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Abner & Me
by Dan GutmanCannons are blasting! Bullets are flying! Wounded soldiers are everywhere! Stosh has time-traveled to 1863, right into the middle of the Civil War. In possibly his most exciting and definitely his most dangerous trip yet, Stosh has decided to answer the question for all time: did Abner Doubleday, a Civil War general, really invent the game of baseball? It's all here: big laughs, dramatic action, fast baseball games in the middle of a battlefield. You'll be blown away by this sixth amazing baseball card adventure!
Abnormal Bad Consort 007: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Xin YueWith a see-through eye i followed my father into the fbi team thinking i would not have an accident with this stunt but i did not want to be shot very cup is miserable turned into small bb by 17 years old at a draught bitter fortunately however fluoroscope eye still is in and my eye seems to be more severe can see the thing that floats to and fro unexpectedly
Abnormal Lives: A Novel
by RaeIn this engaging, provocative, and decadent novel, two lonely cousins make their own way in the world when everyone else abandons them. Cousins Simone and Stefan are forced to prostitute themselves to make ends meet. Stefan is disowned by his father, rejected by his peers and family, and bullied because of his sexuality until he finally gains the courage to stand up for himself. Sadly, his boyfriend is simply using him for money and romancing women on the side. Simone has a hard time making friends, and the only friends she has are cross-dressers. All they have is each other. Their friendship is the one thing that makes them feel invincible against the hatred toward them. But when everyone is dishonest about their indiscretions, friendships fall apart. Abnormal Lives takes readers from the despair of a life of crime to the hope and redemption of spirituality and love.
Abnormal Occurrences: Short Stories
by Thomas BergerA dozen remarkable short stories from the author of Little Big Man, offering an absurdist journey through the mind of one of America&’s great storytellersThomas Berger&’s first short story collection in almost thirty years showcases the author&’s acclaimed wit, intellect, and emotional sureness. His pages teem with larger-than-life characters: Dr. Poon, a Hollywood snake handler in way over his head during a film shoot in Southeast Asia; Charlie, an apartment superintendent who finds a peculiarly powerful plastic pistol; and Vernon, the confused owner of a talking puppy. No matter where Berger takes his readers, his world is full of oddities. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Thomas Berger including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.
ABO: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Xia ShiXiaoDiaoAn outstanding spy who had been lured out of the Alpha world by injection inhibitors had finally fallen into the trap of the Alpha Hegemony, which had gone on a mission every time there was a disagreement …As a pseudo-Alpha, Shen was strong, and the strong weren't willing to become Alpha's pregnant tool, so he supported a poor student in the small mountain village, hoping to make him his own partner.Who knew that …The poor student was abused on the day he received the notice.Before the fruit could reach his mouth, it was eaten by someone else. Shen Ran flew into a rage ….
ABO: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Xia ShiXiaoDiaoAn outstanding spy who had been lured out of the Alpha world by injection inhibitors had finally fallen into the trap of the Alpha Hegemony, which had gone on a mission every time there was a disagreement …As a pseudo-Alpha, Shen was strong, and the strong weren't willing to become Alpha's pregnant tool, so he supported a poor student in the small mountain village, hoping to make him his own partner.Who knew that …The poor student was abused on the day he received the notice.Before the fruit could reach his mouth, it was eaten by someone else. Shen Ran flew into a rage ….
ABO: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Xia ShiXiaoDiaoAn outstanding spy who had been lured out of the Alpha world by injection inhibitors had finally fallen into the trap of the Alpha Hegemony, which had gone on a mission every time there was a disagreement …As a pseudo-Alpha, Shen was strong, and the strong weren't willing to become Alpha's pregnant tool, so he supported a poor student in the small mountain village, hoping to make him his own partner.Who knew that …The poor student was abused on the day he received the notice.Before the fruit could reach his mouth, it was eaten by someone else. Shen Ran flew into a rage ….
ABODE OF LIFE: STAR TREK #6 (Star Trek: The Original Series)
by Lee CoreyThe sixth installment in the Star Trek original series, The Abode of Life.The citizens of the planet Mercan cannot conceive of worlds beyond their own. Their sun is prone to deadly radioactive flare-ups, and the Mercans have organized their life around the need to survive The Ordeal. All that might change, though, when a badly-damaged EnterpriseTM arrives near Mercan, desperately in need of repairs. It's not an easy task, though, begging help from people who can hardly believe in your existence, and Kirk finds himself torn between the safety and survival of his crew and the Prime Directive, which dictates that he must leave the Mercans to live their lives in peace, and, therefore, in ignorance.
