Author: Nicholas Hazel
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 146910153X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The quiet routines of two couples are interrupted when someone in their circle of acquaintances is cruelly murdered; and then another murder follows as skeletons in many varietiesand even the Aztec Lord of the Underworld, Mictlantecuhtlirevel during the night of the Day of the Dead. What forces of evil have been unleashed in the community that is encroaching on the rugged Mountain Lion Canyon? Above the canyon hovers the scraggly large rock that was named La Roca, the new development in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains. A mountain lion stalks the canyon and so do, it seems, human predators.
Murder in Mountain Lion Canyon
Author: Nicholas Hazel
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 146910153X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The quiet routines of two couples are interrupted when someone in their circle of acquaintances is cruelly murdered; and then another murder follows as skeletons in many varietiesand even the Aztec Lord of the Underworld, Mictlantecuhtlirevel during the night of the Day of the Dead. What forces of evil have been unleashed in the community that is encroaching on the rugged Mountain Lion Canyon? Above the canyon hovers the scraggly large rock that was named La Roca, the new development in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains. A mountain lion stalks the canyon and so do, it seems, human predators.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 146910153X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The quiet routines of two couples are interrupted when someone in their circle of acquaintances is cruelly murdered; and then another murder follows as skeletons in many varietiesand even the Aztec Lord of the Underworld, Mictlantecuhtlirevel during the night of the Day of the Dead. What forces of evil have been unleashed in the community that is encroaching on the rugged Mountain Lion Canyon? Above the canyon hovers the scraggly large rock that was named La Roca, the new development in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains. A mountain lion stalks the canyon and so do, it seems, human predators.
The Dark Canyon
Author: Micah S. Hackler
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
ISBN: 1628158921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Author of Legend of the Dead, Coyote Returns, and The Shadow Catcher IN A RUGGED LAND STEEPED IN THE BLOOD OF HISTORY. A KILLER HAS COME BACK FOR REVENGE.... NEW BLOOD ON AN ANCIENT GROUND... In an air-conditioned university office, a man lies dead, brutally bludgeoned. A hundred miles away, in the high, arid New Mexico mountain country that Sheriff Cliff Lansing is sworn to protect, an animal is devastating ranchers' livestock, and is now turning to human prey.... For Lansing, the two cases are linked. The murder victim was part of an archaeological dig, and a local Indian believes that the animal killings have been unleashed by the excavations. Struggling to put together the jagged pieces of a puzzle. Lansing unearths a mystery of a missing emerald carving, a one-hundred-year-old diary, and a man accused of a crime he did not commit. To stop the bloodshed, Lansing must throw out everything he has ever believed about police work, evidence, and reason. Because between an archaeologist's ambitions and the secrets still hidden in the land, Lansing must follow his own trail of myth, legend, and intuition—to find a very real killer stalking the night....
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
ISBN: 1628158921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Author of Legend of the Dead, Coyote Returns, and The Shadow Catcher IN A RUGGED LAND STEEPED IN THE BLOOD OF HISTORY. A KILLER HAS COME BACK FOR REVENGE.... NEW BLOOD ON AN ANCIENT GROUND... In an air-conditioned university office, a man lies dead, brutally bludgeoned. A hundred miles away, in the high, arid New Mexico mountain country that Sheriff Cliff Lansing is sworn to protect, an animal is devastating ranchers' livestock, and is now turning to human prey.... For Lansing, the two cases are linked. The murder victim was part of an archaeological dig, and a local Indian believes that the animal killings have been unleashed by the excavations. Struggling to put together the jagged pieces of a puzzle. Lansing unearths a mystery of a missing emerald carving, a one-hundred-year-old diary, and a man accused of a crime he did not commit. To stop the bloodshed, Lansing must throw out everything he has ever believed about police work, evidence, and reason. Because between an archaeologist's ambitions and the secrets still hidden in the land, Lansing must follow his own trail of myth, legend, and intuition—to find a very real killer stalking the night....
The Cyrus Cylinder
Author: Nicholas Hazel
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477139850
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Nicholas Hazel, the author of this novel, has served as a faculty member and administrator in colleges and universities and is the author of scholarly books and articles. In retirement, he has continued to admire universities for their creation and dissemination of knowledge, while at the same time realizing that they are also institutions where political aspirations and tensions are played out and where strong, even violent, human passions can rage underneath the surface of the impartial searching for the truth. He is fascinated by the ways in which history can impinge on the present through our interpretations and reconstructions—or deliberate distortions—of what once occurred. Nicholas Hazel has spun this yarn around an ancient politically motivated artifact, the Cyrus Cylinder, inscribed in 539 BCE, which also in recent years has been used for political purposes. In this story, it becomes the catalyst for contemporary international intrigue and also for purely personal settling of scores. During a visit to the United States to participate in the centennial celebration of a higher education association, a descendent and namesake of King Cyrus, now the chancellor of the University of Tehran, confronts—and is confronted by—what happened twenty years ago as well as what is happening today.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477139850
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Nicholas Hazel, the author of this novel, has served as a faculty member and administrator in colleges and universities and is the author of scholarly books and articles. In retirement, he has continued to admire universities for their creation and dissemination of knowledge, while at the same time realizing that they are also institutions where political aspirations and tensions are played out and where strong, even violent, human passions can rage underneath the surface of the impartial searching for the truth. He is fascinated by the ways in which history can impinge on the present through our interpretations and reconstructions—or deliberate distortions—of what once occurred. Nicholas Hazel has spun this yarn around an ancient politically motivated artifact, the Cyrus Cylinder, inscribed in 539 BCE, which also in recent years has been used for political purposes. In this story, it becomes the catalyst for contemporary international intrigue and also for purely personal settling of scores. During a visit to the United States to participate in the centennial celebration of a higher education association, a descendent and namesake of King Cyrus, now the chancellor of the University of Tehran, confronts—and is confronted by—what happened twenty years ago as well as what is happening today.
