The Dead Duck Bounced

Author : John Humphries
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781803810942

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The Dead Duck Bounced by John Humphries Pdf

What became of Harold Prettyman, a German agent captured by the British during World War Two? Eighty years later, an investigation by reporter Jack Flynt seems to end at a new dormer bungalow with white pebble-dash walls, not the grey stone terraced house in the Welsh valleys from which, according to a recently declassified MI5 file, Prettyman operated a radio transmitter from the attic alerting German U-Boats to Allied shipping movements. Dead ducks are news stories destined for the News Editor's spike and Flynt suspects he has found one until a letter arrives at the bungalow with the same coded message --Many Happy Returns Harold Prettyman--used by Prettyman and his accomplice in 1940. But there are no Allied food convoys in the North Atlantic and, believing the letter a hoax Flynt's newspaper moves him to another assignment—the disappearance of a Foreign Office diplomat suspected of fleeing to Moscow like his predecessors Burgess and Maclean. But Scotland Yard seems more interested in the Coal Miner, a missing Van Gogh masterpiece looted by the Red Army Trophy Brigade as war reparations, but now the focus of an exhibition at Tate Britain after being returned to its owner by the Commission for the Recovery of Looted Art in Europe. The painting discovered hanging on the kitchen wall of the apartment of a dead Trophy Brigade officer had been taken in lieu of pension. Private homes, art galleries and museums across the Russian Federation continue to hold large quantities of booty from the Second World War, worthless since President Putin banned the repatriation of cultural artifacts, but priceless in the West. So, is the Coal Miner exhibited at the Tate the missing Van Gogh or a forgery made by a copyist at the Hermitage in St Petersburg? A zig-zag trail leads Flynt's search for Harold Prettyman into the world of Diplomatic Bags, fakes, and money laundering.

Author : Sarah Graves
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307569363

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The Dead Cat Bounce by Sarah Graves Pdf

dead cat bounce n. Stock market jargon for a small, temporary rise in a stock's trading price after a sharp drop. Since she bought her rambling old fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things broken. But her latest problem isn't so easily repaired. Along with the rotting floor joists and sagging support beams, there's the little matter of the dead man in Jake's storeroom, an ice pick firmly planted in his cranium. Not much happens in her tiny Maine town, but that's about to change. Jake's unknown guest turns out to be a world-famous corporate raider, local boy turned billionaire Threnody McIlwaine. When Jake's best friend, quiet and dependable Ellie White, readily confesses to the murder, cops and journalists swarm into snowbound Eastport. Jake smells a cover-up, and begins poking into past history between McIlwaine and Ellie's family. But someone doesn't like nosy neighbors...and Jake's rustic refuge may become her final resting place.

Author : Bill Overmyer
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475998757

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The Dead Cat Bounce by Bill Overmyer Pdf

The environment of the stock market is complex and interrelated. As you explore the pathways of a steep stock market decline you will discover the safest time to invest. You will become a veteran fire sale shopper and you will be waiting to reward yourself with profits in the next four severe stock market declines in your lifetime.

Author : J.D. Miller_
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771364195

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Dart! by J.D. Miller_ Pdf

Sid finds happiness growing up in the watershed of Long Point Bay. Sometimes the path to true contentment includes a lot of duck hunting. Like the waters of Big Creek, Sid is drawn to the Bay, not by some magic, but by natural processes that affect every part of the universe. In a journey of self-discovery, Sid meanders from Big Creek's head-waters, down-stream, to school, to love, to loss, to the Bay. Like his father, through the wing-beats of the diving ducks, Sid learns to smile radiantly into the icy late-season duck hunting winds.

