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Author: Nick Harkaway
Publisher: Vintage
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
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The Gone Away World Book Description

by Nick Harkaway, The Gone Away World Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Gone Away World books, A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infused mission to save the world. Gonzo Lubitch and his best friend have been inseparable since birth. They grew up together, they studied kung-fu together, they rebelled in college together, and they fought in the Go Away War together. Now, with the world in shambles and dark, nightmarish clouds billowing over the wastelands, they have been tapped for an incredibly perilous mission. But they quickly realize that this assignment is more complex than it seems, and before it is over they will have encountered everything from mimes, ninjas, and pirates to one ultra-sinister mastermind, whose only goal is world domination.

Author: Nick Harkaway
Publisher: Vintage
Size: 12.44 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Tigerman Book Description

by Nick Harkaway, Tigerman Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Tigerman books, A KIRKUS REVIEWS and NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST AND ALA NOTABLE BOOK Sergeant Lester Ferris is a good man in need of a rest. After a long career of being shot at, he’s about to be retired. The mildly larcenous, backwater island of Mancreu is the ideal place to serve out his time, a former British colony in legal limbo, belching toxic clouds of waste and facing imminent destruction by an international community concerned for their own safety. The perfect place for Lester is also the perfect location for a multinational array of shady businesses. Hence the Black Fleet of illicit ships lurking in the bay: spy stations, arms dealers, offshore hospitals, money-laundering operations, drug factories and torture centers. None of which should be a problem, since Lester’s brief is to sit tight and turn a blind eye. Meanwhile, he befriends a brilliant, Internet-addled street kid with a comic-book fixation who will need a new home when the island dies. When Mancreu’s fragile society erupts in violence, Lester must be more than just an observer: he has no choice but to rediscover the man of action he once was, and find out what kind of hero the island—and the boy—will need. From the award-winning author of Angelmaker and The Gone-Away World, Tigerman is a novel at once deeply heartfelt and headlong thrilling—about parenthood, friendship and secret identities, about heroes of both the super and the everyday kind. From the Hardcover edition.

Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: Random House
Size: 21.29 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
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The Air We Breathe Book Description

by Andrea Barrett, The Air We Breathe Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Air We Breathe books, Autumn, 1916. America is preparing to enter WWI, but at Tamarack State Hospital, the danger is barely felt. Here in the crisp, mountain air where wealthy tuberculosis patients recover in private cottages and charity patients, mostly European émigrés, fill the sanatorium, time stands still. Prisoners of routine and yearning for absent families, the inmates take solace in gossip, rumour and secret attachments. One enterprising patient initiates a weekly discussion group, but his well-meaning efforts lead instead to tragedy and betrayal. The war comes home, bringing with it a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. Andrea Barrett pits power and privilege against unrest and thwarted desire in a spellbinding tale of individual lives in a nation on the verge of extraordinary change.

Author: هان كانغ
Publisher: Dar Attanweer
Size: 56.11 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : ar
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by هان كانغ, Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download books, تأخذنا رواية "النباتية" إلى عوالم فائضة الإنسانية وجامحة المشاعر حتى الاستهجان، وسط صراعات سطوة العائلة ورتابة المجتمع واستهلاك الذات في طاحونة يومياتنا ليستيقظ الجسد على انتفاضته القاطعة, ليونغ هي التي فجأة صحت من حلم رافضة أكل أي نوع من اللحوم واتخذت من النباتية مسارًا لتغذيتها، قبل أن يتكشف لنا رويدًا رويدًا أن للقرار فلسفته، والتي انجرّ إليها أيضا زوج شقيقتها الكبرى ليخوضا في علاقة حميمية حد التماهي بين جسدين دون أن ينطقا بكلمة واحدة، يتماهيان بمشهد جسدي واحد للوحة ملحمية تشكل حيزًا كبيرًا من فانتازيا الرواية، ويتداخلان في مشهد سريالي يرسمه ويوثقه زوج شقيقتها الرسام الذي ظهر فجأة كشخصية محورية من الرواية بعدما كان هامشيًا في فصولها الاولى. سؤال عن مسببات الحياة ومبررات البقاء تطرحه الرواية بوحشية من خلال رفض بطلتها لأي وسيلة من وسائل إدخال الغذاء لجسدها، كأنها تقول لا شيء يستحق البقاء إلا بضعة ورود وأشجار قد تولد من أجسادنا إذا ما التصقنا بالأرض لنستمد قوتنا منها. جرأة تتركنا امام استسهال الموت في سبيل الفكرة وتهزأ بنا لاننا نواصل حياتنا بيوميات تبدو رتيبة اذا ما قيست بانتفاضة النباتية.

Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: Lulu.com
Size: 14.16 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
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The City Of The Goneaway Book Description

by Ambrose Bierce, The City Of The Goneaway Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The City Of The Goneaway books, AMBROSE BIERCE - The City of the Goneaway - and 67 other stories of the supernatural and the weird. Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as ""bitter Bierce"" and ""the devil's lexicographer."" He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius. The stories in this volume represent an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm and needle-sharp irony, their formal and thematic ingenuity and element of surprise, they differ markedly from the fiction admired in Bierce's time.

Author: Caroline Oulton
Publisher: Random House
Size: 33.33 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Unsafe Attachments Book Description

by Caroline Oulton, Unsafe Attachments Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Unsafe Attachments books, Unsafe Attachments explores the relationships of a loosely interlinked group of Londoners. Caught off guard at key points, they face moments of sudden temptation in their busy, established lives, as well as increasingly difficult choices. Dinah, harried and pregnant, is haunted by images of death on her way to Heathrow. Abi, a senior civil servant, embarks upon an affair with a Nigerian journalist as her teenage daughter 'kind of shags' her teacher. Alex, increasingly keen to settle down, numbly accompanies his ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic. A glance at a party turns into a fumbling grope and then a guilty hangover for Roger, whose live-in girlfriend is smugly satisfied that her life is on course. Lonely café-owner Carey spots his married shrink passionately kissing another woman in a park while Tina's desperate wish for a child jeopardises everything that is important to her. Relationships are acutely observed - the delights and tensions of living together, cheating on one another and trying to make lasting connections in this vast modern city. Love - real or imaginary - causes hearts to crack and lives to crumble but there is also hope, and sometimes there are second chances.

Author: Isaac Marion
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Size: 46.49 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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The Burning World Book Description

by Isaac Marion, The Burning World Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Burning World books, "In this sequel to WARM BODIES, the New York Times bestselling novel and hit movie, star-crossed lovers R and J must confront a world filled with the undead and the far more terrifying force that animates them"--

Author: Nick Rennison
Publisher: A&C Black
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
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Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide Book Description

by Nick Rennison, Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide books, Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can be a daunting task. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles, with navigation features to lead you on a rich journey through some the best literature to grace our shelves. This greatly expanded edition includes the latest contemporary authors and landmark novels, an expanded non-fiction section, a timeline setting historical events against literary milestones, prize-winner and book club lists. An accessible and easy-to-read guide that no serious book lover should be without. "The essential guide to the wild uncharted world of contemporary and 20th century writing." Robert McCrum, The Observer

Author: Gary K. Wolfe
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Size: 29.63 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
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Evaporating Genres Book Description

by Gary K. Wolfe, Evaporating Genres Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Evaporating Genres books, In this wide-ranging series of essays, an award-winning science fiction critic explores how the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror evolve, merge, and finally “evaporate” into new and more dynamic forms. Beginning with a discussion of how literary readers “unlearned” how to read the fantastic during the heyday of realistic fiction, Gary K. Wolfe goes on to show how the fantastic reasserted itself in popular genre literature, and how these genres themselves grew increasingly unstable in terms of both narrative form and the worlds they portray. More detailed discussions of how specific contemporary writers have promoted this evolution are followed by a final essay examining how the competing discourses have led toward an emerging synthesis of critical approaches and vocabularies. The essays cover a vast range of authors and texts, and include substantial discussions of very current fiction published within the last few years.

Author: Nick Harkaway
Publisher: Vintage
Size: 19.97 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
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The Blind Giant Book Description

by Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Blind Giant books, Nick Harkaway, author of Angelmaker, presents a rousing and energizing look at how we can meaningfully and constructively engage with technology—creating an essential handbook for anyone trying to be human in a digital age. Some say our devices will lead us to ruin: isolating us from our neighbors, warping communication, delivering an unregulated flood of information that will destroy our humanity. Some say they will be our salvation: enabling global communication and social engagement, putting all the world’s facts at our fingertips, and erasing the barriers that divide us, bringing out the best qualities of humanity. In The Blind Giant, novelist and blogger Nick Harkaway takes us on a lucid, insightful and personal tour of how we live our lives in our technology-obsessed culture. A self-described “missing link” between the pre-Internet generation and the “digital natives” who have grown up with technology, Nick is an enthusiastic guide to digital culture who weaves together examples from literature, psychology, neurology, sociology, history, and his own life while exploring the hazards and joys of the human-machine relationship. In the final analysis, whether we meaningfully engage with the machines we have created, or risk living in a world which is designed to serve computers and corporations rather than people, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned with our digital future.