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The Crash Palace

2021-01-12 Fiction
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Release : 2021-01-12
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 252/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Crash Palace by : Andrew Wedderburn

Download or read book The Crash Palace written by Andrew Wedderburn. This book was released on 2021-01-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE RELIT 2022 NOVEL AWARD A joy ride set on a crash course with the past. Audrey Cole has always loved to drive. Anytime, anywhere, any car: a questionable rustbucket, a family sedan, the SUV she was paid to drive around the oil fields. From the second she learned to drive, she’s always found a way to hit the road. Years ago, when she abandoned her oil field job, she found herself chauffeuring around the Lever Men, a B-list band relegated to playing empty dive bars in far-flung towns. That’s how she found herself at the Crash Palace, an isolated lodge outside the big city where people pay to party in the wilderness. And now, one night, while her young daughter is asleep at home, Audrey is struck by that old urge and finds herself testing the doors of parked cars in her neighbourhood. Before she knows it, she’s headed north in the dead of winter to the now abandoned Crash Palace in a stolen car, unable to stop herself from confronting her past The Crash Palace is a funny, moving, and surprising novel by the author of the Amazon First Novel Award–nominated The Milk Chicken Bomb. Audrey is unlike any character you’ve met before, and you'll love being along for the ride.

Zelda Rising

2024-03-19 Fiction
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Release : 2024-03-19
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 629/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Zelda Rising by : George Hook

Download or read book Zelda Rising written by George Hook. This book was released on 2024-03-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zelda Rising tells the story of an empathetic young woman named Crystine who runs afoul of a perverse male stranger as she works to create a cozy refuge for booklovers in a Chicago space she calls Zelda Rising Books, in honor of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife. The novel Zelda Rising revolves around this world of books that mean much more than reading, for very lives end up depending on them. It offers up a range of colorful characters from Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood who are drawn into the center of Crystine's bookstore, for better or worse, and must face their own unfulfilled dreams and mortality after she is gaslighted and dies tragically. Mystery pervades Zelda Rising until violence becomes the only solution. Definitely an engrossing, succinct read.

The Milk Chicken Bomb

2007 Fiction
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Release : 2007
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 809/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Milk Chicken Bomb by : Andrew Wedderburn

Download or read book The Milk Chicken Bomb written by Andrew Wedderburn. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kid sells lemonade. Not a lot of people buy lemonade, especially now that it's winter, but the kid makes good lemonade, even if his friend Mullen thinks it ought to be sweeter. They don't talk much with the other ten-year-olds - most of the others are Dead Kids anyway. Except for Jenny Tierney, but she's busy breaking kids' faces with her math book. Besides, the Russians from the meat-packing plant are a lot cooler, and they always win at curling. But in small-town Alberta, there are just too many roman-candle fights, bonspiels, retaliatory river diversions, black-market submarines, exploding boilers, meat-packing-plant suicides and recess-time lightning strikes for one lonely kid to get any attention. He might as well go to Kazakhstan. Then the adults in his life start disappearing down tunnels and into rendering vats. Being ten is hard enough without all that, especially when your best friend is ruining the lemonade. But the Milk Chicken Bomb should change everything. Frenetic, hilarious and gently heartrending, The Milk Chicken Bomb takes us inside the mind of a troubled ten-year-old who is just beginning to understand that the adults around him are as lonely and bewildered as he is in the face of the slapstick demands of the world.

You're with Stupid

2022-11-01 Music
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Release : 2022-11-01
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 170/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis You're with Stupid by : Bruce Adams

Download or read book You're with Stupid written by Bruce Adams. This book was released on 2022-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1990s, Chicago was at the center of indie rock, propelling bands like the Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair to the national stage. The musical ecosystem from which these bands emerged, though, was expansive and diverse. Grunge players comingled with the electronic, jazz, psychedelic, and ambient music communities, and an inventive, collaborative group of local labels—kranky, Drag City, and Thrill Jockey, among others—embraced the new, evolving sound of indie “rock.” Bruce Adams, co-founder of kranky records, was there to bear witness. In You’re with Stupid, Adams offers an insider’s look at the role Chicago’s underground music industry played in the transformation of indie rock. Chicago labels, as Adams explains, used the attention brought by national acts to launch bands that drew on influences outside the Nirvana-inspired sound then dominating pop. The bands themselves—Labradford, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Low—were not necessarily based in Chicago, but it was Chicago labels like kranky that had the ears and the infrastructure to do something with this new music. In this way, Chicago-shaped sounds reached the wider world, presaging the genre-blending music of the twenty-first century. From an author who helped create the scene and launched some of its best music, You’re with Stupid is a fascinating and entertaining read.

Matinee Light

1983 Poetry
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Release : 1983
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 569/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Matinee Light by : Diana Hartog

Download or read book Matinee Light written by Diana Hartog. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1983 Pat Lowther Award Hartog's first collection of poetry is a marvellous, luminous book from a writer with a sure wit, an abundance of feeling and a profound sense of the absurdity and rightness of life. Hartog's perceptions of human nature are astute, intelligent and delightfully sympathetic to the human condition.' -- Kinesis 'The world of these poems is one of flickering but very sharp images, much like the moving pictures of her California childhood... the afternoons of matinee light.' -- Sharon Thesen, Line 'A beautifully constructed, disciplined first collection, filled with ironic wit, sensual vitality and subtlety.' -- Malahat Review

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