Download or read book The Collective written by Alison Gaylin and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chilling...this terrific novel is...propelled by an iron-tight plot that becomes increasingly tense." --New York Times Book Review "It's a nerve-shredding, emotionally harrowing ride. Don't miss it." --Megan Abbott, New York Times bestselling author The USA Today bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of Never Look Back and If I Die Tonight asks how far a grieving mother will go to right a tragic wrong in this propulsive novel of psychological suspense. Camille Gardener is a grieving--and angry--mother who, five years after her daughter's death, is still obsessed with the privileged young man she believes to be responsible. When her rash actions draw the attention of a secret group of women--the collective-- Camille is drawn into a dark web where these mothers share their wildly different stories of loss as well as their desire for justice in a world where privilege denies accountability. Fueled by mutual rage, the collective members devise and act out retribution fantasies via precise, anonymous, highly coordinated revenge killings. As Camille struggles to comprehend whether this is a role-playing exercise or terrifying reality, she must decide if these women are truly avenging angels or monsters. Becoming more deeply enmeshed in the group, Camille learns truths about the collective--and about herself--that she may not be able to survive

Download or read book Murder in the Collective written by Barbara Wilson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seattle printing collective owner Pam Nilsen is on the case when a member of the group turns up dead before a controversial merger Pam Nilsen and her twin sister, Penny, inherited Best Printing four years ago when their parents died in a car crash. Unwilling to sell their family legacy, the sisters turned it into a collective run by a cadre of activists whose arguments over the business can be just as impassioned as their support for progressive causes. But internal divisions at the collective pale in comparison to those between Seattle typesetters B. Violet and Moby Dick—once a single company that has since broken apart into an all-female (and lesbian-run) company, and an all-male (and quickly bankrupt) operation. Shortly after Best Printing and B. Violet begin discussing a merger, the offices of the typesetter are ransacked, one of their members nowhere to be found. Then an employee of Best Printing is found murdered. It appears as if someone will stop at nothing—not even murder—to prevent the merger. And it’s up to Pam to get to the bottom of this deadly turn of events before the killer strikes again. Murder in the Collective is the first book in the Pam Nilsen Mystery trilogy, which continues with Sisters of the Road and The Dog Collar Murders.

Download or read book The Sun Collective written by Charles Baxter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn to—and unmoored by—a local activist group more dangerous than it appears. From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune). Once a promising actor, Tim Brettigan has gone missing. His father thinks he may have seen him among some homeless people. And though she knows he left on purpose, his mother has been searching for him all over their home city of Minneapolis. She checks the usual places— churches, storefronts, benches—and stumbles upon a local community group with lofty goals and an enigmatic leader. Christina, a young woman rapidly becoming addicted to a boutique drug that gives her a feeling of blessedness, is inexplicably drawn to the same collective by a man who’s convinced he may start a revolution. A vision of modern American society and the specters of the consumerism, fanaticism, and fear that haunt it, The Sun Collective captures both the mystery and the violence that punctuate our daily lives.

Download or read book The Collective A Novel written by Don Lee and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a college friend's suicide, Eric Cho reflects on their friendship over the years.

Download or read book The Collective written by Lindsey Whitlock and published by Pushkin Children's Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic coming-of-age novel about a boy's divided loyalty: can Elwyn resist the pull of tradition as well as the allure of the new to forge his own path? As spring comes to Badfish Creek, the natural world bursts with life and excitement. But Elwyn is dreaming of a different change, of a place far away that he hasn't yet seen. Lured by urban life and all it has to offer - education, progress and opportunity - he doesn't think twice when his uncle invites him to stay in Liberty, a dazzling city he longs to call home. Yet soon Elwyn realizes that all that glitters is not gold: there is a sinister side to Liberty that he can't ignore, which threatens to erase his old way of life completely. With past and present pitted against one another, the path to Elwyn's future is cast in doubt - for change always comes at a price.

Download or read book For the Collective written by Carmen J. Spoonemore and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming a Leader in the Collective takes extraordinary strength of mind, but even constant tests and studies can't completely disguise the insidious secrets that are the backbone to this advanced post-apocalyptic world. Within this network of lies, one Future Leader must find a way to navigate opposing ideologies that threaten to undermine the very essence of an individual.

