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When a blizzard and a terrible accident cause a power failure at Chicago's O'Hare air traffic control facility and a devastating mid-air collision, passenger Donovan Nash, a pilot with a hidden past, fights decompression, oxygen deprivation, and damaged controls to keep the plane from crashing.
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Mvoungouti, le Rêve Dans la Tombe
Si je manifeste le desir de t'ecrire, c'est parce que j'ai des preuves. Les morts reviennent...Le train Express a destination de Brazzaville roule a cheval sur l'heure. A l'approche de Mvoungouti, un train de marchandises arrive en sens inverse... La collision est inevitable. Sous l'impact du choc, des dizaines de vies humaines s'eteignent a jamais... ou presque.Depuis sa tombe, Bamanissa, l'un des passagers victime de l'accident, decide d'ecrire au fils que la vie ne lui a pas donne. Dans cette lettre d'outre-tombe, il regle ses comptes avec la societe des vivants, adresse ses recommandations posthumes a ce fils reve, et retrace l'histoire de ce chemin de fer.A travers cette nouvelle surrealiste - inspiree par la catastrophe ferroviaire survenue a Mvoungouti le 5 septembre 1991 - l'auteur evoque avec une ironie macabre l'aspect derisoire de la quete materielle dans la vie, face a l'ineluctable.EXTRAITElles sont prosperes ces commercantes. Dans les differentes ruelles, elles sont assises, parfois debout, en train d'attendre les clients. La nuit, tous les chats sont gris. Ces femmes s'arrangent pour effacer leurs differences. Les vieilles se rajeunissent et les petites se font grandes. Elles n'ont pas le choix ; c'est pour cela qu'elles ont traverse le fleuve et ont revolutionne le sexe dans ce pays. L'elasticite de leur organe est telle qu'elles ne reculent jamais devant un homme, quelle que soit sa corpulence. L'eau chaude, ce calme-douleur est un remede naturel, incontestable. Conscients de cela, les hommes de toute categorie s'y rendent. De meme les agents de l'ordre en patrouille se servent tranquillement, en baissant la voix, comme il est de coutume lorsqu'on sollicite ce plat. Si elles ne travaillaient pas de la sorte, comment pourraient-elles envoyer des colis aux parents ?A PROPOS DE L'AUTEURFils de Maurice Mboungou Nginza et de Marie Gertrude Kambissi, Emmanuel Ngoma Nguinza est originaire de Brazzaville et signe ici son premier ouvrage ; un recit d'outre-tombe qui revient hanter le monde des vivants.
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Signal fires
\"Late on a summer night in 1985, three teenagers are in a tragic car crash on the quiet, suburban Division Avenue. A girl is killed, and Theo and Sarah Wilf are left with a devastating secret that will haunt their family forever. By the time the Shenkmans move in across the street, the accident has faded into the past, but secrets haunt both families and cause them to become intimately intertwined. When Waldo Shenkman, a brilliant but lonely child, befriends Ben Wilf, who is struggling with his wife's decline from Alzheimer's, he once again entangles the families' fates and sets in motion the spellbinding, unforgettable climax\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Accidents at Home in the Victorian Novel: Auguries, Probability, and Charlotte Yonge's Household Advice
This article explores the narrative functions of domestic accidents in Victorian fiction. Taking Charlotte Yonge's The Pillars of the House (1873) as a case study, it critically parses how popular fiction engaged with competing explanations of how or why accidents occur. As a new understanding of chance, risk, and statistical likelihood in the nineteenth century began to reshape the representation of accidents, narratives navigated shifting concepts of personal misfortune, of providence and poetic justice, as well as of probability. In Yonge's novel, domestic accidents demonstrate risk-management at home, promoting a concept that complicates narrative expectations both of divine punishment and of conventional conversion patterns.
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Come and get us
\"Miranda Cooper's life takes a terrifying turn when an SUV deliberately runs her and her husband off a desolate Arizona road. With her husband badly wounded, she must run for help alone as his cryptic parting words echo in her head: 'Be careful who you trust'\"--Amazon.com.
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Machines without principals: liability rules and artificial intelligence
The idea that humans could, at some point, develop machines that actually \"think\" for themselves and act autonomously has been embedded in their literature and culture since the beginning of civilization. But these ideas were generally thought to be religious expressions -- what one scholar describes as an effort to forge their own Gods -- or pure science fiction. One vision was uncritically Utopian. Intelligent machines, this account goes, would transform and enlighten society by performing the mundane, mind-numbing work that keeps humans from pursuing higher intellectual, spiritual, and artistic callings. The introduction of highly sophisticated autonomous machines may be literally around the corner. How the law chooses to treat machines without principals will be the central legal question that accompanies the introduction of truly autonomous machines, and at some point, the law will need to have an answer to that question.
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Close your eyes, hold hands : a novel
Living in an igloo of ice and trash bags half a year after a cataclysmic nuclear disaster, Emily, convinced that she will be hated as the daughter of the drunken father who caused the meltdown, assumes a fictional identity while protecting a homeless boy.
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Collective Memory of Partition: A Study of Trauma, Martyrdom, and Survival in Women's Post-Partition Fiction
Gender and the distortion of memory are two important aspects of Partition literature about the division of the Indian subcontinent into two nations, India and Pakistan. Women writers, such as Geetanjali Shree in Tomb of Sand (2022) and Anjali Enjeti in The Parted Earth (2021), delineate the collective trauma of the 1947 Partition of India through the theme of memory. This article will demonstrate two types of violence experienced by women during the time - political violence (perpetrated by Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs) and patriarchal violence and uncover how their memories haunt and shape their present, constructing and reconstructing their historical and psychological trauma. Through the framework of Maurice Halbwachs' \"collective memory,\" this article focuses on three forms of gendered narratives found in select fictional works: physically wounded and abducted women, martyred women, and unwed mothers. These traumatic memories transcend subjective experience to become expressions of solidarity with the unheard voices of the subcontinent's women.
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The sky above the roof : a novel
\"One night, seventeen-year-old Wolf steals his mother's car and drives six hundred kilometers in search of his sister, who left home ten years ago. Unlicensed and on edge, he veers onto the wrong side of the road and causes an accident. He is arrested and incarcerated, forcing his mother and sister to reconnect and pick up the pieces in order to fight for his release\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Gifts of Prometheus
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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