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Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart
Par Patricia Donegan. 2008
Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in just three lines, can be miraculous in its power to articulate the…
profundity of the simplest moment--and for that reason haiku can be a useful tool for bringing us to a heightened awareness of our lives. Here, the poet Patricia Donegan shares her experience of the haiku form as a way of insight that anyone can use to slow down and uncover the beauty of ordinary moments. She presents 108 haiku poems--on themes such as honesty, transience, and compassion--and offers commentary on each as an impetus to meditation and as a key to unlocking the wonder in what we find right before us.El sol de Breda
Par Arturo Pérez Reverte. 1998
Tercera entrega de Las aventuras del capit�n Alatriste, El sol de Breda escenifica las batallas y el asedio de la…
ciudad de Breda en 1625 por los Tercios espa�oles en Flandes. El joven vasco ��igo de Balboa es el narrador, como siempre, pero ahora adquiere en este relato un papel m�s protagonista: es mochilero del tercio viejo de Cartagena, donde sirve de ayudante a su amo el capit�n Alatriste, y empu�a por primera vez las armas en el combate.Ramblin' on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues
Par David Evans. 1964
This compilation of essays takes the study of the blues to a welcome new level. Distinguished scholars and well-established writers…
from such diverse backgrounds as musicology, anthropology, musicianship, and folklore join together to examine blues as literature, music, personal expression, and cultural product. Ramblin' on My Mind contains pieces on Ella Fitzgerald, Son House, and Robert Johnson; on the styles of vaudeville, solo guitar, and zydeco; on a comparison of blues and African music; on blues nicknames; and on lyric themes of disillusionment. Contributors are Lynn Abbott, James Bennighof, Katharine Cartwright, Andrew M. Cohen, David Evans, Bob Groom, Elliott Hurwitt, Gerhard Kubik, John Minton, Luigi Monge, and Doug Seroff.This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation
Par Analouise Keating, Gloria Anzaldúa. 2002
Kerplunk!
Par Patrick F. Mcmanus. 2007
Patrick F. McManus's gently comic stories about outdoor life have earned him millions of fans worldwide. With Kerplunk!, McManus delivers…
a collection of folksy, wonderfully wise depictions of country life worthy of Mark Twain. In these tall tales, McManus and his buddies learn how not to net a fish, why you should never get your hair cut by someone who's mad at you, what to do when a deer wanders into camp but your sleeping bag has frozen shut, and how to avoid bird-dog flatulence. Traveling the highways and byways of the Pacific Northwest, the delightful backcountry characters of Kerplunk! understand how a life of hunting and fishing -- and its inherent potential for misadventure -- can resonate with larger meaning. McManus's characters know exactly why it costs $500 to make a fly lure that retails for $2; why installing a boat trailer hookup can lead to divorce; and, most important, why you should always listen for the sound of your fishing line hitting the water -- because in life as it is in fishing, you don't know you're in the water until you hear the kerplunk! These wry, curmudgeonly tales appeal to real outdoorsmen and the armchair variety alike. Often nostalgic, occasionally philosophical, and always funny, the stories in Kerplunk! reaffirm Patrick F. McManus's reputation as an American classic.Eight Great American Short Novels
Par Philip Rahv. 1963
The Man Who Became a Woman by Sherwood Anderson; The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane; Red Leaves by William Faulkner;…
An International Episode by Henry James; Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville; Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor; The Long March by William Styron; False Dawn by Edith WhartonPrize Stories 1985: The O. Henry Awards
Par William Abrahams. 1985
Poetics: A Treatise On Government (Dover Thrift Editions)
Par Aristotle. 1997
Among the most influential books in Western civilization, the Poetics is really a treatise on fine art. It offers seminal…
ideas on the nature of drama, tragedy, poetry, music, and more, including such concepts as catharsis, the tragic flaw, unities of time and place and other rules of drama. This inexpensive edition enables readers to enjoy the critical insights of one humanity's greatest minds laying the foundations for thought about the arts.MECH: Age of Steel
Par Tim Marquitz. 2016
MECH: Age of Steel is a collection of 24 mecha-inspired short stories in the spirit of Pacific Rim, Macross, Transformers,…
Robotech, Gundam, Evangelion, and more. The MECH: Age of Steel anthology features a vast array of tales showcasing giant human-piloted, robot war machines wreaking havoc in blasted cities, or on dystopian landscapes, or around space stations and asteroids against a cosmic backdrop, and more! MECH is anchored by authors such as: Kevin J. Anderson Scott Sigler Ramez Naam Jason M. HoughJeremy Robinson Jody Lynn Nye Peter Clines Martha Wells Graham McNeill Jennifer Brozek James Swallow and more!This anthology also features illustrations for every story and is the perfect companion to its sister title, Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters. So strap in. Activate your interface array. And let's rock!A Short Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Par J. B. Bessinger. 1960
