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Gray Mountain
John Grisham
Thriller / Nonfiction / Young Adult
John Grisham has a new hero . . . and she’s full of surprises The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer’s career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track—until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the “lucky” associates. She’s offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she’d get her old job back.In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan to Brady, Virginia, population 2,200, in the heart of Appalachia, a part of the world she has only read about. Mattie Wyatt, lifelong Brady resident and head of the town’s legal aid clinic, is there to teach her how to “help real people with real problems.” For the first time in her career, Samantha prepares a lawsuit, sees the inside of an actual courtroom, gets scolded by a judge, and receives threats from locals who aren’t so thrilled to have a big-city lawyer in town. And she learns that Brady, like most small towns, harbors some big secrets.Her new job takes Samantha into the murky and dangerous world of coal mining, where laws are often broken, rules are ignored, regulations are flouted, communities are divided, and the land itself is under attack from Big Coal. Violence is always just around the corner, and within weeks Samantha finds herself engulfed in litigation that turns deadly.
The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories
H. G. Wells
Literature & Fiction / Science Fiction & Fantasy / History
The Door in the Wall The Star A Dream of Armageddon The Cone A Moonlight Fable The Diamond Maker The Lord of the Dynamos The Country of the BlindThe Door in the Wall The Star A Dream of Armageddon The Cone A Moonlight Fable The Diamond Maker The Lord of the Dynamos The Country of the Blind
Mystery Behind the Wall
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Children's Books
The Aldens find a mystery when a visitor comes. Who put the coins in a hiding place behind the wall?
Beyond the Hanging Wall
Sara Douglass
Science Fiction & Fantasy
A missing prince...A mythical creature...An age-old mystery
Like his physician father, sixteen-year-old Garth Baxtor is gifted with the Touch. By laying his hands upon his patients, Garth can sense the illness that dwells within and promote healing. But illness is not all he can sense, as he learns when he accompanies his father to the underground mines known as the Veins to minister to the criminals condemned to labor there, beyond the hanging wall. Applying his hands to the wound of one prisoner known only as Lot No. 859, Garth is stunned to discover that the man is no common criminal....
With the help of Ravenna, a witch from the marshes, and a mythical creature from the land of dreams, Garth sets out to solve a centuries-old mystery--a mystery that will pit one king against another and shake the Kingdom of Escator to its foundations.
The Road Through the Wall
Shirley Jackson
Horror / Biographies & Memoirs / Short Stories
Everyone knew the residents of Pepper Street were "nice" people -- especially the residents themselves. Among the self-satisfied group were: Mrs Merriam, the sanctimonious shrew who was turning her husband into a nonentity and her daughter into a bigoted spinster; Mr Roberts, who found relief from the street's unending propriety in shoddy side-street amours; Miss Fielding, who considered it more important to boil an egg properly than to save a disturbed girl from destruction. It took the gruesome act of a desperate boy who lived among them to pierce the shell of their complacency and force them to see their own ugliness.
Opus Wall
Brian S. Wheeler
Animals / Birds / Environment / Nature
Mr. Sievers is a relic of a lost time. His knowledge of fine arts has earned him his post as the art gallery's curator. But the modern art world doesn't need the curator's trained eye. For the paint-by-number templates determine what the curator mounts upon his walls. Mr. Sievers feels helpless until a dark painting unexpectedly arrives at his gallery to rekindle the stale art world with new fire.The strange painting Max Sievers mounts upon the wall confuses the gallery's customary visitors. The guests' tastes have been cultivated over the last many years by the template kits sold in the gift shop. Guests are accustomed to reviewing the works of artists who carefully follow directions and keep their pigments carefully contained between the template's black outlines. Those guests lack the tools to understand the wild and abstract painting that Max Sievers one day centers in his exhibition room. They may not understand it, but those guests cannot deny the power of that strange canvas. That painting sets one visitor's soul on fire, and so sends Max Sievers out into the ruined district of town to search for the artist whose opus wall holds the potential to bring the art world to its knees.
41 likes, 68 comments, On the Wall...it's Complicated!
vidit chopra
Young Adult / Sports / Poetry
The book revolves around Vishal and Tanya. Simran, Kabir and Ayesha, Vishal’s cousins, also play a key part. Tanya is Ayesha’s best friend and is arguably a spoilt brat of a rich dad. Vishal and Tanya share a love hate relationship to begin with but how things change with one innocent click which displays a message ‘Friend Request Sent’.The book revolves around Vishal and Tanya. Simran, Kabir and Ayesha, Vishal’s cousins, also play a key part. Tanya is Ayesha’s best friend and is arguably a spoilt brat of a rich dad. Vishal and Tanya share a love hate relationship to begin with but how things change with one innocent click which displays a message ‘Friend Request Sent’. This is the story of an average Indian guy, the guy who goes unnoticed in the crowd. This is the story of his love, the story of how he fights for his love. This is the story where love makes you take irrational decisions, decisions that you are sure to regret for the rest of your life. This is the story of how people in love tackle the test of time. The question still lingers though, are they destined to be together till the end?
Stasiland: Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall
Anna Funder
Nonfiction / Historical Fiction
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited and East Germany ceased to exist. In this book, Anna Funder tells extraordinary tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany, including the story of Miriam, who as a 16-year-old might have started World War III.
The Wall
Rhea Rose
A young mother descends into madness as a creature that lives in a wall haunts and hunts her child. The horror of its insatiable appetite makes her crazy and she must do whatever is necessary to prevent the monster from devouring her newborn. Keyboard books, an imprint of RainWood Press brings you, a single, quietly sensational tale of horror.A young mother descends into madness as a creature that lives in a wall haunts and hunts her child. The horror of its insatiable appetite makes her crazy and she must do whatever is necessary to prevent the monster from devouring her newborn. Keyboard books, an imprint of RainWood Press brings you, a single, quietly sensational tale of horror. A story not-for the squeamish, The Wall, always there, ever patient, presents itself when it's least expected. Nothing seems to prevent the creature living within from savoring and gulping the small and defenseless. Knocks noises and beats bring the wall to life, so everyone must walk quietly and make no sounds lest the creature and its wall are summoned.
