Fugitive Dreams
Fugitive Dreams is a slightly fictionalized literary memoir illustrating a sweeping 50 years of life under occupation through personal stories. Born in Palestine 'on the "wrong" side of the border, ' Sameer finds his way to America to rebuild his life. His immigrant experience in post-9/11 America is laced to the ongoing conflict at home with the common threads of school shootings, police violence, human rights abuses, activism, and walls. For the sake of his daughter, he decides he must do something.
The Jungle (Read & Co. Classics Edition)
One of twentieth-century America's most politically influential novels, The Jungle is Upton Sinclair's hard-hitting expos矇 of the meat-packing industry. Journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair was a known muckraker who used his work to expose the horrific underbelly of the American government in the early 1900s. The Jungle is the fictional story of Jurgis Rudkus and his wife, Ona Lukoszaite. The couple immigrated to Chicago from Lithuania in the hopes of living the American Dream. Instead, they are met by the hardship and tragedy that awaited so many immigrants at the time. Jurgis secures a job in the meat-packing industry and quickly realises the disgusting treatment of animals and the horrendous working conditions that led to many injuries and deaths. Prior to writing the powerful novel, Sinclair spent seven weeks working in the Chicago meat-packing industry. He used his research to expose the corrupt factories in his writing. Originally published in serial form in 1905 for Appeal to Reason, the socialist newspaper, The Jungle was published as a book in 1906. The novel caused such public outcry that Sinclair's work played a large part in the introduction of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act in the US. Read & Co. Classics has proudly republished this volume for the enjoyment of fans of socialist literature and those interested in the history of America's meat industry.
Accidental Diplomacy
As Commander Wong gazes into the vastness of the South China Sea from the deck of a Chinese Navy ship, he is alerted that a US Navy battleship is approaching. Meanwhile as Admiral Smith stands in the control room of the US battleship, three Chinese jets fly overhead and warn the crew that they are in foreign waters. But neither leader has any idea that in mere seconds, everything is about to change. After a computer glitch prompts a US Navy lieutenant to make a split-second decision to take down two of the Chinese aircraft with missiles, the Chinese retaliate and launch their own attack. While Russia and others push China toward war, a peace summit is called. But can the sworn enemies who are leading the summit find a way to utilize diplomacy, cultural understanding, and friendship to stop a Third World War from unfolding? In this political thriller, a computer error prompts an unplanned battle in the South China Sea between two superpowers with the potential to cause a Third World War.
Holus Bolus
President Michael Fontaine is struggling to preserve his legacy against the threats of rebels, firestorms and floods. The Nomenklatura live safely behind the Protection Barriers, but out in the Wastelands the rest of the population is fighting for food and water.Miriam Sabto, the Minister for Incarceration, aspires to be the first Black president of the Democratic Republic of Australia, and her advisor, Ruth Tran, will do anything to make this happen. And then there is Freddie Wu, envoy from Shanghai, with his demands backed up by a visiting aircraft carrier.As the rebels attack the Fontaine Government, events take a sudden turn that puts the future of Australia on the line.
Accidental Diplomacy
As Commander Wong gazes into the vastness of the South China Sea from the deck of a Chinese Navy ship, he is alerted that a US Navy battleship is approaching. Meanwhile as Admiral Smith stands in the control room of the US battleship, three Chinese jets fly overhead and warn the crew that they are in foreign waters. But neither leader has any idea that in mere seconds, everything is about to change. After a computer glitch prompts a US Navy lieutenant to make a split-second decision to take down two of the Chinese aircraft with missiles, the Chinese retaliate and launch their own attack. While Russia and others push China toward war, a peace summit is called. But can the sworn enemies who are leading the summit find a way to utilize diplomacy, cultural understanding, and friendship to stop a Third World War from unfolding? In this political thriller, a computer error prompts an unplanned battle in the South China Sea between two superpowers with the potential to cause a Third World War.
