Download or read book Dead Land written by Sara Paretsky and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST “A proper hero for these times . . . To us, V.I. is perfect.” — THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Sara Paretsky’s gloriously kick-ass private eye, V.I. “Vic” Warshawski, is back . . . in a political-rot thriller that’s the definition of perfection in the genre." — THE WASHINGTON POST Chicago’s legendary detective, V.I. Warshawski, knows her city’s rotten underbelly better than most, but she’s unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use, in this propulsive novel from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky. Chicago may be the city of broad shoulders, but its political law is “Pay to Play.” Money changes hands in the middle of the night, and by morning, buildings and parks are replaced by billion-dollar projects. Chicago PI V.I. Warshawski gets pulled into one of these clandestine deals through her impetuous goddaughter, Bernie Fouchard. Bernie tries to rescue Lydia Zamir, a famed singer-songwriter now living on the streets; Zamir’s life fell apart when her lover was murdered next to her in a mass shooting at an outdoor concert. Not only does Bernie plunge her and V.I. headlong into the path of some ruthless developers, they lead to the murder of the young man Bernie is dating. He’s a computer geek working for a community group called SLICK. V.I. is desperate to find a mysterious man named Coop, who roams the lakefront in the middle of the night with his dog. She’s sure he holds the key to the mounting body count within SLICK. Coop may even know why an international law firm is representing the mass murderer responsible for Lydia’s lover’s death. Instead, the detective finds a terrifying conspiracy stretching from Chicago’s parks to a cover-up of the dark chapters in America’s meddling in South American politics. Before she finds answers, this electrifying novel pushes V.I. close to the breaking point: People who pay to play take no prisoners.

Download or read book Jasper in Deadland written by Hunter Foster and published by Samuel French, Incorporated. This book was released on 2017 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jasper is lost in the living world. When you're failing classes, kicked off the swim team, and your family is on the skids, life can feel like it's going to hell. Yet, in all the disappointment, Jasper has his best friend, Agnes. In one night of teenage passion, Jasper and Agnes consummate a years-long friendship. But in the morning Agnes is gone, telling Jasper to meet her at their cliff. When he arrives there's no sign of his best friend, only a swirling vortex to another world in the water be

Download or read book Alice in Deadland Trilogy written by Mainak Dhar and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice in Deadland was released in November 2011 and quickly became an Amazon.com bestseller. It was followed by its sequel, 'Through The Looking Glass' and 'Off With Their Heads', the prequel to Alice in Deadland. These three books have been translated into French, German, Portuguese and Turkish, reaching millions of readers. Now, get all three novels in the Alice in Deadland Trilogy in one single omnibus edition and immerse yourself in this bestselling adventure. Alice in Deadland Civilization as we know it ended more than fifteen years ago, leaving as its legacy barren wastelands called the Deadland and a new terror for the humans who survived- hordes of undead Biters. Fifteen-year-old Alice has spent her entire life in the Deadland, her education consisting of how best to use guns and knives in the ongoing war for survival against the Biters. One day, Alice spots a Biter disappearing into a hole in the ground and follows it, in search of fabled underground Biter bases. What Alice discovers there propels her into an action-packed adventure that changes her life and that of all humans in the Deadland forever. An adventure where she learns the terrible conspiracy behind the ruin of humanity, the truth behind the origin of the Biters, and the prophecy the mysterious Biter Queen believes Alice is destined to fulfil. A prophecy based on the charred remains of the last book in the Deadland- a book called Alice in Wonderland. Through The Looking Glass: Alice in Deadland Book II More than two years have passed since Alice followed a Biter with bunny ears down a hole, triggering events that forever changed her life and that of everyone in the Deadland. The Red Guards have been fought to a standstill; Alice has restored some measure of peace between humans and Biters; and under Alice, humans have laid the foundations of the first large, organized community since The Rising- a city called Wonderland. That peace is shattered in a series of vicious Biter attacks and Alice finds herself shunned by the very people she helped liberate. Now she must re-enter the Deadland to unravel this new conspiracy that threatens Wonderland. Doing so will mean coming face to face with her most deadly adversary ever- the Red Queen. Off With Their Heads: The Prequel to Alice in Deadland A few months before Alice was born and fifteen years before the dramatic events depicted in Alice in Deadland, there was The Rising. A few days that destroyed human civilization as we know it, reducing much of the world to a radioactive wasteland teeming with hordes of undead Biters and controlled by a shadowy Central Committee.Off With Their Heads brings to life the final harrowing days of The Rising through four shorts, each depicting events through the eyes of one pivotal character in the Alice in Deadland series. See how Dr. Protima became the Queen of the Biters; feel the pain of a young man's sacrifice as he becomes the bunny-eared Biter whom Alice later follows down a hole; follow the rise of Chen from a conflicted young Chinese Army officer to a General in the Red Guards; and finally share in the dramatic escape of Alice's parents from a city overrun by Biters.

