Author : Douglas Alan
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765362353
Defending a childhood friend who has been accused of murdering a law partner, former NYPD detective-turned-lawyer John Delaney is approached by a mysterious woman who reveals links between the case and a corrupt pharmaceutical company.
Author : Crystal Velasquez
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 34,23 MB
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481424556
"Ana, Doli, Shani, and Lin must continue to battle the forces of the Brotherhood of Chaos and prevent them from taking over the world. However, with Shani expelled from school and living in Mumbai with her father, the four wildcats have been separated and their power diminished. Can they find a way to stop Anubis this time?"--
Author : Mark Young
Publisher : Mark Young
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0996614001
Only the truth will set Tom Kagan free. Suspicion is cast upon police intelligence officer Tom Kagan when a protected witness turns up dead. Caught in a Circle of Lies, he frantically searches for two witnesses who might clear his name—but they are murdered. A deadly trap, built by unseen hands, begins to tighten around Tom’s life, endangering everyone he loves and his own freedom. This Kafkaesque nightmare begins when an out-of-state detective tells Kagan his good friend has been killed in an armored truck heist in Seattle. Kagan—working for the Santa Rosa Police Department in California—offers to investigate a lead in his own county. As Kagan peels backs the layers of lies, trouble erupts at every turn. An FBI agent with questionable motives shows up to exert pressure on Kagan’s investigation. A shadowy figure, calling himself Paladin, zeros in on Kagan as a conspiracy unfolds. A beautiful female prosecutor tries to help, but her relationship to Kagan creates suspicion in his own marriage. Disturbing questions begin to surface as Kagan unravels facts about the case. Everything hinges upon finding out the truth but a Circle of Lies turns his world upside down. Who can he trust? Will he survive? Kagan must risk everything to save those he loves and gain his own freedom in this race-to-the-finish mystery thriller.
Author : Dianne Vega
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 146852318X
Each one of us becomes the protagonist of our life story and we must have a part in the saying of its ending. In Hope's life there are memorable times both happy and sad that no one can remake or delete. The panorama consists of life lessons that include personal suffering and growth. There are overlapping layers of Hope's story of betrayal, denial, confusion, lies, and destiny. Her life is infused with memories, feelings,thoughts, and emotions of anger,torment, tears of sorrow and tears of laughter with the unconditional love she had even in the midst of abuse and depression. The circle of lies taught Hope the importance of self-confidence, self-dependability for her well being and happiness, courage with fear, pride, humbleness, self-worth,faith, and fortitude. On the train tracks where she once halted, she tried to go backwards to avoid the unforeseen stop but the day came when the only way was to go around in order to move forward with whatever was left after the wreck. Join me on an unforgettable journey that you or someone you know may have crossed at one point or another. Through the eye of the mind and the window of the soul you shall experience this journey. May thoughts take place, may tears escape, and may smiles unfold with melancholy but most of all reach hope with me through the circle of lies. There were easy lies, complicated lies, and hard truths that Hope had to go through with tattered wings which made it so difficult. The truth is the life goes on even in the time of destruction when Hope's future dreams were taken away and she didn't believe her life would be turned upside down by the love of her life who turned out to be an enemy. She learned the lesson of betrayal and saw lives shattered and new ones rebuilt.
Author : Juliet Macur
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0062277243
The definitive account of Lance Armstrong's spectacular rise and fall. In June 2013, when Lance Armstrong fled his palatial home in Texas, downsizing in the face of multimillion-dollar lawsuits, Juliet Macur was there—talking to his girlfriend and children and listening to Armstrong's version of the truth. She was one of the few media members aside from Oprah Winfrey to be granted extended one-on-one access to the most famous pariah in sports. At the center of Cycle of Lies is Armstrong himself, revealed through face-to-face interviews. But this unfolding narrative is given depth and breadth by the firsthand accounts of more than one hundred witnesses, including family members whom Armstrong had long since turned his back on—the adoptive father who gave him the Armstrong name, a grandmother, an aunt. Perhaps most damning of all is the taped testimony of the late J.T. Neal, the most influential of Armstrong's many father figures, recorded in the final years of Neal's life as he lost his battle with cancer just as Armstrong gained fame for surviving the disease. In the end, it was Armstrong's former friends, those who had once occupied the precious space of his inner circle, who betrayed him. They were the ones who dealt Armstrong his fatal blow by breaking the code of silence that shielded the public from the grim truth about the sport of cycling—and the grim truth about its golden boy, Armstrong. Threading together the vivid and disparate voices of those with intimate knowledge of the private and public Armstrong, Macur weaves a comprehensive and unforgettably rich tapestry of one man's astonishing rise to global fame and fortune and his devastating fall from grace.
