When Harry Met Vicky A Fatal Attraction

Author : Peter Craggs
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781456811303

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When Harry Met Vicky—A Fatal Attraction by Peter Craggs Pdf

A young Geordie cooper Harry escapes war-ravaged post-war Britain in search of new opportunities and adventure. He gets lucky, is recruited by the Hong Kong Police Force, and enjoys the trappings of an expatriate lifestyle. In the hot and sweaty, smoked-filled bars of Tsim Sha Tsui, he meets an attractive and vivacious Chinese dancing girl called Vicky, who escapes post-war China and the Communists in search of freedom, a new life, and love... They fall in love and marry, producing a boy and a girl. However, their past catches up on them and eats away at their love, only to end in disaster... Vicky and her children are given a second chance to start a new life in London, UK, surviving as a single parent in the difficult times of the early 1970s.

Author : Peter Craggs
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1456811282

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When Harry Met Vicky-A Fatal Attraction by Peter Craggs Pdf

A young Geordie cooper Harry escapes war-ravaged post-war Britain in search of new opportunities and adventure. He gets lucky, is recruited by the Hong Kong Police Force, and enjoys the trappings of an expatriate lifestyle. In the hot and sweaty, smoked-filled bars of Tsim Sha Tsui, he meets an attractive and vivacious Chinese dancing girl called Vicky, who escapes post-war China and the Communists in search of freedom, a new life, and love... They fall in love and marry, producing a boy and a girl. However, their past catches up on them and eats away at their love, only to end in disaster... Vicky and her children are given a second chance to start a new life in London, UK, surviving as a single parent in the difficult times of the early 1970s.

Author : Kam C. Wong
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781439896440

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Policing in Hong Kong by Kam C. Wong Pdf

The HKP (Hong Kong Police), ‘Asia’s Finest’, is a battle-tested professional organization with strong leadership, competent staff, and deep culture. It is also a continuously learning and reforming agency in pursuit of organisational excellence. Policing in Hong Kong: History and Reform is the first and only book on the development of the Hong Kong Police from an inside out and bottom up perspective. Written by a scholar and veteran of the HKP, it is an amalgamation of indigenous theory and supporting data. Part One begins by describing the development of police studies in Hong Kong as an emerging field since the 1990s. It supplies an analytical and empirical construct of colonial policing as well as a theoretical assessment. It discusses the nature, topologies, conduct, impact, and assessment of police reform. The book demonstrates how colonial policing in Hong Kong and elsewhere takes on the community’s local color and hue in practice. Colonial policing in Hong Kong is "policing with Chinese characteristics." Part Two tracks the history of the HKP’s formation in the 1840s and examines how colonial policing in Hong Kong has changed over time. It describes the HKP’s four distinctive reform periods: the formation period (1845), the reorganisation period (1872), the modernisation period (1950s), and finally, the decolonisation period (1990s). It argues that HKP reform in the1950s was the pivotal point in transforming the HKP from a colonial force into a civil one by way of localisation, legalisation, modernisation, communalisation, and organisation. Overall, the book questions previously accepted colonial history, and in doing so, contributes to our understanding of challenges and opportunities facing HKP after the reversion of political authority from England to China.

Author : William Heffernan
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936070619

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The Dead Detective by William Heffernan Pdf

After being murdered as a child and brought back to life by two cops, Harry Doyle grew up to become a homicide detective who has the uncanny ability to hear the whispers of murder victims, and he must put his power to use to solve the murder of a beautiful woman who was also a notorious child molester.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Children of war casualties
ISBN : 9781596520325

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American World War II Orphans Network by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pier-Giorgio Tomatis
Publisher : Babelcube Inc.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667419916

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Robinson Jr. by Pier-Giorgio Tomatis Pdf

Robinson Jr. by Pier-Giorgio Tomatis The greatest killer is not the one who has nothing to lose but the one who has lost everything. Robinson Jr. Peter Cruise is a quiet Scot who lives in Edinburgh with his whole family: his beautiful wife and two children. One evening, before dinner, stuck in the elevator, he is unable to witness the invasion of Earth by a strange alien race. Since he manages to get out of that uncomfortable position and makes his way through the rubble, a long ordeal will begin for him in search of his family and a reason to live in a horribly transformed world to host his new masters.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : IND:30000028608739

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Film Review by Anonim Pdf

The year's releases in review, with necrologies and brief articles.

Author : Thomas Gustafson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781978838048

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American Anti-Pastoral by Thomas Gustafson Pdf

One of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roth’s 1997 American Pastoral uses the fictional hamlet of Old Rimrock, NJ as a microcosm for a nation in crisis during the cultural upheavals of the 1960s-70s. Critics have called Old Rimrock mythic, but it is based on a very real place: the small Morris county town of Brookside, New Jersey. American Anti-Pastoral reads the events in Roth’s novel in relation to the history of Brookside and its region. While Roth’s protagonist Seymour “Swede” Levov initially views Old Rimrock as an idyllic paradise within the Garden State, its real-world counterpart has a more complex past in its origins as a small industrial village, as well as a site for the politics of exclusionary zoning and a 1960s anti-war protest at its celebrated 4th of July parade. Literary historian and Brookside native Thomas Gustafson casts Roth’s canonical novel in a fresh light as he studies both Old Rimrock in comparison to Brookside and the novel in relationship to NJ literature, making a case for it as the Great New Jersey novel. For Roth fans and history buffs alike, American Anti-Pastoral peels back the myths about the bucolic Garden State countryside to reveal deep fissures along the fault-lines of race and religion in American democracy.

