Download or read book Boris the Not So Bad Buzzard written by Mark Frazier and published by FrazierTales. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful story about a not-so-bad buzzard who did some not-so-bad things.
Download or read book Severance written by Ling Ma and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance. "A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring." —Michael Schaub, NPR.org “A satirical spin on the end times-- kind of like The Office meets The Leftovers.” --Estelle Tang, Elle NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR * The New Yorker ("Books We Loved") * Elle * Marie Claire * Amazon Editors * The Paris Review (Staff Favorites) * Refinery29 * Bustle * Buzzfeed * BookPage * Bookish * Mental Floss * Chicago Review of Books * HuffPost * Electric Literature * A.V. Club * Jezebel * Vulture * Literary Hub * Flavorwire Winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award * Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction * Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award * Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 * An Indie Next Selection Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost. Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers? A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale, and a hilarious, deadpan satire. Most important, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.
Download or read book The Sulky Vulture written by Sally Grindley and published by Bloomsbury USA Childrens. This book was released on 2003-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boris the vulture sulks because he doesn't like the food his parents eat or the games his friends play, and even a cuddle from his mother gives him a reason to fuss.
Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freia Lockhart s Summer of Awful written by Aimee Said and published by Walker Books Australia. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How [not] to keep it together when your world falls apart. Freia Lockhart has the essentials for an awesome summer: great new friends, a hot boyfriend, plans for New Year’s Eve (which don’t include her parents) and no school. When her mum reveals she has cancer, Freia’s plans are crushed. Now she’s trying to keep things together at home and salvage her holidays, but it’s not easy when you’ve got secrets to keep and a nosy gran who won’t stay out of your business. Aimee Said once again brings us an authentic Australian voice with Freia Lockhart’s Summer of Awful, sequel to Finding Freia Lockhart. This book is sure to be a hit with teen girls looking for fresh young adult fiction with a dollop of romance that is both funny and engaging. Find Aimee online: http://aimeesaid.blogspot.com.au/ “Aimee Said writes with a characteristic lightness and humour that is a joy to read. The trials of young friendships, sibling rivalries and family dynamics are realistic and moving.” – Books+Publishing
Download or read book Selected Stories written by Александр Фомич Вельтман and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.F. Veltman, a prolific but largely forgotten 19th-century Russian writer, played a significant role in the development of Russian literature, influencing Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky and others. These five stories provide a brief by representative sampling of his output.
Download or read book The Essential Boris Johnson written by Boris Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He has also interviewed many of the key figures in the political and cultural worlds over the last sixteen years and addresses what these personalities tell of our age.
Download or read book The Prime Time Crime written by William Gleason and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1977 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Mereleigh Record Club Tour of Japan written by Roy Vaughan and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mereleigh Record Club, a group of 60-something-year-old friends from their old rock and roll days, receives an invitation from a similar group in Japan to visit and assist with a charity fund-raising show. The best-laid plans of the Japanese go astray due to cultural misunderstandings and a case of mistaken identity. Then the daughter of a friend of one of the group, who is an entertainer, goes missing in Japan. The shadowy hand of the Yakuza crime syndicate is believed to be behind her sudden disappearance, and the faction puts heavy pressure on the record group to cancel its tour of Japan. Will the woman be found alive? The beat goes on in the thriller The Mereleigh Record Club Tour of Japan: Lost in Japan. Author Roy Vaughan draws from his personal knowledge of Japan to compile this fast-moving novel. For many years he worked as a journalist covering Japanese affairs for the New Zealand Herald. Many situations and characterizations in his book are drawn from real-life experiences, giving it a high degree of realism.
Download or read book Survival Math written by Mitchell Jackson and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A vibrant memoir of race, violence, family, and manhood…a virtuosic wail of a book” (The Boston Globe), Survival Math calculates how award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson survived the Portland, Oregon, of his youth. This “spellbinding” (NPR) book explores gangs and guns, near-death experiences, sex work, masculinity, composite fathers, the concept of “hustle,” and the destructive power of addiction—all framed within the story of Mitchell Jackson, his family, and his community. Lauded for its breathtaking pace, its tender portrayals, its stark candor, and its luminous style, Survival Math reveals on every page the searching intellect and originality of its author. The primary narrative, focused on understanding the antecedents of Jackson’s family’s experience, is complemented by survivor files, which feature photographs and riveting short narratives of several of Jackson’s male relatives. “A vulnerable, sobering look at Jackson’s life and beyond, in all its tragedies, burdens, and faults” (San Francisco Chronicle), the sum of Survival Math’s parts is a highly original whole, one that reflects on the exigencies—over generations—that have shaped the lives of so many disenfranchised Americans. “Both poetic and brutally honest” (Salon), Mitchell S. Jackson’s nonfiction debut is as essential as it is beautiful, as real as it is artful, a singular achievement, not to be missed.
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Download or read book Roadside Picnic written by Arkady Strugatsky and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a &“full empty,&” something goes wrong. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he'll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems. First published in 1972, Roadside Picnic is still widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novels, despite the fact that it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty years. This authoritative new translation corrects many errors and omissions and has been supplemented with a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky explaining the strange history of the novel's publication in Russia.
Download or read book Cyclopedia of Literary Characters Pedro P ramo A tomb for Boris Davidovich written by A. J. Sobczak and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains analyses of characters that appear in novels, plays, epics, and other classics of world literature, providing lengthy descriptions of central characters, and less extensive discussions of supporting players; and arranged alphabetically by title.
Download or read book Bad Magic written by Stephan Zielinski and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are some things people weren't meant to know. Some people know those things anyway. Sucks to be them.
Download or read book Broke Brain written by Carl D. Schultz and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Broke Brain" is brief travel through a traumatic brain injury by a survivor of one. Personally it’s feels good to finally dig-up a memory’s existence. These memories that relate to each other in time-line or setting gradually open avenues to this injury’s inception. The sensations that most enjoy with its myriad of pleasant feelings wake to roll over but the back of my head’s grabbed and forced down into mushy and bloody gray that forces a scream then coma at the outset. A high note with nervous tones squeals in total servility and rapidly moves with a grinding scream to claw down a blackboard. That signals an injury from the brain where all physical pain can be blocked by the injury itself but mental pain emanates oh so freely. Along with a need-to-know for all, this entire book is a preface of sorts for survivors, care-givers and perhaps professionals as well to show a brain injury and some of its effects. It should be realized that brains are like fingerprints in that they’re different from each other. That fact is shown in that my parents were told that I wouldn’t wake-up and then I wouldn’t wake-up and then I wouldn’t make change for a dollar. Perceptions perceptions. That was about 10 years before a defunct attempt at grad school. Much healthy life underwent prologs my injury. That’s how life consuming and life-altering a traumatic brain injury is.
Download or read book Return to the Warehouse District written by Richard Segal and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the Warehouse District is an instalment of rogue avenger’s pinball, tales of self-indulgent street art. Come back deaf dumb and blind kid, this is your time. Return to the Warehouse District conveys stories of The Steve and Larry Show, a cerebral band fond of inside jokes also co-founded by Tom, who buys left of center glossy magazines ‘for the pictures,’ while Larry takes too much time at the supermarket because he shops by the hunt and peck method. The laid back trio of Mugu, Meowmix and their dog Mellow Yellow, but do M&M take the pet out for a walk or does he take them out for a cigarette, given that their contribution to countering the effects of climate change is not smoking in bed? This is not a picaresque novel, but ultimately a battle between good and evil, a conflict between catharsis and retribution, with hopefully one deserving winner.
