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Author: Paul White Publisher: BookRix ISBN: 3743856573 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 256
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Rupert DeVille is happy. This evening Rupert has planned to surprise his girlfriend, Carla by proposing to her over a romantic meal. When Rupert is on his way to work that morning he is snatched off the street by two men in a white van. Live with Rupert during his abduction, learn about his dysfunctional parents, his fears, his dreams for the future and his love for Carla. Meanwhile, at home, Carla learns that Rupert is missing. Carla starts a frantic search to find Rupert and enlists the help of Rupert's employer, George, who is just about to retire. As Carla searches for Rupert we find out about her Fathers sudden death, her Mothers depression and Carla's own wayward past. Rupert, Carla & the General is a thrilling suspense romance written with a touch of wit and humour that will keep you turning page after page. Paul White has the rare ability to bring characters to life, making them real people with feelings, worries and inner doubts, just like you and I. Paul White has masterly crafted Rupert, Carla & the General into a work that leads the reader astray, down the dark alleyways of the past, before bringing them back into the glaring light of the present. Paul manages to do all this while weaving a mixture of laugh-out-loud humour and offbeat wit into the story.
Author: Paul White Publisher: BookRix ISBN: 3743856573 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
Rupert DeVille is happy. This evening Rupert has planned to surprise his girlfriend, Carla by proposing to her over a romantic meal. When Rupert is on his way to work that morning he is snatched off the street by two men in a white van. Live with Rupert during his abduction, learn about his dysfunctional parents, his fears, his dreams for the future and his love for Carla. Meanwhile, at home, Carla learns that Rupert is missing. Carla starts a frantic search to find Rupert and enlists the help of Rupert's employer, George, who is just about to retire. As Carla searches for Rupert we find out about her Fathers sudden death, her Mothers depression and Carla's own wayward past. Rupert, Carla & the General is a thrilling suspense romance written with a touch of wit and humour that will keep you turning page after page. Paul White has the rare ability to bring characters to life, making them real people with feelings, worries and inner doubts, just like you and I. Paul White has masterly crafted Rupert, Carla & the General into a work that leads the reader astray, down the dark alleyways of the past, before bringing them back into the glaring light of the present. Paul manages to do all this while weaving a mixture of laugh-out-loud humour and offbeat wit into the story.
Author: Paul White Publisher: BookRix ISBN: 3743853493 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 43
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A dark tale of greed, selfishness and latent curses, laced with black humour, in a light-hearted way. Although there could be lessons learnt from Miriam's Hex, it is intended to be a simple, enjoyable tale of witchery and mischieve...or not. Miriam's Hex includes the story of how the book took 36 years to publish... a whole tale in itself.
Author: Paul White Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781484146460 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 214
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This is a novel of Abduction and Love; narrated in a vivid, but lighthearted style. Rupert DeVille has planned a surprise proposal to his long term girlfriend Carla, this evening. On his way to work that very morning Rupert is abducted. Despite Rupert's efforts to escape his captors he is taken to meet 'The General'. During Rupert's journey the reader learns about Rupert's past, his dysfunctional parents, his innermost fears, his hopes for the future and his love for Carla. When Carla and George, (Rupert's employer) discover that Rupert is missing they start a frantic search to find him. Carla's unfortunate and tumultuous past, the sudden death of her father and her mothers long and anguishing depression, are revealed as Carla worries about Rupert's whereabouts. . Carla and George alert the police that Rupert is missing; now a pedantic police officer, Sergeant Skinner, is on the case. Sergeant Skinner and Rupert's paths had crossed some years earlier. That encounter had profound, life changing consequences for Sergeant Skinner. All Rupert wants to do is return home to Carla, and make his proposal. The General wants justice before he retires. George wants to live a life of luxury in Cyprus . Carla just wants to find Rupert. Sergeant Skinner wants to close his case. Paul White has a wonderful and unique way of bringing characters to life; you will laugh at their antics, be touched by their grief and empathise when they reveal their innermost feelings. Paul's characters are alive, they are real people, just like you and I. This is the ideal book to read while sunbathing on the beach or during a long flight, or you could just curl up on the sofa at home, with a box of chocolates, and loose yourself in 'A Most Extraordinary Day'.
Author: Shirley Halperin Publisher: Abrams ISBN: 1613120168 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 548
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The ultimate guide for bong-hitting movie buffs, with over 420 entries—plus contributions from Snoop Dogg, Cheech & Chong, Margaret Cho, and more. From the authors of Pot Culture, Reefer Movie Madness is the most extensive guide ever to movies for and about stoners, going well beyond Harold and Kumar and Pineapple Express. In addition to entries on more than 420 films, there are contributions and Q&As from actors, movie directors, musicians, and celebrities, including Jason Mraz, comedian Andy Milonakis, Snoop Dogg, Doug Benson, and Cheech & Chong. Reefer Movie Madness covers it all, from pot-fueled comedies and druggy dramas to sci-fi flicks and 1960s artifacts to documentaries, musicals, and blockbusters—including lots of photos, sidebars, and lists.
