Playing A Dangerous Game

Author : Patrick Ochieng
Publisher : WW Norton
ISBN 13 : 132401914X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing a Dangerous Game written by Patrick Ochieng and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This whip-smart coming-of-age novel sees a group of boys embark on a madcap, high-stakes adventure of survival and friendship. Lumush and his three friends live with their families in Railway Estate, spending their free time in the countryside or in the yards behind the estate, playing a game of chance called pata potea next to the wreck of an old car. When the boys’ attention begins to wander farther, they discover a deserted house believed to be haunted. As they explore the house, they learn that it’s not ghosts they have to fear but the malevolent Mwachuma. By day he works in his junkyard, but by night he and his accomplices steal coffee from the railway yard and smuggle it into the “ghost house.” As the young boys are drawn into this criminal underworld, they face a mounting danger that threatens both themselves and their families. With rich storytelling and gripping adventure, Playing a Dangerous Game is a brilliant debut set in 1970s Kenya from a talented new voice in children’s fiction.

Author : Richard Connell
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8728187490
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanger Rainsford is a big-game hunter, who finds himself washed up on an island owned by the eccentric General Zaroff. Zaroff, a big-game hunter himself, has heard of Rainsford’s abilities with a gun and organises a hunt. However, they’re not after animals – they’re after people. When he protests, Rainsford the hunter becomes Rainsford the hunted. Sharing similarities with "The Hunger Games", starring Jennifer Lawrence, this is the story that created the template for pitting man against man. Born in New York, Richard Connell (1893 – 1949) went on to become an acclaimed author, screenwriter, and journalist. He is best remembered for the gripping novel "The Most Dangerous Game" and for receiving an Oscar nomination for the screenplay "Meet John Doe".

Author : Lucia Peters
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452179905
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Games to Play in the Dark written by Lucia Peters and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What begins as a test of bravery or a sleepover activity—chanting in front of a mirror, riding an elevator alone, taking pictures in the dark—can become something . . . dangerous. This compendium collects the most spine-chilling games based on urban legends from around the world. Centuries–old games such as Bloody Mary and Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board are detailed alongside new games from the internet age, like The Answer Man, a sinister voice that whispers secrets to whomever manages to contact him with a cellphone. With step-by-step instructions, historical context, and the stakes for each game, this black handbook is the ideal gift for anyone looking for a late-night thrill—but beware who, or what, may come out to play.

Author : Joseph Laycock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520284917
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Games written by Joseph Laycock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous but an occult religion masquerading as a game. Dangerous Games explores both the history and the sociological significance of this panic. Fantasy role-playing games do share several functions in common with religion. However, religionÑas a socially constructed world of shared meaningÑcan also be compared to a fantasy role-playing game. In fact, the claims of the moral entrepreneurs, in which they presented themselves as heroes battling a dark conspiracy, often resembled the very games of imagination they condemned as evil. By attacking the imagination, they preserved the taken-for-granted status of their own socially constructed reality. Interpreted in this way, the panic over fantasy-role playing games yields new insights about how humans play and together construct and maintain meaningful worlds. LaycockÕs clear and accessible writing ensures that Dangerous Games will be required reading for those with an interest in religion, popular culture, and social behavior, both in the classroom and beyond.

Author : Everett D. Wair Sr.
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1646289854
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing a Dangerous Game written by Everett D. Wair Sr. and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing a Dangerous Game is a story about a Chicago City employee who is falsely accused of sexual harassment. At his sexual harassment hearing, another city employee befriend him, and they team up to make their accusers confess to falsely accusing them, but things go terribly wrong when bodies began to turn up.

Author : Heather Graham
Publisher : MIRA
ISBN 13 : 1488028028
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dangerous Game written by Heather Graham and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TROUBLE ALWAYS FINDS HER… Wrapping up a normal day at the office, criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan is accosted by a desperate woman who shoves an infant into her arms and then flees, only to be murdered minutes later on a busy Manhattan street. Who was the woman? Where did the baby come from? Kieran can’t stop thinking about the child and the victim, so her boyfriend, Craig Frasier, does what any good special agent boyfriend would do—he gets the FBI involved. And asks Kieran to keep out of it. But the Finnegans have a knack for getting into trouble, and Kieran won’t sit idle when a lead surfaces through her family’s pub. Investigating on her own, she uncovers a dangerous group that plays fast and loose with human lives and will stop at nothing to keep their secrets—and they plan to silence Kieran before she can expose their deadly enterprise.

Author : Tina Duncan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781743061527
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing His Dangerous Game written by Tina Duncan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clayton Emery
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
ISBN 13 : 0786963921
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Games written by Clayton Emery and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the fabled Netherese Empire, a land of dangerous magical intrigue where mortals must fight to claim their own destinies In the empire of Netheril, where citadels float, magic runs wild, and mages dabble in games better left for the gods, Sunbright Steelshanks and Candlemas have just escaped the Lower Planes. Caught up in the games of the gods, the adventurers have their own concerns. As Sunbright seeks to rescue his lover AND Candlemas searches for a cure for the disease afflicting the Netherese grain crops, the two encounter a fallen star and Karsus, the arcanist who has transported himself through time to find it. Traveling through Faerûn and time itself, Sunbright becomes an unwilling pawn in a lethal match of wits, wiles, and powers.

Author : Tina Duncan
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1460811917
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing His Dangerous Game written by Tina Duncan and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socialite Shara Atwood is used to playing the celebrity game. However, the buzz from vintage champagne is nothing compared to the heady gaze and indecently muscled physique of her new bodyguard, the enigmatic Royce. Royce has his work cut out for him! Shara is a fiercely independent woman learning to stand on her own two feet. Shara knows she should do as Royce tells her - especially when his body is between hers and danger - except she can't help but think she'll have more fun not obeying his every command...

Author : Conn Iggulden
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0061243582
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dangerous Book for Boys written by Conn Iggulden and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling book for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses*, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is. In this digital age there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal have put together a wonderful collection of all things that make being young or young at heart fun—building go-carts and electromagnets, identifying insects and spiders, and flying the world's best paper airplanes. The completely revised American Edition includes: The Greatest Paper Airplane in the World The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know Stickball Slingshots Fossils Building a Treehouse* Making a Bow and Arrow Fishing (revised with US Fish) Timers and Tripwires Baseball's "Most Valuable Players" Famous Battles-Including Lexington and Concord, The Alamo, and Gettysburg Spies-Codes and Ciphers Making a Go-Cart Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary Girls Cloud Formations The States of the U.S. Mountains of the U.S. Navigation The Declaration of Independence Skimming Stones Making a Periscope The Ten Commandments Common US Trees Timeline of American History * For more information on building treehouses, visit www.treehouse-books.com and www.stilesdesigns.com or see "Treehouses You Can Actually Build" by David Stiles