[PDF] Before The Midnight Hour eBook

Author : Tom Gregory
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1491890401

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Paul Williams a handsome and charismatic young man returns to India after the completion of his education. Unknown to him he had been adopted immediately after his birth as he was the illegitimate son of an English woman and coincidentally,Walter the son of one of the founders of the company for whom he was now going to work. Walter was eventually dismissed because after saving a young widow from committing suttee they had lived together much against the conventions of the time' Paul is very good at his job and assists the company to purchase a small factory at a far better price than they contemplated due to an affair he had with the wife of the accountant who was advising the purchase. Later, on the death of his adoptive mother he discovers who he really is and what happened to his real father and decides that nothing will stop him becoming Chairman of the company a position he believes his father should have had.and an ambition which leads to a terrible climax.

Author : Benjamin Read
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1338569112

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For fans of portal fantasies like Jessica Townsend's Nevermoor, Colin Meloy's Wildwood, and The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, and unlike so many other fantasies that introduce readers to a world of enchantment and wonder, The Midnight Hour is one filled with beasts and monsters for readers looking to shine their flashlights under the covers. When strange late-night letters start arriving at home, Emily's parents set off to investigate. But when her parents disappear completely and Emily is left home alone to face the weird strangers that begin to appear at her door, she takes all of the clues at her disposal and makes for the place where the letters came from -- the mysterious Night Post. What she'll discover is the secret world of the Midnight Hour -- a Victorian London frozen in time, full of magic and monsters. Kept safe by an age-old agreement, the Night Folk have been exiled to a parallel world that can only be accessed by a selected few, including the mail carriers of the infamous Night Post that operate between the two worlds. Emily's parents are key players in keeping the Night Folk safe, but when the division of the two worlds is threatened, Emily must search for her parents while navigating this dark and unknown version of London. Armed only with a packed lunch, her very sleepy pocket hedgehog, and her infamously big argumentative mouth, she must escape bloodthirsty creatures of the night, figure out her own family secrets, and maybe just save the world. This is a frightening and enchanting story, a world built out of creatures from our worst fears who become relatable, fully formed characters unlike any we've seen as these strangers of parallel worlds band together to save the day.

Author : Peniel E. Joseph
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 2007-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805083354

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A history of the Black Power movement in the United States traces the origins and evolution of the influential movement and examines the ways in which Black Power redefined racial identity and culture. With the rallying cry of "Black Power!" in 1966, a group of black activists, including Stokely Carmichael and Huey P. Newton, turned their backs on Martin Luther King's pacifism and, building on Malcolm X's legacy, pioneered a radical new approach to the fight for equality. [This book] is a history of the Black Power movement, that storied group of men and women who would become American icons of the struggle for racial equality. In the book, the author traces the history of the men and women of the movement, many of them famous or infamous, others forgotten. It begins in Harlem in the 1950s, where, despite the Cold War's hostile climate, black writers, artists, and activists built a new urban militancy that was the movement's earliest incarnation. In a series of character driven chapters, we witness the rise of Black Power groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panthers, and with them, on both coasts of the country, a fundamental change in the way Americans understood the unfinished business of racial equality and integration. The book invokes the way in which Black Power redefined black identity and culture and in the process redrew the landscape of American race relations.

Author : Jack Higgins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101190876

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In the world of the Mafia, sometimes death is the only way out....

Author : Abby L. Vandiver
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,26 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1643857533

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A 2022 ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE for Best Anthology From a simple robbery gone horribly wrong to a grisly murder in a secret love dungeon, this stellar collection of crime fiction short stories showcases some of today's finest voices of color. Edited by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Abby L. Vandiver, this thrilling anthology will keep you on the edge of your seat. Welcome to Midnight Hour... Jennifer Chow: "Midnight Escapade" After years of silence, two women decide to meet up in a unique escape room but get trapped in a deadly game from which there may be no escape. Tracy Clark: "Lucky Thirteen" A gun. A last meal. And only one survivor. Sometimes the stars align--but only for the lucky one--as predator and prey come face-to-face one fateful New Year's Eve. H. C. Chan: "Murderers' Feast" Techpreneur John Manley left a trail of duped investors and damaged women in his wake. What happens when two hundred of his closest enemies gather for a five-day gourmet retreat? Christopher Chambers: "In the Matter of Mabel and Bobby Jefferson" It's almost midnight, it's snowing, and a bored call center worker catches a customer inquiry that smells of murder. Is he a knight rescuing the intended victim or someone else's pawn? Plus, stories by Richie Narvaez, Frankie Bailey, E. A. Aymar, Faye Snowden, Tina Kashian, and many more.

Author : Elly Griffiths
Publisher : Brighton Mysteries
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 035842416X

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Newly minted PI Emma Holmes and her partner Sam Collins are chosen for a high-profile case: retired music-hall star Verity Malone hires them to find out who poisoned her husband, a theater impresario. Verity herself has been accused of the crime. Soon Emma realizes that Verity's life intersects closely with her own. The team of female PIs circle closer to the killer, with the Brighton police hot on their tail. The clues suggest they're looking for a criminal targeting the old music-hall crew. How long will it be before that trail leads straight back to Max? Print run 3,000.

Author : C. C. Hunter
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1250035880

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Miranda Kane is finally beginning to harness her magical powers, but when a near death experience leaves her with a mysterious tattoo she goes on the hunt for answers, just as her sister disappears.

Author : Tony Fletcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0190252944

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Looks at the life and music career of prominent soul singer Wilson Pickett, chronicling the performer's rise to stardom and his self-destructive fall into alcohol and drug addiction before ending his career on a high note with a Grammy-nominated album.

Author : Carrie Vaughn
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0446511161

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In this action-packed story of supernaturals, a werewolf talk show host for the supernaturally disadvantaged has bitten off way more than she can chew. Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station. She's also a closeted werewolf. Her new late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged is a raging success, but it's Kitty who can use some help. With a sexy werewolf-hunter on her tail -- and a few homicidal undead following her every move -- Kitty's about to face the fight of her life.

Author : Don Pendleton
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 15,78 MB
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1497685540

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The first book in the classic vigilante action series from a “writer who spawned a genre” (The New York Times). Overseas, Mack Bolan was dubbed “Sgt. Mercy” for the compassion he showed the innocent. On the home front, they’re calling him the Executioner for what he’s doing to the guilty. In the jungles of Southeast Asia, American sniper Mack Bolan honed his skills. After twelve years, with ninety-five confirmed hits, he returns home to Massachusetts. But it’s not to reunite with his family, it’s to bury them—victims in a mass murder/suicide. Even though Bolan’s own father pulled the trigger, he knows the old man was no killer. He was driven to madness by Mafia thugs who have turned his idyllic hometown into a new kind of war zone. Duty calls . . . Introducing an action hero “who would make Jack Reacher think twice,” this is the first book in the iconic series of vigilante justice that has become a publishing phenomenon (Empireonline.com). With more than two hundred million Executioner books sold since its debut, the series continues to stimulate. Gerry Conway, cocreator of Marvel Comics’ The Punisher, credits the Executioner as “my inspiration . . . that’s what gave me the idea for the lone, slightly psychotic avenger.” The series is also now in development as a major motion picture. War Against the Mafia is the 1st book in the Executioner series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.