The Last Exit

Author : Max Gladstone
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466826144

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Last Exit by Max Gladstone Pdf

Fresh from winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards, Max Gladstone weaves elements of American myth—the muscle car, the open road, the white-hatted cowboy—into Last Exit, a deeply emotional tale where his characters must find their own truths if they are to survive. Ten years ago, Zelda led a band of merry adventurers whose knacks let them travel to alternate realities and battle the black rot that threatened to unmake each world. Zelda was the warrior; Ish could locate people anywhere; Ramon always knew what path to take; Sarah could turn catastrophe aside. Keeping them all connected: Sal, Zelda’s lover and the group's heart. Until their final, failed mission, when Sal was lost. When they all fell apart. Ten years on, Ish, Ramon, and Sarah are happy and successful. Zelda is alone, always traveling, destroying rot throughout the US. When it boils through the crack in the Liberty Bell, the rot gives Zelda proof that Sal is alive, trapped somewhere in the alts. Zelda’s getting the band back together—plus Sal’s young cousin June, who has a knack none of them have ever seen before. As relationships rekindle, the friends begin to believe they can find Sal and heal all the worlds. It’s not going to be easy, but they’ve faced worse before. But things have changed, out there in the alts. And in everyone's hearts. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Michael Kaufman
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643855684

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The Last Exit by Michael Kaufman Pdf

Perfect for fans of Ben Winters and Cory Doctorow. In this thrilling near-future novel, the secret to eternal life is closely guarded by people who will do anything to protect it--even if it means destroying everything in their path. Set in Washington D.C. in the near future, climate change has hit hard, fires are burning, unemployment is high, and controversial longevity treatments are only available to the very rich. Enter resourceful young police detective, Jen B. Lu, and her 'partner', Chandler, a SIM implant in her brain and her instant link to the Internet and police records, and constant voice inside her head. He's an inquisitive tough guy, with a helluva sense of humor and his own ideas about solving crimes. As a detective in the Elder Abuse unit, Jen is supposed to be investigating kids pushing their aging parents to "exit" so they are eligible to get the longevity drug. But what really has her attention are the persistent rumors about Eden, an illegal version of the longevity drug, and the bizarre outbreak of people aging almost overnight, then suddenly dying--is this all connected? Is Big Pharma involved? When Jen's investigations of Eden take her too close to the truth, she is suspended, Chandler is deactivated, and her boyfriend is freaked out by "the thing inside her brain." This leaves Jen to pursue a very dangerous investigation all by herself.

Author : Michael Harmon
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bildungsromans
ISBN : 9780440239949

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The Last Exit to Normal by Michael Harmon Pdf

After moving from Spokane, Washington, to a small Montana town with his father and his father's boyfriend, Ben notices that something is not quite right with the little boy next door and determines to do something about it.

Author : Clifford Winston
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815704737

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Last Exit by Clifford Winston Pdf

"Proposes experiments in deregulating and privatizing the country's transportation systems to rid them of inefficiencies and significantly improve their performance in moving goods and people around the United States; the book covers roads, airports and airport traffic control, mass transit, intercity buses and railway networks"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Derek Humphry,Helga Kuhse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Accomplices
ISBN : 0140171304

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Final Exit by Derek Humphry,Helga Kuhse Pdf

First published in the US in 1991 by the Hemlock Society, it discusses the practicalities of suicide and assisted suicide for those terminally ill, and is intended to inform mature adults suffering from a terminal illness. It also gives guidance to those who may support the option of suicide under those circumstances. The Australian edition was prepared by Dr Helga Kuhse. The author is a US journalist who has written or co-authored books on civil liberties, racial integration and euthanasia and is a past president of the World Federation of Right to Die societies. Sales of the book are category one restricted: not available to persons under 18.

Author : Jean-François Revel
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781594032646

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Last Exit to Utopia by Jean-François Revel Pdf

An English translation of Jean-Francois Revel's 1999 essay in which he examines the response of French intellectuals to the collapse of Soviet communism in the decade after its end.

