The Last Exit

Author : Max Gladstone
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : 47,9 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 : 47,7 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 : 48,7 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 : 51,7 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 : 47,9 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 : 52,9 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 : 47,9 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 : 50,7 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 : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : American drama
ISBN : OCLC:1336080090

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Last Exit Before Toll by Carrie Goldstein Pdf

Author : Anthony Swofford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Taylor Adams
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062875679

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No Exit by Taylor Adams Pdf

“What a box of tricks! This full-throttle thriller, dark and driving, rivals Agatha Christie for sheer ingenuity and James Patterson for flat-out speed. Swift, sharp, and relentless.” — A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window A brilliant, edgy thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath. A kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van. No help for miles. What would you do? On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado. With the roads impassable, she’s forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop. Inside are some vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers. Desperate to find a signal to call home, Darby goes back out into the storm . . . and makes a horrifying discovery. In the back of the van parked next to her car, a little girl is locked in an animal crate. Who is the child? Why has she been taken? And how can Darby save her? There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, and no way out. One of her fellow travelers is a kidnapper. But which one? Trapped in an increasingly dangerous situation, with a child’s life and her own on the line, Darby must find a way to break the girl out of the van and escape. But who can she trust? With exquisitely controlled pacing, Taylor Adams diabolically ratchets up the tension with every page. Full of terrifying twists and hairpin turns, No Exit will have you on the edge of your seat and leave you breathless.

Author : Nirmal Verma
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Rutu Modan
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770461819

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Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan Pdf

In modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier in searching for clues. His death would certainly explain his empty apartment and disconnected phone line. As Koby tries to unravel the mystery of his father's death, he finds himself not only piecing together the last few months of his father's life, but his entire identity. With thin, precise lines and luscious watercolors, Modan creates a portrait of modern Israel, a place where sudden death mingles with the slow dissolution of family ties. Exit Wounds is the North American graphic novel debut from one of Israel's best-known cartoonists, Rutu Modan. She has received several awards in Israel and abroad, including the Best Illustrated Children's Book Award from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem four times, Young Artist of the Year by the Israel Ministry of Culture and is a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation. Exit Wounds was the winner of the 2008 Eisner award for Best Graphic Album -New and was nominated for the televised 2007 Quill Awards in the graphic novel category.

Author : Max Gladstone
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466802049

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Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone Pdf

"[A] taut and unique blend of legal drama, fantasy, and noir." —Publishers Weekly, starred review Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build a just society in a modern fantasy world. Shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc—casual gambler and professional risk manager—to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex. At the scene of the crime, Caleb finds an alluring and clever cliff runner, Crazy Mal, who easily outpaces him. But Caleb has more than the demon infestation, Mal, or job security to worry about when he discovers that his father—the last priest of the old gods and leader of the True Quechal terrorists—has broken into his home and is wanted in connection to the attacks on the water supply. From the beginning, Caleb and Mal are bound by lust, Craft, and chance, as both play a dangerous game where gods and people are pawns. They sleep on water, they dance in fire...and all the while the Twin Serpents slumbering beneath the earth are stirring, and they are hungry. Set in a phenomenally built world in which lawyers ride lightning bolts, souls are currency, and cities are powered by the remains of fallen gods, Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence introduces readers to a modern fantasy landscape and an epic struggle to build a just society. For more from Max Gladstone, check out: The Craft Sequence Three Parts Dead Two Serpents Rise Full Fathom Five Last First Snow Four Roads Cross At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.