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Staying On Past The Terminus
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Author : Robert Douglas
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-09-15
Staying On Past The Terminus written by Robert Douglas and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-15 with Fiction categories.
Glasgow 1961. It is ten years since we last visited the close at 18 Dalbeattie Street in Maryhill. The stalwarts are still there...Ella, Drena, Rhea and 'Granny' Thomson (86). Irma the German war bride speaks fluent Scots nowadays. Well, 'Fluent' if you were brought up in the same close as the Broons and Oor Wullie. Glasgow's beloved trams still run on the Maryhill Road. But not for long. There will not be a tramcar left in Glasgow by the end of next year. The new tenant, Frank Galloway knows all about this - he's a driver. The other new arrival is Ruby Baxter who impresses no one with her attitude - as Granny Thomson says 'She's no better than she ought to be, that yin!' Robert Douglas brings his usual blend of laughter and tears to this latest novel and his many fans will not be disappointed.
Whose Turn For The Stairs
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Author : Robert Douglas
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-12-08
Whose Turn For The Stairs written by Robert Douglas and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-08 with Fiction categories.
This is an utterly charming story about twelve families and their tightly knit street in 1950s Maryhill. Following the end of the war, the close rebuilds its ties and the strong sense of community and friendly neighbourhood bonds are soon back in place. There is young love for Rhea and Robert; a surprising new start for James; a change of direction for George; and all overseen by the matriarch of the street - Granny Thomson. And of course, all buoyed up by a big helping of Scottish humour and strength of spirit. Yet it is all not perfect in their world: the families have to deal with poverty, religious bigotry, racism, heartbreak, lies, violence and death. But the powerful friendships cannot ultimately be broken. In Robert Douglas's first novel, he recreates a time and place particular to Glasgow but to which everyone will relate.
Mount Terminus
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Author : David Grand
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2015-02-24
Mount Terminus written by David Grand and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-24 with Fiction categories.
"Endlessly inventive . . . Mount Terminus reads at times like a more carefully modulated version of Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch. Or you might think of it as Marisha Pessl's Night Film on lithium."—Ron Charles, The Washington Post After his mother's death, young Bloom boards a train with his bereaved father, Jacob, to Mount Terminus, their new home at the desolate end of the world. In a villa built atop a rare desert spring, they live apart from society, supported by the income from Jacob's invention: the Rosenbloom Loop, a piece of technology that has revolutionized the nascent art of filmmaking. There, Bloom grows up in the shadow of his father's grief. But Jacob can't protect his family from the drama of his past forever, and Bloom, who has budded into an eccentric genius, can't live alone at the top of a mountain. Prodded by his newly discovered half-brother, a man of startling ambitions, Bloom must come down and meet the world. A triumph of imagination, Mount Terminus by David Grand is a dark, majestic novel about art, family, overwhelming love, and the birth of Los Angeles: "a spellbinding, atmospheric epic from a writer at the top of his game" (Wesley Stace).
Voices From The Past
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Author : Solomon Bard
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Voices From The Past written by Solomon Bard and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with History categories.
Through excerpts from the earliest English language newspapers in Hong Kong, accompanied by Solomon Bard's insightful comments, Voices From the Past provides unique glimpses into Hong Kong's history. Illustrated with interesting photographs, chiefly from the Hong Kong Museum of History's photographic library, the pages bring Hong Kong's colonial past vividly to life. The newspaper excerpts, in chronological order, are faithful to the original text, reproducing its quaint prose and spelling and even occasional errors. Focusing mainly on Hong Kong, the excerpts also touch on Macao, mainland China and the rest of the world. They reflect the changes over the years in language, style of writing, even in humour. Of special interest are the public responses to the many inventions which today we take for granted, such as electric lighting, the motor car, or the first attempts at flying. Most importantly, they reveal the gradual changes in Hong Kong's colonial attitudes as these slowly adjust to the new contemporary values and social and political changes.
Terminal World
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Author : Alastair Reynolds
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-03-15
Terminal World written by Alastair Reynolds and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-15 with Fiction categories.
Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. Clinging to its skin are the zones, a series of semi-autonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different - and rigidly enforced - level of technology. Horsetown is pre-industrial; in Neon Heights they have television and electric trains ... Following an infiltration mission that went tragically wrong, Quillon has been living incognito, working as a pathologist in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, Quillon's world is wrenched apart one more time, for the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint's Celestial Levels - and with the dying body comes bad news. If Quillon is to save his life, he must leave his home and journey into the cold and hostile lands beyond Spearpoint's base, starting an exile that will take him further than he could ever imagine. But there is far more at stake than just Quillon's own survival, for the limiting technologies of the zones are determined not by governments or police, but by the very nature of reality - and reality itself is showing worrying signs of instability ...
The Fold
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Author : Peter Clines
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2015-06-02
The Fold written by Peter Clines and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-02 with Fiction categories.
A page-turning science-fiction thriller from the author of Paradox Bound and the Ex-Heroes series. Step into the fold. It's perfectly safe. The folks in Mike Erikson's small New England town would say he's just your average, everyday guy. And that's exactly how Mike likes it. Sure, the life he's chosen isn’t much of a challenge to someone with his unique gifts, but he’s content with his quiet and peaceful existence. That is, until an old friend presents him with an irresistible mystery, one that Mike is uniquely qualified to solve: far out in the California desert, a team of DARPA scientists has invented a device they affectionately call the Albuquerque Door. Using a cryptic computer equation and magnetic fields to “fold” dimensions, it shrinks distances so that a traveler can travel hundreds of feet with a single step. The invention promises to make mankind’s dreams of teleportation a reality. And, the scientists insist, traveling through the Door is completely safe. Yet evidence is mounting that this miraculous machine isn’t quite what it seems—and that its creators are harboring a dangerous secret. As his investigations draw him deeper into the puzzle, Mike begins to fear there’s only one answer that makes sense. And if he’s right, it may only be a matter of time before the project destroys…everything. A cunningly inventive mystery featuring a hero worthy of Sherlock Holmes and a terrifying final twist you’ll never see coming, The Fold is that rarest of things: a genuinely page-turning science-fiction thriller.
The Gone World
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Author : Tom Sweterlitsch
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-02-06
The Gone World written by Tom Sweterlitsch and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Fiction categories.
The Silence of the Lambs meets Interstellar. The terrifying, thrilling and ingenious science-fiction thriller from Tom Sweterlitsch. Film rights bought by Twentieth Century Fox with Neil Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) to direct. 'Thrilling . . . [a] dark, page-turning thriller' The Guardian A murdered family. A missing girl. Time is running out... 1997. Shannon Moss of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family - and to locate the soldier's missing teenage daughter. When Moss discovers that the SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra - a ship assumed lost to the darkest currents of Deep Time - she comes to believe that the SEAL's experience with the future is somehow related to this violence. Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection to her own past, Moss must travel forward in time to seek evidence that will uncover the truth. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work; for what she witnesses is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself. 'Edge-of-your-seat crime fiction that bends both time and mind. Think True Detective meets 12 Monkeys. Throw in the end of the world and you can begin to imagine where this gut-twisting tale will take you. This is cross-genre fiction at its best' Sylvain Neuvel, author of Sleeping Giants
U S Geological Survey Professional Paper
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
U S Geological Survey Professional Paper written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Geology categories.
The Remaining
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Author : D. J. Molles
language : en
Publisher: Orbit
Release Date : 2014-01-07
The Remaining written by D. J. Molles and has been published by Orbit this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-07 with Fiction categories.
The first volume in D.J. Molles's bestselling series, now in a special edition with the bonus novella The Remaining: Faith. In a steel-and-lead encased bunker a Special Forces soldier waits on his final orders. On the surface a bacterium has turned 90% of the population into hyper-aggressive predators. Now Captain Lee Harden must leave the bunker and venture into the wasteland to rekindle a shattered America.
Terminus
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Author : Stuart Rollo
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2023-10-31
Terminus written by Stuart Rollo and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-31 with History categories.
"A new interpretation of how American foreign and strategic policy has, from the time of the Revolution, been shaped by economic and political concerns about China"--