Author : Warren Ellis
Publisher : WildStorm
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
As a C.I.A. operative, Paul Moses's unique talent for killing took him around the world, carrying out the deadly orders of his superiors. When he retired, he wanted to put his past behind him and be left alone. But when a new administration takes over the White House, the powers-that-be decide he knows too much and order his assassination, forcing him back into the game against the agency that trained him. This war...is personal!
Author : Warren Ellis
Publisher : WildStorm
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
Hunted former assassin Paul Moses has finally found the men who ordered his death. The only problem? They're directing the hunt from C.I.A. headquarters in Langley. Can he infiltrate one of the most heavily guarded locations in the United States?
Author : Rick Riordan
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1423142497
Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives. From the creator of the hit Percy Jackson series.
Author : Francis Spufford
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1555970419
"Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." —The Times (London) Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche. It's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending. Red Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant, and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne.
Author : Vivian Vande Velde
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Children's stories, American
ISBN : 9780761457930
Eight witty stories that parody the Little Red Riding Hood tale
Author : Madeline Hunter
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101171596
From acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Madeline Hunter comes a dazzling tale of untamed passion, the first in a delicious quartet of regency romances… Armed with her cousin’s gun, Audrianna travels to an inn in Brighton to confront the mysterious “Domino”, a man who claims to have information that could clear her deceased father’s once good name. But the handsome man of commanding sensuality who shows up is not the Domino at all, but Lord Sebastian Sommerhays—one of her father’s persecutors. And when the gun accidentally fires, the secretive situation suddenly becomes mortifyingly public... There is only one way out of the scandal that erupts, and so these two passionate and headstrong adversaries find themselves joined in a marriage of necessity. Expecting a practical alliance, Audrianna quickly discovers she is helpless to resist Sebastian’s seductive persuasions as he teaches her the meaning of desire. But she remains determined to exonerate her father, even if it means risking her life, her marriage—and her heart.
Author : Matthew J. Smith
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 080789415X
In 1934 the republic of Haiti celebrated its 130th anniversary as an independent nation. In that year, too, another sort of Haitian independence occurred, as the United States ended nearly two decades of occupation. In the first comprehensive political history of postoccupation Haiti, Matthew Smith argues that the period from 1934 until the rise of dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier to the presidency in 1957 constituted modern Haiti's greatest moment of political promise. Smith emphasizes the key role that radical groups, particularly Marxists and black nationalists, played in shaping contemporary Haitian history. These movements transformed Haiti's political culture, widened political discourse, and presented several ideological alternatives for the nation's future. They were doomed, however, by a combination of intense internal rivalries, pressures from both state authorities and the traditional elite class, and the harsh climate of U.S. anticommunism. Ultimately, the political activism of the era failed to set Haiti firmly on the path to a strong independent future.
Author : Various Authors,
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 6637 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0310294142
The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
Author : Carl G. Jung
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 2012-12-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 0393089088
In 'The Red Book', compiled between 1914 and 1930, Jung develops his principal theories of archetypes, the collective unconscious & the process of individuation.
Author : Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0446557374
MY LITTLE RED BOOK is an anthology of stories about first periods, collected from women of all ages from around the world. The accounts range from light-hearted (the editor got hers while water skiing in a yellow bathing suit) to heart-stopping (a first period discovered just as one girl was about to be strip-searched by the Nazis). The contributors include well-known women writers (Meg Cabot, Erica Jong, Gloria Steinem, Cecily von Ziegesar), alongside today's teens. And while the authors differ in race, faith, or cultural background, their stories share a common bond: they are all accessible, deeply honest, and highly informative. Whatever a girl experiences or expects, she'll find stories that speak to her thoughts and feelings. Ultimately, MY LITTLE READ BOOK is more than a collection of stories. It is a call for a change in attitude, for a new way of seeing periods. In a time when the taboo around menstruation seems to be one of the few left standing, it makes a difficult subject easier to talk about, and helps girls feel proud instead of embarrassed or ashamed. By revealing what it feels like to undergo this experience first hand, and giving women the chance to explain their feelings in their own words, it aims to provide support, entertainment, and a starting point for discussion for mothers and daughters everywhere. It is a book every girl should have. Period.