Author : Todd G. Buchholz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101563724

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From Here to Economy by Todd G. Buchholz Pdf

What is the GDP, and what does it mean? Why does the stock market go down when interest rates go up? What causes a dreaded recession? Economics impacts everyone's life, but most people take on faith what they read in the newspaper. Now, for anyone who doesn't know much about economics, noted economist Todd Buchholz explains it all simply and clearly. With refreshing wit and irreverence, Buchholz takes readers by the hand and reveals the basic rules behind everything from food prices to trade deficits. Instead of complicated graphs and charts he uses examples from contemporary life and popular culture to demonstrate the principles at work. By cutting through the arcane musings of academicians, the jargon of analysts and advisors, and the rhetoric of politicians, he gives us a precise and accessible understanding of economic ideas, actions, and consequences as they actually exist in the here and now. Here are some of the heretofore unintelligible ideas he helps us to understand: what causes or combats inflation, and why it is so feared; what moves stocks and bonds up and down—and how to invest wisely and safely; whether it is good or bad to "protect" America from foreign goods—and what happens when we do and when we don't; what exactly Social Security is, and whether government spending is good or bad—and how dangerous the national debt is or isn't. In today's confusing economic climate, it has never been more important for everyone from homemakers to small-business owners to individual investors and middle managers to understand the forces at work.

Author : Daniel B. Smith
Publisher : Daniel B. Smith
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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English Idioms and Phrases Dictionary by Daniel B. Smith Pdf

Idioms are expressions that cannot be understood from their individual words alone, and the English language is full of them—and so is this dictionary: 4,800+ English idioms and phrases with example sentences included for you so as to understand them all. This is the essential idioms dictionary if you want to talk like a native speaker—or just find out more about the colorful phrases you hear and say every day.

Author : Joe Abruzzo
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1475932995

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Dogs Running a Hill by Joe Abruzzo Pdf

If you love something so much, you are vulnerable. Somebody or something can get to you. If you lack faith, you have created another vulnerability, a second Achilles heel. Jay Gerinni has an unconditional love for the dogs that he raised, trained, and bird hunted. He also questions faith. Hounded by Evil, yet aided by Good, Jays adventures, from hunting the bird fields of Kansas to traveling the world to help with search and rescue, further strengthen his bond with and love for dogs. Based on the screenplay A Day In Dog Years, the story depicts the growing relationship between Jay and a series of canines that helped him find comfort, direction and hope. When Evil attacks his love by harming his dogs, he has nowhere to turn, except to respond in kind. Now, as Jay faces his own mortality, the secret that he has kept covered for many years threatens to overtake his peace of mind. Can the canine friends he has devoted his life to now be the answer to his own salvation? Dogs Running a Hill is a unique and inspirational story of love, devotion, and friendship between man and his best friend.

Author : Ben McC. Moise
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611173574

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A Southern Sportsman by Ben McC. Moise Pdf

Tales of pursuing turkeys, deer, ducks, and partridges through the fields, forests, and swamps of South Carolina Henry Edwards Davis (1879-1966) began his hunting adventures as a boy riding in the saddle with his father on foxhunts and deer drives in the company of Confederate cavalry veterans. Born on Hickory Grove Plantation in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, Davis developed his taste for the hunt at an early age. In later years he became a renowned sportsman and expert on sporting firearms. Published here for this first time after a four-decade-long hiatus, his collection of southern hunting tales describes his many experiences in pursuit of turkeys, deer, ducks, and partridges through the fields, forests, and swamps of South Carolina's Pee Dee region. His memoir offers a lucid firsthand account of a time before paved roads and river-spanning bridges had penetrated the rural stretches of Williamsburg and Florence counties, when hunting was still one of a southerner's chief social activities. With a sportsman's interest and a historian's curiosity, Davis intersperses his hunting narratives with tales of the region's rich history, from before the American Revolution to his times in the first half of the twentieth century. Davis, a connoisseur of fine sporting firearms, also chronicles his personal experiences with a long line of rifles and shotguns, beginning with his first "Old Betsy," a fourteen-gauge, cap-lock muzzleloader, and later with some of the finest modern American and British shotguns. He describes as well a host of small-bore rifles, many of which he assembled himself, bedding the barrels and actions in hand-carved stocks. Edited by retired lowcountry game warden Ben McC. Moïse and featuring a foreword by outdoor writer Jim Casada, Davis's memoir is a valuable account of hunting lore and historic firearms, as well as a record of evolving cultural attitudes and economic conditions in post-Reconstruction South Carolina and of the practices that gave rise to modern natural conservation efforts.

