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Author : Reginald R. Barnewall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fraser Island (Qld.)
ISBN : 1876344490
This local history of Fraser Island and Hervey Bay, tells stories of determination, achievement against the odds, of success and failure, and the laying of great foundations.
Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061987304
New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods delivers a riveting thriller that introduces an exciting addition to the pantheon of fictional sleuths. Forced into early retirement at thirty-seven, smart, attractive, and fiercely independent Major Holly Barker trades in her bars as a military cop for the badge of deputy chief of police in Orchid Beach, Florida. But below the sunny surface of this sleepy, well-to-do island town lies an evil that escalates into the cold-blooded murder of one of Holly's new colleagues. An outsider, Holly has little to go on for answers and no one to help her—except Daisy, a Doberman of exceptional intelligence and loyalty that becomes her companion and protector. The closer Holly gets to the truth, the more she knows that it'll take one smart dog with guts to sniff out this killer—before he can catch her first.
Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061826825
"An entertaining suspense story. . . . Barker is tough when she needs to be, and clever and persistent in following her hunches." — School Library Journal #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods delivers a riveting thriller that introduces his first female protagonist, Deputy Chief of Police Holly Barker. Forced into early retirement at thirty-seven, smart and fiercely independent Major Holly Barker trades in her bars as a military cop for the badge of deputy chief of police in Orchid Beach, Florida. But below the sunny surface of this sleepy, well-to-do island town lies an evil that escalates into the cold-blooded murder of one of Holly's new colleagues. An outsider, Holly has little to go on for answers and no one to help her—except Daisy, a Doberman of exceptional intelligence and loyalty that becomes her companion and protector. The closer Holly gets to the truth, the more she knows that it'll take one smart dog with guts to sniff out this killer—before he can catch her first.
Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451206711
Stuart Woods brings back small-town police chief Holly Barker—and her extraordinary Doberman, Daisy—for another exhilarating adventure in this New York Times bestseller. When Holly Barker’s wedding festivities are shattered by a brutal robbery, she vows to find the culprits. With nothing to go on but the inexplicable killing of an innocent bystander, Holly discovers evidence that leads her into the midst of a clan whose members are as mysterious as they are zealous. Holly’s father, Ham, a retired army master sergeant, is her ticket into their strange world. What he finds there boggles the mind and sucks them all—Holly, Ham, and Daisy—into a whirlpool of crazed criminality from which even the FBI can’t save them...
Author : Susan Orlean
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307795298
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean—and the reader—will have more respect for underdog determination and a powerful new definition of passion. In this new edition, coming fifteen years after its initial publication and twenty years after she first met the “orchid thief,” Orlean revisits this unforgettable world, and the route by which it was brought to the screen in the film Adaptation, in a new retrospective essay. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. Praise for The Orchid Thief “Stylishly written, whimsical yet sophisticated, quirkily detailed and full of empathy . . . The Orchid Thief shows [Orlean’s] gifts in full bloom.”—The New York Times Book Review “Fascinating . . . an engrossing journey [full] of theft, hatred, greed, jealousy, madness, and backstabbing.”—Los Angeles Times “Orlean’s snapshot-vivid, pitch-perfect prose . . . is fast becoming one of our national treasures.”—The Washington Post Book World “Orlean’s gifts [are] her ear for the self-skewing dialogue, her eye for the incongruous, convincing detail, and her Didion-like deftness in description.”—Boston Sunday Globe “A swashbuckling piece of reporting that celebrates some virtues that made America great.”—The Wall Street Journal
Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101144930
Home gets hot for CIA Special Agent Holly Barker in this novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods’s thrilling series. After Holly Barker lets an international terrorist slip through her fingers for a second time, the CIA thinks she might want a long vacation. So Holly returns to her hometown of Orchid Beach, Florida, where she had been police chief for many years. But a very unpleasant surprise awaits her. Many years earlier, while she was in the army, Holly and another female officer had brought charges against their commander for sexual harassment. Holly had managed to fight him off, but the other woman, a young lieutenant, had not. The officer in question was acquitted of all charges, and has also left the army—for a job as Orchid Beach’s new police chief. Now Holly must decide whether to return to the CIA—or seek her revenge...
Author : Frank Stroscio
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781977256782
Today there is an increased interest, or should I say curiosity, when it comes to matters of the paranormal. Rarely a day goes by that you do not hear about or see something strange and bizarre either on network television or in the movie theatres. Many television stations now focus their programming almost exclusively on the paranormal. So, this book is very timely in that regard. In this book you will find a wide variety of strange and haunting experiences that I have had spanning more than sixty years. From hauntings to strange sightings to physic episodes of a paranormal nature that I have experienced all over the world. These stories are told in a way that will grab the reader’s attention rather quickly. Knowing that these stores are based entirely on actual experiences makes them all the more compelling. This is a book you will likely not be able to put down. These are “Stories Best Told in the Dark.”
