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A Tiny Upward Shove (eBook, ePUB)
"Gloriously voiced, the kind of addictive and headlong novel that makes reading into a wild bronco ride." -Lauren Groff, author of MatrixA Tiny Upward Shove is inspired by Melissa Chadburn's Filipino heritage and its folklore, as it traces the too-short life of a young, cast-off woman transformed by death into an agent of justice-or mercy.Marina Salles's life does not end the day she wakes up dead. Instead, in the course of a moment, she is transformed into the stuff of myth, the stuff of her grandmother's old Filipino stories-an aswang, a creature of mystery and vengeance. She spent her time on earth on the margins; shot like a pinball through a childhood of loss, she was a veteran of Child Protective Services and a survivor, but always reacting, watching from a distance, understanding very little of her own life, let alone the lives of others. Death brings her into the hearts and minds of those she has known-even her killer-as she accesses their memories and sees anew the meaning of her own. In her nine days as an aswang, while she considers whether to exact vengeance on her killer, she also traces back, finally able to see what led these two lost souls to a crushingly inevitable conclusion. In A Tiny Upward Shove, the debut novelist Melissa Chadburn charts the heartbreaking journeys of two of society's castoffs as they make their way to each other and their roles as criminal and victim. What does it mean to be on the brink? When are those moments that change not only our lives but our very selves? And how, in this impossible world, full of cruelty and negligence, can we rouse ourselves toward mercy?- Shop: buecher
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A Tiny Upward Shove
"Gloriously voiced, the kind of addictive and headlong novel that makes reading into a wild bronco ride." -Lauren Groff, author of Matrix A Tiny Upward Shove is inspired by Melissa Chadburn's Filipino heritage and its folklore, as it traces the too-short life of a young, cast-off woman transformed by death into an agent of justice-or mercy. Marina Salles's life does not end the day she wakes up dead. Instead, in the course of a moment, she is transformed into the stuff of myth, the stuff of her grandmother's old Filipino stories-an aswang, a creature of mystery and vengeance. She spent her time on earth on the margins; shot like a pinball through a childhood of loss, she was a veteran of Child Protective Services and a survivor, but always reacting, watching from a distance, understanding very little of her own life, let alone the lives of others. Death brings her into the hearts and minds of those she has known-even her killer-as she accesses their memories and sees anew the meaning of her own. In her nine days as an aswang, while she considers whether to exact vengeance on her killer, she also traces back, finally able to see what led these two lost souls to a crushingly inevitable conclusion. In A Tiny Upward Shove, the debut novelist Melissa Chadburn charts the heartbreaking journeys of two of society's castoffs as they make their way to each other and their roles as criminal and victim. What does it mean to be on the brink? When are those moments that change not only our lives but our very selves? And how, in this impossible world, full of cruelty and negligence, can we rouse ourselves toward mercy?- Shop: buecher
- Price: 24.99 EUR excl. shipping
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Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
A Sunday Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Named a best book of the year by The Economist Financial Times New Statesman The Telegraph "[Putin's People] will surely now become the definitive account of the rise of Putin and Putinism." -Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic "This riveting, immaculately researched book is arguably the best single volume written about Putin, the people around him and perhaps even about contemporary Russia itself in the past three decades." -Peter Frankopan, Financial Times Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine. In recent years, Vladimir Putin's Russia has waged a concerted campaign to expand its influence and undermine Western institutions. But how and why did all this come about, and who has orchestrated it? In Putin's People, the investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him rose to power and looted their country. Delving deep into the workings of Putin's Kremlin, Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the freewheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs, who in turn subverted Russia's economy and legal system and extended the Kremlin's reach into the United States and Europe. The result is a chilling and revelatory exposé of the KGB's revanche-a story that begins in the murk of the Soviet collapse, when networks of operatives were able to siphon billions of dollars out of state enterprises and move their spoils into the West. Putin and his allies subsequently completed the agenda, reasserting Russian power while taking control of the economy for themselves, suppressing independent voices, and launching covert influence operations abroad. Ranging from Moscow and London to Switzerland and Brooklyn's Brighton Beach-and assembling a colorful cast of characters to match-Putin's People is the definitive account of how hopes for the new Russia went astray, with stark consequences for its inhabitants and, increasingly, the world.- Shop: buecher
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Thread and Data Mapping for Multicore Systems
Thread and Data Mapping for Multicore Systems - Improving Communication and Memory Accesses. 1st ed. 2018: ab 58.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology of Arteriovenous Accesses for Hemodialysis
Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology of Arteriovenous Accesses for Hemodialysis: ab 138.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Thread and Data Mapping for Multicore Systems
Thread and Data Mapping for Multicore Systems - Improving Communication and Memory Accesses: ab 58.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
- Price: 58.99 EUR excl. shipping
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Fast Efficient and Predictable Memory Accesses
Fast Efficient and Predictable Memory Accesses - Optimization Algorithms for Memory Architecture Aware Compilation: ab 149.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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