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The Black and White Apple Orchard Affair

By: Ken Kenthomas

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The Black and White Apple Orchard Affair

By: Ken Kenthomas

This true, sensually graphic love story took place in 1959 in an Apple Orchard located in a town known as Glen Cove on Long Island, New York. A beautiful, white, Italian, young lady by the name of Nichi fell in love with an African American high school basketball star by the name of Cap. Her sexual obsession with him was so overwhelming, she walked three miles from her home to where he lived in the Orchard on Easter Sunday and unconditionally gave herself to him. Both were virgins, so the sex was so explosive they did not notice Caps best friend watching. After they were finished and dressed, Cap went for just a few minutes to the edge of the Orchard to check for a clear passage for her to leave. Within that short period of time, best friend Larry physically beat and violently raped her. The girls parents called the police, and Cap was arrested and charged with violently raping this young lady. Cap took the blame completely by not implicating his friend. They threw him in jail for not only the violent rape but also for the fact the girl was only a young teenage High School student. Even though Cap suffered emotionally, he and this girl could not stop seeing each other and having sex repeatedly right up to the trial date. During those days, the towns white folks and the police did not like black people. The town wanted to string Cap up by his neck and castrate him. Glen Cove became a racial, ticking time bomb.

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147726602X

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Cowboy Poetry

As Twisted as Bob-wire

By: Ken Whitecotton

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Cowboy Poetry

As Twisted as Bob-wire

By: Ken Whitecotton

A Tucson author presents a collection of cowboy poetry, arranged by the twelve months of the year.

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Cowboy Miner Productions

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1931725241

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9781931725248

Kwacha

By: Ken Swan

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Kwacha

By: Ken Swan

England, 1958: Young Higgs is a hard-working motorcycle mechanic in Milton-Keynes. The entire country is generally cold and damp. There’s got to be more out there for a man with his ambition. The future looks grey. Until he picks up the paper over a pint one night in The Carrington Arms. The Northern Rhodesia Police Force (NRP) needs men now. A phone call, some paperwork, and a few handshakes later, Higgs is aboard the R.M.M.V. Carnarvon Castle bound for Cape Town. The next three years see this handsome young ladies’ man get to grips with British law enforcement on the African continent; a rather different affair to the bobby-on-the-beat procedures of home. Cue hilarity, horror, and harrowing tragedy as Higgs builds a life of remarkable proportions as an officer of the Northern Rhodesia Police Force. Based on the true lives and stories of original NRP officers, Kwacha is both a fun-filled tale and an important historical document that captures and preserves a world order fast fading from living memory.

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FriesenPress

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1525517090

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9781525517099

Limited Recall

By: Ken Scarlett

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Limited Recall

By: Ken Scarlett

Ken Scarlett, one of Australia's best known curators and writers on sculpture, has this time written and illustrated a series of 30 short stories which draw upon his imagined and real experiences of life from adolescence through to the present. The stories are light-hearted, humorous, sometimes satirical and occasionally focused on the art-world as he found it during his career as a sculptor, art educationalist, curator and world traveller.

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Macmillan Education AU

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1876832517

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Abracadabra!

Fun Magic Tricks for Kids - 30 tricks to make and perform (includes video links)

By: Kristen Kelly,Ken Kelly

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Abracadabra!

Fun Magic Tricks for Kids - 30 tricks to make and perform (includes video links)

By: Kristen Kelly,Ken Kelly

• 100% 5-star reviews don’t lie: this is the "best choice": "a lot of pictures", "links to videos", "we can do ALL tricks with stuff we already have", 30 "awesome tricks" that will get grown ups "stumped", "PERFECT" to "not only learn" but also "put on their own show"! • Ages 7 and up, and co-written by child-magician Kristen Kelly!

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Simon and Schuster

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1510702970

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Edge of Eternity

Book Three of the Century Trilogy

By: Ken Follett

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Edge of Eternity

Book Three of the Century Trilogy

By: Ken Follett

Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution—and rock and roll. East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she’s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. . . . George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle but a much more personal battle of his own. . . . Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he'd imagined. . . . Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes an agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw—and into history.