La Abogada
by K'Anne MeinelDescubrir que no tienes todo lo que pensabas que querías es una sorpresa. Conseguir un ascenso, encontrar nuevos amigos, descubrir que te atraen las mujeres.... Nia Toyomoto ha trabajado duro toda su vida para demostrar que era la mejor; se graduó pronto en el instituto, en la universidad y consiguió el trabajo soñado en Manhattan. Convertida en socia a la tierna edad de treinta años pensó que lo tenía todo hasta que el bufete de abogados le planteó exigencias sobre su aspecto personal y algunas otras cosas que le hicieron cambiar su vida por el ascenso. Entonces se da cuenta de que tenerlo todo no es lo que parece sin alguien con quien compartirlo... Una abogada de éxito en la gran ciudad, tiene que tomar decisiones, le esperan sacrificios y sorpresas a esta bella y talentosa mujer... ¿tomará las decisiones correctas?
El abogado del narco
by Harel Farfán MejíaUn libro que retrata la realidad del mundo de los cárteles de la droga en México y de las corrupciones de las autoridades. La lealtad es una ilusión, la traición se parece al amor y la riqueza es una sentencia de muerte. <p><p>¿Qué trascurre en una atmósfera de negocios millonarios, drogas, poder, jets privados, yates y fiestas a las que acuden los más influyentes de todas las esferas políticas y sociales de México: gobernadores, diputados y los capos más fuertes del momento? <p><p> José Lorenzana, el abogado, asciende al poder de manera vertiginosa haciéndose cargo de los asuntos de hombres importantes como Amado Carrillo Fuentes, alias el Señor de los Cielos, jefe del cártel de Ciudad Juárez. Amado fue considerado en sus tiempos como el hombre más rico del país y también el más buscado internacionalmente. La muerte de Amado Carrillo siempre ha estado cubierta de un halo de misterio. <p><p>El abogado tiene que recuperar elcuerpo del capo del SEMEFO y entregarlo a la familia, quien confía en él. Hacerlo no será cosa fácil, Lorenzana tendrá que utilizar todas las artimañas y contactos para lograr esa tarea, y sabe que de no entregar el cadáver, él es hombre muerto.
Un abogado rebelde
by John GrishamEl narrador favorito de Estados Unidos, maestro del thriller legal, sorprende con una novela valiente, aguda y fascinante, protagonizada por un personaje sin igual. No va a permitir que la verdad se interponga en el camino de la justicia... Sebastian Rudd no es el típico abogado: lleva arma y su oficina es una camioneta a prueba de balas conducida por su guardaespaldas, que a su vez es su asistente legal y único amigo. Defiende a quienes otros no querrían ni ver: un drogadicto, un chico tatuado que supuestamente forma parte de un culto satánico acusado de acosar y matar a dos niñas pequeñas, un criminal en el corredor de la muerte, un hombre arrestado por disparar a unos geo al entrar por error en su casa... ¿Por qué estos clientes? Porque cree que todo el mundo tiene derecho a un juicio justo, incluso aunque él tenga que hacer trampa para conseguirlo. Odia la injusticia, no le gustan lasaseguradoras, los bancos o las grandes empresas, desconfía de cualquier persona que tenga que ver con el Gobierno y se ríe de las nociones del sistema judicial sobre comportamiento ético. La crítica ha dicho...«Espectacular.»The Washington Post «El mejor autor vivo de thriller.»Ken Follett «Grisham ha dado un paso adelante en una nueva dirección en el terreno de la intriga.»Janet Maslin, The New York Times «La obra de Grisham (siempre el mejor entretenimiento posible) evoluciona hacia algo más serio, con más fuerza, más digno de su extraordinario talento.»Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post «Sebastian Rudd es como un Philip Marlowe del siglo XXI con una voz directa, tosca, áspera, pedante a la vez que poética.»Benjamin Percy, The New York Times Book Review «Fantástico, ingenioso... Grisham todavía consigue que parezca fácil.»Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post «Cautivador y entretenido. Grisham encuentra el drama en las pequeñas escaramuzas que tienen lugar en nuestro sistema legal cada día.»Charles Finch, USA Today
Abolición de la propiedad
by José AgustínNovela experimental, una de las primeras obras del autor, que cuenta la historia de una pareja que acaba de conocerse y la relación tirante que se genera entre dos seres humanos cuando éstos son extraídos de su cotidianeidad. Un epígrafe de Procol Harum nos introduce en el espacio de irrealidad aparente de Abolición de la propiedad, la historia de la confrontación de dos mundos que chocan desde lo moral hasta lo ideológico. El microcosmos de esas contradicciones es un sótano desordenado en el que Norma y Everio se encuentran, convocados por una amiga en común, para escuchar unas cintas. Norma llega primero y enciende una grabadora. Lo que oye es el nombre de quien será su antagonista y los detalles de lo que está a punto de sucederle. Un grupo invisible toca rock y dispone el ambiente de esta alucinante puesta en escena. ¿Novela, teatro experimental? En este libro lo que menos importa es el género. José Agustín, en una propuesta que aún hoy resulta desafiante y vanguardista, simplemente se deja llevar por la estructura que la narración le exige. Abolición de la propiedad, obra de culto que no se publicaba desde hace más de veinte años, usa múltiples herramientas estilísticas para contar una historia que se vuelve sobre sí misma en un sofisticado juego de espejos en el que las palabras anticipan a las acciones. Esta edición incluye, además, una nota especial del autor.
