Download or read book Disappearing Earth written by Julia Phillips and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National Book Award Finalist Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award National Best Seller "Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester "A genuine masterpiece" --Gary Shteyngart Spellbinding, moving--evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world--this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls--sisters, eight and eleven--go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty--densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska--and into a region as complex as it is alluring, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer's virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.

Download or read book Kidnapping Earth written by Ted S. Kong and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hostages to Fortune written by Caroline Moorehead and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 1980 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Abducted written by Susan A. Clancy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are tiny. They are tall. They are gray. They are green. They survey our world with enormous glowing eyes. To conduct their shocking experiments, they creep in at night to carry humans off to their spaceships. Yet there is no evidence that they exist at all. So how could anyone believe he or she was abducted by aliens? Or want to believe it? To answer these questions, psychologist Susan Clancy interviewed and evaluated "abductees"--old and young, male and female, religious and agnostic. She listened closely to their stories--how they struggled to explain something strange in their remembered experience, how abduction seemed plausible, and how, having suspected abduction, they began to recollect it, aided by suggestion and hypnosis. Clancy argues that abductees are sane and intelligent people who have unwittingly created vivid false memories from a toxic mix of nightmares, culturally available texts (abduction reports began only after stories of extraterrestrials appeared in films and on TV), and a powerful drive for meaning that science is unable to satisfy. For them, otherworldly terror can become a transforming, even inspiring experience. "Being abducted," writes Clancy, "may be a baptism in the new religion of this millennium." This book is not only a subtle exploration of the workings of memory, but a sensitive inquiry into the nature of belief.

Download or read book A Rope and a Prayer written by David Rohde and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling and insightful account of a New York Times reporter's abduction by the Taliban, and his wife's struggle to free him. In November 2008, David Rohde, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times, was kidnapped by the Taliban and held captive for seven months in the tribal areas of Pakistan. In the process, Rohde became the first American to witness how Pakistan's powerful military turns a blind eye toward a Taliban ministate thriving inside its borders. In New York, David's wife Kristen Mulvihill, together with his family, kept the kidnapping secret for David's safety and struggled to navigate a labyrinth of conflicting agendas, misinformation, and lies. Part memoir, part work of journalism, A Rope and a Prayer is a story of duplicity, faith, resilience, and love.

Download or read book Kidnapped by the Alien written by Ashlyn Hawkes and published by Ashlyn Hawkes. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A standalone instalove alien romance from author Ashlyn Hawkes. Investigator reporter Rachel Collings has been trying to work with the police concerning a rash of kidnappings. Only she’s the next victim. And the captor? An alien. A tall, muscular blue-skinned alien. Who claims she is his mate. Yeah, okay, bud. Rachel’s not too sure about that, but she’s also not sure how she’s going to get back to Earth either. Fantastic. Trigger warning: this book includes some dark themes like consent and assault, but love will always win. No cliffhanger. Keywords: alien abduction romance, science fiction romance, scifi romance, paranormal romance, science fiction, standalone, happy end, happy ending, alpha male, fantasy romance, urban fantasy, steamy romance, happily ever after, romance, ebooks to read and download, scifi romance, alien abduction, alien romance, collection, box set, boxed set, Zenobia Renquist, Kate Rudolph, Starr Huntress, Sedona Venez, Regine Abel, Roxie Ray, Lee Savino, Renee Rose, Milly Taiden, Ava Hunter, Ruby Dixon, Jenny Foster, Elizabeth Stephens, Margo Bond Collins, Stasia Black, Lisa Lace

Download or read book Kidnapped to the Underworld written by VICTOR. SELL MONTEJO (SEAN S.) and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the tradition of both the Popol Vuh and the Divine Comedy, Víctor Montejo's genre-breaking narrative recounts his grandfather's journey to the Mayan underworld of Xibalba"--

Download or read book Kidnapped written by Maria Hammarblad and published by Desert Breeze Publishing In. This book was released on 2008-05-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a late winter night when Patricia Risden heads home in her car, on a road she's driven many times before. She doesn't have a care in the world, that is, until a man appears from nowhere, right in front of her. & ;& ;The next thing she knows is being a prisoner of the unscrupulous Alliance Commander Travis 152; an intimidating man who demands information and complete cooperation. Travis soon realizes his mistake; Tricia doesn't know anything, and she is incapable of even getting a glass of water from the ship's computer. & ;& ;Infamous for being a ruthless executioner, conditioned since childhood to feel nothing besides fear and pain, he still deems her harmless, and finds enough pity for the lost young woman to let her out of the cell; a decision that will change both their lives forever.

Download or read book Kidnapped written by Leszli Kalli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It all happened so fast that even now, a month later, I still have trouble believing it, and I have to tell myself over and over again: Leszli, you have been kidnapped." On April 12, 1999, Leszli Kálli boarded a plane in Colombia to work on a kibbutz in Israel, but she never made it. The plane was hijacked by a leftist guerrilla group and forced to land on an abandoned runway in the jungle. Leszli, along with her father and the other passengers, were held hostage for 373 days. Her diary reveals her innermost thoughts, darkest fears, and visions of hope. Leszli vividly presents this painful time in her life: trapped, held at gunpoint, and never knowing if she would live to see another day. Although never close before, the bond between her and her father grows as they provide one another with vital support. Alienated as the only woman in her group, she maintains her guard but finds comfort caring for animals, including a tarantula living beneath her bed. As the pages of her diary unfold, so, too, does the incredible story of one girl's fight for survival against overwhelming odds.