Ambush at Torture Canyon
Author: Max Brand
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3755466309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
When Durfee rode up the valley, he found that the country fitted his mind as a glove fits the hand—the sort of glove that he preferred to wear—a little lighter in the leather and more delicate in the make than most of the buckskin gloves that a cowboy will buy. He liked the look of things, because that look was clean. He saw the gleam of water, here and there; water that looked as though it might be running even in the dry middle of September, after a rainless season. And there were plenty of hills for variety, and yet it was a range that a man could gallop over. Three men, on this sort of a lay, could do the work that sometimes took the riding of ten in worse regions. And then the grass grew thick and short on the ground, the sort of grass that is sweetest on a cow’s tooth, that lays the fat round and hard along her backbone, to say nothing of horses. It was a good limestone country, too. He could see the white ribs and elbows of the stone punching through the sides of the hills. And where limestone shows, it will be in the water, and the limestone water makes bone, and bone is the first necessity in the scheme of things, if you want to build a horse.
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3755466309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
When Durfee rode up the valley, he found that the country fitted his mind as a glove fits the hand—the sort of glove that he preferred to wear—a little lighter in the leather and more delicate in the make than most of the buckskin gloves that a cowboy will buy. He liked the look of things, because that look was clean. He saw the gleam of water, here and there; water that looked as though it might be running even in the dry middle of September, after a rainless season. And there were plenty of hills for variety, and yet it was a range that a man could gallop over. Three men, on this sort of a lay, could do the work that sometimes took the riding of ten in worse regions. And then the grass grew thick and short on the ground, the sort of grass that is sweetest on a cow’s tooth, that lays the fat round and hard along her backbone, to say nothing of horses. It was a good limestone country, too. He could see the white ribs and elbows of the stone punching through the sides of the hills. And where limestone shows, it will be in the water, and the limestone water makes bone, and bone is the first necessity in the scheme of things, if you want to build a horse.
Hiking the Grand Canyon
Author: John Annerino
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510715002
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Perfect for first-time visitors, day hikers, and seasoned canyoneers alike, expert hiker John Annerino’s Hiking the Grand Canyon is one of the most user-friendly and comprehensive guides to America’s premier natural wonder and UNESCO World heritage Site. • Fold-out map of Grand Canyon Trails • Color photographs and historical black and white photos • Vignettes of the Canyon’s Native Peoples, explorers, and trail blazers • Environment, geology, life zones, natural history, and sacred landmarks • Preparation, training, clothing, gear, food, maps, hazards, and precautions • Camping, lodging, guided trips, permits, and resources Featuring detailed, authoritative descriptions of more than one hundred of the Canyon’s best trails, from easier day hikes perfect for beginners to more rigorous, rim-to-river and cross-canyon treks.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510715002
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Perfect for first-time visitors, day hikers, and seasoned canyoneers alike, expert hiker John Annerino’s Hiking the Grand Canyon is one of the most user-friendly and comprehensive guides to America’s premier natural wonder and UNESCO World heritage Site. • Fold-out map of Grand Canyon Trails • Color photographs and historical black and white photos • Vignettes of the Canyon’s Native Peoples, explorers, and trail blazers • Environment, geology, life zones, natural history, and sacred landmarks • Preparation, training, clothing, gear, food, maps, hazards, and precautions • Camping, lodging, guided trips, permits, and resources Featuring detailed, authoritative descriptions of more than one hundred of the Canyon’s best trails, from easier day hikes perfect for beginners to more rigorous, rim-to-river and cross-canyon treks.
Murder In Red Rock Canyon
Author: Sherry Derr-Wille
Publisher: Rogue Phoenix Press
ISBN: 1624207901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Following her husband when he takes a new position, Rhonda leaves Wisconsin behind to begin a new life in Las Vegas, Nevada. Without a job for the first time, she is thrilled when she obtains a position with the Clark County Sheriff’s department. To celebrate her new job, she and her husband, Mark, go to Red Rock Canyon for a relaxing day of sightseeing. Even before she is scheduled to begin her job, she finds herself at the center of a murder. The victim, a college student, has been killed close to the petroglyphs using an ancient Native American weapon,. Have the ancients returned to protect their history or is there a modern-day predator trying to confuse her with the use of ancient weapons?