There's a Monster in the Wall!
DP Scott
Jacob is afraid to go to sleep at night because he knows there's a monster in the wall beside his bed. The problem is no one believes him. Imagine Jacob's surprise when he finds out the monster is real, and that it has been assigned to watch over him!Jacob, like one out of ten children, has dyslexia. He thinks he's not very smart, and worries that he will never be good at school. However, when his new friend teaches him ways to overcome his disability, Jacob goes from the bottom to the top of his class.
Memory Wall
Anthony Doerr
Literature & Fiction / Nonfiction
Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's collection of stories is about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others.
In the luminous and beautiful title story, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman's secret, a piece of the past with the power to redeem a life. In 'The River Nemunas', a teenaged orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. 'Village 113' is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seedkeeper who guards the history of a village soon to be submerged. And in 'Afterworld,' the radiant, cathartic final story, a woman who escaped the Holocaust is haunted by visions of her childhood friends in Germany, yet finds solace in the tender ministrations of her grandson.
The stories in Memory Wall show us how we figure the world, and show Anthony Doerr to be one of the masters of the form.
Blinky Bill
Dorothy Wall
With a fresh newly designed cover, Australia's favourite koala returns to delight old and new readers alike. the Complete Adventures of Blinky Bill combines in one edition Dorothy Wall's much-loved classics, Blinky Bill (first published in 1933), Blinky Bill Grows Up (1934) and Blinky Bill and Nutsy (1937). One of the best-loved Australian children's book characters of all time, this mischievous koala has continued to delight readers of all ages and the books have never been out of print. Blinky Bill is the quintessential larrikin. With enthusiastic pleasure, this headstrong and impudent little koala sets out on a series of bold adventures testing not only his mother's patience, but also that of all the bush creatures and others he encounters. His shenanigans at Miss Pym's shop and Farmer Smifkins's vegie patch show him to be a very naughty koala indeed! this new paperback edition of a cherished Australian classic includes the original illustrations, bringing to life the wonderful...
The Return of Fursey
Mervyn Wall
Having escaped being burnt at the stake, the reluctant sorcerer Fursey is back in this sequel, trying to make a quiet life for himself as a grocer in the realm of King Ethelwulf. But when his old enemies seize his wife, Fursey resolves to embrace evil and return to Ireland to reclaim her. Along the way, he'll have to contend with bloodthirsty Vikings, a melancholy vampire, an alcoholic wizard, a lovesick cow, and Satan himself, who is more determined than ever to get his hands on Fursey's soul."The Return of Fursey shows no lessening at all in Wall's quality of imagination ... as with the best of Charlie Chaplin, or of Anton Chekhov or O'Casey, the laughter is very akin to high art." - Robert Hogan"For anyone who doesn't know Fursey, this opportunity to do so is not to be missed." - George O'Brien, Dublin Book Review"The Unfortunate Fursey and The Return of Fursey are not quaint esoterica for the specialist, folks, they are living...
The Writing on the Wall
Jenny Eclair
From acclaimed writer and comedian, Jenny Éclair, comes a hilarious and heart-breaking story about a friendship against all odds. Summer 1975: Helena is bored out of her mind - there's absolutely nothing to do and her supposed "best friends" Gwen and Elaine are holidaying in the South of France without her. The only saving grace is that she's allowed to re-decorate her room - bring on the purple floral wallpaper.
Summer 2021: New to the north, Hermione's mum has moved her away from London and all her friends to start a new life with new boyfriend Paul, who resembles a slab of meat from the butchers. Just as well she can paint over that hideous wallpaper in her new room.
By some miracle, the girls meet. When Hermione discovers Helena's writing under the wallpaper - she's transported back to Summer 1975 and the two instantly hit it off. But after dancing to the juke box at the infamous Blue Monkey café, and meeting Helena's multiple crushes, Hermione discovers a truth about Helena's future that suggests she is in great danger...Hermione found the writing on the wall. But can she save Helena?Jenny Éclair is one of the UK's most popular writers and performers - she is the author of a number of critically acclaimed and Sunday Times Bestselling adult novels, including the Richard and Judy bestseller, Moving. Jenny was the first woman to win the prestigious Perrier Comedy Award.
Fly on the Wall
Remy Lai
In Fly on the Wall, a moving and hilarious diary-style illustrated novel from the critically-acclaimed author of Pie in the Sky, a twelve-year-old boy goes on a (forbidden) solo adventure halfway around the world to prove his independence to his overprotective family.Henry Khoo's family treats him like a baby. He's not allowed to go anywhere without his sister/chaperone/bodyguard. His (former) best friend knows to expect his family's mafia-style interrogation when Henry's actually allowed to hang out at her house. And he definitely CAN'T take a journey halfway around the world all by himself!But that's exactly his plan. After his family's annual trip to visit his father in Singapore is cancelled, Henry decides he doesn't want to be cooped up at home with his overprotective family and BFF turned NRFF (Not Really Friend Forever). Plus, he's hiding a your-life-is-over-if-you're-caught secret: he's the creator of an anonymous...
