Author: Lorenzo Carcaterra
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307756653
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of four men who take the law into their own hands. This is the story of four young boys. Four lifelong friends. Intelligent, fun-loving, wise beyond their years, they are inseparable. Their potential is unlimited, but they are content to live within the closed world of New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. And to play as many pranks as they can on the denizens of the street. They never get caught. And they know they never will. Until one disastrous summer afternoon. On that day, what begins as a harmless scheme goes horrible wrong. And the four find themselves facing a year’s imprisonment in the Wilkinson Home for Boys. The oldest of them is fifteen, the youngest twelve. What happens to them over the course of that year—brutal beatings, unimaginable humiliation—will change their lives forever. Years later, one has become a lawyer. One a reporter. And two have grown up to be murderers, professional hit men. For all of them, the pain and fear of Wilkinson still rages within. Only one thing can erase it. Revenge. To exact it, they will twist the legal system. Commandeer the courtroom for their agenda. Use the wiles they observed on the streets, the violence they learned at Wilkinson. If they get caught this time, they only have one thing left to lose: their lives. Praise for Sleepers “Undeniably powerful, an enormously affecting and intensely human story . . . Sleepers is a thriller, to be sure, but it is equally a wistful hymn to another age.”—The Washington Post Book World “A powerful book, hard to forget . . . Carcaterra is an excellent writer, changing pace here and there but never letting the reader go. . . . Sensitive, humorous, and harrowing, featuring dialogue with perfect pitch.”—The Denver Post “A gut-wrenching piece of work . . . [Lorenzo] Carcaterra’s graphic narrative grips like gunfire in a dark alley.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A terrifying account of brutality and retribution, searing in its emotional truth, peopled with murderers, sadists, and thugs, but biblical in its passion and scope.”—People
Slumber
Author: Ted Cummings
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781674513942
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
SLUMBER is a Black science fiction novel that takes place in post-apocalyptic America. It is a dystopian tale in which a mutated virus devastates America. Millions become infected and succumb to the virus. As a result, the country is in chaos. The remaining population must now decide how and if it can survive in the face of many obstacles and many enemies. The SLEEPERS book series explores the removal of the current societal order in America and its redistribution of resources to the country's remaining woke citizens. Books I - V chronicle the urgent transition of America in the wake of this event and the seemingly irreversible changes in the country.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781674513942
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
SLUMBER is a Black science fiction novel that takes place in post-apocalyptic America. It is a dystopian tale in which a mutated virus devastates America. Millions become infected and succumb to the virus. As a result, the country is in chaos. The remaining population must now decide how and if it can survive in the face of many obstacles and many enemies. The SLEEPERS book series explores the removal of the current societal order in America and its redistribution of resources to the country's remaining woke citizens. Books I - V chronicle the urgent transition of America in the wake of this event and the seemingly irreversible changes in the country.
Adult Piano Adventures Classics Book 2 - Symphony Themes, Opera Gems and Classical Favorites
Author: Nancy Faber
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1616779195
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
(Faber Piano Adventures ). In this inspiring collection, late-elementary to early-intermediate pianists will find appealing arrangements that advance skills while exploring masterworks of Western music. The famous orchestral, keyboard, and operatic repertoire here spans four periods of music history. In the Baroque & Classical section, discover the elegance of Bach, the beauty of Mozart and the passion of Beethoven. Through the pages of the Romantic & Impressionistic section, sample the lyricism of Chopin, the drama of Grieg, and the atmosphere of Debussy. May the melodies of these and many other composers open an enduring world of expression and sound.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1616779195
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
(Faber Piano Adventures ). In this inspiring collection, late-elementary to early-intermediate pianists will find appealing arrangements that advance skills while exploring masterworks of Western music. The famous orchestral, keyboard, and operatic repertoire here spans four periods of music history. In the Baroque & Classical section, discover the elegance of Bach, the beauty of Mozart and the passion of Beethoven. Through the pages of the Romantic & Impressionistic section, sample the lyricism of Chopin, the drama of Grieg, and the atmosphere of Debussy. May the melodies of these and many other composers open an enduring world of expression and sound.
Green Lantern
Author: Christopher Priest
Publisher: Ibooks
ISBN: 9781596874053
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Cosmic police officers responsible for protecting the universe, the Green Lantern Corp is an organization numbering in the hundreds, with each Lantern assigned sectors of space to patrol. First introduced in the 1940s, The Green Lantern is one of the original superheroes of the DC Univese--with three generations of fans--and his (and their) popularity continues today. In Book 3 of Sleepers, Hal Jordan (the most popular of the Green Lantern Corp among comic book fans) has been stripped of his powers, but it is up to him to fight the clones of the villain Sinestro, set loose by actions in the trilogy's fist volume. In order to save the earth, he may have to sacrifice himself by taking the power rings on a one-way trip to the anti-matter universe.
Publisher: Ibooks
ISBN: 9781596874053
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Cosmic police officers responsible for protecting the universe, the Green Lantern Corp is an organization numbering in the hundreds, with each Lantern assigned sectors of space to patrol. First introduced in the 1940s, The Green Lantern is one of the original superheroes of the DC Univese--with three generations of fans--and his (and their) popularity continues today. In Book 3 of Sleepers, Hal Jordan (the most popular of the Green Lantern Corp among comic book fans) has been stripped of his powers, but it is up to him to fight the clones of the villain Sinestro, set loose by actions in the trilogy's fist volume. In order to save the earth, he may have to sacrifice himself by taking the power rings on a one-way trip to the anti-matter universe.
Shift Sleepers
Author: Dorothee Elmiger
Publisher: Swiss List
ISBN: 9780857425997
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A novel by a Swiss writer that features figures from all over Europe from different walks of life coming together in secret to talk through their experiences, hopes, and dreams. Somewhere deep in the European forest, they meet. Frontier workers, smugglers, refugees, workers, asylum seekers, inspectors, artists, musicians, actors, journalists, scholarship holders, logisticians, students, and ghosts. They come from everywhere. They are all representatives of our time, and they have conversations about origins and justice; body and state; import and export; homeland and migration. They talk together about happiness, music, and death. In Shift Sleepers, Swiss writer Dorothee Elmiger has produced a novel that sheds light on the controversial issues of our time, finding a new language for this conversation previously unheard in contemporary German literature.
Publisher: Swiss List
ISBN: 9780857425997
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A novel by a Swiss writer that features figures from all over Europe from different walks of life coming together in secret to talk through their experiences, hopes, and dreams. Somewhere deep in the European forest, they meet. Frontier workers, smugglers, refugees, workers, asylum seekers, inspectors, artists, musicians, actors, journalists, scholarship holders, logisticians, students, and ghosts. They come from everywhere. They are all representatives of our time, and they have conversations about origins and justice; body and state; import and export; homeland and migration. They talk together about happiness, music, and death. In Shift Sleepers, Swiss writer Dorothee Elmiger has produced a novel that sheds light on the controversial issues of our time, finding a new language for this conversation previously unheard in contemporary German literature.
The Legend of the Sleepers
Author: Danilo Kis
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780241339374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworldly tales from one of the greatest voices of twentieth-century Europe.
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780241339374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworldly tales from one of the greatest voices of twentieth-century Europe.