Ergebnis für "Seth" in Großstadtleben

When his older brother gets gunned down, 14-year-old Junius Posey puts down the weed he’s pushing and grips a gun for the first time. As he makes his way into the Rindge Towers, a territory of vicious drug dealers, Junius is forced to defend his best friend to deadly effect. Now there’s no going back. Shocked by the violence he’s created and determined to see his quest through to its end, he pushes ever farther into the towers to find a woman known as “The Oracle” who might have his answer.

A novel about an unlikely pair of lonely outsiders--one human, one AI--on an adventure to save the great American city of Metropolis written by "one of the most exciting new voices in fiction" (Charles Yu) *Named one of the best books of the month by Library Journal ("Debut of the Month"), The...

For this seventh installment of the Creepsville Collection, we present four tales straight out of the Uncanny Valley: "Differently Wired": She built and programmed her ideal lover, but what will she do after she meets somebody new? How do you dump somebody who, quite literally, exists solely for you? "Rusty Bolts": Okay, so Jim Riustenholtz is a robot. Big deal. He's still part of the gang, and not that different from anybody else. Right? Right? "Continue Program?": Why live in the real world when the virtual one is so much less hassle and so much more fun?

Award-winning novelist Vikram Seth is renowned worldwide for his magnum opus A Suitable Boy. But his dazzling debut, though less well-known, is equally innovative, masterly and ambitious. First published in 1986 and inspired by Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, it is written entirely in verse, comprising almost 600 stanzas of rhyming sonnets. This epic poem focusses on the interconnected stories of five young professionals, as they make their way in the 'unfettered city' of San Francisco in the '80s.

She wanders the streets of Chicago, looking for somebody to become. She is soft clay, in search of a potter. Sometimes she becomes the One Who Got Away. Other times she becomes a Long, Lost Love. Or the dearly departed. But tonight is different. So very, very different. The fifth installment of the Creepsville Collection is brought to life by the haunting narration and sound design skills of Noah DeBiase.

Jim Rustenholtz was just one of the guys. Well, except for one small difference.

Finding himself caught in the grind of working in the downtown restaurant scene and nightlife, Hayden seeks a break through an acting program. While working to develop his craft and hone his acting skills, Hayden becomes enraptured by a beautiful young model, Camilla Arden, who he tries to woo over the course of the program, when she is not out trotting the globe. Landing a job at an exclusive downtown restaurant, Hayden struggles to make his dreams a reality.