The Wall
Sarah Jane Singer
"I dreamed of the Outside. It was murky, like a smudge of gray sky after rain, like my mother's tears. But the call that came with the dream was clear. Go, it said. Go out. Something awaits you."Julia has lived her whole life inside the Wall, the shining fortress her father built. But she dreams of knowing the world, and one day, the world calls to her. She runs away from home with a false name, a magical gift from her ailing mother, and her lion companion. But leaving triggers a curse, and no matter how hard she tries to outrun it, it catches up with her-as curses often do.Now, with only the help of a mysterious archer she meets along her journey, Julia must confront dark magic, uncover the secrets of her mother's past and her own abilities, and discover who she is outside of the Wall, if she is ever to survive the curse and build a life of her own.Fans of Naomi Novik and Laura E. Weymouth will love Sarah Jane Singer's...
The Hand on the Wall
Maureen Johnson
New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson delivers the witty and pulse-pounding conclusion to the Truly Devious series as Stevie Bell solves the mystery that has haunted Ellingham Academy for over 75 years.Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another, dead by misadventure. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. All three in the wrong place at the wrong time. All at the exact moment of Stevie's greatest triumph . . . She knows who Truly Devious is. She's solved it. The greatest case of the century.At least, she thinks she has. With this latest tragedy, it's hard to concentrate on the past. Not only has someone died in town, but David disappeared of his own free will and is up to something. Stevie is sure that somehow—somehow—all these things connect. The three deaths in the present. The deaths in the past. The missing...
Love's Wall
Karen Deen
Zach
Life is full of chapters.
It’s a book now containing past stories.
Some good, some bad and one full of trauma that I have buried.
Then there’s new chapters you haven’t written yet.
A simple life, success of the family business. Everything according to plan until that day…
One single day that starts rewriting my chapters.
It’s headed in a new direction I didn’t see coming.
Walking into Emily’s tough life, three sets of sad eyes looking at me like I’m a knight in shining armor.
How do I explain I can’t be who they need and not break their hearts?
They need me to save them…I need to protect my heart.
Emily
My children are my world.
Life’s hard as a single parent.
A mom of twins who depend on me to keep them safe.
I gave up believing in fairy tale romances a long time ago.
In my world they don’t exist.
Make your own new beginnings, my mom always told me.
Every day I struggle, but today’s barriers are just too hard to climb.
Then an accidental chance moment.
A hot wealthy guy knocking on my door, pulling my world out from under me.
Life changes in heartbeat. Zach sweeps in, protecting my family.
He shows my son, how to be the Alpha man I dream he’ll become.
He’s full of sweet love, promising a new life full of sunshine and rainbows, but it’s a life minus him. Can I take being so close but never being on his side of the wall?
How hard can I fight before I’ve got to walk away?
The Unfortunate Fursey
Mervyn Wall
Hailed by critic E. F. Bleiler as a "landmark book in the history of fantasy," Mervyn Wall's classic The Unfortunate Fursey (1946) is set in 11th century Ireland, where the forces of evil have launched an assault on the monastery of Clonmacnoise. Their task is made easier by the fact that one hapless monk, the simple-minded Brother Fursey, cannot manage to pronounce the necessary words of exorcism. When the other monks discover this, the unfortunate Fursey is expelled and sets forth on the first stage of his travels, accompanied by a fantastic procession of cacodemons, hippogriffs, imps, furies, and other dreadful creatures, not to mention the elegant gentleman in black who is their commander-in-chief.This edition includes an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda."Wildly fantastic, intensely satirical, and wickedly comic" - Irish Times
Writings on the Wall
Tanya Nelson
The first of my works, mostly poetry but has a few short stories and creative writings alsoA poet, his aunt, Stephen Fry and a peacock you might like to meet, but probably wouldn't want to play Strip Monopoly with. Bulgakov, Gogol...Spraints. Don't have nightmares.
Watch the Wall, Miss Seeton
Part #24 of "Miss Seeton" series by Hamilton Crane
Have the smugglers made a grave mistake?
Customs & Excise are tracking a gang of cigar-smugglers who operate on the quiet Kent coast near Plummergen, home to retired art teacher Miss Emily Seeton. Their attempt at a midnight ambush goes wrong, and a man is found dead.
As Miss Seeton sketches the most notorious tomb in Plummergen churchyard – the one built for 19th-century smuggler Abraham Voller – she meets a young American tourist. He claims to be a descendant of the Voller family, but is he a truly innocent ancestor-hunter, or do smugglers inherit their trade?
When the school concert includes a performance of Kipling’s “A Smuggler’s Song” it begins to seem that everyone is at it ... but we can rely on Miss Seeton to ensure that the police will get their man, and the smugglers’ dreams will go up in smoke!
Serene amidst every kind of skulduggery, this eccentric English spinster steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella.
Our Sunset Wall of Remembrance
Kelvin James Roper
Fiction / Science Fiction
A Grantaburgh Short ~ A Melancholy Tale. A duel bourn of class divide results in a man waking alone in The Wilderness. A bullet in his temple and prostrate atop the corpses of The Ferryman’s Pit, he recalls the fate that dragged him there.A collection of five short science fiction stories.The Exchange - a strange gang of buyers prove to be much more than meets the eyeRaging Star - a genocidal killer is interrogated, revealing a hopeless fight for mankind's survivalEden - the daily fight for survival in the first extrasolar human colony, EdenThe Suit - a ground-breaking experiment goes as planned, even though no-one knows its real purpose until the very endYar's Plume - a man uniquely gifted to communicate with an alien entity across vast distances in real-time, retells his personal tale
Murder on Wall Street
Victoria Thompson
Midwife Sarah Brandt Malloy and her detective husband, Frank, must discover who killed a prominent—but despised—society banker before an innocent family is destroyed in Murder on Wall Street, an all-new Gaslight Mystery in the USA Today bestselling series.Reformed gangster Jack Robinson is working hard to bolster his image in Gilded Age New York City society as he prepares to become a new father. But when Hayden Norcross, the man who nearly ruined his wife, is shot in cold blood, Jack knows the police will soon come knocking on his door. Frank Malloy has to agree—things don’t look good for Jack. But surely a man as unlikeable as Hayden had more than a few enemies. And it’s soon clear that plenty of the upper echelon as well as the denizens of the most squalid areas of the city seem to have hated him.Sarah and Frank have their work cut out for them. As the daughter of the elite Decker family, Sarah has access to the social circles...
