The Chronicles of Jack Best

The Chronicles of Jack Best
Author: Rodman Goode
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2014-06-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496921712

Now readers can enjoy THREE Jack Best adventures in one volume. THE CHRONICLES OF JACK BEST features the non-stop action of TWO TEARS IN A BUCKET, THE MORE I LIKE FLIES, and UP JUMPED THE MONKEYall in on e place. TWO TEARS IN A BUCKETFor Deputy Constable Jack Best, life is a bowl of cherries. But when his boss is killed while in the company of a lovely young co-ed (who happens NOT to be his wife), Jack must rekindle some old skills and do what it is that he does bestsolve a murder. Petty politics, stale grudges, and too many suspects paint the backdrop of life in North Texas as one man seeks the killer of Dallas Countys favorite bigoted big shot. THE MORE I LIKE FLIESWhen a close friend is jailed for murdering a local party girl (who has just beaten the rap for killing her own child), Deputy Marshal Jack Best must once again ride to the rescue. But unseen forces work against him, and if hes not careful, those closest to him may end up paying the ultimate pricewith their lives. This fast-paced Jack Best Mystery takes the reader on a frenetic ride as the intrepid investigator tracks the killer of the most hated TV trial vixen in Dallas. UP JUMPED THE MONKEYJack and crew are down in South Central Texas where Kayes working on a new movie and Jacks taking a break from crime in the big city. But when a local girl is found strangled in a church confessional, Jack is pulled into the fray once again. And if thats not enough, tragedy and death stalk Kayes movie shoot as cameras roll near old San Antonio.

The Nicotine Chronicles (Akashic Drug Chronicles)

The Nicotine Chronicles (Akashic Drug Chronicles)
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Akashic Books
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1617758671

Lee Child recruits Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Ames, Cara Black, and others to reveal nicotine’s scintillating alter egos. “Sixteen tributes to America’s guiltiest pleasure . . . Even confirmed anti-smokers will find something to savor.” —Kirkus Reviews In recent years, nicotine has become as verboten as many hard drugs. The literary styles in this volume are as varied as the moral quandaries herein, and the authors have successfully unleashed their incandescent imaginations on the subject matter, fashioning an immensely addictive collection.

Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature

Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature
Author: Tarshia L. Stanley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2008-12-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 031334390X

Hip Hop literature, also known as urban fiction or street lit, is a type of writing evocative of the harsh realities of life in the inner city. Beginning with seminal works by such writers as Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim and culminating in contemporary fiction, autobiography, and poetry, Hip Hop literature is exerting the same kind of influence as Hip Hop music, fashion, and culture. Through more than 180 alphabetically arranged entries, this encyclopedia surveys the world of Hip Hop literature and places it in its social and cultural contexts. Entries cite works for further reading, and a bibliography concludes the volume. Coverage includes authors, genres, and works, as well as on the musical artists, fashion designers, directors, and other figures who make up the context of Hip Hop literature. Entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia concludes with a selected, general bibliography. Students in literature classes will value this guide to an increasingly popular body of literature, while students in social studies classes will welcome its illumination of American cultural diversity.

The Privileged Poor

The Privileged Poor
Author: Anthony Abraham Jack
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2019-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0674239660

An NPR Favorite Book of the Year “Breaks new ground on social and educational questions of great import.” —Washington Post “An essential work, humane and candid, that challenges and expands our understanding of the lives of contemporary college students.” —Paul Tough, author of Helping Children Succeed “Eye-opening...Brings home the pain and reality of on-campus poverty and puts the blame squarely on elite institutions.” —Washington Post “Jack’s investigation redirects attention from the matter of access to the matter of inclusion...His book challenges universities to support the diversity they indulge in advertising.” —New Yorker The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In this bracing exposé, Anthony Jack shows that many students’ struggles continue long after they’ve settled in their dorms. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This powerfully argued book documents how university policies and campus culture can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why some students are harder hit than others.

The Saxon Shore

The Saxon Shore
Author: Jack Whyte
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 732
Release: 2003-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0765306506

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Starbound

Starbound
Author: Dave Bara
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2017-01-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0756410673

With his critically acclaimed military science fiction debut series, Dave Bara launched readers on a star-spanning journey of discovery, diplomacy, and danger. The Lightship H.M.S. Impulse is gone, sacrificed in a battle against First Empire ships. And though the fragile galactic alliance has survived the unexpected invasion, the Union forces might not prove victorious against a full onslaught by this legendary enemy. For Peter Cochrane, serving as an officer aboard his world’s flagship, H.M.S. Starbound is a dream come true. Tasked with investigating a mysterious space station in a rediscovered star system, Peter and Starbound face a surprise attack by unknown forces and suffer terrible losses. But there is no time to grieve or even regroup as Peter is thrust into a new crisis, a potential civil war on the Union world of Carinthia. Caught between his rank in the navy and his status as a royal heir, Peter is put on trial for the loss of Impulse, used as a political pawn as Carinthia stands on the brink of a devastating conflict. Peter escapes but faces the prospect of interstellar war when he learns of a possible alliance between the First Empire and Carinthia, a coalition which could tear the Union apart!

