Download or read book Please Swipe Again written by Megan Mann and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her boyfriend breaks up with her, outgoing college student Ava Sinclair begins to realize life is creeping up on her. Deciding to run away from her problems instead of facing them, she flees to a friend's place in New York City where she meets Kiernan, a boy she realizes is just as lost and confused as she is. Told through both of their conflicting personalities, can they figure out how to bridge the gap between adolescence and adulthood and figure out who they really are?

Download or read book Shovel Ready written by Adam Sternbergh and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The futuristic hardboiled noir that Lauren Beukes calls “sharp as a paper-cut” about a garbage man turned kill-for-hire. Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, and before the city became a blown-out shell of its former self. Now he’s a hitman. In a near-future New York City split between those who are wealthy enough to “tap in” to a sophisticated virtual reality, and those who are left to fend for themselves in the ravaged streets, Spademan chose the streets. When his latest client hires him to kill the daughter of a powerful evangelist, he must navigate between these two worlds—the wasteland reality and the slick fantasy—to finish his job, clear his conscience, and make sure he’s not the one who winds up in the ground.

Download or read book Dark Reflections written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of a homosexual African-American poet. Beautifully written in reverse chronological order, the story offers moving meditations on loneliness and sexual repression.

Download or read book The Absolute Beginner s Guide to the New York Subway written by Minh T. Nguyen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most convenient way to travel in New York City is by subway, but many first-time tourists, and even locals find the complexity of the system intimidating and confusing. Whether you are a first-time visitor or have struggled to use the subway in the past, this guide is for you! This book makes absolutely no assumptions about what you know about taking public transportation in New York. Illustrated with more than 70 pictures and figures, this detailed guide breaks down everything you need to know about using the subway. Filled with detailed information and many pictures, this guide will alleviate your fear and confusion about taking the subway and allow you to navigate it confidently and effectively. What this guide includes: - A step-by-step guide on how to use the subway - Dealing with weekend and weeknight service changes - 70+ pictures and figures allowing you to visually understand the system - Tips, tricks, and subway etiquette - Getting from New York's three major airports into Manhattan

Download or read book Tiny Crimes written by Lincoln Michel and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty very short stories that reimagine the genre of crime writing from some of today’s most imaginative and thrilling writers “An intriguing take on crime/noir writing, this collection of 40 very short stories by leading and emerging literary voices—Amelia Gray, Brian Evenson, Elizabeth Hand, Carmen Maria Machado, Benjamin Percy, Laura van den Berg and more—investigates crimes both real and imagined. Despite their diminutive size, these tales promise to pack a punch.” —Chicago Tribune, 1 of 25 Hot Books for Summer Tiny Crimes gathers leading and emerging literary voices to tell tales of villainy and intrigue in only a few hundred words. From the most hard–boiled of noirs to the coziest of mysteries, with diminutive double crosses, miniature murders, and crimes both real and imagined, Tiny Crimes rounds up all the usual suspects, and some unusual suspects, too. With illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook and flash fiction by Carmen Maria Machado, Benjamin Percy, Amelia Gray, Adam Sternbergh, Yuri Herrera, Julia Elliott, Elizabeth Hand, Brian Evenson, Charles Yu, Laura van den Berg, and more, Tiny Crimes scours the underbelly of modern life to expose the criminal, the illegal, and the depraved.

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Download or read book Falling man written by Don DeLillo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history. Brave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.

Download or read book Chinese Under Globalization Emerging Trends In Language Use In China written by Jin Liu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As China experiences tremendous economic and social transformation in the reform years, language use in China has also undergone remarkable changes in the past couple decades: the national obsession with learning the global English, which becomes both a resource for modernization and a source of contention; the expanding use of local languages and dialects in mass media, where standard Mandarin is promoted and legally prescribed as the principal language; the emergence of the Internet language that has become a creative source for constructing a distinct youth identity; the Cantonese writing movement that challenges the hegemony of the Chinese writing system, which is traditionally based on northern Mandarin, to name a few. The nine papers collected in this volume examine recent trends in language use in mainland China, and the associated social, economic, political, and cultural manifestations. Drawing on their backgrounds and expertise in sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, linguistic anthropology, and cultural studies, the authors offer interdisciplinary, insightful, and critical analysis of linguistic struggles and linguistic politics in contemporary China.As such, the carefully presented details of emerging language use in this book will be of value to scholars interested in language and culture in contemporary China. It may be used as a supplementary text for students in Chinese (socio-)linguistics, Chinese language, Chinese cultural studies, Chinese anthropology, Chinese sociology, and Chinese studies in general.

