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A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall is an exuberant literary debut--a novel of real ideas and a playful examination of our in-between world, one that explores the nature of family, identity, art, and belief while also marking the introduction of an original new voice in contemporary fiction. Owen Burr is the six-foot-eight, Olympics-bound senior captain of the Stanford University water polo team. In his final collegiate match, however, he suffers a catastrophic injury that destroys his hopes and dreams, flattening his entire world into two dimensions. His identity as an athlete erased but his ambition indelible, he defies his father, a classics professor who lives in a "cave" of his own making, and moves to Berlin with naive plans to make conceptual art. Then he disappears. Without a single clue as to his son's location, Dr. Burr embarks upon a tour of public lectures from Greece to Germany to Iceland in an attempt to draw out his endangered son. Instead, he foments a violent uprising.

The sequel to Losers, Inc. Twelve-year-old Julius Zimmerman is the former vice president of the defunct organization Losers, Inc. Ethan Winfield, the former president, no longer feels like a loser. But Julius still does, maybe because his mother thinks of him that way. To "improve" him, Mrs. Zimmerman signs Julius up for a summer course in intensive French and for a part-time job baby-sitting three-year-old Edison Blue. She also sets a summer reading goal for him. Julius doesn't ace the French class and doesn't do the required reading, but he does turn out to have a winning way with kids -- and adults -- and in the end proves to his mother that her criteria for success aren't the only ones.

Direk, a collection of essays on Filipino filmmakers, presents an accessible and provocative introduction to Philippine cinema. Notable Filipino critics write on the canonical Filipino film directors: Ronald Baytan on Ishmael Bernal; Patrick F Campos on Kidlat Tahimik; Clodualdo Del Mundo, Jr. on Manuel Silos, Eddie Romero, and Lamberto Avellana; Vicente Garcia Groyon on Peque Gallaga; Shirley O. Lua on Fernando Poe, Jr; Gil Quito on Marilou Diaz-Abaya and Lav Diaz; Anne Frances N Sangil on Mike de Leon; Agustin Sotto on Gerardo de Leon; Nicanor G Tiongson on Manuel Conde; Rolando B Tolentino on Lino Brocka; Noel Vera on Mario OHara; and Lito B Zulueta on Brillante Ma Mendoza. A compelling work, the first of its kind, it is filled with insight and critical provocation. The work is essential reading for all who are interested in film making in all its multiple aspects, and provides hitherto unavailable information on Philippine filmmakers and cinema.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Riders of the Night" by Eugene Cunningham. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

In his embrace she could forget the shattered dreams that lay around her, but could she forgive him for breaking her heart? Branded a race cheat, NASCAR race driver, Isadora de la Cruz, goes undercover as a personal assistant to the CEO of a San Francisco race wear franchise, Fit to Race. She has her career and reputation to salvage, and revenge on her mind. But when a favor for the boss blurs the line between employer and employee, proving her innocence buys her more trouble than she bargained for. Carmelo Iannello is about to release a range of race wear that will set the international race scene on fire. He should be excited, but the recent cheating scandal by his NASCAR team has him on edge. He can no longer trust anyone, except maybe his quiet, steady, reliable personal assistant. Yet even the most innocent faces can hide a plethora of lies. Victory is bittersweet when the winner takes all.

West Garside, Yorkshire, mid-1950's. After a young girl is abducted from a local hospital, D.I. Yarrow, still recovering from an attack in which he was severely burnt, fears for the safety of the child. With the community in shock, everyone in town now becomes a suspect. In the most difficult and traumatic investigation of his career, Yarrow must bring all his experience and commitment to bear as senior officers, anxious for their own careers, begin to question his competence. Can Yarrow bring this case to closure as his personal life takes a dramatic turn? A police procedural set in mid-20th century England, GALLOWS KNOT is the third book in the Inspector Yarrow series by Giles Ekins.

A Special Operations Group Team is sent on a mission. They return without their team leader who is hurt and unable to get into the chopper at the extraction. Twenty-nine days later, he walks out of the tropical forest at a base camp. He returns without memory of anything between the failed extraction and the moment he stumbles into the camp except for hazy nightmares of shadowy figures - Stacker Joe, Willie the Wonk, and Slackman. Four years of intense psychiatric evaluation neither prove nor disprove fears that he was captured, brainwashed, and returned as a potential mole. Allowed to go his way, he buys a gunsmith shop in Wyoming. Two years later, he receives a visitor. Then, the visitor's granddaughter. And J. D. McKennick, is forced back into the black whirlpool of his lost memory. To fight what he finds, his old team is reformed. One is dead, two have medical discharges, and one is at his 'day' job. But new members are added, and Team Blue One Angel Five is reformed. Falcon, Slackman, Angel, Scooter, the Kraut, Bait, and the people around them, must spearhead the fight against the threat to the government and people of the United States.