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0451474023

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9780451474025

Learning to Give

As Part of Religious Education

By: Ken Russell,Joan Tooke

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Learning to Give

As Part of Religious Education

By: Ken Russell,Joan Tooke

Learning to Give as Part of Religious Education attempts to answer the question: what is actually to go on in a lesson about "life" or "reality"? It takes as its starting point a sure ground of adolescent concern: the compassion for human suffering which is normally awakened and keenly felt in the middle teens. It then proceeds to inform this compassion: it explores the depth and shape of the need; it amasses the facts of the situation; it illustrates the human meaning of it, with quotation from biography and poetry and personal documents; it describes the efforts made, in active compassion, to relieve the need; and it makes suggestions of ways in which the young can share in the work of relief. Finally, it marches on to biblical and other statements about the human situation that set these specific agonizing points of suffering against the vast problem of evil, viewed in the light of a belief in a God who cares, thus lifting the human adventure from its sublunar situation on to a cosmic level.

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Elsevier

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1483139166

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Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South

White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie

By: Ken Fones-Wolf,Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf

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Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South

White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie

By: Ken Fones-Wolf,Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf

In 1946, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) undertook Operation Dixie, an initiative to recruit industrial workers in the American South. Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf plumb rarely used archival sources and rich oral histories to explore the CIO's fraught encounter with the evangelical Protestantism and religious culture of southern whites. The authors' nuanced look at working class religion reveals how laborers across the surprisingly wide evangelical spectrum interpreted their lives through their faith. Factors like conscience, community need, and lived experience led individual preachers to become union activists and mill villagers to defy the foreman and minister alike to listen to organizers. As the authors show, however, all sides enlisted belief in the battle. In the end, the inability of northern organizers to overcome the suspicion with which many evangelicals viewed modernity played a key role in Operation Dixie's failure, with repercussions for labor and liberalism that are still being felt today. Identifying the role of the sacred in the struggle for southern economic justice, and placing class as a central aspect in southern religion, Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South provides new understandings of how whites in the region wrestled with the options available to them during a crucial period of change and possibility.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252097009

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9780252097003

Chasing Arizona

One Man’s Yearlong Obsession with the Grand Canyon State

By: Ken Lamberton

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Chasing Arizona

One Man’s Yearlong Obsession with the Grand Canyon State

By: Ken Lamberton

It seemed like a simple plan—visit fifty-two places in fifty-two weeks. But for author Ken Lamberton, a forty-five-year veteran of life in the Sonoran Desert, the entertaining results were anything but easy. In Chasing Arizona, Lamberton takes readers on a yearlong, twenty-thousand-mile joyride across Arizona during its centennial, racking up more than two hundred points of interest along the way. Lamberton chases the four corners of Arizona, attempts every county, every reservation, and every national monument and state park, from the smallest community to the largest city. He drives his Kia Rio through the longest tunnels and across the highest suspension bridges, hikes the hottest deserts, and climbs the tallest mountain, all while visiting the people, places, and treasures that make Arizona great. In the vivid, lyrical, often humorous prose the author is known for, each destination weaves together stories of history, nature, and people, along with entertaining side adventures and excursions. Maps and forty-four of the author’s detailed pencil drawings illustrate the journey. Chasing Arizona is unlike any book of its kind. It is an adventure story, a tale of Arizona, a road-warrior narrative. It is a quest to see and experience as much of Arizona as possible. Through intimate portrayals of people and place, readers deeply experience the Grand Canyon State and at the same time celebrate what makes Arizona a wonderful place to visit and live.

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0816528926

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Black Denim Lit #4

May, 2014

By: Susan E Sage,Michael Reilly,Lela Marie De La Garza,Alan Bray,Konstantine Paradias,Dave Morehouse,Ken Poyner

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Black Denim Lit #4

May, 2014

By: Susan E Sage,Michael Reilly,Lela Marie De La Garza,Alan Bray,Konstantine Paradias,Dave Morehouse,Ken Poyner

The May, 2014 issue edited by Christopher T Garry features seven new authors and their short stories. All the authors expand significantly on their print work, creating narratives that are variously dark, cynical, inspiring, disturbing, longing and irreverent. Black Denim Lit is a monthly journal of fiction available on the web and on all eReaders.

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1311115099

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Bush Pilot's Mayday

By: Ken Forscutt

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Bush Pilot's Mayday

By: Ken Forscutt

Bush Pilots Mayday is a true life adventure based on the logbook entries and the recollections of fellow pilots. Ken flew a Cessna for 17 years into various places in Northwestern Canada, the Yukon, and Northwest Territories. His aircraft was equipped with a minimum of radio gear and all his navigation was done with the map and compass.

