A taut and unique unicorn fable from the Middle-East
In ancient Persia, there was an era when magical beasts such as dragons were nearly extinct. Young Heydari, the son of an elephant driver, discovers an injured beast bleeding in a cave. It is a rare type of unicorn known as a karkadann: a terrible horned demon the size of a Greek bull, with double hooves, a tails like a lion, and a hide like thick leather plates.
Despite his better judgment, kind Heydari tends to the terrifying animal’s injuries and nurses the fearsome creature back to health. The young man returns day after day, treating and binding the creature’s wounds, bringing it food and water, reciting prayers. If the karkadann recovers, it will become increasingly more dangerous to Heydari and everyone he loves.... Views: 197
Pat Parker stayed woke to black suffering, violence against black bodies—especially those of black women—to the suffering engendered by multiple, egregious oppressions. With The Complete Works of Pat Parker, we are allowed an opportunity to historicize Pat Parker’s significance to black women’s literary traditions, lesbian erotics, to black queer struggles and black feminisms, and to global social justice movements. She was in her time. Now, with this important text, she will be in all time to come. Alexis De Veaux, author of Yabo As the #BlackLivesMatter movement calls attention to the grave risks Black people have always faced and as poets and artists wrestle with the question of how to marry the political and the personal in their work, we have never needed Pat Parker’s work more. It is absolutely immediate, searing, salving, saving, and NECESSARY. Kazim Ali, author of All One’s Blues: New and Selected Poems The poetry of Pat Parker reaches out to us anew and shakes our consciousness—fiercely. Cheryl Clarke, author of By My Precise Haircut Views: 197
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Can Christmas magic help her hear the music again?Melody Murphy shared her love of music with her father, but after tragically loosing him on Christmas Eve two years ago, she no longer has any interest in music or Christmas. She returns to her hometown of Charles Town, West Virginia, to help her mother save the family antique business, content to stay focused on her work. However, when a chance encounter with an adorable five-year-old leads her to befriend an attractive single dad, Melody begins to realize she's been putting her life on hold, something her father would've never wished for her. Will she learn to hear the song in the falling snow again?Reid has recently moved to Charles Town to start over after his wife walked out, leaving him alone to raise their son, Michael. When Michael decides he needs Melody Murphy in his life, Reid needs to find out what it is that has his son drawn to the young woman like a magnet. The closer he gets to... Views: 196
"Loud, slap dash and uproarious...extraordinarily original and funny."—New York TimesNow, for the first time in a standalone edition, Thornton Wilder's brilliant, hilarious play which was adapted into the hit Broadway musical Hello, Dolly with an afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder.Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy old merchant residing in Yonkers has decided it's time to take a wife and hires a matchmaker. But Dolly Gallagher Levi is no ordinary matchmaker. She's a force of nature, with a plan of her own. Levi soon becomes involved in the affairs of the hearts of all those around her—including Vandergelder's niece, his store clerks, assorted young and lovely ladies, and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant, where this swift farce inevitably runs headlong into hilarious complications. Indeed, after a series of slapstick situations involving mistaken identities, a secret rendezvous behind carefully placed... Views: 196
Frankie the Bengal cat has run away from Tabby Towers, and the hunt for him is on. After a wild search, the hotel hosts discover that sometimes even cats need time to relax and go fishing! Views: 196
I am 27 and have never killed a manbut I know the face of death as if heirloommy country memorizes murder as lullaby—from For Fahd"Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters—the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Complemented by striking cover art from Carrie Mae Weems, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.Praise for Aja Monet:[Monet] is the true definition of an artist."—Harry BelafonteIn Paris, she walked out onto the stage, opened her mouth and spoke. At the first utterance I heard that rare something that said this is special... Views: 196
B R E A T H E ... a mystery suspense thriller Scientist Nell Northam is abducted by terrorists who force her to help them launch a weapon so horrific that thousands of Americans will die in minutes. The president asks his security advisor, Donovan Rourke, to help. But when Donovan is ready to stop the attack, he realizes something — he's been completely misled ... and it may be too late to save thousands of innocent people ... REVIEWS "Mike Brogan has a way with a villain, and he makes his heroes every bit as interesting. BREATHE extends the author's winning streak. Its pace is so relentless, the title is a handy reminder not to forget to work our lungs." Loren D. Estleman, author of BLACK AND WHITE BALL, Four-time Shamus award winner. "In G8, Brogan's CIA Special Agent Donovan Rourke saved the eight top world leaders. That was just a cozy cuddle-up compared to BREATHE, where eight million New Yorkers could soon die. Every Brogan novel is a... Views: 196
