Author : Mary Holt
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 2020-09-04
Category :
ISBN :
Only Raven knows her missing and estranged husband is, in fact, dead. She knows because she killed him. Another murdered body has landed at her feet, and she must uncover the killer before the police investigation stumbles across her crime. Raven cannot allow her significant disability to interfere but must use it to her advantage before her prey turns the tables.
Author : Mark Dery
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802196128
A wide-ranging collection of essays on millennial American culture that “marshals a vast pop vocabulary with easy wit” (The New York Times Book Review). From the far left to the far right, on talk radio and the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling. Celebrity worship and media frenzy, suicidal cultists and heavily armed secessionists: modern life seems to have become a “pyrotechnic insanitarium,” Mark Dery says, borrowing a turn-of-the-century name for Coney Island. Dery elucidates the meaning to our madness, deconstructing American culture from mainstream forces like Disney and Nike to fringe phenomena like the Unabomber and alien invaders. Our millennial angst, he argues, is a product of a pervasive cultural anxiety—a combination of the social and economic upheaval wrought by global capitalism and the paranoia fanned by media sensationalism. The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium is a theme-park ride through the extremes of American culture of which The Atlantic has written, “Mark Dery confirms once again what writers and thinkers as disparate as Nathanael West, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sigmund Freud, and Oliver Sacks have already shown us: the best place to explore the human condition is at its outer margins, its pathological extremes.” “Dery is the kind of critic who just might give conspiracy theory a good name.” —Wired
Author : Debbie Viguié
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2009-07-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0310856647
In the first book of the Sweet Seasons series, Candace finds herself in a romantic comedy with a screwball edge when she starts her summer job at a crazy amusement park. Surviving all the surprises The Zone has in store won’t be easy … but it may be worth it if it means getting to know her attractive and mysterious coworker. When her father forces sixteen-year-old Candace to apply for a summer job, a position as a cotton candy operator at The Zone is all she can find. With a nametag that says “Candy” and no time to hang out with her best friend, Tamara, Candace can feel the next three months slipping away. The only positive is that her cart is often positioned near Kurt, one of the mascots in the History Zone of the park. But while their flirtation is giving Candace a reason to head to work, her fellow cotton candy girl just happens to be Kurt’s ex. And she’s the kind to hold grudges. As the summer progresses, the job gets easier, Candace finds a new friend in Josh, and she and Kurt become closer … but Candace’s other relationships both at the park and with Tamara just keep getting worse. And once Kurt’s ex is assigned to her team-building scavenger hunt group, Candace’s life becomes as sticky as the pink fluff she serves all day. The Summer of Cotton Candy: is a YA contemporary novel with a fun, rom-com feel is written by New York Times bestselling author Debbie Viguié explores first love and the ups and downs that come with, with a humorous angle is a clean read for young adult fans of any age
Author : Debbie Viguié
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0310567513
In the second book of the Sweet Seasons series, Candace has decided to spend another season at The Zone amusement park. But while working as a screaming mascot in the maze is fun, the park has more than a few serious twists—and scares—to offer. Candace never thought she’d sign up for another season at The Zone, but the allure of working with her boyfriend, Kurt, and spending time with her new friends has made the job easier to bear. Though once she finds out her new job is working as Candy in the newest Halloween maze—a role based on her harrowing night in the park that summer that shifted into a wild story she was chased by a killer—things don’t look quite as promising. Her friend Josh makes things slightly easier to bear, but soon the stress of her family’s potential financial hardships, a suddenly strained relationship with Kurt, and the exhaustion of running and screaming each night begin to take their toll. Then dangerous things start happening inside the maze, and Candace starts wondering if maybe her urban myth is becoming a reality—which means her life may be in danger. The Fall of Candy Corn: is a YA contemporary novel with a fun, rom-com feel is written by New York Times bestselling author Debbie Viguié contains a suspenseful plotline with light chills is a coming-of-age story that mixes humor with real-life struggles is a clean read for young adult fans of any age
Author : Ty Hutchinson
Publisher : Ty Hutchinson
Page : 1669 pages
File Size : 27,77 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
ABBY KANE FBI THRILLERS (Books 1-6) - FREE Meet the agent with an impossible directive: solve the FBI's most baffling cases. Abby Kane spent her early career putting sickos, psychopaths, and ruthless killers behind bars. After her husband's mysterious death, she moved her family to San Francisco, hoping for a fresh start and healing. What she got instead was a job with the FBI. If you like Patterson and Baldacci, you’ll love the equally thrilling and highly addictive Abby Kane series. Corktown A mutilated body has Corktown residents nervous and for a good reason. Detroit Metro Police recognize the handiwork of the serial killer known as the Doctor. But there’s a problem with that. They locked him up seven years ago. When FBI Agent Abby Kane visits the Doctor behind bars, he swears he’s innocent and not the psychopath everyone thinks he is. Oddly enough, Abby believes him. Tenderloin With white-collar crimes dominating her work schedule, chasing deranged killers is a thing of the past until the body of a dead DEA agent pops up in Bogotá. Through her investigation, FBI Agent Abby Kane learns that a new drug has been invented, and its danger isn’t the addictive high but the terrifying side effects. She believes the cartels are behind the drug, but the locals think it’s one man. They call him the Monster. Russian Hill (CC Trilogy #1) In the first book of the Chasing Chinatown Trilogy, a killer is loose in San Francisco, collecting body parts. FBI Agent Abby Kane believes a dead hiker found ten miles north of the city is the key to solving those crimes. But the more she digs, the more she begins to think the killer is playing an elaborate game, and there’s an audience cheering him on. Lumpini Park (CC Trilogy #2) In the second book of the Chasing Chinatown Trilogy, FBI agent Abby Kane hunts the man behind the sadistic challenges the only way she knows how: by playing the game and moving up the bloody leaderboard herself. Coit Tower (CC Trilogy #3) The hunt continues in the third installment of the Chasing Chinatown Trilogy. FBI Agent Abby Kane is the sole Attraction in a bloody game designed for one reason: to take lives. Deliver her head and collect the $10 million bounty. Kowloon Bay Her husband was brutally killed three years ago. Now he’s the prime suspect in a murder investigation. After the murder of her husband in Hong Kong, FBI Agent Abby Kane moved her family to San Francisco as a way to start over. During a return visit to Hong Kong, Abby discovers an unthinkable secret that has her questioning the entire family she married into and believing her late husband might have been a deadly killer. Get started on a series you’ll find impossible to put down.
