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The Lightning Keeper

Author : Starling Lawrence

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 678 pages

File Size : 12,60 MB

Release : 2009-10-13

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0061856797

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This is the story of an unlikely love at the dawn of the electric age in America. In 1914, Toma Pekocevic is a penniless immigrant in New York recently escaped from the bloody politics of the Balkans that has claimed most of his family. He is also a gifted inventor who designs a revolutionary water turbine while working with Harriet Bigelow, scion of a proud Connecticut iron-making dynasty now fallen on hard times. Their attraction is immediate and overwhelming, but every circumstance is against them. Toma's invention is all he has after losing Harriet to a wealthy politician, but he is determined to win her back, setting the stage for a confrontation that could change not only his life but the course of scientific progress.



The Lightning Keeper

Author : Starli Lawrence

Publisher : CCV Digital

Page : pages

File Size : 43,44 MB

Release : 2011-02-15

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ISBN : 9781446421598

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The Lightning Keeper

Author : Starling Lawrence

Publisher : Harper

Page : 432 pages

File Size : 40,52 MB

Release : 2006-03-28

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780060825249

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The Lightning Keeper is a sweeping epic novel of ambition, love, and enterprise in America. It is the story of an unlikely Romeo and Juliet romance at the dawn of the electric age, with the nation balancing on the brink of world war and a scientific revolution. In 1914 Toma Pekocevic is a penniless immigrant in New York recently escaped from the bloody politics of the Balkans that have claimed most of his family. He is also a gifted inventor who designs a revolutionary water turbine while working with Harriet Bigelow, scion of a proud Connecticut iron-making dynasty now fallen on hard times. Their attraction is immediate and overwhelming, but every circumstance is against them. Toma is eventually drawn inside the industrial empire of General Electric, his machine an essential cog in its grand scheme to provide electricity to the entire country. His invention is all he has after losing Harriet to a wealthy politician, but Toma is determined to win her back, setting the stage for a confrontation that could change not only his life but the course of scientific progress. Deeply evocative and utterly engrossing, The Lightning Keeper is a rich tapestry of technology, romance, and war -- an unforgettable and distinctly American saga that establishes Starling Lawrence as one of the most talented writers at work today.



The Keeper

Author : David Baldacci

Publisher : Pan Macmillan

Page : 481 pages

File Size : 25,63 MB

Release : 2015-09-10

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1447288300

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David Baldacci is back with The Keeper, the follow up to his instant #1 global bestseller and award-winning YA fantasy debut The Finisher. Vega Jane was always told no one could leave the town of Wormwood. She was told there was nothing outside but the Quag, a wilderness filled with danger and death. And she believed it - until the night she stumbled across a secret that proved that everything she knew was a lie. Now Vega and her best friend Delph must find a way to make it across this terrifying land of bloodthirsty creatures and sinister magic. But the Quag is worse than Vega Jane's darkest imagining. It's a living, breathing prison designed to keep enemies out and the villagers of Wormwood in. The Quag will throw everything at Vega. It will try to break her. It will try to kill her. And survival might come at a price not even Vega is willing to pay. Master storyteller David Baldacci unleashes a hurricane of action and adrenalin that takes readers to breaking point in this second instalment in the Vega Jane series.



The Keeper

Author : Kelcey Ervick

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 47,8 MB

Release : 2022-10-04

Category : Comics & Graphic Novels

ISBN : 0593539184

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A beautifully illustrated coming-of-age graphic memoir chronicling how sports shaped one young girl’s life and changed women’s history forever. Growing up playing on a top national soccer team in the 1980s, Kelcey Ervick and her teammates didn’t understand the change they represented. Title IX was enacted in 1972 with little fanfare, but to seismic effect; between then and now, girls’ participation in organized sports has exploded more than 1,000 percent. Braiding together personal narrative, pop culture, literature, and history, Ervick tells the story of how her adolescence was shaped by this boom. Ervick also explores her role as a goalkeeper—a position marked by outsider status and observation—and reveals it has drawn some of the most famed writers of our time. With wit and poignant storytelling, The Keeper brings to life forgotten figures who understood the importance of athletics to help women step into their confidence and power—and push for equality. Full of 1980s nostalgia and heart, The Keeper is a celebration of how far we have come and a reminder of how far we have to go.



The Light Between Oceans

Author : M.L. Stedman

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 339 pages

File Size : 46,62 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1451681755

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A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.





Keeper

Author : Kim Chance

Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.

Page : 293 pages

File Size : 32,45 MB

Release : 2018-01-30

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 1635830133

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When Lainey Styles, an SAT whiz and bookworm, discovers she’s a Keeper—a witch with the exclusive ability to wield a powerful spell book that has been stolen by a malevolent wizard—she is forced to leave her life of college prep and studying behind to prepare for the biggest test of all: stealing back the book.



Keeper's World

Author : Justin Miller

Publisher : Justin Miller

Page : 62 pages

File Size : 36,97 MB

Release :

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Keeper’s World is a side-story series dedicated to telling the various tales that occur within the world of World Keeper. It is not suggested to read this story without first reading World Keeper, as most of the content would not be properly understood without that context. As these are side stories, they will not get as in-depth as the main series, often skipping over large chunks of time in order to deliver the main points of the story in question. The plains are in turmoil, the centaurs beginning to turn on each other. Civil war is on the horizon. Join the First King as he brings the people together in the Knights of the Round Stable, the first of the Keeper's World series to accompany World Keeper.



The Keepers of Truth

Author : Michael Collins

Publisher : University of Iowa Press

Page : 314 pages

File Size : 10,86 MB

Release : 2021-10

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1609388046

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The last of a manufacturing dynasty in a dying industrial town, Bill lives alone in the family mansion and works for the Truth, the moribund local paper. He yearns to write long philosophical pieces about the American dream gone sour, not the flaccid write-ups of bake-off contests demanded by the Truth. Then, old man Lawton goes missing, and suspicion fixes on his son, Ronny. Paradoxically, the specter of violent death breathes new life into the town. For Bill, a deeper and more disturbing involvement with the Lawtons ensues. The Lawton murder and the obsessions it awakes in the town come to symbolize the mood of a nation on the edge. Compulsively readable, The Keepers of Truth startles both with its insights and with Collins's powerful, incisive writing.