Đi
..."ĐI" đ瓊 m繫 tả rất thực ho?n cảnh gia đ穫nh nh? văn cũng như cuộc sửa soạn chuyến vượt biển v? những ng?y tr礙n biển Đ繫ng n礙n c籀 sự l繫i cuốn từ người thực việc thực. Những l獺 thư của con ch獺u gửi về tả lại đời sống ở trại đảo cũng như ở xứ người biểu lộ t璽m tư kh獺 ti礙u biểu của những người bị dồn v?o thế phải bắt buộc xa qu礙 hương. Ra đi m? vẫn ngo獺i nh穫n về đất nước với những người th璽n c簷n ở lại. Ri礙ng t繫i, t繫i c籀 cảm nhận rằng t獺c phẩm được viết ra với một tấm l簷ng thương con thương ch獺u v繫 bờ. Người thường nếu c籀 t璽m tưởng như thế cũng c籀 thể viết xuất sắc huống chi một nh? văn nổi tiếng l? đ繫n hậu th穫 sự l繫i cuốn độc giả sẽ l礙n đến mức n?o!... Tr穩ch "DO?N QUỐC SỸ, Kẻ Sĩ Thời Đại Ch繳ng Ta" - NGUYỄN MẠNH TRINH
M穫nh Lại Soi M穫nh
"... Ch繳ng t繫i c簷n kh獺m ph獺 nơi nh? văn Do瓊n Quốc Sỹ những t璽m lượng từ 獺i tuyệt vời, lu繫n lu繫n tin tưởng v?o những gi獺 trị cao qu羸 của truyền thống văn h籀a d璽n tộc: ?ng kh繫ng nu繫i hận th羅 d?i l璽u ngay cả khi 繫ng đang bị giam trong lao t羅 Cộng sản. ?ng chỉ căm th羅 ch穩nh s獺ch của một chế độ t?n bạo đ?n 獺p c獺i nh璽n phẩm con người xuống tầm s繳c vật, muốn d穫m con người trong thiếu thốn để chứng minh nguy礙n l羸 'vật chất quyết định hết thảy'. ?ng kh繫ng căm th羅 những kẻ thừa lệnh đang h?nh hạ 繫ng v? 繫ng quan niệm nếu ch繳ng ta thực sự muốn học hỏi hạnh từ bi nhẫn nhục th穫 n礙n c獺m ơn những người g璽y ra tội 獺c v穫 ch穩nh kẻ th羅 đ瓊 dạy cho ch繳ng ta r癡n luyện l簷ng nh璽n từ. Đối với người c籀 bản chất từ bi n礙n xem như một vốn liếng kinh nghiệm cần thiết m? trong đ籀 kẻ th羅 kh繫ng thể thiếu được th?nh tố đạt đến th?nh c繫ng ..." (Tr穩ch "L簷ng Từ trong C繭i Văn Do瓊n Quốc Sỹ", Th獺i T繳 Hạp (2006))
Enemies in the West Wing
The President of the United States Has Gone Rogue!With the Nation in grave peril, seven resolute patriots, "The DC Seven", find that saving the Nation is much more difficult and tragic than they had ever realized.How will they avoid the danger to themselves and their families and restore the democracy?
Adriana Books, The Complete Blog, 2020-2021, Vol 1
Adriana Books: The Complete Blog, 2010-2021, Volumes 1 & 2, contain all of the posts to the blog on Adriana Books, written by Dwight Cathcart. They are prompted by the huge changes in the lives of LGBTQ people during this recent decade and by the question of the future. The essays are short, easily accessible, pointed and penetrating on topics that confront LGBTQ people today. From the question of coming out to the issue of teen-age suicides among LGBTQ youth and, of course, to the achievement of marriage equality and its effect on all of us, these essays discuss tactics and strategy-all from the perspective of a queer man right at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It never forgets the history of LGBTQ people or the LGBTQ people who were damaged and are continuing to be damaged by the action of the bigoted and the ignorant.
Anthem
Ayn Rand published her book, Anthem, in 1946. In the included foreword she provided, she bemoaned "people who accept collectivism by moral default" despite there being ample evidence of the bloody consequences of that approach. "Those who refuse to see it now are neither blind nor innocent." Sadly, though some seventy years have passed, that evidence has only accumulated and compounded, heaping body upon body, bones upon bones, mass graves over other mass graves. And yet, even now, 'collective' ideologies are still accepted as the 'moral default.' Ayn Rand's prescient book, Anthem, was a warning. But it was a warning unheeded, leaving us to wonder if there is any genocidal calamity that could take place that could shake the foundations of the inclination towards collectivism that we remain awash in.
It Could Happen Here -
Eric King the CEO of International Surveillance, Security and Construction, ISSAC, received a call from Wilbur Barron, the president of the United States, requesting that he attend a meeting at the National Golf Club. Barron was vague but hinted that he needed King's business expertise in planning an election year strategy. King wasn't surprised by the call. The president always sought advice from friends outside of his staff. Barron didn't mention it openly, but those who worked for him knew he had a basic distrust of people who were attached to the system and worked for government paychecks. He wanted input from people whose wealth freed them from having to worry about their next government stipend and leaned on his rich friends for all sorts of tasks and advice. He vested some with cabinet level decision making powers without ever having to run them before congress for confirmation. Cabinet members and the presidential staff knew the president's friends could overturn their decisions with a phone call and of all the members of the president's kitchen cabinet, King was the most heavily relied on. He undertook jobs for Barron that were unadvertised, sometimes shady, and he was secretive enough never to let the press know what he was doing.
