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Author: Jacqueline Hand Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1462835538 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 518
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HIDDEN IN XANADU is the story of suspended rules, the outward serenity and inner chaos of two ordinary people who are thrust into the world of crime witnesses and how they devise an imaginative way to live through it. Colleagues, GRACE DANVERS and MAX JOSEFS, witness a horrible crime and are whisked into protective custody by the FBI to contain the contamination of their testimony before trial. So abruptly has their world changed that Max and Grace feel as if they are in another reality; the constant companionship of the agents seems more like an invasion of privacy than protection; their custody more like captivity. To gain some control over their lives and blot out the ever-present, gruesome crime, they devise a game with their own rules and title the rules file Xanadu. Max and Grace have made several documentaries together and are attracted to each other. In their fifties, both are embarrassed about making love with each other, know it will change their friendship irrevocably. They devise a game to become other couples in fiction and history to get past this sticking point. Neither is aware the agents listen to every word and action. Grace, close to the breaking point, discovers the agents' listening, their complete violation. Max falls back on their game to save her and Grace finds the strength to rise above the betrayal. Their captivity and the game not only change their lives but the lives of the agents and enable Grace to testify at trial.
Author: Jacqueline Hand Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1462835538 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 518
Book Description
HIDDEN IN XANADU is the story of suspended rules, the outward serenity and inner chaos of two ordinary people who are thrust into the world of crime witnesses and how they devise an imaginative way to live through it. Colleagues, GRACE DANVERS and MAX JOSEFS, witness a horrible crime and are whisked into protective custody by the FBI to contain the contamination of their testimony before trial. So abruptly has their world changed that Max and Grace feel as if they are in another reality; the constant companionship of the agents seems more like an invasion of privacy than protection; their custody more like captivity. To gain some control over their lives and blot out the ever-present, gruesome crime, they devise a game with their own rules and title the rules file Xanadu. Max and Grace have made several documentaries together and are attracted to each other. In their fifties, both are embarrassed about making love with each other, know it will change their friendship irrevocably. They devise a game to become other couples in fiction and history to get past this sticking point. Neither is aware the agents listen to every word and action. Grace, close to the breaking point, discovers the agents' listening, their complete violation. Max falls back on their game to save her and Grace finds the strength to rise above the betrayal. Their captivity and the game not only change their lives but the lives of the agents and enable Grace to testify at trial.
Author: Michael Ray Taylor Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press ISBN: 0826501036 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 358
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Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist, Southern Environmental Law Center, 2021 More than ten thousand known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalogs and maps them. Thousands more riddle surrounding states. In Hidden Nature, Michael Ray Taylor tells the story of this vast underground wilderness. In addition to describing the sheer physical majesty of the region’s wild caverns and the concurrent joys and dangers of exploring them, he examines their rich natural history and scientific import, their relationship to clean water and a healthy surface environment, and their uncertain future. As a longtime caver and the author of three popular books related to caving—Cave Passages, Dark Life, and Caves—Taylor enjoys (for a journalist) unusual access to this secretive world. He is personally acquainted with many of the region’s most accomplished cave explorers and scientists, and they in turn are familiar with his popular writing on caves in books; in magazines such as Audubon, Outside, and Sports Illustrated; and on websites such as those of the Discovery Channel and the PBS science series Nova. Hidden Nature is structured as a comprehensive work of well-researched fact that reads like a personal narrative of the author’s long attraction to these caves and the people who dare enter their hidden chambers.
Author: David Mitchell Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1588362159 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 483
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By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize “A novel as accomplished as anything being written.”—Newsweek Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy—an intoxicating ride through Tokyo’s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work that is in its way even more ambitious. In outward form, Number9Dream is a Dickensian coming-of-age journey: Young dreamer Eiji Miyake, from remote rural Japan, thrust out on his own by his sister’s death and his mother’s breakdown, comes to Tokyo in pursuit of the father who abandoned him. Stumbling around this strange, awesome city, he trips over and crosses—through a hidden destiny or just monstrously bad luck—a number of its secret power centers. Suddenly, the riddle of his father’s identity becomes just one of the increasingly urgent questions Eiji must answer. Why is the line between the world of his experiences and the world of his dreams so blurry? Why do so many horrible things keep happening to him? What is it about the number 9? To answer these questions, and ultimately to come to terms with his inheritance, Eiji must somehow acquire an insight into the workings of history and fate that would be rare in anyone, much less in a boy from out of town with a price on his head and less than the cost of a Beatles disc to his name. Praise for Number9Dream “Delirious—a grand blur of overwhelming sensation.”—Entertainment Weekly “To call Mitchell’s book a simple quest novel . . is like calling Don DeLillo’s Underworld the story of a missing baseball.”—The New York Times Book Review “Number9Dream, with its propulsive energy, its Joycean eruption of language and playfulness, represents further confirmation that David Mitchell should be counted among the top young novelists working today.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Mitchell’s new novel has been described as a cross between Don DeLillo and William Gibson, and although that’s a perfectly serviceable cocktail-party formula, it doesn’t do justice to this odd, fitfully compelling work.”—The New Yorker “Leaping with ease from surrealist fables to a teenage coming-of-age story and then spinning back to Yakuza gangster battles and World War II–era kamikaze diaries, Mitchell is an aerial freestyle ski-jumper of fiction. Somehow, after performing feats of literary gymnastics, he manages to stick the landing.”—The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Author: Sir Joshua L-x Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0983972915 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 74
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What would happen if a group of people sought to rid the world of Aids by...destroying all of the samples, both living and non living...in the lab and in people? What if this group sought to "Cleanse" the world of anyone that was morally deficient in some way...such as litter bugs?In this next installment of Xanadu's Novella Series, we bring to ponder the Question "What would happen if...I cleansed the world?"
