The Hidden Plot

Author : Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780689848070

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Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix Pdf

In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke, an illegal third child, has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm in this start to the Shadow Children series from Margaret Peterson Haddix. Luke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family's farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he's met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows—does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to?

Author : Edward Bond
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408171417

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The Hidden Plot by Edward Bond Pdf

An important, urgent book of essays from Britain's most challenging dramatist: "...a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright." (The Independent) This collection of passionate and polemical essays deals with drama from its origin in the human mind to its use in history and the present. It explains the hidden working of drama behind the state, religion, family, crime and war. It is a revolutionary understanding of the human world with drama at its centre. A ruthless critique of the theatre's present state and its trivialisation as entertainment by the media, it reveals and sees a radical new theatre for the future. Edward Bond is internationally recognised as a major playwright and a leading theoretician of drama. He is the most performed British dramatist abroad. This is his latest and most important account of the meaning and practice of theatre as we start a new millennium.

Author : Camilla Läckberg
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007419487

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The Hidden Child (Patrik Hedstrom and Erica Falck, Book 5) by Camilla Läckberg Pdf

In this official TV Summer Book Club pick, worldwide bestseller Camilla Lackberg weaves together another brilliant contemporary psychological thriller with the chilling struggle of a young woman facing the darkest chapter of Europe's past...

Author : Helene Wecker
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062110855

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The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker Pdf

“An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker’s storytelling skills dazzle." —Entertainment Weekly A marvelous and absorbing debut novel about a chance meeting between two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-century immigrant New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay by a disgraced rabbi knowledgeable in the ways of dark Kabbalistic magic. She serves as the wife to a Polish merchant who dies at sea on the voyage to America. As the ship arrives in New York in 1899, Chava is unmoored and adrift until a rabbi on the Lower East Side recognizes her for the creature she is and takes her in. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert and trapped centuries ago in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard. Released by a Syrian tinsmith in a Manhattan shop, Ahmad appears in human form but is still not free. An iron band around his wrist binds him to the wizard and to the physical world. Chava and Ahmad meet accidentally and become friends and soul mates despite their opposing natures. But when the golem’s violent nature overtakes her one evening, their bond is challenged. An even more powerful threat will emerge, however, and bring Chava and Ahmad together again, challenging their very existence and forcing them to make a fateful choice. Compulsively readable, The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, in a wondrously inventive tale that is mesmerizing and unforgettable.

Author : Francesco Dimitri
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781785657085

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The Book of Hidden Things by Francesco Dimitri Pdf

From "one of the most significant figures of the last generation of fantasy", comes Francesco Dimitri's debut novel in English, an enthralling and seductive fantasy following four old friends and the secrets they keep. Four old school friends have a pact: to meet up every year in the small town in Puglia they grew up in. Art, the charismatic leader of the group and creator of the pact, insists that the agreement must remain unshakable and enduring. But this year, he never shows up. A visit to his house increases the friends' worry; Art is farming marijuana. In Southern Italy doing that kind of thing can be very dangerous. They can't go to the Carabinieri so must make enquiries of their own. This is how they come across the rumours about Art; bizarre and unbelievable rumours that he miraculously cured the local mafia boss's daughter of terminal leukaemia. And among the chaos of his house, they find a document written by Art, The Book of Hidden Things, that promises to reveal dark secrets and wonders beyond anything previously known. Francesco Dimitri's first novel written in English, following his career as one of the most significant fantasy writers in Italy, will entrance fans of Elena Ferrante, Neil Gaiman and Donna Tartt. Set in the beguiling and seductive landscape of Southern Italy, this story is about friendship and landscape, love and betrayal; above all it is about the nature of mystery itself.

Author : Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780689800849

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Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix Pdf

When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.

