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Buckskin Pass (Stagecoach Station # #50)
by Hank MitchumWhen legendary quick-draw Clay Edwards traded in his six gun for a branding iron, he thought his hard days were over. They had just begun. After being slammed into the Colorado state pen for a crime he never committed, he's out and on the run. B jt cornering the killer who can clear his name means a treacherous trek through the snow-choked. Rockies. He'll need more than grit to bring C. K. Moxley back from Buckskin Pass. With a relentless prison posse on his heels, Cites on the warpath, and a fiery young beauty under his protection, the man who once swore he'd never again live by the gun may have to break his promise. Better a liar than a corpse...
Buckskin Pimpernel: The Exploits of Justus Sherwood, Loyalist Spy
by Mary Beacock FryerAt the beginning of the American Revolution, Justus Sherwood left his young family in order to serve with the King’s forces, first with General Burgoyne on his disastrous invasion of New York. He was soon appointed Supervisor of Spies and Prisoner Exchanges, and from his "Loyal Blockhouse" on Lake Champlain he sent out raiding parties and spying missions to harass the rebels in New York and England.
Buckskin Run: Stories
by Louis L'AmourFor the westerner trouble came with the territory. Long grass valleys, merciless deserts, sheer rock cliffs, icy streams, hidden trails, dusty towns. These were the proving grounds of daily life. At any time violence could explode and on the frontier there was no avoiding its sudden terrible impact. In this collection of his stories Louis L&’Amour guides us to some of these untamed places where men and women faced the challenge of survival. And for the first time, L&’Amour also presents a selection of riveting scenes from western history that are every bit as exciting as his stories.
Bucky and Stu vs. the Mikanikal Man
by Cornelius Van WrightIt’s the adventure of a lifetime when best friends—and self-proclaimed superheroes—defeat bad guys of their own invention. It’s wonk ’em time when Bucky and Stu have to stand up to Phat Tyre, TrashMan and Hose-Nose. No matter that the bad guys are all made out of household items that Bucky and Stu have assembled themselves—these bad guys don’t stand a chance against the boys’ power moves. Still, it’s quite a surprise when their latest villain, the giant Mikanikal Man, gets zapped during a lightning storm and comes to life! The battle—and thrill—of a lifetime ensue. Full of surprises and laughs, this upbeat, action-packed story celebrates imagination, creativity, and friendship in even the most unexpected forms. Cornelius Van Wright’s hilarious illustrations are full of surprises and are perfect for portraying the high-speed antics of two enthusiastic boys.
Bucky F*cking Dent
by David DuchovnyTed Fullilove, aka Mr. Peanut, is not like other Ivy League grads. He shares an apartment with Goldberg, his beloved battery-operated fish, sleeps on a bed littered with yellow legal pads penned with what he hopes will be the next great American novel, and spends the waning malaise-filled days of the Carter administration at Yankee Stadium, waxing poetic while slinging peanuts to pay the rent.When Ted hears the news that his estranged father, Marty, is dying of lung cancer, he immediately moves back into his childhood home, where a whirlwind of revelations ensues. The browbeating absentee father of his youth is living to make up for lost time, but his health dips drastically whenever his beloved Red Sox lose. And so, with help from a crew of neighborhood old-timers and the lovely Mariana--Marty's Nuyorican grief counselor--Ted orchestrates the illusion of a Sox winning streak, enabling Marty and the Red Sox to reverse the Curse of the Bambino and cruise their way to World Series victory. Well, sort of.David Duchovny's richly drawn Bucky F*cking Dent is a story of the bond between fathers and sons, Yankee fans and the Fenway faithful, and grapples with the urgent need to find our story in an age of irony and artifice. Culminating in that fateful moment in October of '78 when the meek Bucky Dent hit his way into baseball history with the unlikeliest of home runs, this tragicomic novel demonstrates that life truly belongs to the losers--that the long shots are the ones worth betting on. Bucky F*cking Dent is a singular tale that brims with the hilarity, poignancy, and profound solitude of modern life.
