Showing results for "BANG BANG" in Genre Fiction

Dr. Ibrahim Bihi of Somaliland has an advanced degree in economics and, as far as worldly goods go, a goat with three legs. Using his knowledge of temporary market inefficiencies and the propellers of a UN food plane, he turns his goat into capital and sends the global economy into a speculative frenzy. Soon most of the world's wealth is tied up in goat-backed securities. What could possibly go wrong? Only everything, and with our faithful orphan Jude as guide, we can sit back and laugh our way toward the resolution of this uproariously instructive satire.

He was my best friend...until he became my enemy, all within the span of one night. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. The rapid fire of gunshots became the soundtrack to my life. This is the Mafia. Lines are blurred. Choices are never black and white. And the life you thought you knew is one giant lie. He was dead. I didn't want his life to be in vain, so I tried to make something of myself. Tried and failed. Now he's back. Alive. And he wants me. Nobody ever said the Mafia played fair.

A humorous and poignant story that follows a fictional major league baseball team through a summer season when the team comes together after one of the players is diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease.

Reality is relative. There is no such thing as universal truth. But lies are always lies. From auctions to assassinations, from cosmos to subconscious mind, the roots feeding into these short stories start fine, but thicken and tangle as they grow deeper. Follow these wayward souls through their darkest moments, each beginning with a bang and each trying desperately to avoid ending with the same.

Detroit hustlers Free and Six have been together seven years, but their relationship has been nothing but drama. Free hasn't been faithful, and Six has taken out her hurt by physically hurting the other women. Free ends up in jail for three years, and when he's sprung, he's not happy to learn that Six has been living the high life on his dime and has blown through $100,000! Then Six gets entangled in one of Free's schemes and finds herself in a role almost too good to be true.

Leo Kall is a zealous, middle-ranking scientist in the totalitarian World State who has just made a thrilling discovery: a new drug, Kallocain, that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. At last, criminality will be dragged out into the open and private thought can be outlawed. But can the World State be trusted with Kallocain? For that matter - can Kall himself be trusted? Written as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Karin Boye's classic dystopian novel speaks more clearly than ever of the dangers of acquiescence and the power of resistance.

Mister McHottie is the hilariously sexy prequel to the Copper Valley Thrusters series, where you’ll first meet the twin tank hockey players who inspired the next books. It comes complete with an organic happy-ever-after (or seven), a Bratwurst Wagon, ill-advised office pranks between a billionaire boss and the woman he tormented as a child, and no cheating or cliffhangers.

Call it superstition, but when a guy bats as hot as Brooks Elliott, you don’t mess with what’s working. And what’s working is him keeping his pants zipped and doing all of his scoring on the field. So when I hear he’s planning to ditch his V-card now that he’s been traded to baseball’s lovable losers - a.k.a. my home team and my reason for living every March through October - I do what any rational, dedicated, obsessed fan would do. I make a plan to stop him. But the thing about stopping him is that it requires spending time with him. Lots. And lots. And lots of time.

Beauty and the Beefcake is a vegan-friendly standalone romantic comedy featuring a hockey player whose vocabulary is the only thing smaller than a hockey puck, a book smart but aimless ventriloquist with too many voices in her head, a dilapidated old house that may or may not be haunted, and no cheating or cliffhangers.

Caro Lamont, pet therapist, and her cousin Melinda Langston, owner of The Bow Wow Boutique, pamper the kitties and pooches of Laguna Beach's elites. Unfortunately, their human clients keep turning up dead.

A witty and powerful exploration of the nature of love, young people in crisis, and the secrets that change and destroy relationships, family dynamics and, ultimately, lives. Left of the bang: a military term for the build-up to an explosion. For failing concert pianist Tamsin Jarvis, the pressure is mounting. She thought she was happy with her adoring schoolteacher boyfriend, Callum, but when Chris comes into their lives, that starts to change. In a few months Chris will be gone, leaving for his first tour of Afghanistan.