Author : Julie Hanson
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 33,97 MB
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781732663312
Coralie is a little angel who is trying to earn her wings but doesn't like the rules. One day she sees her best friend back home trusting a stranger and takes her role as an angel seriously. With the help of volunteers, Coralie puts her plan into action. Will she earn her wings? Will she save her friend?
Author : Ivy Tholen
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 2020-10-20
Category :
ISBN :
Everyone at Pritchett High wants an invitation to the Senior Scavenge. In 2020, Violet Warren and her friends are the lucky ones. Eight girls will break into the Poison Apple Carnival after hours for a scavenger hunt, then at sunrise they'll gather for a celebration in honor of their upcoming senior year. But someone else has another game planned. Minutes after the girls sneak into the carnival, a madman in a rubber mask begins slashing his way through the group and Violet quickly realizes his motives are personal. As she watches her friends die in a series of increasingly bizarre attacks, she must fight to survive while trying to answer the question: What could she have done to earn a fast-pass for a roller coaster ride straight to hell?
Author : Jean Davies Okimoto
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780982316757
Newly arrived from Kazakhstan, twelve-year-old Maya Alazova resents the way her mother babies her brother, but when she leaves her English Language Learner program for mainstream classes and has to deal with a boy, a bully, and conflict at home, she finds her brother can help with their new culture in ways their parents can't.
Author : Nigel Blundell
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 39,97 MB
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1848847378
The body snatcher who inspired Psycho, the noblewoman known as Countess Dracula, Jack the Ripper, and other killers for whom murder was just the beginning. From Gilles de Rais’ castle in fifteenth-century France to “the Bloody Benders’” eighteenth-century Kansas farm to Jeffrey Dahmer’s quiet apartment in twentieth-century Milwaukee, history is littered with serial murderers whose first impulse was to take a life. For some, it was never enough. The real thrill came after their victims were dead. In this shocking anthology, true crime journalist Nigel Blundell brings together more than two dozen chilling profiles of the world’s most unforgettable fiends, including: Ed Gein, the Plainfield necrophile and inspiration for The Silence of the Lambs; Andrei Chikatilo, the “Rostov Ripper”, whose uncontrollable hunger was satiated by more that fifty victims; Dennis Nilsen, whose London house of horrors so overflowed with body parts that they blocked the drains; Germany’s Fritz Haarmann who killed and consumed more than two dozen men, then peddled the left-over meat on the black market; Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory whose lust for the blood of virgins—a body count estimated to be in the hundreds—has branded her the most prolific female serial killer in world history; and many more human monsters whose appetites are still the stuff of nightmares.
Author : Stephen Spotswood
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593312805
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice • Rex Stout meets Agatha Christie with a fresh twist in the new Pentecost and Parker Mystery, a delightfully hardboiled high-wire act starring two daring women sleuths dead set on justice as they set out to solve a murder at a traveling circus “A delight.... It’s a pleasure to watch [Pentecost and Parker] sifting through red herrings and peeling secrets back like layers of an onion.” The New York Times Book Review Someone’s put a blade in the back of the Amazing Tattooed Woman, and Willowjean “Will” Parker’s former knife-throwing mentor has been stitched up for the crime. To uncover the truth, Will and her boss, world-famous detective Lillian Pentecost, travel to the circus, where they find a snake pit of old grudges, small-town crime, and secrets worth killing for. Will called Hart & Halloway’s Traveling Circus and Sideshow home for five years, and Ruby Donner, the circus’s tattooed ingenue, was her friend. To make matters worse, the prime suspect is Valentin Kalishenko, the man who taught Will everything she knows about putting a knife where it needs to go. To uncover the real killer and keep Kalishenko from a date with the electric chair, Will and Ms. Pentecost join the circus in sleepy Stoppard, Virginia, where the locals like their cocktails mild, the past buried, and big-city detectives not at all. The two swiftly find themselves lost in a funhouse of lies as Will begins to realize that her former circus compatriots aren’t playing it straight, and that her murdered friend might have been hiding a lot of secrets beneath all that ink.
