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Author: John E. Stith Publisher: Reanimus, LLC ISBN: 9780967298429 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 334
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Aliens kidnap Manhattan; read all about it. Manhattan is taken away and placed under a huge clear dome, through which the trapped residents can see dozens of similarly trapped alien cities.First published in 1993. Very much in the same spirit and scope as the 1996 film, Independence Day. Echoed in a small way by the 1996 Star Trek: Voyager episode "Displaced." Science Fiction Book Club selection. Reached the preliminary Nebula Award ballot. On the Science Fiction Chronicle best of year list. Rockies Award winner. HOMer Award nominee. Hugo Award Honorable Mention. Seiun Award nominee (Japan). La Tour Eiffel nominee (France).Reviews"Some ideas are just too good to pass up... the pleasure is in the nonstop action and the problem the characters must solve." -- New York Review of Science Fiction."Considerable ingenuity...Think of it as a visually spectacular movie...and a really outstanding, imaginative, and professional production staff and special effects crew working to bring off the big set--pieces and guarantee the thrills."--Locus"How can you possibly resist'... Superscience SF in the classic vein, fast--moving, heroic...loaded with sensawunda. You'll love it."--AnalogManhattan Transfer was first published by Tor Books in 1993. Copyright 1993 by John E. Stith. All rights reserved. Amazon Kindle edition published 2008.Manhattan Transfer was first published by Tor Books in 1993. Copyright � 1993 by John E. Stith. All rights reserved. This edition published 2016 by ReAnimus Press.Chapter 1: "Going Up" was published in Amazing Stories May 1993.
Author: John E. Stith Publisher: Reanimus, LLC ISBN: 9780967298429 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 334
Book Description
Aliens kidnap Manhattan; read all about it. Manhattan is taken away and placed under a huge clear dome, through which the trapped residents can see dozens of similarly trapped alien cities.First published in 1993. Very much in the same spirit and scope as the 1996 film, Independence Day. Echoed in a small way by the 1996 Star Trek: Voyager episode "Displaced." Science Fiction Book Club selection. Reached the preliminary Nebula Award ballot. On the Science Fiction Chronicle best of year list. Rockies Award winner. HOMer Award nominee. Hugo Award Honorable Mention. Seiun Award nominee (Japan). La Tour Eiffel nominee (France).Reviews"Some ideas are just too good to pass up... the pleasure is in the nonstop action and the problem the characters must solve." -- New York Review of Science Fiction."Considerable ingenuity...Think of it as a visually spectacular movie...and a really outstanding, imaginative, and professional production staff and special effects crew working to bring off the big set--pieces and guarantee the thrills."--Locus"How can you possibly resist'... Superscience SF in the classic vein, fast--moving, heroic...loaded with sensawunda. You'll love it."--AnalogManhattan Transfer was first published by Tor Books in 1993. Copyright 1993 by John E. Stith. All rights reserved. Amazon Kindle edition published 2008.Manhattan Transfer was first published by Tor Books in 1993. Copyright � 1993 by John E. Stith. All rights reserved. This edition published 2016 by ReAnimus Press.Chapter 1: "Going Up" was published in Amazing Stories May 1993.
Author: Julie Walters Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN: 0297860348 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 253
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Oscar-nominated star of Educating Rita and Billy Elliot's darkly funny debut novel. Cissie is a stand-up comedienne and national darling. Helena is the toast of Broadway. Maggie is an extremely beautiful but troubled actress - and she's cracking up fast, in fact she's 'out of her tree'. When Cissie takes Maggie to see Helena in New York, it leads to trouble straight away: Maggie disappears into the freezing February night, no one knows where. As the search for their friend continues, alarming divisions occur in the lifelong friendships of Cissie, Helena and her stoic husband Luke. And then Cissie disappears too. So, two of the closest of friends are lost separately somewhere in snowbound Manhattan.
