Author: Chuck Dixon
Publisher: Cross Generation Comics
ISBN: 9781931484510
Category : Boon Sai Hong (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A graphic novel in which Boon Sai Hong, a scoundrel with nothing more on his mind than thievery, learns he is destined to be the hero of his world.

Author: Joep Schrijvers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780954282929
Category : Interpersonal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The international bestseller that exposes, with wit and ruthlessness, the power games played in companies today. A phenomenal bestseller already (over 80,000 copies sold in other languages) - finally to be published in English. A book that should be read by anyone who works in a company, for their own survival and success. Office politics explored as never before - the author does away with conventional methods to expose the dark side of companies. Wide media review and feature coverage guaranteed in newspapers, magazines, radio and TV (business and general).

Author: Rivka Galchen
Publisher: Restless Books
ISBN: 163206099X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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From the New Yorker “20 Under 40” author of Atmospheric Disturbances comes a brain-twisting adventure story of a girl named Fred on a quest through a world of fantastical creatures, strange logic, and a powerful prejudice against growing up. Fred and her math-teacher mom are always on the move, and Fred is getting sick of it. She’s about to have yet another birthday in a new place without friends. On the eve of turning thirteen, Fred sees something strange in the living room: her mother, dressed for a party, standing in front of an enormous paper lantern—which she steps into and disappears. Fred follows her and finds herself in the Land of Impossibility—a loopily illogical place where time is outlawed, words carry dire consequences, and her unlikely allies are a depressed white elephant and a pugnacious mongoose mother of seventeen. With her new friends, Fred sets off in search of her mom, braving dungeons, Insult Fish, Fearsome Ferlings, and a mad Rat Queen. To succeed, the trio must find the solution to an ageless riddle. Gorgeously illustrated and reminiscent of The Phantom Tollbooth and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Rivka Galchen’s Rat Rule 79 is an instant classic for curious readers of all ages.

Author: Thomas Ellsworth
Publisher: Winepress Publishing
ISBN: 9781579218690
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Rat, the Race, and the Cage is about finding direction, whether youre a college grad or caught in a mid-career rut. What you do for a living can be more than just a way to pay the bills. You can find fulfillment and personal satisfaction in your work by following the method described in this book.

Author: Jay Hosking
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250116317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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“Three Years with the Rat is a mind-warping thriller that will make you question reality as you conceive of it. One of the most assured and haunting debuts I’ve read in recent memory.” —Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter After several years of drifting between school and go-nowhere jobs, a young man is drawn back into the big city of his youth. The magnet is his beloved older sister, Grace: always smart and charismatic even when she was rebelling, and always his hero. Now she is a promising graduate student in psychophysics and the center of a group of friends who take “Little Brother” into their fold, where he finds camaraderie, romance, and even a decent job. But it soon becomes clear that things are not well with Grace. Always acerbic, she now veers into sudden rages that are increasingly directed at her adoring boyfriend, John, who is also her fellow researcher. When Grace disappears, and John shortly thereafter, the narrator makes an astonishing discovery in their apartment: a box big enough to crawl inside, a lab rat, and a note that says This is the only way back for us. Soon he embarks on a mission to discover the truth, a pursuit that forces him to question time and space itself, and ultimately toward a perilous confrontation at the very limits of imagination. This kinetic novel catapults the classic noir plot of a woman gone missing into the twenty-first-century city, where so-called reality crashes into speculative science. Jay Hosking's Three Years with the Rat is simultaneously a mind-twisting mystery that plays with the very nature of time and the story of a young man who must face the dangerously destructive forces we all carry within ourselves.

Author: William Kotzwinkle
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497620635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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This World Fantasy Award winner in the vein of Animal Farm delves into a lab worthy of a mad Nazi scientist—but run by a brilliantly sadistic rodent. In the annals of American literature, there has never been a character quite like Doctor Rat, PhD. From one of the most indispensable storytellers in speculative fiction, this biting satire introduces a narrator of learned charm and humor, and a twisted logic that is absolutely chilling. Doctor Rat is a credit to his species. A survivor of the most refined scientific experiments, now removed from the maze, he has become a valued and productive member of the academic community. When he must administer a lethal dose, he comforts his fellow rats with his compassionate slogan: “Death is freedom.” But everything changes when animals worldwide begin to rebel, refusing to accept their proper places in the natural order of things: as test subjects, pets, or food. And only Doctor Rat has the courage to defend mankind from the ungrateful animal kingdom. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “dazzlingly original” and “occasionally quite beautiful,” Doctor Rat is a sly and stylish indictment of fanaticism in mice and men. “A truly imaginative impresario . . . [Doctor Rat] teases your conscience with educated wit and versatile improvisation, not to mention the casual flick of the tail about to be cut off.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author: Allen Jones
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 082323102X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a neglected period in American urban history. Allen Jones grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a time--the 1950s--when that neighborhood was a place of optimism and hope for upwardly mobile Black and Latino families. Brought up in a two-parent household, with many neighborhood mentors, Jones led an almost charmed life as a budding basketball star until his teen years, when his once peaceful neighborhood was torn by job losses, white flight, and a crippling drug epidemic. Drawn into the heroin trade, first as a user, then as a dealer, Jones spent four months on Rikers Island, where he experienced a crisis of conscience and a determination to turn his life around. Sent to a New England prep school upon his release, Jones used his basketball skills and street smarts to forge a life outside the Bronx, first as a college athlete in the South, then as a professional basketball player, radio personality, and banker in Europe. A brilliant storyteller with a gift for dialogue, Jones brings Bronx streets and housing projects to life as places of possibility as well as tragedy, where racism and economic hardship never completely suppressed the resilient spirit of its residents. A book that will change the way people view the South Bronx.

Author: Grace Lin
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0316029289
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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A fresh new look for this modern classic by the Newbery-Award winning and bestselling author of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon In this sequel to Year of the Dog, Pacy has another big year in store for her. The Year of the Dog was a very lucky year: she met her best friend Melody and discovered her true talents. However, the Year of the Rat brings big changes: Pacy must deal with Melody moving to California, find the courage to forge on with her dream of becoming a writer and illustrator, and learn to face some of her own flaws. Pacy encounters prejudice, struggles with acceptance, and must find the beauty in change. Based on the author's childhood adventures, Year of the Rat, features the whimsical black and white illustrations and the hilarious and touching anecdotes that helped Year of the Dog earn rave reviews and satisfied readers.

Author: Merrill Wautlet
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578615455
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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A profoundly autistic boy is kidnapped for no apparent reason. Years later that same boy, now a highly trained operative for a covert government agency, sees something while on assignment that triggers a memory of his mother and his home. Without benefit of being able to communicate verbally, he begins a perilous journey where he must navigate over 900 miles of terrain while avoiding capture.

Author: Chuck Dixon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933160597
Category : Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"For stealing the scroll containing the Hell of Hungry Dragons and bringing about the princess's death, guilt threatens to consume Boon Sai Hong. Little does he know that these are the least of his troubles. Spirits escape the Phoenix heart and roam the city raising an army of ghosts and the emperor has sent his deadliest assassin to find Boon and kill him. Taking her grandafather's [sic] hidden weapon, the Ghostslayer, Tei Su, the Silken Ghost, must battle Kung Kung Yi, a malignant soul-eating spirit that feasts upon the living and the dead. Meanwhile Minister Joon has ordered the city gates secured and the terrified populace is unable to flee"--P. [4] of cover.