Download or read book The Belly Button Bandits written by Phil Renzoni and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a beautiful day in Bakersfield, Brian Bigalow, his brother Brent and their sister Belinda wake to find that their belly buttons have been burgled! Accompanied by their British bulldog Barry, the Bigalows begin their search for the thieves who had borrowed their buttons. To their surprise, they discover The Belly Button Bandits, a group of bullying buccaneers who steal children’s belly buttons and hold them for ransom. Join the Bigalows in an exciting adventure through Bakersfield and be on the lookout for other hidden objects that begin with the letter B!
Download or read book The Barefoot Bandit written by Bob Friel and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Barefoot Bandit tells the riveting true story of Colton Harris-Moore, America's twenty-first-century outlaw. Born into a poor family marred by alcohol abuse, Colt had the local sheriff after him before the age of ten. Colt survived by breaking into homes to forage for food, and learned to evade the police by melting into the Pacific Northwest wilds. As a teenager, he escalated to stealing cars, boats, and identities. An extensive manhunt finally caught Colt, but he escaped juvenile prison and fled to nearby Orcas Island, where he assured his place alongside outlaw legends such as D. B. Cooper by stealing an airplane without ever having a formal flight lesson. And that was just the beginning. As a resident of Orcas Island, author Bob Friel witnessed firsthand as local police, FBI agents, SWAT teams, and even Homeland Security helicopters pursued Colt around the island. Colt's crime spree infuriated and terrified many locals, while others sympathized with the barefoot young criminal-the controversy tearing at the formerly quiet community. The story gained international fame, with Time calling Colt "America's Most Wanted Teen" when he stole and crashed his third airplane. After more than two years on the run in the Northwest, Colt fled Orcas and began a spectacular cross-country trek. Friel followed the Barefoot Bandit all the way to the Bahamas, where the chase finally ended in a hail of gunfire at 3 a.m. on a dark sea. Through his personal experiences and hundreds of interviews with witnesses, victims, local authorities, Colt's family, and, indirectly, Colt himself, Friel gives readers an exclusive look at an outlaw legend. Set against the backdrop of the Pacific Northwest's evergreen islands, where Internet millionaires coexist with survivalists and ex-hippies, this is a gripping, stranger-than-fiction tale about a neglected and troubled child who outfoxed the authorities, gained a cult following, and made the world take notice.
Download or read book Bandit written by Molly Brodak and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One woman’s “raw, poetic and compulsively readable” account of growing up with a bank robber for a father (Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help). In the summer of 1994, when Molly Brodak was thirteen years old, her father robbed eleven banks, until the police finally caught up with him. Dubbed the “Mario Brothers Bandit” by the FBI, he served seven years in prison and was released, only to rob another bank several years later and end up back behind bars. In her powerful and provocative memoir, Molly Brodak recounts her childhood and attempts to make sense of her complicated relationship with her father, a man she only half knew. At some angles he was a normal father: there was a job at the GM factory, a house with a yard, birthday treats for Molly and her sister. But there were darker glimmers, too: another wife he never mentioned to her mother, late-night rages directed at the TV, the red Corvette that suddenly appeared in the driveway, a gift for her sister. In Bandit, Brodak unearths and reckons with the fracturing impact her father had on their family and in the process attempts to make peace with the parts of herself that she inherited from this bewildering, beguiling man. “With unwavering candor and remarkable grace, Brodak pieces together the years she spent trying to make sense of a volatile, complicated man her family never really knew.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (online) “A poet by training, Brodak writes with great precision and grace, distilling some memories, expanding others; many of her short chapters feel like prose poems.” —The Boston Globe
Download or read book Captain Awesome and the Easter Egg Bandit written by Stan Kirby and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When their classmates' decorated Easter eggs go missing, Eugene and his friends turn into Captain Awesome and the Sunnyview Superhero Squad and pursue a supervillain.
