Author: Sayaka Murata
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802157025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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An otherworldly coming-of-age tale of a woman who believes she is an alien, from the author of the international sensation Convenience Store Woman. Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman was one of the most unusual and refreshing bestsellers of recent years, depicting the life of a thirty-six-year-old clerk in a Tokyo convenience store. Now, in Earthlings, Sayaka Murata pushes at the boundaries of our ideas of social conformity in this brilliantly imaginative, intense, and absolutely unforgettable novel. As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit in with her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut, who talks to her. He tells her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. One summer, on vacation with her family and her cousin Yuu in her grandparents’ ramshackle wooden house in the mountains of Nagano, Natsuki decides that she must be an alien, which would explain why she can’t seem to fit in like everyone else. Later, as a grown woman, living a quiet life with her asexual husband, Natsuki is still pursued by dark shadows from her childhood, and decides to flee the “baby factory” of society for good, searching for answers about the vast and frightening mysteries of the universe—answers only Natsuki has the power to uncover. Dreamlike, sometimes shocking, and always strange and wonderful, Earthlings asks what it means to be happy in a stifling world, and cements Sayaka Murata’s status as a master chronicler of the outsider experience and our own uncanny universe. Praise for Earthlings A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, TIME and Literary Hub Named a Most Anticipated Book by the New York Times, TIME, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, the Guardian, Vulture, Wired, Literary Hub, Bustle, PopSugar, and Refinery29 “Intimate, deadpan, and unflinchingly unhinged. . . . Exceptionally fun. . . . Amid all the hedgehog and alien talk is a novel that asks how happiness and freedom can be possible inside a stiflingly anxious world, and its answers, while grotesque, are worth reading.” —Wired “If you’re in the mood for weird, Sayaka Murata is always a reliable place to turn. . . . [Earthlings] centers on Natsuki, a character whose story begins in childhood with her cousin in the mountains and spirals ever more darkly (and bizarrely) into adulthood and its many strange reckonings. This is a story that’s best not to spoil, but it will get into your head.” —Seattle Times “It’s the book’s visceral, grim savagery, and those final shocking pages, that makes this such a vital, powerful novel. . . . Earthlings is the sort of challenging, confronting fiction that wakes you up with a jolt and leaves a lasting impression.” —Locus
Author: Robertson Work
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578711256
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Author: Joseph Mosata
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398434930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
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Two passionate lovers find themselves caught inside a paradox of dreams and nightmares. The world they believed they’d created through synchronized dreams appears to be a much different place basking with the monstrosities of a bleak forgotten world of lost angels living in a valley—ones waiting for the end times. And now Quinton Barker in his quest to find his beloved, an exotic woman by the name Juliana Rose, must battle through his own pain and break free from the wrathful deafening whips of torment and eternal death. With the help of his own tribe inside a tree house village—a utopian territory governed by a tribe of lost angels, he must find the truth and pour it out into reality. Juliana is counting on Quinton to wake up again, but will it be possible after he finds himself seduced by aura of darkness to stay? He is strong enough to find his way back to the wrath of her real love? Will their love ever prevail through the midst of madness and deranged monsters lurking from every mountain cliff? Dive deeper into an ethereal world under constant war with many forces possessed with elusive power!
