Book Description
A mesmerizing collection of tales guaranteed to make your spine tingle. Brimming with chilling surprises and unexpected twists, these stories make for compulsive reading. Captivating!
Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 2006-11
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ISBN : 1425046835
A mesmerizing collection of tales guaranteed to make your spine tingle. Brimming with chilling surprises and unexpected twists, these stories make for compulsive reading. Captivating!
Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 2006-11
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ISBN : 1425048870
A mesmerizing collection of tales guaranteed to make your spine tingle. Brimming with chilling surprises and unexpected twists, these stories make for compulsive reading. Captivating!
Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 2005
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ISBN : 1427035296
Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 2006-11
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ISBN : 1425047858
A mesmerizing collection of tales guaranteed to make your spine tingle. Brimming with chilling surprises and unexpected twists, these stories make for compulsive reading. Captivating!
Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 11,40 MB
Release : 2009
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ISBN : 1427035318
Tales of Terror and Mystery / Arthur Conan Doyle.
Author : Louise Penny
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982173696
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named one of the most anticipated novels of the season by People, Associated Press, Time, Los Angeles Times, Parade, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more. From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertise—State of Terror. After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone’s surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state. There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it’s a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job means Adams must step down as head of her multinational media conglomerate. As the new president addresses Congress for the first time, with Secretary Adams in attendance, Anahita Dahir, a young foreign service officer (FSO) on the Pakistan desk at the State Department, receives a baffling text from an anonymous source. Too late, she realizes the message was a hastily coded warning. What begins as a series of apparent terrorist attacks is revealed to be the beginning of an international chess game involving the volatile and Byzantine politics of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran; the race to develop nuclear weapons in the region; the Russian mob; a burgeoning rogue terrorist organization; and an American government set back on its heels in the international arena. As the horrifying scale of the threat becomes clear, Secretary Adams and her team realize it has been carefully planned to take advantage of four years of an American government out of touch with international affairs, out of practice with diplomacy, and out of power in the places where it counts the most. To defeat such an intricate, carefully constructed conspiracy, it will take the skills of a unique team: a passionate young FSO; a dedicated journalist; and a smart, determined, but as yet untested new secretary of state. State of Terror is a unique and utterly compelling international thriller cowritten by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the 67th secretary of state, and Louise Penny, a multiple award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling novelist.
Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804172706
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Author : Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 1995
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ISBN : 1427021163
Author : Ed Catmull
Publisher : Random House
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 27,55 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0679644504
The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles that built Pixar’s singularly successful culture, and on all he learned during the past nine years that allowed Pixar to retain its creative culture while continuing to evolve. “Might be the most thoughtful management book ever.”—Fast Company For nearly thirty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner eighteen Academy Awards. The joyous storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable. As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the twenty-five movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as: • Give a good idea to a mediocre team and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team and they will either fix it or come up with something better. • It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them. • The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. • A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody. Creativity, Inc. has been significantly expanded to illuminate the continuing development of the unique culture at Pixar. It features a new introduction, two entirely new chapters, four new chapter postscripts, and changes and updates throughout. Pursuing excellence isn’t a one-off assignment but an ongoing, day-in, day-out, full-time job. And Creativity, Inc. explores how it is done.
Author : John Williams
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Adultery
ISBN : 1590179285
"Born the child of a poor farmer in Missouri, William Stoner is urged by his parents to study new agriculture techniques at the state university. Digging instead into the texts of Milton and Shakespeare, Stoner falls under the spell of the unexpected pleasures of English literature, and decides to make it his life. Stoner is the story of that life"--