Author: D.A. Smith
Publisher: Invisible College Press, LLC
Keywords: sum, mundi, axis
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1931468168
ISBN-13: 9781931468169
Brainwashing! Computer hacking! International intrigue! Psychedelic drugs! Female secret societies! Fringe science! Chinese beer! Walking corpses! The Goddess of Confusion! All the staples of fun and conspiracy meet, shake hands, and get into fistfights in Axis Mundi Sum, a novel where conspirators of all stripes try to further their own ends and make sense of existence. Would-be journalists, freelance criminals, monomaniacal monarchists, dead Taoist sages, sci-fi speedfreaks, computer code fascists, Discordian potentates, lazy college students, Egyptian gods, and more engage in gunplay, m
Author: Rosa Mundi
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Keywords: girl, vocational
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-04-05
List price: $11.04
ISBN-10: 1847240631
ISBN-13: 9781847240637
’I am not cut out for regular employment. I’m useless with computers and offices make me claustrophobic. I could set out to marry a rich man but that might have to limit my sex life, and I’m not ready for that quite yet. I am what Max the concierge describes as a vocational, rather than a working, girl. I like sex; I’m good at it, and sometimes I feel it’s what I’m best at; what I feel I’m for.’ Our Vocational Girl isn’t a tart. She just loves sex, and isn’t averse to a gift or two if it comes her way. All the cheerful and enthusiasti
Authors:J. M. G. Le Clezio, C. Dickson,
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: mundi, verba, desert
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1567923860
ISBN-13: 9781567923865
The Swedish Academy, in awarding J.M.G. Le Clezio the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, praised Desert as Le Clezio’s definitive breakthrough as a novelist. Published in France in 1980, Desert received the Grand Prix Paul Morand from the Academie Francaise, was translated into twenty-three languages, and quickly proved to be a best-selling novel in many countries around the world.Available for the first time in English translation, Desert is a novel composed of two alternating narratives, set in counterpoint. The first takes place in the desert between 1909 and 1912 and evokes the migratio
Author: Patrick Modiano
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: mundi, verba, honeymoon
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1995-05-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0879239476
ISBN-13: 9780879239473
Modiano, winner of the Prix Goncourt, constructs "a haunting tale of quiet intensity" (Review of Contemporary Fiction). It parallels the story of Jean B., a filmmaker who abandons his wife and career to hole up in a Paris hotel, with that of Ingrid and Rigaud, a refugee couple he’d met twenty years before, and whose mystery continues to haunt him.
Author: David Warren Saxe
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: mundi, axis
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2004-10-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0595319157
ISBN-13: 9780595319152
Heroes born in the crucible of hate…Duty and honor came easily to FBI agent Spaulding Cooper. As the last surviving witness of Hitler’s diabolical plan to subjugate the world, he cannot bury the memory of WWII’s most startling mystery: the Axis Mundi. Now, sixty years later, he is confronted by forces determined to unleash the mysterious powers of the Axis Mundi. The aging Cooper must stop them…before it is too late.Based on original sources, Axis Mundi delivers a provocative spin on Heinrich Himmler’s disastrous attempt to prove the racial theories of National Socialism with archeol
Author: J. M. G. Le Clezio
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: books, mundi, verba, prospector
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1993-11-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 087923976X
ISBN-13: 9780879239763
The Prospector is the crowning achievement from one of France’s preeminent contemporary novelists and a work rich with sensuality and haunting resonance. It is the turn of the century on the island of Mauritius, and young Alexis L’Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his parents and beloved sister: sampling the pleasures of privilege, exploring the constellations and tropical flora, and dreaming of treasure buried long ago by the legendary Unknown Corsair. But with his father’s death, Alexis must leave his childhood paradise and enter the harsh world of privation and shame.
Author: Georges Perec
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: mundi, verba, void
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2005-11-30
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1567922961
ISBN-13: 9781567922967
The year is 1968, and as France is torn apart by social and political anarchy, the noted eccentric and insomniac Anton Vowl goes missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, his best friends scour his diary for clues to his whereabouts. At first glance these pages reveal nothing but Vowl’s penchant for word games, especially for "lipograms," compositions in which the use of a particular letter is suppressed. But as the friends work out Vowl’s verbal puzzles, and as they investigate various leads discovered among the entries, they too disappear, one by one by one, and under the most mysterio