Author : Lamar Waldron
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781619022676

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Watergate: The Hidden History by Lamar Waldron Pdf

While Richard Nixon's culpability for Watergate has long been established—most recently by PBS in 2003—what's truly remarkable that after almost forty years, conventional accounts of the scandal still don't address Nixon's motive. Why was President Nixon willing to risk his reelection with so many repeated burglaries at the Watergate—and other Washington offices—in just a few weeks? What motivated Nixon to jeopardize his presidency by ordering the wide range of criminal operations that resulted in Watergate? What was Nixon so desperate to get at the Watergate, and how does it explain the deeper context surrounding his crimes? For the first time, the groundbreaking investigative research in Watergate: The Hidden History provides documented answers to all of those questions. It adds crucial missing pieces to the Watergate story—information that President Nixon wanted, but couldn't get, and that wasn't available to the Senate Watergate Committee or to Woodward and Bernstein. This new information not only reveals remarkable insights into Nixon's motivation for Watergate, but also answers the two most important remaining questions: What were the Watergate burglars after? And why was Nixon willing to risk his Presidency to get it? Watergate: The Hidden History reexamines the historical record, including new material only available in recent years. This includes thousands of recently declassified CIA and FBI files, newly released Nixon tapes, and exclusive interviews with those involved in the events surrounding Watergate—ranging from former Nixon officials to key aides for John and Robert Kennedy. This book also builds on decades of investigations by noted journalists and historians, as well as long–overlooked investigative articles from publications like Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times.

Author : Ken Liu
Publisher : Gallery / Saga Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982134037

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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu Pdf

From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipated second volume of short stories. Ken Liu is one of the most lauded short story writers of our time. This collection includes a selection of his science fiction and fantasy stories from the last five years—sixteen of his best—plus a new novelette. In addition to these seventeen selections, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories also features an excerpt from book three in the Dandelion Dynasty series, The Veiled Throne.

Author : Vertrees Canby Malherbe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Black people
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080994846

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Paarl, the Hidden Story by Vertrees Canby Malherbe Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Archer
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781509851355

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Hidden in Plain Sight by Jeffrey Archer Pdf

Filled with Jeffrey Archer’s trademark twists and turns, Hidden in Plain Sight is the gripping next instalment in the life of William Warwick. Newly promoted, Detective Sergeant William Warwick has been reassigned to the drugs squad. His first case: to investigate a notorious south London drug lord known as the Viper. But as William and his team close the net around a criminal network unlike any they have ever encountered, he is also faced with an old enemy, Miles Faulkner. It will take all of William’s cunning to devise a means to bring both men to justice, a trap neither will expect, one that is hidden in plain sight . . . Hidden in Plain Sight follows on from Nothing Ventured and continues with Turn a Blind Eye, but can be read as a standalone story.

Author : Loic Dauvillier
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781596438736

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Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust by Loic Dauvillier Pdf

"A grandmother shares the story of her experiences in WWII with her grandchild in this graphic novel for young readers"--

Author : Omar V. Garrison
Publisher : London, Arlington Books [c1974]
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Scientology
ISBN : UCSC:32106010569694

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The Hidden Story of Scientology by Omar V. Garrison Pdf

Author : Sharon Cameron
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781338355956

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The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron Pdf

The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgórska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by hiding thirteen Jews in her attic during WWII, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sharon Cameron - now a Reese's Book Club YA Pick! One knock at the door, and Stefania has a choice to make... It is 1943, and for four years, sixteen-year-old Stefania has been working for the Diamant family in their grocery store in Przemysl, Poland, singing her way into their lives and hearts. She has even made a promise to one of their sons, Izio -- a betrothal they must keep secret since she is Catholic and the Diamants are Jewish. But everything changes when the German army invades Przemysl. The Diamants are forced into the ghetto, and Stefania is alone in an occupied city, the only one left to care for Helena, her six-year-old sister. And then comes the knock at the door. Izio's brother Max has jumped from the train headed to a death camp. Stefania and Helena make the extraordinary decision to hide Max, and eventually twelve more Jews. Then they must wait, every day, for the next knock at the door, the one that will mean death. When the knock finally comes, it is two Nazi officers, requisitioning Stefania's house for the German army. With two Nazis below, thirteen hidden Jews above, and a little sister by her side, Stefania has one more excruciating choice to make. This remarkable tale of courage and humanity, based on a true story, is now a Reese's Book Club YA Pick!

Author : Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780689839061

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Among the Barons by Margaret Peterson Haddix Pdf

In a future world of false identities, government lies, and death threats, Luke feels drawn to the younger brother of the boy whose name Luke has taken.

Author : Margot Lee Shetterly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : African American mathematicians
ISBN : 0008201293

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Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Pdf

The true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space.