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Armistice: Book 2 In The Amberlough Dossier (Amberlough Dossier #2)
by Lara Elena DonnellyArmistice returns to Donnelly’s ravishing 1930s Art Deco-tinged fantasy world of the Nebula and Lambda Award-nominated Amberlough with a decadent, tumultuous mixture of sex, politics, and spies“A hefty novel full of fascinating characters exploring oversized topics such as sexuality, music, culture, fascism, nationalism, class wars, revolution and love.” —Shelf AwarenessIn a tropical country where shadowy political affairs lurk behind the scenes of its glamorous film industry, three people maneuver inside a high stakes game of statecraft and espionage: Lillian, a reluctant diplomat serving a fascist nation,Aristide, an expatriate film director running from lost love and a criminal past,—and Cordelia, a former cabaret stripper turned legendary revolutionary. Each one harbors dangerous knowledge that can upturn a nation. When their fates collide, machinations are put into play, unexpected alliances are built, and long-held secrets are exposed. Everything is barreling towards an international revolt...and only the wiliest ones will be prepared for what comes next.For Amberlough: “James Bond by way of Oscar Wilde.”—Holly Black“Astonishing!” —World Fantasy Award-winning author Ellen Kushner“Beautiful, all too real, and full of pain. Read it. It will change you.” —Hugo Award-winning author Mary Robinette KowalAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Armistice: The Hot War (The Hot War #3)
by Harry TurtledoveIn the final book of the blistering trilogy The Hot War, old hatreds and new chances for revenge are unleashed on an already devastated world—as the Cold War becomes a roaring inferno.In 1952 American cities lie in ruins. President Harry Truman, in office since 1945, presides over a makeshift government in Philadelphia, suffering his own personal loss and fearing for the future of democracy. In the wake of Hitler’s reign, Germany and America have become allies, and Stalin’s vise hold on power in the USSR persists. Unwilling to trust the Soviet tyrant, Truman launches a long-planned nuclear strike on the city of Omsk—killing Stalin and plunging the Red Army into leaderless, destructive anarchy. Meanwhile, the Baltic states careen toward rebellion, and Poland is seized by rebels bred on war. In a world awash with victims turned victors, refugees, and killers, has Truman struck a blow for peace or fueled more chaos? As these staggering events unfold, the lives of men and women across battle lines, ethnicities, and religions play out across the globe. In Los Angeles, an extended Jewish family builds a future, while the foul smell of a refugee camp in Santa Monica blows in on the ocean breeze. In Korea, a U.S. fighter struggles to bring his Korean interpreter stateside as a full American. In Siberia, two German women fight for their survival in a gulag—and begin a strange, harrowing journey home. From the terrifying global chess match between superpowers to the strength of individual human conscience, Armistice captures a world that’s been split to its core by the violence only mankind can create. Through the thunder of battle, the clashes of armies, and the whispers of lovers, how humanity will be rebuilt, and who will do it, are the questions that resound in this marvelous work of imagination and history. PRAISE FOR HARRY TURTLEDOVE “Turtledove is the standard-bearer for alternate history.”—USA Today Fallout “No one writes alternate-history novels quite like Turtledove. . . . Expect epic political stakes as well as personal and heartfelt stories of war.”—BookTrib Bombs Away “Turtledove’s thorough research and grounded imagination work to create a frighteningly realistic past where world leaders act out of desperation and fatalism and a large cast of common folk suffer the consequences. . . . The vicarious sense of eschatological dread is always powerful.”—Booklist Last Orders “All quite plausible . . . Turtledove’s focus on the characters serves to fill out the big picture with patient, nitty-gritty detail. . . . Armchair warriors will have much to ponder.”—Kirkus Reviews Two Fronts “A you-are-there chronicle of battle on land and sea and in the air.”—Tor.com
Armitage
by Don NigroMystery / 6 m., 6 f. / Unit set / Zachary Pendragon rages among the tombstones of the family burial plot. Filled with hatred and waiting for him to die, his stepdaughter Margaret watches from their Gothic mansion in the east Ohio woods. So begins the dark and labyrinthine tale of a family with a complex and terrible history. Through Margaret's journal, Zach's memories, the batty poetry of Margaret's mother, and the memories of Zach's tormented son John, a Gothic tale woven back and forth in time and space emerges. It is a tale of desperate love and suspicious deaths, of desire, murder, madness, grief and terror. Having the richness and beauty of a complex Gothic novel or a Jacobean nightmare, this remarkable saga of happenings in the Pendragon mansion builds to a stunning conclusion that is guaranteed to surprise. Perhaps the most haunting of the author's cycle of Pendragon Plays, this mystery is both funny and grotesque, moving and hypnotic.
