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Author : Ian Mackenzie Jeffers
Publisher : 212 Books / Himalaya Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Airplane crash survival
ISBN : 1614190283
After their plane crashes in Alaska, seven oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.
Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781555970420
*Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism* *A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Literary Criticism and Essays Pick for Spring 2012* The Grey Album, the first work of prose by the brilliant poet Kevin Young, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize Taking its title from Danger Mouse's pioneering mashup of Jay-Z's The Black Album and the Beatles' The White Album, Kevin Young's encyclopedic book combines essay, cultural criticism, and lyrical choruses to illustrate the African American tradition of lying—storytelling, telling tales, fibbing, improvising, "jazzing." What emerges is a persuasive argument for the many ways that African American culture is American culture, and for the centrality of art—and artfulness—to our daily life. Moving from gospel to soul, funk to freestyle, Young sifts through the shadows, the bootleg, the remix, the grey areas of our history, literature, and music.
Author : Celine Kiernan
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781847174147
'The scream was awful - a horrible desolate cry ... the child led my unresisting brother up the path and further into the tangled garden. Out of my sight.' My name is Patrick Finnerty. I am fifteen and I'm losing my brother. A ghost is stealing him away. I know how crazy that sounds. But my brother, my twin, is going to die; I'm watching him die. No one else can see what's happening. What can I do? The answers seem to lie within the memory of a dream - between this world and the next. Within The Grey. But I don't want to go into The Grey. I don't want to. I've seen what it's like ...
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : Confederation of states
ISBN : 0971335109
'The Grey Book' is the League of the South's philosophy and plan of action for advancing 'the cultural, social, economic, and political well-being and independence of the Southern people by all honourable means.'
Author : John Steffler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1771313439
Deluxe redesign of a seminal book by Canada's former Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Includes new material. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the second of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of The Grey Islands features a foreword by scholar Adrian Fowler and a detailed and insightful look back at the book and the time of its inception by Steffler himself. Featuring a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. The Grey Islands is the story of one man's pilgrimage to a remote island of Newfoundland's northern peninsula. Using a broad range of styles, The Grey Islands delivers the bite of raw experience and embraces existence at the edge in all its terror and beauty. Bent, I circle the building grubbing and rooting. Every shingle and stick I lift yields bait. Things Carm ate and didn't eat, turned to worms. A kind of organic shadow of the man. - from The Grey Islands Praise for The Grey Islands: [The book] illustrates? how the outsider becomes an insider by becoming a supplicant, renouncing the role of saviour and honouring the culture of the people among whom he has decided to make his home. - Adrian Fowler, from the Introduction.
Author : David Batchelor
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780233192
Color surrounds us: the lush green hues of trees and grasses, the variant blues of water and the sky, the bright pops of yellow and red from flowers. But at the same time, color lies at the limits of language and understanding. In this absorbing sequel to Chromophobia—which addresses the extremes of love and loathing provoked by color since antiquity—David Batchelor charts color’s more ambiguous terrain. The Luminous and the Grey explores the places where color comes into being and where it fades away, probing when it begins and when it ends both in the imagination and in the material world. Batchelor draws on neuroscience, philosophy, novels, films, and artists’ writings—as well as his own experience as an artist working with color—to understand how we see and use colors. He considers the role of color in creation myths, industrial chemistry, and optics, and examines the particular forms of luminosity that saturate the modern city. Following this inquiry into the hues that we face every day, he turns to one that is both color and noncolor: grey itself, which he reveals is as much a mood, feeling, and existential condition as a shade that we experience with our eyes. Deftly argued, always thought-provoking, and ever entertaining, The Luminous and the Grey is a beautiful study of how we see and feel our multicolored world.
Author : Aris Fioretos
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804764254
Generally considered the least lively and most bleak of casts, gray is the taint of vagueness and uncertainty. Marking the threshold region where luminous life seems suspended but death has not yet darkened the horizon, it belongs to an evasive and evanescent world, carrying the tint of smoke, fog, ashes, and dust. As the ambiguous space of thought and remembrance where things blend and blur, gray measures the difference between distance and proximity, shading into tinges of hesitation, hues of taciturnity, tones of time past and lost. Thus it may also be the spectral medium of literature itself—that grainy gas of language. Written with a lead pencil akin to those found in Nabokov, Rilke, Svevo, Poe, and Dickinson, The Gray Book chronicles the vicissitudes of such equivocal articulation—registering the graphite traces it leaves behind but also recording the dwindling span of its life. The book situates itself in a region beyond criticism but this side of literature, characterized by forgetting and finitude, and investigating important yet seemingly inaccessible "gray areas" in texts as old as those of Homer, and as recent as those of Beckett. Loosely arranging these literary finds according to a revision of the four elements, The Gray Book distances itself from tradition and treats not water but tears, not fire but vapor, not earth but grain, not air but clouds. The narrative thus construed, proceeding in the meandering movements of volatile thought rather than in the prudent steps of a treatise, appears gradually affected by its subject. Themes and facts previously confined to the realm of quoted texts leak into the narrative itself. The border between fiction and fact slowly dissolves as the book approaches the curious void that the author locates at the heart of "gray literature." Shaped by an omnipresent though increasingly unreliable narrator, The Gray Book may thus ultimately yield a poetics cast in the form of a ghost story.
Author : Jo Treggiari
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780735262997
Two years after a deadly plane crash, best friends D and Spider head into the mountains to face their grief. A gripping psychological thriller for fans of The Cheerleaders and Sadie. D and Spider have always been close friends, and they are further united in their shared heartbreak: they both lost siblings in a horrific plane crash two years earlier. A chance sighting of a beloved cuddly toy in a photograph of the only survivor spurs D to finally seek closure. She and Spider and their friend, Min, set off on a road trip to the mountainside site of that terrible crash. Ariel has lived on the mountain all her life. She and her extended family are looked down upon by neighboring townsfolk and she has learned to live by her wits, trusting few people outside of her isolated, survivalist community. A terrifying attack sends her down the mountain for help; on her way, she comes upon the three girls -- a chance encounter that will have far-reaching consequences for them all.
