Author: Craig Semple
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN: 1760687944
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Before eighteen-year-old Craig Semple joined the New South Wales Police Force in 1988, he was someone who preferred to steer clear of trouble. But like so many young police officers, he gradually built resilience to fear through a process of selflessly, and often recklessly, turning towards danger. By the time he started locking horns with some of Australia's most notorious outlaw motorcycle gangs, Craig believed himself to be bulletproof. After his brother, a rookie police officer, was near-fatally stabbed by a drug dealer in 1998, Craig's life suddenly jumped the track, his fight against drug crime becoming an obsession that took him to the brink of personal, professional and marital destruction. Attempting to give his family and career a new start, he moved to the New South Wales north coast, where he too became the victim of a violent crime, at the hands of outlaw bikies. Trained and shaped in an era of alcohol abuse and maverick culture within the force, Craig saw just about everything in a career spanning a quarter of a century: murder, suicide, armed robbery, organised crime and much more. This unforgiving environment would eventually take its toll. After many years struggling with his deteriorating mental health, Craig retired with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. Ahead of him was a challenging journey that would take him to the lowest point of his life and provide him with an opportunity to find a new purpose inspiring others as a mental health educator. Craig Semple's story is one of transformation and profound personal growth through exposure to extreme life events. As compelling as a thriller, it is a story of how human endurance, tenacity, sacrifice and belief in something beyond the self ultimately lead to the triumph of good over evil.
Author: Ben H. Winters
Publisher: Quirk Books
ISBN: 1594745773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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"[The] weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series."—John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns Winner of the 2013 Edgar® Award Winner for Best Paperback Original! What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway? Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact. The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off the job—but not Hank Palace. He’s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week—except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares. The first in a trilogy, The Last Policeman offers a mystery set on the brink of an apocalypse. As Palace’s investigation plays out under the shadow of 2011GV1, we’re confronted by hard questions way beyond “whodunit.” What basis does civilization rest upon? What is life worth? What would any of us do, what would we really do, if our days were numbered? Ebook contains an excerpt from the anticipated second book in the trilogy, Countdown City.
Author: Peter Conrad
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671741785
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Author: Andrew Meier
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393242064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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"That Black Earth is an extraordinary work is, for anyone who has known Russia, beyond question."—George Kennan "A compassionate glimpse into the extremes where the new Russia meets the old," writes Robert Legvold (Foreign Affairs) about Andrew Meier's enthralling new work. Journeying across a resurgent and reputedly free land, Meier has produced a virtuosic mix of nuanced history, lyric travelogue, and unflinching reportage. Throughout, Meier captures the country's present limbo—a land rich in potential but on the brink of staggering back into tyranny—in an account that is by turns heartrending and celebratory, comic and terrifying. A 2003 New York Public Library Book to Remember. "Black Earth is the best investigation of post-Soviet Russia since David Remnick's Resurrection. Andrew Meier is a truly penetrating eyewitness."—Robert Conquest, author of The Great Terror; "If President Bush were to read only the chapters regarding Chechnya in Meier's Black Earth, he would gain a priceless education about Putin's Russia."—Zbigniew Brzezinski "Even after the fall of Communism, most American reporting on Russia often goes no further than who's in and who's out in the Kremlin and the business oligarchy. Andrew Meier's Russia reaches far beyond . . . this Russia is one where, as Meier says, history has a hard time hiding. Readers could not easily find a livelier or more insightful guide."—Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin "From the pointless war in Chechnya to the wild, exhilarating, and dispiriting East and the rise of Vladimir Putin, the former KGB officer—it's all here in great detail, written in the layers the story deserves, with insight, passion, and genuine affection."—Michael Specter, staff writer, The New Yorker; co-chief, The New York Times Moscow Bureau, 1995-98. "[Meier's] knowledge of the country and his abiding love for its people stands out on every page of this book....But it is his linguistic fluency, in particular, which enables Mr. Meier to dig so deeply into Russia's black earth."—The Economist "A wonderful travelogue that depicts the Russian people yet again trying to build a new life without really changing their old one."—William Taubman, The New York Times Book Review.
Author: Malachai Nicolle
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Comics fans and fancy news blogs aren't the only ones to take notice of Axe Cop; now the so-called "real" police know about him, too. And if there's one thing police don't like, it's a guy with an axe who's better than they are at catching and dispatching bad guys! Now Axe Cop and his partner Dinosaur Soldier are being treated like bad guys, not only by the police, but by the president and the army, too! But when a pair of nasty villains barge in from outer space and turn the army into actual bad guys, who gets the call to set things right? Axe Cop! Upon its debut as a webcomic in January of 2010, _Axe Cop_ was hailed by the entertainment press as an instant hit! Artist and cocreator Ethan Nicolle was nominated for an Eisner Award for his 2008 comics series _Chumble Spuzz_. Written by a six-year-old and drawn by his thirty-year-old brother!
Author: Malachai Nicolle
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1621151700
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
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Now Axe Cop and Dinosaur Soldier are being treated like bad guys, not only by the police, but by the president and the army, too! But when a pair of psychic brothers barge in from outer space and turn the army into bad guys, who gets the call to set things right? Axe Cop! This volume, with art from Eisner nominee Ethan Nicolle, collects the three-issue miniseries.
Author: Abby
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326660055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141
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Susanna (also known as Nexie) began her phase of rebellion against her alternative biological mother, taking Maurice and Thomas (also known as Ratz) along with her. One morning after a night rebellious fun strange things began to occur. Maurice soon realises his adoptive parents' house has become haunted, What by, what do they want and why are they here? The worst thing of all is no one believes him, but Maurice's life is to be changed forever.
Author: Clifford E. Trafzer
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385479522
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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In recent decades, Native American literature has experienced a resurgence in prominence and popularity. Beginning with the 1969 publication of N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel House Made of Dawn, and continuing with the work of Paula Gunn Allen, Linda Hogan, Louise Erdrich, and Craig Lesley, American Indian writers have become an increasingly visible part of the literary landscape. In this collection of thirty varied and powerful short stories, almost all being published here for the first time, emerging talents carry on the tradition of their storytelling ancestors.
Author: New South Wales Department of Mines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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1875- include also the Annual report of the Government Geologist.
Author: New South Wales. Dept. of Mines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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