Rebel Island

Author : Rick Riordan
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553587845

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Rebel Island by Rick Riordan Pdf

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series A triple-crown winner of mystery’s most coveted awards, Rick Riordan brings his Texas-style take on the crime thriller to an island paradise where ex-P.I. Tres Navarre finds himself stranded with a killer as unstoppable as a force of nature. Tres Navarre and his new wife Maia came to celebrate their honeymoon. But no sooner had they arrived on Rebel Island than a reminder of Navarre’s past showed up dead in room 12. Suddenly Tres finds himself flashing back to the grim childhood summer that changed his life. When a second corpse turns up, it’s clear that the past isn’t dead and buried—yet. What dark secrets were kept that long-ago summer and who is back to avenge them? These are questions Tres must answer as a monster hurricane hits, trapping them on a flooding island, and as the hotel’s remaining guests are being brutally murdered. Tres knows better than anyone the dangerous line between vengeance and justice—and this time he may have to cross it. Don’t miss any of these hotter-than-Texas-chili Tres Navarre novels: BIG RED TEQUILA • THE WIDOWER’S TWO-STEP • THE LAST KING OF TEXAS • THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO AUSTIN • SOUTHTOWN • MISSION ROAD • REBEL ISLAND

Author : Derrick King
Publisher : Provenance Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9789811805752

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Love for a Deaf Rebel by Derrick King Pdf

Love for a Deaf Rebel is the true story of a tumultuous romance. With pathos and nostalgia, the author recounts his roller-coaster ride with Pearl, a vivacious deaf maverick, who, unknown to him, had paranoid schizophrenia. We follow their encounters through actual notes written before Derrick learns sign language; we go on their motorcycle ride to Mexico and Guatemala; we watch as the happy couple moves to Bowen Island, a British Columbia community with just three paved roads. Pearl and the author marry and build their dream home and hobby farm. They encounter one obstacle after another while building their life together as Pearl’s perception of reality—and, crucially, their perception of each other—begins to change. The author learns what it means to be deaf, what it means to struggle with mental health, and what it means to love such a woman unconditionally—the ecstasy and the agony. There are other books about discovering schizophrenia in the family and about deaf woman-hearing man relationships, but none that tells the true story of a woman who struggled with both. [Bowen Island, Clozapine, Cochlear, Deaf, Deafness, Delusion, Dialectical, Disability, Hearing, Hidden Valley Road, Children of a Lesser God, Mental illness, Psychotic, Psychosis, Schizophrenia, Thorazine, Vancouver, Marriage, Love, Man-woman relationships, Deaf-Marriage, Mentally ill-Marriage, Deaf-Family relationships, Schizophrenics-Family relationships]

Author : Rebel Wilson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781668007242

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Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson Pdf

From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilarious, and inspiring book about her unconventional journey to Hollywood success and loving herself. This “beautiful, brave book,” (Jenna Bush Hager, the Today show) is the story of Rebel Wilson’s remarkable personal transformation, from a painfully shy child in Australia who literally had to be dragged to drama classes and achieved break-out success in the US through iconic roles in Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids, and Isn’t It Romantic. Through “stunningly personal revelations” (The New York Times), Rebel shares the extraordinary experiences that shaped her life. A malaria-induced hallucination? An all-style martial arts fighting tournament? Junior handling at dog shows? And this was all BEFORE she moved to Hollywood! From her painful relationship with her father, weight gain and loss, a late-in-life sexual awakening and fertility issues, Rebel shares her incredible journey to self-love in writing that is “frank and fun.” (CBS Sunday Morning) Rebel leads you through her hard-fought path to “making it,” constantly questioning, “Am I good enough? Will I ever find love? Will I ever change and become healthy?” This extraordinarily entertaining memoir shows us how to love ourselves while making us laugh uncontrollably.

