Rendezvous Eighteenth

Author : Jake Lamar
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312336059
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rendezvous Eighteenth written by Jake Lamar and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rendezvous Eighteenth marks the emergence of an exciting voice in crime fiction. Ricky Jenks gave up life in the U.S. years ago and is content, if not happy, with his life as a piano player in a small café in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. He has many friends among the other African-Americans living in Paris and is happily, if casually, involved with a French Muslim woman. But then everything changes. His American life comes crashing down on him when his estranged cousin wants help finding his runaway wife, whom he thinks might have come to Paris, even though he's vague about why. That same night Ricky finds a prostitute dead in his apartment building in Paris's Eighteenth Arrondissment, one of the most multicultural sections of Paris. That these two events could be connected is something he never imagines. This intricate, absorbing thriller is ultimately much more than a suspense novel. Lamar's detailed and vibrant portrait of life in Paris is as much the story of a black man's alienation and redemption-indeed, the story of an entire community searching for a home-as it is a taut thriller about revenge, obsession, and murder.

Author : Justine Levy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684846322
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rendezvous written by Justine Levy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised by parents who came of age in the sixties and went on to achieve worldwide fame, Louise has survived their celebrity, their turbulent marriage, and the divorce that left her in the care of her devoted father and on the periphery of her mother's chaotic life. Now eighteen, Louise waits for her long-absent mother in a cafe. Carefully balancing anticipation with the fear that her mother will once again disappoint her, she digs deep into a store of memories. Her recollections of childhood incidents bring her face to face with the reasons behind her mother's self-destructive behavior and clarify her own complicated feelings for a deeply flawed parent.Writing with wry humor and sometimes savage irony, Levy captures the essence of a love at once profoundly troubled and indestructible. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Jake Lamar
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bourgeois Blues written by Jake Lamar and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning memoir of a gifted young middle-class black man and his struggle to succeed in white America. Born in 1961, Jake Lamar was unable to escape a heritage of racism despite being well-educated and accomplished. Here Lamar, a former associate editor for Time magazine, illuminates the ironies of integration and America's history of prejudice.

Author : Gary Phillips
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789603854
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics Noir written by Gary Phillips and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From authors including National Book Award winner Pete Hautman, Deadly Ink 2007 winner Darrell James, and renowned social commentator turned short-story writer Mike Davis, Politics Noir is a chilling and subversive collection of new crime stories featuring greed, corruption, insatiable ambition-and murder in the very highest places.

Author : Richard Dawkins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618619160
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancestor's Tale written by Richard Dawkins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned biologist provides a sweeping chronicle of more than four billion years of life on Earth, shedding new light on evolutionary theory and history, sexual selection, speciation, extinction, and genetics.

Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 1496734521
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To the River's End written by William W. Johnstone and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic saga based on true events of the American West—with the trailblazing fur trappers and the mountain men who lived it. This is an unforgettable journey into the untamed American frontier. Where nature is cruel, violence lurks behind every tree, and where only the strongest of the strong survive. This is a story of America. TO THE RIVER’S END Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one-hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River—the longest in North America—all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships: grueling weather, wild animals, hunger, exhaustion, and hostile attacks by the Blackfeet and Arikara. Luke Ransom was one of the brave men chosen for the job—and one of the few to survive . . . Five years later, Luke is a seasoned trapper and hunter, a master of his trade. The year is 1833, and the American Fur Company is sending him to the now-famous Rendezvous at Green River. For Luke, it may be his last job for the company. After facing death countless times, he is ready to strike out on his own. But when he encounters a fellow trapper under attack by Indians, his life takes an unexpected turn. A new friendship is forged in blood. And a dangerous new journey begins…

Author : Win Blevins
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765344816
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book So Wild a Dream written by Win Blevins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious and daring young man, Sam Morgan leaves his home in 1820s Pennsylvania to seek adventure and a fortune in the frontier West, accompanied by a colorful assortment of companions he meets along the way.

Author : Evelyn Anthony
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150402463X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rendezvous written by Evelyn Anthony and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former member of the French Resistance encounters an SS officer who interrogated her twenty years earlier in this novel that’s part thriller and part love story Twenty years after World War II, at a smart cocktail party in New York City, architect Karl Amstat finds himself face-to-face with Terese Masson. A courier in the Resistance, then eighteen-year-old Terese had been questioned by SS officer Alfred Brunnerman. The scion of an elite family, Brunnerman joined the Gestapo in 1940. Though experienced in counter-espionage and famed for his intellectual approach to prisoners, he secretly detested brutality of any kind. After the war, Brunnerman fled to Switzerland, where he reinvented himself as Karl Amstat. But he never forgot Terese. The now married Terese has no memory of this long-ago ordeal, and, unaware of Amstat’s true identity, she finds herself irresistibly attracted to him. But he’s a hunted outcast who has been living a lie for twenty years. When he’s reported to Israeli Intelligence, Amstat is ready to make the greatest sacrifice for the woman he loves more than life itself—the woman who has given him back his identity.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1520 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Author : María Mercedes Alonso
Publisher : National Park Service Department of Interior
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The eighteenth century Caribbean & the British attack on Puerto Rico in 1797 written by María Mercedes Alonso and published by National Park Service Department of Interior. This book was released on 1997 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: