Showing results for "Post-digital" in Literary Fiction

""It began as a mistake."" By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged...

Who killed Eric Davenport? A senior mathematics professor at Underhill College has been found dead in his office, the victim of murder. At Underhill, a small liberal arts college with a pricy tuition and a pampered student body, all of the students are close to their professors. But at least one loved Eric Davenport in a deeply inappropriate fashion. Some hated him. And then there is the faculty at war with itself. And the idiotic administration. And the twin boys who live next to campus. And what’s with all those praying mantises?

Tyler Ford was robbed of a childhood and forced to learn his father’s stringent rules of survival for every kind of apocalypse...when an EMP obliterates the United States electrical grid he must face the past and remember what he taught him if he hopes to make it out of Vegas alive....Rules of Survival is book one in Survival Rules, a post-apocalyptic EMP thriller series following the Ford family and their community as they fight to survive after an EMP destroys the nation’s power grid.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Marvelous . . . I just had to be there with the Post cereal heiress through every twist and turn.”—Martha Hall Kelly, New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls “New-money heiress Marjorie Post isn’t content to remain a society bride as she remakes...

"Une œuvre pas belle à voir" : telle est la façon dont la scène de crime a été décrite à la capitaine Isabelle Le Peletier avant son arrivée sur les lieux. Mais rien n’aurait pu la préparer à une telle horreur. Dans un grand appartement parisien, vide de tout meuble, le corps d’un homme l’attend assis sur une chaise, nu et atrocement mutilé. Sur son avant-bras, un étrange tatouage. Le clou du spectacle : un tableau de Van Gogh disparu depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale est posé à côté du cadavre.

Luke Martelli had one thing going for him: he knew racecars. But he didn’t get his thrills behind the wheel. Drivers wanted speed and handling, and he could make that happen. He’d been hours away from working his dream job with a pit crew when a freak accident took that chance away. M.J. Post the pen name of a New York City teacher. She writes contemporary romance either solo or with Mysti Parker. Mysti Parker is an award-wining romance writer from Louisville, Kentucky.

Många föreställer sig att om man redan har varit med om något av det värsta som kan drabba en människa i livet, så får man därmed ett skydd, ett slags immunitet mot ytterligare katastrofer. Det är naturligtvis ett misstag ... Kjell Granlund önskar inget annat än att få gå upp i rök. Han är fast med ett jobb som han ogillar och hans familjeliv är allt annat än vad man hade kunnat önska sig. Det som till sist får Kjell att bryta samman och lämna allt bakom sig är en enorm spelskuld han dragit på sig på ett nätkasino.

Raised in a privileged community of wealthy survivalists on an idyllic, self-sustaining Oregon ranch, Marlo has always been insulated. The outside world, which the ranchers call “the Disaster”, is a casualty of ravaging climate change, a troubled landscape on the brink of catastrophe. For as long as Marlo can remember, the unknown that lies beyond the borders of her utopia has been a curious obsession. But just as she plans her escape into the chaos of the real world, a charismatic new resident gives her a compelling reason to stay.

For more than twenty years, the Homeland has been immersed in a brutal, unwinnable war. Young men are drafted and sent to fight in a faraway jungle. Those who come back are scarred in body and mind. Lance, two weeks shy of turning eighteen, has watched his older brothers leave and his mother fall apart when they fail to return. He's never imagined a different future for himself - until he meets an idealistic young woman named Lorrie and impulsively flees town with her.

Ils n'ont plus le choix : il faut se battre ou mourir. De la survie d'Eden dépendent celle des enfants, de leur union, l'avenir de cette étrange planète. Pour l'Alliance des Trois, c'est l'épreuve ultime, la fin d'une longue quête, naissance ou mort de l'espoir.

Personne ne l'a vue venir. La Grande Tempête : un ouragan de vent et de neige qui plonge le pays dans l'obscurité et l'effroi. D'étranges éclairs bleus rampent le long des immeubles, les palpent, à la recherche de leurs proies.

Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukraine's leading public intellectual, is called upon to make sense of the unthinkable reality of our times. In this breathtaking short story collection, she turns the concept of truth over in her hands like a beautifully crafted pair of gloves. From the triumph of the Orange Revolution, which marked the start of the twenty-first century, to domestic victories in matchmaking, sibling rivalry, and even tennis, Zabuzhko - manages to shock the listener by juxtaposing things as they are.

Le 19 janvier 2007, à 13 h 05, âgée de 49 ans, moi, Maria Delasalle, je décédais d'un cancer. Neuf mois de lutte contre le crabe, contre cette tumeur sournoise, pour finalement devoir jeter l'éponge comme un vulgaire poids plume qui manquerait d'entraînement. Après mon décès, mon mari Vincent, auteur-réalisateur, entreprit de raconter notre histoire. Ma présence "post-mortem" lui fut d'une grande utilité, enfin je l'espère.

By Cecile depicts post-World War II France as it reels from war and recovery. In Paris, an orphan girl, Cecile, finds refuge with an older man. He introduces her to nightclubs, intellectuals, artists (Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Eartha Kitt!), and non-monogamy. When she falls for his mistress, she begins to live a life she deems worthy of writing about...but only under the pseudonym of her husband.

张小扬和林媛媛，一个是穷苦农家的孩子，一个是出身名门的富家千金；进初中时，他们分别以全镇第一和第二的成绩考入了同一所学校…… 張小揚和林媛媛，一個是窮苦農家的孩子，一個是出身名門的富家千金；進初中時，他們分別以全鎮第一和第二的成績考入了同一所學校……

The Great Tribulation unfolds as the forces of evil and the armies of God prepare for mankind's ultimate battle. Millions of Christians are protected by God as the anger of the Antichrist, Nicolae Carpathia, burns against them.

Essere un moderatore di contenuti significa vedere l'umanità al suo peggio, ma Kayleigh ha bisogno di soldi. Ecco perché accetta un incarico per una piattaforma di social media di cui non le è permesso fare il nome. La sua responsabilità consiste nell'esaminare video e foto offensivi, sproloqui e teorie cospirative, e decidere quali debbano essere rimossi. È un'attività estenuante. Kayleigh e i suoi colleghi trascorrono le giornate guardando le cose più orribili sui loro schermi, e valutandole secondo le linee guida dell'azienda, che cambiano in continuazione.