Shimmer

Author : David Morrell
Publisher : David Morrell
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937760007

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The Shimmer by David Morrell Pdf

Since 1889, mysterious lights have appeared outside Rostov, a remote Texas town. Ranchers believed them to be the campfires of rustlers, but campfires don’t rise and fall, merge, and change colors. In World War I, the locals believed that the lights came from German forces massing on the Mexican border. In the Second World War, the US military built an airfield there and used planes to try to discover the secret of the lights. In 1980, the entire town set out on a “Ghost Light Hunt.” For more than a century, each attempt to get close to the lights met with horrifying results. Now police officer Dan Page follows the trail of his missing wife from New Mexico to Texas and discovers that she and hundreds of spectators have become enraptured by the lights. After a crazed gunman fires obsessively into the crowd, the stage is set for more death. To save his wife, Page must confront the mystery of the lights. His desperate search reveals a government conspiracy that dates back to World War II. The abandoned airfield is more than what it seems. So is a nearby observatory, with a purpose even more mysterious and lethal than the lights themselves. Drawing his inspiration from the real-life Marfa lights, critically acclaimed Morrell packs The Shimmer with his trademark blend of action and terror.

Author : Alyson Noël
Publisher : Square Fish
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429993272

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Shimmer by Alyson Noël Pdf

Having solved the matter of the Radiant Boy, Riley, Buttercup, and Bodhi are enjoying a well-deserved vacation. When Riley comes across a vicious black dog, against Bodhi's advice, she decides to cross him over. While following the dog, she runs into a young ghost named Rebecca. Despite Rebecca's sweet appearance, Riley soon learns she's not at all what she seems. As the daughter of a former plantation owner, she is furious about being murdered during a slave revolt in 1733. Mired in her own anger, Rebecca is lashing out by keeping the ghosts who died along with her trapped in their worst memories. Can Riley help Rebecca forgive and forget without losing herself to her own nightmarish memories? Find out in Shimmer, the second book in the Riley Bloom series from bestselling author Alyson Noël.

Author : Perdita Finn
Publisher : Orchard Books
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781408338360

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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Sunset Shimmer's Time to Shine by Perdita Finn Pdf

Sunset Shimmer has changed a lot since she came from Equestria to Canterlot High. But when it comes to friendship, she still has a lot to learn. When she starts to study the magic of friendship, she ends up causing problems for all her friends! Can Twilight Sparkle and the others teach her what friendship is all about?

Author : William Darwin Crabb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B260536

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Silver Shimmer by William Darwin Crabb Pdf

Author : Sarah Schulman
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781531502935

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Shimmer by Sarah Schulman Pdf

A revelatory portrait of McCarthy-era Manhattan—back in print! It is 1948 in Manhattan. Aspiring reporter Sylvia Golubowsky pays her dues in the steno pool at the tabloid New York Star, along with sixteen other girls whose eyes are on the back of the chair in front of them, the next step up the ladder. At the rival paper across town, gossip columnist Austin Van Cleeve rules New York and Washington with his venomous pen. In the Village, Columbia University graduate Cal Byfield is stuck flipping burgers to support his dream of a Negro theater on Broadway. Against the backdrop of post–World War II New York City and under the growing shadow of the Red Scare, these three indelible characters collide with one another amidst the larger drama of the historical moment. In a fresh re-interpretation of the McCarthy era, Sarah Schulman reframes our understanding of the “blacklist” to show how racial and sexual discrimination create their own ongoing exclusions and how the politics of treachery affect the most intimate relationships. First published in 1998, Shimmer draws parallels between the McCarthy era and contemporary American life and upends the tropes of film noir, pulp fiction, and set pieces of midcentury America by positioning a Black man and a queer Jewish woman as emblematic Americans. In a story set before the advent of the collective revolutionary movements of the 1960s, Cal and Sylvia learn the hard way that the American Dream was not available to them. This new edition of Shimmer includes a postscript by the author.

Author : Jennifer McBride,Lynda Nixon
Publisher : Fremantle Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781922089397

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Shimmer by Jennifer McBride,Lynda Nixon Pdf

Strong protagonists of both genders face friendship, decision-making, and moralityKora, a powerful genie and the heir to the Genesian throne, is suddenly banished to Earth to keep her safe after her homeland is threatened. Meanwhile, everything is going wrong in David’s life on Earth. When he accidentally summons Kora from her globe, his whole world is turned upside-down, and her magic powers might just be the solution to the chaos. But commanding a genie is notoriously tricky—especially when she’s also an angry teenage girl. Unable to part from each other, and with their loved ones in danger, Kora and David discover that the best way to help themselves is to first help each other. This topical tale deals with contemporary adolescent issues and features an interesting character dynamic.

