Author: Rajeev Ahal
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1947634097
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Every minute in life, you are at a crossroad. Do you feel it? The heart pounding, breathtaking, exhilaration of it all? If not, you aren’t alone. This is a book for those moments when you feel stifled, constricted or just simply not where you want to be. Take a journey into a seemingly haphazard past spent off the beaten track. Starting with a disillusioned college kid and continuing on into the life of a somewhat grown man, these twelve tales offer entertainment but also insights into the true flavors of rural and urban life, rooted in an ancient yet developing country like India. Meet people whose trysts with their daily lives hold insights into friendship, love, justice, pain, inspiration and more. This is a book of both adventure and reflection. It is for the soul. As the adage goes, ‘Truth and amla (wild gooseberry) are the same – they are bitter at first but sweet and healthy in their aftertaste.’ These stories deal with some questions that may well echo those that you hold. The meanings you derive from each story, or choose not to, should be of great interest to you, for therein lie the seeds of the learning in your own lives!
Author: Cate Martin
Publisher: Ratatoskr Press
ISBN: 196516708X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141
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Shopgirl. Telephone operator. Lady's companion. Smashingly good secretary. All jobs that Dorothy Lundegaard possesses the skills to excel at. And even at the tail end of the Great Depression in St. Paul, Minnesota, all jobs that Dottie could secure for herself. But, alas, none appeal to her. Her true calling, her vocation, remains the family business. She longs to follow in her father's private detective footsteps. Or at least assist her brother John as he strives to revive the agency after the death of their father. As much as he might want her to pursue more conventional work, John Lundegaard again and again is forced to admit that his sister brings a perspective he needs. She can get into places that are closed off to him. But mostly, she never takes no for an answer. And she never rests until the mystery is solved. “The Dorothy Lundegaard Mysteries,” a collection of historical mystery short stories from Cate Martin.
Author: John Stapleton
Publisher: A Sense Of Place Publishing
ISBN: 0992548799
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Terror in Australia: Workers' Paradise Lost, by veteran journalist John Stapleton, is a beautifully written snapshot of a pivotal turning point in the history of the so-called Lucky Country. This book is a sidewinding missile into the heart of Australian hypocrisy. In 2015 there were well attended Reclaim Australia demonstrations in every major capital city, all protesting what the demonstrators saw as the growing Islamisation of Australia, along with countering anti-racism demonstrations. There were frequent violent clashes, hundreds of police were forced to form lines separating the demonstrators in Sydney and Melbourne, there were a significant number of arrests and injuries, and dozens of people were treated for the effects of capsicum spray. The terror alert was at its highest level ever, the country was engaged in an unpopular and discredited war in Iraq and Syria, and relations between the government and an increasingly radicalised Muslim minority had broken down. Despite the billions being spent on national security, authorities believed another terrorist attack was inevitable. A demoralised population, saddled with a history of grotesque overregulation, turned inwards, increasingly questioning the failed social creeds of the past. On the streets once vibrant entertainment districts were desolate, while closed and shuttered shops became a characteristic of many suburbs. An optimistic, freedom loving country with an irreverent, larrikin culture and a wildly optimistic view of its place in the world lost faith in its own story. Well documented, switching through multiple points of view, Terror in Australia: Workers' Paradise Lost is a sometimes frightening, sometimes intensely lyrical step inside a democracy in serious trouble.
Author: Cate Martin
Publisher: Ratatoskr Press
ISBN: 1958606316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Ingrid Torfudottir lives in two worlds at once. The first, Runde, lies on the banks of Lake Superior, a town of northern Minnesotans who descend from Scandinavian immigrants, fishermen and farmers both. In that world she barely exists, just an unknown aspiring book illustrator who occasionally sells a little art at the local café.The other, Villmark, lies hidden from the rest of the world by ancient, strong magic. The people of the village descend from colonists who fled their homeland in Norway centuries before. In that world she bears great responsibilities. As a volva, a Viking witch, the protection of her people always comes first in her life.These two worlds overlap in just one place: her grandmother's mead hall. After sitting abandoned for months, Ingrid and her grandmother open it again to much celebration in both communities.But then everything goes wrong. The illusions and protections remain despite their efforts at the end of the night. And Ingrid can't get back to Villmark.Then someone dies, a murder. As if Ingrid didn't have enough on her plate.
