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Author: Ward Just
Publisher: Public Affairs
Published: 2009-09-09
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0786752009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"As a young man, Ward Just spent eighteen months in Vietnam as a correspondent for the Washington Post. The experience would earn him both a citation from the Overseas Press Club and a Combat Infantrym"
Author: Andy A. Afrouz
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2014-05-23
Total Pages: 778
ISBN-13: 149901922X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn executive secretary in dark blue business attire and short colored blond hair, sitting behind her office desk, quickly checked her desk top office security screen to see who is outside. She then pushed a button under her desk which unlocked the office door and said: “Come in please” After the man entered the office, its door closed and locked automatically. The man said with a business like American accent: “Good morning Camellia – The boss is expecting me” The executive secretary replied: “I know - Nice to see you Mr. Zorin” She then informed her boss through her office intercom: “Mr. Zorin is here to see you Sir” Her boss, a man in a stripped brown suite, sitting behind an elaborate walnut desk in a modern, secured and sound proof office environments checked his security screen to make sure who is behind his office door, clicked on a strategically located remote door unlock device to his office and replied with a deep and authoritative voice: “Please let him in” Camellia replied: “OK Sir” She then asked Mr. Zorin: “Please, proceed” Zorin thanked Camellia, opened a heavy dark cherry door accessing the boss’s office and entered. This door also closed and locked automatically. Zorin had a rough stone cold face with piercing black eyes and a mild smile. He had about two inches long healed gush above his right eyebrow which seemed to be caused by brushing of a bullet. Upon entry, he said: “Good morning boss” The boss replied: “Good morning Joe – Nice to see you back” He then pointed with his left hand to an armchair opposite his desk and said: “Please, take a seat” Joe Zorin sat and replied: “Thank you, nice to see you too boss” The boss asked: “How you are and what’s up?” Joe Zorin replied: “I am fine thanks – I brought the report you requested” He then opened his briefcase, took out a somewhat thick report, forwarded it to his boss and said: “It’s all there with maps, photos and what not” The boss quickly fanned looking over the report, placed it at a corner of his desk and reiterated: “Thanks Joe; I’ll look at it closely later - In the meantime, we have a more pressing top secret project for you on the Iranian nuclear venture”
Author: Gordon D. Fee
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780802849250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis insightful work amply demonstrates Fee's mastery of the exegetical task and illustrates the goal of exegesis in the service of both academy and church. He explores a wide range of concerns for readers and interpreters of the New Testament.
Author: James Geary
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018-11-13
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 039325495X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEntertaining, illuminating, and entirely unique, Wit’s End “convey[s] the power of wit to refresh the mind” (Henry Hitchings, Wall Street Journal). In “this inventive and playful book” (Tom Beer, Newsday), James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns are the highest form of wit. Adopting a different style for each chapter—from dramatic dialogue to sermon, heroic couplets to a barroom monologue—Geary embodies wit in all its forms. Wit’s End agilely balances psychology, folktale, visual art, and literary history with lighthearted humor and acute insight, demonstrating that wit and wisdom are really the same thing.
Author: Jason Pargin
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2017-10-03
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1466835443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Dies at the End's "smart take on fear manages to tap into readers' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next" (Publishers Weekly) and This Book is Full of Spiders was "unlike any other book of the genre" (Washington Post). Now, New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin is back with What the Hell Did I Just Read, the third installment of this black-humored thriller series. It's the story "They" don't want you to read. Though, to be fair, "They" are probably right about this one. To quote the Bible, "Learning the truth can be like loosening a necktie, only to realize it was the only thing keeping your head attached." No, don't put the book back on the shelf -- it is now your duty to purchase it to prevent others from reading it. Yes, it works with e-books, too, I don't have time to explain how. While investigating a fairly straightforward case of a shape-shifting interdimensional child predator, Dave, John, and Amy realized there might actually be something weird going on. Together, they navigate a diabolically convoluted maze of illusions, lies, and their own incompetence in an attempt to uncover a terrible truth they -- like you -- would be better off not knowing. Your first impulse will be to think that a story this gruesome -- and, to be frank, stupid -- cannot possibly be true. That is precisely the reaction "They" are hoping for.
Author: James P. Pinkerton
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Published: 1995-10-12
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur current government is failing us - the poor most dramatically. Global market forces of information and capital are destroying the old top-down politics. If present trends are allowed to continue, America will stumble into a grim Cyber Future of community breakdown and spiraling inequality - a real-life nightmare reminiscent of the fiction of William Gibson. But James Pinkerton offers hope that we can yet create a prosperous, tolerant, and compassionate society for the next century. Radically streamlined government must be part of the answer, but such transformation must be balanced by a new paradigm of choice, empowerment, inclusiveness, and decentralization that leads to a new spirit of communitarian healing at the grassroots. Pinkerton brings his practical experience in electoral politics to a sharp yet constructive critique of both parties. He warns the rampaging Republicans against culture-war jihads, but he counsels Democrats that they are doomed if they can't break their Faustian bargain with bureaucracy. And if both parties fail, he adds, some new third-party political configuration is inevitable. On the eve of the 1996 elections, no book could be more timely than What Comes Next.
Author: Andrew Root
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2020-03-17
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1493420178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is youth ministry actually for? And does it have a future? Andrew Root, a leading scholar in youth ministry and practical theology, went on a one-year journey to answer these questions. In this book, Root weaves together an innovative first-person fictional narrative to diagnose the challenges facing the church today and to offer a new vision for youth ministry in the 21st century. Informed by interviews that Root conducted with parents, this book explores how parents' perspectives of what constitutes a good life are affecting youth ministry. In today's culture, youth ministry can't compete with sports, test prep, and the myriad other activities in which young people participate. Through a unique parable-style story, Root offers a new way to think about the purpose of youth ministry: not happiness, but joy. Joy is a sense of experiencing the good. For youth ministry to be about joy, it must move beyond the youth group model and rework the assumptions of how identity and happiness are imagined by parents in American society.
Author: Celeste Ng
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-05-12
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0143127551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the Alex Award and the Massachusetts Book Award • Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Grantland Booklist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, School Library Journal, Bustle, and Time Our New York The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts “A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.” —O, the Oprah Magazine “Explosive . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.” —Entertainment Weekly “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.
Author: Alex Michaelides
Publisher: Celadon Books
Published: 2019-02-05
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1250301718
DOWNLOAD EBOOK**THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "An unforgettable—and Hollywood-bound—new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." —Entertainment Weekly The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....
Author: Cixin Liu
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2015-08-11
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1466853433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America PRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: “A mind-bending epic.”—The New York Times • “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Fascinating.”—TIME • “Extraordinary.”—The New Yorker • “Wildly imaginative.”—Barack Obama • “Provocative.”—Slate • “A breakthrough book.”—George R. R. Martin • “Impossible to put down.”—GQ • “Absolutely mind-unfolding.”—NPR • “You should be reading Liu Cixin.”—The Washington Post The Dark Forest is the second novel in the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series from China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead. The Three-Body Problem Series The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End Other Books by Cixin Liu Ball Lightning Supernova Era To Hold Up the Sky The Wandering Earth A View from the Stars At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
