Download or read book Mock Trough Rasping Crow written by Billy Cancel and published by Blazevox Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "billy cancel's new book of poetry, MOCK TROUGH RASPING CROW arrives with a giant bang! He is our era's John Donne, doused with the spittle of Mark E. Smith, while he dances to Captain Beefheart. Cancel's poems are rich & sophisticated, blending the guttural & surreal with a delicacy that knocks me out every time I read him or see him perform. Open this book, read it, & be transformed."--Todd Colby "'i have to start / everywhere' as only the best poets can have it! I have been a huge fan of billy cancel's poetry for years & this book is long overdue, but here, finally, to get us right by spirit in the magical sluice through this fucked, harried but beautiful world! Get reading this NOW!"--CA Conrad "In Billy Cancel's dense phantasmagoric psychoscapes one should always expect the unexpected: 'crows fly backward,' the 'sky [is] full of / gizmos,' and 'lush datafication has / neither been requested nor shall be well / received.' These hard-hitting, high-energy lyrics feature everything from 'retro sci-fi aesthetic cobwebs' to a 'big-wow-painted-dome-disaster-show.' This is to say that MOCK TROUGH RASPING CROW portrays with startling precision the feel of navigating the continuous onslaught that is our contemporary reality, which would be deliciously absurd if it weren't so disturbingly dystopian. Cancel aggregates with considerable force an ingenious combination of phrases, lexicons, and speech registers; hot and smoldering, his 20-line poems are like fragments of Parnassus after it has exploded."--Michael Leong "Frenetic, goat-punk-nimble & friskily absurd, MOCK TROUGH RASPING CROW confirms billy cancel as one of poetry's most original talents. This collection is a dazzling & jolting pleasure."--Jane Ormerod "Reading MOCK TROUGH RASPING CROW I was captivated in much the same way as when I watched billy cancel perform, though the masks & at times flamboyant costumes were missing I was caught up in the language, dark humor, magic & surreal screwball imagery. This is 1 of those rare instances where performance poetry transfer perfectly from page to stage & vice-versa so 'don't let your attention wander' as cancel puts it, MTRC is about 'everything at once / or something all the time.' Grab it, crack it open & try, if you dare, to figure it out."--Steve Dalachinsky

Download or read book The Tunnel Behind the Waterfall written by William Corlett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old William Constant and his two younger sisters have come to ancient, mysterious Golden House in Wales for the holidays.

Download or read book Fools Crow written by James Welch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 25th-anniversary edition of "a novel that in the sweep and inevitability of its events...is a major contribution to Native American literature." (Wallace Stegner) In the Two Medicine Territory of Montana, the Lone Eaters, a small band of Blackfeet Indians, are living their immemorial life. The men hunt and mount the occasional horse-taking raid or war party against the enemy Crow. The women tan the hides, sew the beadwork, and raise the children. But the year is 1870, and the whites are moving into their land. Fools Crow, a young warrior and medicine man, has seen the future and knows that the newcomers will punish resistance with swift retribution. First published to broad acclaim in 1986, Fools Crow is James Welch's stunningly evocative portrait of his people's bygone way of life. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Download or read book King s Men Crow written by Nicholas Carter and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical adventure novel during the First English Civil War featuring two military officers who battle on and off the field in both love and war. August, 1643: the Siege of Gloucester continues. Can the weak city walls really survive against the might of the Royalists? William Sparrow and Hugo Telling may be on different sides, but their dreams and desires are the same. To find the courage to fight proudly and lead their men. For the war to be over and for the love of the incomparable Bella. But only one side can win the war, and only one man can win Bella’s heart . . . King’s Men Crow is the thrilling third installment of The Shadow on the Crown series. Praise for the writing of Nicholas Carter: “Ringing to the clash of blades and the roar of cannon and pungent with the whiff of gunpowder . . . A storming read.” —Peterborough Telegraph “Carter’s stories are in a league of their own.” —Bristol Observer

