Everybody Dies In The End

Author : Brian Katcher
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0615710174

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Everyone Dies in the End by Brian Katcher Pdf

At seventeen, Sherman Andrews has been accepted in the Missouri Scholars' Academy. Sherman has had a ten-year plan since he was eight, and he is determined to become an award-winning investigative journalist. He is going places, unlike his low-brow plumber father or his absent mother. While researching his first project, a chance discovery of a mysterious photograph of four men, dated 1935, leads to Sherman uncovering records of deaths, disappearances, and cover-ups on an almost unbelievable scale. Too late, Sherman realizes the organization responsible is still around, and they're prepared to take drastic measures to keep him quiet. Sherman must decide if he wants to flee for his life, or risk everything to become the reporter he's always wanted to be. There are only two people he can trust to help him. One is Charlie, the cute, chubby student librarian at the historical society. The other is Denton, who claims that the organization is led by a shadowy man who died in 1966...and 1935...and 1864. The fact that Denton has been forcibly committed to a mental hospital is just an unfortunate misunderstanding. Something evil is about to reappear. And Sherman, with his Dictaphone, his ironed socks, and his ten-page resume, may be the only one who can prevent a tragedy. Interspersed with flashbacks to the original 1935 adventurers, Everyone Dies is a lighthearted coming of age story about love, growing up, and what it's like to be buried alive.

Author : Ken Tanaka,David Ury
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780062358707

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Everybody Dies by Ken Tanaka,David Ury Pdf

Nobody likes to think about death, but the world would be awfully crowded without it. From YouTube sensation Ken Tanaka and actor David Ury, who was crushed by an ATM on AMC's Breaking Bad, comes Everybody Dies, a colorful story and delightful assemblage of games that makes it easy-even fun- to come to grips with mortality.

Author : Michael McGarrity
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 110111875X

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Everyone Dies by Michael McGarrity Pdf

With "a cunning mind for crime fiction" (New York Times Book Review), Anthony Award-nominated Michael McGarrity ratchets up the stakes in his novel of a vengeful killer with an unspeakable agenda: offing people with ties to the criminal justice system. Next on the list: Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney, his wife, Lieutenant Colonel Sara Brannon, and their unborn son.

Author : Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
Publisher : Ember
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781984892621

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Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock Pdf

A lyrical and heartfelt collection by an award-winning writer that connects the lives of young people from small towns in Alaska and the American west. Each story is unique, yet universal. In this book, the impact of wildfire, a wayward priest, or a mysterious disappearance ricochet across communities, threading through stories. Here, ordinary actions such as ice skating or going to church reveal hidden truths. One choice threatens a lifelong friendship. Siblings save each other. Rescue and second chances are possible, and so is revenge. On the surface, it seems that nothing ever happens in these towns. But Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock shows that underneath that surface, teenagers' lives blaze with fury, with secrets, and with love so strong it burns a path to the future.

Author : David Wong,Jason Pargin
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429956789

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John Dies at the End by David Wong,Jason Pargin Pdf

Jon Dies at the End is a genre-bending, humorous account of two college drop-outs inadvertently charged with saving their small town--and the world--from a host of supernatural and paranormal invasions. Now a Major Motion Picture. "[Pargin] is like a mash-up of Douglass Adams and Stephen King... 'page-turner' is an understatement." —Don Coscarelli, director, Phantasm I-V, Bubba Ho-tep STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korrok, about the invasion, and the future. But it's too late. You touched the book. You're in the game. You're under the eye. The only defense is knowledge. You need to read this book, to the end. Even the part with the bratwurst. Why? You just have to trust me. The important thing is this: The sauce is a drug, and it gives users a window into another dimension. John and I never had the chance to say no. You still do. I'm sorry to have involved you in this, I really am. But as you read about these terrible events and the very dark epoch the world is about to enter as a result, it is crucial you keep one thing in mind: None of this was my fault.

Author : Bronnie Ware
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781401956004

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Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware Pdf

Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.

Author : Celeste Ng
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101634615

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Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Pdf

The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts “A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.” —O, the Oprah Magazine “Explosive . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.” —Entertainment Weekly “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.

Author : Richard Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798530733260

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Everybody Dies In The End by Richard Sullivan Pdf

