Straits Of Fortune

Author : Anthony Gagliano
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061736858

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Straits of Fortune by Anthony Gagliano Pdf

Written in the classic noir tradition of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Straits of Fortune is a fast-paced and sometimes deadly adventure set in America's sexiest city. Ex-cop Jack Vaughn, the best thing to happen to crime fiction since Chandler's Philip Marlowe hung up his holster, moved from the gritty streets of New York to Miami to work as a personal trainer. The sun, sand, and tanned bodies of Miami are a welcome distraction from the haunting memory of another cop's death in New York. But when he becomes involved with millionaire businessman Colonel Patterson, he realizes his newfound peace is short-lived. The Colonel offers Jack a hundred grand to do a seemingly simple favor. But getting involved with the Colonel also means getting involved with his daughter, the exotic wild child Vivian, who once broke Jack's heart. Jack had sworn to forget her, but this memorable cast of characters lures him back into their double-dealing circle. The deeper he gets, the more Jack finds himself entangled in an ever-expanding web of lies, lust, and violence. A dark, hard-boiled look at the dangerous underbelly of glamorous Miami, Straits of Fortune is an unforgettable debut novel.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1598 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : UCAL:C2671285

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Kelly's Directory of Stationers, Printers, Booksellers, Publishers and Papers Makers of England, Scotland and Wales and the Principal Towns in Ireland, the Channel Islands and Isle of Man by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Bartlett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106014428129

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The Shakespeare Phrase Book by John Bartlett Pdf

Author : Julia Reinhard Lupton,David Goldstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317632894

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Shakespeare and Hospitality by Julia Reinhard Lupton,David Goldstein Pdf

This volume focuses on hospitality as a theoretically and historically crucial phenomenon in Shakespeare's work with ramifications for contemporary thought and practice. Drawing a multifaceted picture of Shakespeare's scenes of hospitality—with their numerous scenes of greeting, feeding, entertaining, and sheltering—the collection demonstrates how hospitality provides a compelling frame for the core ethical, political, theological, and ecological questions of Shakespeare's time and our own. By reading Shakespeare's plays in conjunction with contemporary theory as well as early modern texts and objects—including almanacs, recipe books, husbandry manuals, and religious tracts — this book reimagines Shakespeare's playworld as one charged with the risks of hosting (rape and seduction, war and betrayal, enchantment and disenchantment) and the limits of generosity (how much can or should one give the guest, with what attitude or comportment, and under what circumstances?). This substantial volume maps the terrain of Shakespearean hospitality in its rich complexity, demonstrating the importance of historical, rhetorical, and phenomenological approaches to this diverse subject.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433079421206

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Kelly's Directory of Chemists and Druggists ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : MINN:319510019976748

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Asiatic Pilot: The coasts of Sumatra and the adjacent straits and islands by United States. Hydrographic Office Pdf

Author : James Horsburgh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Aids to navigation
ISBN : UCAL:$C18473

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India Directory, Or, Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil, and the Interjacent Ports by James Horsburgh Pdf

Author : Tan Teng Phee
Publisher : Strategic Information and Research Development Centre
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789672464594

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Behind Barbed Wire by Tan Teng Phee Pdf

"Behind Barbed Wire looks behind the façade to ask what it was really like to be moved to, and live in, a 'New Village'. Tan, who himself lived in New Villages growing up, combines archival sources and oral history to give us a rounded account . . . We need Tan's book, because up to now the outsider's view has predominated, and outsiders have their own agenda." Karl Hack, in the Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society This unique book revisits the moment in the Malayan Emergency when some 500,000 women, children and men were uprooted from their homes and moved into new settlements, guarded day and night by police and troops. A majority were rural Chinese: market gardeners, shopkeepers, rice farmers, tin miners and rubber tappers who had long made Malaya their home and had lived through the hardships of the Japanese Occupation. Based upon newly accessible archival materials and painstaking multilingual interviews with more than 80 informants in four New Villages, Tan Teng Phee rewrites the history of the Emergency, exposing the voices of those at the heart of this lauded ‘social experiment’. In Francis Loh’s words, these were ordinary villagers ‘caught in the crossfire between the British security forces and the Malayan Communist Party’ whose lives were turned inside-out and re-ordered completely, with daily curfews, body searches and food controls alongside the carrots and sticks of registration, (re)education, sanitation, psychological warfare and swift punishment. Highlighting the disciplinary aims of British policy, as well as the ways in which villagers resisted this discipline through ‘weapons of the weak’, this book forms a unique history from below of the Malayan Emergency, and of a resettlement programme which shaped the social and geographical landscape of Malaysia for generations to come.

