Download or read book Love in a Fallen City written by Eileen Chang and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterful short works about passion, family, and human relationships by one of the greatest writers of 20th century China. A New York Review Books Original “[A] giant of modern Chinese literature” –The New York Times "With language as sharp as a knife edge, Eileen Chang cut open a huge divide in Chinese culture, between the classical patriarchy and our troubled modernity. She was one of the very few able truly to connect that divide, just as her heroines often disappeared inside it. She is the fallen angel of Chinese literature, and now, with these excellent new translations, English readers can discover why she is so revered by Chinese readers everywhere." –Ang Lee Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang’s achievement is her short fiction—tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when Chang was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unsettled, probing, utterly contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity, with an intense lyricism that echoes the classics of Chinese literature. Love in a Fallen City, the first collection in English of this dazzling body of work, introduces American readers to the stark and glamorous vision of a modern master.
Download or read book The Fallen City written by JR Konkol and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Konkol has a gift for vivid descriptive language, drawing the reader quickly and readily into the heart of the story... it adds to the book's dramatic tension and emotional force." –IndieReader Still reeling from Plaguebringer's assault, the city of Derregain struggles to survive a supernaturally harsh winter. Without access to their farms or fishing fleets, the city turns to the vast mushroom fields lying beneath its sewers, but those fields are defended. While the heroes embark on dangerous missions beneath the streets, the city above teeters on the edge of civil war. Impoverished gangs rise up, challenging the rich and powerful, slaughtering soldiers in the streets, but the revolution isn't limited to humanity. Unable to deny the truth any longer, the Demon Queen orders the execution of Lamenica, the traitorous succubus who oversaw all demonic activities in Derregain during Plaguebringer's rise. She offers Raelyn the chance to assume the mantle of leadership, but only if Raelyn can find a way to destroy her rival.
Download or read book Beneath the Fallen City written by Jamie A. Waters and published by Hidden Realms Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some secrets are better left buried... **Winner of the Readers’ Favorite Award for Fantasy & Science Fiction Romance** **Winner of the Colorado Independent Publisher’s Association’s EVVY Award for Science Fiction** **Global Ebook Awards Honorable Mention for Science Fiction** Kayla is a scavenger, driven to search the ruins of abandoned cities for artifacts in exchange for critical life-saving supplies. But, the rarest artifacts are found in the most dangerous ruins—those under control by the OmniLab traders. Carl is one of those traders—and Kayla’s invaded his district. He’s determined to stop her and the best way to do that is to recruit her. The only problem? Kayla hates traders. When a powerful man intent on revenge starts hunting her, Kayla realizes the only way to save herself may be to accept Carl’s offer. But that would mean surrendering to OmniLab and giving up everything she knows. Only everything isn’t quite what it seems. Including OmniLab. And Kayla’s in a lot of trouble. Beneath the Fallen City is an exciting post-apocalyptic fantasy series with romantic elements and shocking twists. Join Kayla as she unearths the secrets of the past and discovers a hidden world no one thought was possible. This series features a love-triangle with two very different, swoon-worthy men who represent different aspects of this futuristic world. Perfect for fans of the Hunger Games, Divergent, or The Mortal Instruments--or anyone who likes a little spice when the world goes to hell. Enjoy! The Omni Towers reading order: Beneath the Fallen City, #1 Shadow of the Coalition, #2 Tremors of the Past, #3 Drop of Hope, #4 Flames of Redemption, #5 Spirit of the Towers, #6
Download or read book The Fallen City The Demon War Chronicles 4 written by Nina D'Aleo and published by Nina D'Aleo. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They call her The Blackbird… Victory becomes despair as the Trackers return home to Scorpia City and face an unimaginable loss. Rifts threaten to destroy the team when doubts about themselves and each other twist their bonds to breaking point. Truths emerge and the past returns to haunt them. At the same time, in a place both familiar and strange, a sole survivor becomes a legend haunted by a horrifying past; and a notorious gangster hides a deadly double-life and an unrequited love - or so he believes. As Scorpia City descends into madness, the Trackers must do the unthinkable. They must cross into a forbidden place and pit themselves against an unrelenting evil to save a person with extraordinary strength. They call her the Blackbird and she holds the key to Scorpia’s survival. The Fallen City is the fourth book in The Demon War Chronicles. The first three books, The Last City, The Forgotten City and The King’s City are available now.
