The Return of the Player

The Return of the Player
Author: Michael Tolkin
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 155584748X

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This follow-up to the classic black comedy about the film industry is “a wicked fever dream of a novel” (San Francisco Chronicle). In The Player, the Hollywood novel that was adapted into the celebrated movie by Robert Altman, film executive Griffin Mill got away with murder. Now Mill is back, down to his last six million dollars, i.e., broke. His second wife wants to leave him. His first wife still loves him. His children hate him. And, believing that the end of the world is happening, he wants to save them all with one last desperate plan: quit the studio and convince an almost-billionaire that he has the road map and the mettle to make them both achieve savage wealth. In The Return of the Player, Tolkin again delivers a brilliant, incisive portrait of power, money, and family in a society out of control with greed and excess. “A powerful dark comedy that transcends the shopworn genre of Hollywood satire.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Both truly outrageous and actually endearing.”—New York Daily News

The Player of Games

The Player of Games
Author: Iain M. Banks
Publisher: Orbit
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316095869

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The Culture — a human/machine symbiotic society — has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game. . . a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life — and very possibly his death. The Culture Series Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata

Don't Hate the Player

Don't Hate the Player
Author: Alexis Nedd
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1547605030

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"Refreshingly voice-y, wildly smart, and genuinely hilarious." - Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue From an exciting new voice comes a funny and heartfelt YA romance set in the world of competitive gaming, perfect for fans of Opposite of Always and Slay. Emilia Romero is living a double life. By day, she's a field hockey star with a flawless report card. But by night, she's kicking virtual ass as the only female member of a highly competitive eSports team. Emilia has mastered the art of keeping her two worlds thriving, which hinges on them staying completely separate. That's in part to keep her real-life persona, but also for her own safety, since girl gamers are often threatened and harassed. When a major eSports tournament comes to her city, Emilia is determined to prove herself to her team and the male-dominated gaming community. But her perfectly balanced life is thrown for a loop when a member of a rival team recognizes her . . . Jake Hooper has had a crush on Emilia since he was ten years old. When his underdog eSports team makes it into the tournament, he's floored to discover she's been leading a double life. The fates bring Jake and Emilia together as they work to keep her secret, even as the pressures of the tournament and their non-gaming world threaten to pull everything apart. Debut author Alexis Nedd has crafted a YA combo-punch of charming romance and virtual adventure that will win the hearts of gamers and non-gamers alike.

The Bass Player Book

The Bass Player Book
Author: Karl Coryat
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1999-05-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1617131512

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This is the right-hand man for players who live and breathe bass or for beginners who want an all-in-one guide to the instrument that shakes the low end of rock pop jazz and more. This handbook details the ins and outs of buying basses and equipment; provides set-up and electronics tips; and explores unique characteristics of landmark bass models. Chapters on technique cover bass basics theory fretless playing acoustic bass the essentials of various music styles recording gigging and more. Seminal interviews with great bassists include Jeff Berlin Stanley Clarke John Pattitucci Bill Wyman and many others.

The Player

The Player
Author: Michael Tolkin
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1555847471

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The “shrewd, entertainingly dark Hollywood novel” that inspired the award-winning Robert Altman film (The New York Times Book Review). Hollywood insider Michael Tolkin perfectly skewers the movie-making business through the mind of Griffin Mill, senior vice president of production at a major Hollywood studio. Ruthlessly ambitious, Mill is driven to control the levers of America’s dream-making machinery. He listens to writers pitch him stories all day, sitting in judgment of their fantasies, their lives. But now one writer whose pitch he responded to so glibly is sending him mortally threatening postcards. Squeezed between the threat to his life and the threat to his job, Mill’s deliberate and horrifying response spins him into a nightmare. Then he meets the sad and beautiful June Mercator and his obsession for her threatens to destroy them both. “One of the most wounding and satirical of all Hollywood exposes.” —Los Angeles Times “In its wry, acerbic description of life behind the studio gates Tolkin’s book recalls F. Scott Fitzgerald . . . and the vengeful comedy of Nathaniel West’s The Day of the Locust.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

Educational Publications

Educational Publications
Author: Indiana. Department of Public Instruction
Publisher:
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1918
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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The Player

The Player
Author: Bostjan Belingar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2017
Genre:
ISBN: 9789612839529

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The Complete Lawn Tennis Player

The Complete Lawn Tennis Player
Author: Arthur Wallis Myers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 494
Release: 1912
Genre: Tennis
ISBN:

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The Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: Thomas Spencer Baynes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 800
Release: 1891
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN:

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Lawn Tennis Up-to-date

Lawn Tennis Up-to-date
Author: S. Powell Blackmore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1921
Genre: Tennis
ISBN:

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