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The Stranger's Woes

Author : Max Frei
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468301950
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book The Stranger's Woes written by Max Frei and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international-bestselling Russian fantasy author continues the adventures of Sir Max, the lazy gumshoe of the enchanted city of Echo. The tales of Sir Max, who was a daydreaming loser before he discovered the parallel world of Echo, have become an international literary sensation. In the second novel of the Labyrinths of Echoes series, Max is still a hardened smoker, glutton, and all-around loafer. But once again, he finds himself travelling to an alternate universe where he must root out illegal magic as an agent of the Secret Investigative Force. This time, Sir Max is called upon to handle a peculiar political dispute, investigate strange happenings in the cemetery, and when Echo’s police captain is poisoned, he must lead a team of magicians in pursuit of magical outlaws. “Echo is a world of all sorts of plots, a sort of Krypton with tobacco and the counter-universe’s equivalent of vodka.” —Kirkus Reviews

The Stranger's Woes

Author : Max Frei
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781590204788
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Stranger's Woes written by Max Frei and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Frei, the cigarette-puffing gumshoe in an alternate, magical universe, is back in his namesake creator's sophomore entry in the Labryinths of Echo series.Echo is a sprawling city-state in which Frei the character finds it very easy to get himself in trouble. Frei the creator (The Stranger, 2009) is a Russian born long ago enough to remember the good old days of the Cold War, and there are international intrigues and intrapalace coups enough to assure that there's trouble to be had. With sidekick Sir Juffin Hully, Frei the character, a lazybones layabout by inclination, finds the start of it in a coming-out party of sorts hosted by one General Boboota Box, late a victim of food poisoning engineered by who knows who and therefore an intimate of the local outhouses--indeed, unlike the rest of the homes of Echo, which "had at least three or four bathing tubs," the General's abode has "a dozen toilets of various heights gurgling a discordant welcome to the visitor." And who did this dastardly deed? Well, Echo is a world of all sorts of plots, a sort of Krypton with tobacco and the counter-universe's equivalent of vodka. If you have the sense that a shaggy-dog story is in the offing, you'd be right--and what a dog, and what a tail wagging it. Frei the creator takes obvious goofy pleasure in constructing and populating a place in which rival magicians duke it out, good and evil are not always easily identifiable and are sometimes rolled up in the same person, and where a contraption called a "baboom" is enough to put the fear in your garden-variety brigand. It's all a great romp, and never mind that the logic of the place seems a tad off and various threads of plot get lost amid the fun. As Juffin says, brightly, "this affair smells strongly of Forbidden Magic." Just so--and a pleasure for those who like their fantasy with a measure of slapstick. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

The Stranger's Shadow

Author : Max Frei
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781468308839
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Stranger's Shadow written by Max Frei and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the adventures of a vice-driven loafer who becomes a celebrity in a magical parallel universe for his membership in an enchanted secret agent organization and his talent for solving extravagant and imaginative cases.

The Stranger

Author : Camilla Läckberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639361227
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book The Stranger written by Camilla Läckberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A local woman is killed in a tragic car crash, but it isn’t a clear-cut drunk driving case. The victim’s blood contains high alcohol levels, but she rarely drank a drop. Meanwhile, a reality TV show begins shooting in the town, and as cameras shadow the stars’ every move, tempers start to flare. When a drunken party ends with an unpopular contestant’s murder, all eyes turn to the cast and crew. Could there be a murderer among them? The ratings spike as the country tunes into a real-life murder mystery. Detective Patrik Hedstrom finds himself increasingly unable to focus on the strange circumstances of the first case, but what if that holds the key to a series of other unsolved cases across Sweden? Under the unforgiving media spotlight, Patrik tackles his toughest investigation yet.

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)

Author : Kwame Anthony Appiah
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393079716
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) written by Kwame Anthony Appiah and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy—as well as the author's own experience of life on three continents—Cosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a planet we share with more than six billion strangers.