Behind the Wall
Ginger Gilmour
From time to time, we encounter relationships that appear to go horribly wrong. Shocked, we can rarely see what is happening when it is happening. "I questioned whether there was Life after David Gilmour when he left. But it was the sound of my children's laughter in the garden that showed me the way,' she says tenderly with a tear. Ginger recounts tales of a life lived in a world that few of us can imagine but written in such a way that we feel part of it. Behind The Wall is a powerful account of events that lead up to and beyond the building of the Wall. It is a potent story that charts Ginger's marriage and rearing of four children with David Gilmour and the early years in the land of Pink Floyd and Rock n' Roll. It is relived in graphic detail but it is so much more than that. It is a story that many of us can relate to. Behind The Wall is a true story Ginger wants to share with her readers to know that there is always the Bright Side beyond the Wall and...
The Wall Between the Worlds
Part #1 of "The Bridges Trilogy" series by Ruth Fox
Cassidy Heights is still recovering from the freak snowstorm that wreaked so much havoc two months before, but Mikhal has his own problems. He's failing at pretty much everything, and the fact that he just punched his best friend in the face is just the icing on the cake. Now, geeky Sharna Devon has been assigned to tutor him, and Mikhal couldn't think of anything worse. Can't everyone just leave him alone? All he wants to do is to learn to play his guitar and overcome his stage fright so he can get rich, famous, and away from Cassidy Heights for good.Mikhal's mum has other plans for him though. She's running a charity drive, and thinks it will assist Mikhal learn some responsibility to help out. Mikhal's friends, Jake and Keira, are also involved with the drive; but Mikhal is sure they're hiding something from him. When he discovers Jake's old mobile phone in one of the boxes dropped off for the drive, he and Sharna are dragged into the mystery. Jake and Keira's friend,...
Remembrance Wall
Drake, Taki
Life is messy. We take the information that we have at the moment, and we make decisions. Sometimes that choice results in loss and regret.
Madrik and his crew are working on getting the BHB operational. Unfortunately, the day before the Grand Opening, the building with a mind of its own decides to add a new room. Brick walls and floors, smooth stones set in the walls. No one seems to have a clue what’s going on.
Then people start wandering in. Some in sorrow, some in a celebration of life, they each want to leave something at the Remembrance Wall.
Because who else can you trust to hold your treasured memories?
The Shadow on the Wall
Manoj Nair
All that Hari wanted was a house where he could live. He found one, abandoned, deep in a forest. Life went along smoothly for him until he met a girl.....A young software engineer moves to Mumbai after landing a job there. His search for a place to live, takes him to a deserted hut in the middle of a forest. There he meets a beautiful young girl. This is the story of their romance...
WALL MEN
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
Romance / Paranormal / Contemporary
From New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes a suspenseful Dark Fantasy, Wall Men: Book One, a Haunted House. (Book Two, coming June 2022!) MONSTERS? VAMPIRES? GHOSTS AND DEMONS? MEN WHO GUARD THE WALL BETWEEN US AND THEM. I'm sitting at my grandma's bedside, moments away from losing her, when she begins to rant about monsters and men trapped in her old mansion. I practically grew up there, so I know it's the pain meds talking. There's nothing inside that drafty house except rotting books, rusty pipes, and neglected antiques. "I've written down all the rules, Lake. You must follow them," she tells me, gasping for air. "The Wall Men cannot get free. They are soulless and evil. They will try to seduce you. But you cannot listen. They must remain chained to the wall." What the...? In her final breath, she makes me swear to read her journals. But above all, I must promise to never go inside her bedroom, the one that's...
The Writing On the Wall
Juliet Rieden
'Memoirs such as this will ensure we do not lose the struggle against "forgetting" - that sly accomplice of tyranny' Magda SzubanskiIn 1939, as Hitler's troops march on Prague, a Jewish couple makes a heartbreaking decision that will save their eight-year-old son's life but change their family forever.Australian journalist Juliet Rieden grew up in England in the 1960s and 70s always sensing that her family was different in some way. She longed to have relatives and knew precious little about her Czech father's childhood as a refugee. On the night before Juliet's father died, in 2006, Juliet's father suddenly looked up and said: 'The plane is in the hangar.' In the years after his death, Juliet comes to truly understand the significance of these words. On a trip to Prague she is shocked to see the Rieden name written many times over on the walls of the Pinkas Synagogue memorial. These names become the catalyst for a...
Rogue Beyond the Wall
Giselle Jeffries Schneider
The Rogue Beyond the Wall Series: Book 1 A journey always starts somewhere. Nicholas is sixteen and not on the path his father (Isaiah) expected. He is King of the Rogues, though there is more to that story than meets the eye, and his father is personal healer and spell caster for King William of Haven. Or at least, they used to be. That all changes when a warrant is issued for Nicholas' arrest and his father reaps the consequences of his mysterious escape. But unbeknownst to them is that they are not alone in their fates. At their sides is the spirit of Brida, Nicholas' little sister. Together, these three will face an adventure that will lead one to finding himself, the other to realize how far one will go for family, and another to discover her life is only beginning.
