![]() ![]() ![]() Offering a glorious back-to-nature experience with all the comforts of high-speed Internet, solar smart houses, and the assurance of being mere hours from Seattle by highway, Greenloop was indeed a paradise-until Mount Rainier erupted, leaving its residents truly cut off from the world, and utterly unprepared for the consequences. Set in the wilds of Washington State, Greenloop was once a model eco-community-until nature’s wrath made it a tragic object lesson in civilization’s fragility. T he #1 bestselling author of World War Z returns with a horror tale that blurs the lines between human and beast, and asks, What are we capable of when we’re cut off from society? Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre (A Novel) ![]()
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![]() ![]() Bodies pile up as Summer and Taksashi are chased across Japan. He must keep her alive long enough to recover the bowl. She's had a copy of the bowl made and its hidden somewhere on she knows. Takashi rescues her, only to try and kill her for the bowl, but Summer is one step ahead of him and the cult. However Summer is kidnapped by a religious cult leader bent of having the relic and taking over the world. ![]() Takashi works for a super secret committee and his directive is to kill Summer and recover the bowl for the Japanese. Especially the woman who is getting dangerously under his skin as the lethal game crosses the Pacific to the remote and beautiful mountains of Japan, where the truth can be as seductive as it is deadly." It's a desperate situation and international operative Takashi OBrien has received his directive: everybody is expendable. The priceless relic is about to ignite a global power struggle that must be stopped at all costs. Back Cover: "Museum curator Summer Hawthorne considered the exquisite ice-blue ceramic bowl given to her by her beloved Japanese nanny a treasure of sentimental value-until somebody tried to kill her for it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Benjamin ( The Thing About Jellyfish) adroitly fleshes out her witty premise-and Paulie’s charismatic personality-through Caitlyn’s narration, interviews with Originals and administrators, and reflections on the ancient Greek beliefs taught in class. memorable,” and they recruit Caitlyn to concoct challenges that reflect Paulie’s spirit. ![]() Someone whose official job it is to make school. To “pull Paulie back to us,” the Originals stage a reality TV–style competition to “find someone to play the role of Paulie. Missing her old friends, play-by-the-rules Caitlyn scoffs at her classmates’ eccentricities and those of the easygoing school, located in an old Vermont mansion whose lawn boasts dilapidated statues of gods and where goats trim the overgrown soccer field. When he doesn’t appear on the first day of seventh grade, his classmates (called the “Originals,” since they are the school’s inaugural class) are bereft and largely ignore new-girl Caitlyn. A wildly imaginative but never mean-spirited prankster, Paulie Fink was the life of Mitchell School. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice." The writing is done with the eloquence of a great bard or statesman - behold, just two quotes among thousands: By the time I finished book 11 in February of 2019, I felt like my whole entire life (and language) had been upgraded in a deep and meaningful way. I didn't make it halfway through the first book before I realized that there was simply too much that was quotable. ![]() When I first started reading the series in March of 2018, it was my intent to keep a little book of quotes. But, forgiving those shortcomings, the work.the work is amazing. Yes, the books have a fair share of misogyny and racism, homophobia and anti-communist propagandizing as one might expect from anything published during it's tenor. As full of wonder and quotable prose as any other work you will ever read. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s going to Europe to finish his education.” She’s a lovely lady, but she don’t pretend to manage him. I was talking to his mother this morning. “They’ve dragged him around from hotel to hotel ever since he was a kid. He’s more to be pitied than anything,” a man from New York drawled, as he lay at full length along the cushions under the wet skylight. “Pshaw! 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But Medea extracts a stay of execution from Creon, and then the promise of sanctuary from the visiting Aegeus, King of Athens. The repudiated wife plotted revenge, and, as the play opens, faces exile for speaking against the royal house. Unfortunately, though she had borne him two sons, Jason then threw Medea over for Glauce, the daughter of Creon, King of Corinth. After the voyage of the Argonaughts, and the dangers which the love-smitten princess helped him escape, Jason married Medea and brought her to Iolchus, fleeing to Corinth when Medea contrived to have King Peleas murdered by his own daughters. The Medea legend was well known to Greek audiences. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lucid and packed with suspense, Edogawa Rampo's stories found in Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination have enthralled Japanese readers for over half a century. These nine bloodcurdling, chilling tales present a genre of literature largely unknown to readers outside Japan, including the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife the record of a man who creates a mysterious chamber of mirrors and discovers hidden pleasures within the morbid confession of a maniac who envisions a career of foolproof "psychological" murders and the bizarre tale of a chair-maker who buries himself inside an armchair and enjoys the sordid "loves" of the women who sit on his handiwork. ![]() ![]() Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East. This collection of mystery and horror stories is regarded as Japan's answer to Edgar Allan Poe. Japanese mystery fiction would not be the same without Edogawa Ranpo, whose stories continue to be hugely influential in the world of books, as well as being adapted to film, television, manga. ![]() ![]() For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions. Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical plots and empty characters, Knut Hamsun embarked on an attempt to describe the strange, peculiar life of the mind, the mysteries of the nerves in a starving body. Book Synopsis A modernist masterpiece: the Nobel Prize winners first and most important novel A Penguin Classic First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. ![]() ![]() In a moment-by-moment internal monologue, Hamsun reveals the profound anguish of a struggling writer facing the possibility of death in a world indifferent to his existence. ![]() About the Book Contemptuous of contemporary novels and what he saw as stereotypical plots and empty characters, in 1890 Knut Hamsun wrote Hunger, which is a searing excursion into the realm of the irrational. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Case for Easter invites participants to examine the evidence for themselves and consider whether the story of Jesus' resurrection makes sense. Who the Bible states witnessed Jesus being alive after the crucifixion, how early creeds emerged that stated Jesus was alive, and how its clear the early church carried on this teaching.What the evidence in the Gospels reveals about the Jesus' tomb being empty, why the Gospel writers are credible when they make this claim, and what this evidence leads us to conclude.How we can use a technique known as "five minimal facts"facts on which even skeptical scholars agree are trueand medical evidence to build a strong case for Jesus' resurrection.What the Gospel accounts actually say about Jesus' death and resurrection, how we can reconcile the discrepancies between the accounts, and how we can know the biblical accounts are accurate.In each session, he will explore the following aspects of the Easter story: Now, in this four-week study for Easter (DVD/digital downloads sold separately), Lee investigates the story surrounding the resurrection of Jesusand how we can know that it is true. In his bestselling book The Case for Christ, Lee Strobel retraced his spiritual journey from atheism to faith by showing how the evidence he obtained from experts in the field of history, archaeology, and ancient manuscripts led him to the verdict that Jesus truly was the Son of God. ![]() ![]() ![]() Power, Family, and Respect are everything. The Mafia of the past is evolving, and with rival bosses gunning for them, Melody and Liam will have to figure out how to work as one to take down those who stand in their way, all while keeping up appearances. Ruthless People is a romantic crime fiction set in modern day Chicago and follows the life and marriage of Melody Giovanni and Liam Callahan - rivals by. But with no other family left, she must not only learn to work with Liam, but the whole Callahan clan. ![]() She knows exactly what type of man Liam is, and she would rather die than give up the power she has spent her whole life building. Twenty-four years later, she has achieved more than any man could even dream of, killing anyone who steps in her way. Bred to be a Boss, a world-class marksman, master of disguise, with no mercy and no fear. RUTHLESS PEOPLE: Liam, next in line to lead the Irish, believes he’s getting a simple-minded wife, one he can control, one who bends to his every need. But behind closed doors is a constant battle for dominance between two Bosses, cultures, and hearts. McAvoy Show more Show less Youre getting two free audiobooks. McAvoy includes books Ruthless People, The Untouchables, American Savages, and several more. To the outside world, they look like American Royalty, giving to charities, feeding the homeless, rebuilding the city. ![]() |