Floating City

Floating City
Title Floating City PDF eBook
Author Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Publisher Penguin Press HC
Pages 287
Release 2013
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781594204166

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The best-selling author of Gang Leader for a Day takes his next sociological study to Manhattan, where he travels through the underground economy utilized by prostitutes, madams, drug dealers, immigrants, hedge fund traders, hipster artists and nannies.

The Floating City

The Floating City
Title The Floating City PDF eBook
Author Craig Cormick
Publisher Watkins Media Limited
Pages 389
Release 2015-07-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0857664255

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In a land riven with plague, inside the infamous Walled City, two families vie for control: the Medicis with their genius inventor Leonardo; the Lorraines with Galileo, the most brilliant alchemist of his generation. And when two star-crossed lovers, one from either house, threaten the status quo, a third, shadowy power – one that forever seems a step ahead of all of the familial warring – plots and schemes, and bides its time, ready for the moment to attack... Assassination; ancient, impossible machines; torture and infamy – just another typical day in paradise. File Under: Fantasy

Floating City

Floating City
Title Floating City PDF eBook
Author Anne Pierson Wiese
Publisher LSU Press
Pages 74
Release 2007-03-01
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0807132357

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Anne Pierson Wiese's first collection of poems illuminates the everyday and the lessons to be learned amid life's routines. The poems in Floating City might be called poetry of place. Many are set in New York City, but they simultaneously inhabit a realm in which a mundane physical location or daily exchange can be seen to have human significance beyond the immediate. When one dismisses from one's mind the idea that going to the park, doing the laundry, buying a sandwich, and riding the subway are familiar experiences, one makes room for the actual to ally with the hypothetical by means of the emotions. The result, Wiese eloquently shows, is a form of truth that is silently generated whenever human beings earnestly endeavor to absorb the world.

Death in the Floating City

Death in the Floating City
Title Death in the Floating City PDF eBook
Author Tasha Alexander
Publisher Minotaur Books
Pages 282
Release 2012-10-16
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1250011035

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The Huffington Post calls Tears of Pearl author Tasha Alexander "one to watch—and read" and her new Lady Emily mystery set in Venice proves it! Years ago, Emily's childhood nemesis, Emma Callum, scandalized polite society when she eloped to Venice with an Italian count. But now her father-in-law lies murdered, and her husband has vanished. There's no one Emma can turn to for help but Emily, who leaves at once with her husband, the dashing Colin Hargreaves, for Venice. There, her investigations take her from opulent palazzi to slums, libraries, and bordellos. Emily soon realizes that to solve the present day crime, she must first unravel a centuries old puzzle. But the past does not give up its secrets easily, especially when these revelations might threaten the interests of some very powerful people.

Venice

Venice
Title Venice PDF eBook
Author Joanne Marie Ferraro
Publisher
Pages
Release 2016
Genre
ISBN 9781139539661

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Floating City

Floating City
Title Floating City PDF eBook
Author Kerri Sakamoto
Publisher Vintage Canada
Pages 274
Release 2019-08-20
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0345809904

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From the prize-winning author of The Electrical Field comes Citizen Kane reimagined: a novel about ambition and the relentless desire to belong. Shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards. Frankie Hanesaka isn't afraid of a little hard work. An industrious boy, if haunted by the mysterious figures of his mother's past in Japan, he grows up in a floating house in the harbour of Port Alberni, BC. With all the Japanese bachelors passing through town to work in the logging camps and lumber mills, maybe he could build a hotel on the water, too. Make a few dollars. But then the war comes, and Frankie finds himself in a mountai n internment camp, his small dreams of success dashed by the great tides of history. After the war, Frankie tries his luck in Toronto, where possibility awaits in the form of a patron who teaches him how to turn effort into money, and a starry-eyed architect who teaches Frankie something harder to come by: the ability to dream big. Buckminster Fuller's role as Frankie's outsized spiritual mentor is one of just many real-life touchstones and extraordinary points of colour in this fairytale-like story about family, ambition and the costs of turning our backs on history and home.

Trouble in the Floating City

Trouble in the Floating City
Title Trouble in the Floating City PDF eBook
Author Michael Ciccarelli-Walsh
Publisher Zoboros Series
Pages 0
Release 2020-12-19
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780578811376

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Kano spent his entire life keeping his powers a secret, but when a terrorist holds his city hostage, he must risk everything to protect it. As he soon discovers, though, the powers which he kept hidden for so long may be the very thing that this terrorist is searching for...