Schlump
Schlump

Author: Hans Herbert Grimm

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2016-11-15

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1681370271

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An NYRB Classics Original Seventeen-year-old Schlump marches off to war in 1915 because going to war is the best way to meet girls. And so he does, on his first posting, overseeing three villages in occupied France. But then Schlump is sent to the front, and the good times end. Schlump, written by Hans Herbert Grimm, was published anonymously in 1928 and was one of the first German novels to describe World War I in all its horror and absurdity, and it remains one of the best. What really sets it apart is its remarkable central character. Who is Schlump? A bit of a rascal and a bit of a sweetheart, a victim of his times, an inveterate survivor, maybe even a new type of man. At once comedy, documentary, hellhole, and fairy tale, Schlump is a gripping and disturbing book about the experience of trauma and what the great critic Walter Benjamin, writing at the same time as Hans Herbert Grimm, would call the death of experience, since perhaps if anything goes, nothing counts.

Spatial Cognition
Spatial Cognition

Author: Christian Freksa

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1998-05-25

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 3540646035

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This book constitutes the documentation of the results achieved within a proirity program on spatial cognition established by the German Science Foundation (DFG) in 1996 involving 13 research groups in Germany and leading scientists from abroad. The 22 revised full papers included were first presented during a colloquium in fall 1997 and then went through a second round of thorough reviewing. The book is organized into three parts on spatial knowledge acquisition and spatial memory, formal and linguistic models, and navigation in real and virtual worlds. All in all the book is a unique report on the state-of-the art in the interdisciplinary research field of spatial cognition and its potential applications.

Teetotaled
Teetotaled

Author: Maia Chance

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1250072212

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After her philandering husband died and left her penniless in Prohibition-era New York, Lola Woodby escaped with her Swedish cook to the only place she could—her deceased husband’s secret love nest in the middle of Manhattan. Her only comforts were chocolate cake, dime store detective novels, and the occasional highball (okay, maybe not so occasional). But rent came due and Lola and Berta were forced to accept the first job that came their way, leading them to set up shop as private detectives operating out of Alfie’s cramped love nest. Now Lola and Berta are in danger of losing the business they’ve barely gotten off the ground—work is sparse and money is running out. So when a society matron offers them a job, they take it—even if it means sneaking into a slimming and exercise facility and consuming only water and health food until they can steal a diary from Grace Whiddle, a resident at the “health farm.” But barely a day in, Grace and her diary escape from the facility—and Grace’s future mother-in-law is found murdered on the premises. Lola and Berta are promptly fired. But before they can climb into Lola’s brown and white Duesenberg Model A and whiz off the health farm property, they find themselves with a new client and a new charge: to solve the murder of Grace’s future mother-in-law. Teetotaled, Maia Chance's sparkling new installment in the Discreet Retrieval Agency Mysteries will delight readers with its clever plotting, larger-than-life characters, and rich 1920s atmosphere.

Cain’s Children
Cain’s Children

Author: Estefan San Martin

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2019-05-17

Total Pages: 762

ISBN-13: 1796029939

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Sexy, handsome young attorney Dante Martino is having problems in the romance department when he gets a fateful call from his sister that his brother has died suddenly in embarrassing circumstances. He races to a family reunion across the country where he is needed to give his sibling’s eulogy. After some girl trouble, meeting a mysterious and lovely young woman and wild sexting and craziness on the trip, he arrives somehow in one piece. Once there, he encounters all the dysfunction of his youth and makes it one mess of a eulogy. Suddenly after his arrival, his relatives are dropping dead like flies and he is a person of interest in their deaths, while the family business is close to financial disaster due to insider criminal activity. Can handsome Dante, his winsome twin sister, Rhonda, and her sexy flaxen sweetheart, Carol, stop the criminals who are robbing the family fortune? And can they solve the mysteries of who is behind it all? Dante is wanted by a bevy of sexy women and also by the law and a shadowy criminal Mr. Black. He’s a victim of circumstances; sexting accidents; angry, jealous lovers; and strong libidos. He is also mired in a love triangle. Plus to complicate matters, he has met three women that may be the one. To top it all, he may be an heir to a share of over $100 million—and just where are those missing diamonds worth as much as $60 million hiding? This book is a very steamy, sexy, dark adult comedy with suspense, larceny, cheating, criminal behavior, murder, and sexy naughtiness.