Fickle

Fickle
Author: Peter Manus
Publisher: Diversion Publishing Corp.
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2017-01-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1626818398

This dark, twisting work of digital-age noir is “a riveting mystery . . . An incredibly daring novel and a complete success” (Booklist, starred review). On a winter night in Boston, a man falls to his death in front of a train. The sole witness, a shaken young woman, explains to the police how the man shoved her aside as he made his way to the tracks. But when her blog turns up on the dead man’s computer, the cops begin to look for other connections between them. This dark and intricate tale of obsession and deception is told in the form of a blog written by an elusive narrator known only by her online name, “l. g. fickel.” Deep into the night, every night, Fickel posts about “Mr. Suicide” and the ensuing police investigation. She is joined in her blog chats by a loyal group of commenters. Is Fickel’s tale that of an innocent woman frantically trying to figure out how her online activity has enmeshed her in a murder case, or is she a manipulator, playing an elaborate game as she grinds out her revenge on those she feels have betrayed her? “Noir fans should enjoy the twists and turns that echo such genre classics such as Double Indemnity and The Asphalt Jungle.” —Publishers Weekly

A Fickle and Restless Weapon

A Fickle and Restless Weapon
Author: Jason Erik Lundberg
Publisher: Epigram Books
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2020-06-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9814785474

Quek Zhou Ma, a performer who goes by the stage name Zed, returns to the island-nation of Tinhau after a long absence to attend the funeral of his older sister. As he deals with conflicting feelings about a homeland he hardly recognises, he decides to produce a lavish production with the Ministry of Culture, but opening night is marred by a bombing attributed to a local resistance group, Red Dhole. He meets Tara, a graphic designer with the Ministry of Culture who finds herself uneasily associated with Red Dhole. She is charged with bringing Zed over to the cause, but as the pair grow closer, she doubts whether she can complete her task. Meanwhile, Vahid Nabizadeh, Zed’s creative partner and a master puppeteer, finds a new home in Tinhau, but he becomes embroiled in political and financial intrigue that threatens to unbalance the stability of the government. As Zed, Tara and Vahid struggle with their disaffected identities, Tinhau is abruptly attacked by the Range, a mysterious cloud formation that appears without warning and destroys without mercy, a weapon as fickle and restless as the human mind.

Mrs. Fickle's Pickles

Mrs. Fickle's Pickles
Author: Lori Ries
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781590781951

Rhyming text with illustrations tells how Mrs. Fickle likes her pickles.

Capital Flows are Fickle

Capital Flows are Fickle
Author: Mr.John C Bluedorn
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2013-08-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1484389042

Has the unprecedented financial globalization of recent years changed the behavior of capital flows across countries? Using a newly constructed database of gross and net capital flows since 1980 for a sample of nearly 150 countries, this paper finds that private capital flows are typically volatile for all countries, advanced or emerging, across all points in time. This holds true across most types of flows, including bank, portfolio debt, and equity flows. Advanced economies enjoy a greater substitutability between types of inflows, and complementarity between gross inflows and outflows, than do emerging markets, which reduces the volatility of their total net inflows despite higher volatility of the components. Capital flows also exhibit low persistence, across all economies and across most types of flows. Inflows tend to rise temporarily when global financing conditions are relatively easy. These findings suggest that fickle capital flows are an unavoidable fact of life to which policymakers across all countries need to continue to manage and adapt.

Beneath the Fickle Moon

Beneath the Fickle Moon
Author: Brian Crane
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2014-11-25
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 149909180X

Someone once said Where there is life there is hope. And so it was for Jasper, a border collie, existing a life of purgatory at the hands of a drunken, embittered brute of a master. Jasper could only wait for an opportunity to escape. But when that opportunity arrives does he take it? The storypoems of Beneath The Fickle Moon follow the life of Jasper. The meetings, the partings, the highs, the lows.

The Fickle Finger

The Fickle Finger
Author: Martin Fone
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2020-01-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1838598014

A light-hearted meditation on the role of luck, societal pressures, conventions and mores on success in science. The stories of fifty inventors whom history has all but forgotten in this treasury of facts that will amaze and amuse, together with a few myths debunked along the way.

Customers are F.I.C.K.L.E.

Customers are F.I.C.K.L.E.
Author: Nick Bailey
Publisher: FilamentPublishing Ltd
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1908691093

This book is perfectly positioned to help people who are selling high value complex products and services.

Little Miss Fickle

Little Miss Fickle
Author: Roger Hargreaves
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1999-04-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0698178645

Little Miss Fickle can never decide on anything. Or, rather, she can decide, but then she changes her mind again, and again, and again! When she visits the library one day, Little Miss Fickle finds 9,999 books to choose from. Will she ever be able to pick one out?

Trust Is a Fickle Business

Trust Is a Fickle Business
Author: Cara Lee
Publisher: Cara Lee
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2016-08-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

All aid is not kind. After Raleigh stumbled out of her native universe, she suppressed the memory files of her time as a soldier. She and two other refugees from other universes rent an apartment together, pooling resources and helping each other cope with living in a somewhen other than the ones they’d grown up in. But their native universes haven’t forgotten them. Raleigh had to kill one roommate’s bioengineered sister just yesterday—and, in the process, she had to activate far more of her built-in tech than she’s used since entering the somewhen she’s living in. Her old captain’s been waiting for her to do that. A sci-fi novella featuring people who have escaped a bad situation, and who may or may not have reached a better one. E-book has two versions of the story: one with salty language and one without. Keywords: sci-fi, science fiction, novella, cyberpunk, time travel, dystopian, genetic engineering, female protagonist, women’s adventure, alternate universes, multiverses, human experimentation, assassins, dark, psychics, cyborgs