Download or read book The Brown Fedora written by Alan Purser and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brown Fedora is essentially a love story set against the backdrop of the Second World War (1939 to 1945). The story begins with the impulsive and unplanned meeting between Rebecca and James. Their initial encounter is played out in front of two rival teams at their annual cricket match. The unfolding story reveals how James and his family were acrimoniously subjected to the unwelcome and unwanted attention of a ruthless German spy ring that operated covertly in the heart of England, before and during the Second World War. After the callous and brutal murder of JamesÕs mother at the hands of the cruel spy ring, the devastating effects of her murder initiated a crippling stroke which totally incapacitated JamesÕs father. The overwhelming consequences of this felonious act drove James to take up the mantle of his fatherÕs work and to track down and eradicate the German spy ring. In doing so, he crosses into the remorseless world of spying and espionage.
Download or read book The Mules of Monte Cassino written by Jim DeFilippi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacrifice, slaughter, and stupidity. The Battle for Monte Cassino, in southern Italy during the bitter winter of 1943-1944, was the most gruesome, spine-wilting, pointlessly devastating battle of America's Twentieth Century, perhaps in all of America's history. The enormity of the mistakes of Monte Cassino was misunderstood and overlooked then and remains under-reported and ignored to this day. Three hundred and fifty thousand dead soldiers, along with no accurate count of the civilian dead, for no reason other than the hubris and egos of men with golden stars pinned on their shoulders, hobnobbing with Popes, Presidents and Prime Ministers. Priceless and irreplaceable art treasures were destroyed for no better reason than incompetence and impatience. Military advantage gained from all of this: nothing. This is the story of that battle told from the fox holes and from the blood-stained rivers, with the hands of wounded and drowning comrades clutching at your legs as you try to swim back to shore. One survivor of the devastation said, "We were all of us mules."
Download or read book The War Widow written by Tara Moss and published by CMC Verve. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ** WWII may be over, but journalist Billie Walker's search for a missing young man will plunge her right back into the danger and drama she thought she'd left behind in Europe. It's 1946, and though war correspondent Billie Walker is happy to finally be back home in glamorous Sydney, for her the heady postwar days are tarnished by the loss of her father and the disappearance of her husband, Jack. To make matters worse, newspapers are now sidelining her reporting talents to prioritise jobs for returning soldiers. Determined to take control of her future, she reopens her late father's private investigation agency, and, slowly, the women of Sydney come knocking. At first, Billie's work consists of tailing cheating husbands. But when a young man goes missing, Billie finds herself on a dangerous new trail that will lead her to the highest levels of Sydney society, and down into its underworld. As the risk mounts, Billie realises that there is much more than one man's life at stake. Though the war was won, it is far from over. The first in a thrilling historical mystery series following straight-talking, champagne-drinking, fast-driving private investigator and former war reporter Billie Walker. Perfect for fans of Kate Morton, Lisa Scottoline and Rosalie Knecht. PRAISE FOR THE WAR WIDOW 'Completely gripping and entertaining from beginning to end' - HUGH JACKMAN 'Just what I needed today-a blast of the escapist past. Sydney in 1946, damaged veterans, bad guys, car chases, mysteries, and a female PI up for the fight' - IAN RANKIN 'A cracking thriller, with a marvellous, strong, flamboyant heroine' - JOANNE HARRIS 'Enough page-turning suspense to keep you up reading far later than you intended!' - PETER JAMES 'A terrific read!' - LYNDA La PLANTE
Download or read book An Introductory Guide to EC Competition Law and Practice written by Valentine Korah and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Madrigal written by J. Robert Janes and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nazi-occupied France, a French-German detective team must solve a murder in Avignon’s Papal Palace—“Plenty of atmosphere and a great setting” (The Globe and Mail). Six hundred years before the Germans conquered Paris, the pope came to Avignon to rule the Roman Church from afar. In January 1943, Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler visit the former Papal Palace—not as tourists, but as detectives. Where once the pope spoke to God, a woman has had her throat cut. Her corpse seems to have appeared from out of the past. Despite the strictures of wartime rationing, she died in finery, costumed in the ermine and silk of a Renaissance courtier. She appears to have been killed with a scythe, pulled across her neck in one swift stroke, like a shepherd slaughtering a sheep. Wartime Avignon is a small city, steeped in the jealousy that occupation encourages. As St-Cyr and Kohler dig into the city’s past, they find motives for murder that predate the Nazis by centuries.
