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Author: Isaac D. Peterson Publisher: Emerald Books ISBN: 1954779402 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 289
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In an alternate early twentieth-century New York—an immigrant’s daughter fights the forces of darkness to save her family—and finds an ally in Nikola Tesla . . . When Thomas Edison’s corporate thugs steal her father's invention, Willow Locke must find a way to defend her family. Willow finds an unexpected ally in Nikola Tesla, who works in secret in a basement lab away from his main facility at Wardenclyffe, which he fears has been infiltrated by spies . . . Tesla is creating advanced technology that is a century ahead of its time, but everything he makes must be kept hidden. Willow will use his inventions to unravel the corporate union-busters and protect her loved ones from violence. But in the course of her investigation she uncovers a hideous secret, an immortal enemy pulling the corporate strings, and a devastating plot for a final annihilation. Even with Tesla’s help, she is only one person. Can she stand against the forces of murder and darkness allied against her?
Author: Isaac D. Peterson Publisher: Emerald Books ISBN: 1954779402 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
In an alternate early twentieth-century New York—an immigrant’s daughter fights the forces of darkness to save her family—and finds an ally in Nikola Tesla . . . When Thomas Edison’s corporate thugs steal her father's invention, Willow Locke must find a way to defend her family. Willow finds an unexpected ally in Nikola Tesla, who works in secret in a basement lab away from his main facility at Wardenclyffe, which he fears has been infiltrated by spies . . . Tesla is creating advanced technology that is a century ahead of its time, but everything he makes must be kept hidden. Willow will use his inventions to unravel the corporate union-busters and protect her loved ones from violence. But in the course of her investigation she uncovers a hideous secret, an immortal enemy pulling the corporate strings, and a devastating plot for a final annihilation. Even with Tesla’s help, she is only one person. Can she stand against the forces of murder and darkness allied against her?
Author: Isaac Peterson Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 391
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The year is 1910, and the Lostch family has fled the violence of a pogrom in Prague in search of a new life. They live in the Lower East Side tenements. Every member of the Lostch family works long hours for low wages--16-year-old Talia as a courier and her older sister Ayala as a seamstress in the blouse factory. Their father Reuven, a respected engineer in the Old Country, has taken a job as pipe fitter. When he creates a revolutionary invention, the family's prospects change: Reuven will be promoted and earn a higher salary. The invention also attracts the attention of powerful enemies: Pinkertons, corporate thugs who will stop at nothing to steal the patent. Talia disguises as Willow Locke to take on a new identity as a college student to protect her family. With her partner James Whitcomb, she uncovers the proof of an ancient evil asserting its influence over the corporate bosses, something only named in Jewish mythology: the Amalek. Willow finds an ally in Nikola Tesla who works in secret in the NYU engineering lab to hide his latest invention from Edison's corporate thieves. He is creating graphene, a super-conductive material that will make Edison's lead-acid battery obsolete, and herald a technological revolution. Can Willow save her family and Tesla's secrets from the corporate conspiracy? The Brass Starling is a thrilling mystery filled with hidden technology and magic set against the historical backdrop of the labor movement.
Author: Isabel Strychacz Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1534481117 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 464
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Darling is a small isolated town, made up of small-town people who have small-town kids who rarely leave; it is the last place anyone would expect to find a visitor from another world, but that is what Starling Rust claims to be, and the town-folk, led by their corrupt mayor, are terrified--the Wilding sisters, Delta and Bee, are determined to protect Starling from the town's escalating xenophobia but the growing feelings between Starling and Delta may prove to be the greatest threat of all.