Download or read book The Fallen written by David Baldacci and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star FBI detective Amos Decker and his colleague Alex Jamison must solve four increasingly bizarre murders in a dying rust belt town--and the closer they come to the truth, the deadlier it gets in this rapid-fire #1 New York Times bestseller. Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks. Cryptic clues left at the scenes--obscure bible verses, odd symbols--have the police stumped. Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are in Baronville visiting Alex's sister and her family. It's a bleak place: a former mill and mining town with a crumbling economy and rampant opioid addiction. Decker has only been there a few hours when he stumbles on a horrific double murder scene. Then the next killing hits sickeningly close to home. And with the lives of people he cares about suddenly hanging in the balance, Decker begins to realize that the recent string of deaths may be only one small piece of a much larger scheme--with consequences that will reach far beyond Baronville. Decker, with his singular talents, may be the only one who can crack this bizarre case. Only this time--when one mistake could cost him everything--Decker finds that his previously infallible memory may not be so trustworthy after all...
Download or read book House of Earth and Blood written by Sarah J. Maas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #1 New York Times bestseller! Sarah J. Maas's brand-new CRESCENT CITY series begins with House of Earth and Blood: the story of half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a contemporary fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing romance. Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all night-until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She'll do whatever it takes to avenge their deaths. Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose-to assassinate his boss's enemies, no questions asked. But with a demon wreaking havoc in the city, he's offered an irresistible deal: help Bryce find the murderer, and his freedom will be within reach. As Bryce and Hunt dig deep into Crescent City's underbelly, they discover a dark power that threatens everything and everyone they hold dear, and they find, in each other, a blazing passion-one that could set them both free, if they'd only let it. With unforgettable characters, sizzling romance, and page-turning suspense, this richly inventive new fantasy series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas delves into the heartache of loss, the price of freedom-and the power of love.
Download or read book City of Angels written by Jacob Docherty and published by White Wolf Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fate of the Fallen written by Kel Kade and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fate of the Fallen is the start of a brand new adventure from New York Times bestselling author Kel Kade Not all stories have happy endings. Everyone loves Mathias. Naturally, when he discovers it’s his destiny to save the world, he dives in head first, pulling his best friend Aaslo along for the ride. However, saving the world isn’t as easy, or exciting, as it sounds in the stories. The going gets rough and folks start to believe their best chance for survival is to surrender to the forces of evil, which isn’t how the prophecy goes. At all. As the list of allies grows thin, and the friends find themselves staring death in the face they must decide how to become the heroes they were destined to be or, failing that, how to survive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Fallen City The Fallen City Series Book 1 written by Sam Winter and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago Has Fallen. Without warning, Chicago has gone dark. It has been thirty days since electricity has flowed in the city. Those who survived have been in hiding for thirty days. ...but now they are hungry. The last words Elliot's parents told him were to hide in the attic. Then he heard the two gunshots blasts from downstairs. Now this sixteen year old boy is in the middle of downtown Chicago without food or water. He hides from warring gangs that fill the streets with dead bodies as they collect every scrap of food. But something in the night has the gangs terrified. The Lord's Chosen leave burnt and mutilated bodies in their wake, and they are hunting Elliot. Defenseless, Elliot dives into an abandoned house for refuge and he stumbles into Kat, a fierce woman with a baseball bat. Alone, the few good hearted people left alive are hunted like animals. Evil threatens to shroud the city in permanent darkness if the few good souls don't shine their light. Divided they will fall, but together, even good men and women stand a chance if their courage can hold.
Download or read book The Fallen written by Carlos Manuel Álvarez and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant and meticulously constructed debut novel about familial and cultural breakdown A powerful, unsettling portrait of family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s first novel is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. Diego, the son, is disillusioned and bitter about the limited freedoms his country offers him as he endures compulsory military service. Mariana, the mother, is unwell, prone to mysterious seizures, and forced to relinquish control over the household to her daughter, Maria, who has left school and is working as a chambermaid in a state-owned tourist hotel. The father, Armando, is a committed revolutionary, a die-hard Fidelista who is sickened by the corruption he perceives all around him. As each member of the family narrates seemingly quotidian and overlapping events, they grow increasingly at odds for reasons that remain elusive to them—each of them holding and concealing their own secrets. In meticulously charting the disintegration of a single family, The Fallen offers a poignant reflection on contemporary Cuba and the clash of the ardent idealism of the old guard with the jaded pragmatism of the young. This is a startling and incisive debut by a radiant new voice in Latin American literature.
