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Double, Double
by John BrunnerInkosi - the magnificent RidgebackBruno and Hermetic Tradition - a pop-rock-mod group consisting in part of Bruno Twentyman, Cressida Beggarstaff, Gideon Hard, Liz, Nancy, Glenn and others.Dr. Tom Reedwall, who works for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.Miss Felicia Beeding, a pathetically daffy old drunk, a living in a burned out house above a chalk cliff.Joseph Leigh-Warden, a rundown journalist, mostly sour, sometimes vicious.Sergeant Branksome and Rodge Sellers of the local constabulary.Radio Jolly Roger - a piratical broadcasting station whose personnel sometimes fished.And many more.What peculiar invisibility tied these disparate types together - threatening to make them all the same? They themselves didn't know - and perhaps never would.
Double, Double
by John BrunnerA mutant species from the sea unleashes a tide of terror in this horror thriller from &“one of the most important science fiction authors&” (SF Site). In Double, Double, a random collection of strangers converges on a seaside town, not knowing one another and having nothing in common. A mystery from the sea, a shape-shifter, begins to take over the people and produce oddly behaving duplicates of them. A combination of scientific knowledge and a little luck may be all that stands between mankind and an alien invasion. For each generation, there is a writer meant to bend the rules of what we know. Hugo Award winner (Best Novel, Stand on Zanzibar) and British science fiction master John Brunner remains one of the most influential and respected authors of all time, and now many of his classic works are being reintroduced. For readers familiar with his vision, this is a chance to reexamine his thoughtful worlds and words, while for new readers, Brunner&’s work proves itself the very definition of timeless.
Double, Double
by John BrunnerA mutant species from the sea unleashes a tide of terror in this horror thriller from &“one of the most important science fiction authors&” (SF Site). In Double, Double, a random collection of strangers converges on a seaside town, not knowing one another and having nothing in common. A mystery from the sea, a shape-shifter, begins to take over the people and produce oddly behaving duplicates of them. A combination of scientific knowledge and a little luck may be all that stands between mankind and an alien invasion. For each generation, there is a writer meant to bend the rules of what we know. Hugo Award winner (Best Novel, Stand on Zanzibar) and British science fiction master John Brunner remains one of the most influential and respected authors of all time, and now many of his classic works are being reintroduced. For readers familiar with his vision, this is a chance to reexamine his thoughtful worlds and words, while for new readers, Brunner&’s work proves itself the very definition of timeless.
Double, Double, Twins and Trouble (Witches of Peculiar #1)
by Luna GravesTwin witch sisters&’ accidental magical outbursts risk exposing their hidden suburban monster community in this first book in a new middle grade series that&’s Wizards of Waverly Place meets Halloweentown.There are monsters among us…and they&’re just trying to survive middle school! In Peculiar, Pennsylvania, the supernatural kids attend Y.I.K.E.S.S.S. (Yvette I. Koffin&’s Exceptional School for Supernatural Students), run by Yvette herself. From goblins to ghosts to werewolves and witches, the students learn the ins and outs of doling out the scares and blending in with the humans they live among. Mostly, the system works, but there&’s occasionally a young monster who shakes things up—a pubescent werewolf who displays some suspicious body hair on the community basketball court or a scatterbrained ghost who goes through a door instead of opening it. But Peculiar has never seen a potential PR disaster quite like the Maleficent twins! While Bella and Donna&’s magic is powerful, they don&’t quite have a handle on their (witch)craft yet. Can they get through the sixth grade without turning the mailman into a toad, burning down the town with hellfire, or turning all the liquid on earth into Cherry Lemonade Jell-O?
Double, Double: Double Helix (Star Trek: The Original Series #45)
by Michael Jan FriedmanDOUBLE, DOUBLE On a routine exploratory mission, the Starship U.S.S. Hood picks up a distress signal from a research expedition thought lost long ago -- the expedition of Dr. Roger Korby, one of the centuries' greatest scientific minds. Korby himself is dead, it seems, but his colleagues have made a most incredible discover -- a discovery they insist the Hood's captain see for himself. Reluctantly, the captain agrees to beam down... Meanwhile, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise begins long-overdue shore leave on Tranquility Seven. James T. Kirk is looking forward to a few days of rest and relaxation....until what seems like a bizarre case of mistaken identity plunges Kirk into a whirlpool of mayhem and murder. And puts an inhuman stranger with his memories and anilities in command of the Enterprise.
