Author: Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451628501
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Hope: A Tragedy
Author: Shalom AuslanderPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101561289
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
A New York Times Notable Book 2012 The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there. To begin again. To start anew. But it isn’t quite working out that way for Kugel… His ailing mother stubbornly holds on to life, and won’t stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate matters further, some lunatic is burning down farmhouses just like the one Kugel bought, and when, one night, he discovers history—a living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of history—hiding upstairs in his attic, bad quickly becomes worse. Hope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit. It is a comic and compelling story of the hopeless longing to be free of those pasts that haunt our every present.
Two Lands, New Visions
Author: Janice Kulyk KeeferPublisher: Coteau Books
ISBN: 9781550501346
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A collection of stories from Canada and Ukraine. Typical is Ways of Coping, set in 18th century Ukraine and written by Myrna Kostash, a Canadian-Ukrainian. As a Polish lord forces himself on his Ukrainian maid, the woman finds comfort in the thought the Cossacks will soon revenge her in kind.
The Coldest Assassin: in Heaven or Hell
Author: Henri Jah MarquisPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 9781477275955
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
In the pitch black warehouse the four officers fears escalated tenfold as they fumbled through the dark, stumbled over tables and chairs, and commanded each other to stay close. Miyuki and Minatsu saw their every move through their Israeli made night vision goggles and didn't vacillate on the first two to kill. Picking out their prey like a lioness does a lagging gazelle, they quickly weaved through the dark. Minatsu struck first slicing through the air until her razor sharp Samurai sword connected with flesh and beheading her foe. Seconds later Miyuki followed, slicing through the lanky cop as if he were paper thin. No time was given to the remaining two, death was forthcoming and swift. Calm and chaotically seductive...beautiful, and then there were none. The Red Dragon Twins retreated, once again as myths into the awaiting night.
Breakshot
Author: Kenny GalloPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439195838
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Gallo made millions for New York's Colombo Mafia family before becoming an undercover FBI informant. In "Breakshot," he captures the American underworld in all its tawdry spectacle.
Run, Toby, Run
Author: Jimmie AllenPublisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098012879
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
In the middle to late 1950s, I lived in the Brewster Projects that were infested with gang activities. In order to survive being beat up, you were encouraged to participate or be a part of a gang. There were two things I was good at; fighting was one, and running was the other. Both got me out of some tough situations. The Brewster Project recreation center was right in the area of the Brewster's twelve-story apartment buildings populated by a gang called the Russians. I spent a lot of time at the center, which was a short distance from my house. I learned to swim there, took boxing there, even learned to ice skate there. The Russians was to many to fight; running was my best option until I joined the baby Russians. The school I attended was in the area of the gang called the Angels. I eventually found myself being a part of both gangs. Running and ducking allowed me to escape being found out until my family moved out of the area. Running kept me out of more trouble than fighting. The story is based on my ability to avoid potential deadly situations.
Be All You're Told To Be
Author: Gary NewsomPublisher: BookCountry
ISBN: 146300480X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Randolph C. Scott joins the Army on a whim. He finds it be much different and more difficult than he expected. A hilarious yet scary look at Army life. Book One of a series. Adult audience level due to a lot of profanity (just tying to keep it real, yo).
Burning Rainbow Farm
Author: Dean KuipersPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596919906
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Visit www.burningrainbowfarm.com On a mission to build a peaceful, pot-friendly Shangri-La, Tom Crosslin and his lover Rollie Rohm founded Rainbow Farm, a well-appointed campground and concert venue tucked away in rural Southwest Michigan. The farm quickly became the center of marijuana and environmental activism in Michigan, drawing thousands of blue-collar libertarians and hippie liberals, evangelicals and militiamen to its annual hemp festivals. People came from all over the country to support Tom and Rollie's libertarian brand of patriotism: They loved America but didn't like the War on Drugs. As Rainbow Farm launched a popular statewide ballot initiative to change marijuana laws, local authorities, who had scarcely tolerated Rainbow Farm in the past, began an all-out campaign to shut the place down. Finally, in May 2001, Tom and Rollie were arrested for growing marijuana. Rollie's 11-year-old son, who grew up on Rainbow Farm, was placed in foster care - Tom would never see him again. Faced with mandatory jail terms and the loss of the farm, Tom and Rollie never showed up for their August court date. Instead, the state's two best-known pot advocates burned Rainbow Farm to the ground in protest. County officials called the FBI, and within five days Tom and Rollie were dead. Obscured by the attacks of September 11, their stories will be told here for the first time.
Kissing Carrion
Author: Gemma FilesPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504063686
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The first horror story collection from the author of Experimental Film, “one of the most powerful and unique voices in weird fiction today” (Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts). These seventeen tales take readers into the uniquely twisted mind of “one of Canada’s most promising new horror writers” (Publishers Weekly). From a live necrophilia show starring reanimated corpses to a confrontation between a security guard and inhuman squatters, from who can be found at an all-night laundromat to what lies in wait at the bottom of the sea, from undead addictions to all-consuming obsessions, Kissing Carrion is “a journey through some of the most beautifully rendered visions of darkness and death to be published this past year. . . . Fans of Poppy Z. Brite, Charlee Jacob, and Clive Barker should enjoy this collection immensely” (SF Reader). Praise for Gemma Files “One of the standout horror novels of 2015 . . . From an author who has already established herself as one of the genre’s most original and innovative voices, Experimental Film is a remarkable achievement.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “[We Will All Go Down Together] is a vivid, haunting mix of horror and fantasy woven together through a complex fugue of short stories. The effect is powerful. It’s a book you have to work hard at, in order to make sure you’re not missing any of the peripheral connections. But it rewards the effort, and then some.” —Entertainment Weekly “The recent republication of Gemma Files’s first two collections of short fiction, Kissing Carrion and The Worm in Every Heart, was a reminder of how long and how well she has been writing.” —Locus
WORLD CREW CHRONICLES
Author: Shakir SwainPublisher: Shakir Swain
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
World Crew Chronicles is an extraordinary narrative that explores the impact of abuse, discrimination, racism, and the search for identity. It chronicles the lives of four individuals from diverse backgrounds who find themselves in the military, all in pursuit of discovering what it truly means to be a man. Trauma and adversity can shape our lives in unimaginable ways. The World Crew Chronicles delves deep into the shadows of the past, unraveling the haunting echoes of abuse and the enduring effects it has on our characters. We witness their struggles, their search for healing and redemption, and their remarkable resilience.
