Author: Lauraleigh O'Meara
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136718125
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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F. Scott Fitzgerald left behind a substantial body of work on New York, yet his city remains in our time terra incognita, talked about but rarely well met. Lost City takes on this important and under-examined, indeed misunderstood and misrepresented, aspect of Fitzgerald's writing. The author shows that Fitzgerald's geography amounts to more than the Plaza Hotel and a wasteland. His writing depicts a variety of districts and neighborhoods. His is not the New York of the Roaring Twenties. Locating Fitzgerald's
Author: Joe Takeduki
Publisher: J-Novel Club
ISBN: 1718380526
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Leo Makishima, the enigmatic Devicer Seven, only cares about one thing: power. And he’ll do whatever it takes to get it. His blind ambition, however, makes him the perfect target for the archmages’ machinations, and Quldald of the Whirlwind has the perfect use for the troubled boy. Likewise, the Japanese government is desperate to resurrect their greatest weapon—Devicer Three. Meanwhile, the crew arrives in Indonesia to investigate a dormant Asura and a mysterious power sleeping within Aliya. There, they meet Devicer Five, a prickly girl by the name of Zhou Xueli who’s looking to build an elite team to end the war once and for all. In particular, her eyes are set upon Devicer Three and the key she’s been looking for—a Replicant. Everyone wants something, and Yu Ichinose seems to have it. To what lengths they’re willing to go to take it, he doesn’t know, but he’ll have to be ready to do anything to defend those he cares about. Even if it means fighting a fellow Devicer.
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938570247
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Ed Simon
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1953368131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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“[An] epic, atomic history of the Steel City . . . a work of literature, a series of linked creative nonfiction essays, an historical story cycle.” ―Phillip Maciak, Los Angeles Review of Books The land surrounding the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers has supported communities of humans for millennia. Over the past four centuries, however, it has been transformed countless times by the many people who call it home. In this brief, lyrical, and idiosyncratic collection, Ed Simon, a staff writer at The Millions, follows the story of Pittsburgh through a series of interconnected segments, covering all manner of beloved people, places, and things, including: • Paleolithic Pittsburgh • The Whiskey Rebellion • The attempted assassination of Henry Frick • The Harmonists • The Mystery, Pittsburgh’s radical, Black nationalist newspaper • The myth of Joe Magarac • Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Andy Warhol, and much, much more. Accessible and funny, An Alternative History of Pittsburgh is a must-read for anyone curious about this storied city, and for Pittsburghers who think they know it all too well already. “[A] rich and idiosyncratic history . . . Even Pittsburgh history buffs will learn something new.” —Publishers Weekly “Simon tells the story of the city and all the changes that made it what it is today in a way that's entirely new, by the hand of someone who is deeply familiar.” ―Juliana Rose Pignataro, Newsweek “A sparkling new take on everyone’s favorite Rust Belt metropolis.” ―Justin Velluci, Jewish Chronicle “A brilliant look at how geology and art, politics and religion, disaster and luck combine to build America’s great cities―one that will leave you wondering what secrets your own hometown might be hiding.” ―Anjali Sachdeva, author of All the Names They Used for God
Author: Nova York
Publisher: Publifye AS
ISBN: 8233929204
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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Skyward Bound Cities presents a world where gravity's unpredictability has forced humanity skyward, creating floating metropolises that defy imagination. Zara, a young South Asian architect, navigates this aerial realm, designing structures that dance on the edge of science and magic. When an ominous force threatens to send these lofty abodes plummeting, Zara must unravel a mystery that intertwines ancient levitation wisdom with cutting-edge anti-gravity technology. As Zara races against time, readers are transported between her urgent present-day quest and illuminating historical vignettes, each revealing another piece of the gravitational puzzle. The narrative soars through themes of cultural preservation and technological ethics, painting a vivid picture of a society suspended between earth and sky. With lyrical prose and rich sensory details, this unique blend of urban fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism offers a fresh perspective on the ""floating world"" concept, inviting readers to explore the breathtaking possibilities—and perils—of a civilization unbound by earthly tethers.
