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Author : Stuart Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 1772141267
"Eclectic poems wherein the author makes unapologetic leaps from howls of grief and despair to zany incursions into surrealism and the absurd"--
Author : Stuart Ross
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781773059556
A poignant meditation on mortality from a beloved Canadian poet A writer friend once pointed out that whenever Stuart Ross got close to something heavy and “real” in a poem, a hamburger would inevitably appear for comic relief. In this hybrid essay/memoir/poetic meditation, Ross shoves aside the heaping plate of burgers to wrestle with what it means to grieve the people one loves and what it means to go on living in the face of an enormous accumulation of loss. Written during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, shortly after the sudden death of his brother left him the last living member of his family and as a catastrophic diagnosis meant anticipating the death of his closest friend, this meditation on mortality — a kind of literary shiva — is Ross’s most personal book to date. More than a catalogue of losses, The Book of Grief and Hamburgers is a moving act of resistance against self-annihilation and a desperate attempt to embrace all that was good in his relationships with those most dear to him.
Author : Chris Grabenstein
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593301753
Introducing DOG SQUAD, the crime-fighting, tail-wagging, hilarious new series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library and coauthor of Max Einstein! When trouble calls . . . it's DOG SQUAD to the rescue! Duke is not your average dog. Along with his crew, he fights crime and goes on claw-biting adventures helping dogs in peril in the hit streaming sensation--DOG SQUAD! Fred is a pretty average dog. He's scrappy. He's loveable. But he's not brave like his heroes on Dog Squad. Fred looks an awful lot like Duke from Dog Squad though. In fact, when Duke needs a stand-in, Fred's the perfect choice. But the Dog Squad action doesn't always stop on screen! When there's danger in real life, can Fred find the courage to step up and save the day?! It's all paws on deck in this action-packed, middle grade adventure series just right for anyone who loves dogs--and anyone who loves to laugh! “Doggone fun.”—Kirkus Reviews
Author : Steven R. Boyett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101466025
Twenty-seven years ago, technology died. The fundamental laws of the universe had inexplicably changed. Now, Fred Garey's best friend Yan believes he's found a way to reverse the Change. But Fred fears the repercussions of such drastic, irreversible steps.
Author : Suzanne Hudson
Publisher : Livingston Press (AL)
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015053541325
The first book published by the author of In a Temple of Trees, Opposable Thumbs offers a humor as wry as Flannery O'Connor's, minus the religion, at least as O'Connor viewed that commodity.
Author : Stuart Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1895636795
'I Cut My Finger' is Stuart Ross's first full-length poetry collection since his acclaimed 'Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems New & Selected' (2003). The poems here show Ross's ever-expanding breadth, from his trademark humour and surrealism, to pointedly experimental works and poems of human anguish. Here, a poet includes a letter threatening suicide in his submission of poems to a literary journal; a businessman dons flippers to swim along the sidewalk to his downtown office; the U.S. military follows a trail of red ants to glacial redemption; the writer finds profound joy in a tower of canned niblets. But beneath the slapstick exterior of so many of Ross's poems there lurk dark threats and darker pleasures."Many of his narrative poems can best be called surreal. With their fancifully imaginative stories and wonderfully absurdist takes on the world, it's as if you're watching bizarre cartoons on YouTube." - Prairie Fire"A damn-fine book in every sense of the word." - Taddle Creek
Author : Stuart Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 1897535929
Each new volume by Stuart Ross is a more confounding grab bag than the last. In 'You Exist. Details Follow.', his seventh full-length collection of poetry, Stuart Ross veers in opposite directions: narrative confessional poems, and works that might be considered abstract expressionist, and a lot both in between and beyond those boundaries. Still, each poem breathes with the signature weirdness, the sharp wit and gentle awe that Ross is known for.Here you'll find new poems from Ross'songoing Razovsky series, one-line poems, centos, fractured sonnets, poems composed through surrealist strategies, and more."A voice all his own. Stuart Ross unleashes his refreshing snark in his latest collection of poems, 'You Exist. Details Follow.' Stuart Ross is no punk kid, but he writes with a refreshing snark. It's a voice much in evidence in his latest book, a collection of poems called 'You Exist. Details Follow.' (Anvil Press). He runs the gamut from his own brand of absurdist expressionism to fond childhood memories and poetic confessions. Here are a misplaced tuba, badly sewn dog suits, and Highway 6 Revisited, about a butcher waking from a dream of meat, then dancing down a country road. Then you come across 'French Fries', a charming story of a child pretending to be asleep during a road trip: 'You smell French fries. It is time/to pretend to wake up.' In another poem, Ross wisely and parenthetically writes: (Tension is a good thing sometimes. For example, you shouldstick it in art.) Stuart Ross loves that tension, fortunately for his readers." -Uptown (Winnipeg)
Author : William H. Patterson, Jr.
