Johnny Gone Down

Author : Karan Bajaj
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789350294949

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Johnny Gone Down by Karan Bajaj Pdf

Nikhil Arya has fallen. Once, he was an Ivy League scholar with a promising future at NASA; now, at forty, he is broke, homeless, and minutes away from blowing his brains out in a diabolical modern-day joust. It wasn't meant to be this way. An innocent vacation turned into an epic intercontinental journey that saw Nikhil become first a genocide survivor, then a Buddhist monk, a drug lord, a homeless accountant, a software mogul and a deadly game fighter. Now, twenty years later, Nikhil aka Johnny is tired of running. With the Colombian mafia on his trail and his abandoned wife and son ten thousand miles away, he prepares for his final act, aware that he will have lost even if he wins. Or will he? Is there any greater victory than living a life that knows no limits, a world that has seen no boundaries? From the bestselling author of Keep Off the Grass comes the once-in-a-lifetime story of an ordinary man fighting an extraordinary destiny. Can he pick up the pieces one last time or will Nikhil, now Johnny, go down for good?

Author : Karan Bajaj
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698192041

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The Yoga of Max's Discontent by Karan Bajaj Pdf

“A beautifully rendered epic journey . . . . The novel works on many levels and excels at them all.” —New York Journal of Books In this captivating and surprising novel of spiritual discovery—a No. 1 bestseller in India—a young American travels to India and finds himself tested physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Max Pzoras is the poster child for the American Dream. The child of Greek immigrants who grew up in a dangerous New York housing project, he triumphed over his upbringing and became a successful Wall Street analyst. Yet on the frigid December night he’s involved in a violent street scuffle, Max begins to confront questions about suffering and mortality that have dogged him since his mother’s death. His search takes him to the farthest reaches of India, where he encounters a mysterious night market, almost freezes to death on a hike up the Himalayas, and finds himself in an ashram in a drought-stricken village in South India. As Max seeks answers to questions that have bedeviled him—can yogis walk on water and live for 200 years without aging? Can a flesh-and-blood man ever achieve nirvana?—he struggles to overcome his skepticism and the pull of family tugging him home. In an ultimate bid for answers, he embarks on a dangerous solitary meditation in a freezing Himalayan cave, where his physical and spiritual endurance is put to its most extreme test. By turns a gripping adventure story and a journey of tremendous inner transformation, The Yoga of Max's Discontent is a contemporary take on man's classic quest for transcendence.

Author : Dalton Trumbo
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780806537603

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Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo Pdf

The Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of Readers An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo?s stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. Johnny Got His Gun is an undisputed classic of antiwar literature that?s as timely as ever. ?A terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.?--The Washington Post "Powerful. . . an eye-opener." --Michael Moore "Mr. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence."--The New York Times "A book that can never be forgotten by anyone who reads it."--Saturday Review

Author : Will Hobbs
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780061963643

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Far North by Will Hobbs Pdf

From the window of the small floatplane, fifteen-year-old Gabe Rogers is getting his first look at Canada's magnificent Northwest Territories with Raymond Providence, his roommate from boarding school. Below is the spectacular Nahanni River -- wall-to-wall whitewater racing between sheer cliffs and plunging over Virginia Falls. The pilot sets the plane down on the lake-like surface of the upper river for a closer look at the thundering falls. Suddenly the engine quits. The only sound is a dull roar downstream, as the Cessna drifts helplessly toward the falls . . . With the brutal subarctic winter fast approaching, Gabe and Raymond soon find themselves stranded in Deadmen Valley. Trapped in a frozen world of moose, wolves, and bears, two boys from vastly different cultures come to depend on each other for their very survival.

Author : S. E Hinton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Fugitives from justice
ISBN : 0137012608

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The Outsiders by S. E Hinton Pdf

Author : Mark Z. Danielewski
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375420528

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House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Pdf

“A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.” —The New York Times Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

Author : Mrs. Henry Wood
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732663613

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Johnny Ludlow by Mrs. Henry Wood Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Johnny Ludlow by Mrs. Henry Wood

Author : Christian Isobel Johnstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : English fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2V1N

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Standard Tales by Standard Authors by Christian Isobel Johnstone Pdf

Author : Robert Goudreau
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595412846

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Johnny Redd by Robert Goudreau Pdf

Johnny Redd grew up amidst the poverty of rural Tennessee, where graduating from high school was the greatest ambition many could hope for. But now he has the chance to change everything. Helped by friends of his murdered father, Johnny is on his way to Chicago for a job as a right-hand man in the national labor movement. In escaping from poverty, will he also have to abandon morality, and give up on his hope to make things better for the friends and family he left behind?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030036925487

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Littell's Living Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081121205X

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The Man with the Heart in the Highlands & Other Early Stories by William Saroyan Pdf

Offers a selection of the master of human comedy's short stories from the 1930s and 1940s

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781407042787

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Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett Pdf

Sell the cemetery? Over their dead bodies . . . Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learnt a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to take it lying down . . . especially since it's Halloween tomorrow. Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was when they were . . . well . . . alive. Particularly if they break a few rules . . . The second book in the Johnny Maxwell trilogy.

Author : Stephen Gallagher
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473225848

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Down River by Stephen Gallagher Pdf

Johnny Mays has the moral conscience of a selfish child in the frame of a plain-clothes cop. The city is his playground, the rest of us his toys. He likes to find out where we work, and where we live, and what will scare us most. And Johnny never had a toy he didn't break. But Johnny starts a car chase, and he pushes it too far. Soon they're fishing for his body at the foot of a dam, and his partner Nick Frazier has been left behind. They were friends, once, a long time ago. Nick had hoped that he might save Johnny. Johnny's last words still echo in Nick's mind: "I'm going to remember this," he said, a dark fire in his eyes. "I'm coming back for you." Then the killings start. Killings of people Johnny didn't like. And Johnny's car is dredged up, empty.

Author : The Big Lefthook
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Irish American boxers
ISBN : 9780595328482

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Johnny Bad Ass by The Big Lefthook Pdf

This is a love story of a young Irish fighter's climb out of a blue collar neighborhood of Brooklyn into the double-dealing, high stakes world of Las Vegas during the 1960's. The road is full of potholes and death defying, hair-pin curves. At every fork, Johnny ("The Kid") takes the wrong turn that sends him into another whirlwind of suspenseful action. A conservative may label Johnny a stone-cold killer but the average reader will fall in love with him because of his deep sense of loyalty and code of honor. Johnny has an "old soul," an attitude from the Wild West but lives in the 1960's-a true recipe for trouble!

Author : Danny Falcone
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481715751

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Johnny Angel by Danny Falcone Pdf

What happens when a vicious mafia solider has an unshakable alliance with the three biggest crime syndicates? Traveling the world ignites the spirit but navigating the cultural underworld of organized crime could steal your soul. From the ghettos in China to the international brotherhood of the Russian mafia and from the Colombian cartel to the crew who run the streets of Harlem, their crimes reach across the globe as the world witnesses their chilling trail of corruption, extortion, scams and murder. The catalyst to it all is Giovanni Bassemo aka Johnny Angel. Greed, deceit and betrayal at every turn threaten to break their strategic alliances. Their secret societies mix fear and violence with a manipulative genius rivaled only by their collective minds, resulting in higher and higher stakes. Their ruthless reaping of money, power and prestige destroys the lives of everyone who gets in their way. JOHNNY ANGEL is a raw, insider's look at the inner workings of the five biggest ethnic organized crime groups in the world. Boris Alekseyev aka The Fighter leads the Izmaylovskaya Gang (Russian Mafia). Meng Chang aka Lee is the leader of the Tongs (Chinese Mafia). Hector Lopez aka Yankee is the Colombian Cartel's main man in the USA. Mark Owens aka Apollo rules Harlem. Johnny Angel who women love and men fear is the traditional Italian Mafia captain and core connection to the other leaders. Their bonds from childhood are unshakable. Their ruthlessness is unparalleled. The plotting against Johnny shrouds him as the treachery thickens. The calmness of his response comes full circle in the brilliant yet vengeful counter-attack as he turns the tables on all of his conspiring killers. Johnny Angel is one of a series of four.