The Killing Wind

The Killing Wind
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 537
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780190622527
ISBN-13 : 0190622520
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Killing Wind by : Hecheng Tan

In The Killing Wind, Tan recounts how over the course of 66 days in 1967, over 9,000 Chinese "class enemies" were massacred in the Daoxian.

A Killing Wind

A Killing Wind
Author :
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages : 344
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015013516052
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis A Killing Wind by : Dan Kurzman

BASED ON HUNDREDS OF INTERVIEWS AND THOUSANDS OF DOCUMENTS, REFLECTS THE PASSIONATE DRAMA OF THIS TRAGIC INCIDENT. IT IS A TALE, TOLD IN DETAIL FOR THE FIRST TIME, OF TERROR AND TORMENT, GUILT AND INNOCENCE. IT IS THE ENTIRE BHOPAL STORY TO DATE-THE BACKGROUND, THE HOUR-BY-HOUR EVENTS, THE DIFFICULT DECISIONS, AND THE BITTER AFTERMATH. KURZMAN WAS GIVEN UNIQUE ACCESS TO UNION CARBIDE COMPANY DOCUMENTS AND PERSONNEL AND TO INDIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN HIS RESEARCH. HE REVEALS THE AGONIES ENDURED BY THE GAS VICTIMS.

The Shadow of the Wind

The Shadow of the Wind
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 512
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781101147061
ISBN-13 : 1101147067
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Shadow of the Wind by : Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The New York Times bestseller “The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) “One gorgeous read.” —Stephen King Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.

Killing Commendatore

Killing Commendatore
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 752
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780525520054
ISBN-13 : 0525520058
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Killing Commendatore by : Haruki Murakami

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art—from one of our greatest writers. • “Exhilarating ... magical.” —The Washington Post When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he secludes himself in the mountain home of a world famous artist. One day, the young painter hears a noise from the attic, and upon investigation, he discovers a previously unseen painting. By unearthing this hidden work of art, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances; and to close it, he must undertake a perilous journey into a netherworld that only Haruki Murakami could conjure.

The Killing Winds

The Killing Winds
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 344
Release :
ISBN-10 : UCAL:B4243728
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis The Killing Winds by : Jeanne McDermott

Describes the historical, political, and technical environments in which the menace of biological warfare is developing.

Dead Wind

Dead Wind
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Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Total Pages : 254
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781448308422
ISBN-13 : 1448308429
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Dead Wind by : Tessa Wegert

Senior Investigator Shana Merchant must dredge up dark secrets and old grudges if she's to solve the murder of a prominent local citizen in the Thousand Islands community she now calls home. "Wegert nicely balances plot and characterization. Fans of Denise Mina’s Alex Morrow will be pleased" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review The body is discovered on Wolfe Island, under the shadow of an enormous wind turbine. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant, arriving on the scene with fellow investigator Tim Wellington, can't shake the feeling that she knows the victim - and the subsequent identification sends shockwaves through their community in the Thousand Islands of Upstate New York. Politics, power, passion . . . there are dark undercurrents in Shana's new home, and finding the killer means dredging up her new friends and neighbors' old grudges and long-kept secrets. That is, if the killer is from the community at all. For Shana's keeping a terrible secret of her own: eighteen months ago she escaped from serial killer Blake Bram's clutches. But has he followed her, to kill again? The Shana Merchant novels are a brilliant blend of chilling psychological thriller and gripping police procedural, set in an atmospheric island community with a small-town vibe.

When the Wind Blows

When the Wind Blows
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Publisher : Little, Brown
Total Pages : 263
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780759527799
ISBN-13 : 0759527792
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis When the Wind Blows by : James Patterson

While grieving her husband's murder, a young Colorado veterinarian meets a troubled FBI agent and begins to uncover the world's most sinister secrets in this thriller from James Patterson. Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, Frannie throws herself into her work, but it is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, arrives on her doorstep. Late one night, near the woods of her animal hospital, Frannie stumbles upon a strange, astonishing phenomenon that will change the course of her life forever: an eleven-year-old girl named Max. With breathtaking energy, Max leads Frannie and Kit to uncover one of the most diabolical and inhuman plots of modern science. Bold and compelling, When the Wind Blows is a story of suspense and passion as only James Patterson could tell it.

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 1476
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781416548942
ISBN-13 : 1416548947
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Gone with the Wind by : Margaret Mitchell

The story of the tempestuous romance between Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara is set amid the drama of the Civil War.

Petals on the Wind

Petals on the Wind
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 452
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781451636956
ISBN-13 : 1451636954
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Petals on the Wind by : V.C. Andrews

On the heels of the successful Lifetime TV version of Flowers in the Attic comes the TV movie tie-in edition of Petals On the Wind, the second book in the captivating Dollanganger saga. Forbidden love comes into full bloom. For three years they were kept hidden in the eaves of Foxworth Hall, their existence all but denied by a mother who schemed to inherit a fortune. For three years their fate was in the hands of their righteous, merciless grandmother. They had to stay strong...but in their hopeless world, Cathy and her brother Christopher discovered blossoming desires that tumbled into a powerful obsession. Now, with their frail sister Carrie, they have broken free and scraped enough together for three bus tickets and a chance at a new life. The horrors of the attic are behind them...but they will carry its legacy of dark secrets forever.

A Killing Winter

A Killing Winter
Author :
Publisher : Quercus
Total Pages : 300
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781623653910
ISBN-13 : 1623653916
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis A Killing Winter by : Tom Callaghan

In this stylish neo-noir set in the mountainous Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, hard-bitten inspector Akyl Borubaev mourns the recent death of his beloved wife--the only humanizing force in his otherwise bleak life as a homicide dective in Bishkek. As he struggles to face his personal pain, Borubaev is assigned to investigate the murder of a young woman whose horribly mutilated body is found dumped in a public park. When Borubaev discovers the woman is the only daughter of Mikhail Tynaliev, the powerful and ruthless Minister of State Security, he realizes the case will probably destroy him, regardless of where the evidence leads. Borubaev begins making enemies everywhere he turns, even as he is aided by a motley assortment of dangerous cutthroats: his wife's uncle Kursan, whose cross-border smuggling is the stuff of local legend; the explosive police chief, who wants the case solved as soon as possible; Saltanat, a beautiful and deadly agent of the Uzbek Security Service; an entire police force of bent cops; and members of the Kyrgyz mafia. All of which would just be another day in the life of Akyl Borubaev--if the investigation didn't turn up a blood-chilling connection to multiple homicides across Kyrgyzstan--including one on a Russian military base.