Graffiti on the Wall of the Universe
Gene Doucette
Annie Collins emerged from the wreckage of the last invasion of Sorrow Falls with a spaceship in her garden, a loud alien idea in her head, and—because returning to college was out of the question—a lot of free time. What she chose to do with the idea, the spaceship, and all that free time, ended up kickstarting a worldwide technological boom. Now, nine years later, it seems as if not a day passes without the announcement of a new breakthrough in something, be it quantum computing, nuclear energy, neurobiology, or some other esoteric corner of cutting-edge science. The world is in the middle of a revolution of ideas, and the best part? Hardly anyone knows Annie's involved at all. Yes, everything seems to be working out just great...until the day a new spaceship shows up in Sorrow Falls. This new visitor seems just like the one buried in Annie's garden: same design, same matte black hull, sitting in the same spot in the same empty field....
Hadrian's Wall
Adrian Goldsworthy
History / Historical Fiction
From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a definitive history of Hadrian's WallStretching eighty miles from coast to coast across northern England, Hadrian's Wall is the largest Roman artifact known today. It is commonly viewed as a defiant barrier, the end of the empire, a place where civilization stopped and barbarism began. In fact, the massive structure remains shrouded in mystery. Was the wall intended to keep out the Picts, who inhabited the North? Or was it merely a symbol of Roman power and wealth? What was life like for soldiers stationed along its expanse? How was the extraordinary structure built-with what technology, skills, and materials?In Hadrian's Wall, Adrian Goldsworthy embarks on a historical and archeological investigation, sifting fact from legend while simultaneously situating the wall in the wider scene of Roman Britain. The result is a concise and enthralling history of a great architectural marvel of the ancient world.
Through the Wall
Caroline Corcoran
'A rival to Gone Girl for its addictive, twisted plot.' STYLIST Lexie's got the perfect life. And someone else wants it... Lexie loves her home. She feels safe and secure in it – and loved, thanks to her boyfriend Tom. But recently, something's not been quite right. A book out of place. A wardrobe door left open. A set of keys going missing... Tom thinks Lexie's going mad – but then, he's away more often than he's at home nowadays, so he wouldn't understand. Because Lexie isn't losing it. She knows there's someone out there watching her. And, deep down, she knows there's nothing she can do to make them stop... A compelling, heart-racing thriller that will have you looking over your shoulder long after you turn the last page. The perfect read for fans of Louise Candlish and Adele Parks.
Wall Around a Star
Part #2 of "Saga of Cuckoo" series by Frederik Pohl
SUMMARY:Jen Babylon, a linguist, must solve the mystery of the origin of Cuckoo, a huge planet inhabited by alien beings as well as a race of humans
Veegal's Wall
Adam McCullough
History / Nonfiction
A small group of warriors from the nomadic tribes known as the Lost find themselves thrown into a battle for the very survival of the nation of Eebrook. A fight they must win if they are to secure a future of their own.For five years a select group of warriors from the Lost Tribes had paid in blood during their service to the royal armies of King Argile for the right to be reconized as a legitimate part of the Nation of Eebrook and a place to call home, but driven by visions of a dire future King Argile instead gives them the Island of Rhonin on which to build a kindom of their own. The final price,take with them the prince and princess of Eebrook.However the invasion of Eebrook by the armies of Lord General Kuzzak force them into a fight for the survival of not only the nation of Eebrook but for the people of the Lost tribes as well.
The Girl Behind the Wall
Mandy Robotham
From the USA Today and internationally bestselling WWII novelist of The German Midwife, The Secret Messenger and The Berlin Girl comes a story set at the dawn of the Cold War in Berlin. A city divided.When the Berlin Wall goes up, Karin is on the wrong side of the city. Overnight, she's trapped under Soviet rule in unforgiving East Berlin and separated from her twin sister, Jutta.Two sisters torn apart.Karin and Jutta lead parallel lives for years, cut off by the Wall. But Karin finds one reason to keep going: Otto, the man who gives her hope, even amidst the brutal East German regime.One impossible choice...When Jutta finds a hidden way through the wall, the twins are reunited. But the Stasi have eyes everywhere, and soon Karin is faced with a terrible decision: to flee to the West and be with her sister, or sacrifice it all to follow her heart?
The Shining Wall
Melissa Ferguson
In a ruined world, where wealthy humans push health and longevity to extremes and surround themselves with a shining metal wall, privilege and security is predicated on the services of cloned Neandertals, and the exploitation of women in the shanty towns and wastelands beyond the fortress city.This is the frightening yet moving story of orphaned Alida and her younger sister Graycie, and their struggle for survival in the Demi-Settlements outside the wall. When the sisters are forced to enter the City by very different means they risk being separated forever.Cloned Neandertal officer, Shuqba is exiled to a security outpost in the Demi-Settlements when she fails to adhere to the impossible standards set for her species within the City. Will she offer a lifeline to Alida or betray her?The Shining Wall is at once a frightening parable of our unjust world of haves and have nots, a richly imagined yet thrilling story of technological control and the fight for survival, and a paean to...
Wolves at the Wall
Part #3 of "Anna Wool" series by S. E. Meyer
Science Fiction / Fantasy / Business
The Painting on Auerperg's Wall
Erika Rummel
History / Nonfiction / Religion
The novel revolves around the forced sale of a painting in Nazi-occupied Vienna. Zoltan Nagy, the legitimate heir, is pressured by his daughter to go to court and recoup his parents' possessions. But Zoltan is in love with the present owner of the painting. What if winning the court case means losing her? And thereby hangs a tale with several twists and turns: secrets, assumptions and slippery identities are the ingredients the author has used to create a page-turner. Zoltan's daughter, Cereta, claims the painting was sold under duress. But is the work what it appears to be, or is it an expert forgery? And is Cereta the woman she claims to be? Or is her real name Laura? David, an art historian, who falls in love with her, cannot get at the truth. He is caught in a web of illusions and postmodernist doubts. Zoltan holds the key to the puzzle, but he is hard to read. The hardships he suffered in childhood have made him a man of a thousand disguises, a man hiding even from...
