Book Description
Nulwee confronts the frightening Bone Man. Will he destroy him or will Bone Man win?
Author : Laura Simms
Publisher : Hyperion Books for Children
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780786800896
Nulwee confronts the frightening Bone Man. Will he destroy him or will Bone Man win?
Author : Wolf Haas
Publisher : Melville International Crime
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 16,23 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 161219169X
The Bone Man is the second book in the internationally successful Detective Brenner series. In this latest episode, the hilariously wry and rueful Colombo of Austria, Steve Brenner, looks into a grisly murder at a much-loved chicken restaurant. Some of the bones within don't quite look like they came from chickens, it would be fair to say. Wolf Haas has written another quirky tale that's both funny and dark, rooted in the perversities of modern-day politics. The Bone Man is a timely, edgy story featuring a protagonist it's hard not to love.
Author : Charles Happell
Publisher : Pan Australia
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781405038362
Kokichi Nishimura was a member of the 2nd battalion, 144th Regiment of the Japanese Imperial Army. In 1942 he fought along every foot of Kokoda as the Japanese attempted to take Port Moresby. He was the only man from his company to survive the campaign. As he was evacuated to safety he made a promise that one day he would return to his comrades and bring them home to Japan for proper burial. After the war, Nishimura prospered. But under the surface, the driving ambition of his life was to fulfil his promise. In 1979, he shocked his family by returning to New Guinea to search for the remains of Japanese soldiers. For the next 25 years, Nishimura lived alone along the Kokoda Track. Armed only with a metal detector, a mattock and a shovel, he searched for his dead comrades. Over the years he found hundreds of them - some he was able to identify and return their bones to their families; others were unknown, and their remains were sent to Japan's official shrine for its war dead in Tokyo. In 2005 Nishimura, now in his mid-eighties and seriously ill, was forced to return to Japan. His story is an incredible adventure that gives us a radically different viewpoint on a battle that has become part of our national myth. Nishimura's life and quest above all offer a poignant reminder of the futility of war.
Author : Edgar J. Hyde
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Blessing and cursing
ISBN : 9781902012001
Author : Wolf Haas
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612191703
The wry and rueful Columbo of Austria investigates a grisly murder at a beloved restaurant where snooty Viennese gourmands go to eat … fried chicken. At a wildly popular chicken shack in the Austrian countryside, a gruesome discovery is made in the pile of chicken bones waiting to be fed into the basement grinder: human bones. But when former-police detective now private eye Simon Brenner shows up to investigate, the woman who hired him has disappeared … Brenner likes chicken, though, so he stays, but finds no one will talk. And as he waits for the disappeared manager, there’s one ghastly find after another. Perhaps the most raucous book in the series, The Bone Man manages to make fun of institutions from high cuisine to soccer while nonetheless building relentless suspense based in all-too-real social issues. Smart, tense, and funny, the book makes clear why Carl Hiaasen called Wolf Haas “the real deal.”
Author : Terry Tarnoff
Publisher : Random House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Travelers
ISBN : 0553816683
If you were free, completely free with no ties or commitments: you could go anywhere, do anything - what would you choose? wanting no part of a war he didn't believe in, packed a bag, picked up his guitar and sixteen harmonicas and headed out into the world. What followed was the ultimate drop-out adventure. Amsterdam and the jungles of Africa, he smoked chillums with the lepers of India, trance-danced at a death ceremony in Tibet, developed a heroin habit in Bangkok, nearly died driving through the poppy fields of Thailand with a kamikaze cab driver and found the girl of his dreams in wintry Stockholm. about turning on, tuning in and dropping out. In a world full of larger than life characters, and where the only limitation is your own imagination, Terry Tarnoff went in search of answers - and, amazingly, found some. Along the way he had the craziest road trip you'll ever encounter.
Author : Terry Tarnoff
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2004-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312324476
Faced with a government they could not trust and a war they did not want, the burn outs went to Haight Ashbury, the drop outs went around the world.
Author : William Arnett
Publisher : Tinwood Books
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780965376631
The first comprehensive overview of an important genre of American art, Souls Grown Deep explores the visual-arts genius of the black South. This first work in a multivolume study introduces 40 African-American self-taught artists, who, without significant formal training, often employ the most unpretentious and unlikely materials. Like blues and jazz artists, they create powerful statements amplifying the call for freedom and vision.
Author : Russell Banks
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 2010-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307375641
Chappie is a punked-out teenager rejected by his mother and abusive stepfather. Out of school and in trouble with the police, he drifts through crash pads, doper squats, and malls until he finally settles in an abandoned school bus with Rose, a seven-year-old child, and I-Man, an exiled Rastafarian who will dramatically change his life. Together they begin an amazing journey...
Author : Jonathan Maberry
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496705432
Members of a town terrorized by a monstrous evil search for its source in this horror novel by the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Ink. Something evil has awakened in the town of Pine Deep. While a local newsman tries to piece together the gruesome events of a long-buried crime, others are preparing for the return of an unstoppable scourge. Bodies mutilated beyond description, innocents driven to acts of vicious madness—a monstrous legacy is preying on the living and the dead. There are those in Pine Deep who are not what they seem. Who are driven by a thirst for blood and revenge. And who are quietly building an army of the undead . . . Second in the Pine Deep Trilogy Praise for Ghost Road Blues “Maberry supplies plenty of chills, both Earth-bound and otherworldly, in this atmospheric horror novel . . . . This is horror on a grand scale, reminiscent of Stephen King’s heftier works.” —Publishers Weekly Praise for New York Times bestselling Author Jonathan Maberry “Jonathan Maberry’s horror is rich and visceral. It’s close to the heart . . . and close to the jugular.” —Kevin J. Anderson “Maberry has the chops to craft stories at once intimate, epic, real, and horrific.” —Bentley Little “Maberry spins great stories. His (Pine Deep) vampire novels are unique and masterful.” —Richard Matheson “Maberry’s works will be read for many, many years to come.” —Ray Bradbury