[PDF] Disappearing Off The Face Of The Earth eBook

Author : David Cohen
Publisher : Transit Lounge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0995359547

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Hideaway Self Storage, located just off Brisbane's M1, is in decline. But manager Ken Guy and his assistant Bruce carry on with their daily rituals even as the facility falls apart around them. Lately, however, certain tenants have been disappearing off the face of the earth, leaving behind units full of valuable items. Ken has no idea where these rent defaulters have gone but he thinks he might be able to turn their abandoned 'things' into a nice little earner that could help save his business. But the disappearances are accompanied by strange occurrences such as Bruce's inexplicable late-night excursions, Ken's intensifying aversion to fluorescent lights, and Ken's girlfriend's intensifying aversion to Ken. While further along the motorway, construction of a rival facility - Pharoah's Tomb Self Storage, part of a nationwide franchise - hints at a mysterious past and a precarious future. A surprisingly funny study of physical and mental deterioration, David Cohen's second novel is never quite what it seems. Sharply attuned to the absurdities of contemporary urban life, it is that rare literary beast, a comic drama that is at once intelligent and suspenseful, humorous and deep.

Author : David Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 2017-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780995359482

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'David Cohen takes suburban life and turns it into a warped comedy with a body count, letting weirdness in, compellingly, irresistibly, until our sense of what's real is flickering on and off like a dodgy fluoro tube.' Nick EarlsHideaway Self Storage, located just off Brisbane's M1, is in decline. But manager Ken Guy and his assistant Bruce carry on with their daily rituals even as the facility falls apart around them. Lately, however, certain tenants have been disappearing off the face of the earth, leaving behind units full of valuable items. Ken has no idea where these rent defaulters have gone but he thinks he might be able to turn their abandoned 'things' into a nice little earner that could help save his business. But the disappearances are accompanied by strange occurrences such as Bruce's inexplicable late-night excursions, Ken's intensifying aversion to fluorescent lights, and Ken's girlfriend's intensifying aversion to Ken. While further along the motorway, construction of a rival facility - Pharaoh'sTomb Self Storage, part of a nationwide franchise - hints at a mysterious past and a precarious future. A surprisingly funny study of physical and mental deterioration, David Cohen's second novel is never quite what it seems. Sharply attuned to the absurdities of contemporary urban life, it is that rare literary beast, a comic drama that is at once intelligent and suspenseful, humorous and deep.'Few writers write about the world of work, and fewer still with the skill and mordant wit of David Cohen. Funny, disturbing, and wonderfully strange.' Ryan O' Neill

Author : Julia Phillips
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525520422

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One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National Book Award Finalist Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award National Best Seller "Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester "A genuine masterpiece" --Gary Shteyngart Spellbinding, moving--evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world--this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls--sisters, eight and eleven--go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty--densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska--and into a region as complex as it is alluring, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer's virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.

Author : Deborah Raney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439123659

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From the award-winning author of After All, a man finds his wedding vows tested after his wife disappears. What if she never came home . . . ? When Mitchell Brannon’s beloved wife sets off for home after a conference, he has no idea that his life is about to change forever. Mitch returns from work early that evening, surprised that Jill’s car isn’t in the garage. But her voice on the answering machine makes him smile. “Hey, babe, I’m just now checking out of the hotel, but I’ll stop and pick up something for dinner. Love you.” Hours later, Jill still hasn’t returned, and Mitch’s irritation turns to dread. When the police come up empty, Mitch enlists the help of their next-door neighbor, Jill’s best friend, Shelley, to help search. As hours turn into days and days into weeks, Mitch and Shelley’s friendship grows ever closer—and decidedly more complicated. Every lead seems to be a dead end, and Mitch wonders how he can honor the vows he made to a woman who has seemingly disappeared from the face of the earth.

