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Death on the Patagonian Express

Author : Hy Conrad
Publisher : Kensington Cozies
ISBN 13 : 1617736899
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Death on the Patagonian Express written by Hy Conrad and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon the breakout success of their travel agency blog, TrippyGirl, Amy Abel and her mother, Fanny, are asked to join a group of prominent travel writers on a scenic train tour of Patagonia. Their expedition seems to chug along smoothly until Fanny finds a body scavenged by condors in the wilderness. Even more unsettling, the corpse mysteriously disappears before fellow tourists arrive. Some question Fanny’s sanity, but doubt becomes horror when the tour owner’s angel investor is found dead in a similar position. As a number of “accidents” validate Amy’s suspicion of foul play, the Abels must outsmart one very conniving killer—or they’ll soon be en route to their final destination . . . PRAISE FOR HY CONRAD “The mother/daughter sleuths are witty and quirky, and reminiscent of Miss Marple.” —RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars on Death on the Patagonian Express “Smart, snappy dialogue and fun, likable characters.” —Library Journal, starred review on Toured to Death “An absolutely wonderful mystery, served just the way I like it—with heart and humor.” —Tony Shalhoub, star of TV’s Monk on Toured to Death

The Old Patagonian Express

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547524005
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Old Patagonian Express written by Paul Theroux and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed travel writer journeys by train across the Americas from Boston to Patagonia in this international bestselling travel memoir. Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Paul Theroux takes a grand railway adventure first across the United States and then south through Mexico, Central America, and across the Andes until he winds up on the meandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine. His epic commute finally comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes that reaches toward Antarctica. Along the way, Theroux demonstrates how train travel can reveal “"the social miseries and scenic splendors” of a continent. And through his perceptive prose we learn that what matters most are the people he meets along the way, including the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus priest of Cali, and the blind Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in having Theroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him.

Dearly Departed

Author : Hy Conrad
Publisher : Kensington Cozies
ISBN 13 : 161773683X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Dearly Departed written by Hy Conrad and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fanny and Amy Abel, the dynamic mother-and-daughter owners of a NYC travel agency, have just booked their biggest trip yet. But with danger in the air, the itinerary may include murder... Paisley MacGregor, a maid to the rich, made a dying request to send all of her wealthy employers on a first-class wake to spread her ashes around the world. Amy has her suspicions about these “mourners,” especially when one has a life-threatening “accident” at the first stop in Paris. And when a mysterious American stranger tagging along with the group has his ticket punched in the shadow of the Taj Mahal, Amy knows she may have a killer on her tour. Who was this stranger, and what’s the connection to someone in her group? Digging for clues while continuing on with the trip is a lot for Amy to manage, especially when another mourner has a possibly fatal encounter with a Hawaiian volcano. Back in the States, Fanny and Amy start to piece together a secret worth killing for, but someone is hot on their trail, and ready to send them on a one-way trip—to the morgue!

Sins of the Family

Author : Hy Conrad
Publisher : Mason Hill Inc
ISBN 13 : 1735555541
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Sins of the Family written by Hy Conrad and published by Mason Hill Inc. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Texas fixer Buddy McFee mishandles a case, his client, Trevor Birdsong, commits suicide. Buddy’s daughter, Callie, was the last person Trevor contacted before his death and she feels guilty that she hadn’t been there for him. Callie, an investigative reporter, enters the world of hip, holistic healthcare, convinced that Trevor’s death was murder and was somehow connected to a secret within his company. But her investigation unleashes another secret, one from deep in Buddy’s past, that may just send him to prison – and get Callie killed.

The Fixer's Daughter

Author : Hy Conrad
Publisher : Mason Hill Inc
ISBN 13 : 0578720299
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book The Fixer's Daughter written by Hy Conrad and published by Mason Hill Inc. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Writer/Producer of Monk and White Collar, The Fixer's Daughter pits father against daughter in a twisted tale of murder, deadly secrets and family loyalty. Three years ago, Callie McFee accidentally caused her father's political downfall. Once the most influential man in Texas, Buddy McFee resigned from office and became a "fixer", a person who makes big problems go away. When a prominent CEO is caught trying to bury a raped and murdered girl, it looks like an open-and-shut case. But then Buddy steps in. Soon the wealthy suspect develops an alibi and evidence starts disappearing. Callie, an investigative reporter, used to adore her father. He was brilliant but honorable. Now she thinks he may be helping a cold-blooded killer escape justice. And then Callie discovers something even more troubling. The great Buddy McFee, the man protecting all the scandals in the state, is in the early stages of dementia. If this ever goes public, it would destroy his spirit, end his career and probably get him killed. Can Callie go up against her father and expose a ruthless killer? Can she do this and still keep his secret from the world? Or, as she inches closer to the truth, will she wind up getting both of them murdered?

