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Thunderstruck

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307351920
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Thunderstruck written by Erik Larson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-10-24 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.” In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to build the biggest, fastest ocean liners; scientific advances dazzled the public with visions of a world transformed; and the rich outdid one another with ostentatious displays of wealth. Against this background, Marconi races against incredible odds and relentless skepticism to perfect his invention: the wireless, a prime catalyst for the emergence of the world we know today. Meanwhile, Crippen, “the kindest of men,” nearly commits the perfect murder. With his unparalleled narrative skills, Erik Larson guides us through a relentlessly suspenseful chase over the waters of the North Atlantic. Along the way, he tells of a sad and tragic love affair that was described on the front pages of newspapers around the world, a chief inspector who found himself strangely sympathetic to the killer and his lover, and a driven and compelling inventor who transformed the way we communicate.

Thunderstruck & Other Stories

Author : Elizabeth McCracken
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448191440
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Thunderstruck & Other Stories written by Elizabeth McCracken and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House - finalist for the National Book Award - comes a beautiful new story collection, her first in twenty years. Laced through with humour, empathy, and rare and magical descriptive powers these nine vibrant stories navigate the fragile space between love and loneliness. In 'Property', a young scholar, grieving the sudden death of his wife, decides to refurbish the Maine rental house they were to share together by removing his landlord's possessions. In 'Peter Elroy: A Documentary by Ian Casey', the household of a successful filmmaker is visited years later by his famous first subject, whose trust he betrayed. And in the unforgettable title story, a family makes a quixotic decision to flee to Paris for a summer, only to find their lives altered in an unimaginable way by their teenage daughter's risky behaviour. In Elizabeth McCracken's universe, heartache is always interwoven with strange, charmed moments of joy - an unexpected conversation with small children, the gift of a parrot with a bad French accent - that remind us of the wonder and mystery of being alive. Thunderstruck & Other Stories shows this inimitable writer working at the full height of her powers.

The Girl with Ghost Eyes

Author : M. H. Boroson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1940456452
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Girl with Ghost Eyes written by M. H. Boroson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Girl with Ghost Eyes is a fun, fun read. Martial arts and Asian magic set in Old San Francisco make for a fresh take on urban fantasy, a wonderful story that kept me up late to finish.” —#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs It’s the end of the nineteenth century in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and ghost hunters from the Maoshan traditions of Daoism keep malevolent spiritual forces at bay. Li-lin, the daughter of a renowned Daoshi exorcist, is a young widow burdened with yin eyes—the unique ability to see the spirit world. Her spiritual visions and the death of her husband bring shame to Li-lin and her father—and shame is not something this immigrant family can afford. When a sorcerer cripples her father, terrible plans are set in motion, and only Li-lin can stop them. To aid her are her martial arts and a peachwood sword, her burning paper talismans, and a wisecracking spirit in the form of a human eyeball tucked away in her pocket. Navigating the dangerous alleys and backrooms of a male-dominated Chinatown, Li-lin must confront evil spirits, gangsters, and soulstealers before the sorcerer’s ritual summons an ancient evil that could burn Chinatown to the ground. With a rich and inventive historical setting, nonstop martial arts action, authentic Chinese magic, and bizarre monsters from Asian folklore, The Girl with Ghost Eyes is also the poignant story of a young immigrant searching to find her place beside the long shadow of a demanding father and the stigma of widowhood. In a Chinatown caught between tradition and modernity, one woman may be the key to holding everything together. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

Thunderstruck: One Man's Story of Mental Illness, Trauma, and Redemption.

Author : Michael J. Jarosi
Publisher : Informed Source LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780578527130
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Thunderstruck: One Man's Story of Mental Illness, Trauma, and Redemption. written by Michael J. Jarosi and published by Informed Source LLC. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thunderstruck is a man's story of mental illness, trauma, and redemption.Michael Jarosi had a loving family, athletic promise, and had earned a soccer scholarship to The University of Virginia. But two weeks before his high school graduation, Michael and his father Frank were both struck by lightning on a soccer field. Frank was killed and Michael, standing yards away, was rendered unconscious and burned. The lightning strike left Michael with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which went undiagnosed and untreated for years.After his third year at college, Michael was hospitalized and diagnosed with type I bipolar disorder. The remainder of his adult life has been marked by bipolar manic episodes and hospitalizations. Michael escaped an Alabama criminal psychiatric facility where he was being tortured, and has also been homeless.Along the way, Michael earned a law degree at age 35, passed the Ohio Bar Exam, and is a licensed attorney today. After being homeless then taken in by a Salvation Army shelter in Chicago in 2015, Michael has been on a path of redemption. He believes that making people with mental illness part of the paradigm of diversity and inclusion can help change the societal stigma toward people with mental illness, and especially help heal the self-stigma that is so damaging and even deadly.

Lethal Passage

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679759271
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Lethal Passage written by Erik Larson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-01-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. "Touches on all aspects of the gun issue in this country. Gives great voice to that feeling...that something real must be done." --San Diego Union-Tribune "One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years." --Washington Post Book World It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day's end, he had killed one teacher and severely wounded another. In Lethal Passage Erik Larson shows us how a disturbed teenager was able to buy a weapon advertised as "the gun that made the eighties roar." The result is a book that can -- and should -- save lives, and that has already become an essential text in the gun-control debate.

Thunderstruck

Author : Marie Long
Publisher : Chikara Press
ISBN 13 : 1960253034
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Thunderstruck written by Marie Long and published by Chikara Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a hot-tempered guitarist, a mischievous drummer, and a kickass bassist, and you get VanAesir, one of the hottest underground Viking death metal bands in Seattle. But the road to the top is an endless struggle, especially for Tor Hagen, lead guitarist of VanAesir and walking disaster for all electronics. Getting through a set without a hitch is a challenge for Tor, whose uncontrollable lightning abilities are amplified through his uniquely crafted guitar, Myollnir. A few days before one of the largest metal events in the country, Tor wakes up to find his beloved Myollnir has been stolen. With a little help from his friends Frida Winters and Luca Ingram, Tor must do whatever it takes to get it back—even if gaffs and corsets are involved. A hilarious and snarky contemporary retelling of the Norse mythology story The Lay of Thrym from Poetic Edda.

Thunderstruck

Author : Ali Sparkes
Publisher : Oxford University Press - Children
ISBN 13 : 0192739379
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Thunderstruck written by Ali Sparkes and published by Oxford University Press - Children. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if your new best friend was a ghost? Getting struck by lightning whilst huddling under a tree isn't exactly the way Alisha and Theo would have chosen to get out of sports day . . . Surviving the strike makes them see life differently. It also makes them notice Doug and Lizzie. Struck by lightning under that same tree on the common in 1975, the two teenagers have been hanging out there ever since. Doug and Lizzie are funny, clever, brave - and quite happy about making friends with a pair of ten-year-olds. OK, fair point, they are dead, and Doug's trousers are worryingly flared. But you can't have everything. But something sinister is going on at school - although only Theo and Alisha seem to be able to see it. What can it mean when ragged faceless entities keep staring in through the windows? Not all ghosts are friendly like Doug and Lizzie . . . but are these phantoms really the harbingers of doom for all the kids at Beechwood Junior? A fun and fast-paced ghostly mystery with lightning strike

Gifts of the Dark Wood

Author : Rev. Eric Elnes
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426794142
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Gifts of the Dark Wood written by Rev. Eric Elnes and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you left the faith you used to have but don’t know what to move toward? When you can’t see the road ahead, do you feel lost and alone? Do you wish you had a group of companions willing to wander with you? Welcome to the Dark Wood. As you journey through the unknown, you may feel tempted, lost, and uncertain. Though commonly feared and avoided, these feelings of uncertainty can be your greatest assets on this journey because it is in uncertainty that we probe, question, and discover. According to the ancients, you don’t need to be a saint or spiritual master to experience profound awakening and live with God’s presence and guidance. You need only to wander. In clear and lucid prose that combines the heart of a mystic, the soul of a poet, and the mind of a biblical scholar, Dr. Eric Elnes demystifies the seven gifts bestowed in the Dark Wood: the gifts of uncertainty, emptiness, being thunderstruck, getting lost, temptation, disappearing, and the gift of misfits. This is a book for anyone who feels awkward in their search for God, anyone who seeks to find holiness amid their holy mess, and anyone who prefers practicality to piety when it comes to finding their place in this world.

Thunderstruck!

Author : Peter J. Bellini
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666759414
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Thunderstruck! written by Peter J. Bellini and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a historical and theological look into the deliverance and exorcism ministry of John Wesley. It examines how Wesley understood the phenomenon of deliverance and his own practice of it in terms of ordinary and extraordinary gifts. The text looks at how Wesley understood deliverance in general in relation to salvation, and how he understood an aspect of deliverance that involved expulsion of demons. Further, the book assesses how contemporary Wesleyans and Christians in general can apply Wesley's theology and practice to deliverance ministry today. Practices like baptismal vows and the use of the gifts of the Holy Spirit are explored in the life of the believer today in terms of deliverance.

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

Author : Elizabeth McCracken
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0316039802
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination written by Elizabeth McCracken and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2008-09-10 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and two years ago was living in a remote part of France, working on her novel, and waiting for the birth of her first child. This book is about what happened next. In her ninth month of pregnancy, she learned that her baby boy had died. How do you deal with and recover from this kind of loss? Of course you don't -- but you go on. And if you have ever experienced loss or love someone who has, the company of this remarkable book will help you go on. With humor and warmth and unfailing generosity, McCracken considers the nature of love and grief. She opens her heart and leaves all of ours the richer for it.

Thunderstruck Early Printing

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780552215275
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Thunderstruck Early Printing written by Erik Larson and published by . This book was released on 2007-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1910, Edwardian England was scandalized by a murder: a mild-mannered American named Hawley Crippen had killed his wife and buried her remains (well, some of her remains) in the cellar of their North London home. He then went on the run with his young mistress, his secretary, Ethel Le Neve. A Scotland Yard inspector, already famous for his part in the Ripper investigation, discovered the murder and launched an international hunt for Crippen that climaxed in a trans-Atlantic chase between two ocean liners. The chase itself was novel, but what captured the imagination of the world's public was the role played by a new and little understood technology: the wireless, invented by Guglielmo Marconi. Thanks to Marconi's obsessive fight to perfect his invention, the world was able to learn of events occurring in the middle of the Atlantic as they unfolded - something previously unthinkable. Police, jurists, and editors of the time all agreed that if not for Marconi, Crippen would have escaped. But Marconi had struggled to gain acceptance for his invention as a practical technology (many viewed the wireless as a novelty or a supernatural device, while distrust of foreigners remained prevalent in England and America). It was the Crippen case that helped convince the world of the potential of Marconi's miracle technology, so accelerating the wireless revolution that eventually produced radio, television and cell phones. With a cast of colourful, captivating characters THUNDERSTRUCK is Larson at his commercial best, doing what he does so irresistibly well: cleverly bringing together two seemingly disparate yet inextricably linked lives to paint a fascinating, exciting portrait of a hugely significant age of cultural, social and technological change while evoking the darker side of human nature.

Thunderstruck with Wine

Author : H. Jeremiah Lewis
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781503104020
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Thunderstruck with Wine written by H. Jeremiah Lewis and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recitation of hymns during festivals, temple rites and domestic cultus is an ancient part of Hellenic and Italian religion. Collections of hymns circulated under the names of some of the greatest poets - Orpheus, Mousaios, Homer, Pindar, Theokritos, Kallimachos, Proklos and the emperor Julian to name just the best known. And now there are the Hymns of Sannion. This corpus of 31 poems honoring the god Dionysos in his multitude of forms is being published as Thunderstruck with Wine so that contemporary polytheists (be they of his own emergent Bacchic Orphic tradition or not) will have another devotional tool at their disposal. These hymns can be read in their entirety in one sitting or spread out with one read each day of the month. These aren't just poetry filled with lovely imagery and sentiment - they are Keys that open the Labyrinth, letting Dionysos and his mad retinue through into our world. Use them accordingly and carefully.