Abolición de la propiedad
by José Agustín RamírezUn epígrafe de Procol Harum nos introduce en el espacio de irrealidad aparente de Abolición de la propiedad, la historia de la confrontación de dos mundos que chocan desde lo moral hasta lo ideológico. El microcosmos de esas contradicciones es un sótano desordenado en el que Norma y Everio se encuentran, convocados por una amiga en común, para escuchar unas cintas. Norma llega primero y enciende una grabadora. Lo que oye es el nombre de quien será su antagonista y los detalles de lo que está a punto de sucederle. Un grupo invisible toca rock y dispone el ambiente de esta alucinante puesta en escena. ¿Novela, teatro experimental? En este libro lo que menos importa es el género. José Agustín, en una propuesta que aún hoy resulta desafiante y vanguardista, simplemente se deja llevar por la estructura que la narración le exige. Abolición de la propiedad, obra de culto que no se publicaba desde hace más de veinte años, usa múltiples herramientas estilísticas para contar una historia que se vuelve sobre sí misma en un sofisticado juego de espejos en el que las palabras anticipan a las acciones. Esta edición incluye, además, una nota especial del autor.
Abolition is Love
by Ware Syrus MarcusWhat can abolition mean for a child? How can it help them dream a different future for their community?In Abolition is Love, Amelie learns about collective care, mutual aid, and abolitionist ideas as they help their parents get ready for the annual Prisoners&’ Justice Day. Amelie explores big concepts like love, justice, and care, and learns how we can build a different world together through the small choices we make every day. They learn to resolve a conflict with their cousin who plays differently than they do, they help their Papa plan a more accessible park for all, and collectively they create a beautiful banner. Amelie is also excited to hold their own candle at the rally, and they look forward to this big kid moment–to join the ranks of activists calling for justice and abolition. The book explores possibilities for hope, and offers ideas for caring for each other and building communities rooted in social justice and safety for all people. Parents and teachers can engage young readers with the expansive illustrations and prompts that suggest new ways of being in the world together.Abolition is Love!
Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice
by Jess A. GoldbergHow Black Atlantic literature can challenge conventions and redefine literary scholarshipAbolition Time is an invitation to reenvision abolitionist justice through literary studies. Placing critical race theory, queer theory, critical prison studies, and antiprison activism in conversation with an archive of Black Atlantic literatures of slavery, Jess A. Goldberg reveals how literary studies can help undo carceral epistemologies embedded in language and poetics. Goldberg examines poetry, drama, and novels from the nineteenth century through the twenty-first—such as William Wells Brown&’s The Escape, Angelina Weld Grimké&’s Rachel, Toni Morrison&’s A Mercy, and Claudia Rankine&’s Citizen—to consider literature and literary scholarship&’s roles in shaping societal paradigms. Focusing on how Black Atlantic literature disrupts the grammar of law and order, they show how these texts propose nonlinear theories of time that imagine a queer relationality characterized by care rather than inheritance, property, or biology. Abolition Time offers a framework for thinking critically about what is meant by the term justice in the broadest and deepest sense, using close reading to inform the question of abolishing prisons or the police and to think seriously about the most fundamental questions at the heart of the abolitionist movement.