Author : Bonny Darby
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1770974083

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Maggie Garrison is the owner of a flower shop in British Columbia and she has one heck of a problem. Her beloved antique desk from her deceased grandmother has been stolen, she is being blackmailed by an evil antique dealer, and she has a deadline to deliver the desk key to her blackmailer before consequences are levied. To top it all off, in order to get the key, Maggie must steal it from Jake McAllister, an old flame entrusted by Maggie's nana to protect the key. Maggie and Jake's one-night relationship ended on bad terms, but she has never forgotten their heated tryst. As Maggie seeks to recover the key, she is pulled further into a mystery and into partnership with Jake McAllister, who is now a handsome lawyer and still harbors a burning passion for her. Maggie's friends and family reveal long-kept secrets, and a family inheritance beyond anything she could have imagined. Fast-paced chases, blackmailing villains, family secrets, and a simmering romance propel Maggie into a covert and exciting life that is far-removed from her days in the flower shop....

Author : J.W de Forest
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 375233472X

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Reproduction of the original: Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Secession To Loyalty by J.W de Forest

Author : Catherine Brooks VandeHey
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 164350004X

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Supermodel turned marketing executive Miranda Sinclair Newman is pregnant, and she discovers her ex-fiancé's secret: He has a rare form of blood cancer that was found in his blood work while preparing to get his marriage license. That revelation sets off a chain of events that will cause him and Miranda an emotional and heartbreaking dilemma. Presented with all the facts, she is confused about what to do next. She still desperately loves her ex, Alex Anderson, who was her first love and mentor. But there is no denying that Matthew Newman is her soulmate that she adores more than life itself. She needed to think about her innocent baby twins and what was right to do by both men she loved so much in her heart and soul. She prays about what to do so she doesn't lose either of the men she can't live without. She decides to propose for the three of them to enter into a private arrangement where they will live together and raise the twins so no one has to be cut out of her life. Because with her gift of ESP, she knows they both have a very good chance of being the biological father of the twins she's carrying. The only other option for her is to annul her quickie marriage to Matt and raise her twins as a single mother. With her world that has been turned upside down by both men who are tearing her heart apart emotionally. Her only hope is if they love her enough not to want to give her up and go along with the conditions of the arrangement. It turns out after doing a lot of soul searching and no other options, they agree to do it because they can't imagine their world without her and the babies in it.

Author : Leo J. Battenhausen MA MSW LCSW LCADC
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1641146982

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Today, America's most dangerous enemies are not the terrorists or those wanting to kill us. They are the unseen evil forces that have been slowly depleting us of morality, decency and value in God. Evil has taken a seat not only in our movies, media, music and schools, but in our White House. The Evilution of America has been eroding what our Forefathers fought and suffered to create and is turning the United States into a country void of everything Godly we once stood proudly on as the greatest nation in the world. Author, Leo J. Battenhausen, exposes the true reality of the battle between good and evil going on in America today for our souls and how politics and the media are working together with evil to gather them up in droves. The Evilution of America is a must read for every citizen of the United States who asks the question, "What happened?" Battenhausen is a licensed psychotherapist, social commentator and syndicated radio guest as well as the author of four other books that speak to the human condition in America today.

Author : Mark Roland Langdale
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1803130865

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Jag, short for Jaguar, was orphaned when her environmentalist parents died in the jungle saving animals’ lives. Although she was put into a care home, she ran away two years to live on the streets where she was adopted into a street gang who have now become her family. Danny, the trickster and street magician and Tiger, whose animal instincts run close to the surface, and a few others are all animal activists at heart. Although they go one night to an animal sanctuary in the country to tag the walls with graffiti, Jag gets caught in an enclosure. However, it ends up for the best as the keeper takes a shine to her and offers a part time job when she hears Jag’s affinity with the Jaguar spirit. With Jag working at the sanctuary, her gang start spending more time there to see the great Cat Man Do perform his animal magic – until one day when a tiger is let out its cage. And that is only the beginning as a villainous Cat Man begins to stalk the streets with two pet panthers out for blood, seemingly appearing and disappearing at will. With newspapers reporting maulings and deaths and Sergeant Dickins not sure what’s going on, the kids are intrigued by the reports. After witnessing an attack, the kids get sucked into this mysterious Cat Man’s idea of a theatrical villain performance – but even if they have animal instincts and spirits with them and even if the big cats are swaying to their side, should they run before they too turn prey?