Downcast

Author : Cait Reynolds
Publisher : Barkless Dog Press
ISBN 13 : 9780999253502
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Downcast written by Cait Reynolds and published by Barkless Dog Press. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets. Myths and monsters. What if you had to believe the impossible...then fall in love with him? Stephanie Starr thinks her senior year of high school is going to be like every other: an ordinary kind of awful stuck between a group of mean girls and her mother's overprotective mania. Everything changes when gorgeous Haley Smith walks into her life. She doesn't understand why he wants her so badly and pushes him away. But, Haley won't give up. He can't give up. There's a shadow running through his blood tied to a curse in hers, and time is running out for them both. Faced with rogue gods and deadly prophesies, Stephanie must survive the ultimate test in order to uncover the truth and save her mother, her friends, and her town. Nothing can prepare her for what she discovers, and no one can save her from her fate. Except Haley.

Chief Thunderstruck and the Big Bad Bear

Author : Karen Wallace
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 140815286X
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Chief Thunderstruck and the Big Bad Bear written by Karen Wallace and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Viking world of long boats, looting and grand adventure, The Goose Pimple Bay Sagas relate the hilarious tales of a noble family with a difference. In the final book of the quartet, a message reaches Goose Pimple Bay that Chief Thunderstruck is in trouble. He's been trapped in a cave on an ice flow by a fierce polar bear, who has a nasty glint in his eye when he looks at Chief Thunderstruck's bearskin coat. Together Whiff Erik, Spike Carbuncle and Fangtrude sail off to the rescue. But it's up to Fangtrude, being part wolverine, to save the day.

Thunder Struck

Author : Viola Grace
Publisher : Devine Destinies
ISBN 13 : 1771119128
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Thunder Struck written by Viola Grace and published by Devine Destinies. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kedna has been consigned to fostering on the empty world of Iskan when her power and her health become dangerous. Being mentored by a planetary Avatar is difficult, but moving the weather for an entire world is second nature. When she is older and her skills are needed off world, she is paired with her first member of the Sector Guard. He is a pain in the butt and harbours resentments toward her for hogging his ancestral planet. She simply concentrates on the job and earns his respect in the bargain. Fast forward to her twenty-third birthday and they cross paths again. This time, she knows his measure and he knows hers. Respect turns to fascination and progresses into a flirtation that crosses the stars.

Passive Constitutions or 7 1/2 Times Bartleby

Author : Branka Arsi?
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804753937
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Passive Constitutions or 7 1/2 Times Bartleby written by Branka Arsi? and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through analysis of Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener," this book analyzes major questions in Melville's literature as well as philosophical, theological, political, juridical, psychiatric, and literary discourses of his age and the America in which he lived.

Awesome Vocabulary

Author : Becky Burckmyer
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1601639007
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Awesome Vocabulary written by Becky Burckmyer and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your skill with words isn't up to scratch, you may find yourself sidelined or ignored at work and elsewhere. You create an impression with what you write, and a weak or incorrect vocabulary is a serious liability. Awesome Vocabulary offers a painless way to build an exceptional vocabulary. Readers will discover comprehensive, useful lists of words and exercises focused on improving word choices. They'll also learn: Tricks to reveal the meaning of new words Memory devices to help distinguish between similar words The difference between using words to impress and using words that make their meanings clear Examples of writing—correct and incorrect, attractive and unlovely, persuasive and off-putting—that clearly show the right stuff and how to amend the wrong stuff The secret to "balanced prose": the Rule of Three Avoiding repetition and redundancy The proper vocabulary for the proper occasion: business letters, e-mails, and casual conversation