 | As Long As Trees Last
Publication Date: September 4, 2012"[Nguyen] shares such a streetwise feminism, keeping the edge and making it something you can dance to."—The Poetry ProjectClear-eyed and grounded, Hoa Nguyen performs a hook and snare on what it means to be a twenty-first century human in the nearly ego-less space of these chiseled yet spacious poems.It's not a time to runI wear soft shoesand it took a long timeto walk hereHoa Nguyen is the co-founder of Skanky Possum. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. ...
 |  | Creepy Archives Volume 1
Publication Date: August 19, 2008| Series: Creepy Archives Gather up your wooden stakes, your blood-covered hatchets, and all the skeletons in the darkest depths of your closet, and prepare for a horrifying adventure into the darkest corners of comics history. Dark Horse Comics further corners the market on high-quality horror storytelling with one of the most anticipated releases of the decade - a hardcover archive collection of the legendary Creepy Magazine!This groundbreaking material turned the world of graphic storytelling on its head in the early 1960s, as phenomenal young artists like...
|  | You Only Die Twice: Only one thing scares FBI Agent Andy Knight more than not catching a serial killer - becoming one, just like her father.
Publication Date: June 27, 2012THE TORTURED HERO: Though FBI agent Andy Knight specializes in gruesome investigations, her success rate is astounding. Superiors consider her a loose cannon with a death wish. Like a mirror, haunted memories reflect images of lives she took and lives she couldn't save. These broken reflections include the outline of a butchered body, just removed in a black bag. Nor can she forget feeling the soft flesh of a murderer's throat under her thumb as the neck snaps. The monsters she tracks torment her in surreal nightmares. To maintain what's left of her soul, she m...
|  | California Angel
Publication Date: June 2, 2009Who she really is and what she really does are bewildering questions even for Toy Johnson. She only knows that a near death experience has launched her on a journey into the unknown-a journey she is destined to repeat again and again with astonishing results. When she returns to her familiar work world as a teacher in Southern California and her seemingly ideal marriage to a brilliant surgeon, she is haunted by dreamlike memories of children on the brink of death-children she believes she has somehow saved.Her husband, Stephen, thinks she is hallucinating. Her b...
|  | Song Of Love: The Letters of Rupert Brooke and Noel Olivier
Release Date: August 25, 1992A six-year correspondence between the World War I poet and his schoolgirl muse, Noel Oliver, edited by Oliver's granddaughter, provides a glimpse of Edwardian England as it reveals the true and enduring nature of young love. 10,000 first printing. ...
|  | The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning)
Publication Date: July 23, 2012| Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted athoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed ateradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge fromthe very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a courtlyculture that was already preoccupied with honor and secrecy, Europeanpoets, romance writers, and lovers devised a vision of love as somethingquite different from desire. Romantic love was thus born as a movementof covert resistance. In The Making of Ro...
|  | The Longman Anthology of Gothic Verse
Publication Date: October 22, 2010| ISBN-10: 140589931X | ISBN-13: 978-1405899314| Edition: 1 Gothic verse liberated the dark side of Romantic and Victorian verse: its medievalism, melancholy and morbidity. Some poets intended merely to shock or entertain, but Gothic also liberated the creative imagination and inspired them to enter disturbing areas of the psyche and to portray extreme states of human consciousness. This anthology illustrates that journey. This is the first modern anthology of Gothic verse. It traces the rise of Gothic in the late eighteenth century and...
|  | Go: A Novel
Publication Date: September 5, 2002The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neil Cassady. Drafted two months before Jack Kerouac began On The Road, Go is the first and most accurate chronicle of the private lives lived by the Beats before they became public figures. In honest, lucid fictional prose designed to capture the events, emotions, and essence of his experience among the Beats, Holmes describes an individualistic post–World War II New York where crime is celebrated, writing is revered, and parties, boo...
