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Author: Stephen Lance Publisher: ISBN: 9780996643337 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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After a long career in aerospace, Logan Fletcher is looking forward to a quiet, relaxing retirement. But when an unusual news story catches his eye, he begins to suspect that terrorists are using plans and tactics stolen from his wife Cathie's novels and turning them into grim, bloody reality. Logan contacts an old friend, Chuck Johnson, an aging CIA agent, and the two concoct a bold plan to trap the terrorists by baiting Cathie's latest novel. But Logan and Chuck are unaware that the jihadists they are hunting are receiving money and intel from a powerful Chinese industrialist and his beautiful, sociopathic daughter, bent on destroying U.S. world dominance.The cell has an additional edge: the services of a long-missing U.S. Special Forces operator, Jason Stone, who has turned, and is now directing attacks with savage efficiency. Haunted by his shattered loyalties and a critical, unfinished mission from his past, Stone plans his next moves, which are destined to put him on a collision course with Chuck and Logan ...
Author: Stephen Lance Publisher: ISBN: 9780996643337 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
After a long career in aerospace, Logan Fletcher is looking forward to a quiet, relaxing retirement. But when an unusual news story catches his eye, he begins to suspect that terrorists are using plans and tactics stolen from his wife Cathie's novels and turning them into grim, bloody reality. Logan contacts an old friend, Chuck Johnson, an aging CIA agent, and the two concoct a bold plan to trap the terrorists by baiting Cathie's latest novel. But Logan and Chuck are unaware that the jihadists they are hunting are receiving money and intel from a powerful Chinese industrialist and his beautiful, sociopathic daughter, bent on destroying U.S. world dominance.The cell has an additional edge: the services of a long-missing U.S. Special Forces operator, Jason Stone, who has turned, and is now directing attacks with savage efficiency. Haunted by his shattered loyalties and a critical, unfinished mission from his past, Stone plans his next moves, which are destined to put him on a collision course with Chuck and Logan ...
Author: Laura J. Burns Publisher: Wednesday Books ISBN: 1466853913 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 247
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From the minds of two of Roswell's original creators, Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz, I Do Not Trust You is a white-knuckle read filled with their signature plot twists. With uneasy, ever-changing alliances, this thrilling novel asks the question, how far would you go to save the ones you love? Memphis "M" Engel is stubborn to a fault, graced with an almost absurd knowledge of long lost languages and cultures, and a heck of an opponent in a fight. In short: she's awesome. Ashwin “Ash” Sood is a little too posh for M's tastes, a little too good looking, and has way too many secrets. He desperately wants the ancient map M inherited from her archeologist father, believing it will lead him to a relic with the power to destroy the world. M obviously can't trust him. Equally desperate to find the relic for reasons of her own, M forms an uneasy partnership with Ash. From the catacombs of Paris, to a sacred forest in Norway, to the ruins of a submerged temple in Egypt, together they crisscross the globe in their search. But through it all, M can never be sure: Is she traveling with a friend or enemy?
Author: Steven Schoen Publisher: Pearson ISBN: 9780130257710 Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book presents readers and creative writing enthusiasts with comprehensive coverage of the elements of fiction and real-world writing techniques that help build skills--such as sensory detailing, character construction, and cause and effect plotting. Plenty of practical advice completes this treatment of the fiction genre. Chapter topics include character, plot, story structure, dialogue, point of view, style, and details. For writers pursuing a hobby or a dream--or just dabbling, this insightful guide will teach them how do it and "say" it better.
Author: Lauren Oyler Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 0008366543 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 286
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE A wry, provocative and very funny debut novel about identity, authenticity and the self in the age of the internet ‘I loved it’ Zadie Smith ‘Brilliant, very funny’ Guardian ‘Prepare to feel very seen’ I-D
Author: Helen Scheuerer Publisher: Talem Press ISBN: 9780994165572 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The realm's darkest secret is out.The cruelty of the capital and the power-hungry King Arden have scattered Bleak and her companions across the continents.On the run in a foreign land, Bleak finds herself tied to some unexpected strangers. When the answers she yearns for are finally within reach, she must face the hard truths of her past, and take her fate into her own hands before it's too late.Meanwhile, secrets and magic unravel as a dark power corrupts the realm. Bleak's friends are forced to decide where their loyalties lie, and who, if anyone, they can trust.But one thing is certain: war is coming, and they must all be ready when it does.Intriguing and action-packed, Reign of Mist is the second instalment in Helen Scheuerer's epic YA fantasy series, The Oremere Chronicles.