Author : Hubert Selby
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453235409

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The Room by Hubert Selby Pdf

“A terrifying journey into the darkest corners of the psyche” by the author of Requiem for a Dream and Last Exit to Brooklyn (The Guardian). A small-time criminal sits alone in his cell, his mind reeling with sadistic thoughts of retribution against the police and, eventually, all those he believes have failed him throughout his life. A deeply disturbing exploration of a character the Guardian described as “a genuinely frightening American Psycho,” Hubert Selby Jr.’s second novel is made all the more chilling by the narrator’s brief flashes of humanity. The Room is a tale so terrifying the author himself couldn’t read it for decades after writing it. Called “brutal” by the New York Times when it was first published, it is a dark masterpiece about a man who may be temporarily trapped in jail, but whose true prison is his own anger, as he is enslaved by out-of-control passions and sickening fantasies of revenge. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Hubert Selby Jr. including rare photos from the author’s estate.

Author : E. K. Johnston
Publisher : Dutton Books for Young Readers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Best friends
ISBN : 9781101994580

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Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston Pdf

At cheerleading camp, Hermione is drugged and raped, but she is not sure whether it was one of her teammates or a boy on another team--and in the aftermath she has to deal with the rumors in her small Ontario town, the often awkward reaction of her classmates, the rejection of her boyfriend, the discovery that her best friend, Polly, is gay, and above all the need to remember what happened so that the guilty boy can be brought to justice.

Author : Alan Shakin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469795829

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Last Exit in New Jersey by Alan Shakin Pdf

Brian Haberman is a 61-year-old PTA dad and failed architect in Belleville, New Jersey. Since his college years during the Sixties, Brian has regretted his lack of involvement in liberal politics. Then he meets Mario, who was politically active and slightly famous many years ago. Together, they plan and carry out a political caper against the backdrop of Barack Obama's election in 2008 and his inauguration. And both experience surprising romances along the way.

Author : Carrie Goldstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : American drama
ISBN : OCLC:1336080090

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Last Exit Before Toll by Carrie Goldstein Pdf

Author : Nirmal Verma
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : India
ISBN : 8126006382

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The Last Exit by Nirmal Verma Pdf

Here Are The Sahitya Akademi Award-Winning Short Stories By One Of The Great Mastero Of Hindi Fiction. In A Literary Career Spanning Over Forty Years, Nirmal Verma Is Credited With Inventing The Hindi Language Anew. It Is Fascinating To See How His Delicately Sensuous Language Handles The Themes Of Alienation And Exile On The One Hand, And Philosophical Issues Of Renunciation And Suicide On The Other.

Author : Anthony Swofford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847395900

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Exit A by Anthony Swofford Pdf

1989. Severin Boxx is the seventeen-year-old son of an Air Force pilot who lives on a military base in Japan. He loves -- from afar -- Virginia Kindwall, the daughter of the general who runs the base. Virginia is tough and sophisticated beyond her years, and when she falls in with the Japanese underground her dealings result in her disappearance and Severin is forced to return to America. 2006. Unhappily married and living in San Francisco, Severin's life is turned upside-down by the arrival of a postcard from General Kindwall, now dying in a hospital in Vietnam, asking him to find his daughter before he dies. But the search for Virginia will take him back to the country of his youth, and to unexpected consequences for both. Suffused with the same intensity of emotion and facility with language as Jarhead, Anthony Swofford's debut novel marks the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.

Author : Mohsin Hamid
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735212183

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Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Pdf

FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE & WINNER OF THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE “It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly hopeful.” —Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review “Moving, audacious, and indelibly human.” —Entertainment Weekly, “A” rating The New York Times bestselling novel: an astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands, from the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the forthcoming The Last White Man. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through. . . . Exit West follows these remarkable characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.

Author : Roger Zelazny
Publisher : N E S F A Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1886778795

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Last Exit to Babylon by Roger Zelazny Pdf

"This six volume collection includes all of Zelazny's know short fiction and poetry, three excerpts of important novels, a selection of non-fiction essays, and a few curiosities."--V. 1, p. 5

Author : Belinda Bauer
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802157904

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Exit by Belinda Bauer Pdf

A volunteer who helps people die with dignity finds himself on the run after a routine visit goes shockingly wrong in this “ingeniously plotted” thriller (New York Times Book Review). Retired and widowed for more than a decade, Felix Pink is waiting, not unhappily, to die a boring death. In the meantime, Felix volunteers as an Exiteer: someone who sits with terminally ill people as they die by suicide. He assists with logistics, lends moral support—and then removes the evidence. When Felix lets himself in to Number 3 Black Lane, he’s there to perform an act of charity. But just fifteen minutes later, after a tragic error, Felix is on the run from the police. Now he’s desperate to find out what went wrong, and if his simple mistake was in fact a deliberate murder.