![]() ![]() We do not sell books that are missing pages or are ‘falling to pieces’. All text will be readable and the book will be intact.on both back and front), a moderate watermark, large repaired tear, marked and curling page edges. Kate has woven aboriginal mythology into a coming of age mystery that will keep younger teens (and many adults) engrossed. That, however, doesn't mean it's not up to her usual standards. Moderate: Examples of moderate wear include: more noticeable cover wear (e.g. Crow Country is a juvenile mystery set in her home country of Australia and is a very quick read.Minor: Examples of minor wear include: a repaired cover tear or a couple of repaired pages, a creased or scuffed spine or cover, a small watermark, minor marks on page edges.No notes and/or highlighting, but will show signs of wear.minor cosmetic marks, contact, previous owner’s name). May also have signs of normal use (e.g.This opening statement foreshadows the importance of the. The lines of the creeks, and the bumps and sags of the hills and swamps held the stories of the country’s ancient history, the marks of its creation. The land was spread beneath, laid out like a map, like an open book. Moderate: Highlighting and notes may be untidy, and/or present on a moderate number of pages. The crow wheeled high in the clear winter sky.Minor: Highlighting and notes are limited to only a few lines or pages, or to a small percentage of the entire book.Notes and/or highlighting, but no significant wear.No notes or highlighting, and no significant wear. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As the casualties mount, it's up to Jesse to keep both women from harm. After being kicked out of the LAPD, Jesse Stones future looks bleak, until he is given another chance as the police chief in a small New England town. When Macklin's attack on Stiles Island is set in motion, both Marcy and Abby are put in jeopardy. ![]() He faces romantic entanglements in triplicate: his ex-wife Jenn, is in the Paradise jail for assault, he's begun a new relationship with a Stiles Island realtor named Marcy Campbell, and he's still sorting out his feelings for attorney Abby Taylor. As Macklin plans his crime, Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone has his hands full. And Wilson Cromartie, known as Crow, is even worse. James Macklin is a bad man - a very bad man. To realize his investment, Macklin, along with his devoted girlfriend, Faye, assembles a crew of fellow ex-cons - all experts in their fields - including Wilson Cromartie, a fearsome Apache. James Macklin sees Stiles Island as the ultimate investment opportunity: all he needs to do is invade the island, blow the bridge, and loot the island. In NIGHT PASSAGE, the corrupt city fathers of a Massachusetts town hire Jesse Stone as police chief because his bad record as an L.A. Parker 2001 View on Amazon 4 i Stone Cold Jesse Stone, Book 4 Robert B. ![]() Parker 1998 View on Amazon 3 i Death in Paradise Jesse Stone, Book 3 Robert B. Parker 1997 View on Amazon 2 i Trouble in Paradise Jesse Stone, Book 2 Robert B. Stiles Island is a wealthy and exclusive enclave separated by a bridge from the Massachusetts coast town of Paradise. Night Passage Jesse Stone, Book 1 Robert B. ![]() ![]() ![]() of violence and chases 10% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 10% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 60% How society works & physical descript. Aiming for another big hit after Degree of Guilt, Patterson returns to the courtroom, where an attorney fights to clear himself of the accusation that he. Hardcover - Good Protect and Defend (Kerry Kilcannon 2) by Richard North Patterson On a cold day in January President-elect Kerry Kilcannon takes the oath. ![]() The series stands apart from others because Patterson. ![]() A compelling new novel from Richard North Patterson- a major departure, and that. Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book descript. In 1979, Richard North Patterson began a unique series of novels with The Lasko Tangent, featuring prosecutor Christopher Paget. Buy a used copy of Protect and Defend book by Richard North Patterson. ![]() ![]() The train is full of people of Japanese ancestry and the armed guards who accompany them. The woman, girl, and boy travel through Nevada on a train to a relocation camp in Utah. government under suspicion of being an “alien enemy.” On the night before the evacuation, when her children are in bed, the woman sits on the floor of her kitchen and cries at the thought of leaving with no idea if she will ever come back. Last December, the woman’s husband was detained by the U.S. The woman returns home to pack and to get her two preadolescent children-known as the girl and the boy-ready to evacuate. ![]() The sign says that all people of Japanese ancestry living in the city will be evacuated in the next couple of weeks. ![]() On a spring day in 1942 in Berkeley, California, the unnamed character of the woman reads a sign, Evacuation Order No. ![]() ![]() ![]() Left motherless at birth, he tells how his grandmother saved him from relatives who offered to care for him "until he died." It was that grandmother who sang him the traditional Indian lullabies which are meant to cultivate bravery in all male babies, who taught him not to cry at night (for fear of revealing the whereabouts of the Sioux camp to hostile tribes), and who first explained to him some of the skills he would need to survive as an adult in the wilds. ![]() Indian Boyhood is Eastman's first-hand reminiscence of the life he led until he was fifteen with the nomadic Sioux. ![]() The hunts, games, and ceremonies of his native tribe were all he knew of life until his father, who had spent time with the white man, came to find him. Charles