Double-Booked (Chosen Girls)
by Cheryl Crouch G StudiosChosen Girls is a dynamic new series that communicates a message of empowerment and hope to Christian youth who want to live out their faith. These courageous and compelling girls stand for their beliefs and encourage others to do the same. When their cross cultural outreach band takes off, Trinity, Melody, and Harmony explode onto the scene with style, hot music, and genuine, age-relatable content. In Double-Booked, Harmony finds that a three-way friendship is challenging, with Trinity befriending a snobby clique and Mello all negative. Through a series of mistakes, Harmony unwittingly unites the two against her and learns that innocent comments hurt more than you think. Ultimately, the Chosen Girls are united again in time to sing for a crowd that really needs to hear what they have to say.
Double-Booked: The Cases of Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I.
by Kevin J. AndersonDragons are creatures of legend. Of magic. Of wisdom, nature, and the power of creation. They have been in every culture and mythology since the beginning of time. Writers are creatures of legend. With magic, wisdom, and the power of creation at their fingertips. They, too, are in every culture and have been creating their own mythologies since the beginning of time. Within each writer is the power of a dragon. . . . The power of creation. Gathered together are twenty-six stories from writers who dared to tame this power, including New York Times best-selling authors Brandon Sanderson, Jody Lynn Nye, Todd McCaffrey, and David Farland. Through fantasy, sci-fi, romance, and poetry, this anthology celebrates the magic and majesty of dragons, writers, and creativity. Within these pages, you’ll find dragons who fly through space, who raise hatchlings, who carry the power of life and death. Some dragons are even featured as swords, planes, and origami creatures. Dragon Writers is a special collection where magic and myth combine to create something legendary.
Double-Click for Trouble
by Chris WoodworthEddie McCall is a good kid. He does his homework, picks up around the house, and cooks dinner for his single mom when she has to work late at a Chicago hotel. Then Eddie's best friend, Whip, shows him a printout from the Internet- a picture of an honest-to-gosh naked woman-and suddenly Eddie can't seem to think about anything else. He knows his mom will be upset if she sees the sites he's visiting. Still, he doesn't expect her to ship him off to her hometown of Sheldon, Indiana, to live with his great-uncle Peavey for an entire month. Peavey isn't exactly the father figure thirteen-year-old Eddie's been looking for. He spits tobacco juice into a can, calls a toilet a "commode," and certainly doesn't own a computer. As it turns out, however, both Peavey McCall and Sheldon, Indiana, hold some very surprising secrets . . .The author captures two worlds in this tender and funny look at a boy learning what it really means to be a man.
Double-Cross
by Stephen OverholserThe future looked bright for Matt McLeod. He was an outrider for the Two-Bar Ranch, hired to protect the ranch from poachers. Then he saw Riley Wilcox in the Denver City jail and everything changed. Wilcox had been convicted of a grisly murder and was sentenced to hang. But as soon as Matt caught sight of Riley he knew one thing--Riley was his twin brother, adopted by a different family as an infant. He also knew Riley couldn't have committed that murder. After a daring jailbreak, the two brothers set out to find their biological parents. But even more important, they have to track down the real killer if either of them ever wants to live free again.
Double-Crossed #3
by Lin OliverThere's a new set of twin boys on the scene, and like Sammie and Charlie, these twins are almost identical. Charlie's friends, and the popular kids, are quick to accept the cuter boy. But when a bonfire on the beach gets out of control, Charlie's group blames it on the other twin. Both Sammie and Charlie know he isn't the boy to blame, but will they have the courage to come forward to tell the truth and double-cross the popular kids?
Double-Crossing the Bridge
by Sarah J. SoverRent in New Metta is through the cavern ceiling. When Granu barely survives her first gig teaching students who attempt to fillet her for lunch, the baby-eating troll ends up unemployed and facing eviction. Granu's only prospect for income is grueling work in the tar pits. That is until her playboy best friend devises a perfect if suicidal, scheme—a heist! The Covered Bridge, the largest source of income for the city, has New Metta well under hoof. In a week, TCB Corporation pulls in enough cash to buy a small country. It's the ideal target, but security is top-notch. Granu needs three things to survive this heist: a crew of specialists, impenetrable sun protection, and gallons of grog. There’s just one thing Granu doesn’t plan for—those damn meddling billy goats.
