The Plague of Dreamlessness

The Plague of Dreamlessness
Author: M. Reese Kennedy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2012-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780987266309
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1960s Omaha teems with the brood of the Catholic city, families bred to pack pews, to turn elections, to fill battalions. Wesley Grassford rides to school in a Stingray bicycle gang, feeds the dog, and plays maul-the-man, kids swarming and grappling for a worn leather football until the church bells ring six o'clock and time for dinner. Unknown to the boy, or to the larger community, a group of local men are slipping into a private and unspoken pathology. Their sleeps are barren and dreamless, their outlooks listless and lethargic. Many slip quietly into coma. 2020s America trades in the social medium of dreams, earning fortunes for those who hold the harness. Zachary Sergeant, a low-ranking engineer, makes a startling and unsanctioned discovery as the plague threatens to return, this time on a larger scale. Story lines converge in pursuit of its secrets, exploring the nature of dreams and memory, and the onset of enduring sleep.

A Plague of Nightmares

A Plague of Nightmares
Author: Adrian Cole
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1975
Genre:
ISBN: 9780890831113
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The Theatre of Regret

The Theatre of Regret
Author: David Gaertner
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2020-11-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0774865385
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The Canadian public largely understands reconciliation as the harmonization of Indigenous–settler relations for the benefit of the nation. But is this really happening? The Theatre of Regret asks whether reconciliation politics will ultimately favour the state’s goals over those of Indigenous peoples. Interweaving literature and art throughout his analysis, David Gaertner questions the state-centred frameworks of reconciliation by exploring the critical roles that Indigenous and allied authors, artists, and thinkers play in defining, challenging, and refusing settler regret. Through close examination of core concepts in reconciliation theory – acknowledgement, apology, redress, and forgiveness – this study exposes the deeply embedded colonial ideologies at the root of reconciliation in Canada.

The Plague

The Plague
Author: Albert Camus
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2021-11-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593318668
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“We can finally read the work as Camus meant it to be read. Laura Marris’s new translation of The Plague is, quite simply, the translation we need to have.” —Los Angeles Review of Books The first new translation of The Plague to be published in the United States in more than seventy years, bringing the Nobel Prize winner's iconic novel to a new generation of readers. • "A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair." —The Washington Post The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation, and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, as well as a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence. In this fresh yet careful translation, award-winning translator Laura Marris breathes new life into Albert Camus's ever-resonant tale. Restoring the restrained lyricism of the original French text, and liberating it from the archaisms and assumptions of the previous English translation, Marris grants English readers the closest access we have ever had to the meaning and searing beauty of The Plague. This updated edition promises to add relevance and urgency to a classic novel of twentieth-century literature.

The Marrow Thieves

The Marrow Thieves
Author: Cherie Dimaline
Publisher: DCB
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2017-05-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1770864873
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Just when you think you have nothing left to lose, they come for your dreams. Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. For now, survival means staying hidden — but what they don't know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves.

The Plague Lord

The Plague Lord
Author: Paul Doherty
Publisher: Headline
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755350502
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A legendary explorer. A series of shocking murders. A secret society. Paul Doherty writes a dramatic historical novel about Marco Polo's life in 13th century China in The Plague Lord. Perfect for fans of Ellis Peters and C.J. Sansom. 'An enthralling historical detective novel which immerses the reader in an unknown and distant society far removed from medieval western civilisation, and brings to life some of the period's greatest characters. The mysterious East has never seemed either so deadly or so alien' - Brentwood Gazette Thirteenth-century China. In the streets of Cambaluc, seat of the great Mongol Lord, Kublai Khan, sinister events are unfolding. Members of the Guild of Pourers, the city cleaners, are being picked off one by one in a series of gut-wrenching murders. What is the link between these deaths and the reappearance of the Water Lily sect, a secret society dedicated to service of the Plague Lord, Wen Yi Kwei? With rumours of demonic forces at work, Kublai Khan summons his trusted advisor and friend, the Venetian Marco Polo, to discover the truth. But will he be able to stem the tide of evil before it's too late? And will the Water Lily sect succeed in unleashing the full fury of Wen Yi Kwei, the great baron of Hell...? What readers are saying about Paul Doherty: 'I picked it up and couldn't put it down' 'The sounds and smells of the period seem to waft from the pages of [Paul Doherty's] books' 'Five stars'