During-the-Event
Roger Wall
For D.E., only two certainties exist: his grandfather is dead and life will never be the same.During-the-Event is a dystopian adventure that roams across a fallen United States, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters along the way. In the near future, climate change has ravaged the United States, leading the government to overcorrect through culls and relocation. Those who survive the mandated destruction are herded into "habitable production zones," trading their freedom for illusions of security. The few who escape learn quickly that the key to survival is to stay hidden in the corners of the country. For seventeen years, During-the-Event, or D.E., has lived free in a pastoral life with his grandfather in North Dakota. But when death reaches their outpost. D.E. is forced on a journey that will change his life—and reveal surprises about his past.Once taught that strangers are only sources of pain, D.E. must learn to trust the people he meets on...
Marion's Wall
Jack Finney
A young married couple moves into a San Francisco aprtment formerly owned by the silent star Marian Marsh. Her ghost still inhabits the place and takes over the wife's body, goes to Hollywood, and tries to re-enter films. The couple meets a film buff, living in Vilma Banky's old home, and he has prints of all the lost films including the complete Greed.
Beyond the Wall
James Lowder
"There were a number of books about A Game of Thrones (the HBO series) and A Song of Ice and Fire (the books) published last year . . . the one that impressed me most was James Lowder's Beyond the Wall."—George R.R. MartinForeword by New York Times bestselling author R.A. SalvatoreGo beyond the Wall and across the narrow sea with this collection about George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, from A Game of Thrones to A Dance with Dragons.The epic game of thrones chronicled in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has captured the imaginations of millions of readers. In Beyond the Wall, bestselling authors and acclaimed critics offer up thought-provoking essays and compelling insights:Daniel Abraham reveals the unique challenges of adapting the original books into graphic novels.Westeros.org founders Linda Antonsson and Elio M. García, Jr., explore the...
The Traveler 01-03 Home, Canyon, Wall
Part #1 of "The Traveler" series by Tom Abrahams
Thriller / Science Fiction / Suspense
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BOOK ONE: HOME
One of “Twelve Books You Should Read If You Love The Walking Dead.” —Bookbub
"Tom Abrahams' HOME introduces us to a prepper nightmare." --BoingBoing
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HE THOUGHT HE WAS PREPARED. HE THOUGHT HIS FAMILY WAS SAFE. HE WAS WRONG.
Five years after a pneumonic plague killed two-thirds of the world’s population, army veteran Marcus Battle is isolated. He’s alone with his guns, his food, and the graves of his wife and child.
Unaware of the chaos that’s befallen everything outside of his central Texas ranch land, Marcus lives a Spartan life. If anyone steps onto his property he shoots first and never ask questions.
But when a woman in distress, chased by marauders, seeks asylum, Marcus has a decision to make.
Does he throw her to the wolves to protect himself or does he help her and leave the shelter and protection of home?
BOOK TWO: CANYON
HE’S HOMELESS. HE’S ON THE RUN. AND HE WANTS REVENGE.
Marcus Battle has left behind his home.
Now he’s on a seemingly impossible mission to find a missing child. But can he balance that responsibility with his deep, primal desire to exact revenge on the men who destroyed his solitary existence?
The world he discovers on his journey isn’t the one he remembers before a pneumonic plague called The Scourge killed two-thirds of the world’s population. It is lawless, depraved, and far-deadlier than the disease which created it.
Battle made a promise to find that child. It’s a promise he regrets more acutely with every step of the journey where he is as much the hunter as he is the hunted.
BOOK 3: WALL
HE SURVIVED THE SCOURGE. HE ESCAPED THE CARTEL. NOW HE FACES THE WALL.
In the chaos of a global plague, evil took hold. Governments fell, the good became servants, and the Cartel rose to power.
A wall was built to contain the wasteland and keep the evil at bay. Now an organized resistance wants change. They're willing to fight for it and they've asked Marcus Battle to help.
The last thing Battle wants is another war. But if that's what it takes to gain freedom and safe passage to the other side of the wall, he'll take aim and fire.
The Weekend That Changed Wall Street
Maria Bartiromo
A first-person account of the white-knuckle weekend that brought the financial world to its knees, from one of America's most famous business reporters. As bankers and government officials scrambled to keep the economy from total collapse during the weekend of September 12-14, 2008, top CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo was taking frantic phone calls from the most powerful players on Wall Street and in Washington.Through these intimate conversations, she had an unequaled perspective on the crisis and its aftermath, the personalities involved, and the emotions at work. Now she draws on her high-level network to provide an eyewitness account of the biggest events of the financial crisis, including lengthy interviews with former treasury secretary Henry Paulson, former AIG chairman Hank Greenberg, and former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain, among many others.Writing with both authority and dramatic flair, Bartiromo also tackles the big questions: how did an unmatched...
Through The Wall
Part #19 of "Miss Silver" series by Wentworth, Patricia
Martin Brand's relatives are furious that he's left his large estate to his niece, Marion, whom he had only met once. And Marion is upset that she has to share her new home with Martin's family. Then a body is found on the beach wearing her coat. Fortunately Miss Silver is on the scene.
Confessions of a Wall Street Insider
Michael Kimelman
Although he was a suburban husband and father, living a far different life than the “Wolf of Wall Street," Michael Kimelman had a good run as the cofounder of a hedge fund. He had left a cushy yet suffocating job at a law firm to try his hand at the high-risk life of a proprietary trader — and he did pretty well for himself. But it all came crashing down in the wee hours of November 5, 2009, when the Feds came to his door—almost taking the door off its hinges. While his wife and children were sequestered to a bedroom, Kimelman was marched off in embarrassment in view of his neighbors and TV crews who had been alerted in advance. He was arrested as part of a huge insider trading case, and while he was offered a “sweetheart" no-jail probation plea, he refused, maintaining his innocence.The lion's share of Confessions of a Wall Street Insider was written while Kimelman was an inmate at Lewisburg Penitentiary. In nearly two years behind bars,...
