Nailing Down the Saint
Nailing Down the Saint

Author: Craig Cliff

Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Published: 2019-08-06

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0143773755

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Hollywood, fatherhood, levitation. This smart, funny, thought-provoking novel is full of surprises. Duncan Blake is a Kiwi filmmaker whose move to LA has not gone to plan. After a series of setbacks, he’s working at a chain restaurant, his marriage is on shaky ground after a porn-related faux pas and his son won’t stop watching Aladdin. When Duncan gets the chance to scout locations for a fêted director’s biopic of Saint Joseph of Copertino, it’s the lifeline he’s been searching for. But in Italy, in the footsteps of the seventeenth-century levitator, he must confront miracles, madness and the realities of modern movie making. A novel about the pursuit of dreams, the moral calculus this entails, and the possibility that the rational, materialist worldview isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Catholic High School Entrance Exams For Dummies
Catholic High School Entrance Exams For Dummies

Author: Lisa Zimmer Hatch

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-03-16

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 0470623012

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A real-world guide to passing the entrance exam for Catholic high school Catholic High School Entrance Exams For Dummies provides students and their parents with an efficient and effective way to prepare for the HSPT, TACHS, and COOP-the three entrance exams used by Catholic high schools. Included are Six full-length practice tests Test-taking tips from the experts Thorough reviews of each test's format With full sample tests, up-to-date questions, and a comprehensive review of the basics in each category, Catholic High School Entrance Exams For Dummies is a family's ticket to education success.

The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries
The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries

Author: Otto Penzler

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published: 2014-10-28

Total Pages: 962

ISBN-13: 080417279X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Most Complete Collection of Impossible Crime Stories Ever Assembled, with puzzling mysteries by Stephen King, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, P. G. Wodehouse, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many, many more THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES: An empty desert, a lonely ski slope, a gentleman’s study, an elevator car—nowhere is a crime completely impossible. Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler has collected sixty-eight of the all-time best impossible-crime stories from almost two hundred years of the genre. In addition to the many classic examples of the form—a case of murder in a locked room or otherwise inaccessible place, solved by a brilliant sleuth—this collection expands the definition of the locked room to include tales of unbelievable thefts and incredible disappearances. Among these pages you’ll find stories with evocative titles like “The Flying Death”, “The Man From Nowhere”, “A Terribly Strange Bed”, and “The Theft of the Bermuda Penny”, not to mention appearances by some of the cleverest characters in all of crime, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Georges Simenon’s Jules Maigret, Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op, and many more. Featuring • Unconventional means of murder • Pilfered jewels • Shocking solutions Includes • Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, the first detective story and the first locked-room mystery • Masters of the short story form: Edward D. Hoch, Ellery Queen, Carter Dickson, and Stanley Ellin A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL

Saint's Heaven 2
Saint's Heaven 2

Author: Shameka Jones

Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing

Published: 2016-06-06

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1648404111

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

True love is indestructible, but Saint and Heaven’s happily ever after seemed to crash and burn before they even got off the ground. It’s true that misery loves company as each of their exes join forces with the most unlikely of allies to rip Saint and Heaven apart by any means necessary. Saint is determined to live up to his name and shine like the born-again good guy that he is, but with snakes like Kalina and his mother testing his patience, he soon finds himself walking a thin line between his freedom and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The last thing Heaven thought she’d be doing is playing single mother to three children, and when she finally faces the truth, she realizes that Saint is her future, and that their family is something worth fighting for. But just as she’s gearing up to head into battle, Flex steps into the ring and proves that he has no intention of bowing down and allowing another man to claim the family was his from the beginning. Which man will win the Heavenly object of his heart’s obsession when it’s all said and done?