El bucle infinito
by Isabel MartínUn misterioso libro centenario y un viaje en el tiempo que cambiará la historia para siempre. Una aventura trepidante que no podrás parar de leer. ULos miembros de la familia Serrietz han heredado, desde hace más de quinientos años, un misterioso manuscrito y con él una leyenda: en el momento el que sus secretos ocultos salgan a la luz, el curso del tiempo cambiará para siempre. Cuando el valioso objeto llega a sus manos, Julia decide embarcarse en la búsqueda de su origen. Para ello contrata a Miguel, un joven restaurador que poco a poco irá desentrañando los símbolos y los mensajes del manuscrito hasta llegar a una pregunta clave: ¿cómo es posible que un manuscrito del siglo XVI contenga explicaciones científicas para descubrimientos modernos como el ADN? En este thriller histórico, Isabel Martín nos introduce en un fascinante universo donde los protagonistas viajarán desde el presente hasta el siglo XVI, viviendouna aventura que nos recuerda que todo gran final es siempre un comienzo.
Bucolics
by Maurice ManningUntitled and unpunctuated, the seventy poems in this acclaimed collection seem to cascade from one page to another. Maurice Manning extolls the virtues of nature and its many gifts, and finds deep gratitude for the mysterious hand that created it all.that bare branch that branch made blackby the rain the silver raindrophanging from the black branchBoss I like that black branchI like that shiny raindrop Bosstell me if I'm wrong but it makesme think you're looking rightat me now isn't that a lark for meto think you look that wayupside down like a tree frogBoss I'm not surprised at allI wouldn't doubt it fora minute you're always upto something I'll say one thingyou're all right all right you areeven when you're hanging Boss
Bud Barkin, Private Eye (Tales from the House of Bunnicula #5)
by James Howe Brett HelquistDear Reader,<P> The guy who usually writes these letters asked me to do it instead. Maybe he was having a bad writing day. Maybe he wanted me to play the sap for him. Or maybe he ran into Trouble with a capital T.<P> Well, Trouble’s in my business. I’m a dog. I’m a detective. The name’s Bud Barkin. And this book is about the case I had involving a dame named Delilah Gorbish, whom I would call Trouble with a capital T except I’ve used that metaphor already, and the clown named Crusty Carmady whose calling card is a teakettle that he heaves through windows. Nice pair of birds. The mystery deepens with another character called the Big Fish, who isn’t really a fish and who’s addicted to the Home Shopping Network. <P> Hey, I don’t write ’em—I just solve ’em.<P> Yours truly, Bud Barkin, P.E.
Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis"It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop... before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could." <P><P> So figures scrappy 10-year-old philosopher Bud--"not Buddy"--Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes and Hoovervilles in 1930s Michigan. And the idea that's planted itself in his head is that Herman E. Calloway, standup-bass player for the Dusky Devastators of the Depression, is his father. Guided only by a flier for one of Calloway's shows--a small, blue poster that had mysteriously upset his mother shortly before she died--Bud sets off to track down his supposed dad, a man he's never laid eyes on. And, being 10, Bud-not-Buddy gets into all sorts of trouble along the way, barely escaping a monster-infested woodshed, stealing a vampire's car, and even getting tricked into "busting slob with a real live girl."<P> Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, once again exhibits his skill for capturing the language and feel of an era and creates an authentic, touching, often hilarious voice in little Bud.<P> <b>Newbery Medal Winner and Winner of the Coretta Scott King Medal<P> Winner of Pacific Northwest Library Association’s Young Reader’s Choice Junior Award</b>
Bud, Not Buddy (Journeys 2014)
by Christopher Paul CurtisIt's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: he's got a suitcase filled with his own important, secret things; he's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Marking a Better Liar Out of Yourself and, although his momma never told him who his father was, she left a clue: flyers of Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression! Bud's got an idea those flyers will lead him to his father, and nothing's gonna stop him.<P><p> Newbery Medal Winner and Winner of the Coretta Scott King Medal<P> Winner of Pacific Northwest Library Association’s Young Reader’s Choice Junior Award
Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis Trish P. WattsNIMAC-sourced textbook <P><P>Bud Not Buddy is a very well writen coming of age novel about an orphin boy, Bud in Flint Michigan 1936. In the middle of the depression. This book tells the story of the depression through a young african american boy who travels to find his 'father' with the only clues his mother left him when she past. But the question is, Will he find his long lost father?
