Glass Houses

Author : Louise Penny
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 146687368X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glass Houses written by Louise Penny and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times Bestseller and August 2017 LibraryReads pick! “Penny’s absorbing, intricately plotted 13th Gamache novel proves she only gets better at pursuing dark truths with compassion and grace.” —PEOPLE “Louise Penny wrote the book on escapist mysteries.” —The New York Times Book Review “You won't want Louise Penny's latest to end....Any plot summary of Penny’s novels inevitably falls short of conveying the dark magic of this series.... It takes nerve and skill — as well as heart — to write mysteries like this. ‘Glass Houses,’ along with many of the other Gamache books, is so compelling that, for the space of reading it, you may well feel that much of what’s going on in the world outside the novel is ‘just noise.’” —Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead. From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet he does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait. And hope his mounting fears are not realized. But when the figure vanishes overnight and a body is discovered, it falls to Gamache to discover if a debt has been paid or levied. Months later, on a steamy July day as the trial for the accused begins in Montréal, Chief Superintendent Gamache continues to struggle with actions he set in motion that bitter November, from which there is no going back. More than the accused is on trial. Gamache’s own conscience is standing in judgment. In Glass Houses, her latest utterly gripping book, number-one New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny shatters the conventions of the crime novel to explore what Gandhi called the court of conscience. A court that supersedes all others.

Author : Rachel Caine
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110112850X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glass Houses written by Rachel Caine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life. But they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Watch a Windows Media trailer for this book.

Author : Stella Cameron
Publisher : Zebra Books
ISBN 13 : 9780821768167
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glass Houses written by Stella Cameron and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donation.

Author : Jane Haddam
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312947484
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glass Houses written by Jane Haddam and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Henry Tyder, an alcoholic, sometimes homeless member of a socially prominent Philadelphia family, is arrested at the scene of a murder, his attorney asks Gregor Demarkian to look into the case.

Author : Vesna Žegarac Leskovar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447155114
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy-Efficient Timber-Glass Houses written by Vesna Žegarac Leskovar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses combining timber and glass, two eco materials, with a view to developing an optimal contemporary energy-efficient house with an attractive design. Furthermore, the book connects an architectural design approach with structural research to show the possibilities of stabilizing the building with an increased size of the glazing. Research results where the glazing is considered as a load-bearing structural element are therefore presented in a manner leading to the development of an optimal model of the timber-glass house, considering both the structural and energy related aspects. The presented research work can be useful to designers and future experts in their planning of optimal energy-efficient timber buildings. The study is based on using timber and glass, which were previously neglected as construction materials. With suitable technological development and appropriate use, they are nowadays becoming essential construction materials as far as energy efficiency is concerned. However, their combined use is extremely complicated, from both the constructional point of view as well as from that of energy efficiency and sets multiple traps for designers. A good knowledge of their advantages and drawbacks is thus vitally important, which is shown in the present monograph. Energy-efficient timber-glass houses was selected by the Slovenian National Research Agency as an extraordinary scientific achievement in the field of technical sciences/civil engineering for the year 2013.

Author : Jayne Castle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 059363988X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People in Glass Houses written by Jayne Castle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two people desperate for answers wade through smoke and mirrors within the alien world of Harmony in this new novel by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Castle. His name is Joshua Knight. Once a respected explorer, the press now calls him the Tarnished Knight. He took the fall for a disaster in the Underworld that destroyed his career. The devastating event occurred in the newly discovered sector known as Glass House—a maze of crystal that is rumored to conceal powerful Alien antiquities. The rest of the Hollister Expedition team disappeared and are presumed dead. Whatever happened down in the tunnels scrambled Josh’s psychic senses and his memories, but he’s determined to uncover the truth. Labeled delusional and paranoid, he retreats to an abandoned mansion in the desert, a house filled with mirrors. Now a recluse, Josh spends his days trying to discover the secrets in the looking glasses that cover the walls. He knows he is running out of time. Talented, ambitious crystal artist Molly Griffin is shocked to learn that the Tarnished Knight has been located. She drops everything and heads for the mansion to find Josh, confident she can help him regain control of his shattered senses. She has no choice—he is the key to finding her sister, Leona, a member of the vanished expedition team. Josh reluctantly allows her to stay one night but there are two rules: she must not go down into the basement, and she must not uncover the mirrors that have been draped. But her only hope for finding her sister is to break the rules…

Author : Darren Rapier
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 095567980X
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People in Glass Houses written by Darren Rapier and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People in Glass Houses is an absurd comedy for six actors.

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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143494624X
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corporate Glass Houses...A Personal Story written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Georg Kohlmaier
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262610704
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Houses of Glass written by Georg Kohlmaier and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glasshouses of the nineteenth century represent a remarkable confluence of opposites in architecture and technology. The architecture was designed to create an artificial climate in which people could return to paradise, and yet the technical means employed were also basic to the century's developing industrial grime -the other side of paradise. Enriched by more than 700 illustrations, Houses of Glass chronicles these pristine structures as they evolved from hothouses into exhibition halls, ballrooms, and theaters. Georg Kohlmaier is an architect and Barna von Sartory a sculptor. They have collaborated on many books and articles on contemporary architecture.

Author : Joel Brenner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698143671
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glass Houses written by Joel Brenner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chilling and revelatory appraisal of the new faces of espionage and warfare on the digital battleground Shortly after 9/11, Joel Brenner entered the inner sanctum of American espionage, first as the inspector general of the National Security Agency, then as the head of counterintelligence for the director of National Intelligence. He saw at close range the battleground on which adversaries are attacking us: cyberspace. Like the rest of us, governments and corporations inhabit “glass houses,” all but transparent to a new generation of spies who operate remotely from such places as China, the Middle East, Russia, and even France. In this urgent wake-up call, Brenner draws on his extraordinary background to show what we can—and cannot—do to prevent cyber spies and hackers from compromising our security and stealing our latest technology.