Author: John Humphries
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1803810947
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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What became of Harold Prettyman, a German agent captured by the British during World War Two? Eighty years later, an investigation by reporter Jack Flynt seems to end at a new dormer bungalow with white pebble-dash walls, not the grey stone terraced house in the Welsh valleys from which, according to a recently declassified MI5 file, Prettyman operated a radio transmitter from the attic alerting German U-Boats to Allied shipping movements. Dead ducks are news stories destined for the News Editor's spike and Flynt suspects he has found one until a letter arrives at the bungalow with the same coded message --Many Happy Returns Harold Prettyman--used by Prettyman and his accomplice in 1940. But there are no Allied food convoys in the North Atlantic and, believing the letter a hoax Flynt's newspaper moves him to another assignment—the disappearance of a Foreign Office diplomat suspected of fleeing to Moscow like his predecessors Burgess and Maclean. But Scotland Yard seems more interested in the Coal Miner, a missing Van Gogh masterpiece looted by the Red Army Trophy Brigade as war reparations, but now the focus of an exhibition at Tate Britain after being returned to its owner by the Commission for the Recovery of Looted Art in Europe. The painting discovered hanging on the kitchen wall of the apartment of a dead Trophy Brigade officer had been taken in lieu of pension. Private homes, art galleries and museums across the Russian Federation continue to hold large quantities of booty from the Second World War, worthless since President Putin banned the repatriation of cultural artifacts, but priceless in the West. So, is the Coal Miner exhibited at the Tate the missing Van Gogh or a forgery made by a copyist at the Hermitage in St Petersburg? A zig-zag trail leads Flynt's search for Harold Prettyman into the world of Diplomatic Bags, fakes, and money laundering.
Author: Sarah Graves
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307569365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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dead cat bounce n. Stock market jargon for a small, temporary rise in a stock's trading price after a sharp drop. Since she bought her rambling old fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things broken. But her latest problem isn't so easily repaired. Along with the rotting floor joists and sagging support beams, there's the little matter of the dead man in Jake's storeroom, an ice pick firmly planted in his cranium. Not much happens in her tiny Maine town, but that's about to change. Jake's unknown guest turns out to be a world-famous corporate raider, local boy turned billionaire Threnody McIlwaine. When Jake's best friend, quiet and dependable Ellie White, readily confesses to the murder, cops and journalists swarm into snowbound Eastport. Jake smells a cover-up, and begins poking into past history between McIlwaine and Ellie's family. But someone doesn't like nosy neighbors...and Jake's rustic refuge may become her final resting place.
Author: Bill Overmyer
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475998759
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 101
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The environment of the stock market is complex and interrelated. As you explore the pathways of a steep stock market decline you will discover the safest time to invest. You will become a veteran fire sale shopper and you will be waiting to reward yourself with profits in the next four severe stock market declines in your lifetime.
Author: J.D. Miller_
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 177136419X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Sid finds happiness growing up in the watershed of Long Point Bay. Sometimes the path to true contentment includes a lot of duck hunting. Like the waters of Big Creek, Sid is drawn to the Bay, not by some magic, but by natural processes that affect every part of the universe. In a journey of self-discovery, Sid meanders from Big Creek's head-waters, down-stream, to school, to love, to loss, to the Bay. Like his father, through the wing-beats of the diving ducks, Sid learns to smile radiantly into the icy late-season duck hunting winds.
Author: Todd G. Buchholz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101563729
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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What is the GDP, and what does it mean? Why does the stock market go down when interest rates go up? What causes a dreaded recession? Economics impacts everyone's life, but most people take on faith what they read in the newspaper. Now, for anyone who doesn't know much about economics, noted economist Todd Buchholz explains it all simply and clearly. With refreshing wit and irreverence, Buchholz takes readers by the hand and reveals the basic rules behind everything from food prices to trade deficits. Instead of complicated graphs and charts he uses examples from contemporary life and popular culture to demonstrate the principles at work. By cutting through the arcane musings of academicians, the jargon of analysts and advisors, and the rhetoric of politicians, he gives us a precise and accessible understanding of economic ideas, actions, and consequences as they actually exist in the here and now. Here are some of the heretofore unintelligible ideas he helps us to understand: what causes or combats inflation, and why it is so feared; what moves stocks and bonds up and down—and how to invest wisely and safely; whether it is good or bad to "protect" America from foreign goods—and what happens when we do and when we don't; what exactly Social Security is, and whether government spending is good or bad—and how dangerous the national debt is or isn't. In today's confusing economic climate, it has never been more important for everyone from homemakers to small-business owners to individual investors and middle managers to understand the forces at work.
Author: Daniel B. Smith
Publisher: Daniel B. Smith
ISBN:
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Idioms are expressions that cannot be understood from their individual words alone, and the English language is full of them—and so is this dictionary: 4,800+ English idioms and phrases with example sentences included for you so as to understand them all. This is the essential idioms dictionary if you want to talk like a native speaker—or just find out more about the colorful phrases you hear and say every day.