Author: Yuan Jur
Publisher: Waadoom
ISBN: 0994215398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Talaza Bane is a Quall Assassin, devoted to his clan’s survival. No race endures on planet Tora without trial. Tora is kept off the grid to keep its unworldly dark secrets hidden. Talaza has seen the metal fire birds land like thunder before, but last time was different. To them he is an instrument. Sometimes instruments rebel. Talaza Bane is a Quall assassin. He lives and breathes the clan’s code. All races known to him have one name for his world, Tora. It means - to engage. No race survives on Tora without trial or loss, not even the invincible Scarzen warriors south of his mountain. On the next dawn of his world, all Talaza has known to be true will be tested. Not his stealth nor skill with blade and poison will help his choice and consequences of his actions will reach farther than the wisest of his clan could ever conceive. Worlds outside Tora and its star system were made beyond reach for good reason long ago. Agents from both spirit-sider and mortal worlds explore Toran forests and the imposing hinterlands only to leave without engagement. Talaza has seen them arrive in their metal birds that sound like thunder. The last Sky Lord’s visit was different. They did something. Hex, the Dark Star now stirs. He has lived on Tora in their dreams and spoken on the wind long before Quall lived on Black Mountain. Hex is not of Talaza’s world. The mystics always taught that Hex came from the sky.
Author: Don Brown
Publisher: Etch/Clarion Books
ISBN: 0358223571
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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This graphic novel chronicles the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City through moving individual stories that bear witness to history and the ways it shapes the future.
Author: Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789141044
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Brings together architecture, fiction, film, and visual art to reconnect the imaginary city with the real, proposing a future for humanity that is firmly grounded in the present and the diverse creative practices already at our fingertips. Though reaching ever further toward the skies, today’s cities are overshadowed by multiple threats: climate change, overpopulation, social division, and urban warfare all endanger our metropolitan way of life. The fundamental tool we use to make sense of these uncertain city futures is the imagination. Architects, artists, filmmakers, and fiction writers have long been inspired to imagine cities of the future, but their speculative visions tend to be seen very differently from scientific predictions: flights of fancy on the one hand versus practical reasoning on the other. In a digital age when the real and the fantastic coexist as near equals, it is especially important to know how these two forces are entangled, and how together they may help us best conceive of cities yet to come. Exploring a breathtaking range of imagined cities—submerged, floating, flying, vertical, underground, ruined, and salvaged—Future Cities teases out the links between speculation and reality, arguing that there is no clear separation between the two. In the Netherlands, prototype floating cities are already being built; Dubai’s recent skyscrapers resemble those of science-fiction cities of the past; while makeshift settlements built by the urban poor in the developing world are already like the dystopian cities of cyberpunk.
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0399555773
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, and the internationally bestselling Mistborn series, comes the first book in an epic new series about a girl who dreams of becoming a pilot in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future. Spensa's world has been under attack for decades. Now pilots are the heroes of what's left of the human race, and becoming one has always been Spensa's dream. Since she was a little girl, she has imagined soaring skyward and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined with her father's--a pilot himself who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, leaving Spensa's chances of attending flight school at slim to none. No one will let Spensa forget what her father did, yet fate works in mysterious ways. Flight school might be a long shot, but she is determined to fly. And an accidental discovery in a long-forgotten cavern might just provide her with a way to claim the stars. Praise for Skyward: A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year "Startling revelations and stakes-raising implications...Sanderson plainly had a ball with this nonstop, highflying opener, and readers will too."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "With this action-packed trilogy opener, Sanderson offers up a resourceful, fearless heroine and a memorable cast...[and] as the pulse-pounding story intensifies and reveals its secrets, a cliffhanger ending sets things up for the next installment."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "It is impossible to turn the pages fast enough."--Booklist "Sanderson delivers a cinematic adventure that explores the defining aspects of the individual versus the society...[and] fans of [his] will not be disappointed."--SLJ Praise for Brandon Sanderson's Reckoners series: #1 New York Times Bestselling Series "Another win for Sanderson . . . he's simply a brilliant writer. Period."--Patrick Rothfuss, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Name of the Wind "Action-packed."--EW "Compelling. . . . Sanderson uses plot twists that he teases enough for readers to pick up on to distract from the more dramatic reveals he has in store."--AV Club
Author: Best Books on
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623760313
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 899
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