Lover Walruses

Author : Jason Guriel
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771963831

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Forgotten Work by Jason Guriel Pdf

A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book • "Strange and affectionate, like Almost Famous penned by Shakespeare. A love letter to music in all its myriad iterations."—Kirkus Reviews • "This book has no business being as good as it is."—Christian Wiman In the year 2063, on the edge of the Crater formerly known as Montréal, a middle-aged man and his ex’s daughter search for a cult hero: the leader of a short-lived band named after a forgotten work of poetry and known to fans through a forgotten work of music criticism. In this exuberantly plotted verse novel, Guriel follows an obsessive cult-following through the twenty-first century. Some things change (there’s metamorphic smart print for music mags; the Web is called the “Zuck”). Some things don’t (poetry readings are still, mostly, terrible). But the characters, including a robot butler who stands with Ishiguro’s Stevens as one of the great literary domestics, are unforgettable. Splicing William Gibson with Roberto Bolaño, Pale Fire with Thomas Pynchon, Forgotten Work is a time-tripping work of speculative fiction. It’s a love story about fandom, an ode to music snobs, a satire on the human need to value the possible over the actual—and a verse novel of Nabokovian virtuosity.

Author : Katherena Vermette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1897289766

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North End Love Songs by Katherena Vermette Pdf

For Katherena Vermette, Winnipeg's North End is a neighbourhood of colourful birds, stately elms, and always wily rivers. It is where a brother's disappearance is trivialized by local media and police because he is young and aboriginal. It is also where young girls share secrets, movies, cigarettes, Big Gulps and stories of love—where a young mother full of both maternal trepidation and joy watches her small daughters as they play in the park. "In North End Love Songs, Katherena Vermette uses spare language and brief, telling sketches to illuminate the aviary of a prairie neighbourhood. Vermette's love songs are unconventional and imminent, an examination and a celebration of family and community in all weathers, the beautiful as well as the less clement conditions. This collection is a very moving tribute, to the girls and the women, the boys and the men, and the loving trouble that has forever transpired between us." – Joanne Arnott "From a mixed-blood M'tis woman with Mennonite roots, Kate weaves a story that winds its way through the north end (Nor-tend) of Winnipeg. It's a story of death, birth, survival, beauty and ugliness; through it all there are glimmers of hope, strength, and a will to survive whatever this city throws at you." – Duncan Mercredi

Author : Callum Moy
Publisher : White Owl
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-30
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781399035552

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The Pub Lover's Guide to London by Callum Moy Pdf

From the Roman conquest to the passing of legislation protecting the rights of LGBTQ+, the history of London is one of diversity, integration and progress - never standing still and always setting the agenda. Metropolitan London has around 7,000 public houses – an average of 25 pubs per square mile. No other capital city in the world matches this density. It’s not surprising that the London pub is such an institution at home and abroad! Pubs were part and parcel of the expansion of London – that grew to be the world’s largest city by the 1830s. Because pubs are so widespread in the capital, a pub can always be found near a place of historical significance. This book selects some key moments in the history of London, from Roman times to the modern day, and suggests a popular pub nearby to savor the moment - reliving the history with a drink in hand! The Pub Lover’s Guide to London explains the driving forces behind the most significant moments in the history of London - and the best pubs near to where history was made. In all, 52 great pubs to visit - one for each week of the year!

Author : Renee Erickson,Jess Thomson
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781570619274

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A Boat, a Whale & a Walrus by Renee Erickson,Jess Thomson Pdf

One of the country's most acclaimed chefs, Renee Erickson is a James-Beard nominated chef and the owner of several Seattle restaurants: The Whale Wins, Boat Street Café, The Walrus and the Carpenter, and Barnacle. This luscious cookbook is perfect for anyone who loves the fresh seasonal food of the Pacific Northwest. Defined by the bounty of the Puget Sound region, as well as by French cuisine, this cookbook is filled with seasonal, personal menus like Renee’s Fourth of July Crab Feast, Wild Foods Dinner, and a fall pickling party. This eBook edition includes complete navigation of recipes and ingredients with hyperlinks throughout the book in the Table of Contents, the menus, and the index. Home cooks will cherish Erickson’s simple yet elegant recipes such as Roasted Chicken with Fried Capers and Preserved Lemons, Harissa-Rubbed Roasted Lamb, and Molasses Spice Cake. Renee Erickson's food, casual style, and appreciation of simple beauty is an inspiration to readers and eaters in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Author : Valerie Bodden
Publisher : The Creative Company
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781640007000

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Walruses by Valerie Bodden Pdf

Meet the walrus! Learn about how this sea mammal migrates to stay near ice. Elementary-aged readers will discover walrus's giant tusks. Full color images and clear explanations highlight the habitat, diet, and lifestyle of these fascinating animals. An Alaskan folktale explains why walruses have tusks.

Author : John Miller,Louise Miller
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781780233314

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Walrus by John Miller,Louise Miller Pdf

From Lewis Carroll’s poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter” to the Beatles’s “I am the Walrus,” walruses have played an enigmatic role in popular culture. With their prominent tusks and distinctive whiskers, these odd-looking but charismatic animals have long held a crucial place in the lives and folklore of Arctic indigenous cultures, both as a vital food source and as a part of traditional oral literature. However, commercial trade of walrus products has caused the creatures to be hunted to the brink of extinction, with disastrous effects on human populations in the Arctic. Combining natural, cultural, and environmental history, Walrus explores the intriguing story of an animal that today is on the front lines of conservation debates. John Miller and Louise Miller describe the problems facing walruses even after the twentieth-century bans on nonindigenous walrus hunting—shrinking pack-ice caused by global warming and the exploitation of Arctic oil and gas resources are destroying the animal’s habitat. Wonderfully illustrated with images of walruses in the wild and from art and popular culture, Walrus offers a refreshing account of these large-flippered mammals while also illustrating the ethical dilemmas they embody, from the intensifying conflict between the developed world and indigenous interests to the impact of global warming on arctic animals.

