Out Of The Night

Author : Jan Valtin
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839742356
Total Pages : 1199 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Night written by Jan Valtin and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 1199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestseller in 1941, selected by the Book of the Month Club for a special edition and described by Book of the Month Club News as: “...full of sensational revelations and interspersed with episodes of daring, of desperate conflict, of torture, and of ruthless conspiracy...It is, first of all, an autobiography the like of which has seldom been.” The son of a seafaring father, Richard Julius Herman Krebs, a.k.a. Jan Valtin, came of age as a bicycle messenger during a maritime rebellion. His life as an intimate insider account of the dramatic events of 1920’s and 1930s, where he rose both within the ranks of the Communist Party and on the Gestapo hit list. Known for his honesty and incredible memory, Krebs dedicated his life to the Communist Party, rising to a position as head of maritime, organizing worldwide for the Comintern, only to flee the Party and Europe to evade his own comrade’s attempts to kill him. As a professional revolutionary, agitator, spy and would-be assassin, Krebs traveled the globe from Germany to China, India to Sierra Leon, Moscow to the United States where a botched assassination attempt landed him a stint in San Quentin. From his spellbinding account of artful deception to gain release from a Nazi prison and his work as a double-agent within the Gestapo, to his vivid depiction of a Communist Party fraught with intrigue and subterfuge, Krebs gives an unflinching portrayal of the internal machinations of both parties.

Author : Sharon Lovejoy
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0385378475
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Running Out of Night written by Sharon Lovejoy and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Children’s Book Review Seven Middle Grade Books for African American History Month Pick Fans of Elijah of Buxton, Trouble Don’t Last, and Stealing Freedom will be drawn to this tale of the incredible journey of an abused twelve-year-old white girl and an escaped slave girl who run away together and form a bond of friendship while seeking freedom. Every day is a misery for a nameless, motherless Southern girl who is treated cruelly by her pa and brothers. Her life changes forever when a runaway slave named Zenobia turns to her for help and shelter. Longing for her own freedom, the girl decides to run away, and she and Zenobia set off on a harrowing journey. Along the way, Zenobia names the girl Lark, after the bird, for her ability to mimic its song. Running by night, hiding by day, the girls are pursued by Lark’s pa and brothers and by ruthless slave catchers. Brightwell, another runaway slave, joins them, and the three follow secret signs to a stop on the Underground Railroad. When the hideout is raided and Zenobia and Brightwell are captured, Lark sets out alone to rescue her friends. A CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book of the Year An International Reading Association Best Chapter Book of the Year A Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award Master List Selection A Great Stone Face Book Award Nominee A New Mexico’s Land of Enchantment Book Award Selection A Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards Selection "Lush, detailed, total-immersion storytelling."--Kirkus Reviews "Distinguished by lively descriptions and dialogue."--Publisher's Weekly "A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.--Library Voice "Powerful debut novel."--International Reading Association "An essential read for those interested in American history."--San Louis Obispo Tribune "A gritty, engrossing tale.--Slo Coast Journal

Author : Blue Balliett
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545867584
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Wild Night written by Blue Balliett and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Vemeer an unforgettable story about an island haunted by the past . . . and the ghosts who must help with the present. Ghosts are alive on the island of Nantucket. You can hear them in the wind, and in the creaks of the old homes. They want to be remembered. And, even more, they want to protect what was once theirs. The ghosts seem to have chosen a few local kids to be their messengers -- and to help save the island. But in this mystery, the line between those who haunt and those who are haunted is a thin one -- and the past and the present must come to terms with one another in order to secure the future.

Author : Sherrilyn Kenyon
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312992416
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kiss of the Night written by Sherrilyn Kenyon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Dark-Hunter novel, Wulf and Cassandra face ancient curses, prophecies, and the direct meddling of the Greek gods to find true happiness.

