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Astrotruckers

Author : Mikael Niemi
Publisher : Harvill Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Astrotruckers written by Mikael Niemi and published by Harvill Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of tales based around outer space, Astrotruckers is funny, perverse, inventive and bristling with unstoppable imagination. In the illuminating company of an astrotrucker, we meet the ponorists - those who venture into outer space beyond the point of no return - discover the most popular and most pungent Earth mementos taken into space and learn the essential difference between humans and androids. He clarifies the murky areas of human knowledge: the meaning of the oldest writing in the universe, who set off the big bang, the scientific explanation for Murphy's Law, the catalyst for the death of literature and, not to be forgotten, how the world will end. What do you say to an intellectually superior fistular maggot who wants to observe you watching football? How many doors get slammed in your face when you try to find out who is in charge of the universe? And what happens when you switch your android's personality setting to 'humour'? Poetic, grotesque, hilarious, disgusting and visionary, Astrotruckers will reveal all this, and more...

Out of This World

Author : Rachel S. Cordasco
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052919
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Out of This World written by Rachel S. Cordasco and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion of speculative fiction in translation (SFT). Rachel Cordasco examines speculative fiction published in English translation since 1960, ranging from Soviet-era fiction to the Arabic-language dystopias that emerged following the Iraq War. Individual chapters on SFT from Korean, Czech, Finnish, and eleven other source languages feature an introduction by an expert in the language's speculative fiction tradition and its present-day output. Cordasco then breaks down each chapter by subgenre--including science fiction, fantasy, and horror--to guide readers toward the kinds of works that most interest them. Her discussion of available SFT stands alongside an analysis of how various subgenres emerged and developed in a given language. She also examines the reasons a given subgenre has been translated into English. An informative and one-of-a-kind guide, Out of This World offers readers and scholars alike a tour of speculative fiction's new globalized era.

International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2008

Author : Europa Publications
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857434286
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2008 written by Europa Publications and published by . This book was released on 2007-08-23 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable source of information on the personalities and organizations of the literary world.

Popular Music from Vittula

Author : Mikael Niemi
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609802888
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Popular Music from Vittula written by Mikael Niemi and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Music from Vittula tells the fantastical story of a young boy's unordinary existence, peopled by a visiting African priest, a witch in the heart of the forest, cousins from Missouri, an old Nazi, a beautiful girl with a black Volvo, silent men and tough women, a champion-bicyclist music teacher with a thumb in the middle of his hand—and, not least, on a shiny vinyl disk, the Beatles. The story unfolds in sweltering wood saunas, amidst chain thrashings and gang warfare, learning to play the guitar in the garage, over a traditional wedding meal, on the way to China, during drinking competitions, while learning secret languages, playing ice hockey surrounded by snow drifts, outsmarting mice, discovering girls, staging a first rock concert, peeing in the snow, skiing under a sparkling midnight sky. In the manner of David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green, Mikael Niemi tells a story of a rural Sweden at once foreign and familiar, as a magical childhood slowly fades with the seasons into adult reality.

Mothertrucker

Author : Amy Butcher
Publisher : Little A
ISBN 13 : 9781542014311
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Mothertrucker written by Amy Butcher and published by Little A. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of two women who found meaning, strength, and friendship in one of the most punishing and magnificent landscapes on earth. Amy Butcher was an accomplished college professor, mentor, and writer, but in her own home, she was embarrassed and emotionally burdened by an increasingly abusive relationship. Exhausted and terrified of the ways her partner's behavior could escalate, Amy reached out to Instagram celebrity Joy "Mothertrucker" Wiebe. Joy was a fifty-year-old wife and mother and the nation's only female ice road trucker, a woman who maneuvered big rigs through the Alaskan wilderness along the deadliest road in America. Joy was everything Amy wanted to be: independent, fearless, and in charge of her life in a landscape dominated by men. Invited by Joy to ride shotgun, Amy found her escape on a road that was treacherous, beautiful, and exhilarating--an adventurous ride through the Alaskan wilderness that was profoundly life changing. Mothertrucker is the story of that bracing four-hundred-mile journey navigating snow-glazed overpasses, ice-blue curves, and near plummets. It's also the stories that led them both to Alaska--an interrogation of the reality of female fear, domestic violence, and how to overcome--and an exploration into just how galvanizing friendships between women can be.

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Author : Joan Lindsay
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143132059
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Picnic at Hanging Rock written by Joan Lindsay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Now a six-part TV series starring Natalie Dormer, from Amazon Prime* A 50th-anniversary edition of the landmark novel about three “gone girls” that inspired the acclaimed 1975 film, featuring a foreword by Maile Meloy, author of Do Not Become Alarmed It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of the secluded volcanic outcropping. Farther, higher, until at last they disappeared. They never returned. . . . Mysterious and subtly erotic, Picnic at Hanging Rock inspired the iconic 1975 film of the same name by Peter Weir. A beguiling landmark of Australian literature, it stands with Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, and Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides as a masterpiece of intrigue.

日・中・英・ハングル・光工学用語辞典

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book 日・中・英・ハングル・光工学用語辞典 written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Partisan's Daughter

Author : Louis de Bernieres
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368866
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book A Partisan's Daughter written by Louis de Bernieres and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in North London during the Winter of Discontent, A Partisan’s Daughter features the relationship between Chris, an unhappily married, middle-aged Englishman and Roza, a young Serbian woman who has recently moved to London. While driving through Archway in the course of his job as a medical rep, Chris is captivated by a young woman on a street corner. Clumsily, he engages her in conversation, and he secures an invitation to return one day for a coffee. His visits become more frequent and Roza starts to tell him the story of her life, drawing him increasingly into her world – from her childhood as a daughter of one of Tito’s Partisans through her journey to England and on to her more recent colourful and dangerous past in London. A Partisan’s Daughter is about the power of storytelling. It is also a beautifully wrought and unlikely love story which is both compelling and moving to read. Here is another wonderful novel from the author of the bestselling Birds Without Wings and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.

Mathematics for Information Technology

Author : Alfred Basta
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 9781111127831
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Mathematics for Information Technology written by Alfred Basta and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MATHEMATICS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY delivers easy-to-understand and balanced mathematical instruction. Each chapter begins with an application, goes on to present the material with examples, and closes with a summary of the relevant concepts and practice exercises. With numerous illustrations included, students can understand the content from a number of different angles. Whether used in a classroom or an online distance-learning format, students majoring in electronics, computer programming, and information technology will find Mathematics for Information Technology an extremely valuable resource. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156030434
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana written by Umberto Eco and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To recall his memories, Yambo withdraws to the family home where he searches old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and diaries to relive the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, and Fred Astaire.

Istanbul

Author : Orhan Pamuk
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307386481
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Istanbul written by Orhan Pamuk and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-12-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. "Delightful, profound, marvelously origina.... Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory." —The Washington Post Book World A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy—or hüzün—that all Istanbullus share. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters—both Turkish and foreign—who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires, Pamuk’s Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.

King of The Road

Author : Alex Debogorski
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143178946
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book King of The Road written by Alex Debogorski and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highest-rated reality show ever to hit History Television, Ice Road Truckers follows the heart-pounding adventures of the tough-as-nails truckers who risk peril every day to deliver goods and supplies in Alaska and across Canada's frozen north. Alex Debogorski shares tales of his adventures, and misadventures, in the north, and explains, in his own entertaining voice, how he got to where he is today—a working-class hero, bona fide celebrity, and the improbable star of a smash-hit television show. Debogorski is a natural storyteller who knows how to spin tales about his colourful life growing up in the backwoods. Whether he's recounting tales about his hair-raising confrontations with bears, calculating the strength of newly formed ice, divulging the secrets of providing security in a barroom full of combative, drunken miners, or saving the life of another trucker, he keeps readers wanting more. King of the Road gives fans of Ice Road Truckers a deep look inside the life and times of the show's biggest rising star.

The Fifth Head of Cerberus

Author : Gene Wolfe
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312890209
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Fifth Head of Cerberus written by Gene Wolfe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1994-03-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1972, this SF masterpiece has been out of print for most of a decade. Now, this "subtle, ingenious, and poetic book" (Ursula Le Guin) entertains a new generation of readers with the story of two far-flung sister planets and a man's quest to find remnants of a lost.

Bring the Jubilee

Author : Ward Moore
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Bring the Jubilee written by Ward Moore and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bring the Jubilee" by Ward Moore. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Cosmos Incorporated

Author : Maurice G. Dantec
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345507835
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Cosmos Incorporated written by Maurice G. Dantec and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major English translation of one of France’s most admired writers, Cosmos Incorporated is a triumph of science fiction–a masterwork of cataclysm, mysticism, and suspense. Fifty years of warfare, disease, and strife have decimated the world’s population. Those who remain are motes in the mind of UniWorld, a superstate that monitors humanity via a vast computer metastructure that catalog everything about everyone on the planet–race, religion, genetic codes, even fantasies. Those who have the means escape UniWorld’s tight control through the Orbital Ring. Though his memory has been wiped clean and his history fabricated in order to pass through UniWorld’s check points, Sergei Diego Plotkin knows his name.And he knows his mission: to murder a man in the city of Grand Junction, a Vegas-like outpost that is home to the private launching pad to the Ring. But this sense of purpose is compromised by random memories that flash through Plotkin’s brain. England and Argentina. The shores of Lake Baikal. And something else. Something indescribable. Now Plotkin is about to meet his maker. As his identity and mission incrementally resurface in his conscious mind, and in the presence of an eerily beautiful woman, Plotkin will soon discover that he has come here not just to kill but to be born. . . . “Like Houellebecq, Dantec takes inspiration from both high and low culture; he is the sort of writer who cites Sun Tzu’s Art of War and the Stooges’ Search and Destroy with equal facility.” –The New York Times “DNA is to Dantec what the swan was to romantic poetry: an invitation to dream. . . . This rocker-writer teleports us into the cyberpunk beyonds of literature. Fasten your seatbelts!” –Le Nouvel Observateur

A Most Wanted Man

Author : John le Carre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416594892
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book A Most Wanted Man written by John le Carre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A half-starved young Russian is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he?

China Tidal Wave

Author : Lixiong Wang
Publisher : Global Oriental
ISBN 13 : 9004213228
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book China Tidal Wave written by Lixiong Wang and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is great social tension in the aftermath of ‘Tiananmen Square’, uncertainty about political and economic policy and the constant burden of over-population. Serious flooding of the Yellow River adds more than a hundred million to the ‘floating population’ of destitute and semi-destitute peasant refugees. Disaster is imminent ...