Download or read book Send in the Drones An Emily Trace Mystery written by Sue Eller and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disappearing drones, self-replicating drones, and a new version of Drone Wars befuddle the heretofore unflappable Spokane PI Emily Trace and her crew. Join Emily and her friends from near and far as she delves into the mysteries of disappearing mail and cloaking devices, and faces off with a control freak and a laser-armed attacker.
Download or read book Beyond the Ocean s Edge written by D. Andrew McChesney and published by . This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hotchkiss continued on. Ed! You didnt see it? The use of his captains first name on deck attested to the first lieutenants growing apprehension and maddening confusion. See what, Isaac, my old friend? Pierce recognized his comrades state of mind and did not correct his lapse of quarterdeck etiquette. Clearly, a more personal and comfortable approach was needed. The stars! The stars, Ed! We werent just looking up at them. We were amongst them. There was the sea, and then there wasnt. And the stars were below us as well! And we were there, right among them, like we were the stars themselves, or the moon or... Im sure you saw what youve described. Unfortunately, I chanced not to see it, although I have had a strange feeling of timelessness. Is it possible to sail beyond the oceans edge to another world? In 1802 Royal Navy Lieutenant Edward Pierce is ashore on half pay because of the Peace of Amiens. He fortunately gains command of a vessel searching for a lost, legendary island. When the island is found, Pierce and his shipmates discover that it exists in an entirely different but similar world. Exploring the seas around Stone Island, HMS Island Expedition sails headlong into an arena of mistaken identities, violent naval battles, strange truces, dangerous liaisons, international intrigue, superstition, and ancient prophecies. Detained by that worlds equivalent of Great Britain, Pierce struggles to free his ship and crew. Despondent over giving up his ship and possibly never seeing his beloved Evangeline again, Pierces outlook brightens when he discovers new-found friends working to liberate him and his crew. With time he comes to understand the prophesied role he and his companions are to play in that other world.
Download or read book Glory Goes and Gets Some written by Emily Carter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-10-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows Glory, an HIV-positive drug addict, who leaves the drugs and sex of the Lower East Side to find meaning to love and life in a Minnesota rehabilitation community.
Download or read book Escape written by Barbara Delinsky and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Aulenbach is thirty, a lawyer married to a lawyer, working in Manhattan. An idealist, she had once dreamed of representing victims of corporate abuse, but she spends her days in a cubicle talking on the phone with victims of tainted bottled water - and she is on the bottler's side. And it isn't only work. It's her sister, her friends, even her husband, Tim, with whom she doesn't connect the way she used to. She doesn't connect to much in her life, period, with the exception of three things - her computer, her BlackBerry, and her watch. Acting on impulse, Emily leaves work early one day, goes home, packs her bag, and takes off. Groping toward the future, uncharacteristically following her gut rather than her mind, she heads north toward a New Hampshire town tucked between mountains. She knows this town. During her college years, she spent a watershed summer here. Painful as it is to return, she knows that if she is to right her life, she has to start here.
Download or read book This Mortal Coil written by Emily Suvada and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Redefines ‘unputdownable.’” —Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling author of Iluminae “I was thrilled. I was shocked.” —NPR “Stunning twists and turns.” —BCCB (starred review) In this gripping debut novel, seventeen-year-old Cat must use her gene-hacking skills to decode her late father’s message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague. Catarina Agatta is a hacker. She can cripple mainframes and crash through firewalls, but that’s not what makes her special. In Cat’s world, people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, allowing them to change their bodies in any way they want. And Cat happens to be a gene-hacking genius. That’s no surprise, since Cat’s father is Dr. Lachlan Agatta, a legendary geneticist who may be the last hope for defeating a plague that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. But during the outbreak, Lachlan was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called Cartaxus, leaving Cat to survive the last two years on her own. When a Cartaxus soldier, Cole, arrives with news that her father has been killed, Cat’s instincts tell her it’s just another Cartaxus lie. But Cole also brings a message: before Lachlan died, he managed to create a vaccine, and Cole needs Cat’s help to release it and save the human race. Now Cat must decide who she can trust: The soldier with secrets of his own? The father who made her promise to hide from Cartaxus at all costs? In a world where nature itself can be rewritten, how much can she even trust herself?