Author : Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781466814141

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Meet the Austins by Madeleine L'Engle Pdf

In book one in the award-winning Austin Family Chronicles young adult series from Madeleine L’Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, Vicky Austin experiences the difficulties and joys of growing up. For a family with four kids, two dogs, assorted cats, and a constant stream of family and friends dropping by, life in the Austin family home has always been remarkably steady and contented. When a family friend suddenly dies in a plane crash, the Austins open their home to an orphaned girl, Maggy Hamilton. The Austin children—Vicky, John, Suzy, and Rob—do their best to be generous and welcoming to Maggy. Vicky knows she should feel sorry for Maggy, but having sympathy for Maggy is no easy thing. Maggy is moody and spoiled; she breaks toys, wakes people in the middle of the night screaming, discourages homework, and generally causes chaos in the Austin household. How can one small child disrupt a family of six? Will life ever return to normal? Books by Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time Quintet A Wrinkle in Time A Wind in the Door A Swiftly Tilting Planet Many Waters An Acceptable Time A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle; adapted & illustrated by Hope Larson Intergalactic P.S. 3 by Madeleine L'Engle; illustrated by Hope Larson: A standalone story set in the world of A Wrinkle in Time. The Austin Family Chronicles Meet the Austins (Volume 1) The Moon by Night (Volume 2) The Young Unicorns (Volume 3) A Ring of Endless Light (Volume 4) A Newbery Honor book! Troubling a Star (Volume 5) The Polly O'Keefe books The Arm of the Starfish Dragons in the Waters A House Like a Lotus And Both Were Young Camilla The Joys of Love

Author : Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466814158

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The Moon by Night by Madeleine L'Engle Pdf

Book two in the award-winning young adult Austin Family Chronicles series from Madeleine L’Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, Vicky Austin experiences the difficulties and joys of growing up. As if simply being fourteen-years-old weren't bad enough—what with the usual teenage angst and uncertainty, Vicky Austin's always comforting and reliable home life is changing completely. Her brother John is going off to college in the fall. Maggy, an orphan taken in by the Austins two years ago, has gone to live with her legal guardian. And the rest of Vicky's family is moving from their quiet house in the country to the heart of New York City. But before the big move, the entire Austin family is taking a meandering trip across the country in their station wagon, stopping to camp along the way, with no set schedule and not a single night of camping experience among them. Wild animal attacks. Life-threatening natural disasters. Cute boys on the prowl. Anything can happen in the great outdoors. Books by Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time Quintet A Wrinkle in Time A Wind in the Door A Swiftly Tilting Planet Many Waters An Acceptable Time A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle; adapted & illustrated by Hope Larson Intergalactic P.S. 3 by Madeleine L'Engle; illustrated by Hope Larson: A standalone story set in the world of A Wrinkle in Time. The Austin Family Chronicles Meet the Austins (Volume 1) The Moon by Night (Volume 2) The Young Unicorns (Volume 3) A Ring of Endless Light (Volume 4) A Newbery Honor book! Troubling a Star (Volume 5) The Polly O'Keefe books The Arm of the Starfish Dragons in the Waters A House Like a Lotus And Both Were Young Camilla The Joys of Love

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Books
ISBN : UCR:31210024109777

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New York Herald Tribune Book Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sharon Biggs Waller
Publisher : Speak
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780142427903

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A Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller Pdf

In 1909 London, as the world of debutante balls and high society obligations closes in around her, seventeen-year-old Victoria must figure out just how much is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dream of becoming an artist.

Author : Margaret Coel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698191297

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Winter's Child by Margaret Coel Pdf

Margaret Coel’s New York Times bestselling series continues as Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O’Malley discover that a centuries-old mystery is tied to a modern-day crime on the Wind River Reservation… In the midst of a blizzard, Myra and Eldon Little Shield found an abandoned baby on their doorstep and brought her inside. Five years later, no one has come back to claim the little girl now known as Mary Anne Little Shield. But now that she’s old enough to start school, her foster parents fear social services will take her—a white child—away from them. Determined to adopt Mary Anne, the Little Shields hire lawyer Clint Hopkins, who wants Vicky as cocounsel on the case. But before their meeting can take place, a black truck deliberately runs Hopkins down in the street. Enlisting Father John to help investigate who would kill to stop the child’s adoption, Vicky unravels a connection between the five-year-old girl and a missing alcoholic Arapaho wanted for robbery—only to uncover one of the darkest secrets in Wind River’s history…

Author : Vicky Osterweil
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781645036678

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In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil Pdf

A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy. Looting -- a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods -- is one of the more extreme actions that can take place in the midst of social unrest. Even self-identified radicals distance themselves from looters, fearing that violent tactics reflect badly on the broader movement. But Vicky Osterweil argues that stealing goods and destroying property are direct, pragmatic strategies of wealth redistribution and improving life for the working class -- not to mention the brazen messages these methods send to the police and the state. All our beliefs about the innate righteousness of property and ownership, Osterweil explains, are built on the history of anti-Black, anti-Indigenous oppression. From slave revolts to labor strikes to the modern-day movements for climate change, Black lives, and police abolition, Osterweil makes a convincing case for rioting and looting as weapons that bludgeon the status quo while uplifting the poor and marginalized. In Defense of Looting is a history of violent protest sparking social change, a compelling reframing of revolutionary activism, and a practical vision for a dramatically restructured society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Television programs
ISBN : IND:30000070294610

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TV Guide by Anonim Pdf