Author: David Farr Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000078833 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 240
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Hezekiah Haynes was shaped by the Puritanism of his father’s network and experienced emigration to New England as part of a community removing themselves from Charles I’s Laudianism. Returning to fight in the British Civil Wars, Haynes rose to become Cromwell’s ruler of the east of England, tasked with bringing about a godly revolution, and in rising to prominence he became the centre of his own developing political and religious network, which included a kin link to Cromwell himself. As one of Cromwell’s Major-Generals Haynes was tasked with security and a reformation of manners, but he was hampered by the limits of the early modern state and Cromwell’s own contradictory political and religious ideas. The Restoration saw Haynes imprisoned in the Tower before emerging to return to the community in which he had been raised, and continuing the links with some of those he had worked with for Cromwell and the kin he had left behind in New England in dealing with the norms of early modern life. This book will appeal to specialists in the area and students taking courses on early modern English and American history, as well as those with a more general interest in the period.
Author: Alice Munro Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1101874112 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 785
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“An extraordinary collection” (San Francisco Chronicle) of twenty-four short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro. “Superb . . . Munro is a writer to be cherished.”—NPR A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune A selection of Alice Munro’s most accomplished and powerfully affecting short fiction from 1995 to 2014, these stories encompass the fullness of human experience, from the wild exhilaration of first love (in “Passion”) to the punishing consequences of leaving home (“Runaway”) or ending a marriage (“The Children Stay”). And in stories that Munro has described as “closer to the truth than usual”—“Dear Life,” “Working for a Living,” and “Home”—we glimpse the author’s own life. Subtly honed with her hallmark precision, grace, and compassion, these stories illuminate the quotidian yet astonishing particularities in the lives of men and women, parents and children, friends and lovers as they discover sex, fall in love, part, quarrel, suffer defeat, set off into the unknown, or find a way to be in the world.
Author: Carla Gardina Pestana Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674042077 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 357
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Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland faced civil war, invasion, religious radicalism, parliamentary rule, and the restoration of the monarchy. Carla Gardina Pestana offers a sweeping history that systematically connects these cataclysmic events and the development of the infant plantations from Newfoundland to Surinam. By 1660, the English Atlantic emerged as religiously polarized, economically interconnected, socially exploitative, and ideologically anxious about its liberties. War increased both the proportion of unfree laborers and ethnic diversity in the settlements. Neglected by London, the colonies quickly developed trade networks, especially from seafaring New England, and entered the slave trade. Barbadian planters in particular moved decisively toward slavery as their premier labor system, leading the way toward its adoption elsewhere. When by the 1650s the governing authorities tried to impose their vision of an integrated empire, the colonists claimed the rights of freeborn English men, making a bid for liberties that had enormous implications for the rise in both involuntary servitude and slavery. Changes at home politicized religion in the Atlantic world and introduced witchcraft prosecutions. Pestana presents a compelling case for rethinking our assumptions about empire and colonialism and offers an invaluable look at the creation of the English Atlantic world.
Author: Sylvia Waugh Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1448193214 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 208
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The Gwynns, a pleasant American couple, have lived outside York for the past fourteen years. Nesta, their only child, was born there and attends the local school. They seem ordinary enough and comfortable in their leafy suburb. But they have an astonishing secret unknown even to Nesta. One evening when she sees her father diminish and disappear into a stone lily pad in the garden pond, Nesta has to be told what she really is. Her parents are visitors from the planet Ormingat, sent to Earth to investigate life there. Now they have been ordered to return home. Nesta can`t take it all in, refuses to accept that she is not earthborn and finally runs away with the help of her best school mate, Amy.
Author: Rupert Read Publisher: Boiler House Press ISBN: 1913861112 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 138
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That our ecological future appears grave can no longer come as any surprise. And yet we have so far failed, collectively and individually, to begin the kind of action necessary to shift our path away from catastrophic climate collapse. In this stark and startling little book, Rupert Read helps us to understand the direness of our predicament while showing us a metaphor and a method a way of thinking by which we might transform it. From the relatively uncontroversial starting point that we love our own children, we are introduced to a logic of care that iterates far into the future: in caring for our own children, we are committed to caring for the whole of human future; in caring for the whole of human future, we are committed to caring for the future of the natural world. Out of such thinking, hope emerges. As Read demonstrates in this urgent call to action, accepting that we care for our own offspring commits us to a struggle on behalf of us all.
Author: Paul White
Author: Paul White
Author: Paul White
Author: Paul White
Author: Shirley Halperin
Author: David Farr
Author: Alice Munro
Author: Carla Gardina Pestana
Author: American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association
Author: Sylvia Waugh
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