Daisy: Not Your Average Super-sleuth! The Siege of Castle Montazzini

Daisy: Not Your Average Super-sleuth! The Siege of Castle Montazzini PDF Author: R T Green
Publisher: Wise Owl
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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A few days relaxation in an ancient castle on the shores of Lake Lugano in Northern Italy sounds like an opportunity not to be missed for Daisy and Aidan. Until Leonardo da Vinci, a knight in shining armour, and a tale of greed and debauchery rear their ugly heads, that is. Far from relaxing, our RED heroine begins to wonder if they’ll even escape with their lives! “One of the best cozy mysteries I’ve ever read!” “A real breath of fresh literary air!” Daisy receives an out of the blue phone call from her one-time neighbour back when they lived in London. Gloria invites her and Aidan to visit their castle in the Italian Lakes for a few days break. Married to an Italian businessman, her husband Marcello inherited the castle a few years ago when his wealthy parents passed away. Now living in the impressive sixteenth-century family residence, Gloria thought they may like to see ‘what they’ve done with the place’. As they travel to Italy, Daisy can’t shake off the feeling all is not quite what it seems. She and Gloria have been in touch from time to time, but not had that much contact since they moved away. Her ex-neighbour sounded chirpy on the phone... but perhaps a little too chirpy. Daisy is well aware that sometimes people gush about how happy they are to try and hide just how happy they’re not. She says nothing to Aidan, putting it down to her paranoid gut envisioning problems where none exist, and forces herself to look forward to the few days abroad. They’ve only been in the castle a few hours when Daisy has to admit ignoring her gut feeling was the worst idea ever, realising that what motivated people centuries ago still motivates them today. It’s not looking good... Read about Daisy and our other major series, The Sandie Shaw Mysteries, set in 1920’s Chicago, on the new rtgreen website. And enjoy!

Billionaire Wilderness

Billionaire Wilderness PDF Author: Justin Farrell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691217122
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Book Description
"Offers an unprecedented look inside the world of the ultra-wealthy and their relationship to the natural world, showing how the ultra-rich use nature to resolve key predicaments in their lives. Justin Farrell immerses himself in Teton County, Wyoming ... to investigate interconnected questions about money, nature, and community in the twenty-first century. Farrell draws on three years of in-depth interviews with 'ordinary' millionaires and the world's wealthiest billionaires, four years of in-person observation in the community, and original quantitative data to provide ... analytical insight on the ultra-wealthy. He also interviewed low-income workers who could speak to their experiences as employees for and members of the community with these wealthy people"--

Collision

Collision PDF Author: William S. Cohen
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765327651
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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Book Description
Former Secretary of State William S. Cohen provides a Washington insider point of view in this new political thriller, Collision. Sean Falcone, former National Security Adviser to the president of the United States, attacks a gunman during a mass killing at an elite Washington law firm. A second shooter flees with a laptop containing vital information about an asteroid being mined by an American billionaire and his secret Russian partner. The incident plunges Falcone into a Washington mystery involving the White House, NASA, corrupt Senators, an international crime lord . . . and the possible destruction of all humankind.

Daisy: Not Your Average Super-sleuth! The Siege of Castle Montazzini

Daisy: Not Your Average Super-sleuth! The Siege of Castle Montazzini PDF Author: R T Green
Publisher: Wise Owl
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Book Description
A few days relaxation in an ancient castle on the shores of Lake Lugano in Northern Italy sounds like an opportunity not to be missed for Daisy and Aidan. Until Leonardo da Vinci, a knight in shining armour, and a tale of greed and debauchery rear their ugly heads, that is. Far from relaxing, our RED heroine begins to wonder if they’ll even escape with their lives! “One of the best cozy mysteries I’ve ever read!” “A real breath of fresh literary air!” Daisy receives an out of the blue phone call from her one-time neighbour back when they lived in London. Gloria invites her and Aidan to visit their castle in the Italian Lakes for a few days break. Married to an Italian businessman, her husband Marcello inherited the castle a few years ago when his wealthy parents passed away. Now living in the impressive sixteenth-century family residence, Gloria thought they may like to see ‘what they’ve done with the place’. As they travel to Italy, Daisy can’t shake off the feeling all is not quite what it seems. She and Gloria have been in touch from time to time, but not had that much contact since they moved away. Her ex-neighbour sounded chirpy on the phone... but perhaps a little too chirpy. Daisy is well aware that sometimes people gush about how happy they are to try and hide just how happy they’re not. She says nothing to Aidan, putting it down to her paranoid gut envisioning problems where none exist, and forces herself to look forward to the few days abroad. They’ve only been in the castle a few hours when Daisy has to admit ignoring her gut feeling was the worst idea ever, realising that what motivated people centuries ago still motivates them today. It’s not looking good... Read about Daisy and our other major series, The Sandie Shaw Mysteries, set in 1920’s Chicago, on the new rtgreen website. And enjoy!

