A Rumpus in the Night
Author: Nick Ward
Publisher: Worthwhile Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781600103032
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jamie awakes from a nightmare to find a monster from his dream has magically appeared in his bedroom.
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The Dream Songs
Author: John Berryman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2014-10-21
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 1466879637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The complete Dream Songs--hypnotic, seductive, masterful--as thrilling to read now as they ever were John Berryman's The Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of oems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly sketched adventures of a uniquely American antihero named Henry. Henry falls in and out of love, and is in and out of the hospital; he sings of joy and desire, and of beings at odds with the world. He is lustful; he is depressed. And while Henry is breaking down and cracking up and patching himself together again, Berryman is doing the same thing to the English language, crafting electric verses that defy grammar but resound with an intuitive truth: "if he had a hundred years," Henry despairs in "Dream Song 29," "& more, & weeping, sleepless, in all them time / Henry could not make good." This volume collects both 77 Dream Songs, which won Berryman the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, and their continuation, His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which was awarded the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1969. The Dream Songs are witty and wild, an account of madness shot through with searing insight, winking word play, and moments of pure, soaring elation. This is a brilliantly sustained and profoundly moving performance that has not yet-and may never be-equaled.
The Monster I Am Today
Author: Kevin Simmonds
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2021-07-15
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 0810143747
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Road Out of Winter
Author: Alison Stine
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1488056498
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A teenage girl treks across a dangerous, frozen nation to reunite with her family in this Philip K. Dick Award–winning apocalyptic thriller. Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty. Her family grows marijuana illegally in order to survive. But now she’s been left behind in Ohio to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn’t return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented, extreme winter. With grow lights stashed in her truck and a pouch of precious seeds, Wil begins a journey to join her family in California. But the icy roads and strangers hidden in the hills are treacherous. Gathering a small group of exiles on her way, she becomes the target of a volatime cult leader. Because she has the most valuable skill in the climate chaos: she can make things grow. Road Out of Winter offers a glimpse into an all-too-possible near future, with a chosen family forged in the face of dystopian collapse. Alison Stine’s acclaimed debut “blends a rural thriller and speculative realism into what could be called dystopian noir” (Library Journal, starred review).
Another Rumpus
Author: Nick Ward
Publisher: Hutton Grove
Published: 2015-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781857337280
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Right in the middle of a very scary monster sort of dream, Rumpus wakes up. He wakes up so suddenly that into his room tumbles... Jamie! Nick Ward's adorable Rumpus is back in this superbly sweet sequel to A Rumpus in the Night! Join Jamie for a Rumpus adventure with a Brouhaha and Hullabaloo too!
Fire Is Not a Country
Author: Cynthia Dewi Oka
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 0810144220
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In her third collection, Indonesian American poet Cynthia Dewi Oka dives into the implications of being parents, children, workers, and unwanted human beings under the savage reign of global capitalism and resurgent nativism. With a voice bound and wrestled apart by multiple histories, Fire Is Not a Country claims the spaces between here and there, then and now, us and not us. As she builds a lyric portrait of her own family, Oka interrogates how migration, economic exploitation, patriarchal violence, and a legacy of political repression shape the beauties and limitations of familial love and obligation. Woven throughout are speculative experiments that intervene in the popular apocalyptic narratives of our time with the wit of an unassimilable other. Oka’s speakers mourn, labor, argue, digress, avenge, and fail, but they do not retreat. Born of conflicts public and private, this collection is for anyone interested in what it means to engage the multitudes within ourselves.
Nighttime Symphony
Author: Timbaland
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2019-05-14
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1442412089
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Baby falls asleep to a thunderstorm in the city, where all of the sounds blend together into a lullaby.
The Midnight Zoo
Author: Sonya Hartnett
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2011-09-13
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0763656321
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Master storyteller Sonya Hartnett crafts a magical and moving fable about war and redemption . . . and what it means to be free. When the Germans attack their Romany encampment during World War II, Andrej and his younger brother, Tomas, flee through a ravaged countryside under cover of darkness, guarding a secret bundle. Their journey leads to a bombed-out town, where the boys discover a hidden wonder: a zoo filled with creatures in need of hope. Like Andrej and Tomas, the animals--wolf and eagle, monkey and bear, lioness and seal, kangaroo and llama-- have stories to share and a mission to reclaim their lives.
The Naughtiest Ever Fairy
Author: Nick Ward
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781845390082
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Crash, bang, clump!" went the giant, as he danced. The naughtiest ever fairyas had enough of the noisy giant. Perhaps one of her naughtiest spells couldolve the problem? But the naughty plan has one "giant" flaw!
Night Theater
Author: Vikram Paralkar
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2020-01-14
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1948226545
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A surgeon must bring a dead family back to life in this fabulist debut novel set in rural India, called “otherworldly” and “a haunting contemplation of life, death, the liminal space in between, and the dogged search for resurrection” (Kirkus Reviews, starred). Fleeing scandal in the city, a surgeon accepts a job at a village clinic. He buys antibiotics out of pocket, squashes roaches, and chafes at the interventions of the corrupt officer who oversees his work. But his outlook on life changes one night when a teacher, his pregnant wife, and their young son appear. Killed in a violent robbery, they tell the surgeon that they have been offered a second chance at living if the surgeon can mend their wounds before sunrise. So begins a night of quiet work, “as if the crickets had been bribed,” during which the surgeon realizes his future is tied more closely to that of the dead family than he could have imagined. By dawn, he and his assistant have gained knowledge no mortal should have. In this inventive novel charged with philosophical gravity and sly humor, Vikram Paralkar takes on the practice of medicine in a time when the right to health care is frequently challenged. Engaging earthly injustice and imaginaries of the afterlife, he asks how we might navigate corrupt institutions to find a moral center. Encompassing social criticism and magically unreal drama, Night Theater is a first novel as satisfying for its existential inquiry as for its enthralling story of a skeptical physician who arrives at a greater understanding of life's miracles.