Dark Genius of Wall Street
Edward J Renehan Jr
Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius. Gould was the robber baron's robber baron, the most astute financial and business strategist of his time and also the most widely hated. In Dark Genius of Wall Street, acclaimed biographer Edward J. Renehan, Jr., combines lively anecdotes with the rich social tapestry of the Gilded Age to paint the portrait of the most talented financial buccaneer of his generation-- and one of the inventors of modern business.
The Fourth Wall
Walter Jon Williams
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Short Stories
Dagmar Shaw got out of the game... and into the movies.Sean is a washed-up child actor reduced to the lowest dregs of reality television to keep himself afloat. His life was a downward spiral of alcoholism, regret, and failure... until he met Dagmar.Except Sean has secrets, dark even for the Hollywood treadmill of abuse, addiction, and rehab. And Dagmar is a cipher. There are dark rumors about her past, the places she's been, the things she was involved in. People tend to die around her and now, she wants Sean for something. A movie, she says, but with her history, who's to say what her real game is?
The Wall
John Lanchester
Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights.The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day of his life anywhere near it. He longs for this to be over; longs to be somewhere else.He will soon find out what Defenders do and who the Others are. Along with the rest of his squad, he will endure cold and fear day after day, night after night. But somewhere, in the dark cave of his mind, he thinks: wouldn't it be interesting if something did happen, if they came, if you had to fight for your life?John Lanchester's thrilling, hypnotic new novel is about why the young are right to hate the old. It's about a broken world you will recognise as your own-and about what might be found when all is lost.
Against the Wall
Rebecca Zanetti
Romance / Paranormal / Suspense
A sexy category romance from Entangled's Brazen imprint...
Never challenge a cowboy in the courtroom…
Surveying the proposed site for a high-end golf course should have been a breeze for spunky landscape architect Sophie Smith. But when this born-and-bred city girl is literally swept off her feet by a sexy cowboy on horseback, she realizes country life has some serious (and seriously steamy) possibilities. That is, until she finds out exactly who her smoking hot wrangler really is.
Tribal lawyer Jake Lodge is desperately trying to block the development. And if that means playing hardball, so be it. But Sophie is a distraction he didn’t expect. A distraction that makes his blood burn. Two different worlds. Two opposing sides. And when they finally give into temptation, the consequences will shake the foundations of both of their lives…
Over the Hill and Up the Wall
Todd Alexander
A heart-warming journey with parents of a certain age and a son who thinks he knows best 'A bit like David Sedaris without the tragedy, this is a book that will bring a smile of recognition to anyone with ageing elders, and hopefully to the elders themselves' Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald'Warm, witty, honest. With a healthy serving of humour, Todd Alexander has written a marvellous, touching and insightful book. You'll laugh, cry and hope your own kids love you this much. I'll be more patient with my parents after reading this' Better Reading'Warm, witty and insightful ... Alexander has exquisitely depicted the experience of dealing with ageing parents' The Australian'Funny, irreverent and true to life' Blue Wolf ReviewsOf course, we love our parents. Even if they do so many things that drive us bonkers.Like how a mother - for...
The Surrogate
Henry Wall Judith
From the acclaimed author of "The Girlfriends Club", a heart-pounding tale of surrogate motherhood gone wrong and the desperate measures people will take in the name of love, family, and religion.
To a penniless twenty-year-old like Jamie Long, surrogate motherhood seemed both an act of altruism and a financial opportunity. But once pregnant and under contract to Amanda Hartmann, the head of a famous evangelical family, Jamie realizes that she's getting more than she bargained for. Whisked away to the vast, isolated family ranch, she's closely supervised and carefully cut off from the outside world. She learns the family's dark secrets -- and sees the enormity of their ruthlessness. When Jamie hears Amanda's plan to claim the baby as her natural-born child, she begins to suspect that her own life is in danger and resolves to flee. Alone with a tiny newborn, she calls on the one man in the world she can trust -- her high school crush, Joe Brammer. Their love unites them in a struggle to escape, and soon enough their flight becomes a fight for their lives. Brilliantly weaving some of today's most controversial social issues into a captivating page-turner, The Surrogate is Judith Henry Wall's greatest triumph to date.
Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything
E. Lockhart
Literature & Fiction / Young Adult / Fiction
At the Manhattan School for Art and Music, where everyone is “different” and everyone is “special,” Gretchen Yee feels ordinary. She’s the kind of girl who sits alone at lunch, drawing pictures of Spider-Man, so she won’t have to talk to anyone; who has a crush on Titus but won’t do anything about it; who has no one to hang out with when her best (and only real) friend Katya is busy.
One day, Gretchen wishes that she could be a fly on the wall in the boys’ locker room–just to learn more about guys. What are they really like? What do they really talk about? Are they really cretins most of the time?
Fly on the Wall is the story of how that wish comes true.
From the Hardcover edition.
Beasts Beyond the Wall
Beasts Beyond the Wall (retail) (epub)
The fate of Rome hangs on a mad mission to the edge of the world...Drust and Kag, two ring-hardened fighters who won their freedom with blood, are met with an unusual request. The mysterious, powerful Servilius Structus sends them deep into Scotland, land of the Caledonii, to find and secure a woman and her young son. But it's not clear why... and what could go wrong, heading over the last Wall into the Land of Darkness? Accompanied by Ugo, Quintus, Manius, and Sibanus, this crew of ex–gladiator rogues, tricksters and bar-room philosophers will risk everything on an insane quest and a daring escape. In the dog days of Rome, with decadence and corruption in the air, the consequences of their failure are far greater than they could ever dream: not only their lives but the Empire itself is at stake. No pressure then. A searing, gritty and blood-soaked historical adventure, Beasts...
