Night Of Thunder

Author : Stephen Hunter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849830416

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Night of Thunder by Stephen Hunter Pdf

Bob Lee Swagger, former Marine Corps sniper, is back. And this time, it's personal. Forced off the road and into a crash that leaves her in a coma, barely clinging onto life, journalist Nikki Swagger had been investigating reports of a crystal meth superlab in sleepy Tennessee, when she found herself inadvertently peeling back the layers on a huge conspiracy. Bob Lee Swagger is worried. As a former Marine Corps sniper, he's picked up more than his fair share of enemies hell-bent on revenge and he senses that something isn't right. Unconvinced by the Sheriff's conclusion that Nikki's crash was caused by a local kid high on Meth, Bob picks up the investigation where his daughter left off. As Swagger digs deeper, a violent crime clan, gunmen of all stripes and shapes, and deranged evangelicals all rear their ugly heads, but they will live to rue the day they targeted the wrong man's daughter. What people are saying about Bob Lee Swagger thrillers: ‘Stephen Hunter's I, Sniper brings back one of the great characters in modern thrillerdom, Bob Lee Swagger, everyone's favourite lethal, dour Southerner. I kind of want Swagger to meet up with Lee Child's Jack Reacher one day, in a contest to see who could say the least while doing the most damage.’ Malcolm Gladwell ‘The tension never lets up’ New York Times ‘Stephen Hunter is an Elmore Leonard on steroids’ John Sandford ‘As all Bob Lee fans know, it comes down to 'straight killing time.' And so it does, in a ramped-up, high-tech High Noon finale. As always, Hunter makes it work with precise, detail-rich prose that strips the faux glamour from gun fighting and leaves only the skills of the combatants set against the horrors they wreak.’ Booklist ‘Hunter is back at the top of his game.’ Publisher’s Weekly ‘In his guns-a-poppin' latest, Hunter pits his series hero against a nest of sharp-shooting vipers. Dust off the OK Corral. Even the somewhat squeamish, and even certifiable gun-dummies, may once again find chivalric, heroic Bob Lee just about irresistible.’ Kirkus Reviews ‘Hunter's thrillers are always taut, exciting, and well written, and his latest is no exception. There's also a lot of gun and tech talk as Swagger uses decades' worth of skills to stay a step or three ahead of the baddies. Swagger fans will not be disappointed.’ Library Journal 'Hunter has a unique writing style that thrills and captivates from the opening scene to deliver an exciting whodunit' The Sun ‘Stories of passion, guilt and redemption that jump right off the page and smack the reader clean between the eyes’ Independent on Sunday ‘American hardboiled at its very best, full of taciturn and stoical characters and plotting in explosive overdrive’ The Times ‘Hunter choreographs the violence in steely prose and Swagger ... remains one of crime fiction’s most engaging heroes’ Irish Independent

Author : Tochi Onyebuchi
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780448493954

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Crown of Thunder by Tochi Onyebuchi Pdf

In the sequel to the acclaimed Beasts Made of Night, Taj has escaped Kos, but Queen Karima will go to any means necessary--including using the most deadly magic--to track him down. Taj is headed west, but the consequences of leaving Kos behind confront him at every turn. Innocent civilians flee to refugee camps as Karima's dark magic continues to descend on the city. Taj must return, but first he needs a plan. With Arzu's help, Taj and Aliya make it to the village of her ancestors, home of the tastahlik--sin-eaters with Taj's same ability to both battle and call forth sins. As Taj comes to terms with his new magic, he realizes there are two very different groups of tastahlik--one using their powers for good, the other for more selfish ends. Aliya is struggling with her own unique capabilities. She's immersed in her work to uncover the secret to Karima's magic, but her health begins to mysteriously deteriorate. With the help of a local western mage, Aliya uncovers her true destiny--a future she's not sure she wants. As Taj and Aliya explore their feelings for each other and Arzu connects with her homeland, the local westerners begin to question Taj's true identity. Karima is on his heels, sending dark warnings to the little village where he's hiding. Taj will have to go back and face her before she sends her most deadly weapon--Taj's former best friend, Bo.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433003143033

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Municipal Gazette by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dan Barnwell
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781420876413

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The Owls of Thunder Hollow by Dan Barnwell Pdf

The Owls of Thunder Hollow have a perfect teaching system for teaching their young. The young owls learn to fly, hunt, and survive within this perfect system. There never has been a problem with the system. Everything changes when the owls accidentally hatch a strange egg. The young bird is not an owl. It does not fit into their perfect teaching system. This is a story about an honest effort that was made by both teacher and student. After months of frustration and failure, it appears that they have parted with bitter feelings. The young bird is banished from the presence of his friends. The teacher has been denied the affection that she should have received from the young owls that she taught. Many teachers and students have lived through the sadness of a story like this one. If you had hoped for a happy ending, but never were able to find one, you really need this book. The Owls of Thunder Hollow were able to find an end to the story that is seldom achieved in the world of people.

