Strange Wisdoms of the Dead

Strange Wisdoms of the Dead

Author: Mike Allen

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2006-02-01

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 0809556758

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A collection of poetry and prose inspired by fantasy and mysticism.


The Dead

The Dead

Author: James Joyce

Publisher: Coyote Canyon Press

Published: 2008-10

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 0979660793

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"The Dead is one of the twentieth century's most beautiful pieces of short literature. Taking his inspiration from a family gathering held every year on the Feast of the Epiphany, Joyce pens a story about a married couple attending a Christmas-season party at the house of the husband's two elderly aunts. A shocking confession made by the husband's wife toward the end of the story showcases the power of Joyce's greatest innovation: the epiphany, that moment when everything, for character and reader alike, is suddenly clear.


Eaters of the Dead

Eaters of the Dead

Author: Michael Crichton

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-05-14

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 0307816435

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From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an epic tale of unspeakable horror. It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape of the North—where the day’s length does not equal the night’s, where after sunset the sky burns in streaks of color—Fadlan soon discovers that he has been unwillingly enlisted to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings, the monsters of the mist that devour human flesh. But just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea.


Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Author: Olga Tokarczuk

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-08-13

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0525541357

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . . A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?


Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Author: Hunter S. Thompson

Publisher:

Published: 2003-04-07

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780007161232

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This is a reissue of the novel inspired by Hunter S. Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream: We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.


The Stranger

The Stranger

Author: Albert Camus

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-08-08

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 0307827666

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With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.


Where the Red Fern Grows

Where the Red Fern Grows

Author: Wilson Rawls

Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780553274295

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Read the beloved classic that captures the powerful bond between man and man’s best friend. This edition also includes a special note to readers from Newbery Medal winner and Printz Honor winner Clare Vanderpool. Billy has long dreamt of owning not one, but two, dogs. So when he’s finally able to save up enough money for two pups to call his own—Old Dan and Little Ann—he’s ecstatic. It doesn’t matter that times are tough; together they’ll roam the hills of the Ozarks. Soon Billy and his hounds become the finest hunting team in the valley. Stories of their great achievements spread throughout the region, and the combination of Old Dan’s brawn, Little Ann’s brains, and Billy’s sheer will seems unbeatable. But tragedy awaits these determined hunters—now friends—and Billy learns that hope can grow out of despair, and that the seeds of the future can come from the scars of the past.


Real Frank Zappa Book

Real Frank Zappa Book

Author: Frank Zappa

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0671705725

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Recounts the career of the rock music performer.


Negotiating with the Dead

Negotiating with the Dead

Author: Margaret Atwood

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-03-06

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780521662604

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Margaret Atwood examines the nature of writing and the role of writers.