Download or read book Black s Bandits Box Set Books 1 4 written by Lynn Raye Harris and published by H.O.T. Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love HOT military men? Then start reading this collection containing the first four books in the Black’s Bandits series by NYT & USAT Bestselling Author Lynn Raye Harris. Join these four former-military heroes who always do the right thing - no matter the price - as they battle dangerous enemies and find happily-ever-after love with four strong women. MEET THE BANDITS BLACK LIST: Jace Kaiser is a man without a country, without connection. His only loyalty is to the group who saved him, and the man who leads them. Until her… BLACK TIE: Abducted while on a business trip to Europe, Tallie Grant quickly realizes she’s a commodity to be sold—and there’s no way out. Determined not to surrender to the man who buys her, she’ll soon discover Brett Wheeler is not at all what he seems… BLACK OUT: Angelica Turner’s life is in danger. If she wants to survive, she’ll have to turn to a man with violence in his eyes and death in his soul. A man she desires, yet desperately needs to resist if she doesn’t want her shattered heart again. BLACK KNIGHT: When hardened mercenary Jared Fraser finds a woman bleeding in the snow outside his remote cabin, he takes her in and patches her up, intending to get her back to her life and out of his as quickly as possible.
Download or read book The Comic Book Bandit Stories from a Life of Lies written by Jay Michael Feldman, M.D. and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comic Book Bandit is a bright, healthy, mischievous child named Jay. Mentored by his brilliant older brother, Ross, the bandit pulls off his first comic book heist at the age of four. As events unfold, he gradually finds himself to be alone out in a world where the only significant authority over his behavior turns out to be him and his fledgling and relatively ignorant conscience. Being an unattended child may be scary, but it is also immensely exciting. There is a rush that comes with boundless liberty. Not entirely free, but with stolen moments of freedom to explore life on his own, out and about in the pulsating city of Chicago, where the choices were breathtaking, our hero is captured by the undeniable realization, “I can do whatever I want so long as I don’t get caught.” The stories take place after the Second World War. Yes, the bandit faces the obstacles of grown-ups but cleverly discovers the slippery power of the believable lie. He creates a secret life of his own and shares an acceptable version with those he must account to: his mother, his father, his brother, his teachers, and his friends. Getting away with stuff starts to become second nature, at least until and when he creates a lie so big, with burden so weighty, its effects are at times overwhelming. The culmination of his struggles with the Great Bar Mitzvah Caper will have the reader riveted to each and every page. How could he? How does he? Will he or won’t he? Those are the questions. Come along for the ride. I promise you a child whose ingenious lies make him unlike any child you may have encountered. And beyond all that, he is a great little kid. 1
Download or read book Off Limits written by Heather West and published by E-Book Publishing World Inc.. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Off Limits is book 2 of the Off Limits Trilogy. Book 3, Out of Bounds is available everywhere now! Ashley It isn't easy going home – not when HE'S there. How couldn't I love him? His blond hair, tousled from his football helmet, the muscles rippling along his quarterback shoulders, the way he looks at me when we pass each other half-clothed in the hallway in the middle of the night... His eyes, exposing me. Baring me. Stripping me down to nothing but skin and desire. I've never wanted anything like I wanted him to cross the distance between us. I can't act on this lust, can't say anything. It would destroy our family. But I'm only human. And he's sleeping in the room next door... Danny I'm happy to see her, of course. But it's hard to ignore the feeling she ignites in my chest. Once upon a time, that used to be enough. But not anymore. Now, when she looks at me and bites her lower lip, desire flashing through her eyes, I worry that I will lose control. I don't know if I'll be able to stop myself from doing what we both want – making her mine. The problem is, she's mine already. And she's sleeping in the room next door.
Download or read book Bandit s Bride written by Gail MacMillan and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Louisa Abbott a witch? The villagers, who saw her burn the ship where her doctor husband’s body lay with others who had died of an unnamed illness, believe so. Even worse, she communicates with animals. No one, other than her Native friends, is interested in her healing abilities, so she lives alone, companioned by a wolf who owes his survival to her. Brodie MacMillan is a Highland bandit with the New Brunswick law hot on his trail, despite the injustice of the accusation against him. When he arrives at Louisa’s remote cabin desperately wounded and nearly frozen stiff, her magic might save his life, but how can he rescue her from the wrath of the villagers and then from the vengeful woman who is out to make him pay for past deeds?
