Once Upon a High-Rise
Once Upon a High-Rise

Author: J. Allan Woodard

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2014-09-05

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1491741325

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Captain Mark Winslow, NYPD, a former sheriff in Montana, moves to Manhattan after the horrific death of his wife and son in a car accident. Celibate for six years, he meets and falls in love with Attorney Kristen Miller, who lives in a Park Avenue high-rise apartment. Captain Winslow's efforts to capture two psychopaths - rapists of the worst kind - intermingle with his love life, family, friends and his six year old daughter, Pamela, who twists him like a pretzel with her logic. The rapists hold Kristen Miller captive and Captain Winslow, never one to go strictly by the rules, uses any means to rescue her.

High-Rise: A Novel
High-Rise: A Novel

Author: J. G. Ballard

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2012-03-05

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0871404737

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"Harsh and ingenious! High Rise is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind." —Martin Amis, New Statesman When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.

Once Upon A...
Once Upon A...

Author: Claudia Burgoa

Publisher: Claudia Burgoa

Published: 2022-01-11

Total Pages: 1802

ISBN-13:

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ONCE UPON A… THIS COLLECTION INCLUDES THE FIRST BOOKS OF FOUR OF MY SERIES. Plus, the first three chapters of Until Next Time. The beginning of an exciting new series. Against All Odds: The St. James Family. *Maybe Later *My One Regret *Wrong Text, Right Love *Begin with Me Bonus Material: A sneak peek of Until Next Time

Firefighting Operations in High-Rise and Standpipe-Equipped Buildings
Firefighting Operations in High-Rise and Standpipe-Equipped Buildings

Author: David M. McGrail

Publisher: PennWell Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1593700547

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This book establishes a proper firefighting mindset and promotes maintaining preparedness for the extreme physical and mental demands of firefighting operations in high-rise and standpipe-equipped buildings ... Among the many valuable topics covered in this book are: standpipe system pressure regulating devices, pressure restricting devices and pressure reducing valves; cautious and disciplined elevator use during high-rise operations; elevator rescue operations; proper engine company suppression selection, including techniques to operate more powerful firefighting weapons with limited manpower; air support operations during high-rise emergencies, with or without an internal resource.

Once Upon A Project
Once Upon A Project

Author: Bettye Griffin

Publisher: Dafina

Published: 2014-11-20

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1496702891

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Elyse, Susan, and Grace couldn't be happier when their friend Pat organizes a reunion for past residents of the Chicago housing project where they all grew up. It is, after all, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its opening, and like their long-ago home, the lifelong friends are also turning fifty. But none of them suspects the event will have life-altering changes... Elyse plans to attend with her husband, but as usual lately, he bows out, pleading fatigue. He's thirteen years her senior, and Elyse fears he's slowing down. But does that mean she has to? Susan also arrives alone. Her marriage is faltering since her diagnosis of breast cancer. But when she runs into a former flame, it feels like time has stood still... Twice divorced, Grace needs a distraction, and she finds it in Eric. Once a cute kid four years Grace's junior, Eric is now a handsome man whose age doesn't matter--but their differences in financial status might... And forced by her parents to give up the love of her life after a family tragedy, Pat never again found love. When an old friend from law school sees a media report about the reunion and contacts her, will she at last find the love that's eluded her? Now it's time for four friends to kick off a new chapter in each of their lives as past memories join with present temptations and future hopes...

Once Upon a Grind
Once Upon a Grind

Author: Cleo Coyle

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0425270866

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Billionaire Blend—a mystery with a sleeping beauty that is “so much fun to read.”* It’s Fairy Tale Week in New York City, and Clare Cosi has given her coffee truck a “Jack and the Beanstalk” makeover for the Central Park festival. Her ex-husband has contributed a bag of African coffee beans with alleged magical properties, and his octogenarian mother is giving out readings of the grinds. But Clare remains skeptical—until she receives a vision that helps her find a young model’s body in the park’s woods. The police dismiss “sleeping beauty” as the victim of a drug overdose. But when Clare uncovers evidence that points to murder, she winds up with a dangerous predator on her heels and an investigation that leads right back to her own NYPD detective boyfriend. If she doesn’t solve this mystery fast, those magic beans predict an unhappy ending. *Once Upon a Romance

Once Upon a Universe
Once Upon a Universe

Author: Robert Gilmore

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1475741650

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First Snow White encounters one of the Little People, then one of the Even Smaller People, and finally one of the Truly Infinitesimal People. And no matter how diligently she searches, the only dwarves she can find are collapsed stars! Clearly, she's not at home in her well-known Brothers Grimm fairy tale, but instead in a strange new landscape that features quantum behavior, the wavelike properties of particles, and the Uncertainty Principle. She (and we) must have entered, in short, one of the worlds created by Robert Gilmore, physicist and fabulist.

Once Upon a City
Once Upon a City

Author: Howard E. Covington Jr.

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2014-05-01

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1491730269

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If you love Greensboro, this book is for you. It is a twentieth-century history of our city that was researched and written over a five-year period by Howard Covington Jr., who is a splendid storyteller who makes our leaders, our crises, our successes, our disappointments, our accomplishments all come alive. Joseph B. Mullin, Pastor Emeritus First Presbyterian Church Greensboro, North Carolina

Once Upon a Time in Chicago
Once Upon a Time in Chicago

Author: Mary Walsh

Publisher: Mary Walsh

Published: 2021-02-27

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13:

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It's Prohibition time in Chicago! Al Capone and his Outfit rule the city's gritty ganglands. Sicilian-American Sal Scavuzzo takes full advantage of the underground activities. At 22, he drinks at the speakeasy, gambles, and is a hit with the dames. When he gets in too deep with the local organized crime, his pleasurable lifestyle turns upside down. Does he continue his careless ways or does he eventually settle down and go the straight and narrow?

Once Upon a Toad
Once Upon a Toad

Author: Heather Vogel Frederick

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-04-10

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 141698707X

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A girl gets into a mouthful of trouble in this “toadally” fractured fairy tale, from the author of the Mother-Daughter Book Club series. Once upon a time, Cat Starr lived with her astronaut mom in Houston. But when her mother gets sent on a long-term mission, Cat has to move to a faraway land—her dad’s house, halfway across the country—and share a room with her real-life evil stepsister, Olivia. Just when Cat can’t take it anymore, Great Aunt Abyssinia comes to the rescue. And things go from bad to cursed. The next morning, Cat opens her mouth and a toad hops out! What’s more, when Olivia speaks, diamonds and flowers appear. How unfair is that? Before you can say "happily ever after," the girls are on the run from jewel thieves and a government agency. Can Cat save the day—and get rid of all those toads? This is an enchanting fractured fairy tale from acclaimed Mother-Daughter Book Club author Heather Vogel Frederick.