Download or read book The Last Breath of a Dying Tomorrow written by Jason Krumbine and published by Jason Krumbine. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Veneer Empire is collapsing. A hundred years ago the Veneer Empire seceded from the UPA and entered into a secret alliance with the Unity. Today, the seeds of the empire’s collapse have taken root and are blossoming into a chaotic darkness that threatens to destabilize the entire region. The Veneer home world has suddenly gone silent. An entire planet with billions of inhabitants and there is nothing but silence. Without the guidance and leadership from the home world, the structure of the empire is crumbling. Supply chains are failing. Criminal elements are running wild. The entire sector is up for grabs and anyone who can make a power play is making it. In an effort to stabilize the region, the UPA has dispatched an envoy headed up by the Defiance. Their mission is humanitarian. They’re to offer aid and begin the process of reestablishing communication between the Alliance and the Veneer Empire. But before long, that mission turns to survival for the crew of the Defiance. Survival against the darkness from without, and from within.

Download or read book Hand of God written by Jason Krumbine and published by Jason Krumbine. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the edge of UPA space a mysterious vessel has appeared. No one knows where it came from. It has no callsign or identifying marks. The vessel simply transmits a standard S.O.S. in a signal that hasn’t been used in hundreds of years: Morse code. While still recovering from their losses on Carlock, the USS Defiance is dispatched to investigate. But when they arrive they discover that every single individual on the ship has already been dead for hundreds of years. As Captain Mitchell and his crew work to unravel the mystery of this ghost ship, they soon find themselves confronted by something far worse than a simple space mystery: What killed this crew so long ago is still very much onboard and still is very much alive.

Download or read book The Value of Terror written by Jason Krumbine and published by Jason Krumbine. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Natuzzi have unleashed the unimaginable: a planet killer. And now they hold the galaxy in a grip of terror. All that stands between the Natuzzi and the rest of the Alliance is one ship: the USS Defiance. But Captain Mitchell is missing, and command of the Defiance has been turned over to their new first officer, Broderick Cooper. Assigned to the Defiance by the UPA President himself, Cooper’s motives and allegiances are shrouded in mystery. As the crew of the Defiance struggle to learn whether or not they can trust their commander, there are other forces at work within the ship. Forces that have their own agendas. Forces from other planes of reality. The galaxy is on the edge of war. But there is another way. They can be Unified.

Download or read book When Breath Becomes Air written by Paul Kalanithi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

Download or read book Thoughts of an Adolescent written by Ciara Woods and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included are writings by the author during her adolescent years.

Download or read book Secret Passages in a Hillside Town written by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An atmospheric love story with a twist by the author of The Rabbit Back Literature Society. In a small hillside town, Olli Suominen - publisher and discontented husband - is constantly losing umbrellas. He has also joined a film club. And Greta, an old flame, has added him on Facebook. As his life becomes more and more entangled with Greta's, and his wife and son are dragged into the aftermath of this teenage romance, Olli is forced to make a horrible choice. But does he really want to know what the secret passages are? Can he be sure that Greta is who she seems to be? And what actually happened on that summer's day long ago? Tense, atmospheric and often very funny, Secret Passages in a Hillside Town is another magical Finnish story from the author of the acclaimed The Rabbit Back Literature Society.

Download or read book Eternal Evolution written by Katryna Barker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sketching written by James Graham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens' London is reimagined for the 21st century. Twenty-four hours in the life of a city that has 371 people in every square kilometer, where every street and square shelters heroes and villains, emotional turmoil, violent allegiances, adventures, the remarkable and the everyday. Olivier Award-winning playwright James Graham forges a uniquely crowd-sourced play, incorporating scenes by emerging writers into his own sweeping narrative. Dickens' panoply of London and Londoners, his big characters and fantastic stories in Sketches by Boz are updated for the modern age, incorporating the broadest range of voices from across the community in a theatrical whirligig of wonder and imagination.

Download or read book Time Enough to Die written by Lillian Stewart Carl and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matilda Gray is an expert on antiquities, especially the Roman and Celtic artifacts found in Great Britain. But one thing Matilda has learned is that such relics of time past are not valued only by museums but also by unscrupulous collectors, and the illegal trade in such treasures can be deadly. Gareth March is a Scotland Yard detective who must work - reluctantly -- with Matilda to solve the murder of a woman who knew too much about stolen antiquities. Solving the murder will earn him a promotion. And more--perhaps a greater treasure than Celtic gold is a relationship appearing when he least expects it . . . The murder case, the case of the stolen antiquities, and the treasure coming to light at the excavation of a Roman fort are tied inextricably together. At last Matilda and Gareth have to stop arguing and begin a race against time to prevent another murder. They do, after all, agree on one thing: the risk of death makes life and love all the sweeter. There's always time enough to die.

Download or read book To The Last Breath written by Carlton Stowers and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 22, 1994, two-year-old Renee Goode played happily with her sisters and cousin, enjoying an impromptu "slumber party" at the home of her father, Shane Goode. The next day Renee was dead. "To the Last Breath" reveals what Renee's grandmother had suspected all along: cold, calculating Shane Goode had murdered his own daughter to cash in on her death. of photos. Martin's Press.

