The Grasshopper King

Author : Jordan Ellenberg
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566893860
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grasshopper King written by Jordan Ellenberg and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chandler State University is the one thing keeping the dusty, Western town of Chandler on the map. Now that its basketball program has fallen apart, CSU’s only claim to fame is its Gravinics Department, dedicated to the study of an obscure European country—its mythology, its extraordinarily difficult language, and especially its bizarre star poet, Henderson. Having discovered Henderson’s poetry in a trash bin, Stanley Higgs becomes the foremost scholar of the poet’s work, accepts a position at Chandler State University, achieves international academic fame, marries the Dean’s daughter, and abruptly stops talking. With all of academia convinced that Higgs is formulating a great truth, the university employs Orwellian techniques to record Higgs’s every potential utterance and to save its reputation. A feckless Gravinics language student, Samuel Grapearbor, together with his long-suffering girlfriend Julia, is hired to monitor Higgs during the day. Over endless games of checkers and shared sandwiches, a uniquely silent friendship develops. As one man struggles to grow up and the other grows old, The Grasshopper King, in all of his glory, emerges. In this debut novel about treachery, death, academia, marriage, mythology, history, and truly horrible poetry, Jordan Ellenberg creates a world complete with its own geography, obscene folklore, and absurdly endearing -characters—a world where arcane subjects flourish and the smallest swerve from convention can result in -immortality. Jordan Ellenberg was born in Potomac, Maryland in 1971. His brilliance as a mathematical prodigy led to a feature in The National Enquirer, an interview with Charlie Rose on CBS’s Nightwatch, and gold medals at the Math Olympiad in Cuba and Germany. He is now an Assistant Professor of Math at Princeton University and his column, "Do the Math," appears regularly in the online journal Slate. This is his first novel.

Author : Barbara Vine
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307426092
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grasshopper written by Barbara Vine and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon.” When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past. In the aftermath of the incident on the pylon--one of the great electrified structures that dot the English countryside like so many gargantuan grasshoppers--Clodagh goes off to university, moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic family, and finds freedom trekking across London's rooftops with a gang of neighborhood misfits. As she begins a thrilling relationship with a fellow climber, however, both Clodagh and the reader are haunted by the memory of the pylon and of the terrible thing that happened there--and by the eerie sense that another tragedy is just a footfall away.

Author : Andrew Smith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101590068
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grasshopper Jungle written by Andrew Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Winner of the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction "Raunchy, bizarre, smart and compelling." --Rolling Stone “Grasshopper Jungle is simultaneously creepy and hilarious. Reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut’s in “Slaughterhouse Five,” in the best sense.” --New York Times Book Review In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend, Robby, have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things. This is the truth. This is history. It’s the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it. You know what I mean. Funny, intense, complex, and brave, Grasshopper Jungle brilliantly weaves together everything from testicle-dissolving genetically modified corn to the struggles of recession-era, small-town America in this groundbreaking coming-of-age stunner.

Author : Jerry Pinkney
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780316400817
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grasshopper & the Ants written by Jerry Pinkney and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning companion to the Caldecott Medal-winning The Lion & the Mouse and the highly acclaimed The Tortoise & the Hare, a playful grasshopper wonders why the busy ants around him won't join in his merrymaking as the seasons pass by. But when winter arrives, he soon sees the value of his friends' hard work--just as the ants learn the value of sharing what they've worked for. Featuring a striking, surprise gatefold page, this third book in Jerry Pinkney's gorgeous trilogy of picture book fables subtly suggests a resonant moral: Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today.

Author : Seumas O'Brien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Whale and the Grasshopper written by Seumas O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alice Borchardt
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345455541
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wolf King written by Alice Borchardt and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2002-03-05 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A writer with . . . vision and scope . . . breathtaking, shimmering prose.”—Anne Rice The armies of Charlemagne are poised to conquer Italy. The human side of shapeshifter Maeniel owes allegiance to Charlemagne. But the wolf acknowledges no master. Still, it is as both wolf and man that he embarks on a hazardous mission for the emperor. Captured, Maeniel is condemned to death. Now, with the help of a Saxon warrior whose love poses dangers of its own, Maeniel’s soul mate, Regeane, will brave the icy crags and crevices of the Alps to rescue her husband, only to find that he is the bait in a trap set for her by a villainous man from her darkest past. But there is another enemy at work. Behind the tangle of ambitions and animosities driving kings and commoners alike, an ancient evil thirsts for a revenge of its own: a revenge that demands the blood of Maeniel and Regeane…and of all humanity. “Action and intrigue-filled . . . Borchardt’s strength . . . is her deeply researched setting, which brings alive the barbaric era after the fall of the Roman Empire.”—Publishers Weekly

Author : David Stanley
Publisher : Createspace Indie Pub Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781466470408
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grasshopper King written by David Stanley and published by Createspace Indie Pub Platform. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A precocious young boy of five, Cosmas Sarvey is sent to a Catholic orphanage near Pittsburgh because his mother has left her abusive husband. His father now lives with two bums in a battered houseboat, plays his haunting violin at Sandman's Bar and Grill, and is tormented by a recurring nightmare in which the cry of the violin becomes the screams of his beaten wife. At nine years of age, Cosmas travels alone by streetcar and train through heavy snow, his first visit "home" for Christmas vacation. What begins as a simple trip home, becomes, by dint of his sensitivity and imagination, a transformative odyssey. This book explores Cosmas's growing feelings of independence and solitude as the tenuous relationships with his remaining family deteriorate, and he is further isolated from the few acquaintances who might have been lasting friends.Cosmas Sarvey illustrates the resilience of a youth transcending daunting circumstances, overcoming his sadness and insecurity with creative optimism as he faces an uncertain future. The Grasshopper King is Book I of a larger work titled A Land More Kind Than Home.

Author : Ben H. Winters
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 1594745773
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Policeman written by Ben H. Winters and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The] weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series."—John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns Winner of the 2013 Edgar® Award Winner for Best Paperback Original! What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway? Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact. The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off the job—but not Hank Palace. He’s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week—except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares. The first in a trilogy, The Last Policeman offers a mystery set on the brink of an apocalypse. As Palace’s investigation plays out under the shadow of 2011GV1, we’re confronted by hard questions way beyond “whodunit.” What basis does civilization rest upon? What is life worth? What would any of us do, what would we really do, if our days were numbered? Ebook contains an excerpt from the anticipated second book in the trilogy, Countdown City.

Author : Marcia Batiste
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781495260179
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paulie and the Grasshopper King written by Marcia Batiste and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-01-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paulie watched a grasshopper in his back yard while he was playing with his soldiers. He decided he would take the grasshopper and his soldiers and save the world.

Author : Rebecca Emberley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1596434937
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ant and the Grasshopper written by Rebecca Emberley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this version of the classic fable, a weary ant is energized by the swinging sounds of a grasshopper and his "buggy" band.