Download or read book The Sanibel Sunset Detective Saves the World written by Ron Base and published by West-End Books. This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American astronaut Becky McPhee is experiencing the euphoria of her first spacewalk as she makes repairs to the International Space Station when she hears... A Voice... Returning to earth, Becky announces that the Voice has told her the planet will cease to exist during the coming solar eclipse of the sun. The world, already recovering from a devastating pandemic, is thrown into turmoil. Becky retreats to the home of her wealthy father, Dwight McPhee, on Sanibel Island, Florida. Becky is besieged by herds of reporters and thousands of believers desperate to be near her as the world ends. Dwight brings in a trio of former Navy SEALs to protect her. He also hires a local guy. A private detective named Tree Callister. Then Becky disappears. Tree is blamed for her apparent abduction. A one-eyed FBI agent suspects Tree is part of a kidnapping plot. Tree's first wife, now a notorious international oligarch, only complicates matters as do a pair of feuding Russian gangsters. And then there is the body Tree discovers in a secluded cabin outside Everglades City. With ten days to go before the apocalypse, it becomes increasingly clear that only one unlikely detective can save the world. The last person anyone could imagine-Tree Callister! Ron Base's thirteenth Sanibel Sunset Detective novel may be the wildest, funniest, most thrilling Tree Callister adventure yet!
Download or read book The Sanibel Sunset Detective written by Ron Base and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tree Callister is not much of a private detective. His first client just turned up at the door and he's twelve years old. What's more, the kid has the grand total of $7 with which to hire Tree to find his mother. Everyone on Sanibel Island, Florida where Tree lives, thinks the former newspaper reporter is out of his mind. His only defender is his wife Freddie, and even she has doubts. Then a headless body shows up, along with a threatening thug, a couple of suspicious detectives, and a former girlfriend now an ex-FBI agent who suspects Tree knows more than he is admitting. Before long, Tree is up to his neck in the kind of murder and mystery he only imagined as a boy reading the private detective novels he loved. Ron Base's new novel, "The Sanibel Sunset Detective," is full of fast-paced action, humor, unexpected plot twists, and memorable characters. Steeped in the sun-drenched atmosphere of Sanibel and Captiva, two of Florida's most beautiful and unusual islands, this is the first in a series of Tree Callister adventures.
Download or read book Magic Man written by Lori L. Clark and published by Lori L. Clark. This book was released on 2014-08-17 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saraya is not your ordinary prostitute. She prefers to think of herself as a working girl. Someone who has worked her way up on the world. She just happens to do it on her back, maybe on her knees. The Magic Man was where it all began, but if her first love, Elias, has anything to say about it... it will be her last. This short story contains swearing, sex and adult situations. Recommended for mature (18+) audiences.
Download or read book Another Sanibel Sunset Detective written by Ron Base and published by West-End Books. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Tree Callister's Sanibel Island. Meet some of his friends. THE MYSTERIOUS WOMAN. She tries to seduce Tree in Paris and Key West and she may be trying to kill him on Sanibel Island. TWO SHADY CHARACTERS. A former director of the Pakistani Secret Service, Miram Shah, wants Tree to find his missing fiancee. Accused Serbian war criminal Javor Zoran has lost his true love. He insists Tree find her. Could both men be looking for the same woman? THE DOCTOR WITH A MACHETE. Actually, Dr. Edgar Bunya says the correct name for his machete is a cutlass. Dr. Edgar plans to use it to cut off Tree s hands. THE DEAD BODIES. From Key West to Sanibel Island, Tree keeps stumbling across corpses. The cops don t like this one bit. His marriage is in jeopardy, his son is in trouble, his life is being threatened, and time is running out for Tree Callister in his most dangerous and action- packed adventure yet. There is Another Sanibel Sunset Detective, and it finds author Ron Base at his page-turning best!
Download or read book If the Other Guy Isn t Jack Nicholson I ve Got the Part written by Ron Base and published by Chicago : Contemporary Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Base examines the complex chemistry of movie stardom--a potent mix of greed and cunning, ego and casting, dedication and just plain dumb luck.
Download or read book My Sister s Keeper written by Jodi Picoult and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age 13, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister Kate can somehow fight the leukemia that has palgued her since childhood.
Download or read book Gone written by Randy Wayne White and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hannah Smith, a Florida woman with fishing guide clients and a small investigation agency, rescues a client from a brutal storm, he requests her help in locating his missing niece Olivia.
