![]() ![]() As a journalist, I’d witnessed atrocities inflicted in the name of fascism. As a teenager, I’d travelled the world, living on my wits. Was this one risk too many? And as for me being above suspicion.the Gestapo were following me and they were tapping my phone. From the stern look on his face, I could tell that he wasn’t pleased. Furthermore, as the wife of respected industrialist Michel Beringar you are above suspicion.” I glanced at Michel. ![]() And you know the mountain trails like the back of your hand. ![]() “Because you helped to establish the escape network. We’d like you to meet the guard, bribe him, spring Zigzag from the Gestapo prison then escort him over the mountain pass into Spain.” “Why me?” I asked. And when he talks he will reveal secrets that will destroy the local resistance networks, including our own. ![]() They picked him up through his false identity papers, only the thing is they haven’t discovered his true identity, yet. “The Gestapo have captured a British agent, code name Zigzag. Marseille, December 1942 “We’re in a fix,” Vincent said. Kindly note that the price throughout the series will be set at the minimum level and that Eve’s story arc will be concluded at the end of the series. Each book contains approximately 20,000 words and a complete story. Eve’s War is a series of twelve novellas. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Like any good detective, Weinman visited the places Sally visited, talked to people who knew her and La Salle, and visited the schools Sally attended. He argued that the story of 11-year-old Sally Horner’s abduction in 1948 by mechanic Frank La Salle, who claimed for 12 months that she was his daughter, paralleled the Lolita story “much too closely to be coincidental.” Weinman’s book is about her quest to “figure out what knew about Sally Horner and when he knew it.” Nabokov always denied any real-life influences. Weinman also recounts the story of journalist Peter Welding’s 1963 article in the men’s magazine Nugget. Journalist Weinman (editor: Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s and ’50s, 2015, etc.), who covers the book publishing industry for Publishers Marketplace, describes the struggles Vladimir Nabokov endured trying to find a publisher for his novel about Humbert Humbert’s desire for and abduction of the young Lolita until the notorious Olympia Press published it overseas in 1955. ![]() Lolita wasn’t always considered the great work of literature it has become. True crime meets classic American literature. ![]() ![]() Also inside are interviews with costume designer Milena Canonero, composer Alexandre Desplat, lead actor Ralph Fiennes, production designer Adam Stockhausen, and cinematographer Robert Yeoman essays by film critics Ali Arikan and Steven Boone, film theorist and historian David Bordwell, music critic Olivia Collette, and style and costume consultant Christopher Laverty and an introduction by playwright Anne Washburn. Learn all about the film's conception, hear personal anecdotes from the set, and explore the wide variety of sources that inspired the screenplay and imagery-from author Stefan Zweig to filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch to photochrom landscapes of turn-of-the-century Middle Europe. This companion to the New York Times bestselling book The Wes Anderson Collection takes readers behind the scenes of the Oscar(R)-winning film The Grand Budapest Hotel with a series of interviews between writer/director Wes Anderson and movie/television critic Matt Zoller Seitz. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL27258W Page_number_confidence 93.24 Pages 298 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.7 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210220162355 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1390 Scandate 20210215170850 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780441000685 Sent_to_scribe Tts_version 4. ![]() Urn:lcp:neuromancer0000gibs:epub:3872a6d7-050a-4b99-b026-364e1507a516 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier neuromancer0000gibs Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4fp1cj4v Invoice 1652 Isbn 0441000681 Lccn 94237181 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9359 Ocr_module_version 0.0.11 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA14490 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:00:48 Boxid IA40062423 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital futurea shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A plan so sinister that only a megalomaniac could think it up, and only the unlikely duo of the irrepressibly charming Emerson Knight and the tenacious Riley Moon can stop it. Through the streets of Washington, D.C., and down into the underground vault of the Federal Reserve in New York City, an evil plan is exposed. What starts off as an inquiry about missing bank funds in the Knight account leads to inquiries about a missing man, missing gold, and a life-and-death race across the country. ![]() At least Riley Moon thought it was her dream job, until she is given her first assignment: babysitting Emerson Knight. Her aggressive Texas spitfire attitude has helped her land her dream job as a junior analyst with mega-bank Blane-Grunwald. Good thing he’s also brilliant, rich, and (some people might say) handsome, or he’d probably be homeless. Riley Moon has just graduated from Harvard Business and Harvard Law. Janet Evanovich, bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, teams up with Emmy-winning writer Phoef Sutton for a brand-new series of mysteries featuring Emerson Knight and Riley Moon, a dynamic duo with instant and undeniable chemistry.Įmerson Knight is introverted, eccentric, and has little to no sense of social etiquette. ![]() ![]() Academically, she has published numerous papers and books dealing with extremely diverse subject matter. She also worked very closely with the emergency mortuary services set up after the World Trade Center attacks in the year 2001. Clyde Snow in the excavation of the Lake Atitlan burial site for the Foundation for Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology. ![]() ![]() Kathy Reichs testified at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal Rwanda, helping to prove that human rights violations occurred during the XX. She began teaching, eventually working at such illustrious institutions as Concordia University and the University of Pittsburgh. She studied for her Master’s and eventually earned her Ph.D in Forensic Anthropology from Northwestern University in 1975. Who is Kathy ReichsĪ native of Chicago, Kathy Reichs attended American University, earning a Bachelor’s of Science in Anthropology in 1971. ![]() She lives with her husband, and has three grown children. She divides her time between North Carolina and Quebec, Canada. ![]() She has written numerous academic papers and dissertations as well, and currently teaches at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Well traveled and utilizing a vast compendium of personal and professional knowledge to create stories that are not only suspenseful and engaging, but also extremely technically detailed. Kathy Reichs is an American forensic anthropologist and academic as well as being a bestselling author of crime thrillers. ![]() ![]() Now she has only one chance to destroy the maniacal ruler who has taken everything from her-and from the icy young man she has come to love. ![]() But before they can take action, Ruby is captured and forced to compete in the king's tournaments that pit Fireblood prisoners against Frostblood champions. But when her mother is killed trying to protect her, and rebel Frostbloods demand her help to overthrow their bloodthirsty king, she agrees to come out of hiding, desperate for revenge.ĭespite her unpredictable abilities, Ruby trains with the rebels and the infuriating-yet irresistible-Arcus, who seems to think of her as nothing more than a weapon. Seventeen-year-old Ruby is a Fireblood who has concealed her powers of heat and flame from the cruel Frostblood ruling class her entire life. ![]() An "enchanting and fast-paced debut" that "lights up the page with magic, romance, and action." ![]() Book 1 of the New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of Red Queen. ![]() ![]() ![]() “This is not pepys’ diary, this is some busybody’s miserable collection of EXCERPTS from pepys’ diary may he rot. ![]() “WHAT KIND OF A PEPYS’ DIARY DO YOU CALL THIS?” she wrote after receiving a shipment from the bookshop in 1951. Hanff’s letters bore little resemblance to the usual business correspondence. A voracious and discriminating reader, Hanff filled her letters with concise, intelligent discussions of English literature and the joys of book-collecting.” In 1990, Solomon described the still-popular book as “a collection of letters between a struggling young writer in post-World War II New York City and the staff of a small used-book store in London chronicles the changes England underwent as rationing and austerity gave way to prosperity. The play was produced on Broadway in 1982 starring Ellen Burstyn and Joseph Maher. ![]() The book was also adapted for the London stage by James Roose-Evans. ![]() The book was wildly popular in England and was adapted as a British television drama by Hugh Whitemore, who later wrote the screenplay for the motion picture. The ideal book to tuck away for a rainy afternoon.” Times reviewer Charles Solomon said the subsequent television show and 1986 film with Anne Bancroft as Hanff and Anthony Hopkins as Doel never “diminished the charm of Helene Hanff’s book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It originally belonged to a white plantation owner, Harlan Granger, who sold it to cover his taxes during Reconstruction. Unlike most black families in their area, the Logan family owns the land on which they reside. ![]() In 1933, nine-year-old Cassie Logan lives in rural Mississippi with her three brothers, Stacey (twelve years old), Christopher-John (seven years old), and Little Man (six years old). The novel contains several themes, including Jim Crow segregation, Black landownership, sharecropping, the Great Depression, and lynching. In the book, Taylor explores struggles of African Americans in 1930s Mississippi through the perspective of nine-year-old Cassie Logan. The novel is the first book in the Logan family saga, which includes four sequels ( Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1981), The Road to Memphis (1992), The Gold Cadillac (1987), and All the Days Past, All the Days to Come (2020)) and three prequels ( The Land (2001), The Well: David's Story (1995), and Song of the Trees (1975)) as well as two novellas ( Mississippi Bridge (1990) and The Friendship (1987)). Part of her Logan family series, it is a sequel to her 1975 novella Song of the Trees. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a 1977 novel by Mildred D. ![]() ![]() ![]() Scout’s a member of a splinter group of rebel teens with unique magical talents, who’ve sworn to protect the city against demons, vampires, and Reapers, magic users who’ve been corrupted by their power. But when the ultra-rich, ultra snooty, rich brat pack play a prank on Lily, leaving her trapped in the catacombs beneath the school, Lily finds Scout running from a real monster. She keeps disappearing late at night, asking Lily to trust her even though she won‘t divulge any information. The only thing keeping her sane is her roommate, Scout, but even Scout’s a little strange. ![]() If that wasn’t bad enough, she’s hearing and seeing bizarre things on St. Lily’s parents have sent her to a fancy boarding school in Chicago filled with the ultra rich. Synopsis: “A new series about a boarding school filled with something worse than homework. ![]() Firespell (Dark Elite Series) by Chloe Neillīrought to you by OBS staff member Annabell Cadiz ![]() |