Books with author A. Simmons

Five towers. Five colors. One way out.Cipher risks everything to reach the Red Tower. He searches for the person who was once the most important in the world to him. He has left the friends who helped him discover himself. He has left a place where he had control, where his powers were the mind and the wind.Now Cipher must learn new powers to survive. He must channel his passions to thrive. And he must rise to the top of another tower before he can enter the Scouring again, where deeper secrets await.

A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town -- the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a grisly "accident" back in the terrible summer of 1960 -- is only the latest in his long succession of recent mistakes. Because Dale is not alone here. He has been followed to this house of shadows by private demons who are now twisting his reality into horrifying new forms. And a thick, blanketing early snow is starting to fall ...

Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative. But that was before twenty-first-century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy Hector and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon of divine manipulators; before the swift and terrible mechanical creatures that catered for centuries to the pitiful idle remnants of Earth's human race began massing in the millions, to exterminate rather than serve.And now all bets are off.

A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town -- the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a grisly "accident" back in the terrible summer of 1960 -- is only the latest in his long succession of recent mistakes. Because Dale is not alone here. He has been followed to this house of shadows by private demons who are now twisting his reality into horrifying new forms. And a thick, blanketing early snow is starting to fall ...

The following story was written in 2010 by my daughter Alexa who passed away on October 11 2011 from complications due to Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). Most people do not even know that EDS exists and, for that matter, most doctors unfortunately do not understand it and often diagnose it as a psychiatric issue versus a disease/illness. I hope this story increases awareness of EDS and related disorders – perhaps it will inspire people to understand that many diseases are not observable and that they need to be more compassionate towards others.

★★★★★ "Incredible, mind-blowing, enthralling."★★★★★ "I finished the book in one breath!" Five towers. Five colors. One way out. Cipher wakes up in the Blue Tower with no memories of his former life. He discovers that he is not alone. Dozens of boys and girls must compete in a battle called the Scouring against four other towers--Red, Green, Yellow, and Black--each with its own rules and powers.In his first Scouring, Cipher captures Emma, a girl from Yellow, whose memories from Victorian England move Cipher to uncover his own past. He must learn who he was before he can figure out why he's here...and how to get out.

"CARRION COMFORT is one of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that." --Stephen King"Epic in scale and scope but intimately disturbing, CARRION COMFORT spans the ages to rewrite history and tug at the very fabric of reality. A nightmarish chronicle of predator and prey that will shatter your world view forever. A true classic." --Guillermo del Toro"CARRION COMFORT is one of the scariest books ever written. Whenever I get the question asked Who's your favorite author? my answer is always Dan Simmons." --James Rollins"One of the few major reinventions of the vampire concept, on a par with Jack Finney's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, and Stephen King's Salem's Lot. --David MorrellTHE PAST... Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazi's themselves…THE PRESENT... Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world's most horrible and violent events. Killing from a distance, and by darkly manipulative proxy, they are people with the psychic ability to 'use' humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, feed off their emotions, force them to acts of unspeakable aggression. Each year, three of the most powerful of this hidden order meet to discuss their ongoing campaign of induced bloodshed and deliberate destruction. But this reunion, something will go terribly wrong. Saul's quest is about to reach its elusive object, drawing hunter and hunted alike into a struggle that will plumb the depths of mankind's attraction to violence, and determine the future of the world itself…

Five towers. Five colors. One way out.Cipher wakes up in the Blue Tower with no memories of his former life. He discovers that he is not alone. Dozens of boys and girls must compete in a battle called the Scouring against four other towers--Red, Green, Yellow, and Black--each with its own rules and powers. In his first Scouring, Cipher captures Emma, a girl from Yellow, whose memories from Victorian England move Cipher to uncover his own past. He must learn who he was before he can figure out why he's here...and how to get out.

Are you:A newbie to computer programming?Want to start but a little confused?Searching for a book with many practical examples? Curious why Python is the best way to begin?If you want to become a successful coder without a college degree or years of maze running, Then keep reading..With a 27% year-over-year growth rate, Python stands alone as a tag that is both large and growing rapidly; the next-largest tag that shows similar growth is R.Outside of high-income countries Python is still the fastest growing major programming language; it simply started at a lower level and the growth began two years later (in 2014 rather than 2012). In fact, the year-over-year growth rate of Python in non-high-income countries is slightly higher than it is in high-income countries.--Stack Overflow, The Incredible Growth of Python本课程将向您全面介绍python中的所有核心概念。跟随课程，你很快就会成为一名python程序员！This course is a comprehensive introduction to all the core concepts in Python. Follow the course and you will soon be a python programmer!In this course I'm gonna teach you everything you need to know to get started programming in python.Python is one of the most popular programming languages out there,and it's by far one of the most sought after for jobsand so if you're trying to get a jobor you're trying to automate your lifeor you try to write awesome scripts to do a bunch of different things then python's for youHonestly more and more developers every day are moving their projects over to python because it's such a powerful and such easy to use language,a lot of programming languages out there just aren't very beginner friendly There's a lot of syntax There's a lot of little things that if you get wrong the program will yell at you.Python is the complete opposite of that.You basically just type out what you want to do and python does it It's that simple there's not a whole lot of syntax to learn the learning curve is literally zeroYou jump in,You can start writing your first program in seconds.-----------------------------------------------------------------------python codingpython programmingpython studypython for beginners

From his presence earth and sky fled away.They stood before the throne, and books were opened. It stopped making sense months ago. Now he seeks the baby, but Elijah has Naomi. People keep saying the world's going to end. Elijah is starting to think they're right. He's also starting to think they're wrong about how. This is 2066, and the ending will be known.

"The Da Vinci Code meets Hunger Games meets Left Behind...An imagining epic." Hugh Hewitt, New York Times BestsellerElijah Goldsmith has nightmares he needs to ignore. Why would a rich kid from Manhattan dream three straight nights about a dragon and the destruction of St. Peter's Basilica? He's never even been to Rome. It's bad timing, too. He's graduating soon and applying to be a spy in the International Security Agency. That's where he meets Naomi. She's the kind of girl who makes boys like Elijah want to share their secrets. Were they brought together to learn what his secrets mean? There's more to their sparks than they think. This is 2066, the year the world ends.

Five towers. Five colors. One way out.The Green Tower captures Cipher, ties him in vines, and hurls him into the wild. New dangers lurk in the forest, where the strong prey on the weak. Hunger looms. Tribes battle over every scrap to survive.Cipher will need everything he has gained in the Blue and Red Towers, and more. He must forge new alliances and face hard truths to stand against his most powerful enemy yet.