The Billionaire Raj

The Billionaire Raj PDF Author: James Crabtree
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 1524760072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Book Description
A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class in a radically unequal society India is the world’s largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China’s. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly shared, and the country’s top 1% now own nearly 60% of its wealth. In megacities like Mumbai, where half the population live in slums, the extraordinary riches of India’s new dynasties echo the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers of America's Gilded Age, funneling profits from huge conglomerates into lifestyles of conspicuous consumption. James Crabtree’s The Billionaire Raj takes readers on a personal journey to meet these reclusive billionaires, fugitive tycoons, and shadowy political power brokers. From the sky terrace of the world’s most expensive home to impoverished villages and mass political rallies, Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers, revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a combustible backdrop of aspiration, class, and caste. The Billionaire Raj is a vivid account of a divided society on the cusp of transformation—and a struggle that will shape not just India’s future, but the world’s.

Red Mist: Season 1, Episode 4: Fearless

Red Mist: Season 1, Episode 4: Fearless PDF Author: R T Green
Publisher: Wise Owl
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Book Description
Two women... two enemies. One deadly terror threat. One jealous sister. One true love. What could possibly go wrong? An MI6 shadow assassin and a beautiful terrorist are thrown together in the midst of a terror threat, the like of which London has never seen before. This is ‘Fearless’, the fourth episode of the Red Mist series. It is damage limitation for Madeline and the team as they discover the threat is far from over. With a new, even more insidious horror in the mix, she volunteers to be the worm on the hook... even though for her there is more than one reason that hook is sinking into treacherous waters. Travel with Madeline and Zana as they follow a life-threatening, perilous road, taking them to a place neither believes can exist. Killing someone isn’t meant to be this hard. Neither is falling in love. “Romantic Suspense at its finest” Imagine a TV drama with eight episodes over two seasons, telling a complete story, and bringing you a host of unexpected twists and turns along the way. Red Mist is that gripping serialized drama, in book form. It will keep you page-turning, and episode reading! (Each episode is its own story, but very much leads into the next one... so to get the full effect please do read the volumes in order!) Do check out the Red Mist series, and everything else we do, on the rtgreen website. And enjoy!

Collision Course

Collision Course PDF Author: Kerryn Higgs
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262529696
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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Book Description
The story behind the reckless promotion of economic growth despite its disastrous consequences for life on the planet. The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that “growth” is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The public has been convinced that growth is the natural solution to virtually all social problems—poverty, debt, unemployment, and even the environmental degradation caused by the determined pursuit of growth. Meanwhile, warnings by scientists that we live on a finite planet that cannot sustain infinite economic expansion are ignored or even scorned. In Collision Course, Kerryn Higgs examines how society's commitment to growth has marginalized scientific findings on the limits of growth, casting them as bogus predictions of imminent doom. Higgs tells how in 1972, The Limits to Growth—written by MIT researchers Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William Behrens III—found that unimpeded economic growth was likely to collide with the realities of a finite planet within a century. Although the book's arguments received positive responses initially, before long the dominant narrative of growth as panacea took over. Higgs explores the resistance to ideas about limits, tracing the propagandizing of “free enterprise,” the elevation of growth as the central objective of policy makers, the celebration of “the magic of the market,” and the ever-widening influence of corporate-funded think tanks—a parallel academic universe dedicated to the dissemination of neoliberal principles and to the denial of health and environmental dangers from the effects of tobacco to global warming. More than forty years after The Limits to Growth, the idea that growth is essential continues to hold sway, despite the mounting evidence of its costs—climate destabilization, pollution, intensification of gross global inequalities, and depletion of the resources on which the modern economic edifice depends.

Raven: Book One - No Angel!

Raven: Book One - No Angel! PDF Author: R T Green
Publisher: Wise Owl
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Book Description
When Satan’s little helper gets real, everyone feels the heat! “Raven is a perfect blend of romance, comedy, action-horror and fantasy. Full of moments to make you giggle, and then reach for the tissue-box!” Meet Raven… she’s feisty, spirited, and has a tendency to get lost in the game. She was born at the age of twenty-seven. She isn’t allowed to think her own thoughts, or make a single move unless someone else wants her to. That’s life, for a character in a book. The author of the book, Mika Mills, knew all good writers try to bring their characters to life… but there are limits. When it all began one fateful, life-changing night, those limits were not only exceeded, but banished to the other side of the universe forever! One moment it was a story about she-devils and Satan, then there was a storm with strange red lightning, and suddenly the novel became a biography. With both she and Raven having starring roles. Neither of them realise it is just the beginning of their spectacular new lives, or that their destinies are being shaped by an ancient scribe, and an even older mystical tablet… their futures woven together through the pages of time itself. They are just about to find out. If discovering your life is not your own isn't scary enough, there is worse to come. Raven wasn't the only one to get a heavy dose of reality after the storm. So did everyone else in the book. Like Raven's two friends, who are also she-devils. And someone they really didn't want to get real. Satan himself. Who isn't too impressed with his staff going rogue, and decides to do something about it. “If you’ve had your fill of the same-old, try a little Raven!” Check out Raven and Mika’s story on the rtgreen website. Enjoy!

