Download or read book From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet written by Patrick Michael Finn and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Place is a character in Patrick Michael Finn's fiction. It's almost as if the setting, like the working-class characters who people his stories, has an ethnicity. The characters try to go on with their lives while the place broods and mourns around them. And all the while the narratives driven by credible psychological pressure grow increasingly threatening until the elegiac becomes rage. This is artful storytelling." --Stuart Dybek, author of 'I Sailed with Magel lan' "Let us all hope that 'From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet' is just the first of many story collections by Patrick Michael Finn. Populated with destitute strippers, damaged punks, polka lovers, bereaved widows, and the chronic unemployed amid lard factories and Catholic churches and gritty streets, these are the kind of stories that Balzac might have written if he had visited the economically ravaged American Midwest in the early 1980s. With the force of a massive heart attack brought on by a steady diet of corn-beef hash and Camel cigarettes and hard, hard living, Finn has put Joliet, Illinois on the literary map forever. It is an awesome book by a great, great writer." --Donald Ray Pollock, author of 'Knockemstiff' Brutality, defeat, loneliness, mournful longing, and comic absurdity haunt and ignite the eight stories in Patrick Michael Finn's prize-winning collection with a vast assembly of unforgettable characters confronted by life-changing crises that force them to make impossible choices. Some redeem their dignity while others are crushed by irreversible loss and spiritual destruction. Patrick Michael Finn is the author of 'A Martyr for Suzy Kosasovich', and his stories have appeared in 'Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Third Coast, Quarterly West, The Clackamas Literary Review, The Yalobusha Review, Punk Planet', and Houghton Mifflin's 'The Best American Mystery Stories 2004'. His fiction has also received citations in the 2005 Pushcart Prize and 'The Best American Short Stories 2008'. He lives in Arizona with his wife, poet Valerie Bandura, and their son James.
Download or read book Say It Hot Volume II written by Eric Miles Williamson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Say It Hot Volume II: Industrial Strength is a collection of essays on American poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and issues of interest to artists and academics. A companion volume to Say It Hot, these essays are brutally honest and acutely intelligent. From the book: “Literary authors these days no longer make livings off their work. Their books are not to be found in bookstores, and the books are rarely printed by major New York publishing houses. No one reads their works except for other literary authors and the professors who are evaluating their tenure and promotion folders at the colleges and universities at which they are employed, and it’s a minor miracle if a literary book from a small press sells a thousand copies. Fiction writers from wealth write about writing or they write about the ridiculous “sufferings” of the rich. Fiction writers from the lower classes write about the primordial filth from which they’ve physically escaped but from which they’ll never mentally be able to leave behind. Like war veterans, people who’ve fought it out in the miasma of poverty and blue- collar hell can never get the stink out of their skins, try as they may. Just like people who haven’t been to war can spot vets who have, middle-class people and the rich can spot people who’ve grown up poor, no matter what their position in life or the quality of their designer suits. Those suits just don’t fit right, and the neckties make them fidget and sweat. What the well-heeled authors and the working-class writers have in common is that they’ve been trained not to pronounce moral judgment.”
Download or read book The Stars Beneath Our Feet written by David Barclay Moore and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The right story at the right time. . . . It’s not just a narrative; it’s an experience. It’s the novel we’ve been waiting for." —The New York Times A boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of his brother’s death in this outstanding debut novel that celebrates community and creativity. Winner of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award for New Talent and soon to be a major motion picture directed by Michael B. Jordan! It’s Christmas Eve in Harlem, but twelve-year-old Lolly Rachpaul and his mom aren’t celebrating. They’re still reeling from his older brother’s death in a gang-related shooting just a few months earlier. Then Lolly’s mother’s girlfriend brings him a gift that will change everything: two enormous bags filled with Legos. Lolly’s always loved Legos, and he prides himself on following the kit instructions exactly. Now, faced with a pile of building blocks and no instructions, Lolly must find his own way forward. His path isn’t clear—and the pressure to join a “crew,” as his brother did, is always there. When Lolly and his friend are beaten up and robbed, joining a crew almost seems like the safe choice. But building a fantastical Lego city at the community center provides Lolly with an escape—and an unexpected bridge back to the world. David Barclay Moore paints a powerful portrait of a boy teetering on the edge—of adolescence, of grief, of violence—and shows how Lolly’s inventive spirit helps him build a life with firm foundations and open doors. A New York Times Notable Book A Time Magazine Top 10 Children's Books of the Year A Boston Globe Best Children's Book of the Year Six Starred Reviews “A fast and furious read in which we meet some amazing people, people that stay with us. David Barclay Moore is an exciting new voice. We definitely haven’t heard the last of his brilliance.” —Jacqueline Woodson, Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming “The Stars Beneath Our Feet is about the weight of the world on the back of a child, and the creative tools necessary to alleviate that pressure. I found myself rooting for Lolly, and you will too.” —Jason Reynolds, Coretta Scott King Honor Winner for As Brave As You
Download or read book The New Midwest written by Mark Athitakis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the public imagination, Midwestern literature has not evolved far beyond heartland laborers and hardscrabble immigrants of a century past. But as the region has changed, so, in many ways, has its fiction. In this book, the author explores how shifts in work, class, place, race, and culture has been reflected or ignored by novelists and short story writers. From Marilynne Robinson to Leon Forrest, Toni Morrison to Aleksandar Hemon, Bonnie Jo Campbell to Stewart O'Nan this book is a call to rethink the way we conceive Midwestern fiction, and one that is sure to prompt some new must-have additions to every reading list.