Buda: La historia que cambiará tu vida
by Deepak ChopraDeepak Chopra ofrece a sus lectores la inspiradora novela que recrea la vida de Buda, un joven heredero que lo abandona todo para seguir el camino de la iluminación.The New York Times Bestseller.Buda es una figura sin igual en el mundo. En este libro, Deepak Chopra nos narra la vida de este personaje absolutamente fuera de lo común que, siendo heredero de un gran reino y acostumbrado a vivir entre lujos y caprichos, decide abandonar su hogar cuando es todavía muy joven para explorar el mundo. Después de consagrarse al rezo y a la meditación, y de ayudar a los pobres y enfermos, descubre un día que su cuerpo y su mente se han liberado de las pasiones terrenales para convertirse en Buda, el iluminado. Ha alcanzado el nirvana, un estado superior de la mente que le permite estar en paz consigo mismo y con el mundo exterior. A partir de este momento Buda dedicará su vida a difundirsu doctrina y enseñar el budismo, religión que no deja de sumar adeptos en todo el mundo.La crítica ha opinado:"Chopra retrata con sencillez el conflicto interno natural que sufre todo aquel que va en busca de la sabiduría espiritual y la transformación" -Publishers Weekly-
Buda, el príncipe
by César VidalMary Higgins Clark es una de las más destacadas autoras del género de intriga, y todos sus nuevos títulos se convierten inmediatamente en enormes éxitos internacionales. Mentiras de sangre es su vigesimoctava novela. También es autora de tres colecciones de relatos y un libro de memorias. Su obra ha merecido los más prestigiosos premios y galardones nacionales e internacionales de su género.
El Buda y el microbús
by Apo HalmyrisUn libro sapiencial contemporáneo. El camino a la iluminacón puede dar unos giros aparentemente sorpresivos.
Budapest: 48 ore
by Sean Black Simone CaffariniEra troppo bello per essere vero. Dovevano prendere un aereo per Budapest. Consegnare il riscatto per un sequestro di persona, riportare la vittima a casa e incassare la ricompensa. Tempo complessivo: 48 ore. Ma Ryan Lock e Ty Johnson, agenti di sicurezza privata, saranno costretti a scoprire che, nel loro mestiere, i soldi facili sono soltanto un’illusione. Un nuovo romanzo breve dall'autore di bestseller Sean Black.
Budapest Noir: A Novel
by Vilmos Kondor“Kondor’s impressive first novel, which unfolds against an atmosphere tinged by alienation, fear, and the threat of violence, stands out for its deft writing, plausible scenarios, vivid sense of place, and noir sensibility.”— Library JournalA dark, riveting, and lightning fast novel of murder, intrigue, and political corruption, set in 1936 Hungary during the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis in Germany.Budapest Noir marks the emergence of an extraordinary new voice in literary crime fiction, Vilmos Kondor. Kondor’s remarkable debut brings this European city to breathtaking life—from the wealthy residential neighborhoods of Buda to the slums of Pest—as it follows crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon’s investigation into the strange death of a beautiful woman. As Gordon’s search for the truth leads him to shocking revelations about a seedy underground crime syndicate and its corrupt political patrons, Budapest Noir will transport you to a dark time and place, and hold you there spellbound until the final page is turned.
The Budapest Protocol
by Adam LeborNazi-occupied Budapest, winter 1944. Miklos Farkas is handed a stolen copy of The Budapest Protocol, detailing the Nazis post-war plans. 65 years later, as the European Union launches the election campaign for the first President of Europe, Farkas is brutally murdered. His journalist grandson Alex unravels a chilling conspiracy rooted in the dying days of the Third Reich - a plan for a new Gypsy Holocaust. The Budapest Protocol is a journey into Europe's hidden heart of darkness...
