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The Last Star Standing

Author : C.G. Twiles

Publisher : Muradal Publishing

Page : 319 pages

File Size : 45,24 MB

Release : 2021-12-29

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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It takes talent to get away with murder. Piper Dunner should be America’s Sweetheart. After winning the iconic talent show American Star, she’s living her dream with a platinum album and millions of fans. But a series of disasters sends her back to obscurity. A decade later, she’s recovered with a new husband, house, and baby on the way. Asked to audition to be a judge on the talent show’s reboot, she even has a second chance at success. Then the first letter arrives. We have been watching you… We engineered your downfall. A mysterious stranger tells Piper the loss of her dream life wasn’t random—a powerful cult member had put a curse on her. Impossible. Curses aren’t real. But as more misfortunes happen, threatening those she loves, her baby, and her second chance, all signs point to a curse… or someone trying to drive her mad. Now the letters warn that the only way for Piper to win this time is… murder. For fans of Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins, and Shari Lapena. Praise for The Last Star Standing: "The Last Star Standing has everything I love in a book and blended it together. It had a reality music competition. It was a thriller. It kept me guessing. I loved it!" —Brey's Reviews "A wild ride from start to finish!" — Books and Coffee Please Keywords: Domestic thriller, psychological thriller, crime thriller, mystery, amateur sleuth, noir thriller, talent show thriller, domestic suspense, psychological suspense, suspense fiction, dark psychology, cults, revenge, pregnant heroine.



Last Star Standing

Author : Spaulding Taylor

Publisher : Unbound Publishing

Page : 325 pages

File Size : 17,5 MB

Release : 2021-02-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1789650984

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The Wishing Shelf Awards Finalist Eric Hoffer Prize Finalist CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction 2021 Finalist Aiden has always felt like an outsider. After the rebel assassin is captured and imprisoned by the world’s galactic overlords, he awaits execution. Then a mole working for the occupying regime alerts him to a plot that could destroy the entire resistance... Engineering a daring escape, Aiden’s growing feud with the new rebel leader leaves him out in the cold and smouldering with resentment. Faced with deceit and betrayals on every side, he recruits a group of overlooked outcasts and stakes everything on one last mission. Can the restless, reckless Aiden take a stand long enough to save humanity from enslavement?



Last Man Standing

Author : Duff McDonald

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 24,52 MB

Release : 2009-10-06

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1439109710

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In the midst of the most disastrous economic climate of Wall Street’s history, one executive has weathered the storm more deftly than any other: Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase. In 2008, while Dimon’s competitors watched their companies crumble, JPMorgan not only survived, it made an astonishing $5 billion profit. Dimon’s continued triumph in the face of an industry-wide meltdown has made him a paragon of finance. In Last Man Standing, award-winning journalist Duff McDonald provides an unprecedented and deeply personal look at the extraordinary figure behind JPMorgan’s success. Using countless hours of interviews with Dimon and his full circle of friends, family, and colleagues, this definitive biography is by far the most comprehensive portrait of the man known as the Savior of Wall Street. Now, in an updated prologue, McDonald offers insight into the future of Wall Street and how Dimon will overcome the challenge of aggressive new regulation from Washington—and how he plans to continue to thrive as the world’s preeminent banker.



Last Man Standing

Author : Jack Olsen

Publisher : National Geographic Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 47,35 MB

Release : 2001-11-06

Category : Law

ISBN : 0385493681

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Jack Olsen's Last Man Standing is the gripping story of Geronimo Pratt, war hero and community leader, who was framed by the FBI in one of the greatest travesties of justice in American history. Geronimo Pratt did not commit the murder for which he served twenty-seven nightmarish years. As a UCLA student, though, he had led the Los Angeles Chapter of the Black Panther Party, and became a target of the FBI. Here is the spellbinding saga of Pratt, his heroic lawyers, Johnnie Cochran and Stuart Hanlon, and the Reverend James McCloskey, who overcame all the odds to bring the truth to light and free Geronimo.



If I Disappear

Author : Eliza Jane Brazier

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 31,18 MB

Release : 2021

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0593198220

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"This new novel has more twists and fakeouts than an episode of Serial." --Rolling Stone "An eerie, twisted thriller sure to shake up the most seasoned true crime die-hard. --Harper's Bazaar A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Rolling Stone - CNN - E! Online - Buzzfeed - New York Post - Popsugar - Woman's Day - Crime Reads - Hello Giggles When her favorite true crime podcast host goes missing, an adrift young woman sets out to investigate and plunges headfirst into the wild backcountry of Northern California and her own dangerous obsession. Sera loves true crime podcasts. They give her a sense of control in a world where women just like her disappear daily. She's sure they are preparing her for something. So when Rachel, her favorite podcast host, goes missing, Sera knows it's time to act. Rachel has always taught her to trust her instincts. Sera follows the clues hidden in the episodes to an isolated ranch outside Rachel's small hometown to begin her search. She's convinced her investigation will make Rachel so proud. But the more Sera digs into this unfamiliar world, the more off things start to feel. Because Rachel is not the first woman to vanish from the ranch, and she won't be the last... Rachel did try to warn her.



Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing

Author : John Jackson Miller

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 372 pages

File Size : 30,55 MB

Release : 2020-07-14

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1982136308

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An all-new novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series! No one in the history of histories has lost more than Philippa Georgiou, ruler of the Terran Empire. Forced to take refuge in the Federation’s universe, she bides her time until Section 31, a rogue spy force within Starfleet, offers her a chance to work as their agent. She has no intention of serving under anyone else, of course; her only interest is escape. But when a young Trill, Emony Dax, discovers a powerful interstellar menace, Georgiou recognizes it as a superweapon that escaped her grasp in her own universe. Escorted by a team sent by an untrusting Federation to watch over her, the emperor journeys to a region forbidden to travelers. But will what she finds there end the threat—or give “Agent Georgiou” the means to create her old empire anew?



Last Tang Standing

Author : Lauren Ho

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 418 pages

File Size : 13,86 MB

Release : 2020-06-09

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0593187814

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Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones's Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the pursuit of happiness, surviving one's thirties intact, and opening oneself up to love. At thirty-three, Andrea Tang is living the dream: She has a successful career as a lawyer, a posh condo, and a clutch of fun-loving friends who are always in the know about Singapore's hottest clubs. All she has to do is make law partner, and her life will be perfect. And if she's about to become the lone unmarried member of her generation in the Tang clan--a disappointment her meddling Chinese-Malaysian family won't let her forget--well, she doesn't need a man to complete her. Yet when a chance encounter with charming, wealthy entrepreneur Eric Deng offers her a glimpse of an exciting, limitless future, Andrea decides to give Mr. Right-for-her-family a chance. Too bad Suresh Aditparan, her office rival and the last man her family would approve of, keeps throwing a wrench in her plans. Now Andrea can't help but wonder: In the endless tug-of-war between pleasing others and pleasing herself, is there room for everyone to win?



The Stand

Author : Stephen King

Publisher : Anchor

Page : 1474 pages

File Size : 23,88 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307743683

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A monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors who, while experiencing dreams of a battle between good and evil, move toward an actual confrontation as they migrate to Boulder, Colorado.



A Place to Stand

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca

Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 20,14 MB

Release : 2007-12-01

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1555848907

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The Pushcart Prize–winning poet’s memoir of his criminal youth and years in prison: a “brave and heartbreaking” tale of triumph over brutal adversity (The Nation). Jimmy Santiago Baca’s “astonishing narrative” of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in the maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim. An important chronicle that “affirms the triumph of the human spirit,” it went on to win the prestigious 2001 International Prize (Arizona Daily Star). Long considered one of the best poets in America today, Baca was illiterate at the age of twenty-one when he was sentenced to five years in Florence State Prison for selling drugs in Arizona. This raw, unflinching memoir is the remarkable tale of how he emerged after his years in the penitentiary—much of it spent in isolation—with the ability to read and a passion for writing poetry. “Proof there is always hope in even the most desperate lives.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram “A hell of a book, quite literally. You won’t soon forget it.” —The San Diego U-T “This book will have a permanent place in American letters.” —Jim Harrison, New York Times–bestselling author of A Good Day to Die



The Duke Goes Down

Author : Sophie Jordan

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 246 pages

File Size : 16,15 MB

Release : 2021-07-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0063035642

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AMAZON BEST ROMANCE PICK IN AUGUST New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan begins the all new The Duke Hunt series with the illegitimate son of a duke who meets his match in the daring daughter of a vicar. The Bastard Rogue... Peregrine Butler’s privileged blue-blooded world is rocked to the core when it is revealed he was born before his parents’ marriage and therefore is not the legal heir to the dukedom. Facing ruin, Perry must use his charm and good looks to win an heiress—all the while ignoring his fascination with the one interfering and alluring chit who is intent on sabotaging his efforts. The Lady Vicar... Everyone knows Imogen Bates, the virtuous daughter of the senile vicar. She can write a sermon in a day and spot a rogue in a second, so she sees right through Perry’s seductive façade. But Imogen’s plan to protect the heiresses of her beloved Shropshire from the erstwhile Duke of Penning, the bane of her existence since childhood, soon turns into something altogether unacceptable for the proper lady … who suddenly finds herself longing to keep his heated glances and tempting kisses all to herself.