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1) Icarus
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English
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A thief who steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries while targeting Mr. Black, the man responsible for his mother's death, Icarus Gallagher is torn between family loyalty, revenge, escape and Mr. Black's son--the boy he's come to love.
"Icarus Gallagher is a thief. He steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries. For years, one man--the wealthy Mr. Black--has been their target in...
2) Icarus
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English
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Man versus machine. Anarchy versus order. Power versus love.Centuries of war have ravaged the world. Those left are sheltered under domed cities -- like the decrepit city of Kennedy -- but they're not really protected. Class warfare wages. The lower classes are kept down by the upper class that strives to eventually replace them with easily-controlled artificial intelligence. The man who created this AI is Jerrid Fieger, the most powerful man in Kennedy....
3) Icarus
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English
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Trained KGB assassin, EDWARD GENN (code name ICARUS), finds himself in a foreign country with no one to trust. Determined to escape his muddled existence, he tries to start over. He assumes a new identity, starts a family and his own legitimate business. But when he is identified, he is forced to balance his new life as a family man and his old one as a career hitman.
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In early 2019, when playwright Kirk Wood Bromley was diagnosed with cancer, his fans and collaborators came together to fund and record three of his plays, one of which was Icarus and Aria, an "upgraded Romeo and Juliet" that was originally performed under the dramatory of Aaron Beall at the first New York International Fringe Festival in 1997. This full cast performance was directed by Joshua Spafford.
While riffing off its forerunner, Icarus and...
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English
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This book was written to bring to everyone's attention our obsession with technology, which is destroying our planet's biosphere and will eventually, in the author's opinion, bring about the extinction of most species on Earth, both plant and animal, including, of course, our own. Clinging onto the belief that we will soon develop some new technology that will provide us with a free and unlimited source of energy and "save" us is just pure folly....
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Nosy Crow Ltd
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Izzy LOVES all the stories the Ancient Greeks told! She can't wait to tell her friends about Icarus, who was a TOTAL NUMPTY, and the Trojan Horse, which ended a war and wasn't even REAL! So pull up a plinth and enjoy all the DRAMA of the original Greek myths, as told by Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham, in collaboration with the British Museum. Now with even more SANDALS! Laugh-out-loud fun from Blue Peter Award winners Pamela Butchart...
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Series
Icarus saga volume 2
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts, combing through the atmospheres of uninhabited worlds for places that might be colonized or hold valuable resources. Now, they quietly work for the Icarus Group, a top-secret government organization hunting for portals created by a long-vanished alien race, portals that can teleport a person hundreds or thousands of light-years in the blink of an eye. Roarke and Selene...
10) I… For Icarus
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
Français
Description
Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.
11) When Icarus Fell
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English
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The proposal for a wind turbine in a rural American town brings together the interlocking stories of an eclectic group of strangers
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English
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Tickets to the Fall of Icarus charts the flight of two flamboyant characters, Icarus and Audrey, as they navigate their way through the maelstrom of modern life amidst natural disasters, pandemics, online dating and even a little self-sabotage.
In artfully executed narrative poetry, Gering deploys his inimitable style and humour to bring characters into dynamic life on the page. Few readers won't see glimmers or shards of themselves in Audrey and...
14) The Icarus job
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Series
Icarus saga volume 3
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts, combing through the atmospheres of uninhabited worlds for places that might be colonized or hold valuable resources. Now, they work for the Icarus Group, a top-secret government organization hunting for portals created by a long-vanished alien race, portals that can teleport a person hundreds or thousands of light-years in the blink of an eye. Usually, those hunts are long...
15) I--for Icarus
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
From Henri Verneuil, the acclaimed director of The Sicilian Clan, The Body of My Enemy, and Mille Milliards de Dollars, comes one of the most unique and compelling conspiracy thrillers of the '70s. Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, an investigation commission came up with questionable conclusions about a lone gunman. The commission's findings are not good enough for dogged State Attorney Henri Volney, played by screen great Yves...
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English
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On Unfaithful Wings (An Icarus Fell Novel #1)To some, death is the end; to others, a beginning. To Icarus Fell, it should have been a relief from a life gone seriously awry.But death had other plans.Icarus doesn't believe that the man awaiting him when he wakes up in a cheap motel room is really the archangel Michael, or that God's right hand wants him to help souls on their way to Heaven. Icarus doesn't believe there is a Heaven, so why should they...
19) The Last to Go
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English
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE THE LAST OF HUMANITY IN A DYING WORLD...?
Most of the Earth's population is gone. Many of those who survive have been turned into predatorial scarecrows that stand silent in the fields by day, while bringing death in the dark of night.
Despite the global devastation, Icarus and Charlton maintain a semblance of normal life on their sugarcane farm, bonding with other survivors in their community.
Icarus longs to return to...
20) The sky was ours
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"From prizewinning writer Joe Fassler comes a brilliant modern reimagining of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus as a story of obsession, longing, and the radical pursuit of utopia. It's 2005, and 24-year-old Jane is miserable. Overworked, buried in debt, she senses the life she wanted slipping away--while the world around her veers badly off course, hurtling toward economic and ecological collapse. She wants to find something better. But she has no...
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