Download or read book The Death of an Heir written by Philip Jett and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s and 60s, the Coors dynasty reigned over Golden, Colorado, seemingly invincible. When rumblings about labor unions threatened to destabilize the family's brewery, Adolph Coors, Jr., the septuagenarian president of the company, drew a hard line, refusing to budge. They had worked hard for what they had, and no one had a right to take it from them. What they'd soon realize was that they had more to lose than they could have imagined. What happened next set off the largest U.S. manhunt since the Lindbergh kidnapping. State and local authorities, along with the FBI personally spearheaded by its director J. Edgar Hoover, burst into action attempting to locate Ad and his kidnapper. The dragnet spanned a continent. All the while, Ad's grief-stricken wife and children waited, tormented by the unrelenting silence. The Death of an Heir reveals the true story behind the tragic murder of Colorado's favorite son.
Download or read book Everyday Fashions 1909 1920 as Pictured in Sears Catalogs written by JoAnne Olian and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1995-07-31 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a selection of fashion illustrations originally published in Sears catalogs between 1909 and 1920, focusing on ready-to-wear apparel for women and children.
Download or read book Sinners Social Workers written by Norah S. Bernard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of eight individuals whose lives...and deaths...overlap, as they meet again ...on the "other side," where each is given a choice of fates, guided by a variety of angels and saints, and cajoled by the devil himself.: CHARLIE, the good husband and father, overcome by an inexplicable suicidal depression; PENNY, raised by a caring grandmother, but driven by self-destructive and sadistic urges; MARION, abused as a youngster, yet saintly in her desire to help others; DR. HARRISON, the wealthy Ob-Gyn who could not resist his predatory urges; FATHER BRYAN, able to forgive everyone except himself for failing to protect a murdered child; CARRIE, devoted to her church, but not to her husband; CHRISTOPHER, the "accidental" President who was determined to make the country a better place, even if it cost him his life; and TODD, the Vice President who manipulated the country into a war for his own self- aggrandizement.
Download or read book The Chosen Black Arrowhead Series Book 3 written by Dannika Dark and published by Dannika Dark. This book was released on 2023-11-12 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fear is your enemy’s feast.” The gripping third installment of the Black Arrowhead series. Robyn is desperately searching for a pack, but the odds are stacked against her. Shifters don’t accept humans, especially ones with a watchdog. Her fate takes a wild turn when she hitches a ride with a band of rogues who are vying for a spot in a newly formed pack. Just when she gets a taste of the good life, a menacing force threatens to rip it away. As a detective, Montana takes chances all the time. After seeing an open call for packmates, he gambles on an inexperienced Packmaster who has potential. When a mysterious woman joins their group, Montana defends her from those who would cast her out. Robyn is kind, loyal, and everything he desires. But when secrets are brought to light, they must each decide where their loyalty lies. A romance forms between an unlikely couple, but can love conquer all when the stakes are too high? Love takes courage. Keywords: Shifters, wolf pack, wolves, shapeshifters, romantasy, cinnamon roll hero, enemies to lovers, who hurt you, tortured hero, fated mates, hate to love, protective mate, fated, booktok, books about shifters, friends to lovers, best friend's brother, slow burn, burn the world for you, magic, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, action, thriller, mages, supernatural wolf, alpha, vampires, mystery, brotherhood, native american, interracial, suspense, series, bounty hunter, tracker, villains, sleuth, romantic comedy, humor, steamy, hunters, chemistry, sweethearts, prisoner, feisty woman, bear, monster romance, fantasy, new adult, pack,danger, multicultural, friendship, shifter romance
