The Rattle Bag
Title | The Rattle Bag PDF eBook |
Author | Seamus Heaney |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 497 |
Release | 2005-03-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0571225837 |
A collection of more than 400 hundred poems from all around the world.
Trigger Warning
Title | Trigger Warning PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Gaiman |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 339 |
Release | 2015-02-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062330292 |
Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things—which includes a never-before published American Gods story, “Black Dog,” written exclusively for this volume. In this new anthology, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath. Trigger Warning includes previously published pieces of short fiction—stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013—as well “Black Dog,” a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods, exclusive to this collection. Trigger Warning explores the masks we all wear and the people we are beneath them to reveal our vulnerabilities and our truest selves. Here is a rich cornucopia of horror and ghosts stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry that explore the realm of experience and emotion. In Adventure Story—a thematic companion to The Ocean at the End of the Lane—Gaiman ponders death and the way people take their stories with them when they die. His social media experience A Calendar of Tales are short takes inspired by replies to fan tweets about the months of the year—stories of pirates and the March winds, an igloo made of books, and a Mother’s Day card that portends disturbances in the universe. Gaiman offers his own ingenious spin on Sherlock Holmes in his award-nominated mystery tale The Case of Death and Honey. And Click-Clack the Rattlebag explains the creaks and clatter we hear when we’re all alone in the darkness. A sophisticated writer whose creative genius is unparalleled, Gaiman entrances with his literary alchemy, transporting us deep into the realm of imagination, where the fantastical becomes real and the everyday incandescent. Full of wonder and terror, surprises and amusements, Trigger Warning is a treasury of delights that engage the mind, stir the heart, and shake the soul from one of the most unique and popular literary artists of our day.
All for Nothing
Title | All for Nothing PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Kempowski |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 2018-02-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1681372061 |
A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-year-old son, Peter. As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee. Yet in the main, life continues as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the family, until their caution, their hedged bets, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine. All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers.
The American Poetry Anthology
Title | The American Poetry Anthology PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Halpern |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 2019-03-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 042972599X |
This book aims to gather a selection that represents the diversity and richness of American poetry written by poets who share a sophistication that promises to evolve, with continued effort and risk, a new and powerful poetic idiom.
U2
Title | U2 PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Williams |
Publisher | Harmony |
Total Pages | 100 |
Release | 1988-11-19 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780517572146 |
Tells the behind the scenes story of an Irish rock and roll band in America.
Door into the Dark
Title | Door into the Dark PDF eBook |
Author | Seamus Heaney |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | 56 |
Release | 2014-02-04 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1466864087 |
Door into the Dark, Seamus Heaney's second collection of poems, first appeared in 1969. Already his widely celebrated gifts of precision, thoughtfulness, and musicality were everywhere apparent.
The Rattlebang Picnic
Title | The Rattlebang Picnic PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Mahy |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780606137287 |
The McTavishes have piled into their old rattlebang car for a picnic on the top of Mount Fogg. But when the mountain starts to shake and red-hot lava erupts, the McTavishes hope that the old rattlebang can stay together long enough to save them from disaster!?An original tall tale with an outrageously bizarre plot?AMahy's? writing is vivid, funny, and full of details that will be dear to a child's heart.' -- School Library Journal, starred reviewMargaret Mahy was awarded The Order of New Zealand, her country's highest honor, for her contribution to children's literature. She lives in New Zealand.Steven Kellogg is well known for his Pinkerton books, as well as his illustrations for the Jimmy's Boa books by Trinka Hakes Noble (all Dial and Puffin). He lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.