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Author | : Jack Du Brul |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780451410542 |
Bidding on a rare diary, written during the French attempt to dig the Panama Canal, geologist Philip Mercer finds himself caught up in a complex Chinese plot to trigger a shift in the world's balance of power.
Author | : Jack Du Brul |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2002-12-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101098015 |
In the heart of Panama, a volcanic lake feeds a serpentine river—its stone banks laid by the Inca, who took back the gold and jewels plundered from them by the conquistadors. Legend has it that the Twice-Stolen Treasure has been buried for centuries in the Panamanian jungle. Discovering it means surviving the unpredictable black waters of the River of Ruin.... It begins at a Paris auction house, with a favor granted by an old high school friend to geologist Philip Mercer: the opportunity to buy a rare diary written during the French attempt at digging the Panama Canal. But Mercer isn’t the only one who wants it. Three Chinese assassins have been dispatched to get it, forcing Mercer into a subterranean game of cat and mouse that takes him from the hellish maze of l’empire de la mort and through the sewers of Paris. Mercer realizes he has uncovered an intricate Chinese plot to trigger a deadly shift in the world’s balance of power. At stake is control of the canal, recently handed over to the government of Panama by the United States. Only Philip Mercer—with help from beautiful U.S. Army officer Lauren Vanik, a cell of tough French Foreign Legion commandos, and a crusty eighty-year-old retired sea captain named Harry White—can stop them.
Author | : Ray A. March |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0803238347 |
Traces the misuse of the Carmel River, detailing the increasing demand for water that has lead to multiple dams and that has left the river as one of the top ten endangered rivers in North America.
Author | : Ray A. March |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0803238347 |
Traces the misuse of the Carmel River, detailing the increasing demand for water that has lead to multiple dams and that has left the river as one of the top ten endangered rivers in North America.
Author | : K. D. Castner |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2016-04-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1481436651 |
As a war begins, four princesses of enemy kingdoms who were raised as sisters must decide where their loyalties lie: to their kingdoms, or to each other.
Author | : Bryce Knorr |
Publisher | : Western Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1985-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780307161031 |
Author | : Dave Dempsey |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472067794 |
A history of Michigan's conservation efforts
Author | : Guy Gavriel Kay |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 2013-04-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101608935 |
“River of Stars is a major accomplishment, the work of a master novelist in full command of his subject.”—Michael Dirda, in The Washington Post “Game of Thrones in China.”—Salon.com Ren Daiyan was still just a boy when he took the lives of seven men while guarding an imperial magistrate. That moment on a lonely road changed his life in entirely unexpected ways, sending him into the forests of Kitai among the outlaws. From there he emerges years later—and his life changes again, dramatically, as he circles toward the court and emperor, while war approaches Kitai from the north. Lin Shan is the daughter of a scholar, his beloved only child. Educated by him in ways young women never are, gifted as a songwriter and calligrapher, she finds herself living a life suspended between two worlds. Her intelligence captivates an emperor—and alienates women at the court. But when her father’s life is endangered by the savage politics of the day, Shan must act in ways no woman ever has. In an empire divided by bitter factions circling an exquisitely cultured emperor who loves his gardens and his art far more than the burdens of governing, dramatic events on the northern steppe alter the balance of power in the world, leading to events no one could have foretold, under the river of stars.
Author | : W. G. Hladky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781946886040 |
Generations after solar storms sent the world spiraling into a Second Dark Age, descendants of American soldiers defend the last NATO stronghold in Germania. From the Asiatic Steppes comes the mysterious Vucari. NATO sends Senior Chief Loveboy Weir and a team of rangers to investigate. They visit the beautiful city-state of New Reykjavik, mountains where Kazaks use giant eagles to hunt enemies, and a floating monastery where monks protect the Book of Ruin. They also encounter Vladimir the Resurrected, the Vucari's warrior prince, who claims to want peace. Weir struggles to convince NATO not to trust Vladimir. While politicians and clerics make backroom deals to appease Vladimir, Weir prepares for a war he fears is coming...
Author | : Fiona Anderson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2019-10-14 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 022660375X |
In the 1970s, Manhattan’s west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers’ sexual and social worlds, artists produced work attesting to the radical transformations taking place in New York. Artist and writer David Wojnarowicz was right in the heart of it, documenting his experiences in journal entries, poems, photographs, films, and large-scale, site-specific projects. In Cruising the Dead River, Fiona Anderson draws on Wojnarowicz’s work to explore the key role the abandoned landscape played in this explosion of queer culture. Anderson examines how the riverfront’s ruined buildings assumed a powerful erotic role and gave the area a distinct identity. By telling the story of the piers as gentrification swept New York and before the AIDS crisis, Anderson unearths the buried histories of violence, regeneration, and LGBTQ activism that developed in and around the cruising scene.