Heechee Rendezvous
Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Science fiction
ISBN :
Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Science fiction
ISBN :
Author : Kobo Abe
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141993219
'A gorgeously entertaining, provocative book' Chicago Tribune It is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man's wife away - although no-one has called it, and there is nothing wrong with her. As he sets out to find her, he finds himself in the corridors of a vast underground hospital, where he encounters sinister medics, freakish sexual experiments and the unmistakable feeling of being watched. Even when he is suddenly appointed as the hospital's chief of security, reporting to a man who thinks he is a horse, he will not give up his search. Secret Rendezvous is a nightmarish satire of bureaucracy, medicine and modern life. 'Reads as if it were the collaborative effort of Hieronymus Bosch, Franz Kafka and Mel Brooks' Chicago Sun Times
Author : Arthur Charles Clarke
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553287893
During the twenty-second century, a space probe's investigation of a mysterious, cylindrical asteroid brings man into contact with an extra-galactic civilization
Author : Steve Ewing
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Perhaps the most famous aviator of World War II, Butch O'Hare captured America's hearts and headlines in 1942 after saving the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation - the downing of five attacking Japanese bombers. Yet the untimely and still controversial death of this Medal of Honor recipient the next year cast a shadow over O'Hare's legacy. This first full biography, written with the O'Hare family's cooperation and utilizing recently released Japanese war records, chronicles the short but eventful life of the American hero and sheds new light on his mysterious death. Seasoned naval aviation historians, the authors describe in fascinating detail O'Hare's awe-inspiring feats of aerial combat and his key role in developing tactics such as the Thach Weave and the night-fighting techniques that helped defeat the Japanese.
Author : Christian Briend
Publisher : Art Book Magazine Distribution
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 2019-09-16T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Art
ISBN : 2821601336
Featuring a broad selection of paintings, sculptures and photographs coming mainly from the Centre Pompidou collections, Louvre Abu Dhabi’s exhibition catalogue “Rendezvous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co.” focuses on this highly distinctive period in French art when young painters, sculptors and photographers flocked to early-20th-century Paris from all over the world to make a decisive contribution to the city’s art scene. Most notably from Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia and even Japan, these formally inventive artists – Constantin Brancusi, Marc Chagall, Kees van Dongen, Tsuguharu Foujita, Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso among them – who would later become known as the “School of Paris”, rivalled the greatest French artists of the time.
Author : Wim Pauwels
Publisher : Beta-Plus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 2018-03
Category : Artists
ISBN : 9782875500373
Rendez-Vous presents sojourns into the living and working spaces of celebrated artists and creatives.
Author : Justine L?evy
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A young woman in a Paris cafe awaits her mother, all the while dismissing men trying to pick her up. She is Louise, and in a monologue she describes her life and her relationship with her mother, a glamorous woman about whom men also swarm like bees.
Author : Thuan Le Elston
Publisher : Rand-Smith Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 2021-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781950544295
Inspired by the tales of four grandmothers - Thuan Le Elston's and her husband's - Rendezvous at the Altar: From Vietnam to Virginia traces Anne's Southern upbringing to her Mad Men-like married life; Kim's family as they survive French colonialism and the Vietnam War; Mary's transformations through the Great Depression and two marriages; and Ty's migration from Hanoi businesswoman to Arizona matriarch. Through a mother's journal to her children and the four grandmothers' narrations that bridge punk band names to the Temple of Literature, Elston compares gender roles, parenting, aging, and dying in a multicultural family.
Author : Rickey Bray
Publisher : Robert Reed Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781934759257
While vacationing in the mountains, Eric meets an unusual girl, Susan, who has sparkling, emerald eyes that are unusually captivating. They are a unique, singular shade of green and seem to be imbued with an ancient fire that even a spoiled, youthfully unperceptive Eric could easily feel. He senses a strange maturity about this mysterious girl and is drawn to her like a magnet.When I said we would never be married, I meant in your way, Susan said. Will you marry me in my way? Right now?Even though numerous questions clamored in his head, Eric easily replied, Of course.Eric's answer was far too easy in Susan's opinion. As she mused over his quick reply, she speculated on how to best explain their strange situation in terms that he could understand, an impossibility to do beforehand. He would have to commit himself, then learn the truth. It was unfair to the extreme, yet unavoidable under these very peculiar circumstances, and thus Eric is drawn into a mysterious world.
Author : Eric Frederick Goldman
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 2001
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781566633697
A story of the wise and the shortsighted, the bold and the timid, the generous and the grasping men and women who have been the stuff of American reform.