Robert Ludlum’s the Treadstone Transgression
A blown mission and a dead team leave Adam Hayes the last loose thread in a tapestry of betrayal in this latest high stakes international thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum. The most pressing issue on Adam Hayes' mind is planning his son's upcoming 5th birthday party. After years of operating in the world's most dangerous spots for Treadstone, he's ready to call it quits, but the feeling isn't mutual. Levi Shaw, Treadstone's director, calls Hayes back for one more mission. "It's a walk in the park. You don't even have to go in with the strike team. I just need you to set up the safe house. You'll be home in time to pick up the birthday cake." But nothing is ever easy where Treadstone is concerned. When the mission is blown only Hayes is left alive, and everyone, it seems, is determined to correct that oversight.
Halo: The Rubicon Protocol
USA TODAY BESTSELLER An original novel set in the Halo universe--based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! A HALO INFINITE STORY December 2559. Humanity has its back against the wall after the United Nations Space Command flagship Infinity drops out of slipspace into a devastating ambush launched by the Banished. As this fierce enemy alliance seeks to claim a mysterious object hidden within the ancient Forerunner construct known as Zeta Halo, the surviving UNSC corps finds itself compromised and its leadership out of reach--with remaining personnel forced to abandon ship and take their chances on the fractured, unpredictable surface of the Halo ring. Now survival in this strange, alien environment--whether for Spartan super-soldiers or those who never thought they would see the battle up close--is measured day to day against a relentless and brutal adversary that always has the upper hand. Desperation grows, but the will to keep on fighting and enduring no matter the odds is never in doubt...even as the Banished seek to unleash a frightening new enemy that could doom them all...
Overlord of the Dungeon (In the System Book #4)
The Leviathan is dead. Humanity has won the global mission but the price has been too high. Japan is in ruins, Honshu lies partially underwater, and the capital has been destroyed. The country has been left without leadership and tens of millions have perished, while monsters continue to hunt down the survivors. Ivan Susanin heads to the submerged Toyo as part of an expedition to find the missing raven, help evacuate the civilians and slay as many monsters as possible. And that's only on the surface. He has successfully learned to combine the public good, national interests and his personal goals a long time ago. But life is full of surprises. A discovered card gives Ivan the right to become Overlord of the Dungeon, an isolated location somewhere on another world. However, he's far from the only contender, and the goblins who inhabit these tunnels have their own plans. Strength alone won't be enough to claim victory this time.
The Dream Seeker
Vietnam convinced him to live life one day at a time. No dreaming of tomorrow, just survive today. Fantasying about tomorrow, expecting dreams to be some road map to navigate through life, was a waste of time. This was the world for Dylan Steward, a talented reporter and an equally talented musician. His wife, Willow, was the polar opposite. A child of the "Flower Power" generation of the 60s, for her, the purpose of life was to dream, to fantasize about "What if?" to see the world not for what it was but how to make it better. Her dream was to have children. They would be her instrument of change to make the world a better place. At day's end, Dylan often lost himself playing jazz on his Gibson or doing small gigs in San Francisco on weekends. This was his true passion, and Willow knew he should follow it. A job as a reporter for the "LA Times" would bring tragedy for one and fulfillment for another. Dylan's career as a reporter at the "Times" blossomed. His boss, Jimmy Donovan, loved him. He made a few friends, the most intriguing being a crippled old black man, Willis Carpenter, who sold magazines in the lobby. A small jazz club in Venice Beach served to feed Steward's hidden passion. With Willow pregnant, their world seemed idyllic. One day it all changed. A careless move by an obstetric nurse during an examination caused Willow Steward to hemorrhage and die. Dylan's life spiraled out of control. Alcohol became his refuse. Jimmy Donovan was on the verge of firing him. A savior appeared in the unlikely personage of Willis Carpenter, the black man who sold magazines at the "Times." Donovan knew this was his last chance to save Steward's job-and his life. Steward found himself traveling to France to interview Willis Carpenter and a woman name Anastasie Bouchet. There, outside Bordeaux, France, Dylan Steward would learn the power of dreams to overcome the impossible, to make the unbearable bearable, and that a life without dreams is really no life at all.The Dream Seeker follows Mr. Sullivan's emotionally charged the Forgotten Flowers trilogy. ----Sullivan's books touch my heart, and The Dream Seeker is no exception. I loved it. - M. NilandIt is never too late to follow your passion. Loved it. When is your next book coming out? - C. McIntyre----Michael Sullivan, a native Californian and U.S. Army veteran, began his career in teaching, served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, and retired as an associate warden with the California Department of Correction. He is the author of several books, including the popular Forgotten Flowers trilogy, and resides in Sonora, California, with his wife, Virginia,
Mother's Boys
When Robert and Judith Farrell divorced, the court awarded custody of the four children to their father instead of their flighty, self-centered mother. But the three boys, Kester, Michael, and Ben, have remained close to their mother - perhaps sometimes too close - and have never given up hope of their parents' reconciliation. Until their fantasy is shattered by their father's engagement to his new girlfriend Netta. When Robert leaves town and Netta stays behind with the children, the boys decide to play a little game with her. A game that soon gets horribly, unspeakably out of hand . . .From the author of horror classics like The Godsend, Sweetheart, Sweetheart, and The Reaping comes this nerve-wrackingly suspenseful page-turner of filial love gone terribly awry. First published in 1988 and filmed in 1993 starring scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis, Bernard Taylor's classic thriller returns to print at last to unsettle a new generation of readers."Fast pacing, savage twists, and solid suspense keep interest high." - Kirkus Reviews"Exciting . . . Provocative . . . Don't miss this!" - People
Carnosaur
Nothing much ever happens in the sleepy English town of Warchester. So when a farmer is found savagely killed in some sort of animal attack, it's a big story for local reporter David Pascal. The rich and eccentric Sir Darren Penward tells the police an escaped Siberian tiger from his private zoo is to blame, but Pascal isn't so sure. Especially when one witness describes something impossible: an enormous and deadly creature that has been extinct for sixty million years. What exactly is Penward hiding behind the walls of his massive estate? And can Pascal uncover the truth before Penward's creatures escape to wreak murder and havoc on the unsuspecting populace?First published in 1984, six years before Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park, which shares many of the same plot elements, Carnosaur has become a cult classic among fans of vintage horror, with copies long unobtainable except at exorbitant prices. This edition features a new introduction by Will Errickson.
