Bolt Of Fate

Author : Tom Tucker
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786739428
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bolt Of Fate written by Tom Tucker and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every schoolchild in America knows that Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1752. Electricity from the clouds above traveled down the kite's twine and threw a spark from a key that Franklin had attached to the string. He thereby proved that lightning and electricity were one. What many of us do not realize is that Franklin used this breakthrough in his day's intensely competitive field of electrical science to embarrass his French and English rivals. His kite experiment was an international event and the Franklin that it presented to the world—a homespun, rural philosopher-scientist performing an immensely important and dangerous experiment with a child's toy—became the Franklin of myth. In fact, this sly presentation on Franklin's part so charmed the French that he became an irresistible celebrity when he traveled there during the American Revolution. The crowds and the journalists, and the ladies, cajoled the French powers into joining us in our fight against the British. What no one has successfully proven until now—and what few have suggested—is that Franklin never flew the kite at all. Benjamin Franklin was an enthusiastic hoaxer. And with the electric kite, he performed his greatest hoax. As Tucker shows, it was this trick that may have won the American Revolution.

Author : Tom Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756793326
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bolt of Fate written by Tom Tucker and published by . This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Ben Franklin's famous electric kite experiment a hoax? And did it determine the course of the Amer. Revolution (AR)? Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1752. The kite conducted elec. & threw a spark from a key attached to the kite's string, thus proving that lightning & elec. were one. Franklin's kite experiment was an internat. event & the Franklin that it presented to the world became the Franklin of myth. He charmed the French & became a celebrity when he traveled there during the AR, & the French powers were cajoled into joining us in our fight against the Brit. Franklin was an enthusiastic hoaxer who launched a number of pranks & deceptions. With the electric kite, he managed the greatest hoax of them all -- the trick that may have won the AR.

Author : Robin Hobb
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0553392972
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assassin's Fate written by Robin Hobb and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The stunning conclusion to Robin Hobb’s Fitz and the Fool trilogy, which began with Fool’s Assassin and Fool’s Quest “Every new Robin Hobb novel is a cause for celebration. Along with millions of her other fans, I delight in every visit to the Six Duchies, the Rain Wilds, and the Out Islands, and can’t wait to see where she’ll take me next.”—George R. R. Martin More than twenty years ago, the first epic fantasy novel featuring FitzChivalry Farseer and his mysterious, often maddening friend the Fool struck like a bolt of brilliant lightning. Now New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb brings to a momentous close the third trilogy featuring these beloved characters in a novel of unsurpassed artistry that is sure to endure as one of the great masterworks of the genre. Fitz’s young daughter, Bee, has been kidnapped by the Servants, a secret society whose members not only dream of possible futures but use their prophecies to add to their wealth and influence. Bee plays a crucial part in these dreams—but just what part remains uncertain. As Bee is dragged by her sadistic captors across half the world, Fitz and the Fool, believing her dead, embark on a mission of revenge that will take them to the distant island where the Servants reside—a place the Fool once called home and later called prison. It was a hell the Fool escaped, maimed and blinded, swearing never to return. For all his injuries, however, the Fool is not as helpless as he seems. He is a dreamer too, able to shape the future. And though Fitz is no longer the peerless assassin of his youth, he remains a man to be reckoned with—deadly with blades and poison, and adept in Farseer magic. And their goal is simple: to make sure not a single Servant survives their scourge.

Author : Ernest K. Gann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671636030
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fate is the Hunter written by Ernest K. Gann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1986-07-02 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An episodic log of some of the author's more memorable hours aloft in peace and as a member of the Air Transport Command in war.

Author : Lucas Flint
Publisher : Secret Identity Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fate of the Heroes (superheroes) written by Lucas Flint and published by Secret Identity Books. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resist destiny. Two days. Two days left before the end of the Tournament of Heroes and the multiverse itself. Bolt has fallen. He's been corrupted into the villainous Dark Thunder, a brutal enforcer who keeps the other competitors in line. Meanwhile, Sigil advances his plot to destroy the multiverse in accordance with the Prophecy practically unopposed. Yet not all hope is lost. The three remaining heroes--Beams, Trickshot, and Winter--hatch a daring plan to save Bolt and stop Sigil before it's too late. They will need the help of Bolt's girlfriend, Blizzard, who holds the key to returning him to normal. But to save the multiverse, one of the heroes will have to make the ultimate sacrifice. KEYWORDS: superhero action fiction, superhero fantasy, superhero fiction novel, superhero science fiction, superhero scifi, superhero young adult, superhero city, superhero books, superhero action, superhero books for kids, superheroes, cool superheroes, action adventure books, superhero action adventure books, action adventure fiction, superhero action adventure fiction, young adult action adventure, action adventure young adult

