A freak storm, a killer on the loose, and a rookie cop battling the elements in a race to save lives. Seattle wasn't built for snow, and a freak storm on the eve of a blockbuster criminal trial has brought the city to a standstill. Now Brick Ransom must protect three key witnesses - a bookkeeper, a stripper, and a deadly assassin - all of whom are set to testify against Seattle crime boss Frank Mason the next morning. When a gunman ambushes the first witness, and Brick's partner is killed in the crossfire, it's revealed that moles within the police force are leaking the whereabouts of each witness, in a last-ditch effort to keep the criminal kingpin from ever standing trial. As Brick faces killers, crooked cops, and an ever-worsening storm, he doesn't know whom he can trust, or when his luck will run out...
A hostage standoff, a weaponized vaccine, and a frantic race to save lives. Software billionaire Jeff Pepper chose the wrong day to check on the research project he's been funding at a Seattle university. When gunmen seize control of the building, aiming to get their hands on a horrifying new weapon, the world-famous entrepreneur is ensnared in a nerve-wracking hostage situation, one in which he is an all-too-valuable pawn. As the body count rises, Pepper's fate rests in the hands of Brick Ransom, a SWAT team leader with a wry sense of humor and a slippery trigger finger. Time is running out, and if Brick and his team can't save him,Pepper will need to use every negotiating trick up his sleeve to see that he and his fellow captives make it out alive...
An experimental brain implant has freed college freshman Jamie Pepper from the symptoms of early-onset Parkinson's disease. But while his body is under his command, his mind may be out of control. "If this works, it will let you live again." Those words convince eighteen-year-old Jamie Pepper to undergo a risky operation to treat the debilitating symptoms of early-onset Parkinson's disease. Within months his world is changed for the better. By the fall his college plans are back on track. Yet as Jamie enters the world of college, embarking on his studies and an exciting new romance, visions from his past, and flashes from an unfamiliar present suggest that all is not as it would appear. Has Jamie been prowling in the night when he thinks he's been sleeping? And if so, is there now blood on his hands? On/Off follows a young man as he explores modern college life, the realms of the body and the mind, and the ways the past can sneak up and scramble even the most carefully plotted plans for the future.
Six college friends learn about life and love at a university with a mysterious past. Book Two of The Grimwood Trilogy. Like so many colleges, the legacies of the past reverberate through the halls of Grimwood University, but while previous generations typically leave their marks in memorials and traditions, at Grimwood, some voices from the past never fade away, they linger behind, echoing through the lives of the students that follow in their footsteps. Loren Austin and Braden McNutt have put their feelings aside to help their friends move on from an unspeakable loss. As the group pulls together to find their way through a strange new reality, fresh faces and friendships enter their world, promising to alter the course of their lives in ways they could never have imagined. The Grimwood Trilogy continues, as Ordinary World welcomes readers back into the lives of a complicated, funny, and unforgettable circle of college friends.
When a driver burns to death on the side of a New Mexico highway, evidence from the scene leads reporter Luke Murphy to a series of murders involving the region's multi-million dollar energy market. A year after breaking the biggest story of his career, Luke Murphy is reporting on more big changes in the City of Farmington, where the imminent launch of a first of its kind solar facility, and the likely closure of the region's coal-fired power plant are set to turn the industry on its head, altering the fortunes of the city's most prominent power-players in the process. With millions at stake, and winners and losers on both sides, it appears someone is determined to tip the field in their favor by any means necessary, and prepared to cover their tracks with fire. But in the shadowy world of big energy, it's never clear who owns what, or how far they're willing to go in the pursuit of power and profit. As Luke chases down the story, peeling away the layers in his search for the truth, will he discover who is responsible for the wave of killings, or will he be next? Firepower picks up where Chokecherry Canyon left off, pulling readers into another desert noir mystery, and thrilling them with all the action, humor, and suspense that readers of Mike Attebery's Brick Ransom series have come to expect.
Six college freshmen learn about life and love at a university with a mysterious past. Book One of The Grimwood Trilogy. College freshman Loren Austin has traveled across the country in search of independence and a new beginning. Braden McNutt is also hoping for a fresh start as he embarks upon his college career. They've both come to Grimwood to study in the school's celebrated writing program - founded by the gifted if doomed author Alan Grimwood - where they quickly forge a close but complicated connection. Joined by roommates Brooke Winston and Hank Pierce, and classmates Hannah Merritt and Jason Pepper, they form a bonded circle that will transform each of them over the course of a life-changing year on a college campus with a mysterious past. Flares welcomes readers to the college experience of their dreams, and introduces them to the complex, funny, impulsive, and unforgettable group of friends they'll be following throughout the course of The Grimwood Trilogy.