Author: Amanda Linsmeier Publisher: Ember ISBN: 059357236X Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 353
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In the wake of her father's death, a teen girl discovers a side of her family she didn't know existed, and is pulled into a dark—and ancient—bargain she is next in line to fulfill. A dark YA fantasy debut perfect for fans of House of Hollow and Small Favors. Kit’s father always told her he had no family, but his sudden death revealed the truth. Now Kit has a grandmother she never knew she had—Agatha Starling—and an invitation to visit her father’s hometown, Rosemont. And Rosemont is picture perfect: the famed eternal roses bloom all year, downtown is straight out of the 1950s . . . there’s even a cute guy to show Kit around. The longer Kit’s there, though, the stranger it all feels. The Starling family is revered, but there’s something off about how the Starling women seem to be at the center of the all the town’s important history. And as welcoming as the locals are, Kit can’t shake the feeling that they're hiding something from her. Agatha is so happy to finally meet her only granddaughter, and the town is truly charming, but Kit can’t help wondering, if everything is so great in Rosemont, why did her father leave? And why does it seem like he never wanted her to find it?
Author: Derek Mellor Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1728385636 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 363
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A sequel to The Lucy Effect (AuthorHouse 2015), The Starling's Magic finds Paddy Lieber, a freewheeling Liverpudlian entrepreneur in the beautiful city of 1927 Leningrad - where he becomes the subject of a hoax. The theft of a painting from the Hermitage museum, The Leningrad Starling, a revered icon considered to have healing powers, is pinned on Paddy and he is used by high- ranking Soviet officials as a pawn in their corrupt game of political and financial intrigue. Is there magic in the air for those caught up in the dramatic events? Random incidents lead to catastrophic consequences for some, but for others it's new found joy. How much is an external magic part of this as opposed to the individual's perception of events, or are they one and the same? The Starling's Magic is a fast-moving tale with twists and turns. Will Hahyoo, tasked with security at Lieber Enterprises and others get to the bottom of the scam and manage to free Paddy before darker forces in Leningrad close in and make it impossible? Lightened and spiced with the wit and humour of Paddy and his secret lover, the novel is about the love, passion, goodness and courage of ordinary people - Russian, Irish, Chinese, German and English - transcending systems of control and evil. The Starling's Magic is a story for our troubled times.
Author: Tom Dalzell Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317372522 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 864
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Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.
Author: Alan Burn Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1783839961 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 240
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A riveting account of the World War II naval career of the man who did more to win the Battle of the Atlantic than any other officer at sea. Captain F. J. Walker, RN, dedicated his life to defeating the Germans—and Karl Dönitz, Führer der U-Boote, in particular—by containing the U-boats, wearing them down, and sending them back to their bunkers. He was a formidable figure and one of the greatest fighting captains in the Royal Navy, sinking twenty U-boats. For this he was awarded a CB and four DSOs. A month after D-Day, exhausted by his continuous actions at sea against the enemy and his successful exertions to keep the U-boats out of the English Channel to ensure the safe passage of the Allied landings at D-day, he went ashore in Liverpool after a patrol. His ships and the men he had trained and inspired were already back at sea when he died on the 9 July, 1944, aged 48. His ships went on to sink another nine U-boats, bringing his flotillas’ total up to twenty-nine, before the U-boat fleet finally surrendered. Fifteen of which were sunk by Walker’s own ship, HMS Starling.
Author: Jack Cady Publisher: Resurrection House ISBN: 1630230235 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 348
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There is a curse on Point Vestal. Time moves differently in this sleepy Northwestern coastal town, where the ghosts of the past roam the streets as readily as the living inhabitants. It's still the late 19th century, and underneath the quaint touristy allure of the commingling of the past and present is a lurking darkness. August Starling, a decadent (and dead) crime baron, has a plan for Point Vestal because the magical nature of the town is a haven for sinners fleeing judgment for their crimes. And the only residents who can stop him are newcomers to town: a defrocked Episcopalian priest and a talking cat, who is fluent in seven languages. The Off Season is an effusive meditation on the nature of the fantastic, by a writer the Atlanta Constitution calls "a lasting voice in modern American literature." Cady, winner of both the Nebula and the World Fantasy Award, has given us "a consummate yarn, told with many digressions and anecdotes that combine with folksy humor to create a tall tale suffused with pathos and melancholy." (The Seattle Times)
Author: Isaac D. Peterson
Author: Isaac D. Peterson
Author: Isaac Peterson
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