Hotel Destiny

Author : Raymond Benson
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781952979989

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Hotel Destiny by Raymond Benson Pdf

WHAT IF YOU, AS A GHOST, HAD TO SOLVE YOUR OWN MURDER? From internationally acclaimed and New York Times best-selling author Raymond Benson comes a novel that is a ghost story with a distinctive noir sensibility mixed with David Lynchian surrealism. The year is 1985. Manhattan’s Times Square area is sleazy, and the streets are full of what Coleman Sackler calls “New York Street Skunk.” Cole is the night manager and self-proclaimed hotel detective for the transient Hotel Destiny, which has been plagued with scandals over the century, including several murders, gangster occupation and ownership, and fleabag status during the 1960s and 70s. Five recent slayings in the building have been attributed to—the police believe—one killer. During the gala grand re-opening Halloween party, Cole Sackler himself is murdered by a masked man. But hold on! Cole “awakes” and is still in the hotel—as a ghost. Prior to his death, a mysterious woman had told him that hidden portals located throughout the building can lead one to other time periods, and that the key to Cole’s destiny is in the hotel’s past and embedded in its many secrets. Thus, Cole’s spirit sets out to solve his own murder by dropping in on living characters throughout Hotel Destiny’s history and observing and/or interacting with them. His goal is to discover the identity of his killer, as well as learn the ironic truth about his own family, his heritage, and himself!

Author : Raymond Benson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952979978

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Hotel Destiny by Raymond Benson Pdf

From internationally acclaimed and New York Times best-selling author Raymond Benson comes a novel that is a ghost story with a distinctive noir sensibility mixed with David Lynchian surrealism. Follow along as Cole, the night manager and self-appointed hotel detective chases clues through the old building's history - to solve his own murder.

Author : Reza
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 9781413476118

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Destiny's Game by Reza Pdf

Destiny's Game" started as a will. "I didn't have the life of a typical 15-year old, not only me but a lot of young people," recalls Reza. With no idea what would happen to him next, Reza began documenting the events and circumstances surrounding him. This collection of personal memoirs and travels begins in his native country of Iran and takes readers along on his twenty-five-year journey through Turkey, Eastern Europe and the United States. In "Destiny's Game," Reza uses his unique perspective to talk about his family in Iran and the Iranian social and political situation, including the revolution of 1979 and the start of the Iraq-Iran war in September 1980. "They (the Iranian people) were doing the wrong things for the right reasons. People didn't know what the Islamic republic meant," says Reza. It created dangerous socio-political turbulence that forced thousands of Iranian families to flee the country with their young sons and daughters. "Imagine you're sitting in Jr. High or High School and they (the revolutionary guards, Islamic fundamentalists) come to your class and say, "Who wants to go to heaven?" And, all the kids raise their hands and want the opportunity. It's a quick ticket, a short-cut. All they have to do is walk on an Iraqi mine field," explains Reza. He talks about foreign hypocrisy and, how his views evolved as he witnessed non-Iranian governments' manipulative efforts to exploit socio-political, cultural and economic affairs of Iran. Through this book, Reza hopes to inspire optimism and national unity, and promote fine moral etiquette and improved human rights. According the Reza, these are important fundamental qualities that the Iranian society and mainstream international governing bodies seriously lack.

Author : Gwynne Forster,Donna Hill,Perry Brown
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758275639

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Destiny's Daughters by Gwynne Forster,Donna Hill,Perry Brown Pdf

In this powerful collection, three acclaimed writers put their talents together to tell the unforgettable story of three sisters separated as infants--and how their paths finally cross in adulthood. Leticia, Jamilla, and Clarissa Holmes each know that they're one in a set of triplets--but that's about all they know. Now they're adults, thirty-three-year old women who are as different as can be. But they have one thing in common: they have never given up on the idea of one day finding each other. . . In "More Than This," by Donna Hill, we meet Leticia, whose time in group homes sharpened her street smarts and taught her to use her good looks to her advantage. Now she's on top of the world, ensconced in a lush apartment in the heart of New Orleans. Leticia knows what men want--she runs the most elite call girl operation in the Parrish. But when she learns that the new sheriff in town is planning a raid, she decides to close up shop, have some adventures, and find her family. She soon discovers that one of her sisters is a jazz singer slated to appear at Lincoln Center. Leticia buys a ticket--and gets much more than she bargained for. . . Parry "EbonySatin" Brown's [title tk] follows Jamilla, adopted by an upstanding family who loved her like their own. But despite a life of privilege, Jamilla was always haunted by a sense of foreboding. As a way to escape her demons, she turned to writing. Now she's landed a six-figure book deal. But Jamilla's joy is clouded by a series of disturbing dreams triggered by a woman she saw on television--a jazz singer with her face. . . In Gwynne Forster's "The Journey," Clarissa Holmes Medford has finally decided to kick out her cheating husband--and pick up her guitar. Maybe she can sing her way out of the unhappiness and poverty that have plagued most of her life. When she records a well-received demo, it's just the beginning of a fascinating journey that will take her far from home, and expose her to a captivating new world--and an audience that may include the family her heart has always longed for. . . Reading Group Guide Inside