Download or read book The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara written by David I. Kertzer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg. A National Book Award Finalist The extraordinary story of how the vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in 1858 helped to bring about the collapse of the popes' worldly power in Italy. Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition bust inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his father's arms, his mother collapses. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly "baptized" by a family servant. According to papal law, the child is therefore a Catholic who can be taken from his family and delivered to a special monastery where his conversion will be completed. With this terrifying scene, prize-winning historian David I. Kertzer begins the true story of how one boy's kidnapping became a pivotal event in the collapse of the Vatican as a secular power. The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchant's family, the rhythms of daily life in a Jewish ghetto, and also explores, through the revolutionary campaigns of Mazzini and Garibaldi and such personages as Napoleon III, the emergence of Italy as a modern national state. Moving and informative, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara reads as both a historical thriller and an authoritative analysis of how a single human tragedy changed the course of history.

Download or read book Kidnap in Crete written by Rick Stroud and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how a small SOE unit led by Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general on the Nazi-occupied island of Crete in 1944. For thirty-two days, they were chased across the mountains as they headed for the coast and a rendezvous with a Royal Navy launch waiting to spirit the general to Cairo. Rick Stroud, whose Phantom Army of Alamein won plaudits for its meticulous research and its lightness of touch in the telling, brings these same gifts to bear in this new project. From the adrenalin rush of the kidnapping, to the help provided by the Cretan partisans and people, he explains the overall context of Crete's role in World War II and reveals the devastating consequences of this mission for them all. There have been other accounts, but Kidnap in Crete is the first book to draw on all the sources, notably those in Crete as well as SOE files and the accounts, letters, and private papers of its operatives in London and Edinburgh.

Download or read book Kidnapped in the Yukon By Lucy Berton Woodward written by Barbara Patrick and published by S&S Learning Materials. This book was released on 1996 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious iron giant appears in a farming community and eats up all the farm equipment. A young boy comes up with a plan so that the Iron Man and the people can live together. Reproducible chapter questions, plus comprehension questions, a story summary, author biography, creative and cross-curricular activities, complete with answer key. The goal of this unit is to provide teachers and students of children's literature with meaningful, purposeful activities by which they can learn more about this novel, the world around them and hopefully, about themselves as well. Specific objectives (outcomes) include the following: l . The student will become familiar with and able to use in various contexts specific vocabulary from this novel (i.e. compound words, adjectives, British vocabulary and expressions). 2. The student will be able to use maps, graphs and other graphic representations to aid in the expression of verbal concepts and ideas. 3. Through exploration of the characters' motives, actions and emotions, the student will come to a better understanding of his own feelings and of his place in the world. 47 pages.

Download or read book Kidnapped to the Center of the Earth written by Family Vision Press and published by Family Vision. This book was released on 1993 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Mole Troll snatches a baby troll and takes her to the center of the earth. Now, it's up to the Troll family to rescue her. Full-color illustrations.

Download or read book Abduction Human Encounters with Aliens written by Mack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Harvard psychiatrist, the author of A Prince of Our Disorder, presents accounts of alien abduction taken from the more than sixty cases he has investigated and examines the implications for our identity as a species. These mesmerizing and thought-provoking stories of alien encounters from a Harvard professor take you through actual case studies of people from all walks of life and ages who have had challenging, sometimes disturbing, and in every case, life changing experiences of alien abduction. “John Mack explores evidence of nonhuman intelligence like an attorney preparing for the ‘trial of the century’—interviewing witnesses, examining physical evidence, consulting with experts in related fields, constantly questioning his own assumptions…As a story of one man’s determination to bear witness to cosmic mysteries with extraordinary implications for the human future, Abduction is bound to become a modern classic” (Keith Thompson, author of Angels and Aliens)

Download or read book The boy who saved the world written by Alex Mabon and published by Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Glenrue, a small village in the Highlands of Scotland, John Roberts and his three friends are chosen for a secret mission to recover the ray. His mission takes him to the depths of the Bermuda Triangle and the Nevada Desert and eventually to the mountains of Afghanistan where he confronts the world's most notorious terrorist.

Download or read book The Kidnapped Smile written by Laurie Woodward and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been a year since Alex and Bartholomew first ventured into the mystical Artania. Now, Mona Lisa has been kidnapped, and the two are called in to investigate. Peril awaits at every turn. Traitorous pirates, fearful gods, monsters of the deep. Artania's safety lies in their hands. With their spunky sidekick Gwen, Alex and Bartholomew return to Artania to save Mona Lisa from the ruthless pirates. But can they reach her in time?

Download or read book Kidnapped In Space written by Chuck Swope and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapped In Space features 3 Stirring Stories with Intergalactic Investigator, Steve Titanic and his irrepressible partner Gordon Gatt. Story 1, Kidnapped In Space: While vacationing on a tropical asteroid they and famous scientist, Doctor Mogumber are kidnapped and taken captive by space pirate, Zeed.The Pirate really wants Dooctor Mogumber but Steve Titanic makes sure he and his partner, Gordon Gatt are taken too. Steve knows once the Pirate gets away with the Doctor his chances are minimal to save him. By getting kidnapped too, He and Gordon can take the pirate down from the inside. Story 2: A Silent Earth: When Space Germs are discovered and people start getting sick, Steve Titanic and his partner, Gordon Gatt are called upon by their chief to find the underground city that's sending the deadly germs. They also need to find and antidote for the space germs. Story 3, Amazonia Visits Earth: The beautiful alien, Amazonia decides to visit Earth to visit Steve Titanic and Gordon Gatt, who saved her from the space pirate, Zeed. Her space ship is fired upon by Earth's Space Patrol and once she lands, her ship is blown up. She is now a fugitive alien. After she's found and cleared by Steve and Gordon she gets mixed up with unscrupulous space cargo transporters who have their ships wrecked for the insurance then they sell the cargo elsewhere.