Download or read book Beyond the Sea written by David L. Golemon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet battle cruiser Simbirsk, which launched in June 1940 and was reported sunk in 1944 with the loss of all hands, is still sailing the open sea. January of 2017: American Los Angeles class submarine U.S.S. Houston is tracking a surface target that is not listed as part of the Russian navy’s response to the NATO maneuvers. What they find will set in motion the answers to one of the great mysteries of World War II. With the Russian navy bearing down on the Houston and international tensions running high, the United States Navy declares the Soviet-era derelict legal salvage under international law. With the world’s most powerful navies going toe-to-toe in the North Atlantic, the President of the United States calls upon the one organization that has a chance to figure out why this ship is in this time, in this place—Department 5656, also known as the Event Group. When the Group arrives, they are confronted by three warships of the Russian Navy who have come to claim Russian property. The two groups meet and soon discover that the ancient battle cruiser is not a derelict at all, but fully functional with a mysterious apparatus that sent the original crew to their deaths. In the midst of their warfare in the tossing seas, both navies are sent into a realm of unimaginable terror—an alternate world of water, ice, and death. The Event Group has a new mission when relics of the fabled Philadelphia Experiment surface in Beyond the Sea, the twelfth thrilling hit in New York Times bestselling author David L. Golemon's Event Group series.
Download or read book Nothing But Sky written by Amy Trueblood and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Lafferty, an eighteen-year-old wing-walker, thrills crowds with barrel rolls and loop-the-loops in hopes of making enough money to get to the 1922 World Aviation Expo.
Download or read book Reunion written by Abby Mendelson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Paradise Boys, Scotch and Oranges, Ghost Dancer, End of the Road, and The Oakland Quartet comes Reunion, a striking new collection of 16 stories. Subtitled Americans in Exile, Reunion chronicles the lives of Americans torn from their places and their pasts. Set in a wide variety of locales – England to Hawaii, Venice to Vietnam, Park Slope to Prague, Block Island to Hoonah, Alaska – the stories go where Americans find themselves searching for connection, coping with aging and loss. Military men and missing persons, foreign service officers and fashion models, friends and lovers, grief groups and high-school reunions, Reunion presents a stunning series of portraits of characters and concerns, living and dying, present and past. People wrestling with the concerns of age and of our age. People living on edges, seeking to return, yearning for reunion.
Download or read book Until at Last I Had a Land of My Own written by Chandler Kinzie and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three menSeward Caprice, Joel Marlin, and Paul Drakelive their lives like so many others. There is nothing particularly spectacular about any of them. Each man loves, fears, and hates. Each man is haunted by the challenges that linger in his own mind, and each must find a way to maintain control. The difference lies only in how they choose to deal with this assigned task, this task of life. Often, Seward, Joel, and Paul dabble in self-destruction. They use self-abuse to keep their wild minds in check, and in this abuse, they find controlor do they? Soon appears a mysterious figure known only as Salem. Salem is an aristocratic madman who seems to have no background, no history. He just suddenly appears, and his dark mission for each man becomes clear. The three must now walk separate paths, all at the bidding of Salem. He exists as a stalking shadow that pushes each man toward an uncertain, and possibly disastrous, future. The dull lives of Seward, Joel, and Paul are now laced with uncertainty and deceit. Will these men find the way back to themselves or will the challenge of life be too much to bear?
Download or read book Fallen Sparrow written by Darin Templet and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STAY FOCUSED, STAY ALERT, AND NEVER FALL IN LOVE To most people, Katie Baker is an ordinary twenty-something secretary employed at a Houston-based aerospace firm. Yet, unknown to those around her, Katie is also an expert pilot and security protection driver. She speaks several languages fluently, mastered multiple martial arts, and is skilled in a wide range of firearms and bladed weapons. Katie is also a trained assassin with four kills to her name. Above all, she can make herself drop-dead gorgeous and knows all the tricks to seduce a man. Katie’s real name is Katerina Kuznestov, and she is a Russian spy. Ordered by her handler to seduce a geeky software engineer working on a classified project, Katie jumps in with all the enthusiasm of her previous assignments. Soon after becoming intimate with her target, Katie begins to develop feelings for him—feelings that her training and experience do not allow. When the mission reaches its critical stage, will Katie stay true to her training or will her affection for the engineer jeopardize the mission, risking both of their lives?
