Download or read book Godspeed written by Nickolas Butler and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mesmerising.' The Herald, Best Books to read this summer'A glorious novel, as lyrical as it is suspenseful - breathless, tense, and shimmering.' STEPH CHA'My daddy always told me, if it looks too good to be true - then it probably is.'Bart, Teddy and Cole have been best friends since childhood. Having founded their own small-town construction company, they yearn to build a legacy, something to leave behind to their families. So when Gretchen Connors, a mysterious millionaire lawyer from California, approaches them with a stunning, almost formidable project in the mountains above their town, the three friends convince themselves it's the job which will secure their future.But what is Gretchen hiding from them? And why does the build have to be complete by Christmas, a near-impossible deadline? With the lines between ambition and greed more slippery and dangerous than the three friends ever imagined, how far will they push themselves and what will be the cost of their dream?From the author of the international bestseller Shotgun Lovesongs, Godspeed is an unforgettable tale of family, friendship and temptation.

Download or read book I Will Never Forget You written by Salomon Grimberg and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo by the Hungarian-born photographer Nickolas Muray. Kahlo met Muray in Mexico in 1931, and they began an affair that was to continue over several years, sustained at a distance by an exchange of paintings, photographs and passionate love letters, a selection of which are included here.

Download or read book Nickolas written by Kathi S. Barton and published by World Castle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nickolas Grant doesn't know what to do when he finally realizes that he needs Morgan Becky for more than just his secretary. He doesn't trust her... not with his love not even his friendship.Morgan has not had an easy life and finds it difficult to trust others. She needs to get her life in order, not fall for her handsome boss with a stiff spine and foul temper.When they come together in fiery passion and biting words, no one is safe, not even them.

Download or read book Little Faith written by Nickolas Butler and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this moving new novel from celebrated author Nickolas Butler, a Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife, Peg, daughter, Shiloh, and six-year old grandson, Isaac. After a troubled adolescence and subsequent estrangement from her parents, Shiloh has finally come home. But while Lyle is thrilled to have his whole family reunited, he’s also uneasy: in Shiloh’s absence, she has become deeply involved with an extremist church, and the devout pastor courting her is convinced Isaac has the spiritual ability to heal the sick. While reckoning with his own faith—or lack thereof—Lyle soon finds himself torn between his unease about the church and his desire to keep his daughter and grandson in his life. But when the church’s radical belief system threatens Isaac’s safety, Lyle is forced to make a decision from which the family may not recover. Set over the course of one year and beautifully evoking the change of seasons, Little Faith is a powerful and deeply affecting intergenerational novel about family and community, the ways in which belief is both formed and shaken, and the lengths we go to protect our own.

Download or read book Shotgun Lovesongs written by Nickolas Butler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Impressively original." —The New York Times "Sparkles in every way. A love letter to the open lonely American heartland...A must-read." —People "The kind of book that restores your faith in humanity." —Toronto Star Welcome to Little Wing. It's a place like hundreds of others, nothing special, really. But for four friends—all born and raised in this small Wisconsin town—it is home. And now they are men, coming into their own or struggling to do so. One of them never left, still working the family farm that has been tilled for generations. But others felt the need to move on, with varying degrees of success. One trades commodities, another took to the rodeo circuit, and one of them even hit it big as a rock star. And then there's Beth, a woman who has meant something special in each of their lives. Now all four are brought together for a wedding. Little Wing seems even smaller than before. While lifelong bonds are still strong, there are stresses—among the friends, between husbands and wives. There will be heartbreak, but there will also be hope, healing, even heroism as these memorable people learn the true meaning of adult friendship and love. Seldom has the American heartland been so richly and accurately portrayed. Though the town may have changed, the one thing that hasn't is the beauty of the Wisconsin farmland, the lure of which, in Nickolas Butler's hands, emerges as a vibrant character in the story. Shotgun Lovesongs is that rare work of fiction that evokes a specific time and place yet movingly describes the universal human condition. It is, in short, a truly remarkable book—a novel that once read will never be forgotten.

