The Rock Eaters

Download The Rock Eaters full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Rock Eaters ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Rock Eaters

Author : Brenda Peynado
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525507272
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Rock Eaters by : Brenda Peynado

Download or read book The Rock Eaters written by Brenda Peynado and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of 2021 NYPL 10 Best Books for Adults, 2021 A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to first-generation experiences to xenophobia What does it mean to be other? What does it mean to love in a world determined to keep us apart? These questions murmur in the heart of each of Brenda Peynado’s strange and singular stories. Threaded with magic, transcending time and place, these stories explore what it means to cross borders and break down walls, personally and politically. In one story, suburban families perform oblations to cattlelike angels who live on their roofs, believing that their “thoughts and prayers” will protect them from the world’s violence. In another, inhabitants of an unnamed dictatorship slowly lose their own agency as pieces of their bodies go missing and, with them, the essential rights that those appendages serve. “The Great Escape” tells of an old woman who hides away in her apartment, reliving the past among beautiful objects she’s hoarded, refusing all visitors, until she disappears completely. In the title story, children begin to levitate, flying away from their parents and their home country, leading them to eat rocks in order to stay grounded. With elements of science fiction and fantasy, fabulism and magical realism, Brenda Peynado uses her stories to reflect our flawed world, and the incredible, terrifying, and marvelous nature of humanity.

Among the Bone Eaters

Author : Marcus Baynes-Rock
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271074043
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Among the Bone Eaters by : Marcus Baynes-Rock

Download or read book Among the Bone Eaters written by Marcus Baynes-Rock and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biologists studying large carnivores in wild places usually do so from a distance, using telemetry and noninvasive methods of data collection. So what happens when an anthropologist studies a clan of spotted hyenas, Africa’s second-largest carnivores, up close—and in a city of a hundred thousand inhabitants? In Among the Bone Eaters, Marcus Baynes-Rock takes us to the ancient city of Harar in Ethiopia, where the gey waraba (hyenas of the city) are welcome in the streets and appreciated by the locals for the protection they provide from harmful spirits and dangerous “mountain” hyenas. They’ve even become a local tourist attraction. At the start of his research in Harar, Baynes-Rock contended with difficult conditions, stone-throwing children, intransigent bureaucracy, and wary hyena subjects intent on avoiding people. After months of frustration, three young hyenas drew him into the hidden world of the Sofi clan. He discovered the elements of a hyena’s life, from the delectability of dead livestock and the nuisance of dogs to the unbounded thrill of hyena chase-play under the light of a full moon. Baynes-Rock’s personal relations with the hyenas from the Sofi clan expand the conceptual boundaries of human-animal relations. This is multispecies ethnography that reveals its messy, intersubjective, dangerously transformative potential.

The Book Eaters

Author : Sunyi Dean
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250810191
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Book Eaters by : Sunyi Dean

Download or read book The Book Eaters written by Sunyi Dean and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I devoured this."—V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue An International Bestseller An NPR Best Sci Fi, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Book of 2022 A Book Riot Best Book of 2022 A Vulture Best Fantasy Novel of 2022 A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee A Library Journal Best Book of 2022 Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries. Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon—like all other book eater women—is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories. But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger—not for books, but for human minds. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Kite Maker

Author : Brenda Peynado
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250312493
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Kite Maker by : Brenda Peynado

Download or read book The Kite Maker written by Brenda Peynado and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kite Maker is Brenda Peynado's science fiction novelette of how humans cope with alien contact. After aliens arrive on earth, humans do the unthinkable out of fear. When an alien walks into a human kite maker's store, coveting her kites, the human struggles with her guilt over her part in the alien massacres, while neo-Nazis draw a violent line between alien and human. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix

Author : Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1430131691
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix by : Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Download or read book Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the L.A. street cook's life, including working in his family's restaurant as a child, figuring out what he wanted to do with his life, and his success with his food truck and restaurant.