Armitage Shanks and the Footballer's Bones: Western Wildcats 4
by John LarkinThe Wildcats are in trouble again! Down on the ground, there?s got to be some way of raising funds, and their coach comes up with health food bars. Only trouble is they?re inedible, and whoever sells the most gets an all-expenses-paid trip to Canberra. Up in the air, though, Splinters and Nuke are on their way to London to retrieve their best player, Gazza, who?s been deported back to England with her mum, and the two boys get up to the sort of in-flight antics that have made travelling footballers notorious. Grappling as always with the problem of how to make up the numbers, someone remembers a genius footballer called Armitage Shanks who registered for the Under 6s, but never turned up for training or played a single game. Then the obvious question: how do you know he was a genius? And (to Splinters) the equally obvious answer: he had great boots! But when Armitage Shanks turns up, it?s a bigger surprise than the Wildcats have bargained for. A crazy adventure with an unexpectedly moving conclusion, this is one of John Larkin?s funniest books in the series - but it also offers a little insight into success and fame.
Armonia: Una raccolta
by Maki StarfieldMaki Starfield è una poetessa giapponese. L’energia dei suoi scritti, che vanno dalla poesia ai componimenti haiku, è straordinaria. In tre anni ha pubblicato circa venti libri, diciannove dei quali scritti in collaborazione con poeti di tutto il mondo, come Narlan Matos, Luca Benassi, Helen Cardona, John Fitsgerald, Lidia Chiarelli, Huguette Bertrand, Yesim Agaoglu, Bill Wolak, Dileep Jhaveri, Sarah Thilykou, Willem M. Roggeman, Ylorgos Vajs, Xiao Xiao, Dumu Luofei, Ajei-Ajei-Bhaa, Ikuyo Yoshimura, Michael Augustin, Konstantinos Bouras, Paddy Bushe, Yao Yuan, Yu Xiu, Chuang, Yun-Hui, Stathis Gourgouris e John W. Sexton. Starfield ha allargato il proprio orizzonte poetico giorno per giorno, approfittando di ogni secondo vissuto. Questo volume costituisce la sua prima raccolta di componimenti.
Armonizando las relaciones en tu vida con mandalas: una guia angelical
by Diana CadenaTu camino de vida está lleno de maravillosas oportunidades para que recuerdes quién eres realmente, tu razón de estar aquí y la grandeza de tu alma, y así encuentres paz, tranquilidad y plenitud en tu diario transitar. Hay una infinidad de seres celestiales, ángeles, arcángeles, maestros ascendidos y todo un universo dispuesto a acompañarte y ayudarte en tu camino de vida. Con ellos podrás sanar y cerrar en amor los espacios que te causan dolor. También con los mándalas, dibujos mágicos y sagrados que aquietan tu mente para conectarte con tu corazón, podrás armonizar tu mundo interior con el exterior, despertar tus sentidos y estimular tu creatividad. Este libro es una invitación a armonizar las relaciones de tu vida apoyándote en los ángeles y en los mándalas, permitiéndote ver y entender el alto propósito de todo lo que te rodea para que te reconectes con tu paz interior y vivas en plenitud. Te brinda las herramientas para comunicarte con tus ángeles, e incluye mándalas para colorear y meditar que te ayudarán a conectarte con tus emociones.
Armonía letal
by Lincoln ChildA los ojos de todo el mundo, los Thorpe eran la pareja perfecta: jóvenes, atractivos, totalmente compatibles... Sus vidas se habían cruzado gracias a la ayuda de Eden, una prestigiosa empresa dedicada a la búsqueda de la pareja ideal y que guarda celosamente la fórmula secreta que garantiza el éxito.Sin embargo, a la repentina y misteriosa muerte de los Thorpe le siguen otras, al parecer todas ellas suicidios. A Richard Silver,brillante fundador de la próspera empresa, no le quedará más remedio que permitir al investigador que se encarga del caso, Christopher Lash, el acceso a los secretos de la empresa, que le llevarán a descubrir un asombroso laberinto de inteligencia, genio creativoy tecnología. Pero también, poco a poco, se verá implicado en una trama mucho más personal y peligrosa de lo que Lash jamás hubierapodido imaginar.
