The Ruined City

The Ruined City
Author: John Wilson
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1459819713

Howard is a lonely, geeky tenth-grader dealing with a father who's had some kind of breakdown, a flaky, overprotective mother and frightening waking dreams. Then he meets Cate, a strange girl who convinces him that he is an Adept, which means he can communicate through dreams with other dimensions and, under certain circumstances, travel between them. Howard discovers that our world is only one of several dimensions swirling in time and space, and that one of the others, peopled by unimaginably powerful monsters, is approaching Earth for the first time in millennia. The last time the dimensions coincided, our world was saved by the breaking of a powerful golden mask in the Chinese city of Sanxingdui. Together, Howard and Cate travel through time and space, meeting other Adepts and avoiding lurking monsters, in a quest to find the three fragments of the golden mask and prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.

Teens Who Hurt

Teens Who Hurt
Author: Kenneth V. Hardy
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2006-10-23
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1593854404

Offering a fresh perspective on treatment, this book presents an overarching framework and numerous specific strategies for working with violent youth and their families. The authors draw on extensive experience to identify four critical factors that push some adolescents to commit harmful, even deadly acts: devaluation, erosion of community, dehumanized loss, and rage. Effective ways to address each of these factors in clinical and school settings are discussed and illustrated with evocative case material. The book also provides essential guidance on connecting with aggressive teeens--many whom have endured traumas of their owen--managing difficult situations that are likely to arise in therapy.

Rage

Rage
Author: Thomas Herninko
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2011-02-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1456845276

Rage Within

Rage Within
Author: Ron Billimoria
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2023-12-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Raj Melhotra is a brilliant Indian billionaire devastated by a tragedy befallen his family. He struggles to cope with the loss till, one day, he decides to take vengeance using the only weapon he knows best money. But his enemy is not a person or an organization but an entire country Pakistan. How does one take revenge against an adversary with almost unlimited resources? He recruits a brilliant analyst, Rashi Singh, who is on the run for murder. Together, they devise a plan to leverage Raj's enormous wealth to wreak mayhem and havoc on the enemy country. Along the way, they have to deal with various shady characters, including a Mumbai don, corrupt bureaucrats, greedy businessmen, a megalomaniac Pakistani politician, and their country's intelligence service. Their adversary is the cunning and dangerous chief of the ISI, who is determined to stop them at all costs. He is just a step behind them as they race to complete their plan and achieve their ultimate goal the economic destruction of Pakistan. It's the ultimate Goliath versus Goliath story.

Dillon and the Voice of Odin

Dillon and the Voice of Odin
Author: Derrick Ferguson
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2003-12
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 0595299687

ODIN is only a whispered name, rumored to belong to a genius in the art of death and destruction. With a lethal cadre of global agents and mastery of The Voice of Odin, a devastating force unlike anything the world has ever seen, the unseen mastermind hunts for a single talisman so that he can begin his assault against the hopes and dreams of the free world. As his agents race around the globe searching for this talisman, they encounter the last man in the world they wanted to face. And DILLON and ODIN soon find themselves locked in a struggle to decide the fate of the Earth itself!

A Good Night for Evil

A Good Night for Evil
Author: J.C. Jeanes
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2012-03-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1483445100

Evil haunts the halls of a Georgia plantation mansion named Pike House. The rich and powerful Gordon family, who live there, greedily protect their dark secrets. The family is plagued by a terrifying curse and and an evil force that has stalked the corrupt family for generations. The evil has come for its final retribution and this time it will not be denied. The catalyst for the family's downfall is Anna, an outsider. Anna travels with John Crawford to meet his cousin, Addison Booker Gordon, the patriarch of the Gordon clan and Addisons extended family who live at the mansion. Anna finds herself entangled in the terrifying web of supernatural events swirling around the Gordon family. She feels the presence of evil and witnesses the annihilation of the family as the evil consumes the souls of those who live in Pike House.

Chain of Evidence

Chain of Evidence
Author: Ridley Pearson
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1401305156

Can Detective Joe "Dart" Dartelli uncover the truth? Or, more importantly, does he dare? Detective Joe "Dart" Dartelli made one critical mistake in his police career: He chose to ignore a piece of evidence in a case labeled a suicide that might have been a murder. The dead man was himself a vicious woman-killer who more than deserved his fate, but that ignored evidence pointed to Dart's former mentor, the brilliant forensic specialist Walter Zeller. Now another suicide victim turns up--the body of a wife-beater--and the evidence clearly shows that the death was self-inflicted . . . or does it? Zeller was the best at reading and understanding the forensics of a crime scene--could he have manipulated it? Worse, why has Zeller disappeared? It terrifies Dart to suspect that Zeller is in fact on some twisted vigilante crusade, but Dart also knows that if he's right, only he can stop it. Chain of Evidence is the intense, heart-pounding story of student versus mentor in the playing field of forensic investigation. Ridley Pearson links computer technology, psychological intensity, and complex questions of police and human ethics to create this breathlessly paced, unputdownable thriller.