Author : Jennifer Lynn Randisi
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780819124524
A study linking the novels of Eudora Welty to a tradition of Southern romance writers. Beginning with the Civil War diarists, the author isolates and defines the components of the Southern romance, tracing Welty's adaptation of each component within the novels themselves and revealing a twofold importance: it connects the literature of the Civil War diarists to the work of Eudora Welty in a meaningful way while illuminating her work in the light of a Southern Romance tradition.
Author : Bernard Maskit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3642615902
The modern theory of Kleinian groups starts with the work of Lars Ahlfors and Lipman Bers; specifically with Ahlfors' finiteness theorem, and Bers' observation that their joint work on the Beltrami equation has deep implications for the theory of Kleinian groups and their deformations. From the point of view of uniformizations of Riemann surfaces, Bers' observation has the consequence that the question of understanding the different uniformizations of a finite Riemann surface poses a purely topological problem; it is independent of the conformal structure on the surface. The last two chapters here give a topological description of the set of all (geometrically finite) uniformizations of finite Riemann surfaces. We carefully skirt Ahlfors' finiteness theorem. For groups which uniformize a finite Riemann surface; that is, groups with an invariant component, one can either start with the assumption that the group is finitely generated, and then use the finiteness theorem to conclude that the group represents only finitely many finite Riemann surfaces, or, as we do here, one can start with the assumption that, in the invariant component, the group represents a finite Riemann surface, and then, using essentially topological techniques, reach the same conclusion. More recently, Bill Thurston wrought a revolution in the field by showing that one could analyze Kleinian groups using 3-dimensional hyperbolic geome try, and there is now an active school of research using these methods.
Author : Brian Evenson
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1566894239
"[Evenson's] scary fictional treatment of church hypocrisy has the feeling of a reasoned attack on blind religious obedience."—Publishers Weekly Provost Eldon Fochs may be a sexual criminal. His therapist isn't sure, and his church is determined to protect its reputation. Father of Lies is Brian Evenson's fable of power, paranoia, and the dangers of blind obedience, and a terrifying vision of how far institutions will go to protect themselves against the innocents who may be their victims.
Author : Jennifer Estep
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439155445
Following up the first book in her new "Elemental Assassin" series, Jennifer Estep's Web of Lies once again brings readers into sexy assassin Gin Blanco's world, which is populated with giants, goth dwarves, elementals, and some kick-butt BBQ. Curiosity is definitely going to get me dead one of these days. Probably real soon. I’m Gin Blanco. You might know me as the Spider, the most feared assassin in the South. I’m retired now, but trouble still has a way of finding me. Like the other day when two punks tried to rob my popular barbecue joint, the Pork Pit. Then there was the barrage of gunfire on the restaurant. Only, for once, those kill shots weren’t aimed at me. They were meant for Violet Fox. Ever since I agreed to help Violet and her grandfather protect their property from an evil coal-mining tycoon, I’m beginning to wonder if I’m really retired. So is Detective Donovan Caine. The only honest cop in Ashland is having a real hard time reconciling his attraction to me with his Boy Scout mentality. And I can barely keep my hands off his sexy body. What can I say? I’m a Stone elemental with a little Ice magic thrown in, but my heart isn’t made of solid rock. Luckily, Gin Blanco always gets her man...dead or alive.
Author : Kel Carpenter
Publisher : Kel Carpenter
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN :
My second year at Daizlei Academy didn’t kill me. It did something so much worse. It killed her. And the world will never be the same because of it. Anastasia thought she could own me. The Supernatural thought they could control me. They didn’t realize the darkness they courted until the walls of Daizlei came crushing down around us. I always thought of myself as hard. Unbreakable. Unbeatable. Until someone beat me. Now…I was broken and I planned to use all my sharp edges for the one thing I had left. Revenge. **Warning: as the characters mature and grow so does the story. This novel is recommended for readers 16+. Fans of Kelly St. Claire, Elise Nova, Michelle Madow, and Olivia Wildenstein will be enthralled but this young adult urban fantasy romance.**