Stone Cold Saint
Stone Cold Saint

Author: Stephanie St. Klaire

Publisher: Stephanie St. Klaire

Published: 2024-07-18

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Episode 3: Truth is the Ultimate Weapon In the heart of Coyote Creek, danger lurks around every corner, and no one feels it more acutely than Coy Stone when he faces the ultimate test –– protect his family from the crosshairs of a deadly conspiracy served by an unknown enemy. Every ally could be a traitor, and every step could be their last. With secrets emerging from every corner, trust becomes a fragile commodity in a high-stakes showdown against merciless enemies, where the lines between friend and foe blur, and the truth is more elusive than ever. Friends may be foes, and allies could be traitors. Every revelation brings them closer to the elusive truth but also the threshold of death more than others with one foot in the grave. Amidst shocking betrayals and heart-stopping confrontations, each twist and turn heightens the stakes, drawing the family into a relentless battle where survival is uncertain and the cost of failure is unimaginable. Will the Stones outwit their enemies in time and survive the onslaught, or will the dark forces arrayed against them succeed in their diabolical plans?

Late Fragments
Late Fragments

Author: Charles Baudelaire

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 0300185189

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire "[A] handsome new book . . . all this inchoate material is given context by Sieburth's learned, elegantly written commentary. He is the perfect guide."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post "[These] unfinished works written after 1861 . . . deliver what their titles seem to promise: a soul stripped of guises and illusions."--Ange Mlinko, New York Review of Books While not as well known as his other works, Charles Baudelaire's late poems, drafts of poems, and prose fragments are texts indispensable to the history of modern poetics. This volume brings together Baudelaire's late fragmentary writings, aphoristic in form and radical in thought, into one edited collection for the first time. Substantial introductions to each work by Richard Sieburth combine the literary context with formal analysis and reception history to give readers a comprehensive picture of the genesis of these works and their subsequent fate. Baudelaire's turn toward fragmentary writing involved not only a conscious renunciation of his aesthetics of perfection and unity, but a desertion of the harmonies of the traditional lyric in favor of the disjunctions of prose. These are daring works, often painful to read in their misanthropy and unconventional beauty.

The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent (Light Novel) Vol. 9
The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent (Light Novel) Vol. 9

Author: Yuka Tachibana

Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment

Published: 2023-12-07

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Sei's first journey abroad in this other world is to Zaidera and she's trying her hand at making magical amulets! She's also over the moon about her engagement to Albert. While busy with wedding preparations, Sei overhears how one of the members of First Prince Kyle's delegation to Zaidera is now bedridden with an unknown illness. Naturally, Sei can't just stand idly by, and, with that, her trip to Zaidera is hurriedly assured. However, upon her arrival, Kyle informs Sei that no one is sick and to make matters worse, the port has been closed, so they're now stuck abroad!

Vodou Saints
Vodou Saints

Author: Arthur Fournier

Publisher: Diversion Books

Published: 2011-01-02

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0982905084

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

VODOU SAINTS is an account of Dr. Arthur Fournier's travels through the earthquake-ravaged nation of Haiti. He shares lessons of life and death, courage and resilience as he joins with Haitians dealing with the aftermath of the world's largest natural disaster. The author recounts stories of the special care needed for patients with AIDS, and reveals a personal family tragedy that brings the story full circle. The work is arguably the most compelling series of insights on the human condition since Albert Camus' THE PLAGUE. All proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Project Medishare for Haiti, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing its human and technical resources with its Haitian partners in the quest to achieve quality healthcare and development services for all.

The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs
The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs

Author: Dr. Nick Trout

Publisher: Hachette Books

Published: 2013-02-12

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1401304974

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Dr. Cyrus Mills returns to his hometown after inheriting his father's failing veterinary practice. Cyrus intends to sell the practice and get out of town as fast as he can, but when his first patient -- a down-on-her-luck golden retriever named Frieda Fuzzypaws -- wags her way through the door, life suddenly gets complicated. With the help of a black Labrador gifted in the art of swallowing underwear, a Persian cat determined to expose her owner's lover as a gold digger, and the allure of a feisty, pretty waitress from the local diner, Cyrus gets caught up in a new community and its endearing residents, both human and animal. Sensing he may have misjudged the past, he begins to realize it's not just his patients that need healing. The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs is a winsome tale of new beginnings, forgiveness, and the joy of finding your way home.