A Life S Ransom

Author : Lois Duncan
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781453263396

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Ransom by Lois Duncan Pdf

Edgar Award finalist: When the strange new bus driver passes the last stop, the five teens on board know something’s wrong: “[A] gripping thriller.” —Publishers Weekly Valley Gardens is the last stop on the bus route after school. The neighborhood is known for its wealthy families, perhaps the richest in town. Marianne, Bruce, Glenn, Dexter, and Jesse live in Valley Gardens, and have no trouble guiding the new bus driver to the last stop of the day—but the strange substitute driver keeps driving. Soon the five teenagers are hostages deep in the mountains. Their kidnappers demand stacks of money from their families, even though most of the students aren’t as well off as the abductors assume. Without hope of raising the ransom money, the five teens must find a way out or face terrifying consequences. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Duncan including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Author : Ransom Riggs
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781594748394

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Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Boxed Set by Ransom Riggs Pdf

The New York Times #1 best-selling series. Includes 3 novels by Ransom Riggs and 12 peculiar photographs. Together for the first time, here is the #1 New York Times best seller Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and its two sequels, Hollow City and Library of Souls. All three hardcovers are packaged in a beautifully designed slipcase. Also included: a special collector's envelope of twelve peculiar photographs, highlighting the most memorable moments of this extraordinary three-volume fantasy. MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in this groundbreaking novel, which mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling new kind of reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob Portman journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. HOLLOW CITY: September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can help them—but she's trapped in the body of a bird. The extraordinary adventure continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner. LIBRARY OF SOULS: A boy, a girl, and a talking dog. They're all that stands between the sinister wights and the future of peculiar children everywhere. Jacob Portman ventures through history one last time to rescue the peculiar children from a heavily guarded fortress. He's joined by girlfriend and firestarter Emma Bloom, canine companion Addison MacHenry, and some very unexpected allies.

Author : David Malouf
Publisher : Random House
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448113347

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Ransom by David Malouf Pdf

In this exquisite gem of a novel, David Malouf shines new light on Homer's Iliad, adding twists and reflections, as well as flashes of earthy humour, to surprise and enchant. Lyrical, immediate and heartbreaking, Malouf's fable engraves the epic themes of the Trojan war onto a perfect miniature - themes of war and heroics, hubris and humanity, chance and fate, the bonds between soldiers, fathers and sons, all brilliantly recast for our times.

Author : Heather S. Ransom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1948120976

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Going Green by Heather S. Ransom Pdf

Heather S. Ransom's stunning debut, the YA dystopia Going Green, tackles issues like GMOs, citizens filming acts of police brutality, and political extremism in a fun, fast-paced coming-of-age adventure.

Author : Kellie Brennan,Nicole Bonney,Nigel Brennan
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781742533544

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The Price of Life by Kellie Brennan,Nicole Bonney,Nigel Brennan Pdf

Captured by terrorists, kept in solitary confinement, guarded by men with AK47s and little respect for life. Could you survive it? Bundaberg photojournalist Nigel Brennan travels to Somalia with Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout. They are abducted by a criminal gang, that puts a price of US$3 million on their heads. If it's not paid, they will be killed. And the Australian government does not pay ransoms. After more than a year of stalled negotiations, Nigel's family takes matters into their own hands. They go against government advice, scarifying their livelihoods, their houses and personal lives to bring the hostages home. Meanwhile, the kidnappers are losing patience. Brutalised, shackled, not knowing when or how the situation will end, Nigel faces the fight of his life. This is a story about what it takes to survive, and how far a family will go for freedom, whatever the price.

Author : Danielle Steel
Publisher : Random House
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409092018

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Ransom by Danielle Steel Pdf

A powerful story about a mother’s courage in the face of overwhelming odds. Fernanda Barnes’s life was once graced by security, success and stunning wealth. Now, widowed and with a mounting pile of debts, she is trying desperately to shield her three children from the rising panic within her. When a file of press clippings and photos of the Barnes family is found in the desk of a convicted criminal, police detective Ted Lee is sent to protect them. He is a man of unshakable integrity but even he cannot prevent the devastating events that follow. In a gripping race against time, Detective Lee is the only man who can save Fernanda and her children from a terrifying fate . . .

Author : Sharon Kay Penman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698167179

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A King's Ransom by Sharon Kay Penman Pdf

Sharon Kay Penman follows up her acclaimed novel Lionheart with this vivid and heart-wrenching New York Times bestseller about the last event-filled years in the life of Richard I of England, Coeur de Lion. November 1192. After his bloody crusade in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Richard and his crew are overcome by a sudden storm, its fierce winds propelling the ship onto the Sicilian shore. But this misfortune is just the beginning. Forced to make a dangerous choice, Richard finds himself in enemy territory, where he is captured—in violation of the papal decree protecting all crusaders—and handed over to the Holy Roman Emperor. Imprisoned in the notorious fortress at Trifels, from which few ever leave alive, Richard, for the first time in his life, experiences pure, visceral fear—while his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, moves heaven and earth to secure his release. Amid betrayals, intrigues, infidelities, wars, and illness, Richard’s courage and intelligence will become legend.

