18 títulos para "Vertvolta Press"

The Night of the Long Knives

Fritz Leiber

"Since I’ve gone this far, I’ll go a bit further and make the paradoxical admission that even us Deathlanders don’t really understand our urge to murder. Oh, we have our rationalizations of it, just like everyone has of his ruling passion—we call ourselves junkmen, scave...

Slideshow

Babb, Eugene M.

SLIDESHOW is Eugene Babb?s debut collection of poetry. In these spare, vivid poems, Babb explores the fragments and moments that make up a person?s life. Bars, diners, street-corner fleeting encounters ? the internal and external worlds interchange fluidly; searching for meaning in a word, a glance,...

Grit and Roses

Babb, Eugene M

The stories in Grit and Roses trace the unsteady arc of a life spent pursuing a dream. A musician's career, filled with the hard, grueling work of perfecting a craft, the mishaps and disappointments of touring, and the between-gig times of mundane jobs and restless wandering. They also transcend th...

Pioneer Days on Puget Sound

Denny, Arthur

Read! a firsthand account of the trials and tribulations of Seattle?s founding residents! Political rivalries! Native tribe encounters! Devastating fire!Imagine! a Seattle of mud and trees and nary a single coffeehouse!Learn! just what it took to build a metropolis out of raw material and natural el...

Three Men in a Boat

Jerome, Jerome K / Frederics, A

Jerome K. Jerome’s classic comedy of English gentlemen bumbling across the countryside has amused and entertained generations of readers. It was first published in 1899, and despite the often hostile reviews from critics, sold thousands of copies around the world. Three Men in a Boat details t...

Anarchism and Other Essays

Goldman, Emma

Emma Goldman, once considered ?the most dangerous woman in America,? was a thinker so far ahead of her time that even to a modern reader, her views sound startlingly revolutionary. This collection of essays is an excellent introduction to her thoughts: ranging from her views on women?s liberation, t...

EMERALD REFLECTIONS

GREEN, MARCUS HARRISON

The Rough Riders

Roosevelt, Theodore

"The mustering-places for the regiment were appointed in New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Indian Territory. The difficulty in organizing was not in selecting, but in rejecting men. Within a day or two after it was announced that we were to raise the regiment, we were literally deluged with applica...

Emerald Reflections 2

Seattle’s most diverse community has a story to share with the world, a narrative of resistance, resilience, hope, tragedy, triumph, and passion. It’s a story that can only be told by an area where Tagalog, and Tigrinya can flow as fluently from corner store door steps as English. Explor...

Be Vigilant But Not Afraid

Obama, Barack / Obama, Michelle

Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America, ended his second—and final—term in office on January 20th, 2017. For eight years, President Obama, along with then-First Lady Michelle Obama, worked to define a new America; a better nation: one that was more inclusive, prospe...

Twilight on the Thunderbird

Hansen, Howard

“For much of his life, Howie has assembled the lore and language of his native people, supplementing his own copious writings (more than a million words) with tape recordings and his own drawings of the personalities he knew in the tribe, and depictions of the serene coastal village where they...

The King in Yellow

Chambers, Robert W

I remembered Camilla’s agonized scream and the awful words echoing through the dim streets of Carcosa. They were the last lines in the first act, and I dared not think of what followed—dared not, even in the spring sunshine, there in my own room, surrounded with familiar objects, reassur...