The New York Times Index

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New York Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0358003970
Total Pages : 1801 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux written by Paul Theroux and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 1801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international bestselling author records his many insights and adventures traversing the world by train in these 3 classic travel memoirs. The Great Railway Bazaar In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on his now-legendary journey from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express—are the stars of a journey that takes Theroux on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. The Old Patagonia Express Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Paul Theroux takes a grand railway adventure first across the United States and then south through Mexico, Central America, and across the Andes until he winds up on the meandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux retraces his 25,000-mile journey to witness and experience a landscape drastically transformed by the intervening decades. The Soviet Union has collapsed and China has risen; India booms while Burma smothers under dictatorship; Vietnam flourishes in the aftermath of the havoc America was unleashing on it the last time Theroux passed through.

Riding the Iron Rooster

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547526997
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Riding the Iron Rooster written by Paul Theroux and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-12-08 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed travel writer chronicles a year of train travel across China in a revealing travelogue that “gives the reader much to relish and think about” (Publishers Weekly). The author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. The always irascible, infectiously curious author “is in top form as he describes the barren deserts of Mongolia and Xinjiang, the ice forests of Manchuria and the dry hills of Tibet. He captures their otherworldly, haunting appearances perfectly. He is also right on target when he talks about the ugliness of China's poorly planned, hastily built cities” (Mark Salzman, The New York Times). Theroux hops aboard a train as part of a tour group in London and sets out for China's border. He then spends a year traversing the country, where he pieces together a fascinating snapshot of a unique moment in history. From sweeping and desolate natural landscapes to the dense metropolises of Shanghai, Beijing, and Canton, Theroux offers an unforgettable portrait of a magnificent land and an extraordinary people.

Confronting AIDS Through Literature

Author : Judith Laurence Pastore
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252019890
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Confronting AIDS Through Literature written by Judith Laurence Pastore and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology offers an array of viewpoints on the use of literature to confront AIDS. In Part 1, the authors (a.o. Michael Denneny, Paul Reed, James W. Jones) chronicle the increasing significance of AIDS in fiction, journalism, drama, and contemporary spirituality. Part 2 offers a sampling of creative writing on AIDS with fragments by a.o. Paul Monette, Melvin Dixon, Joel Redon, David Feinberg. Part 3 shows how AIDS literature can enlighten and energize humanities, composition, and medical students

Reading through the Night

Author : Jane Tompkins
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813941601
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Reading through the Night written by Jane Tompkins and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Tompkins, a renowned literature professor and award-winning author, thought she knew what reading was until, struck by a debilitating illness, she finds herself reading day and night because it is all she can do. A lifelong lover of books, she realizes for the first time that if you pay close attention to your reactions as you read, literature can become a path of self-discovery. Tompkins’s inner journey begins when she becomes captivated unexpectedly by an account of friendship between two writers to whom she’d given little thought, Paul Theroux and V. S. Naipaul. Theroux’s memoir launches her on a path of introspection that stretches back to the first weeks of her life in a Bronx hospital, and forward to her relationship with her mother and the structure of her present marriage. Her reading experience, intensified by the feelings of powerlessness and loss of self that come with chronic illness, expands to include writers such as Henning Mankell and Ann Patchett, Alain de Botton, Elena Ferrante, and Anthony Trollope. As she makes her way through their books, she recognizes herself in them, stumbling across patterns of feeling and behavior that have ruled her without her knowing it—envy, a desire for fame, fear of confronting the people she loves, a longing for communion. The reader, along with Tompkins, comes to the realization that literature can be not only a source of information and entertainment, not only a balm and a refuge, but also a key to unlocking long-forgotten memories that lead to a new understanding of one’s life.

Kids' Whodunits

Author : Hy Conrad
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402753985
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Kids' Whodunits written by Hy Conrad and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old detective Jonah Bixby and the reader work together to solve twenty short cases of theft, arson, and murder.