The author has attempted to cover the vocabulary of the whole corpus of Anglo-Saxon verse and make the word-list as…
broadly useful as possible for the general student of Anglo-Saxon literature.She's on Top: Erotic Stories of Female Dominance and Male Submission
Par Rachel Kramer Bussel. 2007
Turning the tables on rigid gender roles, the stories in She's on Top honor the Amazon, the dominatrix, the handcuff-toting,…
whip-wielding she-devil of the male bottom's deepest dreams. Employing every item in their bag of tricks, from strap-ons to metal cinches, these hot dommes like nothing better than teasing and tormenting their devoted subjects - often at the same time. With stories by some of the best writers in the field of BDSM erotica such as Stan Kent, Debra Hyde, and Saskia Walker, She's on Top shows that pleasure's best when dispensed by a firm female hand.The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: First Annual Collection
Par Ed Gorman. 2000
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
Par Robert Cohen. 1934
Impoverished young Americans had no greater champion during the Depression than Eleanor Roosevelt. As First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt used her…
newspaper columns and radio broadcasts to crusade for expanded federal aid to poor children and teens. She was the most visible spokesperson for the National Youth Administration, the New Deal's central agency for aiding needy youths, and she was adamant in insisting that federal aid to young people be administered without discrimination so that it reached blacks as well as whites, girls as well as boys. This activism made Mrs. Roosevelt a beloved figure among poor teens and children, who between 1933 and 1941 wrote her thousands of letters describing their problems and requesting her help. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt presents nearly 200 of these extraordinary documents to open a window into the lives of the Depression's youngest victims. In their own words, the letter writers confide what it was like to be needy and young during the worst economic crisis in American history. Revealing both the strengths and the limitations of New Deal liberalism, this book depicts an administration concerned and caring enough to elicit such moving appeals for help yet unable to respond in the very personal ways the letter writers hoped.The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories
Par Ilan Stavans. 1998
Chinese Ghost Stories
Par Lafcadio Hearn, Victoria Cass. 1850
Chinese Ghost Stories is selection of the most entertaining traditional Chinese tales of the strange and fantastic. The perfect companion…
for readers seeking insights into the traditional Chinese world of ghosts, goblins and demons as well as anyone who just wants to feel a chill run down their spine on a dark, lonely night.Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories
Par Jane Garry, Fred L. Shapiro. 1998
Excerpts by Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Mark Twain, Anthony Trollope, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, O. Henry,…
John Galsworthy, Susan Glaspell, Agatha Christie, W. Somerset Maugham, Frank O'Connor, George Orwell, William Faulkner, Sterling A. Brown, Nadine Gordimer, Rebecca West, John Barth, Philip Roth, Harper Lee, Michael Gilbert, Louis Auchincloss, Quentin Crisp, John Fowles, James Alan McPherson, Elizabeth Jolley, Charles A. Reich, Sue Miller, Tom Wolfe, Joyce Carol Oates, and Ernest J. Gaines.Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences
Par Ursula K. Le Guin. 2002
The Sagas Of Icelanders
Par Jane Smiley, Robert Kellogg. 1997
These sagas and tales were written down after The Norse and Icelanders became Christian. They were not Christian during the…
time of the stories. The writing merely preserves the oral story telling tradition. Truly a way of knowing a lost world.Five Ways of Being a Painting and Other Essays: The Winners of the Third Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize
Par William Max Nelson, Rosalind Porter. 2015
A collection of essays by the winner and the five finalists of the prestigious Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize 2017Covering…
an array of subjects, from the meaning of art to supermarket shopping, these pieces were chosen for their originality, literary style, and above all, their ability to persuade. The judges awarded the first prize to “Five Ways of Being a Painting” by William Max Nelson for “its curious mix of the philosophical and the personal, the argumentative and the ruminative, that makes it a real essay.”The biennial Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize is open to all essays written in English of between 2,000 and 8,000 words, on any subject. The first prize is £20,000 and five runners up each receive £1,000, making it the richest non-fiction prize in the world. The judges of the 2017 prize were: Kirsty Gunn, essayist and novelist; Daniel Mendelsohn, essayist, memoirist and critic; Sameer Rahim, Arts & Books Editor of Prospect; and Rosalind Porter, Deputy Editor of Granta Magazine.The winner of the inaugural prize was Michael Ignatieff, with his essay on Raphael Lemkin and genocide; the 2015 prize was won by the African American author David Bradley with his essay on the use of the word “nigger.”Essays by runners-up Laura Esther Wolfson, Garret Keizer, Karen Holmberg, Patrick McGuinness, Dasha Shkurpela are included.Bending The Landscape 2: Science Fiction
Par Nicola Griffith, Steven Pagel. 1998