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Author: Jeffrey C. Taylor Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1291421777 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 140
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A Vampire borne of technology gone insane, a village protecting a dreadful secret, a strange transformation and a tale of undead revenge. All lie herein, nestling between ancient horrors and terrible truths.
Author: Jeffrey C. Taylor Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1291421777 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 140
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A Vampire borne of technology gone insane, a village protecting a dreadful secret, a strange transformation and a tale of undead revenge. All lie herein, nestling between ancient horrors and terrible truths.
Author: Sheldon Kopp Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0553278320 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 253
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A fresh, realistic approach to altering one's destiny and accepting the responsibility that grows with freedom. No meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddahood of each of us has already been obtained. We only need to recognize it. “The most important things that each man must learn no one can teach him. Once he accepts this disappointment, he will be able to stop depending on the therapist, the guru who turns out to be just another struggling human being.” Using the myth of Gilgamesh, Siddhartha, The Wife of Bath, Don Quizote . . . the works of Buber, Ginsberg, Shakespeare, Karka, Nin, Dante and Jung . . . a brilliant psychotherapist, guru and pilgrim shares the epic tales and intimate revelations that help to shape Everyman's journey through life.
Author: Heather L. Montgomery Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1547601876 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 193
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An ALA Notable book An Orbis Pictus Recommended title When Heather L. Montgomery sees a rattlesnake flattened on the side of the road, her first instinct is to pick it up and dissect it--she's always wanted to see how a snake's fangs retract when they close their mouths, and it's not exactly safe to poke around in a live reptile's mouth. A wildlife researcher with a special penchant for the animals that litter the roadways, Heather isn't satisfied with dissecting just one snake. Her fascination with roadkill sets her off on a journey from her own backyard and the roadways of the American South to scientists and kids in labs and homes across the globe. From biologists who use the corpses of Tasmanian devils to investigate cures for a contagious cancer, to a scientist who discovered a whole new species of bird from a single wing left behind, to a boy rebuilding animal bodies from the bones up, to a restaurant that serves up animal remnants, Heather discovers that death is just the beginning for these creatures. This engaging narrative nonfiction is an eye-opening and irreverent look at the dead and dying animals that we pass by without a second thought--as well as a fascinating insight to the scientific research process.
Author: Tim Dorsey Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061833029 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 397
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Sunshine State trivia buff Serge A. Storms loves eliminating jerks and pests. His drug-addled partner Coleman loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with rich dead men's money. On the other hand, there's Sean and David, who love fishing and are kind to animals -- and who are about to cross paths with a suitcase filled with $5 million in stolen insurance money. Serge wants the suitcase. Sharon wants the suitcase. Coleman wants more drugs . . . and the suitcase. In the meantime, there's murder by gun, Space Shuttle, Barbie doll, and Levi's 501s. In other words, welcome to Tim Dorsey's Florida -- where nobody gets out unscathed and untanned!
Author: Sheldon Kopp Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0804150966 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 253
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A fresh, realistic approach to altering one's destiny and accepting the responsibility that grows with freedom. No meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddahood of each of us has already been obtained. We only need to recognize it. “The most important things that each man must learn no one can teach him. Once he accepts this disappointment, he will be able to stop depending on the therapist, the guru who turns out to be just another struggling human being.” Using the myth of Gilgamesh, Siddhartha, The Wife of Bath, Don Quizote . . . the works of Buber, Ginsberg, Shakespeare, Karka, Nin, Dante and Jung . . . a brilliant psychotherapist, guru and pilgrim shares the epic tales and intimate revelations that help to shape Everyman's journey through life.
Author: Ronnie Remonda Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1475969392 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 243
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Hors doeuvres III is the third installment of the Hors doeuvres collection of short stories. (Dah! Im guessing you may have all ready figured that out) Filled with fresh ingredients, it can still satisfy your taste with a variety tales. There are stories of good people doing bad things, bad people doing good things, and people, who arent really people, doing crazy things. So, before you sit down to that 450 page main course, perhaps you might like to start with a couple of smaller snacks. So open the book, sit back, and relax with your favorite drink and, perhaps, a few hors doeuvres.
Author: Niles Reddick Publisher: ISBN: 9781938436345 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 142
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Exploring new territory here with an original voice, author Niles Reddick brings his collection of short stories vividly to life. You will laugh out loud at the eccentricities of the characters and their peculiar situations, set in the rural past and the strip mall world of the New South. Filled with humor, these stories offer readers glimpses into every day experiences through the eyes of a manic narrator who survives and thrives on the oddities of the modern American South.
Author: Celia Bland Publisher: ISBN: 9781945766053 Category : American poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
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Poetry. Native American Studies. A superb collection of poems rooted in remembering the past, and transcending the confinement imposed by poverty. As Robert Kelly writes in the introduction: "Reading Celia Bland's poetry, especially the acute lyrics in this book, I have the feeling of being taken by the hand of a sensitive quiet guide and shown time after time quick narratives, microtomes of life, that speak their own word. Word of a town, maybe, of a family, or a race, or perhaps even, after reading, the sense of a nation-word that has been spoken." "Never in the midst of this world of disorder is the poems' music given short shrift. Each piece is infused with it...That attention to beauty in the language spills over into the world it's describing, so that this world of despair still shimmers. The reader lingers in the state of decay and somehow finds it achingly beautiful, like the moldy old house the speaker inherits along with these memories."--Gretchen Primack, Boston Review "Adroit syntax, crisp imagery, and disasters both personal and public define the poems in Celia Bland's collection CHEROKEE ROAD KILL. Her poems have the air of history about them, whether family history, the haunted past of the Cherokees, or the present slipping away, moment by moment."--Garin Cycholl, Rain Taxi "CHEROKEE ROAD KILL is an important book, written by a poet in total command of her powers."--Jonathan Blunk, Georgia Review
Author: Alicia Rebensdorf Publisher: Seal Press ISBN: 9781580051941 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 0
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As a child of the 1980s, Alicia Rebensdorf was raised by TV and movies. But when she, like so many of her generation, found herself a bored twentysomething, waitressing and wondering why life wasn't as she imagined it would be, she devised a plan: She'd visit the locations of the shows and movies she grew up with and try to come to terms with her nostalgia for places and scenes that purported a real America. Chick Flick Road Kill explores Rebensdorf's relationship to popular culture and media mythology. From the streets of Fargo, North Dakota, to the bleachers of the still-intact field from The Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa, Rebensdorf learns that her generation's sense of America is, indeed, as flat as its two-dimensional TV screens. What's more, she discovers the America behind the Hollywood myth--one that's far more exciting when freed from the mystique and power of pop culture's romanticism.
Author: Amor Towles Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0735222371 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 593
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates
Author: Jeffrey C. Taylor
Author: Jeffrey C. Taylor
Author: Sheldon Kopp
Author: Heather L. Montgomery
Author: Tim Dorsey
Author: Sheldon Kopp
Author: Ronnie Remonda
Author: Niles Reddick
Author: Celia Bland
Author: Alicia Rebensdorf
Author: Amor Towles