|  | When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School
Release Date: February 3, 2004As a restless kid on Long Island, Sam Kashner lapped up the beauty and madness of the Beats, living vicariously through the novels, poems, and stories of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs. Their words were revolutionary, and they turned their very lives into art. Kashner didn't want to just study the Beats, he wanted to be one of them. So when he heard that Ginsberg had founded an unconventional writing program in Boulder, Colorado, he convinced his parents that college could wait, and became the first certificate student of the Jack Kerouac Sc...
|  | A Crazy Little Thing Called Death (Blackbird Sisters Mysteries, No. 6)
Release Date: March 4, 2008Nora Blackbird has made the society pages yet again. The impoverished Philadelphia heiress has agreed to wed Mick Abruzzo, son of New Jersey's most notorious mobster-if he can survive the Blackbird Curse. Anytime a Blackbird sister remarries, the groom is bound to die... ...
|  | Covet and Crave: Vampire Erotic Theatre Romance Series
Publication Date: March 17, 2012Enter the dark, sinful and seductive world of the vampire owners of London's premier vampire erotic theatre, Vampirerotique, and discover how these powerful vampires are brought to their knees by the women who claim their hearts. The first two novellas in the fantastic Vampire Erotic Theatre series in one book. In Covet, they've burned for each other for two years, the forbidden attraction between them growing each night. Now resisting the sinful desires of their hearts is becoming impossible. Javier knows better than to succumb to his hunger for Lilah. The mo...
|  | The Green Hornet Casefiles
Publication Date: September 27, 2011The long-awaited return of the Green Hornet and Kato and their rolling arsenal the Black Beauty! Back again with all-new stories! Moonstone is proud to present The Green Hornet Casefiles, a second anthology featuring all-new, original crime fiction tales of the man who hunts the biggest of all game - public enemies that even the FBI can't reach!It's the mid 1960's, the political climate is shaky, there's civil unrest, freedom and equality issues erupt everywhere from film to music to out in the streets. On police records, The Green Hornet is actually a wan...
|  | Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower
Publication Date: January 27, 2009A modern-day mystery novel rooted in recently-discovered ancient artifacts left by Templar Knights during a secret mission to North America in 1398. Attorney Cameron Thorne is thrust into a bloody tug-of-war involving secret societies, treasure hunters and keepers of the secrets of the Jesus bloodline. There is no shortage of people willing to maim and murder to prevent Cam from uncovering the shocking truths behind this ancient Templar mission. Joined by Amanda, a beautiful British researcher with secrets of her own, Cam races around New England with only t...
|  | The Detective Twins The Mystery at Champion Skate Park
Publication Date: January 20, 2010A delightful story that quietly, but powerfully instills a moving message about the importance of giving and sharing with those less fortunate. A perfect bedtime story book! ...
|  | The Valley of Fear and Selected Stories (Classic, Modern, Penguin)
Release Date: December 31, 2001| Series: Classic, Modern, Penguin Holmes has been summoned by a coded message to the house of a man called Douglas. But he and Watson arrive to find they are too late - Douglas has been murdered, with a mysterious calling card left by his side. Scotland Yard is stumped, but Holmes, detecting the diabolical workings of his arch-enemy Moriarty, has some ideas of his own. In this compelling selection of tales, The Valley of Fear is accompanied by ten of the great detective's most curious cases, including The Six Napoleons, in which the statues of the Emperor are ...
|  | Victorian Undead. Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula. Issue #1
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|  | Zack Files 19: The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot
Release Date: May 22, 2000| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Scream Team #1: The Werewolf at Home Plate
Publication Date: May 1, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Bootsie -Goes on Tour (Book Six)
Publication Date: November 10, 2011Bootsie's family is on the move again, and this time it's overseas! As a newcomer to the school, Bootsie is determined to make the best of it, but can he keep his spirits up if he starts every rugby match on the bench?Will he find true friendship after an unpromising start? What happens when Bootsie realises an injustice has been done? Will he be able to keep his plans for helping under wraps? And who else has been keeping a secret... "Bootsie - Goes on Tour" is the sixth book in the Bootsie Book series. ...
|  | My Mommy Is A Guardsman
Publication Date: May 1, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up This book helps kids realize that Mommy and Daddy have an important job;helping poor people around the world, capturing bad guys, and making the world a safer place. ...
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