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Author : Joshua Mohr
Publisher : Two Dollar Radio
ISBN 13 : 0982684835
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (826 download)
Download or read book Termite Parade written by Joshua Mohr and published by Two Dollar Radio. This book was released on 2010-06-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mature second novel from the best-selling author of Some Things That Meant the World to Me.
Author : Joshua Mohr
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459601106
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Termite Parade written by Joshua Mohr and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Termite Parade is the follow-up to Joshua Mohr's San Francisco Chronicle bestselling first novel - and one of O, The Oprah Magazine's '10 Terrific Reads of 2009' - Some Things That Meant the World to Me.Termite Parade tells the story of Mired, the self-described ""bastard daughter of a menage a trois between Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sylvia Plath, and Eeyore."" Mired catalogs her ""museum of emotional failures,"" the latest entry to which is her boyfriend Derek, an auto mechanic (whose body may or may not be infested with termites), who loses his cool carrying her up the stairs to their apartment.As Derek's termites wreak havoc on his nervous system, Mired pieces together the puzzle, each character revealing aspects of their savage natures, culminating in a climax of pure animal chaos.
Author : Joshua Mohr
Publisher : Two Dollar Radio
ISBN 13 : 0983247137
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Damascus written by Joshua Mohr and published by Two Dollar Radio. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Damascus succeeds in conveying a big-hearted vision." —The Wall Street Journal "At once gripping, lucid and fierce, Damascus is the mature effort of an artist devoted to personal growth and as such contains the glints of real gold." -San Francisco Chronicle It's 2003 and the country is divided evenly for and against the Iraq War. Damascus, a dive bar in San Francisco's Mission District, becomes the unlikely setting for a showdown between the opposing sides. Tensions come to a boil when Owen, the bar's proprietor who has recently taken to wearing a Santa suit full-time, agrees to host the joint's first (and only) art show by Sylvia Suture, an ambitious young artist who longs to take her act to the dramatic precipice of the high-wire by nailing live fish to the walls as a political statement. An incredibly creative and fully rendered cast of characters orbit the bar. There's No Eyebrows, a cancer patient who has come to the Mission to die anonymously; Shambles, the patron saint of the hand job; Revv, a lead singer who acts too much like a lead singer; and Owen, donning his Santa costume to mask the most unfortunate birthmark imaginable. Damascus is the place where confusion and frustration run out of room to hide. By gracefully tackling such complicated topics as cancer, Iraq, and issues of self-esteem, Joshua Mohr has painted his most accomplished novel yet. Joshua Mohr is the San Francisco Chronicle best-selling author of Some Things That Meant the World to Me and Termite Parade, a New York Times Book Review editors' choice selection.
Author : Steve Burgess
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 : 1771624027
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Reservations written by Steve Burgess and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal investigation into the real price of our holidays. Travel was once a marker of sophistication. Now the tourist is just as likely to be viewed as one locust in an annihilating swarm. Tourists face tough questions: When does economic opportunity become exploitation? How do we justify the use of climate-changing jet fuel? And can we be sure our tourist dollars aren’t propping up corrupt and brutal regimes? Now, as the world returns to travel, Steve Burgess asks: Is satisfying our own wanderlust worth the trouble it causes everyone else? Or is the tourist guilty of the charges—from voyeurism to desecration—levelled against them by everyone from environmentalists to exhausted locals to superior-feeling fellow tourists who have traded in the tour bus for “authentic experiences”? In this smart and sharply funny interrogation of our right to roam, Burgess looks into the traveller’s soul, sharing the stories of some of his most personally-significant travels, from Rome to Tana Toraja, and looking to studies and experts around the world for insight into why we travel and how we could do it better. And throughout, he tells the story of a month in Japan—his first trip outside North America—and the whirlwind cross-cultural romance that brought him there, and took him on a journey around the country in search of wonder and maybe even love.
Author : Julia Scott
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399168885
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)
Download or read book Drivel written by Julia Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing in this book is so bad, it deserves its own taxonomy of suckitude. Gillian Flynn, Mary Roach, Dave Eggers, Rick Moody, Chuck Palahniuk, Amy Tan, A.J. Jacobs, Daniel Clowes, Jeff Greenwald, Po Bronson…the list goes on. They all sucked once, and they all have the guts to share some of their crappiest early work in Drivel: an uplifting bit of voyeurism, based on the sold-out “Regreturature” stage shows in San Francisco, and brought to you by Litquake and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Within these pages you’ll find abstruse and esoteric poetry (bad); incoherent and illogical short stories (worse); bumfuzzling proto-journalism (shameful); and pretentious, overwrought journal entries (we’ll not speak of this again). Thanks to these courageous but foolhardy writers, the world now knows the real meaning of a work-in-progress.