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Lulu.com

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1257088130

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9781257088133

Hitting the Brakes

By: Ken Casper

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Hitting the Brakes

By: Ken Casper

Since taking over PDQ Racing, widowed businessman and single dad Jim Latimer is out of his element. Truth is, Jim knows next to nothing about stock car racing. On the positive side, however, the new position means a lot more time with PDQ publicity rep Anita Wolcott. But while they totally click outside the racing arena, Anita and Jim can't quite see eye to eye when it comes to PDQ Racing. For Jim, each damaged car is a bundle of money gone in a cloud of oily smoke. Anita, on the other hand, knows that car crashes come with the territory. And as every minute they spend together emphasizes their obvious differences, Anita wonders…is a future with Jim a dangerous investment?

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Harlequin

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1426817770

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Lamentation

By: Ken Scholes

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Lamentation

By: Ken Scholes

This remarkable first novel from award-winning short fiction writer Ken Scholes will take readers away to a new world—an Earth so far in the distant future that our time is not even a memory; a world where magick is commonplace and great areas of the planet are impassable wastes. But human nature hasn't changed through the ages: War and faith and love still move princes and nations. In Lamentation, the first entry in the Psalm of Isaak series, an ancient weapon has completely destroyed the city of Windwir. From many miles away, Rudolfo, Lord of the Nine Forest Houses, sees the horrifying column of smoke rising. He knows that war is coming to the Named Lands. Nearer to the Devastation, a young apprentice is the only survivor of the city—he sat waiting for his father outside the walls, and was transformed as he watched everyone he knew die in an instant. Soon all the Kingdoms of the Named Lands will be at each others' throats, as alliances are challenged and hidden plots are uncovered. The Psalms of Isaak #1 Lamentation #2 Canticle #3 Antiphon #4 Requiem #5 Hymn At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Tor Books

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142999200X

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Hornet Flight

By: Ken Follett

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Hornet Flight

By: Ken Follett

Ken Follett and the intrigue of World War II—"a winning formula" (Entertainment Weekly) if ever there was one. With his riveting prose and unerring instinct for suspense, the #1 New York Times bestselling author takes to the skies over Europe during the early days of the war in a most extraordinary novel. . . . It is June 1941, and the war is not going well for England. Somehow, the Germans are anticipating the RAF's flight paths and shooting down British bombers with impunity. Meanwhile, across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande and discovers an astonishing sight. He doesn't know what it is, but he knows he must tell someone. And when he learns the truth, it will fall upon him to deliver word to England—except that he has no way to get there. He has only an old derelict Hornet Moth biplane rusting away in a ruined church—a plane so decrepit that it is unlikely to ever get off the ground . . . even if Harald knew how to fly it.

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0451222296

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Winter of the World

Book Two of the Century Trilogy

By: Ken Follett

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Winter of the World

Book Two of the Century Trilogy

By: Ken Follett

This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages." —The Huffington Post Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide until daring to commit a deed of great courage and heartbreak . . . . American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific . . . . English student Lloyd Williams discovers in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War that he must fight Communism just as hard as Fascism . . . . Daisy Peshkov, a driven social climber, cares only for popularity and the fast set until war transforms her life, while her cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will affect not only this war but also the war to come.

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1101591439

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9781101591437

PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies

By: Ken Kalfus

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PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies

By: Ken Kalfus

The acclaimed short story and novella collection by “a virtuoso of the dismal comedy of Soviet life”—and the basis for the HBO film PU-239 (The New York Times). Ken Kalfus traverses a century of Russian history in tales that range from hair-raising to comic to fabulous. The astonishing title story follows a doomed nuclear power plant worker as he attempts to hawk plutonium in Moscow’s black market. In “Budyonnovsk,” a young man hopes that the takeover of his town by Chechen rebels will somehow save his marriage. Set in the 1920s, “Birobidzhan” is the bittersweet story of a Jewish couple journeying to the Soviet Far East, where they intend to establish the modern world’s first Jewish state. The novella, “Peredelkino,” which closes the book, traces the fortunes of a 1960s literary apparatchik whose romantic intrigues inadvertently become political. In these and other stories, Kalfus captures the famously enigmatic Russian psyche. A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist

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Milkweed Editions

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1571318224

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9781571318220

Death Of A Celtic God

By: Ken Westell

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Death Of A Celtic God

By: Ken Westell

The Green Man"" - icon of the Celtic faith - is murdered. His daughter Morwenna asks Home Guard sergeant Ben Oakley, a retired detective, for help. Despite his being committed to organising a secret army in case of the anticipated German invasion, together they unmask the killers but in so doing, they discover a spy ring and Ben comes to realise that the idyllic Somerset village in which he lives is the epicentre of the secret Pagan world...

