Author: Ben Groner III
Publisher: Madville Publishing
ISBN: 1956440860
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Dust Storms May Exist follows the trajectory of a 10,000-mile road trip, exploring the geography, music, and history of America while mapping its astonishments and disillusionments. Ben Groner III searches for a dead father, wrestles with belief and doubt, yearns for sensuality, and recalls the freedom and loneliness of traveling in South America. Bluegrass and cowboy songs seep across the pages as he moves through canyons, bayous, cornfields, museums, gas stations, dance halls, and memory’s refracting landscapes. These poems are a reckoning with what his country is and could be, a meditation on the palpability of absence, a discovery of the searing border between friendship and love, a realization that longing revolves at the core of all experience.
Dust Storms May Exist
Author: Ben Groner III
Publisher: Madville Publishing
ISBN: 1956440860
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Dust Storms May Exist follows the trajectory of a 10,000-mile road trip, exploring the geography, music, and history of America while mapping its astonishments and disillusionments. Ben Groner III searches for a dead father, wrestles with belief and doubt, yearns for sensuality, and recalls the freedom and loneliness of traveling in South America. Bluegrass and cowboy songs seep across the pages as he moves through canyons, bayous, cornfields, museums, gas stations, dance halls, and memory’s refracting landscapes. These poems are a reckoning with what his country is and could be, a meditation on the palpability of absence, a discovery of the searing border between friendship and love, a realization that longing revolves at the core of all experience.
Publisher: Madville Publishing
ISBN: 1956440860
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Dust Storms May Exist follows the trajectory of a 10,000-mile road trip, exploring the geography, music, and history of America while mapping its astonishments and disillusionments. Ben Groner III searches for a dead father, wrestles with belief and doubt, yearns for sensuality, and recalls the freedom and loneliness of traveling in South America. Bluegrass and cowboy songs seep across the pages as he moves through canyons, bayous, cornfields, museums, gas stations, dance halls, and memory’s refracting landscapes. These poems are a reckoning with what his country is and could be, a meditation on the palpability of absence, a discovery of the searing border between friendship and love, a realization that longing revolves at the core of all experience.
NASA Activities
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Next Time I'll Shoot Him
Author: Ed Teja
Publisher: Float Street Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Cities are breeding grounds for possibilities… Almost anything and everyone has a chance to be good, bad, heroic, evil, mundane, and magical. And most things, and people, are hybrids. Consider the countless opportunities for people to develop unique, innovative solutions to their problems; consider the challenge of surviving in the chaos of a teeming city where survival is a challenge; consider the opportunities for complete failure; and consider the options available. The urban environment is not forgiving and you should count on survivors using whatever tools they have at hand. You even need to expect magic. Always expect magic, even if there might be a cruder, more expedient, more obvious way of doing things, because witches are people.
Publisher: Float Street Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Cities are breeding grounds for possibilities… Almost anything and everyone has a chance to be good, bad, heroic, evil, mundane, and magical. And most things, and people, are hybrids. Consider the countless opportunities for people to develop unique, innovative solutions to their problems; consider the challenge of surviving in the chaos of a teeming city where survival is a challenge; consider the opportunities for complete failure; and consider the options available. The urban environment is not forgiving and you should count on survivors using whatever tools they have at hand. You even need to expect magic. Always expect magic, even if there might be a cruder, more expedient, more obvious way of doing things, because witches are people.
