Tango Dragon and the Asteroid

Tango Dragon and the Asteroid
Author: Robert Denton
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2014-05-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1452596239

The first story, Ice Dragon Rising, explains how three young men sacrificed their own lives to create the Ice Dragon to save their world from a terrible War Lord. Broken for two thousand years, the next episode begins in 2012. The Reluctant Hero tells of Henry Barton-Jones, now ready but reluctant to take up the fight. Almost blinded by a rainstorm lashing deserted streets, he collides with Charlotte Masterson. She is wandering forlorn and desperate to free herself from Ricardo Bettencourt, a notorious and psychopathic but brilliant villain and drug baron. Henry connects with his old CIA partner, and together they fight Ricardos global blackmail scheme as it begins to go wrong with threatening and catastrophic consequences. In Tango Dragon and the Asteroid, Henry finds an innocent tango school in Toulouse is a cover for a private combat-training school. Ricardo still wants to kill Charlotte but then changes his mind. In a psychopathic mind game, Ricardo deviously binds Henry and Charlotte into another grotesque but daring blackmail scheme to bleed $380 billion from the worlds governments and walk away scot free.

Henry Barton-Jones Tango Dragon and the Asteroid

Henry Barton-Jones Tango Dragon and the Asteroid
Author: Robert Denton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2018-08-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781719217361

This thriller Tango Dragon and the Asteroid, volume III in the Henry Barton-Jones, Ice Dragon Force series, tells an exciting tale of love, passion, revenge, intrigue, and Carlotte's heroism as it chronicles Henry Barton-Jones transformation from a British secret agent into a different form of fighting evil. This time he has the help of a long forgotten force on the edge of re-emerging to once again protect the world. Hardly able to catch his breath after being put out to grass on early retirement, he finds this new job a particular challenge with no one to guide him. Barton-Jones struggles in Reluctant Hero Volume II, to understand exactly what this supernatural capability is that he has had forced upon him. Henry was an over the hill, burnt-out, washed up agent of the British secret service but now he discovers a new lease of life with an Ace card up his sleeve like none other. His new career is equally dangerous but now the rules have changed and he picks up a number of professional special government agents who become his support team to fight the good fight but this time with more than just guns and special effects on their side. Charlotte Masterson is the talented, ravishingly beautiful superstar fashion model traumatized by deeply emotional problems from her teens. Her gift of genes and destiny leads her into the word of fashion. Though successful this wakes up an anger in her for revenge that leads her to being accepted as a British Government experiment for women's equal opportunities training with the SAS commando regiment. Charlotte's strange destiny turns out to be all important in her predestined encounter with Henry. It is she who guides him in his dreams explaining the 6,000 year old Ice Dragon Force heritage that has been completing its development within his DNA programming through his life. Charlotte's past catches up with her the day of her honeymoon when she re-encounters her SAS Sergeant Major trainer and the scourge of her military training. Henry realises his problem was not burnout but his inherited Ice Dragon Force genes going through their final stage of evolution in order for him to become the new Ice Dragon Master. Charlotte becomes far more important to Henry than just his guiding angel. Tango Dragon and the Asteroid follows on from Henry's first encounter with Ricardo Bettencourt, the world's number one most wanted terrorist. Ricardo is a Brazilian diplomat who for decades under this diplomatic disguise had fooled Interpol, and all the world's national police forces and secret agencies. It is Charlotte who intrigues Ricardo to ensnare her for himself, but in doing so he runs up against Henry Barton-Jones even so, it is Charlotte who exacts her mind bending revenge on Ricardo. Ricardo is a nuclear scientist by training, he has a brilliant mind but is also ruthless and cunning to the extreme. Although he depends greatly on his cousin policeman for his intelligence information, his ability to sniff out people in high or important positions with something serious to hide enables him access to classified information that is critical to him achieving the seemingly impossible acts of violance. This cat and mouse game where the advantage unexpectedly switches sides takes Henry, Charlotte and their support team into ever greater depths of intrigue and detective work to get ahead of and turn the tables on the ever evasive Ricardo.

