Author : Joel Stewart
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780192744524
Find out how the tiny robber's dastardly plans for are foiled by the tiny cops in this hilarious picture book from the creator of The Adventures of Abney and Teal, Joel Stewart. The exuberant, charming artwork and timeless adventure story will captivate children and grown-ups alike.
Author : Donald E. Westlake
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504051602
The Grand Master of Mystery delivers “nerve-end-entertainment” when two of New York’s finest set out to become two of New York’s richest (Kirkus Reviews). Tom and Joe have been walking the beat on the mean streets of the Big Apple longer than they can remember—or care to. They’ve been good cops, protecting the public and holding the line against crime and chaos in a city that has plenty of both. And all they have to show for it is a whole lot of nothing. But now the partners have devised a scheme to make all their dreams come true: the perfect heist. Tom and Joe are going to rob the fat cats on Wall Street for millions and walk away clean. With the right connections and the proper execution, there’s no way their plan can fail. And that’s why they’re so surprised when everything goes totally, hysterically wrong . . . With Cops and Robbers, the three-time Edgar Award–winning author, named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, offers “another very hot and successful” novel with “a siren shrill finale” (Kirkus Reviews). Praise for Donald E. Westlake “Westlake has no peer in the realm of comic mystery novelists.” —San Francisco Chronicle “No writer can excel Donald E. Westlake.” —Los Angeles Times
Author : Janet Ahlberg
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Big books
ISBN : 9780582435193
Storytime Giants provides large-format versions of favourite picture stories by well-known authors. This is a rhyming text.
Author : L. B. Cobb
Publisher : Advance Books Company
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0970622414
Attorney Bill Glasscock's mid-life crisis gets even more complicated when his ex-wife's lover washes up on the beach below his girlfriend's house.
Author : Peter Moskos
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2009-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1400832268
When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District, he was thrust deep into police culture and the ways of the street--the nerve-rattling patrols, the thriving drug corners, and a world of poverty and violence that outsiders never see. In Cop in the Hood, Moskos reveals the truths he learned on the midnight shift. Through Moskos's eyes, we see police academy graduates unprepared for the realities of the street, success measured by number of arrests, and the ultimate failure of the war on drugs. In addition to telling an explosive insider's story of what it is really like to be a police officer, he makes a passionate argument for drug legalization as the only realistic way to end drug violence--and let cops once again protect and serve. In a new afterword, Moskos describes the many benefits of foot patrol--or, as he calls it, "policing green."
Author : RG Brennan
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1636610285
Shifter By: RG Brennan Syd is a thief. And a very good one. From an early age it was a way of life for someone without a memory, a home, or a past. But Syd has something others do not have – a gift. With the help of her “merry men,” she puts together her well-laid plans and executes them. But it is her gift that gives her a true edge. Syd is able to “shift.” With little effort on her part, she has found that she can shift completely into the form of another. But danger lurks as her plans become more brazen. Then, suddenly, her life is turned upside down. Syd is not alone. She is being hunted. And another gift has begun to emerge.
Author : J. Peter Bergman
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1456723154
Max Draper is the younger child in an ordinary American family growing up in New York City. His life is as straightforward as it can be and his family as seemingly normal as possible. There is one thing, though. His family business, for generations, has been prostitution. Raised in an environment that encourages honesty he falls in love with a childhood friend, a girl named Freddy. That love, and all that it brings with it, masks his true nature, his homosexuality, and living that dichotomy brings him into a life he could never have anticipated. A world of tolerance and understanding is stretched to the breaking point as Max discovers the reality of his friends' secrets, desires and mistakes.
Author : Manuel Ramos
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1518507956
Luis Montez is nursing a drink and licking his wounds in the Dark Knight Lounge after a bruising case. The jury took less than an hour to decide his efforts defending a client were worthless. He’s on the verge of a mid-life crisis and ready to give up his law business. But the night brightens when an old friend from the Chicano student civil rights movement turns up with a beautiful woman on his arm. Teresa Fuentes, a new attorney about to start at a prestigious Denver firm, is much younger, but that doesn’t keep Luis’ imagination from running wild. As the weary attorney dreams about the mysterious woman and deals with his faltering law firm and an ethics investigation, he’s shocked to learn another friend from the activist days is getting threats about “the old business,” the murder of their friend Rocky Ruiz twenty years ago by men in white robes. And when compadres get beaten up, murdered or go into hiding, Luis can’t ignore that history may be repeating itself. Are the crazy racists back to finish what they started so long ago? Is it just bad luck that Teresa’s arrival in town coincides with the violence? Or is there a deeper connection? Originally published in 1993 by St. Martin’s Press and reissued by Northwestern University Press in 2004, this gripping first installment in the Luis Montez Mystery series introduces readers to the Denver attorney and activist who appears in four subsequent novels.
Author : Dezso Kosztolanyi
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590173392
It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays—call them Mother and Father—live in Sárszeg, a dead-end burg in the provincial heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Father retired some years ago to devote his days to genealogical research and quaint questions of heraldry. Mother keeps house. Both are utterly enthralled with their daughter, Skylark. Unintelligent, unimaginative, unattractive, and unmarried, Skylark cooks and sews for her parents and anchors the unremitting tedium of their lives. Now Skylark is going away, for one week only, it’s true, but a week that yawns endlessly for her parents. What will they do? Before they know it, they are eating at restaurants, reconnecting with old friends, attending the theater. And this is just a prelude to Father’s night out at the Panther Club, about which the less said the better. Drunk, in the light of dawn Father surprises himself and Mother with his true, buried, unspeakable feelings about Skylark. Then, Skylark is back. Is there a world beyond the daily grind and life's creeping disappointments? Kosztolányi’s crystalline prose, perfect comic timing, and profound human sympathy conjure up a tantalizing beauty that lies on the far side of the irredeemably ordinary. To that extent, Skylark is nothing less than a magical book.
Author : Timothy Treadwell
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 1999-02-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0345426053
Living with Wild Bears in Alaska "A heart-stopping eco-adventure, a testimony to both the grizzlies and their courageous protector." --People "The grizzly bear is one of a very few animals remaining on earth that can kill a human in physical combat. It can decapitate with a single swipe or grotesquely disfigure a person in rapid order. Within the last wilderness areas where they dwell, they are the undisputed king of all beasts. I know this very well. My name is Timothy Treadwell, and I live with the wild grizzly. . . ." After Timothy Treadwell nearly died from a heroin overdose, he sought healing far from the trappings of civilization--among wild grizzlies on the remote Alaskan coast. Without gun, two-way radio, or experience living in the wild, armed only with the love and respect he felt for these majestic animals, Treadwell set up camp surrounded by one of nature's most terrifying and fascinating forces of nature. Here is the story of his astonishing adventures with grizzlies: soothing aggressive adolescents, facing down thousand-pound males, swimming with mothers and cubs, surviving countless brushes with death, earning their trust and acceptance. In these incredible pages, Treadwell lives a life no human has ever attempted, and ultimately saves his own. To share his experience is awesome, harrowing, and unforgettable. "LIKE AFRICA NATURALIST JANE GOODALL, TREADWELL GIVES PERSONAL NAMES TO HIS SUBJECTS. . . . Bears have distinct personalities, Treadwell shows, and as a group, individual roles become clearly defined by gender, size, and age." --The Seattle Times With twenty-nine photographs
