The Sandman

The Sandman
Author: Lars Kepler
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2018-03-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1524732257

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • This installment in the Killer Instinct Series tells the chilling story of a manipulative serial killer and the two brilliant police agents who must beat him at his own game, Detectives Joona Linna and Saga Bauer. “With its tight, staccato chapters and cast of dangerous wraiths lurking everywhere, The Sandman is a nonstop fright.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times Late one night, outside Stockholm, Mikael Kohler-Frost is found wandering. Thirteen years earlier, he went missing along with his younger sister. They were long thought to have been victims of Sweden's most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, now serving a life sentence in a maximum security psychiatric hospital. Now Mikael tells the police that his sister is still alive and being held by someone he knows only as the Sandman. Years ago, Detective Inspector Joona Linna made an excruciating personal sacrifice to ensure Jurek's capture. He is keenly aware of what this killer is capable of, and now he is certain that Jurek has an accomplice. He knows that any chance of rescuing Mikael's sister depends on getting Jurek to talk, and that the only agent capable of this is Inspector Saga Bauer, a twenty-seven-year-old prodigy. She will have to go under deep cover in the psychiatric ward where Jurek is imprisoned, and she will have to find a way to get to the psychopath before it's too late—and before he gets inside her head.

The Sandman

The Sandman
Author: David Lucero
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2009-02
Genre: Adventure fiction
ISBN: 1438937954

The technicians were sitting in front of the control panel to the main computer when they heard it. Deep in the underground nuclear facility three explosions ripped through the complex, tossing everyone violently against their desks and to the floor. The printer switched on and sheets of paper with automated-typed words spewed out at an incredible rate. A man ran to the printer and grabbed the papers. "What do they read?" Dr. Balim asked. There was a touch of desperation in his tone. The technician swallowed the growing lump in his throat and slowly raised his eyes to meet the doctor. "The Emergency Core-Coolant System has shut down!" The sudden gasp from those in the room was deafening. "What is going on here?" Colonel Benghazi asked. "My God...It's him," said Captain Mourak, who was standing behind him. "Can you be more specific?" Colonel Benghazi was becoming impatient. "It's the saboteur, you fool!" At Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Research Facility the countdown to nuclear disaster begins when the C.I.A.'s top saboteur codenamed: Sandman strikes a devastating blow. Deep in the underground facility a raging fire has knocked out the coolant system and threatens a reactor core meltdown. To save the reactor the Iranians must get the coolant back in operation...But the Sandman has barricaded himself in the alternate secondary control room to prevent that from happening...And so a brilliant army officer takes charge and is prepared to do whatever it takes to stave off disaster. The situation quickly becomes a match of wits as the Sandman defends himself in deadly gunfights against soldiers trying to retake the control room...And as the clock ticks he not only loses time to make good his escape, but the temperature in the reactor core quickly rises...and with each passing second bringing them closer to nuclear disaster!

Sign of the Sandman

Sign of the Sandman
Author: Tom Turner
Publisher: Magic Factory
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 9781938155109

Charlie Galen's vivid imagination has transported him places no other kid in New York City--or the world for that matter--has ever been. But even in his wildest dreams, Charlie has never battled an army of furies, gripped the Sands of Time, or spoken with the one person he has always longed to meet. That all begins to change one mysterious night when a series of strange events forces him to question everything he sees and believes, launching him on a journey that neither he, nor any who read his tale, will soon forget. For it is on this grand adventure that a magical world is revealed--a world that just might make all of Charlie's dreams come true, if only he can unlock its secrets before his deepest fears destroy him.

Signs of Life

Signs of Life
Author: Joan M. Schenkar
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0819572373

Joan Schenkar, widely regarded as America's most original female contemporary playwright, is the author of numerous experimental plays which she refers to as "comedies of menace." Bristling with wit and intelligence, the collection features Signs of Life, Cabin Fever, The Universal Wolf, Burning Desires, The Last of Hitler, and Fulfilling Koch's Postulate. These plays explore issues of feminism and gender politics, history and memory, sexuality and violence, bringing to life such figures as Gertrude Stein and Marlene Dietrich, Hitler and Eva Braun, P. T. Barnum and Henry and Alice James, Claude Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes. Schenkar's charged language and evocative stage directions invite the reader to become both performer and audience, and the experience is enhanced both by richly evocative stage directions and illustrations from productions of the plays. Initially written to be read like novels as well as staged, the plays provide a unique theatrical experience, an experience that can only be accessed by laughter.

Self, Sign, and Symbol

Self, Sign, and Symbol
Author: Mark Neuman
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1987
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838751084

These essays wrestle with a number of postformalist questions and are ordered so as to present a new argument for the self-sufficiency of the text. Collectively they suggest that recovery of interest in the meaning of texts and the exchange between writer and reader may become the next new criticism.

Greetings from the Lincoln Highway

Greetings from the Lincoln Highway
Author: Brian Butko
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0811711749

Special paperback edition for the Lincoln Highway Centennial, with revised text and new images, follows the highway from New York City to San Francisco through 100 years Stops at historic landmarks, bridges, taverns, movie palaces, diners, gas stations, ice cream stands, tourist cabins, and roadside attractions Color maps and stories of the highway through 14 states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California Excerpts from memoirs and old postcards give a feel for what early motoring was like - the good, the bad, and the muddy

The Sandman

The Sandman
Author: Matthew Winn
Publisher: Virtualbookworm Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781589393479

Rueben "Cracker" Graham is a death row inmate at Starke prison. He is biding his time until his meeting with "Old Sparky" an infamous electric chair that has, on occasion, been known to malfunction. With nothing else to do but read, Cracker whiles away his hours with a book. A book that holds a secret to his freedom.Timothy Duggan has found himself thrust into a realm of nightmares that haunt not only his sleep, but his waking moments as well. Because when he awakes, evidence of his nightmares has crossed over into reality. Now Timothy has to struggle with the knowledge that he is either going completely insane, or he is a cold-blooded serial killer.These are desperate men whose worlds inevitably collide.

Sign of the Sandman

Sign of the Sandman
Author: Tom Turner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781938155154

Charlie Galen's vivid imagination has transported him places no other kid in New York City--or the world for that matter--has ever been. But even in his wildest dreams, Charlie has never battled an army of furies, gripped the Sands of Time, or spoken with the one person he has always longed to meet. That all begins to change one mysterious night when a series of strange events forces him to question everything he sees and believes, launching him on a journey that neither he, nor any who read his tale, will soon forget. For it is on this grand adventure that a magical world is revealed--a world that just might make all of Charlie's dreams come true, if only he can unlock its secrets before his deepest fears destroy him.

Anaheim

Anaheim
Author: Stephen J. Faessel
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2007-05-02
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1439618259

After the developments that the World War II era brought to the small agricultural community of Anaheim, the major transformation arrived in 1955. Anaheim changed forever from a sleepy and proud little town into the center for entertainment and tourism in Southern California with the arrival of Disneyland. Other national and regional businesses and franchises arrived in and around this Orange County anchor cityincluding the California Angels baseball club, the Anaheim Convention Center, and such aerospace giants as Boeing and Rockwell Internationaland Anaheim grew exponentially. This collection of more than 200 vintage and contemporary images depict the results of Anaheims far-sighted elected and business leaders, who nurtured the city from its agrarian roots and made it into one of the nations fastest growing cities in the 1960s.

Our Ladies of Darkness

Our Ladies of Darkness
Author: Joseph Andriano
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0271039167