Download or read book A Hooded Crow written by Craig Thomas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times–Bestselling Author of The Last Raven: Two British intelligence veterans race to stop lethal weapons from falling into dangerous hands . . . Andrew Babbington has gone over to the enemy, working on industrial espionage for the KGB. But between the impatient Russians who want to get their hands on some advanced tech, and the British intelligence specialists who’ve trained their sights on the manufacturers who supply them, his efforts could fall apart at any moment—especially after the discovery of a downed plane in the Namibian desert, and the illicit cargo it was carrying. Now, Sir Kenneth Aubrey and Patrick Hyde of MI6 are working off a tip about some shady businessmen with access to terrifying weapons. They’re willing to sell to the highest bidder—no matter how disreputable. To prevent the deaths of innocent people, the seasoned warriors must spring into action. The geopolitical landscape may be shifting in unpredictable ways, but Aubrey and Hyde know that some things never change—including greed . . . Praise for Craig Thomas’s thrillers “Lively, straightforward action.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “The last word in espionage thrillers.” —The Pittsburgh Press

Download or read book Fantasms written by Len Bailey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Danny Ray, "the best dang rodeo cowboy in Oklahoma," to the rescue once again. King Krystal of Elidor's beautiful daughter, Princess Amber, has been kidnapped by the evil Fantasms--monstrous beasts whose sole purpose is to rule the magical kingdom of Elidor and to spread sorrow and darkness throughout the land. But not if Danny Ray and his eccentric group of friends have anything to do with it! Imagine a world with seas of polished black and white marble squares sailed upon by immense chess pieces hundreds of feet high: rooks, bishops and queens powered by tiny furry Tantarrabobs and Zanoomies. Imagine this is the battleground where Danny Ray, Tuk (a hellwain devil), KarooKachoo (a dragonfly princess), Prince Blues, the Sultana Sumferi Sar, Captain Quigglewigg, Hoodie Crow and the White Lady must rescue Princess Amber and save the kingdom of Elidor from eternal darkness. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Scholastic Gold written by Avi and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avi's treasured Newbery Honor Book now in expanded After Words edition!Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is excited to return home from her school in England to her family in Rhode Island in the summer of 1832. But when the two families she was supposed to travel with mysteriously cancel their trips, Charlotte finds herself the lone passenger on a long sea voyage with a cruel captain and a mutinous crew. Worse yet, soon after stepping aboard the ship, she becomes enmeshed in a conflict between them! What begins as an eagerly anticipated ocean crossing turns into a harrowing journey, where Charlotte gains a villainous enemy . . . and is put on trial for murder!After Words material includes author Q & A, journal writing tips, and other activities that bring Charlotte's world to life!

Download or read book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.

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Download or read book Malice written by Lisa Jackson and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Jackson comes a gripping, edge-of-the-seat tale of deception and betrayal, as New Orleans detective Rick Bentz is forced to confront the ghosts of his past--and a killer's twisted vengeance.

Download or read book Upgunned written by David J. Schow and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting Hitchcockian thriller from the screenwriter of THE CROW. Elias McCabe is having one hell of a night: He gets kidnapped at gunpoint by a professional hit man and is forced to shoot blackmail photos of a prominent politician. Things go wrong with the shoot… very wrong. When the night is over, Elias is scared to death … and ten thousand dollars richer. If he keeps his mouth shut. But he doesn’t — and now the hit man has targeted him for payback. As a desperate amateur in the games of death, Elias is up against a seasoned pro. As his entire life slides into the abyss, he has to stay alive by inventing new ways, moment-by-moment, to avoid, misdirect, and finally confront his ever-more-determined murderer as corpses and collateral damage stack up coast-to-coast in their wake.

