Download or read book The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri written by David Bajo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout mathematician Philip Masyrk's peripatetic life, there has been only one constant: Irma Arcuri. Their ongoing love affair has endured his two marriages and her countless travels. But now Irma has vanished, leaving Philip her library of 351 books, including five written by Irma herself. Buried somewhere within her luxuriously rebound volumes of Cervantes and Turgenev, Borges and Fowles, lies the secret to her disappearance-and Philip soon realizes that he is trapped within their narratives as well. Who is Irma Arcuri? What is really hidden in the library? And most importantly, whose story is this? Unapologetically sexy and brazenly intellectual, The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri is the impressive debut of a daring new literary talent.
Download or read book The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri written by David Bajo and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Left an extensive personal library when his long-time paramour disappears, genius mathematician Philip Mazyrk finds buried within the books puzzling clues about her disappearance, in a mystery that is further complicated by an enigmatic woman and his stepchildren's personal troubles.
Download or read book Psychiatric Services written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Panopticon written by David Bajo and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three California borderland newspaper reporters are asked to return to stories they've covered before, and they follow paths through the bars, factories, and border streets of Tijuana and Otay. Soon, they realize their every move is being surveilled.
Download or read book Book Review Index 2009 Cumulation written by Dana Ferguson and published by Book Review Index Cumulation. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool. More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.
Download or read book Mercy 6 written by David Bajo and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mercy 6, David Bajo’s courageous new medical thriller, four people collapse dead in the same instant within a newly renovated Los Angeles hospital. Dr. Mendenhall, the woman who is head of the emergency room, isn't convinced the cause of death is a contagion. But it's in the interests of the hospital administrators — and of the world at large — for people to think that it is. If the world knew the truth there could only be widespread panic. The hospital is immediately locked down. Information is suddenly being strictly controlled. Government troops encircle the hospital to enforce the quarantine, and other bodies arrive in ER. Working with an ally in pathology and a colleague outside the hospital, Mendenhall develops her understanding that what has taken these lives has global implications . . . and whatever it is, it’s not a virus.
Download or read book Kilometer 99 written by Tyler McMahon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malia needs to leave El Salvador. A surfer and aspiring engineer, she came to Central America as a Peace Corps volunteer and fell in love with Ben. Malia's past year has been perfect: her weeks spent building a much-needed aqueduct in the countryside, and her weekends spent with Ben, surfing point-breaks in the nearby port city of La Libertad. Suddenly, a major earthquake devastates the country and brings an abrupt end to her work. Ben and Malia decide to move on. Now free of obligations, they have an old car, a wad of cash, surfboards, and rough plans for an epic trip through South America. Just as they're about to say goodbye to their gritty and beloved Salvadoran beach town, a mysterious American surfer known only as Pelochucho shows up—spouting grandiose plans and persuading them to stay. Days become weeks; documents go missing; money gets tight. Suddenly, Ben and Malia can't leave. Caught between bizarre real estate offers, suspect drug deals, and internal jealousies, this unlikely band of surfers, aid-workers, and opportunists all struggle to find their way through a fallen world, in Kilometer 99 by Tyler McMahon.
Download or read book The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay written by Beverly Jensen and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published posthumously through the efforts of Beverly Jensen's many supporters, this widely acclaimed novel-in-stories offers a richly textured portrait of a bygone era. In 1916, Idella and Avis Hillock live on the edge of a chilly bluff in New Brunswick-a barren world of potato farms and lobster traps, rough men, hard work, and baffling beauty. From "Gone," the heartbreaking account of the crisis that changed their lives forever, through "Wake," a darkly comic saga of funeral plans gone awry, The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay beautifully charts the trajectory of the Hillocks' divergent lives against the background of a lost slice of Americana.
Download or read book Pobby and Dingan written by Ben Rice and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pobby and Dingan live in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, the opal capital of Australia. They are friends with Kellyanne Williamson, the daughter of a miner: indeed only she can see them. Pobby and Dingan are imaginary. Ashmol Williamson, Kellyanne's brother thinks his sister should grow up and stop being such a fruit loop - until the day when Pobby and Dingan disappear. As Kellyanne, grief-stricken, begins to fade away, Ashmol recruits the whole town in the search for Pobby and Dingan. In the end, however, he discovers that only he can find them, and he can only find them if he too begins to believe they are real.
