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Author: Terri J. Lynn
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 1610345800
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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[BookStrand Romantic Suspense] Amateur genealogist Melissa Wendell inadvertently uncovers a secret from the past, putting her in the crosshairs of an assassin’s rifle. Detective Mike Rawlins is assigned to the case and hunts the assassin while trying to uncover secrets long buried in her family's past. Her sister seems to sense the evil that lies ahead, and Melissa believes in her sister’s psychic ability, but Mike Rawlins is skeptical of any such claim. After a second attempt on her life, Melissa leaves Seattle for Boston where she discovers that her grandmother is reaching out from the grave. An unknown assailant follows her there, and soon, she is once again fighting for her life. For her survival and the love they’ve found together, can Mike and Melissa unravel her long-buried family secrets before a killer finds her again? ** A BookStrand Mainstream Romance

Author: Jaylene Owens
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781796302974
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Jaylene's first book of poetry, "AfroPoetic," pours out of her being a Black woman in the United States. In this collection of spoken word poems, dating from 2005 through 2019, Jaylene poetically responds to current events, injustice, body image, love, and other subjects that have impacted her world.

Author: Gerald Alva Miller, Jr.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611176344
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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A study of the science fiction author who popularized the concept of cyberspace Gerald Alva Miller Jr.'s Understanding William Gibson is a thoughtful examination of the life and work of William Gibson, author of eleven novels and twenty short stories. Gibson is the recipient of many notable awards for science fiction writing including the Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick awards. Gibson's iconic novel, Neuromancer, popularized the concept of cyberspace. With his early stories and his first trilogy of novels, Gibson became the father figure for a new genre of science fiction called "cyberpunk" that brought a gritty realism to its cerebral plots involving hackers and artificial intelligences. This study situates Gibson as a major figure in both science fiction history and contemporary American fiction, and it traces how his aesthetic affected both areas of literature. Miller follows a brief biographical sketch and a survey of the works that influenced him with an examination that divides Gibson's body of work into early stories, his three major novel trilogies, and his standalone works. Miller does not confine his study to major works but instead also delves into Gibson's obscure stories, published and unpublished screenplays, major essays, and collaborations with other authors. Miller's exploration starts by connecting Gibson to the major countercultural movements that influenced him (the Beat Generation, the hippies, and the punk rock movement) while also placing him within the history of science fiction and examining how his early works reacted against contemporaneous trends in the genre. These early works also exhibit the development of his unique aesthetic that would influence science fiction and literature more generally. Next a lengthy chapter explicates his groundbreaking Sprawl Trilogy, which began with Neuromancer. Miller then traces Gibson's aesthetic transformations across his two subsequent novel trilogies that increasingly eschew distant futures either to focus on our contemporary historical moment as a kind of science fiction itself or to imagine technological singularities that might lie just around the corner. These chapters detail how Gibson's aesthetic has morphed along with social, cultural, and technological changes in the real world. The study also looks at such standalone works as his collaborative steampunk novel, his attempts at screenwriting, his major essays, and even his experimental hypertext poetry. The study concludes with a discussion of Gibson's lasting influence and a brief examination of his most recent novel, The Peripheral, which signals yet another radical change in Gibson's aesthetic.

Author: Kay Hooper
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 055358927X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper takes us to the outer reaches of fear in Blood Ties, as the Special Crimes Unit is targeted by a monster intent on destroying both Noah Bishop and his people. A series of grisly murders has left a trail of blood across three states, bringing the Special Crimes Unit to a small Tennessee town. There, two more brutal killings lure Noah Bishop and the SCU into what may be the ultimate trap, and lead Special Agent Hollis Templeton into a dangerous attraction—and a serial murder investigation that turns very, very personal. In her time with the SCU, Hollis has shown an uncanny ability to survive even the deadliest attacks. But what she can’t know is that this killer intends to destroy the team from within. As the body count climbs, and Bishop and his agents race to uncover the true identity of their enemy, not even their special senses can warn them just how bloody, and how terrifyingly close, the truth will be.