Author : Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Geological surveys
ISBN : OSU:32435031043912

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History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America, by J.A. Allen. 1880 by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Jennifer Robertson,Stephen Kimber
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443463911

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Bitcoin Widow by Jennifer Robertson,Stephen Kimber Pdf

She met the man of her dreams and suddenly had it all. Then, in one fateful night, she lost everything, and the nightmare began Jennifer Robertson was working hard to build a life for herself from the ashes of her first marriage. Still only twenty-six, she swiped right on a dating app and met Gerry Cotten, a man she would not normally have considered—too young and not her type—but found she’d met her match. Eccentric but funny and kind, Cotten turned out to be a bitcoin wizard who quickly amassed substantial wealth through his company, Quadriga. The couple travelled the world, first class all the way, while Cotten worked on his multitude of encrypted laptops. Then, while the couple was on their honeymoon in India, opening an orphanage in their name, Gerry fell ill and died in a matter of hours. Jennifer was consumed by grief and guilt, but that was only the beginning. It turned out that Gerry owed $250 million to Quadriga customers, and all the passwords to his encrypted virtual vaults, hidden on his many laptops, had died with him. Jennifer was left with more than one hundred thousand investors looking for their money, and questions, suspicions and accusations spiralling dangerously out of control. The Quadriga scandal touched off major investment and criminal investigations, not to mention Internet rumours circulating on dark message boards, including claims that Gerry had faked his own death and that his wife was the real mastermind behind a sophisticated sting operation. While Jennifer waited for a dead man’s switch e-mail that would probably never come, it became clear that Cotten had gambled away about $100 million of the funds entrusted to him for investment in his many schemes, leaving Robertson holding the bag. Bitcoin Widow is Catch Me If You Can meets a widow betrayed, a life of fairy-tale romance and private jets torched by duplicity, as Jennifer Robertson tries to reset her life in the wake of one of the biggest investment scandals of the digital age.

Author : Todd Strasser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442483743

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How I Spent My Last Night On Earth by Todd Strasser Pdf

Something strange is happening in the parking lot of Time Zone High: The established cliques aren’t in their usual gathering places. Instead, everyone has joined in one large, frantically interacting mass. Why? Maybe it’s because the world may end tomorrow. Allegra Hanover is Time Zone High’s over-achieving valedictorian, so motorcycle-driving surfer bum Andros Bliss seems like the last person she would date. But when an asteroid is rumored to be hurtling toward Earth, the normal high school rules start to fade. Students and teachers are ditching class, and the lines between high school cliques are breaking down. Is the end of the world enough to make Allegra finally go for her secret crush?

Author : Neal Shusterman,Eric Elfman
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780759555259

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I Am the Walrus by Neal Shusterman,Eric Elfman Pdf

Eoin Colfer meets Rick Riordan—with a little Margaret Peterson Haddix sprinkled on top—in this hilarious sci-fi series from New York Times bestselling authors Neal Shusterman and Eric Elfman. ​ When fourteen-year-old Noah falls from the trees on his classmate Sahara, he doesn’t understand how, or why, he would have been up there. It’s just one more in a string of strange things happening to Noah lately. Like when he keels over and every muscle in his body freezes when confronted by bullies. And when he vanishes into the background at a moment he doesn’t want to be noticed. And when he unexpectedly blasts Sahara with a bird shriek while flapping his arms uncontrollably in the middle of a school dance. What does it all mean? And why do there suddenly seem to be so many mysterious people trying to kill him? Noah’s friend Ogden has an idea…but like all of Ogden’s ideas, it’s out there. Way out there…

Author : Georg Ludwig Hartwig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : OXFORD:600022830

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The polar world by Georg Ludwig Hartwig Pdf

Author : Georg HARTWIG (M.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022100439

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The Polar World: a Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the Globe ... With ... Plates, Etc by Georg HARTWIG (M.D.) Pdf

Author : Ciara Flood
Publisher : Andersen Press USA
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781512481303

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There's a Walrus in My Bed! by Ciara Flood Pdf

It's time for Flynn to sleep in his first ever big boy bed, but there's one rather large problem—a walrus! Mom and Dad play along. Is Flynn just stalling? Either way it doesn't look like anyone is getting much sleep tonight.

Author : Maeve Brennan
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781619026544

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The Long-Winded Lady by Maeve Brennan Pdf

From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" department under the pen name "The Long–Winded Lady." Her unforgettable sketches—prose snapshots of life in small restaurants, cheap hotels, and crowded streets of Times Square and the Village—together form a timeless, bittersweet tribute to what she called the "most reckless, most ambitious, most confused, most comical, the saddest and coldest and most human of cities." First published in 1969, The Long–Winded Lady is a celebration of one of The New Yorker's finest writers.

Author : Stephen Savage
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439700498

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Where's Walrus? by Stephen Savage Pdf

In this wordless picture book, follow Walrus on a happy-go-lucky spree through the big city, as he tries on different hats to disguise himself from the chasing zookeeper.