The Dregs

Author: Zac Thompson
Publisher: Black Mask Studios
ISBN: 9781628751840
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
A gentrified city. Its homeless population restricted to six square blocks called The Dregs. When people start disappearing, a drug-addled homeless man obsessed with detective fiction becomes addicted to solving the mystery. Equal parts Raymond Chandler and Don Quixote set in a thriving metropolis that literally cannibalizes the homeless, The Dregs is the first homeless meta noir ever made. Collects issues 1-4.

The Dregs Trilogy

Author: Chris Kelso
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913038427
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536

Book Description
From British Fantasy Award-nominated author Chris Kelso comes the DREGS trilogy, comprising three installments: Shrapnel Apartments Unger House Radicals and Ritual America in a transgressive odyssey that will leave you dazzled, fascinated and shocked in equal measure.

The Dregs of the Day

Author: Máirtín Ó Cadhain
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300249128
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
A riveting English translation the Irish classic tale of heartache, death, and loneliness by the beloved author of The Dirty Dust The final published work by the renowned Máirtín Ó Cadhain, this novella follows a widower as he attempts to plan his wife’s funeral arrangements without money, direction, or whiskey. Thrown into a desert of unknowing, he knows not where to turn or what to do. In a poignant meditation on regret, possibilities, maybes, and avoidances, the author portrays a man hopelessly watching as the people in the world go about their lives around him. With black humor sprinkled throughout, the book, a profound look at psychic loss and puzzlement by a writer at the height of his powers, illustrates Ó Cadhain’s conviction that tragedy and comedy are inextricably connected. Bringing this work to an English-speaking audience for the first time, this volume includes an illuminating introduction by Alan Titley, whose skillful translation captures the spirit and tone of the original.

Invasion of the Dregs

Author: Kenneth Edward Barnes
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1463407467
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
Invasion of the Dregs is a story of adventure and drama in a mysterious land of strange animals and countless dangers. Strange animals like: monothorian dragons, grawls, hopspurs, vulgons, triodons, dreers, dredons, giant forest wolves, the thunder beast and others. The Gossets are a race of tiny people who lived on the earth before humans, and the world, as we knew it. They are the ancestors of all little people, except for Elves. The land is invaded by beings called Dregs. No one will help the Gossets defend their territory, even the Trolls turn their backs on them and become their enemies. Now they have no choice. Commander Rufus T. Gruff, Queston, Nason, Orpis, Markis and Nod must go to the top of the world to find King Zedar to see if he can help bring justice to the land of Adreus. Go with the Gossets, and Piper the Elf, on their long incredible journey; a journey that is full of dangers, adventures, drama, and surprises.

Dregs

Author: Jorn Lier Horst
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1925475824
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Chief Inspector William Wisting is an experienced policeman familiar with the dark side of human nature. He lives in challenging times for the Norwegian police force, meeting them with integrity and humanity, and a fragile belief that he can play a part in creating a better world. Dregs begins with a police report giving the place and time of the discovery of a training shoe washed up on the sand, containing a severed foot. Soon a second shoe is washed up, but it is another left foot. What is the explanation for this? Has there been some kind of terrible accident at sea? Does it indicate the killing and dismembering of two victims? Is there a link with the unsolved mystery of a number of disappearances in the Larvik area in recent months? In this gripping police procedural, Wisting gradually gets to the bottom of the mystery with the help of his all too human colleagues and his journalist daughter, Line.

Dregs

Author: Cynthia Cruz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945588181
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A collection of poems constructed like a series of film montages or collages showing what the world looks like now

Dregs Island

Author: Bon Blossman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996524834
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Seventeen-year-old Alex Cardin is falsely convicted of a felony. It is six years after President Gray's Prison Reform Act of 2026. Prisons have been shut down across the United States, and all felons must serve life sentences on isolated prison islands where escape is impossible, and rules of civility are obsolete. Alex is banished to Dregs Island and must rely on his sharp intuition, as nobody can be trusted. To survive, he must defeat the ruthless ruler of the island who was a legendary serial killer back on the mainland. Alex is forced to make decisions along the way that weigh survival against humankind and family against friendship.

The Tracker

Author: Leslie Georgeson
Publisher: Dregs
ISBN: 9781717978516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532

Book Description
A 2018 TopShelf Indie Book Awards nominee! THE DREGS: Feared by most. Hated by others. Envied by none. Always hunted, they live in the shadows. Once powerful warriors, they are now the dregs. In a city overrun by gang violence, can these former soldiers overcome their violent pasts, dispel the stigma surrounding them, and learn to fall in love? ----- The Tracker: I'm a trained killer. An expert tracker. I've done despicable things. My soul is damaged. My body impaired. That's what happens when you are a soldier for The Company. I was discharged a year ago. Now I am a dreg. Worthless. With a bounty on my head. I've become a creature of the night, hiding in an underground maze during the day. Because I'm not ready to die yet. She comes to me one night, needing my help to find her sister. The moment I see her, I want her. Her goodness calls to me, makes me yearn for the impossible. She brings life back to the deadness inside me. I'm no good for her. I will do nothing but corrupt her. But I'm a callous bastard. I can't resist her. I try not to care for her, but somehow she slips under my skin. She makes me weak. And there is only one thing in this world I am afraid of. Weakness. I'll never be good enough for her, so I have to finish this job and send her on her way. Before she destroys me. This is an 8-book series. These books are romantic suspense with sci-fi elements. Each contains a separate romance with an HEA (and no cliffhangers!) However, it is recommended that they be read in order to get the full "dreg" experience. These books contain strong language and adult situations. Recommended for readers ages 18 and up.

Societies beyond Oil

Author: John Urry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780321708
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
What would a de-carbonised society be like? What are the implications of a general de-globalisation for our social futures? How will our high-carbon patterns of life be restructured in a de-energized world? As global society gradually wakes up to the new reality of peak oil, these questions remain unanswered. For the last hundred years oil made the world go round, and as we move into the century of 'tough oil' this book examines some profound consequences. It considers what societies would be like that are powering down; what lessons can be learned from the past about de-energized societies; will there be rationing systems or just the market to allocate scarce energy? Can virtual worlds solve energy problems? What levels of income and wellbeing would be likely? In this groundbreaking book, John Urry analyzes how the twentieth century created a kind of mirage of the future that is unsustainable into even the medium term and envisions the future of an oil-dependent world facing energy descent. Without a large-scale plan B, how can the energizing of society possibly be going into reverse?

As Lie the Dead

Author: Kelly Meding
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0553592874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
Evangeline Stone, a rogue bounty hunter, never asked for a world divided between darkness and light . . . . . . or the power to die and live again in someone else’s borrowed body. After a murder plot meant to take her out leaves an entire race of shapeshifters nearly extinct, Evy is gnawed by guilt. So when one of the few survivors of the slaughter enlists her aid, she feels duty-bound to help—even though protecting a frail, pregnant shifter is the last thing Evy needs, especially with the world going to hell around her. Amid weres, Halfies, gremlins, vamps—and increasingly outgunned humans—a war for supremacy is brewing. With shifters demanding justice, her superiors desperate to control her, and an assassin on her trail, Evy discovers a horrifying conspiracy. And she may be the only person in the world who can stop it—unless, of course, her own side gets her first.