The Sisters Sputnik

Author : Terri Favro
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781773059075

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The Sisters Sputnik by Terri Favro Pdf

“It does what readers ask of a Storyteller: keeps things fast-moving and entertaining. It’s a breezy joy.” — Publishers Weekly “Together, the Sisters Sputnik are the badassest kickass duo since Tank Girl and Jet Girl. If you like your speculative fiction sardonic, weird, sprightly and intelligent, you will love this splendid book.” — Candas Jane Dorsey, author of Black Wine and Ice and Other Stories An odyssey wrapped in a love story, set in a near-future of artificial people The Sisters Sputnik are a time-traveling trio of storytellers-for-hire who are much in demand throughout the multiverse of 2,052 alternate worlds. Each world was created by the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Earth Standard Time, home of the Sisters’ leader, aging comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi, her 20-something apprentice Unicorn Girl, and their pop culture–loving AI, Cassandra. Tales of Earth Standard Time-That-Was, from World Wars to the space race to Hollywood celebrities, have turned the Sisters into storytelling rock stars. In a distant reality where books and music have disappeared, Debbie finds herself in bed with an old Earth Standard Time lover who begs her to tell him a story. Over one long, eventful night, she spins the epic of the Sisters’ adventures in alternate realities, starting with the theft of a book of evil comic strips in a post-pandemic Toronto full of ghost kitchens and robot-worshipping lost children known as junksters, to a disco-era purgatory where synthetic people are sending humans into the past through a reverse-engineered Statue of Liberty, to a version of the 1950s where the Sisters meet a rising star named Frank Sinatra and his girlfriend, the once-and-future Queen of England.

Author : Terri Favro
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781773050058

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Sputnik’s Children by Terri Favro Pdf

A literary, genre-bending novel full of heart Cult comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi has been riding the success of her Cold War era–inspired superhero series, Sputnik Chick: Girl with No Past, for more than 25 years. But with the comic book losing fans and Debbie struggling to come up with new plotlines for her badass, mutant-killing heroine, she decides to finally tell Sputnik Chick’s origin story. Debbie’s never had to make anything up before and she isn’t starting now. Sputnik Chick is based on Debbie’s own life in an alternate timeline called Atomic Mean Time. As a teenager growing up in Shipman’s Corners — a Rust Belt town voted by Popular Science magazine as “most likely to be nuked” — she was recruited by a self-proclaimed time traveller to collapse Atomic Mean Time before an all-out nuclear war grotesquely altered humanity. In trying to save the world, Debbie risked obliterating everyone she’d ever loved — as well as her own past — in the process. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Or so she believes . . . Present-day Debbie is addicted to lorazepam and dirty, wet martinis, making her an unreliable narrator, at best. A time-bending novel that delves into the origin story of the Girl with No Past, Sputnik’s Children explores what it was like to come of age in the Atomic Age.

Author : Terri Favro
Publisher : Quattro Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781927443064

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The Proxy Bride by Terri Favro Pdf

In Niagara of the 1960s, a mysterious proxy bride arrives from Italy to marry a candy shop owner with crime connections, only to fall in love with her proxy husband's teenaged son. Part fairy tale, part gritty realism, The Proxy Bride explores the underbelly of a southern Ontario community steeped in gambling, smuggling and pornography. Terri Favro's The Proxy Bride is a brilliantly constructed tale of innocence versus wickedness.

Author : Sheeza Sarfraz,J.J. Dupuis
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781459751019

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The Quarantine Review, Issue 11 by Sheeza Sarfraz,J.J. Dupuis Pdf

The eleventh issue of a digital journal created to alleviate the malaise of social distancing with exceptional writing and artwork. The Quarantine Review celebrates literature and art, connecting readers through reflections on the human condition — our lived experiences, afflictions, and dreams. Through The Quarantine Review, Dupuis and Sarfraz give voice to the swirling emotions inside each of us, to create a circuit of empathy between the reader, the work itself, and the wider world beyond the walls of this journal. The eleventh issue features the work of Carolyn Bennett, Terri Favro, Susan Glickman, Catherine Graham, Jennifer Hosein, Mike Lee, Zoe Grace Marquedant, Aila Omar, Janette Platan, Deepa Rajagopalan, Greg Rhyno, Ian Roy, and Heather J. Wood.