Volume 5 of Richard Sullivan's The First Ward historical novel series, "Everybody Dies In The End," based on actual people and their activities legal and otherwise in Buffalo's wild and wooly waterfront First Ward, sees five of the real life principal characters die-four of them within four months of each other. Preceding their demise, each is involved in a series of life-changing ventures. We meet William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan, known as the "Father of the CIA" who was born and raised in the First Ward. Donovan lets others' high opinions of him go to his head as he overreaches his authority to betray and alienate his family, friends, clients and even his own law partner. Future King of England, Edward Prince of Wales, visits Buffalo with his flirtatious gay brother to dedicate the opening of the Peace Bridge linking Canada and the US. Fingy Conners, "The Boss" of the First Ward, takes control of the Great Lakes shipping trade, putting him in the ideal position to make millions rum-running during Prohibition. During Prohibition the US Coast Guard runs wild murdering innocent citizens merely on suspicion of their possessing alcohol. Lydia Harper, a beautiful negro prostitute, becomes a heroine in the deadly cholera epidemic, only to be shunned afterward by the very same people whose lives she saved. In his final year on earth, Detective Sergeant Jim Sullivan resurrects the Mutual Rowing Club after World War I, coupled with the Spanish Flu epidemic, nearly cause its closure. The widow of a murdered sailor enlists Alderman John P. Sullivan in her quarter century battle to clear her husband's name and win her rightful widow's pension from the US Navy. During a labor strike against him, Fingy Conners imports 12,000 desperate men into the city as strike-breakers, who then go on to wreak havoc at great cost to city taxpayers. Members of the Mutual Rowing Club sabotage their own National Champion's chances to compete in the 1924 Paris Olympics. A Buffalo pharmacist, Boris Reinstein, joins the Russian Revolution and rises to become a principal Minister in Vladimir Lenin's Soviet cabinet. Publisher William Randolph Hearst once again decides to run for Governor of New York and enlists Fingy Conners as his campaign manager. Movie star Marion Davies, Hearst's out-of-control mistress, poses the ultimate threat, as the Catholic Bishop of Buffalo William Turner just happens to occupy the ship's cabin next door to Hearst and Davies' during their clandestine (and very noisy) trans-Atlantic crossing. And through it all, the conscience of The First Ward series, Hannah Sullivan, endures and ultimately triumphs in her own modest manner.

Author : Adam Silvera
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062457813

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They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera Pdf

Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. #1 New York Times bestseller * 4 starred reviews * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice * A Bustle Best YA Novel * A Paste Magazine Best YA Book * A Book Riot Best Queer Book * A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of the Year * A BookPage Best YA Book of the Year On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day. In the tradition of Before I Fall and If I Stay, They Both Die at the End is a tour de force from acclaimed author Adam Silvera, whose debut, More Happy Than Not, the New York Times called “profound.” Plus don't miss The First to Die at the End: #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Silvera returns to the universe of international phenomenon They Both Die at the End in this prequel. New star-crossed lovers are put to the test on the first day of Death-Cast’s fateful calls.

Author : Alice Feeney
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250144836

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Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney Pdf

My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?

Author : Lawrence Block
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409130086

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Everybody Dies by Lawrence Block Pdf

A blistering Matt Scudder novel. Matt Scudder is well and truly off the booze, but he still spends time with some of his old drinking pals including Mick Ballou - an Irish American who operates more often than not on the wrong side of the law. Mick is worried - a garage full of bourbon has been ripped off and two of his henchman killed in cold blood. Somebody is muscling in on Micks patch and he wants Scudder to look into it. Matt reluctantly agrees to take a look but won't promise a result. On the way home he is attacked by somebody wants him off Mick's case. The following weekend Matt's mentor from AA is shot dead at point blank range when Scudder is in the men's room of the restaurant where the 2 had met for dinner - Matt knows it should have been him. Now the case is personal and no matter that he's warned off by his ex-colleagues in the NYPD and his wife Elaine, this is one he is going to see out to the end.

Author : William Cooke
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595274772

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In the End, Everyone Dies by William Cooke Pdf

Author : Lois Lowry
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780544340688

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The Giver by Lois Lowry Pdf

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.

Author : Greg Bear
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497607200

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The Forge of God by Greg Bear Pdf

This doomsday masterpiece from the author of Eon and Hull Zero Three was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula awards. On July 26, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone. On September 28th, Edward Shaw finds an error in the geological records of Death Valley. A cinder cone was left off the map. Could it be new? Or, stranger yet, could it be artificial? The answer may be lying beside it—a dying Guest who brings devastating news for Edward and for Planet Earth. As more unexplained phenomena spring up around the globe—a granite mountain appearing in Australia, sounds emanating from the earth’s core, flashes of light among the asteroids—it becomes clear to some that the end is approaching, and there is nothing we can do. In The Forge of God, award-winning author Greg Bear describes the final days of the world on both a massive, scientific scale and in the everyday, emotional context of individual human lives. Facing the destruction of all they know, some people turn to God, others to their families, and a few turn to saviors promising escape from a planet being torn apart. Will they make it in time? And who gets left behind to experience the last moments of beauty and chaos on earth? Nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards, The Forge of God is an engrossing read, breathtaking in its scope and in its detail.

Author : Lindsay Ribar
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780698407589

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Rocks Fall Everyone Dies by Lindsay Ribar Pdf

Twin Peaks meets Stars Hollow in this paranormal suspense novel about a boy who can reach inside people and steal their innermost things—fears, memories, scars, even love—and his family's secret ritual that for centuries has kept the cliff above their small town from collapsing. Aspen Quick has never really worried about how he's affecting people when he steals from them. But this summer he'll discover just how strong the Quick family magic is—and how far they'll go to keep their secrets safe. With a smart, arrogant protagonist, a sinister family tradition, and an ending you won't see coming, this is a fast-paced, twisty story about power, addiction, and deciding what kind of person you want to be, in a family that has the ability to control everything you are.