Fossils and Rocks

Author : Kimberly M. Hutmacher
Publisher : Britannica Digital Learning
ISBN 13 : 1625132018
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fossils and Rocks by : Kimberly M. Hutmacher

Download or read book Fossils and Rocks written by Kimberly M. Hutmacher and published by Britannica Digital Learning. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ever-popular subject explains in detail how the Earth is made from rock, the three different types of rock, how rocks are made, and where they can be found. Students learn about how fossils are formed, how they help us learn about life long ago, and the importance of fossil fuels to our present and future life on Earth.

Death Eaters

Author : Kelly Milner Halls
Publisher : Millbrook Press (Tm)
ISBN 13 : 1512482005
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (124 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Death Eaters by : Kelly Milner Halls

Download or read book Death Eaters written by Kelly Milner Halls and published by Millbrook Press (Tm). This book was released on 2019 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth look at the science of decomposition showcases how and why living things are recycled by the planet and its creatures after death. Full color.

The Arsenic Eaters

Author : Rob van Hoesel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789492051356
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (513 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Arsenic Eaters by : Rob van Hoesel

Download or read book The Arsenic Eaters written by Rob van Hoesel and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the widespread historical belief that the consumption of arsenic, generally known to be a deadly poison, is beneficial to one's health. Accordingly, many "poison eaters" were found among the Austrian rural population in the nineteenth century. What they were ingesting was white (arsenic trioxide) or yellow arsenic (arsenic trisulfide). It was produced by roasting arsenic-containing minerals. Arsenic eaters were robust persons, and usually of the lower class of society, wood cutters, charcoal burners, stablemen, foresters, etc. They ingested arsenic to be 'strong and healthy': to look rosy, to resist fatigue or to strengthen their physique: "See how strong and fresh I am, and what an advantage I have over you all! In times of epidemic fever or cholera, what a fright you are in, while I feel sure of never taking infection." Though being a popular custom among hard working people, arsenic eaters were very anxious to conceal the fact, particularly from medical men and priests. It was also believed that once a person became an arsenic eater, he can never stop the habit. To do so would bring rapid decline in health, leading inevitably to death.

The Touches

Author : Brenda Peynado
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250247845
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Touches by : Brenda Peynado

Download or read book The Touches written by Brenda Peynado and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brenda Peynado's "The Touches" is a Tor.com Original short story set in a post-apocalyptic world Salipa and Telo have perfect lives in the virtual reality world that humanity has retreated to after bacteria and viruses resistant to all medications take over the outside world. But when the robots that take care of the necessities in the dirty outside world start glitching, Salipa must figure out what it means to truly live if they can never return to the world they once knew. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Mountain Spirit

Author : Lawrence L. Loendorf
Publisher : University of Utah Press
ISBN 13 : 0874808677
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (748 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mountain Spirit by : Lawrence L. Loendorf

Download or read book Mountain Spirit written by Lawrence L. Loendorf and published by University of Utah Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on extensive ethnographic work among descendant native peoples and ongoing archaeological excavations, Mountain Spirit shows that many groups have visited or lived in the area in prehistoric and historic times. Primary among them was the Shoshone group called Tukudika, or Sheep Eaters, who maintained a rich and abundant way of life closely related to their primary source of protein, the mountain sheep of the high-altitude Yellowstone area.

The Garbage Eater

Author : Brett Foster
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810127458
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Garbage Eater by : Brett Foster

