Author: Mo HayderPublisher:
ISBN: 9781845793876
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Pig Island Signed First Edition
Author: Mo HayderPig Island
Author: Mo HayderPublisher: HarperCollins Canada
ISBN: 1443400076
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
A born skeptic, journalist Joe Oakes believes everything has a rational explanation. He makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes, but when he visits a remote Scottish island and a secretive religious community accused of Satanism, everything he thinks he knows is overturned. What has happened to Pastor Malachi Dove, the leader of the community? Why will no one discuss the strange apparition seen wandering the lonely beaches of Pig Island? The answers will lead Oakes to a confrontation and a bloody aftermath that force him to question whether he might not be responsible for a terrible crime. In this compulsive and disturbing novel, Britain’s “Queen of Fear” dares her readers to face their terror head-on.
Pigs of Paradise
Author: T. R. ToddPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 151073886X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
“The Bahamas are famous for sun, sand—and swimming pigs.” —National Geographic In the middle of paradise, with billionaires and celebrities for neighbors, is an island populated only by swimming pigs. For decades, this archipelago of 365 islands would remain largely unknown to the world. It would not be a ruthless pirate, pioneering loyalists, a notorious drug kingpin, or the infamous Fyre Festival that would unveil Exuma to the world, but rather the most unlikely of creatures. Appearing in magazines, videos, newspapers, commercials, TV shows, and countless selfies, the Swimming Pigs of Exuma, in the Bahamas, have become a bucket-list sensation and have been named one of the marvels of the universe. But how did they reach this celebrity status? What made them so famous? And why, in February 2017, did so many of them die? Pigs of Paradise is an unlikely story of humble beginnings and a swift rise to stardom. With interviews from historians, world-renowned ecologists, famous pig owners, and boat captains, it thoughtfully considers what this phenomenon says about not only these animals but also about us.
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
Author: James Finn GarnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780025427310
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
The Disappearing Spoon
Author: Sam KeanPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780316089081
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters?* The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, and in the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. THE DISAPPEARING SPOON masterfully fuses science with the classic lore of invention, investigation, and discovery--from the Big Bang through the end of time. *Though solid at room temperature, gallium is a moldable metal that melts at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. A classic science prank is to mold gallium spoons, serve them with tea, and watch guests recoil as their utensils disappear.
Bayou Of Pigs
Author: Stewart BellPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 144342711X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
A remarkable tale of greed, treachery and deceit in one of the most outlandish criminal stunts ever conceived: the theft of a nation In 1981, a small but heavily armed force of misfits from Canada and the United States set off on a preposterous mission: invade an impoverished Caribbean country, overthrow its government in a coup d'etat, install a puppet prime minister and transform the island into a crooks’ paradise. Their leader was a Texas soldier of fortune named Mike Perdue. His lieutenant was a Canadian Nazi named Wolfgang Droege. Their destination: Dominica. For two years, they recruited fighting men, wooed investors, stockpiled weapons and forged links with the mob, leftist revolutionaries and militant Rastafarians. They called their invasion Operation Red Dog, and they were going to make millions. All that stood in their way were two federal agents from New Orleans on the biggest case of their lives. Set in the Caribbean, Canada and the American South at the end of the Cold War, and based on hundreds of pages of declassified U.S. government documents, as well as exclusive interviews with those involved, Bayou of Pigs tells the true story of Canadian and American men who tried to steal a tropical paradise.
A Spider and a Pig
Author: Carol MorleyPublisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 9780316584050
Category : Fairy tales.
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A pig and a spider join forces to find the mayor's baby daughter, lost when a disastrous storm hits their island.
The Renowned Collection of First Editions
Author: George Barr McCutcheonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Renowned Collection of First Editions of Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: George Barr McCutcheonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
AB Bookman's Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description