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Balloons, Allies & Dead Guys

Author : Jennifer Fischetto

Publisher : Gemma Halliday Publishing

Page : 139 pages

File Size : 18,39 MB

Release : 2022-01-11

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Fischetto comes a locked-room mystery that will leave you chilled to the bone! There's nothing more important to ghost whisperer Gianna Mancini than family. Which is why for Pop's 60th birthday, she's planned an intimate family get-together, just before an impending Nor’easter hits their town. A quick catered dinner and cake, and everyone will be home before the first snowflake falls. Or so she thought. Pop’s eccentric extended family from New Jersey decides to crash their quiet celebration, and before Gianna can do more than react, she's hit with another unwanted surprise—in the form of a dead body. As if murder wasn't enough to put a damper on the partying mood, the blizzard arrives early, forcing Gianna and her family to spend the night with a killer. With the help of her police detective brother, Enzo, Gianna knows she needs to get to the bottom of this mystery... before more family ends up dead. Who would want the deceased gone? Why would they do it at Pop's party? And where are they hiding... or perhaps, are they hidden in plain site among the party guests? Too bad the dearly departed isn’t giving up any clues. Secrets unfold, suspects emerge, and as Gianna gets closer to the truth, she fears the killer may be one step ahead of her... Gianna Mancini Mysteries: Lipstick, Lies & Dead Guys (book #1) Miniskirts, Mai Tais & Dead Guys (book #2) Cupcakes, Butterflies & Dead Guys (book #3) Stilettos, Bow Ties & Dead Guys (book #4) Diamonds, Pies & Dead Guys (book #5) Ghosts, Private Eyes & Dead Guys (book #6) Balloons, Allies & Dead Guys (book #7) Christmas, Spies & Dead Guys (short story in the "Cozy Christmas Shorts" collection) What critics are saying about the Gianna Mancini Mysteries: "Quirky but oh so fun cozy mystery. If you like your cozy mysteries on the humorous side, then look no further!" —Fresh Fiction "Jennifer Fischetto serves up a delicious cozy mystery with this fun ghost story. If you are a fan of the genre this is a fun read that will leave you with a smile." —Night Owl Reviews



Dead Men Risen

Author : Toby Harnden

Publisher : Regnery Publishing

Page : 530 pages

File Size : 18,61 MB

Release : 2014-11-17

Category : History

ISBN : 1621572714

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Dead Men Risen, winner of the prestigious Orwell Prize for Books, is the epic story of a beleaguered British battle group fighting desperately to prevent the Taliban from seizing Afghanistan's Helmand province just as the U.S. Marines arrive to take over. Bestselling author Toby Harnden describes how men from the coal mining valleys and slate quarry villages of Wales found themselves in the most intense combat faced by British troops for a generation. Underequipped and overstretched, the fighting prowess of the Welsh Guards in the killing fields of Sangin and Nawa awed the U.S. Marines. NATO commander General Stanley McChrystal, who was awaiting a response to his urgent request to President Barack Obama for more troops, hailed their "burn-in-your-gut passion." Harnden was on the ground with the Welsh Guards in Helmand in 2009. He gained access to a trove of secret military documents and conducted nearly three hundred interviews in Afghanistan, England, Wales, and the United States to produce this timeless and profound account of men at war. Commanding the Welsh Guards was Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, a passionate believer in the justness of the war who was dismayed by the military and political incompetence surrounding it. In chilling detail, Harnden reveals how and why Thorneloe—the first British battalion commander to die in action since the 1982 Falklands War—was killed by an IED during Operation Panther’s Claw. By the time the fighting was over, almost no rank had been spared. From the searing heat of the poppy fields and the mud compounds of Helmand to the dreaded knock on the door back home, the reader is transported there. Harnden weaves the experiences of the soldiers, their historical forbears and the flawed NATO strategy into a masterly narrative. No other book about modern conflict succeeds on so many levels. Dead Men Risen is essential for anyone who wants to understand the reality of the Afghan war for the U.S and its allies.







A Naked Singularity

Author : Sergio De La Pava

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 690 pages

File Size : 33,4 MB

Release : 2012-04-19

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0226141799

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The critically acclaimed novel that is now a major motion picture starring John Boyega and Olivia Cooke, coming to theaters August 6, streaming August 13! A Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender--one who, tellingly has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of justice and even his sense of self begin to crack--and how his world then slowly devolves. It’s a huge, ambitious novel clearly in the vein of DeLillo, Foster Wallace, Pynchon, and even Melville, and it's told in a distinct, frequently hilarious voice, with a striking human empathy at its center. Its panoramic reach takes readers through crime and courts, immigrant families and urban blight, media savagery and media satire, scatology and boxing, and even a breathless heist worthy of any crime novel. If InfiniteJest stuck a pin in the map of mid-90s culture and drew our trajectory from there, A Naked Singularity does the same for the feeling of surfeit, brokenness, and exhaustion that permeates our civic and cultural life today. In the opening sentence of William Gaddis’s A Frolic of His Own, a character sneers, "Justice? You get justice in the next world. In this world, you get the law." A Naked Singularity reveals the extent of that gap, and lands firmly on the side of those who are forever getting the law.



The American Legion Weekly

Author : American Legion

Publisher :

Page : 632 pages

File Size : 11,93 MB

Release : 1924

Category : World War, 1914-1918

ISBN :

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Balloon Girls

Author : Darrell Pitt

Publisher : Text Publishing

Page : 239 pages

File Size : 17,95 MB

Release : 2021-02-02

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 192592386X

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A new inspiring and educational middle-grade novel from the author of The Boy from Earth and the Jack Mason Adventure series.



Current History

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Publisher :

Page : 638 pages

File Size : 15,84 MB

Release : 1918

Category : History

ISBN :

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