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Continental Drift is a 1985 novel by Russell Banks.Set in the early 1980s, it follows two plots, through which Banks explores the relationship between apparently distant people drawn together in the world under globalization, which Banks compares to the geologic phenomenon of continental drift.
Shirley Edith Zussman (née Dlugasch; July 23, 1914 – December 4, 2021) was an American sex therapist based in New York City. [1] She was Jewish . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Aftermath is the 12th novel by Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson in the Inspector Banks series. It was published in 2001. It was published in 2001. It became the basis of the pilot episode of the British television series, DCI Banks , which first aired in the UK in 2010.
Banks has said that the inspiration for Modelland happened one day while she was driving down on a street in New York City. She had been thinking about why supermodels are "super" and the idea of Modelland came to mind. [3] She wrote on her website, talking about the idea for the book:
The book follows the experiences of three members of the royal household of the Sarl, a feudal, early-industrial humanoid race living on the eighth level of the Shellworld of Sursamen. Constructed for an unknown purpose by a long-dead race called the Veil, Shellworlds are ancient artificial planets consisting of nested concentric spheres ...
Stonemouth is a 2012 novel by Scottish author Iain Banks. The novel was published on 5 April 2012 by Little, Brown and Company and follows a man returning to a small seaport town after being forced to flee five years earlier. The Irish Times picked the book as one of their "Books to Read in 2012". [1]
Jan. 12—BELFAST, Maine — After 17 years, Left Bank Books in Belfast is changing hands. Founders Lindsay McGuire and Barb Klausmeyer sold the 17-year-old business at the beginning of the month ...
Use of Weapons is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1990.It is the third novel in the Culture series. [1]The narrative takes the form of a biography of a man called Cheradenine Zakalwe, who was born outside of the Culture but was recruited into it by Special Circumstances agent Diziet Sma to work as an operative intervening in less advanced civilizations.