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Book The Savages

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  • Author : Matt Whyman
  • Publisher : Abrams
  • Release : 2014-03-06
  • ISBN : 1468309838
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book The Savages written by Matt Whyman and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But teenager Sasha’s secret trumps them all: she is dating a vegetarian. This trait will never fly with the rest of the Savages, who are…uniquely carnivorous. Problems start to pile up. Sasha’s boyfriend convinces her to try going vegetarian for a month, but then leaves her for a vegan vigilante. Angelica attempts to pay her mounting credit card bill by allowing commercials to film in the family home, until one of Ivan’s pranks leaves a model dead in their bathroom. A detective hired to investigate Titus’s predatory business affairs notices the model’s disappearance, and starts to think that there may be something more sinister to the perfect-seeming Savages. He’s right, of course—they’re cannibals.

Book Savages

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  • Author : Don Winslow
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2010-07-13
  • ISBN : 1439183384
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Savages written by Don Winslow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel, The Force, and The Border A New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Chicago Sun-Times Favorite Book of the Year “A revelation…This is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on autoload.” —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly “Startling…Stylish…Mega-cool.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times Ben, Chon, and O are twentysomething best friends living the dream in Southern California. Together they have made a small fortune producing premium grade marijuana, a product so potent that the Mexican Baja Cartel demands a cut. When Ben and Chon refuse to back down, the cartel kidnaps O, igniting a dizzying array of high-octane negotiations and stunning plot twists as they risk everything to free her. The result is a provocative, sexy, and darkly engrossing thrill ride, an ultracontemporary love story that will leave you breathless.

Book Give My Love to the Savages

Download or read book Give My Love to the Savages written by Chris Stuck and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A harrowing portrait of race relations in America, as beautiful as it is urgent.”—Entertainment Weekly “Black satire with bite, like Zora Neale Hurston used to do, with a smile and a sharp elbow. A touch of Paul Beatty, a dose of Dolemite, and a serving of Dorothy Parker, too. Give My Love to the Savages announces Chris Stuck as a fearless talent, a debut that'll make your sides and your heart hurt.”—Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling “Give My Love To The Savages is a wildly inventive collection of provocative stories about navigating the minefield of black masculinity in America. Stuck’s fresh and fearless perspective overturns assumptions about race and identity to reveal complex layers of absurdity. At times merciless, always darkly funny, these are stories of unexpected communion, connection, and compassion.”—Chanelle Benz, author of The Gone Dead A provocative and raw debut collection of short fiction reminiscent of Junot Diaz’s Drown. A Black man’s life, told in scenes—through every time he’s been called nigger. A Black son who visits his estranged white father in Los Angeles just as the ’92 riots begin. A Black Republican, coping with a skin disease that has turned him white, is forced to reconsider his life. A young Black man, fetishized by an older white woman he’s just met, is offered a strange and tempting proposal. The nine tales in Give My Love to the Savages illuminate the multifaceted Black experience, exploring the thorny intersections of race, identity, and Black life through an extraordinary cast of characters. From the absurd to the starkly realistic, these stories take aim at the ironies and contradictions of the American racial experience. Chris Stuck traverses the dividing lines, and attempts to create meaning from them in unique and unusual ways. Each story considers a marker of our current culture, from uprisings and sly and not-so-sly racism, to Black fetishization and conservatism, to the obstacles placed in front of Black masculinity and Black and interracial relationships by society and circumstance. Setting these stories across America, from Los Angeles, Phoenix and the Pacific Northwest, to New York and Washington, DC, to the suburbs and small Midwestern towns, Stuck uses place to expose the absurdity of race and the odd ways that Black people and white people converge and retreat, rub against and bump into one another. Ultimately, Give My Love to the Savages is the story of America. With biting humor and careful honesty, Stuck riffs on the dichotomy of love and barbarity—the yin and yang of racial experience—and the difficult and uncertain terrain Black Americans must navigate in pursuit of their desires.

Book Savages

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  • Author : Joe Kane
  • Publisher : Pan
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780330349338
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book Savages written by Joe Kane and published by Pan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a firsthand account of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life from the scourge of civilization. Joe Kane, author of Running the Amazon, returns to the river to search for the Huaorani, a nation of 1300 nomadic warriors so remote that their language is unrelated to any other on Earth. For millenia all comers have been turned away from their land, a territory in the middle of the Ecuadorian Amazon the size of Massachusetts, USA.

Book Life Among the Savages

Download or read book Life Among the Savages written by Shirley Jackson and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a hilariously charming domestic memoir, America’s celebrated master of terror turns to a different kind of fright: raising children In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in Life Among the Savages, she takes on the lighter side of small-town life. In this witty and warm memoir of her family’s life in rural Vermont, she delightfully exposes a domestic side in cheerful contrast to her quietly terrifying fiction. With a novelist’s gift for character, an unfailing maternal instinct, and her signature humor, Jackson turns everyday family experiences into brilliant adventures. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Book Disciplining the Savages  Savaging the Disciplines

Download or read book Disciplining the Savages Savaging the Disciplines written by Martin N. Nakata and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Nakata's book, Disciplining the Savages: Savaging the Disciplines represents the most focussed and sustained Indigenous critique of anthropological knowledge yet published. It is impressive, rigorous, and sometimes poignant: a must-read for anyone concerned with the troubled interplay of Indigenous issues and academic institutions in Australia today. The book provides an alternative reading for those struggling at the contradictor and, ambiguous intersections of academia and Indigenous experience. In doing so it moves beyond the usual, criticisms of the disciplines which construct the way we have come to know and understand indigenous peoples. Nakata, a Torres Strait Islander academic, casts a critical gaze on the research conducted by the Cambridge Expedition in the late 1890s. Meticulously analysing the linguistic, physiological, psychological and anthropological testing conducted he offers an astute critique of the researchers' methodologies and interpretations.. He uses these insights to reveal the similar workings of recent knowledge production in Torres Strait education. In systematically deconstructing these knowledges, Nakata draws eloquently on both the Torres Strait Islander struggle and his own personal struggle to break free from imposed definitions, and reminds us that such intellectual journeys are highly personal and political. Nakata argues for the recognition of the complexity of the space Indigenous people now live in -- the cultural interface -- and proposes an alternative theoretical standpoint to account for Indigenous experience of this space.

Book The Savages

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  • Author : Tamara Jenkins
  • Publisher : Newmarket Press
  • Release : 2008-01-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book The Savages written by Tamara Jenkins and published by Newmarket Press. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father's domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Academy Award® nominee Laura Linney) is a struggling East Village playwright, aka a temp who spends her days applying for grants, stealing office supplies, and dating her very married neighbor. Jon (Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo.Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Tony Award® winner Philip Bosco), is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. Now, as they put their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father's final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family, and, most surprisingly, each other are really about. This Newmarket Shooting Script® Book includes: Exclusive introduction by Tamara Jenkins Complete Shooting Script Color photo section Complete cast and crew credits

Book The Last of the Savages

Download or read book The Last of the Savages written by Jay McInerney and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1997-04-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls comes a chronicle of a generation, as enacted by two men who represent all the passions and extremes of the class of 1969. Patrick Keane and Will Savage meet at prep school at the beginning of the explosive '60s. Over the next 30 years, they remain friends even as they pursue radically divergent destinies--and harbor secrets that defy rebellion and conformity.

Book The Savage Fortress

Download or read book The Savage Fortress written by Sarwat Chadda and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fabulous, action-packed modern take on Indian mythology. I can't wait to read more!" -- Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series For fans of Roshani Chokshi and Rick Riordan!"A fabulous, action-packed modern take on Indian mythology. I can't wait to read more!" -- Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson seriesAfter three weeks of vacation, Ash Mistry is ready to leave the heat and dust of India behind him. Then he discovers a hidden gold arrowhead---a weapon used to defeat evil King Ravana in legend.At least, Ash is pretty sure it's only a legend . . .But when Lord Savage comes after Ash, the legends are suddenly way too real. Savage commands an army of monstrous shapechangers called rakshasas, who want only to seize the arrowhead and restore Ravana to power. As they hunt Ash through magnificent fortresses and brutal deserts, he must learn to work with a powerful rakshasa girl named Parvati, and find the strength within himself to fight on and save the world as we know it.

Book The Last of the Savages

Download or read book The Last of the Savages written by Jay McInerney and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls comes a chronicle of a generation, as enacted by two men who represent all the passions and extremes of the class of 1969. Patrick Keane and Will Savage meet at prep school at the beginning of the explosive '60s. Over the next 30 years, they remain friends even as they pursue radically divergent destinies--and harbor secrets that defy rebellion and conformity.

Book The Savage

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  • Author : David Almond
  • Publisher : Candlewick
  • Release : 2008-10-14
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book The Savage written by David Almond and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy tells about a story he wrote when dealing with his father's death about a savage kid living in a ruined chapel in the woods--and the tale about the savage kid coming to life in the real world.

Book The Savage Leader

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  • Author : Darren Reinke
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-12-11
  • ISBN : 9781736117903
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Savage Leader written by Darren Reinke and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Doctor Who

Download or read book Doctor Who written by Ian Stuart Black and published by Carol Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1986 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Savage Coloniser Book

Download or read book The Savage Coloniser Book written by Tusiata Avia and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voices of Tusiata Avia are infinite. She ranges from vulnerable to forbidding to celebratory with forms including pantoums, prayers and invocations. And in this electrifying new work, she gathers all the power of her voice to speak directly into histories of violence.Avia addresses James Cook in fury. She unravels the 2019 Christchurch massacre, walking us back to the beginning. She describes the contortions we make to avoid blame. And she locates the many voices that offer hope. The Savage Coloniser Book is a personal and political reckoning. As it holds history accountable, it rises in power.

Book The Savages of Yellowstone

Download or read book The Savages of Yellowstone written by Millie B. Mehnert and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can seemingly unrelated events that include the perils of one friendly couple’s unnerving issues, the conflicts of two very different boyfriends and a violent earthquake all resolve during one summer at Yellowstone National Park? Perhaps they can’t. But twenty-two year old Ellie Sue Clayton is confronted with all of these obstacles during the summer of 1959. Ellie has come to the park to work at Old Faithful Village as a waitress for the summer. She seeks courage and independence to begin a new life. But being in Yellowstone distracts her with exotic landscapes, wildlife, and people that seem to have their own purpose for her. A best friend sets her up with a bad date for questionable reasons. One boyfriend seems to feel he should control her social calendar. And her mother challenges the choice Ellie makes to remain in the West. Determined to find solutions and continue making her own choices, Ellie finds unexpected help from strangers seated at one of the tables she serves. Then, just as she begins to succeed at finding solutions, nature’s violence in the form of a major earthquake disrupts her objectives with a horror that pulls her in still another direction. Now she must make complicated decisions in the remaining time cut short by tragedy. Can she resolve her own choices without hurting those she loves? Has she acquired the maturity and foresight she needs for this final hurdle? It is all up to her. Disrupts her objectives with a horror that pulls her in still another direction. Now/ she must make complicated decisions in the brief span of time left. Can she resolve her own choices without hurting those she loves? Has she acquired the maturity and foresight she needs for this final hurtle? It is all up to her.

Book SMITHSONIAN   AMERN INDIAN PB

Download or read book SMITHSONIAN AMERN INDIAN PB written by HINSLEY CURTIS M and published by Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press. This book was released on 1994-05-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 1981 as Savages and Scientists, this book recounts the emergence of American anthropology in the nineteenth century, largely under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution. From its founding in 1846 until the emergence of university departments after the turn of the century, the Smithsonian committed the "new science" of anthropology to recording the linguistics, archaeology, and ethnology of North American Indians. As Curtis Hinsley reveals, the early anthropologists recruited by John Wesley Powell to work for the Bureau of Ethnology saw their work as a moral enterprise, an effort to measure the status of native peoples in the face of Victorian civilization. The search for scholarly rigor and respectability in this endeavor unfolds in a combined biographical, institutional, and intellectual history"--Back cover.

Book The Naked Savages

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  • Author : Fred Mustard Stewart
  • Publisher : Tor Books
  • Release : 2000-08-15
  • ISBN : 9780812566857
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book The Naked Savages written by Fred Mustard Stewart and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny Savage, having narrowly survived a ride through Cuba with old friend Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders, returns to America to become involved with the movie business--which poses a challenge to his fidelity. In Hong Kong, Julie lives the high life with her husband Tim--until he pays a hefty price for undermining the Dowager Empress's power. But as the new generation of Savages grows, it provides more harrowing worries and embarrassments than Johnny, Rachel or Julie could have ever imagined--Johnny and Rachel's daughter is a heavy-drinking swinger of the 20's; Rachel's son by Franco is involved with bootlegging and the mob; his sister marries a prominent Fascist in Italy; Johnny and Rachel's son has a string of romantic dalliances that earn him the nickname "Naked Savage". Meanwhile, Julie's daughter, Jasmine, is aligning herself with her father's sword enemy- the new dictator of China.