Download or read book The Ensenada Public Library written by David Bajo and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ensenada Library is a novel that pays tribute to libraries and reading with a cast of characters worthy of Chekhov. It's about the fate of reading and the libraries that honor books and reading. A vision of the possible fate of reading in a digital age, The Ensenada Public Library is what we'd get if Fahrenheit 451 had been written by Jorge Luis Borges.
Download or read book The Harvest Man written by Alex Grecian and published by Clipper Audio. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alongside Jack the Ripper there is another brutal serial killer roaming the streets of Victorian London... Spring, 1890. The spectre of Jack the Ripper still haunts Inspector Walter Day; he alone is convinced that the Ripper remains at large. But now a new killer is terrorising the citizens of London. They call him the Harvest Man; he hides away in the attics of the unsuspecting, emerging at night to terrorise his victims. This macabre new threat requires Inspector Day to confront his demons, but he soon discovers the game has only just begun...
Download or read book No Survivors written by Tom Cain and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Texas, a dying billionaire tries to create Armageddon ... In Washington, a general takes desperate measures to force politicians to confront the threat of Islamist terrorism ... And in Russia, one drunken clerk knows where to find one hundred "missing" nuclear bombs. In Switzerland, assassin Samuel Carver lies helpless, his mind torn apart by torture until the woman he loves disappears. Plunged into a cauldron of conspiracy, he discovers the lives of millions are at stake.
Download or read book Rough Strife written by Lynne Sharon Schwartz and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThe arithmetic of marriage is never easy to understand—as time passes, the variables constantly change/divDIV Caroline is set adrift in 1950s Rome when she meets Ivan. Though things start slowly, Ivan wins her over after a strong pursuit, and the two marry, agreeing never to inflict any “irreparable wounds.” But though Ivan proves to be a fine father, he is a distant husband, and Caroline finds herself daydreaming of other men. So as the years pass, the couple finds ways to bend but not break their cardinal rule./divDIV /divDIVRough Strife, the first novel from Lynne Sharon Schwartz, was nominated for the National Book Foundation Award. In this sensational debut, Schwartz depicts a marriage that grows painfully into the modern era, despite the changes—both political and personal—that challenge it. /div
Download or read book This Is Paradise written by Kristiana Kahakauwila and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegant, brutal, and profound—this magnificent debut captures the grit and glory of modern Hawai'i with breathtaking force and accuracy. In a stunning collection that announces the arrival of an incredible talent, Kristiana Kahakauwila travels the islands of Hawai'i, making the fabled place her own. Exploring the deep tensions between local and tourist, tradition and expectation, façade and authentic self, This Is Paradise provides an unforgettable portrait of life as it’s truly being lived on Maui, Oahu, Kaua'i and the Big Island. In the gut-punch of “Wanle,” a beautiful and tough young woman wants nothing more than to follow in her father’s footsteps as a legendary cockfighter. With striking versatility, the title story employs a chorus of voices—the women of Waikiki—to tell the tale of a young tourist drawn to the darker side of the city’s nightlife. “The Old Paniolo Way” limns the difficult nature of legacy and inheritance when a patriarch tries to settle the affairs of his farm before his death. Exquisitely written and bursting with sharply observed detail, Kahakauwila’s stories remind us of the powerful desire to belong, to put down roots, and to have a place to call home.
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Download or read book One Potato written by Tyler McMahon and published by Keylight Books. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An awkward but well-intentioned food scientist is forced to walk a crooked line between nature and technology when he is dispatched to South America to investigate his company's possible role in a mysterious medical crisis involving genetically modified potatoes.
Download or read book Londonstani written by Gautam Malkani and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A talented new writer whose portrayal of the serious business of assimilation and young masculinity is disturbing and hilarious Hailed as one of the most surprising British novels in recent years, Gautam Malkani's electrifying debut reveals young South Asians struggling to distinguish themselves from their parents' generation in the vast urban sprawl that is contemporary London. Chronicling the lives of a gang of four young middle-class men-Hardjit, the violent enforcer; Ravi, the follower; Amit, who's struggling to come to terms with his mother's hypocrisy; and Jas, desperate to win the approval of the others despite lusting after Samira, a Muslim girl-Londonstani, funny, disturbing, and written in the exuberant language of its protagonists, is about tribalism, aggressive masculinity, integration, alienation, bling-bling economics, and "complicated family-related shit."
