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Book The Phoenix Enigma Trilogy

Download or read book The Phoenix Enigma Trilogy written by Jay Aspen and published by Sandfire Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you risk everything for love? For freedom? For new and terrifying skills? In a near-future world of savage storms and precarious food supplies, Jac leaves home to follow her heart and join the elite forest rangers. Danger, love and courage are waiting in this epic struggle to win freedom from the ruthless Avarit regime. New and sinister threats in the heart of the city challenge everything she has, everything she is or could be. The risks are high, the enemy unpredictable, and only trust and friendship will ensure she survives… Books 1, 2, & 3 of the Phoenix Enigma series, the dystopian romance epic from Jay Aspen.

Book Resistance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jay Aspen
  • Publisher : Sandfire Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2022-02-14
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Resistance written by Jay Aspen and published by Sandfire Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sinister attack. A dangerous city. An abandoned child. The old cities are flooded, crops have failed, and resource wars have wrecked most things from refineries to satellites. It was the day Jac discovered how precarious her life had become. Her love of nature and loyalty to her remote forest community can no longer weave the illusion of safety she has believed in for so long. Driving damaged roads to a city she hasn’t seen for six years, Jac finds unexpected allies as well as disturbing truths about the ruthless Avarit imperium controlling their lives. And then… she has never met anyone like Raine, the mysterious and charismatic leader of the outlawed forest rangers. She offers her medic skills to the Resistance, caught between Avarit military and the terrorist F2 gangs inflicting havoc on the city and Outlander communities. But would you risk everything for freedom? Resistance is the first book in the Phoenix Enigma series, the dystopian romance epic from Jay Aspen.

Book The Phoenix Enigma Trilogy 3

Download or read book The Phoenix Enigma Trilogy 3 written by Jay Aspen and published by Sandfire Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spies, treachery, and unexpected allies. The fate of the Resistance hangs in the balance as the country is faced with an invading army whose overwhelming firepower is matched by a ruthless determination to win. Airstrikes devastate part of the city and other sinister threats hover in an uncertain future. Jac and Raine have to find a way for their love, trust and courage to evade a confrontation that would destroy the whole city. They have to adapt the skills they trained for, in time to avert disaster… A tech genius and a brilliant pilot might help as well. Trilogy 3; Books 7, 8, & 9 of the Phoenix Enigma series, the dystopian romance epic from Jay Aspen.

Book Stormweaver Trilogy 1

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jay Aspen
  • Publisher : Sandfire Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2022-05-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 491 pages

Download or read book Stormweaver Trilogy 1 written by Jay Aspen and published by Sandfire Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious stranger. A murderous ambush and a sinister plot in the deep desert. Alissa returns home from university, still haunted by the death of her sister and a restlessness that keeps drawing her back into the great sand sea of Irithen, the dangerous heart of a remote province on a distant planet. Her attempt to save the life of the young and charismatic Talin throws her into a whirlwind of hidden agendas and a ruthless military attack. She has trained in the intense shamanic skills that might help her survive in this vast expanse of sand, heat, enormous lizards and poisonous scorpions. Learning to fly a giant condor before it kills her might help as well. Returning to the city, she confronts greater danger as she comes face to face with the invaders – and the terrifying Captain Reith who has haunted her dreams ever since she saw him on a grainy vid-recording in the desert. A compelling attraction she still does not understand. Maybe love will prove more powerful than war. But the heart of the enemy is a dangerous place… When Alissa and Reith escape from the devastated prison on Eden. they face a dangerous journey back to the capital with vital information. All they have to do is cross an unstable swamp inhabited by giant eels and carnivorous plants, get past the enemy slave camp on the coast, and somehow make it across the ocean to Pangaea without getting captured. The sinister threat already implanted deep in Reith’s history could make the task impossible, but if they can learn each other’s skills and work together, they might have a chance. Books 1, 2 & 3 of the Stormweaver series, the far-future fantasy epic by Jay Aspen.