Download or read book The Collective written by Alison Gaylin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chilling...this terrific novel is...propelled by an iron-tight plot that becomes increasingly tense." --New York Times Book Review "It’s a nerve-shredding, emotionally harrowing ride. Don’t miss it.” —Megan Abbott, New York Times bestselling author The USA Today bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author of Never Look Back and If I Die Tonight asks how far a grieving mother will go to right a tragic wrong in this propulsive novel of psychological suspense. Camille Gardener is a grieving—and angry—mother who, five years after her daughter’s death, is still obsessed with the privileged young man she believes to be responsible. When her rash actions draw the attention of a secret group of women—the collective— Camille is drawn into a dark web where these mothers share their wildly different stories of loss as well as their desire for justice in a world where privilege denies accountability. Fueled by mutual rage, the collective members devise and act out retribution fantasies via precise, anonymous, highly coordinated revenge killings. As Camille struggles to comprehend whether this is a role-playing exercise or terrifying reality, she must decide if these women are truly avenging angels or monsters. Becoming more deeply enmeshed in the group, Camille learns truths about the collective—and about herself—that she may not be able to survive

Download or read book The Collective Truth written by The Collective Truth and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This world offers many religions, philosophers, theorists, mystics, political organizations, self-help books, sacred texts, scientific formulas, and analyses; yet so many people who utilize these tools continue to struggle. They struggle for peace, enlightenment, or salvation. Why is that? Most of us live with a false sense of reality. This book is a map. A book of diagrams to remind you of the illusion we participate in. The objective of this book is to promote an awareness of what is real. The Collective Truth asks you to critically think about your thoughts--that is, to reflect upon what you have been told, or what you perceive, to be the truth. Being conscious of the illusion will enable you to choose, again and again, whether or not to participate in it. If your choice is to be conscious, you will find that Heaven is now. In fact, lasting peace and paradise have been accessible all along.

Download or read book Winter Recipes from the Collective written by Louise Glück and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A haunting book by a poet whose voice speaks of all our lifetimes Louise Glück’s thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient. Winter Recipes from the Collective is chamber music, an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard, dolente, its line sustained, carried, and then taken up by the next instrument, spirited, animoso, while at the same time being large enough to contain a whole lifetime, the inconceivable gifts and losses of old age, the little princesses rattling in the back of a car, an abandoned passport, the ingredients of an invigorating winter sandwich, a sister’s death, the joyful presence of the sun, its brightness measured by the darkness it casts. “Some of you will know what I mean,” the poet says, by which she means, some of you will follow me. Hers is the sustaining presence, the voice containing all our lifetimes, “all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last.” This magnificent book couldn’t have been written by anyone else, nor could it have been written by the poet at any other time in her life.

Download or read book The Killer Collective written by Barry Eisler and published by Center Point. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in the United States by Amazon Publishing, 2019"--Title page verso.

Download or read book Blind Spots written by Kimberly Nix Berens and published by The Collective Book Studio. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, a majority of students graduate below proficiency in all academic subjects. Parents of struggling students feel overwhelmed and confused about how to help their children simply survive school, let alone succeed. Various school reform efforts have been tried and all have failed. But all hope is not lost. A science exists that allows children to learn as individuals even though at school they are educated in groups. One that avoids senseless labels that sentence children to lifetimes of failure and mediocrity. Dr. Kimberly Berens and a team of scientists have spent the last 20 years perfecting a powerful system of instruction based on the learning, behavioral, and cognitive sciences that they call Fit Learning. This method of teaching has been proven to markedly improve how students understand and achieve, even for children who have been told they have learning disabilities or other disorders that interfere with their ability to learn. Blind Spots reveals the history of our broken education system and shows that by using this teaching system in the classroom, we can unlock the vast potential hidden within every child.

Download or read book Fierce Grace Collective written by Carrie-Anne Moss and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you feel like your heart gets lost in the daily hustle? With this book by your side, you can clarify your intentions and develop supportive systems to feed those intentions. Practice, devotion, discipline, and creativity act as primary guideposts in each module through the year. Born from Carrie-Anne's original online Fierce Grace Collective, this book is filled with heartfelt writings, elegant exercises and inspiring stories to ignite the lives and hearts of women around the world.