Abolitionist Geographies
by Martha SchoolmanTraditional narratives of the period leading up to the Civil War are invariably framed in geographical terms. The sectional descriptors of the North, South, and West, like the wartime categories of Union, Confederacy, and border states, mean little without reference to a map of the United States. In Abolitionist Geographies, Martha Schoolman contends that antislavery writers consistently refused those standard terms. Through the idiom Schoolman names &“abolitionist geography,&” these writers instead expressed their dissenting views about the westward extension of slavery, the intensification of the internal slave trade, and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law by appealing to other anachronistic, partial, or entirely fictional north–south and east–west axes. Abolitionism&’s West, for instance, rarely reached beyond the Mississippi River, but its East looked to Britain for ideological inspiration, its North habitually traversed the Canadian border, and its South often spanned the geopolitical divide between the United States and the British Caribbean.Schoolman traces this geography of dissent through the work of Martin Delany, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others. Her book explores new relationships between New England transcendentalism and the British West Indies; African-American cosmopolitanism, Britain, and Haiti; sentimental fiction, Ohio, and Liberia; John Brown&’s Appalachia and circum-Caribbean marronage. These connections allow us to see clearly for the first time abolitionist literature&’s explicit and intentional investment in geography as an idiom of political critique, by turns liberal and radical, practical and utopian.
The Abolitionist's Daughter
by Diane C. McPhailThis powerful, profoundly emotional novel from the acclaimed author of The Seamstress of New Orleans explores a little-known aspect of Civil War history—Southern Abolitionists—and the timeless struggle to do right even amidst bitter conflict.On a Mississippi morning in 1859, Emily Matthews begs her father to save a slave, Nathan, about to be auctioned away from his family. Judge Matthews is an abolitionist who runs an illegal school for his slaves, hoping to eventually set them free. One, a woman named Ginny, has become Emily&’s companion and often her conscience—and understands all too well the hazards an educated slave must face. Yet even Ginny could not predict the tangled, tragic string of events set in motion as Nathan&’s family arrives at the Matthews farm.A young doctor, Charles Slate, tends to injured Nathan and begins to court Emily, finally persuading her to become his wife. But their union is disrupted by a fatal clash and a lie that will tear two families apart. As Civil War erupts, Emily, Ginny, and Emily&’s stoic mother-in-law, Adeline, each face devastating losses. Emily—sheltered all her life—is especially unprepared for the hardships to come. Struggling to survive in this raw, shifting new world, Emily will discover untapped inner strength, an unlikely love, and the courage to confront deep, painful truths.
The Abolitionist’s Secret
by Becky LowerIn 1856 New York, Heather Fitzpatrick, a bashful abolitionist, falls for young Army lieutenant David Whitman, who is tracking a runaway slave - the very slave she and her parents rescued from the hands of the slavemongers a few nights earlier.Despite their divergent views on slavery, romance ensues when David dances with Heather at the Cotillion Ball and later that night, walks her home. An engagement quickly follows. When he receives word that his father is ailing, David wants her to accompany him home to Savannah to meet his family.Heather wants to make the trip with him, especially since his father's death seems imminent. With her maid as chaperone, they board the train heading South. After his father passes, his mother insists any marriage will have to wait the requisite year, which is proper for mourning. She hopes to send Heather home for the year, and to use the time to dissuade David from his foolish choice, especially since his mother has already handpicked his potential bride from a neighboring plantation.Heather longs to stay to wait out the year, and to begin teaching the slaves how to read and write, since she knows those accomplishments will be needed when slavery comes to an end.But she knows the South is no place for an abolitionist.Sensuality Level: Sensual
The Abolitionist's Secret: Book Two in the Cotillion Ball Series
by Becky LowerIn 1856 New York, Heather Fitzpatrick, a bashful abolitionist, falls for young Army lieutenant David Whitman, who is tracking a runaway slave - the very slave she and her parents rescued from the hands of the slavemongers a few nights earlier.Despite their divergent views on slavery, romance ensues when David dances with Heather at the Cotillion Ball and later that night, walks her home. An engagement quickly follows. When he receives word that his father is ailing, David wants her to accompany him home to Savannah to meet his family.Heather wants to make the trip with him, especially since his father’s death seems imminent. With her maid as chaperone, they board the train heading South. After his father passes, his mother insists any marriage will have to wait the requisite year, which is proper for mourning. She hopes to send Heather home for the year, and to use the time to dissuade David from his foolish choice, especially since his mother has already handpicked his potential bride from a neighboring plantation.Heather longs to stay to wait out the year, and to begin teaching the slaves how to read and write, since she knows those accomplishments will be needed when slavery comes to an end.But she knows the South is no place for an abolitionist.Sensuality Level: Sensual