Book Truthseer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jay Aspen
  • Publisher : Sandfire Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2022-03-14
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Truthseer written by Jay Aspen and published by Sandfire Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A terrifying training regime to learn new skills. A savage military attack. A daring rescue. Jac is drawn into the dangerous life of the Resistance as she finds herself in a race to perfect the rangers' heightened-awareness lieth training to enhance her physical strength and mental alertness. The battle tears apart her fiery love affair with Raine. Now she has to discover if her extraordinary abilities can win her a meaningful place among the rangers, without sacrificing her values as a medic – and without losing hope of being reunited with Raine. Will love, trust and loyalty be enough to defeat the regime's heavy weapons and surveillance? Truthseer is the second book in the Phoenix Enigma series, the dystopian romance epic from Jay Aspen.

Book Stormweaver

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jay Aspen
  • Publisher : Sandfire Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2022-03-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Stormweaver written by Jay Aspen and published by Sandfire Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When does victory demand too high a price? The aftermath of a deadly battle in the desert sparks a power struggle at the heart of Irithen’s military leadership. It will take everything Alissa and Reith can do to avert a disaster that would lead to their ultimate defeat. And that is when Alissa has to decide when breaking the rules to win has gone too far. Stormweaver is the sixth book in the Stormweaver series, the far-future fantasy epic from Jay Aspen.

Book The Enigma of Reason

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hugo Mercier
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2017-04-17
  • ISBN : 0674368304
  • Pages : 405 pages

Download or read book The Enigma of Reason written by Hugo Mercier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Brilliant...Timely and necessary.” —Financial Times “Especially timely as we struggle to make sense of how it is that individuals and communities persist in holding beliefs that have been thoroughly discredited.” —Darren Frey, Science If reason is what makes us human, why do we behave so irrationally? And if it is so useful, why didn’t it evolve in other animals? This groundbreaking account of the evolution of reason by two renowned cognitive scientists seeks to solve this double enigma. Reason, they argue, helps us justify our beliefs, convince others, and evaluate arguments. It makes it easier to cooperate and communicate and to live together in groups. Provocative, entertaining, and undeniably relevant, The Enigma of Reason will make many reasonable people rethink their beliefs. “Reasonable-seeming people are often totally irrational. Rarely has this insight seemed more relevant...Still, an essential puzzle remains: How did we come to be this way?...Cognitive scientists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber [argue that] reason developed not to enable us to solve abstract, logical problems...[but] to resolve the problems posed by living in collaborative groups.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker “Turns reason’s weaknesses into strengths, arguing that its supposed flaws are actually design features that work remarkably well.” —Financial Times “The best thing I have read about human reasoning. It is extremely well written, interesting, and very enjoyable to read.” —Gilbert Harman, Princeton University

Book The Iron Thorn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Caitlin Kittredge
  • Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0385738293
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book The Iron Thorn written by Caitlin Kittredge and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an alternate 1950s, mechanically gifted fifteen-year-old Aoife Grayson, whose family has a history of going mad at sixteen, must leave the totalitarian city of Lovecraft and venture into the world of magic to solve the mystery of her brother's disappearance and the mysteries surrounding her father and the Land of Thorn.

Book Unconventional Warfare  Special Forces  Book 1

Download or read book Unconventional Warfare Special Forces Book 1 written by Chris Lynch and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All the sizzle, chaos, noise and scariness of war is clay in the hands of ace storyteller Lynch." -- Kirkus Reviews for the World War II series Discover the secret missions behind America's greatest conflicts.Danny Manion has been fighting his entire life. Sometimes with his fists. Sometimes with his words. But when his actions finally land him in real trouble, he can't fight the judge who offers him a choice: jail... or the army.Turns out there's a perfect place for him in the US military: the Studies and Observation Group (SOG), an elite volunteer-only task force comprised of US Air Force Commandos, Army Green Berets, Navy SEALS, and even a CIA agent or two. With the SOG's focus on covert action and psychological warfare, Danny is guaranteed an unusual tour of duty, and a hugely dangerous one. Fortunately, the very same qualities that got him in trouble at home make him a natural-born commando in a secret war. Even if almost nobody knows he's there.National Book Award finalist Chris Lynch begins a new, explosive fiction series based on the real-life, top-secret history of US black ops.