The Stranger's Magic

Author : Max Frei
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468305859
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book The Stranger's Magic written by Max Frei and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed Russian author’s international-bestselling fantasy series continues in this “unpredictable, mysterious” novel that’s “full of surprises” (Publishers Weekly). In The Stranger’s Magic, Sir Max once again travels to the enchanted parallel world of Echo, where magic is commonplace and he fits right in. As an investigator of illegal magic with the Secret Investigative Force, Max has made more than a few enemies. Now one “pretty boy” Nennurex Kiexla has set out for revenge against Max in the most insidious of ways—by infiltrating his dreams. Plunging back into the highly original realm first portrayed in The Stranger (Fandomania.com’s #1 Book of 2009) and continued in The Stranger’s Woes, Frei’s new novel blends fantasy, horror, philosophy, and comedy in this tale that will have readers “entranced” (Publishers Weekly). “Fans of Jasper Fforde and Susanna Clark will happily jump into Frei’s world.” —USA Today “If Harry Potter smoked cigarettes and took a certain matter-of-fact pleasure in administering tough justice, he might like Max Frei.” —Kirkus Reviews on The Stranger

The Stranger's Shadow

Author : Max Frei
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468307622
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book The Stranger's Shadow written by Max Frei and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international-bestselling Labyrinths of Echo series reaches its thrilling conclusion as Sir Max’s many adventures come “all to one glorious end” (Kirkus Reviews). The adventures of Sir Max, who was a daydreaming loser before he discovered the parallel world of Echo, have become an international literary sensation. Now, in The Stranger’s Shadow, Max leads the Minor Secret Investigative Force on their most dangerous mission yet. When people in Echo start mysteriously dying, Max must travel to the Dark Side of Echo, where the shadows of the dead reside, to destroy the Lonely Shadow. But behind the Lonely Shadow lurks an even darker force. Someone has been manipulating its power to attack Echo. Now the redoubtable Max must venture into a realm of unparalleled danger. “If Harry Potter smoked cigarettes and took a certain matter-of-fact pleasure in administering tough justice, he might like Max Frei.” —Kirkus Reviews on The Stranger

Globalization and Belonging

Author : Sheila Croucher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538101661
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Belonging written by Sheila Croucher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States forces of cultural, economic, and political integration appear locked in battle with equally powerful forces of fragmentation. Globalization is facilitating unprecedented movement of goods, services, people, and ideas, while calls for building walls, erecting fences, and strengthening borders intensify. Tensions flare around claims of deeply rooted ethnic and civilizational identities—identities that are shaped and mobilized via sophisticated advances in technology. Women worldwide are achieving remarkable economic and political gains while sexual violence and gender inequalities persist and are fueled by rapid global change. This book explores the complex inter-relationship between globalization and belonging. In a hyper-modern, 21st-century world, questions and conflicts surrounding who ‘we’ are and who ‘we’ want to be predominate. This book links the politics of different forms of identification and attachment to the dynamics of an increasingly interconnected world.

Beatitudes and Woes: A Speculative Fiction Anthology

Author : C. W. Briar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781643706726
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Beatitudes and Woes: A Speculative Fiction Anthology written by C. W. Briar and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen Christian authors craft nine stories based on the beatitudes of Matthew 5:3-12 and four on the woes of Luke 6:24-27. These science fiction and fantasy stories with moods from comedic to bittersweet to high adventure will surprise you, amaze you, and inspire you.

The Stranger; Or, the New Man of Feeling. [The Dedication Signed: J. C*********.

Author : J. C.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Stranger; Or, the New Man of Feeling. [The Dedication Signed: J. C*********. written by J. C. and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modern Liberty: And the Limits of Government (Issues of Our Time)

Author : Charles Fried
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039307773X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Modern Liberty: And the Limits of Government (Issues of Our Time) written by Charles Fried and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An erudite, sharp-tongued libertarian, eager to do battle with censors, regulators ... and sanctimonious busybodies of every stripe.”—New York Times In this impassioned defense of liberty, renowned Harvard law professor Charles Fried argues that the seemingly unimpeachable goals of equality and community are often the most potent rivals of freedom. Declared a “spirited, sophisticated manifesto” by the New York Times Book Review, Modern Liberty demonstrates how the dense tangle of government regulations both supports and threatens our personal liberties. Armed with Fried’s insights, readers will be better able to defend themselves against those on both the left and the right who would, even with the best intentions, restrict their liberty.