Download or read book Underland A Deep Time Journey written by Robert Macfarlane and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller • New York Times “100 Notable Books of the Year” • NPR “Favorite Books of 2019” • Guardian “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet’s past and future. Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. In this highly anticipated sequel to his international bestseller The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through “deep time”—the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present—he moves from the birth of the universe to a post-human future, from the prehistoric art of Norwegian sea caves to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, from Bronze Age funeral chambers to the catacomb labyrinth below Paris, and from the underground fungal networks through which trees communicate to a deep-sunk “hiding place” where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come. Woven through Macfarlane’s own travels are the unforgettable stories of descents into the underland made across history by explorers, artists, cavers, divers, mourners, dreamers, and murderers, all of whom have been drawn for different reasons to seek what Cormac McCarthy calls “the awful darkness within the world.” Global in its geography and written with great lyricism and power, Underland speaks powerfully to our present moment. Taking a deep-time view of our planet, Macfarlane here asks a vital and unsettling question: “Are we being good ancestors to the future Earth?” Underland marks a new turn in Macfarlane’s long-term mapping of the relations of landscape and the human heart. From its remarkable opening pages to its deeply moving conclusion, it is a journey into wonder, loss, fear, and hope. At once ancient and urgent, this is a book that will change the way you see the world.
Download or read book The Book of Lost Light written by Ron Nyren and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Kylander's childhood in early 20th century San Francisco has been shaped by his widowed father's obsessive photographic project and by his headstrong cousin Karelia's fanciful storytelling and impulsive acts. The 1906 earthquake upends their eccentric routines, and they take refuge with a capricious patron and a group of artists looking to find meaning after the disaster. THE BOOK OF LOST LIGHT explores family loyalty and betrayal, Finnish folklore, the nature of time and theater, and what it takes to recover from calamity and build a new life from the ashes.
Download or read book In the Company of Angels written by David Farland and published by Cedar Fort Publishing & Media. This book was released on 2022-12-23 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Willie Handcart Company of 1856 was a trial and a miracle. You will feel a part of the company as you follow three of its members in a moving masterpiece that will take you from the green fields of Denmark to the icy peaks of the Rockies in a saga that elevates and enriches those that it touches.
Download or read book In The Darkness written by Cary McFadden and published by Cary McFadden and Brad McFadden. This book was released on with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sun has imploded, the earth has fallen into permanent darkness and geological turmoil. Millions have died. Magnet fields are fluctuating making electronics worthless. Modern civilization is in ruin. But there is hope! There is a way to survive. A small group of elite agents have been sent to rescue survivors and get them to safety, before time runs out.
Download or read book Cosmopolitan written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Minecraft The Village written by Max Brooks and published by Random House Worlds. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book in Max Brooks’s official Minecraft trilogy! The New York Times bestselling author of Minecraft: The Island details the story of two stranded heroes whose block-breaking expedition lands them squarely in the middle of a conflict that only they can resolve. Journeying into the unknown is a scary prospect, but together Guy and Summer can navigate any challenge. The two castaways strike out in this curious, blocky world, searching for a way home. As they cross the Overworld—traversing frozen wastelands and scorching deserts—the pair makes an exciting discovery: a community populated by villagers! Guy and Summer settle in to learn more about their new friends, trading with the residents and exploring the surrounding area as they work out the next steps in their voyage. But with monstrous mobs and perilous pitfalls around every corner, they soon find that they might be needed here more than they’d thought. When a villager disappears, their investigation uncovers new foes—ones so powerful that this might spell the end of their adventure. Drawing on the lessons they’ve learned along the way, Guy and Summer must work together to protect the village.