Download or read book Strigoi written by C. R. and published by gnOme books. This book was released on 2024-07-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The madness of the intersection, the madness latent in Actually Existing Persons, the madness in the vibration of everyday existence in the land outside the amusement park=island, still atop the bones of the (glorious) dead but walking with the feet of the living and not the living dead, the madness to face the madness of tomorrow and today . . .

Download or read book Different Is Nice written by Randi Toler Sachs and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roxanne always believed the world was divided into two groups, the beautiful people and the others. She was definitely an other. Nevertheless, life has been good. She has a loving husband, three great, healthy, and attractive children, and a career in her chosen profession. But what would it be like to join the beautiful side? Fate steps in and gives her an answer. Will she like being the new Roxanne?

Download or read book JR T 0001 2009 Translated English of Chinese Standard JRT 0001 2009 JR T0001 2009 JRT0001 2009 written by https://www.chinesestandard.net and published by https://www.chinesestandard.net. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Standard specifies the requirements for hardware, software and safety, application functions, transaction interface, transaction processing process, message format and voucher elements of POS terminal of specially engaged merchant.

Download or read book The Future of Love written by Shirley Abbott and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[An] impressive first novel . . . Abbott's nuanced take on New York after the fall is spot-on, reminding us that love is about survival as well as loss." —People Set in New York in 2001, Abbott's debut novel invites us into the lives of good people grappling with the hard choices and the sacrifices they must make to find love. In the manner of a contemporary Edith Wharton, Shirley Abbott exposes the inner lives and the tangled relationships of eight characters—before and after New York's tragedy—and forces both them and the reader to see the world in a new way. Having assembled a smart, compelling ensemble, reminiscent of HBO's Six Feet Under, Abbott allows us to see the possibility of happiness even as the city itself is tested. With humor and profound empathy, she has crafted a novel that runs deep into the heart of our need for commitment from friends, lovers, and family.

Download or read book Through the Grinder written by Cleo Coyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-10-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business is booming at Clare Cosi's Village Blend, until her female customers start to die. Lieutenant Quinn is convinced that someone has an axe to grind, and, unfortunately, his prime suspect is the new man in Clare's life. Now Clare will risk her heart--and her life--to follow the killer's trail to the bitter end.

Download or read book Where Do I Start written by Chase Taylor Hackett and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ex best thing . . . Fletcher Andrews never believed in promises. Or monogamy. Or love. When you’re tall and gorgeous, New York City is one big all-you-can-eat buffet of hot young actors, models, and baristas. Even when living happily with Roger, his sweet, sexy violinist boyfriend, Fletch can’t resist an occasional taste. Too bad you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s thrown you out for cheating with half the cast of Disney on Ice. Two years and a chance meeting later, Fletch desperately wants Roger back. Roger’s new boyfriend, Jeff, will do anything to stop that from happening. But Fletch has a plan to make amends. And with a little help from friends, colleagues—even Roger’s Scottish terrier, Haggis—they might find that the love you don’t believe in can sweep you right off your feet . . .

Download or read book Derek Rosenfeld s Travel Companion Vol 1 written by Derek T. Rosenfeld and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-06-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek Rosenfeld's Travel Companion, Vol. 1 is a world where alternative consciousness is an option, though it is recommended. Do inquire that there is more to your journey than that which you seek, for any limitations could turn into regret. Taking it at face value could also lead to foolishness, and may cause the subject to appear dependent upon outside forces. You do not want such a reflection, or perhaps you do. Regardless, you are on a unique voyage, perhaps never realizing how unique, and should have all eyes and all ears and all heads open and aware of the endless number paths that are just asking to be traversed. Do not hesitate, do not ponder, but if you do, please do it in a timely fashion, and make sure it is done in a constructive matter. Just remember, go, because we all share the same end. And blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah…but what the hell do I know? I’m just a blob in a tie surrounded by five-foot walls, and it’s about time for me to go to lunch. And yes, I will have fries with that.

Download or read book Eye of the Majestic Creature Vol 1 written by Leslie Stein and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dry humor and psychedelia are grounded in realistic emotion in this quirky and surprising graphic novel debut following the adventures of a young woman named Larrybear and her best friend, a talking acoustic guitar named Marshmallow.

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