Download or read book The Mandate written by Jacob Bergen and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courage, hope, and determination are powerful tools for success in a treasure hunt. The treasure readers will find in this volume is indispensable. This book will encourage the weary heart. (Practical Life)

Download or read book The Chimes written by Charles Dickens and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to A Christmas Carol, this is the story of a poor ticket porter whose outlook is changed from despair to hope by the spirits of the chimes on New Year's Eve As Trotty's working day as a lowly messenger draws to a close, his daughter, Meg, arrives with her fiancé Richard in tow, and they proudly announce their wedding for the following day. This is cause for celebration, although their happiness is tempered by the comments of an alderman and other well-off citizens on the rights of the poor to marry. During the night, Trotty hears the chimes of a church bell and ventures out to climb the belltower. At the top he is greeted by goblins who tell him that he died during the climb and must now spend his time watching his friends and family live out their lives. What he witnesses makes for grim viewing, and Totty finds himself attempting to rescue his daughter from the brink of destruction. He wakes as if from a dream to the bells chiming out the beginning of a new year, and finds that no time has passed and it is New Year's Day. But as he sees his daughter cheerfully preparing for her wedding day, he is baffled as to whether this is just a dream within a dream. Tackling familiar themes of redemption, social injustice, and family, this is a story of hope and contemplation and is a moving festive read well worth discovering.

Download or read book The Complete Christmas Books of Charles Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 1720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-artnow presents to you the Charles Dickens Christmas collection with the complete novels and stories author dedicated to this most beloved holiday:_x000D_ A Christmas Carol_x000D_ The Chimes_x000D_ The Cricket on the Hearth_x000D_ The Battle of Life_x000D_ The Haunted Man_x000D_ A Christmas Tree_x000D_ What Christmas Is As We Grow Older_x000D_ The Poor Relation's Story_x000D_ The Child's Story_x000D_ The Schoolboy's Story_x000D_ Nobody's Story_x000D_ The Seven Poor Travellers_x000D_ The Holly-Tree_x000D_ The Wreck of the Golden Mary_x000D_ The Perils of Certain English Prisoners_x000D_ A House to Let_x000D_ The Haunted House_x000D_ A Message From the Sea_x000D_ Tom Tiddler's Ground_x000D_ Somebody's Luggage_x000D_ Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings_x000D_ Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy_x000D_ Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions_x000D_ Mugby Junction_x000D_ No Thoroughfare_x000D_ Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse

Download or read book The Christmas Books written by Charles Dickens and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 1675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Christmas Books" is a beautifully arranged compilation of all of Mr. Dickens' Christmas novels, short storys and narratives. It contains the following works: A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Cricket On The Hearth The Battle Of Life The Haunted Man And The Ghost's Bargain A Christmas Tree What Christmas Is As We Grow Older The Poor Relation's Story The Child's Story The Schoolboy's Story Nobody's Story The Seven Poor Travellers—In Three Chapters The Holly-Tree—Three Branches The Wreck Of The Golden Mary The Perils Of Certain English Prisoners Going Into Society The Haunted House. A Message From The Sea Tom Tiddler's Ground Somebody's Luggage Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy Doctor Marigold The Trial For Murder. The Signal-Man. Mugby Junction No Thoroughfare

Download or read book A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No holiday season is complete without Charles Dickens’s timeless tale of redemption starring the tightfisted Mr. Scrooge, the long-suffering Bob Cratchit, kindhearted Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. But A Christmas Carol was only the first and most famous of Dickens’s holiday tales. In this edition, everyone’s favorite misanthrope appears in company with four more Dickens stories—The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man—that further develop the Christmas spirit Dickens did so much to invent.

Download or read book Rainy Night to Die written by Caleb Pirtle III and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author takes you on a frightening journey to the coast of Ukraine where, as one reviewer says, " I can’t say enough about Pirtle’s brilliant style of writing and his ability to give readers a no holds barred action thriller!" A man on the run never knows what will happen next. He lives and survives on his instincts, and he can't always trust them. Roland Sand's missions for intelligence agencies are those no one else wants to tackle. The reason is simple. Sand is expendable. If he doesn’t return, he won’t be missed. His name is erased. It’s as though he never existed. Sand is sent to Ukraine to smuggle out a beautiful lounge jazz singer who, for years, has been smuggling Russian secrets back to MI-6’s home office in Great Britain. Her contact in London has been compromised. He is found floating in the Thames River. Sand must extricate Pauline Bellerose before the Russians trace the stolen secrets back to her and place a noose around her neck. He has twenty-four hours to find the singer and remove her to safety. If she is caught, he dies. A ship is waiting in the fog off the coast of Odessa. Time is running out. He must reach the ship at the appointed hour, or it will leave without them. In the secret world of espionage, the window of escape is narrow and closing all the time. The midnight storm is the only place to hide. The Russians are waiting on the road to the sea. Sand can’t outrun them. He can’t outfight them. He must outwit them. Otherwise, he’s trapped, and it’s a rainy night to die.

Download or read book Over My Dead Body written by Patty Elzinga and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patty Elzinga, owner of successful beauty salons, Heidi Christines Salons and Spas, for more than 20 years, was sidelined from her busy life when she was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2004. Here, in her own words, Patty reveals the struggles and triumphs of her year-long battle as her friends and family rallied to support her. This deeply poignant account is full of insight, tender moments of both hope and despair, and solutions to some of the challenges she encountered during her treatment. Patty hopes to use her knowledge of the beauty industry and experiences with chemotherapy to help others. She and her husband, Bob, are small-town Midwest natives with four children and six grandchildren. They live in Lowell, Michigan.