Jack Templar Monster Hunter

Jack Templar Monster Hunter
Author: Jeff Gunhus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2012-10
Genre: Monsters
ISBN: 9780988425903

Orphan Jack Templar has no memory of his parents and only the smallest details from his Aunt Sophie about how they died. The day before Jack's 14th birthday, things start to change for him. He has only one day before hundreds of monsters will descend on his little town of Sunnyvale and try to kill him. He will have to battle werewolves, vampires, harpies, trolls, zombies, and more. But perhaps the most dangerous thing he must face is the truth about his past.

Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy

Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy
Author: Melissa de la Cruz
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250311225

*A B&N Young Reader Monthly Pick!* *Finalist in the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards!* *A New York Times Bestseller!* Discover a new middle-grade fantasy saga from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Descendants series, Melissa de la Cruz, where real life and fairy tales collide! Nothing ever happens in Filomena Jefferson-Cho’s sleepy little suburban town of North Pasadena. The sun shines every day, the grass is always a perfect green, and while her progressive school swears there’s no such thing as bullying, she still feels bummed out. But one day, when Filomena is walking home on her own, something strange happens. Filomena is being followed by Jack Stalker, one of the heroes in the Thirteenth Fairy, a series of books she loves about a brave girl and her ragtag group of friends who save their world from an evil enchantress. She must be dreaming, or still reading a book. But Jack is insistent—he’s real, the stories are real, and Filomena must come with him at once! Soon, Filomena is thrust into the world of evil fairies and beautiful princesses, sorcerers and slayers, where an evil queen drives her ruthless armies to destroy what is left of the Fairy tribes. To save herself and the kingdom of Westphalia, Filomena must find the truth behind the fairytales and set the world back to rights before the cycle of sleep and destruction begins once more.

“Good Night, Chet”

“Good Night, Chet”
Author: Lyle Johnston
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2003-03-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780786415021

“If a judgment were ever rendered on all the multi-million words I have spoken into microphones, I hope something like this could be said: ‘He [Huntley] had a great respect, almost an awe, of the medium in which he worked. He regarded it as a privilege, not a license.... Perhaps the best I might hope is that by some accident of voice tone or arrangement of words I did, on a few occasions, excite, exhort, annoy or provoke a few of my fellow human beings to think with their heads, not the viscera’”—Chet Huntley. This biography of NBC newsman Chet Huntley, who, along with David Brinkley, anchored NBC’s “Huntley-Brinkley Report,” covers his youth on a farm in Montana, his education and his graduation from the University of Washington, his development as a radio personality and news reporter for stations in Seattle, Spokane, Portland, and his work for CBS, ABC and NBC radio and television in Los Angeles from 1939 to 1955. It also details his move to New York and his work on the “Huntley-Brinkley Report” from 1956 to 1970, his retirement from the news business, his supervision of the development of the Big Sky Ski resort in Montana, and his death from cancer in 1974 at the age of 62.

Defiant

Defiant
Author: Dave Bara
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2017-12-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0756410681

With his critically acclaimed military science fiction debut series, Dave Bara launched readers on a star-spanning journey of discovery, diplomacy, and danger. Peter Cochrane and his new wife, Karina, have been married less than a year. And although things have been quiet in relation to the old Empire during that time, they’re about to get a lot hotter. Peter and Karina have embarked on a diplomatic mission to Sandosa, an old ally of Pendax, the newest member of the Union. But during their mission the government of Sandosa attacks Peter’s new command, Defiant, and tries to assassinate Karina and him. Peter responds the only way he can, with all the power at his disposal to protect both his wife and Defiant. Then suddenly Defiant is called away to Skondar, where Peter’s old flame Dobrina Kierkopf and her new ship Impulse II have come under attack by the Butcher of Carinthia, Prince Arin. Though Defiant chases away the prince, it is not before some pretty devastating events have occurred. And soon Peter finds himself racing toward the mysterious world of Altos, where he discovers an unpleasant truth about the Union’s allies, the Historians of Earth. Each encounter with Arin and his allies leaves Peter and the Union Navy fleet reeling, even as they continue to pursue this elusive enemy. But all of this can only have one conclusion, a final confrontation in which Peter and Arin will battle over the future of humanity—Union or Empire.