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Author: Doris Bibbs Johnson Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595270603 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 192
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Sylvia Dickerson has been a devoted military wife to her husband, Frank Dickerson, for ten years, and has been a caring mother to her seven children. Unbeknownst to herself and her loving family, Sylvia struggles silently with paranoia traits. One night, while her husband is away for training, Sylvia becomes engulfed by her illusions and wakes her children in a hysterical fit. The children find themselves caught in an uninviting world as they try to determine where the illusions end and reality begins.
Author: Doris Bibbs Johnson Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595270603 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 192
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Sylvia Dickerson has been a devoted military wife to her husband, Frank Dickerson, for ten years, and has been a caring mother to her seven children. Unbeknownst to herself and her loving family, Sylvia struggles silently with paranoia traits. One night, while her husband is away for training, Sylvia becomes engulfed by her illusions and wakes her children in a hysterical fit. The children find themselves caught in an uninviting world as they try to determine where the illusions end and reality begins.
Author: Nicholas Carr Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1473511089 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 290
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In The Glass Cage, Pulitzer Prize nominee and bestselling author Nicholas Carr shows how the most important decisions of our lives are now being made by machines and the radical effect this is having on our ability to learn and solve problems. In May 2009 an Airbus A330 passenger jet equipped with the latest ‘glass cockpit’ controls plummeted 30,000 feet into the Atlantic. The reason for the crash: the autopilot had routinely switched itself off. In fact, automation is everywhere – from the thermostat in our homes and the GPS in our phones to the algorithms of High Frequency Trading and self-driving cars. We now use it to diagnose patients, educate children, evaluate criminal evidence and fight wars. But psychological studies show that we perform best when fully involved in a task, while the principle of automation – that humans are inefficient – is self-fulfilling. The glass cockpit is becoming a glass cage. In this utterly engrossing exposé, bestselling writer Nicholas Carr reveals how automation is affecting our ability to solve problems, forge memories and acquire skills. Rather than rejecting technology, Carr argues that we must urgently rethink its role in our lives, using it to enhance rather than diminish the extraordinary abilities that make us human.
Author: Jeffrey Bardwell Publisher: Twigboat Press ISBN: 1943289069 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 472
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The people are tinder waiting to spark. His homeland smolders on the edge of chaos. Can he ignite a revolution? The Iron Empire is soft, rotten, and ripe for change. The guilds are repressive. The price of dragon products is soaring. The mage menace spreads unchecked. Resentment builds. One day, a young hero clanks into the capital with a metal foot . . . swearing he'll kick the imperial palace to rubble. Devin, more artifice than mage with his mechanical limb, returns to the empire, his nemesis Captain Vice in hot pursuit. The firebrand mage stirs the passions of imperial citizens under the guise of dragon conservation. We are all like slabs of dragon flesh: once powerful and mighty, but the empire bleeds us until nothing remains but bones and ruptured organs. The message resonates. A rebellion is born in secrecy and treachery. Beneath their cloaks of lies and shifting alliances, mages, gentry, and commoners alike reach for the mantle of the butchered dragon while Captain Vice's steel fist slowly closes around them. Rise up and smash the state in Book Three of The Artifice Mage Saga. Join the fantasy steampunk brawl of metal vs. magic where sorcery is bloody, science is greasy, and nobody's hands are clean. epic, gaslamp, swords and sorcery, wizard, magic, dragons, steampunk, evil empire
Author: Brian Morse Publisher: James Clarke & Co. ISBN: 9780718826482 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 114
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A tough, unsentimental novel of war and survival, for older readers. Following the outbreak of war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, Western Europe has been overrun by the Red Army, and the south-eastern corner of England occupied. Renewed hostilities five years later result in a biological weapon being dropped on Leicester. Told largely in flashback twelve years after the attack, the story follows Darren, an ordinary boy who gets caught up in the renewed conflict, and becomes one of the few survivors of the 'germ bomb'. His struggle for survival amidst the anarchy and devastation of the contaminated Midlands, now cordoned off from the rest of the country, is related with honesty and a direct, matter-of-fact realism.
Author: A.J. Smith Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1786696878 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 443
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'Convincing action sequences, vivid world-building and fascinating magic. Best described as George RR Martin meets HP Lovecraft, The Glass Breaks is a fine example of British fantasy writing at its most entertaining' Guardian. Seventeen-year-old Duncan Greenfire is alive. Three hours ago, he was chained to the rocks and submerged as the incoming tide washed over his head. Now the waters are receding and Duncan's continued survival has completed his initiation as a Sea Wolf. It is the 167th year of the Dark Age. The Sea Wolves and their Eastron kin can break the glass and step into the void, slipping from the real world and reappearing wherever they wish. Wielding their power, they conquered the native Pure Ones and established their own Kingdom. The Sea Wolves glory in piracy and slaughter. Their rule is absolute, but young Duncan Greenfire and duellist Adeline Brand will discover a conspiracy to end their dominion, a conspiracy to shatter the glass that separates the worlds of Form and Void and unleash a primeval chaos across the world. 'Epic fantasy at its scary, fun, sarcastic, shock-laden best' THE BOOKBAG.
Author: Karl Maramorosch Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1491754095 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 809
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Karl Maramorosch may be best known for his accomplishments as a top scientist, but the story of how he became such a success has never been tolduntil now. Born in Vienna in 1915, his family moved to Poland, and he fled with his wife, Irene, to Romania in September 1939. They spent four years in Polish refugee camps and were in Soviet-occupied Romania until October 1946, before coming to the United States in January 1947 on an immigration visa. But they did not arrive unscathed: Maramoroschs father died in the gas chamber in Belzec in 1942, and his mother also died at the camp. His brother died in the Kolomyya jail on Yom Kippur in 1942. His wifes closest relatives died in Treblinka in 1942. The inseparable couple refused to let any of that stop them from forging ahead: He began a scientific career that spanned more than sixty years, and she became a librarian at the New York Public Library, where she worked thirty years. Maramorosch recalls the painful losses of the past and the brutalities of war, but he also celebrates his love for his wife and life in The Thorny Road to Success.
Author: Eray Aydın Publisher: Cosmo Publishing ISBN: 1949872424 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 338
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BEST SELLERS IN TURKEY -The shocking revenge story of an art genius from Istanbul… -When intelligence, patience and brutality come together, revenge becomes an art. If you do not have them all, you would better forgive your enemy… Peyami Recai Son is a famous artist with his past full of secrets. Since he was shot in the face years ago, he begins to wear a face mask instead of having his face operated. That he masks his face and his talent is appreciated around the world for a long time gives him a mysterious fame at the same time. In this way, he becomes one of the most famous and interesting persons in the country. Ahmet Duman is a former journalist, who goes through mental health problems. After a few unsuccessful attempts for writing books, he becomes weary of life. One day, Ahmet receives a letter from Peyami because Peyami, the mysterious artist, wants his life and secrets to be written on a book and chooses especially Ahmet for this job despite so many great journalists in the community. Ahmet is both surprised and very happy to receive such an offer. However, the day before he starts writing his book, Peyami dies as a result of an accident in his art gallery. Ahmet, who misses the opportunity of his life, still wants to finish his book and explores Peyami’s life. Ahmet, who wants to collect information about the life of Peyami from Mikail Mikail, Peyami’s only known close-friend, visits Mikail, who lives isolated and safe on the 77th floor of a residence for a long time. However, Ahmet discovers that what is between these two friends is not a friendship but a deadly hostility and becomes the key person in an old revenge story even though he does not want to. Eray AYDIN
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