The Infinite Library and Other Stories
Title | The Infinite Library and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Fernando R. Ocampo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2021-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780999451458 |
A commanding force for Southeast Asian speculative fiction, THE INFINITE LIBRARY AND OTHER STORIES reimagines the pasts, presents, and futures of Filipinos and the world around them. This first North American edition features a never-before-anthologized story. "Fantastic and lyrical, like glimpses into the infinite potential of the universe."-Ken Liu, author of THE PAPER MENAGERIE AND OTHER STORIES Shortlisted for the 2018 International Rubery Book Award. Making his North American debut, Victor Fernando R. Ocampo in The Infinite Library and Other Stories shows why Southeast Asian speculative fiction is a force to be reckoned with. From a mysteriously timeless interior of a map shop to a space elevator thousands of miles away from the metropole, these 18 stories masterfully straddle manifold layers of Filipino history, identity, and mythology, reconstructing the past and conjuring new futures for the nation and region at large. Ocampo's transnational consciousness brilliantly navigates class, colonialism, and gender in formal experimentations of winning ingenuity. Threaded by the motif of libraries and books, this deliciously enigmatic and labyrinthine collection showcases the infinite power of imagination to mend and make anew.
The Infinite Library
Title | The Infinite Library PDF eBook |
Author | Kane X. Faucher |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Ciphers |
ISBN | 9780984603787 |
This is book I in a triology. The other titles : The infinite atrocity and The infinite grey.
Public Library and Other Stories
Title | Public Library and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Ali Smith |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 2016-10-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101973056 |
From the acclaimed, award-winning author: Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we’ve read over our lives—our own personal libraries—make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith’s new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make. Woven between the stories are conversations with writers and readers reflecting on the essential role that libraries have played in their lives. At a time when public libraries around the world face threats of cuts and closures, this collection stands as a work of literary activism—and as a wonderful read from one of our finest authors.
The Infinite Library and Other Stories
Title | The Infinite Library and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Fernando R. Ocampo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789811138515 |
How They Met and Other Stories
Title | How They Met and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | David Levithan |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2008-01-08 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0375849424 |
Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of Boy Meets Boy eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.
The Library Book
Title | The Library Book PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Orlean |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1476740194 |
Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. “Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book” (The Washington Post). On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a “delightful…reflection on the past, present, and future of libraries in America” (New York magazine) that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. In the “exquisitely written, consistently entertaining” (The New York Times) The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries; brings each department of the library to vivid life; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago. “A book lover’s dream…an ambitiously researched, elegantly written book that serves as a portal into a place of history, drama, culture, and stories” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country.
The Midnight Library
Title | The Midnight Library PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Haig |
Publisher | Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated |
Pages | |
Release | 2021-01-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781432883614 |
"Good morning America book club"--Jacket.