Author : J. Kannegieter
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781412043656

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Destiny's Obligation by J. Kannegieter Pdf

We are intuitively interested in the history and future of human civilization. Most people sense that the distant future will not be determined by fantastical circumstances sometimes depicted in contemporary Science Fiction, but rather by decisions made by us and our descendants. Destiny's Obligation is a realistic tale of intense drama on Earth and in Space, set in the 29th century, when typical human fallibility and selfish territorial interests have destroyed civilization in most places. The principals are part of a group of space travelers who return to Earth after a 600-year voyage to a nearby star system. What these descendants of the original explorers find is as much a surprise to them as it will be to the reader. They cannot leave and must first deal with the aggressive inhabitants of a large earth-satellite. They visit Earth eventually and play a significant role in defeating the feuds that are threatening the survival of human society everywhere.

Author : Robert F. Rogers
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824833343

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Destiny's Landfall by Robert F. Rogers Pdf

This revised edition of the standard history of Guam is intended for general readers and students of the history, politics, and government of the Pacific region. Its narrative spans more than 450 years, beginning with the initial written records of Guam by members of Magellan 1521 expedition and concluding with the impact of the recent global recession on Guam’s fragile economy.

Author : Kajoli Khanna
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788194110958

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Destiny's Flowers by Kajoli Khanna Pdf

After a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the Delhi University, Kajoli Khanna moved to Switzerland, where she completed a degree in Fashion and Interior Design. Having consummated varied design projects in Delhi, she began to work with the Ashraya creches for underprivileged children in 1997 and also studied to be a counsellor at the Banjara Academy in Bengaluru. She has since continued to work extensively with a number of institutions for underprivileged children in Delhi and Himachal Pradesh. She has also published another book: Afterbirth and Other Stories.

Author : Spiros Sideris
Publisher : Akouse Live
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780615131672

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In Destiny's Hands by Spiros Sideris Pdf

I held my daughter's lofeless body in my arms for two agonizing days. I buried her with my own hands and a few days later witnesses the most incredible miracle. God brought her back as He did his son. This is one of the many miracles I have experienced in my life. You will learn why, in 1979, I kidnapped my 24 month old daughter from her uncaring and wanton mother in Greece. We came to this country illegally and became fugitives chased by the FBI in a place where we did not speak the language. We were surrounded by strangers, mostly mean and hypocritical, and only a few genuinely good. We lived in cemeteries, under bridges and ate out of trash cans to survive.

Author : R. J. Hore
Publisher : Champagne Book Group
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781947128767

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Of Destiny's Daughters by R. J. Hore Pdf

When a gigantic damaged spaceship suddenly appears over Ottawa requesting assistance the world is thrown into confusion. Why are they really here? If they are having problems, what caused the damage? Then there is the Thorncroft family: Paul is feeling depressed and gets sucked up into a spaceship. Lucile and her ex-military girlfriends are bored and looking for a fight, romance, or something to break up the monotony. Their mother, Martha, is trying to hold the family together while she deals with her husband’s PTSD and alcoholism. Everyone else is trying to discover the alien’s secrets and befriend them or destroy them and anyone who has dealings with them.

Author : Dr Andrey Kretsch
Publisher : Australian Self Publishing Group
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780645055979

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Destiny's Prize. by Dr Andrey Kretsch Pdf

Rural America, 1957. Revolution brews in Cuba, the Soviet Union launches Sputnik. The Space age begins and the Cold War escalates. But life in rural America meanders along. However, the arrival of a Hasidic (ultra-religious) Jewish teenager in the township of Denton, Kansas, does create ripples in the placid community.

Author : R. L. Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781105572609

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Destiny's Odds by R. L. Johnson Pdf

Author : Bob Love
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781425930394

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Destiny's Voyage by Bob Love Pdf

They say fact is stranger than fiction. This is a book of just such an event. History chronicles only one "RMS Titanic" but in reality there were two. The one we all know that struck the iceberg on her maiden voyage on April 14, 1912. A mighty luxurious steamship intended to be the White Star Line's new Queen of the Atlantic Ocean trade between England and America. The other was actually the first of the White Star Line's evolution into the luxury liners with the "SS Atlantic". Almost to the day 29 years earlier on April Fools Day 1873 she ran hard aground on the Nova Scotia coast causing the loss of a higher percentage of her souls than her descendent. The unique factor being only the fittest survived leaving the souls of all the women and but one child buried with her at the bottom of the sea. The book will take you on a voyage that will cause you to reflect upon your own mortality and how the events in your life play a roll in your own destiny. Events that can be playing out by persons you do not even know work their way along a path until circumstances throw you together at a common place and time as though preordained, culminating in a tragedy such as the two sister ships of the White Star Line. Like father, like son, both made decisions based on mirrored motivations, both with tragic results. You will witness the actual words of the cast including their testimony at the Inquiries at Halifax and Liverpool. You will be the jury in forming your own opinions as to the real cause and who carries the primary guilt of responsibility. It's a voyage you should book passage on for enhancing your sensitivity to predestination.

