pulp fiction

Strictly Murder!: A Writer's Guide to Criminal Homicide

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Roth, Martin / Lange, Tom, PUBLISHER: Siles Press, Strictly Murder provides film, TV, and fiction writers with essential information on all aspects of murder and its investigation and prosecution, including -- types of murders -- methods -- motives -- criminal profiles -- police investigative tools and procedures -- medical examiner and crime lab tools and procedures -- criminal court procedures... and much more. Unique to this book is the inclusion of a copy of an actual Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department "murder book" -- a law enforcement agency's complete paper trail, which follows a murder from the time it is first reported through the arrest of a suspect. A "murder book" collects every report made by every person connected with a murder investigation, including the first officer on the scene, forensic investigators, and detectives. Strictly Murder also includes short chapters written by investigative, criminal profiling, and crime lab experts.

A Long Finish

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dibdin, Michael, PUBLISHER: Doubleday Canada, In Aurelio Zen, officer of the Italian Criminalpol, Michael Dibdin has created one of the most intriguing and addictive detectives in contemporary crime fiction. Now he returns in "A Long Finish," driven by a steely instinct for self-preservation coupled with a love of good food and wine. Zen is back in Rome, meeting with a world-famous film director at the instruction of his superiors. In the privacy of a remarkably well-stocked wine cellar, the director convinces Zen to arrange for the release of the scion of an important wine-growing family, who has been jailed for the murder of his own father. It's a puzzle of envy, love, greed, and pride, accompanied by heaping plates of pasta covered with generous shavings of white truffle, and bottomless glasses of the best local wine. It is the perfect challenge for Zen -- and a perfect read for his fans.

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Durrow, Heidi W., PUBLISHER: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, This debut novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I. who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. With her strict African American grandmother as her new guardian, Rachel moves to a mostly black community, where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and beauty bring mixed attention her way. Growing up in the s, she learns to swallow her overwhelming grief and confronts her identity as a biracial young woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white. In the tradition of Jamaica Kincaid's "Annie John" and Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye," here is a portrait of a young girl- and society's ideas of race, class, and beauty. It is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction manuscript addressing issues of social justice.

Tonto Short Stories

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brown, Paul / Wheatman, Stuart, PUBLISHER: Tonto Press, Tonto Press launches its search for new writing talent with an anthology of twenty fresh stories by twenty exciting writers. Eclectic, absorbing, affecting, and memorable, this page-turning collection represents the very best of short but sweet original fiction. Edited by Paul Brown and Stuart Wheatman. Featured stories: Stephen Shieber - The Good Little Wife; Jolene Hui - Bookshelves; Sam Jackson - Dilemma; Robin Marsden - Nine Lies; Fiona Case - The Jellyfish; Phil Jell - Elastic Belt; Paul Brown - The Luger; Sam Morris - The Curious Anatomy of Brother Winton; Bernard Landreth - The Slug; Adam Maxwell - Self Assembly; Stuart Wheatman - Life; Dave Watson - Flux; Luke Watson - God; Eliza Hemingway - Jungle Tea; Nick Montgomery - The Last Smoker; Kirsten Bergen - James; David Breckenridge - New Orleans; Rosalind Wyllie - Freshers; P.A. Tanton - Come Walk With Me On The Wild Side, Sweet Jesus; Steve Wheeler - The Good Provider.

Of Human Bondage

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Maugham, W. Somerset, PUBLISHER: Ezreads Publications, LLC, The book begins with the death of the mother of the nine-year-old protagonist, Philip Carey. Philip's father had already died a few months before, and the orphan Philip is sent to live with his aunt and uncle. His uncle is vicar of Blackstable, a small village in East Anglia. Philip inherits a small fortune but the money is held in custody by his uncle until he is twenty-one, giving his uncle a great deal of power over him until he reaches his maturity. Early chapters relate Philip's experience at the vicarage. His aunt tries to be a mother to Philip, but she is herself childless and unsure of how to behave, whereas his uncle takes a cold disposition towards him. Philip's uncle has an eclectic collection of books, and in reading Philip finds a way to escape his mundane existence and experience fascinating worlds of fiction

Urania, l''astronave dell''esilio, tre romanzi di ben bova,

URANIA L''ASTRONAVE DELL''ESILIO Arnoldo Mondatori Editore TRE ROMANZI DI BEN BOVA BIBLIOTECA DI URANIA 9 ARNOLDO MONDADORI EDITORE ) I CONDANNATI DI MESSINA (EXILED FROM EARTH) 2) L'ASTRONAVE DEI (FLIGHT OF EXILES) 3) RITORNO DALL'ESILIO (END OF EXILE) ILLUSTRAZIONE DI COPERTINA DI KAREL THOLE VOLUME IN 16° DI PAGINE 453 BROSSURA ILLUSTRATA CONDIZIONI DEL LIBRO OTTIMO PARI AL NUOVO Ben Bova (Filadelfia, 8 novembre ) è uno sceneggiatore e autore di fantascienza statunitense. Nato a Filadelfia, in Pennsylvania, studia alla Temple University. Scrive per cinema e TV, nel diviene editore della rivista Analog e poi di Omni. Tutto questo, però, finisce nel , quando decide di dedicarsi alla scrittura a tempo pieno. Come curatore di antologie ha vinto il Premio Hugo dal '73 al '77 e nel . È stato presidente del Science Fiction Writers of America e presidente emerito della National Space Society.

Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Oates, Joyce Carol, PUBLISHER: Ecco, "A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters." --Denver Post Black Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. These stores, at once lyrical and unsettling, shine with the author's trademark fascination with finding the unpredictable amidst the prosaic--from her imaginative recreation of friendship between two tragically doomed young women (Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Short), to the tale of an infidelity as deeply human as it is otherworldly. Black Dahlia & White Rose is a major offering from one of the most important artists in contemporary American literature; a superb collection that showcases Joyce Carol Oates's ferocious energy and darkly imaginative storytelling power.

The Clock of the Centuries

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Robida, Albert / Stableford, Brian, PUBLISHER: Hollywood Comics, Of all the authors who followed in the footsteps of Jules Verne, the most important was Albert Robida (), a writer-artist who also became the founding father of science fiction illustration. Robida wrote and illustrated his own scientific anticipations, such as The Adventures of Saturnin Farandoul () and The Twentieth Century (). The Clock of the Centuries, originally published in , is notable as the first full-length literary account of time in reverse. In it, time starts running backwards, the dead come back to life and society is thrown into chaos. It is more ambitious and adventurous in its speculative range and verve than its modern-day successors, Philip K. Dick's Counter-Clock World and Brian W. Aldiss's Cryptozoic.This volume also includes Robida's novella Yesterday Now (), in which an scientist brings the Sun King Louis XIV and his court into the future for the Paris Universal Exposition.

Small Island

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Levy, Andrea, PUBLISHER: Review/Headline, Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction A Picador Original Trade Paperback Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmer's daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and courage, until the unexpected arrival of her husband, Bernard, who returns from combat with issues of his own to resolve. Told in these four voices, "Small Island "is a courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers---in short, an encapsulation of that most American of experiences: the immigrant's life.

Hybrids

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Paiement, Paul / Laguna Art Museum, PUBLISHER: Laguna Wilderness Press, Cultural Writing. Art. Hybrids presents the paintings of Los Angeles artist Paul Paiement. This uniquely designed double foldout book features over 50 color plates of Paiement's fascinating work along with an interview by Laguna Art Museum's Chief Curator Tyler Stallings and essays by renowned art writers Christopher Miles and Rebecca Neiderlander. Paiement's luminous paintings, of bugs and ordinary consumer products, combine the worlds of art, commodification, science fiction, and entomology with humor and wry social commentary. Utilizing traditional egg tempera and watercolor, Paiement delicately creates day-glo fantasy specimens isolated on pristine white backgrounds. According to Christopher Miles, "Color becomes key as Paiement desaturates the images and overlays them with even layers of transparent color, as if we see black-and-white images through tinted glass that neutralizes difference." Paiement has been exhibited extensively with his work continually garnering broader att

The Endings of Epochs

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brake, Laurel, PUBLISHER: Boydell & Brewer, In these specially commissioned new essays, seven scholars, from the United Kingdom and the Continent, consider a variety of imaginative articulations of the endings of epochs from the end of the sixteenth century to the present day; their subjects are as diverse as Milton's twin-vision of banishment and beginning to Donna Harraway's A Manifestation for Cyborgs' and Don DeLillo's version of the death of the author in Mao II. The essays treat drama, epic, poetry, the periodical press, fiction, and current theory; principal authors include Milton, An Collins, Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Henry James, Ella D'Arcy, Arthur Symons, Olive Schreiner, Angela Carter, Bell Hooks, Donna Harraway, Alasdair Gray, Martin Amis, Shena Mackay, and Don DeLillo.Dr LAUREL BRAKE is Senior Lecturer in Literature at Birkbeck College. The contributors are: HELEN WILCOX, GORDON McMULLEN, LAUREL BRAKE, JOSEPH BRISTOW, MARGARET BEETHAM, PENNY SMITH, JEREMY GREEN

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Stories with a Moral

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Price, Michael E., PUBLISHER: University of Georgia Press, Stories with a Moral is the first comprehensive study of the effects of plantation society on literature and the influences of literature on social practices in nineteenth-century Georgia. During the years of frontier settlement, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, Georgia authors voiced their support for the slave system, the planter class, and the ideals of the Confederacy, presenting a humorous, passionate, and at times tragic view of a rapidly changing world. Michael E. Price examines works of fiction, travel accounts, diaries, and personal letters in this thorough survey of King Cotton's literary influence, showing how Georgia authors romanticized agrarian themes to present an appealing image of plantation economy and social structure. Stories with a Moral focuses on the importance of literature as a mode of ideological communication. Even more significant, the book shows how the writing of one century shaped the development of social practices and beliefs that persist, in legend and memory, to this day.