Author: Joe Abruzzo
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475932997
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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If you love something so much, you are vulnerable. Somebody or something can get to you. If you lack faith, you have created another vulnerability, a second Achilles heel. Jay Gerinni has an unconditional love for the dogs that he raised, trained, and bird hunted. He also questions faith. Hounded by Evil, yet aided by Good, Jays adventures, from hunting the bird fields of Kansas to traveling the world to help with search and rescue, further strengthen his bond with and love for dogs. Based on the screenplay A Day In Dog Years, the story depicts the growing relationship between Jay and a series of canines that helped him find comfort, direction and hope. When Evil attacks his love by harming his dogs, he has nowhere to turn, except to respond in kind. Now, as Jay faces his own mortality, the secret that he has kept covered for many years threatens to overtake his peace of mind. Can the canine friends he has devoted his life to now be the answer to his own salvation? Dogs Running a Hill is a unique and inspirational story of love, devotion, and friendship between man and his best friend.
Author: Sherman Albertus Nagel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiritual life
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Author: Ben McC. Moïse
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611173574
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Henry Edwards Davis (1879–1966) began his hunting adventures as a boy riding in the saddle with his father on foxhunts and deer drives in the company of Confederate cavalry veterans. Born on Hickory Grove Plantation in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, Davis developed his taste for the hunt at an early age. In later years he became a renowned sportsman and expert on sporting firearms. Published here for this first time after a four-decade-long hiatus, his collection of southern hunting tales describes his many experiences in pursuit of turkeys, deer, ducks, and partridges through the fields, forests, and swamps of South Carolina’s Pee Dee region. His memoir offers a lucid firsthand account of a time before paved roads and river-spanning bridges had penetrated the rural stretches of Williamsburg and Florence counties, when hunting was still one of a southerner’s chief social activities. With a sportsman’s interest and a historian’s curiosity, Davis intersperses his hunting narratives with tales of the region’s rich history, from before the American Revolution to his times in the first half of the twentieth century. Davis, a connoisseur of fine sporting firearms, also chronicles his personal experiences with a long line of rifles and shotguns, beginning with his first “Old Betsy,” a fourteen-gauge, cap-lock muzzleloader, and later with some of the finest modern American and British shotguns. He describes as well a host of small-bore rifles, many of which he assembled himself, bedding the barrels and actions in hand-carved stocks. Edited by retired lowcountry game warden Ben McC. Moïse and featuring a foreword by outdoor writer Jim Casada, Davis’s memoir is a valuable account of hunting lore and historic firearms, as well as a record of evolving cultural attitudes and economic conditions in post-Reconstruction South Carolina and of the practices that gave rise to modern natural conservation efforts.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1121
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On this Christmas Eve let these hand-picked horror classics give you unforgettable shivers and goosebumps:_x000D_ The Strange Visitation (Marie Corelli)_x000D_ The Night of Christmas Eve (Nikolai Gogol)_x000D_ The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle)_x000D_ What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy)_x000D_ Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)_x000D_ The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki)_x000D_ Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould)_x000D_ The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James)_x000D_ The Christmas Banquet (Nathaniel Hawthorne)_x000D_ The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens)_x000D_ Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (Charles Dickens)_x000D_ The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)_x000D_ The Ghost's Touch (Fergus Hume)_x000D_ Glámr (Sabine Baring-Gould)_x000D_ The Ghosts at Grantley (Leonard Kip)_x000D_ A Terrible Christmas Eve (Lucie E. Jackson)_x000D_ Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe)_x000D_ The Ghost: A Christmas Story (William Douglas O'Connor)_x000D_ Thurlow's Christmas Story (John Kendrick Bangs)_x000D_ The Mystery of My Grandmother's Hair Sofa (John Kendrick Bangs)_x000D_ The Abbot's Ghost; or Maurice Treherne's Temptation (Louisa M. Alcott)_x000D_ Old Applejoy's Ghost (Frank R. Stockton)_x000D_ Wolverden Tower (Grant Allen)_x000D_ The Christmas-Eve Vigil (James Bowker)_x000D_ Told After Supper (Jerome K. Jerome)_x000D_ The Box with the Iron Clamps (Florence Marryat)_x000D_ Joseph: A Story (Katherine Rickford)_x000D_ The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (Charles Dickens)_x000D_ The Ghost of Christmas Eve (J. M. Barrie)_x000D_ The Dead Sexton (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)_x000D_ Uncle Cornelius His Story (George MacDonald)_x000D_ The Grave by the Handpost (Thomas Hardy)_x000D_ Number Ninety (Bithia Mary Croker)_x000D_ At Chrighton Abbey (Mary Elizabeth Braddon)_x000D_ The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step (Catherine L. Pirkis)_x000D_ Between the Lights (E. F. Benson)_x000D_ Transition (Algernon Blackwood)_x000D_ The Kit-Bag (Algernon Blackwood)_x000D_
