Sex is the Mother of Death and other poems

Sex is the Mother of Death and other poems

David Price

Nonfiction / Business / Biography

Poems in English and Spanish that attempt to obtain a Haiku like insight into the universeUnder the guardianship of Aunt Margaret; after the death of her parents at age five, Little Ann had suffered through a constantly changing environment before they finally settled in a small town outside Durango. For a time life was happy until she started high school. For many, looking back on high school is a time of nostalgia, but for Ann it held a secret so terrible that she had buried it under years of false memories. But with the help of a seemingly unknown guide, they delve into her past to uncover a long hidden secret that has plagued her since childhood. What will happen when her unknown guide forces her to face a conflict that has caused such heart break? Who will be her savior, as a voice from her past reaches out to guide and save her. And why is the voice so strangely silent as she faces the truth buried in her past? The results will not be what you expect.
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The Belar (A Tale from the Gateway Worlds)

The Belar (A Tale from the Gateway Worlds)

Robin Gilbert

Memoir / Biography / Literature & Fiction

On Davox, the second moon of the Gateway World of Utainium, the Belar, majestic shepherds of the runeyan live peacefully. But now their adopted world is filling with Watchers from the home world of Omni, Watchers who, usually, take whatever they wish...The Belar is set in Robin Gilbert’s Gateway Worlds where magic keys disguised as mundane objects transport Watchers vast distances, even to new worlds, as easily as stepping through a door. Where strange races and wonderful creatures dwell. Where evil lurks at every turn, where the lands are often unimaginably dangerous and where power is all... and every Watcher wants it.
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Nick Carter: The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories

Nick Carter: The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories

Nick Carter

Nonfiction / Biography / Music

NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader and your ipod e-book reader. Nick Carter is a private detective who's goal is to "aim for the right and for righting wrongs." Sometimes he gets paid, sometimes he just does it out of a desire to see justice. This volume has three exciting Nick Carter adventures:Story One: The Crime of the French CafeStory Two: Nick Carter’s Ghost StoryStory Three: The Mystery of St. Agnes’ Hospital Full of intrigue and adventure! Written in the tradition of A.J. Raffles and Sherlcok Holmes, this volume is a must for adventure-pulp literature fans!
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Curious, if True: Strange Tales Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Curious, if True: Strange Tales Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction / Biography

You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I daresay you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from. I was just a girl in the village school, when, one day, your grandmother came in to ask the mistress if there was any scholar there who would do for a nurse-maid; and mighty proud I was, I can tell ye, when the mistress called me up...
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Book of Blues

Book of Blues

Jack Kerouac

Biography / Poetry / Fiction

Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect in Mexico City Blues, his largely unheralded classic of postmodern literature. Edited by Kerouac himself, Book of Blues is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery, propelled by rhythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the moment. "In my system, the form of blues choruses is limited by the small page of the breastpocket notebook in which they are written, like the form of a set number of bars in a jazz blues chorus, and so sometimes the word-meaning can carry from one chorus into another, or not, just like the phrase-meaning can carry harmonically from one chorus to the other, or not, in jazz, so that, in these blues as in jazz, the form is determined by time, and by the musicians spontaneous phrasing & harmonizing with the beat of time as it waves & waves on by in measured choruses." —Jack Kerouac
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I Can See God's Word (Skit)

I Can See God's Word (Skit)

Cheryl Rogers

Biography

This easy-to-perform skit is about a boy named Jake who cheats on his math test. When he gets caught, he finds an old Bible his grandpa left him and learns the truth: Jesus is the Word of God and that is how God saves us."I Can See God's Word (Skit) is based on a short story by the same name, also written by Cheryl Rogers. The story is included in her ebook "I Can See Christian Storybook Treasury," a unique story collection that defeats doubts about God that enter a child's mind as he or she grows.It can be performed with a small cast and a few props, even on short notice. It also can be used with youth groups, church groups, Bible clubs, and other ministries. Bible quotes are from the King James Authorized Version and are used with permission within the United Kingdom, where the King James Bible remains under copyright protection.
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Come Again

Come Again

Robert Webb

Nonfiction / Biography / Autobiography

You can't fall in love for the first time twice. Kate's husband Luke – the man she loved from the moment she met him twenty-eight years ago – died suddenly. Since then she has pushed away her friends, lost her job and everything is starting to fall apart. One day, she wakes up in the wrong room and in the wrong body. She is eighteen again but remembers everything. This is her college room in 1992. This is the first day of Freshers' Week. And this was the day she first met Luke. But he is not the man that she lost: he's still a boy – the annoying nineteen-year-old English student she first met. Kate knows how he died and that he's already ill. If they can fall in love again she might just be able to save him. She's going to try to do everything exactly the same . . .
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The Subterraneans

The Subterraneans

Jack Kerouac

Biography / Poetry / Fiction

Jack Kerouac, one of the great voices of the Beat generation and author of the classic On the Road, here continues his peregrinations in postwar, underground San Francisco. "The subterraneans" come alive at night, travel along dark alleyways, and live in a world filled with paint, poetry, music, smoke, and sex. Simmering in the center of it all is the brief affair between Leo Percepied, a writer, and Mardou Fox, a black woman ten years younger. Just at the moment when she is coolly leaving him, Leo realizes his passion for passion, his inability to function without it, and the puzzling futility of seeking redemption and fulfillment through writing.
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