Budapeste
by Chico BuarqueCHICO BUARQUE - PRÉMIO CAMÕES 2019 O terceiro romance de Chico Buarque recebeu o Prémio Jabuti de Melhor Romance e foi adaptado ao cinema. José Costa é um ghost-writer de talento fora do comum. Ao serviço da Agência Cultural Cunha & Costa, escreve a pedido e sempre anónimo: cartas, artigos, discursos ou livros para terceiros. Ao terminar uma biografia romanceada encomendada por um bizarro executivo alemão, vê-se perante um dilema criativo, seduzido pelo desafio de escrever por fim "alta literatura". No regresso de um congresso de escritores anónimos, Costa vê-se obrigado a fazer escala em Budapeste, cidade que imagina cinzenta e encontra amarela, e que o enfeitiça com o seu idioma. Essa paragem imprevista vai colocá-lo num impasse existencial, emparedado entre duas vidas, dividido entre duas cidades, duas línguas, dois livros, duas mulheres. Combinando profundidade e sentido de humor, o terceiro romance de Chico Buarque ganhou o Prémio Jabuti em 2003 e o IV Prémio Passo Fundo Zaffari e Bourbon de Literatura, em 2005. «Talvez o mais belo dos três livros da maturidade de Chico, Budapeste é um labirinto de espelhos que afinal se resolve, não na trama, mas nas palavras, como os poemas.»Caetano Veloso, O Globo «Chico Buarque ousou muito, escreveu cruzando um abismo sobre um arame e chegou ao outro lado. Ao lado onde se encontram os trabalhos executados com mestria, a da linguagem, a da construção narrativa, a do simples fazer. Não creio enganar-me dizendo que algo novo aconteceu no Brasil com este livro.»José Saramago, Folha de S.Paulo «O livro de Chico é uma vertigem. Você é sugado pela primeira linha e levado ao estilo falso-leve, a prosa depurada e a construção engenhosa até sair no fim lamentando que não haja mais, assombrado pelo sortilégio deste mestre de juntar palavras. Literalmente assombrado.»Luis Fernando Verísssimo, O Globo «Tecnicamente, Budapeste é um romance do duplo, tema clássico na literatura ocidental desde que a identidade do sujeito tornou-se problema e enigma. A questão desfila nas narrativas do século XIX, através dos motivos da sombra, do sósia, da máscara, do espelho, e evolui para a indagação dessa esfinge impenetrável e desencantada que é a própria pessoa como persona e ninguém.» José Miguel Wisnik
The Budayeen Cycle: When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun, and The Exile Kiss (The Budayeen Cycle #3)
by George Alec EffingerThe complete Hugo and Nebula Award–nominated cyberpunk trilogy by an author whose work is “wry and black and savage” (George R. R. Martin). Praised as “a perfect example of how exciting the subgenre can and should be,” George Alec Effinger’s Budayeen Cycle is a towering and timeless science fiction achievement that continues to amaze, shock, and captivate readers (SF Signal). When Gravity Fails: Set in a high-tech near future featuring an ascendant Muslim world and divided Western superpowers, this cult classic takes readers into a world with mind- or mood-altering drugs for any purpose, brains enhanced by electronic hardware, and surgically altered bodies. Street hustler Marîd Audran has always prided himself on his independence, free from commitments, connections, and even cybernetic modifications. But when a string of brutal murders lands him on the radar of Friedlander Bey, the most powerful and dangerous man in the decadent Arab ghetto, the Budayeen, Audran is forced to change his loner ways, or risk losing his life . . . A Fire in the Sun: Once a small-time smuggler, Marîd Audran has, to his chagrin, moved up in the ranks of the criminal underworld to become a lieutenant in Friedlander Bey’s shadowy empire. Tasked with being Bey’s eyes and ears inside local law enforcement, Audran finds himself tracking yet another serial killer through the streets of the Budayeen. And the closer he gets to his target, the more embroiled he becomes in the deadly political machinations hidden behind the city’s façade. The Exile Kiss: Marîd Audran is finally learning to appreciate the wealth and benefits that come from being on Friedlander Bey’s payroll when a powerful enemy does the unthinkable, and gets both Audran and Bey exiled from the Budayeen. Abandoned in the lifeless and lethal Arabian Desert, Audran and Bey have only one option: survive long enough to exact revenge on the man responsible.