Download or read book A Likely Story written by Leigh McMullan Abramson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CBS New York Book Club with Mary Calvi and Belletrist Book Club Pick “Raw, complex, and utterly unforgettable.” —Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author The only child of a famous American novelist discovers a shocking family secret that upends everything she thought she knew about her parents, her gilded childhood, and her own stalled writing career in this standout debut, perfect for fans of Pineapple Street and The Plot. Growing up in the nineties in New York City as the only child of famous parents was both a blessing and a curse for Isabelle Manning. Her beautiful society hostess mother, Claire, and New York Times bestselling author father, Ward, were the city’s intellectual It couple. Ward’s glamorous obligations often took him away from Isabelle, but Claire made sure her childhood was always filled with love. Now an adult, all Isabelle wants is to be a successful writer like her father but after many false starts and the unexpected death of her mother, she faces her upcoming thirty-fifth birthday alone and on the verge of a breakdown. Her anxiety only skyrockets when she uncovers some shocking truths about her parents and begins wondering if everything she knew about her family was all based on an elaborate lie. This “literary page-turner” (KJ Dell’Antonia, New York Times bestselling author) is punctuated with fragments of a compulsively readable book-within-a-book about a woman determined to steal back the spotlight from a man who has cheated his way to the top. The characters seem eerily familiar but is the plot based on fact? And more importantly, who is the author?
Download or read book The Bright Country written by Harry Middleton and published by Pruett Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Harry Middleton lost his job at a prominent magazine, it was but the beginning of what turned out to be a year marked by personal crisis. In the course of that year, as he searched for new work and battled severe depression, he eventually ended up in Denver, where he began exploring the high mountain country west of the city. For Middleton, the turning point in his long journey through life's dark side came with the discovery of a blind brown trout in a Rocky Mountain stream where Middleton spent his every spare moment feeding what he calls his "terrible addiction" to fly fishing. That bright river and the blind trout would assume a larger significance and become for him a metaphor for struggle and survival. Middleton's terms with life as it is, with the fits and starts of the human condition, seems always to involve trout and fly fishing. Middleton's books are dominated not only by memorable rivers and trout but also by some of literature's most colorful, comical, and fascinating people. The Bright Country is no exception. As we follow Middleton on his journey through the terrain of paradise and hell, we meet: Swami Bill, president and CEO of the Holistic Motor Court, Ashram & Coin Laundry in Boulder, Colorado; his main squeeze, the heartbreakingly beautiful Kiwi LaReaux; a short-order cook who spends his nights on the roof of a west Texas hotel looking at the night sky through a cracked telescope; there is the life and death of truth, Dr. truth; the seductive Mi Oh, hostess at the Now & Zen restaurant in Denver; and, of course, the blind brown trout in its blind eyes Middleton finds not dead shadows but living light.
Download or read book The Willow Field written by William Kittredge and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After numerous essays, short stories and the heralded memoir A Hole in the Sky, William Kittredge gives us a debut novel that ratifies his standing as a leading writer of the American West. Rossie Benasco’s horseback existence begins at age 15 and culminates in a thousand-mile drive of more than 200 head of horses through the Rockies into Calgary. It’s a journey that leads him, ultimately, to Eliza Stevenson and a passion so powerful, his previously unfocused life gains clarity and purpose. From the settlers, cowboys, and gamblers who opened up this country to the landholders and politicians who ran it, this is an epic tale of love and wide open spaces that stretches over the grand canvas of the twentieth-century West.