Book The Phoenix Enigma  Book 1  Resistance

Download or read book The Phoenix Enigma Book 1 Resistance written by Jay Aspen and published by Phoenix Enigma. This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you risk everything for freedom? Jac makes that choice when Enforcer patrols attack her outlander homestead. She loves her adopted family and wilderness home but they're caught between terrorist paramilitaries and the regime's spy-drones... She joins the Resistance, determined to discover why her father was killed. Training with the outlawed forest rangers is tough--and then the city underground team need her medic expertise. She feels she can't refuse--but will it tear apart her new and intense relationship with the rangers' leader whose shadowy past is catching up with him? Worse, there's a traitor to hunt, leaving the Resistance in a race to survive. Will Jac's perceptive abilities develop fast enough to defeat a powerful enemy ruthlessly hunting them down? Download and dive in to this near-future dystopian thriller, a fast-paced post-apocalyptic adventure for fans of Divergent and Hunger Games!

Book Pew

    Pew

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Lacey
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2020-07-21
  • ISBN : 0374720134
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Pew written by Catherine Lacey and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER of the 2021 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. Finalist for the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize. Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. One of Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction Books of 2020. One of Amazon's 100 Best Books of 2020. “The people of this community are stifling, and generous, cruel, earnest, needy, overconfident, fragile and repressive, which is to say that they are brilliantly rendered by their wise maker, Catherine Lacey.” --Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers A figure with no discernible identity appears in a small, religious town, throwing its inhabitants into a frenzy In a small, unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives for a service and finds a figure asleep on a pew. The person is genderless and racially ambiguous and refuses to speak. One family takes in the strange visitor and nicknames them Pew. As the town spends the week preparing for a mysterious Forgiveness Festival, Pew is shuttled from one household to the next. The earnest and seemingly well-meaning townspeople see conflicting identities in Pew, and many confess their fears and secrets to them in one-sided conversations. Pew listens and observes while experiencing brief flashes of past lives or clues about their origin. As days pass, the void around Pew’s presence begins to unnerve the community, whose generosity erodes into menace and suspicion. Yet by the time Pew’s story reaches a shattering and unsettling climax at the Forgiveness Festival, the secret of who they really are—a devil or an angel or something else entirely—is dwarfed by even larger truths. Pew, Catherine Lacey’s third novel, is a foreboding, provocative, and amorphous fable about the world today: its contradictions, its flimsy morality, and the limits of judging others based on their appearance. With precision and restraint, one of our most beloved and boundary-pushing writers holds up a mirror to her characters’ true selves, revealing something about forgiveness, perception, and the faulty tools society uses to categorize human complexity.

Book Does It Matter

Download or read book Does It Matter written by Nicholas G. Carr and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2004-04-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, and even since the bursting of the technology bubble, pundits, consultants, and thought leaders have argued that information technology provides the edge necessary for business success. IT expert Nicholas G. Carr offers a radically different view in this eloquent and explosive book. As IT's power and presence have grown, he argues, its strategic relevance has actually decreased. IT has been transformed from a source of advantage into a commoditized "cost of doing business"--with huge implications for business management. Expanding on Carr's seminal Harvard Business Review article that generated a storm of controversy, Does IT Matter? provides a truly compelling--and unsettling--account of IT's changing business role and its leveling influence on competition. Through astute analysis of historical and contemporary examples, Carr shows that the evolution of IT closely parallels that of earlier technologies such as railroads and electric power. He goes on to lay out a new agenda for IT management, stressing cost control and risk management over innovation and investment. And he examines the broader implications for business strategy and organization as well as for the technology industry. A frame-changing statement on one of the most important business phenomena of our time, Does IT Matter? marks a crucial milepost in the debate about IT's future. An acclaimed business writer and thinker, Nicholas G. Carr is a former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review.

