Download or read book Miki Falls Winter written by Mark Crilley and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can love survive? It's winter, and a bitter chill of desperation has settled over Miki and Hiro. Far from home, the young couple treks through the frozen north, with Akuzu's powerful agents hot on their trail. Miki knows they are determined to tear her and Hiro apart. But she has different plans. With the help of an unlikely ally, Miki and Hiro endure a daring journey, battling freezing conditions and frightening forces just to be together. Miki is certain they can make it, hoping that love really does conquer all.
Download or read book The Discreet Hero written by Mario Vargas Llosa and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tale of two Peruvians in separate cities who each stand up to injustice, the Nobel laureate is “a master playing at his craft” (Los Angeles Times). Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in the Peruvian city of Piura, finds himself the victim of blackmail—and finds within himself the will to refuse. Meanwhile, Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, cooks up a plan to avenge himself against the two lazy sons who want him dead. As their small acts of rebellion unfold, their lives are destined to intersect. In The Discreet Hero, Vargas Llosa examines the possibilities of honorable individuals who insist on taking control of their destinies. He also revisits some unforgettable characters from his previous novels: Sergeant Lituma, Don Rigoberto, Doña Lucrecia, and Fonchito are all here in a prosperous Peru. Vargas Llosa sketches Piura and Lima vividly—and the cities become not merely physical spaces but realms of the imagination populated by his vivid characters. A novel whose humor and pathos shine through in Edith Grossman’s masterly translation, The Discreet Hero is another remarkable achievement from the finest Latin American novelist at work today.
Download or read book The Murderbot Diaries written by Martha Wells and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebundle includes: All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect, and Fugitive Telemetry. The Murderbot Diaries, by bestselling author Martha Wells, is an action-packed, cerebral science fiction series about a self-hacking robot searching for the meaning of life. All Systems Red: In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth. Artificial Condition: It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were killed. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned the title “Murderbot”, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART, Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks... Rogue Protocol: The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good. Exit Strategy: Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit. But who’s going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue? And what will become of it when it’s caught? Network Effect: When Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action. Drastic action it is, then. Fugitive Telemetry: When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people—who knew?) Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans! Again! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Spring written by Mark Crilley and published by HarperCollins Children's Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First of an exciting new graphic-novel quartet for teenagers by renowned comic book artist Mark Crilley.
Download or read book Miki Rin written by Yoicchi Lucia and published by Yoicchi Lucia. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miki left Tokyo to her old hometown after her parent’s death. She thinks she will get a normal life if she live in that small city. But her life becomes upside down after she met Rin in the market. Far from her expectation, now Miki forced to live her last year in high school with running away from delinquents just because Rin interested with her. Will Miki find a peaceful life that she looks after her parent’s death? Will Miki able to avoid Rin when they keep pulling each other? Will Miki able to overcome her guilty feeling toward her parent’s death?
Download or read book Toxic written by Lydia Kang and published by Entangled: Teen. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hana isn't supposed to exist. She's grown up hidden by her mother in a secret room of the bioship Cyclo until the day her mother is simply gone—along with the entire crew. Cyclo tells her she was abandoned, but she's certain her mother wouldn't leave her there to die. And Hana isn't ready to die yet. She's never really had a chance to live. Fenn is supposed to die. He and a crew of hired mercenaries are there to monitor Cyclo as she expires, and the payment for the suicide mission will mean Fenn's sister is able to live. But when he meets Hana, he's not sure how to save them both. As Cyclo grows sicker by the day, they unearth more secrets about the ship and the crew. But the more time they spend together, the more Hana and Fenn realize that falling for each other is what could ultimately kill them both.
Download or read book Revengeful Heart written by Chrys Phillips and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His secret is a burden, and he must defend his brother Zac. Being an immortal isn't what Zavier only hides. His passionate soul longs to be loved with intense desire. Rick, Miki and CJ attend Lakeview High and live their teen lives. Evil is arriving and their lives are never going to be the same. Lakeview is a humble pleasant place to live, but amongst its scenic surrounds immortals are dwelling!
Download or read book Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World Volume 8 Light Novel written by Meikyou Shisui and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the emergency summit at the Principality of the Nine fast approaching, Light must somehow find a way to raise his rank as an adventurer if he is to keep his promise to accompany Princess Lilith there as her bodyguard. Getting the Black Fools bumped up to A-rank in such a short period of time proves tricky, however, and it is only by sheer luck that a quest of sufficient prestige to merit a promotion becomes readily available. Light and the gang soon find themselves traveling by carriage to the Onifolk Archipelago as part of the retinue of the bratty Holy Princess of the onis, Yotsuha, who is returning home from the Duchy. And as chance would have it, the princess is a close personal friend of Oboro, a former member of the Concord of the Tribes. Will Light be able to get his revenge on the oni that betrayed him without jeopardizing his party’s mission to raise their rank? And what exactly has the shady, secretive Oboro been up to since the two of them last saw each other?
Download or read book The Obsessions of a Married Man written by Ammie Edwards-Rucker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stacey Paige is a well-known hair stylist and owner of the Prestigious Hair Salon in Beverly Hills. She believes she has it all the perfect business, car, home in Hollywood Hills, and the perfect (married) man named Tiberius "Terry" Jones. They met six months ago at a gym in Leimert Park where Terry is a fitness trainer. To Stacey, everything was going well until she discovered that the man that she cherished and loved so much was married and had been for five years. Still, she continued to see him. They agreed that as long as they are together, he would not let his wife come between them. But that was soon to change as his wife began to demand more of his attention, and Stacey began to see and hear from Terry less. Terry became obsessed and abusive toward her when things started to unravel in their love affair. Unaware of her way out, Stacey becomes reacquainted with her ex-fiancé, Derrick Reed. Will the threats from Terry scare her into going back to the abusive relationship that she endured with him, or will Stacey follow her heart and rekindle the love that she once shared with Derrick?
