Author : Lillian Beckwith
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755102711
In The Loud Halo Lillian Beckwith serves up another delightful slice of Hebridean life and a collection of local characters. Meet Johnny Comic, Morag, Kirsty, Behag, Hector, Erchy and the postie - among others. Subjects for amusement include tourists, an election, blizzards and a tinkers' wedding. Each episode is told with wit and affection.
Author : Lillian Beckwith
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 1987
Category :
ISBN : 9781855014589
Author : Kelly Gay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982147881
An original novel set in the Halo universe--based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! An all-new adventure expanding on the dramatic events seen in the blockbuster game Halo Infinite! Copyright (c) 2021 by Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Microsoft, 343 Industries, the 343 Industries logo, Halo, and the Halo logo are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.
Author : Lillian Beckwith
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 075510269X
"When Lillian Beckwith advertised for a secluded place in the country, she received a letter with the following unusual description of an isolated Hebridean croft: 'Surely it's that quiet even the sheeps themselves on the hills is lonely and as to the sea it's that near as I use it myself everyday for the refusals...' Her curiosity aroused, Beckwith took up the invitation. This is the comic and enchanting story of the strange rest cure that followed and her efforts to adapt to a completely different way of life."--Back cover.
Author : Troy Denning
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982143630
USA TODAY BESTSELLER A Master Chief story and original full-length novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! October 2559. It has been a year since the renegade artificial intelligence Cortana issued a galaxy-wide ultimatum, subjecting many worlds to martial law under the indomitable grip of her Forerunner weapons. Outside her view, the members of Blue Team—John-117, the Master Chief; Fred-104; Kelly-087; and Linda-058—are assigned from the UNSC Infinity to make a covert insertion onto the ravaged planet Reach. Their former home and training ground—and the site of humanity’s most cataclysmic military defeat near the end of the Covenant War—Reach still hides myriad secrets after all these years. Blue Team’s mission is to penetrate the rubble-filled depths of CASTLE Base and recover top-secret assets locked away in Dr. Catherine Halsey’s abandoned laboratory—assets which may prove to be humanity’s last hope against Cortana. But Reach has been invaded by a powerful and ruthless alien faction, who have their own reasons for being there. Establishing themselves as a vicious occupying force on the devastated planet, this enemy will soon transform Blue Team’s simple retrieval operation into a full-blown crisis. And with the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance, mission failure is not an option…
Author : Trish Dinsmoor
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1468550322
STOLEN HALO is a moving and engrossing memoirabout childhood physical, sexual and emotional abuse; about rejection and abandonmentthat provides a perspective that only a person who was that child can know. STOLEN HALO is a true testament to the importance and the process of facing ones past head-on, resurrecting that past, owning and respecting it, putting it into written wordsand then sharing ones own story with the universe in the hope that those words will somehow help others make sense of their own lives just as writing them made sense to the author. For Trish Dinsmoor, in STOLEN HALO, it isnt just a matter of honestyit is a matter of responsibilityto get her message of hope out to all the victims of abuse. STOLEN HALOand its poignant message of hope and survivalis Trish Dinsmoors attempt to set herself and other victims free.
Author : Kathleen McFall
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2020-06-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781734519709
IN THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE, HOW CAN A PERSON GO MISSING? The year is 2187. Crucial Larsen, a veteran of the brutal Consolidation Wars, is working as a labor cop on Earth. The planet is a toxic dump and billions of people are miserable, but so what? It's none of his business. He's finally living a good life, or good enough. But then Essential, his beloved kid sister, disappears on Mars. When Halo-the all-powerful artificial-intelligence overseeing Earth and Mars on behalf of the ruling Five Families-can't (or won't) locate his sister, Crucial races up-universe to find her. In the Choke, the frigid, airless expanse outside the luxury domes, Crucial uncovers a deadly secret from Essential's past that threatens to shatter his apathetic existence?and both planets. Blending science-fiction with the classic, hard-boiled detective story, Gates of Mars is a page-turning, futuristic thrill-ride featuring a gritty, irreverent anti-hero-Crucial Larsen. The first book of the Halo Trilogy, Gates of Mars is the eighth novel by award-winning authors Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall.
Author : Shannon Dittemore
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1401686400
One halo brought sight to Brielle. Another offers sweet relief from what she sees. Brielle can’t help but see the Celestial. Even without the halo, the invisible realm is everywhere she looks. It’s impossibly beautiful—and terrifying, especially now. Because a battle rages above Stratus, Oregon. The Terrestrial Veil is ripping, and demons walk the streets past unseeing mortals. Dark, sticky fear drips from every face, and nightmares haunt Brielle’s sleep. Worst of all, Jake is gone. The only boy she’s ever loved has been taken by the demon, Damien. When she receives instructions from the Throne Room leading her to Jake, she unknowingly walks into a diabolical and heartbreaking trap. Now she’s stranded in a sulfurous desert with the Prince of Darkness himself, and he’s offering her another halo—a mirrored ring that will destroy her Celestial vision. All she has to do is wear it and she’ll see no more of the invisible world. No more fear. No more nightmares. No more demons. It’s a gift. And best of all: it comes with the promise of a future with Jake, something the Throne Room seems to be taking from her. Will Brielle trade the beauty of the Celestial and the truth of the world around her just to feel ordinary again?
Author : Maxine Kumin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2001-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393322610
From a celebrated poet and horsewoman comes the journal of her astonishing recovery after a nearly fatal accident. Kumin tells of her time "inside the halo, " a head immobilization device, as this harrowing yet heartwarming story of a fighter and survivor unfolds.
Author : Mia P. Manansala
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593201701
Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie's Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy mystery series by Mia P. Manansala. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Or her professional life, since she can't bring herself to open her new café after the unpleasantness that occurred a few months ago at her aunt's Filipino restaurant, Tita Rosie's Kitchen. No, things are heating up quite literally, since summer, her least favorite season, has just started. To add to her feelings of sticky unease, Lila's little town of Shady Palms has resurrected the Miss Teen Shady Palms Beauty Pageant, which she won many years ago—a fact that serves as a wedge between Lila and her cousin slash rival, Bernadette. But when the head judge of the pageant is murdered and Bernadette becomes the main suspect, the two must put aside their differences and solve the case—because it looks like one of them might be next.
