Granny S Got A Gun

Author : Harper Lin
Publisher : Harper Lin Books
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Granny's Got a Gun by Harper Lin Pdf

Looking for a thrilling and humorous read? Look no further than "Secret Agent Granny," the first book in a cozy mystery series by 3x USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin. Join retired CIA agent Barbara Gold as she trades in her spy gadgets for a quieter life in Cheerville, a small town in New England. When a man is poisoned during a book club meeting for seniors, Barbara's boredom is replaced with excitement to solve this dangerous case. Who would want this sweet old man dead? It’s only a matter of time before his death is declared murder and the police start hounding everyone. Even though she is no longer undercover, Barbara feels as if she’s only playing the part of a sweet grandmother, but this may just be her most useful cover yet. As the clock ticks, Barbara uses her CIA training to investigate who in the Cheerville Active Readers' Society could be the killer. Suddenly Barbara’s CIA training is useful again, and Cheerville is starting to seem not so dull after all… Find out what happens in this action-packed first book, filled with humor, mystery, and a butt-kicking granny who proves that age is just a number. keywords: senior sleuths cozy mystery, secret agent thriller, CIA training, funny novella mystery, new cozy mystery series, quick read, Senior cozy mystery, Small town cozy mystery, Senior sleuths cozy mysteries, Senior cozy mysteries, Cozy funny senior mysteries, Senior sleuth mysteries in ebooks, Free senior mysteries ebooks, Free senior sleuths cozy mysteries

Author : Harper Lin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1386303445

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Granny's Got a Gun by Harper Lin Pdf

"Barbara Gold, a retired CIA agent, is bored out of her skull in Cheerville, a small town in New England--until a man is poisoned during a book club meeting for seniors. Everyone thinks Lucien had a heart attack, but from his symptoms, Barbara knows someone has slipped poisoned into his cake or drink. Even though she is no longer under cover, Barbara feels as if she's only playing the part of a sweet grandmother, but this may just be her most useful cover yet. The clock ticks as she investigates who in the Cheerville Active Readers' Society would want Lucien dead. It's only a matter of time before his death is declared murder and the police start hounding everyone. Suddenly Barbara's CIA training is useful again, and Cheerville is starting to seem not so dull after all..."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Hilary McKay
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781447292340

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Over the Hills and Far Away by Hilary McKay Pdf

I asked myself lots of questions, like why did the Piper’s son steal the pig? Over the Hills and Far Away is an imaginative retelling which weaves together two classic stories in the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood and the nursery tale of Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son. Originally featured in Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales, this short story is sure to capture the imagination! From the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning storyteller Hilary McKay and featuring black-and-white line and tone illustrations from the talented Sarah Gibb.

Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781607106784

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Uncle John's True Crime by Bathroom Readers' Institute Pdf

A collection of strange-but-true crime tales featuring cops, lawyers, and some very unusual suspects . . . The fact-finding folks at Bathroom Readers’ Institute have rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we’ve ever done, plus a rogues’ gallery of new offenders. You’ll read about dumb crooks and criminal masterminds, mafia henchmen and low-level goons, ancient warriors and Old West gunslingers, crazed cops and jovial judges, and even a few loony lawyers and crooked Wall Street types. Find out about . . . * New York City’s “Mad Bomber” * The Biddle Brothers and the Queen of the Jail * Law and Order: Special Pants Unit * Dopes who hide their dope in the strangest places * America’s first private eye * NASCAR’s bootlegging beginnings * The real pirates of the Caribbean * Why CSI makes the cops’ job even harder * Billy the Kid and other outlaws who died with their boots on * George Luger, Samuel Colt, and other fathers of guns * The greatest train robberies * Arrested for farting * And much more!