The Official Washington Post Index

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Official Washington Post Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Ways to Kill Your Mother

Author : Colm Toibin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451668570
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book New Ways to Kill Your Mother written by Colm Toibin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist and critic Colm Tóibín provides “a fascinating exploration of writers and their families” (Entertainment Weekly) and “an excellent guide through the dark terrain of unconscious desires” (The Evening Standard) in this brilliant collection of essays that explore the relationships of writers to their families and their work. Colm Tóibín—celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays—traces the intriguing, often twisted family ties of writers in the books they leave behind. Through the relationship between W. B. Yeats and his father, Thomas Mann and his children, Jane Austen and her aunts, and Tennessee Williams and his sister, Tóibín examines a world of relations, richly comic or savage in their implications. Acutely perceptive and imbued with rare tenderness and wit, New Ways to Kill Your Mother is a fascinating look at writers’ most influential bonds and a secret key to understanding and enjoying their work.

Andes

Author : Michael Jacobs
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582438811
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Andes written by Michael Jacobs and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, the Andes have caught the imagination of travelers, inspiring fear and wonder. The groundbreaking scientist Alexander von Humboldt claimed that ""everything here is grander and more majestic than in the Swiss Alps, the Pyrenees, the Carpathians, the Apennines, and all other mountains I have known."" Rivaled in height only by the Himalayas and stretching more than 4,500 miles, the sheer immensity of the Andes is matched by its concentration of radically contrasting scenery and climates, and the rich and diverse cultures of the people who live there. In this remarkable book, travel writer Michael Jacobs journeys across seven different countries, from the balmy Caribbean to the inhospitable islands of the Tierra del Fuego, through the relics of ancient civilizations and the remnants of colonial rule, retracing the footsteps of previous travelers. His route begins in Venezuela, following the path of the great nineteenth–century revolutionary Simón Bolívar, but soon diverges to include accounts from sources as varied as Humboldt, the young Charles Darwin, and Bolívar's extraordinary and courageous mistress, Manuela Saenz. On his way, Jacobs uncovers the stories of those who have shared his fascination and discovers the secrets of a region steeped in history, science, and myth.

Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America

Author : Claire Lindsay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135167672
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America written by Claire Lindsay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a new approach to travel writing about Latin America by examining ‘domestic’ journey narratives that have been produced by travellers from the continent itself and largely in Spanish. Historically, travel writing about Latin America has been written primarily from the perspective of the foreign, often European, traveller. As such, and following the large influx of military, scientific, and leisure travellers in the region since its colonisation, much of this foreign travel writing has depicted the continent in predominantly exoticist and/or imperialist terms. Lindsay explores how Latin American travellers have conceived and constructed narratives about travel at home and considers how such texts (many of them available in English translation or with subtitles) function to counter or corroborate long-standing myths about the continent. Through a series of regionally- and thematically-oriented case studies that engage with key issues, themes and debates in both Latin American and travel studies, Lindsay provides the first sustained interdisciplinary study of contemporary domestic travel narratives about the region and will also comprise an important intervention into methodological debates about travel and travel writing.

Dictionary of World Biography

Author : Barry Jones
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760465526
Total Pages : 1005 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of World Biography written by Barry Jones and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 1005 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post‑industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the *Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016. He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia’s five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia’s 100 ‘living national treasures’ in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life’. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.

Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion

Author : Andrew Delahunty
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199567468
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion written by Andrew Delahunty and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allusions are a marvelous literary shorthand. A miser is a Scrooge, a strong man a Samson, a beautiful woman a modern-day Helen of Troy. From classical mythology to modern movies and TV shows, this revised and updated third edition explains the meanings of more than 2,000 allusions in use in modern English, from Abaddon to Zorro, Tartarus to Tarzan, and Rambo to Rubens. Based on an extensive reading program that has identified the most commonly used allusions, this fascinating volume includes numerous quotations to illustrate usage, drawn from sources ranging from Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens to Bridget Jones's Diary. In addition, the dictionary includes a useful thematic index, so that readers not only can look up Medea to find out how her name is used as an allusion, but also can look up the theme of "Revenge" and find, alongside Medea, entries for other figures used to allude to revenge, such as The Furies or The Count of Monte Cristo. Hailed by Library Journal as "wonderfully conceived and extraordinarily useful," this superb reference--now available in paperback--will appeal to anyone who enjoys language in all its variety. It is especially useful for students and writers.