Author : Fred Ledley
Publisher : Fred Ledley
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466061583

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Sputnik's Child by Fred Ledley Pdf

Author : Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781509804467

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Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth by Frank Cottrell-Boyce Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2017 Carnegie Medal and selected for the Tom Fletcher Book Club, Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth by Frank Cottrell-Boyce is an adventure about the Blythes: a big, warm, rambunctious family who live on a small farm and sometimes foster children. Now Prez has come to live with them. But, though he seems cheerful and helpful, he never says a word. Then one day Prez answers the door to someone claiming to be his relative. This small, loud stranger carries a backpack, walks with a swagger and goes by the name of Sputnik. The family all think Sputnik is a dog and chaos is unleashed as suddenly household items come to life – like a TV remote that fast-forwards people and a toy lightsaber that entertains guests at a children's party, until one of them is nearly decapitated by it – and Prez is going to have to use his voice to explain himself. As Sputnik takes Prez on a journey to finish writing his guidebook to Earth called Ten Things Worth Doing on Earth, each adventure seems to take Prez nearer to the heart of the family he is being fostered by, but they also take him closer to the day that he is due to leave them forever . . . This edition features fantastic cover artwork and black and white inside illustrations from the incredible Steven Lenton.

Author : Linda M. Morra
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000811230

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The Routledge Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada by Linda M. Morra Pdf

The Routledge Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada charts the evolution of gender and sexuality, as they have been represented and performed in the literatures of Canada for more than three centuries. From early colonial texts by Frances Brooke, to settler texts by Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill, to more contemporary texts by Jane Rule, Alice Munro, Joshua Whitehead, Ivan Coyote, and others, this volume will introduce readers to how gender and sexuality have been variably conceived in Canada and the work they perform across multiple genres. Calling upon recent currents of gender theory and examining the composition, structure, and history of selected literary texts—that is, the “literary sediments” that have accumulated over centuries—readers of this book will explore how those representations shift over time. By examining literature in Canada in relation to crucial cultural, political, and historical contexts, readers will better apprehend why that literature has significantly transformed and broadened to address racialized and fluid identities that continue to challenge and disrupt any stable notion of gendered and sexualized identity today.

Author : Mark Andrews
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781800180390

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Paint My Name in Black and Gold by Mark Andrews Pdf

Leeds, 1980. Amid the violence and decay, the city was home to an extraordinarily vibrant post-punk scene. Out of that swamp crawled the Sisters of Mercy. Over the next five years, they would rise from local heroes to leading alternative band, before blowing apart on the verge of major rock stardom. Their path was strewn with brilliant singles, astonishing EPs, exceptional album tracks and legendary live shows. Two classic line-ups were created and destroyed: Andrew Eldritch on vocals, Craig Adams on bass, Gary Marx and Ben Gunn – later replaced by Wayne Hussey – on guitars, and a drum machine called Doktor Avalanche. Hussey and Adams styled themselves as the Evil Children and played hard both on and off the stage; neither Gunn nor Marx were natural rock 'n' roll animals, but the latter performed with such abandon that it was hard to believe he also wrote the Sisters' most delicate and beautiful music. Eldritch was the most peculiar and compelling of them all, a singular and mesmerising amalgam of T. S. Eliot and David Bowie who staked a powerful claim to be the greatest rock star of his generation. Drawing on dozens of interviews with band members and key figures in the Sisters' journey, Paint My Name in Black and Gold is the most complete account yet of how – against the odds and all reasonable expectation – these young men came to make transcendent and life-changing music.

Author : Sara Peters
Publisher : Strange Light
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771073571

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I Become a Delight to My Enemies by Sara Peters Pdf

Dark, cutting, and coursed through with bright flashes of humour, crystalline imagery, and razor-sharp detail, I Become a Delight to My Enemies is a gut-wrenchingly powerful, breathtakingly beautiful meditation on the violence and shame inflicted on the female body and psyche. An experimental fiction, I Become a Delight to My Enemies uses many different voices and forms to tell the stories of the women who live in an uncanny Town, uncovering their experiences of shame, fear, cruelty, and transcendence. Sara Peters combines poetry and short prose vignettes to create a singular, unflinching portrait of a Town in which the lives of girls and women are shaped by the brutality meted upon them and by their acts of defiance and yearning towards places of safety and belonging. Through lucid detail, sparkling imagery and illumination, Peters' individual characters and the collective of The Town leap vividly, fully formed off the page. A hybrid in form, I Become a Delight to My Enemies is an awe-inspiring example of the exquisite force of words to shock and to move, from a writer of exceptional talent and potential.

