A Day to Remember: The Story of Yu The Great
Author : Rachel Bubb
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1678108359
China in Ten Words
Author : Yu Hua
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0307739791
Book Description
From one of China’s most acclaimed writers: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades. Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words uses personal stories and astute analysis to reveal as never before the world’s most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation. In "Disparity," for example, Yu Hua illustrates the expanding gaps that separate citizens of the country. In "Copycat," he depicts the escalating trend of piracy and imitation as a creative new form of revolutionary action. And in "Bamboozle," he describes the increasingly brazen practices of trickery, fraud, and chicanery that are, he suggests, becoming a way of life at every level of society. Witty, insightful, and courageous, this is a refreshingly candid vision of the "Chinese miracle" and all of its consequences.
The Last Lecture
Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9780340978504
Book Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
The Story of Illegitimate Daughter
Author : Chen Ling
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2019-12-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1647873878
Book Description
She was an unwelcome Second Miss. His mother had died when she gave birth to him. Be bullied by female patriarch and elder sister. Long years of bullying, after meeting someone. She wanted to fight back, one by one. He sent each of them to the eighteenth level of hell.
Dì Yu
Author : Daniel St-Amour
Publisher : Daniel St-Amour
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 2982022931
Book Description
For about two years, men who abuse and rape women have been attacked and stripped of their masculinity, amputated from their virile organ. The police investigation services have no leads, no clues, nothing. Who is committing these sordid crimes against these equally deranged criminals? Under the pressure of his superiors, a detective nearing retirement will be forced to enlist the services of a sensitive/psychic to elucidate these atrocities of a sexual nature committed against these abusive sociopaths, brutes with burnt brains. A group of mismatched bikers made up only of women will lend a hand to the investigation. Sisters from a religious congregation in Montreal will also participate to find out who is committing these crimes against these phallocrats who rapes and abuses women. Mind-blowing paranormal phenomena, disturbing visions and extrasensory feelings. Four days of more than trying and disturbing investigation. A horror/suspense/thriller novel that will haunt you forever and ever. You will be marked for life.
Ready Player Two
Author : Ernest Cline
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1524761338
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The thrilling sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST • “The game is on again. . . . A great mix of exciting fantasy and threatening fact.”—The Wall Street Journal AN UNEXPECTED QUEST. TWO WORLDS AT STAKE. ARE YOU READY? Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday’s vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous—and addictive—than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest—a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who’ll kill millions to get what he wants. Wade’s life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance. Lovingly nostalgic and wildly original as only Ernest Cline could conceive it, Ready Player Two takes us on another imaginative, fun, action-packed adventure through his beloved virtual universe, and jolts us thrillingly into the future once again.
Court of the Lion
Author : Eleanor Cooney
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 1990-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780380709854
Book Description
The Flood Myth
Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520063532
Book Description
Youth's Companion
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 1927
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Book Description
Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner)
Author : Yu Miri
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 34,49 MB
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593187520
Book Description
WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo. Kazu's life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Through Kazu's eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.
