No-Signal Area

No-Signal Area
Author: Robert Perisic
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1609809718

Oleg and Nikola—hustlers, entrepreneurs, ambassadors of capitalism—have come to the town of N to build an obsolete turbine, never mind why. Enlisting the help of former engineer Sobotka, they reopen the old turbine factory, preaching the gospel of “self-organization” and bringing new life to the depressed post-communist town. But as the project spins out of control, Oleg and Nikola find themselves increasingly entangled with the locals, for whom this return to past prosperity brings bitter reckonings and reunions. At once a savage sendup of our current political moment and a rueful elegy for what might have been, this sprawling novel blends tragedy and comedy in its portrayal of ordinary people wondering where it all went wrong, and whether it could have gone any other way.

NO SIGNAL

NO SIGNAL
Author: Jem Tugwell
Publisher: Serpentine Books
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2020-06-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1916022340

NO SIGNAL (iMe book 2) The breathtaking follow-up novel to Proximity Can a game change the world? The Ten are chosen – they are reckless, driven and strong. They are tested. Ten become Four. In a country where everyone is tracked, how can the Four hide from the police? DI Clive Lussac hates the system that controls everything, but he's ill and it’s helping him. He must decide: conform or fight. As Clive's world unravels, he and his partners DC Ava Miller and DS Zoe Jordan can’t believe the entry price to the game. They strive to answer the real questions. Why does the ultimate Augmented Reality game have four different finishes? And how is a simple game wrapped up in politics, religion and the environment? No Signal is perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, The Black Mirror TV series, George Orwell’s 1984, The Handmaid’s Tale, Peter James, William Gibson and Dean Koontz. The iMe series are fast paced crime thrillers set in an eerily believable near future world. Starring Detective Inspector Clive Lussac - think Roy Grace meets Black Mirror. Book 1 - Proximity Book 2 - No Signal Each book can be read as a stand-alone novel. ‘A BUREAUCRAT navigating the pandemic would chew their right arm off for an iMe…Even now, tech is being made the seems like a precursor to the iMe’ New Scientist - May 2020 Praise for No Signal: ‘a carefully crafted plot that twists and turns within a multifaceted future, No Signal, raises the iMe series to a whole new level.’ SciFiNow ‘An immersive, entertaining high-octane thriller set in a plausible interconnected world. Well-written, thought-provoking escapism. Perfect for fans of Black Mirror & Philip K. Dick.’ Adam Hamdy 5* ’An instant classic; it’s an absolutely outstanding dystopian crime thriller’ The Book Magnet 5* ‘Suspense, loads of action and great characters’ EmmabBooks 5* ’An outstanding piece of writing. More than just another dystopian novel.’ Chocolate’n’Waffles 5* ‘it begs you to begin asking questions about how far is too far in terms of technology, freedom and privacy, while giving you a rather thrilling and entertaining story’ A Garden of Books 5* ‘another mind-blowing book in the iMe series’ BooksTeacupnReviews 5* ‘provides insightful commentary about the power digital technology has to shape our thinking and behaviour.’ Jade Hinchcliffe 5 * ’This is another belting story from this author.’ FromDuskTillDawn 5* ‘I felt transported into the world’ Jessica Belmont 5* ’I can’t wait to see where else this world can go, hopefully a next novel.’ Tranquil Dreams 5* ‘Chilling. A brilliant followup to book 1.’ The Faerie Review ‘fast-paced, brilliantly imagined, and thoughtful, this is multiple genres and stories in one’ The Crime Review ‘a really great read, packed with intrigue, suspense, some action and humour too’ What Rebecca’s Read ‘thrilling and intriguing…it sheds new light on the dystopia of a ‘utopian’ UK’ TehBen’s Book Club ‘Every character, plot twist and setting seamlessly weaves its way into the story’ The Dorset Book Detective ‘a fascinating take on the future’ The Eclectic Review ‘Tugwell does an amazing job of blending in the future with the present’ Mama Mummy Mum ‘the ultimate theme park white knuckle ride’ Bookphace

FCC Record

FCC Record
Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher:
Total Pages: 930
Release: 2012
Genre: Telecommunication
ISBN:

We Trade Our Night for Someone Else's Day

We Trade Our Night for Someone Else's Day
Author: Ivana Bodrozic
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2021-04-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1644210495

A thriller of the ex-Yugoslavia Wars. "Bodrozic, mediated by Ellen Elias-Bursac’s assured translation, chronicles what a country chooses to remember, and what it consciously forgets, with confidence and grace." —Sarah Weinman, New York Times Book Review The city of Vukovar, situated on Croatia's easternmost periphery, across the Danube River from Serbia, was the site of some of the worst violence in the wars that rocked ex-Yugoslavia in the early '90s. It is referred to only as "the city" throughout this taut political thriller from one of Europe's most celebrated young writers. In this city without a name, fences in schoolyards separate the children of Serbs from those of Croats, and city leaders still fight to free themselves from violent crimes they committed--or permitted--during the war a generation ago. Now, it is left to a new generation--the children, now grown up, to extricate themselves from this tragic place, innocents who are nonetheless connected in different ways to the crimes of the past. Nora is a journalist assigned to do a puff piece on the perpetrator of a crime of passion--a Croatian high school teacher who fell in love with one of her students, a Serb, and is now in prison for having murdered her husband. But Nora herself is the daughter of a man who was murdered years earlier under mysterious circumstances. And she wants, if not to avenge her father, at least to bring to justice whoever committed the crime. There's a hothouse intensity to this extraordinary noir page-turner because of how closely the author sets the novel within the historical record. This city is unnamed, the story is fictional, so it can show us what actually happened there.

The Hotel Tito

The Hotel Tito
Author: Ivana Bodrozic
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1609807960

The most powerful autobiographical novel written about the Yugoslav wars. A timely and deeply accessible book that speaks to what it is like to be displaced by war. Hotel Tito is an award-winning autobiographical novel of the Serbo-Croatian War. Author Ivana Bodrožić was born in the Croatian town of Vukovar, just across the Danube from Serbia. In the fall of 1991, Vukovar was besieged by the Yugoslav People's Army for eighty-seven days. When the army broke the siege, people came up out of the basements where they'd been sheltering from bombardment; women and children were allowed out of the besieged city, but the army bused 400 men from the hospital to a farm on the outskirts where soldiers and Serbian paramilitaries massacred them. Bodrožić's father was among those taken and murdered. In Hotel Tito, after fleeing the war zone their town has become, the mother and two children are housed along with other displaced persons at a former communist school in the village of Kumrovec (the birthplace of Josip Tito). For years they share a single room just large enough for their three beds, waiting to hear whether the narrator's father survived and when they'll be granted an apartment of their own. In the meantime life goes on for the teenage protagonist, first loves bloom and burn quickly, new friendships are acquired and lost, new truths emerge, and new emotions. But she never loses her shy, insightful voice, nor her self-deprecating sense of humor. Hotel Tito is a sensitive and forthright coming of age novel in a time of atrocity and loss.

OPLL

OPLL
Author: K. Yonenobu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 4431670467

This publication brings together information on all aspects of OPLL - epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis, and treatment. It contains contributions by Japanese researchers and surgeons, including members of the Ministry of Health and Welfare Investigation Committee, and by American surgeons with expertise in the field. Until now, little has been published on the subject in English. This collection of reports is amply augmented with illustrations.