An Odd Odyssey

Author : Glen David Short
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1552126021
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Odd Odyssey written by Glen David Short and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the author's five and a half month journey through Mexico and Central America. It describes the places he visited, people he met, and his experiences through ten different countries while Hurricane Mitch struck the region.

Author : Alan Pietsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949616057
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ophelia's Uncommonly Odd Odyssey written by Alan Pietsch and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ophelia is a little sixth-grader who loves to read. She's a loner and doesn't have many friends, so she gets lost in the characters in her book. Her journey this time, though, takes her inside the stories that she loves in her crazy odyssey.

Author : Paul Sutcliffe
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595364772
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unusual Odyssey of an Octogenarian written by Paul Sutcliffe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Odyssey of an Octogenarian is certainly different. From 1920, when at age 5, my first disastrous adventure occurred until the present time, I have experienced moment after moment of unexpected surprises, of traumatic panics, of impossible coincidences and finally of idiotic decisions I made which some how have always turned into very happy memories. I know that most books are written for monetary profit. At ninety years of age, and with out any close relatives, my writing for profit is kind of ridiculous. Of the two other choices, I hope this effort will be construed as a labor of love rather than as an ego trip. In any event I have arranged for any possible royalties to be donated to Bakersfield and other American worth while endeavors. So please read and enjoy! In any event I have arranged for any possible royalties to be set aside and donated directly to the Katrina-Rita disaster fund.

Author : David Slavin
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006283956X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odd Gods: The Oddyssey written by David Slavin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Percy Jackson in Odd Gods, the critically acclaimed and hilarious illustrated series about the middle school gods you never hear about in myths. In book two, Oddonis must embark on the strangest odyssey ever to save Zeus from the world’s cutest curse. Sometimes it feels like Oddonis can’t do anything right. Especially compared to his literally perfect twin brother, Adonis. But this time, Oddonis has really messed up by accidentally turning his father, the all-powerful king of the gods, Zeus, into a giant baby. Now it’s up to Oddonis to assemble a team of his odd friends—Mathena, Gaseous, and Puneous—and journey to the underworld to get the curse reversed. Along the way, Oddonis will have to overcome a series of dangerous obstacles, his obnoxious brother, his own self-doubt, and the horrible scents of his best friend Gaseous. Can Gods as unlikely, unusual, and unheroic as Oddonis and his friends really save the day? Get ready to overcome the odds in the second hilarious book about the Odd Gods from author David Slavin, filled with dozens of black-and-white illustrations by award-winning artist Adam Lane.

Author : Zachary Mason
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9781429952491
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Books of the Odyssey written by Zachary Mason and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITER Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's original that taken together open up this classic Greek myth to endless reverberating interpretations. The Lost Books of the Odyssey is punctuated with great wit, beauty, and playfulness; it is a daring literary page-turner that marks the emergence of an extraordinary new talent.

Author : Daniel Mendelsohn
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007545142
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 written by Daniel Mendelsohn and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDITERRANÉE 2018 From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic masterpiece.

Author : Benni Chisholm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781626942813
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odd Odyssey written by Benni Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philomela Nightingale and her employee, Janice McGill, take the trip of a lifetime--around the world. They fly to amazing places, stay in lovely hotels, meet fascinating people, and experience different cultures. To their horror they also become involved with kidnapping and murder. Will Philomela's observational powers and intuition enable her to help the police solve these puzzling mysteries or has she finally bitten off more than she can handle?

Author : Andy Russell
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781582614922
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Odd Steelers Journey written by Andy Russell and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bill Keenan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1613218613
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odd Man Rush written by Bill Keenan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his hilarious, gritty, and touching debut, Bill Keenan—a hockey star once on the fast-track to the NHL—tells of how he overcame multiple obstacles to find fulfillment and redemption in the strange world of European minor-league professional hockey. Keenan’s hockey obsession begins as a five-year-old on Lasker Rink in New York’s Central Park—“love at first stride,” as he calls it. He then becomes the youngest, and skinniest, player on the New York Bobcats, a Junior B hockey team. Later, after his hockey career at Harvard doesn’t end as planned—with a fat NHL contract—Keenan decides to play in the minor leagues in Europe, where the glamour of professional sports is decidedly lacking. Part fish-out-of-water travelogue, part coming-of-age memoir, Odd Man Rush will capture the interest of not just hockey fans, but also fans of good writing. Throughout, Keenan’s deep affection for the game shines through, even as he describes fans who steal players’ clothes from the locker room or toss empty beer cans onto the rink after games. Abusive fans, cold showers, long bus rides—nothing diminishes his love for the sport. “Because that’s the way it works with me and hockey. Even when it’s horrible, it’s wonderful.” Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : Homer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393634566
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Odyssey written by Homer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 "Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean…It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered." —Madeline Miller, author of Circe Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. This fresh, authoritative translation captures the beauty of this ancient poem as well as the drama of its narrative. Its characters are unforgettable, none more so than the “complicated” hero himself, a man of many disguises, many tricks, and many moods, who emerges in this version as a more fully rounded human being than ever before. Written in iambic pentameter verse and a vivid, contemporary idiom, Emily Wilson’s Odyssey sings with a voice that echoes Homer’s music; matching the number of lines in the Greek original, the poem sails along at Homer’s swift, smooth pace. A fascinating, informative introduction explores the Bronze Age milieu that produced the epic, the poem’s major themes, the controversies about its origins, and the unparalleled scope of its impact and influence. Maps drawn especially for this volume, a pronunciation glossary, and extensive notes and summaries of each book make this is an Odyssey that will be treasured by a new generation of readers.