 | Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret ... With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
Release Date: September 29, 2009“If everybody’s first English teacher were Roy Blount Jr., we might still be trillions in debt, but we would be so deeply in love with words and their magic . . . that we’d hardly notice.” —Chris Tucker, The Dallas Morning News After forty years of making a living using words in every medium except greeting cards, Roy Blount Jr. still can’t get over his ABCs. In Alphabet Juice, he celebrates the juju, the crackle, the sonic and kinetic energies, of letters and their combinations. He has a strong sense of right and wrong...
 |  | The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts
Release Date: August 1, 1995From a writer hailed as an American original -- and the author of the national bestsellers All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing -- comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an African American family.The setting is Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s. The Telfairs are stonemasons and have been for generations. Ben Telfair has given up his education to apprentice himself to his grandfather, Papaw, a man who knows that "true masonry is not held together by cement but...by the warp of the world." Out of the love that binds these two men and ...
|  | Thai Americans (We Are America)
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|  | The Gardens of Covington: A Novel (Ladies of Covington)
Publication Date: May 19, 2002| Series: Ladies of Covington Hannah, cool-headed and calm, battles to save their beloved hills from the rapacious development that has already ruined Loring Valley, only five minutes form Cove Road. Amelia, giddy with a newfound love, abandons the ladies and her photography to please her dashing new beau. And Grace is driven to prove she has an eye for business when she and her steady companion, Bob Richardson, open the Cottage Tearoom. New friends and neighbors are introduced. Eccentric Lurina Masterson, an eighty-one-year-old bride, brings tears of joy to all...
|  | The Summer We Came to Life
Release Date: May 31, 2011Every summer, Samantha Wheland joins her childhood friends—Isabel, Kendra and Mina—on a vacation, somewhere exotic and fabulous. Together with their mixed bag of parents, they've created a lifetime of memories. This year it's a beach house in Honduras. But for the first time, their clan is not complete. Mina lost her battle against cancer six months ago, and the friends she left behind are still struggling to find their way forward without her.For Samantha, the vacation just feels wrong without Mina. Despite being surrounded by her friends—the closest...
|  | The Scottish Prisoner: A Novel (Lord John)
Release Date: May 29, 2012| Series: Lord John Includes a preview of the new novel in the Outlander series.“This could be the worthy Lord John Grey’s breakout novel, as readers are treated to large dollops of Outlander hero Jamie Fraser. . . . The strong chemistry between these two stalwart, yet supremely dissimilar, protagonists crackles.”—Booklist A captivating return to the world Diana Gabaldon created in her Outlander and Lord John series, The Scottish Prisoner is a masterpiece of epic history, wicked deceit, and scores that can only be settled in blood. ...
|  | Distant Star
Publication Date: December 2004| Series: New Directions Paperbook A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.The star of Roberto Bolaño's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions.For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet's regime. ...
|  | Kingdom and the Crown Volume 1: Fishers of Men (Kingdom and the Crown) (Kingdom and the Crown, Vol 1)
Publication Date: October 6, 2000| Series: Kingdom and the Crown, Vol 1 (Book 1) In an ancient land in a time foretold by prophets, a babe was born beneath a shining star. Thirty years later, Jesus of Nazareth began teaching a message of hope, peace, and love. He claimed to be the Son of God, and his words - and his life - would change the world. In Fishers of Men, the first volume in the new series The Kingdom and the Crown, best-selling author Gerald N. Lund transports us to the days of Christ's mortal ministry and invites us to experience the emotions and events of those extraordinary tim...
|  | Voodoo Tales
Publication Date: August 8, 2012'And behind him, like a misshapen black frog, bounded the Thing, its red tongue lolling out of its gash of a mouth, its diminutive blubbery lips drawn back in a murderous snarl...' Let Henry S. Whitehead take you into the mysterious and macabre world of voodoo where beasts invade the mind of man and where lives of the living are racked by the spirits of the dead. In this collection of rare and out of print stories you will encounter the curses of the great Guinea-Snake, the Sheen, the weredog whose very touch means certain death, the curious tale of the 'magic...
|  | Undead And Unemployed
Publication Date: March 2006Being royally undead isn't all it's cracked up to be--there are still bills to be paid. Luckily, new Queen of the Vampires Betsy Taylor lands her dream job selling designer shoes at Macy's. But when a string of vampire murders hits St. Paul, Betsy must enlist the help of the one vamp who makes her blood boil: the oh-so-sexy Sinclair. Now, she's really treading on dangerous ground--high heels and all. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Seeing It Through
Publication Date: June 4, 2010"Cancer is a harsh, ugly disease with serious consequences.People should know this I decide.All everyone hears about is so much money is being donated, raised and given for research and finding a cure.This is achieved by using beautiful, colorful, fun advertising to entice us.I believe that if people knew more about cancer treatment and patients talked about the ugly details of it all I think there would be better understanding, real knowledge, and an urgency and compassion on everyone’s part.I think the gory details of it all, is precisely what people ne...
