Showing results for "Gravity" in Genre Fiction

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on...

Abigail Sorensen has spent her life trying to unwrap the events of 1990. It was the year she started receiving random chapters from a self-help book called The Guidebook in the post. It was also the year Robert, her brother, disappeared on the eve of her 16th birthday. She believes the absurdity of The Guidebook and the mystery of her brother's disappearance must be connected....

The adult debut from bestselling, award-winning young adult author Jaclyn Moriarty—a frequently hilarious, brilliantly observed novel in the spirit of Maria Semple, Rainbow Rowell, and Gail Honeyman—that follows a single mother’s heartfelt search for greater truths about the universe, her...

Il ne veut plus faire confiance. Elle a décidé de tourner la page. Pour ne plus souffrir, Sanders s'est retranché derrière une épaisse carapace. Les filles viennent, puis s'en vont, et elle ne fait pas exception. C'est une révélation qui va bouleverser ses certitudes et le mettre face à la réalité de ses sentiments. Enfin prêt à croire de nouveau en l'avenir, il fera tout afin que l'objet de son obsession lui revienne, et ce, malgré le manque de tact dont il a fait preuve par le passé.

Before his victory at the Nile. Before his scandalous personal life made headlines. Before he crushed the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar. Before he died a martyr. Horatio Nelson, England's greatest naval hero, assumed his first command, the 12-gun brig HMS Badger, at the tender age of 20. History tells us his first voyages as captain were unremarkable. Yet in the Known Worlds, where sailing ships ply the Void and the mystic science of alchemy works wonders, Nelson's first command goes quite differently.