Author: Donna Tartt Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 030787348X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 642
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. • “Destined to become a special kind of classic.” —The New York Times Book Review The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and “a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens” (The New York Times Book Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.
Author: Bruce Sterling Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504063074 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 327
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A near-future eco-thriller from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus and The Difference Engine. The Storm Troupers are a group of weather hackers who roam the plains of Texas and Oklahoma, hopped up on adrenaline and technology. Utilizing virtual reality, flying robots, and all-terrain vehicles, they collect data on the extreme storms ravaging an America decimated by climate change. But even their visionary leader can’t predict the danger on the horizon when a volatile new member joins their ranks and faces a trial by fire: a massive tornado unlike any the world has seen before. “A remarkable and individual sharpness of vision . . . Sterling hacks the future, and an elegant hack it is.” —Locus “Lucid and tremendously entertaining. Sterling shows once more his skills in storytelling and technospeak. A cyberpunk winner.” —Kirkus Reviews “So believable are the speculations that . . . one becomes convinced that the world must and will develop into what Sterling has predicted.” —Science Fiction Age “A very exciting coming-of-age story in a wild future America . . . What’s it got? Cyberpunk attitude, genuine humor, nanotechnology, minimal sex but some cool medications and very big weather systems.” —SFReviews.net “Brilliant . . . Fascinating . . . Exciting . . . A full complement of thrills.” —The New York Review of Science Fiction
Author: Rahul Shrivastava Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781979389846 Category : Languages : en Pages : 206
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Think that getting a degree is the hardest part?Think that life's problems get over when you get a job? Life at work is a different ballgame.The politics, the race, the distractions, the conflicts, the boss, ....How to deal with them? Life at work has problems. It is difficult and complicated.The solutions are not.So, Why Fail? Learn the secrets of workplace survival. Organize your life. Leave everyone behind. Why Fail? is a workplace fable starring Rabbito, who thinks that he will lead a peaceful life after landing a dream job. He discovers that workplace survival is a different ballgame. He does not have the acumen of Grizzly. Neither does he have the intelligence of Buck nor the slyness of Foxy Fox. Rabbito struggles. He observes. He challenges his preconceived notions. Will he achieve personal success? Can he maintain work life balance? Or will he perish under the workload and succumb to politics at work? Based on the 2500-year-old wisdom of Panchatantra - "animal fables that are as old as we are able to imagine" - Why Fail? is about simple techniques, success principles and success tips that can be applied at work. Small adjustments and minor modifications in approach is what it takes to bring out the best to easily achieve goals at workplace. No rocket science - just plain and natural ways to succeed from scratch. This book will teach you:How to become smarter?How to achieve success through a positive mental attitude.How to have personal growth and development?How to learn the art of personal transformation without a mentor?How to be happy at work?And most importantly.How to become successful in life? The book is interspersed with motivational quotes, which are keys to opening doors to success and happiness within the workplace and outside.
Author: Barbara C. Foley Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501722905 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 305
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Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development of the genre over three centuries to the evolution of capitalism, but her analyses of literary texts depart significantly from those of most current Marxist critics. Foley maintains that Marxist theory has yet to produce a satisfactory theory of mimesis or of the development of genres, and she addresses such key issues as the problem of reference and the nature of generic distinctions. Among the authors whom Foley treats are Defoe, Scott, George Eliot, Joyce, Isherwood, Dos Passos, William Wells Brown, Ishmael Reed, and Ernest Gaines.
Author: Stephen Lance
Author: Stephen Lance
Author: Laura J. Burns
Author: Steven Schoen
Author: Faiza Guene
Author: Lauren Oyler
Author: Helen Scheuerer
Author: Donna Tartt
Author: Bruce Sterling
Author: Rahul Shrivastava
Author: Barbara C. Foley