Book Description
This daring speculative novel tackles terrorism and anti-immigrant hysteria, combining lyric intensity with the tools of science fiction.
Author : Johannes Anyuru
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781949641080
This daring speculative novel tackles terrorism and anti-immigrant hysteria, combining lyric intensity with the tools of science fiction.
Author : Mary Downing Hahn
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547346034
Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard. If that's not bad enough, Heather starts talking to a ghost named Helen and warning Molly and Michael that Helen is coming for them. Molly feels certain Heather is in some kind of danger, but every time she tries to help, Heather twists things around to get her into trouble. It seems as if things can't get any worse. But they do—when Helen comes.
Author : Meryle Secrest
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 22,1 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0451493656
The human, business, design, engineering, cold war, and tech story of how the Olivetti company's first desktop computer, the P101, came to be. Within eighteen months it had caught up with, and surpassed, IBM, the American giant that had become an arm of the American government. Secrest tells how Olivetti made inroads into the US market in 1959 by taking control of Underwood of Hartford CT as an assembly plant for Olivetti's own typewriters and future miniaturized personal computers. Within a week of the purchase, the US government filed an antitrust suit to try to stop it. In 1960 Adriano Olivetti died suddenly of a heart attack; eighteen months later the young engineer who had assembled Olivetti's team of electronic engineers was killed in a suspicious car crash. The Olivetti company and the P101 came to an insidious and shocking end. -- adapted from jacket
Author : Johannes Anyuru
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 2019
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9781642860443
In this Swedish bestseller, a man training to become a Ugandan fighter pilot defects after a coup and spends his life on the run.
Author : Decca Aitkenhead
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 14,1 MB
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0385540663
All at Sea is a remarkable story of love and loss, of how one couple changed each other’s life, and of what a sudden death can do to the people who survive. On a hot, still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead’s life changed forever. Her four-year-old son was paddling peacefully at the water’s edge when a wave pulled him out to sea. Her partner, Tony, swam out and saved their son’s life—then drowned before her eyes. When Decca and Tony first met, a decade earlier, she was a renowned Guardian journalist profiling leading politicians of the day; he was a dreadlocked criminal with a history of drug dealing and violence. No one thought the romance would last, but it did—until the tide swept Tony away, plunging Decca into the dark chasm of random tragedy. Exploring race and redemption, privilege and prejudice, All at Sea is a breathtakingly honest, profound, and utterly unforgettable memoir.
Author : Igiaba Scego
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781931883832
"Describes Argentina's horrific dirty war, the chaotic final years of brutal dictatorship in Somalia, and the modern-day excesses of Italy's right-wing politics through the words of two half-sisters, their mothers, and the elusive father who ties their stories together"--
Author : Saskia Vogel
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1770565817
A grieving young woman learns something new about love from a dominatrix in this haunting and erotic debut. Echo is a failing actress who prefers to lose herself in the lives of others rather than examine her own. When her father disappears in a seaside misstep, she and her mother are left grief-stricken, unsure of how to piece back together their family that, it turns out, had never been whole. But then Orly -- a dominatrix -- moves in across the street. And through her, Echo begins to find the pieces that will allow her to carry on. Set among the bright colours and harshly glittering lights of Los Angeles, this is a love story about people addled with dreams and expectations who turn to the erotic for answers.
Author : Katrine Marcal
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1681771853
How do you get your dinner? That is the basic question of economics. When economist and philosopher Adam Smith proclaimed that all our actions were motivated by self-interest, he used the example of the baker and the butcher as he laid the foundations for 'economic man,' arguing that the baker and butcher didn't give bread and meat out of the goodness of their hearts. It's an ironic point of view coming from a bachelor who lived with his mother for most of his life—a woman who cooked his dinner every night.The economic man has dominated our understanding of modern-day capitalism, with a focus on self-interest and the exclusion of all other motivations. Such a view point disregards the unpaid work of mothering, caring, cleaning and cooking. It insists that if women are paid less, then that's because their labor is worth less.A kind of femininst Freakonomics, Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? charts the myth of economic man—from its origins at Adam Smith's dinner table, its adaptation by the Chicago School, and its disastrous role in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis—in a witty and courageous dismantling of one of the biggest myths of our time.
Author : Junot Díaz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1594632855
Presents a collection of stories that explores the heartbreak and radiance of love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
Author : Cathy Broomfield
Publisher : Lume Books
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2020-11-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781839012280
The heartbreaking story of how Cathy Broomfield lost not only her youngest daughter Kirsty at the hands of a murderer, but also Kirsty's big sister Hayley, who died of heartbreak when the agony of her sister's loss became too much to bear.