Download or read book The Nevermind of Brian Hildebrand written by Martin Myers and published by Crowsnest Books. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Hildebrand is in a coma. But unbeknownst to his caregivers, Brian is fully conscious, fully cognitive, fully aware, and, inexplicably, smarter than ever. --
Download or read book The Secret Viking written by Martin Myers and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started as simple research. It became a metafictional mystery that would leave him questioning his sanity. P. August Dallou is determined to make his mark. So when the literary scholar discovers papers citing a shadowy 1300-year-old Viking still living and writing today, he'll stop at nothing to interview the man and publish his genius. But the cunning Nordic immortal keeps cleverly switching aliases and locations, continually evading Dallou's reach and leaving the frustrated researcher wondering if it's all one big hallucination. Tracing a twisting history of letters that leads to the likes of Philip Marlowe, Franz Kafka, and Miguel de Cervantes, the dogged professor and his well-read canine close in on the elusive Norseman. But when the Quixotic quest for the furtive fugitive takes a metaphysical turn, Dallou's shock is palpable as the fiction on the page bleeds into a befuddling confusion of real-life surprises. Will the absurdly challenged intellectual's hunt for the truth take him all the way to an utterly unreal "The End"? The Secret Viking: A Detective Story is the mind-blowing first book in The Secret Viking literary satirical fiction series. If you like deep irony, poetic comedy, and fractal-like concepts, then you'll love Martin Myers's brain-bending narrative. Buy The Secret Viking to provoke preposterous perceptions today!
Download or read book The Assignment written by Martin Myers and published by New York: Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1971 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mother of Floods written by Madeleine F. White and published by Crowsnest Books. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother of Floods is set in our world; ravaged by greed and technology it has seemingly spun beyond human control. The story starts with Martha and Dave, her (reluctantly) dead husband who has chosen a digital universe as his hereafter. Together they embark on a journey to heal their troubled family, which includes overcoming mountains of debt and supporting an anorexic daughter and a gamer son. By questioning what life actually means in a world of 24/7 self-sustaining algorithms, Mother of Floods challenges us to reimagine our own lives, drawing inspiration from a framework provided by some of humanity's very earliest stories.
Download or read book Even the Moon Is Frightened of Me written by Glen Paul Hammond and published by Crowsnest Books. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stray bullet hits a suicidal man; a neurotic woman can only make love while reading Tennessee Williams; a young man hunts down the mob boss who accidentally killed his dog; a photographer waits for police photos of his murdered lover. In Even the Moon is Frightened of Me, Glen Paul Hammond presents a world made up of the fantastic and the mundane: A world where human beings struggle to be creators and not slaves, authors of their own lives and not life's objects. Whether it is through a fist fight in a back alley or a face-to-face meeting with a revered movie star, Hammond's characters attempt to define who they are by interacting somewhere in that space between relationship and violence. Presented in three parts and ending with an Epilogue, this collection of short stories dramatizes the archetypal themes of meaning, freedom, isolation and death by presenting characters who confront the vicissitudes of life while struggling to maintain their own sense of individuality.
Download or read book Magenta written by John Payton Foden and published by Crowsnest Books. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magenta is a harrowing journey into war-torn Sarajevo, and into the blackest reaches of the human condition. The novel follows a journalist, Silva, as she and her team make their way deep into a city under siege, in order to recover the body of Thierry, an award-winning filmmaker who has been killed there. But the postmodern odyssey that follows is beyond anything Silva could have expected, as she must make her way through a world in which good and evil lose their meaning, where survival is the only remaining value, and where there is always greater terror lurking around the next corner of the dark and broken labyrinth that a once great city has become. Even if Silva herself survives the city, the abyss she has stared into will have stared back into her - and changed everything.
Download or read book Izzy Manheim s Reunion written by Martin Myers and published by Don Mills, Ont. : General Publishing Company. This book was released on 1978 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red Rising written by Pierce Brown and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pierce Brown’s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. “Red Rising ascends above a crowded dystopian field.”—USA Today ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness “I live for the dream that my children will be born free,” she says. “That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.” “I live for you,” I say sadly. Eo kisses my cheek. “Then you must live for more.” Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity’s overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society’s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even if it means he has to become one of them to do so. Praise for Red Rising “[A] spectacular adventure . . . one heart-pounding ride . . . Pierce Brown’s dizzyingly good debut novel evokes The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, and Ender’s Game. . . . [Red Rising] has everything it needs to become meteoric.”—Entertainment Weekly “Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow.”—Scott Sigler “Red Rising is a sophisticated vision. . . . Brown will find a devoted audience.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga: RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER
Download or read book The Urban Loft written by Martin Myers and published by Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Urban Loft, is an instructive and frequently very funny look at one couple's 15-year search for mid-city loft space, about finding it, buying it, gutting and renovating it, and about moving into a dazzling, one-of-a-kind residential loft of awesome dimensions - in a church in downtown Toronto.
Download or read book Frigate written by Martin Myers and published by Don Mills, Ont. : PaperJacks. This book was released on 1976 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Al Tounsi written by Anton Piatigorsky and published by Crowsnest Books. This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the personal and political lives of Supreme Court justices affect their decisions? Al-Tounsi tells the gripping, behind-the-scenes story of judicial titans as they consider a landmark case involving the rights of detainees held in an overseas U.S. military base. As the controversial case, inspired by a true 2008 case addressing Guantanamo Bay, maneuvers through the minds and hands of nine fictional justices, Al-Tounsi explores how the personal life dramas, career rivalries and political sympathies of Justices Rodney Sykes, Sarah Kolmann, Killian Quinn and others, blend with their judicial philosophies to decide the most important legal cases of our time.