Author : Ralph Hope
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786078285
‘Fascinating and powerful.’ Sunday Times What do you do with a hundred thousand idle spies? By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. For forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Almost a hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access to highly personal information, found themselves unemployed overnight. This is the story of what they did next. Former FBI agent Ralph Hope uses present-day sources and access to Stasi records to track and expose ex-officers working everywhere from the Russian energy sector to the police and even the government department tasked with prosecuting Stasi crimes. He examines why the key players have never been called to account and, in doing so, asks if we have really learned from the past at all. He highlights a man who continued to fight the Stasi for thirty years after the Wall fell, and reveals a truth that many today don’t want spoken. The Grey Men comes as an urgent warning from the past at a time when governments the world over are building an unprecedented network of surveillance over their citizens. Ultimately, this is a book about the present.
Author : T. W. Speight
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066231255
Set against the backdrop of Hertfordshire and Yorkshire in the late 19th century, this is a tale of family pride and the consequences of a son's fall from grace. Sir Gilbert Clare, a proud and imperious man, is devastated to discover that his eldest son Alec has become a reckless gambler and part of a fast set. When Alec is sentenced to prison for a crime he didn't commit, Sir Gilbert must confront his own prejudices and work to clear his son's name.
Author : Grey Friars (Monastery : London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OSU:32435065362527
Author : Mashama Bailey,John O. Morisano
Publisher : Lorena Jones Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781984856203
A story about the trials and triumphs of a Black chef from Queens, New York, and a White media entrepreneur from Staten Island who built a relationship and a restaurant in the Deep South, hoping to bridge biases and get people talking about race, gender, class, and culture. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GARDEN & GUN • “Black, White, and The Grey blew me away.”—David Chang In this dual memoir, Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano take turns telling how they went from tentative business partners to dear friends while turning a dilapidated formerly segregated Greyhound bus station into The Grey, now one of the most celebrated restaurants in the country. Recounting the trying process of building their restaurant business, they examine their most painful and joyous times, revealing how they came to understand their differences, recognize their biases, and continuously challenge themselves and each other to be better. Through it all, Bailey and Morisano display the uncommon vulnerability, humor, and humanity that anchor their relationship, showing how two citizens commit to playing their own small part in advancing equality against a backdrop of racism.
Author : Ian Mackenzie Jeffers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Airplane crash survival
ISBN : 0786756446
John Ottway has found the job at the end of the world, working as a hunter for an oil-camp on the North Slope of Alaska. It's brutal, cold, and isolated, and there's little he needs to do but wait for the day when he has the courage to end his life, as he plans to, some day, at a time to be determined." But the plane that ferries him and the other camp workers between the Slope and civilization crashes in the tundra, leaving Ottway alone with a handful of terrified survivors to face a punishing landscape, wolves who see them as an invading pack, and, ultimately, the prospect of a death he didn't choose in its most insistent, inexorable form. As he battles to save the lives of those with him, he looks into the darkness of an unforgiving nature and must weigh the abysses in himself and the wrongs he carries against what he leaves behind, and choose whether his own life is worth saving, or not.
Author : Brian O'Sullivan
Publisher : Irish Imbas Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780994125811
"Ireland 188 A.D: A land of tribal affiliations, secret alliances and treacherous rivalries. Youthful woman warrior Liath Luachra has survived two brutal years fighting with mercenary war party "The Friendly Ones" but now the winds are shifting. Dispatched on a murderous errand where nothing is as it seems, she must survive a group of treacherous comrades, the unwanted advances of her battle leader and a personal history that might be her own undoing. Clanless and friendless, she can count on nothing but her wits, her fighting skills and her natural ferocity to see her through. Woman warrior, survivor, killer and future guardian to Irish hero Fionn mac Cumhaill _ this is her story"--Back cover of print version.
Author : Carolyn Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771177373
In the twenty-first century, Rebecca Howell stands transfixed by the beauty of Giovanni Strazza's marble masterpiece, the Veiled Virgin. The sculpture was created in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century but is housed at the Presentation Convent in St. John's, Newfoundland. Its existence is one of the best-kept secrets in North America. Rebecca can't help but wonder why the Italian artist, in 1856, allowed such a brilliant example of his work to come to the remote island. She discovers that although the work is signed by Strazza, it is not listed with his other sculptures, and there are no existing documents for the sale of the work. Rebecca travels to Italy to solve the mystery. Her research on Giovanni Strazza and the Veiled Virgin will be the subject for her doctoral degree in art history. Luca Rossi, the head of the sculpture department at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, reveals to Rebecca that he has a family ancestor who worked with Strazza in the 1850s. His sister has kept Mario Rossi's art journals, and Rebecca goes to Rome to study them. In one of his journals is written the tantalizing words: find Nina Gatti. Through a startling discovery made by one of Luca Rossi's students, Rebecca learns that Nina Gatti was the governess-chaperone for Rosa Bouchard--the model for Strazza's Veiled Virgin sculpture. As Rebecca becomes immersed in her work, the reader's view shifts between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. The narrative goes back in time to the studio of Giovanni Strazza and the drama surrounding the creation of the Veiled Virgin. The Newfoundland-Italy connection intensifies as Rebecca and Luca fall in love. The centuries collide when Rebecca discovers Luca's personal connection to the model for Strazza's masterpiece, the Veiled Virgin.