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 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 What on Earth Can Go Wrong written by Richard Fenning and published by Eye Books (US&CA). This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Fenning has spent three decades advising multinational companies on volatile geopolitics and severe security crises. He was CEO of the British firm Control Risks for 14 years. His career coincided with the glory years of globalization, the rise of China, the tumult of the Middle East wars, a new vicious form of terrorism, the transforming impact of digital technology, and America's retreat from leadership. Offering him a rare insight into what happens when people and organizations come under enormous stress, it dispelled any illusions that the world is ordered, predictable, or fair. But amid the chaos and upheaval, he also found humanity and humor. In a whirlwind tour that takes us from the battlefields of Iraq to the back streets of Bogotà, from the steamy Niger delta to the chill of Putin's Moscow, he looks back with wit and insight on the people and places he has got to know, while also offering some timely thoughts about the relationship between risk and danger in a terrifyingly changeable world.

Download or read book The Weight of Sand written by Edith Blais and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radiant, unforgettable memoir of one woman’s 450 days spent in captivity, and her defiant refusal to have her humanity stripped away. When Edith meets Luca in a small Northern town, the two connect instantly. Under the Northern Lights, they develop a deep friendship over their shared passions: travel, living off the land, a bohemian life. In search of wanderlust, they embark on an epic road trip from Italy to Togo, where they will join their friend’s sustainable farming project. Upon arriving on the African continent, they change their itinerary and drive through Africa’s Sahel region, a haven for militant groups, where they are surrounded and captured. Little was known about Edith’s and Luca’s fate until they reappeared in Mali more than one year later, having mysteriously escaped their captors. Now, Edith shares her harrowing story with the world for the first time—complete with the poems that became a lifeline for her in captivity, which she wrote in secret with a pen borrowed from another hostage. Against the stunning but cruel backdrop of the desert, Edith recounts her months as a hostage: the oppressive heat, violent sandstorms, constant relocations, hunger strikes, and her eventual heart-pounding escape. Separated from Luca early on, she finds solidarity and comfort with a group of other female hostages, who lend her a pen to write poetry, a creative outlet that helps save her life. Edith is steadfast in her will to remain sane: she reveals her dedication to her art, and her striking ability to unsettle her captors and identify their vulnerabilities. A compelling descent into a strange, brutal universe, The Weight of Sand is ultimately a life-affirming book and a poetic celebration of one woman’s resilience.

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 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: By turns gripping and poignant, "Kidnapped" is Kalli's compilation of empowering and spiritual journal entries made during her 373-day captivity in a desolate jungle in Colombia. Illustrations.

Download or read book Abducted written by Evangeline Anderson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoe McKinley has a boring life, an awful job, and a boss that throws staplers at her head. What could be worse? How about being abducted by Aliens? When Zoe is dragged aboard an extraterrestrial ship, she thinks she's been chosen as a concubine by the huge red-skinned male with horns and a devilish grin because he has a hard-on for Earth girls. But Sarden has worse plans for her--he wants to trade her to an alien petting zoo! Can Zoe convince him she's worth saving? And can Sarden keep from falling for the little Earth girl with the sassy attitude and the lush, plus-sized curves? You'll have to read Abducted, book one in the Alien Mate Index series to find out.

Download or read book Abduction written by Robin Cook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 bestselling “master of the medical thriller” (The New York Times) comes a harrowing novel about deep-sea exploration that leads to a terrifying discovery. . . . “Leave it to doctor-turned-novelist Robin Cook to scare us all to death.”—Los Angeles Times In his renowned novels, Cook skillfully combines human drama and high-tech thrills with the latest breakthroughs and controversies of modern medicine. Now, in Abduction, a mysterious transmission from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean leads a crew of oceanographers and divers to a phenomenon beyond scientific understanding—and a discovery that will change everything we know about life on Earth. . . .

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.

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 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 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 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 Crimsonheart Chronicles The Tale of Ascension written by Jake R. C. Wells and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can those who keep secrets be trusted? Aboard the floating city of Sylphicus, secrets abound. It’s one year after the Battle of the Prismwood, and Althea Crimsonheart—future Empress of Endellion and esteemed hero of the southern war—is on a journey to learn about the wider world, alongside her companions: Gorn, a scholar of Arivolli; Kamil, an outcast of the Kingdom of Ormilla; Zianna, daughter of the ousted House Aghamora; and Dzarò, Althea’s bonded companion, a hybrid spiròt desperate to understand his place among spiròt-kind. While travelling through the skies, the group begins to uncover a clandestine plot that connects Gorn’s family with the Arivollish black market and a horrifying series of experiments that, if allowed to continue, will lead to the creation of an invincible army of chimeras. Upon receiving a sacred task from the primordial spiròt Itl, Althea and her companions must decide who they can trust: the enigmatic hermit, or the secretive primordial dragon. Their quest places them in the middle of yet another conflict, this time in Zianna's homeland of Uayat, a nation divided by desire and ideology. Dark secrets and betrayals continue to unfold as Althea stands resolute in her convictions, following her own path just as she did a year ago. However, she soon realizes that the will of others has just as much of a role to play in her destiny as her own choices, and she and her allies are pushed to accept all that they cannot control. When many forces collide, those caught in between must understand the consequences of their choices, or risk being swallowed by the turbulent tides of destiny.

Download or read book We Have Your Husband written by Jayne Garcia Valseca and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mountains of Guanajuato, Mexico sits a picturesque community favored by artists and tourists. But for American-born Jayne Valseca and her husband Eduardo, son of a legendary Mexican newspaper publisher, it became a hell on earth when Eduardo was ambushed by strangers and kidnapped in the summer of 2007. Jayne knew that in Mexico kidnapping was a pervasive and lucrative business-a burgeoning criminal industry with few happy endings. This time the merchandise was her husband. Sealed in a dark seven-by-six, two-feet-wide box, Eduardo lived for seven months on little more than eggshells and chicken bones. He was subjected to the most cruel and humiliating mental and physical torture imaginable. He had no reason to believe he'd ever be found alive. As the ransom escalated, so did the stakes. But Jayne refused to be a pawn in the kidnappers' sick game. She decided to become a player. If she was to get her husband back alive, she'd have to be more cunning than the kidnappers and be cool, calculated and determined...

Download or read book The Invasion of Peasant Earth written by Barbara G Louise and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 3683AD, fifteen centuries after a Nuclear War, the people of planet Earth are much like human beings have always been. Except that they have a permanently peaceful, non-violent, racially diverse, world-wide society in which everyone (as well as their companion animals) has enough to eat, a roof over their heads, comfortable clothing, and interesting, useful work to do. All without a coercive government. When monsters from Outer Space invade, can the Earthers’ happy, fulfilling, semi-anarkhist culture survive the inherent Racism, Misogyny, and Love of Violence of the Invaders, who are all too human themselves? Will the Invaders be able to impose their militaristic government upon the free people of Earth? Or will nuclear-hell destroy humanity’s natal planet and all its citizens? Readers of Joan Slonczewski’s excellent novel, A Door Into Ocean, will enjoy this book.

Download or read book The World of Dual Brain written by Weizhi Zhang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book leaves the template of the inertia of natural human society and traditional ideological thinking, to illustrate the mechanism of the generation of the Sociality Brain and to explore the construction path of the human-computer symbiosis order. At the same time, this book proposes concepts including ‘wisdom sharing system’, ‘the Sociality Brain’, ‘dual-brain world’, ‘off-site economic civilization’, ‘basic contradictions in the intelligent world’, and ‘class analysis and division of the dual-brain world’, etc. This is a philosophical thinking about the intelligent world beyond the categories of natural human society and biological brain.