A cursed Chippendale desk propels Wally Winchester, a severely obsessed Arts and Crafts furniture picker, into the first great adventure of his life. Thrown into the midst of a murder-littered conspiracy and an international forgery scheme, the intrepid Wally finds himself torn between saving the antique score of a lifetime and saving his own life."--Page 4 of cover
Snooping for original Stickley furniture on the grounds of a Pacific Northwest mental health facility, Wally Winchester discovers a clue about an icon thought to be lost, The Protectress of Russia, The Mother of God of Kazan. A Trans Siberian train from Monglolia [i.e Mongolia] to Moscow becomes a battlefield for religious zealots, true believers, and a guy who wants to sell the masterpiece in a New York auction."--Page 4 of cover
The picking trip of Wally Winchester's dream is a 3000 mile dash across the United States to deliver a Shelby Cobra to Boston. With a Mexican beauty in the passenger seat, a wallet full of credit cards, a clue to the lost portfolio of Julia Cameron photographs behind the seat, and a small fortune waiting at the finish line, what could possibly go wrong?
When Wally Winchester buys a cache of computers from the estate of a Nobel laureate he is wholly unprepared for the events following in the wake of his purchase: a beautiful chemist in search of a deadly pathogen, a scandal bred in Russia, a painting with the kind of checkered past that only Wally could encounter, and a plundering and ravaging community with a hunger that dares not speak its name."--Cover page [4].
Designed for high-end users who want to squeeze every ounce of power out of their PC, this is a comprehensive tutorial on installing, configuring, and working with this powerful operating system. The CD contains a complete version of the 32-bit Linux operating system, including all the source code and a variety of add-on tools and utilities.
I'm a child of the future, I told myself. Perhaps I have some new magic that I'm unaware of. When Chana discovers she in not an orphan from the Amazon rainforest, but instead a time traveler from the future, she recruits Wally Winchester and Yvheney Ivasnchenko for a time jump back to 1905 to find Nikola Tesla's energy transmission tower. Only by changing the historical record can the Earth avoid a cosmic catastrophe in the year 2552. After a series of mishaps, the intrepid time travelers find themselves in a dysfunctional future with the fate of humankind in the balance!"--Page 4 of cover.
One decision can end everything . . . or lead to unlikely redemption. Millions watched the CBS 60 Minutes special on Jack Barsky in 2015. Now, in this fascinating memoir, the Soviet KGB agent tells his story of gut-wrenching choices, appalling betrayals, his turbulent inner world, and the secret life he lived for years without getting caught. On October 8, 1978, a Canadian national by the name of William Dyson stepped off a plane at O’Hare International Airport and proceeded toward Customs and Immigration. Two days later, William Dyson ceased to exist. The identity was a KGB forgery, used to get one of their own—a young, ambitious East German agent—into the United States. The plan succeeded, and the spy’s new identity was born: Jack Barsky. He would work undercover for the next decade, carrying out secret operations during the Cold War years . . . until a surprising shift in his allegiance challenged everything he thought he believed. Deep Undercover will reveal the secret life of this man without a country and tell the story no one ever expected him to tell.
It’s 1945 and the story of one family’s war is about to begin. From the calm fields of Sweet Water, Alabama and the hell of Okinawa to the dawn of a nuclear age and its awful potential, Solly, Silace and Sky George bear witness to the brutality of war and the unleashing of a new and terrible weapon. The family upbringing of love and friendship bonds them tightly together but will it be enough on the long and uncertain road ahead.
Someone is killing Siberian shamen, Chana is next in line to die. When assassins arrive on Olkhon Island in Siberia they are unprepared when they encounter Chana, the local shaman with a deadly past"--Page 4 of cover.
Klaus Schmitt was a wanted child. Coming from a wealthy family, he was expected to carry on the family name and succeed his father in the family business. During his early years, Klaus showed signs that he may not be the perfect son his father dreamed of having. As a youth, he gravitated toward the troublemakers in his peer group. When he became involved in a serious police matter his father disowned him and his mother attempted to change his behavior by enacting a strict policy of tough love. But her attempt backfi red as Klaus became a seething inferno and developed a split personality. As he unleashed his anger he became a hunter and women became his prey. Cunning and diabolical he left no trace evidence at any of his murder scenes and it appeared that he might never be caught. But, when one of his victims managed to escape from his clutches everything changed.
Klaus Schmitt was a wanted child. Coming from a wealthy family, he was expected to carry on the family name and succeed his father in the family business. During his early years, Klaus showed signs that he may not be the perfect son his father dreamed of having. As a youth, he gravitated toward the troublemakers in his peer group. When he became involved in a serious police matter his father disowned him and his mother attempted to change his behavior by enacting a strict policy of tough love. But her attempt backfi red as Klaus became a seething inferno and developed a split personality. As he unleashed his anger he became a hunter and women became his prey. Cunning and diabolical he left no trace evidence at any of his murder scenes and it appeared that he might never be caught. But, when one of his victims managed to escape from his clutches everything changed.
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The deaths of Marilyn Monroe, Jack Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy became the subject of many conspiracy theories. Jack Lee's play, written in the form of a musical, presents an imaginative version of those events, which is closely based on reports of the time. The tight web of conflicting purposes and conspiring factions is woven into a terse drama presided over by the fates, in which the unwary dreamers, Marilyn Monroe, Lee Harvey Oswald and the would-be big-shot Jack Ruby are as much victims as the assassinated politicians.
The Resurrectionist is a wild ride into a territory where nothing is as it appears. Part classic noir thriller, part fabulist fable, it is the story of Sweeney and his comatose son, Danny. Hoping for a miracle, Sweeney has brought Danny to the fortresslike Peck Clinic, whose doctors claim to have "resurrected" patients who were similarly lost in the void. but the real cure for his son's condition may lie in Limbo, a comic book world beloved by Danny before he slipped into a coma. O'Connell has crafted a spellbinding novel about stories and what they can do for and to those who create them and those who consume them. About the nature of consciousness and the power of the unknown. And, ultimately, about forgiveness and the depth of our need to extend it and receive it.
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