Heroes of the Final Frontier (Book #2)
Book 2 of the sequel to Dem Mikhailov's cult LitRPG saga Clan Dominance: The Sleepless Ones! Old nemeses often turn up when you least expect them-and, more often than not, just when you're at your most vulnerable. Rosgard is no exception. He may have become the leader of a new clan, but he's lost support of the Sleepless Ones, the undisputed heavyweight champions of Waldyra, and right about this time he ran into someone who's been his sworn enemy since their days in the game's Cr癡che. Heroes of the Final Frontier have had war declared on them. This is bound to be a real stress test for Rosgard's entire crew. He's faced with the necessity to prove that he isn't merely a lucky guy who'd had a unique spell handed to him on a platter to make him a legend, but a serious leader in his own right, capable of holding his own even if starting from scratch is what it takes. The war was declared at an inopportune moment, since Rosgard has plenty of problems to solve right now, from recruiting for the clan to making sure enough attention is given to the upbringing of his daughter, destined to become one of Waldyra's goddesses someday. But it is in the very nature of wars to catch you unawares.
Marvel Mazes
By the author of Star Wars Mazes, an exciting, new, all-ages, interactive activity book of mazes with findable elements taking readers into the pages of new and classic Marvel comics adventures. Explore exciting iconic locations and scenes with your favorite comics characters in this interactive, all-ages book of mighty Marvel mazes. Accomplish missions and locate key objects along the way while discovering the mysteries of Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum, the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, Wakanda, Asgard, and Doctor Doom's Castle. Follow the Guardians of the Galaxy to Knowhere, help the Avengers fight the Skrulls aboard their flagship, face fearsome Sentinels with the X-Men in Days of Future Past timeline, and more! Brought to life by expert maze creator Sean C. Jackson, each full-color maze is a playful visual delight for Marvel fans everywhere. ACCOMPLISH MISSIONS WITH EACH MAZE: Each of the dozens of unique mazes comes with its own mission to help Marvel heroes by finishing the maze.EXTRA FINDABLE ITEMS IN EACH MAZE: In addition to the maze itself, each includes other game activities of elements to find.BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED AND REPLAYABLE: The gorgeously detailed full-color mazes may be solved by pen or pencil, but using a non-writing item to follow the paths leaves the book ready to replay. Even the illustrator himself says he later forgets solutions to the mazes he's drawn!MAZES OF ALL LEVELS: Including relatively simple and more expert mazes, Marvel fans of many ages can enjoy the book together.INCLUDES PLAYABLE MAZES ON THE FRONT AND INSIDE COVERS: Bonus mazes featured on the front and inside covers!(c) 2022 MARVEL For Marvel fans of all ages, families, and anyone who enjoys activity books with beautiful, colorful illustrations
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo is a semi-autobiographical book written by British soldier and author John Henry Patterson. Published in 1907, it recounts his experiences in East Africa while supervising the construction of a railroad bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya, in 1898. It is titled after a pair of man-eating lions that terrorized the undertaking for nine months until at last their reign of terror was put to an end by Patterson. His recounting of this incident projected him to fame, and it has also been the basis of numerous films, the best known being The Ghost and the Darkness (1996).
The Lone Ranger Rides
In the rogue Wild West, laws don't apply equally to everyone. They are made by the corrupt people and for the corrupt people. But Lone Ranger is on a mission. A mission to deliver justice and bring the rogue ones under the ambit of laws. Together with Tonto, Lone Ranger will do everything in his power to survive and outwit his enemies. Read the original inspiration behind the famous radio series and the Disney movie featuring Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp! Excerpt: "In a remote basin in the western part of Texas, the Cavendish clan raised cattle. From the vast level acreage, where longhorns grew fat on lush grass, the surrounding hills looked verdant and hospitable; but this was pure deceit on Nature's part. Those hills were treacherous, and Bryant Cavendish loved them for that selfsame treachery. Sitting on the porch of his rambling house, the bitter old man spat tobacco-flavored curses at the infirmities that restricted him. His legs, tortured by rheumatism, were propped on a bentwood chair, and seemed slim and out of proportion to his barrel-shaped torso. His eyes, like caves beneath an overhanging ledge, were more restless than usual, as he gazed across the basin. He rasped a heavy thumbnail across the bristle of his slablike jowl..."
Something Worth Finding
Three haunting tales of mystery, loss and human frailty set in Manchester in the early nineties.When Pablo, a brilliant young video editor disappears, Chief could never expect the tragic story of love and death he would unearth in his quest to find him and ultimately - himself. Marvin's dead girlfriend has just handed him a request slip exactly twelve months after her death, he knows he has to write a song for her or he will die. Diego finds a notebook with sketches that must surely mean something, but what?
Black Centurion
A new novel from the bestselling Russian LitRPG author of Small Unit Tactics! Sometimes, life can be cruel and unpredictable, snatching away all you hold dear in an instant. When you're betrayed by the one person you love most, the actions you commit in the heat of the moment may derail the rest of your life. You can't undo what's been done, and now an incorruptible AI keeps thwarting your attempts to find the truth. Will you be able to persuade it? This is the opportunity given by an RPG game that works like an international arbitration court - an impartial and error-free machine. For a top-ranked player who has already made millions in the game, this task sounds like child's play. But things aren't as simple as they seem, and this game is totally unlike any other! Our hero will have to save a life, survive, and - most importantly - prove to an AI that he's a good guy and deserves to have the one thing he wants more than anything else on Earth!
