Download or read book The Humming Machine written by Berlie Doherty and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great-grandpa Toby is making so much NOISE! And if Tam can hear the clamour coming from his humming machine, the fairies will too. And soon enough, on the night of a blue moon, Great-grandpa Toby vanishes without a trace. While battling nightmarish fairies and decoding the words of the Flame-Reader, Tam eventually discovers his Great-grandpa has been captured by the beautiful Damson Hag, and turned into a nine-year-old boy! Bewitched, fed only with rose petals, and mournfully playing the humming machine to himself, Great-grandpa Toby is tempted to stay in Faery Land and be young for ever... Unless Tam has anything to do with it.

Download or read book The Humming Machine written by Perry DiToto and published by . This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a collection of song lyrics that tell stories of love and heartbreak, triumph and turmoil. The characters are fictional however some lyrics are based on real people or situations, and a few contain autobiographical aspects.

Download or read book Hum written by Jamaal May and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May’s debut collection, poems buzz and purr like a well-oiled chassis. Grit, trial, and song thrum through tight syntax and deft prosody. From the resilient pulse of an abandoned machine to the sinuous lament of origami animals, here is the ever-changing hum that vibrates through us all, connecting one mind to the next. “Linguistically acrobatic [and] beautifully crafted. . . [Jamaal May's] poems, exquisitely balanced by a sharp intelligence mixed with earnestness, makes his debut a marvel.” —Publishers Weekly “The elegant and laconic intelligence in these poems, their skepticism and bent humor and deliberately anti-Romantic stance toward experience are completely refreshing. After so much contemporary writing that seems all flash, no mind and no heart, these poems show how close observation of the world and a gift for plain-spoken, but eloquent speech, can give to poetry both dignity and largeness of purpose, and do it in an idiom that is pitch perfect to emotional nuance and fine intellectual distinctions. Hard-headed and tough-minded, Hum is the epitome of what Frost meant by ‘a fresh look and a fresh listen.’” —Tom Sleigh "Jamaal May’s debut collection, Hum, is concerned with what’s beneath the surfaces of things—the unseen that eats away at us or does the work of sustaining us. Reading these poems, I was reminded of Ellison’s ‘lower frequencies,’ a voice speaking for us all. May has a fine ear, acutely attuned to the sonic textures of everyday experience. And Hum—a meditation on the machinery of living, an extended ode to sound and silence—is a compelling debut.” —Natasha Trethewey "In his percussive debut collection Hum, Jamaal May offers a salve for our phobias and restores the sublime to the urban landscape. Whether you need a friend to confide in, a healer to go to, or a tour guide to take you there, look no further. That low hum you hear are these poems, emanating both wisdom and swagger.” —A. Van Jordan From "Mechanophobia: Fear of Machines": There is no work left for the husks. Automated welders like us, your line replacements, can't expect sympathy after our bright arms of cable rust over. So come collect us for scrap, grind us up in the mouth of one of us. Let your hand pry at the access panel with the edge of a knife, silencing the motor and thrum. Jamaal May is a poet, editor, and filmmaker from Detroit, MI where he taught poetry in public schools and worked as a freelance audio engineer and touring performer. His poetry won the 2013 Indiana Review Poetry Prize and appears in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, The Believer, NER, and The Kenyon Review. Jamaal has earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College as well as fellowships from Cave Canem and The Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University. He founded the Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook Press.

Download or read book Electric Motorcycles and Bicycles written by Kevin Desmond and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  Beginning in 1881, isolated prototypes of electric tricycles and bicycles were patented and sometimes tested. Limited editions followed in the 1940s, but it was not until the lithium-ion battery became available in the first decade of this century that urban pedelecs and more powerful open-road motorcycles—sometimes with speeds of over 200 mph—became possible and increasingly popular. Today’s ever-growing fleets of one-wheel, two-wheel and three-wheel light electric vehicles can now be counted in the hundreds of millions. In this third installment of his electric transport history series, the author covers the lives of the innovative engineers who have developed these e-wheelers.