Author : Minister Faust
Publisher : Resurrection House
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781630230692

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The Alchemists of Kush by Minister Faust Pdf

Two Sudanese "lost boys." Both fathers murdered during civil war. Both mothers forced into exile where the only law was violence. To survive, the boys became ruthless loners and child soldiers, until they found mystic mentors who transformed them into their true destinies. One: known to the streets as the Supreme Raptor; the other: known to the Greeks as Horus, son of Osiris. Separated by seven thousand years, and yet connected by immortal truth. Born in fire. Baptized in blood. Brutalized by the wicked. Sworn to transform the world and themselves. They are the Alchemists of Kush.

Author : Suzanne Winterton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780244856427

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Sputnik's Hub, Lunch 'n' Lectures by Suzanne Winterton Pdf

Sputnik's Hub is a psychological novel about members of an unusual extended family who bond in mutual support through dramatic life crises. They join a spiritually inspired group to take part in 'lunch 'n' lectures' on metaphysical topics: - discovering intuition; healing trauma; mind/body, beyond the brain; sexuality with spirituality; the nature of Consciousness.

Author : Mark Beech
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781844689095

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The Dictionary of Rock & Pop Names by Mark Beech Pdf

Mark Beechs 1998 predecessor, The A-Z of Names in Rock generated over 50 radio interviews, 15 articles, 7 features in nationals and two serializations. This extended and updated version covers more genres than just rock (e.g. pop, punk, indie, reggae, soul, country, blues, folk, jazz, heavy metal, grunge and rap artists and bands) and will appeal to music fans internationally, as well as being the must-buy book for pub quiz fans. With almost 3,000 entries, its a chance to discover why artists chose their names and which ones shouldnt have. An informative and often humorous read, the worlds leading expert on music names (BBC), Mark Beech, is guaranteed another best-seller.

Author : Ann González
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317299677

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Postcolonial Approaches to Latin American Children’s Literature by Ann González Pdf

In this volume González explores how the effects of a traumatic colonial experience are (re)presented to Latin American children today, almost two centuries after the dismantling of colonialism proper. Central to this study is the argument that the historical constraints of colonialism, neocolonialism, and postcolonialism have generated certain repeating themes and literary strategies in children’s literature throughout the Spanish-speaking Americas. From the outset of Spanish domination, fundamental tensions emerged between the colonizers and native groups that still exist to this day. Rather than a felicitous mixing of these two opposing groups, the mestizo is caught between contrasting worldviews, contending explanations of reality, and different values, beliefs, and epistemologies (that is, different ways of seeing and knowing). Postcolonial subjects experience these contending cultural beliefs and practices as a double bind, a no-win situation, in which they feel pressured by mutually exclusive expectations and imperatives. Latin American mestizos, therefore, are inevitably conflicted. Despite the vastness of the geography in question and the innumerable variations in regional histories, oral traditions, and natural settings, these contradictory demands create a pervasive dynamic that penetrates the very fabric of society, showing up intentionally or not in the stories passed from generation to generation as well as in new stories written or adapted for Spanish-speaking children. The goal of this study, therefore, is to examine a variety of children’s texts from the region to determine how national and hemispheric perceptions of reality, identity, and values are passed to the next generation. This book will appeal to scholars in the fields of Latin American literary and cultural studies, children’s literature, postcolonial studies, and comparative literature.

Author : Drew Hayden Taylor
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039000612

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Motorcycles & Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor Pdf

A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger’s intentions, he teams up with his uncle Wayne – a master of aboriginal martial arts – to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand.

Author : Mark Sampson
Publisher : Buckrider Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1989496105

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All the Animals on Earth by Mark Sampson Pdf

In a mix of imagination and social commentary, Sampson creates an unbelievable future and takes his readers on a remarkable road trip as his Everyman finds his place in a strange reality where detail-oriented pigeons are project managers and dependable dogs work round the clock in orange safety vests building housing for earth's newest inhabitants.