The Shadows Of Pike Place

Author : D D Black
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798360908562

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The Shadows of Pike Place Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Sometimes the past is better left buried. When the matriarch of a rich Seattle family dies under suspicious circumstances, private investigator Thomas Austin is on the case. This time, the suspect list is easy. Seven people were in the lakefront mansion with the millionaire when she died: a spoiled son, a jealous brother-in-law, a beloved chef, a rebellious grandson, an arrogant memoirist, and a pair of successful daughters. All had motive. All had opportunity. But which one is the killer? To solve the case, Austin must look into the past of one of Seattle's most powerful families. With the help of a fiery reporter and a long-lost diary, he uncovers a series of dark secrets that betray the criminal underbelly of old-money Seattle. But the closer Austin gets to the truth, the more dangerous the investigation becomes. Sometimes, when you dig into a secret past, the past comes out to bury you. Classic detective fiction meets a Pacific Northwest setting in this crime thriller perfect for fans of Mary Stone, Michael Connelly, James Patterson, and Victor Methos.

Author : Amanda Bonilla
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101562185

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When Shadows Call Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

An exciting prequel to Amanda Bonilla’s Shaede Assassin series. The envy of 1900s society, Darian is the rich, beautiful wife of a prominent Californian doctor—but her life is far from perfect. For years, Darian has suffered at the hand of her cruel husband and yearned for an escape—one that she knows to be all but impossible. But when an enigmatic stranger comes to call, Darian finds herself charmed by his seductive smile and the inexplicable connection she feels. And when he makes her a thrilling—yet frightening—proposition, Darian must decide if she’s strong enough to abandon the mortal world she knows and answer the shadow’s call… Includes an excerpt from Shaedes of Gray, and a preview from Blood Before Sunrise, available July 2012.

Author : Fred Moody
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429978201

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Seattle and the Demons of Ambition Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Founded in 1851 as a four-cabin outpost named "New York Pretty-Soon," Seattle has long struggled with an identity crisis. From a nearly lawless port, to a sedate, conventional company town defined by Boeing Aircraft, to an accessible paradise for artists and recovering urbanites, Seattle repeatedly tried and failed to become bigger, wealthier, more like "major league" cities. In the late 1980s, Seattle's time suddenly arrived. Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, McCaw Cellular/AT&T Wireless, and dozens of local dot.com startups began to drive a booming national economy. Seattle became a city of instant millionaires and brand name shopping, skyscrapers and sports franchises-- the place everyone wanted to visit, topping lists of America's "most desirable" cities. But with such wealth came consequences: overdevelopment, paralyzing traffic, racial and class divisions, and a street population of teenagers discarded by the new culture, whose rage and disaffection fueled the rise of bands such as Nirvana. Striving to reach its ambitions, Seattle seemed to be losing the struggle for its soul. And when it hosted the 1999 World Trade Organization convention, the city's conflicted personalities clashed, as violent riots by residents and a coalition of protestors left the downtown decimated and the nation transfixed by the spectacle of globalization gone wrong. In Seattle and the Demons of Ambition, Fred Moody uses his own background as a native son, along with wide-ranging encounters with others, to trace the growing pains of the city he loves. Profiling Bill Gates and never-quite-champion football coach Chuck Knox, a pair of ambitious entrepreneurs and a homeless sculptor once profiled in the New Yorker, grunge music superstars and the preyed-upon children of the documentary "Streetwise," Moody offers a dramatic, entertaining, and insightful portrait of the city that defined economic and technological change in the America of the 1990s

Author : Sherrilyn Kenyon
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429906073

