Author: John F. Rooney
Publisher: John F. Rooney
ISBN: 9780975275689
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In this mesmerizing thriller, Denny Delaney, a cop struggling with alcoholism, is on the hunt for a terrorist nicknamed Felix the Cat, who stages nine ingenious strikes that demoralize the country.
Nine Lives Too Many
Author: John F. Rooney
Publisher: John F. Rooney
ISBN: 9780975275689
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In this mesmerizing thriller, Denny Delaney, a cop struggling with alcoholism, is on the hunt for a terrorist nicknamed Felix the Cat, who stages nine ingenious strikes that demoralize the country.
Publisher: John F. Rooney
ISBN: 9780975275689
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In this mesmerizing thriller, Denny Delaney, a cop struggling with alcoholism, is on the hunt for a terrorist nicknamed Felix the Cat, who stages nine ingenious strikes that demoralize the country.
Nine Lives
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408801248
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine people, nine lives; each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. William Dalrymple delves deep into the heart of a nation torn between the relentless onslaught of modernity and the ancient traditions that endure to this day. LONGLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408801248
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine people, nine lives; each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. William Dalrymple delves deep into the heart of a nation torn between the relentless onslaught of modernity and the ancient traditions that endure to this day. LONGLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
Nine Lives
Author: Dan Baum
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0385529600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The hidden history of the haunted and beloved city of New Orleans, told through the intersecting lives of nine remarkable characters. “Nine Lives is stunning work. Dan Baum has immersed himself in New Orleans, the most fascinating city in the United States, and illuminated it in a way that is as innovative as Tom Wolfe on hot rods and Truman Capote on a pair of murderers. Full of stylistic brilliance and deep insight and an overriding compassion, Nine Lives is an instant classic of creative nonfiction.” —Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Nine Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of night unforgettable characters and bracketed by two epic storms: Hurricane Betsy, which transformed New Orleans in the 1960s, and Hurricane Katrina, which nearly destroyed it. Dan Baum brings the kaleidoscopic portrait to life, showing us what was lost in the storm and what remains to be saved. BONUS: This edition contains a Nine Lives discussion guide.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0385529600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The hidden history of the haunted and beloved city of New Orleans, told through the intersecting lives of nine remarkable characters. “Nine Lives is stunning work. Dan Baum has immersed himself in New Orleans, the most fascinating city in the United States, and illuminated it in a way that is as innovative as Tom Wolfe on hot rods and Truman Capote on a pair of murderers. Full of stylistic brilliance and deep insight and an overriding compassion, Nine Lives is an instant classic of creative nonfiction.” —Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Nine Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of night unforgettable characters and bracketed by two epic storms: Hurricane Betsy, which transformed New Orleans in the 1960s, and Hurricane Katrina, which nearly destroyed it. Dan Baum brings the kaleidoscopic portrait to life, showing us what was lost in the storm and what remains to be saved. BONUS: This edition contains a Nine Lives discussion guide.
Too Many Cooks
Author: Marina Pascoe
Publisher: Accent Press Ltd
ISBN: 178375480X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
1923. When a young Cockney woman appears in Falmouth, Inspector George Bartlett and Constable Archibald Boase think she’s harmless enough – until they're caught up in a cycle of mayhem and deceit. Unsure exactly how this woman fits into their enquiries, at various turns they are investigating her, searching for her, and worrying about her safety – and still can’t decide if she is all she seems. With death on their doorstep, strange visitors to the town, and a killer still on the loose, Bartlett and Boase have little time left to prevent further murders as their superintendent looms large in the background, waiting to take them off the case...
Publisher: Accent Press Ltd
ISBN: 178375480X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
1923. When a young Cockney woman appears in Falmouth, Inspector George Bartlett and Constable Archibald Boase think she’s harmless enough – until they're caught up in a cycle of mayhem and deceit. Unsure exactly how this woman fits into their enquiries, at various turns they are investigating her, searching for her, and worrying about her safety – and still can’t decide if she is all she seems. With death on their doorstep, strange visitors to the town, and a killer still on the loose, Bartlett and Boase have little time left to prevent further murders as their superintendent looms large in the background, waiting to take them off the case...
