Books with title The Truth Circle

Frank Norris is primarily known for his novels, most notably The Octopus and McTeague, but he also wrote a great deal of short stories, essays, and articles for various newspapers and periodicals. Following his untimely death in 1902, a portion of his short fiction was published in two posthumous collections. "The Third Circle", published in 1909, is virtually forgotten today to anyone but Norris scholars. Such obscurity is unmerited, however, for "The Third Circle" is a fantastic collection of stories, indicative of Norris's formidable literary talents.The collection consists of pieces written by Norris during his employment as a staff writer for the San Francisco Wave. At the Wave, Norris wrote everything from literary and art criticism to sports to travel pieces, but he was also given the opportunity to hone his craft as a fiction writer. The book features an informative introduction by Will Irwin, an editor of the Wave, after Norris's time, who apparently compiled the collection from pieces he gleaned from the newspaper's files. The most remarkable thing about the stories is the wide breadth of subject matter and variety of tone. Norris seems to be able to master any genre he tackles, and each subject he touches, no matter how fantastic, is handled with his distinctive, true-to-life naturalistic style.The book opens with the title selection--a sensationalistic, pulpy tale of white slavery in Chinatown. This is followed by a few shorter pieces in which Norris beautifully captures slices of life from the streets of San Francisco. One of the collection’s highlights is "A Reversion to Type", a comical, action-packed tale of a department store salesman who suffers a mid-life crisis and goes off on a monumental bender. Though the first few stories are confined to California, eventually the settings branch out to such exotic locales as a South African graveyard ("The Strangest Thing"), the Algerian desert ("Son of a Sheik"), and a Parisian art school ("`This Animal of a Buldy Jones'"). There's even a retelling of an Icelandic folk saga ("Grettir at Drangey"). The book closes with "The Guest of Honour," an expertly paced, suspenseful tale that borders on horror.Although Norris is renowned for his novels, there are a few pieces here that can hold their own against his most famous books. The Third Circle is a very good showcase of this great American author's work. Any fan of Norris's writing is sure to enjoy it.

Welcome to the Realm of Earth, where the remaining humans are divided into Ten Earth Tribes, the Melacotians, Durannans, Grenadans, Horantians, Fillarrans, Suranans, Barra-Porannans, Volatians, Lizitans, and Qualidizans. The Melacotia Saga : Follows the Roberts’ family and surrounding friends and family from the area of Camela, a tiny fishing and trading village near the border separating them from Grenada, where unexpected adventures arise with regularity. A base of the Grenadan Guards sits nearby and the waterways in which the villagers fish are open to all vessels, leading to violent interruptions in their otherwise modest, simple lives. Many are drawn to them, wondering why these people can have peace and contentment while danger lingers ever so near. The Truth : Book 3 : When one of the village girls is taken near the border, Mike and Tom go back to get her but Mike is captured. Too many desertions within the last few months have caused the village to be on high alert; even the governor is there! Others from Camela set out to rescue Mike, but will they arrive in time? The governor has arrived with the purpose of crushing the weak links. But so many are seeking; can they find The Truth?

The Order of Vespers is in turmoil. Their most powerful supernatural members have been kidnapped by a cult hell-bent on destroying the cosmic balance. Its members are revolting and their leadership, The Circle, is hanging on by a thread. The one person who can save them, Jasper, has been missing for over a year. Jordan gets a lucky break when one raid turns up more than they could have hoped for: a way to bring back his dearest friend and partner-in-crime. While members of The Circle are against using magic to restore her, Jordan is convinced that Jasper has a larger role to play. He believes that she can stop the kidnappings, ferret out the traitors to the Order, and save the world. The Circle must decide whether to trust in dark magic and a friend that may no longer exist or to forget her and try to save the Order themselves. The Vespers Chronicles follows the adventures of Jasper Andrews and her initiation into a paranormal world of beings called The Order of Vespers.

William just wants to get at the truth. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it’s only the third edition. William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld’s first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist’s life – people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.

A man comes to on the floor of a shabby apartment in the middle of Budapest. His head is glued to the floorboards with his own blood. There's a fortune in cash on the kitchen table. And he has no idea where, or who, he is. He can do extraordinary things—speak any number of languages fluently, go three days without food or sleep, and fight with extraordinary prowess. But without a name, without a past, he's isolated from the rest of the world; a stranger to everyone, including himself—until a chance encounter with a young scholar leads to his first friendship, and his first hint that someone out there knows more about him than he does. Someone is sending him clues about his past. Photographs hidden in books and crates of wine. Cryptic clues pointing towards a murdered woman. And clear warnings against Stephomi, his only friend. But that's not all; Gabriel Antaeus is seeing strange, impossible things: a burning man is stalking his dreams and haunting his mirrors, his dreams are filled with violence from the past, and his pregnant young neighbor is surrounded by an extraordinary golden aura. Something dark and violent in Gabriel's past is trying to resurface. And as he pieces the clues together, everything points towards an astounding war between angels and demons—a battle not just for the future of the world, but for the minds and souls of everyone in it.

Tina and TJ are high school sweethearts that have been reunited as adults. TJ has become a part of a close knit group of friends who call themselves "the circle." Tina loves TJ, but she hates being a part of the circle and wants desperately to build a life with TJ outside of it. The circle is at every turn trying to make sure that TJ and Tina stay in the circle, after all TJ started the circle and he can't leave them now. Tina struggles to claim her independence from the circle and learns to be free from all the things that the circle represents. But will she and TJ be able to endure through her journey to be free?

William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld’s first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist’s life — people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.

William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalists life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes. William just wants to get at the truth. Unfortunately, everyone else just wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...

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