Download or read book Movie Medievalism written by Nickolas Haydock and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a theoretical introduction to the portrayal of medievalism in popular film. Employing the techniques of film criticism and theory, it moves beyond the simple identification of error toward a poetics of this type of film, sensitive to both cinema history and to the role these films play in constructing what the author terms the "medieval imaginary." The opening two chapters introduce the rapidly burgeoning field of medieval film studies, viewed through the lenses of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the Deleuzian philosophy of the time-image. The first chapter explores how a vast array of films (including both auteur cinema and popular movies) contributes to the modern vision of life in the Middle Ages, while the second is concerned with how time itself functions in cinematic representations of the medieval. The remaining five chapters offer detailed considerations of specific examples of representations of medievalism in recent films, including First Knight, A Knight's Tale, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Kingdom of Heaven, King Arthur, Night Watch, and The Da Vinci Code. The book also surveys important benchmarks in the development of Deleuze's time-image, from classic examples like Bergman's The Seventh Seal and Kurosawa's Kagemusha through contemporary popular cinema, in order to trace how movie medievalism constructs images of the multivalence of time in memory and representation. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Download or read book Rebel written by Joseph Iaquinta and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nickolas Leader is born into a wealthy family in Michigan. While his fathers side is from privilege, his mothers comes from the rough side of the tracks. Nickolas spends a lot of time with his cousinhis mothers nephewand the two boys become close. When his uncle falls victim to an economic plight young Nickolas begins to see the predicament of a fleeting middle-class. After Nickolas graduates from college, he feels more and more compelled to save the world from its lack of empathy. By now, he has learned much about the undeniable injustices affecting his mothers family, while his fathers family continues to enjoy the spoils of wealth. He puts himself in a position of great power and influence, even developing a friendship with Giovanni Grimaldi a powerful figure in military and political circles. With Grimaldis help, Nickolas creates a persona for himself as a superhero named Rebel. Rebel will fight for future technologies and resurrect the American Dream while battling corruption. To succeed, Nickolas requires a small team of close confidants who will help him lead a revolution and combat the injustices of the world. Are you ready to fight back?

Download or read book The Hearts of Men written by Nickolas Butler and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camp Chippewa, 1962. Nelson Doughty, age thirteen, social outcast and overachiever, is the Bugler, sounding the reveille proudly each morning. Yet this particular summer marks the beginning of an uncertain and tenuous friendship with a popular boy named Jonathan. Over the years, Nelson, irrevocably scarred from the Vietnam War, becomes Scoutmaster of Camp Chippewa, while Jonathan marries, divorces, and turns his father’s business into a highly profitable company. And when something unthinkable happens at a camp get-together with Nelson as Scoutmaster and Jonathan’s teenage grandson and daughter-in-law as campers, the aftermath demonstrates the depths—and the limits—of Nelson’s selflessness and bravery. The Hearts of Men is a sweeping, panoramic novel about the slippery definitions of good and evil, family and fidelity, the challenges and rewards of lifelong friendships, the bounds of morality—and redemption.

Download or read book Cataclysm Books 1 4 written by Ann Gimpel and published by Ann Gimpel Books, LLC. This book was released on 2021-02-14 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bundled together for the first time! Over 1200 pages of riveting vampiric urban fantasy. Harsh Line My very existence is under attack. I’ve kept a low profile, told myself the craziness sweeping the world would pass me by. Yeah, it was wishful thinking, actually an outright lie, but it’s kept me sane. I’ve been hiding out forever in one guise or another. Currently, I run a nightclub. Ascent is an “ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no lies” haven. For everybody. I’m a Vampire. Far be it from me to judge. My closest ally is a shapeshifting dire wolf. I adopted him when he was a scrawny puppy, but I’m getting ahead of my tale. The fragile détente between supernaturals and humans has crashed and burned. I can’t avoid the truth any longer. Lucky for me, mortals don’t know exactly what I am. When I moved to Seattle, some vampiric sixth sense urged me to play my cards close to my vest, but I’m done burying my secrets. And my power. Warped Line I chose stasis—a long sleep—for me and two of mine. Hard to time these things, but we woke in the eye of a cyclone. When I went to sleep—to avoid being drained of magic and blood by dark Sorcerers—Vampires weren’t exactly on the endangered species list, but not many of us are left. No one ever accepted us. Not mortals and not others with power, either. At least one of those dams has developed a few cracks. Supernaturals aren’t quite welcoming, but they’ll take help from any quarter. Mortals have declared war on magic, and they won’t rest until we’re all sitting in iron-clad prisons. What a bunch of cowards. If they weren’t hiding behind false humanitarian walls, they’d be honest about their intentions and do their damnedest to kill us outright. Cracked Line Vampires don’t fall in love. Except I did. Not the best decision of my long life. I definitely cracked an unspoken line, but Ariana trounced me as far as line-crossing went. Very few acts constitute crimes in Vampire circles. Hers was the worst. I fled to the Old Country to buy myself thinking time. I still loved her, but what she’d done was so vile I couldn’t set it aside. We face huge problems, but I’m tackling them one by one. I’ll return to Ariana’s side, but perhaps only as her comrade-in-arms. Time will tell if we can be more to each other. Time and circumstances. In a world without magic, Vampires will wither along with every other magic-wielder. I cannot let that happen. Broken Line In all my years as a Vampire, hundreds of them, I never imagined humans would be anything other than food. Rich, pure, delectable blood. Prey that fought back never posed a problem. Mortals couldn’t stand against those of us with supernatural ability. That world still exists, but it’s taken a backseat to humans who’ve joined forces with turncoat mages. Mortals were never meant to wield power. Over the long haul, they’re sure to be very sorry for the choices they’ve made. Maybe someday I’ll be a humble innkeeper again, but it’s so far in the future I can’t even think about it. Nope. For now, all I see is blood. Rivers of it, and not running down my gullet, either. On the plus side, I have good friends, powerful allies, and a Vampire who loves me. We have to come through this unscathed. Have to. I’m Ariana Hawke, and I take care of what’s mine.

