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Love and Murder in the Time of Covid

Author : Qiu Xiaolong
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1448311500
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Love and Murder in the Time of Covid written by Qiu Xiaolong and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former chief inspector Chen faces a tricky serial murderer case at the height of the Covid pandemic - and risks everything he has to expose the deadly effects of the Chinese Communist Party's so-called zero Covid policy to the world. Over two million copies of the Inspector Chen series sold worldwide The Covid crisis is at its height in China. Ex-chief inspector Chen Cao is horrified by the way the Chinese Communist Party are using the pandemic as an excuse to put the Chinese people under blanket surveillance and by the soaring number of deaths caused not by Covid, but by the CCP's inhuman 'zero Covid' policy. Chen is debating whether to translate the 'Wuhan File' - a diary of life during the Wuhan disaster smuggled to him by a close friend - and expose the CCP's secrets to the world when to his surprise he is summoned by a high-level party cadre to help investigate a series of murders near a local Shanghai hospital. Under pressure from the Party to reach a quick conclusion and help maintain political stability, Chen investigates, aware that he too has been placed under omnipresent, omnipotent surveillance. And as he works, determined to uncover the truth, no matter what, he risks everything by deciding to translate the Wuhan Files. For one thing is true in China: you must be absolutely loyal to the Party. Otherwise, you are considered absolutely disloyal, and the consequences are dark indeed . . .

Alone Together

Author : Garth Stein
Publisher : Central Avenue Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1771682299
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Alone Together written by Garth Stein and published by Central Avenue Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Could there be a timelier gift to quarantined readers...? I doubt it."—The Washington Post "A heartening gathering of writers joining forces for community support."—Kirkus Reviews "Connects writers, readers, and booksellers in a wonderfully imaginative way. It's a really good book for a really good cause"—Bestselling author James Patterson ALONE TOGETHER: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 is a collection of essays, poems, and interviews to serve as a lifeline for negotiating how to connect and thrive during this stressful time of isolation as well as a historical perspective that will remain relevant for years to come. All contributing authors and business partners are donating their share to The Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc), a nonprofit organization that coordinates charitable programs to strengthen the bookselling community. The roster of diverse voices includes Faith Adiele, Kwame Alexander, Jenna Blum, Andre Dubus III, Jamie Ford, Nikki Giovanni, Pam Houston, Jean Kwok, Major Jackson, Devi S. Laskar, Caroline Leavitt, Ada Limón, Dani Shapiro, David Sheff, Garth Stein, Luis Alberto Urrea, Steve Yarbrough, and Lidia Yuknavitch. The overarching theme is how this age of isolation and uncertainty is changing us as individuals and a society. "Alone Together showcases the human desire to grieve, explore, comfort, connect, and simply sit with the world as it weathers the pandemic. Jennifer Haupt's timely and moving anthology also benefits the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, making it a project that is noble in both word and deed."—Ann Patchett, Bestselling author, bookseller, and Co-Ambassador for The Book Industry Charitable Foundation

A Murder in Time

Author : Julie McElwain
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681771152
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book A Murder in Time written by Julie McElwain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When brilliant FBI agent Kendra Donovan stumbles back in time and finds herself in a 19th century English castle under threat from a vicious serial killer, she scrambles to solve the case before it takes her life—200 years before she was even born. Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan is a rising star at the FBI. Yet her path to professional success hits a speed bump during a disastrous raid where half her team is murdered, a mole in the FBI is uncovered and she herself is severely wounded. As soon as she recovers, she goes rogue and travels to England to assassinate the man responsible for the deaths of her teammates. While fleeing from an unexpected assassin herself, Kendra escapes into a stairwell that promises sanctuary but when she stumbles out again, she is in the same place - Aldrich Castle - but in a different time: 1815, to be exact. Mistaken for a lady's maid hired to help with weekend guests, Kendra is forced to quickly adapt to the time period until she can figure out how she got there; and, more importantly, how to get back home. However, after the body of a young girl is found on the extensive grounds of the county estate, she starts to feel there's some purpose to her bizarre circumstances. Stripped of her twenty-first century tools, Kendra must use her wits alone in order to unmask a cunning madman.

China Mysteries

Author : Jeffrey C. Kinkley
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824896734
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book China Mysteries written by Jeffrey C. Kinkley and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt more open than ever to global trade, communication, travel, and cultural and educational exchanges. There was even talk in the mainstream press that China was heading toward a more democratic future. It was during this second Sino-Western honeymoon that authors in the US, Canada, France, the UK, and elsewhere began writing mystery fiction set in contemporary China in their regional languages. These “China mysteries”—crime, detective, and mystery thriller novels that take place in China but were not written or published there—formed a new genre of popular fiction that highlighted the world’s hopes and fears after Tiananmen. The multinational and multicultural writers of China mysteries, among them ex-PRC nationals like Qiu Xiaolong, Zhang Xinxin, and Diane Wei Liang, converged on the China Mainland to negotiate political and cultural complexities through crime fiction plotlines. Their books emerged from Western lineages of the modern novel and popular genre fiction—with Chinese contributions—and depended on Western commercial publishing models shaped by cultural, national, political, and economic factors. This work examines more than a hundred China mysteries—many describing and analyzing social and economic changes at the center of modern life in China—to provide a brief history of the genre and analyze the formulaic and original elements of the mysteries, including their attention to matters of location, social content, characterization, history, and biography. It also highlights the role of “information” acquisition as a motivation for readers and authors of popular fiction, which has become a topic of discussion in Chinese literature studies. With its timely commentary on Sino-Western relations as presented through crime fiction, China Mysteries will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary Chinese literature and culture, as well as fans of crime novels and others who are curious about the global dimensions of the genre and how it complicates our understanding of “world literature.”

Love and Loss

Author : Phil Dourado
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Love and Loss written by Phil Dourado and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-14 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the ghost who made him do it ... A novel for anyone who has lost someone they loved. Your spouse, your brother, your best friend all die. Then Covid hits. What would you do? Matthew decides to stay in bed. Until people out there stop dying. But then the ghost of his best friend pops up and whispers guidance in his ear, sending him on a quest to make meaning out of grief and find out where the loved dead go. Love & Loss in the Time of Covid is a novel, a grief memoir and a Covid chronicle When someone you love dies, the world no longer makes sense. Like the main character in this book, you find yourself in a dark place, struggling to make meaning out of loss. Matthew's dark place happens to be under the duvet. He is not alone under there. His bed is crowded with old companions, jostling to help him construct a plan and tunnel his way out: books he has loved that he now revisits in a search for meaning. As he finishes each book, he tosses it out onto the floor and moves to the next one. He plans to make stepping stones out of them, a route back to real life. When he's too tired to read, he turns to film, music, myths, You Tube videos, anything he can access from his bed to help him make sense of grief, navigate through loss and emerge out the other side. From The Life of Pi to ET , from Harry Potter books, films and T-shirts left him by his dead wife to Tom Hanks in Castaway, from learned articles on neuroscience to The Selfish Gene, from books about grief to Facebook which, he learns, will have more dead people in it than live ones by about 2030, he trawls and sifts and filters them all for clues to where the loved dead go and how to get through grief and back to some kind of normal life. At a time when normal life, with lockdowns making it impossible to see friends and family in person, has been suspended. A story of our time Phil Dourado lost his wife, his brother and his best friend within weeks of each other. He then lost his grandchildren to the other side of the world and his father to dementia and confinement in a locked-down care home. The people he loved seemed to be disappearing one by one. Then thousands began dying from Covid, while everyone - even those who hadn't lost a loved one - grieved the loss of normal life and connection in a locked down world. The last thing his best friend said to him before dying was, 'You have a love story to tell, a tale of love and loss. Like Love in the Time of Cholera. You should write about it.' So, he did.

Murder in the Time of Covid

Author : Robert Bailor
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665529407
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Murder in the Time of Covid written by Robert Bailor and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the COVID-19 pandemic Detectives Eddie Bunco and Theo Chadwick are assigned to investigate a gruesome ritualistic murder which turns out to have been perpetrated by a religious cult which is a hybrid of Christian and Zoroastrian beliefs. As they investigate the case, they also unearth a child sex trafficking operation which is directly related to the murder. The narrative intensifies as the detectives discover that they must bring both aspects of this case to a quick resolution if they desperately want to save current and potential victims. Along the way the detectives meet a number of memorable characters. On the one hand, there are Sgt. Maddie Buckold and Detective Gabriella Jackson whose courage and quick thinking are crucial to resolving the double case. On the other hand, there are Whitey Harrison, owner/manager of the Blue Moon Lounge, and the person known as “the final savior” who are closely involved in the sex trafficking and the ritualistic murders. In addition to the drama of a police investigation, the narrative lays bare deep meaning-of-life questions and serious emotional challenges that arise with police work in general. These questions and challenges trouble Detective Bunco who works at sorting them out with the help of his love interest, an altruistic nurse practitioner named Grace Champion. As their intimacy grows, they feel secure enough to share their thoughts and beliefs about good/evil, trustworthiness, and the reason to live. Murder in the Time of COVID is a narrative set in contemporary times with the background of a worldwide disease and the current controversy regarding the proper place of police officers in the community. This novel is much more than a detective story as it engages the reader in the question of whether humans are fatally flawed in character or really capable of attaining genuine nobility.

The Conspiracies of the Empire

Author : Qiu Xiaolong
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1448314828
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book The Conspiracies of the Empire written by Qiu Xiaolong and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Judge Dee Renjie returns, in this lyrical combination of mystery, history and ancient Chinese politics from the author of the renowned Inspector Chen mysteries In Tang dynasty China, Empress Wu - seductive, ambitious and vindictive - rules with an iron fist. Her premier minister, Judge Dee Renjie, is honored to be trusted by her. But when she orders him to carry out an urgent investigation into the disappearance of disgraced poet Luo Binwang, he can't see why the matter is of such vital importance. Luo Binwang joined a doomed uprising against Her Majesty, and vanished after the final, bloody battle. Is he missing - or dead? Either way, now that the rebellion has been mercilessly quashed, what harm could a poor, elderly poet do? Traveling out of the great capital of Chang'an, accompanied by his loyal manservant Yang, Judge Dee launches a painstaking investigation, in the hopes of achieving what the empress' secret police could not. But the journey is marred by ill omens, and with death and disaster following his every step, Judge Dee soon begins to wonder if the empress trusts him as much as he thought . . . This powerful mystery, set in ancient China, will appeal to fans of Robert Van Gulik's novels featuring the semi-fictional historical character Judge Dee, and includes an appendix of poems from some of China's finest Tang dynasty poets, newly translated by the author, who is an award-wining poet and critic in his own right.

Philosophy and Leadership

Author : Antonio Marturano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315452030
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Leadership written by Antonio Marturano and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-18 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of philosophical thought across the ancient world brought with it a keen interest in the study of leadership– reflections on who should lead and on how to create the best leadership structures became central to the debates of most prominent ancient philosophers. Philosophy and Leadership offers a panorama of the main philosophies, both ancient and modern, which form the basis of contemporary leadership theories. This book will draw on many philosophical positions to offer a critique of the most important nodes of modern leadership studies–such as ethics, purpose, meaning, and legacy. It will include probing questions and theoretical as well practical exercises aimed at reinforcing the points discussed in each chapter, as well as examples from history, literature, films, and music. This book will be invaluable reading for scholars on undergraduate and postgraduate leadership courses, as well as those studying philosophy, leadership ethics and business ethics, and responsible leadership.

When Intimacy Can Kill

Author : William Grigg
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book When Intimacy Can Kill written by William Grigg and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You hated the Pandemic but you'll love Kathy McKay. While Covid, Protests and Murder threaten this young romantic, Kathy remains almost hopelessly upbeat. Yes, when Covid sweeps through New York, she loses her coveted job at a Major Publisher's. Yes, suddenly she is love-less and homeless as well. But she feels lucky to flee to quiet Virginia, where masks are initially unknown and where a distinguished First Family has hired her to write up their kin's heroic exploits dating back to the American Revolution and Alexander Hamilton. Kathy thinks she knows just how to do it and turn it into a Best Seller. But Covid follows Kathy to the famly's cozy town and home. And, despite a budding romance with the young, red-headed scientist/athlete in the family, Kathy becomes convinced that she may be in danger. Indeed, she over-hears her young man plotting with other men in the family to "get rid of her" if she learns too much. Just talk? Maybe. But: Out of nowhere, as she strolls the family's property, a red-headed man in a medical mask grabs her, attacks her and knocks her unconscious. A family employee intercedes and the family athlete carries the injured Kathy up two flights of stairs to her bed. Pleasure follows. But Covid strikes the household, and Kathy's attacker again pursues and corners her. A chilling car chase brings her, alone, to the brink of the freezing Potomac River. Can Kathy get across to safety? This time there is no one to intercede. It is all up to Kathy! Besides telling the thrilling story of Kathy and Covid, this modern historical novel dramatically involves the reader in the George Floyd murder protests and the insurrection at the Capitol and the clearing of protestors at the White House before roaring to its surprsiing romantic and political conclusions. No wonder one advance review calls the novel "a Gone With The Wind for our times."

56 Days

Author : Catherine Ryan Howard
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 : 198269467X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book 56 Days written by Catherine Ryan Howard and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Best Thriller of 2021 A Washington Post Best Thriller of 2021 A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year An Amazon Editors’ Pick ''Bloody good.'' —The New York Times ''Timely, surprising, emotionally alive, this is about as good as suspense fiction gets.'' —Washington Post No one even knew they were together. Now one of them is dead. 56 DAYS AGO Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGO When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests they move in together. Ciara sees a unique opportunity for a relationship to flourish without the scrutiny of family and friends. Oliver sees a chance to hide who—and what—he really is. TODAY Detectives arrive at Oliver’s apartment to discover a decomposing body inside. Can they determine what really happened, or has lockdown created an opportunity for someone to commit the perfect crime?

Love in the Time of Coronavirus

Author : Stuart Maesel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of Coronavirus written by Stuart Maesel and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever loved someone so much, you were willing to give up your life? Jackson Marley Richardson is a man who is about to make a decision. A decision you make only once. A determination of whether he should live or die. He is faced with a life that has not turned out how he thought it would. He's faced with a decision that he doesn't want to make, yet thinks he must, because of his love for his wife and children. Jack represents everyman and everywoman. Like all of us who are forced to make a decision in a world, not the one we thought it would be or should be, but a world that has turned upside down. A world where religion has turned from love to acrimony. A world where politics has pitted players on the same team against each other. Love in the time of Coronavirus is a book about reflection, questioning, and realizations about our world, and how it is forcing many to just bury their heads in the sand and give up, or for some to recommit to helping foster change through love, friendship, and a renewed faith in the individual's ability to be the agent of that change. It is the deep look into the mirror; we all must take at some point in life. Now is that time. The book is an astonishing and enlightening journey and a life adventure, reflecting on extraordinary times with Jack's wife, family, and friends, not thinking of what he missed but appreciating all that is. It is a profound book about life, love, and friendships today that will resonate with all. Love in the time Coronavirus offers a compelling, insightful look into love, politics, bigotry, faith, and friendship. The loving romanticism and exciting plot will keep you enraptured throughout. With a myriad of twists and turns, the ending will astound you.

A Twist in Time: A Novel (Kendra Donovan Mysteries)

Author : Julie McElwain
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 168177397X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book A Twist in Time: A Novel (Kendra Donovan Mysteries) written by Julie McElwain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Kendra Donovan’s plan to return to the 21st century fails, leaving her stranded in 1815, the Duke of Aldridge believes he knows the reason—she must save his nephew, who has been accused of brutally murdering his ex-mistress. Former FBI agent Kendra Donovan’s attempts to return to the twenty-first century have failed, leaving her stuck at Aldridge Castle in 1815. And her problems have just begun: in London, the Duke of Aldridge’s nephew Alec—Kendra’s confidante and lover—has come under suspicion for murdering his former mistress, Lady Dover, who was found viciously stabbed with a stiletto, her face carved up in a bizarre and brutal way. Lady Dover had plenty of secrets, and her past wasn’t quite what she’d made it out to be. Nor is it entirely in the past—which becomes frighteningly clear when a crime lord emerges from London’s seamy underbelly to threaten Alec. Joining forces with Bow Street Runner Sam Kelly, Kendra must navigate the treacherous nineteenth century while she picks through the strands of Lady Dover’s life. As the noose tightens around Alec’s neck, Kendra will do anything to save him, including following every twist and turn through London’s glittering ballrooms, where deception is the norm—and any attempt to uncover the truth will get someone killed.

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Author : Jesmyn Ward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501126091
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Sing, Unburied, Sing written by Jesmyn Ward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a “tour de force” (O, The Oprah Magazine) and a timeless work of fiction that is destined to become a classic. Jesmyn Ward’s historic second National Book Award–winner is “perfectly poised for the moment” (The New York Times), an intimate portrait of three generations of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. “Ward’s writing throbs with life, grief, and love… this book is the kind that makes you ache to return to it” (Buzzfeed). Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. He doesn’t lack in fathers to study, chief among them his Black grandfather, Pop. But there are other men who complicate his understanding: his absent White father, Michael, who is being released from prison; his absent White grandfather, Big Joseph, who won’t acknowledge his existence; and the memories of his dead uncle, Given, who died as a teenager. His mother, Leonie, is an inconsistent presence in his and his toddler sister’s lives. She is an imperfect mother in constant conflict with herself and those around her. She is Black and her children’s father is White. She wants to be a better mother but can’t put her children above her own needs, especially her drug use. Simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she’s high, Leonie is embattled in ways that reflect the brutal reality of her circumstances. When the children’s father is released from prison, Leonie packs her kids and a friend into her car and drives north to the heart of Mississippi and Parchman Farm, the State Penitentiary. At Parchman, there is another thirteen-year-old boy, the ghost of a dead inmate who carries all of the ugly history of the South with him in his wandering. He too has something to teach Jojo about fathers and sons, about legacies, about violence, about love. Rich with Ward’s distinctive, lyrical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic and unforgettable family story and “an odyssey through rural Mississippi’s past and present” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

Even a Pandemic Can't Stop Love and Murder

Author : A. E. S. O'Neill
Publisher : Aeson Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book Even a Pandemic Can't Stop Love and Murder written by A. E. S. O'Neill and published by Aeson Publications. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does a romance-thriller look like in the Pandemic era? Welcome to a very possible near future where crime, murder and love seem familiar but are reshaped by the dark presence of the ongoing Pandemic.It is the mid-2020s. Alby O'Brien is hiding in southern New Jersey to avoid the wrath of terrorists who are after him. Believing he is safely hidden in his cave-like garage apartment, he supports himself on under-the-table fix-it work while wrestling with nightmares of what happened in Iraq. But his minimal existence is about to end with very dire consequences.Within the first twenty-four hours of this one-week, fast-paced thriller, he is involved in a major robbery, meets a woman with a mysterious past andcrosses paths with a psychotically polite killer called Jagger. Something very valuable has been taken from a mob-run bank and now everyone is after Alby. Despite his life being on the line, all he can think about is the alluring and volatile dancer. As it all comes to a head, Alby knows his choices are few and his fate could go either way.Break the Bank-volume 1 of 3-is based on a true story. Told to the author by his father, it is the true story of a mob bank getting ripped off and the ensuing violent consequences.

False Witness

Author : Karin Slaughter
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062858947
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book False Witness written by Karin Slaughter and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "There's deception, sabotage, violence, family secrets . . . all the stuff you could want from a fictional page-turner."— theSkimm Recommended by Washington Post • theSkimm • GMA.com • Popsugar • Bustle • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • Augusta Chronicle • Sun-Sentinel • Mystery and Suspense Magazine • and more! He saw what you did. He knows who you are… From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her and The Silent Wife, an electrifying standalone thriller. AN ORDINARY LIFE… Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She’s an up-and-coming defense attorney at a prestigious law firm in Atlanta, would do anything for her sixteen-year-old daughter Maddy, and is managing to successfully coparent through a pandemic after an amicable separation from her husband Walter. HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST... But Leigh’s ordinary life masks a childhood no one should have to endure … a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and ultimately destroyed by a brutal act of violence. BUT NOW THE PAST IS CATCHING UP… On a Sunday night at her daughter’s school play, she gets a call from one of the firm's partners who wants Leigh to come on board to defend a wealthy man accused of multiple counts of rape. Though wary of the case, it becomes apparent she doesn't have much choice if she wants to keep her job. They're scheduled to go to trial in one week. When she meets the accused face-to-face, she realizes that it’s no coincidence that he’s specifically asked for her to represent him. She knows him. And he knows her. More to the point, he may know what happened over twenty years ago, and why Leigh has spent two decades avoiding her past. AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT. Suddenly she has a lot more to lose than this case. The only person who can help is her younger, estranged sister Callie—the last person Leigh would ever want to drag into this after all they’ve been through. But with the life-shattering truth in danger of being revealed, she has no choice... “A high-stakes thriller . . . Her heroines are believable, flawed and courageous.” –OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE

Love in the Time of Contagion

Author : Laura Kipnis
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0593316282
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of Contagion written by Laura Kipnis and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely, insightful, and darkly funny investigation, the acclaimed author of Against Love asks: what does living in dystopic times do to our ability to love each other and the world? COVID-19 has produced new taxonomies of love, intimacy, and vulnerability. Will its cultural afterlife be as lasting as that of HIV, which reshaped consciousness about sex and love even after AIDS itself had been beaten back by medical science? Will COVID end up making us more relationally conservative, as some think HIV did within gay culture? Will it send us fleeing into emotional silos or coupled cocoons, despite the fact that, pre-COVID, domestic coupledom had been steadily losing fans? Just as COVID revealed our nation to itself, so did it hold a mirror up to our relationships. In Love in the Time of Contagion, Laura Kipnis weaves (often hilariously) her own (ambivalent) coupled lockdown experiences together with those of others and sets them against a larger backdrop: the politics of the virus, economic disparities, changing gender relations, and the ongoing institutional crack-ups prompted by #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, mapping their effects on the everyday routines and occasional solaces of love and sex.

After The Rain

Author : Albert Mitchum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (756 download)

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Book Synopsis After The Rain by : Albert Mitchum

Download or read book After The Rain written by Albert Mitchum and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molly and her two kids are heading from Richmond, VA to the Outer Banks to enjoy a three week summer holiday with Lucy, her BFF from college days at William & Mary, and Lucy's extended family. Thad Rogers, Lucy's divorced older brother, is headed to the vacation rental from his home in Williamsburg, VA to make sure everything is ready for the family to arrive. Thad is not necessarily on board with Lucy and her kids being inserted into a family gathering to cheer his Mom who is dealing with the recent death of her husband and the loss of her youngest son to combat action in Afghanistan all within the last year. Things get interesting as Thad in his old off road Jeep "fun truck" and Molly and her little family in their minivan make it across the bridges connecting the OBX to the mainland just as the bridges are being closed in an attempt to isolate the OBX from the spread of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The rest of the Rogers family scattered across the South are not going to make it in due to the travel restrictions. Things heat up and take some interesting turns as two adults and two pre-teens deal with the reality of the Pandemic. It is a love story and there are enough twists to keep it interesting for romance buffs of any age. Hope you enjoy.