Book Description
By turns hilarious and poignant, this daring debut novel begins with the violent end of a marriage. The aftershocks of the murder-suicide then resonate through a small town where everybody knows everybody elses business.
Author : Virginia Boyd
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Adultery
ISBN : 1595543996
By turns hilarious and poignant, this daring debut novel begins with the violent end of a marriage. The aftershocks of the murder-suicide then resonate through a small town where everybody knows everybody elses business.
Author : P. Kotila
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 2024-04-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781792315411
A medic and his team encounter a lone scavenger foraging in the ruins. After an attack on the mission party, the pair find themselves alone and drawn to each other, despite the masks they each wear.
Author : Osmington MILLS (pseud.)
Publisher :
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : David Hayward
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 37,98 MB
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 1506484727
Aggravated women disciples, Jesus hugging rainbow sheep, a man praying WTF?: the cartoons of David Hayward, the artist behind @NakedPastor, are graffiti on the walls of the church. This collection includes best-loved and never-before-seen cartoons that will challenge and inspire those grappling with the realities of the church as we know it.
Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2002-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812574746
The disappearance of the Demon Earth puts all worlds, including Xanth, in danger. It is up to Cynthia Centaur and her companions to use the weapon known as the Swell Foop to put things right.
Author : M. Robinson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 2005
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Author : Ilona Andrews
Publisher : NYLA
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1943772711
From the New York Times #1 bestselling author, Ilona Andrews, comes a new tale from the Innkeeper Chronicles “Ilona Andrews’s books are guaranteed good reads.”—Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fire Touched Dina Demille may run the nicest Bed and Breakfast in Red Deer, Texas, but she caters to a very particular kind of guest... the kind that no one on Earth is supposed to know about. Guests like a former intergalactic tyrant with an impressive bounty on her head, the Lord Marshal of a powerful vampire clan, and a displaced-and-superhot werewolf; so don’t stand too close, or you may be collateral damage. But what passes for Dina’s normal life is about to be thrown into chaos. First, she must rescue her long-distant older sister, Maud, who’s been exiled with her family to a planet that functions as the most lawless penal colony since Botany Bay. Then she agrees to help a guest whose last chance at saving his civilization could bring death and disaster to all Dina holds dear. Now Gertrude Hunt is under siege by a clan of assassins. To keep her guests safe and to find her missing parents, Dina will risk everything, even if she has to pay the ultimate price. Though Sean may have something to say about that!
Author : Colin Beavan
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781429952576
A guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his baby daughter and Prada-wearing, Four Seasons–loving wife along for the ride. And that's just the beginning. Bill McKibben meets Bill Bryson in this seriously engaging look at one man's decision to put his money where his mouth is and go off the grid for one year—while still living in New York City—to see if it's possible to make no net impact on the environment. In other words, no trash, no toxins in the water, no elevators, no subway, no products in packaging, no air-conditioning, no television . . . What would it be like to try to live a no-impact lifestyle? Is it possible? Could it catch on? Is living this way more satisfying or less satisfying? Harder or easier? Is it worthwhile or senseless? Are we all doomed or can our culture reduce the barriers to sustainable living so it becomes as easy as falling off a log? These are the questions at the heart of this whole mad endeavor, via which Colin Beavan hopes to explain to the rest of us how we can realistically live a more "eco-effective" and by turns more content life in an age of inconvenient truths.
Author : Janet McNaughton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2005-02-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780060089894
In the year 2368, humans exist under dire environmental conditions and one young woman, rescued from a workcamp and chosen for a special duty, uses her love of learning to discover the truth about the planet's future and her own dark past.
Author : Mark Lamster
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316453498
A "smoothly written and fair-minded" (Wall Street Journal) biography of architect Philip Johnson -- a finalist for the National Book Critic's Circle Award. When Philip Johnson died in 2005 at the age of 98, he was still one of the most recognizable and influential figures on the American cultural landscape. The first recipient of the Pritzker Prize and MoMA's founding architectural curator, Johnson made his mark as one of America's leading architects with his famous Glass House in New Caanan, CT, and his controversial AT&T Building in NYC, among many others in nearly every city in the country -- but his most natural role was as a consummate power broker and shaper of public opinion. Johnson introduced European modernism -- the sleek, glass-and-steel architecture that now dominates our cities -- to America, and mentored generations of architects, designers, and artists to follow. He defined the era of "starchitecture" with its flamboyant buildings and celebrity designers who esteemed aesthetics and style above all other concerns. But Johnson was also a man of deep paradoxes: he was a Nazi sympathizer, a designer of synagogues, an enfant terrible into his old age, a populist, and a snob. His clients ranged from the Rockefellers to televangelists to Donald Trump. Award-winning architectural critic and biographer Mark Lamster's The Man in the Glass House lifts the veil on Johnson's controversial and endlessly contradictory life to tell the story of a charming yet deeply flawed man. A rollercoaster tale of the perils of wealth, privilege, and ambition, this book probes the dynamics of American culture that made him so powerful, and tells the story of the built environment in modern America.