Download or read book Deadlands Reloaded written by Pinnacle Entertainment and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Marshal's Handbook is the setting book for Deadlands Reloaded." -- From back cover

Download or read book Deadland written by William Shaw and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of the great rising talents of UK crime fiction' PETER JAMES 'If you're not a fan yet, why not?' VAL MCDERMID 'A superb storyteller' PETER MAY YOU CAN RUN The two boys never fitted in. Seventeen, the worst age, nothing to do but smoke weed; at least they have each other. The day they speed off on a moped with a stolen mobile, they're ready to celebrate their luck at last. Until their victim comes looking for what's his - and ready to kill for it. YOU CAN HIDE On the other side of Kent's wealth divide, DS Alexandra Cupidi faces the strangest murder investigation of her career. A severed limb, hidden inside a modern sculpture in Margate's Turner Contemporary. No one takes it seriously - not even the artwork's owners, celebrity dealers who act like they're above the law. YOU CAN DIE But as Cupidi's case becomes ever more sinister, as she wrangles with police politics and personal dilemmas, she can't help worrying about those runaway boys. Seventeen, the same age as her own headstrong daughter. Alone, on the marshes, they're pawns in someone else's game. Two worlds are about to collide. Kent and its social divisions are brilliantly captured in Deadland, a crime thriller that's as ingeniously unguessable as it is moving and powerful. ***The bestselling William Shaw returns with a thrilling investigation in the unmissable new series***

Download or read book Dead Land Volume One written by Philip McClimon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An omnibus, containing the first two novellas in the Human Extinction Level Loss (H.E.L.L.) series, SUBSTATION, and LIBERATIONSubstationWhen the Zombie Apocalypse hits, the power will fail, within two days the grid will go down. Everyone knows that. Gary Sykes knew it too. From his mundane job at Tres Hombres substation, Gary saw the outbreak coming, knew that the horrific zombie attacks being reported on the news were only going to get worse. The plague was here and the days ahead were going to be dark, except Gary Sykes had a plan, a plan that just might keep the lights burning a little longer. When Nicole Bennett and her band of survivors had to fight for their lives, they could do it with the lights on thanks to the efforts and sacrifice of one man. This is his story. The Last Stand of Gary SykesLiberationIt has been eight months since the the zombie virus swept through Tres Hombres Substation and changed Beverly Sanders' life forever. She, her husband Mark, and their young son Tommy have tried to hang on while all around them the world fell victim to one zombie horde after another. A simple message, broadcast twice a day on every channel has drawn them out. "This is Nicole Bennett. We are survivors. To anybody that can hear us, and can get here, we offer you refuge..." On the road, they meet Sheriff Jacob Miller and learn that not all who heard the message believed it was real. Jacob roams the Deadlands, chasing demons of his own and following the horde that took his town. Will he help Beverly and her family reach Colorado, or will they fall victim to his guilt and sadness? After the zombie apocalypse, Gary Sykes gave survivors a chance. Nicole Bennett and her Colorado safe haven will give them a hope. All they have to do is get there.

Download or read book The Dead Land Trilogy written by Anthony Izzo and published by White Knuckle Books. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started as a killer flu. Soon after becoming infected, victims died and came back. Sheriff Emma Ross will see the first hand effects of the Wildfire virus on her town. When the virus spreads, the military moves in and wages a desperate battle to contain the virus. Emma and a band of survivors will have to fight for their lives as the world crumbles against the assault of the undead. Contains all three books of the Dead Land Trilogy (Infected, Wildfire, and Outbreak) in one volume.

Download or read book Raven Chronicles 11 Deadlands written by Gary Reed and published by Caliber Comics. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deadlands". The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl is a catastrophe that we are now beginning to fully realize. The Raven team embarks on an overseas mission to uncover and capture a murderer preying on the victims of Chernobyl.

