Download or read book Echopraxia written by Peter Watts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with zombie switches that shut off self-awareness during combat. And it's all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself. Daniel Bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, a cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he's turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat. But he awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out. Now he's trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. To his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed by whispered messages from a dead son. To his right is a pilot who hasn't yet found the man she's sworn to kill on sight. A vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows behind. And dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks takes them all to a meeting with something they will only call "The Angels of the Asteroids." Their pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks, the fossil man, face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book A Party to Murder written by Marcia Kash and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six people have come in secret on Halloween to play a murder mystery game at a rustic island cottage. Invited by writer Charles Prince, they appear set for a weekend of fun until ghosts from the past begin to haunt the proceedings and it becomes clear that all is not as it seems. The game takes on a sinister dimension when guests begin to die and the remaining players realize that they are playing for their lives. Tension rises. Secret passageways, incriminating letters, hidden compartments, bodies in the window seat and a twenty five year old unsolved mystery twist and turn toward the unexpected and terrifying conclusion.

Download or read book Our Stories written by Michael A. Lee and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about four different stories of characters with secrets, twists and evolution in their lives changing their destiny and choices.This is the Authors first attempt of capturing an audience interest in his style of writing. Please take a chance and enjoy. Look forward to his next novel Where Do I Come From. It is a page turner.

Download or read book Crabs in a Barrel written by Byron Harmon and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed author Byron Harmon’s third novel is a frank, no-holds-barred comedy with a sharp satirical edge. When a yachtful of party-goers headed for the Bahamas are shipwrecked and wash up on a remote island, the diverse group—ten African Americans and their white captain—are left with the usual survivor struggles: to find food, to shelter themselves, and to somehow figure out how to get back to civilization. But in their case, they also have to try not to kill each other in the effort. Before long, the different castaways—including a beautiful waitress/med student, a wealthy lawyer, a Brooklyn thug, a Black Muslim, and two gold-digging cousins—square off and start firing about their differences, their grievances, and their opinions, in exchanges that are as funny as they are explosive. Harmon uses this Gilligan’s Island meets Survivor set-up to create a story that airs out the truth about how black people feel about themselves, each other, and most everyone else.

Download or read book LoveMurder written by Saul Black and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “high-grade thriller”—and sequel to The Killing Lessons—a troubled detective must seek help from the serial killer she put behind bars (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). When San Francisco Homicide detective Valerie Hart is called to a murder scene, the last thing she expects is for Katherine Glass to walk back into her life. Six years earlier, revulsion and fascination had gripped the nation in equal measure, as beautiful, intelligent, charming—and utterly evil—Katherine Glass had been convicted on six counts of Murder One. But the freshly-mutilated corpse in the ground-floor apartment bears all the hallmarks of Katherine’s victims. And then there’s the note, with its chilling implications. Addressed to Valerie. To stop the slaughter, Valerie has no choice. She must ask Katherine Glass to help her decipher the killer’s twisted message. But that means re-entering the pitch-black labyrinth that is Katherine’s mind, and this time Valerie isn’t so sure which one of them will survive.

Download or read book Bout to Dye in Birmingham written by Beth Hamer Miles and published by Gemma Halliday Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From author Beth Hamer Miles comes a hilarious take on the worst year of your life... It’s March 2020 in Birmingham, Alabama, but Maggie Baxter and her cousin Francis Pinkston are facing problems even bigger than the quarantine. While navigating her home health job , along with shutdowns, face masks, and toilet paper shortages, Maggie stumbles upon a dead man—snipped in the bud with his own set of monogrammed scissors! It's a salon scheme gone south, and now, Maggie and Francis are in the midst of a murder investigation. Missing hair salon owners, disappearing patients, destructive raccoons...and why does everyone have purple hair? It’s a mystery fit for Shear-Lock Combs! Can Maggie and Francis find a killer and survive 2020...or will this be their last bad hair day? "Realistic dialogue, good character development and interesting setting. Looking forward to reading next one! 5 Stars!" ~ So Many Books

Download or read book Slits written by Carol Murphy and published by eLectio Publishing. This book was released on with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenager Angela wishes she could understand her odd family. Her mother is thornily difficult, her father is harshly distant, and her siblings offer no help, even after a terrible school incident. Struggling with self-injury, Angela’s plight intensifies at a parochial school sheltered within a tight coastal community. Strange family events, anxious friends, insensitive adults, and confusing occurrences swirl in a cloudy confusion. Then after a dreadful accident, Angela enters a psychiatric hospital with a special wing just for teens. An attentive therapist senses her turmoil, but small revelations seem only to increase the teen’s fierce façade. What is wrong with Angela, her family, her parents, and especially her mother? Why are answers so hard to come by? All seems lost until a herd of horses and Angela’s best friend Cali help point to a different way of thinking and believing.

