The Exile Kiss

Author : George Alec Effinger
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497609372

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The Exile Kiss by George Alec Effinger Pdf

From a Nebula Award winner: A “phenomenal,” action-packed tale of crime, corruption, and cybernetics (Locus). Set in a divided near future, The Exile Kiss is author George Alec Effinger’s third book about the high-tech Arab ghetto called the Budayeen. It is a world filled with mind- or mood-altering drugs for any purpose; brains enhanced by electronic hardware, with plug-in memory additions and new personalities; and bodies shaped to perfection by surgery. Marid Audran, having risen from the rank of street hustler, is now an enforcer for Friedlander Bey, one of the most feared men in the Budayeen. But betrayal and exile send Marid and Bey out into the lifeless Arabian desert. Can they survive on their own? Will they make it back into hostile territory? Will they find their revenge? With this culmination of the sequence of Marid books, readers will quickly understand why this series is considered one of the great works of modern SF and a defining example of the cyber-punk genre.

Author : John Bangs
Publisher : Litres
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040492442

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Toppleton's Client: or, A Spirit in Exile by John Bangs Pdf

Author : John Kendrick Bangs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89004548210

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Toppleton's Client, Or, A Spirit in Exile by John Kendrick Bangs Pdf

Author : Thomas Macqueen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018624916

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The Exile. A Poem, in Seven Books by Thomas Macqueen Pdf

Author : George Alec Effinger
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497605404

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When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger Pdf

In a futuristic Middle East, plug-ins can turn anyone into a killer in this “wry and black and savage” Nebula and Hugo award finalist (George R. R. Martin). Set in a high-tech near future featuring an ascendant Muslim world and divided Western superpowers, this cult classic takes us into a world with mind- or mood-altering drugs for any purpose, brains enhanced by electronic hardware with plug-in memory additions and modules offering the wearer new personalities, and bodies shaped to perfection by surgery. Marid Audran, an unmodified and fairly honest street hustler, lives in a decadent Arab ghetto, the Budayeen, and holds on tight to his cherished independence. Then, against his best instincts, he becomes involved in a series of inexplicable murders. Some seem like routine assassinations, carried out with an old-fashioned handgun by a man wearing a plug-in James Bond persona; others, involving whores, feature prolonged torture and horrible mutilations. Soon the problem comes to the attention of Budayeen godfather Friedlander Bey—who makes Audran an offer he can’t refuse. Nominated for the Nebula and Hugo awards, the highest honors in the genre, When Gravity Fails, which introduced the cyberpunk Budayeen Cycle, is a pioneering work the Denver Post called “superior science fiction” and Harlan Ellison described as “crazy as a spider on ice skates . . . plain old terrific.”

Author : Stephanie Römer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134057238

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The Tibetan Government-in-Exile by Stephanie Römer Pdf

This book examines the Tibetan government-in-exile, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA). Based on extensive empirical studies in India and Nepal, it discusses the political strategies of the CTA to gain national loyalty and international support to secure its own organizational survival and to reach itsultimate goal: returning to Tibet.

Author : Michael Wex
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466856219

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Shlepping the Exile by Michael Wex Pdf

Svelte and supple as unleavened bread, Shlepping the Exile rends the shmaltz from Jewish fiction and replaces it with a pound of real flesh. It's the story of Yoine Levkes, a hassidic boy of the Canadian prairies, his refugee parents, and the Jewish community of Coalbanks, Alberta in the late 1950s. Confronted with dying people, an ailing culture, the perils of near-orphanhood and the allures of Sabina Mandelbroit, whose family doesn't keep the Sabbath, Yoine can no longer tell whether he's a human being or a loot-bag of conflicting traditions. He's too religious to be 'normal,' too 'normal' not to realize this, and too much of a kid to be able to make any sense of it. Shlepping the Exile is Michael Wex's inside portrait of orthodox, post-Holocaust Judaism in a place that it never expected to be.

Author : Wayne Clifford
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0889843171

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The Exile's Papers: The face as its thousand ships by Wayne Clifford Pdf

The second work in a series of four that will eventually include 800 sonnets. The Face as its Thousand Ships continues where The Duplicity of Autobiography left off. Clifford maintains a deft ability to work the sonnet form. An exceptional work that functions as both an important cog in a series, and as a stand-alone work of art.

Author : Alan Judd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501144097

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The Kaiser's Last Kiss by Alan Judd Pdf

"Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers"--Copyright page.

Author : Nichita Stanescu
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781935744429

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Wheel With a Single Spoke by Nichita Stanescu Pdf

Winner of the Herder Prize, Nichita Stanescu was one of Romania’s most celebrated contemporary poets. This dazzling collection of poems – the most extensive collection of his work to date – reveals a world in which heavenly and mysterious forces converse with the everyday and earthbound, where love and a quest for truth are central, and urgent questions flow. His startling images stretch the boundaries of thought. His poems, at once surreal and corporeal, lead us into new metaphysical and linguistic terrain.

