The Tower

Author: Kelly Cordes
Publisher: Patagonia
ISBN: 1938340345
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 437

Book Description
Patagonia’s Cerro Torre, considered by many the most beautiful peak in the world, draws the finest and most devoted technical alpinists to its climbing challenges. But controversy has swirled around this ice-capped peak since Cesare Maestri claimed first ascent in 1959. Since then a debate has raged, with world-class climbers attempting to retrace his route but finding only contradictions. This chronicle of hubris, heroism, controversies and epic journeys offers a glimpse into the human condition, and why some pursue extreme endeavors that at face value have no worth.

The Tower

Author: Kate London
Publisher: Corvus
ISBN: 9781838955885
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
An intricate, gritty and believable crime novel from a serving detective in the Met's murder squad - an explosive debut.

The Tower

Author: Uwe Tellkamp
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 024100490X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1053

Book Description
In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to conform, or toed the perilous line between East and West. Poetic, heartfelt and dramatic, The Tower vividly resurrects the sights, scents and sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9 November 1989.

The Tower

Author: Richard Martin Stern
Publisher: David McKay Company
ISBN: 9780679503637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description

The Tower

Author: Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684871890
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
In the bestselling tradition of The Silence of the Lambs comes The Tower, a novel of nail-biting suspense and heart-stopping terror played out in a psychological battle of wit, cunning, and pure evil between a diabolically clever killer and his determined hunter. Allander Atlasia is an infamous psychopath whose heinous crimes have earned him a lifetime stay at the Tower (nicknamed Alcatraz II), the world's most extreme maximum-security prison. But after a briliant and brutal escape, the criminal mastermind begins a killing spree that is intensely personal—one by one, victims fall prey to a twisted and chilling re-enactment of his own depraved past. Jade Marlow is an ex-FBI profiler and tracker whose fearlessness is only surpassed by the severity of his own inner demons. With a record of irrational behavior and a genius for putting himself into the mind of a criminal predator, he may be the one man diabolical enough to catch Atlasia. In an excalating contest of wills and wits, two equally defiant men race toward a showdown where daring is deadly and failure is fatal.

Stephen King's The Dark Tower Concordance

Author: Robin Furth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451695047
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 720

Book Description
The Dark Tower is now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba The Dark Tower series is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Eight books and more than three thousand pages make up this bestselling fantasy epic. The Complete Concordance is an entertaining and incredibly useful guide to Stephen King’s epic Dark Tower series, covering books I-VII and The Wind Through the Keyhole, and is the definitive encyclopedic reference book that provides readers with everything they need to navigate their way through the series. With hundreds of characters, Mid-World geography, High Speech lexicon, and extensive cross-references, this comprehensive handbook is essential for any Dark Tower fan. Includes: -Characters and Genealogies -Magical Objects and Forces -Mid-World and Our World Places -Portals and Magical Places -Mid-, End-, and Our World Maps -Timeline for the Dark Tower Series -Mid-World Dialects -Mid-World Rhymes, Songs, and Prayers -Political and Cultural References -References to Stephen King’s Own Work

The Tower

Author: Richard Paul Evans
Publisher: Aladdin
ISBN: 9781481431118
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A young man wishes to be great. He believes he will achieve his goal only when everyone in the village looks up to him. So he constructs a wooden tower that reaches to the clouds, but soon he becomes lonely. One day a passing bird tells the young man of an old woman who is greater than he. So he descends from his tower and discovers the poor woman feeding a flock of birds. She shares the wisdom that "to be great is not to be higher than another, but to lift another higher." Only when he meets a lonely child who proudly holds himself apart does the young man finally see the truth of her words. With his feet at last on the ground, the young man commits an act of great generosity, achieving his wish in a way he never expected. Award-winning writer Richard Paul Evans creates a beautiful, simply told tale of humility with the same wisdom and masterful storytelling he has brought to his best-selling children's books, including The Christmas Candle, The Dance, and The Spyglass. Jonathan Linton's richly textured paintings bring to life a story to be embraced by readers young and old.

Tales from the Tower of London

Author: Daniel Diehl
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752473786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
A history of the building itself, told through the stories of the people, royal and common, good and bad, heroes and villains, who lived and died there. This book presents a microcosm of human experience, from love and death to greed and betrayal, all played out against romantic period settings ranging from medieval knights to the days of World War Two.

The Tower Chronicles Book One: Geisthawk

Author: Matt Wagner
Publisher: Legendary Comics
ISBN: 1937278573
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
HE LIVES TO KILL THE DEAD. He is known as John Tower, a supernatural bounty hunter whose services are available only to the truly needy or well financed. Embarking on perilous adventures that lead him from one treacherous corner of the globe to the next, his life’s mission is to track down the unknown and vanquish unimaginable monsters that have been all but forgotten by the modern world. Evil now has its own reason to fear the darkness. Written by Matt Wagner, the creator of GRENDEL and MAGE, and co-created with Thomas Tull, Executive Producer of 300 and THE DARK KNIGHT, THE TOWER CHRONICLES features stunning art by acclaimed 2000 AD and LOBO artist Simon Bisley. An intricately woven supernatural action/adventure that sets a new standard in graphic novel storytelling.

The Square and the Tower

Author: Niall Ferguson
Publisher: Penguin Books Limited
ISBN: 9780141984810
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
'The most brilliant historian of his generation' The Times Most history is hierarchical- it's about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that's simply because they create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally powerful but less visible networks - leaving them to the conspiracy theorists, with their dreams of all-powerful Illuminati? The twenty-first century has been hailed as the Networked Age. But in The Square and the Tower Niall Ferguson argues that social networks are nothing new. From the printers and preachers who made the Reformation to the freemasons who led the American Revolution, it was the networkers who disrupted the old order of popes and kings. Far from being novel, our era is the Second Networked Age, with the computer in the role of the printing press. But networks have a dark side, prone to clustering, contagions, and even outages. And the conflicts of the past already have unnerving parallels today, in the time of Facebook, Islamic State and Trumpworld.