Download or read book Flags of Our Fathers written by James Bradley and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2005-04-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling chronicle of one of the most famous moments in American military history--the raising of the U. S. flag at Iwo Jima during World War II--now adapted for young adults. Read the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and strength of America and its armed forces. This is a penetrating, epic look at a generation at war, told with keen insight and enormous honesty —also a major motion picture directed by Clint Eastwood. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima–and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire, they battled to the island’s highest peak. And there, they raised a flag, signaling a historic step towards the eventual defeat of the Axis powers of World War II. A powerful account of six very different men--three of which were killed in battle-- who came together in the heroic fight for the Pacific’s most crucial island. It is the story of the difference between truth and myth, the legacy of a hero, and the brutal cost of war.
Download or read book Fun In The Harbour written by Simon Dudley and published by indi-scribbler. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FUN IN THE HARBOUR is the fifth book in the series where Laura and her friends meet Mystic Marge, the barge lady, at the local canal festival. One of Big Sue’s llamas becomes ill, and Blackjack, the travellers’ horse doctor, is called into action to save him. The bad-tempered canal lock keeper gets more than he bargained for when Laura and her friends get their revenge in the dark, cold waters of the harbour. And what ghostly phantom lurks above the organ in the village church. Simon Dudley’s beautifully written and charmingly portrayed, adventure series is a pleasure to read. The lost and nearly forgotten years of 1950’s childhood can be experienced within these pages as the author cleverly immerses you into their world. This is a real treat for any reader, young or old, who fancies a bit of time-travel back to when kids could literally be kids. The books can be read in any order as the stories stand alone. The main character in the series is Laura McBean, and because of her mischievous behaviour, in her younger years, was nicknamed Laura McNaughty. The stories are set in England in the 1950s which was probably the last decade where kids could safely play outside and roam around to their hearts’ content. Laura lives in the middle cottage of three, which used to be owned by the Railways, with her mother, her brother, Johnny, and their dog, Trudy. Her Nanny Conks lives in the first cottage, and “Neverin” (her Aunty Nancy) lives in the third. Their garden backs onto Stokey’s woods, and the beach is a fifteen-minute walk through the woodland. A group of travellers set up camp in the woods during the summer months, and this where you meet “Blackjack” the travellers’ Horse Doctor and his old horse Lightning. The empty railway buildings and platform are a stone’s throw from the cottages; and the disused, and heavily overgrown, track is still in place all the way down to the village. So come along and join Laura and her friends on their many adventures.
Download or read book Level Nine written by Ward Andrews and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEVEL NINE begins with a heart rending tragedy. The dogged determination of Rod Oliver, supervising engineer of the Petrolode Project, along with Nate Roland and Steve Buller, crack mine accident investigators, to find what caused the death of all 38 workmen at level nine of the project led to a series of adventures. The three were captured and taken to the beautiful underground city of Paran-Kedesh where ancient laws ordained the death penalty for trespassers. King Ramah, however, opted to offer hospitality instead to ease his conscience for ordering the death of the mine workmen. As a guest of the royal family and the city, Rod fell in love with Berah, beautiful daughter of the king. Life in the city was not without action and adventure, and soon Rod and Berah were married and Ramah dispatched them to the upper world to insure no further incursions would be made. Here Berah was both awed and delighted by the upper world and after nerve shattering experiences in this unfamiliar place, she became convinced she could never live here. Rod, also forced to consider a life in the narrow confines of Paran-Kedesh, doubted his sanity could survive a life there. Meeting these cultural and natural differences of their worlds finally led to an apparent breaking point in their marriage.
Download or read book The Shagganappi written by E. Pauline Johnson and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1913 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleeping medicine, he said, pointing to the teapot. "He not have pain. You stay until he awake, then you ride on to Fort o' Farewell. You take some food. You leave some for us. You send wagon, take him home. I stay with him. Maybe four, five days before you get there and send wagon back. You trust me? I give him sleeping medicine. I watch him. You trust me--Five Feathers?"
Download or read book The Revenant written by Brian L. Blank and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen O'Neil returns to the hometown he left 13 years earlier when his parents were killed in a car accident, for his former best friend's funeral. After finding out that his friend had drowned in suspicious circumstance, Stephen decides to stay and investigate. Stephen along with Reed's sisters, Julie and Tabitha, Julie's boyfriend Sly and Reed's ex-girlfriend Melissa, are invited to the mansion of a rich divorcee who claims to have information on Reed's death. After moving into the mansion there are a series of strange incidents in town. The detective investigating these incidents believes Stephen is behind them. Stephen and his friends start investigating in order to clear his name, as they are lead from the mansion, to the cemetery, to a supposedly haunted house Stephen is taken on a journey reminiscent of his childhood nightmares.
Download or read book Darkness Descending written by Harry Turtledove and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-04-08 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forthweg has been lost to the Algarvian and the Unkerlanter soldiers. Not satisfied to share the plundered Forthweg, Algarve invades Unkerlant and begins its march on the capital during the harsh Unkerlant winter.