Author: Lori L. Tharps
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743296486
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 23

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Recounts the author's experiences living in Spain as a young black woman, where she learns about the country's racial prejudices against blacks and falls in love with a Spaniard.

Author: Michael Phillips
Publisher: Fidelis Publishing. LLC
ISBN: 1956454330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497

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What will the political and cultural landscape look like to Christians in 2050? Will progressivism have eliminated Christian values altogether? Will the Christian foundations of America stage a comeback? Will Christians be anticipating the end times? Will the tribulation have come? Beginning with the emergence of the New Left out of the tumultuous 1960s, the first two installments of Tribulation Cult stretch over three generations, climaxing with the election of 2048. Center stage are four college friends who follow divergent life paths— two Christians who become ministers, their liberal counterparts who rise to the summit of world politics.The journeys of the four focus many interconnected themes in the lives of men and women who must decide where they stand as the nation increasingly splits along liberal and conservative lines, and what role the church is meant to play in that divide. Will true Christians be viewed as a cult, ostracized from mainstream society, culture, and politics?These are only two of the questions the characters in Tribulation Cult are forced to grapple with in this deeply challenging spiritual drama written in the style of Phillips' best-selling contemporary page-turner Rift in Time.

Author: Kaye Umansky
Publisher: Candlewick
ISBN: 9780763632182
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Prepare, dear reader, for the tale of Solomon Snow, his bossy friend Prudence, and the insufferable Infant Prodigy as they set out in search of Solly’s rightful inheritance — despite some woeful misadventures along the way! Solomon Snow lives in a run-down cottage just outside the village of Boring, works for Ma and Pa Scubbins's laundry business, and has nothing to eat but a gloppy stew known as pottage. It's a pitiful existence, but it's all Solly knows. Then, one day, a secret is revealed that changes his life forever—a secret that happens to involve a mysterious silver spoon. On his resulting quest, Solly is joined by a curious cast of characters: a sharp-minded girl named Prudence, a charming child called the Infant Prodigy, and a filthy (yet extremely cheerful) chimney sweep. Can Solly's new friends help him to reclaim his spoon—and his true identity?

Author: Susan Lower
Publisher: Time Glider Books LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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To stop her company’s trade secrets from falling in the wrong hands, Milena must trust a former company security guard to keep them safe. She runs to the one man who always said she could trust him, Nash Dunford. With no way to prove her story, will Nash take her on her word or hand her back to the enemy? In a race to secure both Milena and her company’s future, Nash will have to guard more than a few secrets to keep from falling for the daughter of a billionaire tech tycoon. He might be able to ensure those secrets don’t fall into the wrong hands, but is Milena and her company’s trade secrets worth the risk? An action packed suspense filled with romance and intrigue.

Author: Mauri Ahlberg
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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The book deals with the matter of environmental education applied to education for sustainability, taking into account formal and non-formal education contexts and bearing in mind the relationship between environmental quality and quality of life. The ideas, experiences and perspectives presented by the various specialists contributing to the book, from various geographical regions, provide an overview of the diversity of approaches used internationally in the field of environmental education and supply background information on the different problems inherent to this field, as well as a bird's eye perspective on the initiatives, projects and concrete action on the ground.

Author: Ryan Harris
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Uplifting the community. That's what life is all about for Ryan Harris, founder of As I Plant This Seed. From the amazing mind of Ryan and the families of his nonprofit, comes As I Plant This Seed Book. Designed to both inform and inspire, the As I Plant This Seed Book tells the story of how it all started. You will get to learn everything from humble beginnings to the amazing team of community members that help make the As I Plant This Seed the cornerstone of the community. This book is for all ages, with resources for adults and coloring pages for kids. So, dive on in! learn all about the As I Plant This Seed program and how you can change the game in your own neighborhood.