Ben Bova - I figli dello spazio [Fantascienza]

I migliori romanzi brevi della Fantascienza di tutti i tempi scelti dai Membri dell'Associazione degli scrittori di SF americani - prima edizione nella Collana "Grandi Opere Nord"dell' Editrice Nord, Milano - titolo originale: "The Science Fiction Hall of Fame", traduttori diversi - con un'introduzione del curatore e 16 romanzi brevi. Volume ben rilegato in blu con titoli incisi in bianco al dorso - risguardi in tela - sovraccoperta di Karel Thole - f.to 14x21,4 - pagg. totali 720 (X+710) - esemplare perfetto, mai letto, pari al nuovo anche se con pagine leggermente brunite dal tempo. Consegna diretta (es.: c/o staz. Precotto metropolitana di Milano linea 1) oppure, in Italia, spedizione come piego di libri raccomandato con tracciabilità postale, previo accordo (costo fino a 2 Kg.: 4 euro, salvo aumento delle tariffe postali, confezione compresa e con comunicazione all'acquirente dei dati di spedizione, foto dell'indirizzo utilizzato e della ricevuta postale.

Regalo Libri Universitari Corso di Cinese

Regalo fotocopie libri universitari per corso di Cinese - Diffusion of distances - di Wai-Lim Yip - A history of modern Chinese fiction - di CT HSIA - The transparent eye - di Eugene Chen Eoyang - Racconti cinesi contemporanei - a cura di Primerose Gigliesi - Between shanghai and Hong Kong, the politics of Chinese Cinema - Di Poshek Fu - An amorous history of the silver screen - di Zhang Zhen - One hundred years of Chinese cinema - di Haili Kong e john A. Lent - La falsa liberta - di Lu Xun - Tecnica mercantile (astolfi e negri - per cinese manageriale) - Shanghai Modern - di Leo Ou-Fan Lee - Cinema and urban culture in Shanghai - di Yngjin Zhang - The classic Chinese novel - di CT Hsia - Once upon a time in China - di Jeff Yang - Transnational Chinese cinema - di Sheldon Hsiao-Peng Lu - The Geography of contemporary China - di Terry Cannon e Alan Jenkins - After Mao, Chinese literature and society - di Jeffrey C. Kinkley - Profili emergent del sistema giuridico cinese - di Luigi Moccia - Shanghai refugee - di Ernest G. Heppner

Somersault

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Oe, Kenzaburo / Gabriel, Philip, PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, (In his first new novel since he won the Novel Prize, Oe makes an immense departure from the autobiographical fiction he is most known for, in a magnificent story of the charisma of leaders and the danger of zealotry. A decade before the story opens, two men referred to as the Patron and Guide of manking were leaders of an influential religious movement. When a radical faction of their teaching and abandoned their followers. After ten years of silence, two men referred to as the Patron and Guide of mankind begin contacting their old followers and reaching out to the public. As Patron and a core of the faithful attempt to incorporate followers from the movement's past into a new vision for its future, conflicting agendas threaten the church's unity--or something far more dangerous. Ambitious and beautifully told, Somesault illuminates the spiritual searching of modern man that makes religious cults so compelling.)

Terraforming: The Creating of Habitable Worlds

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Beech, Martin, PUBLISHER: Springer, This book proposes a sound and realistic exploration on the topic of terraforming. Often used as the narrative premise in science fiction novels, terraforming is the process by which an uninhabitable planet might be converted into one capable of supporting life. This book presents what is physically possible today and hints what might conceivably be put into practice in the next several hundred years. The author works within the realms of current technology and known physics, although speculation on future advancements inevitably enters the discussion. Introductory chapters establish why terraforming will be of great benefit to human kind, and also put in place the basic physical arguments necessary to the terraforming process. The following parts look at various proposals that have been made for terraforming the planets Mars and Venus. The book concludes with a glimpse to the much deeper future when humankind will explore and colonize the outer solar system and possibly the newly discovered exoplanets.

