A Costa Rican Caper: A Novel Based On Actual Events

A Costa Rican Caper: A Novel Based On Actual Events
Author: Steve Venghaus
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2014-06-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1483413527

American Ex Patriots happily living the good life in Paradise are drawn into an Investment scheme that looks too good to be true and is. Eventually, the house of cards crumbles and they are left holding the proverbial bag. They form a group of hardened ex- military and ex CIA and come up with a daring plan to recapture their lost money. This exotic thriller is based on actual events that transpired in 2004 and 2005 in Costa Rica.

Magazine Markets for Children's Writers

Magazine Markets for Children's Writers
Author: Marni McNiff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2007-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781889715339

672 up-to-date listings. Includes full listings for all major children's and young adult periodicals as well as relevant parenting and educational magazines. Plus short listings for periodicals that publish a small percentage of material that is appropriate for children, young adults, parents, or educators. All in an easy-to-use format that targets: Editorial wants and needs, Submission requirements, Rights and payment, All the market information you need to sell your writing, Readership, Freelance potential, Review of a sample issue. Over 60 completely new markets. 64 fresh opportunities to sell your writing. What's selling in 2007: The verdict is in: Humor has universal appeal. Editors reveal the "giggle triggers" that make any manuscript irresistible. What has colorful characters, cultural authenticity, and is a favorite among editors? One master writer shares his methods for successfully adapting fairy tales and folklore. Crack the teen magazine market with advice from two popular YA writers who have the scoop on what girls want-and what editors need. Is religious writing for you? Find out why this wide-open market may be the perfect place for new writers who have something to say. Forward-thinking, lively, creative ... Get a glimpse inside Weekly Reader, Learning Through History, and other educational publications to learn how your writing can make the grade. Plus: Magazine contests for children's writers, Updated submissions section with sample queries & cover letters, Website addresses for those magazines that have them, Extensive category and magazine indexes. Book jacket.

Contemporary Short Stories from Central America

Contemporary Short Stories from Central America
Author: Enrique Jaramillo Levi
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780292740303

In "Metaphors," Samuel Rovinski (Costa Rica) shows how a writer's superficial attempt to interpret experience metaphorically cripples him in social circumstances, while, in "Gloria Wouldn't Wait," Panamanian Jaime Garcia Saucedo focuses on the egotism of the writer's imagination as it tries to convert the tragedies of everyday life into some kind of literary document whose artistic qualities would belie their actual reality." "Human - and humane - values in the face of adversity are celebrated throughout, even when seemingly futile in the midst of overwhelming odds. Contemporary Short Stories from Central America embraces every aspect of the human condition addressed by the literature of the Western world and demonstrates the cultural vitality of our Central American neighbors."--BOOK JACKET.

Student Ambassador: The Missing Dragon

Student Ambassador: The Missing Dragon
Author: Ryan Estrada
Publisher: Student Ambassador
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781945820601

"A student ambassador is sent on a high-stakes diplomatic mission to a far away land, where he and a newly crowned boy king are thrust into a globe-trotting action-adventure mystery"--

Key West Normal

Key West Normal
Author: Laurence Shames
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2021-10-02
Genre:
ISBN:

So what, exactly, is Key West Normal? Well, Key West Normal is when two friends in need of a place to live drag away an abandoned hot dog truck in the middle of the night... But an insomniac New Yorker has got himself trapped inside it while searching for his neurotic cat... And the truck is the secret hub of a global smuggling operation and holds a stash worth millions... But the tough guy sent to recover the fortune is way more interested in being reunited with his one true love. Most of all, though, Key West Normal is when none of the above seems at all improbable. It's just the way things are. Or at least how they are in the funky, funny, palm-shaded, all-accepting town at the end of the road. And when it falls to the unlikeliest pair of heroes--a homeless man named Pineapple and an ancient Mafioso known as Bert the Shirt--to sort through all the many twists and turns and save the day, well, that's Key West Normal to the max. Full of tropical sunshine and crackling dialogue, loopy wisdom and touching revelations from characters you'll root for, this feel-good novel will lift you like an ocean wave and remind you how good it feels to forget your worries and laugh out loud.

Basket Case

Basket Case
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2002-01-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 037541441X

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A rollicking and hilarious novel from the bestselling author of Squeeze Me and “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (New York Times Book Review). Jack Tagger’s years in exile at the obituaries desk of a South Florida daily haven’t dulled his investigative reporter’s nose for a good story. When Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dies in a fishy scuba accident, Jack sees his ticket back to page one—if only he can figure out what really happened. Standing in his way are, just for starters, his ambitious young editor, who hasn’t yet fired anyone but plans to “break her cherry” on Jack; the rock star’s pop-singer widow, who’s using the occasion of her husband’s death to relaunch her own career; and the soulless, profit-hungry owner of the newspaper, whom Jack once publicly humiliated at a stockholders’ meeting. Following clues from the late rock singer’s own music, Jack tries to unravel the lies surrounding Jimmy Stoma’s strange fate.

Skinny Dip

Skinny Dip
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2005
Genre: Agricultural industries
ISBN: 0552772534

Doctoring water samples to help his corrupt agribusiness employer to continue illegal dumping in the Everglades, biologist Chaz Perrone attempts to murder his wife, who has figured out his scam and who survives to plot her husband's downfall.