The Hotel Under The Sand

Author : Kage Baker
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
ISBN 13 : 1616960132
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hotel Under the Sand written by Kage Baker and published by Tachyon Publications. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine-year-old Emma is lost at sea in a terrible storm. She awakens on a desolate island, frightened and lonely. Yet brave, quick-witted Emma will not be alone for long, as the ghost of a bellboy appears with the tragic tale of the Grand Wenlocke. More than a century ago, a brilliant inventor built a splendid Victorian resort, the Grand Wenlocke. The hotel was powered by a Difference Engine, a miraculous device that could slow down time (making your vacation just as long as you’d like). But just before it was scheduled to open, the Grand Wenlocke mysteriously sank under the sand. Now the storm that brought Emma to the island has awakened the hotel, perfectly preserved and as incredible as ever. While exploring the magical hotel, Emma encounters a kind-hearted cook and her faithful little dog, a seemingly fearsome pirate captain, and the imperious young heir to the Wenlocke fortune (should it ever be recovered). Adventure, friendship, peril, and perhaps even treasure—all these and more await Emma at the hotel under the sand.

Author : James Barr
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393070654
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948 written by James Barr and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses recently declassified French and British government documents to describe how the two countries secretly divided the Middle East during World War I and the effect these mandates had on local Arabs and Jews.

Author : Roger Zelazny
Publisher : Prelude Books
ISBN 13 : 1911440438
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doorways in the Sand written by Roger Zelazny and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most playful – and arguably most accessible – novel by the master of inventive science fiction. Humanity is not alone in the cosmos. The aliens have given a precious relic to the people of Earth: star-stone. But the harmony of the galaxy is endangered when they discover that the star-stone has disappeared. Likeable Fred Cassidy is an eternal undergraduate. All he thinks he knows about the star-stone is that it came to Earth in an interplanetary trade for the Mona Lisa and the British Crown jewels. When Fred is accused of stealing the cosmic artefact, he is pursued from Australia to Greenwich Village and beyond, by telepathic psychologists, extra-terrestrial hoodlums and galactic police in disguise. Follow him on his adventures as he enters multiple realities, flipping in and out of alien perspectives, through doorways in the sand. Praise for Doorways in the Sand: “A wonderful book from Zelazny’s best period – with a rollercoaster plot and some terrific jokes.” “If you've never read it, you really must. Come one – there’s a talking wombat. Need I say more?” “Doorways in the Sand is vintage Zelazny, which is to say it is like taking a course in philosophy while crawling about between the gargoyles on the cathedral of Life, dodging the slings and death-rays of outrageous villains, some of them bug-eyed monsters.” “If you don't like it I'm sorry to say there is something wrong with you, you may have to re-incarnate.” Editorial reviews: “Ingenious.” The New York Times “One of the highest tributes I have ever heard paid to a writer lies in the words of a young lady who said, ‘I knew, halfway through the second paragraph, that I was in good hands.’ Science fiction has produced many such hands, and I genuinely envy those who encounter Roger Zelazny.” Theodore Sturgeon, The New York Times Book Review “That rarest of creatures in science fiction, the original character, emerges in Roger Zelazny’s Doorways in the Sand.” Chicago Daily News

Author : Gayle Roper
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows on the Sand written by Gayle Roper and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She serves him breakfast at her café every morning ... but he never seems to notice her. Carrie Carter's small café in Seaside, New Jersey, is populated with a motley crew of locals ... although Carrie only has eyes for Greg Barnes. He's recovering from a vicious crime that three years ago took the lives of his wife and children-and from the year he tried to drink his reality away. While her heart does a happy Snoopy dance at the sight of him, he never seems to notice her. When Carrie's dishwasher is killed and her young waitress disappears, Greg finds himself drawn into helping Carrie solve the mysteries ... and into her life. But when Carrie's own painful past becomes all too present, her carefully constructed world begins to sink. Will the fragile relationship she's building with Greg implode from the weight of the baggage they both carry? Gayle Roper loves story, both reading and writing great tales, and she's authored more 60 books. Winner of both the Carol Award and the RITA Award, she has also finaled repeatedly in the Christys. She lives in Southeastern PA where she enjoys her family, her friends, and eating out, even if a good book is her only companion.

Author : Elizabeth Peters
Publisher : C & R Crime
ISBN 13 : 178033446X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crocodile on the Sandbank written by Elizabeth Peters and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude! In this first adventure, our headstrong heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes - and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist, who doesn't need women to help him solve mysteries -- at least that's what he thinks!