Author : Joshua Mohr
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593765509
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Fight Song written by Joshua Mohr and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Generation X call-to-arms about facing mid-life on our own terms with the unique heart that beats inside us all . . . Poignant, honest, and funny as hell.” —The Huffington Post When his bicycle is intentionally run off the road by a neighbor’s SUV, something snaps in Bob Coffin. Modern suburban life has been getting him down and this is the last straw. To avoid following in his own father’s missteps, Bob is suddenly desperate to reconnect with his wife and his distant, distracted children. And he’s looking for any guidance he can get. Bob soon learns that the wisest words come from the most unexpected places, from characters that are always more than what they appear to be: a magician/marriage counselor, a fast-food drive-thru attendant/phone-sex operator, and a janitor/guitarist of a French KISS cover band. Can these disparate voices inspire Bob to fight for his family? To fight for his place in the world? A call-to-arms for those who have ever felt beaten down by life, Fight Song is a quest for happiness in a world in which we are increasingly losing control. It is an exciting novel by one of the most surprising and original writers of his generation. "A whimsical, madcap, delightfully depraved fable for our age.” —Jonathan Evison, New York Times bestselling author "For its irreverent beat, relentless energy, and sharp, funny characters, Fight Song may as well be titled 'Battle Cry.'" —The Rumpus “Mohr . . . brings a dollop of David Sedaris–like humor to the pathos . . . It’s a surprisingly sweet, rollicking tribute to anyone who’s ever needed a fight song to fight back.” —Booklist
Author : Mike Jewett
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312358122
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)
Download or read book recipes for hemlock written by Mike Jewett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Boice
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416584308
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (843 download)
Download or read book The Good and the Ghastly written by James Boice and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the thirty-fourth century and the nuclear apocalypse has come and gone. Civilization has rebuilt itself, and the results are eerily similar to the early part of the twenty-first century. But there are a few notable differences. Visa owns everything. Deer are the most common domesticated animal. And misinterpretations of preapocalyptic history run amuck (e.g., Sarah Palin established the theory of natural selection). But what hasn’t changed is the nature of good and evil. The Good and the Ghastly centers on two people linked through violence. Mobster Junior Alvarez has risen from street thug to criminal overlord. He will go to incredible lengths to get what he wants—and he desires to live however he pleases, without compromise. The intensity of his quest is matched only by that of the mother of one of Alvarez’s first victims. She has gone vigilante and is hunting down mobsters. The two are prepared to go to the ends of the earth to manifest their wills—one good, one ghastly, both ruthless. A wild satire of our own society, The Good and the Ghastly is a visceral novel informed by Boice’s unnerving sense of reality and pathology. It is also an honest, old-fashioned good-versus-evil story—with a twist of modern-day madness.
Author : Rachel Howard
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 1328588823
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (285 download)
Download or read book The Risk of Us written by Rachel Howard and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2019 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant, dazzling debut novel about a woman who longs to be a mother and the captivating yet troubled child she and her husband take in. What is the cost of motherhood? When The Risk of Us opens, we meet a forty-something woman who deeply wants to become a mother. The path that opens up to her and her husband takes them through the foster care system, with the goal of adoption. And when seven-year-old Maresa--with inch-deep dimples and a voice that can beam to the moon--comes into their lives, their hearts fill with love. But her rages and troubles threaten to crack open their marriage. Over the course of a year, as Maresa approaches the age at which children become nearly impossible to place, the couple must decide if they can be the parents this child needs, and finalize the adoption--or, almost unthinkably, give her up. For fans of Jenny Offill and Rachel Cusk, The Risk of Us deftly explores the inevitable tests children bring to a marriage, the uncertainties of family life, and the ways true empathy obliterates our defenses.
Author : Brad Wolfe
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1596437375
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (964 download)
Download or read book Breakfast on Mars and 37 Other Delectable Essays written by Brad Wolfe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of unconventional essays by leading writers to challenge how students think about essays using imaginative, rule-breaking, and unconventional examples.
