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The 34th Degree: A Thriller (Playaway Adult Fiction Ser.)
by Thomas GreaniasFrom New York Times bestselling author Thomas Greanias comes an all-new, reality-altering epic adventure featuring counterterrorism agent Sam Deker. Dishonorably discharged from the armed forces after the events of The Promised War, Sam Deker is trying to build a new life in Los Angeles. But, haunted by nightmares of the past, Deker discovers that the unusual light-wave-induced torture he barely survived has changed him. The Pentagon, however, believes he is the only one who can endure their top-secret neuro-simulation program known as the 34th Degree. The stunning technological breakthrough utilizes the sliced brain tissues of dead terrorists to enter their memories and glean priceless intel. Americans want to use the preserved brain of SS general Ludwig von Berg, the legendary Third Reich "Baron of the Black Order," to send Deker back to 1943. Deker's mission is to discover the fate of the ultimate weapon--a supernatural alchemy for a fatal thermodynamic technology--before his counterparts in the Alignment, a twenty-first-century successor to the Nazi SS, beat him to it. Ultimately, Deker discovers that the past, present, and future are not what they seem, as his path leads to a shattering secret that will change everything he knows about the universe.
The 34th Rule: The 34th Rule (Star Trek #23)
by David R. George III Armin ShimermanFor once, business is going well for Quark, not that anyone on Deep Space Nine truly appreciates his genius for finding profit in the most unlikely of circumstances. Quark is even looking forward to making the deal of a lifetime -- when he suddenly finds himself stuck right in the middle of a major dispute between Bajor and the Ferengi Alliance. It seems that the Grand Nagus is refusing to sell one of the lost Orbs of the Prophets to the Bajoran government, which has responded by banning all Ferengi activity in Bajoran space. With diplomatic relations between the two cultures rapidly breaking down, Quark loses his bar first, then his freedom. But even penniless, he still has his cunning and his lobes, and those alone may be all he needs to come out on top -- and prevent an interstellar war!
The 34th Rule: The 34th Rule (Star Trek #23)
by Armin ShimermanFor once, business is going well for Quark, even if the inhabitants of Deep Space Nine don't seem to appreciate his talents. He's just about to clinch the deal of a lifetime ... when he suddenly finds himself right in the middle of a major dispute between Bajor and the Ferengi Alliance. The Grand Nagus Zek is refusing to sell one of the lost Orbs of the Prophets to the Bajoran government, and Bajor's response is to ban all Ferengi trading activity within Bajoran space. Quark finds himself losing both his bar and his freedom, with only his cunning and his lobes left to help him get back on top - and prevent an interstellar war!
35 muertos
by Sergio Álvarez GuarinUna novela de Sergio Álvarez. Escrita con elementos de novela histórica, relato de aventuras,autoficción, thriller y hasta folletín romántico, 35 muertos recreaapartir de las desventuras de un perdedor, y las decenas de personajesque se cruzan en su camino, la Colombia de finales del siglo XX. <P><P>Revolucionaros sin revolución, guerrilleros machistas, pandillerosdespachados, paramilitares cansados de tanta masacre, traquetosengañados por sus mujeres, exiliados en tierras europeas, desaparecidosy gente feliz y siempre en fiesta pueblan este libro donde encadapárrafo hierven juntas la vida y la tragedia. Una novela con lenguajedeslumbrante que sin duda será una obra de referencia de la nuevaliteratura latinoamericana. Una novela de Sergio Álvarez. Escrita con elementos de novela histórica, relato de aventuras,autoficción, thriller y hasta folletín romántico, 35 muertos recreaapartir de las desventuras de un perdedor, y las decenas de personajesque se cruzan en su camino, la Colombia de finales del siglo XX.Revolucionaros sin revolución, guerrilleros machistas, pandillerosdespachados, paramilitares cansados de tanta masacre, traquetosengañados por sus mujeres, exiliados en tierras europeas, desaparecidosy gente feliz y siempre en fiesta pueblan este libro donde encadapárrafo hierven juntas la vida y la tragedia. Una novela con lenguajedeslumbrante que sin duda será una obra de referencia de la nuevaliteratura latinoamericana.
The 351 Books of Irma Acuri
by David BajoThroughout mathematician Philip Masyrk's peripatetic life, there has been only one constant: Irma Arcuri. Their ongoing love affair has endured his two marriages and her countless travels. But now Irma has vanished, leaving Philip her library of 351 books, including five written by Irma herself. Buried somewhere within her luxuriously rebound volumes of Cervantes and Turgenev, Borges and Fowles, lies the secret to her disappearance-and Philip soon realizes that he is trapped within their narratives as well. Who is Irma Arcuri? What is really hidden in the library? And most importantly, whose story is this? Unapologetically sexy and brazenly intellectual, The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri is the impressive debut of a daring new literary talent.