Author : Max James
Publisher : Made For Success Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781641466738

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The Harder I Fall, The Higher I Bounce by Max James Pdf

“This is a fascinating book and should be on the reading list of every young aspiring entrepreneur…”—Harry Pearce, Vice Chairman of General Motors (Retired) Want to talk about tenacity? Resilience under pressure? Leadership that stands for character and integrity? Max James comes to mind—Air Force Academy graduate, pilot, shot down twice in Vietnam to become the original founder and CEO of American Kiosk Management, a billion-dollar global presence in North America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand with 5 million repeat customers, 600 staffed locations, 1000 automated stores, and 54,000 employees. Through personal stories and business adventures, Max James delivers insightful business lessons within the pages of his new business memoir The Harder I Fall, The Higher I Bounce. In recognition of his groundbreaking contributions to the specialty retail field, Max James became the first inductee into the $25 Billion Specialty Retail Hall of Fame. He also received the Distinguished Graduate award for the year 2010 from the Air Force Academy for “extraordinarily significant contributions to our nation and his communities, for recognition of accomplishments that are inspirational and elevate the reputation and standing of the U.S. Air Force Academy. Additionally, Max has been featured in Fortune Magazine and dozens of media and television appearances for his work in business and charitable contributions. Max James has spent the past decade leading the charge as the Chairman of the Air Force Academy Foundation committee for the CCLD (Center for Character and Leadership Development), now called Polaris Hall. Max and his wife Linda Johansen-James, reside in Las Vegas and enjoy the beauty of the Southwest. They have three children, seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510024764324

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London and Westminster Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chuck Dozier
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781664190955

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Bouncing Back Up by Chuck Dozier Pdf

This book is a continuation of the story that began in my first book, The Second Time Around. It depicts marriage disappointments and disillusions from a male perspective. Most men are fundamentally good and can resist the temptations of infidelity when given a choice. The challenges of dealing with a wife that constantly pushes them to the margin of her life can often be too much for some men to bear. As a young man right out of college, Norman, was assigned by his company to a territory in southern Pennsylvania. While living there Norman met Gail, an attractive middle-aged woman that was ten years his senior with a teenage daughter. Gail and Norman became inseparable and very much in love. Neither of them felt any pressure to get married. After six years Norman was promoted and had to transfer to another part of the country. Fearing that their age difference would cause their relationship to fade, Gail opted to stay in Pineville and they drifted apart. Many years later when their paths crossed again Gail realized that she was still in love with the man that she had considered her soul mate. This book tells what happens as the star-crossed lovers struggle to forge a relationship that seems to be destined for a life of together ever-after. With admirers from several different angles, Norman struggled to maintain his fidelity to his marriage and disappointments in the effort threatened to derail his resurgent relationship with his wife.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172131986468

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The Westminster Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dr. Shelley Plumb
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781626346901

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To Break or Bounce by Dr. Shelley Plumb Pdf

We can either break under the weight of life’s challenges—or we can bounce back and thrive! The action in Shelley Plumb’s powerful story of rediscovery and emotional healing takes place over the course of a single day—the day of her grandmother's funeral. As she wanders her grandmother's property, a place where she spent much of her childhood, the author is inundated with vivid memories. Reflecting back on the major events of her life, Plumb comes to terms with a painful truth: Her responses to those events, combined with a relentless drive to push herself harder and harder, have left her feeling totally lost, unmoored, and without a clear vision of who she is. We follow her as she relives real-life events from the past—from her mother's shocking and sudden death when Plumb was a child to divorce, sexual harassment, her grandmother's death, and the delicate balance between being a professional woman and a wife and mother. Her reflections also bring forth important realizations about the foundations we build our lives on. If they are not solid, says Plumb, we won’t be able to handle stresses when they come our way. By the end of the day, Plumb makes sense of past memories and offers anyone of us who has ever felt lost in our own lives a way to find the stability, balance, and resilience we need to bounce back and take control of our futures. Readers will thank Plumb for a beautiful story and her generous and honest insights about relationships, how important it is to set boundaries, heal past wounds, and to let those we love and trust come close to us once again. Dr. Shelley Plumb is a podiatric physician, video coach, prominent speaker, and Executive Producer at PlumbTalk Productions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : California
ISBN : NYPL:33433081665410

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The Overland Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : West (U.S.)
ISBN : UCAL:B4073290

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Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine by Anonim Pdf