Book Conspiracy  The Plot to Kill Hitler  1

Download or read book Conspiracy The Plot to Kill Hitler 1 written by Andy Marino and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the real-life scheme to take down one of history's greatest monsters, this heart-pounding trilogy puts two courageous kids at the center of the plot to kill Adolf Hitler. Berlin, November 1943. With bombing raids commencing, the city is blanketed by explosions. Siblings Gerta and Max Hoffmann live a surprisingly carefree childhood amid the raids. Berlin is a city going about its business, even as it's attacked almost nightly. But one night, the air raid sirens wail, and the Hoffmanns' neighborhood is hit. A mortally wounded man comes to their door, begging to be let in. He asks for Karl Hoffmann, their father. Gerta and Max watch as Karl tries in vain to save the man's life. Before he dies, the stranger gives their father a bloodstained packet of documents, along with a message: "For the sake of humanity, the Führer must die. Finish it, Karl!" Based on real events, this is the story of two children swept up in a fight for the soul of Germany -- and the world.

Book I Survived the Battle of D Day  1944  I Survived  18

Download or read book I Survived the Battle of D Day 1944 I Survived 18 written by Lauren Tarshis and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a battle that would change the course of World War II... New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis commemorates the Normandy landings in this pulse-pounding story of the largest seaborne invasion in history. Eleven-year-old Paul’s French village has been under Nazi control for years. His Jewish best friend has disappeared. Food is scarce. And there doesn’t seem to be anything Paul can do to make things better. Then Paul finds an American paratrooper in a tree near his home. The soldier says the Allies have a plan to crush the Nazis once and for all. But the soldier needs Paul’s help. This is Paul’s chance to make a difference. Soon he finds himself in the midst of the largest invasion in history. Can he do his part to turn horror into hope? New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tells the story of the battle that became the foundation for the Allied victory in World War II. Includes a section of nonfiction backmatter with more facts about the real-life event.

Book Mussolini

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicholas Farrell
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2018-11-22
  • ISBN : 9781731426970
  • Pages : 634 pages

Download or read book Mussolini written by Nicholas Farrell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on freshly discovered material--including correspondence previously unavailable outside academia--the talented writer and journalist Nicholas Farrell has created a revelatory biography of the Italian fascist leader and dictator. How did Mussolini manage to take power and hold on to it for two decades? What inspired Churchill to call him "the Roman genius" and Pope Pius XI to say he was "sent by Providence"? And how did Mussolini successfully curtail democracy without using mass murder to stay in command? Farrell answers these questions and more, focusing particularly on Mussolini's fatal error: his alliance with Hitler, whom he despised. Anyone interested in history, politics, and World War II will encounter an intriguing and startling picture of one of the 20th century's key figures.

Book Shaking the Nickel Bush

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ralph Moody
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1994-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803282186
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Shaking the Nickel Bush written by Ralph Moody and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begun in Little Britches and Man of the Family, this is the continuing saga of Ralph Moody. In 1918, young Moody and his buddy Lonnie travel through the Southwest in an old Ford named Shiftless, camp in an Arizona canyon and "shake the nickel bush" by sculpting busts of lawyers and bankers.

Book Simple Excellence

Download or read book Simple Excellence written by Adam Zak and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailing the role of senior management in achieving a successful transformation to organizational excellence, Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation charts a course of simplification through the complexity often associated with managing performance improvement initiatives. It spells out the roles of key individuals on the management team—including those from sales and marketing, human resources, purchasing/supply chain, information technology, finance, and engineering. Maintaining a focus on the big picture, this book explains what value streams are and how to use them to structure your business so that all stakeholders are aligned with what matters most. It reduces constraint management to its most practical terms and lays out a sound approach to accounting that enables everyone to spend money where it adds value and stop spending where it doesn’t. Drive your management team with dedicated allegience to the concept of value enhancement Propel your organization to higher performance through the employment of Lean culture and decision-making principles Enact management structures needed to put new ways of thinking into play Focus on the bottom line with the right performance metrics Written by respected authorities with extensive experience helping leading organizations achieve Lean transformation, the text includes case studies from high-profile organizations recognized for operational excellence. Addressing human resources management practices, it explains how to manage the day-to-day operations and pricing factory capabilities for the greatest possible profits. It also discusses the ongoing process of strategic planning to help you move away from annual goal setting, toward a dynamic process of engaging the entire company in the effort to provide your customers with an improved sense of value.