Download or read book Crooked River written by Douglas Preston and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors: Racing to uncover the mystery of several severed feet found floating in the Gulf of Mexico, Agent Pendergast is faced with the most inexplicable challenge of his career. A startling crime with dozens of victims. Appearing out of nowhere to horrify the quiet resort town of Sanibel Island, Florida, dozens of identical, ordinary-looking shoes float in on the tide and are washed up on the tropical beach—each one with a crudely severed human foot inside. A ghastly enigma with no apparent solution. Called away from vacation elsewhere in the state, Agent Pendergast reluctantly agrees to visit the crime scene—and, despite himself, is quickly drawn in by the incomprehensible puzzle. An early pathology report only adds to the mystery. With an ocean of possibilities confronting the investigation, no one is sure what happened, why, or from where the feet originated. And they desperately need to know: are the victims still alive? A worthy challenge for a brilliant mind. In short order, Pendergast finds himself facing the most complex and inexplicable challenge of his career: a tangled thread of evidence that spans seas and traverses continents, connected to one of the most baffling mysteries in modern medical science. Through shocking twists and turns, all trails lead back to a powerful adversary with a sadistic agenda and who—in a cruel irony—ultimately sees in Pendergast the ideal subject for their malevolent research.
Download or read book The Movies of the Eighties written by Ron Base and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Practice Makes Perfect English Sentence Builder Second Edition written by Ed Swick and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The go-to sentence-building guide now includes a brand-new, fully comprehensive review chapter! You’ve learned the fundamentals of English grammar, like spelling, word meanings, and parts of speech. Now it’s time to take the next step and put them all together to communicate complete ideas. Practice Makes Perfect English Sentence Builder, Second Edition guides you through the process of putting the “parts” of English together correctly, from connecting words into clauses to writing original sentences to creating whole paragraphs. You’ll get where you want in no time through Practice Makes Perfect’s systematic, crystal-clear approach to building sentences. Practice Makes Perfect English Sentence Builder, Second Edition features: • Clearl explanations of how to apply grammar to create well-formed sentences • Numerous examples of correctly-formed English sentences • Lesson reinforcement with copious practice exercises, include multiple choice, sentence-correction, and building new sentences from scratch • Answer key, including suggestions for creative exercises
Download or read book Marley Me written by John Grogan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Now with photos and new material. Is it possible for humans to discover the key to happiness through a bigger-than-life, bad-boy dog? Just ask the Grogans. John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same. Marley grew into a barreling, ninety-seven-pound streamroller of a Labrador retriever. He crashed through screen doors, gouged through drywall, and stole women's undergarments. Obedience school did no good -- Marley was expelled. But just as Marley joyfully refused any limits on his behavior, his love and loyalty were boundless, too. Marley remained a model of devotion, even when his family was at its wit's end. Unconditional love, they would learn, comes in many forms. Marley & Me is John Grogan's funny, unforgettable tribute to this wonderful, wildly neurotic Lab and the meaning he brought to their lives.
Download or read book Wallflower at the Orgy written by Nora Ephron and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Nora Ephron can write about anything better than anybody else can write about anything’ New York Times A bitingly funny, provocative and revealing look at our foibles, passions and pastimes – from the much-missed, bestselling author of I Feel Bad About My Neck and I Remember Nothing. From her Academy Award-nominated screenplays (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, Julie & Julia) to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron was one of the most gifted, prolific and versatile writers of our time. In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what she does best: embrace culture with love, cynicism and unmatched wit. From tracking down the beginnings of the self-help movement, to dressing down the fashion world’s most powerful publication, to capturing a glimpse of a legendary movie in the making, these timeless pieces tap into our enduring obsessions with celebrity, food, romance, clothes, entertainment and sex. Whether casting her ingenious eye on public figures or herself, Ephron deftly weaves her journalistic skill with the intimate style of an essayist and the incomparable talent of a great storyteller.
Download or read book The Newcomer written by Mary Kay Andrews and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads delivers her next page-turner for the summer with The Newcomer. In trouble and on the run... After she discovers her sister Tanya dead on the floor of her fashionable New York City townhouse, Letty Carnahan is certain she knows who did it: Tanya’s ex; sleazy real estate entrepreneur Evan Wingfield. Even in the grip of grief and panic Letty heeds her late sister’s warnings: “If anything bad happens to me—it’s Evan. Promise me you’ll take Maya and run. Promise me.” With a trunkful of emotional baggage... So Letty grabs her sister’s Mercedes and hits the road with her wailing four-year-old niece Maya. Letty is determined to out-run Evan and the law, but run to where? Tanya, a woman with a past shrouded in secrets, left behind a “go-bag” of cash and a big honking diamond ring—but only one clue: a faded magazine story about a sleepy mom-and-pop motel in a Florida beach town with the improbable name of Treasure Island. She sheds her old life and checks into an uncertain future at The Murmuring Surf Motel. The No Vacancy sign is flashing & the sharks are circling... And that’s the good news. Because The Surf, as the regulars call it, is the winter home of a close-knit flock of retirees and snowbirds who regard this odd-duck newcomer with suspicion and down-right hostility. As Letty settles into the motel’s former storage room, she tries to heal Maya’s heartache and unravel the key to her sister’s shady past, all while dodging the attention of the owner’s dangerously attractive son Joe, who just happens to be a local police detective. Can Letty find romance as well as a room at the inn—or will Joe betray her secrets and put her behind bars? With danger closing in, it’s a race to find the truth and right the wrongs of the past.