Author : Lexxie Couper
Publisher : Book Boutiques
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781949797022

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Destiny's Knight by Lexxie Couper Pdf

He fell from Heaven for her... Playing the kick-ass demon slayer, Destiny, in the blockbuster TV show Destiny’s Knight is a dream come true for Billie Sheridan. It’s a surreal, exciting world and she loves every minute of it. Until her agent tells her an obsessed fan has escaped police custody and is heading her way. She needs protection. Now. Enter Nathanial Knight. Nathanial Knight’s fall from heaven wasn’t planned. But no matter how he tried to deny the call of Billie Sheridan, he failed. Cast down, he conceals the fact he’s an angel by working for Guarded Souls Protection and Security, but when he learns that Billie’s stalker has sold his soul to the devil to have her, he moves. Fast. Billie’s character may exist in a world of demons, but discovering her protector is an angel is going to take some getting used to. Especially when he’s so damn sexy, and all she wants to do is discover just how naughty a fallen angel can be... International Award-Winning paranormal romantic suspense author Lexxie Couper turns up the suspense in Book 1 of her new Guarded Souls series. Destiny’s Knight takes you on an action packed adventure as Billie Sheridan and her knight in shining wings take desperate measures to escape a deranged stalker! Books in the Guarded Souls series: 1. Destiny's Knight 2. Hope's Wish

Author : Alfred Döblin
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Destiny's Journey by Alfred Döblin Pdf

Destiny's Journey is a memoir reconstructed partly from notebooks that Döblin kept from the time he worked in the French Ministry of Information in the spring of 1940 and partly written without notes in Los Angeles where he took refuge during the Second World War. It tells the personal and generational story of the flight of Jewish and anti-Nazi intellectuals from Europe to America, their fear and frustration, isolation, and inability to work. Döblin’s story differs from that of other Jewish intellectuals and artists in that his family converts to Catholicism in Los Angeles. Unlike most of them, he returns to Europe as an officer with the French forces and works on denazifying German literature. The conversion narrative bridges the departure from and return to Europe. To critic John Simon, “the latter part of the book often reads like a shrill piece of Christian homiletics. But even this is not without interest, as it traces the transformation of an anarchic outsider into a dogmatic insider.” “The first part of ‘Destiny's Journey’ [about] Döblin's departure from Paris [in] 1940... is magisterial: acidly observed, saturated in telling detail, grimly comic and harrowing... with an exemplary introduction by Peter Demetz... an important, nourishing book” — John Simon, The New York Times

Author : Walter Jon Williams
Publisher : Random House Worlds
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307795632

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Destiny's Way: Star Wars Legends by Walter Jon Williams Pdf

The time of reckoning is close at hand. Events in the New York Times bestselling Star Wars The New Jedi Order series take a decisive turn, as the heroes of the New Republic prepare for their most volatile clash yet with the enemy—from without and within. In the war against the ruthless Yuuzhan Vong, the fall of Coruscant leaves the New Republic divided by internal strife, and on the verge of bowing to conquest. But those who steadfastly refuse to consider surrender—Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, and their children and comrades-in-arms—are determined to seize victory against overwhelming odds. And now, finally, there are signs that the tide may be turning in the New Republic’s favor. After capturing crucial Yuuzhan Vong intelligence, Jedi fighter-pilot Jaina Solo prepares to lead a daring surprise strike against an enemy flagship. Meanwhile, Jaina’s brother Jacen—liberated from the hands of the enemy and newly schooled in an even greater mastery of the Force by the Jedi Knight Vergere—is eagerly poised to bring his unique skills to bear against the invaders. And on Mon Calamari, the New Republic’s provisional capital, the retired, ailing hero Admiral Ackbar has conceived a major tactical plan that could spell the beginning of a swift end for the Yuuzhan Vong. Yet even as opposing squadrons face off in the depths of space, intrigue runs rampant: in the heated political race for Chief of State . . . in the shadows where Yuuzhan Vong spies plot assassinations . . . and in the inscrutable creature Vergere, a Jedi Knight whose allegiance is impossible to predict. And as Luke Skywalker sets about reestablishing the Jedi Council, the growing faction opposed to the ways of the Force unveil a terrifying weapon designed to annihilate the Yuuzhan Vong species. But in doing so, they may be dooming the New Republic to becoming the very thing it has sworn to fight against—and unleashing the power of the dark side. Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!