Download or read book Short Trips to Alternate Universes written by Sue Eller and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of compositions by the author spanning about 30 years in Earth time and who knows how long in the space-time continuum.
Download or read book Waxing Is Useless written by M J Hudon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a middle age soccer mom is faced with adversity? She sprouts fur and a tail, of course! Miranda Moon is confused, and sick and tired of being sick and tired. Strange things are happening and everything seems to be going wrong - with her family, her job, even her health. And what is up with the hair on her legs?With no answers in sight, Miranda prays to God for guidance. That's when her reality shifts. She learns of the existence of the Spokane Guardians, a pack of werewolves protecting her community against other more frightening creatures. Now, after a series of freaky events, she must decide - join them and learn what could be worse than werewolves, or play it safe and cling to her old life? The stress is really getting to her, in fact it's enough to make a girl want to howl!
Download or read book Station Eleven written by Emily St. John Mandel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • Set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. • Now an original series on HBO Max. • Over one million copies sold! One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed. Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!
Download or read book Scarlett written by Jon Buller and published by Papercutz. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scarlett is a small, harlequin-colored cat and a huge movie star. And what's more—she talks! However, abused by her producer, she dreams of but one thing: escaping! So, when the occasion presents itself, she runs for her life. In the company of Trotter, a dog who's escaped the same torment, she is taken in by Mr. Bougnon. But with the noose getting tighter, will they manage to elude their terrible pursuers?
Download or read book The Sound of Tomorrow written by Mark Brend and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1966: Paul McCartney met a group of three electronic musicians called Unit Delta Plus. McCartney was there because he had become fascinated by electronic music, and wanted to know how it was made. He was one of the first rock musicians to grasp its potential, but even he was notably late to the party. For years, composers and technicians had been making electronic music for film and TV. Hitchcock had commissioned a theremin soundtrack for Spellbound (1945); The Forbidden Planet (1956) featured an entirely electronic score; Delia Derbyshire had created the Dr Who theme in 1963; and by the early 1960s, all you had to do was watch commercial TV for a few hours to hear the weird and wonderful sounds of the new world. The Sound of Tomorrow tells the compelling story of the sonic adventurers who first introduced electronic music to the masses. A network of composers, producers, technicians and inventors, they took emerging technology and with it made sound and music that was bracingly new.
Download or read book Gifted written by John R. Sankovich and published by John R. Sankovich. This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her community is once again under siege. But this time her legendary powers aren’t helping… Rebecca Stevens longs for approval. Accepting that she can’t avoid the destiny her gifts have thrust upon her, the teenage hero still struggles with those in town who blame her for all their troubles. And when a young ally nearly dies and is orphaned in a vicious attack, she vows to bring the insanity to a halt. Unable to track down the perpetrator, Rebecca fears her old enemy has found another way to torment her small hometown. And her only option to smoke the villain out may be to walk into the lion’s den and offer herself as bait… Can Rebecca defeat a shadowy force that refuses to face her? Control is the suspenseful third book in the Gifted superhero urban fantasy series. If you like determined heroines, mysterious paranormal antagonists, and emotional rollercoasters, then you’ll love John R. Sankovich’s page-turning novel. Buy Gifted: Control to unearth an unseen fiend today!
Download or read book The World of Madeleine Castaing written by Emily Eerdmans and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph will provide an illustrative survey of Madeleine Castaing's work, exploring in depth the elements of her style, and examining how she crafted interiors so emotive that visitors were compelled to observe that they had stepped into a Balzac novel or a Proustian recollection.