Double-Dare O'Toole
by Constance C. GreeneFex can't resist a double dare--even if it means double trouble Eleven-year-old Fex O'Toole can't say no to a double dare--even when it means trouble with his friends and the principal. But when the same kids who like to test Fex dare a four-year-old to jump into a river, Fex realizes the cost of not being able to say no.
Double-Decker Dreams: A Novel
by Lindsay MacMillanPerfect for fans of Emily Henry and Sophie Cousens, bestselling author Lindsay MacMillan gives us a refreshing take on love at first sight.American consultant Kat is staffed on a six-month project in London and has two very small, very reasonable ambitions before returning home: get promoted to partner and fall in love with a handsome English aristocrat. No problem, right?But work is a grind, and the British men she meets are a far cry from her royal ideal. Then one morning, she sees a man on a double-decker bus and just knows that he&’s her person. But when Kat finally musters the courage to board the bus and introduce herself, he turns out to be very different from the Prince Charming she expected.Can Kat open herself up to a love that&’s not like the movies, or is she too imprisoned by her rom-com expectations? And just as importantly, will she be able to see that success isn&’t about landing a C-suite job, but rather living a life that&’s aligned with her soul? Readers looking for a charming modern love story will be smitten with this sharp, emotionally resonant rollercoaster ride through the heart of London.
Double-Edged Detective
by Mallory KaneDetective Ryker Delancey had kept his eye on gorgeous Nicole Beckham since the night she'd barely survived a violent home invasion. Convinced her attack was connected to a string of murders in the New Orleans area, Ryker would do whatever it took to keep her safe. Unfortunately, Nic wasn't happy about being made his personal protection mission...until the killer came after her again. Now guarding Nicole became a 24/7 job, ratcheting up the tension that had been building between them. But losing control and falling into bed would cause more problems than it would solve. Or so he told himself the morning after....
Double-Takes: Intersections between Canadian Literature and Film (Reappraisals: Canadian Writers)
by David R. JarrawayOver the past forty years, Canadian literature has found its way to the silver screen with increasing regularity. Beginning with the adaptation of Margaret Laurence’s A Jest of God to the Hollywood film Rachel, Rachel in 1966, Canadian writing would appear to have found a doubly successful life for itself at the movies: from the critically acclaimed Kamouraska and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz in the 1970s through to the award-winning Love and Human Remains and The English Patient in the 1990s. With the more recent notoriety surrounding the Oscar-nominated Away from Her, and the screen appearances of The Stone Angel and Fugitive Pieces, this seems like an appropriate time for a collection of essays to reflect on the intersection between literary publication in Canada, and its various screen transformations. This volume discusses and debates several double-edged issues: the extent to which the literary artefact extends its artfulness to the film artefact, the degree to which literary communities stand to gain (or lose) in contact with film communities, and perhaps most of all, the measure by which a viable relation between fiction and film can be said to exist in Canada, and where that double-life precisely manifests itself, if at all. - This book is published in English.
Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story (Canadian Literature Collection)
by Laurie KrukDouble-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is the first comparative study of eight internationally and nationally acclaimed writers of short fiction: Sandra Birdsell, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Thomas King, Alistair MacLeod, Olive Senior, Carol Shields and Guy Vanderhaeghe. With the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature going to Alice Munro, the “master of the contemporary short story,” this art form is receiving the recognition that has been its due and—as this book demonstrates—Canadian writers have long excelled in it. From theme to choice of narrative perspective, from emphasis on irony, satire and parody to uncovering the multiple layers that make up contemporary Canadian English, the short story provides a powerful vehicle for a distinctively Canadian “double-voicing”. The stories discussed here are compelling reflections on our most intimate roles and relationships and Kruk offers a thoughtful juxtaposition of themes of gender, mothers and sons, family storytelling, otherness in Canada and the politics of identity to name but a few. As a multi-author study, Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is broad in scope and its readings are valuable to Canadian literature as a whole, making the book of interest to students of Canadian literature or the short story, and to readers of both.
