[PDF] Nothing On Earth eBook

Author : Conor O'Callaghan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473540372

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The critically acclaimed psychological chiller from a powerful new voice in Irish literary fiction. SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2017 'As fine as it is frightening' JOHN BANVILLE 'This one will stay with you like your shadow' Guardian 'Extraordinary . . . pitch-perfect' Irish Times 'Strange, beautiful and quietly terrifying' DONAL RYAN, author of The Spinning Heart 'Like many great works, it could so easily have all gone wrong if it hadn’t been done exactly right' Sunday Independent It is the hottest August in living memory. A frightened girl bangs on a door. A man answers. From the moment he invites her in, his world will never be the same again. She will tell him about her family, and their strange life in the show home of an abandoned housing estate. The long, blistering days spent sunbathing; the airless nights filled with inexplicable noises; the words that appear on the windows, written in dust. Why are members of her family disappearing, one by one? Is she telling the truth? Is he? In a world where reality is beginning to blur, how can we know what to believe?

Author : Tom Kline
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 15,84 MB
Release : 2021-02-21
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Colonel David Gath is an aging astronaut on his last expedition to the International Space Station. Drinking too much amidst bouts of depression, he was no-one's first choice; he was a replacement of a replacement. After learning the United States has been attacked with a weaponized prion disease, Gath is asked by the Commander to bring an experimental vaccine from the Station to Earth. When the Commander is murdered, Gath convinces the multinational crew to join him on his mission to save a country that is not their own. As they cross a devastated land, facing violent infected, mercenaries, and a traitor determined to see them dead, Gath is haunted by the fear he may have led his crew to their deaths based on a lie. Set in the near future, 'On Nothing Hangs the Earth' is the first in a series of post-apocalyptic thrillers that add a new flavor to the traditional dystopian genre as astronauts from six countries work together to try and save the United States from extinction.

Author : Lawrence M. Krauss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 1451624476

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Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place. “Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing?” One of the few prominent scientists today to have crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, Krauss describes the staggeringly beautiful experimental observations and mind-bending new theories that demonstrate not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing. With a new preface about the significance of the discovery of the Higgs particle, A Universe from Nothing uses Krauss’s characteristic wry humor and wonderfully clear explanations to take us back to the beginning of the beginning, presenting the most recent evidence for how our universe evolved—and the implications for how it’s going to end. Provocative, challenging, and delightfully readable, this is a game-changing look at the most basic underpinning of existence and a powerful antidote to outmoded philosophical, religious, and scientific thinking.

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 2001-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780743203173

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The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

Author : Conor O'Callaghan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473573106

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'Stylish, deft...an absolutely fascinating novel' Guardian 'Haunting, mesmerising, and so deeply intelligent' Kamila Shamsie, author of Women's Prize for Fiction winning Home Fire 'Powerful...compelling and profoundly moving' Irish Times 'Heartbreaking, sweetly logical and tentatively hopeful' Spectator Heartbroken after a long, painful love affair, a man drives a haulage lorry from England to France. Travelling with him is a secret passenger - his daughter. Twenty-something, unkempt, off the rails. With a week on the road together, father and daughter must restore themselves and each other, and repair a relationship that is at once fiercely loving and deeply scarred. As they journey south, down the motorways, through the service stations, a devastating picture reveals itself: a story of grief, of shame, and of love in all its complex, dark and glorious manifestations. ______________ What readers are saying: ***** 'The prose is sublime and deeply moving . . . a stunning novel' ***** 'Beautifully written, lyrical and unsettling in its exploration of human frailties, family, love, and loss, grief' **** 'A haunting, tragic and highly original story of a father and daughter travelling across England and France in a haulage truck, and discovering more about their relationship and past in all its raw candour' MORE PRAISE FOR WE ARE NOT IN THE WORLD: 'Unusual, utterly original and mysterious . . . a must read' Elaine Feeney '...the book stays with you, a haunting presence you cannot - and do not want to - escape...astounding.' Ruth Gilligan Extraordinary...achingly sad and tender and sexy, and the writing is very beautiful.' Louise Kennedy 'Wonderful, wrenching . . . full of enormous feelings very precisely rendered' Sara Baume 'Elusive, unsettling, beautiful, haunting. This is a complex, devastating study of human relations; a portrait of intense love and damage in equal measure.' Lisa Harding 'A whirlpool of memories, regrets and hopes' Tim Pears 'An uncanny ability to turn the seemingly insignificant into something monumental' Jan Carson

Author : Yoko Tawada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811229297

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A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2022 National Book Award Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land of sushi.” Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): “homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language.” As she searches for anyone who can still speak her mother tongue, Hiruko soon makes new friends. Her troupe travels to France, encountering an umami cooking competition; a dead whale; an ultra-nationalist named Breivik; unrequited love; Kakuzo robots; red herrings; uranium; an Andalusian matador. Episodic and mesmerizing scenes flash vividly along, and soon they’re all next off to Stockholm. With its intrepid band of companions, Scattered All Over the Earth (the first novel of a trilogy) may bring to mind Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland or a surreal Wind in the Willows, but really is just another sui generis Yoko Tawada masterwork.

Author : Chris Gall
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 35,39 MB
Release : 2009-02-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316069221

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When Davey Martin's family moves to Mars, he discovers that there's nothing to do--at least until he and his robot dog Polaris learn to seize the spirit of adventure. It's not until they've zipped around the planet on his flying scooter--climbing Martian "trees," digging up "fossils," dancing in Martian rain dances--that they discover a treasure that finally piques Davey's interest--a source of water on the red planet! Chris Gall's new picture book plays on the themes (and ironies) of a complaint parents have heard from their children a thousand times: "There's nothing to do!" The book also offers a deeper lesson to our stationary, convenience-driven society: If you're creative and look carefully, you'll be amazed at what you find!

Author : Steve Almond
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1565124219

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A self-proclaimed candy fanatic and lifelong chocoholic traces the history of some of the much-loved candies from his youth, describing the business practices and creative candy-making techniques of some of the small companies.

Author : Ocean Vuong
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525562044

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The instant New York Times Bestseller • Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction “A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years. Named a Best Book of the Year by: GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, TIME, Esquire, The Washington Post, Apple, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine and more!

Author : Lisa Kleypas
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061793191

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Headstrong American heiress Lillian Bowman has come to England to find an aristocratic husband. Unfortunately, no man is strong enough to tame the stubborn beauty's fierce will. Except, perhaps, the powerful and arrogant Earl of Westcliff—a man Lillian despises more than anyone she's ever met. Marcus, Lord Westcliff, is famous for his icy English reserve and his supreme self-control. But something about the audacious Lillian drives him mad. Whenever they're in the same room, they can't stop themselves from battling furiously to gain the upper hand. Then one afternoon, a stunningly sensuous encounter changes everything . . . and Lillian discovers that beneath the earl's reserved façade, he is the passionate and tender lover of her dreams. What neither Westcliff nor Lillian suspect, however, is that a sinister conspiracy threatens to destroy any chance of happiness. After a shocking betrayal endangers Lillian's safety—and possibly her life—will Marcus be able to save her before it's too late?