Armonía letal
by Lincoln ChildUna gran empresa te busca la pareja ideal a través de la informática. Pero se producen una serie de suicidios inexplicables. A los ojos de todo el mundo, los Thorpe eran la pareja perfecta: jóvenes, atractivos, totalmente compatibles... Sus vidas se habían cruzado gracias a la ayuda de Eden, una prestigiosa empresa dedicada a la búsqueda de la pareja ideal y que guarda celosamente la fórmula secreta que garantiza el éxito. Sin embargo, a la repentina y misteriosa muerte de los Thorpe le siguen otras, al parecer todas ellas suicidios. A Richard Silver, brillante fundador de la próspera empresa, no le quedará más remedio que permitir al investigador que se encarga del caso, Christopher Lash, el acceso a los secretos de la empresa, que le llevarán a descubrir un asombroso laberinto de inteligencia, genio creativo y tecnología. Pero también, poco a poco, se verá implicado en una trama mucho más personal y peligrosa de lo que Lash jamás hubiera podido imaginar.
Armonía rota (Bestseller Oro Ser.)
by Barbara WoodRomance, intriga y acción se dan cita en esta apasionante novela de Barbara Wood. Charlotte Lee, nieta de la fundadora de Armonía Biotec, una empresa especializada en fármacos naturales procedentes de China, está horrorizada. Alguien está tratando de chantajearla envenenando sus productos. Es entonces cuando acude a su rescate Jonathan, un viejo amor de la infancia y experto en informática que la ayudará a revelar la identidad del extorsionador. Al tiempo que ambos tratan de dar caza al misterioso y despiadado criminal, resurgen, imparables, los recuerdos de un pasado de amor y ternura; un pasado marcado por las predecesoras de Charlotte, dos mujeres tan enérgicas como desdichadas en el amor. La crítica ha dicho...«Wood demuestra ser una maestra entremezclando acción y romance, y manteniendo el ímpetu y la chispa de ambos.»Kirkus Reviews «Wood crea personajes genuinos y cautivadores, cuyas historias son fascinantes.»Library Journal
Armor
by John SteakleyThe planet is called Banshee. The air is unbreathable, the water poisonous. It is the home of the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered. Body armor has been devised for the commando forces that are to be dropped on Banshee-the culmination of ten thousand years of the armorers' craft. A trooper in this armor is a one-man, atomic-powered battle fortress-but he will have to fight a nearly endless horde of berserk, hard-shelled monsters-the fighting arm of a species which uses biological technology to design perfect, mindless, war minions. Felix is a scout in A-teamTwo. Highly competent, he is the sole survivor of mission after mission. Yet he is a man consumed by fear and hatred. And he is protected, not only by his custom-fitted body armor, but by an odd being which seems to live within him, a cold killing machine he calls "The Engine." This is Felix's story-a story of the horror, the courage, and the deadliness of combat, and the story of how strength of spirit can be the greatest armor of all.
Armor
by John SteakleyThe military sci-fi classic in a striking new packageFelix is an Earth soldier, encased in special body armor designed to withstand Earth's most implacable enemy-a bioengineered, insectoid alien horde. But Felix is also equipped with internal mechanisms that enable him, and his fellow soldiers, to survive battle situations that would destroy a man's mind.This is a remarkable novel of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat--and how the strength of the human spirit can be the greatest armor of all.
Armor & Ornament (The Alaska Literary Series)
by Christopher Lee MilesArmor & Ornament turns away from the popular trends of contemporary poetry, calling instead upon traditional and Biblical forms. Rather than drawing on recent styles and modern trends, Miles looks to the texts that have inspired artists for millennia. These are Christian poems that have a deep and unapologetic understanding of God’s world, and they explore, with steady faith, all sides of this world. As a military veteran, Miles also centers his poetry amongst war. Through tone and voice, warfare permeates these poems, providing poetry that relies less on the traditional, Christian tension of doubt and shaken faith than on the inherent tension of a broken world. This resonant new collection melds deep-rooted spirituality with contemporary tensions, offering modern psalms for a tumultuous and uncertain age.
Armor of Roses and The Silver Voice (Hunter Kiss #3.5)
by Marjorie M. LiuA compelling novella, “Armor of Roses,” and a bonus never-before-published original short story, “The Silver Voice,” both set in the world of New York Times bestselling author Marjorie M. Liu’s stunning Hunter Kiss urban fantasy series.<P> “Armor of Roses” (previously published in INKED): When New York Times bestselling author Marjorie M. Liu’s demon slayer Maxine Kiss investigates a grisly murder, she finds herself involved in a conspiracy dating back to World War II—and a secret mission that her grandmother may have carried out for the US government, one that involves the mysterious armor of roses.<P> “The Silver Voice”: On their honeymoon, Maxine helps Grant explore his heritage through memories locked inside a mysterious seed ring, leading him to the silver voice and secrets his mother kept hidden from him—until now.