Double-faced Prince, Take It: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Xue GeGeGeneral Situ was executed after being framed by his son-in-law Xia Liang and the Minister Xu Zhongkui.The general's daughter, Situ Wushang, was reborn into Xu Ge's servant, and changed his name to Xu Xiaomo. Xu Xiaomo had entered the army as a man to help her father fight the rebellion, but she had fallen deeply into love and a thick fog of mystery. If there was a secret behind this matter, could Xu Xiaomo see clearly that the fog was helping the Situ Family?
Double-faced Prince, Take It: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Xue GeGeGeneral Situ was executed after being framed by his son-in-law Xia Liang and the Minister Xu Zhongkui.The general's daughter, Situ Wushang, was reborn into Xu Ge's servant, and changed his name to Xu Xiaomo. Xu Xiaomo had entered the army as a man to help her father fight the rebellion, but she had fallen deeply into love and a thick fog of mystery. If there was a secret behind this matter, could Xu Xiaomo see clearly that the fog was helping the Situ Family?
Double-faced Prince, Take It: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Xue GeGeGeneral Situ was executed after being framed by his son-in-law Xia Liang and the Minister Xu Zhongkui.The general's daughter, Situ Wushang, was reborn into Xu Ge's servant, and changed his name to Xu Xiaomo. Xu Xiaomo had entered the army as a man to help her father fight the rebellion, but she had fallen deeply into love and a thick fog of mystery. If there was a secret behind this matter, could Xu Xiaomo see clearly that the fog was helping the Situ Family?
Double-faced Prince, Take It: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Xue GeGeGeneral Situ was executed after being framed by his son-in-law Xia Liang and the Minister Xu Zhongkui.The general's daughter, Situ Wushang, was reborn into Xu Ge's servant, and changed his name to Xu Xiaomo. Xu Xiaomo had entered the army as a man to help her father fight the rebellion, but she had fallen deeply into love and a thick fog of mystery. If there was a secret behind this matter, could Xu Xiaomo see clearly that the fog was helping the Situ Family?
Double-faced Prince, Take It: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Xue GeGeGeneral Situ was executed after being framed by his son-in-law Xia Liang and the Minister Xu Zhongkui.The general's daughter, Situ Wushang, was reborn into Xu Ge's servant, and changed his name to Xu Xiaomo. Xu Xiaomo had entered the army as a man to help her father fight the rebellion, but she had fallen deeply into love and a thick fog of mystery. If there was a secret behind this matter, could Xu Xiaomo see clearly that the fog was helping the Situ Family?
Double: Finding Violet Park, Broken Soup, The Ant Colony, The Double Life Of Cassiel Roadnight
by Jenny ValentineWhen the sixteen-year-old runaway Chap is mistaken for a missing boy named Cassiel, his life changes dramatically. Chap takes on Cassiel's identity, gaining the family and friends he's always dreamed of having. But becoming someone else isn't as easy as he hoped-and Chap isn't the only one hiding a secret. As he teeters on the brink of discovery and begins to unravel the mystery behind Cassiel's disappearance, Chap realizes that he's in much deeper danger than he could have imagined. After all, you can't just steal a life and expect to get away with it.Award-winning author Jenny Valentine delivers an explosive mystery where dark secrets, betrayal, and loss pave the way for one teen's chance at redemption.
DoubleDuck #1
by Fausto VitalianoHe is brave, quick, and super-smart--he's DoubleDuck! Can Donald Duck save the day for a spy agency so secret it doesn't even have a name? Join the adventure, filled with cool comic book art.
DoubleDuck #2
by Marco BoscoThe Agency so secret that it doesn't even have a name has a case for DoubleDuck: Retrieve a stolen laptop that contains super-secret information before it gets into the wrong hands. But is it too late?
DoubleDuck #3
by Fausto VitalianoFollow DoubleDuck in this third amazing adventure, that's full of great comic book style art, as he strives to save himself and his fellow agents in the biggest double agent betrayal ever. But who can be trusted? Will DoubleDuck save the day before it's too late?