Memoir of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Dwight

Memoir of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Dwight
Author: Harrison Gray Otis Dwight
Publisher:
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1840
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:
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The Plague Dogs

The Plague Dogs
Author: Richard Adams
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2016-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101970693
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This modern-day classic is an unforgettable tale of fantasy and adventure, a powerful exploration of the limits of human cruelty and kindness. A “gripping ... compelling tale of emotional force and high suspense” (The Wall Street Journal). Rowf, a shaggy black mongrel, and Snitter, a black-and-white fox terrier, are among dozens of animals being cruelly held in a testing facility in North West England. When one of the handlers fails to close Rowf’s cage properly, the two dogs make a daring escape into the English countryside, where they befriend a red fox who helps them survive in the wild. But as rumors circulate that the dogs may have been the test subjects for biological weapons and could be carrying a terrible plague, they soon find themselves targets of a great dog hunt. Local farmers, politicians, scientists, and even the military join in the search to track them down.

Ares Express

Ares Express
Author: Ian McDonald
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2014-01-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1625670745
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A Mars of the imagination, like no other, in a colorful, witty SF novel, taking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald's Desolation Road, Ares Express is set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planet’s circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times each second. One young woman, Sweetness Octave Glorious-Honeybun Asiim 12th, becomes the person upon whom the future -- or futures -- of Mars depends. Big, picaresque, funny; taking the Mars of Ray Bradbury and the more recent, terraformed Marses of authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Greg Bear, Ares Express is a wild and woolly magic-realist SF novel, featuring lots of bizarre philosophies, strange, mind-stretching ideas, and trains as big as city blocks. REVIEWS “Ares Express is a long, adventure-filled, extravagantly colorful, often funny, quite moving, highly imaginative, excellently written story, set on a glorious Mars built partly of sharp-edged Kim Stanley Robinson-style extrapolation, but mostly of lush, loving, Ray Bradbury-style semi-SF, semi-Fantasy, Martian dreams.... I loved it wholeheartedly.” – SF Site “Hugo-winner McDonald’s virtues have long been underappreciated by major North American publishers... McDonald’s fantastic Mars is vividly detailed and owes much to Bradbury’s Martian stories. Despite a bit of hand waving around technology that is glibly indistinguishable from magic, this sequel is entirely worthy of its rightly lauded predecessor [Desolation Road].” – Publishers Weekly “One of the strangest, weirdest, fantastic reads of your life.” – SF Crowsnest “McDonald is clever, lyrical... snarky, and utterly wondrous. The characters would be completely unbelievable in our world, but in theirs they are inevitable...” – Night Owl Reviews

The Plague Doctor

The Plague Doctor
Author: E. Joan Sims
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-02-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1434449300
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Mystery novelist Paisley Sterling is happier than she ever dreamed. As successful writer she is free to return to her mother's farm in Kentucky where she trades in her panty hose and high-heeled shoes for jeans and loafers. Her only problem is the pen name of "Leonard Paisley" that her agent encourages her to assume because "a detective novel will sell better if it's written by a man." Unfortunately Paisley finds out that every paradise has its snake when her beautiful daughter, Cassie falls, in love with a young epidemiologist from the Centers for Disease Control. Dr. Ethan McEnery has come to Rowan Springs to investigate a medical mystery. When he is unexpectedly arrested for rape and murder, Ethan turns to Paisley - and "Leonard" for help. What follows is a roller coaster ride of slapstick comedy and nail-biting suspense as Paisley, her daughter, and her mother, Anna, search for clues to the crime and the mysterious deaths that brought the CDC to Rowan Springs in the first place. During their investigations they discover a man who, in his insane desire to become the ultimate judge of who will live and who will die, has unleashed a dangerous and deadly pathogen that may prove impossible for even the most advanced medical science to contain...