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From the award-winning author of The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov comes the brilliantly conceived and precisely rendered novel Immaculate Blue, which explores the lives of four people — Anatole, Leigh, Chris, and Lydia — and their intermingled and unwinding desires. Set in upstate New York, the novel follows these characters as they achieve their aims in lives redolent with loss and hope, humor and sadness, union and alienation. Russell...
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Cleis Press
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2011
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English
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In his novel based on the extraordinary life of the brother of Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Russell re-creates the rich and changing world in which Sergey, his family and friends lived; from wealth and position in pre-revolutionary Russia to the halls of Cambridge University and the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. But it is the honesty and vulnerability of Sergey, our young gay narrator, that hook the reader: his stuttering childhood...
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Set against the backdrop of a traditional boys' school in upstate New York, The Coming Storm is a delicately and brilliantly rendered tale that reveals the most closely held secrets of the human heart.
Russell's award-winning novel is the story of four interlocking lives - Louis Tremper, the headmaster at the Forge School; his wife Claire; Tracey Parker, a 25-year old gay man and recently hired teacher at the Forge School; and Noah Lathrop III, a...
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From the award-winning author of The Coming Storm comes the brilliantly conceived and precisely rendered novel The Salt Point, a compelling novel of four people and their intermingled and unwinding desires.
Anatole loves Leigh ("Our Boy of the Mall"), a great adolescent beauty. Leigh is sleeping with Lydia, Anatole's best friend, who's fighting turning thirty. Chris, once the stunning object of Anatole's desire, is an unscrupulous friend to all and...
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From Paul Russell, the award-winning author of The Coming Storm, comes the story of a splinted nuclear family, spanning from the optimistic time of the first moon shot to the bleak time of the early AIDS years.
Astronaut Allen Cloud suffers severely from post-lunar depression, and dreams of returning to the far-off world in which he'd finally found peace. His wife's search for happiness takes her from the bottom of a bottle in middle America to Turkey,...
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From the author of the acclaimed Boys of Life and the award-wining The Coming Storm comes a novel about a small town in upstate New York riven by tensions between the old residents and the newcomers.
Cameron Barnes, formerly of New York City, lives in a small town in upstate New York. He's regained a measure of his health after nearly dying, but his long-term lover has moved away and he now faces the daunting prospect of relearning how to live with...
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Kinonation
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Peter Short, the charismatic CEO of a major Australian company, learns that he has only months to live after he is diagnosed with terminal oesophageal cancer. Not wanting to face a painful death, Peter sets out to have voluntary euthanasia legalised.
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Race to the Red Planet volume 1
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English
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Drawing on high quality animation, interviews with US, German and Russian engineers we describe the tools being built to get to Mars. NASA and the European Space Agency are collaborating on two future Mars missions (ExoMars), using an Atlas rocket to propel a lander to the red planet and then a rover, ultimately to remotely control a return mission bringing soil sample back to Earth, by 2026. The trajectory: getting to Mars is (at best) a 9 month...
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Race to the Red Planet volume 3
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English
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This episode looks at what we know about Mars, from the water (ice) concentrations, to the methane gas, to the ferrous earth - and goes into the reason why Man might be interested in the planet at all - as a possible colony supplying natural resources bac
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It is a cold case that after 50 years still haunts Italy today. The case is known as the Monster of Florence and it involved the ritualistic serial murder of eight young couples around Florence in the 1980s. In most cases, the sexual organs of the female victims were mutilated and cut out. For the first time in English, made for the international market, this impeccably researched documentary tells the story of Italy's most gruesome serial murder...
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Race to the Red Planet volume 2
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English
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The human factor in the Mars project is the single most challenging aspect of the plan. There are three main challenges: the psychological impact of long-term confinement, physiological concerns (such as only eating dried foods and being exposed to solar