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""Orphan X is the most gripping, high-octane thriller I've read in a long, long time. Hang onto your seat because Gregg Hurwitz will take you on a dizzying ride you'll not soon forget!" -Tess Gerritsen The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he's no legend. Evan Smoak is a man with...
2) Nowhere Man
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Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Question of Bruno, one of the most celebrated debuts in recent American fiction, returns with the mind- and language-bending adventures of his endearing protagonist Jozef Pronek.
A native of Sarajevo, where he spends his adolescence trying to become Bosnia's answer to John Lennon, Jozef Pronek comes to the United States in 1992-just in time to watch war break out in his country but too early to be a genuine refugee....
3) Nowhere Man
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Bobby Kendrick has idolized reclusive author Dr. Parley Taylor since he was a teenager. The only problem is, Dr. Taylor has disappeared.
Bobby finally finds Dr. Taylor in a tiny basement apartment in Kansas City, and the first thing he learns about his idol is that Parley Taylor doesn't want to talk to anybody. Especially his fans.
But Bobby wants to show Taylor that the world is waiting for him, and he is not going to give up on his Nowhere Man....
4) Nowhere Man
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A provocative new thriller that explores the limits -- and the extremes -- of patriotism. Tom Fargo thought he had it beat. The anxiety, the guilt, the uncertainty that had gripped him since 9/11, when his estranged father died in the attack on the Pentagon – they'd all vanished. A former antiwar protester, Tom has become the "new face of American patriotism" and has risen to the top job in the office of U.S. Senator and likely presidential nominee...
5) Nowhere Man
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Having resigned his position at Bow Street, John Pickett waits in vain for someone-anyone!-to engage his services as a private inquiry agent. As weeks go by with no responses to his newspaper advertisement, he has taken to spending his days wandering idly about London rather than admit his failure to his wife.
One day, while loitering in the Covent Garden market, he wonders morosely if it might have been better had he not been born at all. Then he...
6) Orphan X
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""Orphan X is the most gripping, high-octane thriller I've read in a long, long time. Hang onto your seat because Gregg Hurwitz will take you on a dizzying ride you'll not soon forget!" -Tess Gerritsen The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he's no legend. Evan Smoak is a man with...
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3rd edition; ~A mystic, comedy Sci-Fi action-adventure sprinkled with innuendo of The Beatles.... meet quirky Kalantha Kirby, a humble Central Park worker- so busy helping others and engrossed with her sci-fi hobbies and Beatles music, not realizing what was about to happen to her extraordinarily; After a strange event with her "hand" at work and even far deeper meditation session, Kalantha finds herself immersed in a mangled, dystopian future, or...
10) Nowhere man
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First Run Features Home Video
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2005
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Rape by her fiancé after he learns about her past in the adult film industry leads a woman to retaliate with his sexual mutilation.
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IDW
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2021
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Phantom Jack: The Nowhere Man Agenda, an all-new adventure of the newspaper reporter with one simple superpower: invisibility. Jack's adversary has been around for a long time, the clues were right there in the first series. Now, he must battle The Nowhere Man, a villain with powers a hundred times greater than his own. Does Jack have what it takes to become a hero? In addition to the 66-page main story, the book features three new stories from Michael...
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When the Apache surrounded the settlement of Alma, New Mexico, the "respectable" townsfolk began hanging those who weren't. Town drunk Eddie Oates was lucky to be banished from the town, left for the Apaches to kill. Oates never thought he was a survivor. But now, he's discovered a reason to go on-and he's about to unleash a raging fury upon those who would prey on the helpless, the hopeless, and those who others think aren't worth fighting for......
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In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere tallies up the huge economic, social, and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the places where we live and work, to build communities that are once again worthy of our affection. Kunstler...
17) American spirits
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"Three interlocking stories focusing on the residents of a town called Sam Dent, the undercurrent of the Trump movement in America, and a series of local tragedies"--
18) Into the fire
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The New York Times bestselling Orphan X returns - just when Evan Smoak thinks he's done, his deadliest job yet pulls him back Into The Fire... Evan Smoak lives by his own code. Once he was known as Orphan X. Trained as an off-the-books government assassin and spoken about only in whispers, Evan Smoak was one of the most talented – and most feared – men in the Program. But he broke free and reinvented himself as The Nowhere Man, a figure shrouded...
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"John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible. By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade -- a decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, songwriter, activist, burn out. "It's the perfect time to be coming back," he declared. Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the Beatles' controversial 1966 American tour, the band had feared...
20) The last orphan
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"Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan, the latest New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller--when everything changes and everything is at risk. As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program. When he broke with the program and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that the government would do anything to make sure...