Download or read book The City of Falling Angels written by John Berendt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #1 New York Times Bestseller! "Funny, insightful, illuminating . . ." —The Boston Globe Twelve years ago, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil exploded into a monumental success, residing a record-breaking four years on the New York Times bestseller list (longer than any work of fiction or nonfiction had before) and turning John Berendt into a household name. The City of Falling Angels is Berendt's first book since Midnight, and it immediately reminds one what all the fuss was about. Turning to the magic, mystery, and decadence of Venice, Berendt gradually reveals the truth behind a sensational fire that in 1996 destroyed the historic Fenice opera house. Encountering a rich cast of characters, Berendt tells a tale full of atmosphere and surprise as the stories build, one after the other, ultimately coming together to portray a world as finely drawn as a still-life painting.
Download or read book Harmless Like You A Novel written by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s debut is a beautifully textured novel, befitting the story of an artist.” —Washington Post Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Harmless Like You is set across New York, Connecticut, and Berlin. At its heart is Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and her struggle with her decision to leave her two-year-old son, Jay. As an adult, Jay sets out to find his mother and confront her abandonment.
Download or read book Bad City written by Paul Pringle and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pringle’s fast-paced book is a master class in investigative journalism... when institutions collude to protect one another, reporting may be our last best hope for accountability." —The New York Times For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal radiating across Los Angeles from one of the region's most powerful institutions, a riveting tale from a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who investigated the shocking events and helped bring justice in the face of formidable odds. On a cool, overcast afternoon in April 2016, a salacious tip arrived at the L.A. Times that reporter Paul Pringle thought should have taken, at most, a few weeks to check out: a drug overdose at a fancy hotel involving one of the University of Southern California’s shiniest stars—Dr. Carmen Puliafito, the head of the prestigious medical school. Pringle, who’d long done battle with USC and its almost impenetrable culture of silence, knew reporting the story wouldn’t be a walk in the park. USC is one of the biggest employers in L.A., and it casts a long shadow. But what he couldn’t have foreseen was that this tip would lead to the unveiling of not one major scandal at USC but two, wrapped in a web of crimes and cover-ups. The rot rooted out by Pringle and his colleagues at The Times would creep closer to home than they could have imagined—spilling into their own newsroom. Packed with details never before disclosed, Pringle goes behind the scenes to reveal how he and his fellow reporters triumphed over the city’s debased institutions, in a narrative that reads like L.A. noir. This is L.A. at its darkest and investigative journalism at its brightest.
Download or read book The Fallen written by Paul Langan and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Luna struggles to rebuild his life after the death of his little brother and finds himself getting in trouble in school and at home.
Download or read book Sky in the Deep written by Adrienne Young and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A 2018 Most Anticipated Young Adult book from debut author Adrienne Young, Sky in the Deep is part Wonder Woman, part Vikings—and all heart. OND ELDR. BREATHE FIRE. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield—her brother, fighting with the enemy—the brother she watched die five years ago. Faced with her brother's betrayal, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan thought to be a legend, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved family. She is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother’s friend, who sees her as a threat. They must do the impossible: unite the clans to fight together, or risk being slaughtered one by one. Driven by a love for her clan and her growing love for Fiske, Eelyn must confront her own definition of loyalty and family while daring to put her faith in the people she’s spent her life hating. “THIS IS A GRIPPING STORY, RICHLY TOLD.” —Renée Ahdieh, New York Times bestselling author of Flame in the Mist "FIERCE, VIVID, AND VIOLENTLY BEAUTIFUL.” —Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval “A STUNNING DEBUT” —Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Star-Touched Queen “BLEAK BEAUTIFUL AND DEADLY” —Traci Chee, New York Times bestselling author of The Reader “WHOLLY UNIQUE AND INSTANTLY ADDICTIVE” —Kerri Maniscalco, New York Times bestselling author of Hunting Prince Dracula “HEARTRENDING, HEART-MENDING” —Kayla Olson, bestselling author of Sandcastle Empire
Download or read book The Fall of Cities in the Mediterranean written by Mary R. Bachvarova and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores some of the most prominent literary responses to the collective trauma of a fallen city.
Download or read book The Fallen written by Ace Atkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins comes a rollicking crime novel of brazen thieves, good ole boy politicians, truck stop women—and one decent man crazy enough to fight them all... The bank robbers wreaking havoc across the South are carrying out their heists with such skill and precision that they remind Tibbehah County Sheriff Quinn Colson of the raids he once led as an Army Ranger. In fact, their techniques are so like the ones in the Ranger Handbook that he can’t help wondering if the outlaws are former Rangers themselves. And that’s definitely going to be a problem. If Colson stands any chance of catching them, he’s going to need the help of old allies, new enemies, and a lot of luck. The enemies, he has plenty of. It’s the allies and the luck that are in woefully short supply...
