Author: George Bellairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: George Bellairs
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 150408845X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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When a remote farm is visited by a killer, Chief Superintendent Littlejohn must uncover the secrets of a tight-lipped clan in this British mystery. When police investigate a fire at Harry Quill’s desolate farm, they find the owner dead and his invalid wife unconscious. Mrs. Quill had apparently started the fire as a call for help. Already investigating a criminal gang raiding isolated farms, Littlejohn and Inspector Cromwell are on the case. But the gang was just arrested in Northern Scotland. Surely, they cannot be involved? The Quill family is old and widespread, a closed shop to all except its own, who keep its many secrets among themselves. They are headed by Aunt Clara, a formidable matron who rules by fear. To get to the truth of who killed Harry, Littlejohn must engage in a battle of wits with Claraand her crafty coven of lawyers.

Author: Pankaj Kumar Shasini
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789389759389
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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A best gift for your loved ones. This is a fictional script that touches on topics like death, family, relationship, social expectations, regret and acceptance to deliver some social messages. While this book is an imaginary story, still you will realise - how valuable our life is. Currently, most of us value people for their materialistic assets, not for the kind of people they are. The book takes a bold and decisive look at how we, as humans, try to understand mystical happenings that often occur around us. We ignore this and avoid finding answers to them. We not only see events unfold from its imaginary character's perspective, but also see how the living try to rationalise events that they do not comprehend.

Author: Monte Akers
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292704879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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What happened in Kirven, Texas, in May 1922 has been forgotten by the outside world. It was only a co-worker's whispered words, "Kirven is where they burned the [Negroes]," that set Monte Akers on a quest to find out what happened and, more important, why. After years of following clues found in old newspaper clippings, NAACP reports, and the memories of the few remaining witnesses who would talk, Akers here pieces together the story of a young white woman's brutal murder and the burning alive of three black men who were almost certainly innocent of it. This was followed by a month-long reign of terror as white men hunted down and killed blacks while local authorities concealed the real identity of the white probable murderers and allowed them to go free. Akers paints a vivid portrait of a community desolated by race hatred and its own refusal to face hard truths.

Author: Ronan Blaze
Publisher: Ronan Blaze
ISBN: 9780978566784
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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After triumphant return from Persidia, Arian sits in council with his monarchs and commanders to craft strategies for war against the elusive aggressor that continues to wreck innocent lives. He seeks help of other kingdoms and receives surprising responses. He then leads his forces to Kilani where they bivouac on Kalazar's estates. Meanwhile, the enemy strengthens their armies for outright onslaughts to wrest the crowns of Nehemia and Zennara. Once entrenched in Kilani, Arian, posing as an assassin for hire, embarks on a perilous journey leading to discovery of their plans. After a series of relentless offensives, final confrontation occurs in four battles where the toll of war leaves Arian smoldering, for he finds neither comfort nor triumph in death and desolation descending on friend and foe alike. However, the shadow of Glenore looms over his consciousness as recurrent reminder of his failure to find his love, but he remains true to himself and faces his responsibilities in one way: Arian's Way.

Author: Marion Jensen
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 146027198X
Category : Bereavement
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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This book is about recovery from loss. In the aftermath of a death, Ann Patterson's family is becoming unglued. To save it, the hot-tempered librarian splurges on a trip to Desolation Sound. The trip turns out far different from her expectations. With the help of a ghostly adviser, Ann must face her own shortcomings and get a grip on the realities of her life.

Author: Stephen Knight
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781512029901
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The United States of America is falling before the armies of the dead. Leading the sole survivors of the US Army's 10th Mountain Division out of the overrun city of New York, Captain Phil Hastings heads for the safety of Fort Indiantown Gap, a National Guard training facility deep in the woodlands of Pennsylvania. Joining with other remnants of the military, government, and civilian communities, Hastings and his men must try to keep the tsunami of corpses from taking over the world and plan the resurrection of the nation. But first, they have to outlast the ravages of the dead... ...and the living.

Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466828846
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming-of-age Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of a character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution evoked in startling and magical poetry. Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her own. Kincaid takes us from Xuela's childhood in a home where she could hear the song of the sea to the tin-roofed room where she lives as a schoolgirl in the house of Jack Labatte, who becomes her first lover. Xuela develops a passion for the stevedore Roland, who steals bolts of Irish linen for her from the ships he unloads, but she eventually marries an English doctor, Philip Bailey. Xuela's is an intensely physical world, redolent of overripe fruit, gentian violet, sulfur, and rain on the road, and it seethes with her sorrow, her deep sympathy for those who share her history, her fear of her father, her desperate loneliness. But underlying all is "the black room of the world" that is Xuela's barrenness and motherlessness.

Author: Arkady Martine
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 125018648X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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WINNER OF THE 2022 HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Now a USA Today bestseller! Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2021 Amazon's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2021 Bookpage's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Science Fiction Book of 2021 "[An] all around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it."—Ann Leckie, on A Memory Called Empire A Desolation Called Peace is the spectacular space opera sequel to Arkady Martine's genre-reinventing, Hugo Award-winning debut, A Memory Called Empire. An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass—still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire—face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity. Their failure will guarantee millions of deaths in an endless war. Their success might prevent Teixcalaan’s destruction—and allow the empire to continue its rapacious expansion. Or it might create something far stranger . . . Also by Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author: Ronan Blaze
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976430001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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After a triumphant return from Persidia, Arian plans for a final confrontation with the elusive aggressor who continues to wreck innocent lives. He sits in council with his monarchs and commanders to craft strategies for war. Then he leads his forces into the Land of Majestic Mountains where death and mayhem found new meaning and where they made the most noteworthy of friends.