Locust Gleanings

Author : W. C. Bamberger
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434457974
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locust Gleanings written by W. C. Bamberger and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of literary essays includes pieces on the fiction of Joe Brainard, Guy Davenport, Alice Hoffman, Kenneth Koch, Ann Lauterbach, Ishmael Reed, and Samuel R. Delany, among many others. Bamberger also adds an unpublished diary of his 2007 trip to Manhattan, Long Island, and Philadephia, detailing the many literary and artistic figures he met along the way. Another remarkable journey by a major modern critic.

Author : Chicago Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding List of the Chicago Public Library written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Dann
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434436063
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yondering written by Jack Dann and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of a series of anthologies of science fiction and mystery stories by Borgo Press writers that are being distributed at cost as both ebooks and paperback volumes. The first volume in the sequence, Yondering, includes a baker's dozen of original and reprint tales by fourteen writers. In "The Quills of Henry Thomas," W. C. and Aja Bamberger give us a glimpse of a future in which music is composed through DNA computing. "The Gizzard Wizard" is Rory Barnes's delightful sequel to his young adult SF novel, Space Junk. John Gregory Betancourt's engaging "The Darkfishers" envisions a shanghaied Earth colony stranded on the back of a huge crustacean on an ocean planet. Sydney J. Bounds, in "Guinea Pigs," portrays a future dominated by cutthroat corporations. "Outside Looking In," by Mark E. Burgess, takes the "world in a bottle" theme--and turns it upside down. Victor Cilinca's "Siegfried" demonstrates the folly of taking those "primitive" aliens too lightly. Michael R. Collings's "The Calling of Iam'Kendron" is a stirring prequel to his epic science-fantasy novel, Wordsmith. In Arthur Jean Cox's "Evergreen," we find that long life is not always what it's cracked up to be. Award-winning author Jack Dann depicts, in "Mohammed’s Angel," an all-too-plausible future in which cultures, sensibilities, and terrorist acts are inextricably mixed. "Ultra Evolution," by John Russell Fearn, is a cautionary tale about the advancement of man—not always a good thing! Sheila Finch's "Miles to Go" is the moving story of a wheelchair marathoner faced with a crucial decision. Mel Gilden relates mankind's first encounter with aliens in "The Little Finger of the Left Hand." Last, and certainly not least, Ardath Mayhar's poignant "The Next Generation" shows the human race forced to make a crucial decision about its survival.

Author : Louis Levy
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 143445780X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kzradock the Onion Man and the Spring-Fresh Methuselah written by Louis Levy and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysterious medium known only as Methuselah Kzradock is conducting a series of horrific seances in Paris, under the treatment of Dr. Renard de Montpensier. But Montpensier begins to doubt the ravings of Kzradock--and their possible meaning--as he delves further into the borderline between reality and madness. An early twentieth-century mystery novel, translated for the first time into English.

Author : Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786738871
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locust written by Jeffrey A. Lockwood and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the nineteenth century, swarms of locusts regularly swept across the continent, turning noon into dusk, demolishing farm communities, and bringing trains to a halt as the crushed bodies of insects greased the rails. In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust "the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country." From the Dakotas to Texas, from California to Iowa, the swarms pushed thousands of settlers to the brink of starvation, prompting the federal government to enlist some of the greatest scientific minds of the day and thereby jumpstarting the fledgling science of entomology. Over the next few decades, the Rocky Mountain locust suddenly -- and mysteriously -- vanished. A century later, Jeffrey Lockwood set out to discover why. Unconvinced by the reigning theories, he searched for new evidence in musty books, crumbling maps, and crevassed glaciers, eventually piecing together the elusive answer: A group of early settlers unwittingly destroyed the locust's sanctuaries just as the insect was experiencing a natural population crash. Drawing on historical accounts and modern science, Locust brings to life the cultural, economic, and political forces at work in America in the late-nineteenth century, even as it solves one of the greatest ecological mysteries of our time.

Author : Jeremy Chambers
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921656506
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vintage and the Gleaning written by Jeremy Chambers and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vintage and the Gleaning is set in a winemaking town in the north-east of Victoria, close to the Murray River. Smithy is a retired shearer turned vineyard worker who has recently been forced to give up drinking after a lifetime of alcoholism. In his new sobriety he is contemplating the world in which he lives and the man he has been and become with a new understanding. Assaulted by long forgotten memories, Smithy is forced to take stock of his own past. Overwhelmed with feelings of regret, guilt, loss and nostalgia for the past, Smithy is trapped in a blind search for meaning as he realises that he cannot undo the repercussions of his wasted life. He is a desperate and lonely old man seeking beauty in an ugly world. Living in the same town is Charlotte, a young woman in a dangerous relationship, whose misfortunes have led her into an uneasy friendship with Smithy. It is in his confused and ultimately futile attempts to help Charlotte that he seeks redemption.

Author : Ida R. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gleaning's [sic] of Locust Creek A.M. Church 1977-1987 written by Ida R. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenward Elmslie
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Orchid Stories written by Kenward Elmslie and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Valentine Riley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
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Download or read book The Rocky Mountain Locust written by Charles Valentine Riley and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: