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The Drowned Cities

Paolo Bacigalupi
The Drowned Cities Book PDF

Author : Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316202619

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The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi Pdf

Soldier boys emerged from the darkness. Guns gleamed dully. Bullet bandoliers and scars draped their bare chests. Ugly brands scored their faces. She knew why these soldier boys had come. She knew what they sought, and she knew, too, that if they found it, her best friend would surely die. In a dark future America where violence, terror, and grief touch everyone, young refugees Mahlia and Mouse have managed to leave behind the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities by escaping into the jungle outskirts. But when they discover a wounded half-man--a bioengineered war beast named Tool--who is being hunted by a vengeful band of soldiers, their fragile existence quickly collapses. One is taken prisoner by merciless soldier boys, and the other is faced with an impossible decision: Risk everything to save a friend, or flee to a place where freedom might finally be possible. This thrilling companion to Paolo Bacigalupi's highly acclaimed Ship Breaker is a haunting and powerful story of loyalty, survival, and heart-pounding adventure.

Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist)

Paolo Bacigalupi
Ship Breaker National Book Award Finalist Book PDF

Author : Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316081689

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Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist) by Paolo Bacigalupi Pdf

Set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change, this thrilling bestseller and National BookFinalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties. In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life.... In this powerful novel, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a fast-paced adventure set in the vivid and raw, uncertain future of his companion novels The Drowned Cities and Tool of War. "Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with The Hunger Games...but Bacigalupi is one of the genre's masters, employing inventively terrifying details in equally imaginative story lines." —Los Angeles Times A New York Times Bestseller A Michael L. Printz Award Winner A National Book Award Finalist A VOYA 2010 Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers Book A Rolling Stone 40 Best YA Novels Book Don’t miss the other books in the series: The Drowned Cities Tool of War

Tool of War

Paolo Bacigalupi
Tool of War Book PDF

Author : Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316220828

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Tool of War by Paolo Bacigalupi Pdf

Set in a dark future devastated by climate change, Tool of War is the third book in a major adventure series by a bestselling and award-winning science fiction author and starring the most provocative character from the acclaimed novels Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities. In this gripping, eerily prescient sci-fi thriller that Kirkus described as "masterful," Tool--a half-man/half-beast designed for combat--proves himself capable of so much more than his creators had ever dreamed. He has gone rogue from his pack of bioengineered "augments" and emerged a victorious leader of a pack of human soldier boys. But he is hunted relentlessly by someone determined to destroy him, who knows an alarming secret: Tool has found the way to resist his genetically ingrained impulses of submission and loyalty toward his masters... The time is coming when Tool will embark on an all-out war against those who have enslaved him. From one of science fiction's undisputed masters comes a riveting and all-too-timely page-turner that explores the intricate relationships connecting hunter and prey, master and enslaved, human and monster. "Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with 'The Hunger Games'...but Bacigalupi is one of the genre's masters, employing inventively terrifying details in equally imaginative story lines." --Los Angeles Times

Drowned City

Don Brown
Drowned City Book PDF

Author : Don Brown
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780544157774

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Drowned City by Don Brown Pdf

Marking the10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, this companion to The Great American Dust Bowl combines lively drawings and authoritative memoir in graphic novel form to recount one of the most destructive and devastating natural disasters in our American history.

The Drowned World

J. G. Ballard
The Drowned World Book PDF

Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0871403625

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The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard Pdf

This fast-paced narrative by the author of 'Crash' and 'Empire of the Sun' is a stunning evocation of a flooded, tropical London of the near future and a foray into the workings of the unconscious mind.

The Water Knife

Paolo Bacigalupi
The Water Knife Book PDF

Author : Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804171533

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The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A "fresh, genre-bending thriller” (Los Angeles Times) set in the near future when water is scarce and a spy, a hardened journalist and a young Texas migrant find themselves pawns in a corrupt game. "Think Chinatown meets Mad Max." NPR, All Things Considered In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel Velasquez “cuts” water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that its lush arcology developments can bloom in Las Vegas. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in Phoenix, Angel is sent south, hunting for answers that seem to evaporate as the heat index soars and the landscape becomes more and more oppressive. There, he encounters Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist with her own agenda, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas migrant, who dreams of escaping north. As bodies begin to pile up, the three find themselves pawns in a game far bigger and more corrupt than they could have imagined, and when water is more valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and the only truth in the desert is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink.

The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi
The Windup Girl Book PDF

Author : Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher : Night Shade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1597808210

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The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi Pdf

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, the break-out science fiction debut featuring additional stories and a Q&A with the author. Anderson Lake is AgriGen’s Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thailand while combing Bangkok’s street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history’s lost calories. Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. Emiko is not human; she is an engineered being, grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in this chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. What happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits and forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly-acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century. In this brand-new edition celebrating the book’s reception into the canon of celebrated modern science fiction, accompanying the text are two novelettes exploring the dystopian world of The Windup Girl, the Theodore Sturgeon Award-winning “The Calorie Man” and “Yellow Card Man.” Also included is an exclusive Q&A with the author describing his writing process, the political climate into which his debut novel was published, and the future of science fiction. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

The Doubt Factory

Paolo Bacigalupi
The Doubt Factory Book PDF

Author : Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316220743

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The Doubt Factory by Paolo Bacigalupi Pdf

In this page-turning contemporary thriller, National Book Award Finalist, Printz Award winner, and New York Times bestselling author Paolo Bacigalupi explores the timely issue of how public information is distorted for monetary gain, and how those who exploit it must be stopped. Everything Alix knows about her life is a lie. At least that's what a mysterious young man who's stalking her keeps saying. But then she begins investigating the disturbing claims he makes against her father. Could her dad really be at the helm of a firm that distorts the truth and covers up wrongdoing by hugely profitable corporations that have allowed innocent victims to die? Is it possible that her father is the bad guy, and that the undeniably alluring criminal who calls himself Moses--and his radical band of teen activists--is right? Alix has to make a choice, and time is running out, but can she truly risk everything and blow the whistle on the man who loves her and raised her?