Budayeen Nights: Stories
by George Alec EffingerA &“brilliant collection&” of short stories set in a &“marvelously realized, imaginary Muslim city&” from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Long identified as a science fiction writer, except in his own eyes, George Alec Effinger had some of his biggest critical and commercial success with a series even he recognized and characterized as SF. Set in the marvelously realized, imaginary Muslim city of Budayeen, the three novels, When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun and The Exile Kiss garnered rave reviews, award nominations and a wide readership. In addition, Effinger came to be recognized as one of the foundational writers of cyberpunk. Although the novels are perhaps how Budayeen and their hero, Marid Audran, are best known, there are a handful of shorter pieces that add to the vividly drawn and deeply authentic picture of an imagined world and seven short stories, the first part of an uncompleted novel and a story fragment add to the mental images of this exotic and yet somehow completely familiar city and world that Effinger created. This book was originally published by Golden Gryphon Press and comes with a Forword and story notes by Effinger's widow, Barbara Hambly. The lead story in this collection, "Schrodinger's Kitten," won the Hugo, Nebula and Seiun Awards.
Los Buddenbrook
by Thomas MannLa novela que le valió a Thomas Mann el Premio Nobel: una fabulosa saga histórica sobre la decadencia de una familia burguesa en el siglo XIX Publicada en 1901, Los Buddenbrook narra la decadencia de una familia burguesa alemana a lo largo del siglo XIX. En un gran fresco que va desde 1835, cuando aún se recordaban las guerras napoleónicas, hasta 1877, poco antes de la fundación del Imperio Alemán, Mann no solo captura un descenso social, sino también las fuerzas históricas que trastocaron la existencia decimonónica y alumbraron las incertidumbres de los tiempos modernos. Basada en su propia novela familiar, la historia anuncia además temas esenciales de su obra posterior, como la compleja relación entre la vida y el arte, o el contraste entre la esfera pública y la privada.
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Vintage International)
by Thomas MannA Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the same, vary slightly as they recur in each succeeding generation. Yet as the Buddenbrooks family eventually succumbs to the seductions of modernity -- seductions that are at variance with its own traditions -- its downfall becomes certain.In immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modem family chronicles; it has, indeed, proved a model for most of them. Judged as the greatest of Mann's novels by some critics, it is ranked as among the greatest by all. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.From the Hardcover edition.
The Buddha and the Bard
by Lauren ShufranWhat does Shakespeare have to teach us about mindfulness? What Eastern spiritual views about death, love, and presence are reflected in the writings of The Bard? The Buddha and the Bard reveals the surprising connections between the 2,500-year-old spiritual leader and the most compelling writer of all time. &“Shufran&’s compelling juxtapositions will encourage the reader to ask the deepest questions of themselves while delighting in the play of resonances across a cultural and historical divide.&” – YOGA Magazine Shakespeare understood and represented the human condition better than any writer of his time. As for the Buddha, he saw how to liberate us from that condition. Author Lauren Shufran explores the fascinating interplay of Western drama and Eastern philosophy by pairing quotes from Shakespeare with the tenets of an Eastern spiritual practice, sparking a compelling dialogue between the two. There&’s a remarkable interchange of echoes between Shakespeare&’s conception of &“the inward man&” and Buddhist approaches to recognizing, honoring, and working with our humanness as we play out our roles on the &“stage&” of our lives. The Buddha and the Bard synthesizes literature and scripture, embodied drama and transcendent practice, to shape a multifaceted lyric that we can apply as mindful practice in our own lives. Shufran&’s compelling juxtapositions will encourage the reader to ask the deepest questions of themselves while delighting in the play of resonances across a cultural and historical divide.