Author : Sarah Ash
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Dragons
ISBN : 0553589865
From the highly acclaimed author of "Tracing the Shadow" comes the conclusionto her new duology, set in a rich and vital fantasy world.
Author : Tom Neil
Publisher : Red Kite / Air Research
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780954620172
Many World War Two fighter pilots have written their wartime biographies, Tom Neil included, but most of these accounts are tempered by 60 years of hindsight along with concern for the feelings of others. Tom Neil decided that it was now time to tell the stories that previously he couldn't; and came up with a unique approach. By writing them in a short story format, and modifying various aspects for both dramatic effect and also to protect the identities of the individuals involved, he has produced a series of moving and fascinating stories, the first four of whichare published in Flight into Darkness. Illustrated with over 30 specially commissioned pencil sketches by award-winning aviation artist Mark Postlethwaite.
Author : Roger Hardy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1471759725
A new light jet disappears over the Saudi desert. It should have been the safest aircraft in the world so air accident investigator James Hayward is sent to investigate. What he discovers leads him into web of intrigue and political corruption. He finds himself alone, pitted against a new brand of terrorist; one that is ruthless, resourceful and organised but with friends in high places. Set in the post-Bin Laden Middle East, this story is a fast-paced but thought-provoking thriller.
Author : Phillip Finch
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780312383947
Finch chronicles the harrowing true story of two friends who plunge 900 feet into the water in South Africa--and only one returns. What happened that day is the stuff of nightmarish drama, but it's also a compelling human story of friendship and of coming to terms with loss and tragedy. 8-page color photo insert.
Author : Philip Clark
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780060807603
Author : Arthur Schnitzler
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 1931
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Marie Kolkenbrock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 21,99 MB
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1501330977
What was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna? By exploring this question, Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler's Prose offers a new psycho-sociological perspective on the narrative works of Arthur Schnitzler. While Vienna 1900 as a site of crisis has been established in the scholarship, this book focuses on the presence of forces that deny the existence of said crisis and work to contain its subversive and critical potential. Stereotype and destiny emerge in Schnitzler's prose texts as a form of these counter-critical forces. In her readings, Kolkenbrock shows that stereotype and destiny serve as an interrelated coping mechanism for a central psychological conflict of modernity: the paradoxical need to be recognized as 'normal' and 'special' at the same time. While, through the complex of "stereotype and destiny," Schnitzler's prose addresses central modern questions of identity and subjecthood, Kolkenbrock's close readings also reveal how the texts inscribe themselves aesthetically in the literary tradition of Romanticism and as such offer crucial sources for understanding Schnitzler's representations of embattled subjecthood within broader social and aesthetic traditions.
Author : Leo Bretholz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 1999-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A harrowing, action-packed account of the author's series of audacious escapes from the Nazis' Final Solution--"riveting...a fascinating and moving piece of history" (Library Journal). Young Leo Bretholz survived the Holocaust by escaping from the Nazis (and others) not once, but seven times during his almost seven-year ordeal crisscrossing war-torn Europe. He leaped from trains, outran police, and hid in attics, cellars, anywhere that offered a few more seconds of safety. First he swam the River Sauer at the German-Belgian border. Later he climbed the Alps on feet so battered they froze to his socks--only to be turned back at the Swiss border. He crawled out from under the barbed wire of a French holding camp, and hid in a village in the Pyrenees while gendarmes searched it. And in the dark hours of one November morning, he escaped from a train bound for Auschwitz. Leap into Darkness is the sweeping memoir of one Jewish boy's survival, and of the family and the world he left behind.
Author : Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 2019-05-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781099596650
The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Arkham. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy about the reality and significance of the sightings, though he sides with the skeptics. Wilmarth uncovers old legends about monsters living in the uninhabited hills who abduct people who venture or settle too close to their territory.
Author : Michael Connelly
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 2001-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759520178
LAPD Detective Harry Bosch crosses paths with FBI profiler Terry McCaleb while investigating the murder of a Hollywood actress. Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex, and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide. Bosch is both the arresting officer and the star witness in a trial that has brought the Hollywood media pack out in full-throated frenzy. Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an idyllic retirement on Catalina Island when a visit from an old colleague brings his former world rushing back. It's a murder, the unreadable kind of murder he specialized in solving back in his FBI days. The investigation has stalled, and the sheriff's office is asking McCaleb to take a quick look at the murder book to see if he turns up something they've missed. McCaleb's first reading of the crime scene leads him to look for a methodical killer with a taste for rituals and revenge. As his quick look accelerates into a full-sprint investigation, the two crimes -- his murdered loner and Bosch's movie director -- begin to overlap strangely. With one unsettling revelation after another, they merge, becoming one impossible, terrifying case, involving almost inconceivable calculation. McCaleb believes he has unmasked the most frightening killer ever to cross his sights. But his investigation tangles with Bosch's lines, and the two men find themselves at odds in the most dangerous investigation of their lives.
