The Not Quite Enlightened Sleuth

Author : Verlin Darrow
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781509254200

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The Not Quite Enlightened Sleuth by Verlin Darrow Pdf

When her elderly mother suffers a stroke, Ivy Lutz leaves her life as a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka and returns home to northern California. Her sheltered life is blasted apart by a series of murders, which she attempts to solve with the help of a smitten detective. She understands why someone might want to kill her stepfather, who it turns out is a smuggler on the run, but what about her mother? Was she was murdered, too? As Ivy struggles to live by her Buddhist principles and employ her mindfulness skills, she discovers they both hinder and help in her search for the truth.

Author : Verlin Darrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1509254196

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The Not Quite Enlightened Sleuth by Verlin Darrow Pdf

When her elderly mother suffers a stroke, Ivy Lutz leaves her life as a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka and returns home to northern California. Her sheltered life is blasted apart by a series of murders, which she attempts to solve with the help of a smitten detective. She understands why someone might want to kill her stepfather, who it turns out is a smuggler on the run, but what about her mother? Was she was murdered, too? As Ivy struggles to live by her Buddhist principles and employ her mindfulness skills, she discovers they both hinder and help in her search for the truth.

Author : Justin Reed
Publisher : Bulrush Press LLC
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781737507215

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However Long the Day by Justin Reed Pdf

However Long the Day is the tale of two strangers—Niall Donovan, a poor immigrant from Ireland, and Frederick Philips, a rich ne'er-do-well from New York's Upper East Side—who discover they look so similar they could be twins. Frederick, desperate to avoid a lecture from his father, bribes Niall to switch places for the evening. Niall finds there's more to the story than Frederick let on, and is dragged through the turbulence created by World War I, the Spanish Flu, and social upheaval, and into the corrupt belly of Manhattan on the cusp of Prohibition. As Niall and Frederick hurtle through the next twenty-four hours, will either get what they bargained for?

Author : Mary S Moffat
Publisher : CCH Canadian Limited
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dumfries (Scotland)
ISBN : 0955147727

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Solway Sleuth-Hounds by Mary S Moffat Pdf

Presents a mystery and adventure story set in south west Scotland at the time of Robert Burns. This title features sketch maps - including one of Dumfries in 1793. With black and white photographs of places which are important to the story, it also includes a section consisting of detailed notes about people and events which come into the story.

Author : Lyn Liao Butler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593198742

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Red Thread of Fate by Lyn Liao Butler Pdf

In the wake of a tragedy and fueled by guilt from a secret she's kept for years, a woman discovers how delicate the thread that binds family is in this powerful novel by Lyn Liao Butler. Two days before Tam and Tony Kwan receive their letter of acceptance for the son they are adopting from China, Tony and his estranged cousin Mia are killed unexpectedly in an accident. A shell-shocked Tam learns she is named the guardian to Mia’s five-year-old daughter, Angela. With no other family around, Tam has no choice but to agree to take in the girl she hasn’t seen since the child was an infant. Overwhelmed by her life suddenly being upended, Tam must also decide if she will complete the adoption on her own and bring home the son waiting for her in a Chinese orphanage. But when a long-concealed secret comes to light just as she and Angela start to bond, their fragile family is threatened. As Tam begins to unravel the events of Tony and Mia’s past in China, she discovers the true meaning of love and the threads that bind her to the family she is fated to have.

Author : Bobbie Ann Mason
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 082031739X

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The Girl Sleuth by Bobbie Ann Mason Pdf

The author of Feather Crowns examines the girl detective in her various guises--including Cherry Ames, Nancy Drew, and Trixie Belden--in a work first published in 1975 recalling a rural youth spent longing for mysteries. Reprint. UP.

Author : Robert Wokler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400842407

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Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies by Robert Wokler Pdf

Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects for the first time a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of Enlightenment political thought. These essays concern many of the great themes of the age, including liberty, equality and the origins of revolution. But they also address a number of less prominent debates, including those over cosmopolitanism, the nature and social role of music and the origins of the human sciences in the Enlightenment controversy over the relationship between humans and the great apes. These essays also explore Rousseau's relationships to Rameau, Pufendorf, Voltaire and Marx; reflect on the work of important earlier scholars of the Enlightenment, including Ernst Cassirer and Isaiah Berlin; and examine the influence of the Enlightenment on the twentieth century. One of the central themes of the book is a defense of the Enlightenment against the common charge that it bears responsibility for the Terror of the French Revolution, the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth-century and the Holocaust.

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141927725

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Enlightenment by Roy Porter Pdf

For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.