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1291393781

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Standing Tall

By: Ken Casper

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Standing Tall

By: Ken Casper

She swore she'd never fall for another fighter pilot. This one is about to prove her wrong. Investigative journalist Rika Philips and her young daughter arrive in the laid-back West Texas town of Coyote Springs to relax for the summer while visiting Rika's grandparents. Her vacation ends abruptly when Major Alex Huston enters the picture--along with the troubling mystery of his top secret work at the nearby Air Force base. Is national security at risk--or only Rika's vow not to tangle with another love-'em-and-leave-'em fly boy? Rika's instincts tell her the public needs to know what's going on at the base, and she dives into an investigation. Alex is her sexy nemesis, but she'll have to collaborate with him if she wants the story. Before long they're flying in uncharted territory, fighting an attraction that doesn't come with parachutes.

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Bell Bridge Books

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1611942616

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9781611942613

The Secret World of Oil

By: Ken Silverstein

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The Secret World of Oil

By: Ken Silverstein

The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments, and multinational corporations, and until now, no book has set out to tell the story of this largely hidden world. The global fleet of some 11,000 tankers—that's tripled during the past decade—moves approximately 2 billion metric tons of oil annually. And every stage of the route, from discovery to consumption, is tainted by corruption and violence, even if little of that is visible to the public. Based on trips to New York, Washington, Houston, London, Paris, Geneva, Phnom Penh, Dakar, Lagos, Baku, and Moscow, among other far-flung locals, The Secret World of Oil includes up-close portraits of a shadowy Baku-based trader; a high-flying London fixer; and an oil dictator's playboy son who has to choose one of his eleven luxury vehicles when he heads out to party in Los Angeles. Supported by funding from the prestigious Open Society, this is both an entertaining global travelogue and a major work of investigative reporting.

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Verso Books

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1781688672

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Broken Stars

Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

By: Ken Liu

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Broken Stars

Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

By: Ken Liu

LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY Sixteen short stories from China's groundbreaking science fiction writers, edited and translated by award-winning author Ken Liu. In Hugo award-winner Liu Cixin's ‘Moonlight,’ a man is contacted by three future versions of himself, each trying to save their world from destruction. Hao Jingfang’s ‘The New Year Train’ sees 1,500 passengers go missing on a train that vanishes into space. In the title story by Tang Fei, a young girl is shown how the stars can reveal the future. In addition, three essays explore the history and rise of Chinese science fiction publishing, contemporary Chinese fandom, and how the growing interest in Chinese SF has impacted writers who had long laboured in obscurity. By turns dazzling, melancholy and thought-provoking, Broken Stars celebrates the vibrancy and diversity of SFF voices emerging from China. Stories include: “Goodnight, Melancholy” by Xia Jia “The Snow of Jinyang” by Zhang Ran “Broken Stars” by Tang Fei “Submarines” by Han Song “Salinger and the Koreans” by Han Song “Under a Dangling Sky” by Cheng Jingbo “What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear” by Baoshu “The New Year Train” by Hao Jingfang “The Robot Who Liked to Tell Tall Tales” by Fei Dao “Moonlight” by Liu Cixin “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Laba Porridge" by Anna Wu “The First Emperor’s Games” by Ma Boyong “Reflection” by Gu Shi “The Brain Box” by Regina Kanyu Wang “Coming of the Light” by Chen Qiufan “A History of Future Illnesses” by Chen Qiufan Essays: “A Brief Introduction to Chinese Science Fiction and Fandom,” by Regina Kanyu Wang, “A New Continent for China Scholars: Chinese Science Fiction Studies” by Mingwei Song “Science Fiction: Embarrassing No More” by Fei Dao For more Chinese SF in translation, check out Invisible Planets.

