 | Against the Gates of Hell: A Crack House Exodus
Release Date: August 19, 2011| Series: Crack House Exodus He had always looked down on those who partook and pedaled drugs whichclaimed the lives of many in the streets. Now Kerby Wilson finds himself heldcaptive by his own pride and going down a very desperate path of his own. Distraught over the death of his parents and, the murder of a fellow policeofficer, Kerby alienates those closest to him, pushing them away-his wife, brother,police force buddies and old friends. As the bottom falls out of his life and darknessconsumes his soul, he sells all that he holds dea...
 |  | Therapy
Release Date: July 1, 1996By all appearances, Laurence Passmore is sitting pretty. True, he is almost bald and his nickname in "Tubby", but the TV sitcom he writes keeps the money coming in, he has an exclusive house in Rummridge, a state-of-the-art car, a vigorous sex life with his wife of thirty years, and a platonic mistress to talk shop with. What money can't buy, and his many therapists can't deliver, is contentment. It's not the trouble behind the scenes of his TV show that's bugging him or even the persistent pain in his knee; it's this deeper, nameless unease. Is it a spiritual crisi...
|  | Act of Treason
Release Date: August 28, 2007The fallout from a horrific Washington explosion has just begun -- and so has CIA superagent Mitch Rapp's hunt for a killer with a personal agenda. In the final weeks of a fierce presidential campaign, a motorcade carrying candidate Josh Alexander is shattered by a car bomb. Soon after the attack, Alexander is carried to victory by a sympathy vote, but his assailants have not been found. When CIA director Irene Kennedy and Special Agent Skip McMahon receive damaging intelligence on Washington's most powerful players, they call o n Mitch Rapp -- the one man reck...
|  | Landscapes of the Heart
Publication Date: October 1998Landscapes of the Heart records one woman's remarkable discovery of God's presence in the images of everyday life from different places and different times.Through this collection of photographs, poems, and prayers the reader is drawn toward mindfulness of God's presence in the realities of daily life.This book is the author's generous offering to "anyone who is seeking signs of divine activity in everyday life, everyday places." ...
|  | The Nimble Man: The Menagerie #1
Release Date: September 28, 2004| Series: Menagerie (Book 1) Behind the façade of a stately Boston brownstone, The Menagerie marshals their last defenses. Together, they will confront the minions of utter darkness, who have already begun their quest to resurrect the most malevolent of the fallen angels--whose wrath against mankind knows no bounds. ...
|  | Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy
Release Date: September 7, 2004The Arthurian legend is one of the most enduring and powerful of myths, and Mary Stewart's classic The Merlin Trilogy is one of its most beloved and acclaimed retellings. In prose that is as vividly, achingly real as it is poetic, New York Times bestselling author Mary Stewart brings to life the man behind the myth: Myrddin Emrys ... Merlinus Ambrosius ... Merlin. The Crystal Cave The Hollow Hills The Last Enchantment Born the bastard son of a Welsh princess, Myrddin Emrys -- or, as he would later be known, Merlin -- leads a perilous childhood in The Crystal Ca...
|  | Looking For It
Release Date: November 29, 2005The sweeping new novel from the Lambda award-winning author of "Last Summer". A local bar in a small New York town is the focal point for the lives of its gay community: a hub to which a diverse group of men gravitate to play out their dreams and desires...Mike Monaghan is the bartender at the Engine Room, a meeting place for the small but thriving community of gay men in Cold Falls, New York. As Mike pours beer, wipes glasses and hears everything, he is witness to the men who come through his doors looking for what they need: sex; direction; friendship; spirit...
|  | Shamans Through Time
Publication Date: May 6, 2004Traces Western civilizations to understand the ancient knowledge of shamans around the world, from Asia and Australia to Africa and the Americas. ...
|  | Dark Lies the Island
Release Date: May 14, 2012A kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP kiddie-snatchers, and scouse real-ale enthusiasts, and occult weirdness in the backwoods ..."Dark Lies the Island" is a collection of unpredictable stories about love and cruelty, crimes, desperation, and hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as 'the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years'. Every page is shot through with the riotous humour, sympathy and blistering language that mark Kevin Barry as a pure entertainer an...
|  | Mister Martini (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry)
Publication Date: February 19, 2008| Series: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry (Book 15) Spare yet evocative, the poems in Mister Martini pair explorations of a father-son relationship with haiku-like martini recipes. The martini becomes a daring metaphor for this relationship as it moves from the son's childhood to the father's death. Each poem is a strong drink in its own right, and together they form a potent narrative of alienation and love between a father and son struggling to communicate.From the book:InventorMy father was an inventor of martinis.He acquired archaic languages,collected Re...
|  | Haiku Poetry Volume One (Paperback)
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|  | Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English
Publication Date: April 2003| ISBN-10: 1869402731 | ISBN-13: 978-1869402730This unique anthology of contemporary indigenous Polynesian poetry collects poems written over the last 20 years from more than 60 poets in Hawaii, Tonga, Samoa, Aotearoa/New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue, and Rotuma. Well-known poets such as Hone Tuwhare, Alistair Te, Ariki Campbell, and Haunani-Kay Trask are joined by talented young voices in a way that presents both an overall Polynesian identity and a focus on individual style. Traditional laments mix with street-smart rap rhythms, and images of seascape and...
|  | Moonsongs (Saros Star Series)
Publication Date: September 5, 2000| ISBN-10: 9782460176 | ISBN-13: 978-9782460172Niyi Osundare is one of Nigeria's most prominent writers, and a winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 1991. Moonsongs won Honourable Mention in the 1989 Noma Award. The main body of the poems is given harmony by being centred on the image of the moon. Thirty-six poems explore original themes and imagery, enhanced by the rhythms of the language. ...
|  | Atlantic Poets: Fernando Pessoa's Turn in Anglo-American Modernism (Reencounters with Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas)
Publication Date: December 1, 2002| Series: Reencounters with Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas An important new reading of Portugal's greatest poet. ...
|  | Weldon Kees and the Midcentury Generation: Letters, 1935-1955
Publication Date: November 28, 1986Before he vanished in the fog of San Francisco, Weldon Kees (1914–55) was a poet, storyteller, critic, painter, musician, and filmmaker. What remains is a body of work and a large collection of letters that shed light on Kees’s complex personality. Robert E. Knoll traces the odyssey of a Nebraska boy who made his way in a fiercely competitive national scene, befriending the movers and shakers of the art worlds on both coasts. Kees’s letters—satirical, witty, poetic, gossipy, intensely individual—provide the feel of lives being ...
|  | Sherlock Holmes and the Egyptian Hall Adventure (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
Publication Date: May 1999| Series: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 112 pages ...
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|  | Laguna Heat
Publication Date: August 15, 1993Laguna...Where every day the sun makes a promise the nighttime breaks, while the super-rich live out expensive fantasies in posh beach houses and drown their memories in Cuervo Gold margaritas...Laguna...Where trouble has swept in like a Santa Ana wind, blowing the cover off a world of torture, murder and blood-red secretsLaguna...Where a crazed killer has turned paradise into a Disneyland of depraved violance--with a fiery vengeance--and where homicide cop Tom Shephard unravels a grisly mystery that reaches back across forty years of sordid sex, blackmail, a...
|  | They Dance in the Sky: Native American Star Myths
Publication Date: April 27, 1987| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up A collection of legends about the stars from various North American Indian cultures, includingexplanations of the Milky Way and constellations such as the Big Dipper. ...
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