Clan Dominance
The final book of the series is available for preorder! Clan Dominance: The Sleepless Ones (Book #9) - https: //www.amazon.com/dp/B09DT4ZQFB As Julius Caesar said as he crossed the Rubicon, "alea iacta est"-"the die is cast." All the bridges have been burned. The contract with the clan of the Sleepless Ones has been signed, and Rosgard will begin the expedition under their banners. The Black Queen is in the lead-an enormous ship masked as an island sets forth to bring the fleets to a new continent concealed under a magical veil that can only be parted by a single player-namely, Rosgard. The dominance of the Sleepless Ones may have a flip side to it. Other clans have had to put up with their superiority for a long enough time-this might be the perfect moment to drive a dagger in the back of the uppity Black Baroness. This is a good time for the balance of power to shift drastically-on the old continent and throughout Waldyra. The journey to Zar'Graad won't be easy. Rosgard and his team will be in the very thick of naval warfare with no quarter given. And this is just the beginning of a long journey. What might lie ahead? The final part of the legendary series of books is getting ever closer-please welcome another installment of Rosgard's saga in English!
Clan Dominance
Rosgard the Great Navigator and his comrades-in-arms continue their journey as part of the armada of the Sleepless Ones to the shores of Zar'Graad, impatient to tear off its magical veil and be the first to step onto the new continent. The first trailblazers can expect some truly impressive bonuses - so even though no one yet knows what those rewards might be, the stakes are just too high to come in second. The two archipelagos - the Ring of Peace and the Wings of War - are only a stopover on the clan's way to their ultimate prize. But even there Rosgard manages to excel, his actions influencing the life and power balance in the entire digital world of Waldyra. And don't forget, he's still to run the final stretch of the race, with his evil rivals breathing down his neck. They'd do anything to prevent the Sleepless Ones from getting the upper hand. Rosgard's triumph looms ever closer - but will his mission succeed? How will this long-winded story pan out? The answers to these and many other questions can be found in Book 9. Read the final book of Dem Mikhailov's legendary LitRPG saga Clan Dominance: The Sleepless Ones - now available in English!
The Rabbit Factor
An insurance mathematician's carefully ordered life is turned on its head when he unexpectedly loses his job and inherits an adventure park ... with a whole host of problems. A quirky, tense and warmly funny thriller from award-winning Finnish author Antti Tuomainen, FIRST in a series... **Soon to be a major motion picture starring Steve Carell for Amazon Studios** 'Laconic, thrilling and warmly human. In these uncertain times, what better hero than an actuary?' Chris Brookmyre 'The antic novels of Antti Tuomainen prove that comedy is not lost in translation ... Tuomainen, like Carl Hiaasen before him, has the knack of combining slapstick with genuine emotion' The Times 'A thriller with black comedy worth of Nabokov' Telegraph _______________ Just one spreadsheet away from chaos... What makes life perfect? Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen knows the answer because he calculates everything down to the very last decimal. And then, for the first time, Henri is faced with the incalculable. After suddenly losing his job, Henri inherits an adventure park from his brother - its peculiar employees and troubling financial problems included. The worst of the financial issues appear to originate from big loans taken from criminal quarters ... and some dangerous men are very keen to get their money back. But what Henri really can't compute is love. In the adventure park, Henri crosses paths with Laura, an artist with a chequered past, and a joie de vivre and erratic lifestyle that bewilders him. As the criminals go to extreme lengths to collect their debts and as Henri's relationship with Laura deepens, he finds himself faced with situations and emotions that simply cannot be pinned down on his spreadsheets... Warmly funny, rich with quirky characters and absurd situations, The Rabbit Factor is a triumph of a dark thriller, its tension matched only by its ability to make us rejoice in the beauty and random nature of life. _______________ 'Inventive and compelling' Vaseem Khan 'Readers might think they know what to expect from Nordic noir: a tortured detective, a bleak setting, a brutal crime that shakes a small community. Finnish crime novelist Tuomainen turns all of this on its head ... The ear of a giant plastic rabbit becomes a key weapon. It only gets darker and funnier' Guardian 'The funniest writer in Europe, and one of the very finest ... original and brilliant story-telling' Helen FitzGerald 'Full of refreshing wit and wisdom ... a treat' Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW 'A dark and delightful novel with an intelligent, brave, and persnickety hero' Foreword Reviews 'Antti Tuomainen turns the clich矇d idea of dour, humourless Scandi noir upside ... Dark, gripping and hilarious. Tuomainen is the Carl Hiaasen of the fjords' Martyn Waites 'A triumph ... a joyous, feel-good antidote to troubled times' Kevin Wignall 'Finland's greatest export' M.J. Arlidge 'You don't expect to laugh when you're reading about terrible crimes, but that's what you'll do when you pick up one of Tuomainen's decidedly quirky thrillers' New York Times 'Tuomainen is the funniest writer in Europe' The Times 'Right up there with the best' Times Literary Supplement 'Tuomainen continues to carve out his own niche in the chilly tundras of northern' Daily Express For fans of Fargo, Fredrik Backman, Richard Osman.
Nexus
The popular comic hero stars in his first novel!Nexus is the greatest avenger the galaxy has ever known. He has faced mass murderers and alien monsters. But his power comes from an alien race with its own agenda. Is the mighty Nexus hero or pawn? Deliverer or destroyer? Gourmando, the devourer of worlds, now has an appetite for Ylum, the home of Nexus. How can one man, no matter how powerful, stop an entity that consumes whole planets?Based on the bestselling comic book created by Mike Baron and Steve Rude, this is Nexus's greatest adventure (for now, at least!).