Download or read book Wallflowers written by Eliza Robertson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the opening story of Wallflowers, a girl is cat-sitting for her neighbor, sleeping in the neighbor's house. It's nearly identical to her mother's nearby-in the Copper Waters subdivision, they all are-but she likes it here, eating boiled eggs and watching TV, feeling out her freedom as heavy rains fall. And then a nearby dike fails. And the girl may be the only one left in Copper Waters. Eliza Robertson can handle the shocking turn, but she also has a knack for the slow surprise, the realization that settles around you like snow. Her stories are deftly constructed and their perspectives-often those of the loners and onlookers, distanced by their gifts of observation-are unexpected. In “We Walked on Water,” winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, a brother and sister train together for a race that will ultimately separate them forever. In “L'Étranger,” shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize, a girl abroad in Marseille reconsiders her unendearing roommate after an intimate confrontation. Robertson was raised on rugged Vancouver Island. She's traveled broadly since, and her stories travel, too, but the climate of her collection is influenced by her home. These carefully cultivated forms still flare with wildness, and each is still spacious enough for a reader to get lost in wonder.
Download or read book Restoring Your Soul Through Christmas Movies written by Dave Montei and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it’s Kevin being left home alone, Ralphie getting a boot in the face from Santa for asking for a Red Ryder BB gun, or Buddy the Elf distracting New Yorkers with his costume, everyone has their favorite Christmas movie moments. We remember all the funny quotes, the fun music, and even know what’s going to happen before the next scene occurs, but do we remember the messages these Christmas films deliver? If we’re not careful, our casual obsession of watching and rewatching these holiday classics will have us miss out on a greater opportunity to renew our hope and restore our soul. Along with fun-filled facts and trivia, Restoring Your Soul Through Christmas Movies explores the messages each Christmas film delivers and how we can apply them to our everyday lives.
Download or read book The Kiss written by Jillian Dodd and published by Swoonworthy Books. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the last week of my exchange in London, and my flight leaves on Saturday. Harry wants our relationship to progress, but his family life is falling apart. And shocking news from his parents might send him over the edge. Noah is becoming more reckless with both his words and his actions. Between longing glances, sweet conversations and heated moments, I don’t know where we stand. And Mohammad tells me that I have some important decisions to make. The countdown is on, and only two things are certain. I’m going to have to leave the three boys I’ve grown to love. And by the end of the week, I’m not sure if any of them will ever forgive me. It’s a good thing my time at Kensington is almost up.
Download or read book When Dominoes Fall written by Danjo Thomas and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime/Drama/MysteryThe dominoes start to fall when Jake and his partner, Harry, go on a deadly carjacking spree. Butch Marable and his best friend and partner, Ernie "Cowboy" Kaloskivitch, along with the DEA, plan a sting operation that will put an end to a Vegas mobster's drug smuggling, and money laundering operation. At the same time, saving a some what innocent Hollywood talent agent, who has gotten himself in too deep, and wants out. A passed around, wannabe movie star, Sylvia, and a lost, lonely washed up motorcycle racer get thrown into the mix. Their romance blossoms behind a veil of murder and deceit. With the help of some dubious motorcycle riders and ex-army buddies, Butch and Cowboy help the Los Angeles and San Diego Police Departments stop the car stealing murderers. It all comes together in the California/Nevada desert where the end justifies the means.