Download or read book The Finding Love Series Complete Five Book Collection written by Paris Hansen and published by Paris Hansen. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody ever said finding love was easy, but in this five-book series, it's a hell of a lot of sexy fun. In Restless, a successful businesswoman finds love in an unexpected place. In Powerless, two worlds collide in a romance so hot it burns the house down. In Speechless, what happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas, much to the heroine’s dismay. In Breathless, sparks fly when a sexy single father meets a beautiful woman that challenges him at every turn. In Priceless, after eighteen years apart, ill-fated lovers finally get their second chance at love. Once you finish the complete set, check out Harmless, a Finding Love Holiday Romance.

Download or read book The Burying Place written by Brian Freeman and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thriller from Edgar-nominated author Brian Freeman, The Burying Place features detective Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial. One cold night. Two shocking mysteries. In the quiet town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, a baby vanishes from her bedroom in an opulent lakeside home. Was she abducted – or does her father have a terrible secret to hide? That same night, a young policewoman gets lost in the fog and stumbles into the middle of a horrific crime. Now a sadistic killer wants her to play his deadly game. Lieutenant Jonathan Stride and his team need to move fast to save a child and stop a vicious killing spree. As fear grips the frozen winter farm lands, Stride knows that every snow-covered field may be the next burying place. Each twist in the investigation takes Stride into an elaborate web of deceit and desire. But his biggest obstacles may be the very people he's trying to help. With everything at risk and time running out, Stride worries how far a desperate mother will go to rescue her baby – and how far a desperate cop will go to save herself.

Download or read book Val rie written by Carlos Díaz del Castillo and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Montreal, Canada, in the early eighties, Valérie tells the story of an attractive girl, who has had to fight against her shyness, her fellow students, and her lack of financial resources and injustice to get out of the situation in which she finds herself. Her great dream is to become a commercial pilot, and to achieve this she must put her skills to the test in her work, study and relationships with those around her, all this in the midst of an environment that will lead her to discover her first love.

Download or read book The Brondesbury Tapestry written by Helen Harris and published by Halban Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six women and one man gather in a community centre in North London for a life writing class run by Dorothy, their uniquely unqualified teacher. They have urgent stories to tell and, as they recount them, they discover they are connected in unexpected ways. Illustrated with sharp line drawings by illustrator Beatrice Baumgartner-Cohen, The Brondesbury Tapestry is a quirky, perceptive look at a group of people who feel the modern world has left them behind but who have decided that they will still have the last word.

Download or read book Handbook of Clinical Interviewing With Children written by Michel Hersen and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2007-08-08 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Clinical Interviewing with Children is one of three interrelated handbooks on the topic of interviewing for specific populations. It presents a combination of theory and practice plus concern with diagnostic entities for readers who work, or one day will work, with children (and their parents and teachers) in clinical settings. The volume begins with general issues (structured versus unstructured interview strategies, developmental issues when working with children, writing up the intake interview, etc.), moves to a section on major disorders with special relevance for child populations (conduct disorders, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning disorders, etc.), and concludes with a section addressing special populations.

Download or read book The 100th Generation written by Justine Saracen and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient curses, modern day villains, and a most intriguing woman who keeps appearing when least expected and thenÉdisappearing. Archeologist Valerie Foret has spent a year searching for a tomb in the Egyptian desertÑa labor broken only by high risk trysts with a powerful manÕs wife. When she finally makes the discovery of a lifetime, she is set upon by jealous rivals and religious fanatics. Worse, she is drawn into the depths of the desert by forces that offer knowledge of vast mysteries and at the same time threaten to destroy everything she knows. For what sheÕs found is a glimpse into the hereafter, and itÕs nothing like itÕs supposed to be. Brilliant scientist that she is, she has loved most unwisely and learned what she does not want to know. Follow her adventures through modern and ancient Egypt, through this world and the next, with Book One of the Ibis Prophecy.