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: The Deluxe Hardcover
Featuring never-before-seen photos from the set and posters and other memorabilia from Rick Dalton's career, an original, exclusive script for a Bounty Law episode by Quentin Tarantino titled "Incident at Inez" and a Mad Magazine parody of Bounty Law titled "Lousy Law: Loser's Last Ride"Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of historical fiction--at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal--is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award- winning film.The sunlit studio back lots and the dark watering holes of Hollywood are the setting for this audacious, hilarious, disturbing novel about life in the Hollywood movie industry, circa 1969.Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: The Deluxe Hardcover tells the story of washed-up actor Rick Dalton. Once Rick had his own television series, a famous western called Bounty Law. But "it ain't been that time in a long time" and now Rick's only regular parts are as the heavy, ready to be bested by whichever young "swingin' dick" the networks want to make a new star out of come pilot season. When a talent agent approaches Rick about starring in Italian Westerns ("Eye-talian Westerns"?), it only ignites a new crisis of confidence for the perpetually insecure actor.And then there's Rick's stunt double, Cliff Booth, a war hero who killed more Japanese soldiers during the Second World War than any other American, and who never thought he'd make it back home. If Rick's career has stalled, Cliff's has flamed out. Already living under a cloud of suspicion after the strange death of his wife at sea, Cliff makes the mistake of picking the wrong fight on set, and is soon reduced to the status of Rick's full-time gofer.Right next door to Rick's still glamourous Benedict Canyon home ("the house that Bounty Law built") some Hollywood dreams are coming true, and these dreams belong to Sharon Tate. Not only is she Mrs. Roman Polanski--married to the only true rock star director--but Sharon is fast becoming a star in her own right, living life on the upswing in a tough town.Only a few miles away, in the desert around Chatsworth, lives a different kind of dreamer. Charles Manson is an ex-con who has spellbound a group of hippie misfits living with him in squalor on an old "movie ranch." Little do his young followers know to what degree Charlie himself is an industry striver, more desperate for Columbia Records and Tapes's attentions than for the revolution he preaches.These indelible characters--and many more: an acting child prodigy beaming with hope; a booze-drenched former A-lister who's lost it all--occupy a vanished world from not so long ago that is brought to brilliant life in these pages. Here is 1969, the music, the cars, the movies and TV shows. And here is a look behind the scenes of Hollywood, both the fairy tale and the real thing, as given to us by a master storyteller who knows it like the back of his hand.
Nexus
The popular comic hero stars in his first novel!Nexus is the greatest avenger the galaxy has ever known. He has faced mass murderers and alien monsters. But his power comes from an alien race with its own agenda. Is the mighty Nexus hero or pawn? Deliverer or destroyer? Gourmando, the devourer of worlds, now has an appetite for Ylum, the home of Nexus. How can one man, no matter how powerful, stop an entity that consumes whole planets?Based on the bestselling comic book created by Mike Baron and Steve Rude, this is Nexus's greatest adventure (for now, at least!).
Press Card
A street-smart news reporter battles with editors, and others, in the days before big-time newspapers lost their mojo and became ink-stained dinosaurs Did you ever have a bad boss? Sure, you have. Did you ever do anything about him (or her)? Probably not. Claude Shelby does. He's a straight-talking, wisecracking, street-savvy reporter who doesn't like his bosses -- and they don't like him. That conflict provides the framework for Press Card, which is funny, sad, poetic, obscene, sexy, and knowing. Following his demotion for cutting corners to get a political story, Shelby struggles with his bosses, and with what his job sometimes requires him to do. When he's at his lowest point and floating aimlessly, he stumbles into clues that could lead him to the biggest story of his life -- finding fugitive Black revolutionary Sister Sojourner. He chases the leads he digs out all the way to St. Lucia in the Caribbean, where he receives help from an unexpected source in a skintight dress. In this picaresque novel, Claude Shelby interacts with memorable characters: a rags-to-riches millionaire, a close friend who regrets quitting journalism for the big bucks of P.R., the Philadelphia artist who designs neon tube clothing accessories that double as dildos, and a predatory female reporter. Press Card takes readers inside the Fourth Estate and reveals how some newspapers make decisions. It unmasks power plays between union and management, and reporters' tricks. It is fiction based on fact. Press Card crackles like a police radio and rolls as fast as the presses that print the fictional Philadelphia Free Press.
The River of Tears
Join Dani Taylor and Detective Jack Bondar battling the clock together to overcome barriers and conflict as they become immersed together in the dark underworld of sex trafficking in Canada. You will gain deep insights into police challenges and psyche, Indigenous perspectives and issues, and what families go through when loved ones go missing.​Dani struggles and escapes a path she is on to die young in a gang or wind up in prison. Love drives Dani in the search for her missing kid sister. Detective Jack Bondar grows as he works with Dani and learns about the challenges of Indigenous peoples.​The River of Tears is a must-read for anyone wanting insights into missing and murdered women and girls, and policing. ​It is a captivating story about dignity, hope, and reconciliation. It is about the river of humanity that flows through the impoverished core of every community, the river of tears.
The River of Tears
Join Dani Taylor and Detective Jack Bondar battling the clock together to overcome barriers and conflict as they become immersed together in the dark underworld of sex trafficking in Canada. You will gain deep insights into police challenges and psyche, Indigenous perspectives and issues, and what families go through when loved ones go missing.Dani struggles and escapes a path she is on to die young in a gang or wind up in prison. Love drives Dani in the search for her missing kid sister. Detective Jack Bondar grows as he works with Dani and learns about the challenges of Indigenous peoples.The River of Tears is a must-read for anyone wanting insights into missing and murdered women and girls, and policing. It is a captivating story about dignity, hope, and reconciliation. It is about the river of humanity that flows through the impoverished core of every community, the river of tears.