To millions of fans, he's a rock star. To his family, he's a virtual stranger. After years on the road, rock star Will Baker is joining his relatives for an extended reunion in the South of France. Sunny Saint Tropez may provide a glamorous, rosé-infused change of scenery, but it isn't long before old family differences bubble to the surface. And the biggest surprise is yet to come, when Will's older brother arrives with his new girlfriend in tow, a woman who just happens to be Will Baker's college sweetheart, the one that got away. With romance, comedy, and sparkling wit, Rosé in Saint Tropez takes readers on a breezy tour of the French Riviera, while reminding them that everyone has regrets, even rock stars. Fortunately, it's never too late to revise that final verse.
Six college friends learn about life and love at a university with a mysterious past. Book Three of The Grimwood Trilogy. Loren Austen and Braden McNutt have long suspected the truth about Grimwood's forgotten past, but as they finally come to terms with their complicated friendship, they're about to experience the University's unique nature in a way neither of them could ever have anticipated. Meanwhile, their friends are also reaching pivotal turns in their personal lives and academic careers, as they each come to realize that life seldom follows the roadmaps we set out for ourselves, and our hearts and minds are ever-changing, unpredictable guides on the path to a future that is anything but guaranteed. The Midnight Visitors invites readers to follow this remarkable group of friends to The Grimwood Trilogy's unforgettable conclusion.
When a disgraced businessman is nearly decapitated in a seedy restaurant, the blood trail leads reporter Luke Murphy to a series of dark secrets, concealed for decades in the New Mexico desert. Luke Murphy returned to Farmington, New Mexico to care for his ailing father, but a year later, his old man is dead, and Luke has stuck around. Working for the local newspaper, he's quickly learning that reporting the news in his old hometown often means reading between the lines of what people are willing to share with him on the record and off. But there's nothing like a murder to get people talking... While covering a crime scene on the outskirts of town, Luke unwittingly stumbles onto a story forty years in the making. Whispered secrets suggest a cover-up spearheaded by the town's former mayor, a conspiracy involving a hometown hero, and a growing scandal known to just a handful of people - including Luke's late father. The farther Luke drills down, the harder the town's power-players fight to conceal the truth. It's a story as old as print, a tale of politics, greed, and murder, simmering under the hot sun in the American Southwest.
A rookie detective investigates the murder of a bestselling mystery writer. Two shots on a snowy Seattle street, and a bestselling writer lies dead. When Brick Ransom is assigned to the case, the trail quickly leads to an up-and-coming hard-boiled mystery writer, his publisher, and one of Seattle's most powerful companies. But who did it? And why? And with the murders still happening, who will be next? Bloody Pulp is bloody good fun, with all of the mystery, suspense, humor, and over-the-top action Brick Ransom fans crave!
An experimental brain implant has freed college freshman Jamie Pepper from the symptoms of early-onset Parkinson's disease. But while his body is under his command, his mind may be out of control. "If this works, it will let you live again." Those words convince eighteen-year-old Jamie Pepper to undergo a risky operation to treat the debilitating symptoms of early-onset Parkinson's disease. Within months his world is changed for the better. By the fall his college plans are back on track. Yet as Jamie enters the world of college, embarking on his studies and an exciting new romance, visions from his past, and flashes from an unfamiliar present suggest that all is not as it would appear. Has Jamie been prowling in the night when he thinks he's been sleeping? And if so, is there now blood on his hands? On/Off follows a young man as he explores modern college life, the realms of the body and the mind, and the ways the past can sneak up and scramble even the most carefully plotted plans for the future.
A freak storm, a killer on the loose, and a rookie cop battling the elements in a race to save lives. Seattle wasn't built for snow, and a freak storm on the eve of a blockbuster criminal trial has brought the city to a standstill. Now Brick Ransom must protect three key witnesses - a bookkeeper, a stripper, and a deadly assassin - all of whom are set to testify against Seattle crime boss Frank Mason the next morning. When a gunman ambushes the first witness, and Brick's partner is killed in the crossfire, it's revealed that moles within the police force are leaking the whereabouts of each witness, in a last-ditch effort to keep the criminal kingpin from ever standing trial. As Brick faces killers, crooked cops, and an ever-worsening storm, he doesn't know whom he can trust, or when his luck will run out...
