Download or read book False Bingo written by Jac Jemc and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Combines the otherworldliness of Jeff VanderMeer’s “Annihilation,” the menacing irony of Shirley Jackson and the cold feminist fury of Margaret Atwood" --The New York Times Book Review Named a Fall Read by The Boston Globe and the Chicago Tribune The mundane becomes sinister in a disquieting story collection from the author of The Grip of It In Jac Jemc’s dislocating second story collection, False Bingo, we watch as sinister forces—some supernatural, some of this earth, some real and some not—work their ways into the mundanity of everyday life. In “Strange Loop,” an outcast attempting to escape an unnamed mistake spends his days taxiderming animals, while in “Delivery,” a family watches as their dementia-addled, basement-dwelling father succumbs to an online shopping addiction. “Don’t Let’s” finds a woman, recently freed from an abusive relationship, living in an isolated vacation home in the South that might be haunted by breath-stealing ghosts. Fueled by paranoia and visceral suspense, and crafted with masterful restraint, these seventeen stories explore what happens when our fears cross over into the real, if only for a fleeting moment. Identities are stolen, alternate universes are revealed, and innocence is lost as the consequences of minor, seemingly harmless decisions erupt to sabotage a false sense of stability. “This is not a morality tale about the goodness of one character triumphing over the bad of another,” the sadistic narrator of “Pastoral” announces. Rather, False Bingo is a collection of realist fables exploring how conflicting moralities can coexist: the good, the bad, the indecipherable.
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Download or read book The Grip of It written by Jac Jemc and published by FSG Originals. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Chicago Review of Books Fiction Award, Dan Chaon's Best of 2017 pick in Publishers Weekly, one of Vol. 1 Brooklyn's Best Books of 2017, a BOMB Magazine "Looking Back on 2017: Literature" Pick, and one of Vulture's 10 Best Thriller Books of 2017. Jac Jemc's The Grip of It is a chilling literary horror novel about a young couple haunted by their newly purchased home Touring their prospective suburban home, Julie and James are stopped by a noise. Deep and vibrating, like throat singing. Ancient, husky, and rasping, but underwater. “That’s just the house settling,” the real estate agent assures them with a smile. He is wrong. The move—prompted by James’s penchant for gambling and his general inability to keep his impulses in check—is quick and seamless; both Julie and James are happy to start afresh. But this house, which sits between a lake and a forest, has its own plans for the unsuspecting couple. As Julie and James try to establish a sense of normalcy, the home and its surrounding terrain become the locus of increasingly strange happenings. The framework— claustrophobic, riddled with hidden rooms within rooms—becomes unrecognizable, decaying before their eyes. Stains are animated on the wall—contracting, expanding—and map themselves onto Julie’s body in the form of painful, grisly bruises. Like the house that torments the troubled married couple living within its walls, The Grip of It oozes with palpable terror and skin-prickling dread. Its architect, Jac Jemc, meticulously traces Julie and James’s unsettling journey through the depths of their new home as they fight to free themselves from its crushing grip.
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Download or read book Bingo s Run written by James A. Levine and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Dave Eggers, Teju Cole, and James McBride, comes this extraordinary novel of morality and the redemptive powers of art that offers a glimpse into an African underworld rarely described in fiction. Meet Bingo, the greatest drug runner in the slums of Kibera, Nairobi, and maybe the world. A teenage grifter, often mistaken for a younger boy, he faithfully serves Wolf, the drug lord of Kibera. Bingo spends his days throwing rocks at Krazi Hari, the prophet of Kibera’s garbage mound, “lipping” safari tourists of their cash, and hanging out with his best friend, Slo-George, a taciturn fellow whose girth is a mystery to Bingo in a place where there is never enough food. Bingo earns his keep by running “white” to a host of clients, including Thomas Hunsa, a reclusive artist whose paintings, rooted in African tradition, move him. But when Bingo witnesses a drug-related murder and Wolf sends him to an orphanage for “protection,” Bingo’s life changes and he learns that life itself is the “run.” A modern trickster tale that draws on African folklore, Bingo’s Run is a wildly original, often very funny, and always moving story of a boy alone in a corrupt and dangerous world who must depend on his wits and inner resources to survive. ONE OF LIBRARY JOURNAL’S OUTSTANDING NEW VOICES TO CONSIDER “Bingo’s voice guides us; by turns he is aggressive, confident, smart, cynical, but also naive. Bingo tosses his observations at us with great urgency, almost percussively, in a staccato manner that recalls gunshots. And though he’s blunt, he’s also a sensitive observer. . . . Levine is creating a sense of an entire world, raffish and fast. . . . The larger story Levine is telling . . . is the story of a person’s mind, and of the good, bad, and indifferent forces that make him what he is—and that story is told with compassion and intelligence.”—The Boston Globe “James A. Levine is a deeply gifted writer who reaches into the dirt, sweat, and diesel of modern-day Nairobi and introduces us to a young innocent whose adventures are unforgettable. Bingo’s runs between joy and death, laughter and sorrow, survival and redemption, will make you feel like cheering.”—James McBride, author of The Good Lord Bird and The Color of Water “Bingo’s Run is one of those rare books that infuse a potentially difficult subject with intimacy, tenderness, and humor. Social commentary, gritty comedy, and pure cinematic adrenaline meet in an utterly compelling novel with a voice all its own.”—Tash Aw, author of Five Star Billionaire “Bingo’s Run manages to read like timely news and high adventure at the same time. Levine’s main character, Bingo, is an underage drug runner, hardened orphan, and hustler extraordinaire. He’s also funny and wise well beyond his years. The rousing story of Bingo’s evolution is matched only by Levine’s portrait of modern-day Nairobi, both child and city depicted with real flair and affection.”—Victor LaValle, author of The Devil in Silver “Bingo is a fascinating and inimitably likable character. Levine, a Mayo clinic professor of medicine and well-known child advocate, excels at telling his adventurous, comic, and realistically gritty story with humor but not with pathos, successfully addressing the harsh and sometimes tragic story of a child at risk.”—Library Journal
Download or read book Josh McDowell s One Year Book of Youth Devotions written by Josh McDowell and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents Scripture verses and readings for each day of the year, designed to help young people make good choices in their daily lives.
