Duma Key

Author : John Grisham
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345532022

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The Appeal by John Grisham Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict—or reverse it. The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough to his interests. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Their Supreme Court justice.

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476767284

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Under the Dome: Part 2 by Stephen King Pdf

The conclusion to King's tale of Chester's Mill, Maine, a town that's inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field, and which inspired a CBS TV drama.

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781668018095

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Duma Key by Stephen King Pdf

Master storyteller Stephen King’s classic, terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller of what happens when the barrier between our world and that of the supernatural is breached. After a terrible construction site accident severs Edgar Freemantle’s right arm, scrambles his mind, and implodes his marriage, the wealthy Minnesota builder faces the ordeal of rehabilitation, all alone and full of rage. Renting a house on Duma Key—a stunningly beautiful and eerily undeveloped splinter off the Florida coast—Edgar slowly emerges from his prison of pain to bond with Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick, elderly woman whose roots are tangled deep in this place. And as he heals, he paints—feverishly, compulsively, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. For Edgar’s creations are not just paintings, but portals for the ghosts of Elizabeth’s past…and their power cannot be controlled…

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416559917

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Blaze by Stephen King Pdf

Master storyteller Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman) presents this gripping and remarkable New York Times bestselling crime novel about a damaged young man who embarks on an ill-advised kidnapping plot—a work as taut and riveting as anything he has ever written. Once upon a time, a fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 (“cancer of the pseudonym”), but this last gripping Bachman novel resurfaced after being hidden away for decades—an unforgettable crime story tinged with sadness and suspense. Clayton Blaisdell, Jr., was always a small-time delinquent. None too bright either, thanks to the beatings he got as a kid. Then Blaze met George Rackley, a seasoned pro with a hundred cons and one big idea. The kidnapping should go off without a hitch, with George as the brains behind their dangerous scheme. But there's only one problem: by the time the deal goes down, Blaze's partner in crime is dead. Or is he?

Author : Hans-Åke Lilja
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Horror tales, American
ISBN : 158767212X

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Lilja's Library by Hans-Åke Lilja Pdf

Author : Lionel Davidson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571324453

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Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson Pdf

A sensational classic: this chilling tale of Siberian espionage is 'the best thriller I've ever read' (Philip Pullman) ranking with 'The Silence of the Lambs, Casino Royale and Smiley's People' (Spectator).'Hugely thrilling, brilliantly written, perfect ... I didn't want this book to end.' (Anthony Horowitz)WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP PULLMANKolymsky Heights. A Siberian hell lost in endless night: the perfect setting for an underground Russian research station. It's a place so secret it doesn't officially exist; once there, the scientists are forbidden to leave. But one scientist is desperate to get a message to the outside world. So desperate, he sends a plea across the wildness to the West in order to summon the one man alive capable of achieving the impossible ... 'Sensationally good ... One of the great thrillers of the last century.' (Charles Cumming)'As significant as ... le Carré in bringing a gritty new realism to the thriller.' (Sunday Telegraph)'A breathless story of fear and courage.' (Daily Telegraph)

Author : Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Publisher : HarperFestival
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0060774509

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Duma: The Movie Novel by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld Pdf

A story about a boy and his cheetah in South Africa.

Author : Mark Poirier
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408849996

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Modern Ranch Living by Mark Poirier Pdf

'Poirier is a wonderful creator of situations ... His great creation here is Kendra ... Poirier makes you feel trapped in his characters' own predicaments. This is America as it really is ... Superb' Guardian 'One of the most kinetic, original young fiction writers we've read in a long time' Esquire The weather is hotter than hell in Tucson, Arizona, and weird things are afoot in the crumbling desert community of Rancho Sin Vacas. Sixteen-year-old Kendra hones her muscles and grapples with bad grammar, occasionally worrying about her brother, Thomas, who spends all day watching wrestling on TV. Their neighbour Merv is stuck in a rut, still living at home at thirty and looking after his troubled mother. When the strung-out teenager from over the road, Kendra's sometime-boyfriend, goes missing it affects them all in different and surprising ways. And although Kendra is apparently unconcerned, claiming that he's just run away, she can't shake the feeling that something strange is in the air this summer.

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789096507

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Later by Stephen King Pdf

“Part detective tale, part thriller…touching and genuine.” —The New York Times #1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine – as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave. LATER is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King’s classic novel It, LATER is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.

Author : Philip L. Simpson,Patrick McAleer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442244917

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Stephen King's Contemporary Classics by Philip L. Simpson,Patrick McAleer Pdf

Many readers know Stephen King for his early works of horror, from his fiction debut Carrie to his blockbuster novels The Shining, The Stand, and Misery, among others. While he continues to be a best-selling author, King’s more recent fiction has not received the kind of critical attention that his books from the 1970s and 1980s enjoyed. Recent novels like Duma Key and 1/22/63 have been marginalized and, arguably, cast aside as anomalies within the author’s extensive canon. In Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics: Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror, Philip L. Simpson and Patrick McAleer present a collection of essays that analyze, assess, and critique King’s post-1995 compositions. Purposefully side-stepping studies of earlier work, these essays are arranged into three main parts: the first section examines five King novels published between 2009 and 2013, offering genuinely fresh scholarship on King; the second part looks at the development of King’s distinct brand of horror; the third section departs from probing the content of King’s writing and instead focuses on King’s process. By concentrating on King’s most recent writings, this collection offers provocative insights into the author’s work, featuring essays on Dr. Sleep, Duma Key, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Joyland, Under the Dome, and others. As such, Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics will appeal to general fans of the author’s work as well as scholars of Stephen King and modern literature.

Author : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781887178426

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Invisible Allies by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Pdf

After his expulsion from Russia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn secretly worked on a memoir that would acknowledge the courageous efforts of the people who hid his writings and smuggled them to the West. Before the fall of Communism, the very publication of Invisible Allies would have put these friends in jeopardy. Now we are finally granted an intimate account of the extensive, ever-shifting network of individuals who risked life and liberty to ensure that Solzhenitsyn's works were kept safe, circulated in samizdat, and "exported" via illicit channels. These imperiled conspirators, often unknown to one another, shared a devotion to the dissident writer's work and a hatred of the regime that brought terror to every part of their lives. The circle included scholars and fellow writers and artists, but also such unlikely operatives as an elderly babushka who picked up and delivered manuscripts in her shopping bag. With tenderness, respect, and humor, Solzhenitsyn tells us of the fates of these partners in intrigue: the women who typed distribution copies of his works late into the night under the noses of prying neighbors; the correspondents and diplomats who covertly carried the microfilmed texts across borders; the farflung friends who hid various drafts of Solzhenitsyn's works anywhere they could--under an apple tree, beneath the bathtub, in a mathematics professor's loft with her canoe. In this group of deftly drawn portraits, Solzhenitsyn pays tribute to the anonymous heroes who evaded the KGB to bring The Gulag Archipelago and his many other works to the world.

Author : Andrea Camilleri
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0142004731

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The Snack Thief by Andrea Camilleri Pdf

“The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humor, and the sense of despair that fills the air of Sicily.” —Donna Leon When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Montalbano, with his keen insight into human nature, suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son steals other schoolchildren's midmorning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's life—as well as Montalbano's—is endangered, the Inspector exposes a viper's next of government corruption and international intrigue.

Author : Rebecca Starford
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063037915

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An Unlikely Spy by Rebecca Starford Pdf

“A beguiling tale of espionage." -- Pam Jenoff, author of The Orphans Tale and The Lost Girls of Paris A twisting, sophisticated World War II novel following a spy who goes undercover as a part of MI5—in chasing the secrets of others, how much will she lose of herself? Evelyn Varley has always been ambitious and clever. As a girl, she earned a scholarship to a prestigious academy well above her parents’ means, gaining her a best friend from one of England’s wealthiest families. In 1939, with an Oxford degree in hand and war looming, Evelyn finds herself recruited into an elite MI5 counterintelligence unit. A ruthless secret society seeks an alliance with Germany and, posing as a Nazi sympathizer, Evelyn must build a case to expose their treachery. But as she is drawn deeper into layers of duplicity—perhaps of her own making—some of those closest to her become embroiled in her investigation. With Evelyn’s loyalties placed under extraordinary pressure, she’ll face an impossible choice: save her country or the people who love her. Her decision echoes for years after the war, impacting everyone who thought they knew the real Evelyn Varley. Beguiling and dark, An Unlikely Spy is a fascinating story of deception and sacrifice, based on the history of real people within the British intelligence community.

Author : Svetlana Lilova
Publisher : Dumagrad
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0993790925

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Metaphysical Dictionary by Svetlana Lilova Pdf

A collection of very short poems, framed as term and definition, sorted alphabetically, mapping the poet's private language of understanding - herself, and the world.

Author : Hunter S. Thompson,Ben Corbett
Publisher : Ammo Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 1934429449

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Gonzo by Hunter S. Thompson,Ben Corbett Pdf

A visual biography of writer Hunter S. Thompson, creator of the "gonzo" style of journalism, with photographs and excerpts from Thompson's writings.