Into The Badlands

Author : Brian J. Jarrett
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1468123424

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Into the Badlands by Brian J. Jarrett Pdf

It's been three years since a devastating pandemic transformed most of the world's human population into vicious, wild animals. Ed Brady and his two sons rely solely on each other in order to survive in a world completely devoid of stability and structure. Their goal: reach the city by the river, where they may have some chance of finding salvation. As they travel across the wasteland that was once the Midwestern United States, they encounter other survivors along the way. As their paths inevitably intertwine, Ed must remain steadfast that his sworn mission to see that his boys know safety and happiness is not compromised. Surrounded by the constant threat of attack by infected humans, can Ed and his sons make it to the city before their luck runs out? And, if they can, what will be waiting for them there when they arrive? Into The Badlands is the debut novel from author Brian J. Jarrett. It's a fast-paced, post-apocalyptic thriller that will take readers on a desperate journey for salvation through the wasted remains of a land overrun with the stuff of nightmares.

Author : John Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015021861532

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Into the Badlands by John Williams Pdf

Author : John Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123216637

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Back to the Badlands by John Williams Pdf

"A gazetteer of American noir."- Daily Telegraph In the summer of 1989 John Williams donned a baseball cap and took off for the States to search out the mythical America of modern crime fiction-to find James Ellroy's Los Angeles, Elmore Leonard's sleazy South Beach of Miami, Sara Paretsky's Chicago, and many others on a tour of the American underbelly. The result was Into the Badlands, a riveting collection of interviews. In 2005 Williams returned to discover that much had changed in the intervening years, both in crime writing and in America as a whole. As Williams crosses America in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he finds himself in a profoundly uneasy country. Whether their territory is inner-city DC, like George Pelecanos, or the rural white poverty of the Ozark Hills, like Daniel Woodrell, the best crime writers today are sending dispatches from the edge. John Williams brings their visions together to construct a powerful, personal portrait of America today. Includes interviews with James Lee Burke, James Ellroy, James Crumley, Sara Paretsky, Eugene Izzi, Elmore Leonard, George V. Higgins, Vicki Hendricks, Kem Nunn, Kinky Friedman, Daniel Woodrell, and George P. Pelecanos.

Author : Mary O'Hara-Devereaux
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780787976002

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Navigating the Badlands by Mary O'Hara-Devereaux Pdf

In this groundbreaking book, Mary O'Hara-Devereaux -- an internationally renowned business forecaster -- shows how organizations can hone their competitive edge during these uncertain times. Using the metaphor of traveling through the badlands of the American West, Navigating the Badlands offers the principles, tools, transformative strategies, and essential understanding executives and business leaders need if they are to weather the rugged, global business landscape of the future. Throughout the book O'Hara-Devereaux reveals how business leaders can seize the opportunity to create new value from successful alliances, reach global markets, and find top talent.

Author : Kristin Keppler,Allisa Bahney
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635559347

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Wasteland by Kristin Keppler,Allisa Bahney Pdf

Danielle Clark is done with the Resistance. After years of leading a relentless charge against the National Armed Forces, she has nothing left to give. Her brother Lucas in tow, Dani leaves the frontlines for the solitude of the wastelands, content to start a new life as a scavenger. Dani thought she’d finally found peace until the general’s daughter, Katelyn Turner, shows up on her doorstep and brings the fight right back to her. Now Dani has to decide what to do about Kate, ranking member of the NAF, a once-sworn enemy…and a woman she can’t keep out of her head. The growing spark of attraction forces Dani into an impossible choice between her newfound life and Kate’s fate. She must act quickly or risk losing everything.

Author : Liam Houlihan
Publisher : Victory Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780522857856

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Return to the Badlands by Liam Houlihan Pdf

A bottle of blood is found buried in a wombat hole, but where is the body? Is a suburban couple paying the babysitter with freshly stolen money? Can a lucky leech outsmart a brazen burglar? Match wits with real life investigators to answer these questions, and also discover how nine of Western Australia's most wanted criminals escaped from Perth's Supreme Court in broad daylight; why an Adelaide wife sent her husband's privates to a fiery end; and how a Melbourne woman convinced high-level professionals to raise her stolen family at a cult in Eildonandmdash;undetectedandmdash;for over twenty years. Cunning crims, cruel cults and common crackpots abound in these 12 fascinating true tales from the badlands of contemporary Australia. Journalist Liam Houlihan goes behind the headlines to prove truth is not only stranger than fiction but also more colourful, more baffling and more twisted.

Author : Pedro Villegas
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781543445978

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Loco in the Badlands by Pedro Villegas Pdf

An agent is working deep undercover to perform a hand-to-hand bust on the world’s largest drug cartel. He must overcome government corruption, racism, and a professional assassin before his cover is blown. Loco in the Badlands is inspired by the true case files of Pedro Villegas.

