Download or read book The Man Who Defied Gravity written by Madalyn S. Kinsey and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-24 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanessa and her cousins Luke and Daniel stare in silence at the distant sky. Something large was hovering silently in the night sky. It had blueish-green lights and barely moved as though suspended by an unseen cord. Although it was difficult to see clearly in the dark, Vanessa could make out the silhouette of a round craft about the size of large truck. It had no wings or propellers and didn’t look like anything she’d ever seen…. In this third installment of the Vanessa Mystery Series, our heroine, 14-year old Vanessa is again visiting her cousins on the family farm near Fishers, Indiana, as the summer of 1967 is winding down. There’s been a mysterious house fi re, and her cousin Luke has seen a multicolored craft hovering silently over the Indiana skies two nights in a row. Vanessa, Luke, Emma, and Daniel, along with their friend Jim, begin to investigate. Who is the unfriendly new German neighbor, Mr. Kleinschmidt? Could he be a former Nazi? Who is the bald man with the large skull tattoo seen lurking in the woods? And who vandalized their new club house down by the creek? As the kids boldly follow their instincts, each lead brings them closer and closer to a dangerous confrontation, one that endangers their lives and teaches them that people aren’t always what they seem.
Download or read book Force written by Henry Petroski and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eminent engineer and historian tackles one of the most elemental aspects of life: how we experience and utilize physical force "Another gem from a master of technology writing."--Kirkus Reviews Force explores how humans interact with the material world in the course of their everyday activities. This book for the general reader also considers the significance of force in shaping societies and cultures. Celebrated author Henry Petroski delves into the ongoing physical interaction between people and things that enables them to stay put or causes them to move. He explores the range of daily human experience whereby we feel the sensations of push and pull, resistance and assistance. The book is also about metaphorical force, which manifests itself as pressure and relief, achievement and defeat. Petroski draws from a variety of disciplines to make the case that force--represented especially by our sense of touch--is a unifying principle that pervades our lives. In the wake of a prolonged global pandemic that increasingly cautioned us about contact with the physical world, Petroski offers a new perspective on the importance of the sensation and power of touch.
Download or read book Between a Rock and a Haunted Place A Collection of Cozy Paranormal Mystery Romances written by Mandy M. Roth and published by Raven Happy Hour. This book was released on with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six Mandy M. Roth cozy paranormal mystery romances in one set! Welcome to Hedgewitch Cove, Louisiana and Everlasting, Maine, where there's no such thing as normal. Contains: Once Hunted, Twice Shy Total Eclipse of the Hunt An Everlasting Christmas Don’t Stop Bewitching Everybody Wants to Rune the World Do You Really Want to Haunt Me? keywords: cozy mystery, women, detective, sleuths, second chance romance, small-town romance, supernatural, Kraken, vampire, shifter, wolf-shifter, werewolf, police, myth, legend, hunter, slayer,
Download or read book Do You Really Want to Haunt Me written by Mandy M. Roth and published by Raven Happy Hour. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Hedgewitch Cove, Louisiana, where there's no such thing as normal. Shark-shifter and natural-born hunter, New York (York) Peugeot, has been living under a curse placed upon him by his well-meaning grandmother. She only wanted to help her grandchildren find their mates, not drop a spell of chaos upon their heads. The only way to break the curse is to find his true mate, but York has no desire to seek out some mythical woman. He's already infatuated with a woman he can't even see and who has a pesky little issue of being living-challenged. As a ghost, Morgan can’t possibly be his mate, or can she? He can’t recall a time in his life when he wasn’t drawn to her in some form or fashion and when he realizes he’s not the only one, he finds himself in a race to save her soul and their future. Keywords: cozy mystery, pnr mystery, mystery, cozy, vampire, shifter, ghost, demon, devil
Download or read book Music for the Superman written by David Huckvale and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Nietzsche regarded himself as the most musical philosopher--he played the piano, wrote his own compositions and espoused a philosophy encouraging all to dance for joy. Central to his life and his ideas were the music and personality of Richard Wagner, whom he both loved and loathed at different times of his life. Nietzsche had considerable influence on composers, many of whom employed Wagnerian sonorities to set his words and respond to his ideas. This book explores Nietzsche's relationship with Wagner, the influence of his writings on the music of Strauss, Mahler, Delius, Scriabin, Busoni and others, his place in Thomas Mann's critique of German Romantic music in the novel Doctor Faustus and his impact on 20th-century popular music.
