Palisade

Palisade
Author: Lou Gilmond
Publisher: Armillary Books
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2024-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1914148673

WHAT CAN SEE WATCHES, WHAT CAN HEAR LISTENS, WHAT CAN BE FOLLOWED IS TRACKED... Praise for Lou Gilmond's Dirty Geese series: 'Compelling from the outset' -PRECARIOUS GOTHIC 'The constant presence of AI creates a foreboding atmosphere' -CRIME FICTION LOVER 'Ripples throughout with an undercurrent of suspense and tension' -@AMWBOOKS 'A sharp political thriller about the very plausible rise in the use of AI' -@BOOKSFROMMYSHED When opposition Chief Whip Esme Kanha is handed a secret dossier containing evidence of government corruption, she suspects its original owner, a top journalist, was murdered for gathering it. Despite the danger, she feels she must investigate. Meanwhile, lowly backbencher Harry Colbey is working his own leads. A known campaigner against big tech, he is often sent data from anonymous sources and this time round he has something truly alarming. But both Colbey and Kanha must tread carefully in a world dominated by AI, where 'what can see watches, what can hear listens, and what can be followed is tracked'. As Kanha and Colbey again join forces, they are locked into a deadly race against political corruption, no matter what the cost. But when an old enemy returns, it may already be too late...

Torrent

Torrent
Author: Howard Birnstihl
Publisher: Howard Birnstihl
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0646574876

The Tale of Senyor Rodriguez

The Tale of Senyor Rodriguez
Author: Lou Gilmond
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-11
Genre: Majorca (Spain)
ISBN: 9781912054053

A dead man's house. A dead man's clothes. And a dead man's wine cellar... It's 1960s Mallorca. Thomas Sebastian, an English conman, is hiding out in the house of the late Senyor Rodriguez - carousing, partying, and falling in love with his beautiful but impossibly young neighbour, Isabella Ferretti. As the boundary between lies and reality blurs, Thomas' fiction spirals out of control in ways that are quite unexpected.

Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold)

Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold)
Author: Pam Muñoz Ryan
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545532345

A modern classic for our time and for all time-this beloved, award-winning bestseller resonates with fresh meaning for each new generation. Perfect for fans of Kate DiCamillo, Christopher Paul Curtis, and Rita Williams-Garcia. Pura Belpre Award Winner * "Readers will be swept up." -Publishers Weekly, starred review Esperanza thought she'd always live a privileged life on her family's ranch in Mexico. She'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home filled with servants, and Mama, Papa, and Abuelita to care for her. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp. Esperanza isn't ready for the hard work, financial struggles brought on by the Great Depression, or lack of acceptance she now faces. When Mama gets sick and a strike for better working conditions threatens to uproot their new life, Esperanza must find a way to rise above her difficult circumstances--because Mama's life, and her own, depend on it.

The Silents

The Silents
Author: Robert B. Connelly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 462
Release: 1998
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

This work contains 3,500 profiled American, British and important foreign films, complete with credits, synopses, and anecdotal material, plus an addition 10,000 entries with director and actor credits.

Barbarous Mexico

Barbarous Mexico
Author: John Kenneth Turner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 382
Release: 1910
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

An early 20th century American journalist's articles on Mexico before the Revolution.

Cosmic Banditos

Cosmic Banditos
Author: A. C. Weisbecker
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2001-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101127554

Soon to be a major motion picture starring John Cusack! Mr. Quark is a down-on-his luck pot-smuggler hiding out in the mountains of Colombia with his dog, High Pockets, and a small band of banditos led by the irascible Jose. Only months before, these three and their fearless associates were rolling in millions in cash and high-grade marijuana, eluding prosecution on “ridiculously false” drug and terrorism charges. But times have quickly grown lean, and to liven up their exile, Jose decides to mug a family of American tourists. Among the spoils are physics texts, which launch Mr. Quark on a side-splitting, boisterous adventure north to California, where he confronts the owner of the books with his own theories on relativity, the nature of the universe, and looking for the meaning of life in all the wrong places….