Night Of The Republic

Author : Alan Shapiro
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547607830
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night of the Republic written by Alan Shapiro and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry about places—from a supermarket to a strip club to a suburban home—from a poet who “seeks what lies at the deepest level of the human heart” (Chicago Tribune). In Night of the Republic, Alan Shapiro takes us on an unsettling night tour of America’s public places—a gas station restroom, shoe store, convention hall, and race track, among others—and in stark Edward Hopper–like imagery reveals the surreal and dreamlike features of these familiar but empty night spaces. Shapiro finds in them not the expected alienation but rather an odd, companionable solitude rising up from the quiet emptiness. In other poems, Shapiro writes movingly of his 1950s and ’60s childhood in Brookline, Massachusetts, with special focus on the house he grew up in. These meditations, always inflected with Shapiro’s quick wit and humor, lead to recollections of tragic and haunting events such as the Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of JFK. While Night of the Republic is Shapiro’s most ambitious work to date, it is also his most timely and urgent for the acute way it illuminates the mingling of private obsessions with public space. “His poems are both artful and unpretentious.” —Boston Review

Author : John Jackson Miller
Publisher : Titan Books (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781845763718
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Star Wars: Commencement written by John Jackson Miller and published by Titan Books (UK). This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the adventures of Zayne Carrick, one lone Padawan who becomes a fugitive hunted by his own Masters for the charge of murdering every one of his fellow Jedi-in-training and his desperate race to clear his name.

Author : Ilya Kaminsky
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555978800
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deaf Republic written by Ilya Kaminsky and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence? Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya’s girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.

Author : Candice Millard
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0767929713
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Destiny of the Republic written by Candice Millard and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The extraordinary account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from the bestselling author of The River of Doubt. "Crisp, concise and revealing history.... A fresh narrative that plumbs some of the most dramatic days in U.S. presidential history." —The Washington Post James Abram Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, a renowned congressman, and a reluctant presidential candidate who took on the nation's corrupt political establishment. But four months after Garfield's inauguration in 1881, he was shot in the back by a deranged office-seeker named Charles Guiteau. Garfield survived the attack, but become the object of bitter, behind-the-scenes struggles for power—over his administration, over the nation's future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic brings alive a forgotten chapter of U.S. history. Look for Candice Millard’s latest book, River of the Gods.

Author : John Jackson Miller
Publisher : Dark Horse
ISBN 13 : 9781593078676
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Volume 3--Days of Fear, Nights of Anger written by John Jackson Miller and published by Dark Horse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly four thousand years before the Death Star, fugitive Padawan Zayne Carrick's quest to clear his name runs afoul of forces beyond his control—forces he and his friends have helped to unleash! Con artist Gryph sees the Mandalorian Wars as a chance to make a quick credit, but Zayne sees a terrible tragedy on the horizon—one where only an act of self-sacrifice can save the ungrateful Republic! But the real key to the future of the galaxy may lie with none other than Zayne's fellow fugitives, the genius Camper and the beautiful Jarael, who have just fallen prey to the forces they've spent a lifetime running from! • Collects issues #13-#18 of the ongoing comic-book series.

Author : Candice Millard
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0525492844
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Destiny of the Republic written by Candice Millard and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candice Millard chronicles the life of President James A. Garfield, from his upbringing to his untimely death. Garfield's short time in office was devoted to cleaning up the corruption that was rife in a country still reeling from the Civil War. However, everything changed when Garfield was shot in the back by a disgruntled office worker. While the president's health slowly declined, a power struggle erupted over control of the administration, and the country's fate hung in the balance.

Author : Archer Kay Leah
Publisher : Ashborne Stardust Press
ISBN 13 : 199920297X
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four (The Republic Book 2) written by Archer Kay Leah and published by Ashborne Stardust Press. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night. A second chance. The perfect match he never saw coming… On the outside, Mayr seems to have it all: a successful career as Head of the Guard for a prominent politician, family and friends who rely on him, and the attention of beautiful lovers. But appearances are a good way to bury secrets, including mistakes he can never fix and a broken heart that never seems to heal, forever searching for the one person to share his life with. When his last girlfriend takes him back and suggests an intimate night together with Tash, one of her lovers, Mayr reluctantly agrees. The last thing he expects is to fall hard for Tash, who is nothing like Mayr’s previous lovers… and much too difficult to forget. Tash is a secretive priest with deep, dark truths connected to a past he will never completely outrun. He keeps romance at a distance, knowing it can destroy him. Except with Mayr in his life, love might just ignore all the rules and push his limits. But when Tash undertakes the Uldana Trials, love may ruin them both. If Tash fails, he'll likely die. If he succeeds, he must give up Mayr and break both their hearts…

Author : Ian Ryan
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN 13 : 9781409375982
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Star Wars the Old Republic Encyclopedia written by Ian Ryan and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2012 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guided tour of the mysterious Star Wars™ galaxy during the turbulent times of the Old Republic Enter the world of The Old Republic, the new online Star Wars™ game franchise, with Star Wars™ The Old Republic Encyclopedia. Explore the characters, weapons, vehicles, events, locations and planets of the galaxy in the times of the Old Republic. Created in collaboration with LucasArts, this is more than just an encyclopedia - it is a guided tour of a dangerous, compelling and mysterious universe featuring amazing stills and plans from the groundbreaking video game. Star Wars™ The Old Republic Encyclopedia is a must-have for Star Wars™ fans of all ages.

Author : Karl Kraus
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300252803
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Third Walpurgis Night written by Karl Kraus and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete English translation of a far-seeing polemic, written in 1933 by the preeminent German-language satirist, unmasking the Nazi seizure of power Now available in English for the first time, Austrian satirist and polemicist Karl Kraus’s Third Walpurgis Night was written in immediate response to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 but withheld from publication for fear of reprisals against Jews trapped in Germany. Acclaimed when finally published by Kösel Verlag in 1952, it is a devastatingly prescient exposure, giving special attention to the regime’s corruption of language as masterminded by Joseph Goebbels. Bertolt Brecht wrote to Kraus that, in his indictment of Nazism, “You have disclosed the atrocities of intonation and created an ethics of language.” This masterful translation, by the prizewinning translators of Kraus’s The Last Days of Mankind, aims for clarity where Kraus had good reason to be cautious and obscure.

Author : Patrick J. Buchanan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621571009
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Republic, Not an Empire written by Patrick J. Buchanan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All but predicting the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, Buchanan examines and critiques America's recent foreign policy and argues for new policies that consider America's interests first.