Author : Patrick Whalen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671679941
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Night written by Patrick Whalen and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The strangers came under cover of darkness and camped high on the hill just west of town. Then the deaths began -- horrible savage, beyond comprehension -- one every night for five nights. When two young boys disappeared, the enraged townsfolk of Ravina swept up the cemetery hill, a dark vengeful mass knowing neither pity nor remorse -- only the terrible need to shed blood for blood. In their wake, they left six grim shadows hanging from a gnarled oak tree. A century later, the cemetery still stands atop the hill. The mortuary is presided over by the Horrcove twins, wizened old men who rarely see the light of day. And death has returned to Ravina, California. A series of grotesque murders committed at night has the town in the grip of terror. Only one man -- famed archeologist Martin Larchmont -- suspects the truth. His convictions are looked upon as the ravings of a crazy old man, yet as the murders continue, only Larchmont can save the town. He joins forces with Sheriff Henry Sutton, once a non-believer, now driven by his own desire for revenge. Together, they must fight against the consuming evil"--Amazon.com

Author : Kathleen Hague
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780805000887
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Nursery, Into the Night written by Kathleen Hague and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary book about teddy bears' dreams that is perfect for bedtime reading. Full-color illustrations.

Author : Kate Thompson
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1429919736
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creature of the Night written by Kate Thompson and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A HOUSE WITH A SECRET An unanswered question: Who is the Creature in the Night? Bobby lives a reckless life smoking, drinking, and stealing cars in Dublin. So his mother moves thefamily to the country. But Bobby suspects their cottage might not be as quaint as it seems. Teens will be captivated by this spooky novel about the darkness that lurks in forgotten corners and tough teenagers.

Author : Antonio Muñoz Molina
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547548052
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Night of Time written by Antonio Muñoz Molina and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Best Book of the Year: A “hypnotic” novel of the Spanish Civil War and one man’s quest to escape it (Colm Tóibín, The New York Review of Books). October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of Europe, Ignacio reflects on months of fratricidal conflict in his embattled country, his transformation from a bricklayer’s son to a respected bourgeois husband and professional, and the all-consuming love affair with an American woman that forever altered his life. Winner of the 2012 Prix Méditerranée Étranger and hailed as a masterpiece, In the Night of Time is a sweeping, grand novel and an indelible portrait of a shattered society, written by one of Spain’s most important contemporary novelists. “Labyrinthine and spellbinding . . . One of the most eloquent monuments to the Spanish Civil War ever to be raised in fiction.” —The Washington Post, “The Top 50 Fiction Books for 2014” “An astonishingly vivid narrative that unfolds with hypnotic intensity by means of the constant interweaving of time and memory . . . Tolstoyan in its scale, emotional intensity and intellectual honesty.” —The Economist “Epic . . . Intoxicating prose.” —Entertainment Weekly “A War and Peace for the Spanish Civil War.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Thisbe Nissen
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587298961
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night written by Thisbe Nissen and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night is a spirited, offbeat collection of stories, elongated riffs on that thing we call ...love. All manner of love stories: thwarted love stories, imaginary love stories, love stories offhand and obsessive, philosophical love stories, erudite and amusing love stories. “People don't meet because they both like Burmese food,” says one character, “or because someone's sister has a friend who's single and new in town, or because Billy's nose happened to crook just slightly to the left at an angle that made me want to weep...People don't fall in love with each other ...they just fall into love.” Everyone does it: women of fierce independence, men of thin character, rambling Deadheads, gay teenage girls, despondent Peace Corps volunteers, anorexic Broadway theatre dancers, the eager, the grieving, the uncommunicative. Even the confused do it. And they don't just fall in love with each other—they fall in love with certain moments and familiar places, with things as ephemeral as gestures and as evanescent as sunlight. Quirky, real, idealistic, deluded, bohemian, and true, these are people who can—and often do—fall in love with a pair of ears, August afternoons, saucers of vitamins, New Age carpenters, and dead bumblebees. And if there's something they can teach us, it's how to conceive of alternative worlds and the terror and the exhilaration of venturing outside the confines of the lives we know and making our way into a dark, glittering unknown.

Author : Holly Black
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250812208
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book of Night written by Holly Black and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A delicious, dark, adrenaline rush of a book. I'm already dying to see Charlie Hall's next con." - New York Times bestselling author, Alix E. Harrow #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of betrayals, secret societies, and a dissolute thief of shadows, in the vein of Neil Gaiman and Erin Morgenstern. Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn’t pick, a book she couldn’t steal, or a bad decision she wouldn’t make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie Hall. Now, she’s trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but getting out isn’t easy. Bartending at a dive, she’s still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. Not to mention that her sister Posey is desperate for magic, and that Charlie's shadowless, and possibly soulless, boyfriend has been hiding things from her. When a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie descends into a maelstrom of murder and lies. Determined to survive, she’s up against a cast of doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, gloamists, and the people she loves best in the world—all trying to steal a secret that will give them vast and terrible power. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.