Author: James Sheridan KnowlesPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Long Road?s End
Author: Ian McLarenPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456866664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1037
Book Description
An infamous drug baron is tortured before being coldly executed in his London home. The body of a drug dealer who appears to have met a similar fate is found in the dark waters of Loch Ness. As more bodies are found, Detective Superintendent Jock Anderson of Inverness CID fears that he is hunting a calculating serial killer; but although he is suspicious that perhaps more than one murderer is at work there are few clues few leads to follow until Jock is provided with some unusual assistance from a novel source.
The Stallions of Heaven
Author: Martin DolanPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479730629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Stallions of Heaven Christine, a student nun, receives a job offer from the summer student placement program, to work on a local horse farm. Her employer is an embittered atheist who hates Catholics and and distrusts all women, but becomes extremely ill, leaving Christine to manage the farm on her own. She also meets up with a couple of locals who come to jealous blows over her. She finds herself expelled from the convent after the death of one of the nuns; and becomes embroiled in a dispute with representatives of a neighboring park who wish to expropriate the farm. What should Christine do? Should she defy all odds and try once again for her novitiate and become a nun herself some day ▬ or should she she settle down on the farm and marry the boy who is so obviously head over heels in love with her?
A Supplement of the Faery Queene
Author: Christopher BurlinsonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526158582
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles – a chivalric romp in Spenser's cod medieval style. The poem shadows recent English history, and the major military and political events of the Thirty Years War. But the Supplement is also an ambitiously intertextual poem, weaving together materials from mythic, literary, historical, scientific, theological, and many other kinds of written sources. Its encyclopaedic ambitions combine with Knevet's historical focus to produce an allegorical epic poem of considerable interest and power. This new edition of Knevet's Supplement, the first scholarly text of the poem ever published, situates it in its literary, historical, biographical, and intellectual contexts. An extensive introduction and copious critical commentary, positioned at the back of the book, will enable students and scholars alike to access Knevet's complicated and enigmatic meanings, structures, and allusions.
Author: The Opposite of Amber
Author: Gillian PhilipPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0747599920
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
'They found the fifth girl right after the snow melted . . . the place where he left her was winter water, crazed with ice-feathers and dusted with snow. The traces from her body were gone, the ones that said his name, but she had an extra skin of ice that protected her and she looked perfect, like Snow White.' Ruby and her older sister, Jinn, are on their own, just about making ends meet. Jinn is beautiful, with glittering blonde hair, and makes it her business to look after Ruby. They are horrified by, but try to ignore, the local newspaper stories of prostitutes who are murdered, their bodies eventually discovered underwater. Then the no-good Nathan Baird turns up on the scene - again - and Jinn starts to change and no longer has time to look after Ruby. And it seems to Ruby that Jinn herself needs looking after. Her beautiful glittering hair starts to lose its shine. And then Jinn disappears. A deeply moving, chilling, and incredibly powerful thriller that celebrates the love two sisters have for each other and mourns the events beyond their control that will conspire to drive them apart.
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Author: Arthur Quiller-CouchKind of Misbehavin'
Author: Pete TownsendPublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1780882068
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A jazz-infused, comic crime caper where the worlds of academia, politics and amateur sleuthing collide in seemingly random acts of corruption. Kind of Misbehavin’ takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through the grey areas of illegal activity that affect us all. On the same night as a beastly apparition prowls the neighbourhood, Dick Hall, jazz fan and forty-something lecturer at the local college, finds himself accosted by a disembodied voice. Warned of corruption involving the College’s senior management, politicians and a national hotel chain, he becomes the unwitting recipient of politically sensitive documents. Realising that a minority of people are soon to become extremely wealthy at the expense of the majority, Dick quickly becomes embroiled in an investigation dictated by instructions left for him at a local jazz record shop. Aided, by his librarian partner Tracey, teaching colleague Dubbya and a bulbous student nicknamed Two-Stroke, Dick treads a hazardous path to uncover shady deals and unscrupulous officials. After having his body pummelled at a massage parlour and his life threatened on a golf course, he discovers evidence indicating that the college is to be demolished and replaced by a leisure complex and casino. Meanwhile, a loving couple at a local beauty spot and a choral society are each, in turn, interrupted in their endeavours by the mysterious apparition. The detecting pair, with just a little help from their friends start to disentangle the various threads of deceit, as they quickly begin to realise that there is no such thing as a textbook crime.
When Cicadas Sing
Author: John A BurgessPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664107479
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
It is Boxing Day and the start of Summer holidays in New Zealand. The Armstrong family arrives at their holiday property to a confronting sight. What happens next to have them feature on the front pages of the nation's newspapers and television news broadcasts? In five short days, along with a newly acquired Maori friend, Alex and her young brother Samuel's lives change as this thrilling tale unfolds. Sibling rivalry, racist views, and personal fears are challenged, while a budding romance creates new self-awareness. Set in the tranquil Bay of Islands, accompanied by the ever present crackle of Cicada song, Alex and Samuel, are unwittingly thrust into a series of events that swiftly move from confronting, to mysterious, to disturbing, to terrifying, leading up to the gripping climax.
