Leo Daly is looking forward to a family vacation and a break from his hectic hospital schedule. His dreams of kicking back, fishing, and hanging out with the wife and kids turn into a fight for survival when an electromagnetic pulse takes out the power grid leaving them stranded in the woods. Leo must use all of his skills to create a community of survivors from his family, the locals, and ill-equipped vacationers. Views: 615
How 4chan and 8chan fuel white nationalism, inspire violence, and infect politics.The internet has transformed the ways we think and act, and by consequence, our politics. The most impactful recent political movements on the far left and right started with massive online collectives of teenagers. Strangely, both movements began on the same website: an anime imageboard called 4chan.org. It Came from Something Awful is the fascinating and bizarre story of sites like 4chan and 8chan and their profound effect on youth counterculture.Dale Beran has observed the anonymous messageboard community's shifting activities and interests since the beginning. Sites like 4chan and 8chan are microcosms of the internet itself—simultaneously at the vanguard of contemporary culture, politics, comedy and language, and a new low for all of the above. They were the original meme machines, mostly frequented by socially awkward and disenfranchised young men in search of... Views: 615
Danny works at Belle Vue Zoo, where–alongside training the famous elephant Maharajah–he helps out with the day-to-day tasks of caring for the animals. But when animals start escaping, Danny is the prime suspect: after all, he was a former street urchin and pickpocket. When a man turns up claiming to be his father, the plot thickens. Can Danny untangle the mystery of the animal escapade–and find out where he really belongs–in order to clear his name? Views: 615
Planning to meet his sister in Germany, but, when she's a no-show, Lennox has his first inkling that trouble has come home in a big way ... When his sister and her best friend go missing, Lennox is determined to find and to keep his only family member safe ... and her best friend. They were both doctors, traveling the globe with the UN. Lennox was proud of his sister's accomplishments. He'd never tried to hide their relationship, thinking no one from Lennox's Navy SEALs past cared—or was still alive. Only now someone has decided to use Lennox's only family as a way to exact revenge. Helena is caught up in a kidnapping of Lennox's sister, all designed to get back at Lennox—the most infuriating man she's ever met. And one she's cared for since forever. Now to know she was used as a trap to kidnap his sister and to take him out was the worst kind of punishment. But she knew this man. Knew him intimately—if only once—but also... Views: 615
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom."This potent book about America's most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist."—San Francisco Chronicle"Nearly every paragraph is laced through with dense, gorgeously evocative descriptions of a vanished world and steeped in its own vivid vocabulary."—Entertainment Weekly Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he's ever known. So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram... Views: 615
I assure you, we're still alive and open!It was just another day at the convenience store that Alisha works at...until the CDC broadcasts that people are turning into zombies.To make matters worse, Alisha's boss won't let her go home because he thinks the zombie apocalypse is a hoax.But when her co-worker Francine goes missing, Alisha knows its only a matter of time before the zombies come for her.All Alisha really wants to do is ride out the zombie apocalypse with the hot guy who works across the street at the rival convenience store, but if she's not careful, she'll get eaten or become a zombie herself. Views: 615
Berlin Centre: An East German Spy Novel
When a West German police officer defects to the GDR, he brings news of a mole in the Stasi.
Lieutenant Reim leads the initial inquiry but is unconvinced by the defector’s claims.
As news of the affair spreads through Berlin Centre, Reim is sent to Bonn on a mission to catch a mole he doesn't want to find – does his reluctance to investigate have anything to do with the secrets he'd prefer remained hidden? Views: 615