Download or read book The Garbage Eater written by Brett Foster and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “Garbage Eater” of the title poem in Brett Foster’s provocative collection is a member of a religious sect (some would say cult) in the Bay Area who lives an ascetic life eating scraps from dumpsters. Just as this simple way of life exists within the most technologically advanced region in the world, Foster’s poems are likewise animated by the constant tension between material reality and an unabashed yearning for transcendence. The titles of Foster’s poems—“Like as a ship, that through the Ocean wyde,” “Meditation in an Olive Garden,” “Little Flowers of Dan Quisenberry” —nod to the poems of the classical, medieval, and Renaissance masters he studies as a scholar. In Foster’s vivid imagination, however, they point to the surprises hidden in the quotidian: a trip to the DMV, a visit to a chain restaurant, and the saintly reflections of the Kansas City Royals’ best closer. A lesser, more faddish writer would then tend toward ironic distance, but Foster fearlessly raises such unfashionable subjects as joy, doubt, gratitude, and grief without losing a sly sense of humor, even (as the sample poem shows) about poetry itself. Given its ambition, The Garbage Eater hardly seems a debut work. Foster’s universal subject matter and approachable style will win fans among both the most experienced poetry readers and those easily intimidated by contemporary verse.

The Frost Eater

Author : Carol Beth Anderson
Publisher : Eliana Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Frost Eater by : Carol Beth Anderson

Download or read book The Frost Eater written by Carol Beth Anderson and published by Eliana Press. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spoiled royal hungry for excitement. A young man who hates nobles. Can they foil a kidnapping before they fall prey to an enemy's deadly magic? Seventeen-year-old Princess Nora Abrios is lonely and bored. Though she’s a frost eater who creates magical ice, she’d give anything for a chance to really cut loose. When a commoner’s flying antics capture her attention, she seizes the opportunity to partner up and escape her dreary palace duties. Krey West’s girlfriend Zeisha disappeared weeks ago. He vowed to discover her fate. So when his unusual magic catches the eye of the privileged princess, he jumps at the chance to find his love by exploiting the monarchy he hates. But he’s surprised by his feisty new ally’s willingness to defy her family and dig deep into the nation’s darkest secrets… As new evidence shocks Nora, she makes the fateful choice to flee the capital and join Krey in banishment. And when they uncover a sinister plot which runs darker than the disappearance of one girl, Krey resolves to do whatever it takes…even if he must face down a dragon. Can Nora and Krey save Zeisha and expose a shadowy enemy, or will their prying spell their doom? ••• The Frost Eater is the enthralling first book in the Magic Eaters dystopian YA fantasy trilogy. If you like funny and capricious heroines, smart and snarky heroes, romance subplots, and unique world-building, then you’ll adore Carol Beth Anderson’s fast-paced tale. Buy The Frost Eater and devour its dark magic today!

You Are Not an Otter

Author : Melanie Potock
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781697879834
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (798 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis You Are Not an Otter by : Melanie Potock

Download or read book You Are Not an Otter written by Melanie Potock and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-10-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of How Kids Become Adventurous Eaters! You are Not an Otter takes children on a food adventure, exploring all the ways that animals eat! Otters carry a favorite rock under their arms for cracking open clams, flamingos dip and drizzle water as they stand on one foot, and gorillas travel in troops to dine together in the jungle. Do YOU carry a rock, dip and drizzle or gather in the jungle to eat with your family? No, you are not an otter, nor a flamingo and most definitely not a gorilla. But there is one thing you can do that other creatures can't. Find out what makes children so special in this creative book on how kids learn to become adventurous eaters. Parents will benefit from the expert tips on how to encourage children to try new foods and the importance of pretend play in early childhood. Written by the award-winning author, Melanie Potock, with whimsical illustrations from StacyMooreStudios.com, You are Not an Otter will turn even the pickiest eaters into food explorers! Professional tips from pediatric feeding expert Melanie Potock, MA, CCC-SLP include how to: Use pretend-play to encourage kids to try new foods Teach kids to be ok if something doesn't taste good, at first! Spark conversations about healthy eating Help kids come to the table hungry and ready to try new foods Encourage kids to eat mindfully For more award-winning & creative books by Melanie Potock, visit Melanie's author page or www.MelaniePotock.com.

