above the Snowline written by Steph Swainston and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the book Steph Swainston's fans have been waiting for. A prequel to the Castle novels. This is Jant Shira's life before the drugs took over, as a hunter in the mountains. Awian exiles are building a stronghold in the Darkling mountains, where the Rhydanne hunt. Their clash of interests soon leads to bloodshed and Shira Dellin, a Rhydanne huntress, appeals to the immortal Circle for justice. The Emperor sends Jant, half-Rhydanne, half-Awian, and all-confidence, to mediate. As Jant is drawn into the spiralling violence he is shaken into coming to terms with his own heritage and his feelings for the alien, intoxicating Dellin. ABOVE THE SNOWLINE tells the story of Jant's early years in the Circle and shows the Fourlands as you've never seen them before.