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Metagame

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Landstrom, Sam, PUBLISHER: AmazonEncore, Speculative science fiction at its finest, MetaGame by Sam Landstrom is a a future gamersa (TM) field guide and a philosophical cyberpunk adventure. In this original and disturbingly irreverent prospective world, gaming is more than a diversion a " and gamers are, literally, in it for life. The OverSoul, an enigmatic, unifying force, offers winners points that add up to currency. Reigning champs are given the gift of immortality a " while losers are condemned to aging and death. D_Light is one of the best players in his Family and will do anything to win, even if it means committing murder. When hea (TM)s invited to a MetaGame a " an exclusive, high-stakes competition a " he jumps at the chance. But after the first quest, D_Lighta (TM)s overly ambitious ways brand him a renegade. With a warped sense of freewill that is needed to prevail, D_Light must either kill someone hea (TM)s grown to love a " or lose everything.

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: Volume 1

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: L'Amour, Louis, PUBLISHER: Random House Large Print Publishing, With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now this great writer--"Wall Street Journal "recently compared with Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson--will receive his due as a great storyteller. This volume kicks off a series that will, when complete, anthologize all of L'Amour's short fiction, volume by handsome volume. Here, in Volume One, is a treasure-trove of 35 frontier tales for his millions of fans and for those who have yet to discover L'Amour's thrilling prose--and his vital role in capturing the spirit of the Old West for generations to come.

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The Wish Maker

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sethi, Ali, PUBLISHER: Riverhead Books, A brilliant, enthralling debut novel about a fatherless boy growing up in a family of outspoken women in contemporary Pakistan, "The Wish Maker" is also a tale of sacrifice, betrayal, and indestructible friendship. Zaki Shirazi and his female cousin Samar Api were raised to consider themselves "part of the same litter." In a household run by Zaki's crusading political journalist mother and iron-willed grandmother, it was impossible to imagine a future that could hold anything different for each of them. But when adolescence approaches, the cousins' fates diverge, and Zaki is forced to question the meaning of family, selfhood, and commitment to those he loves most. Chronicling world-changing events that have never been so intimately observed in fiction, and brimming with unmistakable warmth and humor, "The Wish Maker" is the powerful account of a family and an era, a story that shows how, even in the most rapidly shifting circumstances, there are bonds that survive the tugs of convention, time, and history.

Il padrone del mondo

Robert Hugh Benson Fazi editore - - Le strade - 240 Ambientato ai nostri giorni ma scritto ne , il padrone del mondo è al tempo stesso una delle prime distonie moderne e un bestseller assoluto nell'ambito della christian fiction, lodato da papa Francesco per le sue qualità profetiche. spedizione non tracciata euro 1,90 tracciata euro 4,90 copertina plastificata con alette - pagg. 382 - euro Robert Hugh Benson () Figlio dell'Arcivescovo di Canterbury e fratello del prolifico scrittore Edward F.Benson, cresce in un contesto familiare estremamente colto. Dopo gli studi a Eton e la laurea al Trinity College di Cambridge entra a far parte della chiesa anglicana, ma più tardi, in seguito a un cammino molto sofferto, si converte al cattolicesimo: nel viene infatti ordinato sacerdote nella chiesa di San Silvestro a Roma. All'interno della sua produzione scritta figurano diversi saggi e romanzi storici di argomento religioso. Il padrone del mondo è la sua opera di maggior successo.

A Door in the River

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wolfe, Inger Ash, PUBLISHER: McClelland & Stewart, When Henry Weist, Port Dundas, Ontario's likeable hardware store owner is found dead in the parking lot of a cigarette shop on a local First Nation reserve, apparently of a bee sting, and with more deaths to follow, Hazel Micallef finds herself involved in one of the most sensational and shocking cases of her career. And one that literally goes underground to get to the bottom of what turns out to be a vengeful, murderous rampage. Behind the scenes of the investigation, Hazel is dealing with an 87-year-old mother who seems to have lost the will to live; the complications of procedures and protocols, political manoeuvrings within the force itself, including the promotion of her former nemesis to whom she will now report. In Hazel Micallef, Wolfe has created one of the more intriguing and no-nonsense protagonists in crime fiction. Brilliantly plotted and pyschologically complex, and rewarding, "A Door in the River" is the strongest, most haunting Hazel Micallef mystery yet.

Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Berrada, Mohammed / Phillips, Christina, PUBLISHER: American University in Cairo Press, Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated is a fascinating and highly experimental story based loosely around the author's own experiences in Egypt as a Moroccan student and visiting intellectual. In Cairo the narrator, Hammad, takes us on a deeply personal journey of discovery from the heady days of the s and s, with all the optimism and excitement surrounding Moroccan independence, Suez, and Abdel Nasser, up to the s and the time of writing, revealing an individual intensely concerned with Arab life and culture. Meanwhile, his regular visits to Cairo allow us watch a culture in transition over four decades.Exploring themes of change, the role of culture in society, memory, and writing, in a text that combines narrative fiction with literary criticism, philosophical musings, and quotation, Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated is among the most innovative works of modern Arabic literature and a testimony to Mohammed Berrada's position as a leading pioneer.

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