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| Author | : Alena Graedon |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2014-04-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0297869779 |
'Spine-tingling' New York Times 'A fast-paced, thrill-a-minute début novel' New Yorker 'Graedon knows how to ratchet up mystery' Esquire WORDS ARE UNDER THREAT. IT'S TIME TO FIGHT BACK... Imagine a world without words. A world in which books, libraries and newspapers are things of the past. A world where personal devices provide all you could want or need. Anana Johnson and her father, Doug, are hard at work on the final edition that will ever be printed of the English Dictionary. But one evening, Doug disappears and Anana unearths a single written clue: ALICE. In the battle to save her father, Anana discovers secret societies, dark incinerator rooms and underground passages. Above all, she finds a world that faces ruin from the dark side of technology. Praise for The Word Exchange 'A nervy, nerdy dystopian thriller' New York Times Book Review 'A propulsive, twisty future-noir' Daily Beast 'Spectacular' Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove 'Dazzling' Slate 'Wildly ambitious, darkly intellectual and inventive' Kirkus Reviews, starred review
| Author | : Greg Delanty |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 576 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0393079015 |
The dazzling variety of Anglo-Saxon poetry brought to life by an all-star cast of contemporary poets in an authoritative bilingual edition. Encompassing a wide range of voices-from weary sailors to forlorn wives, from heroic saints to drunken louts, from farmers hoping to improve their fields to sermonizers looking to save your soul—the 123 poems collected in The Word Exchange complement the portrait of medieval England that emerges from Beowulf, the most famous Anglo-Saxon poem of all. Offered here are tales of battle, travel, and adventure, but also songs of heartache and longing, pearls of lusty innuendo and clear-eyed stoicism, charms and spells for everyday use, and seven "hoards" of delightfully puzzling riddles. Featuring all-new translations by seventy-four of our most celebrated poets—including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Eavan Boland, Paul Muldoon, Robert Hass, Gary Soto, Jane Hirshfield, David Ferry, Molly Peacock, Yusef Komunyakaa, Richard Wilbur, and many others—The Word Exchange is a landmark work of translation, as fascinating and multivocal as the original literature it translates.
| Author | : Alena Graedon |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2015-02-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0345806034 |
Books, libraries, and newspapers have at last become things of the past. Now handheld Memes allow for constant communication and entertainment. They can even anticipate our needs, dialing the doctor before we know we’re sick, or prompting us with words we can’t recall. Yet a few dedicated wordsmiths are still laboring on the final print edition of the North American Dictionary of the English Language. But one evening, right before it’s released, Anana Johnson finds that the chief editor—her father—has vanished. In alternating points of view, Anana and her bookish colleague Bart follow their only clue, the word ALICE, down the proverbial rabbit hole, into subterranean passages, the stacks of the Mercantile Library, and secret meetings of an anti-Meme underground resistance, racing closer to the truth about Anana’s father’s disappearance, and discovering a frightening connection to the growing “word flu” pandemic.
| Author | : Kate Gilmore |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780618689484 |
Daria is one of Earth's youngest licensed breeders of endangered species, and she has enough to do caring for her menagerie without having to cope with an exchange student from another planet. Besides Fen's color-shifting and endless questions, there is something about the way the lanky alien looks at her animals and his stubborn refusal to talk about the creatures of his own world that makes Daria nervous. Fen, on the other hand, couldn't be happier with his Earth family. Hoping for one pet, he finds himself in a zoo. With a sharp eye for human, alien, and animal ways, Kate Gilmore has written a fascinating tale.
| Author | : Matthew McLean |
| Publisher | : Library of the Written Word |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9789004316447 |
International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World presents new research on the movement and exchange of books between countries, languages and confessions. It explores commercial networks and business strategies, and the translation and circulation of literature, music and drama.
| Author | : Karlie Redd |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2019-07-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780578538921 |
Love... War... Pleasure... Pain... Born and raised in fast-paced New York, sixteen-year-old Eve is mature for her age and welcomes new adventures. When she is seduced by the good looks, flashy car, and the silken touch of an older man, she finds herself irresistibly hooked. Benefitting from Tony's generosity and free-flowing cash, she gets her first taste of being pampered and spoiled, and she becomes the envy of her high school friends. But her fairy tale romance crashes down around her when she discovers that Tony has been leading a double life.Thus begins the cycle of Eve desiring true love but having difficulty finding it. She seeks revenge on Tony with a neighbor but that quickly takes a wrong turn and, eventually, she moves to Los Angeles with another older man that she feels can help her establish her acting career. From there, she falls head over heels for a boxer, who turns out to be bad news. Eve truly falls in love with a musician who she believes is "the one." The difference is that he is struggling when they fall in love but once he becomes an overnight success, the tables turn once again. Eve has to face the fact that she is better off alone, that she can accomplish her dreams on her own merits, and that she has exchanged enough of herself-her mind, body, and soul-for material things and promises. Jam-packed with drama, eroticism, and thought-provoking scenes, Even Exchange by Karlie Redd is a page-turner that will have readers up all night anticipating the unforgettable climatic ending. "In Even Exchange, Karlie Redd pens a vivid and intriguing story about a young lady who has to learn about life the hard way. Continuously seeking love in all the wrong places, Eve finally discovers that the love she seeks is within herself. A poignant coming-of-age cautionary tale about what it means to mature too quickly and eventually learn from your mistakes. The eroticism is top-notch but, more importantly, many young ladies can learn from this novel and grow to embrace themselves instead of believing that they can't flourish and succeed alone. Even Exchange is an "evergreen" story that will delight readers for decades to come."Zane, NY Times Bestselling Author, Producer, and Publisher
| Author | : Alena Graedon |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 2014-04-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0385537662 |
A dystopian novel for the digital age, The Word Exchange offers an inventive, suspenseful, and decidedly original vision of the dangers of technology and of the enduring power of the printed word. In the not-so-distant future, the forecasted “death of print” has become a reality. Bookstores, libraries, newspapers, and magazines are things of the past, and we spend our time glued to handheld devices called Memes that not only keep us in constant communication but also have become so intuitive that they hail us cabs before we leave our offices, order takeout at the first growl of a hungry stomach, and even create and sell language itself in a marketplace called the Word Exchange. Anana Johnson works with her father, Doug, at the North American Dictionary of the English Language (NADEL), where Doug is hard at work on the last edition that will ever be printed. Doug is a staunchly anti-Meme, anti-tech intellectual who fondly remembers the days when people used email (everything now is text or videoconference) to communicate—or even actually spoke to one another, for that matter. One evening, Doug disappears from the NADEL offices, leaving a single written clue: ALICE. It’s a code word he devised to signal if he ever fell into harm’s way. And thus begins Anana’s journey down the proverbial rabbit hole . . . Joined by Bart, her bookish NADEL colleague, Anana’s search for Doug will take her into dark basements and subterranean passageways; the stacks and reading rooms of the Mercantile Library; and secret meetings of the underground resistance, the Diachronic Society. As Anana penetrates the mystery of her father’s disappearance and a pandemic of decaying language called “word flu” spreads, The Word Exchange becomes a cautionary tale that is at once a technological thriller and a meditation on the high cultural costs of digital technology.
| Author | : Albert Conser Whitaker |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 674 |
| Release | : 1922 |
| Genre | : Foreign exchange |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Tilghman Ethan Ballard |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 928 |
| Release | : 1901 |
| Genre | : Real property |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Illinois. Supreme Court |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 730 |
| Release | : 1896 |
| Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
| ISBN | : |