The Lotus Eaters

Author : Tatjana Soli
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429934417
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Lotus Eaters by : Tatjana Soli

Download or read book The Lotus Eaters written by Tatjana Soli and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Best Seller! A New York Times Notable Book! A unique and sweeping debut novel of an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War, as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men. On a stifling day in 1975, the North Vietnamese army is poised to roll into Saigon. As the fall of the city begins, two lovers make their way through the streets to escape to a new life. Helen Adams, an American photojournalist, must take leave of a war she is addicted to and a devastated country she has come to love. Linh, the Vietnamese man who loves her, must grapple with his own conflicted loyalties of heart and homeland. As they race to leave, they play out a drama of devotion and betrayal that spins them back through twelve war-torn years, beginning in the splendor of Angkor Wat, with their mentor, larger-than-life war correspondent Sam Darrow, once Helen's infuriating love and fiercest competitor, and Linh's secret keeper, boss and truest friend. Tatjana Soli paints a searing portrait of an American woman's struggle and triumph in Vietnam, a stirring canvas contrasting the wrenching horror of war and the treacherous narcotic of obsession with the redemptive power of love. Readers will be transfixed by this stunning novel of passion, duty and ambition among the ruins of war.

The Brickeaters

Author : The Residents
Publisher : Process
ISBN 13 : 9781934170724
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Brickeaters by : The Residents

Download or read book The Brickeaters written by The Residents and published by Process. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After winning the lottery, a psychotic redneck plans to pollute the LA water supply.

The Lock-Eater

Author : Zack Loran Clark
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984816888
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Lock-Eater by : Zack Loran Clark

Download or read book The Lock-Eater written by Zack Loran Clark and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Will have readers tumbling through the pages . . . Deeply immersive, full of both heft and humor." —Soman Chainani, New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good and Evil series * "One of those special books that only comes around every so often . . . An absolute revelation." —SLJ (starred review) For fans of Nevermoor and Howl's Moving Castle comes an epic fantasy about a girl with the ability to unlock anything—including the empire's darkest secrets. Melanie Gate is a foundling with a peculiar talent for opening the unopenable—any lock releases at the touch of her hand. One night, her orphanage is visited by Traveler, a gearling automaton there on behalf of his magical mistress, who needs an apprentice pronto. When Melanie is selected because of her gift, her life changes in a flash, and in more ways than she knows—because Traveler is not at all what he seems. But then, neither is Melanie Gate. So begins an epic adventure sparkling with magic, wit, secret identities, stinky cats, fierce orphan girls, impostor boys, and a foundling and gearling hotly pursued by the most powerful and dangerous wizard in the land. Action-packed yet layered, The Lock-Eater is a mix of lush world-building, high stakes, humor, and emotional heft—a page-turner and so much more. "A new classic . . . Perfect for fans of Ursula LeGuin and Diana Wynne Jones." —Eliot Schrefer, author of The Lost Rainforest series * "Startlingly deep [while] maintaining its swift pace." —BCCB (starred review) "Will delight . . . An entertaining page-turner." —GeekMom “Incredibly memorable . . Vibrant [and] skillfully wrought.” —Betsy Bird for a Fuse #8 Production/SLJ "Inventive and lighthearted [yet still] plumbs areas of darkness and loss.” —The Horn Book “Expansive adventure, intricate worldbuilding, and a memorable cast [will] immerse readers.” —PW "A magical world unlike any other." —Cracking the Cover

Dogeaters

Author : Jessica Hagedorn
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480440205
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dogeaters by : Jessica Hagedorn

Download or read book Dogeaters written by Jessica Hagedorn and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Award and a 2015 Wall Street Journal Book Club selection: An intense portrait of the Philippines in the late 1950s. Dogeaters follows a diverse set of characters through Manila, each exemplifying the country’s sharp distinctions between social classes. Celebrated novelist and playwright Jessica Hagedorn effortlessly shifts from the capital’s elite to the poorest of the poor. From the country’s president and first lady to an idealist reformer, from actors and radio DJs to prostitutes, seemingly unrelated lives become intertwined.