Armored
by Mark GreaneyA novel inspired by #1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Greaney&’s Audible Original drama, Armored.Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent—a professional bodyguard—and he's one of the world's elite operatives. That is, he was until his last mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high. Josh lost his lower left leg. There's not much call for an elite bodyguard with such an injury. So, Josh has to support his family working as a mall cop in New Jersey. For a man like Josh, this is purgatory on earth, but miracles can occur even in Paramus. A lucky run-in with an old comrade promises to get Josh back in the field for one last job. The UN is sending a peace mission into the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico, an area so dangerous it's known as Espinazo del Diablo—the Devil's Spine. Only a fool would think they could broker peace between the homicidal drug cartels in the region, and only a madman would sign on to keep those fools alive.
Armored (Armored)
by Mark GreaneyOne last job, out of the fire, and into hell...From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Gray Man series comes a very different kind of hero.Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent - a professional bodyguard, and he's one of the world's elite operatives. That is he was until his last mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high. Josh lost his lower left leg. There's not much call for an elite bodyguard with such an injury. So, Josh has to support his family working as a mall cop in Jersey. For a man like Josh this is purgatory on earth, but even in Paramus miracles occur. A lucky run in with an old comrade promises to get Josh back in the field for one last job. The UN is sending a peace mission into the Sierra Madre Mountains in Mexico, an area so dangerous it's known as Espinazo del Diablo (The Devil's Spine). Only a fool would think they could broker peace between the homicidal drug cartels in the region and only a madman would sign on to keep those fools alive.Soon to be a major film by Michael Bay, Armored is a gasp-a-minute rollercoaster of a thriller.
Armored Attraction
by Janie CrouchOne secret can change everything It's been eight years since Liam Goetz has seen his ex-fiancé. Vanessa Epperson had everything: beauty, brains...and a family fortune. He chose her, while she chose a life of luxury and never imagined their paths would cross again. An unexpected phone call from Vanessa-desperate for his help in a human trafficking case-ressurects old longings. As they work together to save hostages and catch a predator, Liam begins to learn some shocking truths-about himself and the woman he thought he once knew so well...
Armored Hearts
by David BottomsArmored Hearts, combining new poems and a selection from previous volumes, offers the power of idiomatic narrative at its naked best. "It is refreshing to read a poet who is not obliquely vague, who tells a story cleanly and convincingly, and yet who will not close down mysterious and complicated things about life that simply defy such closure."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Arms & Legs
by Chloe LaneA searingly intimate exploration of marriage, motherhood and desire from a bold New Zealand talent. Georgie's marriage has stagnated. But in a Florida almost claustrophobic with life, there's no room to attend to it: forests burn, termites abound, teeth break, and there's something in her husband's eye. Then she finds a body in the woods. As the repercussions of her discovery and a doomed affair come to land, Georgie is forced to confront her past, examining the often heartbreaking power of the things we witness and the scars they leave behind.
Arms & Legs: A Novel
by Chloe LaneA taut and suspenseful domestic drama that explodes the comforting and constricting confines of marriage and early parenthood. In a Florida almost claustrophobic with life, Georgie’s marriage has stagnated. But there’s no room to attend to it, as dangers small and large crowd in: teeth break, her son can’t find his words, there’s something in her husband’s eye, termites swarm the neighbourhood, and she finds a dead boy in the burning woods. And then—there’s Jason. As the repercussions of her discovery of the body, and her affair, come to land, Georgie digs deep, examining the undercurrents of her actions with curiosity, humour, and cutting emotional intelligence. Arms & Legs is a deliriously insightful excavation of love, desire, parenthood, and relationships at their best, and worst.
