Sixty-One Nails

Sixty-One Nails
Title Sixty-One Nails PDF eBook
Author Mike Shevdon
Publisher Angry Robot, Limited
Total Pages 0
Release 2012
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780857662477

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When a suspected heart attack leads him into the hidden world of the Feyre, a legendary place that lurks just beyond the surface of everyday life, Niall Petersen is stunned to discover that he is the only one who can save the ancient people from war.

The Road to Bedlam

The Road to Bedlam
Title The Road to Bedlam PDF eBook
Author Mike Shevdon
Publisher Angry Robot, Limited
Total Pages 426
Release 2010
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0857660616

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After Alex is kidnapped by the Untainted because of her own magical powers, her father Niall must use his own magic, and enter Bedlam, to save her.

The Gone-Away World

The Gone-Away World
Title The Gone-Away World PDF eBook
Author Nick Harkaway
Publisher Vintage
Total Pages 514
Release 2008-09-02
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307270378

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A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infused mission to save the world. “A flat-out ferociously good novel.... Reads like a surrealist smashup of Pynchon and Pratchett, Vonnegut and Heller.” —Austin Chronicle Gonzo Lubitch and his best friend have been inseparable since birth. They grew up together, they studied kung-fu together, they rebelled in college together, and they fought in the Go Away War together. Now, with the world in shambles and dark, nightmarish clouds billowing over the wastelands, they have been tapped for an incredibly perilous mission. But they quickly realize that this assignment is more complex than it seems, and before it is over they will have encountered everything from mimes, ninjas, and pirates to one ultra-sinister mastermind, whose only goal is world domination.

Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead

Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead
Title Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead PDF eBook
Author Eric Bogosian
Publisher Theatre Communications Group
Total Pages 80
Release 2012-12-15
Genre Drama
ISBN 1559367423

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"Combustibly funny... Bogosian explodes and crackles like a lit firecracker that just won't quit." - Jan Stewart, New York Newsday "Sheer virtuosity." - Nancy Franklin, New Yorker In his fifth, brashest solo show, Eric Bogosian again aims scorching social commentary at the contemporary urban and suburban scene. From subway panhandlers to barbecue-crazed millionaires, Bogosian reveals the hidden humor, fear, hypocrisy and rage of Americans - including, for the first time, "Eric Bogosian," a hyperaggressive standup comic. With this seductive element of self-revelation, he heightens the disturbing connections between his characters and, by extension, between us and the people we try not to see - and not to be - every day. One of America’s premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists, Eric Bogosian’s plays and solo work include suburbia (Lincoln Center Theater, 1994; adapted to film by director Richard Linklater, 1996); Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; Griller; Humpty Dumpty; 1+1; Skunkweed; Wake Up and Smell the Coffee; Drinking in America; Notes from Underground and Talk Radio (Pulitzer Prize finalist; New York Shakespeare Festival, 1987; Broadway, 2007; adapted to film by director Oliver Stone, 1988). He has starred in a wide variety of film, TV and stage roles. Most recently, he created the character of Captain Danny Ross on the long-running series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In 2014, TCG published 100 (monologues), a collection that commemorates thirty years of Bogosian’s solo-performance career.

Saturn's Children

Saturn's Children
Title Saturn's Children PDF eBook
Author Charles Stross
Publisher Penguin
Total Pages 336
Release 2008-07-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 144063484X

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Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct, leaving only androids behind to fulfill humanity’s dreams. And, having learned well from their long-dead masters, they’ve established a hierarchical society—one with humanoid aristo rulers at the top and slave-chipped workers at the bottom, performing the lowly tasks all androids were originally created to do. Designed as a concubine for a species that hasn’t existed for two hundred years, femmebot Freya Nakamichi-47—one of the last of her kind still functioning—accepts a job from a stranger to deliver a package from mercury to Mars. Unfortunately, she’s just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determined humanoids desperate to retrieve the package’s contents…

Strangeness and Charm

Strangeness and Charm
Title Strangeness and Charm PDF eBook
Author Mike Shevdon
Publisher Angry Robot, Limited
Total Pages 0
Release 2012
Genre Fantasy fiction
ISBN 9780857662248

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"Niall Petersen's whole life has been turned on its head by the revelation that he can do magic. Now a Warder for the ancient Courts of the Feyre, duty and honour must be upheld. His daughter Alex, newly awakened to her own magical powers,has been saved from the terrifying Bedlam prison, but in freeing her, Niall has released others of their kind into the population--half-breed fey who have been mistreated, abused and tortured by the very instituion that was supposed to help them. Now Niall must track them down and persuade them to swap their new-found liberty for the security of the Courts--but is the price of sanctuary merely to swap one cage for another?"--P. [4] of cover.

Hard Rain Falling

Hard Rain Falling
Title Hard Rain Falling PDF eBook
Author Don Carpenter
Publisher New York Review of Books
Total Pages 337
Release 2010-06-23
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1590173902

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A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck. Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.