EPICALYX

EPICALYX
Author: Jose Reyna Olivares
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2021-01-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 163684605X

“The military protagonist leaves hiscareer not knowing where to turn or in who he can place his trust. He’sessentially tangled in a double-cross, amid the backstabbing from the highestlevels of government to the lowest level of a brutal invisible ongoing war,where evil men recognize the boundaries of greed and humanness.”While this is of course fiction, Olivares’ narrative pays homage to themillions of American men and woman who are just like his protagonist. “A huge cultural shift took place in the fifties, right after the Korean Warended in 1953, and many young men no longer felt like they had a place insociety. Many went to the Korean conflict, and their children went to Vietnam.My narrative encapsulates their stories and demonstrates how their experiencesin Asia shaped them for the rest of their lives.”

Rescuing Oricito

Rescuing Oricito
Author: Marty Kingsbury
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1480806854

Oricito has never been alone. In all of his eight weeks on earth, his mam and his littermates have made the world a smaller, friendlier, and more playful place. But now they are all gone. As the sun rises on a new day, Oricito realizes that he too must either find his way or stay and die of starvation. Led by his nose and his growling tummy, Oricito travels to a riverside dock in Valdivia, Chile, where he soon encounters an enormous creature with long whiskers, shiny teeth, powerful flippers, and beady eyes. Oricito wants to play, but the sea lion does not. After one good hiss, Oricito is chased into the street where a spooked horse kicks him and leaves him for dead. But all is not lost when two wily street dogs with much more worldly experience rescue Oricito and invite him along on their great adventures. In this tale for middle readers, a puppy journeys from his family to become a street dog who, with his two new friends, must battle rain, hunger, cats, big dogs, and the most evil of all evil forces: a local politician whose greatest ambition is to rid Valdivia of street dogs.

Tails of rescue

Tails of rescue
Author:
Publisher: A Dog's Life Photography
Total Pages: 84
Release:
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ISBN: 9781616237448

Rico Dredd: The Titan Years

Rico Dredd: The Titan Years
Author: Michael Carroll
Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1786181606

YOU KNOW ABOUT ME. I’M RICO DREDD, JOE DREDD’S BIG BROTHER. I’m the clone that went bad, that brought shame on Judge Fargo’s legacy. I was the very best the Academy of Law ever turned out. But after less than a year on the streets of Mega-City One, I was brought down, sentenced, shipped out to Titan for twenty years. Yeah, you know about Rico Dredd. But do you know what really happened? Why I did it? What it was like out there on the edge of space, doing time in the Bronze? Truth is, mister, you know stomm about me.

Breaking Point

Breaking Point
Author: John Macken
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2009-02-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1407041126

Bestselling author John Macken takes the forensic thriller into unchartered genetic territory in this gripping thriller. Fans of Kathy Reichs, Karin Slaughter and Patricia Cornwell won't be disappointed. 'Macken speaks with authority about the science and knows how to put a tense and absorbing story together' - OBSERVER 'You always get something different from John... he takes it to a new extreme' -- ***** Reader review 'A cracking story... it is eminently readable' -- ***** Reader review 'A very intelligent book' -- ***** Reader review ******************************************************** PUSHED TOO FAR, EVERYONE BREAKS... There is a killer loose on the London Underground. He kills without leaving any forensic trace, and seemingly without motive. Genecrime, the UK's elite forensic unit, are stretched to the limits trying to find one usable clue. And there is another problem facing Genecrime. Before he was sacked as head of the unit, Reuben Maitland developed a system to predict latent homicidal behaviour from people's DNA. Now rogue elements in the police, believing that prevention is better than cure, are using Reuben's research to hunt down and incite latent psychopaths beyond their breaking point. Reuben must track down whoever is misusing his technology and stop them before more lives are destroyed. But what he cannot know is that his investigation will lead him directly into the path of the Underground killer...

Puzzling Ink

Puzzling Ink
Author: Becky Clark
Publisher: Lyrical Underground
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1516110668

1 DOWN: DEATH BY HOMICIDE Quinn Carr wishes her life could be more like a crossword puzzle: neat, orderly, and perfectly arranged. At least her passion for puzzles, flair for words—and mild case of OCD—have landed her a gig creating crosswords for the local paper. But if she ever hopes to move out of her parents’ house, she can’t give up her day job as a waitress. She needs the tips. Bu