Download or read book Transcript of the Enrollment Books written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Elections and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Love Chronicles of Michael the Vampire written by Ta’Ree Z. Morris and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MICHAEL IS A LAWYER WHO GETS BITTEN BY A CLIENT, HE BECOMES A VAMPIRE AND DECIDES TO DO GOOD BY SAVING PEOPLE. LATER HE BECOMES GODS VESSEL MICHAEL AND HIS CREW TAKES ON LUCIFER AND HIS DEMONS TO SAVE HEAVEN AND EARTH FROM LUCIFER AND HIS DEMONS.

Download or read book Alice in Zombieland written by Lewis Carroll and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. All of them were covered in Alice's now cold and congealed blood, which made them even tastier looking to poor hungry Alice. When little Alice follows the Black Rat down into the gaping darkness of an open grave, she falls and falls. And soon finds herself in an undead nightmare of rotting flesh and insanity. Venturing further into this land of zombies and monsters, she encounters characters both creepy and madcap along the way. But there's something else troubling poor Alice: her skin is rotting and her hair is falling out. She's cold. And she has the haunting feeling that if she remains in Zombieland any longer, she might never leave. Can Alice escape Zombieland before the Dead Red Queen catches up to her?

Download or read book Titanic Disaster written by Nelson Yomtov and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a spontaneous time leap sends Nickolas Flux back to the Titanic's maiden voyage, what's a teenage history buff to do? Try to avoid going down with the ship, of course! From trying to help spot icebergs to getting off the sinking ship safely, Nick must survive one of the most disastrous events of the early 1900s.

Download or read book Nickolas Muray written by Nickolas Muray and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Nickolas Nickleby written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Titanic Disaster written by Nelson Yomtov and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a spontaneous time leap sends Nickolas Flux back to the Titanic's maiden voyage, what's a teenage history buff to do? Try to avoid going down with the ship, of course! From trying to help spot icebergs to getting off the sinking ship safely, Nick must survive one of the most disastrous events of the early 1900s.

Download or read book Only the Beginning written by Mary J. McGovern and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-09-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have been an avid reader of romance novels for over 15 years and never even imagined writing one, so you can imagine how surprised I was to have Nickolas Stewart come to me in a dream. He was a tormented man in the 19th century who found himself on a ship headed for his homeland of England. He had spent the last 10 years of his life in Boston, building quite a name for himself in the publishing world, all the while hiding from his past. Nickolas came to me over and over again with this intriguing story of the mysteries that surrounded him. It’s a story of power and manipulation. It speaks of the extents some people will go to, to get what they want. Entwined in Nickolas’ story are two women, each one totally different than the other. Both women play a very important part in his life, leading him to the core of his torment. Nickloas comes to realize he is a pawn in someone’s game, but who’s game? He must find his way through the maze of mysteries in order to find who is responsible. This was a book I thoroughly enjoyed writing, and hope you will enjoy reading! Sincerely, Mary McGovern