Author : Wendy Haley
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780821740972
When she learns she's adopted, tragically widowed Maris desperately seeks her birth parents by placing ads in the personals columns of every Texas newspaper. Soon she receives a frightening response: You weren't wanted then, and you aren't wanted now. Undaunted, Maris continues her search--only to discover that the danger becomes even more real as she gets closer to the truth.
Author : Jim Fergus
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250093422
"The vengeance of mothers" explores the bonds among family and community, the search for identity and belonging, during a time of tumultous change in our nation's history. What is a "native" American? Are all men and their wives created equal? How far wil Margaret and her countrywomen go to fight for what's theirs, and what's already gone?
Author : Dawn Sullivan
Publisher : Dawn Sullivan Author LLC
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
I’m the East Texas VP’s Enforcer, a dark and dangerous shadow in the night. I’ve worked my ass off to get this position in the club, and I take it seriously. I’m a loyal bastard, the cat in me will allow no less. I do whatever needs to be done to protect my brothers. It’s my job. My Right. *This title was originally part of the Dark Leopards Anthology. The East Texas Chapter stories should be read in order. If you love lawless bikers, protective mates, and justice of the vigilante sort, then one-click your copy today! Dark Leopards MC East Texas Chapter Reading Order: #1 Shadow's Revenge - Dawn Sullivan #2 A Slash in the Darkness - Samantha Conley #3 Mated to the Darkness - Screaming Mimi #4 Protective Instincts - Lynn Burke #5 His Light in the Darkness -Screaming Mimi #6 Just Killin' Time - Samantha Conley #7 Demon's Hellfire - Dawn Sullivan #8 Feral Instincts - Lynn Burke #9 Healing His Darkness - Screaming Mimi #10 Taz’s Valor - Dawn Sullivan #11 Mating Instincts - Lynn Burke #12 Tricky Bastard – Samantha Conley
Author : Ana Siljak
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 24,84 MB
Release : 2009-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429960841
In the Russian winter of 1878 a shy, aristocratic young woman named Vera Zasulich walked into the office of the governor of St. Petersburg, pulled a revolver from underneath her shawl, and shot General Fedor Trepov point blank. "Revenge!," she cried, for the governor's brutal treatment of a political prisoner. Her trial for murder later that year became Russia's "trial of the century," closely followed by people all across Europe and America. On the day of the trial, huge crowds packed the courtroom. The cream of Russian society, attired in the finery of the day, arrived to witness the theatrical testimony and deliberations in the case of the young angel of vengeance. After the trial, Vera became a celebrated martyr for all social classes in Russia and became the public face of a burgeoning revolutionary fervor. Dostoyevsky (who attended the trial), Turgenev, Engels, and even Oscar Wilde all wrote about her extraordinary case. Her astonishing acquittal was celebrated across Europe, crowds filled the streets and the decision marked the changing face of Russia. After fleeing to Switzerland, Vera Zasulich became Russia's most famous "terroristka," inspiring a whole generation of Russian and European revolutionaries to embrace violence and martyrdom. Her influence led to a series of acts that collectively became part of "the age of assassinations." In the now-forgotten story of Russia's most notorious terrorist, Ana Siljak captures Vera's extraordinary life story--from privileged child of nobility to revolutionary conspirator, from assassin to martyr to socialist icon and saint-- while colorfully evoking the drama of one of the world's most closely watched trials and a Russia where political celebrities held sway.
Author : Kristine Mason
Publisher : Kristine Mason
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 098947903X
Welcome to Hell Week. You have seven days to find him… At Wexman University, male students will do anything to get into a top fraternity. They’ll prove their worth during Hell Week by participating in various physical, psychological and even juvenile pranks. But those shenanigans aren’t so funny when pledges start disappearing. What kind of evil has stalked this small Michigan university for the past two decades? Theories range from obscene scientific experiments to grotesque satanic killings…but they’re all wrong. The murdered boys serve a single purpose…the ultimate revenge. Rachel Davis, forensic computer analyst for the private investigation agency CORE, has been itching to leave her desk behind and work in the field. When her brother Sean, a student at Wexman, is found beaten and his roommate kidnapped during Hell Week, she gets her chance. Only her boss insists former U.S. Secret Service Agent, Owen Malcolm, helps her with the investigation. Owen is the last person she wants on this assignment. She’d been secretly half in love with him for over four years, until the night he’d crushed her ego and destroyed her hopes for any kind of future with him. For his own reasons, Owen refuses to risk becoming involved with a coworker. Now that he and Rachel are stuck working side-by-side to solve this perverse investigation, he’s having a hard time fighting his attraction to her…an attraction he’s tried to deny from the moment they met. But time is ticking. They have seven days to find the missing pledge and catch a killer. Seven days before the body count rises and the pledge ends up another victim of Hell Week.