La Tribu
La continuaci籀n de la historia basada en la serie de televisi籀n de culto, "La Tribu". Despu矇s de los muchos desaf穩os presentados en el bestseller, "La Tribu: Un nuevo mundo", los Mall Rats se enfrentan a un desaf穩o a繳n mayor, mientras intentan desentra簽ar los muchos misterios inexplicables que ahora encuentran. 聶Cu獺l fue la verdadera misi籀n de la flota de supervivencia de las Naciones Unidas? 聶Qui矇n es el enigm獺tico l穩der del Colectivo? 聶Qu矇 ocurri籀 realmente en la Base A矇rea Arthurs? 聶Hay algo m獺s siniestro tras los secretos revelados en la isla paradis穩aca donde han quedado varados? Obligados a resolver los angustiosos conflictos de sus vidas personales, los Mall Rats deber獺n tambi矇n decidir qu矇 camino tomar, y si enfrentarse o no a los fantasmas de su pasado en la batalla por sobrevivir contra un adversario siniestro. Con la extinci籀n de la humanidad siendo una amenaza muy real, 聶podr獺n resistir contra viento y marea para asegurarse un futuro, y la promesa de un mejor ma簽ana? 聶O sufrir獺n la misma suerte que los adultos que perecieron antes que ellos? La tribu deber獺 no solo luchar por sus vidas, sino tambi矇n enfrentar sus mayores temores para evitar que el nuevo mundo se sumerja a繳n m獺s en la oscuridad, y garantizar que la esperanza prevalezca en un nuevo amanecer. Y que mantienen el sue簽o vivo...
A Mouthful of Air (Movie Tie-In Edition)
Special movie tie-in edition. Compared to seminal feminist works such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, A Mouthful of Air is a powerful, tragic statement on motherhood, family, and survival.A Mouthful of Air is a compassionate and wrenching portrait of Julie Davis, a young wife and mother torn between the love she feels for her family and the voice in her head that insists they'd be better off without her.We meet Julie several weeks after her suicide attempt, on the eve of her son's first birthday. Grateful to be alive, Julie tries her best to appreciate every moment--"this tree, that passing car, the pretzel guy up ahead on the corner. She has, for whatever reason, been given a second chance"--but her emotional demons are unrelenting, and she is slowly and quietly losing the battle.Within the narrative of A Mouthful of Air is an argument about the nature of depression--its causes, cures, and the price it exacts from its victims. With spare, elegant prose, this brutally honest portrayal of family and self illuminates the power and complexity of the human psyche.Originally published in 2003, A Mouthful of Air now includes an afterword by author Adrienne Miller.
Die Nullform (Buch #1)
Das n瓣chste Buch der Reihe k繹nnen Sie hier vorbestellen: Die Nullform (Buch 2): RealRPG-Serie: https: //www.amazon.com/dp/B09712G5BVIn dieser Welt beginnt jeder neu, ohne Ged瓣chtnis und ohne Erinnerung an sein fr羹heres Leben. In dieser Welt hast du nichts - sogar dein K繹rper ist gemietet und du musst jeden Tag daf羹r bezahlen. In dieser Welt musst du Quests erf羹llen, die dir vom System zugewiesen werden, oder du erh瓣ltst eine Geldstrafe und verlierst alles, einschlie?lich deiner Arme und Beine. In dieser Welt stehst du unter unerbittlicher ?berwachung. Doch in den dunkelsten Ecken, verborgen vor dem wachsamen Auge des Systems, herrschen Gewalt, Brutalit瓣t und Gesetzlosigkeit.In dieser Welt erh瓣ltst du eine Nummer. Du bist eine gewollte Nullform. Nun liegt es an dir, dich an diese Realit瓣t anzupassen und zu versuchen, zu 羹berleben, um nicht als Kr羹ppel zu enden. Vermassele es nur nicht, sonst wirst du dir w羹nschen, tot zu sein, w瓣hrend du immer tiefer in einem bodenlosen Loch von Schulden versinkst. Diese Welt wird kein Mitleid mit dir haben. Du wirst unerm羹dlich arbeiten m羹ssen, um dir das Recht zu verdienen, einen weiteren Tag zu leben ...Lies das erste Buch der neuen Serie des Autors von der "Herrschaft der Clans: Die Rastlosen". Der Autor, der das kultige LitRPG-Genre mitbegr羹ndet hat. Ein Autor, der es immer wieder schafft, dich zu begeistern und zu verbl羹ffen!
Firefly - Life Signs
The fifth original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon. A deadly diseaseMonths after Inara leaves Serenity, Mal and the crew finally learn the reason for her sudden departure: she is dying of a terminal illness. It is Kiehl's Myeloma, a form of cancer that's supposedly incurable, and Inara has very little time left. A disreputable scientistThrough their shock and despair, rumors of a cure reach the crew. Expert Esau Weng is said to have developed a means to treat Inara's condition, but he has been disgraced and incarcerated for life on a notorious Alliance prison planet. An infamous prisonOn the planet of Atata, inmates are abandoned with no guards and left to survive as best they can. What's more, terraforming the planet did not take properly, so the world is a frozen wasteland. To save Inara, the Serenity crew must infiltrate the prison...
Devourer (Reality Benders Book #8)
The aggressive invaders from another galaxy cannot be stopped. The Composite keeps capturing system after system wiping out everything in its path, and there is no sign of a force capable of standing up to it.In the search for allies, Gnat embarks on a long journey aimed at uniting the various branches of the human race. And though the potential for alliance is there, how can he convince them to set off to fight a suicidal war with such a disastrous balance of forces?Beyond that, things aren't as easy as they initially seemed with the humans from the far-off Empire, and they have a compelling reason not to enter this war which does not concern them. There's also the status of sole ruler of humanity at stake, which is not the kind of achievement that can be shared.And that means one of the human leaders will have to back down.