Author : Ron DeMarino
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781664251670
My many thanks especially for those who are no longer with us; My beautiful wife Martha, my boss and friend Ross (Rosie) Gilhousen (KC Royals, my friend and scout Floyd Chandler, my cousins, Ean Hunter (Sal Lombino), Blackboard Jungle, Billy Augastoni (Boston Braves double AA), Joseph Barbera, Hanna & Barbera, Daryl Garitson NBA and Tito Rodriguez (Band Leader) John McDonough NFL referee also to: My son Robert, my life long friends Norman Ackerman and Mike Zuckerman. Debbie Goldsmith, Dick Calvert (ex Dodger Scout), Art Stewart Director of scouting (KC Royals), The Latin ballplayers from the California Angels, Campy Campanaris, Dickie Thon, Juan Beniquez, Louis Sanchez and Angel Moreno, Especially to Gilberto Santa, Rosa a beautiful person and a superstar!
Author : Marc B. DeGeorge
Publisher : MuseMarc Studio LLC
Page : 1984 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781956487145
Five friends, lots of aliens, one big conspiracy. Renton (Rance) Quigley He’ was ordinary only in the sense that he had dreams. Two, in fact. Both of which he was failing at. When a sudden attack on their colony planet turns his life upside down, Rance must figure out who’s behind it before they destroy his homeworld. The alien ship that appears over his house offers a clue, and Rance cannot resist their invitation. But he should have thought it through. The aliens are happy to meet him, but the Imperial military isn’t. Soon he and his four friends are thrust into a conspiracy that threatens to destroy the galaxy-spanning Empire. But what they discover puts them at odds with the conspirators and it puts their lives in jeopardy. Can they take down the conspiracy before it took them out? Will their new alien friends help? And will the Emperor listen to a single word they say? Unlikely. No one would believe five post-teens could save an Empire. This fast-paced YA space adventure on helium is for fans of Firefly’s verbal snark, the hijinks of Scooby Doo, and the action of Guardians of the Galaxy.
Author : Carl Myatt,Globe Pequot Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0762702362
Full of insight and helpful hints, The Traveler's Hawaii Companion provides a fresh look at that magical archipelago in the mid-Pacific known to the land-starved nineteenth-century mariners as Owyhee, as a place of salty dreams and fevered visions. Initially ruled by Polynesian warrior kings, the islands today are populated by people of many races who brought with them their distinct cultures, customs and religions. Perhaps more than any other place in the world, it conjures up a perfumed picture-postcard scene of soft trade winds, frangipani blooms, rainbows over lush tropical valleys, the white surf rolling native outriggers to the shore and, of course, lovely native hula dancers. All of Hawaii's traditional romance is still there. Rediscover it with the Traveler's Hawaii Companion, your passport to these still-enchanted isels and thebest that they have to offer in beauty, charm, and soul.
Author : Craig Pittman
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-18
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780813042886
After its Peruvian discovery in 2002, Phragmipedium kovachii became the rarest and most sought-after orchid in the world. Prices soared to $10,000 on the black market. Then one showed up at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, where every year more than 100,000 people visit. They come for the lush landscape on Sarasota Bay and for Selby's vast orchid collection, one of the most magnificent in the world. The collision between Selby's scientists and the smugglers of Phrag. Kovachii, a rare ladyslipper orchid hailed as the most significant and beautiful new species discovered in a century, led to search warrants, a grand jury investigation, and criminal charges. It made headlines around the country, cost the gardens hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, and led to tremendous internal turmoil. Investigative journalist Craig Pittman unravels this tangled web to shine a spotlight on flaws in the international treaties governing trade in endangered wildlife--which may protect individual plants and animals in shipping but do little to halt the destruction of whole colonies in the wild. The Scent of Scandal unspools like a riveting mystery novel, stranger than anything in Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief or the film Adaptation. Pittman shows how some people can become so obsessed--with beauty, with profit, with fame--that they will ignore everything, even the law.
Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451208811
“Savvy, sexy”* police chief Holly Barker gets introduced to the cutthroat world of Florida real estate in this New York Times bestselling thriller from Stuart Woods. Blood Orchid: the name of Ed Shine’s favorite flower—and his latest real-estate venture. New to town, the dapper developer makes the acquaintance of Holly, her father Ham, and her wily Doberman, Daisy. It’s just as Holly’s trying to get her life back together after the shattering loss of someone very close to her. But before she can settle back into her routine, bullets crash into the home of a friend and a floater is found bobbing in the Intercoastal Waterway. Joining forces with a handsome FBI agent, Holly tracks the clues straight back to their source, only to find a scam more lucrative and more dangerous than any this idyllic town—or Holly—has ever seen...
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2242 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Australia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025918116
Author : Larry Schliessmann
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781430324430
Hacker McKaybees knew the old man was trouble the day his father reentered his life a year ago. Yet some sense of twisted curiosity, or undesirable loyalty to a man he didn't know, drove him to accept the request to help investigate what Hacker felt would be a wasted effort: solve a murder for which a convicted man sat in prison. As his foot hit the first step of his father's building, he knew that before the sun rose over Manhattan, the smell of blood would overpower odors of local Soho residents preparing breakfast. He slowed as he heard his father arguing with someone. Without wanting to alert them and causing the carnage the old man was famous for, he pressed the office door open with the barrel of his Glock. A hinge creaked. Five seconds later, the intruder's body with a hole in his chest, dropped. The old man, still seated, his .45 leaking a tendril of smoke, looked disappointed but satisfied. Hacker knew he was in deep enough that there was only one way out, solve the murder.
Author : Toby Neal
Publisher : Neal Enterprises INC
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983952404