Eastman, or Hakadah, as his Sioux relatives and fellow tribesmen knew him, as a full-blooded Indian boy learned the reticent manners and stoical ways of patience and bravery expected of every young warrior in the 1870's and 1880's. ![]() ![]() ![]() And that’s why the dedication to start THE WINNERS, the last part of the trilogy, is: “To you who talk too much and sing too loud and cry too often and love something in life way more than you should. There’s no separation between this sport and everything else. I did my best to explain throughout the book series that sometimes that’s why people involved in it make really bad decisions, thinking that they’re protecting the sport or the team or the town or the family. Editions for Beartown: (Kindle Edition published in 2017), 1501160761 (Hardcover published in 2017), (Kindle Edition published in 2017), ( published in 2. And love makes you sensitive and easily offended. ![]() If you want to play hockey it’s BECAUSE it is hard. ![]() So if you don’t love it beyond all reason to begin with…forget it. It’s so hard to do, it’s so incredibly time consuming, and you can’t do it alone. People often ask me why I chose hockey, and not another sport, to write about, and the answer is this: Hockey demands everything. This is, in many ways, one of the most recurring themes throughout the whole Beartown book trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When she meets her new career handler, Brianna, Van is relieved to have found someone she can rely on, now that her BFF, Ally, is at college across the country. ![]() But with all her relationships currently in upheaval, she's painfully uncertain about everything else. Vanessa Park has always been certain about her path as an actor, despite her parents' disapproval. Now that he's in the spotlight-on everyone's terms but his own-Josh has to decide whether a life as a superstar is the one he really wants. (Not that he's trying to charm her, of course.) Meanwhile, his drama-queen mother blackmails him into a new family reality TV show, with Josh in the starring role. To help out his best friend, Liam, he joins his hit teen TV show, Daylight Falls.opposite Vanessa Park, the one actor immune to his charms. But his laid-back lifestyle is about to change. Josh Chester loves being a Hollywood bad boy, coasting on his good looks, his parties, his parents' wealth, and the occasional modeling gig. ![]() ![]() She had to be a nurse, janitor, musician, philosopher, peacemaker, wrangler, fire stoker, baseball player, professor, and poet for less than $50 a month. The school teacher, sometimes slightly older than her pupils, was a renaissance individual. When they arrived on their first day of school they may have only known how to speak a foreign language but they soon learned how to speak, read, spell, and write English. They got to school on foot, on horseback, or in a wagon. The children who attended ranged in age from five to 21 and endured dust storms, prairie fires, and cattle drives swirling past the school house in order to get an eighth grade education. They were called names like Prairie Flower, Buzzard Roost, and Good Intent. ![]() For a hundred years, white frame or native stone one-room schoolhouses dotted the section corners across Kansas. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is believed to be the "warrior" described in Bartholomew of Sandwich's prophecies. Gregor - Gregor is an eleven-year-old New Yorker who discovers the Underland when his little sister Margaret, nicknamed Boots, falls into their apartments ventilation system. ![]() ![]() These differences are not permanent, however, as all Underlanders are descendants of Overlanders who lost these qualities over time. In general, they have darker skin and hair than Underlanders, and their eyes range from blue to brown. The term Overlander refers to any human born in the Overland to parents who were also born there. The "killers" below are organized by " ethnicity". In their own languages, however, the animal species of the Underland refer to humans as killers. When speaking to them, most Underland inhabitants call humans by the name they prefer so as not to insult them. These names usually refer to a common trait or habit of the species. This is a list of The Underland Chronicles characters, organized according to the species names given in the series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is clear on almost every page of this book that the only person more in love with slasher movies than Stephen Graham Jones is our main POV Jennifer Daniels AKA Jade. My Heart is a Chainsaw is the love letter wrapped inside of socially aware horror novel. This book actually is the thing that taught me that. I love stories about werewolves but I am not a slasher fan. Mongrels worked in part because it was a love letter to werewolf movies, novels, and myths. Here is the funny thing I did not like My Heart is A Chainsaw nearly as much as the last three SGJ books I read but that is in part because of the impossibly high bar this dude has set. The hardest part of reviewing his books is not using hyperbole because he is so goddamn great. Stephen Graham Jones is an author who I like as a person and a storyteller. Those books are not the only genius but they affected me deeply as I read them. ![]() On a 5-star scale, it was a twelve if I could give that novel all the missing stars from all four and three stars books I read in those years I would have. The amount that I love that novel and Mongrels is hard to chart honestly. It was my top read of the year, Jeremy Robert Johnson and I took time out of HIS interview to proclaim the NEED to throw all the awards at the book. I was worried when I reviewed the Only Good Indian that I was drifting into hyperbole. ![]() |