Imaginary Cities

Darran Anderson
Imaginary Cities Book PDF

Author : Darran Anderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226470306

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How can we understand the infinite variety of cities? Darran Anderson seems to exhaust all possibilities in this work of creative nonfiction. Drawing inspiration from Marco Polo and Italo Calvino, Anderson shows that we have much to learn about ourselves by looking not only at the cities we have built, but also at the cities we have imagined. Anderson draws on literature (Gustav Meyrink, Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hasek, and James Joyce), but he also looks at architectural writings and works by the likes of Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius, Medieval travel memoirs from the Middle East, mid-twentieth-century comic books, Star Trek, mythical lands such as Cockaigne, and the works of Claude Debussy. Anderson sees the visionary architecture dreamed up by architects, artists, philosophers, writers, and citizens as wedded to the egalitarian sense that cities are for everyone. He proves that we must not be locked into the structures that exclude ordinary citizens--that cities evolve and that we can have input. As he says: "If a city can be imagined into being, it can be re-imagined as well.”

Half World

Hiromi Goto
Half World Book PDF

Author : Hiromi Goto
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780143180296

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Half World by Hiromi Goto Pdf

Melanie Tamaki is an outsider. The only child of a loving but neglectful mother is just barely coping with school and with life. But everything changes on the day she returns home to find her mother is missing, lured back to Half World by the vindictive Mr. Glueskin. Soon Melanie begins an epic and darkly fantastical journey to save her parents. What she does not yet realize is that the future of the universe depends upon her success.

The Storm (Dogs of the Drowned City #1)

Dayna Lorentz
The Storm Dogs of the Drowned City 1 Book PDF

Author : Dayna Lorentz
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545388818

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The Storm (Dogs of the Drowned City #1) by Dayna Lorentz Pdf

Warriors and Guardians of Ga'Hoole fans have a new animal adventure to sink their teeth into!A terrible storm -- and the beginning of a thrilling new animal adventure trilogy!When a hurricane forces his family to evacuate without him, Shep the German sheperd is confused. Where is his boy? Will he ever return? And what will Shep do in the meantime, now that the extra bowls of food -- not to mention all those tasty things he found in the big cold box -- are gone? Then another dog shows up at Shep's window and convinces him to escape. There's food outside, and a whole empty city to explore. Shep just wants to go home ... but the adventure of a lifetime is just beginning.

The Storm

Dayna Lorentz
The Storm Book PDF

Author : Dayna Lorentz
Publisher : Scholastic Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0545276438

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The Storm by Dayna Lorentz Pdf

Shep the German shepherd is confused when his family leaves him behind when a hurricane forces them to evacuate, but after his food runs out another dog convinces him to explore the city which is full of adventure and danger.

Down in New Orleans

Billy Sothern
Down in New Orleans Book PDF

Author : Billy Sothern
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520251496

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Down in New Orleans by Billy Sothern Pdf

Sothern, a death penalty lawyer who with his wife, photographer Nikki Page, arrived in New Orleans four years ahead of Katrina, delivers a haunting, personal, and quintessentially American story.

Elysium Girls

Kate Pentecost
Elysium Girls Book PDF

Author : Kate Pentecost
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781368044356

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Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost Pdf

A lush, dazzlingly original young adult fantasy about an epic clash of witches, gods, and demons. Elysium, Oklahoma, is a town like any other. Respectable. God-fearing. Praying for an end to the Dust Bowl. Until the day the people of Elysium are chosen by two sisters: Life and Death. And the Sisters like to gamble against each other with things like time, and space, and human lives. Elysium is to become the gameboard in a ruthless competition between the goddesses. The Dust Soldiers will return in ten years' time, and if the people of Elysium have not proved themselves worthy, all will be slain. Nearly ten years later, seventeen-year-old Sal Wilkinson is called upon to lead Elysium as it prepares for the end of the game. But then an outsider named Asa arrives at Elysium's gates with nothing more than a sharp smile and a bag of magic tricks, and they trigger a terrible accident that gets both Sal and Asa exiled into the brutal Desert of Dust and Steel. There Sal and Asa stumble upon a gang of girls headed by another exile: a young witch everyone in Elysium believes to be dead. As the apocalypse looms, they must do more than simply tip the scales in Elysium's favor—only by reinventing the rules can they beat Life and Death at their own game in this exciting fantasy debut.

The Tangled Lands

Paolo Bacigalupi,Tobias S. Buckell
The Tangled Lands Book PDF

Author : Paolo Bacigalupi,Tobias S. Buckell
Publisher : Gallery / Saga Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481497305

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The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi,Tobias S. Buckell Pdf

From award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias Buckell comes a fantasy novel told in four parts about a land crippled by the use of magic, and a tyrant who is trying to rebuild an empire—unless the people find a way to resist. Khaim, The Blue City, is the last remaining city in a crumbled empire that overly relied upon magic until it became toxic. It is run by a tyrant known as The Jolly Mayor and his devious right hand, the last archmage in the world. Together they try to collect all the magic for themselves so they can control the citizens of the city. But when their decadence reaches new heights and begins to destroy the environment, the people stage an uprising to stop them. In four interrelated parts, The Tangled Lands is an evocative and epic story of resistance and heroic sacrifice in the twisted remains surrounding the last great city of Khaim. Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias Buckell have created a fantasy for our times about a decadent and rotting empire facing environmental collapse from within—and yet hope emerges from unlikely places with women warriors and alchemical solutions.