Download or read book Popularizing the Nation written by Kirsten Belgum and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In countless articles on culture, politics, landscape, industry, history, and other topics, the Gartenlaube played an influential role in nineteenth-century Germany's larger effort to forge a national identity for itself. In fact, Belgum argues that the search for, and development of, national identity in Germany was inextricably linked to the writings of the Gartenlaube and other popular magazines. Such publications served both as a public repository of mythic memory for the nation and as a source of new national images for a self-consciously modern Germany.

Download or read book The Player of Games written by Iain M. Banks and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Culture — a human/machine symbiotic society — has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game. . . a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life — and very possibly his death. The Culture Series Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata

Download or read book The Island Walkers written by John Bemrose and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-12-28 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Bemrose’s highly acclaimed national bestseller tells the story of a family who slips from fortune’s favour in a southwestern Ontario mill town during the mid-1960s. Like his father before him, Alf Walker is a fixer in the local textile mill. When a labour dispute forces him to choose between loyalty to his friends and his own advancement, Alf’s actions inadvertently set in motion a series of events that will reverberate far into the future. Meanwhile, Alf’s wife, Margaret, must reconcile her middle-class upbringing with her blue-collar reality, as her marriage is undermined by forces she cannot name. And after their eldest son, Joe, falls headlong for a girl he first glimpses on a bridge, the boy finds his world overturned by the passion and uncertainty of young love. At once intimate and epic in scope, The Island Walkers follows the Walker family to the very bottom of their night, only to confirm, in the end, life’s regenerative power.

Download or read book Diary of a Demonologist written by Darla Broadwater and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This debut novel by Darla Broadwater is a collection of three short supernatural stories. Follow Elizabeth ""Liz"" Pearson, a Christian and budding demonologist (but she doesn't know it yet), as she is catapaulted into three very different encounters with the unknown. In ""Disappearance"" you will meet Denni, a selfish, drug-addicted woman who pays for her behavior under very mysterious circumstances. In ""Deal with the Devil"" you'll get to know Liz and you will meet Richard, who is a longtime friend of hers. Richard turns out to be a conjurer who worships the prince of lies himself. See what surprising event happens to him as well as his entire group. But, is there a dark secret that Liz is hiding? Finally, in ""Warning,"" Liz encounters the unknown within her own family as well as with someone else she knows. You will get more of a peek into a few issues she struggles with. You will also meet some characters who have their own unusual paranormal situations take over their lives.

Download or read book Welltower First Run written by Lester Yocum and published by Lester Yocum. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaehl is 15 years old. He lives with his family in the middle of a massive, run-down residential tower. His father is abusive and his mother loving but weak. He loves his sister with all his heart but she is terribly handicapped. There are gangs in the halls. He has been cut off from most of his friends and fears for his life. He is starving. He is afraid. He wants out. His moment comes and he breaks free, running blindly until, stumbling and starving, he is taken in by a gang. Now he roams the halls with those he used to fear, forced to seek respect in a winner-take-all world. After a desperate battle he returns to his family only to find that things have gone terribly, terribly wrong. Now he stumbles through the halls again, this time to save his dying sister. Innocent and confused, victimized at every turn, he refuses to let go of hope and devotion as he battles poverty, disease, and the power-hungry elite in the heights and depths of the looking-glass world called Welltower. Aimed at the young adult science fiction market, First Run is the initial offering in the Welltower series.

Download or read book Twinkle written by Harry G. Poyner and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-09-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.

Download or read book A Logic Named Joe written by Murray Leinster and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three complete novels, one of them a Hugo Award finalist, with a number of short stories.

Download or read book You Can t Get Them Back written by Thomas Wymark and published by Thomas Wymark. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuart Burton is on his way to the hospital. His wife is about to give birth to their second child. He can't be late. But there is an accident, and Stuart ends up in a coma. When he wakes up, everything in his world has changed. And why are the police asking him questions about the murders of three people sixteen years ago? Stuart embarks on a tense and emotional journey to find out the truth about the accident, and to get back everything he's lost. But you can't get them back…