The Editor
As long as you play chess, you depend on moves directed at your opponent. This changes when you start thinking about the game itself rather than the movements. _____________________________________________________________ Ernst J羹nger's Commentary on Friedrich Georg's 70th Birthday
Beyond the Banana Hills
In this spellbinding novel, a recently reinstated attorney, working for a famous litigator travel to Colombia in search of an elusive US expat who may have witnessed massacres committed my paramilitaries hired by a famous corporation. When their paths cross, a dark secret is revealed, and both of their life trajectories are forever changed.
Chilltown
The communities of Jersey City and Hoboken, New Jersey are plagued by continuous unrelenting city officials and those in power, as they play hardball with construction groups and subcontractors demanding they pay payments of money or some form of inducement if they wish to continue working within the two cities.From the mayor, taking bribes, down to city inspectors, council members and all in-between are working their own angles of corruption causing continuous violence, murder, and general mayhem in order to collect weekly payments. This is the story of one man's attempt at exposing the illegal activity that's caused so much stress and suffering in the metro areas. Liam Johnson a local reporter, continuously fights back the only way he knows how, by exposing those individuals through his daily editorials. Liam Johnson has taken on the dauting task of fighting crime plaguing two metro areas by his words. The story is filled with many twists and turns, and just when you think he's succeeding in his fight for justice, another situation arises, and once again the status quo returns to square one.The story is jam-packed with suspense, anger, love, and travel. In the end nothing's changed, corruption still rules.
The Prince
The prince is a political sage of Niccol簷 Machiavelli.
The Republic of False Truths
A "glorious, humane novel" (The Observer) about the Egyptian revolution, taking us inside the battle raging between those in power and those prepared to lay down their lives in the defense of freedom--this globally-acclaimed narrative from one of the foremost writers in the Arab world is still banned across much of the region. Cairo, 2011. After decades under a repressive regime, tensions are rising in the city streets. No one is out of reach of the revolution. There is General Alwany, a high-ranking member of the government's security agency, a pious man who loves his family yet won't hesitate to torture enemies of the state; Asma, a young teacher who chafes against the brazen corruption at her school; Ashraf, an out-of-work actor who is having an affair with his maid and who gets pulled into Tahrir Square through a chance encounter; Nourhan, a television personality who loyally defends those in power; and many more. As these lives collide, a new generation finds a voice, love blossoms across class divides, and the revolution gains strength. Even the general finds himself at a crossroads as his own daughter joins the protests. Yet the old regime will not give up without a fight. With an unforgettably vivid cast of characters and a heart-pounding narrative banned across much of the region, Alaa Al Aswany gives us a deeply human portrait of the Egyptian Revolution, and an impassioned retelling of his country's turbulent recent history.
The God Conspiracy
The deadliest terror attacks in American history are triggered by a mysterious e-mail from "God," and the government blames a fanatical group of apocalyptic Christians.FBI Special Agent Joe Unes reluctantly teams with reclusive Internet broadcaster Barney Ison to expose the plot -- and discovers that he's not contending with flesh and blood.
Road Not Taken? - Imperium in Imperio & the Hindered Hand
In "ROAD NOT TAKEN? - Imperium in Imperio & The Hindered Hand," Sutton E. Griggs deftly intertwines social commentary with narrative innovation, exploring themes of racial identity, leadership, and self-determination in the early 20th century. Griggs employs a robust literary style that melds realism with elements of speculative fiction, crafting a dual narrative that probes the complexities of African American experiences during a time of profound sociopolitical upheaval. The intertextual dialogue established between these two works serves as a poignant reflection on the diverging paths of racial uplift and societal resistance, pushing readers to reckon with the implications of choice and agency within a constrained societal framework. Sutton E. Griggs, an influential African American author and activist, drew inspiration from his personal experiences and the historical context of post-Reconstruction America. Griggs's commitment to civil rights and his academic background as a well-educated preacher shaped his perspective, empowering him to articulate the struggles and aspirations of Black Americans. His literary contributions are often overshadowed by contemporaries, yet they remain significant in the canon of African American literature, capturing the zeitgeist of a tumultuous era. Highly recommended for scholars, students, and general readers alike, "ROAD NOT TAKEN?" invites thoughtful examination of Griggs's profound insights into race and identity. This collection not only enriches our understanding of the literary landscape but also serves as a vital reminder of the historical struggles that continue to resonate in contemporary discussions of race and social justice.