"Waldemar fortalte om sine sygdomme og syndromer. Han var en omvandrende lærebog i sjældne og uhyggelige lidelser, fejlede et utal af ting, som jeg hver især ville have slået ihjel for at undgå at blive ramt af. Jeg kom til at tænke på en dokumentarudsendelse, jeg havde set under en af mine natfjernsynsseancer. Den handlede om en kvinde, der var blevet ramt seks gange af lynet. Det var samme urimelighed, der gjorde sig gældende her." Asger dummer sig og mister alt og må tage et job som handicaphjælper for Waldemar, verdens sygeste menneske. Deres hverdag

Novellesamlingen indeholder nogle af Herman Bangs mest kendte fortællinger. Ligesom i dele af sit øvrige forfatterskab skrildrer han nogle af samfundets stille eksistenser, og alle novellerne tematiserer på forskellig vis forholdet mellem kønnene samt kvinders muligheder for at have et kunstnerisk virke. Herman Bang (1857-1912) er én af de vigtigste moderne danske forfattere. Han er især kendt for sin impressionistiske skrivestil samt sin skildring af kvindelig seksualitet og kærlighed uden for ægteskabet.

A fatherless boy growing up in a small Texas town is taken under wing by the local lawmen. They work with the town leaders to provide his basic needs and help him escape the shame and poverty of his circumstances. One in particular becomes his guardian. He teaches the boy about life, how to face his fears, that honor is more important than comfort, and that defending those who cannot defend themselves is the highest duty of a man. The boy learns the lessons well. He hears the call and his heart opens to it. He too becomes a Guardian.

Tine, klockarens dotter, befinner sig ofta i jägmästarfamiljen Bergs hus på Sönderjylland. Hon är där så ofta att hon nästan betraktas som en dotter i huset. När jägmästaren blir inkallad efter krigsutbrottet 1864 samtidigt som hans fru och barn reser till Köpenhamn, blir Tine kvar för att se efter huset.

It's 2008, and George W. Bush is still president. Three years later the man called Lonesome George is in hiding, leading the resistance from a secret location. Multiple plot lines skillfully braid the tales of resistance fighters in various parts of the country. Whistler is the hard-bitten commander of a military unit in Texas. Karen, a former congressional aide, stumbles through the radioactive rubble of Washington, DC.

Er zijn woorden die zich niet laten terugnemen. Eenmaal uitgesproken zijn ze onverbiddelijk tot leven gewekt. Woorden kunnen levens verwoesten, mensen doen besluiten zonder elkaar verder te gaan. Ze kunnen de persoon die je bent in de ogen van je kinderen voorgoed doen veranderen. Ze kunnen zelfs je eigen moeder doen twijfelen of ze jou wel op de wereld had moeten zetten.' Op de dag van Laura's vierde verjaardag pleegt haar moeder, Maria, zelfmoord. Jaren later, als Laura volwassen is en in verwachting van haar eerste kind, wil ze weten waarom haar moeder dit deed.

Jim ist ein junger Seemann und erster Offizier auf der Patna, die auf der Reise nach Mekka ist, um Pilger dorthin zu bringen. Als ein Unglück passiert, verlässt die pflichtvergessene Crew das Schiff - auch Jim, der eigentlich an Bord bleiben wollte. Aber das Schiff sinkt nicht, sondern wird in Sicherheit gebracht. Jim muss sich seiner Verantwortung stellen... Ein vielschichtiger, außerordentlich erfolgreicher Roman, dessen Erzähler einmal mehr der geheimnisvolle Charles Marlow ist.

A recently retired schoolteacher, Grace Vieumilliers is busy adjusting to life as a newlywed and deputy sheriff specializing in forensic botany, when one of her best friends is found murdered on a hiking trail. In this, their third Arizona Borderland Mystery, Carl and Jane Bock once again take us to the grasslands and savannahs of southernmost Arizona, where Grace works with others in the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Department to search for the killer.

Una figlia adolescente che pone domande alla madre può rappresentare un bel problema, soprattutto se le domande - a sorpresa - sono di natura finanziaria, in questo fantastico racconto di uno dei massimi autori romeni di fantascienza, Cristian Teodorescu.