The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

The Country Will Bring Us No Peace
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Publisher : Influx Press
Total Pages : 128
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ISBN-10 : 9781910312841
ISBN-13 : 1910312843
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by : Simard Matthieu

'An eerie meditation on the shattering power of grief and the painful search for any kind of redemption.' – Will Maclean, author of The Apparition Phase 'A horror story with the horror drained out. What remains is the insoluble wreckage of the grief left behind. It is beautiful and deeply moving.' – Jac Jemc, author of The Grip of Ite Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. They decide to flee the city for an idyllic village, where things, they tell themselves, must be better. But their new home is gloomy, threatening, tinged with tragedy – things have not been the same since the factory closed down and the broadcast antenna was erected. In the trees, no birds are singing, and people have started disappearing.... The Country Will Bring Us No Peace is celebrated Québécois author Matthieu Simard's first work to be translated into English and published in the UK; a strange and poignant novella exploring grief and its aftermath.

The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

The Country Will Bring Us No Peace
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Publisher : Coach House Books
Total Pages : 118
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ISBN-10 : 9781770566125
ISBN-13 : 1770566120
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by : Matthieu Simard

ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S "20 MUST-READ HORROR BOOKS YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF" Simon and Marie can’t seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where things will certainly be better. But the town is gloomy, even hostile -- things haven’t been the same since the factory closed down and a broadcast antenna was erected. Now there are no birds singing, and people have started disappearing.

No Peace, No Honor

No Peace, No Honor
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 345
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ISBN-10 : 9780743217422
ISBN-13 : 074321742X
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis No Peace, No Honor by : Larry Berman

In this shocking exposé on the betrayal of South Vietnam, premier historian Larry Berman uses never-before-seen North Vietnamese documents to create a sweeping indictment against President Nixon and Henry Kissinger. On April 30, 1975, when U.S. helicopters pulled the last soldiers out of Saigon, the question lingered: Had American and Vietnamese lives been lost in vain? When the city fell shortly thereafter, the answer was clearly yes. The Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam—signed by Henry Kissinger in 1973, and hailed as "peace with honor" by President Nixon—was a travesty. In No Peace, No Honor, Larry Berman reveals the long-hidden truth in secret documents concerning U.S. negotiations that Kissinger had sealed—negotiations that led to his sharing the Nobel Peace Prize. Based on newly declassified information and a complete North Vietnamese transcription of the talks, Berman offers the real story for the first time, proving that there is only one word for Nixon and Kissinger's actions toward the United States' former ally, and the tens of thousands of soldiers who fought and died: betrayal.

And I Shall Have Some Peace There

And I Shall Have Some Peace There
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Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages : 189
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ISBN-10 : 9780446574020
ISBN-13 : 0446574023
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis And I Shall Have Some Peace There by : Margaret Roach

Margaret Roach worked at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia for 15 years, serving as Editorial Director for the last 6. She first made her name in gardening, writing a classic gardening book among other things. She now has a hugely popular gardening blog, "A Way to Garden." But despite the financial and professional rewards of her job, Margaret felt unfulfilled. So she moved to her weekend house upstate in an effort to lead a more authentic life by connecting with her garden and with nature. The memoir she wrote about this journey is funny, quirky, humble--and uplifting--an Eat, Pray, Love without the travel-and allows readers to live out the fantasy of quitting the rat race and getting away from it all.

Fauna

Fauna
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Publisher : Coach House Books
Total Pages : 101
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ISBN-10 : 9781770566552
ISBN-13 : 1770566554
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Fauna by : Christiane Vadnais

In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature? A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains and once safely classified species – humans included – are evolving and behaving in unprecedented ways. Against this poetically hostile backdrop, a biologist, Laura, fights to understand the nature and scope of the changes transforming her own body and the world around her. Ten lush and bracing linked climate fictions depict a world gorgeous and terrifying in its likeness to our own. Fauna, Christiane Vadnais’s first work of fiction, won the Horizons Imaginaires speculative fiction award, the City of Quebec book award, and was named one of 2018’s best books by Radio-Canada.

Peace

Peace
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9780312890339
ISBN-13 : 0312890338
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Peace by : Gene Wolfe

Mesmerizing sci-fi from the author the Denver Post calls "one of the literary giants of science fiction." The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living in a small midwestern town, reveals a miraculous dimension. For Weer's imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself.

No Peace for the Wicked

No Peace for the Wicked
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Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9781572336629
ISBN-13 : 1572336625
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis No Peace for the Wicked by : David Rolfs

The first comprehensive work of its kind, David Rolfs' No Peace for the Wicked sheds new light on the Northern Protestant soldiers' religious worldview and the various ways they used it to justify and interpret their wartime experiences. Drawing extensively from the letters, diaries and published collections of hundreds of religious soldiers, Rolfs effectively resurrects both these soldiers' religious ideals and their most profound spiritual doubts and conflicts. No Peace for the Wicked also explores the importance of "just war" theory in the formulation of Union military strategy and tactics, and examines why the most religious generation in U.S. history fought America's bloodiest war. --from publisher description.

Lairies

Lairies
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Publisher : Influx Press
Total Pages : 383
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ISBN-10 : 9781910312681
ISBN-13 : 1910312681
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Lairies by : Steve Hollyman

'An absolute triumph' Kerry Hadley-Pryce, author of The Black Country Shaun wakes up in hospital after a fight in a local nightclub and discovers his girlfriend has been assaulted. Ade and Colbeck were there that night – the climax to weeks of escalating violence, their two-man vigilante mission to kick back against a broken generation. A misguided plan to combat the lairies that blight Britain's bars, pubs and streets. What really happened? And how did it come to this? Lairies is the brilliant and brutal debut from Steve Hollyman, mapping the lives of violent young men at the start of the twenty-first century, living aimlessly but desperately hunting for purpose. Hollyman speaks to the heart of small-town Britain, offering scathing insight into masculinity, class, and the bleak realities of a man's aimless early twenties, lifting the lid on a world most would rather ignore.

The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962 (Vol. 2)

The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962 (Vol. 2)
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 580
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ISBN-10 : 9780811224604
ISBN-13 : 0811224600
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962 (Vol. 2) by : William Carlos Williams

Considered by many to be the most characteristically American of our twentieth-century poets, William Carlos Williams "wanted to write a poem / that you would understand / ,,,But you got to try hard—." So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first.

Multicultural Poetics

Multicultural Poetics
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9781438468464
ISBN-13 : 1438468466
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Multicultural Poetics by : Nissa Parmar

Multicultural Poetics provides a new perspective on American poetry that will contribute to the evolution of contemporary critical practice. Nissa Parmar combines formalist analysis with cultural studies theory to trace a lineage of hybrid poetry from the American Renaissance to what Marilyn Chin deemed America's "multicultural renaissance," the blossoming of multicultural literature in the 1980s and 1990s. This re-visionary literary history begins by analyzing Whitman and Dickinson as postcolonial poets. This critical approach provides an alternative to the factionalism that has characterized twentieth-century American poetic history and continues to inform literary criticism in the twenty-first century. Parmar uses a multiethnic, multigender method that emphasizes the relationship between American poetic form and cultural development. This book provides a new approach by using hybridity as the critical paradigm for a study that groups multiethnic and emergent authors. It thereby combats literary ghettoization while revealing commonalities across American literatures and the cross-fertilization that has informed their development.