Own Little Worlds
Patchen-Award Winning Novel!Four days before the presidential election, a bomb explodes on a Japanese cargo ship in the Port of Jacksonville, incinerating four American workers. Retired editor Trammell is on the story, just as soon as he gets in his nap. Laid-off reporter Lucy Neale has his back, searching for a fugitive computer expert falsely accused of planting the bomb. Did the sitting Democratic president, Oscar winner Cassandra Holland, order it? Or is the GOP challenger, professional wrestler Daniel "The Hammer" Hammerschmidt, behind it? Or is everyone just being played by dirty trickster Dick Maestro?In OWN LITTLE WORLDS, ex-journalist Cal Massey takes us on a fierce, funny, fast-paced ride through post-Trump America, in the company of characters both marvelous and mean, caught in the swirl of ever-shifting truth and a democracy crumbling under the weight of its own hate.Welcome to a tragedy you can dance to.Fiction.
The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas
Two young men are caught in the crosshairs of shady government operations, mafias, and billionaires. A multi-generational family drama unfolds into an observation of violence in American History: from the Oregon Trail, to the nuclear age, the Vietnam War, and a post-9/11 world.
Deadly Election
A mysterious suicide in a military prison.a president whose thirst for alcohol may overwhelm his thirst for power.a White House advisor who takes matters into his own hands. With the country's future in the balance, a Supreme Court justice, a young congressional aide and a grieving mother are swept into a fight for their ideals-and their lives. As timely as tomorrow's headlines, Deadly Election is a searing tale of intrigue, courage, and the lust for power.
Black List
#1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most explosive thriller ever. Somewhere deep inside the United States government is a closely guarded list. Members of Congress never get to see it--only the President and a secret team of advisors. Once your name is on the list, it doesn't come off...until you're dead. Someone has just added counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath's name. Somehow Harvath must evade the teams dispatched to kill him long enough to untangle who has targeted him and why they want him out of the way. Somehow, somewhere, someone can put all the pieces together. The only question is, will Harvath get to that person before the United States suffers the most withering terrorist attack ever conceived?
Gwenllian
1275... a cry for help from a woman who is kidnapped at sea. 2016. Dutch archivist Fenna van Wijk is helping architect Ned Thompson sifting through a stack of ancient papers kept in an untouched archive in an old English manor house in Lincolnshire. Among manuscripts dealing with the holy Gilbert of Sempringham, they discover a letter from 1275, written by Eleanor de Montfort, the young bride to be of Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd. During their research, Fenna stumbles upon Eleanor's only child: Gwenllian. The English king Edward I had his enemy's infant locked away for ever in a cloister in... Sempringham. When Fenna and Ned try to understand this harsh decision, they find more than they bargained for.
The Russians
In 1947, the Cold War started primarily between the United States and the Soviet Union, who had been previous allies, during World War II. During the Cold War, both parties sought to destroy each other, while at the same time attempting to spread either Communism or Democracy to other countries around the world. THE RUSSIANS is a fictional story, which tells the story of several former Soviet Union citizens, who have sworn loyalty to the United States, who are sent back into the Soviet Union, as sleeper agents, with their focus being on the establishment of businesses and military connections, which will disrupt and ultimately destroy the Soviet Union. The sleeper agents believe that they are fighting for a cause, specifically, to ensure the safety of the United States. However, in their attempt to destroy the Soviet Union, these sleeper agents discover that the power of businesses and money are more powerful than any nuclear bomb. Now, in 2015, the businesses established by the sleeper agents are intertwined with American businesses, with the only motivating focus to make more money, with the money coming from the spread of wars and toppling governments. The sleeper agents soon discover that there is an elite group of men and women, who not only control American government officials, but several other countries, with this group calling themselves, "62 Investments", as everyone within the group are descendants of the 62 Pilgrims on the Mayflower, who were not fleeing England from persecution, but were heading to America, in order to make it their own country. 62 Investments decides who will become President, where wars will be started, and what puppet leaders will be propped up, while every move and step they make is intended to make them more money, as well as maintaining their complete control over not only the United States, but the world.
Blood Oath
In 2019, a promising Democratic American Senator, James Franklin, a handsome White man, in his early 30's, is the invited guest at an exclusive hunting preserve, where a group of powerful and wealthy donors are grooming James to fulfill their dream of placing one of their own into the Office of the President, but they're not interested in James' race, age, or looks...they want James to be the first werewolf to occupy the Office of the President.