Download or read book For Whom the Shell Tolls written by Jennifer Lonoff Schiff and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was it suicide or murder? When a local big shot is found dead in a locked car with a painted shell in his pocket bearing an ominous warning, it's up to Guinivere Jones, intrepid reporter and amateur sleuth, to determine the true cause of death. Book eight in the Sanibel Island Mystery series, For Whom the Shell Tolls takes readers on the hunt for a buried treasure-and a possible murderer-and combines mystery, romance, and seashells in an irresistible read.
Download or read book Bone Deep written by Randy Wayne White and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning new thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author. When a Crow Indian acquaintance of Tomlinson’s asks him to help recover a relic stolen from his tribe, Doc Ford is happy to tag along—but neither Doc nor Tomlinson realize what they’ve let themselves in for. Their search takes them to the part of Central Florida known as Bone Valley, famous primarily for two things: a ruthless subculture of black-marketers who trade in illegal artifacts and fossils, and a multibillion-dollar phosphate industry whose strip mines compromise the very ground they walk on. Neither enterprise tolerates nosy outsiders. For each, public exposure equals big financial losses—and in a region built on a million-year accumulation of bones, there is no shortage of spots in which to hide a corpse. Or two.
Download or read book Rough Enough written by Richard H. McBee, Jr. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rough Enough is a work of historical non-fiction detailing ten years in the life of Richard McBee's great grandfather, a teenager who goes off half cocked to fight the Civil War! Richard Clow is 17 when the excitement of the final year of Civil War conflict entices him to enlist in the Union Army. Very quickly he finds that even getting to the battle front can have its own challenges: tewo weeks in a thug dominated holding camp followed by the ship voyage from Hell in getting from Boston to the Petersburg front. His thirteen letters home to his sisters describe poignant military experiences, bloody battles to take Petersburg, close calls, and the stresses of war. These are mingled with his daily observations of the Virginian countryside, hardships and small joys by a young man who has a flair for description. The accompanying text documents the changes from snotty nosed youth to blooded infantryman. It describes parallel battle situations and how the stresses of the battlefield lead Richard Clow towards a "Soldier's Heart" PTSD type syndrome. What is it that makes this young man reenlist two years after the war and join the 13th Infantry fighting in the mountains and plains of Montana and the Dakotas from ill designed forts. As his heart grows weary of battles, Clow shares his dreams of married life with his sister as he describes yet another ambush oo travelers through Indian territory. Clow's post military marital bliss is cut short by the specter of death which nearly wipes out his immediate family. With a heavy heart he again seeks solace in the wilderness and the cold creeks and gun ruled world of Deadwood in the heart of the Black Hills gold rush. As he strikes it rich and then goes on to live out his dreams of being a farmer, rancher and Oregon hotelier, we see how perseverance in the face of overwhelming life struggles can lead to a family and forty more years of productive life on the waning frontier.
Download or read book The Four Wives of the Sanibel Sunset Detective written by Ron Base and published by West-End Books. This book was released on 2015-11-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one detective end up married four times? A good question, Tree Callister wishes he had the answer. All he knows is that three of his ex-wives have arrived on Sanibel Island, off the west coast of Florida, much to the chagrin of Freddie, his fourth wife. What's more, all his ex-wives are in trouble. Before Tree knows it, he is up to his neck in complications, including a jailed ex-wife, his best friend under arrest, a Russian oligarch who doesn't like him, cops out to get him... A murder or two. And, oh yes, Marilyn Monroe shows up unexpectedly. At a time when he is supposed to be retired and enjoying a quiet life on an island paradise, Tree finds himself in bigger jams than ever, trying to stay alive while he searches for a killer and asks himself that age old question: how does a private detective get married so many times? Ron Base's latest Tree Callister adventure, The Four Wives of the Sanibel Sunset Detective, tries to find the answer. Sort of.
