Download or read book Date Night on Union Station written by E. M. Foner and published by Foner Books. This book was released on 2014-05-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alien artificial intelligence has brought humanity onto a galactic tunnel network Finding a match for the top human diplomat on Union Station is another story... Kelly Frank is EarthCent's top diplomat on Union Station, but her job description has always been a bit vague. The pay is horrible and she's in hock up to her ears for her furniture, which is likely to end up in a corridor because she's behind on rent for her room. Sometimes she has to wonder if the career she has put ahead of her personal life for fifteen years is worth it. When Kelly receives a gift subscription to the dating service that's rumored to be powered by the same benevolent artificial intelligence that runs the huge station, she decides to swallow her pride and give it a shot. But as her dates go from bad to worse, she can only hope that the supposedly omniscient AI is planning a happy ending.
Download or read book Review Night on Union Station written by E. M. Foner and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start series with the first book, Date Night on Union Station.Kelly has served as the ambassador on Union Station for over two decades, but humanity remains on probationary status. When the Stryx inform EarthCent that their membership status is under review, Kelly goes all out to prepare for the test of her lifetime.
Download or read book Book Night on Union Station written by E. M. Foner and published by Foner Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can't hold a book fair without physical books. The Stryx offer EarthCent help in reaching out to the wide-spread human communities, but as usual, it comes with a catch or two. Kelly see an opportunity to increase her book hoard, just as publishing on Union Station begins to take off and Donna's daughters enter a friendly competition. But who will publish the most expensive book of all?
Download or read book Review Night on Union Station written by E. M. Foner and published by Foner Books. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is humanity ready to take off the training wheels, and will the ancient alien A. I. approve? Kelly has served as the ambassador on Union Station for over two decades, but humanity remains on probationary status. When the Stryx inform EarthCent that their membership status is under review, Kelly goes all out to prepare for the test of her lifetime.
Download or read book Spy Night on Union Station written by E. M. Foner and published by Foner Books. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity needs a galactic intelligence agency, but where to start? The story picks up less than a year after the events of High Priest on Union Station, with Kelly coming to the conclusion that EarthCent needs an intelligence service. Of course, EarthCent has no institutional knowledge of what spies do, or how they work, so the new agency gets off to a slow start. Then Kelly and the Union Station crew come up with a brilliant idea.
Download or read book LARP Night on Union Station written by E. M. Foner and published by Foner Books. This book was released on 2018-03-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest interspecies business is entertainment, and role playing is making a comeback. While Kelly struggles to come up with a research project to apply for sabbatical, the role-playing craze reaches Union Station, and the Open University offers a for-credit LARP. Dorothy finally finishes her wedding dress with a technical flourish, and Jeeves plots to recoup his costs.
Download or read book Family Night on Union Station written by E. M. Foner and published by Foner Books. This book was released on 2017-05-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family is a serious matter to the tunnel network species, and they aren't fooling around. A new species has jumped into the Sol system for a quick look, leading the Stryx to assign humans to the greeting mission. Dorothy and Kevin leave on a trading mission in his new ship, bringing the dog, and Samuel and Vivian start at the Open University.
Download or read book Guest Night on Union Station written by E. M. Foner and published by Foner Books. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running a galactic empire isn't easy, and one of the best emperors is calling it quits. On the other side of the galaxy, the Cayl Empire has decided to wind down operations and the Stryx are planning to pick up the pieces. Kelly is tapped to host an open house event on Union Station to tempt the aliens into joining up, but does anybody other than the Stryx actually want the merger to take place?
Download or read book Party Night on Union Station written by E. M. Foner and published by Foner Books. This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can humanity remain an independent species or are we ripe for a takeover? Kelly heads to Earth for the first ever Conference of EarthCent Ambassadors in Manhattan, but while the cat's away, the mice will play. The cat has its own problems, as some of the people remaining on Earth don't believe in aliens, unless they're the blue type that appear in romance novels.
Download or read book Grand Union written by Zadie Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal! A dazzling collection of short fiction Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. Interleaving eleven completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from The New Yorker and elsewhere, Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us. Nothing is off limits, and everything—when captured by Smith’s brilliant gaze—feels fresh and relevant. Perfectly paced and utterly original, Grand Union highlights the wonders Zadie Smith can do.