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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime written by Letizia Paoli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the success of national and international law enforcement cooperation to suppress organized crime means that stable, large-scale criminal organizations like the Cosa Nostra or the Japanese Yakuza have seen their power reduced, organized crime remains a concern for many governments. Economic globalization and the easing of restrictions on exchanges across borders now provide ample opportunity for money-making activities in illegal markets. Policies designed to stop illegal market flows often shift these activities to new places or create new problems, as the U.S.- led war on drugs spread production and trafficking to a number South and Central American countries. The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime provides informed, authoritative, and comprehensive overviews of these issues and other principal forms of organized crime, as well as the type and effectiveness of efforts to prevent and control them. Leading scholars from criminology, law, sociology, history, and political science discuss the key concepts, history, and methods of organized crime; the major actors and interactions involved in it; the markets and activities frequently associated with organized crime; and the policies designed to combat it. Individual chapters on criminal organizations and specific activities or markets comprise the heart of the volume. The chapters on actors provide the history, analyze the structure and activities, and assess the strength and future prospects of each organization. Articles on particular markets address the patterns of activity, identify the most affected regions, and where possible provide estimated revenues, discuss factors promoting the activity, and disclose information on the victims and harms caused. The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime delivers a systematic, high-quality, and truly global approach to the topic and with it a more complete understanding of organized crime in its many forms for researchers, government officials, and policymakers.
Download or read book Easyread Mathematics for Junior Secondary Schools 1 written by I. Y. Hali and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EasyRead Mathematics for Junior Secondary Schools is a doing it yourself mathematics series that is written for pupils with learning difficulties in mathematics. This series of books is easytoread and easytounderstand; as the style used in writing the texts is a stepbystep approach and the explanations used in presenting those steps are extremely easy to follow. This series of books is written not just to add to the number of the existing mathematics textbooks on the shelf, but to be a candle that will lighten the paths of millions of pupils whose paths have been darkened by fear of mathematics as a subject. The author makes this series of books user friendly to pupils who never gave mathematics a show of love, and so appealing to pupils with little or no prior knowledge of mathematics before now. In the beginning, God created man with a sense of numbers, said Hali. This sentence is meant to mean more than a quotation that is rightly said by the author in this series of books. This supplies the key which opens pupils understanding to mathematics as a whole and pupils passion for mathematics as a subject. Taking the pupils on this wondrous journey through making the unknown known-man is born with an inbuilt knowledge of mathematics-Hali teaches pupils in the course of this series of books, how to use their minds and imaginations in improving their personal knowledge of mathematics and in preparing themselves toward achieving personal excellent grades on Junior High School Mathematics. In this charming volume (EasyRead Mathematics for Junior Secondary Schools I), the author features hundreds carefully selected examples and imaginative exercises with solutions to all the carefully selected examples, and answers to all the imaginative exercises.
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Download or read book Medieval Careers in Medieval Times Volume 1 written by Sarah Peterson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEDIEVAL CAREERS IN MEDIEVAL TIMES Medieval Careers in Medieval Times, Volume 1 includes Seven Medieval "Career" lesson plans. Each plan includes short lectures or "discussions" about the career and related historical topics. Engaging activities and review games reinforce the lesson. Worksheets, teacher's keys, book and movie suggestions are also included. The following careers are covered in Volume 1: Pages and Squires; Kings, Queens and the Feudal System; Jesters; Knights and Heraldry; Cooks, Bakers and Brewers; Barbers and Apothecaries; Astrologers
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Download or read book Sexuality Education 101 written by Antonio N. Torralba and published by Global Creative Publishing House . This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK 1: INTRODUCTORY VOLUME CHARACTER EDUCATION is a fundamental base of any education program that strives to improve the lives of the young. This introductory book, and its subsequent 12-part series, is a character-based sexuality education material for young people, ages 11 to 18, from Grades 5 to 12 of the K to 12 program, intended for use by parents and teachers … the home in partnership with the school. SEXUALITY EDUCATION 101: Possibly a vehicle to a delightful journey of love, life, and everything in between!
