Author: Celso Hurtado Publisher: Inkshares ISBN: 1950301087 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 276
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"A wonderfully entertaining YA horror novel" —NPR Erasmo Cruz is from the wrong side of the tracks. His dad was a junkie who overdosed. His mom chose to run off rather than raise him. His only passion is the supernatural, and his only family is his grandmother, whose aches and pains, he soon learns, aren’t just from old age but from cancer. Desperate to help his grandmother pay for treatment, Erasmo sets up shop as a paranormal investigator. After witnessing a series of inexplicable events, he must uncover the truth behind his clients' seemingly impossible claims. From hauntings to exorcisms, Erasmo soon finds that San Antonio is a much scarier place than even he knew.
Author: S. Collins Publisher: Veloce Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1845842413 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 176
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Around the world lies a number of long-forgotten raceways; windswept and abandoned, the derelict pit roads and crumbling concrete are all that remains of once great race tracks. From the NASCAR heartland of North Wilkesboro and Middle Georgia to the great European super speedways at Monza and Brooklands. All photographed as they are now, but remembered in their prime.
Author: Kelly Hamilton Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1504903846 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 207
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In this collection of poetry, prose, and short stories, Ghost Tracks offers us a glimpse into a world of raw emotion and soul-searching exploration. Sprinkled with humor and observations, this tome is written with texture and vivid imagery, inviting us to discover our inner power of self-healing and opens our eyes to personal possibilities by encouraging us to study the depth of our emotions, acknowledge their value, and to extract the lessons they propose to better appreciate our own strengths and struggles. Exposing the gift of joy and the cost of pain that come with loving, Kelly Hamilton has truly created a safe and compassionate place for broken hearts, a sanctuary to develop our unique journey toward wisdom, and with it the evolution back to our natural state of untroubled certainty.
Author: Paul Theroux Publisher: Emblem Editions ISBN: 0771085389 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 513
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National Bestseller In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed, China has risen, India booms, Burma slowly smothers, and Vietnam prospers despite the havoc unleashed upon it the last time Theroux passed through. He witnesses all this and more in a 25,000 mile journey, travelling as the locals do, by train, car, bus, and foot. His odyssey takes him from Eastern Europe, still hungover from Communism, through tense but thriving Turkey, into the Caucasus, where Georgia limps back toward feudalism while its neighbour Azerbaijan revels in oil-driven capitalism. As he penetrates deeper into Asia’s heart, his encounters take on an otherworldly cast. The two chapters that follow show us Turkmenistan, a profoundly isolated society at the mercy of an almost comically egotistical dictator, and Uzbekistan, a ruthless authoritarian state. From there, he retraces his steps through India, Mayanmar, China, and Japan, providing his penetrating observations on the changes these countries have undergone. Brilliant, caustic, and totally addictive, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is Theroux at his very best.
Author: Cheryl A. Wicks Publisher: ISBN: 9781418467678 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 332
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REFUGE - THE GENESIS CHRONICLES is a fast paced adventure that takes Jareb, Noah's nephew, through the last hundred years before the Flood. This young man grows up in a vile, wicked and violent world where he must face such threats as the wicked Queen Delilah, General Baasha, and a host of giants. The grandson of the great Methuselah, he becomes known first as The Avenger and later as the King of Majestic City. By his side is his lovely wife Naomi, whose faith in God is tested severely as she faces personal peril. Will her faith triumph? Overshadowing all is the coming Flood. Both Jareb and Noah warn the people often of the coming Flood and offer refuge to all who are willing to come. Noah points to the Ark, a huge barge-like boat built miles from the nearest body of water, as God's chosen refuge. But Jareb counters with Majestic City, which resides safely within the great Majestic Mountains. In the end it is two men, two plans, and two destinies. One man survives and the other perishes.
Author: Jason Reynolds Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1481450166 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 208
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Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school's track team, gifted runner Ghost finds his goal challenged by a tragic past with a violent father.
Author: Betsy Bonner Publisher: Tin House Books ISBN: 194779387X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 211
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An NPR Best Book of the Year A Vanity Fair Best Summer Read "A haunting, mind-bending memoir. . . . riveting." —New York Times "A mixture of biography and true crime, this narrative . . . offers more plot twists, shocking revelations and shady characters than most contemporary thrillers." —NPR The Book of Atlantis Black will have you questioning facts, rooting for secrets, and asking what it means to know the truth. A young woman is found dead on the floor of a Tijuana hotel room. An ID in a nearby purse reads “Atlantis Black.” The police report states that the body does not seem to match the identification, yet the body is quickly cremated and the case is considered closed. So begins Betsy Bonner’s search for her sister, Atlantis, and the unraveling of the mysterious final months before Atlantis’s disappearance, alleged overdose, and death. With access to her sister’s email and social media accounts, Bonner attempts to decipher and construct a narrative: frantic and unintelligible Facebook posts, alarming images of a woman with a handgun, Craigslist companionship ads, DEA agent testimony, video surveillance, police reports, and various phone calls and moments in the flesh conjured from memory. Through a history only she and Atlantis shared—a childhood fraught with abuse and mental illness, Atlantis’s precocious yet short rise in the music world, and through it all an unshakable bond of sisterhood—Bonner finds questions that lead only to more questions and possible clues that seem to point in no particular direction. In this haunting memoir and piercing true crime account, Bonner must decide how far she will go to understand a sister who, like the mythical island she renamed herself for, might prove impossible to find.
Author: Thomas Kingsley Troupe Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc. ISBN: 1631633538 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 136
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Chester, New Jersey, is said to be haunted by the Hookerman, the ghost of a former railroad worker with a missing hand. Some say he wanders at night looking for it. There isn’t anything Kara and Natalie can do to help the ghost now . . . is there?
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