Author: James McGrath Morris Publisher: Da Capo Press ISBN: 0306823845 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 389
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After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a "lost generation" shaken by war. Eager to find his way in life and words, John Dos Passos first witnessed the horror of trench warfare in France as a volunteer ambulance driver retrieving the dead and seriously wounded from the front line. Later in the war, he briefly met another young writer, Ernest Hemingway, who was just arriving for his service in the ambulance corps. When the war was over, both men knew they had to write about it; they had to give voice to what they felt about war and life. Their friendship and collaboration developed through the peace of the 1920s and 1930s, as Hemingway's novels soared to success while Dos Passos penned the greatest antiwar novel of his generation, Three Soldiers. In war, Hemingway found adventure, women, and a cause. Dos Passos saw only oppression and futility. Their different visions eventually turned their private friendship into a bitter public fight, fueled by money, jealousy, and lust. Rich in evocative detail -- from Paris cafes to the Austrian Alps, from the streets of Pamplona to the waters of Key West -- The Ambulance Drivers is a biography of a turbulent friendship between two of the century's greatest writers, and an illustration of how war both inspires and destroys, unites and divides.
Author: John Dos Passos Publisher: Ediciones Cátedra ISBN: 8437639050 Category : Fiction Languages : es Pages : 544
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"Manhattan Transfer" lleva el nombre del cartel que colgaba en una estación de transbordo de pasajeros, que daba servicio a la línea de Pennsylvania y a los ferrocarriles del Hudson y Manhattan. Al igual que los pasajeros que utilizaban aquel apeadero no tenían otra salida o ruta posible más que dirigirse a Manhattan o salir de Manhattan, los personajes de la novela se ven abocados a permanecer en la gran ciudad. En términos literarios convencionales, "Manhattan Transfer" podría considerarse una novela histórica panorámica. Sin embargo, es mucho más que eso: Dos Passos logró plasmar la complejísima multiplicidad de la metrópolis incorporando elementos no narrativos de la prensa y la cultura popular y desplegando varias líneas argumentales diferentes, algunas de ellas interconectadas a través de los personajes y otras completamente aisladas en fragmentos discontinuos.
Author: Craig Taylor Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393242331 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 432
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Winner of the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize A symphony of contemporary New York through the magnificent words of its people—from the best-selling author of Londoners. In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice, and pandemic. New Yorkers weaves the voices of some of the city’s best talkers into an indelible portrait of New York in our time—and a powerful hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people. Best-selling author Craig Taylor has been hailed as “a peerless journalist and a beautiful craftsman” (David Rakoff), acclaimed for the way he “fuses the mundane truth of conversation with the higher truth of art” (Michel Faber). In the wake of his celebrated book Londoners, Taylor moved to New York and spent years meeting regularly with hundreds of New Yorkers as diverse as the city itself. New Yorkers features 75 of the most remarkable of them, their fascinating true tales arranged in thematic sections that follow Taylor’s growing engagement with the city. Here are the uncelebrated people who propel New York each day—bodega cashier, hospital nurse, elevator repairman, emergency dispatcher. Here are those who wire the lights at the top of the Empire State Building, clean the windows of Rockefeller Center, and keep the subway running. Here are people whose experiences reflect the city’s fractured realities: the mother of a Latino teenager jailed at Rikers, a BLM activist in the wake of police shootings. And here are those who capture the ineffable feeling of New York, such as a balloon handler in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade or a security guard at the Statue of Liberty. Vibrant and bursting with life, New Yorkers explores the nonstop hustle to make it; the pressures on new immigrants, people of color, and the poor; the constant battle between loving the city and wanting to leave it; and the question of who gets to be considered a "New Yorker." It captures the strength of an irrepressible city that—no matter what it goes through—dares call itself the greatest in the world.
Author: N. Kneissler Publisher: Delius Klasing Verlag Gmbh ISBN: 9783667113900 Category : Volkswagen Beetle automobile Languages : en Pages : 0
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- A tribute to the Volkswagen Beetle, the most-loved car in the world - Glorious photographs throughout Beetle Love endures. It's global and conquers every generation. And this love is classless. Never mind if used as a taxi on a daily basis, as a company car owned by a craft brewery in Ecuador, as a show piece in Great Britain or as a family heirloom in Indonesia: Beetle Love introduces them all. Convertibles and limousines, from red to rusty, from purple to polished. And it's always the story that their owners lost their hearts to the Beetle. And rightly so! Hardly any other car arouses more emotions around the world. All covered in this book, more than 20 stories, 208 pages, a wonderful and unique picture and story book. Text in English and German.
Author: Deborah Leah Steinberg Publisher: ISBN: 9780998300603 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 308
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This story began before I was born, when my father, Ellis P. Steinberg, and uncle Bernard Abraham worked on the secret undertaking that developed the first atomic bombs. The result is this book-part memoir, part discussions with siblings and cousins, and part interviews with a dozen others who had a parent who worked on the Project.