To millions of fans, he's a rock star. To his family, he's a virtual stranger. After years on the road, rock star Will Baker is joining his relatives for an extended reunion in the South of France. Sunny Saint Tropez may provide a glamorous, rosé-infused change of scenery, but it isn't long before old family differences bubble to the surface. And the biggest surprise is yet to come, when Will's older brother arrives with his new girlfriend in tow, a woman who just happens to be Will Baker's college sweetheart, the one that got away. With romance, comedy, and sparkling wit, Rosé in Saint Tropez takes readers on a breezy tour of the French Riviera, while reminding them that everyone has regrets, even rock stars. Fortunately, it's never too late to revise that final verse.
When a disgraced businessman is nearly decapitated in a seedy restaurant, the blood trail leads reporter Luke Murphy to a series of dark secrets, concealed for decades in the New Mexico desert. Luke Murphy returned to Farmington, New Mexico to care for his ailing father, but a year later, his old man is dead, and Luke has stuck around. Working for the local newspaper, he's quickly learning that reporting the news in his old hometown often means reading between the lines of what people are willing to share with him on the record and off. But there's nothing like a murder to get people talking... While covering a crime scene on the outskirts of town, Luke unwittingly stumbles onto a story forty years in the making. Whispered secrets suggest a cover-up spearheaded by the town's former mayor, a conspiracy involving a hometown hero, and a growing scandal known to just a handful of people - including Luke's late father. The farther Luke drills down, the harder the town's power-players fight to conceal the truth. It's a story as old as print, a tale of politics, greed, and murder, simmering under the hot sun in the American Southwest.
A hostage standoff, a weaponized vaccine, and a frantic race to save lives. Software billionaire Jeff Pepper chose the wrong day to check on the research project he's been funding at a Seattle university. When gunmen seize control of the building, aiming to get their hands on a horrifying new weapon, the world-famous entrepreneur is ensnared in a nerve-wracking hostage situation, one in which he is an all-too-valuable pawn. As the body count rises, Pepper's fate rests in the hands of Brick Ransom, a SWAT team leader with a wry sense of humor and a slippery trigger finger. Time is running out, and if Brick and his team can't save him,Pepper will need to use every negotiating trick up his sleeve to see that he and his fellow captives make it out alive...
When a driver burns to death on the side of a New Mexico highway, evidence from the scene leads reporter Luke Murphy to a series of murders involving the region's multi-million dollar energy market. A year after breaking the biggest story of his career, Luke Murphy is reporting on more big changes in the City of Farmington, where the imminent launch of a first of its kind solar facility, and the likely closure of the region's coal-fired power plant are set to turn the industry on its head, altering the fortunes of the city's most prominent power-players in the process. With millions at stake, and winners and losers on both sides, it appears someone is determined to tip the field in their favor by any means necessary, and prepared to cover their tracks with fire. But in the shadowy world of big energy, it's never clear who owns what, or how far they're willing to go in the pursuit of power and profit. As Luke chases down the story, peeling away the layers in his search for the truth, will he discover who is responsible for the wave of killings, or will he be next? Firepower picks up where Chokecherry Canyon left off, pulling readers into another desert noir mystery, and thrilling them with all the action, humor, and suspense that readers of Mike Attebery's Brick Ransom series have come to expect.
Six college friends learn about life and love at a university with a mysterious past. Book Three of The Grimwood Trilogy. Loren Austen and Braden McNutt have long suspected the truth about Grimwood's forgotten past, but as they finally come to terms with their complicated friendship, they're about to experience the University's unique nature in a way neither of them could ever have anticipated. Meanwhile, their friends are also reaching pivotal turns in their personal lives and academic careers, as they each come to realize that life seldom follows the roadmaps we set out for ourselves, and our hearts and minds are ever-changing, unpredictable guides on the path to a future that is anything but guaranteed. The Midnight Visitors invites readers to follow this remarkable group of friends to The Grimwood Trilogy's unforgettable conclusion.
Six college freshmen learn about life and love at a university with a mysterious past. Book One of The Grimwood Trilogy. College freshman Loren Austin has traveled across the country in search of independence and a new beginning. Braden McNutt is also hoping for a fresh start as he embarks upon his college career. They've both come to Grimwood to study in the school's celebrated writing program - founded by the gifted if doomed author Alan Grimwood - where they quickly forge a close but complicated connection. Joined by roommates Brooke Winston and Hank Pierce, and classmates Hannah Merritt and Jason Pepper, they form a bonded circle that will transform each of them over the course of a life-changing year on a college campus with a mysterious past. Flares welcomes readers to the college experience of their dreams, and introduces them to the complex, funny, impulsive, and unforgettable group of friends they'll be following throughout the course of The Grimwood Trilogy.