Download or read book The Woefield Poultry Collective written by Susan Juby and published by HarperCollins Canada. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woefield Farm is a sprawling thirty acres of scrub land, complete with dilapidated buildings and one half-sheared, lonely sheep named Bertie. It’s “run”—in the loosest possible sense of the word—by Prudence Burns, an energetic, well-intentioned twenty-something New Yorker full of back-to-the-land ideals, but without an iota of related skills or experience. Prudence, who inherited the farm from her uncle, soon discovers that the bank is about to foreclose on Woefield Farm, which means that she has to turn things around, fast. But fear not! She’ll be assisted by Earl, a spry seventy-something, banjo-playing foreman with a distrust of newfangled ideas and a substantial family secret; Seth, the alcoholic, celebrity-blogging boy-next-door who hasn’t left the house since a scandal with his high school drama teacher; and Sara Spratt, a highly organized eleven-year-old looking for a home for her prize-winning chickens, including one particularly randy fellow soon to be christened Alec Baldwin. Full of off-beat charm and characters you won’t soon forget, The Woefield Poultry Collective is a heartwarming novel about learning how to take on a challenge, facing your fears and finding friendship in the most unlikely of places.

Download or read book Apprentice Book 1 written by Kristen Young and published by Enclave Escape. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Love Collective is everywhere. It sees everything. Be not afraid. Apprentice Flick remembers everything, except the first five years of her life. And for as long as she can remember, Flick has wanted to enter the Elite Academy - home to the best, brightest, and most loyal members of the Love Collective government. Flick's uncanny memory might get her there, too ... even if it is the very thing that marks her as a freak. But frightening hallucinations start intruding into her days and threaten to bring down all she has worked so hard to accomplish. Why is she being hijacked by a stranger's nightmare over and over again? Moving to the Elite Academy could give Flick the future she's always wanted. But her search for truth may lead to a danger she cannot escape.

Download or read book The Short Story Collective written by Andrew Innes and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Yui thought of nothing and focused her mind on it. This was going to be easy. Except, was that not a contradiction? If she was thinking of nothing, wasn`t that nothing, something? In that moment, the city felt a hundred miles and a thousand years away." The Short Story Collective is a thirteen-part journey through contemporary Japan with the odd stop along the way to visit both the past and the future. In the title story, a young writer meets a drunken salamander who shares a tale passed down through the generations. In "The Koan", a young lady doubts her own existence after completing a thousand marathons through the misty mountains of Kyoto. In "Digital Detox", we meet a crafty farmer who cleverly lures gullible tourists to his country house. In "When in Rome", the reader is introduced to a trio of tourists who epitomize the phrase Tourist Pollution. In "Anger Management", the owner of a sake brewery battles to control his temper in a country where public expressions of emotion are very much frowned upon. In these stories and more, the reader is introduced to a perspective on Japan that is at times dark, occasionally surreal, yet always engaging. Innes has been featured in Tokyo Weekender, The Font, and The Best Asian Short Stories 2021. The Short Story Collective is his first book.

Download or read book The Ambitious Collective written by Camasha M Cevieux and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If lifes' road had a manual, the Ambitious Collective seeks to be just that. Written in Chapter long unapologetic prose messages from the author; it establishes the rules of engagement of what Ambition serves you, can punish you and make you aware. The authors' colorful metaphors represent her own experiences offering the reader a guide while still leaving room for the reader to see themselves and their experiences in each. Most importantly, the Ambitious Collective is a book that challenges the reader to offer their presence to others and to forgive those unqualified as it prepares the next generation of the Ambitious Collective with the tools necessary to continue and champion the movement. A must read for young people to professionals, the Ambitious Collective seeks to be kept, passed on and discussed.

Download or read book Kill Shot written by Liliana Hart and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Meredith is the CIA's most deadly assassin. Too bad she's gone off the grid and become a mercenary for hire. After the death of her daughter by a sniper's bullet, Grace can no longer stomach the demands of agency life or keep herself from blaming the only man she's ever loved. Her mind and body are fragile, and she knows she's just a step away from breaking down completely. Gabe Brennan holds the weight of the world on his shoulders. As one of the most brilliant black ops agents the CIA has ever employed, he knows it's no one's fault but his own that his child was gunned down in cold blood. He might not have been able to save his daughter, but he's determined to save his wife. He only has to find her first. Sexual tension crackles between Gabe and Grace from the moment they're reunited, but between the man who is hunting them, a secret that's been buried for eighty years, and a turbulent past-the odds are stacked against them.