 | The Best of Hawai'i's Best Spooky Tales
Publication Date: September 30, 2006Prepare to get chicken skin once again or for the very first time as you read the 45 stories representing the best of the Hawaii s Best Spooky Tales series. The goddess Pele, Pearl Harbor sailors, and the late Israel Kamakawiwoole all make appearances as inexplicable things happen to believers and nonbelievers alike. ...
 |  | Beyond Containment
Publication Date: October 30, 2000Jake collapsed running the 100-meter dash.Matt died on the football field while thousands watched.Slider was found in a snow bank beside a running trail.Within a year, fourteen outwardly healthy young athletes died because of a bizarre incident that occurred before they were born. ...
|  | The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore (Concise Encyclopedia)
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|  | They Call Her Christmas Carol
Publication Date: October 29, 2011Gospel Christmas Stage Play illuminating A Story of Overcoming the Past Even If the Past Overcomes You! ...
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|  | Trip Trap
Publication Date: January 1, 2001This newly-revised edition-originally published in 1973-of the haiku Jack Kerouac, Albert Saijo, and Lew Welch jotted down on the road from San Francisco to New York in 1959, are dense, earthy incarnations of life on the road: "A coral colored Cadillac/ in Texas/ Threw gravel all over us,/ our beat jeep/ -Our windshield is nicked/ but our eyes/ are/ CLEAR..." Albert recounts their November trip in Lew's Jeepster, making the big city scene, visiting Jack's home in Northport on Long Island, and the long drive back west. The book also includes letters to Kerouac...
|  | Rain on the River
Publication Date: March 28, 2002Jim Dodge said he would consider publishing a volume of poetry if he lived to the millennium. Happily he did, and Rain on the River is the immediate result - work selected from his Tangram chapbooks, broadsides, and Solstice pieces, accompanied by three dozen new poems.If you've enjoyed his fiction, Dodge's first collection of poems and short prose offer similar pleasures: a splendid ear for language, great emotional range and subtlety, a sharp eye for the illuminating detail, and a sensibility that encompasses outright hilarity, savage wit, and tender marvel ...
|  | Dramatis Personae, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, Strafford, Etc
Publication Date: February 28, 2010| ISBN-10: 1146141416 | ISBN-13: 978-1146141413This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing...
|  | Yours Ever: People and Their Letters
Release Date: December 7, 2010A delightful investigation of the art of letter writing, Yours Ever explores masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Here are Madame de Sévigné’s devastatingly sharp reports from the French court, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tormented advice to his young daughter, the casually brilliant musings of Flannery O’Connor, the lustful boastings of Lord Byron, and the prison cries of Sacco and Vanzetti, all accompanied by Thomas Mallon’s own insightful commentary. From battlefield confe...
|  | The Lost Second Book of Aristotle's Poetics
Publication Date: June 27, 2012Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics—ancient, medieval, or modern—the most important is indisputably Aristotle’s Poetics, the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. In the Poetics,Aristotle writes that he will speak of comedy—but there is no furthermention of comedy. Aristotle writes also that he will address catharsisand an analysis of what is funny. But he does not actually address anyof those ideas. The surviving Poetics is incomplete.Until today. Here, Walter Watson offers a new interpretation of the...
|  | Erotic Travel Tales
Publication Date: November 9, 2001Written to satisfy wanderlust or arouse it, Erotic Travel Tales offers explicit erotic fiction set in evocative locales -- from Kiev and the Sahara to Athens and the Amazon, from Barcelona and Paris to New Orleans and San Francisco. It features the work of established sex writers Maxim Jakubowski, Helena Settimana, Christopher Hart, Alison Tyler, Thomas S. Roche, and M. Christian. ...
|  | Journey to Terra Incognita, Epiphany in Time
Publication Date: August 5, 2009In the post-war 1950s, when a Communist was hiding behind every corner, anti-religious rhetoric began infiltrating America. It was Satan who tested the resolve of atheist Charles Mandrin in this powerful drama written by Gerald Shingleton.The story is set on a California college campus in 1950, with all the events, characters and developments of those "good old days" interwoven into the evil fascism that was entering the consciousness of the Western world. Mandrin studies the mysteries of the universe and becomes obsessed with how he believes the world is bein...
|  | The Newtonian Egg and Other Cases of Rolf le Roux (Crippen & Landru Lost Classics,)
Publication Date: March 26, 2002| Series: Crippen & Landru Lost Classics, SOUTH AFRICAN SLEUTHINGPeter Godfrey (1917-1992), a South African journalist and short-story writer, created one of the most imaginative of modern sleuths, Rolf le Roux, called "Oom Rolf" by his nephew, Lieutenant Joubert of the Johannesburg police. In the ten stories in this collection, first published between 1948 and 1986, le Roux investigates such riddles as the man who can't remember 52 minutes of his life, an egg which becomes filled with poison before it is opened, letters addressed to the Johannesburg police th...
|  | Teamwork, the New York Liberty in Action (Women's Professional Basketball)
Publication Date: August 1999| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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|  | Fishing with Dad: Lessons of Love and Lure from Father to Son
Publication Date: May 1, 2005| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up A thoughtful, multigenerational tale of Sunday fishing trips with Dad, as seen through the eyes of the author as a young boy. This lyrical story recaptures all the Sundays Michael J. Rosen spent fishing with his father at their favorite holes. He listens to his father’s advice on how to bait, cast, and be patient. Years down the road Rosen watches his father pass on the same lessons to his grandson. A story of wonder and discovery for young anglers, a gift of nostalgia and love for grown-up experts, Fishing wit...
|  | Who Wants an Old Teddy Bear?
Publication Date: August 1, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Andy is hoping for a toy rocket ship for his birthday. When Grandma sends a teddy bear instead, he is unhappy and disappointed. But a nightmare adventure turns Andy and the teddy bear, Arthur, into fast friends. First published in 1978, Ginnie Hofmann's story of 'Who Wants an Old Teddy Bear?' lead to four more books, all of them starring Andy and Arthur in their further adventures. Now back in print, and collected together for the first time, this charming quintet of stories, told in simple language and accompanied...
|  | The Tub Grandfather
Release Date: September 19, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up The Tub Grandfather has been missing for a long time, until heis found lying in the dust by the Tub Child, who, with the help of theTub Family, tries to wake him, but he is only able to do so after theTub Grandma comes up with a clever plan. Reprint. H. SLJ....
|  | I Like Pasta (Good Food)
Publication Date: March 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Our Little Macedonian Cousin of Long Ago (Yesterday's Classics)
Publication Date: January 24, 2010The story of Nearchus, who comes as a page to the court of King Philip of Macedon, where he befriends the young Alexander the Great. In company with other boys, Nearchus and Alexander divide their time between lessons, and gymnastic and military drill. We follow them on an all-night tramp under one instructor and share their joy when their new tutor, Aristotle, arrives. The story revolves around the differing gifts of the boys and predictions about what fortune holds in store for each of them. ...
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