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Author: Robert L. Gaede Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1456795783 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 300
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One night, Patrick Lott makes two momentous choices that will forever change his life: he takes a fortune belonging to the crime-boss he works for, and he saves a little girl from her totally unfit mother, before he runs to Mexico. He thinks hes rescuing Morinda from a nightmare, but hes only delayed her ordeal. Lott and Morinda live a peaceful existence in the quiet sea-side town of San Estaban, until his past returns to prey on him and his daughter. The Furies have slept for twelve long years, but now theyve awakened. Both Lott and Morinda will be forced to pay the price for the two decisions he made years before. After her fathers shot down in cold blood, Morinda becomes the victim of a savage rape while she crosses the border. She continues north to L.A. alone, trying to find the mother she never knew. On the way, shes plunged into a world of violence and deceit, brutality and betrayal. Ultimately shes brought to a fateful encounter with the man who ordered her fathers death.
Author: Robert L. Gaede Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1456795783 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 300
Book Description
One night, Patrick Lott makes two momentous choices that will forever change his life: he takes a fortune belonging to the crime-boss he works for, and he saves a little girl from her totally unfit mother, before he runs to Mexico. He thinks hes rescuing Morinda from a nightmare, but hes only delayed her ordeal. Lott and Morinda live a peaceful existence in the quiet sea-side town of San Estaban, until his past returns to prey on him and his daughter. The Furies have slept for twelve long years, but now theyve awakened. Both Lott and Morinda will be forced to pay the price for the two decisions he made years before. After her fathers shot down in cold blood, Morinda becomes the victim of a savage rape while she crosses the border. She continues north to L.A. alone, trying to find the mother she never knew. On the way, shes plunged into a world of violence and deceit, brutality and betrayal. Ultimately shes brought to a fateful encounter with the man who ordered her fathers death.
Author: Jim Butcher Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780441012688 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 516
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In this extraordinary fantasy epic, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files leads readers into a world where the fate of the realm rests on the shoulders of a boy with no power to call his own... For a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive and threatening races that inhabit the world, using their unique bond with the furies—elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal. But in the remote Calderon Valley, the boy Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. At fifteen, he has no wind fury to help him fly, no fire fury to light his lamps. Yet as the Alerans’ most savage enemy—the Marat horde—return to the Valley, Tavi’s courage and resourcefulness will be a power greater than any fury, one that could turn the tides of war...
Author: Natalie Haynes Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1466848308 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 305
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The Furies is a psychologically complex, dark and twisting novel about loss, obsession and the deep tragedies that can connect us to each other even as they blind us to our fate, from the bestselling author of A Thousand Ships After losing her fiancé in a shocking tragedy, Alex Morris moves from London to Edinburgh to make a break with the past. Formerly an actress, Alex accepts a job teaching drama therapy at a school commonly referred to as "The Unit," a last-chance learning community for teens expelled from other schools in the city. Her students have troubled pasts and difficult personalities, and Alex is an inexperienced teacher, terrified of what she's taken on and drowning in grief. Her most challenging class is an intimidating group of teenagers who have been given up on by everyone before her. But Alex soon discovers that discussing the Greek tragedies opens them up in unexpected ways, and she gradually develops a rapport with them. But are these tales of cruel fate and bloody revenge teaching more than Alex ever intended? And who becomes responsible when these students take the tragedies to heart, and begin interweaving their darker lessons into real life with terrible and irrevocable fury? Published in the UK under the title The Amber Fury. "Steady pacing paired with well-timed foreshadowing and fully realized characters make this one compelling from the beginning. Fans of Donna Tartt's The Secret History (1992), Erin Kelly's The Poison Tree (2011), and Tana French's The Likeness (2008) will likely enjoy the new perspective Haynes' conversational style offers to similar material." —Booklist
Author: Lauren Groff Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0698405129 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 368
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A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORE “Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers – with comedy, tragedy, well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmers of brilliance throughout.” —The New York Times Book Review (cover review) From the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Florida and Matrix, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart.
