Hurricane Fever

Author : Tobias S. Buckell
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429949286

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Hurricane Fever by Tobias S. Buckell Pdf

A storm is coming.... Introducing a pulse-pounding technothriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Arctic Rising Prudence "Roo" Jones never thought he'd have a family to look after—until suddenly he found himself taking care of his orphaned teenage nephew. Roo, a former Caribbean Intelligence operative, spends his downtime on his catamaran dodging the punishing hurricanes that are the new norm in the Caribbean. Roo enjoys the simple calm of his new life—until an unexpected package from a murdered fellow spy shows up. Suddenly Roo is thrown into the center of the biggest storm of all. Using his wits—and some of the more violent tricks of his former trade—Roo begins to unravel the mystery that got his friend killed. When a polished and cunning woman claiming to be murdered spy's sister appears, the two find themselves caught up in a global conspiracy with a weapon that could change the face of the world forever. In Hurricane Fever, New York Times bestselling author Tobias Buckell (Arctic Rising, Halo: The Cole Protocol) has crafted a kinetic technothriller perfect for fans of action-packed espionage within a smartly drawn geo-political landscape. Roo is an anti–James Bond for a new generation. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Tobias S. Buckell
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429987431

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Arctic Rising by Tobias S. Buckell Pdf

Global warming has transformed the Earth, and it's about to get even hotter. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but melted, and the international community is racing desperately to claim the massive amounts of oil beneath the newly accessible ocean. Enter the Gaia Corporation. Its two founders have come up with a plan to roll back global warming. Thousands of tiny mirrors floating in the air can create a giant sunshade, capable of redirecting heat and cooling the earth's surface. They plan to terraform Earth to save it from itself—but in doing so, they have created a superweapon the likes of which the world has never seen. Anika Duncan is an airship pilot for the underfunded United Nations Polar Guard. She's intent on capturing a smuggled nuclear weapon that has made it into the Polar Circle and bringing the smugglers to justice. Anika finds herself caught up in a plot by a cabal of military agencies and corporations who want Gaia Corporation stopped. But when Gaia Corp loses control of their superweapon, it will be Anika who has to decide the future of the world. The nuclear weapon she has risked her life to find is the only thing that can stop the floating sunshade after it falls into the wrong hands. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Vivien Leyland
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553278428

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Storm Fever by Vivien Leyland Pdf

Author : Fernanda Melchor
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811228046

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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor Pdf

The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers Winner of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute's Tanslation Prize Longlisted for the National Book Award Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the Internationaler Literaturpreis New York Public Library Best Books of 2020 Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020 The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters—inners whom most people would write off as irredeemable—forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolano’s 2666 or Faulkner’s novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world saturated with mythology and violence—real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more and more terrifying the deeper you explore it.

Author : Paul Volponi
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781440632488

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Hurricane Song by Paul Volponi Pdf

When Miles's mother remarries, Miles decides to move to New Orleans to be with his father. But he and his father are very different—Miles's dad lives for jazz, while Miles's first love is football. Then Hurricane Katrina hits, and the two must seek refuge in the Superdome. What would normally be a dream come true for a football fan, this safe haven turns into a nightmare when the power fails and gangs take over. And when his father decides to rebel, Miles must make a choice that will alter their relationship—and their lives—forever.

Author : Charles Frederick Pascoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Church of England
ISBN : UCSD:31822027379734

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Classified Digest of the Records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. 1701-1892 by Charles Frederick Pascoe Pdf

Author : Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Missionaries, British
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041294443

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Classified Digest of the Records of the Society ... 1701-1892 by Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Andrew Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Climatology
ISBN : UCAL:B4810670

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Geographical Pathology: South-eastern Asia, Indian archipelago, Australia and Polynesia, Africa, America by Andrew Davidson Pdf

Author : Andrew Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Epidemiology
ISBN : OXFORD:N13918778

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South-eastern Asia, Indian Archipelago, Australia and Polynesia, Africa, America by Andrew Davidson Pdf

Author : Andrew Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503287169

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Geographical pathology v. 2 by Andrew Davidson Pdf

Author : Don Brown
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780544837409

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Fever Year by Don Brown Pdf

From the Sibert honor-winning creator behind The Unwanted and Drowned City comes a graphic novel of one of the darkest episodes in American history: the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918. New Year's Day, 1918. America has declared war on Germany and is gathering troops to fight. But there's something coming that is deadlier than any war. When people begin to fall ill, most Americans don't suspect influenza. The flu is known to be dangerous to the very old, young, or frail. But the Spanish flu is exceptionally violent. Soon, thousands of people succumb. Then tens of thousands . . . hundreds of thousands and more. Graves can't be dug quickly enough. What made the influenza of 1918 so exceptionally deadly--and what can modern science help us understand about this tragic episode in history? With a journalist's discerning eye for facts and an artist's instinct for true emotion, Sibert Honor recipient Don Brown sets out to answer these questions and more in Fever Year.

Author : Samanta Schweblin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399184611

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Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin Pdf

“A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Fever Dream is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish imagination.” –Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.

Author : Sonia Shah
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781429981170

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The Fever by Sonia Shah Pdf

In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their names—and opened their pocketbooks—in hopes of curing the disease. Still, in a time when every emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why aren't we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic disease that we've known how to prevent for more than a century still infect 500 million people every year, killing nearly 1 million of them? In The Fever, the journalist Sonia Shah sets out to answer these questions, delivering a timely, inquisitive chronicle of the illness and its influence on human lives. Through the centuries, she finds, we've invested our hopes in a panoply of drugs and technologies, and invariably those hopes have been dashed. From the settling of the New World to the construction of the Panama Canal, through wars and the advances of the Industrial Revolution, Shah tracks malaria's jagged ascent and the tragedies in its wake, revealing a parasite every bit as persistent as the insects that carry it. With distinguished prose and original reporting from Panama, Malawi, Cameroon, India, and elsewhere, The Fever captures the curiously fascinating, devastating history of this long-standing thorn in the side of humanity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Medicine
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103052890

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Canada Lancet by Anonim Pdf

Author : Xavier Navarro Aquino
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063071391

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Velorio by Xavier Navarro Aquino Pdf

Featured on NPR's WEEKEND EDITION Set in the wake of Hurricane Maria, Xavier Navarro Aquino’s unforgettable debut novel follows a remarkable group of survivors searching for hope on an island torn apart by both natural disaster and human violence. Camila is haunted by the death of her sister, Marisol, who was caught by a mudslide during the huracán. Unable to part with Marisol, Camila carries her through town, past the churchyard, and, eventually, to the supposed utopia of Memoria. Urayoán, the idealistic, yet troubled cult leader of Memoria, has a vision for this new society, one that in his eyes is peaceful and democratic. The paradise he preaches lures in the young, including Bayfish, a boy on the cusp of manhood, and Morivivi, a woman whose outward toughness belies an inner tenderness for her friends. But as the different members of Memoria navigate Urayoán’s fiery rise, they will need to confront his violent authoritarian impulses in order to find a way to reclaim their home. Velorio—meaning “wake”—is a story of strength, resilience, and hope; a tale of peril and possibility buoyed by the deeply held belief in a people’s ability to unite against those corrupted by power.