Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 2006-06-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780765350411
When Callie interviews the band, Brass Rat, for her school newspaper, her feelings are ambivalent, but when all the children of Northampton begin to disappear on Halloween, she knows where the dangerous search must begin.
Author : Sharyn McCrumb
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345345189
"She's Agatha Christie with an attitude; outrageous and engrossing at the same time." Steven Womack, NASHVILLE BANNER Book four in Sharyn McCrumb's Elizabeth MacPherson murder mystery series. A motley crew of American and British professionals and amateurs gathers for an archaeological dig into prehistoric burial rites on a small Scottish island. Things already aren't going so well, when one of the strongest in the crew dies suddenly. Afraid for her life, fellow digger and forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson probes the rocky topsoil for a reason behind the evil aura of death that seems to hover over them. Is the excavation cursed by the ancient dead...or is there a more modern explanation behind the group's strangely rising mortality rate...?
Author : Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1595589147
During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.
Author : Simon Wood
Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612184043
Its been years since the serial kidnapper known as the Piper taunted the FBI through Scott Fleetwoods newspaper column. The exposure made Fleetwood famous, but it turned out he was talking to the wrong man, allowing the Piper to escape. Now the Piper is back, and this time hes taken Fleetwoods children. Original.
Author : Judith H. Balfe
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780252063107
Author : David Drake
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743435478
In his popular Hammer's Slammers series, Vietnam veteran Drake tells a military story like no other, set on warring planets in need of the mercenary services of Colonel Hammer and his men.
Author : Craig Wear
Publisher :
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 2019-08-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781687339324
If you do what you're taught, you save for retirement inside your workplace 401k plan. Unfortunately, what you may not understand is that you're creating a costly monster. You may be subject to lifetime income taxes in excess of eighty percent of the balance of your account. This book uncovers the reasons that cause these ongoing taxes and reveals specific strategies that allow you to take immediate action. The newest changes in our tax codes have created an unparalleled opportunity to save a lot of money for the rest of your life. The purpose of the book is to teach you simple steps that can be implemented to save literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of income taxes.
Author : Jay Asher
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0448493683
#1 international bestselling author of Thirteen Reasons Why Jay Asher and co-author Jessica Freeburg brilliantly reimagine the classic Pied Piper legend as a powerful graphic novel about loneliness, love, and vengeance. Fans of Through the Woods by Emily Carroll will devour this eerie, atmospheric retelling. “A moving graphic novel about isolation, love, and retribution, this dark version of a familiar tale will remain with readers long after the last page is turned.”—School Library Journal Long ago, in a small village in the middle of a deep, dark forest, there lived a lonely, deaf girl named Maggie. Shunned by her village because of her disability, her only comfort comes from her vivid imagination. Maggie has a gift for inventing stories and dreams of one day finding her fairy-tale love. When Maggie meets the mysterious Piper, it seems that all her wishes are coming true. Spellbound, Maggie falls hard for him and plunges headfirst into his magical world. But as she grows closer to the Piper, Maggie discovers that he has a dark side. The boy of Maggie’s dreams might just turn out to be her worst nightmare… With striking illustrations from Eisner-nominated artist Jeff Stokely, mixed with Jessica Freeburg's work on historic and legendary horrors, Piper is an exciting new departure for Jay Asher that deftly touches on the same themes of truth, guilt, and redemption that made Thirteen Reasons Why a beloved bestseller.
Author : Patricia Wentworth
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504033264
A blackmailing businessman turns up dead in this mystery featuring Scotland Yard’s Inspector Ernest Lamb, from the creator of the Miss Silver series. Lucas Dale always gets what he wants. And this time he wants another man’s fiancée: Susan Lenox. Never mind that she’s engaged to Bill Carrick, an up-and-coming architect without a farthing to his name. Cathleen O’Hara, Dale’s mousy social secretary, serves as the unwitting instrument of his plan, and a nasty blackmail scheme is set in motion. Soon, Susan has no choice but to break off her engagement and agree to marry Dale—until he’s found in his study with a bullet in his head. Scotland Yard is called in, and before long, Inspector Ernest Lamb and Detective Frank Abbott have a suspect: Carrick. But as Lamb and Abbott dig deeper, they discover others with means, motive, and opportunity, including the victim’s penniless former wife who was handy with a gun, and his American business partner who wanted the money Dale owed him. No one has an alibi for the time of Dale’s demise. And someone else will die before the price of murder is paid. Who Pays the Piper? is the 2nd book in the Ernest Lamb Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Author : Mario Stonewall
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781418475635
"Paying the Piper his Dues" is a true story told through the eyes of a major hustler who left the game in his prime. I was faced with a dilemma which was play the hand I was dealt or give up and fall prey to the streets. As a youngster I saw the local hustlers getting money and all of the girls this only fueled my fire. As a result I became fascinated with the game, I thought this would be my ticket to the American dream and my way out of the hood. Nobody told me glitter and glim ain't what it seem and everything you get from the game the price you must pay in return is too high. I was expelled from High School, went to jail and labeled. Thank God for my mother, and the Hank-Lady I finished High School and went on to graduate from Alabama State University. Nobody told me the life I chose would be easy, but nobody told it would be this hard. Thanks to my street teachers Shoe Strang, and Mike I was able to take the game by a storm. I lost a lot to the game for example, my first love, my homeboys, and most of all my childhood. It was hard for me for me to leave the game not because of the money but because I was concern about the people who dependent on me to feeding their families. I thank God I was able to leave the game. To all my youngster steer clear of the game because in the end the price is too high to pay take it from me.