I Don't Care If We Never Get Back
Author: Ben Blatt
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802192165
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Two friends take a wild month-long road trip to hit every Major League Baseball stadium in America: “A fun ride” (The Boston Globe). Ben, a sports analytics wizard, loves baseball. Eric, his best friend, hates it. But when Ben writes an algorithm for the optimal baseball road trip, an impossible dream of every pitch of thirty games in thirty stadiums in thirty days, who will he call on to take shifts behind the wheel, especially when those shifts will include nineteen hours straight from Phoenix to Kansas City? Eric, of course. On June 1, 2013, they set out to see America through the bleachers and concession stands of America’s favorite pastime. Along the way, human error and Mother Nature throw their mathematically optimized schedule a few curveballs. A mix-up in Denver turns a planned day off in Las Vegas into a twenty-hour drive. And a summer storm of biblical proportions threatens to make the whole thing logistically impossible, and that’s if they don’t kill each other first. I Don’t Care if We Never Get Back is a book about the love of the game, the limits of fandom, and the limitlessness of friendship. “Moneyball-worthy mathematical algorithms and the sharp, hilarious prose that has made Lampoon alums famous for generations . . . Nate Silver numbers and James Thurber wit turn what should be a harebrained adventure into a pretty damn endearing one.” —Kirkus Reviews “Evokes the spirit of sports stunt journalist George Plimpton and the dazed road-trip fever of Hunter S. Thompson, minus the mind-altering substances . . . . It’s great watching Blatt and Brewster race home.” —The Boston Globe “A cross between The Cannonball Run and The Great Race, with portions of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World thrown in for good measure . . . The dynamic and back-and-forth tension and sarcasm between Blatt and Brewster is funny . . . Worth reading.” —The Tampa Tribune
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802192165
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Two friends take a wild month-long road trip to hit every Major League Baseball stadium in America: “A fun ride” (The Boston Globe). Ben, a sports analytics wizard, loves baseball. Eric, his best friend, hates it. But when Ben writes an algorithm for the optimal baseball road trip, an impossible dream of every pitch of thirty games in thirty stadiums in thirty days, who will he call on to take shifts behind the wheel, especially when those shifts will include nineteen hours straight from Phoenix to Kansas City? Eric, of course. On June 1, 2013, they set out to see America through the bleachers and concession stands of America’s favorite pastime. Along the way, human error and Mother Nature throw their mathematically optimized schedule a few curveballs. A mix-up in Denver turns a planned day off in Las Vegas into a twenty-hour drive. And a summer storm of biblical proportions threatens to make the whole thing logistically impossible, and that’s if they don’t kill each other first. I Don’t Care if We Never Get Back is a book about the love of the game, the limits of fandom, and the limitlessness of friendship. “Moneyball-worthy mathematical algorithms and the sharp, hilarious prose that has made Lampoon alums famous for generations . . . Nate Silver numbers and James Thurber wit turn what should be a harebrained adventure into a pretty damn endearing one.” —Kirkus Reviews “Evokes the spirit of sports stunt journalist George Plimpton and the dazed road-trip fever of Hunter S. Thompson, minus the mind-altering substances . . . . It’s great watching Blatt and Brewster race home.” —The Boston Globe “A cross between The Cannonball Run and The Great Race, with portions of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World thrown in for good measure . . . The dynamic and back-and-forth tension and sarcasm between Blatt and Brewster is funny . . . Worth reading.” —The Tampa Tribune
N A S A Activities
Author: U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
RVing Solo Across America . . . Without a Cat, Dog, Man, Or Gun
Author: Lois Requist
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 055713384X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
A 66-year old woman takes a solo trip across America for ten months. Over one hundred pictures and her personal perspective make up the book, plus lots of tips for others. Appendix includes route and recommendations of places to stay and things to see.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 055713384X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
A 66-year old woman takes a solo trip across America for ten months. Over one hundred pictures and her personal perspective make up the book, plus lots of tips for others. Appendix includes route and recommendations of places to stay and things to see.
Is That Too Much To Ask?
Author: Ed Teja
Publisher: Float Street Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Some things are so small… Yet some of the most important things, the really big things can seem too small to notice. Billions of events play out under our noses. Small but significant. And some are small enough to alter the world. A speculative story where the unseen and seen meet.
Publisher: Float Street Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Some things are so small… Yet some of the most important things, the really big things can seem too small to notice. Billions of events play out under our noses. Small but significant. And some are small enough to alter the world. A speculative story where the unseen and seen meet.