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429987967
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with his Century: 1948-1988 The Man Who Learned Better: The real-life story of Robert A. Heinlein in the second volume of the authorized biography by William H. Patterson! Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) is generally considered the greatest American science fiction writer of the twentieth century. His most famous and widely influential works include the Future History series (stories and novels collected in The Past Through Tomorrow and continued in later novels), Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress—all published in the years covered by this volume. He was a friend of admirals, bestselling writers, and artists; became committed to defending the United States during the Cold War; and was on the advisory committee that helped Ronald Reagan create the Star Wars Strategic Defense Initiative in the 1980s. Heinlein was also devoted to space flight and humanity's future in space, and he was a commanding presence to all around him in his lifetime. Given his desire for privacy in the later decades of his life, the revelations in this biography make for riveting reading. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Milton Scarborough
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826437389
This constructive work of comparative philosophy explains the concept of dualism, looks at the problems it creates, and suggests how these might be circumnavigated.
Author : Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479425679
Darrell Schweitzer's third collection of essays and reviews, a successor to the well-received "Windows of the Imagination" and "The Fantastic Horizon," is a balanced mixture of scholarship and entertainment, ranging over the entire spectrum of imaginative literature, from the oldest novel in the world (1st century B.C.) to classic (and not-so-classic) pulp fiction, to childhood reading, to examinations of the works of such masters as H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, Robert Bloch, Stanley Weinbaum, John W. Campbell, and Thomas M. Disch. In between we encounter such surprising topics as a proposal for an H.P. Lovecraft biopic ("The Whole Wide Lovecraft"), the eccentricities of William Beckford (the author of Vathek), and even a report from Blobfest, an annual street fair devoted to the famous 1958 cult film, at which Schweitzer, as a member of the press, was allowed to touch the original Blob. Many of these pieces have been published in the prestigious "The New York Review of Science Fiction." "Schweitzer writes in an informative style that’s knowledgeable, witty, and high accessible. This is the finest kind of criticism -- it makes you want to read more, both of the critic's own prose and that of the writers he’s discussing. Highly recommended!" -- Robert Reginald. Darrell Schweitzer is a novelist, short-story, writer and critic, a former editor of the legendary "Weird Tales" magazine, and a four-time World Fantasy Award finalist and one-time winner. His previous book of essays, "The Fantastic Horizon," was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Headwater Books
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781934753057
Author : Kayla North
Publisher : Amanda Holt
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
A forced proximity erotic romance. The setting? A rural motel on Manitoba's Highway Five, a safe haven at the center of a ruthless Canadian Prairie blizzard. The greater predicament? One last hotel room key, and two travelers from different worlds in need of shelter from the storm. Yet despite their misfortune, fortune still favors the bold strangers: Summer, in all her radiance is bold enough to unsettle him, and Grant is far too damned intrigued by her to resist.
Author : Roger L. Martin
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422148105
If you want to be as successful as Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, or Michael Dell, read their autobiographical advice books, right? Wrong, says Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind. Though following best practice can help in some ways, it also poses a danger: By emulating what a great leader did in a particular situation, you'll likely be terribly disappointed with your own results. Why? Your situation is different. Instead of focusing on what exceptional leaders do, we need to understand and emulate how they think. Successful businesspeople engage in what Martin calls integrative thinking creatively resolving the tension in opposing models by forming entirely new and superior ones. Drawing on stories of leaders as diverse as AG Lafley of Procter & Gamble, Meg Whitman of eBay, Victoria Hale of the Institute for One World Health, and Nandan Nilekani of Infosys, Martin shows how integrative thinkers are relentlessly diagnosing and synthesizing by asking probing questions including: What are the causal relationships at work here? and What are the implied trade-offs? Martin also presents a model for strengthening your integrative thinking skills by drawing on different kinds of knowledge including conceptual and experiential knowledge. Integrative thinking can be learned, and The Opposable Mind helps you master this vital skill.
Author : Walt F.J. Goodridge
Publisher : a company called W
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
"Necessity is the mother of invention. Hunger is the father of ingenuity. The Coffeepot Cookbook is their love child!" While doing the nomadpreneur thing through China, as a vegan, I had to improvise quite a bit to get my dietary needs met… find out what you can do with a little creativity and a basic hotel room appliance! (52 pages; 6" x 9"; ISBN: 978-0983580805) Read more at www.coffeepotcookbook.com
Author : C. J. Nielsen
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528964067
Gifted, list-making teen Jacob joins Ray, a PR-exec and wannabe Shaman with a mysterious past on a road trip of truly Biblical proportions that ends in Hope - the one in Maine, not the Rambo film one! Ray, the hopelessly likeable title character, picks up a collection of oddities, including the gifted boy, a stuffed bear, some kind of Israeli military pin with another man's name on it and a basket-bearing hitchhiker as he travels across the US in search of the boy's father... or perhaps something else altogether.