Author : Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345446886

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A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Meet Merry Gentry, paranormal P.I., and enter a thrilling, sensual world as dangerous as it is beautiful, full of earthly pleasures and dazzling magic, and ruled by the all-consuming passions of immortal beings once worshipped as gods . . . or demons. Merry Gentry, princess of the high court of Faerie, is posing as a human in Los Angeles, working as a private investigator specializing in supernatural crime. But now the queen’s assassin has been dispatched to fetch her—whether she likes it or not. Suddenly Merry finds herself a pawn in her dreaded aunt’s plans. The job that awaits her: enjoy the constant company of the most beautiful immortal men in the world. The reward: the crown—and the opportunity to continue to live. The penalty for failure: death. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Laurell K. Hamilton’s A Shiver of Light. Praise for Laurell K. Hamilton and A Kiss of Shadows “One of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field.”—Charlaine Harris “Sexy . . . Merry’s adventures are engaging and keep the reader turning the pages.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Stunning . . . steamy . . . an exciting and original world.”—San Jose Mercury News “I’ve never read a writer with a more fertile imagination.”—Diana Gabaldon

Author : Fernando Vidal,Francisco Ortega
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780823276097

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Being Brains by Fernando Vidal,Francisco Ortega Pdf

Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that “we are our brains,” which became widespread in the 1990s. Encouraged by advances in neuroimaging, the humanities and social sciences have taken a “neural turn,” in the form of neuro-subspecialties in fields such as anthropology, aesthetics, education, history, law, sociology, and theology. Dubious but successful commercial enterprises such as “neuromarketing” and “neurobics” have emerged to take advantage of the heightened sensitivity to all things neuro. While neither hegemonic nor monolithic, the neurocentric view embodies a powerful ideology that is at the heart of some of today’s most important philosophical, ethical, scientific, and political debates. Being Brains, chosen as 2018 Outstanding Book in the History of the Neurosciences by the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, examines the internal logic of such ideology, its genealogy, and its main contemporary incarnations.

Author : Frederick William Orde Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101064754722

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'Twixt Kiss and Lip; Or, Under the Sword by Frederick William Orde Ward Pdf

Author : George Alec Effinger
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497609433

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Budayeen Nights by George Alec Effinger Pdf

A “brilliant collection” of short stories set in a “marvelously realized, imaginary Muslim city” from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Long identified as a science fiction writer, except in his own eyes, George Alec Effinger had some of his biggest critical and commercial success with a series even he recognized and characterized as SF. Set in the marvelously realized, imaginary Muslim city of Budayeen, the three novels, When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun and The Exile Kiss garnered rave reviews, award nominations and a wide readership. In addition, Effinger came to be recognized as one of the foundational writers of cyberpunk. Although the novels are perhaps how Budayeen and their hero, Marid Audran, are best known, there are a handful of shorter pieces that add to the vividly drawn and deeply authentic picture of an imagined world and seven short stories, the first part of an uncompleted novel and a story fragment add to the mental images of this exotic and yet somehow completely familiar city and world that Effinger created. This book was originally published by Golden Gryphon Press and comes with a Forword and story notes by Effinger's widow, Barbara Hambly. The lead story in this collection, "Schrodinger's Kitten," won the Hugo, Nebula and Seiun Awards.

Author : Kara Summers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539413950

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Never Kiss an Exile by Kara Summers Pdf

ONE KISS CAN LEAVE A GIRL IN SHAMBLES, OR MAKE HER WHOLE AGAIN... CHLOEThey said never kiss an exile....sure that's easy-- until the day my family's financial troubles made me property of a ruthless motorcycle club...Easy, until I came face-to-face with the gorgeous bastard who makes me burn with every look. His eyes so deep and filled with excitement see through me - leaving me nowhere to hide. I tried to fight it. Threw every insult in the world his way, hoping to hide how bad my lips were begging to be kissed.Now, I'm losing the battle. Totally. Can you believe this guy? He says he's going to make me his. I'm going to love it and never look back.I should slap him upside the head. Instead, I'm becoming a believer in his brute promises because I can't keep my hands off him...DAMIENNo more games. I cut Chloe slack when she landed in my world, one that's too warped for a sheltered spitfire....I laughed at the sass coming out of her mouth 'til the day her pops forced me to be her bodyguard. Then I put an end to her crap.I did what I had to. I protected her. I laid down the law.One intense kiss shut her up for good. Then I never expected what came next between us, I can never forget that night even if I wanted to.Chloe, she'll get my ink on her skin. She'll wear my ring. She'll have my kid.I'm taking what's mine, taking her night after night, and she's gonna get used to my lips on her soft skin -- forever.The Exile Love books are standalone romance novels featuring unique lovers and happy endings. No cliffhangers! This is DAMIEN and Chloe's story. WARNING: This Romance contains Steamy scenes, themes, and language. Intended for 18+ readers only.