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Tor Books

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1250297664

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The Star Fraction

By: Ken MacLeod

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The Star Fraction

By: Ken MacLeod

Moh Kohn is a security mercenary, his smart gun and killer reflexes for hire. Janis Taine is a scientist working on memory-enhancing drugs, fleeing the US/UN's technology cops. Jordan Brown is a teenager in the Christian enclave of Beulah City, dealing in theologically-correct software for the world's fundamentalists-and wants out. In a balkanized twenty-first century, where the "peace process" is deadlier than war, the US/UN's spy satellites have everyone in their sights. But the Watchmaker has other plans, and the lives of Moh, Janis, and Jordan are part of the program. A specter is haunting the fight for space and freedom, the specter of the betrayed revolution that happened before. . . . With The Star Fraction, Ken MacLeod burst onto the SF scene and began the Fall Revolution sequence that continued with The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, and The Sky Road.

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0765301563

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Divisions

The Second Half of The Fall Revolution

By: Ken MacLeod

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Divisions

The Second Half of The Fall Revolution

By: Ken MacLeod

This volume comprises The Cassini Division and The Sky Road, the last two books of The Fall Revolution, Ken MacLeod's groundbreaking, multiple award-winning science fiction epic. The Cassini Division: In the 24th century, post humans, god-like descendents of humans who transformed themselves with high technology, have warped the very fabric of the solar system for unknowable reasons. Ellen May Ngewthu has a plan to rid humanity of these beings, but she must first travel the entirety of the Solar Union, convincing others that post-humans are the threat she knows they are... The Sky Road: Her rockets redundant, her people rebellious, and her borders defenseless against the Sino-Soviet Union, Myra Godwin appeals to the crumbling West for help as she faces the end of the space age. And, centuries in the future, as humanity again reaches into space, a young scholar could make the difference between success and failure. For his mysterious new lover has seduced him into the idea of extrapolating the ship's future from the dark archives of the past. The Sky Road won the British Science Fiction Association Award. The Fall Revolution Series: 1. The Star Fraction 2. The Stone Canal 3. The Cassini Division 4. The Sky Road At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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1429965533

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World Without End Deluxe Edition

By: Ken Follett

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World Without End Deluxe Edition

By: Ken Follett

#1 New York Times Bestseller In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmed—“it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you” (Chicago Tribune)—and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel. Look out for the next book in this series, A Column of Fire, available now. World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroads of new ideas—about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human race—the Black Death. Three years in the writing and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, World Without End breathes new life into the epic historical novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the top of his craft.

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1101620587

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9781101620588

Magnificent Desolation

The Long Journey Home from the Moon

By: Buzz Aldrin,Ken Abraham

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The Long Journey Home from the Moon

By: Buzz Aldrin,Ken Abraham

Forty years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second human, minutes after Neil Armstrong, to set foot on a celestial body other than the Earth. The event remains one of mankind’s greatest achievements and was witnessed by the largest worldwide television audience in history. In the years since, millions more have had their Earth-centric perspective unalterably changed by the iconic photograph of Aldrin standing on the surface of the moon, the blackness of space behind him and his fellow explorer and the Eagle reflected in his visor. Describing the alien world he was walking upon, he uttered the words “magnificent desolation.” And as the astronauts later sat in the Eagle, waiting to begin their journey back home, knowing that they were doomed unless every system and part on board worked flawlessly, it was Aldrin who responded to Mission Control’s clearance to take off with the quip, “Roger. Understand. We’re number one on the runway.” The flight of Apollo 11 made Aldrin one of the most famous persons on our planet, yet few people know the rest of this true American hero’s story. In Magnificent Desolation, Aldrin not only gives us a harrowing first-person account of the lunar landing that came within seconds of failure and the ultimate insider’s view of life as one of the superstars of America’s space program, he also opens up with remarkable candor about his more personal trials–and eventual triumphs–back on Earth. From the glory of being part of the mission that fulfilled President Kennedy’s challenge to reach the moon before the decade was out, Aldrin returned home to an Air Force career stripped of purpose or direction, other than as a public relations tool that NASA put to relentless use in a seemingly nonstop world tour. The twin demons of depression and alcoholism emerged–the first of which Aldrin confronted early and publicly, and the second of which he met with denial until it nearly killed him. He burned through two marriages, his Air Force career came to an inglorious end, and he found himself selling cars for a living when he wasn’t drunkenly wrecking them. Redemption came when he finally embraced sobriety, gained the love of a woman, Lois, who would become the great joy of his life, and dedicated himself to being a tireless advocate for the future of space exploration–not only as a scientific endeavor but also as a thriving commercial enterprise. These days Buzz Aldrin is enjoying life with an enthusiasm that reminds us how far it is possible for a person to travel, literally and figuratively. As an adventure story, a searing memoir of self-destruction and self-renewal, and as a visionary rallying cry to once again set our course for Mars and beyond, Magnificent Desolation is the thoroughly human story of a genuine hero.

