Author: Jennie Lucas
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 459626046X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】Lilley is invited to a ball by CEO Alessandro on the worst day of her life. She had been despairing over her broken life, but attending the ball with this overwhelmingly gorgeous millionaire and wearing stunning clothes of the highest quality, she feels like she’s gone from being a pitiful little mouse to Cinderella. She has a beautiful night and gives him her virginity, but how long can she keep her true identity from him?
Author: Ranulph Fiennes
Publisher: Long Riders Guild Press
ISBN: 9781590481448
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Brought up in South Africa, he never knew his father, who had died in the Italian Campaign the year before he was born. Ranulph followed his father's path into the Royal Scots Greys. After that came the SAS, from which he was dismissed for blowing up an American film set at the idyllic Cotswold village of Castle Combs, then two vicious years as a volunteer fighting communist insurgents in Oman. Then began the series of expeditions for which Fiennes is best known and which caused The Guinness Book of Records to hail him in 1984 as 'the world's greatest living explorer.' Up the White Nile in a hovercraft, parachuting onto Europe's highest glacier, forcing his way up 4,000 miles of terrifying rivers in northern Canada and Alaska, overland to the North Pole and to the ends of the earth, across the world's axis-the Transglobe Expedition-which took ten years from conception to completion. He writes here too about his attempt to reach the North Pole without dogs or motorised equipment, beating the world record by 300 miles, his determination to find the lost city of Urbar in the Arabian desert and, finally, his extraordinary journey across the Antarctic Continent via the South Pole. Living Dangerously is a remarkable testament from a remarkable man.
Author: Donald Tate
Publisher: Histria Books
ISBN: 1592112579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Living Dangerously: In Sweet Delusions And Datelines From Shrieking Hell is a history-driven story casting a wide net over the Vietnam War, called the most important event of the second half of the twentieth century. It is a story with flashbacks and live action, from the battlefield to the bedroom, politics and the military, to a his-her war of sweet, bitter, and brave love.
Author: Hans Schoots
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9789053564332
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Highly prized biography of one of the Netherlands' most famous and controversial filmmakers.
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781680434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 143
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Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired the world’s racist populists in places as far apart as Hungary and Arizona, achieving a horrific consummation in the actions of mass murderer Anders Breivik. The subterranean work of dissatisfaction continues. Rage is building, and a new wave of revolts and disturbances will follow. Why? Because the events of 2011 augur a new political reality. These are limited, distorted—sometimes even perverted—fragments of a utopian future lying dormant in the present
Author: Christopher Koch
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1743098413
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 347
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Jakarta, 1965. Waiting for explosions, the city smells of frangipani, kretek cigarettes, and fear. It is THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY. the charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. For the Western correspondents here, this gathering apocalypse is their story and their drug, while the sufferings of the Indonesian people are scarcely real: a shadow play. Working at the eye of the storm are television correspondent Guy Hamilton and his eccentric dwarf cameraman Billy Kwan. In Kwan's secret fantasy life, both Sukarno and Hamilton are heroes. But his heroes betray him, and Billy is driven to desperate action. As the Indonesian shadow play erupts into terrible reality, a complex personal tragedy of love, obsession and betrayal comes to its climax. 'A profound and beautiful book' - Les Murray, the Sydney Morning Herald 'A richly and fully realised work of fiction, well conceived and beautifully executed.' - Larry McMurtry 'Intelligent, compassionate, flavoursome, convincing ... In Billy Kwan, Mr Koch has created one of the most memorable characters of recent fiction. this book is to be prized.' - the times Literary Supplement
Author: Ted Rall
Publisher: NBM
ISBN: 1681122170
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Here’s a new turn for the controversial cartoonist and commentator Ted Rall. Not only is this autobiographical but he has paired up with the acclaimed artist of Bluesman and The Castaways for fully painted art. It’s the eighties and Ted is in college in New York City and slipping. His pranks, lack of focus and restlessness get him kicked out of school. Unable to find a job, rejected by his parents, he’s on the verge of suicide. Instead he finds comfort in the arms of many women he meets casually and puts up a front for. Hey, better than being homeless and begging, but then... is it? It may sound like an ideal grift but the toll is much higher than one may imagine. Between acidly funny and disturbingly real, Rall, a cartoonist whose work has alienated half the world, pours out his guts on a hard turning point in his life. Callejo adopts a new fully painted color style for this work, showing his versatility.
Author: Bill Simpson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892725182
Category : Automobile racing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Bill Simpson has saved the lives of more race car drivers than any man in history. His leading-edge genius lies behind most of the safety gear that allows today's drivers to survive truly spectacular crashes. Simpson's products are so good, in fact, that many of the world's best drivers won't compete without wearing his brand of belts, helmet, driving suit, and all the rest.
Author: Kandy Moon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781728888132
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 169
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Fifty Cars, Three Days, Three People I like fast, expensive cars. I like to drive them. I enjoy excitement to a point. I didn't like the idea of stealing vehicles out of car shops and bringing them to the bad guys. As it turns out, stealing cars, is a big rush for me. It turns me on! Korbin's younger brother, Jimmy, has always been a troublemaker. Now Jimmy's in a jam and they're out to kill him. Jimmy comes to Corbin and Karen asking for help in saving his life. He had agreed to do a job to heist fifty specific cars. He didn't think the men would mind if he kept a couple of the cars for himself but they did. "We have five minutes to get in, shut the alarm off, grab the keys and get out with the cars", Jimmy said. Karen: I was almost to the shipyard when a cop pulled out of an alley and got right on my tail. The flashing lights came on. I was sure I was going to jail. As Korbin was driving towards the shipyard in an eight million dollar Mercedes-Benz Maybach Exelero, he noticed someone following him. All of a sudden he heard a bullet hit the back window and the race was on! It's hard to keep up with all of the action and thrills in this non-stop, suspense-filled car heist adventure. Oh, and there's a bit of high speed love too.
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Languages : en
Pages : 148
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