Author : Mildred D. Taylor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101657942

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics) by Mildred D. Taylor Pdf

Winner of the Newbery Medal, this remarkably moving novel has impressed the hearts and minds of millions of readers. Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie's story—Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over the course of an important year why having land of their own is so crucial to the Logan family, even as she learns to draw strength from her own sense of dignity and self-respect. * "[A] vivid story.... Entirely through its own internal development, the novel shows the rich inner rewards of black pride, love, and independence."—Booklist, starred review

Author : Ruby Jean Jensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1951580605

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Night Thunder by Ruby Jean Jensen Pdf

Author : Heinrich Barth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : UOM:39015016375589

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Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa by Heinrich Barth Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UIUC:30112071781204

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Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jacob Richards Dodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10312706

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Monthly Report of the Department of Agriculture for the Year .. by Jacob Richards Dodge Pdf

Author : Sverker Finnström
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822388790

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Living with Bad Surroundings by Sverker Finnström Pdf

Since 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil war, with the Lord’s Resistance Army and other groups fighting the Ugandan government. Acholi have been murdered, maimed, and driven into displacement. Thousands of children have been abducted and forced to fight. Many observers have perceived Acholiland and northern Uganda to be an exception in contemporary Uganda, which has been celebrated by the international community for its increased political stability and particularly for its fight against AIDS. These observers tend to portray the Acholi as war-prone, whether because of religious fanaticism or intractable ethnic hatreds. In Living with Bad Surroundings, Sverker Finnström rejects these characterizations and challenges other simplistic explanations for the violence in northern Uganda. Foregrounding the narratives of individual Acholi, Finnström enables those most affected by the ongoing “dirty war” to explain how they participate in, comprehend, survive, and even resist it. Finnström draws on fieldwork conducted in northern Uganda between 1997 and 2006 to describe how the Acholi—especially the younger generation, those born into the era of civil strife—understand and attempt to control their moral universe and material circumstances. Structuring his argument around indigenous metaphors and images, notably the Acholi concepts of good and bad surroundings, he vividly renders struggles in war and the related ills of impoverishment, sickness, and marginalization. In this rich ethnography, Finnström provides a clear-eyed assessment of the historical, cultural, and political underpinnings of the civil war while maintaining his focus on Acholi efforts to achieve “good surroundings,” viable futures for themselves and their families.

Author : Esther Charlotte Anne Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924013205665

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Echoes of Heart Whispers by Esther Charlotte Anne Allen Pdf

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440620713

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The House of Thunder by Dean Koontz Pdf

#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a chilling novel of a traumatized woman and the terrifying place she’ll never escape... She woke up in a hospital room, barely able to remember her own name. What secrets are hidden within Susan Thorton’s mind? What terrible accident brought her here? And who are the four shadowy strangers—waiting, like death—in the darkened corridors? One by one, Susan unlocks these mysteries. And step by step, she approaches the torment of her past—a single night of violence, waged by four young men...

Author : James Stephen Ferrall,Þorleifur Guðmundsson Repp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Danish language
ISBN : OXFORD:N10267089

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A Danish-English Dictionary by James Stephen Ferrall,Þorleifur Guðmundsson Repp Pdf

Author : Vernon Preston
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780933876996

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Lewis and Clark by Vernon Preston Pdf

By Terry Nathans he weather and climate of the trans-Mississippi west was virtually unknown at the begin- Tning of the nineteenth century. This changed dramatically shortly after the Louisiana P- chase was signed in 1803, which set the stage for acquiring the first systematic weather measurements of the trans-Mississippi west. The framework for obtaining these measurements was outlined in the now famous June 20, 1803 letter from President Thomas Jefferson to his protégé and personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis. In that letter, Jefferson instructed Lewis to plan and carry out an overland expedition to the Pacific Ocean for the purposes of commerce, and to observe and record a broad range of natural history subjects, including the ...climate, as characterised by the thermometer, by the proportion of rainy, cloudy & clear days, by lightning, hail, snow, ice, by the access & recess of frost, by the winds prevailing at different s- sons, the dates at which particular plants put forth or lose their flower, or leaf... (Jackson 1978, p. 63). Jefferson’s instructions to Lewis, which were part of his decades-long ambition of laun- ing an expedition to explore the interior of North America, were made at the threshold of what Fleming (1990) has called the “expanding horizons” in meteorology. During this period, more reliable meteorological instruments began to emerge allowing for a more comprehensive and systematic acquisition of weather data.

Author : Evan Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743252225

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Sea of Thunder by Evan Thomas Pdf

Drawing on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, postwar testimony from both American and Japanese participants, and interviews with survivors, Thomas provides this riveting account of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, the culminating battle of the war in the Pacific. Photos.