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The Deadly Trade

By: Ken Morris

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The Deadly Trade

By: Ken Morris

Tim Mack is a financial analyst running from a past full of death and drink. But when he leaves the Wall Street rat race hoping to slow down his life in San Diego, he finds that a calm and peaceful existence is just not in the cards. While researching a local biotechnology firm that has just exploded into flames, Tim begins to untangle a lethal web of deceit. A frightening, secret triumvirate of mass murder intricately combines a high-finance broker, a Middle-Eastern terrorist organization, and a dying biotechnology firm willing to do anything to keep afloat. How far will this alliance go? Tim soon finds out that a bug that makes AIDS look like a hangnail might only be the beginning. He teams up with Betsy O'Brien, his spunky and beautiful coworker; Joe Mack, his wheelchair-bound brother who's a former DEA agent; and Detective Bob Moore, an aging but tenacious cop in charge of leading the formal, but furtive, investigation. Together, they devise a plan to stop the release of the mutated virusa plan that brings the lives of Tim, his loved ones, and the rest of the country down to the bare wire.

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Eye of the Needle

A Novel

By: Ken Follett

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Eye of the Needle

A Novel

By: Ken Follett

The worldwide phenomenon from the bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A Column of Fire, and The Evening and the Morning His code name was “The Needle.” He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence—a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood, and the object of the most desperate manhunt in history. . . . But his fate lay in the hands of a young and vulnerable English woman, whose loyalty, if swayed, would assure his freedom—and win the war for the Nazis. . . .

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Rize Novella Anthology, Volume 2

By: Ken Goldman,Rani Jayakumar,Benjamin Toche,M. A. Amru

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Rize Novella Anthology, Volume 2

By: Ken Goldman,Rani Jayakumar,Benjamin Toche,M. A. Amru

Blood Heir by M.A. AmruJester McNichol manages to escape the conflict that befell the castle-city as the Calhron soldiers cause ruin and despair in nearly every corner. Before the Jester left, under the guidance of the D' ua caste caster, the Jester retrieved a magical sword from the Eastern Library. He intends to reach the Genesis Battalion and help them in this dreadful conflict by finding the sword of Oman the Blasphemy. Soon he finds himself fighting between magic and technology as well as good and evil. However, prophecies will remain as prophecies. Nothing will go the way it should be and this will become the greatest dejection for Jester McNichol.Yesterday Forgotten by Rani JayakumarA woman who cannot remember her recent past struggles to connect with a husband and children she has never known. As she tries to come to terms with her present, she finds that the tragic events of her past may be the key to fully embracing her future.Desiré e by Ken GoldmanDON' T KISS DESIREE CHAPPELLE!Yes, Desiré e is beyond beautiful. Seductive even as a child, she seems every man' s erotic dream, a fantasy woman possessing charms that no man can resist. And therein lies the problem.Because if you are a young man with bubbling testosterone you had better resist her. In fact, you should run like hell.Whether it' s an innocent kids' game of Spin The Bottle or a grope fest in the back of an old van, you would be wise to keep repeating... DON' T KISS DESIREE CHAPPELLE!But someone is wise to Desiré e. Someone who knows her secrets and who has a very personal reason to uncover the truth no matter what it will take, no matter what it will cost.Someone who knows she has to destroy her...Hector and Achilles: An Aegean Love Story by Benjamin TocheThe Trojan War erupts as expected, as we' ve all heard the story: Paris kidnaps Helen, the wife of King Menelaus, and all hell breaks loose. But all of that covers up the real love story of this war, the passionate tryst between the conflict' s two biggest heroes: the Trojan prince Hector and the Greek warrior Achilles. In this modern re-telling of the events of the Trojan war, we see Zeus give up on the mortals out of boredom and disinterest, while his godly offspring throw 21st century slurs (and menstrual blood) at each other, as they meddle in mortal affairs. Meanwhile, the mortals discuss their affairs over breakfast at the local Waffle House or pull tabs at the corner bar. And of course, a love affair gone wrong is the driving force behind it all, as told in true Greek style by the universal voice of the Lyceum Janitor.