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Download or read book The Laughter of Aphrodite written by Peter Green and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final love affair with Phaon. She narrates her own story from the vantage point of self-questioning middle age, and her candid meditations make intimate, engrossing reading. Only fragments of Sappho's poetry survive. In imagining Sappho's life Green found his task "rather like that of an archaeologist reassembling some amphora from hundreds of shards—of which more than half are missing." Yet, in his synthesis of historical evidence and ebullient invention, Green produces a seamless, moving, and persuasive portrait. He recreates Sappho's life by interweaving her surviving poetry into the narrative, not as quotations, but as her own imagined speeches and thoughts. Sappho's life spanned one of the most exciting periods in Greek history. Green's novel, full of details about daily life on ancient Lesbos, draws the reader into the political and social climate of her world: the civil strife accompanying the transition from aristocracy to mercantilism, the household relations between slave and aristocrat, the details of sea travel in the Aegean. Green wrote the novel while living on Lesbos, and his graceful rendering of the landscape, the rhythms of the seasons, and the varied flora of Sappho's island pervades the narrative. Sappho's poetry reveals a direct, spontaneous woman who eschewed artifice and embellishment. Green's extraordinary talent captures those qualities and brings this woman of unflinching honesty very much to life. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993. Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final l

Download or read book The Emperor s Game written by Jenna Powers and published by PEAR Stories. This book was released on 2024-02-03 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the orders of the great Emperor Cree of the Tudorian Empire, Lord Commander Gunther and his soldiers have overtaken a neutral piece of land between two members of the Human Alliance. His patience grows thin, day by day, but his trusted Cleric, Lucius Lightbringer continues to calm his soul. To try and trick Gunther into satiating his bloodlust, Governor Slarkin continues to whisper in his ear about the spoils of victory. Unfortunately for him, Lucius will not allow the Lord Commander to fall into his trap. Off to the west, the Emperor's son, Prince Loren, busily negotiates with the Crown Prince, Mutid Kerim al Aziz, of Harub, on how best to complete their alliance. Mutid is more than happy to join the Empire but he has a request. The only way he can help the Tudorians is to usurp his father as King, and he has some chilling requests for Prince Loren to get him there. And once there, he begins to feel the weight of power on his shoulders. And while the Emperor's game begins, the Elves, not wishing to be pawns, continue to try and thrive on their own. Though, internal discord between the two sisters, Aewyn, the High Priestess and temporary ruler of Aurelias, and Leila, the trusted commander of their army, threatens to tear them apart from within. The two cannot come to an agreement when they learn that the Tudorian Empire is breaking the peace around them. The once fragile peace that reigned across the lands begins to break as the pawns of the Emperor's game begin to take their places, and war begins to show its face once more...

Download or read book Fractured Alliance written by Jenna Powers and published by PEAR Stories. This book was released on 2024-03-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a century after the fall of the Horde, a fragile peace crumbles. The Tudorian Empire, led by the ruthless Emperor Cree, seeks to dominate the continent, clashing with the Alliance, a union of human kingdoms, and the Elven Kingdom of Aurelias. Gunther, the Empire's brutal commander, leads the charge eastward, encountering resistance from the Alliance. Meanwhile, Prince Loren negotiates with a power-hungry prince in the west, forging a potentially devastating alliance. Within Aurelias, tensions rise. Aewyn, the High Priestess, desires isolation, while her sister Leila, the commander, advocates for cooperation with the Alliance. Their conflicting visions threaten to divide the elves. Lara, sister to an aspiring Commander, haunted by the remnants of the Call of the Krakenos, succumbs to its dark desires, jeopardizing herself and those around her. As the web of deceit and ambition tightens, the once peaceful lands spiral towards war. Can trust be rebuilt, or will the continent be consumed by the flames of conflict once more? This trilogy combines three exciting books of The Reign of Peace series and contains: False Peace Broken Bonds of Trust The Emperor's Game

Download or read book TARGET IIFT 2019 Past Papers 2005 2018 5 Mock Tests 11th Edition written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TARGET IIFT 2019 - Past (2005 - 2018) + 5 Mock Tests contains the detailed solutions of IIFT Question Papers from 2005 to 2018. The book also contains thoroughly revised & updated 5 Mock tests designed exactly as per the latest pattern of IIFT - 114 questions. The book also contains a General Awareness Question Bank containing 100+ MCQ’s involving current issues similar to the ones asked in the actual exam.

Download or read book The Complete Poetry of James Hearst written by James Hearst and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called a poetry of place. A lifelong Iowa farner, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conflicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental - a people and an art rooted in place.