Download or read book The Abyss A Novel written by Fernando Vallejo and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, the Colombian Fernando Vallejo’s masterpiece, The Abyss, is available in English in a stunning translation by Yvette Siegert Winner of the Rómulo Gallego Prize, The Abyss is a caustic masterwork of incredible power and force, an unforgettable autobiographical work of queer fiction. The novel tells about the demise of a crumbling house in Medellín, Colombia. Fernando, a writer, visits his brother Darío, who is dying of AIDS. Recounting their wild philandering and trying to come to terms with his beloved brother’s inevitable death, Fernando rants against the political forces that cause so much suffering. Vallejo is the heir to Céline, Thomas Paine, and Machado de Assis. He hurls vitriolic, savagely funny insults at his country (“I wipe my ass with the new Constitution of Colombia”) and at his mother (“the Crazy Bitch”) who has given birth to him and his many siblings. Within this firestorm of pain, Fernando manages to get across much beauty and truth: that all love is painful and washed in pure sorrow. He loves his sick brother and the family’s Santa Anita farm (the lost paradise of his childhood where azaleas bloomed); and he even loves his country, now torn to shreds. Always, in this savage masterpiece about loss—as if in the eye of Vallejo’s hurricane of talent—we are in the curiously comforting workings of memory and of the writing process itself, as, recollecting time, it offers immortality.
Download or read book A Blush With Death written by Yasmine Galenorn and published by Nightqueen Enterprises LLC. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written under the name of "India Ink" There's only one #1... There's a new makeover maven in town, and she spells big trouble for everyone at Venus Envy. Bebe Wilcox has just unveiled her own boutique, and she won't stop until her shop has put everyone else out of business. Nothing is out of bounds, from stealing fragrance recipes to computer hacking and sabotaging supplies. But when one of Bebe's pushy saleswomen ends up dead, the stakes become much more dangerous. Staging a public falling out with her Auntie, Persia gets hired at Bebe's Boutique and begins snooping for evidence of wrongdoing. But can she find the goods before the killer decides to find her? Keywords: Cozy mystery, bath and beauty shop, day spa, small town, amateur detective, Pacific North West, childhood home, cats, dogs, birds, relatable mc, woman sleuth, perfume, fragrance, perfumer, cozy mystery with cats, cosmetics
Download or read book Fugitives of Chaos written by John C. Wright and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy roman.
Download or read book California Supreme Court Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Number of Exhibits: 1_x005F_x000D_ Court of Appeal Case(s): A036077
Download or read book Queen of the Damned The Complete Series written by Kel Carpenter and published by Kel Carpenter. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 901 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “So, is this where you finally tell me who you are and why you’re following me?” They didn’t look at each other, but each of their faces was set in grim determination. “I am Pestilence,” Rysten said. No… “I am Famine,” Allistair followed. Devil save me. “I am Death,” Julian continued in a cool tone. It should have clicked with me sooner. “My name is Laran, and I am War,” the fourth and final one said. They didn’t continue because they didn’t need to. I knew who they were. Every demon in both worlds knew who they were. “You’re the Four Horsemen,” I whispered. ~ . ~ . ~ We’ve all heard the story of the Four Horsemen. Harbingers of the apocalypse. Destruction given form. Four of the sexiest—wait no—forget that. You get my point. So imagine my surprise when I find out everything I’ve ever been told, is a lie. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves here. Let’s start from the beginning. My name is Ruby Morningstar. I run a tattoo parlor in Portland with my bestfriend, have a pet raccoon, a crazy ex that stalks me, not to mention this one little thing… I’m a demon. Half-succubus, to be exact. For the last twenty-three years of my life, that’s the story I believed, but on the day a handsome stranger bails me out of jail my world is turned upside down, and suddenly I don’t know who I am anymore. Because the Four Horsemen aren’t the bringers of the apocalypse. I am. Talk about never catching a break. *This series is incredibly funny, sexy, and fast-paced--but it can also be dark at times. If you need a trigger warning, then this probably isn't the series for you. If you can handle some grit in your stories and enjoy reading authors like C.M. Stunich, Tate James, Raven Kennedy, Kristy Cunning, Ivy Asher, Sadie Moss, and Linsey Hall, then one-click now!* This omnibus contains: 1. Lucifer's Daughter 2. Wicked Games 3. Infernal Desires 4. Brimstone Nightmare 5. "A Day in the Life of Bandit" Short Story