Author: Cate Martin
Publisher: Ratatoskr Press
ISBN: 1965167152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
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Every new year carries with it the tantalizing promise of better times to come. It brings the possibility of prosperity that the old year never delivered. It arrives with hope, if only for a moment. Dorothy Lundegaard hopes that 1938 will mean more success for her and her brother and their struggling Lundegaard Investigations. At least enough success to make her a full-fledged partner in the business. But their first job in the new year presents quite a conundrum. A case of theft that the police deem not a crime. An expensive new car, a Cadillac series 65 convertible, mysteriously vanishes, then reappears just where it belonged. Clean, full of gas, but with extra miles on the odometer. But who would steal such a valuable car then return it two days later? For that matter, who would choose the coldest January night with temperatures well below zero to steal a convertible? And what if the police are only half right? It might not be theft, but there just might have been a crime. One that only the Lundegaards working together can uncover. "The Vanishing Convertible," a short story in the continuing Dorothy Lundegaard Mysteries.
Author: Cate Martin
Publisher: Ratatoskr Press
ISBN: 1958606448
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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In the 1920s, at the height of Prohibition, Sarah Eckhart holds no illusions about how her father earns his money. She knows he runs a dangerous, illegal empire. Her wedding at their palatial summer home on the shores of White Bear Lake is the event of the summer. But the man her father hand-picked as her groom, his chief lieutenant, turns her stomach. She only has one last chance for escape, if she dares to take it. “The Elopement”, a short story of crime and tough choices, set during the height of Prohibition in Minnesota.
Author: Cate Martin
Publisher: Ratatoskr Press
ISBN: 1965167233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
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Lucy never cared about Christmas. The holiday just never held any meaning for her. But with a baby on the way, she wants to change that. She wants to find a meaning of her own to share with her offspring. And yet, no meaning feels right to her. Nothing that other people think about Christmas rings true with her at all. And time is running out. Then, on a perfectly ordinary commute home, she meets a man on the train. A man who just might have the answer she’s looking for. “First Light,” a modern fantasy about what might be the oldest thing of all.
Author: Cate Martin
Publisher: Ratatoskr Press
ISBN: 1946552879
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Amanda Clarke knows she's a witch. She unleashed unstoppable magic to save her friends and catch a murderer. But she only did it the one time. And now? Back to powerlessness.Her friends insist that all she needs is proper training. Sophie wakes her before dawn for meditation and workouts designed to channel magic. Brianna buries her under books, so many books.Amanda longs for a distraction. But when the woman who lives next door to Miss Zenobia Weekes' Charm School for Exceptional Young Ladies turns up dead, and the murder weapon dates back to Prohibition, she gets more of a distraction than she bargained for.But who in 1927 would want her neighbor dead in 2018?
Author: Cate Martin
Publisher: Ratatoskr Press
ISBN: 1946552844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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Amanda Clarke thinks of herself as perfectly ordinary in every way. Just a small-town girl who serves breakfast all day in a little diner nestled next to the highway, nothing but dairy farms for miles around. She fits in there. But then an old woman she never met dies, and Amanda was named in her will. Now Amanda packs a bag and heads to the big city, to Miss Zenobia Weekes' Charm School for Exceptional Young Ladies. And it's not in just any neighborhood. No, she finds herself on Summit Avenue in St. Paul, a street lined with gorgeous old houses, the former homes of lumber barons, railroad millionaires, even the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Why, Amanda can practically hear the jazz music still playing across the decades. Scratch that. The music really, literally, still plays in the backyard of the charm school. Because the house stretches across time itself. Without a witch to protect this tear in the fabric of the world, anything can spill over. Like music. Or like murder. "Charm School", Book 1 in the Witches Three Cozy Mystery series. If you're a fan of Amanda M. Lee, N.M. Howell, or Amy Boyles, this mélange of magic and murder mystery is sure to charm you.
Author: Cate Martin
Publisher: Ratatoskr Press
ISBN: 196516711X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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Dorothy Lundegaard helps her brother John run Lundegaard Investigations, a business their father ran from his retirement from the St. Paul, Minnesota, police force until his death in 1935. The business just barely ekes by, but helping people with problems means more to Dottie than any other work she could possibly find. People like Charles Meyer, a man still holding out hope for the sister he hasn't seen since the day her hand slipped out of his while walking through the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Just sixteen, and never seen again. Her disappearance is the coldest of their father's cold cases, the one he never solved despite decades of effort. But Dottie possesses resources her father never had. Maybe, just maybe, she can help her brother finish the work their father started so many years ago. "The White City Disappearance," a short story in the continuing Dorothy Lundegaard Mysteries.
