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Her name is death - and her name is Virginia Dodge. Virginia Dodge is determined to put a bullet through Steve Carella's brain, and she doesn't care if she has to kill all the boys in the 87th Precinct in the process. Armed with a gun and a bottle of nitro-glycerine she spends an afternoon terrorising Lieutenant Byrnes and his men with her clever little home-made bomb. Is there anything the boys at the 87th can do to save Carella or will this crazy broad achieve her goal ¿? In one of the most dazzling novellas of the Precinct, Ed McBain exposes the dangerous loyalties that keep the boys of the 87th together, and threaten to tear them apart at the same time. Views: 296
Peter is thrilled to join his parents on an expedition to Greenland, where his father studies global warming. Peter will get to skip school, drive a dogsled, and–finally–share in his dad’s adventures. But on the ice cap, Peter struggles to understand a series of visions that both frighten and entice him.
Thea has never seen the sun. Her extraordinary people, suspected of witchcraft and nearly driven to extinction, have retreated to a secret world they’ve built deep inside the arctic ice. As Thea dreams of a path to Earth’s surface, Peter’s search for answers brings him ever closer to her hidden home.
Rebecca Stead’s fascinating debut novel is a dazzling tale of mystery, science and adventure at the top of the world.
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The deliberate torching of a church creates outrage across Manchester. And when a charred corpse and satanic symbols are found in the smoking ruins, DI Jon Spicer and the city's Major Incident Team are called in. Jon Spicer quickly finds himself drawn into the depths of a horrifying underworld he didn't know existed. Soon, fresh killings bring the realisation that those responsible are prepared to commit unspeakable acts of evil in homage to their God. DI Spicer knows the atrocities must be halted, but even in his worst nightmares he could never imagine how close to his own home the investigation will take him. As the case threatens to engulf Manchester in fires of hatred, can Spicer and those he loves escape unharmed? Views: 295
Meet San Lee, a (sort of) innocent teenager, who moves against his will to a new town. Things get interesting when he (sort of) invents a new past for himself, which makes him incredibly popular. In fact, his whole school starts to (sort of) worship him, just because he (sort of) accidentally gave the impression that he's a reincarnated mystic.
When things start to unravel, San needs to find some real wisdom in a hurry. Can he patch things up with his family, save himself from bodily harm, stop being an outcast, and maybe even get the girl? Views: 295
From a distance, on television, say, or in the pages of the business
section, it looks like such a clean, well-lighted place--a place where decisions
to buy or sell are guided by formulas and subtle strategy, and thorough,
dispassionate consideration of all available facts. A place where cool reason
prevails. And sure, that's one version of Wall Street--call it the CNBC edition.
But this book is about another place, just beneath that shiny surface--a place
where fear and greed have always held sway. Think WorldCom or Tyco; think Enron.
Think Gordon Gekko. Call it a doppelganger, a broken mirror-image, an evil twin.
Call it Wall Street Noir.
Wall Street Noir, the latest addition to Akashic Books' acclaimed
series of crime fiction anthologies, casts a stark light on the darkest ends of
the Street, to illuminate a place whose boundaries have spread well beyond
Trinity Church and the East River. In today's relentlessly global economy, Wall
Street is everywhere: a borderless, virtual city encompassing Midtown Manhattan,
Main Street, U.S.A., the maquilas of Honduras, the office towers of Shanghai,
and the brothels of Bangkok. It's a shadowy metropolis, as the stories in this
exciting collection reveal, and one that's far more Jim Thompson than Warren
Buffet.
The volume's contributors range across this landscape in seventeen
dark, sometimes darkly funny, tales of hungry egos, cutthroat competition,
cultural clashes, sweaty paranoia, not-so-innocent bystanders, and desperate
deals with a wide variety of devils.
Peter Spiegelman is the Shamus AwardÐwinning author of Black Maps,
Death's Little Helpers, and Red Cat (all published by Knopf), which
feature private detective and Wall Street refugee John March. Mr. Spiegelman is
a twenty-year veteran of the financial services and software industries, and has
worked with banks, brokerage houses and central banks in major markets around
the world. He lives in Connecticut.Table of
ContentsIntroductionPart I: Downtown"At the Top
of His Game" by Stephen Rhodes (40 Broad Street)"A Trader's Lot" by Twist
Phelan (1 North End Avenue)"Feeding Frenzy" by Tim Broderick (40 Wall
Street)"A Terrorizing Demonstration" by Jim Fusilli (23 Wall
Street)"Town Car" by David Noonan (85 Exchange Place)Part II:
Uptown"The Quant" by Richard Aleas (Times Square)"Make Me Rich" by
Lawrence Light (257 W. 36th Street)"Rough Justice" by James Hime (200 Park
Avenue)"The Consultant" by Peter Blauner (1313 Avenue of the
Americas)Part III: Main Street"The Day Trader in the Trunk of
Cleto's Car" by Mark Haskell Smith (Los Angeles, California)"Five Days at
the Sunset" by Peter Spiegelman (Lethe, South Dakota)"Today We Hit" by Megan
Abbott (110 W. 139th Street)"The Basher" by Jason Starr (Hoboken, New
Jersey)Part IV: Global Markets"The Enlightenment of Magnus
McKay" by John Burdett (Bangkok, Thailand)"Bonus Season" by Henry Blodget
(Shanghai, China)"Everything I'm Not" by Lauren Sanders (Tel Aviv,
Israel)"Due Diligence" by Reed Farrel Coleman (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) Views: 295
A magical underwater adventure, with an environmentally-friendly theme, featuring six resourceful and brave young mermaids as they set out to find the stolen Snow Diamonds and return them to Princess Arctica before it's too late and Ice Kingdom is doomed. Views: 295
Russell Robert Winterbotham was an American writer of western and science fiction genre fiction, and the author of instructional pamphlets and several Big Little Books. Views: 293
James Bell Salmond (1891-1958) wrote this popular book that continues to be widely read today despite its age. Views: 293
Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a British Royal Navy officer, novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy and his children\'s novel The Children of the New Forest, and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling, known as Marryat\'s Code Marryat was born in London, the son of Joseph Marryat, a "merchant prince" and member of Parliament, and his American wife Charlotte, née von Geyer. After trying to run away to sea several times, Marryat was permitted to enter the Royal Navy in 1806 as a midshipman on board HMS Imperieuse, a frigate commanded by Lord Cochrane (who later served as inspiration for both Marryat and other authors). Marryat\'s time aboard the Imperieuse included action off the Gironde, the rescue of a fellow midshipman who had fallen overboard, captures of many ships off the Mediterranean coast of Spain, and the capture of the castle of Montgat. The Imperieuse shifted to operations in the Scheldt in 1809, where Marryat contracted malaria; he returned to England on the 74-gun HMS Victorious. Views: 293
Gail Godwin was twenty-four years old and working as a waitress in the North Carolina mountains when she wrote: "I want to be everybody who is great; I want to create everything that has ever been created." It is a declaration that only a wildly ambitious young writer would make in the privacy of her journal. In the heady days of her literary apprenticeship, Godwin kept a daily chronicle of her dreams and desires, her travels, love affairs, struggles, and breakthroughs. Now, at the urging of her friend Joyce Carol Oates, Godwin has distilled these early journals, which run from 1961 to 1963, to their brilliant and charming essence. The Making of a Writer opens during the feverish period following the breakup of Godwin's first marriage and her stint as a reporter for The Miami Herald. Aware that she is entering one of the great turning points of her life as she prepares to move to Europe, Godwin writes of the "100 different hungers" that consume her on the eve of departure.... Views: 293
The Hills of Home is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Alfred Coppel is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Alfred Coppel then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Views: 293
In his groundbreaking new book, Dr. Jim Loehr, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Power of Full Engagement, examines the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves -- and, most important, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives.
"Your story is your life," says Loehr. As human beings, we continually tell ourselves stories -- of success or failure; of power or victimhood; stories that endure for an hour, or a day, or an entire lifetime. We have stories about our work, our families and relationships, our health; about what we want and what we're capable of achieving. Yet, while our stories profoundly affect how others see us and we see ourselves, too few of us even recognize that we're telling stories, or what they are, or that we can change them -- and, in turn, transform our very destinies.
Telling ourselves stories provides structure and direction as we navigate life's challenges and opportunities, and helps us interpret our goals and skills. Stories make sense of chaos; they organize our many divergent experiences into a coherent thread; they shape our entire reality. And far too many of our stories, says Loehr, are dysfunctional, in need of serious editing. First, he asks you to answer the question, "In which areas of my life is it clear that I cannot achieve my goals with the story I've got?" He then shows you how to create new, reality-based stories that inspire you to action, and take you where you want to go both in your work and personal life.
For decades, at the Human Performance Institute, Loehr has been examining the power of story to increase engagement and productivity, and Fortune 500 companies have paid millions to send employees to his program, in which he applies the principles and methods that he now offers in this book. Global business leaders, world-class athletes, military special forces, and thousands of individuals from every walk of life have sought out and benefited from his life-altering insight and expertise.
Our capacity to tell stories is one of our profoundest gifts. Loehr's approach to creating deeply engaging stories will give you the tools to wield the power of storytelling and forever change your business and personal life. Views: 292
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. Views: 292
Kurt Vonnegut is considered by many to be one of the most underrated writers of science fiction to have been active in the transitional stage between the Golden Age of sci-fi and the modern era, when motion picture and CGI took the place of good old-fashioned stories like 2 B R O 2 B.The tale at hand is a short satirical dramatic reading that will only take about 15 minutes to go through, but that also carries a lot of weight both when it comes to the presented concepts and Vonnegut's masterful writing style.The title is based on Shakespeare's eternal words "To be or not to be," and reflects the essence of this captivating, yet chilling tale with eerie accuracy. The plot presents us with a possible future of the United States, where poverty, disease and even death were all conquered. Unfortunately, there were consequences: with depleted resources and the average human life span extended to about 130, the population of the United States had to be maintained at 40 million. For each newborn, the "Federal Bureau of Termination" had to ensure the death of another citizen in order to prevent overpopulation.This bleak prospect took Edward K. Wehling, Jr., to the brink of an impossible dilemma, when he was notified at the hospital that his wife was expecting triplets.During his lengthy career, Vonnegut was famous for his dark satirical style which can also be seen in 2 B R O 2 B. He has written a total of 14 novels, three short story collections, as well as several plays and works of non-fiction. His best known work is Slaughterhouse Five, a satirical novel with equally disturbing, dark connotations as the story presented here.For anyone interested in dark satire and outstandingly well-written sci-fi, 2 B R O 2 B is one of the most intense and enjoyable Kurt Vonnegut stories you can consider listening to. Views: 292