|  | Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
Publication Date: October 1, 1998For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence to her neighbor and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation.For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson's poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet's life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully ali...
|  | REMF Diary
Publication Date: May 1, 1988" This is how it was to be a REMF in Vietnam- the ice cream, the Coca Cola, the air conditioning, the clean, starched jungle fatigues, and yes, the parades and the whores, I leave nothing out; it is all in there. The typing and the saluting, too." With this, David Willson sets the tone for REMF Diary. Between these covers is a very funny, ironic novel of the Vietnam War. It is a story told by an army clerk stationed in Saigon. His perceptions of the war and of the paper war around him make for hilarious reading. ...
|  | Sacred Transgressions
Publication Date: July 30, 1999This detailed commentary on the action and argument of Sophocles' Antigone is meant to be a reflection on and response to Hegel's interpretation in the Phenomenology (VI.A.a-b). It thus moves within the principles Hegel discovers in the play but reinserts them into the play as they show themselves across the eccentricities of its plot. Wherever plot and principles do not match, there is a glimmer of the argument: Haemon speaks up for the city and Tiresias for the divine law but neither for Antigone. The guard who reports the burial and presents Antigone to Creo...
|  | Eliza R Snow: The Complete Poetry (Documents in Latter-Day Saint History)
Publication Date: August 31, 2009| Series: Documents in Latter-Day Saint History Edited by Jill Mulvay Derr and Karen Lynn Davidson BYU StudiesMormon Studies/Poetry Eliza R. Snow first published her poetry pseudonymously inan Ohio newspaper in 1825, when she was twenty-one. Her last poem was publishedin 1887, when she was eighty-three. In the intervening sixty-two years she wrotemore than 500 poems. Her early work covered such various topics as the fight forGreek independence, the plight of the American Indian, and the deaths of ThomasJefferson and John Adams on the fiftieth anniversary of t...
|  | Inspired Notes: Poems of Tomas Transtromer
Publication Date: November 1, 2011News that the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature had been awarded to the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer was greeted with widespread approval by poets and poetry readers the world over. The author of fifteen collections of poems, Tranströmer had in fact been nominated for the prize every year since 1993, a sign of his huge standing and importance in world poetry, undiminished in recent years despite a stroke in 1990 that left him partially paralyzed and unable to speak.The Nobel citation praised Tranströmer's poems of "condensed, translucent image...
|  | Edward FitzGerald's Rub
Publication Date: June 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 0857287702 | ISBN-13: 978-0857287700The book presents the text of Edward FitzGerald’s three main versions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, together with non-technical commentary on the origins, role and influence of the poem, including the story of its publication. The commentary also addresses the many spin-offs the poem has generated in the fields of art and music, as well as its message and its worldwide influence during the 150 years since its first appearance. ...
|  | Don't Go There
Publication Date: August 30, 2012Colm Keegan's poetry is a soulful yet visceral evocation of what it is to live in a Dublin rarely seen in its un-exaggerated form in the literary world. A life and a mode of living and seeing that refuses to be marginalized are set against a backdrop of palpable geography. Rarely has a poet's voice, unfamiliar but true in its every utterance, been captured so well as it is in Keegan's first collection. Family, friends, children, and the urban sprawl he renders sparely yet lyrically, all are grist to the mill of his poetics. ...
|  | Wild Man Creek (Virgin River, Book 12)
Release Date: January 25, 2011Colin Riordan came to Virgin River to recuperate from a horrific helicopter crash, the scars of which he bears inside and out. His family is wonderfully supportive, but it's his art that truly soothes his troubled soul.Stung personally and professionally by an ill-advised affair, PR guru Jillian Matlock has rented an old Victorian with a promising garden in Virgin River. She's looking forward to cultivating something other than a corporate brand.Both are looking to simplify, not complicate, their lives, but when Jillian finds Colin at his easel in her yard, ther...
|  | Fleece Navidad (A Knitting Mystery)
Release Date: November 3, 2009| Series: A Knitting Mystery This Yuletide, Kelly Flynn and friends are helping the town's librarian, Juliet, teach children how to knit. Juliet has fallen in love-but just as she finds happiness, death finds her, facedown in her Christmas cape. Suspicion falls on a newcomer, a widow with a puzzling past, who-some believe-was sweet on Juliet's boyfriend. But Kelly and her knitting crew aren't convinced. It's up to them to find a killer- before someone else gets fleeced. ...
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