Author: Sherry Garland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439088206
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Set in 1846, this tale tells the story of a mestizo servant who worked under the harsh supervision of Se±or Medina in his Spanish home during the period when Alta California is lost to the Americans.
Valley of the Moon
Author: Sherry Garland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439088206
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Set in 1846, this tale tells the story of a mestizo servant who worked under the harsh supervision of Se±or Medina in his Spanish home during the period when Alta California is lost to the Americans.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439088206
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Set in 1846, this tale tells the story of a mestizo servant who worked under the harsh supervision of Se±or Medina in his Spanish home during the period when Alta California is lost to the Americans.
Surviving the Angel of Death
Author: Eva Kor
Publisher: Tanglewood Press
ISBN: 1933718579
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Describes the life of Eva Mozes and her twin sister Miriam as they were interred at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust, where Dr. Josef Mengele performed sadistic medical experiments on them until their release.
Publisher: Tanglewood Press
ISBN: 1933718579
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Describes the life of Eva Mozes and her twin sister Miriam as they were interred at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust, where Dr. Josef Mengele performed sadistic medical experiments on them until their release.
The Mystery of the Blue Train
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593685377
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Agatha Christie’s beloved detective Hercule Poirot solves the murder of an American heiress by restaging her final journey by night train—with all of the suspects aboard. When the fabled Blue Train, the luxury overnight passenger express to the Riviera, arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to awaken Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But the wealthy American socialite will never wake again, for a brutal blow has killed her, disfiguring her almost beyond recognition. What is more, her famously valuable rubies are missing. The prime suspect is Ruth’s estranged husband, Derek. Yet Hercule Poirot is not convinced, and so he stages an eerie reenactment of the journey—with all of the suspected murderers aboard. A VINTAGE CLASSIC MYSTERY
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593685377
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Agatha Christie’s beloved detective Hercule Poirot solves the murder of an American heiress by restaging her final journey by night train—with all of the suspects aboard. When the fabled Blue Train, the luxury overnight passenger express to the Riviera, arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to awaken Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But the wealthy American socialite will never wake again, for a brutal blow has killed her, disfiguring her almost beyond recognition. What is more, her famously valuable rubies are missing. The prime suspect is Ruth’s estranged husband, Derek. Yet Hercule Poirot is not convinced, and so he stages an eerie reenactment of the journey—with all of the suspected murderers aboard. A VINTAGE CLASSIC MYSTERY
Charge of the Beast
Author: Rosalie King
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735143217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
She grew up an orphan. He's a war-torn hero. And a pandemic is about to shake the world.When Eliana Gibbons is thrust into the face of danger, she fears the same demise as her parents-a famous American journalist and an Israeli civilian murdered by Islamic extremists. A visitor drops in and delivers a shocking revelation: the last decade of Eliana's life was based on a lie. The global crisis has stopped everyone in their tracks, except Eliana. She demands closure. Now. But she must cross oceans to face the past.Brian Draeger is a combat veteran plagued with survivor's guilt. Flashbacks torture him until he finds a new mission pursuing threats on the home front. But PTSD stands in the way of redemption. Brian must confront inner demons as he races to protect those he loves-and to stop a terrorist attack.Told from multiple points of view, Charge of the Beast is full of twists, white-knuckle thrills, and intriguing stories based on true events.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735143217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
She grew up an orphan. He's a war-torn hero. And a pandemic is about to shake the world.When Eliana Gibbons is thrust into the face of danger, she fears the same demise as her parents-a famous American journalist and an Israeli civilian murdered by Islamic extremists. A visitor drops in and delivers a shocking revelation: the last decade of Eliana's life was based on a lie. The global crisis has stopped everyone in their tracks, except Eliana. She demands closure. Now. But she must cross oceans to face the past.Brian Draeger is a combat veteran plagued with survivor's guilt. Flashbacks torture him until he finds a new mission pursuing threats on the home front. But PTSD stands in the way of redemption. Brian must confront inner demons as he races to protect those he loves-and to stop a terrorist attack.Told from multiple points of view, Charge of the Beast is full of twists, white-knuckle thrills, and intriguing stories based on true events.