Download or read book Magician of Sound written by Jessie Fillerup and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French composer Maurice Ravel was described by critics as a magician, conjurer, and illusionist. Scholars have been aware of this historical curiosity, but none so far have explained why Ravel attracted such critiques or what they might tell us about how to interpret his music. Magician of Sound examines Ravel's music through the lens of illusory experience, considering how timbre, orchestral effects, figure/ground relationships, and impressions of motion and stasis might be experienced as if they were conjuring tricks. Applying concepts from music theory, psychology, philosophy, and the history of magic, Jessie Fillerup develops an approach to musical illusion that newly illuminates Ravel's fascination with machines and creates compelling links between his music and other forms of aesthetic illusion, from painting and poetry to fiction and phantasmagoria. Fillerup analyzes scenes of enchantment and illusory effects in Ravel's most popular works, including Boléro, La Valse, Daphnis et Chloé, and Rapsodie espagnole, relating his methods and musical effects to the practice of theatrical conjurers. Drawing on a rich well of primary sources, Magician of Sound provides a new interdisciplinary framework for interpreting this enigmatic composer, linking magic and music.

Download or read book The Last Good Man written by A.J. Kazinski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Jewish scripture, there are thirty-six righteous people on earth. Without them, humanity would perish. But the thirty-six do not know that they are the chosen ones. In Beijing, a monk collapses in his chamber. A fiery mark has spread across his back and down his spine. In Mumbai, a man who served the poor dies suddenly. His body shows the same mark. Similar deaths are reported in cities around the world - the victims all humanitarians, all with the same death mark. In Copenhagen, it falls to veteran detective Niels Bentzon to investigate. He is told to find eight 'good people' of Denmark and warn them of this threat. But Bentzon is trained to see the worst in people and he becomes increasingly skeptical as he realizes that not everyone perceived to be good is truly good. It is only when Niels meets Hannah, a brilliant astrophysicist mourning the death of her husband, that the pair begin to piece together the puzzle and a pattern emerges. There have been thirty-four deaths and there are two more to come. According to the pattern, Bentzon and Hannah can predict the time and place of the final two. The murders will occur in Venice and Copenhagen. And the time is now. 'A breathtaking thriller' Ekstra Bladet 'A catching and entertaining story told with breathtaking pace' Politiken 'Beautifully done . . . and the ending is truly surprising' litteratursiden.dk

Download or read book The Boy who Woke written by Jimi Alan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disastrous event shook a major city. Leaving Alec Ericson in a coma.Months have gone by since the event before Alec wakes up from his coma. Alec finds himself living with his relatives outside the city. His parents are both dead and he's still recuperation from his injuries.After weeks of grieving and recuperation at the Ericson's estate, Alec decides to return to the city. His old friend, Vanessa eagerly waits for the news of Alec wakening up from his coma. Alec can't wait to see his friends and get his life back to the way it was. But he knows the life he is expecting to live, may not be possible.

Download or read book Slaves of the Dust written by Sophie Wenzel Ellis and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hale Oakham heads into the mysterious jungle to find the mysterious Sir Basil Addington and his laboratory where he has supposedly discovered amazing secrets about life, including ones which enable him to produce monsters and to change the physical characteristics of humans.

Download or read book The Strait written by Dom Stasi and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An electrifying debut crime thriller. “A page-turner for sure and darn hard to put down . . . Readers of mysteries will not be disappointed.”—Donald J. Porter, author of Flight Failure Pilot Jake Silver is haunted by a cruel irony—he secretly suspects that he’s the reason Swede Bergstrom, the hero who saved his life, has fallen on hard times. Upon learning that Swede has been killed during the commission of a crime, the guilt-driven Jake too-willingly agrees to follow Swede’s mysterious and beautiful sister, Christina, on a search to clear her brother’s name. Their odyssey takes them from the canyons of Manhattan to the heart of darkness itself, enlisting the help of colorful characters and dodging death every step of the way. But is the alluring Christina the loving sister she appears to be, or evil incarnate? The body of a woman discovered in Jake’s East Side apartment and her killer’s ritualistically brutal M.O. lead NYPD homicide cop Pat Garodnik to suspect the latter. Combining his efforts with those of Jake’s mother—a former DA with enemies on both sides of the law—the pair embark on an odyssey of their own, going to any lengths necessary, legal or otherwise, to find the truth and save Jake before his time runs out. Literary and atmospheric, Dom Stasi’s debut thriller will have you turning pages late into the night with its high-flying action and intriguing mystery. As answers continue to be uncovered, the final pieces of the puzzle are as shocking as they are satisfying