The Hour Past Midnight

Author : Calmā
Publisher : Zubaan Books
ISBN 13 : 9788189884666
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hour Past Midnight written by Calmā and published by Zubaan Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabia is young and growing up in a conservative, closed community in southern India. One day, she and her friends sneak off to the pictures and are shocked by what they see on the screen. Caught on her return home, Rabia gets a beating from her mother, Zohra, who cries as she beats her daughter into submission-the only route to Rabia's survival. Firdaus is young and beautiful and of marriageable age. A groom is found for her, a wealthy man who lives and works abroad. On her wedding night, she takes one look at him and says, 'I'm not going to live with you, don't touch me!' and then is shocked at her own behaviour. How could she have been so daring? Inside their closed, male dominated world, Rabia, Rahima, Zohra, Amina, Khadija, Firdaus, Farida, Nuramma and many others make their small rebellions and compromises, friendships are made and broken, families come together and fall apart, and slowly, almost imperceptibly, change creeps in, and before they know it, the women's lives have changed forever. Salma's beautiful, evocative, poetic novel, recreates the busy, intricate, sometimes suffocating, and sometimes heartbreaking world of Muslim women in southern India.

Author : Mara Purnhagen
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1426865635
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Past Midnight written by Mara Purnhagen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let me set the record straight. My name is Charlotte Silver and I'm not one of those paranormal-obsessed freaks you see on TV…no, those would be my parents, who have their own ghost-hunting reality show. And while I'm usually roped into the behind-the-scenes work, it turns out that I haven't gone unnoticed. Something happened on my parents' research trip in Charleston—and now I'm being stalked by some truly frightening other beings. Trying to fit into a new school and keeping my parents' creepy occupation a secret from my friends—and potential boyfriends—is hard enough without having angry spirits whispering in my ear. All I ever wanted was to be normal, but with ghosts of my past and present colliding, now I just want to make it out of high school alive….

Author : Mira Lyn Kelly
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373528795
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Stay Past Midnight written by Mira Lyn Kelly and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You are so wrong for me." Levi had to agree--he was. He was leaving Chicago in a few short weeks. He didn't do commitment--ever. But everything about this night, this girl, was so good. So right. Until at 11:59 p.m. she got out of his bed, got dressed and left What had he done? Things had hardly started and she was off Yet he was bored with simpering women he couldn't get rid of. Elise was a breath of fresh air. How was he going to find her...and get her back in his bed--for the whole night this time? It seemed Mr. Levi-and-Leave-Them might have found the one woman to leave him begging for more....

Author : Iris Johansen
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553898256
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long After Midnight written by Iris Johansen and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She wanted to save lives. The killer wanted to end hers. The first warning was triggered hundreds of miles away. The second warning exploded only yards from where she and her son stood. Now Kate Denby realizes the frightening truth: She is somebody's target. Danger has arrived in Kate's backyard with a vengeance. And the gifted scientist is awakening to a nightmare world where a ruthless killer is stalking her...where her innocent son is considered expendable...and where the medical research to which she has devoted her life is the same research that could get her killed. Her only hope of protecting her family and making that medical breakthrough is to elude her enemy until she can face him on her own ground, on her own terms—and destroy him.

Author : Hans Seesarun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782990492171
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Minutes Past Midnight written by Hans Seesarun and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its two minutes past midnight. Amar wakes up to the sound of the rain falling on a tin roof. He steps out of his room and follows a pool of blood and finds his whole family bludgeoned to death. Frozen with fear, he runs and hides in a coat closet. He lies perfectly still and thinks that he has heard footsteps in the corridor...

Author : Peniel E. Joseph
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805083354
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour written by Peniel E. Joseph and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Berendt
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679429220
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil written by John Berendt and published by Random House. This book was released on 1994-01-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.

Author : Jack Higgins
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101190876
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Hour Before Midnight written by Jack Higgins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world of the Mafia, sometimes death is the only way out....

Author : Lara Adrian
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0440246121
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darker After Midnight (with bonus novella A Taste of Midnight) written by Lara Adrian and published by Dell. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The climactic novel in the bestselling Midnight Breed series, of which BookPage raves: “If you like romance combined with heart-stopping paranormal suspense, you’re going to love this book.” In the dark of night, a blood war escalates within the hidden world of the Breed. After maintaining a fragile peace with the humans who walk beside them unaware, a single act of retaliation has put the vampire nation at risk of discovery. It falls to the Order—a cadre of Breed warriors pledged to protect their own and humankind alike—to stop Dragos, the power-mad vampire, before his push for domination explodes into catastrophe. At the center of the Order’s quest is Sterling Chase, whose biggest battle is the one he wages against his own savage nature. But when his eyes meet those of Tavia Fairchild, Chase finds himself drawn to the woman—and convinced she is something much more than she seems. And while everything logical warns Tavia against getting close to Chase, she cannot deny that he stirs something ravenous within her. As the Order’s enemy mobilizes for the battle of the ages, Chase and Tavia are thrust into the heart of the violence. With time running out, they must find a way to defeat Dragos once and for all—or die trying. “Stunning . . . filled with passion, treachery, and danger . . . Adrian pulls out all the stops.”—RT Book Reviews

Author : Philippa Pearce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192717771
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tom's Midnight Garden written by Philippa Pearce and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tom is not prepared for what is about to happen when he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen. Outside the back door is a garden, which everyone tells him does not exist."--Page 4 de la couverture.