Download or read book Hooray for Death written by Mykle Hansen and published by . This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MYKLE HANSEN gives mortality the finger! Death by sandwich! Death by yoga! Death by blimp! In HOORAY FOR DEATH, Famous Author Mykle Hansen draws unconventional humor from deaths tiny and large, and invites you to laugh while you can. Meet The Great Mecanico, super-scientist of super-science, a man who can fix anything but his mother's health. Meet BLIMPMAN, master of the Weight-Loss Ray, and his arch-nemesis Doctor Walrus! Meet Death himself -- a single, deadly male, looking for a lover who will die slowly. Meet Penelope, your dead wife who phones you from the underworld to say she met someone deader than you. Loaded with Hansen's signature wit and weirdness, Hooray for Death is a great achievement of comedy, tragedy and hope.
Download or read book Hooray for Diffendoofer Day written by Jack Prelutsky and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1998-04-20 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Started by Dr. Seuss, finished by Jack Prelutsky, and illustrated by Lane Smith, Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! is a joyous ode to individuality starring unsinkable teacher Miss Bonkers and the quirky Diffendoofer School (which must prove it has taught its students how to think--or have them sent to dreary Flobbertown). Included is an introduction by Dr. Seuss's longtime editor explaining how the book came to be and reproductions of Dr. Seuss's original pencil sketches and hand-printed notes for the book—a true find for all Seuss collectors! Jack Prelutsky and Lane Smith pay homage to the Good Doctor in their own distinctive ways, the result of which is the union of three one-of-a-kind voices in a brand-new, completely original book that is greater than the sum of its parts. For all of us who will never forget our school days and that special teacher, here is a book to give and to get.
Download or read book Hooray for Reading Day written by Margery Cuyler and published by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First-grader Jessica, a big worrier, is especially afraid that she will make a mistake when she is reading in front of her class and parents on Reading Theater Day, but after lots of practice reading to her dog Wiggles, she performs perfectly.
Download or read book The Colossus of Maroussi Second Edition written by Henry Miller and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Miller’s landmark travel book, now reissued in a new edition, is ready to be stuffed into any vagabond’s backpack. Like the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Miller’s The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel literature. It has preceded the footsteps of prominent travel writers such as Pico Iyer and Rolf Potts. The book Miller would later cite as his favorite began with a young woman’s seductive description of Greece. Miller headed out with his friend Lawrence Durrell to explore the Grecian countryside: a flock of sheep nearly tramples the two as they lie naked on a beach; the Greek poet Katsmbalis, the “colossus” of Miller’s book, stirs every rooster within earshot of the Acropolis with his own loud crowing; cold hard-boiled eggs are warmed in a village’s single stove, and they stay in hotels that “have seen better days, but which have an aroma of the past.”
Download or read book Hooray for Snowy Days written by Susan Kantor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The follow up to Here Comes Fall!, celebrate all that winter brings with this festive and cozy rhyming board book! It’s time to bundle up when snowflakes fall and winter stays. Let’s celebrate the season—hooray for snowy days! From building a snowman to sledding down a hill, join a group of adorable woodland friends as they enjoy all the best things about winter! With adorable, inviting illustrations, and sweet, rhyming text, this board book is the perfect read-aloud for parents and little ones to cuddle up with as they celebrate the cozy, warm feelings that this season brings.
Download or read book I written by Edward Estlin Cummings and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1953 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lecture series, American poet and writer E.E. Cummings discusses his life and work on a personal level. He concludes each lecture with a poetry reading lasting about fifteen minutes. He reads mostly works of other poets.
Download or read book Heidegger and Literary Studies written by Andrew Benjamin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th Century, and a key philosophical resource for literary critics. Not only has he written about poetry, generations of poets have engaged his writings. And yet, for Heidegger poetry and literature are separate. An essential part of the project of this book therefore is to show how both the distinction and connection between literature and poetry is staged within Heidegger's thought. It offers Heidegger's perspective on a range of key themes, topics, poets, and writers, including Poetry and Poetics, Ancient Greek theatre and tragedies and then specifically Friedrich Hölderlin, Thomas Mann, Paul Celan, Euripides and Sophocles. As the Chapters comprising this book make clear, Heidegger's work remains indispensable for any serious engagement with either literature or poetry today.
Download or read book Into the Heart of Life Henry Miller at One Hundred written by Henry Miller and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1991-11-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In celebration of the centennial of his birth, Into the Heart of Life: Henry Miller at One Hundred gathers a captivating selection of writings from ten of his books. The delights of his prose are many, not the least of which is Miller's comic irony, which as The London Times noted, can be "as stringent and urgent as Swift's." Frederick Turner has organized the whole to highlight the autobiographical chronology of Miller's life, and along the way places the author squarely where he belongs––in the great tradition of American radical individualism, as a child of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. Miller, who joyously declared "I am interested––like God––only in the individual," would have been pleased. The keynotes here are self-liberation and the pleasures of Miller's "knotty, cross-grained" genius, as Turner describes it––"defying classification, ultimately unamenable to any vision, any program not [his] own." Or, as Henry Miller himself put it: "I am the hero and the book is myself."
