Author : Rachel Blake
Publisher : Rachel Blake
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
One, two. Davie, I’m coming for you… I couldn’t protect them. The women he murdered, the ones he nearly destroyed. Trixie. Cricket. Wylde. My wife. But I will make him pay. For every life he has taken, for every minute of pain and fear he has caused my family. I will find him. And I will end him. And no one, not even the two people I’ve pledged my life to, can stop me.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Government publications
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Author : Konstantin Paustovsky
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1681377233
One of the most famous works of Russian literature, a memoir about a writer's coming of age during World War I, the Russian Civil War, and the rise of the Soviet era. This is the first unabridged translation of the first three books of Konstantin Paustovsky's magnum opus. In 1943, the Soviet author Konstantin Paustovsky started out on what would prove a masterwork, The Story of a Life, a grand, novelistic memoir of a life spent on the ravaged frontier of Russian history. Eventually expanding to fill six volumes, this extraordinary work of a lifetime would establish Paustovsky as one of Russia’s great writers and lead to a nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Here the first three books of Paustovsky’s epic autobiography—long unavailable in English—appear in a splendid new translation by Douglas Smith. Taking the reader from Paustovsky’s Ukrainian youth, his family struggling on the verge of collapse, through the first stirrings of writerly ambition, to his experiences working as a paramedic on the front lines of World War I and then as a journalist covering Russia’s violent spiral into revolution, this vivid and suspenseful story of coming-of-age in a time of troubles is lifted by the energy and lyricism of Paustovsky’s prose and marked throughout by his deep love of the natural world. The Story of a Life is a dazzling achievement of modern literature.
Author : Neil Martin
Publisher : Author House
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1467072230
Artaria This is the story of Lars, the warrior and hero for throughout the ages. His story begins when he is still, admittedly, an unknown and unimportant boy. On a predestined night the very foundation of his life is broken when two armored warriors arrive on dark steeds to capture him. His home in the forest, the only one he has ever known, is burned to the ground and his grandfather, the only family he has ever known, is murdered. Thus Lars embarks on an adventure across a diverse and fantastical landscape of drakes and wyverns, and of warring nations and errant knights. He will cross from adolescence into manhood. He will meet a prince turned vagabond and the spoiled son of a tribal chief. In the midst of battle he will befriend a gruff swordsman and will be reunited with other friends thought long abandoned. Unfortunately for Lars and for those he will come to know, the adventure does not stop there. An ancient enemy From Beyond the Grave has crossed over to the reality of the living. A mysterious man of impossible years has come to fight on the side of light and life but his means to victory may be so dark and ruthless that Lars does not know if he too is an enemy. And a woman from another world and another era will cross the very stars to find him. Epic in its scope and spanning worlds and history, the Black Phoenix Cycle will take you to the nightfall of an interstellar civilization, and back through time to its pinnacle. And through all the millennia, two enemies will play out a game where the barrier between the living and the dead is ruptured and those closest to them...regardless of love, loyalty, or sacrifice...are merely pawns. The Cycle begins...on Artaria.
Author : John Nakhosteen
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1606936344
Armen Anoukian, a semi-retired CIA agent, is assigned to investigate and smash a California drug ring. He does so by recruiting a team of disparate individuals from his neighborhood, a complex undertaking fraught with personality conflicts and always on the brink of collapsing.
Author : Joseph Caplan
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1683507681
The Money Man is an epic story for our times, which will offer hope to many who have seen the fruit of their hard work eaten away by the economy, mistakes, poor health, etc. Readers will meet the rich, the famous, the infamous, the powerful, and the powerless in the USA, England, Monaco, France, and Switzerland. The Money Man is a story of determination, love, and faith that includes many page turning stories of extraordinary success and dismal failure.
Author : Anthony Wolfe
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 2005-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1412042038
A journalist's first book of collected poems written over four decades.
Author : J. Wilhelm Frädersdorff
Publisher :
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Greek language
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Author : David Foster Wallace
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 1451 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2009-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316073857
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human — and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. With a foreword by Tom Bisell. "The next step in fiction...Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty...Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think." —Sven Birkerts, The Atlantic
Author : Daniel Allington
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 2022-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1136445536
Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology looks at how people use spoken and written English to communicate in their everyday lives. Exploring the complex relationship between communication, technology and the English language, this book offers the reader practical insights into the analysis of speech and writing. A wide range of examples is provided, ranging from text messages and domestic quarrels to the works of Shakespeare and the words of Martin Luther King. This book takes a fresh look at established topics such as rhetoric, language acquisition, and professional communication, as well as covering exciting new fields such as everyday creativity, digital media, and the history of the book. Key theoretical concepts are introduced in an accessible manner, and the reader is given an in-depth understanding of English-language communication in its social and historical contexts. Drawing on the latest research and on the Open University’s experience of producing accessible and innovative texts, this book: • explains basic concepts and assumes no previous study of English studies, communication studies or linguistics • features a range of source material and commissioned readings to supplement chapters • includes contributions from leading experts in their fields, including Naomi Baron, Deborah Cameron, Guy Cook, Janet Holmes and Almut Koester • has a truly international scope, encompassing examples and case studies from Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia • is illustrated in full colour and includes a comprehensive index. Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology is essential reading for all students of English language studies or communication studies.
