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Author: Ken Bagnis
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Published: 2020-07-07
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781942111672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSalem Scott had one goal for his summer vacation. Instead, he's volunteering in a private mental institution, confronting demons he's not ready to face. But when his band kicks him out for missing rehearsals, he might just find the greatest summer of all time.
Author: Karen D. Hirsch
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 1997-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780613022026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first anthology for young adults by the stars of the underground comic sceneFor years, underground comics have found an eager audience in young people, who welcome their keen-eyed look at the adult world and at the social perils involved in surviving adolescence. Now the most talented of these artists are gathered in the first anthology of underground comics -- comix to those in the know -- created for young adults. The topic is coming-of-age, and the stories, created especially for this book, cover everything from computer dating to gangs, from body language to skateboarding to friendship. Graphically diverse and involving, this is visual storytelling at its most innovative, in a groundbreaking collection that speaks directly and movingly to its audience.
Author: Thomas Pynchon
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Colin Bateman
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 552
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen friends turn into enemies, it's time for desperate measures...Bateman's superb new urban thriller is as riotiously entertaining as it is compelling...
Author: Joshua Clover
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2019-06-11
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1784780626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAward winning poet Joshua Clover theorises the riot as the form of the coming insurrection Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an “age of riots” as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar Joshua Clover offers a new understanding of this present moment and its history. Rioting was the central form of protest in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was supplanted by the strike in the early nineteenth century. It returned to prominence in the 1970s, profoundly changed along with the coordinates of race and class. From early wage demands to recent social justice campaigns pursued through occupations and blockades, Clover connects these protests to the upheavals of a sclerotic economy in a state of moral collapse. Historical events such as the global economic crisis of 1973 and the decline of organized labor, viewed from the perspective of vast social transformations, are the proper context for understanding these eruptions of discontent. As social unrest against an unsustainable order continues to grow, this valuable history will help guide future antagonists in their struggles toward a revolutionary horizon.
Author: Janine Joseph
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2023-01-17
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 1948579391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the deeply personal Decade of the Brain, Janine Joseph writes of a newly-naturalized American citizen who suffers from post-concussive memory loss after a major auto accident. The collection is an odyssey of what it means to recover—physically and mentally—in the aftermath of trauma and traumatic brain injury, charting when “before” crosses into “after.” Through connected poems, buckling and expansive syntax, ekphrasis, and conjoined poetic forms, Decade of the Brain remembers and misremembers hospital visits, violence and bodily injury, intimate memories, immigration status, family members, and the self. After the accident I turned out all of the lights in the room while I watched, concussed, from the mirror. I edged like a fever with nothing on the tip of my tongue.
Author: Claire Hartfield
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0544785134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach. An angry white man began throwing stones at the boys, striking and killing one. Racial conflict on the beach erupted into days of urban violence that shook the city of Chicago to its foundations. This mesmerizing narrative draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of the explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture. Archival photos and prints, source notes, bibliography, index.
Author: Michael Idov
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2018-02-20
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0374715920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA memoir of revolution, reaction, and Russian men’s fashion In this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside—and closely observing—the media and cultural elite of Putin’s Russia. After accepting a surprise offer to become the editor in chief of GQ Russia, Idov and his family arrive in a Moscow still seething from a dubious election and the mass anti-Putin rallies that erupted in response. Idov is fascinated by the political turmoil but nonetheless finds himself pulled in unlikely directions. He becomes a tabloid celebrity, acts in a Russian movie with Snoop Dogg, befriends the members of Pussy Riot, punches an anti-Semitic magazine editor on the steps of the Bolshoi Theatre, sells an autobiographical sitcom pilot that is later changed into an anti-American farce, and writes Russia’s top-grossing domestic movie of 2015. Meanwhile, he becomes disillusioned with the splintering opposition to Putin and is briefly attracted to a kind of jaded Putinism lite—until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine thoroughly changes his mind. In Dressed Up for a Riot, Idov writes openly, sensitively, and stingingly about life in Moscow and his place in a media apparatus that sometimes undermined but more often bolstered a state system defined by cynicism, corruption, and the fanning of fake news. With humor and intelligence, he offers a close-up glimpse of what a declining world power can become.
Author: Hannah Jewell
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2018-03-06
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1492662933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeet the bold women history has tried to forget...until now! Women's stories are often written as if they spent their entire time on Earth casting woeful but beautiful glances towards the horizon and sighing into the bitter wind at the thought of any conflict. Well, that's not how it f**king happened. When you hear about a woman who was 100% pure and good, you're probably missing the best chapters in her life's story. Maybe she slept around. Maybe she stole. Maybe she crashed planes. Maybe she got shot, or maybe she shot a bad guy (who probably had it coming). Maybe she caused a scandal. Maybe she caused a riot . . . From badass writer Hannah Jewell, She Caused a Riot is an empowering, no-holds-barred look into the epic adventures and dangerous exploits of 100 inspiring women who were too brave, too brilliant, too unconventional, too political, too poor, not ladylike enough and not white enough to be recognized by their shitty contemporaries. Daring and gift-worthy, this is a bold tribute to the powerful women who came before us.
Author: Ryan Chapman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2020-11-17
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1501197312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLonglisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Ryan Chapman’s “gritty, bracing debut” (Esquire) set during a prison riot is “dark, daring, and laugh-out-loud hilarious…one of the smartest—and best—novels of the year” (NPR). A largescale riot rages through Westbrook prison in upstate New York, incited by a poem in the house literary journal. Our unnamed narrator, barricaded inside the computer lab, swears he’s blameless—even though, as editor-in-chief, he published the piece in question. As he awaits violent interruption by his many, many enemies, he liveblogs one final Editor’s Letter. Riots I Have Known is his memoir, confession, and act of literary revenge. His tale spans a childhood in Sri Lanka, navigating the postwar black markets and hotel chains; employment as a Park Avenue doorman, serving the widows of the one percent; life in prison, with the silver lining of his beloved McNairy; and his stewardship of The Holding Pen, a “masterpiece of post-penal literature” favored by Brooklynites everywhere. All will be revealed, and everyone will see he’s really a good guy, doing it for the right reasons. “Fitfully funny and murderously wry,” Riots I Have Known is “a frenzied yet wistful monologue from a lover of literature under siege” (Kirkus Reviews).