Download or read book Cases on Organizational Communication and Understanding Understudied Groups written by Kahlow, Jessica A. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s business world, understanding and supporting understudied groups is vital to maintain workplace diversity, safety, and ethics as well as promote a positive work environment. Communication within a business is a key aspect of ensuring these groups are considered and all employees are informed of guidelines, services, and other various support systems available. Cases on Organizational Communication and Understanding Understudied Groups presents case studies that focus on organizational issues that individuals are likely to experience at some point during their employment in various understudied areas such as neurodiversity, learning differences, mental health, identity, gender, ethics, and emotion. Covering topics such as cross-cultural interactions and privacy management, this reference work is crucial for business professionals, academicians, researchers, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Download or read book Valerie s Letters to God written by Alice Ann Ross and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book took Valerie through a demoralizing divorce, hate crimes, her mothers Alzheimers disease and being condemned by her daughter. Valerie kept her eyes on the future. She entered the university at the age of forty-four to study Comparative Religions and fell in love with Uriah Wexler, from Israel, her professor in Christian Ethics. She set out to educate against hatred and misunderstanding amongst the three major monotheistic religionsJudaism, Christianity and Islam. This is Vals story from devastation, to a career on the lecture circuit teaching tolerance and acceptance and finding the deep abiding love she thought would never be hers. This second book fills in the gaps and tells the rest of Vals story from beginning to end. Also included in this book are four short stories I hope you enjoy.

Download or read book Waking Up in the Diaper Asylum Valerie s Extreme Diaper Punishment Full Length ABDL Novel written by Nanny Chloe and published by Nanny Chloe. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Valerie opened her bleary eyes after a night of heavy drinking, she did not expect to find herself in a mental hospital… She did not expect to find all her limbs restrained to the bed… And she definitely did not expect to find herself wearing a big, puffy, adult diaper! Of course, that was merely the start of Valerie’s endlessly humiliating, infantile treatment, now that she’d found herself legally committed to St. Joseph’s psychiatric ward. But despite her nightmarish circumstances, Valerie soon experiences a glimmer of hope when she’s greeted by a kindly hospital care worker who goes by the name Mrs. Godmother. Valerie is greatly comforted by the maternal woman, even despite the woman coaxing an immensely embarrassed Valerie into using her diaper… However, things take a turn for the worse when Mrs. Godmother seemingly disappears, and Valerie is discovered in her diaper by the hospital’s doctor on duty. Suddenly, Valerie’s story about being told to use her diaper by a mysterious, kindly old woman is met with unexpected skepticism, and Valerie soon realizes she’s being treated like she’s totally crazy. Before she knows it, Valerie is being diagnosed with big, scary words she doesn’t understand, and transferred to something called the ‘maximum-security psychiatric ward’ to treat her so-called ‘severe infantile regression disorder’. As Valerie finds herself descending further and further into the clutches of the diaper asylum’s dominating doctors and nurses—forced to use diapers 24/7, sleep strapped to a crib, and eat nothing but baby food—she becomes more and more desperate to find Mrs. Godmother and prove her sanity. And that shouldn’t be too hard, because Valerie knows she’s not actually a totally crazy, helplessly regressing, diaper-dependent adult-baby… Right? Right?? This full-length erotic ABDL novel will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. For mature readers only!

Download or read book What We Tell written by Holly W. Schwartztol and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendship is a complicated experience, one filled with ups and downs, highs and lows, joy and sorrow. But true friendship, like true love, can withstand the tests of timeor can it? For three women, each accomplished in life and facing the challenges and rewards of midlife, friendship is everything. Each has a thriving psychology practice, a family, and security. And each has invested decades of caring, love, laughter, and support into her best friends. Their future looks bright. When secrets begin to mount and loyalties are betrayed, however, these mature friends struggle to find a balance between their loyalty to each other and their clients, as well as between their families and themselves. The women try to trust and support one another, just as they would advise their patients in similar circumstances. But behind each brave face lies a festering secret that the owner is understandably reluctant to share with anyone. No one knows to what lengths they will go to protect that secret until the test appears. As each struggles to face her past, the more troublesome skeletons in the closet begin rattling for attention. How will each woman survive the scandal if her secret is betrayed? Sometimes psychology is not enough to heal the wounds, and sometimes physician, heal thyself is easier said than done.