Author : Mukul Deva
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765337711
Ruby Gill is a rogue MI6 agent, the daughter of an Indian father and Palestinian mother. Her mission is to destroy a Palestinian-Israeli peace summit in New Delhi. Ruby's father, whom she has not seen since age three, is now head of India's antiterrorist police. When the two first meet, Ravinder Gill believes his long-lost daughter has come for a reunion . . . but as time goes by, he begins to suspect that she is the terrorist he's searching for. Combining a fascinating mix of terrorist operational detail contrasted with the coming together of a father and daughter who once loved each other but are now on opposite sides of a deadly encounter, Mukul Deva's Weapon of Vengeance is a gripping thriller filled with explosive action and weighty characters.
Author : Marilyn Schneider
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816615136
Vengeance of the Victim was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. More profoundly than any documentary record, the collected fiction of Giorgio Bassani—Il Romanzo di Ferrara — captures a very particular and powerful historical reality: Italian Jewish life under Fascism, especially between the passage of the so-called racial laws in 1938 and the end of World War II. Set primarily in the provincial city of Ferrara, Bassani's narratives interweave themes of death, victimization, betrayal, survival, and artistic production. His best-known novel, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis — and other works that concentrate on the crucial years of 1938-1945—stand at the center of the Romanzo.They are preceded by texts that look back on Jewish life in the liberal era of the Risorgimento, and followed by texts set in the liberated, democratic society of the postwar years. These framing narratives provide a space for remembrance and reflection. Marilyn Schneider's aim, in Vengeance of the Victim, is to uncover the symbolic layers — historical, spatial, topographical, mythopoeic, allegorical, and sexual — that five Bassani's texts their richness and ambiguity, and in so doing to achieve a full understanding of his work and its representation of the Italian Jewish experience. Death and victimization, which pervade these texts, set in motion a process of artistic renewal that is most fully embodied in the vibrant young Micol Finzi-Contini, Bassani's textual icon and a victim of the Holocaust. Schneider also finds that the narratives, especially the late ones, pay self-reflexive attention to the creation of the text, constructing an authorial persona engaged in an existential, moral, and artistic journey from symbolic death to rebirth. It is the writing subject's successful completion of the journey that constitutes the vengeance of the victim.
Author : Erin Bowman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0544466381
When her father is murdered for a journal revealing the location of a hidden gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers -- and justice. What she finds are untrustworthy strangers, endless dust and heat, and a surprising band of allies, among them a young Apache girl and a pair of stubborn brothers who refuse to quit riding in her shadow. But as Kate gets closer to the secrets about her family, a startling truth becomes clear: some men will stop at nothing to get their hands on gold, and Kate's quest for revenge may prove fatal.
Author : Evan Winter
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316489816
In this "relentlessly gripping, brilliant" epic fantasy (James Islington), an ousted queen must join forces with a young warrior in order to reclaim her throne and save her people. Tau and his Queen, desperate to delay the impending attack on the capital by the indigenous people of Xidda, craft a dangerous plan. If Tau succeeds, the Queen will have the time she needs to assemble her forces and launch an all out assault on her own capital city, where her sister is being propped up as the 'true' Queen of the Omehi. If the city can be taken, if Tsiora can reclaim her throne, and if she can reunite her people then the Omehi have a chance to survive the onslaught. "This gritty series set in a South African–inspired fantasy world is an intense reading experience, and the second book is just as phenomenal as the first."—BuzzFeed News "The Fires of Vengeance is epic fantasy at its finest."—Winter Is Coming The Books of The Burning Series The Rage of Dragons The Fires of Vengeance The Lord of Demons
Author : Francis Worcester Doughty
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 32,24 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Police Captain Howard was on a duty on a dark and stormy night when he and his fellow policeman heard fighting noises and cries for help. As they reached the crime scene it was too late, a man's body was lying on the street and a murderer has already escaped. Facing the dead end in the lack of evidence, Police Captain Howard includes in the investigation Shadow, a mysterious person who claims to be a private investigator fighting crime. The Shadow is asked to help solving this unusual case, but as the things begin to unravel, it turns out that the Shadow is more mysterious than the case.