Download or read book Me a Genius I Was Reborn into Another World and I Think They ve Got the Wrong Idea Volume 3 written by Nyun and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being reincarnated in the future, Kouki Arakawa continues to live out his life in Japan while being mistaken for a genius. He soon comes to realize that this new Japan that he's been thrown into has one major flaw. "Why doesn't anyone watch anime or play video games?!" Using his (mom's) technological expertise, Kouki comes up with a plan to trigger an explosion of subculture. But why would a shadowy Russian organization known as "New World" be working against him? "Shingo, we're about to trigger the dawn of a new age. Let's create new culture!" "Kouki... I don't know what you're talking about." The misunderstandings are happening in Russia this time?! The sci-fi comedy continues in volume 3!
Download or read book The Alchemy of Murder written by Carol McCleary and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde, and Louis Pasteur team up during the 1889 World's Fair in Paris to find a killer connected to a virulent plague infecting thousands of Parisians.
Download or read book The Harsh Cry of the Heron written by Lian Hearn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A conclusion to the Tales of the Otori series brings the conflicts of its medieval Japanese characters full circle, illuminating unexpected aspects of the entire saga. By the author of Across the Nightingale Floor and Grass for His Pillow.
Download or read book Frontier Zone Ticonderoga written by Stuart Sexton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-03-23 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Captain Jacob Amstutz and the crew of the USS Ticonderoga as they struggle against a group of interstellar terrorists. Known as the Righteous Cause, this 22nd Century breed of Neo-Nazi hate mongerers will stop at nothing to see their demands met, even if it costs the lives of billions. Will two of the galaxy's least likely of beings become the saviors of Earth and her colonies? Find out, in Frontier Zone. Ticonderoga.
Download or read book Sweetness and Blood written by Michael Scott Moore and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did an obscure tribal sport from precolonial Hawaii—one that was nearly eliminated by Christian missionaries—jump oceans to California and Australia? And how did it become such a worldwide passion, even in places where the surf may be excellent but the society is highly conservative or superstitious about the sea? In Sweetness and Blood—a brilliantly written travel adventure—journalist (and surfer) Michael Scott Moore visits unlikely surfing destinations—Israel and the Gaza Strip, West Africa, Great Britain, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Cuba, and Morocco—to find out. Whether he is connecting eccentric surf legend Doc Paskowitz to the Arab-Israeli conflict, trying to deconstruct the terrorist bombing in a nightclub in Bali, or being chased by the German police while surfing a river break in Berlin, Moore masterfully weaves together politics, culture, history, and surfing to create a book like no other.
Download or read book Crush Collection Volume 3 written by Elouise East and published by Elouise East. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crush is not just a bar...it’s a family. Box set 3 contains: Covert Strength shows the strength of love cannot be denied. Zak is a newly single father, who wants nothing more than a one night stand to take away some of the loneliness. When that one night turns into more than he bargained for, he struggles to cope. Kenzo tries to be everything to everyone; his previous military position calls for no less, but when the columns of support begins to crumble, who can help him stay strong? Love Scene follows Samuel as he begins to realise how much he is missing from his life. Stressed by work, home and everything in between, Samuel finds relief in the one thing he hadn’t understood he needed: having a Daddy. When Eric, a high flying celebrity, brings out Samuel’s little side, no one is more surprised than Samuel. Life is never easy, though, and it gets in the way, causing more problems than solutions until Eric gives Samuel the ultimate sacrifice. Lawful Attraction provides the story of Logan and Bastien. Logan is a police detective, and Bastien a dancer, but when Logan witnesses something he shouldn’t, he can’t help himself. Bastien continues to make ends meet with his several jobs, but when he’s placed in a situation he never asked for, he dances for his life. From that moment on, Bastien is thrust into Logan’s world, and neither expects their lives to entwine, but they can’t resist temptation. MM romances where love wins over everything. Everyone is welcome at Crush.
Download or read book Forests of the Heart written by Charles de Lint and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-06-03 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new tale of urban magic, in which a diverse cast of characters learns that all the oldest myths are true. Teems with music, danger and a touch of romance.
Download or read book The Tearsmith written by Erin Doom and published by Dell. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A HIT NETFLIX MOVIE • The bestselling international sensation and viral TikTok phenomenon—a dark, sexy, haunting novel of two aching young adults who are taken in by the same family and forced to reckon with a destructive love that could be the undoing of them both “Ready for the next Twilight?”—People Growing up in a ghastly orphanage run by an abusive matron, Nica coped in the only way she could—by retreating to her imagination, where she lived out fantastical stories, especially about the Tearsmith, the man who makes tears, a terrifying figure who forges all the fears that dwell in people’s hearts. When she’s finally taken in by an adoptive family at seventeen, Nica thinks she’s leaving the group home, its torments, and her prison of otherworldly tales behind her. That is, until Rigel—a young man raised from birth in the same dreadful orphanage—joins her new family. Rigel is as mesmerizingly handsome as he is troubled, and he and Nica have a long history of distrust and hostility. But as they come to live together again under one roof, the deep shared trauma of surviving such vicious circumstances sparks something magical, and Nica begins to fall for Rigel’s forbidden love. Before any relationship can become reality, though, they’ll have to face the darkness of their past . . . and the dangerous stakes of pursuing a future together.