Miracle Country

Miracle Country
Author: Kendra Atleework
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1643751417

WINNER OF THE SIGURD F. OLSON NATURE WRITING AWARD “Blending family memoir and environmental history, Kendra Atleework conveys a fundamental truth: the places in which we live, live on—sometimes painfully—in us. This is a powerful, beautiful, and urgently important book.” —Julie Schumacher, author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero. Her parents taught their children to thrive in this beautiful if harsh landscape prone to wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Above all, the Atleework children were raised on unconditional love and delight in the natural world. But when Kendra’s mother died when Kendra was just sixteen, her once-beloved desert world came to feel empty and hostile, as climate change, drought, and wildfires intensified. The Atleework family fell apart, even as her father tried to keep them together. Kendra escaped to Los Angeles, and then Minneapolis, land of tall trees, full lakes, water everywhere you look. But after years of avoiding her troubled hometown, she felt pulled back. Miracle Country is a moving and unforgettable memoir of flight and return, emptiness and bounty, the realities of a harsh and changing climate, and the true meaning of home. For readers of Cheryl Strayed, Terry Tempest Williams, and Rebecca Solnit, this is a breathtaking debut by a remarkable writer.

Dictionary of World Biography

Dictionary of World Biography
Author: Barry Jones
Publisher: ANU Press
Total Pages: 941
Release: 2017-05-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1760461261

Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post-industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.

Dictionary of World Biography

Dictionary of World Biography
Author: Barry Jones
Publisher: ANU Press
Total Pages: 1000
Release: 2021-09-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1760464678

Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post-industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016. He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia’s five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia’s 100 ‘living national treasures’ in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life’. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.

Savage Dreams

Savage Dreams
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2014-06-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0520282280

"In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants that has yet to come to a real conclusion. A century later - 1951 - and about a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a "nuclear testing program" but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin."--

A View Of The Harbour

A View Of The Harbour
Author: Elizabeth Taylor
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2011-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0748131574

INTRODUCED BY SARAH WATERS 'Every one of her books is a treat and this is my favourite, because of its wonderful cast of characters, and because of the deftness with which Taylor's narrative moves between them ... A wonderful writer' SARAH WATERS In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high. Beautiful divorcee Tory is secretly involved with her neighbour, Robert, while his wife Beth, Tory's best friend, is consumed by the worlds she creates in her novels, oblivious to the relationship developing next door. Their daughter Prudence is aware, however, and is appalled by the treachery she observes. Mrs Bracey, an invalid whose grasp on life is slipping, forever peers from her window, constantly prodding her daughters for news of the outside world. And Lily Wilson, a lonely young widow, is frightened of her own home. Into their lives steps Bertram, a retired naval officer with the unfortunate capacity to inflict lasting damage while trying to do good. 'Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience' - ELIZABETH BOWEN 'Always intelligent, often subversive and never dull, Elizabeth Taylor is the thinking person's dangerous housewife. Her sophisticated prose combines elegance, icy wit and freshness in a stimulating cocktail' - VALERIE MARTIN 'A magnificent and underrated mid-20th-century writer, the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike' - DAVID BADDIEL

The Devil Comes Courting

The Devil Comes Courting
Author: Courtney Milan
Publisher: Courtney Milan
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1937248682

Captain Grayson Hunter knows the battle to complete the first worldwide telegraphic network will be fierce, and he intends to win it by any means necessary. When he hears about a reclusive genius who has figured out how to slash the cost of telegraphic transmissions, he vows to do whatever it takes to get the man in his employ. Except the reclusive genius is not a man, and she’s not looking for employment. Amelia Smith was taken in by English missionaries as a child. She’s not interested in Captain Hunter’s promises or his ambitions. But the harder he tries to convince her, the more she realizes that there is something she wants from him. She wants everything. And she’ll have to crack the frozen shell he’s made of his heart to get it.

Artful

Artful
Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0241959586

A playful, form-bending novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Playful and audacious' Independent Narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a former lover, Artful slips slyly between fiction and essay, guiding the reader thrillingly through a sequence of ideas on art and literature. With Smith's trademark humour, inventiveness, poignancy and critical insight, this is unique experiment in form, style, life, love, death, immortality and what art can mean. Based on four electrifying lectures given by the author at Oxford University, and exploring the explosive connections between art, story, memory and grief - Artful is a tidal wave of ideas to blast away the cobwebs and change how you see the world. ***** 'Artful is a revelation; a new kind of book altogether . . . makes you glad to be alive' Jackie Kay 'Powerful and moving' London Review of Books 'Blending of criticism and fiction, Artful belongs in a genre of its own . . . Joyful for anyone interested in the art of writing, and living, well' Anita Sethi, New Statesman