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Dark Side of the Moon Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Susan Michaels was once the hottest reporter on the Beltway Beat until a major scandal ruined her life and left her writing stories about alien babies and Elvis sightings. Life as she once knew it is over, or so she thinks, but then she gets a lead on a story that could salvage her extinct career. She heads to the local animal shelter, expecting a hot news tip, which she gets in the form of a major police cover-up . . . for a ring of soul-sucking vampires out to take over Seattle. So much for saving her credibility. And if that isn't bad enough, she gets talked into adopting a cat and finds she's allergic to it. A cat that turns out to be a shapeshifter who claims to be an immortal vampire slayer on the prowl for the same corrupt cops. Her first thought: seek professional help. But as Susan's drawn into Ravyn's dark and dangerous world, she comes to realize that there's a lot more at stake than just her defunct career. Now it's no longer a question of bringing the truth to her readers; it's a matter of saving their very lives and souls. Ravyn's life was shattered over four hundred years ago, when he mistakenly trusted the wrong human with the truth of his existence. He lost his family, his honor, and his life. Now, in order to save the people of Seattle, he's forced to confront that nightmare all over again, and to trust another woman with the secret that could destroy him. In the world of the Dark-Hunters, life is always dangerous. But never more so than now; when a very human woman can shatter their entire world with just one story. The only question is . . . will she?

Author : Sherrilyn Kenyon
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466851740

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The Dark-Hunters, Books 7-9 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon has entertained millions of readers with her extraordinary Dark-Hunter series. With over 40 million copies of her books in print, Kenyon was dubbed "the reigning queen of the wildly successful paranormal scene" by Publishers Weekly. Here together for the first time in a fabulous eBook bundle are her popular Dark-Hunter novels: Sins of the Night Alexion and Danger will have to untwist a tangled web of lies and deceit or watch the world of the Dark-Hunters fall apart. Unleash the Night Always an outsider, Wren has never trusted anyone. Now his life and fate are in the hands of a human who threatens his very existence. But Maggie isn't just anyone. She's the daughter of a prominent senator. Dark Side of the Moon Born into a world of predators, Ravyn was betrayed by everyone he knew. Now with the ultimate battle about to begin, one very human woman holds the power to shatter all worlds.

Author : Bill Granger
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781455530243

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Henry McGee Is Not Dead Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

On the foggy and desolate Seattle waterfront, a gray-haired, gray-eyed man foils a mugging. His name is Devereaux--the November Man. His act of salvation is the first, unexpected step on a perilous odyssey to the remote wilderness of Alaska. His quest is for a mysterious individual named Henry McGee, the sometimes American, sometimes Russian master manipulator, teller of tales, and treacherous link between opposing superpowers, in a bizarre, far-reaching plot to destroy U.S. intelligence. The November Man is the unwilling instrument of the plan's success--or the determined key to its failure. And this time, simply staying alive won't be enough.

Author : M. L. Buchman
Publisher : Buchman Bookworks, Inc.
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000063628

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Where Dreams Unfold Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Bill Cullen is the Stage Manager for Seattle’s Emerald City Opera, and a single father with two precocious children dedicated to making him nuts. The last thing he needs? A free-spirited costume designer for his new opera production. Perrin Williams left behind her past to become Seattle’s premier boutique fashion designer. But Bill and his children see right through her defenses and into her heart. A heart she’s always been very skilled at hiding. Confronting their pasts, strains the fabric of their futures Where Dreams Unfold.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556035563931

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Seattle Monorail Project Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Marjorie M. Liu,Meljean Brook,Alyssa Day
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425225445

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Wild Thing Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A quartet of novellas delves into the passionate world of the supernatural in an anthology that journeys from the depths of Atlantis and a realm of vampires and guardian angels to the forbidden world of the demon horde and the secrets of an animal whisperer, in four romantic sagas by Maggie Shayne, Marjorie M. Liu, Alyssa Day, and Meljean Brook. Reprint.

Author : Craig Welch
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780061987984

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Shell Games Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A unique blend of natural history and crime drama, Shell Games by Craig Welch is a riveting tale of rogues, scoundrels, and the hunt for nature’s bounty in the tradition of The Orchid Thief. A stranger-than-fiction true story centered around a larger-than-life character who pursued a larger-than-life clam—the Geoduck—and then led wildlife police on a two-year-long chase, Shell Games is enthralling and remarkable from page one on.