Clan Dominance
It's time for the Great Navigator Rosgard to be on his way, leading his seafaring armadas toward the far-off new continent. All Waldyra's players are impatient to get there, desperate to hear the cry of "All aboard!" But instead, Rosgard becomes a father, of all things. Although his mischievous little daughter is only a digital creation of this virtual world, the challenges of being a father are still the same. Besides, she isn't a child anymore but a restless teen with a rather contrary nature. She loves fishing and other adventures, and she has no intention of staying in an induced sleep for much longer while her father is off gallivanting around on his own. She wants to have fun too! That's all well and good but the girl is a potential goddess in the making, and her arrival into this world isn't exactly welcome by the gods of old whose own heavenly thrones are getting a bit too shaky for comfort. New gods like herself offer generous gifts to their would-be followers, stripping the old gods of their dwindling flocks and with them, the divine energy that sustains them. With a considerable drop in power, the old gods risk being thrown down into the terrible divine hell of Tantarial. No one wants to go to hell, and gods are no exception. The wicked goddess Guorra embarks on a veritable headhunt looking for the girl who's now in mortal danger. So Rosgard has no choice, really. He's obliged to take his little girl with him on his perilous journey. And now he's busy leveling up while preparing for his great voyage which promises new puzzles and mysteries in his discovery of Waldyra. Read the English version of the next book of the cult Clan Dominance LitRPG series!
Defenders of Valontra
For his entire life, Aiden felt as if he lived someone else's life, trapped in a wrong body, suffocating in the sweltering environment of his small town.When a chain of unfortunate events leads to him dying in reality and getting stuck in the virtual reality game Collision on Mongro he suddenly gets the chance to live a new, hard and fulfilling one.He joins the team of most peculiar creatures in a desperate mission to protect Valontra, a small coastal country from being swept away by a much more powerful enemy.Soon his allies become his new family and now when he has something to fight for, he has to become a hero he never thought he could be.
Day Crosser
"Day Crosser" highlights a poor migrant farming family from Mexico looking to escape the ruthless violence of the drug cartels. With a baby on the way, the couple hopes to start a new life in America - free from the fear and retribution by local crime lords. A parallel storyline follows a recently discharged Afghanistan veteran suffering from Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and his journey for normalcy for his wife and young daughter. After being rejected for a career as a border patrol guard, he's persuaded to join the local militia group headed by a retired LAPD police officer with a questionable past. When these opposite worlds collide on a hot, desert mountain overlooking the Mexican/Arizona border, tragedy ensues. Can empathy overcome ignorance? Is there any hope?
Second Shot (Fantasia Book #1)
I was on a date with the girl of my dreams when life took a strange turn and I found myself sucked into a virtual game world. It was pretty much a nose dive out of my own world of comforts, where I had everything: money, love and a bright future on the horizon. I'm not a gamer and I've never been one to run from reality, but it seems fate has decided that my real life no longer belongs to me. Now I'm rotting away in some dumpy medieval village where everyone I meet wants to kill me.But I won't give up and I won't lose hope. I'll get to the bottom of this! What's it all for, and who's the mastermind behind it? I don't plan on just rolling over and accepting any "gift" fate wants to bestow upon me, and if I have to turn this whole damn world inside out, so be it! Think there are no more offbeat and original plotlines in the world of LitRPG? Well, friends, you're in for a big surprise!
Robin of Sherwood
This collection contains six stories from the fourth series of Robin of Sherwood books based on the classic ITV show: WHAT WAS LOSTAfter losing Marion to Holy Orders, Robin spends his waking hours in an increasingly drunken state and the outlaw band are left without a leader. Robin Hood has become a ghost. Meanwhile, Abbot Hugo has cleaned out the family coffers and secured a release for his brother, the Sheriff, from King John's prisons. But the Sheriff isn't convinced that his deadliest enemy has entirely vanished from Sherwood... THE POWER OF THREEWhy had Herne called Marion to his cavern and not Robin? And why was she afraid to tell him what the Lord of the Trees had shown her? Forced to face his personal nightmares and his darkest secret, the Hooded Man needs his friends more than ever but the outlaws are afraid... and no one knows who to trust. To make matters worse, an old enemy is stalking Sherwood - but which one? TO HAVE AND TO HOLDAfter returning from fighting in Normandy, Sir Guy of Gisburne has reluctantly returned to the Sheriff's employ but his loyalty is about to be tested. The Sheriff's new plan to capture the outlaws requires Gisburne's agreement and Abbot Hugo's committed involvement. Meanwhile, the merry band of Sherwood outlaws are preparing for a long-awaited set of nuptials to take place in Sherwood Forest... QUEEN OF THE BLACK SUNA landslide uncovers an unknown cave in Sherwood, which Marion and Much squeeze through the entrance of to explore. Inside, they feel a sense of unease but find a treasure trove of gold coins and a strange black jewel. Outside, a dense fog has appeared, a strange eclipse begins to block out the sun and the Merries end up being separated from each other... THE SERVANT Rumours are circulating that a mysterious order called the Knights of the Apocalypse are gaining power and growing stronger. After Jerrard hears the Captain of the Guard blackmailing Sir Guy of Gisburne in relation to these Knights, he fears that the Earl's greatest secret might be revealed... THE KNIGHTS OF THE APOCALYPSEEngland in the reign of King John and a dark force is intent on conquest. Only the hooded man can stand against it... The church lies impotent at the mercy of the Pope and the interdict against the kingdom. With the people living in fear and a series of disappearances that threaten the very fabric of noble society, Robin 'i' the hood and his band of outlaws must race to rescue the past so that the future may be protected...