Download or read book Harper s Weekly written by John Bonner and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This Vicious Cure Mortal Coil Book 3 written by Emily Suvada and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *The extraordinary conclusion to the This Mortal Coil trilogy - who will survive the oncoming storm?* Two factions at war A plague that can't be stopped A cure that could destroy them all . . . Cat's hacking skills weren't enough to keep her from losing everything - her identity, her past, and now her freedom. Meanwhile, the person who's stolen everything from her is close to realizing a hacker's dream: the solution to humanity's problems in gene form. Or so she thinks . . . But now a new threat has emerged - a threat that could bring the world to the brink of a devastating war. Both sides will stop at nothing to seize control of humanity's future, and that the centre of this war is Cat, and a race against the clock save millions of lives . . . The gripping finale to a series The Verge has called 'perfect YA sci-fi'
Download or read book The Truth about Wuhan written by Andrew G. Huff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shocking new insider information that shows what really happened in Wuhan, China, at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak and in the ensuing cover-up. The day that Dr. Andrew G. Huff left his senior scientist and vice president role at EcoHealth Alliance was one of the happiest days of his life due to the corruption he had witnessed at the organization. However, he never thought working there would be of any great consequence to the future. He was wrong. Because, as an EcoHealth Alliance insider, Dr. Huff had had a ringside seat to one of the biggest cover-ups in history. The Truth about Wuhan contains new research and a breakdown of how and why the development of COVID-19 in the United States and China was supported by the US government to collect intelligence on laboratories in China. Dr. Huff, an expert in the fields of bioterrorism and bio warfare, is a whistleblower who will show why the reasons the lab leak was covered up are incorrect. He worked on the classified research side of the program as a US government scientist. He knows the real how and why COVID-19 emerged. Besides exposing the conspiracy and cover-up, Dr. Huff also puts forth policy solutions and recommendations to prevent a lab leak virus from plaguing the world again. The Truth about Wuhan simply explains the complexity of the system that led to COVID-19’s emergence; how the medical industrial complex grew and became entrenched in gain of function work after 9/11; why EcoHealth Alliance was the (almost) perfect intelligence collection cover; the policy actions and decision-making process as to why the United States government engaged in the COVID cover-up; how and why the United States swapped biotechnology with China and biomedical corporations; and the incentives for each of the actors or governments to engage and coordinate a global cover-up of COVID-19 origins. The Truth about Wuhan also shows how and why Dr. Anthony Fauci is intricately involved in the COVID cover-up; how scientists like EcoHealth Alliance president and CEO Dr. Peter Daszak rose to power and used their influence to corrupt science and the COVID origin investigation; and how the intelligence community likely orchestrated the cover-up with Dr. Anthony Fauci. Dr. Huff also provides personal harrowing accounts of how the US government waged a psychological operation against him to prevent him from speaking out. COVID-19 is the biggest lie, scandal, and intelligence failure in US history, and Dr. Andrew G. Huff is stepping out of the shadows to share his insider story about this failure that led to millions of deaths around the world.
Download or read book Storm of the Seven Sins written by Emily Colin and published by Black Orchid Books. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world poisoned by revenge, love is the only salvation. Now bonded as skúma and familiar, Eva and Ari can read each other’s minds—and hearts. They’re an unbeatable warrior pair, and now that they’ve confessed their love for each other, their path forward should be clear…together. But the Executor’s disappearance has driven a wedge between them. Eva’s more determined than ever to march against the Commonwealths and put an end to the man she despises. And much as he would like to see the Executor dead, uniting the Houses comes at a price that Ari’s not willing to pay. When a strike against the Brotherhood stronghold sends the resistance into chaos, Ari and Eva find themselves on opposite sides of a deadly conflict. As Eva’s newfound powers spiral out of control, and Ari faces unexpected revelations, the rift between them widens. In a world beset by shifting loyalties and awakening magic, the two must face the possibility of a future apart if they want to survive and bring the Commonwealths down. Author's Note If Fourth Wing and Divergent had a love child, it would be this series. Can’t resist fierce girls with swords, infuriating guys with hearts of gold, a plot that twists and turns when you least expect it, and star-crossed lovers who fight to the death by each other’s sides? Then this is the series for you.
Download or read book The Epworth Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