Publisher: Rogue Phoenix Press
ISBN: 1624207901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Following her husband when he takes a new position, Rhonda leaves Wisconsin behind to begin a new life in Las Vegas, Nevada. Without a job for the first time, she is thrilled when she obtains a position with the Clark County Sheriff’s department. To celebrate her new job, she and her husband, Mark, go to Red Rock Canyon for a relaxing day of sightseeing. Even before she is scheduled to begin her job, she finds herself at the center of a murder. The victim, a college student, has been killed close to the petroglyphs using an ancient Native American weapon,. Have the ancients returned to protect their history or is there a modern-day predator trying to confuse her with the use of ancient weapons?
Wrath
Author: Nicholas Hazel
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493178113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493178113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature
Author: David Baron
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340309
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The true tale of an edenic Rocky Mountain town and what transpired when a predatory species returned to its ancestral home. When, in the late 1980s, residents of Boulder, Colorado, suddenly began to see mountain lions in their yards, it became clear that the cats had repopulated the land after decades of persecution. Here, in a riveting environmental fable that recalls Peter Benchley's thriller Jaws, journalist David Baron traces the history of the mountain lion and chronicles Boulder's effort to coexist with its new neighbors. A parable for our times, The Beast in the Garden is a scientific detective story and a real-life drama, a tragic tale of the struggle between two highly evolved predators: man and beast.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340309
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The true tale of an edenic Rocky Mountain town and what transpired when a predatory species returned to its ancestral home. When, in the late 1980s, residents of Boulder, Colorado, suddenly began to see mountain lions in their yards, it became clear that the cats had repopulated the land after decades of persecution. Here, in a riveting environmental fable that recalls Peter Benchley's thriller Jaws, journalist David Baron traces the history of the mountain lion and chronicles Boulder's effort to coexist with its new neighbors. A parable for our times, The Beast in the Garden is a scientific detective story and a real-life drama, a tragic tale of the struggle between two highly evolved predators: man and beast.
A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway
Author: Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190283947
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The 1999 Hemingway centennial marks the perfect time for the reevaluation of his position as America's premier modernist writer. These essays, all written specially for this collection, plumb unexplored historical details of Hemingway's life to illuminate new and often unexpected dimensions of the force of his literary accomplishment. Discussing biographical details of his personal and professional life along with the subtleties of his character, the text includes a number of fascinating photos and images.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190283947
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The 1999 Hemingway centennial marks the perfect time for the reevaluation of his position as America's premier modernist writer. These essays, all written specially for this collection, plumb unexplored historical details of Hemingway's life to illuminate new and often unexpected dimensions of the force of his literary accomplishment. Discussing biographical details of his personal and professional life along with the subtleties of his character, the text includes a number of fascinating photos and images.
Mining for Murder
Author: Mary Angela
Publisher: Lyrical Press
ISBN: 1516110714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Zo Jones is enjoying the sunny season at her Happy Camper gift shop in Spirit Canyon, South Dakota—when a murder reminds her all that glitters isn’t gold . . . The South Dakota Gold Rush might be long over, but Zo Jones feels like she’s hit the mother lode when she and her friends browse an estate sale, where a rare old book about the history of Spirit Canyon is causing quite a commotion. In addition to local stories and secrets, the book may even contain the location of a famous stash of gold—a treasure worth killing for. Zo’s friend Maynard Cline wins the bid on the book, to the chagrin of many interested parties, including the historical society and college history department. But when Zo and Hattie head to Maynard’s mansion to borrow the book for a library event, the only thing they find is Maynard—at the bottom of the mountain. The valuable book is gone. Zo knows this must be murder because there’s no way a germophobe like Maynard would have voluntarily dived into a pile of dirt. Now she’ll have to dig into a new case, and go prospecting for a perpetrator . . .
Publisher: Lyrical Press
ISBN: 1516110714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Zo Jones is enjoying the sunny season at her Happy Camper gift shop in Spirit Canyon, South Dakota—when a murder reminds her all that glitters isn’t gold . . . The South Dakota Gold Rush might be long over, but Zo Jones feels like she’s hit the mother lode when she and her friends browse an estate sale, where a rare old book about the history of Spirit Canyon is causing quite a commotion. In addition to local stories and secrets, the book may even contain the location of a famous stash of gold—a treasure worth killing for. Zo’s friend Maynard Cline wins the bid on the book, to the chagrin of many interested parties, including the historical society and college history department. But when Zo and Hattie head to Maynard’s mansion to borrow the book for a library event, the only thing they find is Maynard—at the bottom of the mountain. The valuable book is gone. Zo knows this must be murder because there’s no way a germophobe like Maynard would have voluntarily dived into a pile of dirt. Now she’ll have to dig into a new case, and go prospecting for a perpetrator . . .