I Saved Too Many Girls and Caused the Apocalypse: Volume 9
Author: Namekojirushi
Publisher: J-Novel Club
ISBN: 1718300425
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
When a midsummer heatwave rolls in, Rekka invites all of the heroines to the pool. But instead of cooling off, they find themselves in a heated contest for his attention! After that, Rekka's invited to stay at school overnight with the light literature club. It's all fun and games until he ends up getting involved in a supernatural turf war. Things finish off with a festival fireworks show in this summer-packed volume! But what's this about a special mission for R...?
Publisher: J-Novel Club
ISBN: 1718300425
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
When a midsummer heatwave rolls in, Rekka invites all of the heroines to the pool. But instead of cooling off, they find themselves in a heated contest for his attention! After that, Rekka's invited to stay at school overnight with the light literature club. It's all fun and games until he ends up getting involved in a supernatural turf war. Things finish off with a festival fireworks show in this summer-packed volume! But what's this about a special mission for R...?
My Nine Lives
Author: Roy Sannella
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595336752
Category : Restaurateurs
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
My Nine Lives is the colorful life story of Roy Sannella--a survivor of the second attack on Pearl Harbor, several natural disasters, encounters with gangsters, and other escapades that arose during his forty-seven moves around the world. Nicknamed "Scarface" and "Capone" by grade-school classmates after he injured his right cheek as a child, author Roy Sannella shares his around-the-world adventures in vivid detail--from carrying bodies out of the ruins of Boston's Coconut Grove fire in 1942 and experiencing the violent escapades of the Huks in the Philippines, as told to him by the American Ambassador, to surviving an arrest by the Moroccan police and recruiting Louie Armstrong to play one memorable morning in his nightclub. Sannella has many treasured personal memories of his encounters with hundreds of renowned celebrities and politicians, including Frank Sinatra, Omar Sharif, Sammy Davis Jr., Pope Pius XII, Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly. My Nine Lives is packed with exciting and vivid true stories. Sannella's memoirs prove that with a daring spirit, one can create a life full of unforgettable adventure.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595336752
Category : Restaurateurs
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
My Nine Lives is the colorful life story of Roy Sannella--a survivor of the second attack on Pearl Harbor, several natural disasters, encounters with gangsters, and other escapades that arose during his forty-seven moves around the world. Nicknamed "Scarface" and "Capone" by grade-school classmates after he injured his right cheek as a child, author Roy Sannella shares his around-the-world adventures in vivid detail--from carrying bodies out of the ruins of Boston's Coconut Grove fire in 1942 and experiencing the violent escapades of the Huks in the Philippines, as told to him by the American Ambassador, to surviving an arrest by the Moroccan police and recruiting Louie Armstrong to play one memorable morning in his nightclub. Sannella has many treasured personal memories of his encounters with hundreds of renowned celebrities and politicians, including Frank Sinatra, Omar Sharif, Sammy Davis Jr., Pope Pius XII, Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly. My Nine Lives is packed with exciting and vivid true stories. Sannella's memoirs prove that with a daring spirit, one can create a life full of unforgettable adventure.
The Dog With Nine Lives
Author: Della Galton
Publisher: Accent Press Ltd
ISBN: 1907726330
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
When Della found a stray dog living wild with her thirteen puppies on a beach in Rhodes she was determined not to get involved. But fate had other ideas and Della brought Lindy back to England. Lindy had already proved herself to be a true survivor, but she was more of a survivor than Della had ever dreamed. Over the next eight years she survived a series of events, any one of which might have finished off a lesser dog than Lindy. They included: being stampeded by a herd of angry cows; a rare life threatening form of anaemia; being swept down the river after chasing ducks; falling out of a car travelling at speed, and getting lost for a night in a forest. The Dog with Nine Lives is both poignant and humorous. Dog lovers will love it. It is the true story of a very special dog.