Author : Carol Bolt
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316449903
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Answers written by Carol Bolt and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated, repackaged edition of the bestselling divination tool and party favorite - ask a yes or no question, open the book, find your answer - with more than a million copies in print. Should you ask your boss for a raise? Call that cutie you met at a party? Sell your Google stock? Tell your best friend her boyfriend's cheating? The answer to these questions (and hundreds of others) is in this fun and weirdly wise little book that's impossible to put down. It's simple to use: just hold it closed in your hands and concentrate on your question for a few seconds. While visualizing or speaking your question, place one palm down on the book's front and stroke the edge of the pages back to front. When you sense the time is right, open to the page your fingers landed on and there is your answer! Fun, satisfying, and a lot less time-consuming than asking everyone you know for advice. Over 1 million copies in print!

Author : Dan Jenkins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150112207X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE written by Dan Jenkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beloved sports classic from Sports Illustrated writer Dan Jenkins is a hilarious love-hate celebration of golfers and their game.

Author : Meredith Wild
Publisher : Waterhouse Press
ISBN 13 : 164263249X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fate of Storms written by Meredith Wild and published by Waterhouse Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stolen destiny. An impossible quest. Kara Valari has broken one of the underworld’s highest laws and is serving the ultimate sentence. But nothing—not even the impossible quest of breaching the boundaries of hell and facing off with Hades himself—will keep Maximus Kane from rescuing her. The journey will demand all of Maximus’s courage…and help from an unlikely guide. Driven by love, he sets off into a dark realm he only knows from the tattered pages of Dante’s Comedy. In hell’s bleak world, every part of Kara’s soul is subjected to Hades’s morbid fascination and merciless assault. Giving in to his demands means sharing the intimate details of why she dared to disobey him—a love for Maximus that, even now, burns on in her heart. Just when Kara resolves herself to an eternity of her nightmare, she discovers a glimmer of hope…a way to glimpse her beloved. Could her visions of Maximus unite them once more, or are they just another twisted punishment for her in a kingdom designed for agony? In those fleeting moments of light and passion, Kara rekindles her fight to survive. Darkness may still separate her from Maximus, but they’re connected by fate. But can their love survive this storm?

Author : Jennifer Woodlief
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451607083
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bolt from the Blue written by Jennifer Woodlief and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "A Wall of White," the thrilling account of a spectacular mountain rescue after six climbers are struck by lightning in the Upper Exum Ridge of the Grand Teton near a 13,000-foot elevation.

Author : Ivy Clyde
Publisher : Ivy Clyde
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assassin's Fate written by Ivy Clyde and published by Ivy Clyde. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three sexy dragonborn princes. An assassin with an erased past. And the impossible mission of assassinating the dragon emperor. I have spent my whole life training to be an assassin of Linmoor Valley, an underground gild of the world’s most lethal merceneries. My past is a blank, my master merciless. I kill on command, no questions asked. Life changes after the day I’m sent to the town’s brothel to make a kill. The people who ordered the killing now want me to execute the greatest assassination of our time. Their mission is simple: Kill the tyrant dragon emperor and bring peace to the four kingdoms. A wiser assassin would refuse the impossible. But I can’t. From the moment I see the three dragon born princes, I know I belong to them. And they, to me. Assassinating the emperor is no longer my only mission. I must protect the three princes, for they are the only hope of reviving the four kingdoms. My tasks seem impossible, but I am determined to carry them out if only for a chance to be with the men who make my frozen heart throb and bleed. Assassin’s Fate is the first book in an intrigue-filled whychoose fantasy romance that support’s our heroine’s right to choose more than one mate. Get ready for this captivating tale full of heart-pounding romance and edge-of-your-seat action. Note: The Assassin and Her Dragon Princes is a reverse harem series meant for mature readers who enjoy their fantasy fiction with no restraint to language, violence and a few heated scenes. The Assassin and Her Dragon Princess is now a completed series. Book 1: Assassin’s Fate Book 2: Assassin’s Past Book 3: Assassin’s Crown Book 4: Assassin’s Reign