36: Vespick the Wasp Queen
by Adam BladeTom has nearly reached the end of his most challenging Beast Quest! The fate of his mother and the land of Kayonia depend on him and his faithful companions. Can he defeat the deadliest of his foes, Vespick the Wasp Queen, and wicked Wizard Velmal?
36 Arguments for the Existence of God
by Rebecca GoldsteinAfter Cass Seltzer's book becomes a surprise best seller, he's dubbed "the atheist with a soul" and becomes a celebrity. He wins over the stunning Lucinda Mandelbaum, "the goddess of game theory," and loses himself in a spiritually expansive infatuation. A former girlfriend appears: an anthropologist who invites him to join in her quest for immortality through biochemistry. And he is haunted by reminders of the two people who ignited his passion to understand religion: his mentor and professor--a renowned literary scholar with a suspicious obsession with messianism--and an angelic six-year-old mathematical genius who is heir to the leadership of a Hasidic sect. Each encounter reinforces Cass's theory that the religious impulse spills over into life at large. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God plunges into the great debate of our day: the clash between faith and reason. World events are being shaped by fervent believers at home and abroad, while a new atheism is asserting itself in the public sphere. On purely intellectual grounds the skeptics would seem to have everything on their side. Yet people refuse to accept their seemingly irrefutable arguments and continue to embrace faith in God as their source of meaning, purpose, and comfort. Through the enchantment of fiction, award-winning novelist and MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Newberger Goldstein shows that the tension between religion and doubt cannot be understood through rational argument alone. It also must be explored from the point of view of individual people caught in the raptures and torments of religious experience in all their variety. Using her gifts in fiction and philosophy, Goldstein has produced a true crossover novel, complete with a nail-biting debate ("Resolved: God Exists") and a stand-alone appendix with the thirty-six arguments (and responses) that propelled Seltzer to stardom.From the Hardcover edition.
36 Hours
by B. J. WosterChristian Price is a scientist who suffered a tragedy unsolved by local police. In an effort to right that which he perceives is wrong, he begins to execute experiments in different cities to test the response times of law enforcement agencies. Detective Hardwick is a thirty-year veteran of the Atlanta Police Department. He and his fellow officers, who have always been successful in keeping crime rates low in the precinct, find themselves the latest targets of Christian's experiments, placing innocent civilians in the path of his malevolence. Will more unwilling participants be lost to Christian's brutality or can the detectives follow his perverse directives before time slips away?
36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You
by Vicki GrantInspired by the real psychology study popularized by the New York Times and its "Modern Love" column, this contemporary YA is perfect for fans of Eleanor and Park. Two random strangers. Two secrets. Thirty-six questions to make them fall in love. Hildy and Paul each have their own reasons for joining the university psychology study that asks the simple question: Can love be engineered? The study consists of 36 questions, ranging from "What is your most terrible memory?" to "When did you last sing to yourself?" By the time Hildy and Paul have made it to the end of the questionnaire, they've laughed and cried and lied and thrown things and run away and come back and driven each other almost crazy. They've also each discovered the painful secret the other was trying so hard to hide. But have they fallen in love? Told in the language of modern romance--texting, Q&A, IM--and punctuated by Paul's sketches, this clever high-concept YA is full of humor and heart. As soon as you've finished reading, you'll be searching for your own stranger to ask the 36 questions. Maybe you'll even fall in love. Rights have sold in 19 territories!
36 Righteous Men: A Novel
by Steven PressfieldNew York homicide detectives pursue a serial killer in this apocalyptic thriller. When James Manning and Covina “Dewey” Duwai are called in to investigate a string of murders, their investigations take them from the headquarters of the Russian mafia in Brighton Beach to a sweltering maze of shops in Little Hong Kong, with scant leads on the killer. But when Manning and Dewey apprehend a woman—a disgraced but brilliant rabbinical scholar—fleeing one of the crime scenes, they’re brought face-to-face with the shocking truth: the Jewish legend of the hidden Righteous Men, the 36 who protect the world from destruction, is no legend at all. They are real, and they are being murdered. As the bodies pile up and the world tilts further into chaos, Manning and Dewey must protect the last of the Righteous Men from a ruthless killer able to beguile his victims and command them against their will. Plunged into a deadly game of cat and mouse, the detectives find their arsenal of bullets and blades of little use against a foe who knows their every move. Joining forces with the rabbinical scholar and a renowned anthropologist, Manning and Dewey set off on a perilous quest from New York to Gehenna in Israel to confront a murderer who won’t stop until he’s killed every one.