Cold Island
Britain is divided, and Mara is on the wrong side1989, the Berlin Wall opens. The upheavals in her homeland are an opportunity for Mara--free to travel, she comes to Britain, falls in love and never leaves.2016, the UK votes to leave the European Union, and once again, Mara is at the centre of a changing world.She's built her life in Britain: a wife, a career and a cottage in the countryside. But now Mara worries she'll be forced to return to a Germany she no longer knows.Faced with bureaucratic inflexibility and administrative failures, Mara needs to prove her right to remain. But do the events of her first years in Britain hold the key to whether she will be allowed to stay?Cold Island explores the personal cost of Brexit
Run and Hide
"Pankaj Mishra transforms a visceral, intimate story of one man's humble origins into a kaleidoscopic portrait of a society bedazzled by power and wealth--what it means on a human level, and what it costs. Run and Hide is a spectacular, illuminating work of fiction." --Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach Growing up in a small railway town, Arun always dreamed of escape. His acceptance to the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, enabled through great sacrifice by his low-caste parents, is seemingly his golden ticket out of a life plagued by everyday cruelties and deprivations. At the predominantly male campus, he meets two students from similar backgrounds. Unlike Arun--scarred by his childhood, and an uneasy interloper among go-getters--they possess the sheer will and confidence to break through merciless social barriers. The alumni of IIT eventually go on to become the financial wizards of their generation, working hard and playing hard from East Hampton to Tuscany--the beneficiaries of unprecedented financial and sexual freedom. But while his friends play out Gatsby-style fantasies, Arun fails to leverage his elite education for social capital. He decides to pursue the writerly life, retreating to a small village in the Himalayas with his aging mother. Arun's modest idyll is one day disrupted by the arrival of a young woman named Alia, who is writing an expos矇 of his former classmates. Alia, beautiful and sophisticated, draws Arun back to the prospering world where he must be someone else if he is to belong. When he is implicated in a terrible act of violence committed by his closest friend from IIT, Arun will have to reckon with the person he has become. Run and Hide is Pankaj Mishra's powerful story of achieving material progress at great moral and emotional cost. It is also the story of a changing country and global order, and the inequities of class and gender that map onto our most intimate relationships.
Gods of Ruin
The gods will fall when the people rise.Com DeGroot is an outsider politician who tells it like it is. But as he makes his way up the power structure of the U.S. Senate, he is forced to choose between his promising career and the promise he made to defend the Constitution. Just as Com is poised to make a name for himself in the cut-throat climate of D.C. party politics, he is presented with an opportunity to save the charter city of Ur, Texas from a suspicious partisan plot aimed at taking over the rare free-market hold-out. The only catch is, in order to save Ur, he has to go up against the most powerful men on Capitol Hill and risk all he has accomplished in his young career.With the help of astute libertarian and elusive old flame Cate Heatherton, Com engages in a dangerous fight to save Ur from what they discover is a shadowy corporate-government conspiracy that will stop at nothing to get its way."Gods of Ruin" thrusts the reader into the quick-deal, high-stakes game of national policymaking, and uncovers the secret underbelly of a government where morality and the rule of law are quaint sidelights to all-engrossing corruption and power-broking. Set a decade in the future, this thriller serves as a stark reminder of what can happen when liberty is overlooked in pursuit of security, and offers a glimpse at the potential solution.
Terror Strikes
Marten's phone rattled across the desk at his bedside. Reaching over in the dark, he picked it up and cradled it and its dim light penetrated the dark. A text relayed in from the nearby phone network tower.Marten's interest was heightened, and he wiped his hands across his eyes in order to better focus. Two words appeared: Go Go's. He need not review the source; this could only be from one person-Nicolas. When a journalist sets out to write a book about terrorism, he learns more than he bargained for.Will his sacrifices be worth it?Will anyone pay attention?Can America be saved?Yes, about terrorism but not book about death, but life and living.Life, over Death. Hope, over Fear. Faith, over Despair. Love, over Hate. Good, over Evil. Individualism, over Collectivism. Freedom, over Tyranny. Family, and Friends. LIFE!
Glory
2022 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST "Manifoldly clever...brilliant... 'Glory' is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny." --Violet Kupersmith, The New York Times Book Review "Genius."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, an exhilarating novel about the fall of an oppressive regime, and the chaos and opportunity that rise in its wake. NoViolet Bulawayo's bold new novel follows the fall of the Old Horse, the long-serving leader of a fictional country, and the drama that follows for a rumbustious nation of animals on the path to true liberation. Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup in November 2017 of Robert G. Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president of nearly four decades, Glory shows a country's imploding, narrated by a chorus of animal voices that unveil the ruthlessness required to uphold the illusion of absolute power and the imagination and bulletproof optimism to overthrow it completely. By immersing readers in the daily lives of a population in upheaval, Bulawayo reveals the dazzling life force and irresistible wit that lie barely concealed beneath the surface of seemingly bleak circumstances. And at the center of this tumult is Destiny, a young goat who returns to Jidada to bear witness to revolution--and to recount the unofficial history and the potential legacy of the females who have quietly pulled the strings here. The animal kingdom--its connection to our primal responses and its resonance in the mythology, folktales, and fairy tales that define cultures the world over--unmasks the surreality of contemporary global politics to help us understand our world more clearly, even as Bulawayo plucks us right out of it. Although Zimbabwe is the immediate inspiration for this thrilling story, Glory was written in a time of global clamor, with resistance movements across the world challenging different forms of oppression. Thus it often feels like Bulawayo captures several places in one blockbuster allegory, crystallizing a turning point in history with the texture and nuance that only the greatest fiction can.