The Bones of Wolfe
Author: James Carlos Blake
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802156967
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Two outlaw brothers search for hijackers, stolen goods, and an adult film star in this action-packed noir tale by the author of The Ways of Wolfe. In the newest Wolfe-family adventure, Rudy and Frank Wolfe are engaging in routine miscellaneous business—some legitimate and some less so—for their family when they stumble upon a stash of high-quality pornographic films in a raid. After their Aunt Catalina, the family matriarch aged 115, recognizes a resemblance to her long-lost sister in one of the young performers, she tasks the boys with tracking the girl down, however improbable a connection may be. This proves to be no simple task. Soon, Rudy and Frank find themselves moving away from world of porn and towards the upper echelons of the Sinaloa drug cartel, where the mysterious woman has become a particular favorite of the head narco. For their aunt, the woman, and themselves, Frank and Rudy must find a way to extract her from the cartel. A tropical storm threatens their plan but their widespread and steadfast family stands ready to assist them every deadly mile of the way. Ever daring and innovative, and assisted by the family’s ready resources, the Wolfe brothers must run the highest risks in order to achieve the mission assigned them by the Grande Dame. Praise for The Bones of Wolfe “Hold on to your hats. The Wolfe family saga continues in Blake’s newest Border Noir. . . . An action-packed story of family loyalties with some surprisingly sentimental undertones.” —Kirkus Reviews “In the vein of a Thomas Perry caper novel, with plenty of blood. As such, it is never less than thoroughly entertaining.” —Booklist
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802156967
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Two outlaw brothers search for hijackers, stolen goods, and an adult film star in this action-packed noir tale by the author of The Ways of Wolfe. In the newest Wolfe-family adventure, Rudy and Frank Wolfe are engaging in routine miscellaneous business—some legitimate and some less so—for their family when they stumble upon a stash of high-quality pornographic films in a raid. After their Aunt Catalina, the family matriarch aged 115, recognizes a resemblance to her long-lost sister in one of the young performers, she tasks the boys with tracking the girl down, however improbable a connection may be. This proves to be no simple task. Soon, Rudy and Frank find themselves moving away from world of porn and towards the upper echelons of the Sinaloa drug cartel, where the mysterious woman has become a particular favorite of the head narco. For their aunt, the woman, and themselves, Frank and Rudy must find a way to extract her from the cartel. A tropical storm threatens their plan but their widespread and steadfast family stands ready to assist them every deadly mile of the way. Ever daring and innovative, and assisted by the family’s ready resources, the Wolfe brothers must run the highest risks in order to achieve the mission assigned them by the Grande Dame. Praise for The Bones of Wolfe “Hold on to your hats. The Wolfe family saga continues in Blake’s newest Border Noir. . . . An action-packed story of family loyalties with some surprisingly sentimental undertones.” —Kirkus Reviews “In the vein of a Thomas Perry caper novel, with plenty of blood. As such, it is never less than thoroughly entertaining.” —Booklist
Amexica
Author: Ed Vulliamy
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429977027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Amexica is the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border—"a country in its own right, which belongs to both the United States and Mexico, yet neither"—as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch there. In 2009, after reporting from the border for many years, Ed Vulliamy traveled the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, from Tijuana to Matamoros, a journey through a kaleidoscopic landscape of corruption and all-out civil war, but also of beauty and joy and resilience. He describes in revelatory detail how the narco gangs work; the smuggling of people, weapons, and drugs back and forth across the border; middle-class flight from Mexico and an American celebrity culture that is feeding the violence; the interrelated economies of drugs and the maquiladora factories; the ruthless, systematic murder of young women in Ciudad Juarez. Heroes, villains, and victims—the brave and rogue police, priests, women, and journalists fighting the violence; the gangs and their freelance killers; the dead and the devastated—all come to life in this singular book. Amexica takes us far beyond today's headlines. It is a street-level portrait, by turns horrific and sublime, of a place and people in a time of war as much as of the war itself.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429977027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Amexica is the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border—"a country in its own right, which belongs to both the United States and Mexico, yet neither"—as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch there. In 2009, after reporting from the border for many years, Ed Vulliamy traveled the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, from Tijuana to Matamoros, a journey through a kaleidoscopic landscape of corruption and all-out civil war, but also of beauty and joy and resilience. He describes in revelatory detail how the narco gangs work; the smuggling of people, weapons, and drugs back and forth across the border; middle-class flight from Mexico and an American celebrity culture that is feeding the violence; the interrelated economies of drugs and the maquiladora factories; the ruthless, systematic murder of young women in Ciudad Juarez. Heroes, villains, and victims—the brave and rogue police, priests, women, and journalists fighting the violence; the gangs and their freelance killers; the dead and the devastated—all come to life in this singular book. Amexica takes us far beyond today's headlines. It is a street-level portrait, by turns horrific and sublime, of a place and people in a time of war as much as of the war itself.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Author: Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Vols. 10-11 include Meteorology of England by James Glaisher as seperately paged section at end.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Vols. 10-11 include Meteorology of England by James Glaisher as seperately paged section at end.