36 Streets
by T. R. NapperAltered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this fast-paced, intelligent, action-driven cyberpunk, probing questions of memory, identity and the power of narratives. <p><p>Lin "The Silent One" Vu is a gangster in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, living in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, everywhere she is an outsider. Through grit and courage, Lin has carved a place for herself in the Hanoi underworld under the tutelage of Bao Nguyen, who is training her to fight and survive. Because on the streets there are no second chances. <p><p>Meanwhile the people of Hanoi are succumbing to Fat Victory, an addictive immersive simulation of the US-Vietnam war. When an Englishman –- one of the game’s developers –- comes to Hanoi on the trail of his friend’s murderer, Lin is drawn into the grand conspiracies of the neon gods: the mega-corporations backed by powerful regimes that seek to control her city. Lin must confront the immutable moral calculus of unjust wars. She must choose: family, country, or gang. Blood, truth, or redemption. No choice is easy on the 36 Streets.
The 36 Watchers: Book I: Fall
by Dan Bar Hava"It is said that at all times, there are 36 special people in the world, and that were it not for them, all of them, if even one of them was missing, the world would come to an end." - TALMUD, THE CENTRAL RELIGIOUS TEXT OF RABBINIC JUDAISM, AS QUOTED BY WIKIPEDIA Was the crucifixion engineered to end Roman rule? Could World War II have been avoided? Could the Titanic have been saved? The 36 Watchers tells the story of Jenna Berg, a young, professional, carefree NYC dweller, who, almost unwillingly, becomes a member of the most secretive and powerful group that has been protecting humankind from total destruction since the beginning of time.
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
by Nam LeFifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is &‘the book I need to write. The book I've been writing my whole life&’. This book-length poem is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity and the violence of identity, embedded with racism, oppression and historical trauma. But it also addresses the violence in those assumptions – of being always assumed to be outside one&’s home, country, culture or language. And the complex violence, for the diasporic writer who wants to address any of this, of language itself. Making use of multiple tones, moods, masks and camouflages, Le&’s poetic debut moves with unpredictable and destabilising energy between the personal and political, honouring every convention of diasporic literature – in a virtuosic array of forms and registers – before shattering the form itself. Like The Boat, 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem conjures its own terms of engagement, escapes our traps, slips our certainties. As self-indicting as it is scathing, hilarious as it is desperately moving, this is a singular, breakthrough book. 'Nam Le takes the English language to pieces and reassembles it with a virtuoso ease not seen since Finnegans Wake' J.M. Coetzee 'A masterly performance' David Malouf 'These poems seethe and sing' Cathy Park Hong
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
by Nam LeAn explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The BoatIn his first international release since the award-winning, best-selling The Boat, Nam Le delivers a shot across the bow with a book-length poem that honors every convention of diasporic literature—in a virtuosic array of forms and registers—before shattering the form itself.In line with the works of Claudia Rankine, Cathy Park Hong, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, this book is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity—and the violence of identity. For Le, a Vietnamese refugee in the West, this means the assumed violence of racism, oppression, and historical trauma.But it also means the violence of that assumption. Of being always assumed to be outside one&’s home, country, culture, or language. And the complex violence—for the diasporic writer who wants to address any of this—of language itself.Making use of multiple tones, moods, masks, and camouflages, Le&’s poetic debut moves with unpredictable and destabilizing energy between the personal and the political. As self-indicting as it is scathing, hilarious as it is desperately moving, this is a singular, breakthrough book.
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by Donald E. WestlakeThe men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray woke up in the hospital a month later, he was missing an eye, and his father was dead. Then things started to get bad...From the incomparable Donald E. Westlake comes a devastating story of betrayal and revenge, exploring the limits of family loyalty and how far a man will go when everything he loves is taken from him.
365 adivinanzas, una cada día: misterio y alegría
by Mar BenegasAdivina adivinanza... ¡cada día del año! Descubre 365 adivinanzas de la mano de Mar Benegas. ¡Cada palabra en danza es una adivinanza! Atrévete con las mejores adivinanzas rimadas de Mar Benegas para pensar, reír y jugar en familia. Hay una para cada día: ¡365 misterios para resolver con risa y alegría! Animales, frutas y muebles esconden un secreto... ¿Serás capaz de descubrirlo? El animal más raro es: pues es una cosa y nada a la vez. ¿Qué es?