Author : Edward Thring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Sermons, English
ISBN : HARVARD:32044028694719

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Sermons Preached at Uppingham School by Edward Thring Pdf

Author : Montague Kobbé
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617751820

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The Night of the Rambler by Montague Kobbé Pdf

This tale of a little-known revolt in the Caribbean is “part literary thriller, part revolutionary study, part epic historical narrative”(Joe Meno, author of The Boy Detective Fails). A sympathetic and often humorous account of an obscure episode in the history of the remote island of Anguilla, in the northeast Caribbean, The Night of the Rambler revolves around a haphazard attempt by a dozen or so locals to invade neighboring St. Kitts, in an effort to topple the government of the recently established Associated State of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla. Ostensibly, the action maps the fifteen hours that lapse between the moment when the “rebels” board The Rambler, the thirty-five-foot motorboat that will take them across the strait to St. Kitts, and the break of dawn the following day, when it becomes obvious that the unaccomplished mission will have to be aborted. The novel is at turns highly dramatic and hilarious, all the while bringing deep honesty to the often-unexamined righteousness of revolution. “Colorful detours into native lore, such as a rich Dutchman’s fabled courtship of a local beauty, strike grace notes that echo Marquez. . . . Readers . . . will be rewarded with the little-known tale of how the underdog country demanded its own place in the 20th century.” —Publishers Weekly “This is a book about revolution and the underdog, about a small, isolated island fighting for recognition, opportunity and justice; it is a compelling tale about a curious historical episode, but also a vital look at priorities, perspective and the right to live in dignity, issues that, much like Anguilla’s rebellion of 1967, are all too easily forgotten.” —The Island Review “This is a fine novel, a surprising novel, perhaps the first true novel I have read about the nature of revolutions. The Night of the Rambler is ambitious, smart, and successful. It raises all sorts of questions about what revolutions want, how revolutions fail, and why revolutions are necessary—challenging all the while how history remembers them.” —Percival Everett, author of Erasure

Author : Charles John Abbey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015039627461

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Religious Thought in Old English Verse by Charles John Abbey Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Coastwise shipping
ISBN : IND:30000097054450

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Transportation Lines on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Murray (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000281039

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Handbook for travellers in Turkey in Asia ... With maps and plans by John Murray (Firm) Pdf

Author : Jeptha Root Simms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : HARVARD:HXUWL7

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The Frontiersmen of New York by Jeptha Root Simms Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Oceania
ISBN : UCSD:31822022928808

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Islands Business by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Criticism
ISBN : HARVARD:HWP74A

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Sketches, Criticisms, Etc by Robert Louis Stevenson Pdf

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030021885191

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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson Pdf

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433077637399

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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: Sketches. Criticisms, etc by Robert Louis Stevenson Pdf

Author : Johanna Skibsrud
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735234598

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Island by Johanna Skibsrud Pdf

From the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of The Sentimentalists comes the story of a revolution on an imaginary island. "Reading Island is a searing, vertiginous experience. Hailing Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to interrogate our current moment in history, Skibsrud has created an uncanny and uncomfortable representation of power deeply corrupted. The text feels both historic and futuristic; it is discomfiting and necessary. Don’t look away." - Erin Wunker, Notes From a Feminist Killjoy On an imaginary island, one whose socio-economic divide runs deep, an insurrection is brewing. Over the course of a day, the lives of two women--one a rebel, one a diplomat--will be forever changed. Lota is a restless islander who works at a fish factory but is looking for a larger life. When she meets charismatic leader Kurtz, her life comes into sharp focus. Together, Kurtz's group of misfits plot to overthrow the island's occupying power. They plan to charge the embassy. They plan to capture Ø Com's outer station--the gateway to the entire empire's wireless operations. History does not--Kurtz urges her soldiers--have to repeat itself. As the past and future converge on this one day, a new world order is within reach. They cannot fail. Rachel is an anxious diplomat who is counting down the final hours of her service on the island. Her family has fled to the capital after escalating racial tensions have put her daughter's safety in jeopardy. She is eager to follow despite the fissures that are starting to show in her marriage. But when she arrives at the embassy and hears gunshots ringing through the corridors, she knows this is no ordinary day. As the hours lengthen and Rachel is held captive, she begins to wonder if she'll ever see her loved ones again and what her complicity has meant as the sinister operations of her government start to surface. Part fantasy, part parable, Island deftly explores essential questions of history and responsibility. It asks us to consider our legacies of cultural imperialism and the hidden costs of our wireless world. Urgent, illuminating, and thought-provoking, it asks us how we can imagine a future that does not run along the exact same lines as the past.

Author : John Austin Stevens,Benjamin Franklin DeCosta,Henry Phelps Johnston,Martha Joanna Lamb,Nathan Gillett Pond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015031937447

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The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens,Benjamin Franklin DeCosta,Henry Phelps Johnston,Martha Joanna Lamb,Nathan Gillett Pond Pdf