Author : Roger L. Di Silvestro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802778451

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Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands by Roger L. Di Silvestro Pdf

On February 12, 1884--when Roosevelt was building a career as New York State's most promising young politician--his wife gave birth to their first child, Alice. Two days later, both his wife and his mother died in the same house on Valentine's Day. Grief stricken--and driven by doubts about his career after failed attempts as a reformer fighting political corruption--Roosevelt left Alice in his sister's care and went to live on a Badlands ranch he had bought a year earlier. He spent much of the next three years working alongside his ranch managers and hired hands. He grew to love and respect frontier life and to find in the West both physical health and emotional stamina. His transformation from a young, Harvard-educated New York politician to a working rancher in the mid to late 1880s coincided with the end of the Old West, a turning point in the cattle industry, and major changes in America's attitudes toward wildlife and wild places. Drawing on Roosevelt's own accounts and on diverse archives, Roger Di Silvestro tells the exciting story of how Roosevelt's spirit and political dynamism were forged during roundups, bronco busting, fist fights, grizzly bear hunts, and encounters with horse thieves, hostile Indians, and vigilante justice. In the dramatic life of Theodore Roosevelt, few adventures exceed those that he found in the Badlands.

Author : Raleigh Emry
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595226733

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Good Times in the Badlands by Raleigh Emry Pdf

Author : Sigmund Brouwer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0764225677

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Tyrant of the Badlands by Sigmund Brouwer Pdf

Summary: Twelve-year-old Ricky goes undercover in Alberta, Canada, to infiltrate the gang of thugs that are thought to be vandalizing his great-aunt's mobile home park.

Author : Brian J. Jarrett
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494383896

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Beyond the Badlands (Badlands Series #2) by Brian J. Jarrett Pdf

Who survived The Badlands to make it to the city by the river? Was the city truly a safe haven, or just another dead end, teeming with hordes of the infected? What else is in store for those who survived? In the dramatic second installment of Into the Badlands, the fate of the survivors and the truth about the city by the river is finally revealed. For some the journey has ended, but for those who remain, surviving the end of the world will be only the beginning.

Author : Jane Colhoff
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595424009

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Spirits in the Badlands by Jane Colhoff Pdf

Hattie sat down on the ground in the clearing and leaned back against a stump, raising her face to the warm autumn sun. She closed her eyes and sighed deeply. She knew if anyone could help BT now, it would be Red Wolfe. This thrilling second book in the Badlands Mystery Series finds three friends and amateur investigators, Hattie Gerald, Buffalo Thunder ["BT"], and Alan Wilson, once again embroiled in murder and mayhem on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota. Illegal fossil hunters are systematically stripping the sacred Lakota Stronghold of its treasures, and people begin mysteriously dying. Hattie, BT, and Alan are determined to stop the death and destruction, especially after BT's one true love becomes one of the victims. In a tale filled with the mystical influence of the Lakota culture, both past and present, the trio braves the deadly determination of those who would decimate the riches locked beneath the Stronghold in the heart of the Badlands. But it is the assistance of the spirits of the Badlands that is crucial to the friends' success. Overcoming traditional notions of rational thought proves difficult, but the three push on toward the inevitable clash between good and evil. Only the Spirits know which side will prevail .

Author : C. J. Box
Publisher : Cassie Dewell
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : North Dakota
ISBN : 1801102910

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Badlands by C. J. Box Pdf

Author : Julie Marie Myatt
Publisher : Broadway Play Publishing
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0881458112

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Alice in the Badlands by Julie Marie Myatt Pdf

Alice intends to end her life in the Badlands of South Dakota, alone, in nature, only she keeps being saved by a Cowboy, out on a silent retreat. It could be an American romance story, but Alice didn't ask to be saved. She doesn't want saving by the Cowboy, and she certainly doesn't want it from the Man who has driven across country, and who has walked miles and miles to come and take her back home. Men are the cause and reason for her despair, and yet these two men, determined to be heroes, won't let her have her pain, as her own. Until it's too late.

Author : Jonathan Twingley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439165775

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The Badlands Saloon by Jonathan Twingley Pdf

A one-of-a-kind, fully-illustrated debut novel about one rest- less and curious young man’s summer spent in a small North Dakota town—a meditation on a time in life when you don’t so much unfold the map as start to draw it. As written and painted by Jonathan Twingley, this beautifully illustrated semi-autobiographical novel is a paean to the America that Jack Kerouac explored and Joseph Mitchell and Walt Whitman celebrated. Set in a small town nestled in the badlands of North Dakota, this coming-of-age novel paints a loving portrait of oddball characters, the down-and-out, the ordinary, the outcasts, and the oft-ignored. Jonny is a dreamer, content wherever he is, as long as he has his sketchpad, paints, and paintbrushes. After a year in New York City attending art school, he escapes to the wide-open oasis of North Dakota. Jonny’s home-away-from-home is The Badlands Saloon, the local watering hole. There, he meets Willie Beck, the hyperactive elderly man who doesn’t seem to talk so much as explode into speech; Jimmy Threepence, who likes to sing old English songs at the top of his lungs; Boochie, a convicted murderer; and Lacy, a Native American woman who is an intoxicating free spirit. Though Jonny spends his nights in the Saloon, he spends his days riding his bike through the local hills and sketching the tourists. Featuring eye-catching full-color illustrations that bring to life the novel’s landscape and characters, The Badlands Saloon is a unique American novel.