Talking to Strangers

Author : Danielle Allen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226014681
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Talking to Strangers written by Danielle Allen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don't talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races. Today it has blossomed into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial distrust, personal and political alienation, and a profound suspicion of others. In this powerful and eloquent essay, Danielle Allen, a 2002 MacArthur Fellow, takes this maxim back to Little Rock, rooting out the seeds of distrust to replace them with "a citizenship of political friendship." Returning to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 and to the famous photograph of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, being cursed by fellow "citizen" Hazel Bryan, Allen argues that we have yet to complete the transition to political friendship that this moment offered. By combining brief readings of philosophers and political theorists with personal reflections on race politics in Chicago, Allen proposes strikingly practical techniques of citizenship. These tools of political friendship, Allen contends, can help us become more trustworthy to others and overcome the fossilized distrust among us. Sacrifice is the key concept that bridges citizenship and trust, according to Allen. She uncovers the ordinary, daily sacrifices citizens make to keep democracy working—and offers methods for recognizing and reciprocating those sacrifices. Trenchant, incisive, and ultimately hopeful, Talking to Strangers is nothing less than a manifesto for a revitalized democratic citizenry.

Talking to Strangers

Author : Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316535621
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Talking to Strangers written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

The Day the Crayons Quit

Author : Drew Daywalt
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399255370
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Day the Crayons Quit written by Drew Daywalt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious, colorful #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon that every kid wants! Gift a copy to someone you love today. Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough! They quit! Blue crayon needs a break from coloring all those bodies of water. Black crayon wants to be used for more than just outlining. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking—each believes he is the true color of the sun. What can Duncan possibly do to appease all of the crayons and get them back to doing what they do best? With giggle-inducing text from Drew Daywalt and bold and bright illustrations from Oliver Jeffers, The Day the Crayons Quit is the perfect gift for new parents, baby showers, back-to-school, or any time of year! Perfect for fans of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Sciezka and Lane Smith. Praise for The Day the Crayons Quit: Amazon’s 2013 Best Picture Book of the Year A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2013 Goodreads’ 2013 Best Picture Book of the Year Winner of the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award * “Hilarious . . . Move over, Click, Clack, Moo; we’ve got a new contender for the most successful picture-book strike.” –BCCB, starred review “Jeffers . . . elevates crayon drawing to remarkable heights.” –Booklist “Fresh and funny.” –The Wall Street Journal "This book will have children asking to have it read again and again.” –Library Media Connection * “This colorful title should make for an uproarious storytime.” –School Library Journal, starred review * “These memorable personalities will leave readers glancing apprehensively at their own crayon boxes.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review “Utterly original.” –San Francisco Chronicle

Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda

Author : J.P. Stassen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781596431034
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda written by J.P. Stassen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deogratias is just a boy. Benina is just a girl. Teenagers just like teenagers everywhere. Only he is a Hutu, and she is a Tutsiso say their ID cards.We are in Rwanda in the days leading to a swift and gruesome genocide which the world will watch but do nothing to stop. In less than a hundred days, eight hundred thousand human beings will be hacked to death.Moment by moment, piece by piece, J.P. Stassen skillfully builds a masterpiece, an unforgettable tale that probes mans inhumanity to man. His eloquence, his storytelling power, and his sheer poetry elevate this harrowing story to the rank of a testimonial to one of the darkest chapters in recent human history.With great skill and understanding, Stassens Deogratias takes us back and forth in time, showing only before and after the killings and inexorably revealing the grip of madness and horror on one young boy and his country.Difficult, beautiful, honest, and heartbreaking, this is a masterwork by a major artist of our time.

You Owe Me a Murder

Author : Eileen Cook
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1328519023
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book You Owe Me a Murder written by Eileen Cook and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a school trip to London that includes her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend, Kim meets risk-taker Nicki, who proposes a diabolical deal.

The V-Word

Author : Amber J. Keyser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1582705216
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book The V-Word written by Amber J. Keyser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Losing it. Popping your cherry. Handing in your V-card. First time sex is a big unknown. Will it be candlelight and rose petals or quick and uncomfortable? Is it about love or about lust? Deciding to have sex for the first time is a choice that's often fraught with anxiety and joy. But do you have anyone telling you what sex is really like? In The V-Word seventeen writers (including Christa Desir, Justina Ireland, Sara Ryan, Carrie Mesrobian, Erica Lorraine Scheidt, and Jamia Wilson) pull back the sheets and tell all, covering everything from straight sex to queer sex, diving-in versus waiting, and even the exhilaration and disappointment that blankets it all. Some of their experiences happened too soon, some at just the right time, but all paint a broad picture of what first-time sex is really like.