Publisher: Accent Press Ltd
ISBN: 1907726330
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
When Della found a stray dog living wild with her thirteen puppies on a beach in Rhodes she was determined not to get involved. But fate had other ideas and Della brought Lindy back to England. Lindy had already proved herself to be a true survivor, but she was more of a survivor than Della had ever dreamed. Over the next eight years she survived a series of events, any one of which might have finished off a lesser dog than Lindy. They included: being stampeded by a herd of angry cows; a rare life threatening form of anaemia; being swept down the river after chasing ducks; falling out of a car travelling at speed, and getting lost for a night in a forest. The Dog with Nine Lives is both poignant and humorous. Dog lovers will love it. It is the true story of a very special dog.
Nine Lives
Author: Shun Mie Shee
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595468470
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Nine Lives is the true story of a simple woman plagued by her twenty-year addiction to drugs and alcohol. Rather than succumb to the miseries of an abusive home or to the addiction that began at only twelve years old, Gina continues to fight for the freedom of a normal life with the help of her very own Guardian Angel. Sometimes she loses her battles, but she finally wins her war because of her unfailing belief in God and her belief that God believes in her, no matter what. A story that exposes the perils of addiction and the power of God to overcome that addiction, Nine Lives shows the love of God for all his creatures and the manifestation of that love in man himself. The book also tells the story of the three men in Gina's life who love her, but who she feels she must reject in order to protect them from her crippled state. Finally, though, Gina learns to accept the unconditional love of the man who is now her husband, a man whose love mirrors the love she feels from and toward God.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595468470
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Nine Lives is the true story of a simple woman plagued by her twenty-year addiction to drugs and alcohol. Rather than succumb to the miseries of an abusive home or to the addiction that began at only twelve years old, Gina continues to fight for the freedom of a normal life with the help of her very own Guardian Angel. Sometimes she loses her battles, but she finally wins her war because of her unfailing belief in God and her belief that God believes in her, no matter what. A story that exposes the perils of addiction and the power of God to overcome that addiction, Nine Lives shows the love of God for all his creatures and the manifestation of that love in man himself. The book also tells the story of the three men in Gina's life who love her, but who she feels she must reject in order to protect them from her crippled state. Finally, though, Gina learns to accept the unconditional love of the man who is now her husband, a man whose love mirrors the love she feels from and toward God.
Nine Lives
Author: Eric Foggitt
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 178099978X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Heartwarming stories about turning personal failures into successes, with help from the Enneagram and the Bible.
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 178099978X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Heartwarming stories about turning personal failures into successes, with help from the Enneagram and the Bible.
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
Author: Declan Walsh
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393249921
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Winner of the 2021 Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Award The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country. Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis—a chieftain readying for war at his desert fort, a retired spy skulking through the borderlands, and a crusading lawyer risking death for her beliefs, among others. Through these “nine lives” he describes a country on the brink—a place of creeping extremism and political chaos, but also personal bravery and dogged idealism that defy easy stereotypes. Unbeknownst to Walsh, however, an intelligence agent was tracking him. Written in the aftermath of Walsh’s abrupt deportation, The Nine Lives of Pakistan concludes with an astonishing encounter with that agent, and his revelations about Pakistan’s powerful security state. Intimate and complex, attuned to the centrifugal forces of history, identity, and faith, The Nine Lives of Pakistan offers an unflinching account of life in a precarious, vital country.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393249921
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Winner of the 2021 Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Award The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country. Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis—a chieftain readying for war at his desert fort, a retired spy skulking through the borderlands, and a crusading lawyer risking death for her beliefs, among others. Through these “nine lives” he describes a country on the brink—a place of creeping extremism and political chaos, but also personal bravery and dogged idealism that defy easy stereotypes. Unbeknownst to Walsh, however, an intelligence agent was tracking him. Written in the aftermath of Walsh’s abrupt deportation, The Nine Lives of Pakistan concludes with an astonishing encounter with that agent, and his revelations about Pakistan’s powerful security state. Intimate and complex, attuned to the centrifugal forces of history, identity, and faith, The Nine Lives of Pakistan offers an unflinching account of life in a precarious, vital country.