Displeasure Island

Displeasure Island
Author: Alice Bell
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2024-09-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593470656

In the hilarious follow-up to Grave Expectations, Claire and the gang are back, getting their timbers shivered by a mystery involving feuding ghost pirates, buried treasure, and murder... Claire Hendricks can see ghosts, but she can't see herself having a fun vacation. Yet when her new friends/found family, Basher and Alex, insist, Claire and her dead BFF, Sophie, pack themselves off to a remote Irish island. This tempest-tossed isle is indeed full of noises: not only is the hotel where the gang is staying double booked with a posh private party, the island's crumbling old fort is being fought over by rival ghost pirates. In death, as in life, they're vying over a legendary stash of loot, supposedly hidden somewhere on the island or in the surrounding rough seas... ...which, inevitably, are whipped up into a terrific storm, stranding everyone—living and dead—on the island. Claire is already fighting off anxious And Then There Were None vibes before one of the other guests turns up murdered. With Basher distracted by a handsome Irish seaman and Sophie stretching the limits of her tether to flirt with a dead pirate with dubious intentions, it's up to Claire to solve the mystery of three-hundred-year-old buried treasure and figure out who's picking off party guests—before the whole gang meets a grim, Agatha Christie-like fate.

Bulletin, ...

Bulletin, ...
Author: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 658
Release: 1922
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN:

Tongan Place Names

Tongan Place Names
Author: Edward Winslow Gifford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1923
Genre: Geographical --tonga
ISBN:

Scribner's Monthly

Scribner's Monthly
Author: Josiah Gilbert Holland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1016
Release: 1881
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

Island Possessed

Island Possessed
Author: Katherine Dunham
Publisher: Doubleday
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012-05-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307819841

Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual. In this book, Dunham reveals how her anthropological research, her work in dance, and her fascination for the people and cults of Haiti worked their spell, catapulting her into experiences that she was often lucky to survive. Here Dunham tells how the island came to be possessed by the demons of voodoo and other cults imported from various parts of Africa, as well as by the deep class divisions, particularly between blacks and mulattos, and the political hatred still very much in evidence today. Full of the flare and suspense of immersion in a strange and enchanting culture, Island Possessed is also a pioneering work in the anthropology of dance and a fascinating document on Haitian politics and voodoo.