Download or read book The Gatewatch written by Joshua Gillingham and published by Crowsnest Books. This book was released on 2020-05-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torin Ten-Trees and his closest companions, Bryn and Grimsa, set out to join The Gatewatch and become trollhunters. When a troupe of meddling dwarves throws them off course they are captured by trolls and taken as prisoners to a secret gathering deep underground. There they learn that an ancient giant has crowned himself king of the trolls and plans to utterly destroy The Gatewatch. Their perilous journey back to the land of sun and stars will stretch their strength to the limit, strain their wits, and demand an unspeakable sacrifice. But will it be enough to defeat the Troll King? The Gatewatch is an epic troll-hunting adventure inspired by the Norse Myths and the Icelandic Sagas.
Download or read book The Unified Field of Loneliness written by Jared Marcel Pollen and published by Crowsnest Books. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a series of unpublished books, a novelist becomes obsessed with the idea of uploading his consciousness into a cloud and asks a former student to document his efforts ("Encomium of Glass"). A brilliant but melancholy young architect travels to Ukraine with a colleague after the fall of the iron curtain and finds himself in a graveyard of Soviet monuments ("Suedehead"). And after being released from an Egyptian prison, a deprogrammed Islamist has a strange encounter one night at the MoMA ("The Lovers"). These are just a few of the pieces that make up The Unified Field of Loneliness. From Paris, to New York, to Vienna, to London, these ten stories locate characters living in a condition of terror, solipsism and displacement in the technological age.
Download or read book Not Sleeping written by Alan Winnikoff and published by Crowsnest Books. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said that over 70% of special needs marriages fail. This is the story of one. Not Sleeping depicts a suburban New York couple, Josh and Claudia Sherman, separated though not yet divorced. As they struggle to navigate their way through the painful process of uncoupling, they also must continue to co-manage the difficult demands of their nine-year old autistic daughter. It was Josh who decided to leave the marriage. But, in an unanticipated turn of events, Claudia is the one who quickly finds a new relationship. As the story moves forward, Josh's Plan B, as he calls it, begins to take shape. It is centered around a possible new job and his own nascent romance. But Plan B also necessitates him to moving to California and leaving his familiar life, and specifically his children, behind. Josh is drawn toward this powerful chance at reinvention -- but with no guarantees and at what cost?
Download or read book Allegiance written by Kermit Roosevelt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sophisticated legal thriller that plunges readers into the debate within the US government surrounding the imprisonment of thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II. When the news broke about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Caswell “Cash” Harrison was all set to drop out of law school and join the army… until he flunked the physical. Instead, he’s given the opportunity to serve as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. He and another clerk stumble onto a potentially huge conspiracy aimed at guiding the court’s interests, and the cases dealing with the constitutionality of the prison camps created to detain Japanese-Americans seem to play a key part. Then Cash’s colleague dies under mysterious circumstances, and the young, idealistic lawyer is determined to get at the truth. His investigation will take him from the office of J. Edgar Hoover to an internment camp in California, where he directly confronts the consequences of America’s wartime policies. Kermit Roosevelt combines the momentum of a top-notch legal thriller with a thoughtful examination of one of the worst civil rights violations in US history in this long-awaited follow-up to In the Shadow of the Law.
Download or read book What We See in the Smoke written by Ben Berman Ghan and published by Crowsnest Books. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world we know is coming to an end. How will we connect in the strange and frightening one that's coming to take its place? What We See in the Smoke twists the genres of realism and science fiction to tell the future history of Toronto, a story that stretches from this millennium to the next. Ben Berman Ghan spins a web of these lives and many more, blending the familiar with the surreal until both give way to the story of ordinary people in extraordinary times.
Download or read book Street Player written by Danny Seraphine and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside story of Chicago, one of the most successful and enduring rock bands ever With their distinctive blending of soulful rock and horn-infused urban jazz, Chicago has thrilled music fans for more than forty years with their lyrical brilliance. In this no-holds-barred memoir, legendary rocker Danny Seraphine shares his dramatic—and often shocking—experiences as the popular supergroup's cofounder and longtime drummer. He reveals behind-the-scenes anecdotes about Chicago’s beginnings as the house band at Los Angeles's legendary Whisky A Go Go, where they were discovered by music icons Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, and personal insights about the group’s many comebacks and reinventions over the years. Offers a lively inside account of the music and history of the perennially popular band Chicago, one of the most successful American bands ever with over 122 million albums sold, by the band’s cofounder and longtime drummer Danny Seraphine Includes riveting tales and rare photographs from Seraphine's time on the road touring with performers including Dennis and Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Bruce Springsteen Candidly tackles many rumors about Chicago, including Mafia ties, accounting and payola scandals, and major drug abuse Discusses the mysterious circumstances surrounding Seraphine's 1990 firing from the band as well as his comeback with his critically acclaimed new band, California Transit Authority Whether you're a diehard Chicago fan or just love a well-told rock-and-roll memoir, Street Player will entertain and surprise you.