Download or read book History Night on Union Station written by E. M. Foner and published by Foner Books. This book was released on 2022-07-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is magic just technology we haven't figured out, or is there something more? Emigration from Earth has tapered off, leading to a shortage of cheap human labor on the tunnel network, Daniel attempts to organize a job fair for members of the Conference of Sovereign Human Communities, but the aliens and everybody else on Union Station want in on the action. Kelly decides that it's time EarthCent begins documenting the history of the diplomatic service and begins her own search for a historian, while the employees of SBJ Fashions try to deal with rapid expansion by outsourcing and hiring new employees, but can Baa find a human with enough magical talent be her apprentice?
Download or read book The Night Stages written by Jane Urquhart and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set mainly in a remote westerly tip of Ireland in the 1940s and '50s, this stunning new novel from one of Canada's bestselling authors is at once intimate and epic in scope. Tam, an Englishwoman, has been living in this harshly beautiful region since shortly after World War II, in which she served as an auxiliary pilot. She is now leaving her lover, Niall, who, like his father before him, is a meteorologist. On her way to New York, the airliner she is traveling on becomes grounded by heavy fog at Gander Airport in Newfoundland. As she waits for the fog to clear, she notices an enigmatic mural that moves her to revisit not only the circumstances that brought her to Ireland but her intense relationship with Niall and his growing despondency over the disappearance of his younger brother, Kieran. We learn of Kieran's troubled childhood and of the tragedy that caused him as a boy to be separated from his family and taken in by a widowed countrywoman who lives in the mountains. There he comes to know the local people, among them a tailor, a fisherman-teacher, and a sheep farmer who is an astonishing philosopher. There is also the jeweler's daughter, a young woman who will come to change the course of several lives. Running parallel is the story of the painter Kenneth Lochhead and his creation of the mural at Gander that is Tam's only companion through three long days and nights. An elegiac novel of unusual emotional depth, The Night Stages explores the meaning of separation, the sorrows of fractured families, and the profound effect of Ireland's wild and elemental landscape on lives shaped by its beauty. It is Jane Urquhart's richest, most rewarding novel to date.
Download or read book Alien Night on Union Station written by E. M. Foner and published by Foner Books. This book was released on 2014-07-13 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alien diplomats are finally willing to talk to the ambassador. They must want something. Five years after the events of Date Night on Union Station, Kelly has settled into married life and her job as the EarthCent ambassador. The only fly in the ointment is that most of the aliens on Union Station refuse to talk to her. But a mysterious new game is sweeping the galaxy, changing the balance of power between species and bringing game-savvy humans front-and-center. As the invitations to diplomatic functions pour in, Kelly finds herself struggling to understand exactly what's going on, not to mention finding babysitters on short notice. Fortunately, diplomats and alcohol go together like, well, diplomats and alcohol, and Joe has started micro-brewery business in Mac's Bones. The only thing left that could go wrong is a visit from her mother.
Download or read book Tokyo Ueno Station National Book Award Winner written by Yu Miri and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo. Kazu's life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Through Kazu's eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.
Download or read book Career Night on Union Station written by E. M. Foner and published by Foner Books. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget about the post-employment future. Everybody works, nobody quits. Kelly returns from sabbatical and finally has the opportunity to expand her embassy with a conference room, providing she can find a contractor willing to take the job. Dorothy finds that her impending motherhood is an advice-magnet to her alien friends, while the SBJ Fashions workplace gets strange as Baa enchants fashion accessories for LARPing to repay her debt to Jeeves. Samuel and Vivian discover that their educational choices don't necessarily match with their aptitudes and abilities.
Download or read book Soup Night on Union Station written by E. M. Foner and published by Foner Books. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can humanity play a role in making stone soup? EarthCent bids to take over editorship of the All Species Cookbook, an exercise in galactic togetherness that has somehow gone off mission over the last couple million years. Samuel and Vivian struggle to find a balance between their co-op jobs for aliens and their personal lives. Dorothy seeks to revive the fortunes of her ballroom dancing fashions.
Download or read book Word Night on Union Station written by E. M. Foner and published by Foner Books. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alien ambassadors are learning English, EarthCent worries about humans going native. Over half of Earth's population has left the planet, mainly as contract workers for aliens, and the homeworld is losing relevance to the emigrants. The EarthCent president takes on the task of making sure that humanity isn't permanently stuck in a rut as low-skilled labor. Can the ambassador put aside her new-found obsession with the Galactic Free Press crossword puzzle and help save the day?