Author: Bathroom Readers' Institute Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1626861811 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 490
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The twenty-seventh Bathroom Reader in the beloved, bizarre trivia series with more than fifteen million copies in print! At a whopping 544 pages, Uncle John’s Canoramic Bathroom Reader is overflowing with everything that Bathroom Readers’ Institute fans have come to expect from this bestselling trivia series: fascinating history, silly science, obscure origins . . . plus fads, blunders, wordplay, quotes, and a few surprises (such as some of the “creative” methods people have used to pay off their alimony). And yes, Uncle John’s latest masterpiece is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your can! So hang on tight as you read about . . . • Hairy superstitions • Animals who act like people • The Mother of the Father of our Country • Really BIG Things • Eugene Vidocq—the world’s first private eye • Bill Gates and his “Toilet Challenge” • Unclassified: The story of the Freedom of Information Act • How to behave like a gentleman . . . 16th century style • Great Gushers: The world’s most incredible oil strikes • Who’s the Suzette in Crepe Suzette? • Happy Sewerage Day! And much, much more!
Author: Finn Brunton Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691209162 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 272
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The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators—from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to the 1970s. But the story behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its blockchain technology has largely been untold—until now. In Digital Cash, Finn Brunton reveals how technological utopians and political radicals created experimental money to bring about their visions of the future: to protect privacy, bring down governments, prepare for apocalypse, or launch a civilization of innovation and abundance that would make its creators immortal. Filled with marvelous characters, stories, and ideas, Digital Cash is an engaging and accessible account of the strange origins and remarkable technologies behind today's cryptocurrency explosion.
Author: Jo Leigh Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1459232623 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 225
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LIKE FATHER…LIKE SON The empty crib, the warning note—Jenny Granger recognized the signs that her secret life had been discovered. To save her son, she became the willing captive of a man arrogantly convinced that her baby was his child. But proof of paternity lay in the birthmark on her baby’s back. One just like his real daddy… Nick Mason had always seemed too honorable to be a corrupt man’s henchman. After all, he’d helped Jenny to escape once…but not before branding her his. Now, Jenny prayed that Nick could be trusted again, especially with a truth that could get them all killed.
Author: Sheri Eleese Publisher: Sheri Dwyer ISBN: 177752332X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 218
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When Two Forbidden Souls Unite, Balance is Restored Bryan Galway, leader of the powerful Galway Clan, is an honorable magic-user who has spent his life protecting and caring for his younger brother and his clan. His heightened sense of responsibility drives him to put everyone else’s needs before his own, a propensity that is his greatest strength…and his greatest weakness. In a moment of panic, Bryan breaks what shouldn’t be broken and alters his predestined path. He must earn trust and learn forgiveness if he’s going to fulfill his destiny and stop the evil that’s intent on destroying everyone he loves. Fate doesn’t like anyone messing up her plans. Max Fraser has spent the last five hundred years protecting and supporting his Prince. His sense of responsibility, logical thinking, and no-nonsense attitude have served him well as Second in command of the North American covens. His life is complete…except, in the deepest recesses of his soul, he longs to find and join with his fated Bloodmate. When that momentous day finally arrives, the one destined to be his breaks the most sacred of vampire bonds…and his trust. The fate of the world now hangs on his willingness to forgive. But how does one forgive when trust has been lost? Fate believes in second chances, but you have to work for it. That which is broken must be mended, the unforgivable must be forgiven, and lost faith must be restored, before the malevolent shadow that threatens their world consumes them all. This book is not a standalone and is best read as part of a series. Tags: MM Paranormal Romance, Vampire & Magic-user, Heat Level One, Fated Mates, Demon, Final Battle, HEA
Author: Jacqueline Hand
Author: Jacqueline Hand
Author: Michael Ray Taylor
Author: David Mitchell
Author: Sir Joshua L-x
Author: Kenneth R. Johnston
Author: Sir Joshua L-x
Author: Bathroom Readers' Institute
Author: Finn Brunton
Author: Jo Leigh
Author: Sheri Eleese