Download or read book XVIII Olympiad written by Carl Posey and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: XVIII Olympiad, the sixteenth volume in The Olympic Century series, begins in Japan, at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the first Games ever held in Asia. The Tokyo Games were also the first ever broadcast globally by satellite.The book tells the story of Tokyo heroes like Osamu Watanabe of Japan, who won gold in freestyle wrestling without surrendering a point, and Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina, who won two golds, one silver and two bronze to bring her Olympic medal total to 18. Other highlights of 1964 recounted in the book include the dominant US men's swim team, which won seven of a possible 10 medals in the pool, and Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia, who matched his performance from Rome four years earlier to become the first person to repeat as Olympic marathon champion.Later in the book the focus turns to the Winter Olympics and the 1968 Games in Grenoble, France. Broadcast for the first time in colour, the 1968 Games saw East and West Germany compete as separate nations for the first time. The book profiles stars of Grenoble like gold-medal winning figure skater Peggy Fleming, who sparked a surge in interest in skating; the dashing Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy, who took three gold medals in skiing; and an elfin skier from Canada named Nancy Greene who won gold and silver and became an instant icon in her country.Juan Antonio Samaranch, former President of the International Olympic Committee, called The Olympic Century, "e;The most comprehensive history of the Olympic games ever published"e;.
Download or read book He Man and the Masters of the Universe A Character Guide and World Compendium written by Val Staples and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive guide ever published, covering all things Masters of the Universe and Princess of Power from 1982 through today! The universe of He-Man and She-Ra is full of mystery. And thanks to over four thousand individual entries covering characters, beasts, vehicles, locations, weapons and magic, you can learn the secrets of this entire universe!
Download or read book The Last Dragons Volume One written by Ines Johnson and published by Those Johnson Girls. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alpha male shifters? Insta-love? With a touch of 80’s nostalgia? These three, hot dragon shifters will check all of your boxes! Diagnosed with an incurable disease, Chryssie thought her life was over. When she is sacrificed to a dragon, she learns it has only just begun in The Dragon’s Reluctant Sacrifice. After years of abuse, Poppy believed she was worth nothing. But when she is sacrificed to a dragon she becomes his treasure in The Dragon’s Ambivalent Sacrifice. Sacrificed to a dragon as a teen, Cardi was coddled for years. But when her dragon shifter fails to notice she’s all grown up and willing, she may just have to claim him herself in The Dragon’s Willing Sacrifice. If you love alpha male shifters, fated mates, and steamy romance, then you don’t want to miss The Last Dragons series!
Download or read book Comrade Koba written by Robert Littell and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tight, captivating story of a naive child’s encounters with a Soviet dictator, the 20th novel by Robert Littell Leon Rozental—ten and a half, intellectually precocious, and possessing a disarming candor—is suddenly alone after the death of his nuclear physicist father and the arrest of his mother during the Stalinist purge of Jewish doctors. Now on his own and hiding from the NKVD in the secret rooms of the House on the Embankment, the massive building in Moscow where many Soviet officials and apparatchiks live and work, Leon starts to explore. One day, after following a passageway, Leon meets Koba, an old man whose apartment is protected by several guards. Koba is a high-ranking Soviet official with troubling insight into the thoughts and machinations of Comrade Stalin. In this taut and layered novel, New York Times bestselling author Robert Littell deploys his deep knowledge of this complex period in Russian history and masterful talent for captivating storytelling to create a nuanced portrayal of the Soviet dictator, showing Stalin’s human side and his simultaneous total disregard for and ignorance of the suffering he inflicted on the Russian people. The charm and spontaneity of young Leon make him an irresistible narrator—and not unlike Holden Caulfield, whom he admits to identifying with—caught in the spider’s web of the story woven by this enigmatic old man.
Download or read book Adios America written by Ann Coulter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Bestseller! Ann Coulter is back, more fearless than ever. In Adios, America she touches the third rail in American politics, attacking the immigration issue head-on and flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrants' crimes, churches that get paid by the government for their "charity," and greedy Republican businessmen and campaign consultants—all of whom are profiting handsomely from mass immigration that’s tearing the country apart. Applying her trademark biting humor to the disaster that is U.S. immigration policy, Coulter proves that immigration is the most important issue facing America today.
Download or read book The Jeffries Affair written by John Sherwood and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years they were best friends. For decades they chose to remain estranged. Now Bryan Jeffries has contacted Matt DiGrande to get reacquainted. The idea excites Matt, but it also sends up showers of red flags. They agreed to keep the past in the past, so what could Jeffries possibly want? And why did he make contact now? This multifaceted story encompasses the lives of these two businessmen and several other disparate individuals whose direction in life is forever altered by a strange business report full of smoking guns. Their investigation of the report releases a convoluted string of activities that includes blackmail, abduction and murder, all made possible by a deadly skeleton that has been begging for decades to come out of its closet.