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1960018221

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Hopi Stories of Witchcraft, Shamanism, and Magic

By: Ekkehart Malotki,Ken Gary

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Hopi Stories of Witchcraft, Shamanism, and Magic

By: Ekkehart Malotki,Ken Gary

The traditional Hopi world, as reflected in Hopi oral literature, is infused with magic?a seamless tapestry of everyday life and the supernatural. That magic and wonder are vividly depicted in this marvelous collection of authentic folktales. For the Hopis, the spoken or sung word can have a magical effect on others. Witchcraft?the wielding of magic for selfish purposes by a powaqa, or sorcerer?has long been a powerful, malevolent force. Sorcerers are said to have the ability to change into animals such as a crow, a coyote, a bat, or a skeleton fly, and hold their meetings in a two-tiered kiva to the northeast of Hopi territory. Shamanism, the more benevolent but equally powerful use of magic for healing, was once commonplace but is no longer practiced among the Hopis. Shamans, or povosyaqam, often used animal familiars and quartz crystals to help them to see, diagnose, and cure illnesses. Spun through these tales are supernatural beings, otherworldly landscapes, magical devices and medicines, and shamans and witches. One story tells about a man who follows his wife one night and discovers that she is a witch, while another relates how a jealous woman uses the guise of an owl to make a rival woman's baby sick. Other tales include the account of a boy who is killed by kachinas and then resurrected as a medicine man and the story of a huge rattlesnake, a giant bear, and a mountain lion that forever guard the entrance to Maski, the Land of the Dead.

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0803283180

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The Man from St. Petersburg

By: Ken Follett

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The Man from St. Petersburg

By: Ken Follett

Ken Follett has done it once more . . . goes down with the ease and impact of a well-prepared martini." —New York Times Book Review His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, and the young Winston Churchill himself. These odds would have stopped any man in the world—except the man from St. Petersburg.

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1101043881

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The Armor of Light

A Novel

By: Ken Follett

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The Armor of Light

A Novel

By: Ken Follett

The long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond. The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother’s husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects his wealth no matter the cost, all the while war cries are heard from France, as Napoleon sets forth a violent master plan to become emperor of the world. As institutions are challenged and toppled in unprecedented fashion, ripples of change ricochet through our characters’ lives as they are left to reckon with the future and a world they must rebuild from the ashes of war. Over thirty years ago, Ken Follett published his most popular novel, The Pillars of the Earth. Now, with this electrifying addition to the Kingsbridge series we are plunged into the battlefield between compassion and greed, love and hate, progress and tradition. It is through each character that we are given a new perspective to the seismic shifts that shook the world in nineteenth-century Europe.

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0451478037

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Ink and Daggers

By: Maxim Jakubowski,Neil Gaiman,Ann Cleeves,Christopher Fowler,Lavie Tidhar

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Ink and Daggers

By: Maxim Jakubowski,Neil Gaiman,Ann Cleeves,Christopher Fowler,Lavie Tidhar

An enthralling anthology of 20 CWA Dagger Award-shortlisted gripping and thrilling stories for the most hardened crime fan. Featuring bestselling authors such as Neil Gaiman, Ann Cleeves, Christopher Fowler and Val McDermid. OVER TWENTY CWA DAGGER AWARD-WINNING SHORT STORIES FROM THE BEST OF THE BEST IN CRIME FICTION Legendary editor, Maxim Jakubowski, delivers another chilling anthology collecting stories of cold-blooded murder, revenge and crimes-gone-wrong from the best of the best in crime fiction. Spine-chilling and gripping, these tales will grip you with their devious narrators and crafty twists. Featuring classic stories from Neil Gaiman, Ann Cleeves, Christopher Fowler, Val McDermid, Lavie Tidhar, Chris Simms, Christine Poulson, James Sallis, Victoria Selman, Conrad Williams, Stuart Neville, George Pelecanos, Simon Brett, John Lawton, Ken Bruen, Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins, Peter Robinson, Martyn Waites and Kevin Wignall.