Author : Robert C. Beckman,Carl Grundy-Warr,Vivian Louis Forbes
Publisher : IBRU
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Jurisdiction over ships at sea
ISBN : 9781897643099

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Acts of Piracy in the Malacca and Singapore Straits by Robert C. Beckman,Carl Grundy-Warr,Vivian Louis Forbes Pdf

Author : Rachel Bach
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316221092

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Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach Pdf

A promising young mercenary's future gets thrown into jeopardy after a fateful encounter with an alien in the start to a propulsive space opera series perfect for fans of Firefly and Killjoys. "Devi is hands-down one of the best sci-fi heroines I've read in a long time." RT Book Reviews Devi Morris isn't your average mercenary. She has plans. Big ones. And a ton of ambition. It's a combination that's going to get her killed one day -- but not just yet. That is, until she just gets a job on a tiny trade ship with a nasty reputation for surprises. The Glorious Fool isn't misnamed: it likes to get into trouble, so much so that one year of security work under its captain is equal to five years everywhere else. With odds like that, Devi knows she's found the perfect way to get the jump on the next part of her Plan. But the Fool doesn't give up its secrets without a fight, and one year on this ship might be more than even Devi can handle.

Author : Judith E. French
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781601830944

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Fortune's Flame by Judith E. French Pdf

An outlaw Scotsman and a manor's independent young mistress form an unconventional partnership--in adventure and in love. . . Pirate, convict, and runaway bond servant, Kincaid is just the man Lady Elizabeth Lacy Bennett has been searching for. Now he's found, and as far as Bess is concerned, hanging is too easy an escape for the scoundrel who stole her beloved horse--and dared to repay her with a searing kiss. For despite his crimes, Kincaid is a valuable worker--worth every penny she has paid for his indenture--and the ideal guide to help find a lost treasure that could save her Maryland plantation from ruin. She may be mad to trust the charismatic Scotsman, for it's clear he desires more from her than freedom, but Bess was raised to finish what she starts, and to follow her heart--even if she may lose it. . . "A superb storyteller. . .I loved it!" --Linda Ladd 150,000 Words

Author : Greg Wright
Publisher : Author House
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477295151

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Fortune's Mail by Greg Wright Pdf

Winthrop Fortune had a secret. He kept it well hidden in his garage, until one day when they closed the post office where he worked, it was inadvertently discovered. His hidden collection of letters that he had never delivered revealed his dementia and set into motion issues that were supposed to have been settled and resolved years before. As the letters were delivered, a father receives a clue about his long-lost son, a woman finds the father that had left years before, a young woman wins a lottery ticket and pursues her riches, a Mafioso investigates his bosss murder, a woman discovers a husbands secret, an old grudge reappears, a father exposes how far he would go for his family, and siblings discover a fathers hidden vault. Each letter has its story to tellvengeance, bigotry, forgiveness, deceit, and love. As you read the book, discover alongside the characters the new information that could complete themor haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Author : Lisa Manuel
Publisher : Medallion Media Group
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781605429632

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Fortune's Kiss by Lisa Manuel Pdf

Moira Hughes’s stepfather has died, and although the bulk of the family holdings must pass to a relative, a codicil to his will secures her and her mother’s future – or so she believes. When their London solicitor denies all knowledge of this codicil, practical, country bred Moira must put aside both pride and propriety, travel to London and press her rights. Once there she resolves to confront her stepfather’s heir, the dashing black sheep of the family whom she believes has unlawfully withheld her rightful share of the family fortune. Graham Foster, treasure hunter and Egyptian antiquities expert, must leave his adventurous life to return to England and claim the barony left him by a distant cousin. Upon his arrival he discovers his estranged and spoiled family making free with his inherited home and fortune, while a dazzling, dark-haired step-cousin several times removed adamantly accuses him of foul play. There are times he feels his only true friend is his pet African Sun Spider . . . Coming to a wary truce and teetering on a middle ground of irresistible if imprudent desire, Graham and Moira team up to hunt for her lost treasure. A trail of fraud, deceit and murder leads them through the streets of London and into each other’s arms, and to the most unlikely of conclusions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1813
Category : Oceania
ISBN : UCAL:B3152404

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Bibliotheca Australiana by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adam Johann von Krusenstern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1813
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : BL:A0019033284

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Voyage Round the World in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805 & 1806, ... Under the Command of Captain A.J. Von Krusenstern of the Imperial Navy by Adam Johann von Krusenstern Pdf