Our Man Buddy
Jim Jeffries, the author of "The Bay Rat Kid," a book that chronicled his early life growing up in Ocean City, N.J. during the 1940's and 50's brings you his new novel entitled "Our Man Buddy." It is a fictional satire on politics and the election process in today's setting.Forget about the seriousness of how we go about electing political leaders and enjoy looking at this institution in a different way. Although very unlikely, it would be fun to see a Buddy Duncan make a name for himself somewhere in America.Could it happen?... maybe.
The Last Man
The Last Man Mary Shelley, most famous for "Frankenstein" also wrote several other novels and short stories. "The Last Man" was her second best-seller, written about ten years after the publication of "Frankenstein". The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel about tragic love and a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. It reflects Shelley's fears about civilization and the shortcomings of human behavior. Lionel Verney, the narrator and last survivor of a twenty-first century plague, recounts how he discovers a manuscript written in 2100. But aside from the novel being delightful and arguably obscure entertainment for the Romantic literature aficionado, it is the foundation of English Sci-Fi from H.G. Wells to Arthur C. Clarke, not to mention such works as "The Stand" by Stephen King and "I am Legend" by Richard Matheson.
The Road From Calumny
Becky Breck arrived in Hollywood at 17 with $650 in her pocket, and instantly won the lead role on a hit teen show. Now, nine years later and recognized as one of the most brilliant acting talents of her generation, Becky is poised for movie stardom - vying for the lead in a blockbuster anti-American political film based on a "true story" hailed by Hollywood and the mainstream media. But as the pressure on her builds, Becky falters, and betrays her deepest principles. Reeling from her failure and shame, she spins out of control and flees Hollywood.In an addled cross-country journey to reconcile with her damaged past, Becky stumbles into an alliance with a mysterious young man on his own mission of vindication. Mitch offers Becky a once-unimaginable opportunity: to return to Hollywood on her own terms by exposing a slanderous lie at the heart of the blockbuster movie she'd abandoned. Great personal and professional risks are involved, and success will require an extraordinary leap of faith. Becky's ultimate choices will lead to redemption, but also to heartbreak. Moving from the center of the film world to the small-town South, and back, The Road From Calumny is a story of life-changing friendships and of one fateful love.
2034
An instant New York Times Bestseller! "Consider this another vaccine against disaster. Fortunately, this dose won't cause a temporary fever--and it happens to be a rippingly good read." --Wired "This crisply written and well-paced book reads like an all-caps warning for a world shackled to the machines we carry in our pockets and place on our laps . . ." --The Washington Post From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034--and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke billowing from its bridge. On that same day, US Marine aviator Major Chris "Wedge" Mitchell is flying an F35E Lightning over the Strait of Hormuz, testing a new stealth technology as he flirts with Iranian airspace. By the end of that day, Wedge will be an Iranian prisoner, and Sarah Hunt's destroyer will lie at the bottom of the sea, sunk by the Chinese Navy. Iran and China have clearly coordinated their moves, which involve the use of powerful new forms of cyber weaponry that render US ships and planes defenseless. In a single day, America's faith in its military's strategic pre-eminence is in tatters. A new, terrifying era is at hand. So begins a disturbingly plausible work of speculative fiction, co-authored by an award-winning novelist and decorated Marine veteran and the former commander of NATO, a legendary admiral who has spent much of his career strategically outmaneuvering America's most tenacious adversaries. Written with a powerful blend of geopolitical sophistication and human empathy, 2034 takes us inside the minds of a global cast of characters--Americans, Chinese, Iranians, Russians, Indians--as a series of arrogant miscalculations on all sides leads the world into an intensifying international storm. In the end, China and the United States will have paid a staggering cost, one that forever alters the global balance of power. Everything in 2034 is an imaginative extrapolation from present-day facts on the ground combined with the authors' years working at the highest and most classified levels of national security. Sometimes it takes a brilliant work of fiction to illuminate the most dire of warnings: 2034 is all too close at hand, and this cautionary tale presents the reader a dark yet possible future that we must do all we can to avoid.