Author : Melissa A. McEuen
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820337586

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Making War, Making Women by Melissa A. McEuen Pdf

Drawing on war propaganda, popular advertising, voluminous government records, and hundreds of letters and other accounts written by women in the 1940s, Melissa A. McEuen examines how extensively women's bodies and minds became "battlegrounds" in the U.S. fight for victory in World War II. Women were led to believe that the nation's success depended on their efforts--not just on factory floors, but at their dressing tables, bathroom sinks, and laundry rooms. They were to fill their arsenals with lipstick, nail polish, creams, and cleansers in their battles to meet the standards of ideal womanhood touted in magazines, newspapers, billboards, posters, pamphlets and in the rapidly expanding pinup genre. Scrutinized and sexualized in new ways, women understood that their faces, clothes, and comportment would indicate how seriously they took their responsibilities as citizens. McEuen also shows that the wartime rhetoric of freedom, democracy, and postwar opportunity coexisted uneasily with the realities of a racially stratified society. The context of war created and reinforced whiteness, and McEuen explores how African Americans grappled with whiteness as representing the true American identity. Using perspectives of cultural studies and feminist theory, Making War, Making Women offers a broad look at how women on the American home front grappled with a political culture that used their bodies in service of the war effort.

Author : Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748131945

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All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye by Christopher Brookmyre Pdf

As a teenager Jane Bell had dreamt of playing in the casinos of Monte Carlo in the company of James Bond, but in her punk phase she'd got herself pregnant and by the time she reaches forty-six she's a grandmother, her dreams as dry as the dust her Dyson sucks up from her hall carpet every day. Then her son Ross, a researcher working for an arms manufacturer in Switzerland, is forced to disappear before some characters cut from the same cloth as Blofeld persuade him to part with the secrets of his research. But they are not the only ones desperate to locate him. A team of security experts is hired by Ross's firm: headed by the enigmatic Bett, his staff have little in common apart from total professionalism and a thorough disregard for the law. Bett believes the key to Ross's whereabouts is his mother, and in one respect he is right, but even he is taken aback by the verve underlying her determination to secure her son's safety as she learns the black arts of quiet subterfuge and violent attack. The teenage dreams of fast cars, high-tech firepower and extreme action had always promised to be fun and games, but in real life it's likely someone is going to lose an eye ... Visit the author's website at www.brookmyre.co.uk

Author : Harper Lin
Publisher : Harper Lin Books
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Granny Undercover by Harper Lin Pdf

A hilarious cozy mystery series from 3x USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin! Retired CIA agent Barbara Gold decides to take up gardening to pass the time in Cheerville, a quaint New England town. Before she can pay for her peat moss and a copy of Gardening for Numbskulls at the garden shop, she overhears two ladies gossiping about the death of Cheerville’s best gardener. Based on her extensive secret agent training, Barbara quickly concludes Archibald didn’t die in a freak accident via hedge clippers, but was murdered. The local police are no help, ruling the death a suicide. To solve this case, Barbara must go undercover on her own—with a 9mm pistol, of course. From taking Seniors Yoga to infiltrating an underground gambling club, Barbara must use her best asset—her guise as a sweet seventy-year-old granny—to find the murderer, while not letting her babysitting duties to her thirteen-year-old grandson, Martin, and attention from a new love interest distract her. Read the action-packed 2nd novella (30,000 words) in the Secret Agent Granny mystery series. keywords: senior sleuths cozy mystery, secret agent thriller, CIA training, funny novella mystery, new cozy mystery series, quick read, Senior cozy mystery, Small town cozy mystery, Senior sleuths cozy mysteries, Senior cozy mysteries, Cozy funny senior mysteries, Senior sleuth mysteries in ebooks, Free senior mysteries ebooks, Free senior sleuths cozy mysteries

Author : Kerry Copeland Smith
Publisher : HalMarx Publishing
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780989642613

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The Boogie Trapp by Kerry Copeland Smith Pdf

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Author : Harper Lin
Publisher : Harper Lin Books
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Granny Burns Rubber by Harper Lin Pdf

I'm Barbara Gold. Age: 71. Height: 5'5". Eyes: blue. Hair: gray. Weight: none of your business. Specialties: Undercover surveillance, small arms, chemical weapons, Middle Eastern and Latin American politics. Current status: Retired CIA agent, widow, and grandmother. Liz, a friend Barbara met during her undercover stint at Cheerville’s nudist colony, is getting married. When Barbara accompanies Liz to plan the wedding, the wedding planner is shot dead at the venue. Barbara knows that bullet was intended for Liz, but why? Liz has secrets of her own, and her colorful past is catching up with her and threatening her new peaceful life. Even though Barbara is in the dark about who Liz used to work for, she knows she has to help her friend using her CIA skills and connections. Read the action-packed 10th book (30,000 words) in the Secret Agent Granny mystery series. keywords: senior sleuths cozy mystery, secret agent thriller, CIA training, funny novella mystery, new cozy mystery series, quick read, Senior cozy mystery, Small town cozy mystery, Senior sleuths cozy mysteries, Senior cozy mysteries, Cozy funny senior mysteries, Senior sleuth mysteries in ebooks, Free senior mysteries ebooks, Free senior sleuths cozy mysteries