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1803363215

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Triple

By: Ken Follett

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Triple

By: Ken Follett

A New York Times bestselling novel of international suspense and terror from the author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, and A Column of Fire As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad's number one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing two hundred tons of uranium. The world's balance of power will shift. And the Mossad, the KGB, the Egyptians, and Fedayeen terrorists will play out the final, violent moves in this devastating game where the price of failure is a nuclear holocaust. . . .

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0451476689

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Jewish Communities in Exotic Places

By: Ken Blady

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Jewish Communities in Exotic Places

By: Ken Blady

Jewish Communities in Exotic Places examines seventeen Jewish groups that are referred to in Hebrew as edot ha-mizrach, Eastern or Oriental Jewish communities. These groups, situated in remote places on the Asian and African Jewish geographical periphery, became isolated from the major centers of Jewish civilization over the centuries and embraced some interesting practices and aspects of the dominant cultures in which they were situated.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0765761122

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Manila Fortuna

Tsismis

By: Ken Evans

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Manila Fortuna

Tsismis

By: Ken Evans

Manila Fortuna is a fictionalised Travelogue which describes Manila through the eyes of previous explorers and through the liaisons and romantic relationships of the narrator of this semi-fictionalised story of the City and its people. But the special twist to this story is the conditional status of its veracity, for Manila culture embodies tsismis, a peculiar Filipino form of rumour, consequently this story is ambiguously real and make-believe.

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1456774026

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Mind Me, Milady

By: Anne Rothman-Hicks,Ken Hicks

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Mind Me, Milady

By: Anne Rothman-Hicks,Ken Hicks

Jane Larson is an attorney on the Upper East Side of New York City, and the Gentleman Rapist has chosen her to receive his calls announcing each conquest. He also reminds her in chilling terms that he will one day twist his wire around her throat and bend her to his will. Jane has professional and personal problems of her own, but she is forced to try to catch this monster when he stalks her newest client. Susan is a sweet young woman who cannot remember large time periods of her past and who has dreams about a prior life in which she was raped. Soon, the Gentleman escalates to murder, and Jane wonders if he was involved in Susan's forgotten past, or if Susan is simply a means to get to Jane. Either way, Jane is caught in the deadly game of stopping the Gentleman before another woman feels the wire at her throat and hears his sinister whisper to Mind Me, Milady.

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1680464388

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9781680464382

Purgatory

By: Ken Bruen

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Purgatory

By: Ken Bruen

An Irish ex-cop is lured into a violent game by a vengeful killer in this “excellent” crime novel by an Edgar Award finalist (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Former cop Jack Taylor is recovering from mental and physical wounds, as well as from addictions to a variety of substances. But this fragile existence is threatened when a vigilante begins targeting the scum of Galway, signing mysterious notes with the moniker “C33.” The murderer addresses these cryptic letters to Jack, trying to goad him into joining the violent spree. While Jack tries to unravel the mystery and motives of this demented killer, he’s also brought into the fold of an enigmatic tech billionaire who has been buying up massive amounts of property in Galway, seemingly in the hopes of offering this downtrodden city a better future. Yet if Jack has learned one thing living in Ireland, it's that people who outwardly claim to be on the side of righteousness are likely harboring far more nefarious motives beneath the surface. With the help of his friends, a former drug dealer-turned-zen master and a dogged police sergeant, Jack is determined to track down C33, even if it jeopardizes his livelihood, his friends, and the remaining shreds of his sanity… “Noir fans will find what they love here.”—Booklist (starred review)

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080219396X

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Ruthless

By: Ken Coleman

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Ruthless

By: Ken Coleman

The story of a 14 year old boy who accompanies a young and beautiful, but murderous woman on her quest to find and destroy the killers of his parents. Raised by Indians, she is no stranger to violence and killing and is quite willing and able to meet violence with violence in her desire to avenge the killings of the boy's parents and the abuse of her friend. During their pursuit of the desperadoes, the pair cover hundreds of miles of territory from Kansas to Texas and travel to some of the wildest and lawless towns in the west facing danger every step of the way, until their pursuit of the killers comes to a bloody and unexpected conclusion.

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1291768122

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