Backlash
"Raw emotion, nonstop action, and relentless pacing makes Backlash another one-night read from Brad Thor." --The Real Book Spy #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor is back with his most gripping thriller yet! In ancient texts, there are stories about men who struck from the shadows, seemingly beyond the reach of death itself. These men were considered part angel, part demon. Their loyalty was to their families, their friends, and their kings. You crossed these men at your peril. And once crossed, there was no crossing back. They were fearless; men of honor who have been known throughout history by different names: Spartan, Viking, Samurai. Today, men like these still strike from the shadows. They are highly prized intelligence agents, military operatives, and assassins. One man is all three. Two days ago, that man was crossed--badly. Now, far from home and surrounded by his enemy, Scot Harvath must battle his way out. In the most explosive novel Brad Thor has ever written, page after captivating page of action, intrigue, loyalty, and betrayal will keep you hooked until the very last sentence.
Signs
Signs (Chinha), written in 1946, was Manik Bandyopadhyay's fifteenth novel, and is something of a hidden gem of Bengali literature.The novel is set in the mass uprisings that Calcutta witnessed in protest against the trial and sentencing of Captain Rashid Ali of the Indian National Army. These outbursts of popular anger were initiated by students, and involved large sections of the working people.The author weaves together a number of episodes, meetings and partings happening simultaneously at different locations through a kind of narrative 'montage'. The narration represents this revolutionary moment witnessed through the eyes of myriads of people who make it, whether by participating in it or by being caught up in it, by remaining on the margin or by trying to use it to their own purpose, or even by resisting it. It is a rare attempt to catch the internal dynamics of the action by focussing on the fast-changing relationships among its speaking, thinking, acting human agents, when the singular motive force of the objective situation is manifested in the multiplicity of responses.Signs was such a departure from the writing of the time that the author noted, 'It is written in a new technique. I do not know whether it should be called a novel.' Manik Bandyopadhyay failed to interest his publisher into issuing a second print during his lifetime. It was published again after his death.This is the first English translation of this modernist masterpiece, introduced and annotated by scholar and activist Malini Bhattacharya.
Term Limits
Politics and riveting suspense collide in this white-knuckled thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin--now a major motion picture. In one bloody night, three of Washington's most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their assassins then deliver a shocking ultimatum to the American government: set aside partisan politics and restore power to the people. No one, they warn, is out of their reach--not even the president. A joint FBI-CIA task force reveals the killers are elite military commandos, but no one knows exactly who they are or when they will strike next. Only Michael O'Rourke, a former US Marine and freshman congressman, holds a clue to the violence: a haunting incident in his own past with explosive implications for his country's future...
The Silentiary
In post-WWII South America, a struggling writer embarks on a murderous thought experiment to help kickstart his career in this next tale of longing from the author of Zama. The Silentiary takes place in a nameless Latin American city during the early 1950s. A young man employed in middle management entertains an ambition to write a book of some sort. But first he must establish the necessary precondition, which the crowded and noisily industrialized city always denies him, however often he and his mother and wife move in search of it. He thinks of embarking on his writing career with something simple, a detective novel, and ponders the possibility of choos- ing a victim among the people he knows and planning a crime as if he himself were the killer. That way, he hopes, his book might finally begin to take shape. The Silentiary, along with Zama and The Suicides, is one of the three thematically linked novels by Di Benedetto that have come to be known as the Trilogy of Expectation, after the dedication "To the victims of expectation" in Zama. Together they constitute, in Juan Jos矇 Saer's words, "one of the culminating moments of twentieth-century narrative fiction in Spanish."
Bewilderment
The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin's emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother's brain...With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and son's ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers's most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?
Executive Deceit
On the eve of his U.S. Presidential election and campaign kick-off, Georgia Republican Governor, Devin Lake is involved in an accident, killing four young college student's. The local Sheriff conspires with the Governor to blame the killings on a local criminal but neither thought this man of crime was smart enough to write it all down in a letter which was now in the hands of his wife. The race is on to find the letter before Devin Lake becomes the next U.S. President.
The Liberation of John Gruneburg
The Liberation of John Gruneburg is a suspense novel whose theme is the timeless struggle of good over evil. This fictional narrative focuses on an exceptional Naval Officer who is devoted to duty, honor, and country.The main character, John Gruneburg, struggles to escape from memories of his past. He becomes his own defender and prosecutor, knowing his past actions were wrong while trying to justify why he did not have the moral strength to reject the unethical orders imposed upon him. Reoccurring nightmares, tied to John's violent past and connected to his entanglement with a top-secret CIA covert operation, lead to John's treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).Always loyal to the chain of command, John perseveres to complete each mission, being told that he is saving American lives. Psychologically broken, his sense of right versus wrong is overshadowed by his dedication to duty. Lifelong family friends come to his rescue by combining their energies to support John's struggle to avoid the efforts of corrupt officials to frame him for crimes that he did not commit. In the end, John finds liberation from his past through the inspiration and support of dedicated friends and colleagues.Robert H. Laudeman is a retired federal employee with years of experience creating technical documents and reports in both industry and government. He began writing The Liberation of John Gruneburg as a leisure activity and enjoyed authoring what became his first novel and venture into fiction.Much was learned in the creation of the first edition of The Liberation of John Gruneburg. The encouragement of family and friends made writing an enjoyable experience. There was one small problem. The completion of this first book left the majority of the original outline still unused. The whole story had not been told.Building from his original outline, Laudeman published The Transition of John Gruneburg in 2018. The next work in the series, The Transformation of John Gruneburg, was published in 2021. Did this end John Gruneburg's struggle to conquer his fears and escape from memories of his past? Does he gain the moral strength to face the reoccurring nightmares that were the root cause of his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? Will this saga continue? Only time will tell.Looking back, the first edition of The Liberation of John Gruneburg never received the same critique and level of review that later manuscripts received. It was decided that the series would not be complete until The Liberation of John Gruneburg was edited and published by Christian Faith Publishing. Thus, the creation of the second edition of The Liberation of John Gruneburg.
Exceptional
Come the essential uprising, whose side will you be on? Outraged by the witness video, Cam Borlaug joins the swelling protest at a police station on Lake Street in Minneapolis. Amidst tear gas and rubber bullets, she struggles to stay on her feet after a flash grenade explodes nearby. A firm hand pulls her out of the miasma and splashes milk into burning eyes--another baptism under fire by BLM leader Maya Fortier. Fellow activists call her Cahmie-kaze after she bolts past baton-wielding cops and shoulders a fallen comrade to safety. Maya offers her a room in Movement House, where she and the brilliant autist Rayna come to share puppy chow, and a bed, by summer's end.That fall, Cam puts eight boogaloos in their place after they destroy an Extinction Rebellion protest float. Soon an enterprising Ojibwe named Namid turns her into a climate-movement rock star. On Indigenous Peoples' Day, she and her Lightship Greta 2.0 crew brave heavy rains and a right-wing blockade during their ten-mile trek to the state capitol in St. Paul. Even if they do make it, there's no guarantee the governor will heed their call to cancel the tar-sands pipeline project up north. Will this daring protest-or any other--make a difference? Cam's armada of activists aim to find out.
The Yuge Wall of Jina
I'm a red-blooded, God-fearing, gun-slinging, alpha-male patriot born and raised in Trumpgolia. My people are facing a serious problem in 2073 A.D. and it's one that needs rectified: The preachers told us the commie libtards on the other side of the wall conjured up the devil to possess our womenfolk into digging their way out of the Fatherland. My 2 best buddies are as fed up with the wife drought as I am. We are itching for some payback... and we are bigly horny.And so it has come to pass that under the cover of camo and night we will enter the land of godless heathens, steal us three commie libtard females, and claim them as brides. But to do so we must first penetrate... The Yuge Wall of Jina.(It's Bigly)
Duplicity - Book Two of the One World Government Series
Initially set in 2001, the elite group, known as the Hochsterbergs, continue to work towards their eventual aim of a fairer society for the whole planet and run by a singular government. The Salazar crime family, headed by Josie Salazar, continue to expand their influence to such an extent that both the American and Russian Governments are forced to enlist the Salazar family in it's war against terrorism. Whilst on the surface the relationship between the Salazars and the major governments are one of cooperation, there are constant plans to destabilise the Salazars and end their influence. Into this scenario are dropped the four friends, Edward (MI6 Management), Tom (ex MI6 operative, still recovering from his ordeals in Book One), Dday (a good-timer with little roots) and Martin (who is recently married to Tom's sister, Mary-Lou and who wants to afford her a life that he can't afford).
To Do Something Beautiful
Inspired by the lives and struggles of working-class women, men and children in Bombay during the 1980s, To Do Something Beautiful was one of the 20 selected titles for Feminist Book Fortnight and went to the top of the Alternative Bestseller List when it was first brought out by Sheba Feminist Publishers in 1990. A social history novel with a large cast of characters, its form mirrors its content as women who are initially isolated come together to fight against poverty, exploitation at work, sexual assault and harassment and domestic violence. There are no generalisations about their relationships with men, some of whom are also fighting for workers' rights, and the relationships between adults and children are also complex and varied. Their multifarious projects do not end with the novel, but continue beyond its last page. 'It has a very fine exploration of relationships between women - very supportive relationships between very poor women in India.'Alice Walker, Hot Wire 'The kind of book which should keep awake socialist economists and activists alike.'Sheila Rowbotham, Z Magazine 'A vast, panoramic novel... in the genre of social history novels, like George Eliot's Middlemarch and Drabble's The Radiant Way.'Rukhsana Ahmad, Spare Rib 'This novel is an absolute must for anyone interested in the personal politics of making gardens out of dunghills; anyone interested in hope!'Helen M. Hintjens, Journal of Gender Studies