Download or read book The Dead Land Girl written by John Johnson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ginny Beauchamp joins the Women’s Land Army in 1940. Posted to Essex, she gets in trouble for meeting pilots from a nearby airfield, including Piotr, a Polish airman to whom she feels some attraction, being part-Polish herself. Sent to work on a farm with a final warning, she finds herself in the middle of an emotional storm because another Land Girl, Anna, has fallen in love with the farmer’s son. In August after the Luftwaffe attack the airfield at North Weald Ginny discovers that Piotr has been seriously wounded, and she rushes to the hospital. When she returns to the farm late at night, she discovers the dead body of Anna in the yard beneath the barn’s winching point. Ginny believes that Anna’s death is suspicious, and she cannot accept that Anna fell or committed suicide, which is the view of the local police and coroner. Ginny is on her own in trying to reveal the truth of Anna’s death. For her challenge to the authorities over the death, Ginny is dismissed from service. Now on her own, she risks her own life to try to reveal the truth.

Download or read book Deadlands Ghostwalkers written by Jonathan Maberry and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, the first in a thrilling series of novels based on Deadlands, a hugely successful role-playing game (RPG) set in the Weird, Weird West. Welcome to the Deadlands, where steely-eyed gunfighters rub shoulders with mad scientists and dark, unnatural forces. Where the Great Quake of 1868 has shattered California into a labyrinth of sea-flooded caverns . . . and a mysterious substance called "ghost rock" fuels exotic steampunk inventions as well as plenty of bloodshed and flying bullets. In Ghostwalkers, a gun-for-hire, literally haunted by his bloody past, comes to the struggling town of Paradise Falls, where he becomes embroiled in a deadly conflict between the besieged community and a diabolically brilliant alchemist who is building terrible new weapons of mass destruction . . . and an army of the living dead! Deadlands is one of the most popular RPGs in history, with over a million Deadlands gaming books sold. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Fan written by Danny Rhodes and published by Arcadia Books. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rhodes' depiction of disaster and ensuring PTSD has the ring of authenticity: he was at Hillsborough that fateful day" DAILY MAIL "A remarkable thing to read. It has immense power and is utterly compelling" SCOTT PACK In 1989, 18-year-old John Finch spends his Saturdays following Nottingham Forest up and down the country, and the rest of the week trudging the streets of his hometown as a postal worker. Leading inexorably towards the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough, the worst sporting disaster on British history, 'Fan' glides between 1989 and 2004, when the true impact of this tragic day becomes evident. Fan is a book about personal and collective tragedy. It's about growing up and not growing up, about manhood and about what makes a man, and about football's role in reflecting a society never more than a brick's throw away from shattering point. Dark, haunting and deeply personal, Danny Rhodes' heart-felt novel explodes with gut-wrenching emotion and exposes how disaster can not only affect a life, but change its course for ever.

Download or read book Worldmakers written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When mankind moves out to the stars, the colonists of the future will remake the worlds they inhabit in their image. Included here are twenty stories from the most imaginative writers in the field: Poul Anderson Cordwainer Smith Arthur C. Clarke Richard McKenna Roger Zelazny John Varley Gregory Benford Ian McDonald Bruce Sterling Charles Sheffield Robert Reed G. David Nordley Joe Haldeman Phillip C. Jennings Geoffrey A. Landis Stephen Baxter William H. Keith, Jr. Kim Stanley Robinson Pamela Sargent Laura J. Mixon These are the stories of the explorers and pioneers who transform their destinations in the image of their distant home--exciting tales of alien landscapes and the struggle to make them suit human desires.

Download or read book Explorers written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-04-08 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents twenty-three science fiction short stories from the 1950s to the present, which focus on the theme of exploration.

Download or read book Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society written by Kansas State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transactions written by Kansas State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1st-6th biennial reports of the society, 1875-88, included in v. 1-4.

Download or read book The Yoruba Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa written by A.B. Ellis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa (1894) is an important work of in-depth research into one of the principal indigenous communities of West Africa. The territory of the Yoruba peoples extends over the southern parts of western Nigeria and eastern Dahomey, and this book examines their religion, customs, laws and language, and contains an extensive appendix comparing the Tshi (Oji), Gã, Ewe and Yoruba languages.

Download or read book Deadlands Killer Clowns written by John V Goff and published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is in ruins and the Reckoners are walking the earth, but that won't stop your hero. Players can investigate the ruins of this new world as a syker, soldier, technomage, or radiation priest. Do you have what it takes to survive the hostile wastes? In our latest Dime Novel for Hell on Earth, wasteland wanderer Teller and his two companions, the enigmatic gunslinger, Gabriel Roth, and the seductive sniper, Brooks, are hired to rescue some hostages from a renegade road gang. Their search takes them to an amusement park called Dempsey Island: "The Place Where Dreams Come True". But this amusement park has been under new management since Judgment Day, and the heroes are going to have to face down monsters to escape with their lives.