Don't Try This at Home
Author: Dave Navarro
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006204527X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Step into the booth. Check your judgments at the curtain. Close your eyes. Listen: you can hear the voices of the visitors who sat here before you: some of the most twisted, drug-addled, deviant, lonely, lost, brilliant characters ever to be caught on film. What do you have to offer the booth?
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006204527X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Step into the booth. Check your judgments at the curtain. Close your eyes. Listen: you can hear the voices of the visitors who sat here before you: some of the most twisted, drug-addled, deviant, lonely, lost, brilliant characters ever to be caught on film. What do you have to offer the booth?
Midnight Sun
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316592250
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 727
Book Description
#1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with this highly anticipated companion: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view. When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella's side of the story. At last, readers can experience Edward's version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight Sun. This unforgettable tale as told through Edward's eyes takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting Bella is both the most unnerving and intriguing event he has experienced in all his years as a vampire. As we learn more fascinating details about Edward's past and the complexity of his inner thoughts, we understand why this is the defining struggle of his life. How can he justify following his heart if it means leading Bella into danger? In Midnight Sun, Stephenie Meyer transports us back to a world that has captivated millions of readers and brings us an epic novel about the profound pleasures and devastating consequences of immortal love. An instant #1 New York Times BestsellerAn instant #1 USA Today BestsellerAn instant #1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerAn instant #1 IndieBound BestsellerApple Audiobook August Must-Listens Pick "People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -- Time "A literary phenomenon." -- New York Times
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316592250
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 727
Book Description
#1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with this highly anticipated companion: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view. When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella's side of the story. At last, readers can experience Edward's version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight Sun. This unforgettable tale as told through Edward's eyes takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting Bella is both the most unnerving and intriguing event he has experienced in all his years as a vampire. As we learn more fascinating details about Edward's past and the complexity of his inner thoughts, we understand why this is the defining struggle of his life. How can he justify following his heart if it means leading Bella into danger? In Midnight Sun, Stephenie Meyer transports us back to a world that has captivated millions of readers and brings us an epic novel about the profound pleasures and devastating consequences of immortal love. An instant #1 New York Times BestsellerAn instant #1 USA Today BestsellerAn instant #1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerAn instant #1 IndieBound BestsellerApple Audiobook August Must-Listens Pick "People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -- Time "A literary phenomenon." -- New York Times
Booth
Author: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593331451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Best Book of the Year Real Simple • AARP • USA Today • NPR • Virginia Living Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth—breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor, and master of the house in more ways than one—is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive, as year by year, the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. As the tenor of the world shifts, the Booths emerge from their hidden lives to cement their place as one of the country’s leading theatrical families. But behind the curtains of the many stages they have graced, multiple scandals, family triumphs, and criminal disasters begin to take their toll, and the solemn siblings of John Wilkes Booth are left to reckon with the truth behind the destructively specious promise of an early prophecy. Booth is a startling portrait of a country in the throes of change and a vivid exploration of the ties that make, and break, a family.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593331451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Best Book of the Year Real Simple • AARP • USA Today • NPR • Virginia Living Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth—breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor, and master of the house in more ways than one—is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive, as year by year, the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. As the tenor of the world shifts, the Booths emerge from their hidden lives to cement their place as one of the country’s leading theatrical families. But behind the curtains of the many stages they have graced, multiple scandals, family triumphs, and criminal disasters begin to take their toll, and the solemn siblings of John Wilkes Booth are left to reckon with the truth behind the destructively specious promise of an early prophecy. Booth is a startling portrait of a country in the throes of change and a vivid exploration of the ties that make, and break, a family.