Author : S. C. Ransom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0857630121

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Perfectly Reflected by S. C. Ransom Pdf

The sequel to Small blue thing - Alex owes Callum her life - e is paying a high price for saving her and someone still seems intent on seking revenge.

Author : Rachel Schurig
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1499363826

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Ransom by Rachel Schurig Pdf

Daisy Harris has no reason to suspect that her day will be any different than usual. She'll go to class, alone. She won't speak or make eye contact. She'll spend her entire day doing her best to go completely unnoticed. That's what life is like for Daisy now-an endless cycle of loneliness and fear. A life lived hiding behind the walls she so faithfully maintains. Then she sees it. A magazine, left behind in class. A simple picture-just his face. And it changes everything. It's been a year since she's seen Daltrey Ransome. A year since he and his brothers left town to pursue their dreams of rock and roll superstardom. A year since he left Daisy behind-left her to watch as everything she knew crumbled around her. She's been running from Daltrey ever since, desperate to keep her secret. But she can't run anymore. And now that Daltrey has found her-the girl he's loved his entire life, the girl he'd give up everything for-he's determined never to let her go again.

Author : Michelle Gagnon
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1426874375

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Kidnap & Ransom by Michelle Gagnon Pdf

When the world's foremost kidnap and ransom negotiator is snatched by a ruthless drug cartel, Jake Riley becomes ensnared in the effort to save him. But he's up against Los Zetas, an elite paramilitary organization renowned for its ferocity and skill. Now he and his colleagues must navigate the dark underbelly of Mexico, from raging street wars to perilous jungles, in an effort to rescue him before time runs out. After nearly losing her life on her last case, FBI Agent Kelly Jones may never do fieldwork again. Determined to regain her confidence, she joins Jake on his mission—and quickly realizes she's in over her head. Then in the slums of Mexico City, she encounters a former nemesis who's enacting a nightmarish ritual on the weak and vulnerable. Now she has one last, desperate shot to prove herself—by taking down a killer.

Author : Wendy Lawton
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781575678498

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Ransom's Mark by Wendy Lawton Pdf

When 13-year-old Olive Oatman's wagon train is raided by outlaw Yavapai Indians, she and her sister are captured. After enduring harsh treatment, they are ransomed by a band of Mohaves. Olive struggles to adjust to her new life, but finds comfort in her faith and in an unexpected friendship. When the time comes for her to return to the white world, she is afraid she will never fit in. But she learns to see the Mohave design tattooed on her chin as a sign of God's love and deliverence, a mark of ransom.

Author : Kathleen L. Sheppard
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784917838

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My dear Miss Ransom: Letters between Caroline Ransom Williams and James Henry Breasted, 1898-1935 by Kathleen L. Sheppard Pdf

Letters between Caroline Ransom Williams, the first American university-trained female Egyptologist, and James Henry Breasted, the first American Egyptologist and founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, show that Ransom Williams had a full life and productive career as the first American female Egyptologist.

Author : Danielle Steel
Publisher : Dell
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440240761

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Ransom by Danielle Steel Pdf

A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel’s sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mother’s courage, a family’s terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds. Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom with him. That night, three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house; for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his job—and slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in an exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood, a mother tries to shield her three children from the panic rising within her. Four months after her husband’s death, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt she cannot repay, a world destroyed, and a marriage lost. Within weeks, the lives of these four people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. For Fernanda, whose life had once been graced by beautiful homes, security, success, and stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant, brooding husband was already too much to bear. She simply couldn’t imagine a greater loss, until a devastating crime rocks her family to its core—and brings Detective Ted Lee into her life. A man of unshakable integrity, Lee will soon become the one person who tries to save Fernanda’s family from a terrifying fate. Fernanda must draw on a strength she never knew she had. Racing against time in the underbelly of the criminal world, buffeted by the dark side of power, and unmoored by loss and betrayal, no one can predict where this tragedy will take them. Danielle Steel brilliantly explores the collision of a shocking crime with the ordinary lives of its victims in a novel that mesmerizes from start to finish. Ransom is at once a riveting evocation of life’s inexplicable turns of fate and a testament to the human will to survive.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF990987809

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A Dictionary of the English Language; in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals; and Illustrated in Their Different Significations ... Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. By Samuel Johnson ... Whith Numerous Corrections, and with the Addition of Several Thousand Words ... by the Rev. H.J. Todd ... In Four Volumes. Vol. 1. [-4.] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z178873006

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A Dictionary Of The English Language; In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals; And Illustrated In Their Different Significations, By Examples From The Best Writers: Together With A History of the Language, and an English Grammar by Samuel Johnson Pdf