Author: Janette Turner Hospital
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702255971
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This vibrant, superbly crafted novel explores the elusive boundaries between existence and imagination, memory and truth. From the subtropical lushness of Queensland's Tamborine rainforest to the claustrophobic bedroom of a Boston physicist, Hospital's characters breathe an atmosphere of passion and suspense. Charade Ryan, an enigmatic story-spinning scheherazade, searches for a way to unravel the long-hold secrets of her family origins.
Charades
Author: Janette Turner Hospital
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702255971
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This vibrant, superbly crafted novel explores the elusive boundaries between existence and imagination, memory and truth. From the subtropical lushness of Queensland's Tamborine rainforest to the claustrophobic bedroom of a Boston physicist, Hospital's characters breathe an atmosphere of passion and suspense. Charade Ryan, an enigmatic story-spinning scheherazade, searches for a way to unravel the long-hold secrets of her family origins.
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702255971
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This vibrant, superbly crafted novel explores the elusive boundaries between existence and imagination, memory and truth. From the subtropical lushness of Queensland's Tamborine rainforest to the claustrophobic bedroom of a Boston physicist, Hospital's characters breathe an atmosphere of passion and suspense. Charade Ryan, an enigmatic story-spinning scheherazade, searches for a way to unravel the long-hold secrets of her family origins.
Charades and Responses
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Category : Charades
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Category : Charades
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Deadly Charades
Author: Laurie Ellis
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595343376
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Sophia Harriman owns a successful art gallery in the French Quarter. She's thinking how good life is while she waits for the stop light to turn green. Suddenly her world is turned upside down when a dead body smashes onto her windshield. As Sophia struggles with the identity of the victim, she's forced to confront the shady details surrounding her father's death many years before. With her tattoo-artist renter and her teenage nephew in tow, Sophia sets out to unravel the mystery of the dead man. Along the way, she uncovers an illegal scheme that threatens to bring down the government's rich and powerful, who stop at nothing to make sure she doesn't succeed. With murder nipping at her heels, Sophia runs into treacherous roadblocks at every turn. Her investigation takes her from New Orleans to the hill country of Texas to the Indian reservations of Albuquerque to the posh city of Boca Raton and finally to the halls of justice in Washington D.C. The suspense is palpable and the stakes are high. The killer is determined to win at any cost. He's adamant and resourceful. Will Sophia ever find justice for an elusive killer with friends in high places?
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595343376
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Sophia Harriman owns a successful art gallery in the French Quarter. She's thinking how good life is while she waits for the stop light to turn green. Suddenly her world is turned upside down when a dead body smashes onto her windshield. As Sophia struggles with the identity of the victim, she's forced to confront the shady details surrounding her father's death many years before. With her tattoo-artist renter and her teenage nephew in tow, Sophia sets out to unravel the mystery of the dead man. Along the way, she uncovers an illegal scheme that threatens to bring down the government's rich and powerful, who stop at nothing to make sure she doesn't succeed. With murder nipping at her heels, Sophia runs into treacherous roadblocks at every turn. Her investigation takes her from New Orleans to the hill country of Texas to the Indian reservations of Albuquerque to the posh city of Boca Raton and finally to the halls of justice in Washington D.C. The suspense is palpable and the stakes are high. The killer is determined to win at any cost. He's adamant and resourceful. Will Sophia ever find justice for an elusive killer with friends in high places?
The Harlem Charade
Author: Natasha Tarpley
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545783895
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Fans of Chasing Vermeer will love this clever mystery about art, artifice, and the power of community. WATCHER. SHADOW. FUGITIVE.Harlem is home to all kinds of kids. Jin sees life passing her by from the window of her family's bodega. Alex wants to help the needy one shelter at a time, but can't tell anyone who she really is. Elvin's living on Harlem's cold, lonely streets, surviving on his own after his grandfather was mysteriously attacked.When these three strangers join forces to find out what happened to Elvin's grandfather, their digging leads them to an enigmatic artist whose missing masterpieces are worth a fortune-one that might save the neighborhood from development by an ambitious politician who wants to turn it into Harlem World, a ludicrous historic theme park. But if they don't find the paintings soon, nothing in their beloved neighborhood will ever be the same . . .In this remarkable tale of daring and danger, debut novelist Natasha Tarpley explores the way a community defines itself, the power of art to show truth, and what it really means to be home.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545783895
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Fans of Chasing Vermeer will love this clever mystery about art, artifice, and the power of community. WATCHER. SHADOW. FUGITIVE.Harlem is home to all kinds of kids. Jin sees life passing her by from the window of her family's bodega. Alex wants to help the needy one shelter at a time, but can't tell anyone who she really is. Elvin's living on Harlem's cold, lonely streets, surviving on his own after his grandfather was mysteriously attacked.When these three strangers join forces to find out what happened to Elvin's grandfather, their digging leads them to an enigmatic artist whose missing masterpieces are worth a fortune-one that might save the neighborhood from development by an ambitious politician who wants to turn it into Harlem World, a ludicrous historic theme park. But if they don't find the paintings soon, nothing in their beloved neighborhood will ever be the same . . .In this remarkable tale of daring and danger, debut novelist Natasha Tarpley explores the way a community defines itself, the power of art to show truth, and what it really means to be home.
Acting Charades
Author: Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
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Category : Charades
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Category : Charades
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Home amusements; a choice collection of riddles, charades, rebuses, conundrums, parlour games, and forfeits ... New edition
Author: Peter PUZZLEWELL (pseud.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Poems and Charades
Author: Mary Chadwick Barrett Brown
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Riddles, charades, and conundrums [compiled by J.W. Jones].
Author: John Winter Jones
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Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Poems, Charades, Inscriptions
Author: Pope Leo XIII
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Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Poems, Charades, Inscriptions of Pope Leo XIII
Author: Leo XIII. (Papst)
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Category : Latin, Neo Latin poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Category : Latin, Neo Latin poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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