Mafiacraft
Author: Deborah Puccio-Den
Publisher: Hau
ISBN: 9781912808250
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Mafia? What is the Mafia? Something you eat? Something you drink? I don't know the Mafia. I have never seen it." So said Mommo Piromalli, a 'Ndrangheta crime boss, to a journalist in the seventies. In Mafiacraft, Deborah Puccio-Den explores the Mafia's reliance on the force of silence, and undertakes a new form of ethnographic inquiry that focuses on the questions, rather than the answers. For Puccio-Den, the Mafia is not a stable social fact, but a cognitive event shaped by actions of silence. Rather than inquiring about what has previously been written or said, she explores the imaginative power of silence and how it gives consistency to special kinds of social ties that draw their strength from a state of indetermination. What methods might anthropologists use to investigate silence and to understand the life of the denied, the unspeakable, and the unspoken? How do they resist, fight, or capitulate to the strength of words, or to the force of law? In Mafiacraft, Puccio-Den's addresses these questions with a fascinating anthropology of silence that opens up new ground for the study of the world's most famous criminal organization.
Publisher: Hau
ISBN: 9781912808250
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Mafia? What is the Mafia? Something you eat? Something you drink? I don't know the Mafia. I have never seen it." So said Mommo Piromalli, a 'Ndrangheta crime boss, to a journalist in the seventies. In Mafiacraft, Deborah Puccio-Den explores the Mafia's reliance on the force of silence, and undertakes a new form of ethnographic inquiry that focuses on the questions, rather than the answers. For Puccio-Den, the Mafia is not a stable social fact, but a cognitive event shaped by actions of silence. Rather than inquiring about what has previously been written or said, she explores the imaginative power of silence and how it gives consistency to special kinds of social ties that draw their strength from a state of indetermination. What methods might anthropologists use to investigate silence and to understand the life of the denied, the unspeakable, and the unspoken? How do they resist, fight, or capitulate to the strength of words, or to the force of law? In Mafiacraft, Puccio-Den's addresses these questions with a fascinating anthropology of silence that opens up new ground for the study of the world's most famous criminal organization.
The Suitcase
Author: Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9781784707705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9781784707705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dead Man's Island
Author: Carolyn Hart
Publisher: Crimeline
ISBN: 0307569373
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
“A sassy heroine . . . [Henrie O] says what she thinks (when it serves her purposes) and pulls no punches.”—Chicago Sun-Times When arrogant media magnate Chase Prescott is nearly killed by a box of cyanide-laced candy, he dials his long-ago lover, retired newshound Henrietta O’Dwyer Collins, with a simple request: He’ll assemble all the suspects if Henrie O will kindly point out the would-be murderer. It’s a case—her first—that fills Henrie O with grave misgivings, especially when she arrives on Chase’s private island off the South Carolina coast to meet the players in this deadly drama. Among Prescott’s unstable young wife, his sullen stepson, and his toady of a secretary, she has trouble narrowing the field of suspects—even when a second attempt is made on Chase’s life. As Henrie O unearths a will and fascinating new evidence, a killer hurricane sweeps up from Cuba, threatening to maroon them in this vacation hell . . . where the trappings of luxury are put to lethal use and the secrets of the past have the power to engulf them all.
Publisher: Crimeline
ISBN: 0307569373
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
“A sassy heroine . . . [Henrie O] says what she thinks (when it serves her purposes) and pulls no punches.”—Chicago Sun-Times When arrogant media magnate Chase Prescott is nearly killed by a box of cyanide-laced candy, he dials his long-ago lover, retired newshound Henrietta O’Dwyer Collins, with a simple request: He’ll assemble all the suspects if Henrie O will kindly point out the would-be murderer. It’s a case—her first—that fills Henrie O with grave misgivings, especially when she arrives on Chase’s private island off the South Carolina coast to meet the players in this deadly drama. Among Prescott’s unstable young wife, his sullen stepson, and his toady of a secretary, she has trouble narrowing the field of suspects—even when a second attempt is made on Chase’s life. As Henrie O unearths a will and fascinating new evidence, a killer hurricane sweeps up from Cuba, threatening to maroon them in this vacation hell . . . where the trappings of luxury are put to lethal use and the secrets of the past have the power to engulf them all.