Author : Ray A. Randolph
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781425934620

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Nobody Rests But the Dead by Ray A. Randolph Pdf

Author : Peggy Parish
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613016319

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Granny and the Desperadoes by Peggy Parish Pdf

When Granny Guntry catches the two thieves who stole her pies, she puts them to work picking berries, helping out with livestock, and fixing the roof--making these two escaped desperadoes sorry they ever tangled with this slave-driving grandmother. A comic masterpiece. Full color.

Author : Eve Grafton
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781796006223

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A House to Kill For by Eve Grafton Pdf

Between World wars One and two, England taxed the British country houses at such a rate that many were abandoned. Some were taken over by the army as hospitals for the wounded troops. After WW2, Staff was too hard to find to continue the farms. and there were many real farms caught up in this, this is a fictional story of such a one. After the bookshop and house granny owned were burnt down, James and Percy visited the house and farm the Haskell’s had previously owned. They brought back a family photo album from the house and Granny discovered she was part of that family. While the others were away on a holiday, she went to visit a second cousin she remembered from her youth to find out more about It. She wanted to know what her heritage was. To be mentioned in the same breath of the Haskell murdering family made her shiver, but she wanted to know more of the history and why they were like that, and why she never knew how it happened. By the time her family arrived back, she had discovered so much, she did not know if she wanted to find out any more, but she had yet to tell her grand- daughter and the others the story of the house, and of the later Haskell’s, and that she was related to them, that was the hardest part.

Author : Axel Nissen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476626062

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Accustomed to Her Face by Axel Nissen Pdf

Drawing on historical documents and newspaper reports, this book provides a fascinating portrait of a diverse group of character actresses who left their stamp on Hollywood from the early sound era through the 1960s. The lives of 35 actresses are explored in detail. Some are familiar: Margaret Hamilton starred in dozens of films before and after her signature role as the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz; Una Merkel nearly died when her mother committed suicide in 1945. Others are nearly forgotten: Maude Eburne owed her career to a spectacular fall on the Broadway stage in 1914; Greta Meyer, who played the quintessential German maid, came to Hollywood after years in New York’s Yiddish theater—though she wasn’t Jewish.

Author : Karen Rose
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984805324

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Say No More by Karen Rose Pdf

Mercy Callahan thought she'd escaped the cult decades ago, but its long fingers are reaching out for her again in this electrifying novel in the Sacramento series by New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose. Seventeen years ago. That was the last time Mercy Callahan saw Ephraim Burton, the leader of the twisted Eden cult where she was raised. But even though she escaped the abuse and terror, they continue to haunt her. When her brother Gideon discovers new evidence of the cult's--and their victims'--whereabouts, Mercy goes to Sacramento to reconnect with him. There, she meets Gideon's closest friend--homicide detective Rafe Sokolov. From Rafe, she receives an offer she never knew she needed: to track down Ephraim and make him pay for everything. But Ephraim, who had thought Mercy long dead, discovers she is in fact alive and that she is digging around for the cult's secrets. And now he'll do anything to take her back to Eden--dead or alive.

Author : Diana Lary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009081016

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China's Grandmothers by Diana Lary Pdf

Over the past century and a half, China has experienced foreign invasion, warfare, political turmoil, and revolution, along with massive economic and technological change. Through all this change, there is one stable element: grandmothers, as child carers, household managers, religious devotees, transmitters of culture, and, above all, sources of love, warmth, and affection. In this interdisciplinary and longitudinal study, China's Grandmothers sheds light on the status and lives of grandmothers in China over the years from the late Qing Dynasty to the twenty-first century. Combining a wide range of historical and biographical materials, Diana Lary explores the changes and continuities in the lives of grandmothers through revolution, wars, and radical upheaval to the present phase of economic growth. Informed by her own experience as a grandchild and grandmother, Lary offers a fresh and compelling way of looking at gender, family, and ageing in modern Chinese society.