The Boy Who Stole The Leopards Spots

Download or read book The Boy Who Stole the Leopard's Spots written by Tamar Myers and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Alexander McCall Smith’s ever-popular No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels, The Boy Who Stole the Leopard’s Spots immerses readers in a breathtaking African landscape they simply will not wish to leave. For the third time, author Tamar Myers carries readers a world away from Charleston, South Carolina, and her Den of Antiquity cozy mysteries—circling the globe to the Belgian Congo in equatorial Africa in the 1950s. The Boy Who Stole the Leopard’s Spots is a wonderfully engrossing, breathtakingly evocative return to the lush locale of her previous acclaimed African-set mysteries, The Witchdoctor’s Wife (“[A] mesmerizing novel….Authentic. Powerful. Triumphant” —Carolyn Hart) and The Headhunter’s Daughter—as a monsignor of the Catholic church, shamed by a secret event in his past and accused of a terrible crime, must join forces with an American missionary, a police chief, and a witchdoctor and his wise-woman wife to clear his name.

Download or read book The Leopard's Spots written by Thomas Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Freemason's Repository written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards written by Kristopher Jansma and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award Honorable Mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award "F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson" (The Village Voice) in this inventive and witty debut about a young man’s quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe—from the author of Why We Came to the City As early as he can remember, the narrator of this remarkable novel has wanted to become a writer. From the jazz clubs of Manhattan to the villages of Sri Lanka, Kristopher Jansma’s hopelessly unreliable—yet hopelessly earnest—narrator will be haunted by the success of his greatest friend and literary rival, the brilliant Julian McGann, and endlessly enamored with Evelyn, the green-eyed girl who got away. A profound exploration of the nature of truth and storytelling, this delightful picaresque tale heralds Jansma as a bold, new American voice.

Download or read book Why We Came to the City written by Kristopher Jansma and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Stunning . . . A beautiful, sprawling, and generous book. Jansma is a brilliantly talented writer, but he also has a unique insight into what friends mean to one another, and what it means to be part of a city in which you never quite belong, but can’t quite bring yourself to leave. It’s a heartfelt novel, tender and painful and cathartic all at once, and even if the characters belong to New York, the story belongs to us all.” —NPR December, 2008. A heavy snowstorm is blowing through Manhattan and the economy is on the brink of collapse, but none of that matters to a handful of guests at a posh holiday party. Five years after their college graduation, the fiercely devoted friends at the heart of this richly absorbing novel remain as inseparable as ever: editor and social butterfly Sara Sherman, her troubled astronomer boyfriend George Murphy, loudmouth poet Jacob Blaumann, classics major turned investment banker William Cho, and Irene Richmond, an enchanting artist with an inscrutable past. Amid cheerful revelry and free-flowing champagne, the friends toast themselves and the new year ahead—a year that holds many surprises in store. They must navigate ever-shifting relationships with the city and with one another, determined to push onward in pursuit of their precarious dreams. And when a devastating blow brings their momentum to a halt, the group is forced to reexamine their aspirations and chart new paths through unexpected losses. Kristopher Jansma’s award-winning debut novel, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, was praised for its “wry humor” and “charmingly unreliable narrator” in The New Yorker and hailed as “F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson” by The Village Voice. In Why We Came to the City, Jansma offers an unforgettable exploration of friendships forged in the fires of ambition, passion, hope, and love. This glittering story of a generation coming of age is a sweeping, poignant triumph.

Download or read book Love Forbidden written by Victoria Gem and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Belles father died, he left her everything, his business, his estate, his money and a wealth of knowledge. With her step family determined to see her fail, she is equally determined to prove them wrong. Her only focus is her work, the only people she has made room for in her life, is her Nan and her friends. But on a night out with friends she meets a boyish and playful Parker Wilson who rocks her to her very core. Shes determined to forget their encounter, determined to forget that he exists, but when he keeps showing up, and keeps filling her with all kinds of needs that she doesnt want to feel. Gives her all kinds of pleasure she never thought she would feel. She finds herself falling in love with him. Will Bell allow herself to fall? For Parker the connection is instant. Belle does not want to be attracted to him but she is. Determined to have her, he does not give up. For him it was love at first sight, there was nothing he could do to stop it happened. He doesnt want to do anything to stop it from happening, he knows how he feels, and he knows deep down Belle feels the same way. She just has to admit it, she just has to let him in. And hes not going to stop until she does.