Author: John Boyne Publisher: Hogarth ISBN: 1984823035 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 341
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“A satire of writerly ambition wrapped in a psychological thriller . . . An homage to Patricia Highsmith, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, but its execution is entirely Boyne’s own.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent—but he’s not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They don’t need to be his own. Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988, Maurice engineers the perfect opportunity: a chance encounter with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann. He quickly ingratiates himself with the powerful – but desperately lonely – older man, teasing out of Erich a terrible, long-held secret about his activities during the war. Perfect material for Maurice’s first novel. Once Maurice has had a taste of literary fame, he knows he can stop at nothing in pursuit of that high. Moving from the Amalfi Coast, where he matches wits with Gore Vidal, to Manhattan and London, Maurice hones his talent for deceit and manipulation, preying on the talented and vulnerable in his cold-blooded climb to the top. But the higher he climbs, the further he has to fall. . . . Sweeping across the late twentieth century, A Ladder to the Sky is a fascinating portrait of a relentlessly immoral man, a tour de force of storytelling, and the next great novel from an acclaimed literary virtuoso. Praise for A Ladder to the Sky “Boyne's mastery of perspective, last seen in The Heart's Invisible Furies, works beautifully here. . . . Boyne understands that it's far more interesting and satisfying for a reader to see that narcissist in action than to be told a catchall phrase. Each step Maurice Swift takes skyward reveals a new layer of calumny he's willing to engage in, and the desperation behind it . . . so dark it seems almost impossible to enjoy reading A Ladder to the Sky as much as you definitely will enjoy reading it.”—NPR “Delicious . . . spins out over several decades with thrilling unpredictability, following Maurice as he masters the art of co-opting the stories of others in increasingly dubious ways. And while the book reads as a thriller with a body count that would make Highsmith proud, it is also an exploration of morality and art: Where is the line between inspiration and thievery? To whom does a story belong?”—Vanity Fair
Author: Cecil Castellucci Publisher: DC Comics ISBN: 1779505213 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 179
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All their lives the Female Furies have been raised to be the meanest, most cunning, and most ruthless fighting force on all of Apokolips. So why are Granny Goodness's girls left behind every time the men go to war? With the might of New Genesis hanging over the planet, and the Forever People making mincemeat out of Darkseid's army, Granny thinks it's about time that changed. And so, Big Barda, Aurelie, Mad Harriet, Lashina, Bernadeth, and Stompa set out to beat the boys at their own game. Little do they know the game is rigged- and one accidental killing could spell disaster for them all! Collects Female Furies #1-6, plus Jack Kirby's Mister Miracle #9, the issue that inspired this series.
Author: Myrto Aloumpi Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3111448843 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 954
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This volume of essays in honor of Lucia Athanassaki offers a great variety of chapters on a number of topics in Greek and Latin literature and genres, from Greek epic and lyric poetry to Greek drama and late antiquity, Greek historiography, and Latin lyric poetry.
Author: J. M. Taylor Publisher: New Pulp Press ISBN: 1955036705 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 170
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“Taylor delivers a revenge tragedy that reads like a dime novel by Sophocles, at once epic and compact. It’s violent, operatic pulp. Badass and bloody good.” —Jedidiah Ayres, author of Peckerwood “If Jim Thompson wrote about Boston’s mean old days, then you’d have an inkling of the sheer quality of writing and gut-clenching darkness that J. M. Taylor provides in Night of the Furies. An outstanding debut.” —Todd Robinson, author of The Big Bounce “[Night of the Furies] is a more than a noir novel. It’s a sizzling epic spanning generations, written by a writer at the top of his game. Scary thing is, you get the sense that Taylor is writing from personal experience.” —Vincent Zandri, bestselling author of Murder by Moonlight In the late 1930s, Rico DiGiacomo ruled all of East Boston until he was brutally murdered by his own lieutenant, Bricks Mancini. That night, Rico’s son Giorgio overheard the details as they were reported to the one who ordered it: Rico’s wife. Giorgio vowed to avenge his father, no matter how long it took. Now, thirty years later, Giorgio has finally fulfilled that promise. As Mancini’s bodyguards pursue him into biker bars and sleazy motels like a pack of vengeful demons, Giorgio recalls a life of humiliation at his mother’s hands and the wisdom his father passed on to him. What he doesn’t know is that Fate has still more in store for him, and one night can be very long indeed.
Author: Aeschylus Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1627930280 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 94
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This classic trilogy by the great tragedian deals with the bloody history of the House of Atreus. Grand in style, rich in diction and dramatic dialogue, the plays embody Aeschylus' concerns with the destiny and fate of both individuals and the state, all played out under the watchful eye of the gods.
Author: Robert L. Gaede
Author: Robert L. Gaede
Author: Jim Butcher
Author: Natalie Haynes
Author: Lauren Groff
Author: John Boyne
Author: Cecil Castellucci
Author: Myrto Aloumpi
Author: J. M. Taylor
Author: Aeschylus
Author: Richard Green Moulton