Six college friends learn about life and love at a university with a mysterious past. Book Two of The Grimwood Trilogy. Like so many colleges, the legacies of the past reverberate through the halls of Grimwood University, but while previous generations typically leave their marks in memorials and traditions, at Grimwood, some voices from the past never fade away, they linger behind, echoing through the lives of the students that follow in their footsteps. Loren Austin and Braden McNutt have put their feelings aside to help their friends move on from an unspeakable loss. As the group pulls together to find their way through a strange new reality, fresh faces and friendships enter their world, promising to alter the course of their lives in ways they could never have imagined. The Grimwood Trilogy continues, as Ordinary World welcomes readers back into the lives of a complicated, funny, and unforgettable circle of college friends.
A rookie detective investigates the murder of a bestselling mystery writer. Two shots on a snowy Seattle street, and a bestselling writer lies dead. When Brick Ransom is assigned to the case, the trail quickly leads to an up-and-coming hard-boiled mystery writer, his publisher, and one of Seattle's most powerful companies. But who did it? And why? And with the murders still happening, who will be next? Bloody Pulp is bloody good fun, with all of the mystery, suspense, humor, and over-the-top action Brick Ransom fans crave!
This book critically examines Le Guin's fiction for all ages, and it will be of great interest to her many admirers and to all students and scholars of children's literature.
These are new look "Moon handbooks"!! "Moon Handbooks Charleston and Savannah"ontains insightful and helpful advice, and includes clear maps andhotographs. The charming and elegant cities of Charleston and Savannah areome of the only cities in the United States that don't look like they wereuilt yesterday, and the depth of history and southern charisma that cling tohese cities make them some of the most alluring cities around. With "Moonharleston and Savannah" you can learn about the history of the sister cities,ind out where to shop in Savannah or club in Charleston, and get details oniking the Sea Island Coast or finding the best seafood. Mike Sigalas helpsou have a truly personal experience in these beautiful hotspots. Suggestedravel strategies and lists of must-see sights provide you with real insightso you can decide where you should go, stay, and eat - without hassles oregrets. Mike details where to hike, bike, shop, golf, stroll, and more. Thisork is complete with maps, photographs, illustrations, and special emphasisn leading destinations such as Fort Sumter, Charleston Historic District,
Three recent and commercially successful series of novels employ and adapt the resources of popular fantasy fiction to create visions of religious identity: J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials and Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins' Left Behind series. The act of creating fantasy counter-worlds naturally involves all three stories in the creation of what Mike Gray terms "transfigurations of transcendence": hopeful albeit paradoxical encodings of the ambiguous, non-observable reality whose primary locus in modern society is the societally extra-systemic human individual. Popular fantasy fiction turns out to involve acts of world-creation that are inherently religious and inherently paradoxical.A substantive examination shows that all three are involved in more or less intentional re-narrations of traditional Christian beliefs and narratives. The »atheist« His Dark Materials series does not deny but re-imagines the Christian visions of selfhood; the »traditionalist« Left Behind series does not simply replicate but modifies its own declared values; the apparent secularity of the Harry Potter series is shaped by its creative reception of Christian patterns and narratives. While the stories' visions of selfhood clearly clash, the basic paradoxes involved in their struggle to articulate transcendence expose significant parallels and a productive conversation with the Christian tradition.It is not simply that popular fantasy fiction is theologically relevant – the Christian Heilsgeschichte, too, proves to be highly relevant in popular culture. However, while far from obsolescent, models of religious identity in contemporary society require criticism and creativity – and, as evinced most powerfully in the Harry Potter stories, a flair for constructive engagement with paradox.
Cult poet and musician Mike Doughty makes his print debut with Slanky, a black-comic stroll through the demimonde of pop culture and modern urban life. Doughty's poems are at once absurdest and matter-of-fact; the images he conjures are thrown into high relief through cutting wordplay. In a series of prose poems about showbiz, he re imagines Cookie Monster as a burned-out suicide, and cheesy talk-show host Joe Franklin as a cross-dressing witness to the apocalypse. And in "For Charlotte, Unlisted" he wrenchingly tracks the elusive memory of a faded romance.
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