Author : Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon
Publisher : Two Dollar Radio
ISBN 13 : 1937512061
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Nothing written by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon and published by Two Dollar Radio. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Apocalyptic and psychologically attentive. I was moved." -Tao Lin, New York Times Book Review "A marvelously scathing indictment of a generation that has no choice but to burn. From Nothing’s outset, [Wirth Cauchon] crafts scenes with complexity and a scary prescience. [Nothing is] a riveting first piece of scripture from our newest prophet of misspent youth." -Paste "Like a movie adaptation of Daria as directed by Gregg Araki. The energy almost makes each page glow. Though this novel starts as Bret Easton Ellis, it ends as Nick Cave - thunderous, apocalyptic. The move into the grand and mythic separates Nothing from the usual stuff concerning the bored and the pretty." -Electric Literature "Nothing feels like the descendent of the masterful short stories of Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son. [A] noteworthy debut." -Bustle "A burning mean and darkly mysterious read." -Joy Williams "I could tell you that Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon has written an utterly contemporary novel of our fragmented culture, a novel that I think might be the great American novel of the selfie, brilliantly alternating the narratives of two young travelers partying and searching and losing themselves in the wild West — a Kerouac hitchhiker juxtaposed with the nihilistic, wanting, wandering Ruth and her toxic friendship with her prettier best friend. But this is what I want to tell you—this is what you need to know — Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon writes like a beast, brutal and ecstatic. You need to read this." -Kate Zambreno "An edgy debut. Cauchon's characters have serrated edges... they'll get under the reader's skin." -Publishers Weekly "Claustrophobic. It's August and the hills are on fire and I'm reading Nothing. I see Wirth Cauchon's characters lurking around Missoula, outside the bars and walking along the river, lost and fucked up, abused and abusers, seekers, trustafarians, and ne'er-do-wells. Stuck in the limbo of youthful identity crisis, desperate for a way in or a way out." -Jeff Ament Ruth traded a dead-end life in Minneapolis for a dead-end life in Missoula. But in Missoula, she's got Bridget. "[Bridget] was gorgeous… but that wasn't it, that didn't quite explain it. What explained it was the curse. The curse of the unreasonably pretty, the curse of cult leaders and dictators. It sucked everyone to her, it consumed her, made her untouchable." After a local girl dies at a party, signaling the end of fun for the twentysomethings of Missoula, James and Ruth become involved. But jealousy over Bridget quickly complicates things. Nothing announces a nervy and assertive new voice, while also capturing the angst and foreboding that could mark it as an even grander generational statement.
Author : Jayson Iwen
Publisher : Emergency Press
ISBN 13 : 0988569418
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)
Download or read book Gnarly Wounds written by Jayson Iwen and published by Emergency Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gnarly Wounds tells the tale of one man's horrifyingly funny journey through grief, madness, and amnesia. In three linked novellas, Jayson Iwen takes readers into a smart and raunchy dreamscape full of riddles, jokes, and metaphysics, with a cast that includes the ridiculous son of an eastern European dictator, monks, witches, soldiers, furry animals, an ex-hitman, a super strong baby, and more. Told in several different cultural registers — elegant and blunt, tragic and comic, contemplative and action-packed — this is a one-of-a-kind mystery, hilarious and profound.
Author : James Franco
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476778388
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Palo Alto written by James Franco and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California adolescents and misfits.
Download or read book Cincinnati Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.
Author : Carole Telford
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 9781403487988
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Through a Termite City written by Carole Telford and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the inhabitants, social structure, and activities of an African termite mound.
Author : Shel Silverstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 067121148X
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Uncle Shelby'S Abz Book written by Shel Silverstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1985-09-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adult version of the alphabet!
Author : Editors of Chase's
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1636714080
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Chase's Calendar of Events 2024 written by Editors of Chase's and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe! Since 1957, Chase's Calendar of Events lists everything worth knowing and celebrating for each day of the year: 12,500 holidays, national days, historical milestones, famous birthdays, festivals, sporting events and more. Publishers Weekly has cited it as "one of the most impressive reference volumes in the world." Library Journal named the 67th edition (A 2024 Starred Review) "an invaluable resource for trivia fans, planners, media professionals, teachers, and librarians.” From national days to celebrity birthdays, from historical milestones to astronomical phenomena, from award ceremonies and sporting events to religious festivals and carnivals, Chase's is the must-have reference used by experts and professionals—a one-stop shop with 12,500 entries for everything that is happening now or is worth remembering from the past. Completely updated for 2024, Chase's also features extensive appendices as well as a companion website that puts the power of Chase's at the user's fingertips. 2024is packed with special events and observances, including National days and public holidays of every nation on Earth Scores of new special days, weeks and months--such as International Day of Zero Waste or World Eel Day Famous birthdays of new world leaders, lauded authors and breakout celebrities Info on the 2024 Great North American Eclipse. Info on the restoration and reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris. Info on milestone anniversaries, such as the 300th birth anniversary of Immanuel Kant, the 250th anniversary of the First Continental Congress, the 100th birth anniversary of James Baldwin and more. Information on such special events as the International Year of Camelids and the Paris Olympics or Euro 2024. And much more!
