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(0)Emily St. John Mandel
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it"--
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater...
Author
Publisher
Áticos de los Libros
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Ninguna estrella arde para siempre. En 1912, Edwin St. Andrew busca una nueva vida en la colonia británica de Columbia al ser exiliado por sus ideas políticas. En 2020, Mirella busca a la responsable de la muerte de su marido. En 2203, Olive Llewelyn, autora de éxito, viaja por la Tierra para promocionar una novela que, aunque ella no lo sabe, será profética. En 2401, el detective Gaspery-Jacques Roberts recibe el encargo de investigar una anomalía...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
"When Lilia Albert was a child, her father appeared on the doorstep of her mother's house and took her away. Now, haunted by an inability to remember much about her early childhood, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers and eluding the private detective who has dedicated a career to following close behind. Then comes Eli. When Lilia goes out for a paper and fails to return to their Brooklyn apartment, he follows her to Montreal,...
Author
Publisher
Titan
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins. Featuring Emily St John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado and more.
WHAT WOULD YOU SAVE FROM THE FIRE?
In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it? Digging through the layers of ruined cities beneath your feet, living in the bombed-out husk of a city, hiding...
WHAT WOULD YOU SAVE FROM THE FIRE?
In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it? Digging through the layers of ruined cities beneath your feet, living in the bombed-out husk of a city, hiding...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Recently fired, Gavin Sasaki returns to his Florida hometown to start a job with his sister Elio's real estate company. His move is also motivated by the appearance of a ten-year-old girl who looks like him and has the same last name as his high school girlfriend, Anna, who left town abruptly after graduation. Determined to find out if the girl might be his daughter, Gavin sets off to find Anna, starting with the three friends they shared back when...