Download or read book Death Comes for the Fat Man written by Reginald Hill and published by Seal Books. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was no sign of life. But not for a second did Pascoe admit the possibility of death. Dalziel was indestructible. Dalziel is, and was, and forever shall be, world without end, amen. Chief constables might come and chief constables might go, but Fat Andy went on forever. Caught in the full blast of a huge explosion, Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel lies on a hospital bed, with only a life support system and his indomitable will between him and the Great Beyond. His colleague, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe, is determined to bring those responsible to justice. Pascoe suspects a group called The Templars, and the deeper he digs, the more certain he is that The Templars are getting help from within the police force. The plot is complex, the pace fast, the jokes furious, and the climax astounding. And above it all, like a huge dirigible threatening to break from its moorings, hovers the disembodied spirit of Andy Dalziel.
Download or read book Machine of Death written by Ryan North and published by Machines of Death LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MACHINE OF DEATH tells thirty-four different stories about people who know how they will die. Prepare to have your tears jerked, your spine tingled, your funny bone tickled, your mind blown, your pulse quickened, or your heart warmed. Or better yet, simply prepare to be surprised. Because even when people do have perfect knowledge of the future, there's no telling exactly how things will turn out.
Download or read book HUMAN O written by ÍO and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mega Fear affects us all. We fear the unknown, but more so to the unique and indubitable great certainty: Death, which necessarily has to happen someday. When? How? How to face it? Why if it is a Natural question? It seems not to be at all! Does the unconscious fear to Death affects- human behavior? In which ways? Do the "Organic origins " as a cause of the Current World Chaos? These questions form at the heart of the refl ections that the author is inviting us to share. In plain and direct language ÍO tackles the current problems that threaten our species permanence on this errant ship in the universe’s immeasurable vastness and which we call Earth. The concentration of people in absurd and chaotic megalopolis, the massive pollution in various forms, climate change, the increasing violence in the world, the omnipresent nuclear threat, the unemployment increase and poverty, the lack of respect for Mother Nature, the growing economic and social inequality that covers the planet. In short, the human species lives an unprecedented historic moment that urgently needs and in which we all should participate. ÍO, concerned about the current world situation gives the alarm voice, calls us to be conscious, to refl ect together and to act as a consequence, unitarily. Let’s get involved and commit to action NOW! Because we can’t waste time anymore. Each and every one of us travel in the same boat in which Humanity is on the verge of collapse. Anton-ío
Download or read book Anna Hibiscus written by Atinuke and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed Nigerian storyteller Atinuke, the first in a series of chapter books set in contemporary West Africa introduces a little girl who has enchanted young readers. Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa, amazing Africa, with her mother and father, her twin baby brothers (Double and Trouble), and lots of extended family in a big white house with a beautiful garden in a compound in a city. Anna is never lonely—there are always cousins to play and fight with, aunties and uncles laughing and shouting, and parents and grandparents close by. Readers will happily follow as she goes on a seaside vacation, helps plan a party for Auntie Comfort from Canada (will she remember her Nigerian ways?), learns firsthand what it’s really like to be a child selling oranges outside the gate, and longs to see sweet snow. Nigerian storyteller Atinuke’s debut book for children and its sequels, with their charming (and abundant) gray-scale drawings by Lauren Tobia, are newly published in the US by Candlewick Press, joining other celebrated Atinuke stories in captivating young readers.
Download or read book The Theatre of E E Cummings written by E. E. Cummings and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete collection of E. E. Cummings's writing for the stage, from the most inventive poet of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Punch written by Mark Lemon and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Here Comes Fall written by Susan Kantor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate everything the fall season holds with this colorful, rhyming board book! Here comes fall, all red and gold, Say goodbye to summer’s green. From jumping in pile of leaves to carving orange pumpkins, join a group of adorable woodland friends as they enjoy all the best things about fall! This board book is the perfect read-aloud for parents and little ones to cuddle up with and share to celebrate the cozy, warm feelings that this season brings.
Download or read book The Special Prisoner written by Jim Lehrer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2000-09-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the enormous success of his two bestselling previous novels, White Widow and Purple Dots, Jim Lehrer takes on a new and controversial subject in this ambitious story about an American soldier who, many years after the fact, is forced to relive his harrowing experience in the Second World War. The Special Prisoner takes its title from the designation the Japanese government gave U.S. airmen held prisoner during World War II—an indication of the severity with which these foreign devils responsible for bombing Japanese cities were to be treated. John Quincy Watson was a skilled young pilot flying B-29s over Japan when he was shot down and taken prisoner in 1945. Fifty years later, now a prominent religious figure nearing retirement, Bishop Watson believes he has long since overcome the excruciating memories of his months as a POW. But a chance sighting of the now equally elderly Japanese officer who repeatedly tortured him instantly transports the Bishop back to that unendurable time, and he finds himself overwhelmed by an un-controllable desire for vengeance. The result for Watson is both a vivid return to the horrors of his past and the triggering of a new series of events that are also horrific—and tragic. Engaging and emotionally poignant, The Special Prisoner delves into the complicated issue of war guilt and forgiveness, starkly portrayed in the characters of an officer from a country that refuses to admit any wrongdoing and a clergyman who is committed to a belief that to forgive is divine. This is new and controversial territory for Lehrer, and he treats it with passion and respect, while writing in the highly readable, engaging style that is his trademark. This fascinating story of what's fair in war—and what's fair afterward—is a dramatic new novel from the veteran Washington author and newscaster. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jim Lehrer's Tension City.
Download or read book Wake written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