Author : Alex Pugsley
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771964708

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Shimmer by Alex Pugsley Pdf

Nominated for the 2023 ReLit Award for Short Fiction In ten vividly told stories, Shimmer follows characters through relationships, within social norms, and across boundaries of all kinds as they shimmer into and out of each other’s lives. Outside a 7-Eleven, teen boys Veeper and Wendell try to decide what to do with their night, though the thought of the rest of their lives doesn’t seem to have occurred to them. In Laurel Canyon, two movie stars try to decide if the affair they’re having might mean they like each other. When Byron, trying to figure out the chords of a song he likes, posts a question on a guitar website, he ends up meeting Jessica as well, a woman with her own difficult music. And when the snide and sharp-tongued Twyla agrees to try therapy, not even she would have imagined the results.

Author : Alyson Noël
Publisher : Square Fish
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429935685

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Dreamland by Alyson Noël Pdf

In Dreamland, the third book in Alyson Noël's beloved young adult series, Riley Bloom's finding that the afterlife can be a lonely place when all you do is focus on work. So she goes to the place where dreams happen, hoping to find a way to contact her sister, Ever. She meets the director, who tells her about the two ways to send dreams. As a Dream Jumper, a person can jump into a dreamer's dream, share a message, and participate. As a Dreamweaver, an entire dream can be created in a studio and sent to the dreamer. But Dreamweaving was outlawed decades ago, and the studio was boarded up. Thinking it's her only way to reach out to her sister, Riley goes in search of the old studio. There she finds a ghost boy, who's been creating and sending nightmares to people for years. In order to stop him and reach out to Ever, Riley is going to have to confront and overcome her own fears.

Author : Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375989179

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Dark Shimmer by Donna Jo Napoli Pdf

Set in medieval Venice, this captivating fairy tale retelling by award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli explores belonging, beauty, and the transformative power of love through the eyes of a teenage girl. Dolce has grown up hidden away on an island in a lagoon. She is a giant, a freak, tormented by everyone but her loving mother. She spends her time learning the valuable secret of making mirrors. Following a tragedy, Dolce swims away and lands on an island where people see her as normal, even beautiful. Marin, a kind widower, and his little daughter bring Dolce to live with them in their grand palazzo. Eventually, Dolce and Marin marry. She secretly continues to make mirrors, not realizing that quicksilver endangers her . . . and so evil begins in innocence.

Author : Dallas Reed
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780061975400

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Shimmer by Dallas Reed Pdf

When the box is opened, everything starts to change. On a freezing night in Winter, Colorado, there's a party going on—and it will change the town forever. Justin, the party's host, doesn't know that the box in his dad's study contains a shimmering dust that has the power to transform all it touches. Emma, the cute new girl, doesn't know she will spend the next twenty-four hours running for her life through a freezing blizzard. Russ, a local snowboarder, doesn't know that the person he loves most is about to betray him. And Tess, the queen of the school, only knows she wants to see what's in that box. Nobody knows what's coming—yet. But as the party gets under way, the residents of Winter will find themselves face-to-face with forces darker than any December storm.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1114 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : OSU:32435065930653

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Harper's Bazaar by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carsten Stroud
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781489265449

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The Shimmer by Carsten Stroud Pdf

How do you hunt a killer who can go back in time and make sure you're never born? A police pursuit kicks Sergeant Jack Redding of the Florida Highway Patrol and his trainee, Julie Karras, into a shoot–out that ends with one girl dead and another in cuffs, and the driver of the SUV fleeing into the Intracoastal Waterway. Redding stays on the hunt, driven by the trace memory that he knows that running woman – and he does, because his grandfather, a cop in Jacksonville, was hunting the same woman in 1957. Redding and his partner, Pandora Jansson, chase this seductive serial killer who can ride The Shimmer across decades. The pursuit cuts from modern–day Jacksonville to Mafia–ruled St. Augustine in 1957, then to the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1914. The stakes turn brutal when Jack, whose wife and child died in a crash the previous Christmas Eve, faces a terrible choice: help his grandfather catch the killer, or change time itself and try to save his wife and child. The Shimmer is a unique time–shifting thriller that will stay with you long after its utterly unforeseen and yet perfectly diabolical ending.

Author : Deborah Bird Rose
Publisher : EUP
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474490395

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Shimmer by Deborah Bird Rose Pdf

The highly anticipated final book by the leading anthropologist and environmental humanities scholar Deborah Bird Rose (1946-2018)

Author : Chris Loker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1567926568

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A Shimmer of Joy by Chris Loker Pdf

From The Tale of Rabbit (1901) to Last Stop on Market Street (2015), each of the one hundred books is presented with fascinating stories of its publication history and biographies of the creators. On the facing page, a cover and inside spread will bring back memories of the time when, sitting in a classroom or on a lap, someone read you a book and opened up your world.

Author : Michelle Knudsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Valentine's Day
ISBN : 0689837844

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Valentine's Day by Michelle Knudsen Pdf

This eye-catching, one-of-a-kind board book features read-aloud rhyming texts, shaped, shimmery patches, and sequins on every spread. This title also includes glittery boxes of chocolate, a shiny bouquet of roses, and a heart-shaped balloon. Full-color illustrations.