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Staying On Past the Terminus

Author : Robert Douglas
Publisher : Headline
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755388523

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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.

Aurora Terminus

Author : S. Fanetti
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1986589110

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The end of the world came quietly, in a breathtaking display of light and color, while everyone stopped and watched, entranced. And then the lights went out, and death and chaos took over. A woman went up, high above the fray, and tried to build a life alone from what was left of the world that had been. A man stayed down, in the midst of the turmoil, and tried to find a home in the world that had become. But neither life nor home is possible until there is family, until love and trust and hope return. Until then, there is only survival.

Paradox Bound

Author : Peter Clines
Publisher : Crown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553418347

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“One cool novel. If the Tardis were a Ford Model A , this might be Doctor Who meets National Treasure.”—F. Paul Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of the Repairman Jack series “GET IN THE CAR, MR. TEAGUE. THE ROAD BECKONS.” The traveler sped through Eli Teague’s life long ago. With her tricorne hat, flintlock rifle, and steampunked Model-A Ford, she was a living anachronism, and an irresistible mystery—and she was gone as soon as she arrived, in a cloud of gunfire and a squeal of tires. So when Eli sees her again, he’s determined that this time, he’s going to get some answers. But his hunt soon yields far more than he bargained for, plunging him headlong into a dizzying world full of competing factions and figures straight out of legend. To make sense of the secret at its heart, he must embark on a breakneck chase across the country and through two centuries of history­—with nothing less than America’s past, present, and future at stake. Praise for Paradox Bound “So good you’ll want to invent time travel and send a copy back to yourself, just so you can read it again for the first time. A tour de force.”—Jason M. Hough, New York Times bestselling author of The Darwin Elevator “A timey-wimey, full-barrel adventure novel that also teaches a nonironic lesson in American civics . . . [featuring] an epithet-wielding, pistol-packing heroine that will capture hearts.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A fast and resonant time-travel thriller and tour of America, bursting with fun ideas.”—Django Wexler, author of The Shadow Campaigns novels “Lively, likeable, and wonderfully amusing.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The Fold

Author : Peter Clines
Publisher : Crown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553447477

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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.

Mount Terminus

Author : David Grand
Publisher : Picador
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250062314

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"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).

The Gone World

Author : Tom Sweterlitsch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698142763

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Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind... “I promise you have never read a story like this.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family—and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra—a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence. Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence to crack the present-day case. 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 rising over time's horizon and hurtling toward the present is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself. Luminous and unsettling, The Gone World bristles with world-shattering ideas yet remains at its heart an intensely human story.

Whose Turn for the Stairs?

Author : Robert Douglas
Publisher : Headline
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755388516

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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.

Radiant Terminus

Author : Antoine Volodine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 1940953529

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Radiant Terminus takes place in a Tarkovskian landscape after the fall of the Second Soviet Union. Most of humanity has been destroyed thanks to a number of nuclear meltdowns, but a few communes remain, including one run by Solovyei, a psychotic father with the ability to invade people's dreams - including those of his daughters - and torment them for thousands of years. When a group of damaged individuals seek safety from this nuclear winter in Solovyei's commune, a plot develops to overthrow him, end his reign of mental abuse, and restore humanity.

Carry the World

Author : Susan Fanetti
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1093743964

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Eastern Kentucky, 1937. After the death of her husband, Ada Donovan returned home to live again with her aging parents. She does all she can to help them keep the small family farm going. But times are hard, and there's never enough. During one of her infrequent visits to town, she sees a help-wanted notice for the Pack Horse Librarian Project, seeking librarians to ride up high in the mountains and bring books to the people there. Before her marriage, Ada was a teacher, and the thought of returning to the work she loved is impossible to resist. The mountains are her favorite place, books are her great joy, and her horse is her best friend.But not everyone on the mountain is happy to see her.Living in a crumbing cabin at the highest, most isolated point of Ada's route, there's a family that catches her attention. The father keeps to the shadows. There is no mother to dote on the happy, curious children. But soon Ada comes to love them just as fiercely as the woman they lost.And makes it her mission to bring them the world.

The Remaining

Author : D. J. Molles
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316404136

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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

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Abandoned buildings
ISBN : 1913620085

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"Since 2015, John Divola has been making photographic projects in an abandoned air force housing complex in Victorville, California. By intervening in the buildings' disused interiors with spray paint then photographing the modified scenes, Divola creates work that sits at an intriguing juncture of photography, sculpture, and installation. The images in Terminus gaze down derelict hallways towards dark shapes which Divola has painted at their ends. Through layers of paint, dust, and plaster, they exert an unmistakable pull on the viewer, at once suggesting the deterministic forces of fate and the rupturing possibility of escape. Arranging and juxtaposing theses images within the book as a considered object, the artist leads the viewer on a stochastic and entrancing traverse through the abandoned compounds"--Publisher.

Unbowed

Author : L.A. Boruff,Daphne Moore
Publisher : The Phantom Pen
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Unbowed by L.A. Boruff,Daphne Moore Pdf

Ceridwen Gault—witch whose life has turned upside down. Her powers now so overused she can’t access them, Ceri finds out the identity of the father of her son from a powerful ally. That's helpful, since she never knew his name or appearance. But now she has to deal with rapid-fire attacks on herself and her family while trying to maintain a façade of normalcy and retain her job. As it all comes to a decisive fight, she discovers that with the help of her almost-boyfriend, Nick, she's able to free Goblins from their enslavement without draining her powers again. Things just keep getting crazier and crazier for Ceri. She's hanging on for the ride at this point, hoping to salvage her sanity. And maybe get to know Nick a little better. **wink**

Terminus Gate

Author : Anthony James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1980353646

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After their recent victory over an incredibly powerful alien foe, Captain John Duggan and his crew are expecting some downtime while the ESS Crimson is refitted. It is not to be.In a war for survival, the Space Corps' best officer can't be permitted to languish on base with his feet up. Soon after landing on planet Atlantis, Duggan gets the call once more. This time there's to be no holding back - his superiors want him to take the fight to the enemy, rather than wait it out in Confederation Space.Given a promise that this mission will be his last, Duggan ventures into the unknown - he must fly through the Helius Blackstar and see what lies on the other side. What he finds there is worse than he could possibly have imagined and it will take every ounce of his ingenuity to return with the secrets he discovers.Terminus Gate is a high-action science fiction adventure and the fifth book in the Survival Wars series.

The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe

Author : Peter Clines,H. P. Lovecraft,Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618686336

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"Robinson Crusoe is one of the most enduring adventures of the past four centuries and one of the most well-known works in the English language. Or is it? Recently discovered amidst the papers of the 20th century writer and historian H. P. Lovecraft is what claims to be the true story of Robinson Crusoe. Taken from the castaway's own journals and memoirs, and fact-checked by Lovecraft himself, it is free from many of Defoe's edits and alterations. From Lovecraft's work a much smoother, simpler tale emerges--but also a far more disturbing one. Here Crusoe is revealed as a man bearing the terrible curse of the werewolf and the guilt that comes with it--a man with no real incentive to leave his island prison. The cannibals who terrorized Crusoe are revealed to be less human than ever before hinted at--worshippers of a malevolent octopus-headed god. And the island itself is a place of ancient, evil mysteries that threaten Crusoe's sanity--and his very soul. This version of the classic tale, assembled by two legends of English literature and abridged by Peter Clines, is the terrifying supernatural true story of Robinson Crusoe as it has never been told before."--Page 4 of cover.

Voices from the Past

Author : Solomon Bard
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789622095748

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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.