The Abolitionist's Secret: Book Two in the Cotillion Ball Series
by Becky LowerIn 1856 New York, Heather Fitzpatrick, a bashful abolitionist, falls for young Army lieutenant David Whitman, who is tracking a runaway slave - the very slave she and her parents rescued from the hands of the slavemongers a few nights earlier.Despite their divergent views on slavery, romance ensues when David dances with Heather at the Cotillion Ball and later that night, walks her home. An engagement quickly follows. When he receives word that his father is ailing, David wants her to accompany him home to Savannah to meet his family.Heather wants to make the trip with him, especially since his father’s death seems imminent. With her maid as chaperone, they board the train heading South. After his father passes, his mother insists any marriage will have to wait the requisite year, which is proper for mourning. She hopes to send Heather home for the year, and to use the time to dissuade David from his foolish choice, especially since his mother has already handpicked his potential bride from a neighboring plantation.Heather longs to stay to wait out the year, and to begin teaching the slaves how to read and write, since she knows those accomplishments will be needed when slavery comes to an end.But she knows the South is no place for an abolitionist.Sensuality Level: Sensual
The Abolitionist’s Secret
by Becky LowerIn 1856 New York, Heather Fitzpatrick, a bashful abolitionist, falls for young Army lieutenant David Whitman, who is tracking a runaway slave - the very slave she and her parents rescued from the hands of the slavemongers a few nights earlier.Despite their divergent views on slavery, romance ensues when David dances with Heather at the Cotillion Ball and later that night, walks her home. An engagement quickly follows. When he receives word that his father is ailing, David wants her to accompany him home to Savannah to meet his family.Heather wants to make the trip with him, especially since his father's death seems imminent. With her maid as chaperone, they board the train heading South. After his father passes, his mother insists any marriage will have to wait the requisite year, which is proper for mourning. She hopes to send Heather home for the year, and to use the time to dissuade David from his foolish choice, especially since his mother has already handpicked his potential bride from a neighboring plantation.Heather longs to stay to wait out the year, and to begin teaching the slaves how to read and write, since she knows those accomplishments will be needed when slavery comes to an end.But she knows the South is no place for an abolitionist.Sensuality Level: Sensual
The Abominable: A Novel
by Dan SimmonsALA Reading List Award for History, Short ListA thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The TerrorIt's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine high on the shoulder of Mt. Everest. By the following year, three climbers -- a British poet and veteran of the Great War, a young French Chamonix guide, and an idealistic young American -- find a way to take their shot at the top. They arrange funding from the grieving Lady Bromley, whose son also disappeared on Mt. Everest in 1924. Young Bromley must be dead, but his mother refuses to believe it and pays the trio to bring him home. Deep in Tibet and high on Everest, the three climbers -- joined by the missing boy's female cousin -- find themselves being pursued through the night by someone . . . or something. This nightmare becomes a matter of life and death at 28,000 feet - but what is pursuing them? And what is the truth behind the 1924 disappearances on Everest? As they fight their way to the top of the world, the friends uncover a secret far more abominable than any mythical creature could ever be. A pulse-pounding story of adventure and suspense, The Abominable is Dan Simmons at his spine-chilling best.
The Abominable: A Novel
by Dan SimmonsJune 1924. On the brutal North East Ridge of Mount Everest, famous adventurers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine vanish into the snow-whipped night. Daredevil explorer Richard Deacon devises a plan to follow in the men's footsteps, accompanied only by two friends. Off piste and with no support team, the three men strike for Everest's peak and the most vicious climate on earth. As the winds rise and the temperature and oxygen levels drop, Deacon and his companions hear howls in the distance. Some dark creature is tracking them up the mountain, sending them scrabbling blindly into Everest's dangerous heights to escape it.Soon they will discover what happened to Mallory's crew - but can they escape the same hideous fate?A gripping thriller by a master of the genre, The Abominable blends historical fact with spine-tingling drama - this is one of the most chilling and unforgettable novels you will ever read.
The Abominable Man: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (7) (Martin Beck #7)
by Maj Sjöwall Per WahlööThe striking seventh novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck facing one of the greatest challenges in his professional career.The gruesome murder of a police captain in his hospital room reveals the unsavory history of a man who spent forty years practicing a horrible blend of strong-arm police work and shear brutality. Martin Beck and his colleagues feverishly comb Stockholm for the murderer, a demented and deadly rifleman, who has plans for even more chaos. As the tension builds and a feeling of imminent danger grips Beck, his investigation unearths evidence of police corruption. That's when an even stronger sense of responsibility and something like shame urge him into taking a series of drastic steps, which lead to a shocking disaster.