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Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Comprised of eight stories that were published in a small UK volume called Early stories, which is long out of print, and five stories that were published in periodicals during the early 1930s. These long lost stories explore the evolution of the images, themes, and concerns that informed du Maurier's later work.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Creating an app that can predict a person's future with 93% accuracy, Ro Deveraux garners the attention of tech investors when it goes viral and is thrust into a fake dating scenario with her ex-best friend, who is her projected soul mate.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Two teens appear out of nowhere, ransacking a small-town grocery and attacking the police officers who come to investigate. Their clothes are torn and filthy, their hands and bare feet callused, they have fangs. They're sister and brother, alone against the world. Where did they come from? Raised by wolves, they say. Kai and Holo are taken in by the police chief and his wife, and begin adjusting to life in a small town, attending school and going...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Japanese literary sensation Fuminori Nakamura's latest novel is as a dark look into human psyche--what turns someone into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life. A confessional diary implicates its reader in a heinous crime, and reveals with disturbing honesty the psychological motives of a killer. With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sealed inside a glass enclosure designed as a prototype for a possible off-Earth colony, eight Terranauts in the 1990s Arizona desert test their skills in five biome environments that they must protect from skeptics who would sabotage the mission.
1994. In the desert near Tillman, Arizona, forty miles from Tucson, a grand experiment involving the future of humanity is underway. As climate change threatens the earth, eight scientists, four men and...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Description
171 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Manipulators, liars, egomaniacs, bullies, interrupters, condescenders, ice queens, backstabbers, hypocrites, withholders, belligerents, self-deceivers, whiners, know-it-alls, nitpickers: these are some of the characters you'll encounter in Difficult People, a collection of stories that investigates and celebrates difficult people (and some animals). As these characters fumble through their quests for YouTube fame, stand-up glory, romantic love, stable...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Description
190 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Another woman has kissed Night, reinitializing his system to accept her as his new girlfriend. Riiko hunts down the apartment where Night is staying with his new lady, frantic to find him before he is fully "imprinted" and she loses her chance with him forever.
10) Shokubutsutachi
Author
Series
Tokuma bunko volume A-65-1
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Description
288 pages ; 15 cm
Language
日本語
Description
Eight stories comparing the mysterious behavior of human beings to the ecology of plants.
11) Bieguni
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Description
450 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language
Polish
Description
Bohaterami tej ksiazki sa nomadzi i koczownicy nieprzywiazani do wlasnych korzeni. Kobiety wozace w torebkach zapasowe szczoteczki do zebow na wypadek naglej podrozy i mezczyzni umiejacy spakowac caly swoj dobytek w 10 minut, zawsze gotowi do drogi. Proza Olgi Tokarczuk przekonuje iz poczucie ladu wszechswiata dostepne jest kazdemu, o ile tylko podrozuje.
This novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Description
251 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A collection of extraordinary riveting and thought provoking stories from Edgar and Anthony award nominee Patricia Abbott that explore the dark side of human behavior. A daughter finds a way to save a mother who no longer knows her name. A father eases his grief through an act of kindness that few will judge kindly. A savvy realtor closes her deal in an unexpected way. A society of women fares little better than their forebearers. An uxorious...
13) Buster: a dog
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
87 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Pelecanos breaks new literary ground with the story of a dog's life--from the dog's perspective--on the mean streets of Washington, DC.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Description
360 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
It looked like love. It felt like love. But this isn't a love story. Amelie fell hard for Reese. And she thought he loved her too. But she's starting to realise that real love isn't supposed to hurt like this. So now she's retracing their story, revisiting all the places he made her cry. Because if she works out what went wrong, perhaps she can finally learn how to get over him.
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