Download or read book Rose Petals Gun Powder written by Jean E. Dugas and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encompassing tale of matter-bending storytelling begins on the lip of the Gulf of Mexico, 1947. Sampson `Apocalypse' Baker and Edison Thomas, polar opposites and WWII veterans, were not born under the star of luck. Their nomadic lives led as mercenary handymen --traveling the US in a patchy 1938 Ocean Blue LaSalle sedan outfitted with an Allison Liberator engine and the remnants of useful armor plating --have found their way through a partially sealed aqueduct discovered during a supernatural storm. Moments after their unorthodox arrival, they wander out from the decaying tunnel and discover a lost yet grand metropolitan island set out to sea, one haunted by the remains of humans fused to buildings and set free to feed; ravens who see these newly arrived combatants' activities and seemingly both help and hinder their progress; villains who defy the laws of both mortality and physics; and a mysterious woman who literally has the curse of death embalmed in her fingertips, never knowing the touch of human contact while carrying with her the most beautiful desires ever known to life. All are among the denizens of Static City, unwilling fallout from `The Accident' --an event upon the island of measured unfolding origin that changed all they knew forever. Rose Petals and Gunpowder, an intricately spun fictional novel combining carefully crafted elements of action, adventure, emotional interaction with larger-than-life characters, science fiction and suspense transport the reader into a world of tilted reality, changing what they think is possible through creative and risk-taking writing. This work by the author is the newest of a series of non-linear novels --currently the fourth completed --competing to be a fresh offering for the discerning adult audience seeking a fulfilling reading experience. This title joins the previously published Twisted Delirium: The Infinite Dream.
Download or read book The Man from Hardin written by Ernest Velon and published by Troyuan Chronicles. This book was released on 2002-05-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the end of old times, and the start of new ones. It is an exodus from previous stagnation, to a life of infinite revelations. It is the first chapter for a young man, and the last moment in a child's imagination. It is the first step in a long career for Alack Troyus, a career that will take him to vistas only the stellar privileged are permitted to gaze upon. Join us in his onward trek to become an agent of the special services. Follow his antics, his triumphs and tragedies along the road of life's experiences. Guided by a master puppeteer, who secretly places in Alack his own salvation, both come to learn from another. Both achieve that rare balance that draws an aspiring hero from the muck of society. Against the vast panorama of the Amazian Imperium, who's arms touch the four corners of the known universe, Alack is molded and sharpened to up hold the Code of Dwitinton. A great legal compendium that grants freedom to human and alien alike, Alack Troyus joins the secret army of enforcers. An army that fights evil in the darkness so the light can shine brightly forever!
Download or read book The Man in Red Square written by Bill Moody and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When America defector Robert Owens passes a note to his former colleague in Moscow’s Red Square saying he wants to come home, American intelligence is faced with a major dilemma. To ensure they are getting the genuine article and not an impostor, they must find someone who can ask questions only the real Owens can answer. CIA veteran Charles Fox’s search turns up Christopher Storm, a teacher who served with Owens in Vietnam. Storm accepts the assignment as plans are made to exchange Owens for a Soviet trade official. But Storm isn’t told the whole story. When he meets with Owens, he discovers even more deception and the KGB’s complicated compartmentalization threatens to unravel the entire affair. Storm is forced into a desperate escape plan which may be the only way out. Praise for THE MAN IN RED SQUARE… “In the grand tradition of unforgettable Cold War spy thrillers, Bill Moody’s The Man in Red Square sends you on an exciting journey into history, politics, and deception as Washington and Moscow jockey to pull off a critical spy exchange in 1980. The book rings with authenticity and offers rare glimpses into the power struggles each side faces. With fascinating characters like Charles Fox, Christopher Storm, and Mikhail Sokolov, you’re in for a suspenseful read that will rivet you to your seat.” — Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Spies
Download or read book The Man the Mountain written by Imtiyaz Khan and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man is disappointed over his failure to commit suicide. He plots to try again after getting rid of an old mountaineer, who helps him recuperate. Forced to spend some time in the mountains, the wise mountaineer promises that he will show him a better method to end life if he accompanies him. It is a tussle between a believer and a non-believer, where the elderly man is bound by his promise and the young man is adamant in his decision.
Download or read book The Man Who Loved Power written by and published by Terry Smith. This book was released on with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Man and His Bike written by Wilfried de Jong and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world as seen from a bike 'Understated, comic and melancholic... It’ll inspire you to get back on your bike.' Martin Love, The Guardian ‘One of the most entertaining sports books I have ever read’ Joe Short, The Daily Express In this award-winning collection of cycling tales, Wilfried de Jong uncovers the true soul of cycling – why we do it, why we watch it, why we hate it, why we love it – stripped bare. With his distinctly comic and melancholic charm Wilfried ponders life, love and death on his trusted bike, chasing the essence of our existence against the backdrop of major cycling events or while roaming alone in nature. Whether he is describing being ejected from Paris-Roubaix, a terminal incident with a bird while out riding, or explaining why he is standing stark naked on Belgian cobbles with a tyre in his hand, Wilfried unlocks a sport that involves so much pain, punishment, and a high probability of failure, but that will always liberate and inspire us.
