Quest For The Holey Snail

Download or read book Quest for the Holey Snail written by Rob Johnson, M.D and published by Xerika Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-09 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WANTED: Gainful employment of an adventurous nature but without risk of personal physical harm. (Can supply own time travel machine if required.) When Horace Tweed places an advertisement in a national magazine, the last thing he expects is to be commissioned to travel back through time in search of the long extinct Holey Snail. But this isn't just any old snail. The "helix pertusa" is possessed of an extraordinary and highly desirable property, and Horace's quest leads him and his co-adventurers to Ancient Greece and a variety of near-death encounters with beings both mythological and not so mythological. Meanwhile, Detective Chief Inspector Harper Collins has her hands full trying to track down a secret order of fundamentalist monks whom she suspects of committing a series of murders - the same monks who are determined to thwart Horace in his... ."..Quest for the Holey Snail." "Not just another book about serial-killing monks who travel through time and wear Union Jack flip-flops." - "Unusual Footwear Monthly"

Download or read book A Kilo of String written by Rob Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fabulously funny. A real must for lovers of all things Greek" The story so far of a not particularly plucky couple's often bewildering experiences of life in a foreign country. After thirteen years in Greece, writer Rob Johnson has got used to most of the things that he found so bizarre at the beginning. Most, but not all.

Download or read book Lifting the Lid written by Rob Johnson and published by S & H Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEOPLE SEE THINGS IN TOILETS THAT THEY WISH THEY HADN'T. WHAT TREVOR HAWKINS SEES MIGHT EVEN COST HIM HIS LIFE... When Trevor hits the open road in his beat-up old camper van with his incorrigible dog, Milly, his quest for adventure soon spirals dangerously out of control. The simple act of flushing a hotel toilet transforms his life from redundant sales assistant to fugitive from a gang of psychopathic villains, the police and MI5. Then there's private detective Sandra Gray, who could cheerfully throttle him for turning a well paid, piece-of-cake job into a total nightmare. Or could she? With more twists and turns than an Escher-designed bobsleigh run, Lifting the Lid is a comic thriller about how a single, split-second decision can change someone's life forever.

Download or read book The Quest for the Holy Quail written by Steven Primrose-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Primrose-Smith is back on his bicycle and this time he's in Morocco. Exorcising nightmares of a previous visit, he wants to experience the entire country: its windswept coastlines, its dramatic mountains, its gorgeous gorges, its parched deserts but, most of all, its freakiest food. Stuffed camel spleen anyone? In this warts and all tale of modern Morocco, he cycles 3,000 miles, climbing through the drug towns of the Rif Mountains, visiting the Instagram hotspots of Chefchaouen and Essaouira, crossing the highest major road pass in North Africa and eating the bits of animal that Western cultures usually throw away. But something is determined to ruin his adventure: COVID-19. As Morocco closes down around him, Steven is faced with the prospect of being trapped in a depressed and dangerous Fes. Will he escape and, more importantly, will he fulfil his quest for the Holy Quail?

Download or read book Rarest Blue written by Baruch Sterman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, dyed fabrics ranked among the most expensive objects of the ancient Mediterranean world, fetching up to 20 times their weight in gold. Huge fortunes were made from and lost to them, and battles were fought over control of the industry. The few who knew the dyes’ complex secrets carefully guarded the valuable knowledge. The Rarest Blue tells the amazing story of tekhelet, or hyacinth blue, the elusive sky-blue dye mentioned 50 times in the Hebrew Bible. The Minoans discovered it; the Phoenicians stole the technique; Cleopatra adored it; and Jews—obeying a Biblical commandment to affix a single thread of the radiant color to the corner of their garments—risked their lives for it. But with the fall of the Roman Empire, the technique was lost to the ages. Then, in the nineteenth century, a marine biologist saw a fisherman smearing his shirt with snail guts, marveling as the yellow stains turned sky blue. But what was the secret? At the same time, a Hasidic master obsessed with reviving the ancient tradition posited that the source wasn’t a snail at all but a squid. Bitter fighting ensued until another rabbi discovered that one of them was wrong—but had an unscrupulous chemist deliberately deceived him? Baruch Sterman brilliantly recounts the complete, amazing story of this sacred dye that changed the color of history.

Download or read book No Egrets written by Lance Carney and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes it takes a village to solve a mystery (or at least the local patrons and owners of No Egrets). One of the regulars, Bobby Portis, has been missing from his barstool at No Egrets for several days. Two others quickly contract mysterious blood diseases. Is there a connection? No Egrets, a quaint bar on Oak Island, North Carolina, is owned by Glenn, a surgeon lured away from the medical field by a swordfish and island life, and his wife Glenda. They join their bar patrons in a search for Bobby and the mystery of the sudden illnesses. "No Egrets: A Glenn and Glenda Oak Island Mystery" has more twists and turns than a small intestine. The crazy characters include Matilda, an ancient barfly who travels the island on a dilapidated Vespa and has a different drink for each day of the week...a psychotic, card-carrying Communist goon named Otto...Richard Crabgrass, a never-say-die bit actor who auditions for every movie and television part in Wilmington...the pungent fish cleaner from the Southport docks, Pinhead Paul...Joshua "Ism" McCarthy, surfer dude rumored to turn into his ancestor, Senator Joe McCarthy if a communist sets foot on Oak Island...and Daniel O'Dwyer, pharmacist hero from "Ripped Tide". Praise for "Ripped Tide" the 2017 McGrath House Indie Award Winner in the Humor Category. "Rx, Drugs and Rock n' Roll...a fun, breezy read." - Christy Perry Tuohey, author of "Panther Mountain: Caroline's Story". "...reminds me of the style of writing of Carl Hiaasen and John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series." - Janet Matthews, Amazon.com.

Download or read book The Quest For the Holy Veil written by Kimberly Llewellyn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Ladelle has big dreams—bigger than the tiny island in Boston Harbor where she’s lived her entire life. But first she needs some moolah. So when a matchmaking service hires her as date bait, she jumps at the chance. She’ll meet a few men, flatter their egos, and give them a sense of hope so they’ll sign on as clients. It’s only temporary . . . and, anyway, this counts as acting, right? But Lucy’s first “date” goes down the tubes when she’s caught on tape by a sting-operation TV exposé on the sketchy matchmaking firm. And Lucy’s name—and fetching new sandals—are dragged through the mud. They practically accuse her of turning tricks. The only bright spot comes when, in the ladies’ room, she meets a larger-than-life woman who offers her a chance to audition for an actual Broadway show. Of course, the offer comes with a price. And before she knows it Lucy is juggling a surprising new romance and the professional chance of a lifetime—not to mention some very strange adventures.