365 Bedtime Stories
by Christine AllisonArranged as a lively journey through the year, 365 Bedtime Stories includes stories for every mood, occasion, and day of the year. There are stories celebrating the New Year, beginnings and second chances, myths about the arrival of spring, foolhardy stories for April, tales of independence for July, spooky tales for October nights, soothing tales for difficult days, tales of gratitude and thanksgiving, and miracles for the year end. Although each story is designed to be read aloud, the charming drawings and sidebars on storytelling that accompany them are likely to inspire both readers and listeners to add their own imaginative embellishments along the way.Designed for children from ages 2 to 10 years old, these entertaining stories are short enough (one-half to one-and-a-half pages long) to make it easy for readers to agree to the "just one more story" their listeners are sure to request.From the Hardcover edition.
365 Days: A Novel (365 Days Series #1)
by Blanka LipinskaNow a hit Netflix film!The sexy and deeply romantic internationally bestselling novel that inspired the blockbuster movie. Laura Biel and her boyfriend are on a dream vacation in beautiful Sicily. On the second day of their trip, her twenty-ninth birthday, she is kidnapped. Her kidnapper is none other than the head of a powerful Sicilian crime family, the incredibly handsome, young Don Massimo Torricelli, who is determined to possess her at all costs. Massimo has his reasons. During an earlier attempt on his life, a vision appeared before his eyes: a beautiful woman, identical to Laura. After surviving the attack, he vows that he will find the woman in his vision and make her his own. No matter what. For 365 days, Massimo will keep Laura captive in his palatial estate and attempt to win her heart. If she doesn&’t fall in love with him during this time, he will let her go. But if she tries to escape at any point, he will track her down and kill her entire family. Soon Laura develops a fascination with her handsome and powerful captor. But as a precarious, risky relationship forms between them, forces outside their control threaten to tear them apart...
365 Days / 365 Plays
by Suzan-Lori Parks"Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most important dramatists America has produced."-Tony Kushner "The plan was that no matter what I did, how busy I was, what other commitments I had, I would write a play a day, every single day for a year. It would be about being present and being committed to the artistic process every single day, regardless of the 'weather.' It became a daily meditation, a daily prayer celebrating the rich and strange process of a writing life."-Suzan-Lori Parks On November 13, 2002, the incomparable Suzan-Lori Parks got an idea to write a play every day for a year. She began that very day, finishing one year later. The result is an extraordinary testament to artistic commitment. This collection of 365 impeccably crafted pieces, each with its own distinctive characters and dramatic power, is a complete work by an artist responding to her world, each and every day. Parks is one of the American theater's most wily and innovative writers, and her "stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and marvelous" (TIME).
365 Days of Wonder: Mr. Browne's Book Of Precepts
by R. J. PalacioIn the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Wonder, readers were introduced to memorable English teacher Mr. Browne and his love of precepts. Simply put, precepts are principles to live by, and Mr. Browne has compiled 365 of them--one for each day of the year--drawn from popular songs to children's books to inscriptions on Egyptian tombstones to fortune cookies. His selections celebrate kindness, hopefulness, the goodness of human beings, the strength of people's hearts, and the power of people's wills. Interspersed with the precepts are letters and emails from characters who appeared in Wonder. Readers hear from Summer, Jack, Charlotte, Julian, and Amos. There's something for everyone here, with words of wisdom from such noteworthy people as Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., Confucius, Goethe, Sappho--and over 100 readers of Wonder who sent R. J. Palacio their own precepts.
