Praise for Allison Adelle Hedge Coke:"These are the songs of righteous anger and utter beauty."—Joy HarjoFrom "Carcass":Split skin stretched over marrowless cage,encased dry tomb, like those strewnthrough this loess reach, cradling pastever present here, and now you comewalking riverside, bringing sensory thrillinto daylight much like this cervidaeculled morning each waking beforedemise. We move this way, catching lifeuntil death captures us, where we rotinto the same dust holding multitudesbefore us, and welcoming those beyond.Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is a poet, writer, performer, editor, and activist. Views: 47
In the recession of 2009 Drake Douglas lost his job, his wife, and his self-respect, but he still had his son. Late one night while babysitting, his stepsister Beth tries her best to help him but in doing so confronts feelings and taboo desires she never knew existed, and that she can't ignore. With bills piling up and his job prospects dim, Drake takes gigs as a bare knuckle fighter to survive. Views: 47
SUMMARY:Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of hope from the distant past, from before the Simplification, the fiery atomic holocaust that plunged the earth into darkness and ignorance. As 1984 cautioned against Stalinism, so 1959's A Canticle for Leibowitz warns of the threat and implications of nuclear annihilation. Following a cloister of monks in their Utah abbey over some six or seven hundred years, the funny but bleak Canticle tackles the sociological and religious implications of the cyclical rise and fall of civilization, questioning whether humanity can hope for more than repeating its own history. Divided into three sections--Fiat Homo (Let There Be Man), Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light), and Fiat Voluntas Tua (Thy Will Be Done)--Canticle is steeped in Catholicism and Latin, exploring the fascinating, seemingly capricious process of how and why a person is canonized. --Paul Hughes Views: 47
SUMMARY:When librarian Aurora Teagarden becomes the unexpected beneficiary of a colleague's estate, she stumbles upon the skeleton of a murder victim and sets out to clear the name of her late friend, but the real killer is still watching and waiting nearby. Reprint. AB. PW. Views: 47
The Handle (aka Run Lethal)Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark’s eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in hardboiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-sharp prose style—and adored by fans who turn each intoxicating page with increasing urgency—Stark is a master of crime writing, his books as influential as any in the genre. The University of Chicago Press has embarked on a project to return the early volumes of this series to print for a new generation of readers to discover—and become addicted to.In The Handle, Parker is enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speedboats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast. "Parker . . . lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark’s noir novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells. . . . In a complex world [he] makes things simple.”—William Grimes, New York Times“Whatever Stark writes, I read. He’s a stylist, a pro, and I thoroughly enjoy his attitude.”—Elmore Leonard“Westlake knows precisely how to grab a reader, draw him or her into the story, and then slowly tighten his grip until escape is impossible.”—Washington Post Book World“Donald Westlake’s Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you’ve been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust—these are the books you’ll want on that desert island.”—Lawrence BlockReview“Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with the swag.”(Stephen King Entertainment Weekly )“Parker . . . lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark’s noir novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells. . . . In a complex world [he] makes things simple.”(William Grimes New York Times )“Whatever Stark writes, I read. He’s a stylist, a pro, and I thoroughly enjoy his attitude.”(Elmore Leonard )“Richard Stark’s Parker novels . . . are among the most poised and polished fictions of their time and, in fact, of any time.”(John Banville Bookforum )“Parker is a true treasure. . . . The master thief is back, along with Richard Stark.”(Marilyn Stasio New York Times Book Review )“Westlake knows precisely how to grab a reader, draw him or her into the story, and then slowly tighten his grip until escape is impossible."(Washington Post )“Elmore Leonard wouldn’t write what he does if Stark hadn’t been there before. And Quentin Tarantino wouldn’t write what he does without Leonard. . . . Old master that he is, Stark does all of them one better.”(Los Angeles Times )“Donald Westlake’s Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you’ve been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust—these are the books you’ll want on that desert island.”(Lawrence Block )“Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity—a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.”(Anthony Boucher New York Times Book Review )"Parker is a brilliant invention. . . . What chiefly distinguishes Westlake, under whatever name, is his passion for process and mechanics. . . . Parker appears to have eliminated everything from his program but machine logic, but this is merely protective coloration. He is a romantic vestige, a free-market anarchist whose independent status is becoming a thing of the past."(Luc Sante New York Review of Books )"I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me like the Parker novels so much. Suffice it to say that Stark/Westlake is the cleanest of all noir novelists, a styleless stylist who gets to the point with stupendous economy, hustling you down the path of plot so briskly that you have to read his books a second time to appreciate the elegance and sober wit with which they are written."(Terry Teachout Commentary )"If you're a fan of noir novels and haven't yet read Richard Stark, you may want to give these books a try. Who knows? Parker may just be the son of a bitch you've been searching for."(John McNally Virginia Quarterly Review )"The University of Chicago Press has recently undertaken a campaign to get Parker back in print in affordable and handsome editions, and I dove in. And now I get it."(Josef Braun Vue Weekly )"Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments."(Terry Teachout Weekly Standard ) From the Publisher4 1.5-hour cassettes Views: 47
Yunis can't believe that he's United leading scorer. It should be the happiest time of his life, but his father wants him to give up football and work hard at school. Can Yunis convince his dad that he can do both, or will he have to hang up his boots forever? Stay on the ball this season with all the action from Football Academy. Views: 47
The love of family. The heartbreak of war. The triumph of coming home. 1940.
Rural Wisconsin. Sixteen-year-old Earl 'Earwig' Gunderman is not like
other boys his age. Fiercely protected by his older brother, Earwig sees
his town and the world around him through the prism of his own unique
understanding. He sees his mother's sadness and his father's growing
solitude. He sees his brother, Jimmy, falling in love with the most
beautiful girl in town. And while Earwig is unable to make change for
customers at his family's store, he is singularly well suited to
understand what other people in his town cannot: that life as they know
it is about to change; the coming war will touch them all. For
Jimmy will enlist in the military. And Earwig will watch his parents'
marriage buckle under the strain of a family secret. And when Jimmy
returns-a fractured shadow of his former self-it is Earwig's turn to
care for him. His struggles to right the wrongs visited upon his revered
older brother by war, women, and life are at once heartwarming and
riotously funny. Their family and town irrevocably altered, Earwig and
Jimmy fight to find their own places in a world changed forever. Views: 47