STARSTRUCK: The Rock

STARSTRUCK: The Rock PDF Author: R T Green
Publisher: Wise Owl
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Book Description
Some people will tell you they have fairies at the bottom of their garden… Mia and Becca have little aliens at the bottom of theirs! The Starstruck series tells the story of Mia, Becca, and the six little people who change their lives. It’s a contemporary fairytale with a kick, something a little different, and very much for adults only! Check out the full Starstruck story at rtgreen.net/starstruck Episode 3: The Rock – An epic-sized lump of rock is on a collision course with the Earth. If it hits, life will never be the same. But as the Voyagers discover, it’s no ordinary asteroid. The rock en route is unlikely to devastate the planet in the way everyone else expects it to. But even Mia’s tiny housemates are baffled, never having seen anything like it before. For Mia, the rock is not the only epic event that can change her life. Someone from her past rears her vengeful head, and aims her sights squarely on Becca. And it begins to look like Mia will have to face the wrath of the rock without the woman she loves by her side. But when the fallout gets personal, Angel’s big heart forces her to take the ultimate crazy step. A step that might just be the last hope of putting everything right… * Starstruck does contain scenes of a sexual nature.

Red Mist: Season 2, Episode 6: Desperation

Red Mist: Season 2, Episode 6: Desperation PDF Author: R T Green
Publisher: Wise Owl
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Book Description
Two women... sworn enemies. One deadly terror threat. One jealous sister. One true love. What could possibly go wrong? An MI6 shadow assassin and a beautiful terrorist are thrown together in the midst of a terror threat, the like of which London has never seen before. This is ‘Desperation’, the sixth episode of the Red Mist series. A new and yet familiar terror threat hangs over London. As a young woman finally escapes the clutches of her evil captors, she brings with her terrifying news. Coop and the DIAL team are always one step behind, desperately needing the expertise only Madeline and Zana can provide. But they are billions of miles away, and no one on Earth knows if they are even still alive. Then, suddenly, everything changes… Travel with Madeline and Zana as they follow a life-threatening, perilous road, taking them to a place neither believes can exist. Killing someone isn’t meant to be this hard. Neither is falling in love. “Romantic Suspense at its finest” Imagine a TV drama with eight episodes over two seasons, telling a complete story, and bringing you a host of unexpected twists and turns along the way. Red Mist is that gripping serialized drama, in book form. It will keep you page-turning, and episode reading! (Each episode is its own story, but very much leads into the next one... so to get the full effect please do read the volumes in order!) Do check out the Red Mist series, and everything else we do, on the rtgreen website. And enjoy!

Daisy: Not Your Average Super-sleuth! The First Bundle

Daisy: Not Your Average Super-sleuth! The First Bundle PDF Author: R T Green
Publisher: Wise Owl
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 559

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Book Description
It all begins with a rose bush, mysteriously uprooted in the middle of the night, revealing a horrific secret... If you’ve not met our R.E.D. (Retired Extremely Daisy) heroine yet, the first bundle is a great way to get to know her, and the hit series! Three full books for less than the price of two! Daisy moved to a village a few miles from Kings Lynn in Norfolk a year ago, after a very unfortunate incident in London made her decide village life was the best option. She’s adapted to country life quite well, although she rather irreverently refers to the village of Great Wiltingham as the ‘place people go to wilt’. She does have a wicked side, after all! “One of the best cozy mystery series I’ve ever read!” “A real breath of fresh literary air!” In the first book, after some strange goings-on and a murder in the village, Daisy and Aidan, together with a young police-woman called Sarah, whose curiosity gets the better of her, set about solving the mystery. It all begins with a rose bush, mysteriously uprooted in the middle of the night, revealing a horrific secret... In the second book, village life has reverted to as normal as it ever gets where Daisy is concerned. Then one morning everything changes, in a very tragic way. To begin with, Daisy believes someone from her past is responsible. Before she retired, she had a job very few people have, after all. Then a clue from a really unexpected source makes her wonder if it might be someone much closer to home. So once again she becomes the worm on the hook, much to Aidan and Sarah’s horror. For Daisy there’s no choice, because this time it’s just about as personal as it gets… In the third book, following a surprise lead their daughter might have been sold by traffickers to someone in Africa three years ago, Daisy, Aidan and Sarah head for Uganda. But they’ve only been in the country a few minutes when a mysterious dying man thrusts a note into Daisy’s hand. As he gasps his last breath, he begs her not to involve the police. She suddenly realises there isn’t just one, but two mysteries to be solved! The extra mystery deepens as three different people confess to a murder that took place many years ago. But there’s a silver lining to solving a case the local police closed in the nineteen-sixties, because it unearths an overgrown path that just might lead them to Celia. A path that could very well end in an international incident! Read all about Daisy, Sandie, and everything else we do, on the new rtgreen website. Enjoy!