365 días con la chica de Los Planetas
by Holden CentenoEn esta segunda parte de La chica de Los Planetas, Holden Centeno relata cómo ha reaccionado la chica a la publicación del libro, cómo ha evolucionado su relación, pero también habla de muchos otros temas fundamentales como el azar, la muerte la música o la literatura. «Tengo heridas en las manos de no tocarte y de escribirte tanto». Después de un año vuelvo para cerrar el círculo. 365 días, 8760 horas, muchos centenares de miles de minutos para contarte y solo unas cuántas páginas de papel. Tal vez sea imposible concentrar nuestra historia en unas hojas, pero es el único lugar en el que te encuentro siempre. Aquí está el punto y seguido que es también en nuestro caso el punto y final. La última gota de tinta que derramarán mis venas donde ahora me pregunto si realmente fuimos una gran casualidad, un azar inédito, está dentro de este libro. Ábrelo y después no hará falta que nos digamos nada. 365 días con la chica de Los Planetas es la cara B de la historia de Holden Centeno con la chica de Los Planetas. En estas páginas Holden vuelve a la transparencia narrativa de la primera parte de la historia y nos descubre paso a paso las emociones, sentimientos y vivencias que ha traído consigo la publicación de su historia de amor: el nacimiento del blog, la idea del libro, la publicación... Pero sobre todo cómo ella, a raíz de todo esto, ha vuelto a ser parte de su universo. O no. «La gente cree que me merezco estar con ella pero no tienen razón. Eso es una chorrada. Nadie se merece nada cuando estamos hablando de personas. El que lucha por alguien, el que ama sin condición, lo hace sin esperar nada a cambio, porque si haces todos esos actos creyéndote el mejor y con derecho a alguna cosa, vas por muy mal camino. Las personas no se merecen. Conectan y punto. Viven, luchan, se matan y vuelven a vivir porque son capaces de quitarse esas balas que se han disparado mutuamente. Todos hemos disparado alguna vez contra otra persona sin razón alguna y luego hemos sido capaces de entregar las armas y curar las heridas». La crítica dijo sobre La chica de Los Planetas...«Regresa el más desconocido -y exitoso- escritor veinteañero de la literatura española.»El Confidencial «Cuando la realidad se cruza con la literatura que se inspira en hechos reales ocurren cosas como las que le pasan a Holden Centeno.»El Periódico «En 365 días con la chica de Los Planetas aparece una declaración de intenciones sobre él y sobre sus gustos literarios.»Todoliteratura «El fenómeno literario que triunfa.»SModa, El País «A veces la literatura se alía con la realidad para superar a la propia realidad.»El Periódico de Catalunya «Holden Centeno, un misterioso autor que no ha necesitado más que enseñar sus entrañas para conquistar a un montón de chicos, y sobre todo de chicas, que ahora compran su primer libro, La chica de Los Planetas, como si fuera una biblia.»PlayGround «Relatos de amor y desamor, crudos pero llenos de esperanza, que parecen escritos por un beat millennial.»Carlos G. Miranda, El Huffington Post
365 Samurai and a Few Bowls of Rice
by J.P. KalonjiJ. P. Kalonji wields a clean, street-informed style to deliver a tale that glistens with blood and drama, yet is ultimately uplifting. Nearly four hundred pages long, this graphic novel employs full-page panels to tell the story of an Edo-era swordsman's quest for survival and enlightenment. When Ningen leaves his dojo at the request of his master — to travel the world and grow as a swordsman — he embarks on a journey that becomes a metaphor for the cycle of life and every human's possibility for spiritual growth.* Collaborating with such international clients as Wyclef Jean, Amnesty International, Thrasher, and Burton snowboards, illustrator J. P. Kalonji has begun to enchant the world with his energetic art style. Now he's ready to make a splash with his English-language graphic-novel debut!* This engaging, nearly 400-page tale draws comparisons to both Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal and Jeff Smith's Bone.
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by Maria BeaumontOn the eve of her thirty-seventh birthday, Fran Clark finds herself in a role she would never have envisioned: that of a surprisingly desperate housewife. As Fran halfheartedly attempts to relaunch her once-vibrant career as a voiceover artist and obsesses over keeping up with the ruthless mothers' scene at her children's school, she begins to realize that her thirty-seventh year isn't going to resemble the midlife bliss she had imagined. Instead, she makes excuses for the fact that she's depressed and drinking -- a lot. But when Fran realizes she has failed her children one too many times, and begins to suspect her husband is having an affair, she knows she has hit rock bottom. It is Fran's two closest friends who ultimately come to her rescue. She learns to thank them for her salvation -- not because they are there for her, but because she discovers how to be there for them. Literate and well written, 37 is a searingly intimate and compulsively readable novel, a very modern diary of a (not quite) mad housewife. Filled with acute, often bitingly funny observations about motherhood, friendship, and the claustrophobia of suburbia, this pitch-perfect novel will resonate with any woman who has ever been stricken with self-doubt. 37 is Maria Beaumont's third novel. After the mums from her kids' school have finished with her, it may be her last.
37 Days at Sea: Aboard the M.S. St. Louis, 1939
by Barbara KrasnerIn May 1939, nearly one thousand German-Jewish passengers boarded the M.S. St. Louis luxury liner bound for Cuba. They hoped to escape the dangers of Nazi Germany and find safety in Cuba. In this novel in verse, twelve-year-old Ruthie Arons is one of the refugees, traveling with her parents. Ruthie misses her grandmother, who had to stay behind in Breslau, and worries when her father keeps asking for his stomach pills. But when the ship is not allowed to dock in Havana as planned—and when she and her friend Wolfie discover a Nazi on board—Ruthie must take action. In the face of hopelessness, she and her fellow passengers refuse to give up on the chance for a new life.