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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Static Summer / GLITCHLIGHT - An Electrifying Dual Novel Experience Part One: Static Summer A hauntingly beautiful meditation on memory, nostalgia, and the price of authenticity in a world that sells tomorrow by the subscription. Ronald Carraway-known to the few who remember him as Dudley-returns to the East Coast "the way a man returns to a half-remembered song-humming the tune, fumbling the words." Hired by Auroravision as a "ghost-keeper," Dudley's task is to launder memories and press them into Asher Kane's origin myth. His contract? Simple: stop looking for the truth. When the contract demands he begin writing, Dudley finds himself caught between truth and fabrications. And then, one night, a voice calls across the water: "Dudley, you still believe in the green light?" With prose that crackles like the static of an untuned channel, Static Summer opens with one of the most stunning literary debuts in recent memory. This is a novel that doesn't just explore memory-it rewrites it, frame by precious frame. "Somewhere inside the compound, servers hummed beneath marble floors, cooling themselves with seawater piped in from the inlet. I imagined the tide carrying away the heat of all our yesterdays, dumping it nameless into the Atlantic." Perfect for fans of The Great Gatsby reimagined for the digital age Static Summer is a haunting exploration of what happens when nostalgia becomes a commodity and the past is no longer something we live with-but something we subscribe to. Part Two: GLITCHLIGHT The story doesn't end. It fractures. It skips. It stutters toward the light. In the aftermath of the compound's collapse, Dudley wanders a transformed landscape where the reel still turns, the lamp still glows, and the story refuses to stay contained. The green light is no longer a symbol-it's become a seed. GLITCHLIGHT follows Dudley (and those who walk beside him-Maggie, Lumen, Daisy, Asher) into the aftermath of a world where memory is no longer curated but carried. Where every skip in the reel is a frame removed from someone's history. Where travelers plant memories like seeds that grow into orchards of light. Where the story has no beginning and no end-only the next frame. In this magnificent continuation, the technological merges with the mythological. Projectors become sacred objects. Static becomes a language. The heartbeat tape loops through every cooling fan. At 3:33 a.m., the country breathes in unison as thirty-seven projectors, all hand-cranked, all running the same reel, create a collage of every frame the algorithm tried to delete. GLITCHLIGHT is a meditation on how we preserve what matters when the very fabric of memory is under constant revision. A testament to the power of analog hearts in a digital world. And a profound exploration of what it means when "the story is no longer ours alone. "Fade out. But leave the lamp on. It's someone else's turn to wind." Together, these two parts form a groundbreaking dual novel that transcends conventional storytelling. With prose that glows like the green light at its center, this is a work that doesn't just reflect our relationship with memory and technology-it rewinds it, splices it, and projects it back onto the screen of our collective consciousness. "Haunting, innovative, and utterly essential, Static Summer / GLITCHLIGHT represent the kind of fiction that doesn't just capture the zeitgeist-it refracts it into something entirely new." - "The future is a country that revokes visas retroactively," Asher Kane tells Dudley. But the past-if you edit carefully-never checks passports. In Static Summer and GLITCHLIGHT, we finally discover what happens when the editors themselves become part of the story. Available now: Experience the complete journey-from sta Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Course Description This course conducts an intensive study of S.A. Pieper's America Where Are You Now? as a work of literary architecture that operates simultaneously as political thriller, cultural satire, and sustained meditation on American self-invention. The novel follows Ascher Kane-whose surname deliberately echoes Citizen Kane-as he transforms from conservative golden boy to viral political revolutionary, only to discover that his rebellion may be as hollow as the systems he opposes.What distinguishes this course is its emphasis on discovery. The novel contains a sophisticated network of embedded literary references-to Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Eliot's "The Hollow Men," Welles's Citizen Kane, and Steppenwolf's "Monster/America"-that function not as decoration but as structural DNA. Students learn to read at multiple levels simultaneously, developing skills in close reading, intertextual analysis, media criticism, and political theory. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Static Summer / GLITCHLIGHT - An Electrifying Dual Novel Experience Part One: Static Summer A hauntingly beautiful meditation on memory, nostalgia, and the price of authenticity in a world that sells tomorrow by the subscription. Ronald Carraway-known to the few who remember him as Dudley-returns to the East Coast "the way a man returns to a half-remembered song-humming the tune, fumbling the words." Hired by Auroravision as a "ghost-keeper," Dudley's task is to launder memories and press them into Asher Kane's origin myth. His contract? Simple: stop looking for the truth. When the contract demands he begin writing, Dudley finds himself caught between truth and fabrications. And then, one night, a voice calls across the water: "Dudley, you still believe in the green light?" With prose that crackles like the static of an untuned channel, Static Summer opens with one of the most stunning literary debuts in recent memory. This is a novel that doesn't just explore memory-it rewrites it, frame by precious frame. "Somewhere inside the compound, servers hummed beneath marble floors, cooling themselves with seawater piped in from the inlet. I imagined the tide carrying away the heat of all our yesterdays, dumping it nameless into the Atlantic." Perfect for fans of The Great Gatsby reimagined for the digital age Static Summer is a haunting exploration of what happens when nostalgia becomes a commodity and the past is no longer something we live with-but something we subscribe to. Part Two: GLITCHLIGHT The story doesn't end. It fractures. It skips. It stutters toward the light. In the aftermath of the compound's collapse, Dudley wanders a transformed landscape where the reel still turns, the lamp still glows, and the story refuses to stay contained. The green light is no longer a symbol-it's become a seed. GLITCHLIGHT follows Dudley (and those who walk beside him-Maggie, Lumen, Daisy, Asher) into the aftermath of a world where memory is no longer curated but carried. Where every skip in the reel is a frame removed from someone's history. Where travelers plant memories like seeds that grow into orchards of light. Where the story has no beginning and no end-only the next frame. In this magnificent continuation, the technological merges with the mythological. Projectors become sacred objects. Static becomes a language. The heartbeat tape loops through every cooling fan. At 3:33 a.m., the country breathes in unison as thirty-seven projectors, all hand-cranked, all running the same reel, create a collage of every frame the algorithm tried to delete. GLITCHLIGHT is a meditation on how we preserve what matters when the very fabric of memory is under constant revision. A testament to the power of analog hearts in a digital world. And a profound exploration of what it means when "the story is no longer ours alone. "Fade out. But leave the lamp on. It's someone else's turn to wind." Together, these two parts form a groundbreaking dual novel that transcends conventional storytelling. With prose that glows like the green light at its center, this is a work that doesn't just reflect our relationship with memory and technology-it rewinds it, splices it, and projects it back onto the screen of our collective consciousness. "Haunting, innovative, and utterly essential, Static Summer / GLITCHLIGHT represent the kind of fiction that doesn't just capture the zeitgeist-it refracts it into something entirely new." - "The future is a country that revokes visas retroactively," Asher Kane tells Dudley. But the past-if you edit carefully-never checks passports. In Static Summer and GLITCHLIGHT, we finally discover what happens when the editors themselves become part of the story. Available now: Experience the complete jou Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. THE LIBRARY THAT SURVIVED A retired Oxford linguist. A three-thousand-year-old mystery. And a secret that two rival institutions will do anything to control. When Carol Mowbray receives an unexpected visitor at her Cotswolds cottage, she expects another quiet day of medieval research. Instead, she's shown a photograph of ancient symbols that shouldn't exist-a writing system developed by Bronze Age traders that predates every known script by centuries. The symbols aren't religious prophecy or royal propaganda. They're something far more dangerous: sophisticated risk assessments. Probability calculations. Methods for predicting the collapse of civilizations. Two secretive organizations have guarded this knowledge since before Rome was founded. The Library preserves without acting. The Templar Trust acts without fully understanding. Now both want Carol-the only scholar alive who can decode what they've protected for three millennia. But as Carol translates the tablets, she discovers a third path. Scattered across the Mediterranean are families who've kept fragments for generations-grandmothers who hid tablets in wells during wars, monks who copied texts they couldn't read, descendants of traders who forgot why the objects mattered but never stopped protecting them. These preservers hold pieces neither institution knew existed. And they've been waiting for someone to tell them what they've been guarding all along. As the Templar Trust launches a campaign to destroy her reputation and the Library offers resources with strings attached, Carol must decide: Does knowledge this powerful belong to institutions that hoard it, organizations that weaponize it, or the ordinary people who kept faith with it across centuries? The Library That Survived is a literary thriller about ancient secrets and modern choices-about the difference between prediction and prophecy, preservation and control, and the stubborn human instinct to protect what matters even when we don't understand why. For readers of Umberto Eco, Kate Mosse, and Robert Harris. "The tablets show that ancient people tried to predict the future. They also show that ancient people failed. The methods were not worthless-they were better than nothing. But they were far from reliable prophecy." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 284 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.71 inches. In Stock.