Arms Wide Open
by Tom WinterJack and Meredith are non-identical twins; the only similarity between them is their lives rapidly falling apart. Jack’s high-flying career in advertising has crashed and burned. Meredith’s world is also crumbling – a decomposing yogurt in her fridge now a symbol of her failed marriage. Her children, Jemima and Luke, offer little support, too consumed with the worlds of online dating and amateur taxidermy. All their lives, Jack and Meredith believed their father to be dead. One day, a throwaway comment leads Jack to question this, but with their mother fading ever-deeper into the grip of dementia, answers are hard to come by. As revelations start to untangle, the twins soon learn that what you seek is not always what you find…
Arms and Letters: Military Life Writing in Early Modern Spain (Toronto Iberic)
by Faith S. HardenArms and Letters analyses the unprecedented number of autobiographical accounts written by Spanish soldiers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These first-person retrospective works recount a range of experiences throughout the sprawling domain of the Hispanic monarchy. Reading a selection of autobiographies in contemporary historical context – including the coalescing of the first modern armies, which were partially populated by forced recruits and the urban poor – Faith S. Harden explains how soldiers adapted the concept of honour and contributed to the burgeoning autobiographical form. Harden argues that Spanish military life writing took two broad forms: the first as a petition, wherein the soldier’s service was presented as a debt of honour, and second, as a series of misadventures, staging honour as a spectacle that captivated an audience. Honour was inevitably gendered and performative, and as such, it functioned as one of the overarching metrics of value that early modern men and women applied to themselves and others. In charting how non-elite subjects rendered their lives legitimate through autobiography, Arms and Letters contributes both to a critical genealogy of honour and to the history of life writing.
Arms and the Man
by George Bernard ShawIn the opening scene of Arms and the Man, which establishes the play's embattled Balkan setting, young Raina learns of her suitor's heroic exploits in combat. She rhapsodizes that it is "a glorious world for women who can see its glory and men who can act its romance!" Soon, however, such romantic falsifications of love and warfare are brilliantly and at times hilariously unmasked in a comedy that reveals George Bernard Shaw at his best as an acute social observer and witty provocateur. First produced on the London stage in 1894, Arms and the Man continues to be among the most performed of Shaw’s plays around the world. The play is reprinted in its entirety here from an authoritative British edition, and is complete with Shaw's stimulating preface to Volume II of Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant.
Arms and the Man (The World At War)
by Bernard Shaw“Arms and the Man” is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid, in Latin: Arma virumque cano ("Of arms and the man I sing"). (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
Arms and the Woman
by Susan Merrill Squier Adrienne Auslander Munich Helen M. CooperAlthough the themes of women's complicity in and resistance to war have been part of literature from early times, they have not been fully integrated into conventional conceptions of the war narrative. Combining feminist literary criticism with the emerging field of feminist war theory, this collection explores the role of gender as an organizing principle in the war system and reveals how literature perpetuates the ancient myth of "arms and the man."The volume shows how the gendered conception of war has both shaped literary texts and formed the literary canon. It identifies and interrogates the conventional war text, with its culturally determined split between warlike men and peaceful women, and it confirms that women's role in relation to war is much more complex and complicitous than such essentializing suggests. The contributors examine a wide range of familiar texts from fresh perspectives and bring new texts to light. Collectively, these essays range in time from the Trojan War to the nuclear age. The contributors are June Jordan, Lorraine Helms, Patricia Francis Cholakian, Jane E. Schultz, Margaret R. Higonnet, James Longenbach, Laura Stempel Mumford, Sharon O'Brien, Jane Marcus, Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Susan Schweik, Carol J. Adams, Esther Fuchs, Barbara Freeman, Gillian Brown, Helen M. Cooper, Adrienne Auslander Munich, and Susan Merrill Squier.
Arms and the Women (The Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries #19)
by Reginald HillPascoe&’s wife becomes a moving target in this &“delightfully quirky, literate, often explosively funny&” mystery in the acclaimed series (Publishers Weekly). Reginald Hill &“raised the classical British mystery to new heights&” when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det. Inspector Andrew Dalziel and his partner, the callow Sgt. Peter Pascoe (The New York Times Book Review). Their chafing differences in education, manners, technique, and temperament made them &“the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction&” (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as ebooks. Ellie Pascoe is a novelist, former campus radical, overprotective mother—and as an inspector&’s wife, on high alert of suspicious behavior. When she thwarts an abduction plot, her husband, Peter, and his partner, Andrew Dalziel, assume a link to one of their past cases. An attack on Ellie&’s best friend, Daphne, and a series of threatening letters from Ellie&’s foiled kidnappers prove them wrong. Packed off to an isolated seaside safe place, Ellie, Daphne, and their bodyguard, DC Shirley Novello, aren&’t about to lie in wait for the culprits&’ next move. They&’re on the offensive. No matter how calculated their plot of retaliation is, they have no idea just how desperately someone wants Ellie out of the picture. Or how insanely epic the reasons are. Arms and the Women is the 19th book in the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.