Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Title | Enormous Changes at the Last Minute PDF eBook |
Author | Grace Paley |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2014-10-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466883987 |
In Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley "makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant" (Angela Carter, London Review of Books). Her stories here capture "the itch of the city, love between parents and children" and "the cutting edge of combat" (Lis Harris, The New York Times Book Review). In this collection of seventeen stories, she creates a "solid and vital fictional world, cross-referenced and dense with life" (Walter Clemons, Newsweek).
The Big Sea
Title | The Big Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Langston Hughes |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2022-08-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sea" by Langston Hughes. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Kangaroo
Title | Kangaroo PDF eBook |
Author | D. H. Lawrence |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 556 |
Release | 2002-04-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780521007115 |
A critical edition of Kangaroo, D. H. Lawrence's eighth novel, set in Australia.
Use of Weapons
Title | Use of Weapons PDF eBook |
Author | Iain M. Banks |
Publisher | Orbit |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2008-12-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316068799 |
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past. Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, Use of Weapons is a masterpiece of science fiction. The Culture Series Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata
Murder at the Margin
Title | Murder at the Margin PDF eBook |
Author | Marshall Jevons |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2024-05-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0691259348 |
Professor and amateur sleuth Henry Spearman uses economics to try to solve a murder while on a Caribbean vacation Cinnamon Bay seems like the ideal Caribbean getaway. But for Harvard economist and amateur detective Henry Spearman it offers an unexpected and decidedly different diversion: murder. With the police at a loss, Spearman investigates on his own, following a rather different set of laws—those of economics. Theorizing and hypothesizing, Spearman sets himself on the killer’s trail as it winds from the perfect beaches and manicured lawns of a resort to the bustling old port of Charlotte Amalie to the perilous hiking trails of a dense forest. Can Spearman crack the case using economics—and before it’s too late?
McMafia
Title | McMafia PDF eBook |
Author | Misha Glenny |
Publisher | House of Anansi |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2009-01-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0887848184 |
Drugs, weapons, migrant labour, women — these are just a few of the many goods that effortlessly cross national borders in this globalized age, often without the knowledge or permission of the nations concerned. How is this remarkable criminal feat managed?From gun runners in the Ukraine, to money launderers in Dubai, cyber criminals in Brazil, racketeers in Japan, and the booming marijuana industry in western Canada, McMafia builds a breathtaking picture of a secret and bloody business.Internationally celebrated writer Misha Glenny crafts a fascinating, highly readable, and impressively well-researched account of the emergence of organized crime as a globalized phenomenon and shows how its secret and bloody business mirrors both the methods and the rewards of the legitimate world economy. Employing his journalistic talent and his prior experience covering organized crime in Eastern Europe, Glenny reports on his travels around the planet to investigate this worrying and worsening situation. After comprehensively surveying the criminal scene, Glenny ends by considering the future of organized crime. McMafia is an important book that assembles all the pieces of this worldwide puzzle for the first time.
Pretty Little Mistakes
Title | Pretty Little Mistakes PDF eBook |
Author | Heather McElhatton |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 783 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0061857025 |
There are hundreds of lives sown inside Pretty Little Mistakes, Heather McElhatton's singularly spectacular, breathtakingly unique novel that has more than 150 possible endings. You may end up in an opulent mansion or homeless down by the river; happily married with your own corporation or alone and pecked to death by ducks in London; a Zen master in Japan or morbidly obese in a trailer park. Is it destiny or decision that controls our fate? You can't change your past and start over from scratch in real life—but in Pretty Little Mistakes, you can! But be warned, choose wisely.