Robert Wilson
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Portugal, 1944. Recruited by British intelligence to help uncover Nazi secrets of atomic warfare, math prodigy Andrea Aspinall soon disappears into the crowds of Lisbon, hiding behind a new identity. Karl Voss, an attaché for German intelligence, arrives in the city under the purported agenda of helping the Reich, all the while secretly working to save his beloved home country from annihilation under their reign. Two lost souls meet in a city filled...
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Bruce Medway mysteries volume 3
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Enter into a treacherous world in West Africa, where British expatriate Bruce Medway, a clandestine "troubleshooter" and debt collector, finds himself unexpectedly immersed in toxic waste scams and mafia crime when a job for his newest client turns out to involve more than the recovery of two million dollars. But Napier, the client, isn't the worst of Bruce's problems; that falls to Selina, Napier's seductive daughter, who wants more than money-she...
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A father follows his runaway daughter into a world of crime and espionage in this thriller.
Amy Boxer, the precocious, frustrated daughter of kidnap consultant Charles Boxer and DI Mercy Danquah, has decided on drastic action: She's leaving home. But Amy can't just walk out. First she goads her parents with a challenge: YOU WILL NEVER FIND ME.
Amy's destination: Madrid. Here, in the strobe lights of bars and crowded dance clubs, she's anonymous...
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Bruce Medway mysteries volume 4
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When schoolgirls begin to disappear on the West African coast, "troubleshooter" Bruce Medway tries to remain detached. Meanwhile, he reluctantly acquires a new job from former nemesis and mafia capo Franconelli. Franconelli gives Bruce forty-eight hours to find a French trader, Mariner, whom not even the mafia has been able to track. Yet as Bruce sets out on his assignment, he is unable to remain disconnected from the mysterious schoolgirl disappearances,...
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Bruce Medway mysteries volume 1
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From the author of the national bestseller A Small Death in Lisbon and The Company of Strangers comes Wilson's compelling first novel, never before available in the United States. Bruce Medway's existence as a fixer and troubleshooter had been tough, but never life-threatening until he crossed paths with the mighty Madame Severnou. His life becomes even more complicated by his search for a missing fellow expat, Steven Kershaw. Against a backdrop of...
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Tom Winter thought the secluded cottage in the Pacific Northwest would be the perfect refuge, a place to nurse the wounds of lost love and happiness. But, Tom soon discovers that his safe haven is the portal of a tunnel through time. At one end is the present. At the other end-New York City, 1963.
His journey back to the early 1960s seems to offer him the chance to start over in a simpler, safer world. But, he finds that the tunnel holds a danger...
7) Mysterium
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In Mysterium, Robert Charles Wilson "blends science, religion, philosophy and alternate history into an intelligent, compelling work of fiction" (Publishers Weekly).
In a top-secret government installation near the small town of Two Rivers, Michigan, scientists are investigating a mysterious object discovered several years earlier. Late one evening, the local residents observe strange lights coming from the laboratory. The next morning, they awake...
8) Anniversary Sermon, Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, McKeesport, Pennsylvania on Sabbath M
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Anniversary Sermon: Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, M'Keesport, Pa. on Sabbath Morning, November 17th, 1861. "I will mention the lovingkindness of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindness." Isaiah 63:7.
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During the five full years of his presidency (1964—1968), Lyndon Johnson initiated a breathtaking array of domestic policies and programs, including such landmarks as the Civil Rights Act, Head Start, Food Stamps, Medicare and Medicaid, the Immigration Reform Act, the Water Quality Act, the Voting Rights Act, Social Security reform, and Fair Housing. These and other "Great Society" programs reformed the federal government, reshaped intergovernmental...
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In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antediluvian monsters. To some, the Miracle is an act of divine retribution; to others, it is an opportunity to carve out a new empire.
Leaving American now ruled by religious fundamentalism, young Guilford Law travels to Darwinia on a mission of discovery that will take him further than he can possibly imagine...to...
11) Bios
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In the 22nd century, humankind has colonized the solar system. Starflight is possible but hugely expensive, so humakind's efforts are focussed on Isis, the one nearby Earthlike world. Isis is verdant, Edenic, rich with complex DNA-based plant and animal life. And every molecule of Isian life is spectacularly toxic to human beings. The entire planet is a permanent Level Four Hot Zone.
Despite that, Isis is the most interesting discovery of the millennium:...
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For over a decade (1987-1997), Robert Anton Wilson published a quarterly newsletter, Trajectories: The Journal of Futurism and Heresy with editorial and publishing expertise from his wife, Arlen Riley Wilson, and his friend, D. Scott Apel. Scott describes the newsletter as, "full of original articles, unpublished fiction, and outrageous opinion." Chaos and Beyond features the best essays from the first five years of the newsletter.
Mostly written...
13) A Hidden Place
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In the hard years of the Depression, young Travis lives with his uncle and aunt. Upstairs lives the mysterious Anna. Anna says she's going to be "changing," and she needs Travis's help...for purposes she won't explain.
Robert Charles Wilson's A Hidden Place is a science fiction tale of passion, terror, and hope, opening out to a great, dark, and unsuspected universe.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management...
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Although humankind today can peer far deeper into the universe than ever before, we still find ourselves surrounded by the unknown and perhaps the unknowable. All great science fiction has used the human imagination to explore that realm beyond the known, just as theistic religions have done since long before the genre existed. As Hugo Award-winning author Robert Charles Wilson argues in Owning the Unknown, the genre's freewheeling speculation and...
15) I Declare War
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Drafthouse Films
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2023.
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A group of 13-year-old friends play an innocent game of Capture the Flag in the neighborhood woods, arming themselves with nothing more than sticks, their imagination and a simple set of rules. One afternoon the game takes on a more serious tone and the quest for victory pushes the boundaries of friendship, as their imaginations take them beyond the rules of the game.
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This book reveals God's most important Scriptural messages and the life-saving information to mankind as we are truly at the threshold of His return. God wants to the world understand and recognize the indisputable factual evidence and reasons for the credibility and accuracy of the Bible, and why it should be adhered to, and to understand His most profound and dominant messages and with a due sense of urgency for salvation. Nothing else you do will...
18) Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse, Gaslighting, Complex PTSD, Codependency and Anxious Attachment
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This Bundle Include:Empath and Narcissist: Learn How to Recognize Covert Narcissism Traits and Handle a Narcissist.Gaslighting No More: Recognizing Gaslighting, and Healing from Emotional and Narcissistic AbuseRecovery from Complex PTSD, Codependency and Anxious Attachment4 Workbooks with exercises, tabs, checklist specific for each topicEver felt like your emotions and relationships are a maze with no exit? Haunted by past traumas, trapped in manipulative...