The Eternal Wall
Raymond Z. Gallun
The Eternal Wall is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Raymond Z. Gallun is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Raymond Z. Gallun then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.
Small, Smart Mice in the Wall: the Gunston Poetry Magazine 2015
Fuqua St. John
This is the 2015 poetry magazine of the Gunston Middle School in Arlington, Virginia.Myths and romance, Armageddon and the occult, teddy bears and fairy tales, anything can be fodder for an epic poem and Stephanie Barr proves that with this collection of poetry from her earliest days writing that is eclectic, quirky, evocative, brilliant but highly accessible while somehow holding to old-fashioned notions on poetry, making it sound as good as it looks. This is poetry made to be read aloud, all but sung. The years seem eons, ages,Since I traveled, young and free,When the songs my harp would whisperWould bring everyone to me.Women young and soldiers agedCame to hear my siren lyre,Came to lose themselves in music,Dulcet sounds of sweet desire.So, if lyric language is your bag, if you still get transported with the poetry of Keats and Poe, but long for messages a little more here and now, this may be the poetry collection for you.
Wall Street Titan
Anna Zaires
Romance / Science Fiction / Paranormal
A billionaire who wants a perfect wife...At thirty-five, Marcus Carelli has it all: wealth, power, and the kind of looks that leave women breathless. A self-made billionaire, he heads one of the largest hedge funds on Wall Street and can take down major corporations with a single word. The only thing he's missing? A wife who'd be as big of an achievement as the billions in his bank account.A cat lady who needs a date… Twenty-six-year-old bookstore clerk Emma Walsh has it on good authority that she's a cat lady. She doesn't necessarily agree with that assessment, but it's hard to argue with the facts. Raggedy clothes covered with cat hair? Check. Last professional haircut? Over a year ago. Oh, and three cats in a tiny Brooklyn studio? Yep, she's got those.And yes, fine, she hasn't had a date since… well, she can't recall. But that part is fixable. Isn't that what the...
The Canadian Civil War: Volume 3 - West to the Wall
William Wresch
Science / Technology / Nonfiction
This third book in the series mixes accounts of early explorations in west and attempts to reach the Pacific through the “Wall” of Rocky Mountains, with an ongoing description of the breakdown of Canada into northern and southern sections.This third book in the series mixes accounts of early explorations in west and attempts to reach the Pacific through the “Wall” of Rocky Mountains, with an ongoing description of the breakdown of Canada into northern and southern sections. While the government in Green Bay attempts to win friends in the south, an American agent opens a new front in the conflict by bringing a band of men to attack Sioux villages in the west. Shawn Murphy happens to be in the west researching early French attempts to push past the “Wall” of mountains to reach the Pacific. His confrontation with the American agent and his “angry-men” nearly costs him his life.
Mr. Kent's Wall of Wonders
D.D. Roy
Fantasy / Childrens
Every year, magic counselor Mr. Kent dreads the inventory of his enchanted objects. While he loves playing with the hula hoop that can turn back time and the jump rope that makes you invisible, the item in Cabinet 11 always escapes, and this time, it will be during school hours!Every year, magic counselor Mr. Kent dreads the inventory of his enchanted objects. While he loves playing with the hula hoop that can turn back time and the jump rope that makes you invisible, the item in Cabinet 11 always escapes, and this time, it will be during school hours! It will take the teamwork of the Troubled Tweens to help Mr. Kent get the magical mayhem returned to its cabinet in his colorful Wall of Wonders.This 4000-word story from the world of the Troubled Tweens is the perfect introduction to D.D. Roy's book series that begins with Jinnie Wishmaker and continues with Marcus Mender.**Includes the first chapter to Jinnie Wishmaker and Marcus Mender.**
Sour Notes
D. K. Wall
Days after graduating high school, Freddie McDougal escapes his small North Carolina mountain hometown to pursue a dream of rock and roll stardom. Seventeen years later, his mother pleads for him to come home. His father has only days to live. Returning forces Freddie onto a path of self-discovery as he unravels the truth behind the tragic car crash that claimed the life of his popular and athletic brother, Dean. Everything he thought he knew about that awful night turns out to be false. Caught in a whirlwind of emotions, Freddie must come to terms with his failures as a musician and decide how to navigate the murky waters of old friends, enemies, and family. With newfound clarity and understanding of his past, he faces the difficult choices that lie ahead. Will Freddie let the ghosts of the past continue to haunt him, or will he find the strength to forge a new path, guided by the lessons learned from his long overdue homecoming? In this...
A Crack in the Wall
Chad Inglis
Newt Run is a town that shouldn't exist, a town of artists, drug dealers, miners and steam. It’s a town at the center of a broken universe, and broken universes have the bad tendency to fall apart. In this tale, a crack in the wall of his apartment leads a man into nightmare.A town at the center of a broken universe, Newt Run was never meant to exist; it is a town of artists, drug dealers, miners and steam. There are holes here, gaps in the fabric of things, and some of them are wide enough for people to slip through. Rumours have been spreading about disappearances in the mines, and someone has been defacing the town's walls with rings of painted blood. Strangest of all are the tales of outsiders - mysterious visitors who can only be seen by users of the drug known as powder.Newt Run is also a novel, but the world of Newt Run was much too large to fit inside a single book. These short stories, or 'modules', extend this world, probing into its deepest (and its smallest) secrets.In 'A Crack in the Wall' a crack in the wall of his apartment leads a man into nightmare.
