Permuted press jul 2026 (5 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Intelligence veteran Logan Callahan begins to suspect that his own misguided loyalty has made him an unwitting pawn in an international espionage conspiracy, leaving him hunted by a hostile foreign government and abandoned by his own.Logan Callahan is a military intelligence veteran simultaneously haunted by memories of Afghanistan and desperate for a reason to disrupt the monotony of his new civilian life as a restless doctoral student in Washington, DC. A sense of purpose returns for Logan when he is mysteriously offered an opportunity to utilize his intelligence tradecraft in assisting a couple of overzealous FBI counterintelligence agents. At first, they simply ask him to monitor Russian espionage activities at a local nightclub. But over time, the requests from his handlers become increasingly more dangerous. No longer eavesdropping amongst the fur coats and ornate chandeliers of an Eastern Europeaninspired hot spot, Logan is asked to befriend a Russian diplomat with a dubious history. As he searches for vulnerabilities to exploit in his new target, Logan begins to suspect that his own loyalty has thrust him into a deadly conspiracy. Caught between the nightmares of his past and the paranoia of his present, how far will one man go to put service before self.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Readers' Choice Book Awards Gold Winner An emotional and chilling exploration of grief, memory, and the quiet horrors that live in broken homes.Ellie is six years old. She takes care of the baby, keeps the house quiet, and knows how to survive. Her father left months ago. She misses him. Now something is coming to her window. It looks like him. It sounds like him. It remembers things no one else should. It asks to come inside. Ellie lets it in. And now it wants to stay. From Readers' Choice Book Awards Gold Winner Corinne Westbrook comes a chilling, slow-burn horror novel about neglect, memory, and what answers when a child needs to be loved.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - "Dynamic characters headline this exhilarating fusion of action and alien horror." Kirkus Reviews A team of superbeings are all that stands between Earth and total annihilation at the hands of a predatory alien species.An alien ship crashed into Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier 150,000 years ago and froze within the iceuntil glacial melting thawed out its deadly inhabitants in the present day. Kai and Jules Bevins, both professors of astrobiology at Caltech, are roused from their home and whisked away to the site where a special division of the army has taken charge. But not before something escaped through a breach in the hull. Meanwhile, a pair of Alaska state troopers locate a missing Amazon driver fifteen miles away on the Juneau Icefield and trace his movements to a nearby village with a population of less than fifty. Arriving in town, they are greeted by the bodies of villagers who were killed in an impossible, horrific way. Thousands of miles away, under a remote archaeological find in Pakistan, the Ninea team of superbeings placed on Earth a million years ago by intergalactic colonizers that seeded our planet to create human lifeare lifted from their long slumber. The kind of threat they've been waiting for has finally come. The Nine find unexpected allies culled from the ancient history of their home world in the form of a teenage boy and godlike entity. All this leads to a confrontation on a volcanic island that will determine the fate of civilization, even as the Nine uncover the shattering truth behind their own tragic paths and learn of a much greater battle to come. Will they be enough to stem the apocalyptic menace threatening all of mankind.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A candid, no-holds-barred memoir in which Hollywood icon Mamie Van Doren busts myths, settles old scores, and unveils untold stories from a life lived at the glittering and gritty edges of the Golden Age.You Thought I Was Dead is Mamie Van Doren as you've never seen her: unguarded, unapologetic, and gloriously unfiltered. From a South Dakota farm to Hollywood soundstages, Mamie's life has been anything but ordinary. In this tell-all memoir, the platinum-blonde legend shatters the polished myths of Old Hollywood, sharing the wild, poignant, and often shocking truths behind the glamour. She takes you inside the studios, onto the sets, and behind closed doors with movie idols, music legends, and power brokersfrom Clark Gable and Tony Curtis to Howard Hughes and Quincy Jones. With her trademark wit and candor, Mamie recounts friendships and feuds, headline-making romances, brushes with danger, and the fierce independence that kept her career and spirit alive long after the credits rolled. Alongside the dazzling stories are moments of raw honesty about the loneliness, loss, and resilience that shaped the woman behind the bombshell image. Illustrated with original cartoons by acclaimed artist Stephen B. Whatley, You Thought I Was Dead is part memoir, part Hollywood history, and wholly Mamiebold, sexy, defiant, and unforgettable. Whether you're a devotee of the Golden Age, a rock and roll nostalgist, or simply a lover of great, unvarnished storytelling, this is more than a memoirit's a front-row seat to a life lived without a script. Whatley, Stephen B. (illustratore).…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Now in a special edition hardcover with enhanced design! A Confederacy of Dunces meets Liar's Poker in this rollicking roman à clef from inside PwnShop's "bored" room as the embattled company hobbles through an extraordinary short squeeze.Why do good things happen to bad companies In early 2021, the stock value of PwnShopa dead to rights bricks-and-mortar retailer disrupted by the digital downloading of video gamesinexplicably ballooned overnight. While much has been written about the mechanics of the meme stock short squeezes, no one has yet clarified the chaotic drama of what was happening inside such a company during its zeitgeist moment. Nick Haller is an irreverent HBS Gen X know-it-all and wannabe musician trapped inside the C-suite of PwnShop. Having slogged through bureaucracy and a morass of competing agendas with characters that include tightfisted ex-military executives, demented board directors, vainglorious activists, and the cult-like community of clerks and customers, Haller foolishly believes that he's found a way forward for the disrupted company. Instead, the pandemic strikes, activists take control of the company, the Reddit-fueled short squeeze occurs, and Nick's earnest intentions end up on the cutting room floor while his net worth skyrockets "to the moon." Skinny Dipping at Low Tide is a darkly comedic, gonzo-style satire that chronicles the chaos, absurdity, and soul-searching of a disillusioned executive caught in the maelstrom of a singular stock frenzy. It causes him to question everything he ever thought about capitalism and the corporate world. A piercing and sidesplitting novel, Skinny Dipping at Low Tide is sure to delight readers of Tom Robbins, Joshua Ferris, and Michael Lewis.…