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Sarah has spent the last few weeks wondering what’s going on between her and Robert. They got close during their class project, but then he had to rush off and she hasn’t seen him since. She’s starting to think that she’s wasting her time. That is, until she gets a phone call from him saying that his father wants to meet her. In the blink of an eye everything changes and suddenly things start getting serious. But when Rob’s father makes it clear that she will never be family, what will she do? ...
| Автор | Third Cousins |
Fantasies do come true! His fantasy was to make love to a pregnant girl. It was something that he had kept to himself for years and he had never tried to follow through on it. It would be rather weird for him to ask a girl who was pregnant for another man for sex. She had other issues. She was pregnant, without a man and badly in need of some satisfaction. What would happen when their two world collide? In «The Evolution of Eve» The author weaves a fantastic tale, exploring how two people can...
| Автор | Justine Holloway |
To Walk in Seasons is designed to help the beginner discover haiku for himself, and eventually create his own haiku poems.It includes a lively and sensitive introduction on the nature of haiku. For individual study, or for use in the classroom, it also contains a study guide aimed at recreating the thought processes behind this terse, concentrated form. Mr. Cohen's poetry like his anthology illuminates poetic experience:To walk in seasonsis to discover what's insidea split instantTo...
| Автор | William Howard Cohen |
Chapters from fourteen best-selling classic novels published between 1842 and 1919 are compiled here for today's readers. The selections not only give a rare un-stereotyped look at the day-to-day life in grandma's time but also reveal a wealth of good reading that has long been forgotten.Tales about sheepherding contest, a family Sunday evening around the fireplace, a great snowstorm, a new minister in town, an American who inherits an English estate, and a look at Victorian-age...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
This is the most authoritative and concise book on Japanese haiku available: what it is, how it developed, and how it is practiced in both Japanese and English.While many haiku collections are available to Western readers, few books combine both translated haiku with haiku written originally in English, along with an analysis of individual poems and of the haiku form itself. Written by a leading scholar in the field—Kenneth Yasuda was the first American to receive a doctorate in...
| Автор | Kenneth Yasuda |
From Hollywood starlets to downtown taxi dancers, and from Central Avenue speakeasies to clapboard Venice Beach shacks to Depression-era hobos riding the rails, this volume brings you the masters of the genre penning tales of love, lust, and loss in the City of Angels.Includes classic stories by: Raymond Chandler, Paul Cain, James Ellroy, Leigh Brackett, James M. Cain, Chester Himes, Ross MacDonald, Walter Mosley, Naomi Hirahara, Margaret Millar, Joseph Hansen, William Campbell Gault, Jervey...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
This haiku book provides an invaluable guide to developing your own haiku-writing skills, with clear explanations, brilliant examples, and innovative writing exercises.It also offers an introduction to related Japanese poetic forms including: Senryu—commentaries on human nature that are often humorous or ironicHaibun—short, autobiographical narratives accompanied by a haikuTanka—imaginative poems full of highly personal, emotional expressionsHaiga—drawings...
| Автор | Bruce Ross |
Hotel is a wonderful debut pamphlet from 2018 Eric Gregory award¬winning poet Ali Lewis. In short, intricate verse, his poems tackle the complexities of modern relationships and city living with great self-deprecation, not a little lightheartedness, and dashes of the surreal. But there is depth here too. In this connected century, with so many eyes on you, with so many opinions and agendas being made vocal, with so many opinions, what is the best way to be, as a partner, a friend, a colleague?...
| Автор | Ali Lewis |
This vintage book contains Percy Bysshe Shelley's seminal 1819 poem, «Masque of Anarchy». The poem, though written in a relaxed and familiar manner, is highly characteristic of Shelly's other works. It has the usual ardour of his tone, the unbounded sensibility by which he combines the most domestic with the most remote and fanciful images, as well as his signature patience. This volume is highly recommended for all poetry-lovers, and is a must-read for fans of Shelley's work. It...
| Автор | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
DO YOU A) Know a human? B) Love a human? C) Have trouble dealing with humans? IF YOU'VE ANSWERED YES TO ANY OF THE ABOVE, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU Whether you are planning a high level of human interaction or just a casual visit to the planet, this user-guide to the human race will help you translate their sayings, understand exotic concepts such as 'democracy' and 'sofas', and make sense of their habits and bizarre customs. A phrase book, a dictionary and a...
| Автор | Мэтт Хейг |
