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1) Misery
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
Estaba loca, pero él la necesitaba.
Misery Chastain ha muerto. Paul Sheldon la ha matado. Con alivio y hasta con alegría. Misery lo ha hecho rico. Porque Misery es la heroína que ha protagonizado sus exitosos libros.
Paul quiere volver a escribir. Algo diferente, algo auténtico. Pero entonces sufre un accidente y despierta inmóvil y atravesado por el dolor en una cama que no es la suya, tampoco la de un hospital.
Annie
...2) Misery
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
Author
Series
Fort Misery volume 1
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Holding down the hated Fort Misery deep in Arizona Territory, Captain Peter Joseph Kellerman and the men under his command stand their ground against the most wanted outlaw on both sides of the border who has raised an army to slaughter every man wearing Union Blue.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Neon Yang's The Genesis of Misery gives a space opera twist to Joan of Arc's story, full of high-tech space battles and political machinations, starring a queer and diverse array of pilots, princesses, and prophetic heirs. It's an old, familiar story: a young person hears the voice of an angel saying they have been chosen as a warrior to lead their people to victory in a holy war. But Misery Nomaki knows they are a fraud. Raised on a remote moon...
Author
Series
Arly Hanks mysteries volume 11
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
The madcap citizens of Maggody, Arkansas, descend on Graceland, and a bizarre murder mystery forces police chief Arly Hanks to pay homage to the King.
When Chief of Police Arly Hanks came home to Maggody, Arkansas, after a bad divorce, she thought life here would be simpler than it was in New York City. But it’s been one insane episode after another, and the latest eruption of chaos may just drive poor Arly around the bend. After...
When Chief of Police Arly Hanks came home to Maggody, Arkansas, after a bad divorce, she thought life here would be simpler than it was in New York City. But it’s been one insane episode after another, and the latest eruption of chaos may just drive poor Arly around the bend. After...
7) Misery Bay
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
When a man hangs himself in Misery Bay, Alex McKnight is asked to help find answers. But the situation quickly gets out of control as McKnight hunts for a ruthless and methodical killer.
8) Fort Misery
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The baddest men in the West battle for their lives against a relentless band of bloodthirsty prairie rats in Fort Misery - first in an electrifying new Western series. Captain Peter Joseph Kellerman was once a promising career soldier who'd proven his mettle in battle time and again. Now he's fighting a battle with a whiskey bottle. He's also in charge of Fort Benjamin Grierson, located west of hell, deep in Arizona Territory's Mohawk Valley on the...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.
From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a volcano in Washington state; from a wilderness therapy program for teens to an extraordinary...
From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a volcano in Washington state; from a wilderness therapy program for teens to an extraordinary...
10) Teacher misery
Author
Publisher
Truth Be Told Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jane Morris is the pen name of a teacher who has taught English in a major American city for over ten years. In Teacher Misery, she presents a collection of short stories, essays, and artifacts, including real emails from parents, students and administrators, that encapsulate the "comical misery" that has become the teaching profession.
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Collects Doctor Strange (2015) #17-20, Annual #1. As magic faced its last days, Mr. Misery helped Doctor Strange defeat the Empirikul. But that doesn't make Misery a hero. Not one bit. Now the nightmarish creature is about to show Strange the full meaning of his name - and he'll do it by visiting pain and suff ering on one of the Doc's closest allies! The Sorcerer Supreme won't stand for that -but to bring the thunder down on Misery, he needs a
...Author
Publisher
Truth Be Told Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
More Teacher Misery is the second volume in the Teacher Misery series! In More Teacher Misery Morris tackles even more of the hilarious, unbelievable and completely absurd experiences of teachers around the country. With topics such as pointless professional development where the author learned how to make bird noises, insanely incompetent teachers who make the good ones look bad, the shit parades that are parent conferences, lack of discipline even...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
How we wait, why we wait, what we wait for—waiting in line is a daily indignity that we all experience, usually with a little anxiety thrown in (why is it that the other line always moves faster?!?). This smart, quirky, wide-ranging book (the perfect conversation starter) considers the surprising science and psychology—and the sheer misery—of the well-ordered line. On the way, it takes us from boot camp (where...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Soldier's Truth brings to life Ernie Pyle's years as a combat journalist in World War II. With a background in helping veterans and other survivors of trauma come to terms with their experiences through storytelling, the author brings empathy and insight to bear on Pyle's experiences. A tribute to an ordinary American hero whose impact on the war is still little understood, as well as a reckoning with that war's impact and how it is remembered,...
Author
Language
English
Description
You know less than you think you do - about what makes you healthy, what makes you rich, who you should date, where you should live. You know less than you think you do about how to raise your children, or, for that matter, whether you should have children in the first place. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz showed how big data is revolutionising the social sciences. He shows how big data can help us find answers to some of the most important questions we...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A standout cadet at the Air Force Academy, rejected from pilot training for being too short, [Martha McSally] refused to give up. Instead she became America's first woman to fly a fighter jet in combat and the first to command a fighter squadron. A decorated aviator, she took on the Pentagon on behalf of women--and won. A rape and sexual assault survivor, she has fought for victims in and out of uniform... With candor, attitude, and fresh insights,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Marie later won another Nobel for chemistry in 1911.)...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Like nearly all the boys he knew, John Musgrave grew up looking forward to the day he could enlist in the Marine Corps and serve his country as his father had done. In this memoir, Musgrave renders his wartime service with intimacy and immediacy: from the rude awakening of boot camp to daily life in the Vietnam jungle to the chest wound that nearly killed him. Musgrave also describes the difficulty of returning home to a society rife with antiwar...
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