Author : Mark Hinshaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351178549

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Citistate Seattle Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

With style and humor, the author writes of special places in everyday Seattle. The author takes us to popular, high-profile landmarks like Pike Place Market as well as tucked-away gems — cozy cottages, trendy pubs, gracious apartment buildings, and vibrant urban villages — that flavor and enliven the city. The author shares his eye for unique, humanizing details of design, architecture, and function, bringing this colorful metropolis to life so vividly you'll practically smell the coffee they brew and sell on (almost) every street corner. Along the way, the author explains the public and private decisions that helped Seattle avoid the urban desolation that plagues other American cities. The author introduces many of Seattle's movers and shakers — mayors, developers, artists, and urban pioneers — who took it upon themselves to guide metropolitan Seattle along a different path.

Author : Donald Barlow
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480810389

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Avenging Grace Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Paul Thornton, millionaire CEO of Thornton Precision Instruments, hires down-on-his-luck private detective, Seattle's Kenneth Sheridan, to find his missing son Denny--who failed to show up for work eight days ago. Sheridan follows the trail to the abandoned summer home belonging to the millionaire and finds the decaying body of the son, with a handwritten suicide note attached to it. Believing the case is closed, Sheridan returns to his practice. After several months, the father returns to Sheridan with new evidence the young man did not commit suicide, but was murdered. He promises Sheridan a small fortune if the detective can set the record straight and see that the murderer is properly brought to justice. Sheridan reopens the case, and through a series of exciting and humorously drawn clue-driven events, finds not only is there a murder, but a small child, Grace, was molested. A devotee to the Japanese admonition, "The wise falcon conceals his talons," Sheridan disarms wary opponents by hiding himself behind a veneer of soft-spoken ineptitude. Taking advantage of the circumstances at hand, in the role of Avenging Angel, he resolves the case with murderous efficiency.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030782593

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State Convention and Trade Center Airspace Leasing, Seattle Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : David Boarder Giles
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478021711

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A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

In A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People, David Boarder Giles explores the ways in which capitalism simultaneously manufactures waste and scarcity. Illustrating how communities of marginalized people and discarded things gather and cultivate political possibilities, Giles documents the work of Food Not Bombs (FNB), a global movement of grassroots soup kitchens that recover wasted grocery surpluses and redistribute them to those in need. He explores FNB's urban contexts: the global cities in which late-capitalist economies and unsustainable consumption precipitate excess, inequality, food waste, and hunger. Beginning in urban dumpsters, Giles traces the logic by which perfectly edible commodities are nonetheless thrown out—an act that manufactures food scarcity—to the social order of “world-class” cities, the pathways of discarded food as it circulates through the FNB kitchen, and the anticapitalist political movements the kitchen represents. Describing the mutual entanglement of global capitalism and anticapitalist transgression, Giles captures those emergent forms of generosity, solidarity, and resistance that spring from the global city's marginalized residents.

Author : William H. Whyte
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812208344

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City Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time." For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of what is staggeringly obvious about the urban environment but seemingly invisible to those responsible for planning it. Whyte uses time-lapse photography to chart the anatomy of metropolitan congestion. Why is traffic so badly distributed on city streets? Why do New Yorkers walk so fast—and jaywalk so incorrigibly? Why aren't there more collisions on the busiest walkways? Why do people who stop to talk gravitate to the center of the pedestrian traffic stream? Why do places designed primarily for security actually worsen it? Why are public restrooms disappearing? "The city is full of vexations," Whyte avers: "Steps too steep; doors too tough to open; ledges you cannot sit on. . . . It is difficult to design an urban space so maladroitly that people will not use it, but there are many such spaces." Yet Whyte finds encouragement in the widespread rediscovery of the city center. The future is not in the suburbs, he believes, but in that center. Like a Greek agora, the city must reassert its most ancient function as a place where people come together face-to-face.