Volper (Alpha Rome #1)
Please note: An earlier translation of this book was released on Amazon a while ago. Although it enjoyed considerable success with LitRPG readers at the time, the inadequate and amateurish translation of the sequel ruined the reading experience for many of the author's fans. Which is why Ros Per now only entrusts his books to professionals, re-releasing this title in a brand new translation by Magic Dome Books who will also publish all the following books of the series.As the years start running out, you often find that life has left you completely alone. This is what has happened to one military veteran who's lived through many of history's "flash points". In order to inject some color into his final days, the former soldier signs a contract with a company that has developed a fully immersive virtual world.Project Alpha Rome is a multi-level city plagued by endless wars between humans and mutants. You can play as either species. The best argument in favor of living here is the firepower and the reflexes of your weapons. Our hero chooses the nickname "Volper" and sets out on his path alone, preferring not to fall into the ranks of an existing clan.Thanks to this strategy, he manages to spot things other players have missed, even in the simplest of locations, meaning he progresses much more quickly than they do. His attentive and reflective attitude to his surroundings prompts him to ask more and more questions about the purpose of the project. Why has Alpha Rome really been created?
Love, Death and Robots
The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy(R) award-winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.Featuring best-selling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher.Stories and screenplays byAlastair Reynolds, Alberto Mielgo, Claudine Griggs, David W. Amendola, Joe Lansdale, John Scalzi, Ken Liu, Kirsten Cross, Marko Kloos, Michael Swanwick, Peter F. Hamilton, Steven Lewis, and Vitaliy Shushko
Battle for the North (Rogue Merchant Book #4)
Book 5 is available for preorder! The Devil Archetype (Rogue Merchant Book #5): https: //www.amazon.com/dp/B08WPHP36N Pandorum is launching a massive offensive, aiming to destroy Cat and his clan. As they're blazing through everything in their path, thousands of players clash in battle and the biggest alliances of Sphere join the fray. Can Cat stay on the sidelines? After all, he's able to buy and sell almost anything in the game-even victory itself. Cat fights his own war in economics and trade. Which role will the merchant play in a bloody war fated to go down in the history of the game as the Battle for the North?
The Guardian of the Dead (An NPC’s Path Book #4)
The next book of the series is available for preorder! The Nemesis of the Living (An NPC's Path Book #5): https: //www.amazon.com/dp/B08X2VG3ZP Dying in virtual reality isn't fun, but facing bullets from real-world criminal overlords is really the pits. In such a desperate scenario, their demand to render them a service in VR doesn't sound like such a bad alternative. The problem is, the games played by spook agencies follow much harsher rules. For them, the absence of choice doesn't sound like a good excuse - not if you end up in the grindstones of their undercover schemes. Still, it's not as if I ever had a choice. That's why the price tag for my freedom didn't sound too excessive. All I had to do was log in, become a necromancer, shake the malefic hunters off my tail, pass the elimination test and locate one particular person. Which one? Why? And how was I supposed to do it? Wrong questions. Instead, I had only to ask one: why me? Why John Doe?
Llama Unicorn Song
Join us on a sparkly and rainbowy journey with our favorite magical creatures, the llamacorn! A combination of llamas and unicorns, the llamacorns have the best qualities of both worlds. Sing along with this illustrated lyrics book, to the cute and fun dance tunes of the llama unicorn song, the number one llamacorn song in the world! See the extra fluffy llamacorns in various parts of the world, and in outer space. If you have seen the llama unicorn music video on YouTube, you might already know the lyrics. A song made for all ages, the whole family can join in the fun. #llamacornsong
City of the Undead (In the System Book #2)
The first stage is complete. Ivan Susanin has managed to survive and, together with the other leaders, unite the various players into the Alliance. Yet this is only the beginning. A huge goblin army is approaching from the city outskirts, while the undead roam inside the city. The people from Earth are stuck between a rock and a hard place. The only way to escape another massacre is to capture the goblin fortress, and hold out until the end of the mission. Or to abandon their wounded and scatter, hoping to avoid getting killed. This is a serious challenge for the newly formed Alliance. However, even if this risky plan succeeds, nothing is over yet. The second mission will be followed by the next and the next. The new gods will not back down, for the Altar is a unique chance for one of them to gain power and become the leader of a united Pantheon. Sooner or later, the goblins and the undead will fall, and no price is too high to secure victory. It is time to make a choice. Hide behind the safety of the walls or leave the besieged fortress and head deeper into the inner suburbs. To the domain of the undead. To where stands the temple of the fallen goblin god. To a place where one will get the chance to decide one's own fate.
Tour Book
It's show night. You've bought tickets and are waiting with your friends. The lights drop. The darkness swells in anticipation. A collective cheer grows. A breath of silence. Then, that first chord screams from the speakers. Lights flash to flood the stage, radiating as the concert comes to life.We are there, too, in the dark under the show, behind it, and above it. Each prop or cool trick, every costume or scene change requires the hidden help of someone behind the scenes. In a few hours, you will have gone home, but we will still be here, tearing it all down. We will pack up the gear, load up more than a dozen tractor trailers, and head out to the next city.Tomorrow, we will build the production again in a new building. We'll greet another audience. We'll put on another show.From load in to load out, watch a production build toward show time. Hear true stories from the rock and roll roadies who've helped create the world's biggest concert tours with interviews from dozens of touring technicians.
Angels On Tap
Your car breaks down one night, your cell phone is on the fritz, so you step into a bar to call the auto club and have a cold one while waiting for a tow. Nothing out of the ordinary. It happens all the time. But what if it's a bar where angels hang out? And what if they happen to be angels with attitude? A lot can happen while waiting for that tow. And most of it is hilarious! Soon to be a major motion picture with a heavenly cast, including Ed Asner, Marion Ross, Jamie Farr, Alan Rachins and Ron Masak.