Author: Mrs. C. A. Chamberlain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Author: Antonis Anastasiadis
Publisher: AKAKIA Publications
ISBN: 1910714682
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 409
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A contemporary book of social-political and philosophical content which depicts all the social-political occurances of the modern society. What was it like and what should the human society be like? What do the social political terms: Society, State, Citizen, Member Of Parliament, Democracy etc mean? How do they function and how should they? Is there corruption and degrading and in what form? Does real freedom exist? Does the citizen really function? Where are we heading to and what do we expect with the contemporary social political systems?Such issues and a lot more are mentioned in the present book, analyzing according to order and mentioning concisely the whole process of man’s evolution with regard to his social political involvement since his socialization.In this book, the reader will definitely find his own thoughts. The books ambition is to en-force and activate them. Some others, however, may be partially or completely differentiated. Those will provoke comparison, contemplating and redetermining old solidified beliefs. However, all of them, following various routes will tend to questioning and the pursuit of a more ideal society. The reader will definitely recognize a lot of practices which occur in the contemporary international society and others which used to exist in the past. The reader is asked to question themselves and find answers, choosing the most appropriate to his mind.In an age of political indifference, levelling, selfishness, apolitical behaviour on the part of the smashing majority of the citizens and political arrogance on the part of the supposed politicians, this book aspires to lead to the citizen’s politicized behaviour to the greatest extent. Solutions do exist! All it takes is that we for once shout with all our might: "Yes! I shall save humanity!". It may sound utopian but it is not at all. Indeed, we sometimes do need to search even in the realms of utopia until we find a truly considerable aim in our life. Provided we do not get captured there.The present writing does not aspire to offer formulas, solutions and answers. It aims to tempt and provoke reactions. It does not believe in authenticity so you will not find aphorism, regulations or dogmatic principles. Any quote of intellectual people since ancestry, wishes to cause questioning and become a reminder of perpetual pursuit.The aim of this book is definitely not to develop a complete political system. In some cases, some personal views are presented, some others are adjusted to the already existing political system and some directions or even “visions” appear. But that’s just it.As the book moves on, the reader will experience constant stirring and enforcement of those which they already have in their reflections. In essence, this book means to push, to empower, to stir and remind everything that already exists within the reader so that they question themselves, meditate and react in accordance with what is demanded. The aim is - to the extent that it can happen - to agitate the stagnant water which causes the stench of the contemporary human society.Everybody recognises that this stagnation this attitude to downplay crucial issues, the reliance, and the indifference poison our everyday life and do not help us in our further humanization. On the contrary, we are sliding downwards, slowly but steadily to our dehumanization in the familiar way of mithridatism.Is it about time we reacted, became politically active and asserted the human society we truly deserve?Is it the right time to demand our rights in an atmosphere of respect, self-respect and inter-respect? Our actions shall prove it!
Author: Ashlyn Hawkes
Publisher: Ashlyn Hawkes
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Enjoy five alien romances in one box set! Five standalone instalove alien romances from author Ashlyn Hawkes. The first generation of Novans-Earthling babies—the Kurians—are all grown up. One by one, they head to Earth to find Earthling women to be their lovers, their wives, their everything. This collection includes the first 5 Kurian stories as well as a never-before-published short story called Relished by the Alien Revelers. Trigger warning: this book includes some dark themes like consent and assault, but love will always win. No cliffhanger. Keywords: alien abduction romance, science fiction romance, scifi romance, paranormal romance, science fiction, standalone, happy end, happy ending, alpha male, fantasy romance, urban fantasy, steamy romance, happily ever after, romance, ebooks to read and download, scifi romance, alien abduction, alien romance, collection, box set, boxed set, Zenobia Renquist, Kate Rudolph, Starr Huntress, Sedona Venez, Regine Abel, Roxie Ray, Lee Savino, Renee Rose, Milly Taiden, Ava Hunter, Ruby Dixon, Jenny Foster, Elizabeth Stephens, Margo Bond Collins, Stasia Black, Lisa Lace
Author: Ashlyn Hawkes
Publisher: Ashlyn Hawkes
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
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A standalone instalove alien romance from author Ashlyn Hawkes. Thirty-five years ago, the Grots came, and now, Brock, the first Novan-Earthling, is ready to go to Earth and find himself a wife. But Earth is not like Kuria, and Brock finds himself raiding to survive. That’s how he meets Emma. He will do anything to ravish her, but will she succumb to the raider’s charm? Trigger warning: this book includes some dark themes like consent and assault, but love will always win. No cliffhanger. Keywords: alien abduction romance, science fiction romance, scifi romance, paranormal romance, science fiction, standalone, happy end, happy ending, alpha male, fantasy romance, urban fantasy, steamy romance, happily ever after, romance, ebooks to read and download, scifi romance, alien abduction, alien romance, collection, box set, boxed set, Zenobia Renquist, Kate Rudolph, Starr Huntress, Sedona Venez, Regine Abel, Roxie Ray, Lee Savino, Renee Rose, Milly Taiden, Ava Hunter, Ruby Dixon, Jenny Foster, Elizabeth Stephens, Margo Bond Collins, Stasia Black, Lisa Lace
Author: Siegfried Eckleben
Publisher: New Art Technologies
ISBN: 0974956635
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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BANG is an eyewitness account of the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang to the present. This book is really twofold. On the one hand, the popular science part tells the story of the universe, from the BigBang through the formation of the solar system to the present state of planet Earth; on the other hand, the more philosophic part recounts the peculiarities of humans and their main current problems, suggesting possible solutions all from a detached Quark's point of view.The chapters can be read in numerical sequence (which also reflects the chronological sequence) but for ease of reading chapter 4 is printed first. It describes the main differences between humans and other animals including their abnormal sexual behaviour. The book makes easy bedtime reading.
Author: David Rendel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Author: Jim Holmes
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1257984608
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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