Author : A. Bryce Cameron
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1552123197
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under Sand, Ice and Sea written by A. Bryce Cameron and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Cameron's work as a Petroleum Engineer encompassed three continents and four decades. Commencing in the Middle East in the 1930s, the trail led to the Caribbean, North America and eventually the North Sea. During World War II, Mr. Cameron was commissioned in the British Army with the Royal Engineers and was involved in the defense of Britain's shores preparing sea-based oil fires to thwart Hitler's proposed invasion. After the war, it was back to the Middle East, a two-year spell in Trinidad, Canada's Arctic and the North Sea in the unending quest for 'black gold.' Mr. Cameron's story is truly fascinating, giving personal inside glimpses into this modern period of history as well as countless historical anecdotes recounting man's earliest quest for this vital substance and the part it played in world-wide exploration.

Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743298772
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Turning written by Tim Winton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Dirt Music and The Riders captures the urgency of memory and the way an entire life can be shaped by one event from the past in this capsule of connected stories set on the coast of Western Australia. Tim Winton's stunning collection of connected stories is about turnings of all kinds—changes of heart, slow awakenings, nasty surprises and accidents, sudden detours, resolves made or broken. Brothers cease speaking to each other, husbands abandon wives and children, grown men are haunted by childhood fears. People struggle against the weight of their own history and try to reconcile themselves to their place in the world. With extraordinary insight and tenderness, Winton explores the demons and frailties of ordinary people whose lives are not what they had hoped.

Author : MARK S. FOSTER
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813070554
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Castles in the Sand written by MARK S. FOSTER and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the famous developer of Miami Beach  "The definitive biography of one of the most energetic, versatile entrepreneurs of the early 20th century. In masterminding the development of the Indianapolis Speedway and Miami Beach, Fisher played a major role in teaching adult Americans how to play."--James Crooks, University of North Florida In the booming early years of the 20th century, few entrepreneurs rivaled Carl Fisher (1874-1939) for sheer energy and imagination. Born in Indiana, he began as a bicycle racer and salesman, made his first fortune perfecting and marketing the automobile headlight, helped build the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and headed promotion of the Indy 500, and was a moving force behind the development of the Lincoln and Dixie highways, America’s first improved transcontinental roads. But all of these accomplishments were only prologue to his grandest adventure, as primary developer and promoter of Miami Beach. This definitive biography of Fisher, abundantly illustrated and written in an engaging style, captures the headiness of the period. Mark Foster traces Fisher’s transformation of the South Florida landscape into a tourist’s dream of golf, polo, deep sea fishing, and luxury hotels and his animation of that dream with bronzed lifeguards, bathing beauties flashing new swimsuit styles, and visiting dignitaries who generated a stream of tantalizing headlines. Foster also treats Fisher’s troubles with labor and with Miami businessmen, his attempted development of Montauk on Long Island, New York, and the collapse of the entire Fisher enterprise in the wake of the 1926 hurricane and the great stock market crash of 1929. Throughout, he sets Fisher’s insights, triumphs, loves, and shortcomings into the context of the early 20th century. This biography of a great corporate builder reveals the emergence of a new American way of life. The man whose genius for promotion turned a swampy spit of land into a luxurious urban locale also framed aspirations of leisure and entertainment for generations of Americans.

Author : William Knippschild
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524547883
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Footsteps in the Sand written by William Knippschild and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My book deals with my life from birth until the present time. It is about our family and our problems, our joys and our trials, and tribulations. I try to portray my schooling, my work, and my accomplishments. I did a lot of traveling for my work. I designed and installed SVCs in fourteen different states, fourteen foreign countries, and five Canadian provinces.

Author : L. T. Vargus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781986913140
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl in the Sand written by L. T. Vargus and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shallow graves scar the desert landscape. A cemetery in the sand. Some of the lost are never found.Thousands of girls go missing every year in Las Vegas. Taken. Bought and sold. Or worse.And now the dead are calling.These lost girls summon FBI Profiler Violet Darger to Sin City -- a new case. There are fresh dead to sort through -- two bodies burned beyond recognition in the trunk of a sedan -- and there's reason to believe that there are missing girls waiting to be saved.Rumors swirl that a legendary killer is responsible for these crimes. An escaped prisoner with a personal grudge against Darger -- one who wants her and her partner dead. One who disappeared for 20 years.But the desert is full of deadly secrets -- horrors waiting beneath the sand.If Darger finds the killer in time, the girls will live. If not...