Author: David B Lyons Publisher: ISBN: 9781916051812 Category : Languages : en Pages : 318
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Betsy Blake has been missing for seventeen years; the case that gripped a nation all but a distant memory. But when her father, Gordon Blake, has to face make-or-break heart surgery, he hires local PI Lenny Moon to give the investigation one last try. Surely Lenny doesn't have what it takes to make a breakthrough in this cold case...or does he?
Author: Ruth Ann Musick Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813128277 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 208
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" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives—the hopes, beliefs, and fears—of a people. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions.
Author: David B. Lyons Publisher: ISBN: 9781916051836 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 744
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"This trilogy will blow you away" - RubinaReads "These books aren't just memorable. They're unforgettable" - BooksFromDuskTillDawn The Tick-Tock Trilogy is a series of psychological thrillers, all told in real time. Get inside the heads of four characters during the same morning (Midday), afternoon (Whatever Happened to Betsy Blake?) and night (The Suicide Pact) as clocks tick towards drastic deadlines. "Lyons is an outstanding craftsman in the thriller genre" - bestselling author Andrew Barrett MIDDAY Vincent Butler has five hours to steal eight million euro from the four bank branches he manages in Dublin's city centre. If he doesn't - his partner of ten years, who is being held captive, will be killed. Vincent doesn't have long. Only until midday. ...And the clock is ticking. ★★★★★ "Intense, addictive and incredibly clever" WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BETSY BLAKE? Private investigator Lenny Moon has five hours to find the answer to a question that has plagued grieving father Gordon Blake for decades: whatever happened to my daughter, Betsy? Lenny doesn't have long to investigate... only until Gordon is put under the knife for make-or-break heart surgery. ...And the clock is ticking. ★★★★★ "One of the most gripping reads ever" THE SUICIDE PACT Ex-detective Helen Brennan has five hours to stop two teenage girls from ending their own lives, just as her son Scot did twenty-two years ago. The problem is she doesn't know who the teenage girls are. Or where they are. She only knows she has until midnight to save them. ...And the clock is ticking. ★★★★★ "A heart-racing, palm-sweating, page turner" Each of the Tick-Tock Trilogy can be read as standalones, but do comprise cross-over characters and a unique race-against-time narrative. The Tick-Tock Trilogy is 900 pages of heart-thumping thriller drama. What the critics are saying about books in The Tick-Tock Trilogy "Gripping and high-octane" - Irish Mail on Sunday "Lyons' debut has a devastating twist in its tail" - Irish Independent "The best book of the year" - BooksFromDuskTillDawn "Really clever" - BookieWookie "My new favourite author" - RubinaReads "Lyons certainly knows how to nail a thriller" - Bestselling author Sharon Thompson "An outstanding craftsman in the thriller genre" - No. 1 Bestselling author Andrew Barrett "This year's must-read author" - Bestselling author Rob Enright.
Author: Todd McGowan Publisher: Northwestern University Press ISBN: 0810135825 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 326
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Only a Joke Can Save Us presents an innovative and comprehensive theory of comedy. Using a wealth of examples from high and popular culture and with careful attention to the treatment of humor in philosophy, Todd McGowan locates the universal source of comedy in the interplay of the opposing concepts lack and excess. After reviewing the treatment of comedy in the work of philosophers as varied as Aristotle, G. W. F. Hegel, Sigmund Freud, Henri Bergson, and Alenka Zupancic, McGowan, working in a psychoanalytic framework, demonstrates that comedy results from the deployment of lack and excess, whether in contrast, juxtaposition, or interplay. Illustrating the power and flexibility of this framework with analyses of films ranging from Buster Keaton and Marx Brothers classics to Dr. Strangelove and Groundhog Day, McGowan shows how humor can reveal gaps in being and gaps in social order. Scholarly yet lively and readable, Only a Joke Can Save Us is a groundbreaking examination of the enigmatic yet endlessly fascinating experience of humor and comedy.
Author: Cormac Ó Gráda Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691217920 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 314
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Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As vividly described in Ó Gráda's new work, the advent of the blight phytophthora infestans transformed the potato from an emblem of utility to a symbol of death by starvation. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. Central to Irish and British history, European demography, the world history of famines, and the story of American immigration, the Great Irish Famine is presented here from a variety of new perspectives. Moving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, Ó Gráda concentrates instead on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. He highlights several economic and sociological features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration. Other topics include how the Irish climate, usually hospitable to the potato, exacerbated the failure of the crops in 1845-1847, and the controversial issue of Britain's failure to provide adequate relief to the dying Irish. Ó Gráda also examines the impact on urban Dublin of what was mainly a rural disaster and offers a critical analysis of the famine as represented in folk memory and tradition. The broad scope of this book is matched by its remarkable range of sources, published and archival. The book will be the starting point for all future research into the Irish famine.
Author: Sam Blake Publisher: Atlantic Books ISBN: 1838956190 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 312
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A gripping standalone thriller from the No.1 bestselling author of Little Bones and The Dark Room As temperatures soar across Europe during the hottest summer for forty years, a series of hoax terrorist attacks is generating panic in London. Then a bus blows up on Oxford Street and the hoaxes have suddenly become real. Student Brioni O'Brien has been desperately trying to contact her older sister since she unexpectedly returned early from travelling, so when Marissa's bag is found near the site of the explosion, she fears the worst. Teaming up with terrorism expert Anna Lockharte to search for Marissa, Brioni discovers that her sister had got herself into a very dangerous situation - and that now she and Anna could be caught in the fallout.
Author: Sandie Byrne Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137406313 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 301
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Who owns, who buys, who gives, and who notices objects is always significant in Austen's writing, placing characters socially and characterizing them symbolically. Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions looks at the significance of objects in Austen's major novels, fragments, and juvenilia.
Author: David B Lyons
Author: Ruth Ann Musick
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