Author : Roisin Sorahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1956635750

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Time and the Tree by Roisin Sorahan Pdf

Time and the Tree is a modern fable about the nature of time and the quest for happiness. It's darkly funny, deceptively simple, and a necessary read for testing times. "A genre-busting masterpiece, full of pacy storytelling, wry dialogue and philosophical challenge..." --DECLAN KIBERD - Author of Inventing Ireland, Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, and leading authority on modern Irish literature "Time and the Tree by Roisin Sorahan is truly a masterpiece...A fable of thought-provoking metaphors, knowledge and an awareness of the bigger picture...I would recommend it for all who relish beautiful literature..." --San Francisco Book Review (5/5 star rating) "Time and the Tree is unlike anything I've read in contemporary literature - a beautiful fable fit for difficult and confusing days." -- LUKE GERWE - Associate Editor, PBS NewsHour In this gripping philosophical novel, an unlikely cast grapple with choices and grope towards self-knowledge in a world where compassion is interwoven with menace. Lyrical, honest and heart-breaking, Time and the Tree confronts readers with a unique perspective on the challenges life presents. A cross between Samuel Beckett and Aesop's Fables, this wise and hopeful book is uplifting and unsettling by turns. Róisín Sorahan is an Irish author currently living in Vermont. She has published numerous stories about her adventures on the road. Prior to becoming a nomad writer, she pursued a decade-long career in public relations. She holds a Master of Letters from Trinity College Dublin, specializing in Samuel Beckett.

Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Thomas Allen Publishers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123380086

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A Perfect Night to Go to China by David Gilmour Pdf

A man's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic after the son he was watching disappears.

Author : John Saunders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : English fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:HN321K

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Bound to the Wheel by John Saunders Pdf

Author : Dave Baker
Publisher : Top Shelf Productions
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:IDW0000067012

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Mary Tyler MooreHawk by Dave Baker Pdf

Jonny Quest meets Infinite Jest! This mind-bending book—half graphic novel, half postmodern mystery, and 25% footnotes—is a thrilling tribute to the ways we build meaning out of disposable pop culture. WHO IS MARY TYLER MOOREHAWK? How did she save the world from a dimension-hopping megalomaniac? Why was her TV show canceled after only nine episodes? These are just a few of the questions that young journalist Dave Baker begins to ask himself as he unravels the many mysteries surrounding the obscure comic book Mary Tyler MooreHawk. However, his curiosity grows into an obsession when he discovers that the reclusive creator of his favorite globe-trotting girl detective…is also named Dave Baker. WHAT IS MARY TYLER MOOREHAWK? A compilation of long-lost gee-whiz adventure comics in which the world’s strangest family fights to avert Armageddon…and a bundle of magazine articles from a dystopian future where physical property is banned and entertainment is broadcast on dishwashers. It’s a document-based detective story that weaves back and forth between worlds, touching on everything from corporate personhood to mutant shark-men to the meaning of fandom and reality itself. It’s a show you don’t remember…and a book you won’t forget. WAIT, IS THIS REAL? Good question.

Author : Bill Buford
Publisher : Appetite by Random House
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780147530714

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Dirt by Bill Buford Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A MACLEAN'S SUMMER READ The hugely anticipated follow up to Heat--Bill Buford's hilariously self-deprecating, highly obsessive adventures in the world of French haute cuisine. In Dirt, Bill Buford--author of the best-selling, now-classic, Heat--moves his attention from Italian cuisine to the food of France. Baffled by the language, determined that he can master the art of French cooking--or at least get to the bottom of why it is so revered--Buford begins what will become a five-year odyssey by shadowing the revered French chef Michel Richard in Washington, D.C. He soon realizes, however, that a stage in France is necessary, and so he goes--this time with his wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow--to Lyon, the gastronomic capital of France. Studying at l'Institut Bocuse, cooking at the storied, Michelin-starred Mère Brazier, Buford becomes a man obsessed--to prove that French cooking actually derives from the Italian, to prove himself on the line, to prove that he is worthy of these gastronomic secrets. With his signature humor, sense of adventure, and masterful ability to immerse himself in his surroundings, Bill Buford has written what is sure to be the food-lover's book of the year.

Author : Charles Lever
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002090980J

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The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles Lever Pdf

Author : Lois Simmie
Publisher : Mister Got to Go
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0889954860

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Mister Got to Go and Arnie by Lois Simmie Pdf

Got to Go is a large gray cat that lives in an old vine covered hotel across from the beach. One fateful day, Got to Go's pleasant life at the Sylvia Hotel is turned upside down when Arnie -- a very small and very noisy Yorkshire Terrier -- arrives. No more afternoon naps on the warm, wide windowsill; no more brushing his whiskers against the hotel manager's toothbrush; and no way of escaping the constant barking of Arnie! After a series of misadventures, the hotel manager, Mr. Foster, comes up with a plan: Where else would a mischievous dog be happy but in the company of Madame LaTour, Mr. Foster's dear friend from Paris, and her lovely dog Fifi? First published by Raincoast in 2001, Mister Got To Go and Arnie is another successful collaboration by award-winning author Lois Simmie and renowned artist and art teacher Cynthia Nugent, creators of the much-loved bestseller Mr. Got To Go: The Cat That Wouldn't Leave. Simmie's and Nugent's first book was a Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Award winner, the Saskatchewan Book Award's Best Children's Book, and the Alberta Book Award Best Illustrated Book. Nugent and Simmie once again bring to life the world of the spirited cat Got To Go and the splendour of the Sylvia Hotel in this delightful and engaging sequel.