May Day

May Day

Author: Gretchen Marquette

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-05-03

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1555977391

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You arrive at my altar with no idea what it means to worship--to adore. You haven't even learned it: ecstasy and suffering make the same face. --from "The Offering" May Day is both a distress call and a celebration of the arrival of spring. In this rich and unusually assured first collection, the poet Gretchen Marquette writes of the losses of a brother gone off to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a great love--losses that have left the world charged with absence and grief. But there is also the wonder of the natural world: the deer at the edge of the forest, the dog reliably coaxing the poet beyond herself and into the city park where by tradition every May Day is pageantry, a festival of surviving the long winter. "What does it mean to be in love?" one poem asks. "As it turns out, / the second best thing that can happen to you / is a broken heart." May Day introduces readers to a new poet of depth and power.


Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day

Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day

Author: Peter Linebaugh

Publisher: PM Press

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1629632511

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“May Day is about affirmation, the love of life, and the start of spring, so it has to be about the beginning of the end of the capitalist system of exploitation, oppression, war, and overall misery, toil, and moil.” So writes celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh in an essential compendium of reflections on the reviled, glorious, and voltaic occasion of May 1st. It is a day that has made the rich and powerful cower in fear and caused Parliament to ban the Maypole—a magnificent and riotous day of rebirth, renewal, and refusal. These reflections on the Red and the Green—out of which arguably the only hope for the future lies—are populated by the likes of Native American anarcho-communist Lucy Parsons, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, Karl Marx, José Martí, W.E.B. Du Bois, Rosa Luxemburg, SNCC, and countless others, both sentient and verdant. The book is a forceful reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.


One May Day

One May Day

Author: Louise Jane Watson

Publisher: Louise Jane Watson

Published: 2024-06-21

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13:

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A beautiful story of taking chances and unexpected love. At thirty-five, single mom Emily Wyatt's world revolves around her autistic son, Jude. Emily rarely dreams of anything more than a school day without tears or dinners beyond mac and cheese. Life is small, routine, and, to be honest, boring. But, on Jude's tenth birthday, Emily takes a risk. She and Jude will have a day out of their humdrum life and try something new—a private flight over the Cascade mountains in a small plane. Planes, palindromes, prime numbers, and Pokemon are Jude's absolute favorite things, and Emily is determined to make his double-digit birthday special. She's done so much research that everything has to go right. However, twenty-eight-year-old Dino Durante is not the pilot Emily booked. Dino gave up being a taxi pilot a couple of years ago to concentrate on his new business, A business that’s become so successful that Dino hardly has a moment to breathe. That's why he's looking forward to a day above the clouds, just him and his Irish Wolfhound, Willie. Flying solo is the perfect way to unwind. Flying a snotty woman and her poorly-behaved son is the opposite. But when Dino's old friend, the owner of Top Spot Tours, begs him for a favor, Dino can't bring himself to say no. Oh well, what's the worst that could happen? Disaster. The plane crashes in a remote area of Mt. Ranier's wilderness, leaving Dino injured, Jude in shock, and Emily nowhere to be found. ♥Heart-warming and unputdownable♥ ♥One May Day will remind you that love can find us when we open our hearts.♥ Readers of Jodi Picoult and Colleen Hoover will love this book!


May Day

May Day

Author: Phillis Levin

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-04-29

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1440633339

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A sensuous and musical new collection from acclaimed poet Phillis Levin May Day is a work of a visionary imagination. In tones playful and celebratory, in gestures both intimate and international, Levin’s poems explore how tenderness and violence change our lives. From a flood overtaking the Prague zoo to the joy of a maypole dance, from a mural of the Trojan War in a Greek diner in New York to the “noiseless explosions” of time in the opening of a flower, these poems are rhapsodies of the senses and the intellect, disclosing new thresholds of meaning.


Mayday! Mayday!

Mayday! Mayday!

Author: Chris L. Demarest

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books

Published: 2004-06-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780689851612

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A thirty-foot yacht, adrift well out to sea, sends, "MAYDAY! MAYDAY! Please respond to our plea!" Hearing this call for help, the United States Coast Guard leaps into action. A team of four highly trained rescue specialists head out in an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter. Battling fierce conditions, the Coast Guard team finally locates the disabled boat, rescues the crew, treats injured passengers, and carries them back to safety. Complemented by dramatic, striking illustrations, Chris L. Demarest's text brings into vivid focus one of the many important jobs performed by the U.S. Coast Guard. A detailed author's note provides additional information about the search-and-rescue process, making this a terrific book for any school or home library.


One Day

One Day

Author: Gene Weingarten

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-09-08

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0399185836

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“One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years”—Slate On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day—chosen completely at random—turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. That Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, prejudice, selflessness, coincidence, and startling moments of human connection, along with evocative foreshadowing of momentous events yet to come. Lives were lost. Lives were saved. Lives were altered in overwhelming ways. Many of these events never made it into the news; they were private dramas in the lives of private people. They were utterly compelling. One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as “ordinary” when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human.


Mayday

Mayday

Author: Karen Harrington

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2016-05-24

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 031629800X

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In the tradition of Counting By 7s and The Thing About Jellyfish, a heartwarming coming-of-age story about grief, family, friendship, and the importance of finding your voice Wayne Kovok lives in a world of After. After his uncle in the army was killed overseas. After Wayne and his mother survived a plane crash while coming back from the funeral. After he lost his voice. Wayne has always used his love of facts to communicate ("Did you know more people die each year from shaking a vending machine than from shark attacks?"). Without his voice, how will he wow the prettiest girl in school? How will he stand up to his drill-sergeant grandfather? And how will he share his hopes with his deadbeat dad? It's not until Wayne loses his voice completely that he realizes how much he doesn't say. Filled with Karen Harrington's signature heart and humor, Mayday tackles an unforgettable journey of family and friendship.


The Long Deep Grudge

The Long Deep Grudge

Author: Toni Gilpin

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Published: 2020-02-25

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 1642590894

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“The definitive history of an important but largely forgotten labor organization and its heroic struggles with an icon of industrial capitalism.” —Ahmed A. White, author of The Last Great Strike This rich history details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between industrial behemoth International Harvester and the uniquely radical Farm Equipment Workers union. The Long Deep Grudge makes clear that class warfare has been, and remains, integral to the American experience, providing up-close-and-personal and long-view perspectives from both sides of the battle lines. International Harvester—and the McCormick family that largely controlled it—garnered a reputation for bare-knuckled union-busting in the 1880s, but in the twentieth century also pioneered sophisticated union-avoidance techniques that have since become standard corporate practice. On the other side the militant Farm Equipment Workers union, connected to the Communist Party, mounted a vociferous challenge to the cooperative ethos that came to define the American labor movement after World War II. This evocative account, stretching back to the nineteenth century and carried through to the present, reads like a novel. Biographical sketches of McCormick family members, union officials and rank-and-file workers are woven into the narrative, along with anarchists, jazz musicians, Wall Street financiers, civil rights crusaders, and mob lawyers. It touches on pivotal moments and movements as wide-ranging as the Haymarket “riot,” the Flint sit-down strikes, the Memorial Day Massacre, the McCarthy-era anti-communist purges, and America’s late twentieth-century industrial decline. “A capitalist family dynasty, a radical union, and a revolution in how and where work gets done—Toni Gilpin’s The Long Deep Grudge is a detailed chronicle of one of the most active battlefronts in our ever-evolving class war.” —John Sayles