The GodKiller
Skharr wants a break. He needs a break in his life, and a quiet trip back to Verenvan.It doesn't look like that is going to happen.An old god might be making waves in a dungeon that has laid undisturbed for centuries.No one wants that to happen, so Skharr is asked by a local temple of Theros to get involved.Unfortunately, the temple does not have many resources to offer him. The one paladin who happens to be nearby is on a sabbatical.And she has definetly heard of the Barbarian of Theros.It's Skharr, a paladin on sabbatical, and three mercenaries who are just along for the treasure against what most likely will be power beyond a DeathEater's ability to handle.Not one to shy away from danger, Skharr and Horse aim their path back to Verenvar. They just need to find and kill an Old God...and not die before they get there. Go up and click Read for Free or Buy Now and continue the journey of Skharr DeathEater-The GodKiller! "In every person there is a bit of barbarian waiting to be unleashed. A moment when one must decide what one is willing to accept. Death, defeat, or allow one's carnal rage to take control and consequences be damned."Skharr DeathEater
Sabre Tooth
Can a Thames Valley Detective Inspector overcome impossible odds and prevent the assassination of the Prime Minister?It is post-Brexit Britain. DI Gray is investigating the death of a journalist, Sierra Nicholls, when he is summoned to Scotland Yard. In a tense meeting, the Home Secretary, together with the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, tells him that the Former Master of the Royal Household, Philip Nicholson, a 'Remainer' who had been part of a plot to blow up the Cabinet, was in France and had found an assassin who was on his way to kill the Prime Minister. He is called Smilodon which means Sabre-toothed cat.Inspector Gray, who is installed in a safe house with a grizzled Sergeant Watts and housekeeper Polly, contacts Commander Truchaud of La Police Nationale in Paris. He will track Philip Nicholson but wants an Algerian terrorist, Mehdi Arraq, brought back to France. DI Gray faces confusion and duplicity and discovers that the terrorist had killed Sierra Nicholls after the two of them had been photographed with the Prime Minister.Information is being leaked at high level and DI Gray realises that he must draw out the traitor.But the assassin is still on the loose and heading for Downing Street.
Godzilla vs. Kong: The Official Movie Novelization
The official novelization of the biggest battle in movie history Godzilla vs Kong, the latest film in the MonsterverseTM franchise, starring Alexander Skarsgard, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Kyle Chandler and Zhang Ziyi. ONE WILL FALL The next epic Monsterverse chapter sees legends collide as Godzilla and Kong, the two most powerful forces of nature, clash in a spectacular battle for the ages. As a squadron embarks on a perilous mission into fantastic uncharted terrain, unearthing clues to the Titans' very origins and mankind's survival, a conspiracy threatens to wipe the creatures, both good and bad, from the face of the earth forever. New York Times bestseller Greg Keyes returns once again to the Monsterverse and takes readers deeper into the worlds of Monarch, the Titans, and so much more.
Into the Storm
Visions of the war to come. Alliances on the open water. Sink or swim. Zeke and the team are one step closer to their goals of defeating War's generals and freeing Brindolla for good. Storm Company's return from the Great Below was harrowing, nearly as bad as the time they had to spend there. Though they bear the scars of their journey, it's finally time to sniff out War's Generals wherever they might hide-including across the ocean in the mysterious continent of beasts. Plots thicken like the clouds over the water, and the group begins to realize the currents and intrigue they will have to navigate successfully if they want to survive sailing Into the Storm.
The Dark Champion (Interworld Network III)
The legendary seal which was keeping the Horsemen of the Apocalypse under lock and key has been broken. Planet Earth is engulfed in a surge of natural disasters which have already claimed thousands of lives. While Sergei is getting ready to fight back, traveling across worlds to learn archery from the powerful giant Vill, the horsemen's minions also come awake, ready to take on the mythical Guards of the Interworld Network in the name of their dreadful masters. The enemy circle around Sorrow - Sergei's hometown - keeps tightening, because this is one place he keeps coming back to. So that's where the four horsemen are about to head in order to confront the new demigod.
In Service of the Pharaoh (League of Losers Book #2)
The adventures of Sergeant and his cat continue! The human Beast Catcher has been forcibly separated from his furry girlfriend Shelly, but our hero's character level is too low to follow her into the wider world or take proper vengeance. All he can do now is gain strength, level up his character and skills, and add to his ever growing list of enemies to one day be punished... or leave that to his ginger kitten Whiskers, fast becoming an expert in curse magic. In the meantime, a terrible storm is brewing in the sandbox for beginner players. The humans and the sherkhs are on the brink of war for domination of this land fenced off from the rest of the world. The sherkhs are choosing a general for their army, and one of the candidates is an old acquaintance of our hero. The main task for Sergeant and his cat now is to avoid falling into the grip of a bloody conflict.
The Silkworm
Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the #1 international bestseller The Cuckoo's Calling.When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives--meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced.When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before...A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, THE SILKWORM is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant, Robin Ellacott.
The Tribe
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Final Fantasy XV: The Dawn of the Future
A volume of all-new, character-driven stories expanding on the world of the hit video game Final Fantasy XV. This deluxe, hardcover edition includes full-color inserts featuring concept art and exclusive content. To oppose the gods or yield to fate? That is the question confronting each of the characters in The Dawn of the Future. Ardyn, having saved countless lives from the Starscourge, means to become the Founder King of Lucis and instead is cast into tragic exile. On the day the Empire falls, as the imperial capital collapses around them, Commodore Aranea is entrusted with the life of a singular young girl. The Oracle Lunafreya, upon awakening from the slumber of death, discovers that her body has undergone an extraordinary transformation. And after gazing upon the eternal, Noctis, the True King, finally comes to terms with his destiny. Herein lie the stories of the dawning of a new world in Final Fantasy XV.
