The Face of a Stranger
Title | The Face of a Stranger PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Perry |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | 370 |
Release | 2008-09-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 034551355X |
In this exhilarating series debut, police detective William Monk must solve the mystery of his own past. His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk's efforts doubly difficult, since he's forgotten his professional skills along with everything else. “Richly textured with the sights and sounds of London and its countryside . . . Solidly absorbing and Perry's best to date.”—Kirkus Reviews
Stranger Faces
Title | Stranger Faces PDF eBook |
Author | Namwali Serpell |
Publisher | Undelivered Lectures |
Total Pages | 140 |
Release | 2020-09-29 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9781945492433 |
Speculative essays that probe the mythology of the face by the author of The Old Drift
Stranger With My Face
Title | Stranger With My Face PDF eBook |
Author | Lois Duncan |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | 177 |
Release | 2011-04-19 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0316175617 |
Laurie Stratton finally has everything a sixteen-year-old could ever want. But just as her perfect summer comes to a close, things start to unravel when her boyfriend insists he saw her out with another guy-when Laurie was really home sick! More mysterious sightings convince Laurie someone very real is out there, watching her. . . . The truth reveals a long-lost sister who has spent the years growing bitter and dangerous. She has learned how to haunt Laurie, but the visits soon become perilous. She wants something from Laurie-her life!
The Face
Title | The Face PDF eBook |
Author | Tash Aw |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 80 |
Release | 2016-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1632060450 |
A whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage
Death of a Stranger
Title | Death of a Stranger PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Perry |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2010-09-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345514165 |
Few authors have written more mesmerizingly about Victorian London than Anne Perry. Readers enter her world with exquisite anticipation, and experience a rich variety of characters and class: aristocrats living in luxury, flower sellers on street corners, ladies of the evening seeking customers on gaslit streets, gentlemen in hansom cabs en route to erotic diversions unknown in their Mayfair mansions. Now Perry gives her myriad fans the book they’ve been waiting for—the novel in which William Monk breaks through the wall of amnesia and discovers at last who he once was. DEATH OF A STRANGER For the prostitutes of Leather Lane, nurse Hester Monk’s clinic is a lifeline, providing medicine, food, and a modicum of peace—especially welcome since lately their ailments have escalated from bruises and fevers to broken bones and knife wounds. At the moment, however, the mysterious death of railway magnate Nolan Baltimore in a sleazy neighborhood brothel overshadows all else. Whether he fell or was pushed, the shocking question in everyone’s mind is: What was such a pillar of respectability doing in a seedy place of sin? Meanwhile, brilliant private investigator William Monk acquires a new client, a mysterious beauty who asks him to ascertain beyond a shadow of a doubt whether or not her fiancé, an executive in Nolan Baltimore’s thriving railway firm, has become enmeshed in fraudulent practices that could ruin him. As Hester ventures into violent streets to learn who is responsible for the brutal abuse of her patients, Monk embarks upon a journey into the English countryside, where the last rails are being laid for a new line. But the sight of tracks stretching into the distance revives memories once stripped from his consciousness by amnesia—as a past almost impossible to bear returns, eerily paralleling a fresh tragedy that has already begun its inexorable unfolding.
Day of a Stranger
Title | Day of a Stranger PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Merton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 74 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Talking to Strangers
Title | Talking to Strangers PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Gladwell |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2019-09-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0316535621 |
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.