Author : Alan DeNiro
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Families
ISBN : 0553592548
When Minnesota is invaded by warriors from the ancient world, sixteen-year-old Macy and her family head down the Mississippi by boat to escape from the encroaching madness.
Author : Sasha Dawn
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab& 8482
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781606845707
Sixteen-year-old Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental institution, and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has been missing for a year.
Author : A. DeNiro
Publisher : Small Beer Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 161873072X
In these 11 stories—and the weird spaces in between—people of all kinds struggle to free themselves from conventions and constraints both personal and political. Places ranging from the farthest reaches of outer space to the creepy abandoned farmhouse in the middle of nowhere become battlegrounds for change and growth—sometimes at a massive cost. Tyranny takes many forms, some more subtle than others, and it is up to the reader to travel along with the characters, who improvise and create their own renditions of freedom. Poet and fiction writer DeNiro uses language like no other. This second collection of stories explores our relationship to art, history, and looks at how everyday events, personal and political, never cease to leave us off balance.
Author : Tom DiCillo
Publisher : N A L Trade
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 37,2 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780452275997
Author : R. Buckminster Fuller
Publisher : Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Utopia or Oblivion is a provocative blueprint for the future. This comprehensive volume is composed of essays derived from the lectures he gave all over the world during the 1960’s. Fuller’s thesis is that humanity – for the first time in its history – has the opportunity to create a world where the needs of 100% of humanity are met. “This is what man tends to call utopia. It’s a fairly small word, but inadequate to describe the extraordinary new freedom of man in a new relationship to universe — the alternative of which is oblivion.” R. Buckminster Fuller. Description by Lars Muller Publishers, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller
Author : Ana Teresa Torres
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802137265
Winner of the Pegasus Prize for International Literature, this novel tells the history of a bitter family dispute, beginning in 18th century Caracas and spanning nearly two centuries. Translated from Spanish by Gregory Rabassa.
Author : David Foster Wallace
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 2004-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 075951156X
In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown (The Soul Is Not a Smithy). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way (The Suffering Channel). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring (Oblivion). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.
Author : Julie Eshbaugh
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0062399330
In this mesmerizing YA fantasy mash-up of The Road meets The Amazing Race, one girl chooses to risk her life in a cutthroat competition in order to win her freedom. In Lanoria, Outsiders, who don’t have magic, are inferior to Enchanteds, who do. That’s just a fact for Astrid, an Outsider who is indentured to pay off her family’s debts. She serves as the surrogate for the princess—if Renya steps out of line, Astrid is the one who bears the punishment for it. But there is a way out: the life-or-death Race of Oblivion. First, racers are dosed with the drug Oblivion, which wipes their memories. Then, when they awake in the middle of nowhere, only cryptic clues—and a sheer will to live—will lead them through treacherous terrain full of opponents who wouldn’t think twice about killing each other to get ahead. But what throws Astrid the most is what she never expected to encounter in this race. A familiar face she can’t place. Secret powers she shouldn’t have. And a confusing memory of the past that, if real, could mean the undoing of the entire social structure that has kept her a slave her entire life. Competing could mean death…but it could also mean freedom.
Author : Mabry J. R.
Publisher :
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 2018-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781947826731
Here, collected in one voume, is the entire Oblivion Saga, including the short story prequel, "Operation Catskill" and all four blockbuster novels, Oblivion Threshold, Oblivion Flight, Oblivion Quest and Oblivion Gambit. In an adventure encompassing hostile alien aggressors, and spanning two universes, this bold story follows two starship captains--Jeff Bowers and Jo Taylor. Once lovers, they are now estranged by grief, time, and death. Yet fate continues to throw them together, and somehow they must find a way to work together for the sake of not just one universe, but two. The Oblivion Saga is the first full-length collaboration between J.R. Mabry and B.J. West, frequent creative collaborators since their years together in high school. If you love Star Trek and Starship Troopers, you simply cannot pass up this adventure.
Author : Hugh F. Cochrane
Publisher : London : W.H. Allen
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN :
