2014, ISBN: 9781130567946

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iUniverse, Inc.. Paperback. New. Paperback. 118 pages. Dimensions: 8.9in. x 6.0in. x 0.4in.Employment DesperationWhen the bill collectors are after you, you have to do what you have to … Mehr…

iUniverse, Inc.. Paperback. New. Paperback. 118 pages. Dimensions: 8.9in. x 6.0in. x 0.4in.Employment DesperationWhen the bill collectors are after you, you have to do what you have to do. Pumpkin PieThe apple is not the only forbidden fruit. Cant Call in DeadYou better get to work whether you are dead or alive. The High JumpGo deep into this Brooklyn neighborhood and find out the task you must complete to qualify for the leap into manhood. The Pimp With A LimpThe story of a cheating husband with nine lives. LimoHe is no Mickey Mouse, but he brought so much joy to so many families. The End Bread RevolutionYou cant push a man around who is willing to die for what he believes in. Triple CrossedWhen you are a gangster you cant be trusted and you cant trust anyone. MudslingingIt can really get dirty in the political arena. When The Weird Meets The WickedEnter into the twisted mind of Alex Bushnik and you wont know whether to laugh or cry. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., iUniverse, Inc., AbbottPress. Paperback. New. Paperback. 222 pages. Dimensions: 8.5in. x 5.5in. x 0.6in.HANNAH LARKIN HORNE watches helplessly as the rich dark earth falls on her husbands casket, one shovelful at a time. Riddled with grief and guilt, she can hardly believe what her life has become because she begged her husband to move back to West Virginia. Now her husband is dead, and her son is accused of murdering him. Worse yet, Hannah believes she caused it all. As police sergeant Keith McCauley attempts to comfort Hannah at the cemetery, she is numb with dismay as she reflects back on her childhood on their mountainous West Virginia farm. Her days were filled with forays into the woods seeking mountain tea, huckleberries, and hazelnuts as well as attempting to make friends with small animals which became pets. At the age of twelve Hannahs life was drastically altered when her family was forced to move to Washington State. For the next ten years, her life became one of grief for her loss and a devastating longing to be back on the farm. Eventually she attends college where she meets and marries Bill Larkin. Bill knows of her longing for West Virginia and when he becomes dissatisfied with his work he decides to move Hannah home. When her son is born, Hannah feels her world is complete and like a fairy tale it remains that way for eighteen years. A Fatal Love of Place shares the first installment in a mysterious tale with spider-web tentacles of drug abuse, deceit, and unfaithfulness in which Hannah Larkins family becomes snared. The sustaining power of Hannahs faith in a benevolent God and her love for her son kept her strong and resilient and full of hope for a brighter future. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., AbbottPress, Wayman Publishing. Paperback. New. Paperback. 300 pages. Dimensions: 8.5in. x 5.5in. x 0.8in.The night I met Cade I never wouldve thought that two years later, after we were homeless street musicians in Hawaii, we would have a little girl and another baby on the way. Our son was born with the type of birth defects that make televangelists cringe. As his health waned, my own breath evaded me, like I was the one who needed the ventilatorthe life support. The death home gave him a really nice funeral, the kind Id never wished to attend. When they tried closing his casket, I nearly fell on my face, not wanting them to shut the lid on my baby. We lost it after that, totally cemented in our grief. Cade got into drugs, joined a rock and roll band, and even grew out his damn hair. At the time, I was sick of the oatmeal option (the only food we had), so I kicked Cade out of the house, and started modeling and working as a diesel mechanic. That was how I met Earl, an old man and unlikely best friend; the big sag, a middle aged woman who still flashed folks, and The Cowboy a man who fell in love with me. It was slow at first, but Cade reverted to the man Id busked with years before. It wasnt until I killed a rogue skunk, and my daughter nearly choked on a fry, that I gave my husband another chance. But could our marriage recover from the death of our son This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Wayman Publishing, UK: Fourth Estate, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9.2 x 6.5 x 2 inches. A dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. Crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months of age, and Queen of France at 16, at 18 Mary ascended the throne that was her birthright and began ruling one of the most fractious courts in Europe, riven by religious conflict and personal lust for power. She rode out at the head of an army in both victory and defeat; saw her second husband assassinated, and married his murderer. She was a woman so magnetic, so brilliant in conversation that her cousin, Elizabeth I, refused to meet her in the course of their lifetimes for fear of being overshadowed or outwitted. At 25 she entered captivity at the hands of her rival queen, from which only death would release her. The life of Mary Stuart is one of unparalleled drama and conflict. From the labyrinthine plots laid by the Scottish lords to wrest power for themselves, to the efforts made by Elizabeth's ministers to invalidate Mary's legitimate claim to the English throne, John Guy returns to the archives to explode the myths and correct the inaccuracies that surround this most fascinating monarch. He also explains a central mystery: why Mary would have consented to marry - only three months after the death of her second husband, Lord Darnley - the man who was said to be his killer, the Earl of Bothwell. He also solves, through careful re-examination of the Casket Letters, the secret behind Darnley's spectacular assassination at Kirk o'Field. With great pathos, Guy illuminates how the imprisoned Mary's despair led to a reckless plot against Elizabeth - and thus to her own execution. The portrait that emerges is not of a political pawn or a manipulative siren, but of a shrewd and charismatic young ruler who relished power and, for a time, managed to hold together a fatally unstable country. The book is a work of historical scholarship that offers radical new interpretations of an ancient story., Fourth Estate, 2004, Bottletree Classics. Paperback. New. Paperback. 250 pages. Dimensions: 9.0in. x 5.8in. x 0.7in.An anthology finalist award winner in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and a Gothic Readers Book Club Choice Award Winner, The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849delivers 12 of the greatest horror stories for the first half of the 19th century. Andrew Barger, author of the award winningCoffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poes Lifeas well asEdgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems, read over 300 horror short stories to compile the 12 best. At the back of the book he includes a list of all short stories he considered along with their dates of publication and author, when available. He includes background for each of the stories and author photos. A number of the stories were published in leading periodicals of the day such asBlackwoodsandAtkinsons Casket. ReadThe Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849tonight!1836The Old Mans Tale About the Queer Clientby Charles Dickens (1812 -1870)1817The Deserted Houseby E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776 - 1822)1836The Ministers Black Veilby Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)1843The Tell-Tale Heartby Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)1830The Mysterious Mansionby Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)1828The Severed Handby Wilhelm Hauff (1802 - 1827)1826The LighthousebyGeorge Soane (1789 - 1860)1842The Pit and the Pendulumby Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)1832The Executionerby Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)1832The Thunder-Struck and the BoxerbySamuelWarren(1807 - 1877)1845The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemarby Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)1839The Fall of the House of UsherbyEdgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849 will likely become a best seller . . . What makes this collection (of truly terrifying tales!) so satisfying is the presence of a brief introduction before each story, sharing some comments about the writer and elements of the tale. Barger has once again whetted our appetites for fright, spent countless hours making these twelve stories accessible and available, and has provided in one book the best of the best of horror short stories. It is a winner. Amazon Top Ten ReviewerBarger aims for readers both scholarly and casual, ensuring that the authors get their due while making the work accessible overall to the mainstream. BookgasmA top to bottom pick for anyone who appreciates where the best of horror came from. Midwest Book ReviewIincludes a wonderful list of the over 300 tales he read for this collection, giving the reader an excellent reference source to continue. Gothic Readers Book Club This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Bottletree Classics, Whiting & Co Limited, London, 1884. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Jacket. Inscribed by Author. Contents are: Lecture I, The Earthen Jar; Lecture II, the Rune; Lecture III, the Book; Lecture IV, the Horn; Lecture V, the Casket; Lecture VI, the Coin. Inscibed by the author on the reverse of the front end-paper "The Hon Mrs J Randolf Clay, With kindest regards from her obliged friend, The Author, London, August 22, 1884. Work is dedicated to John Ruskin. Firm clean black covers with gilt lettering, first gathering of first lecture is detached and split between pages 144/145 (stapled gatherings in this publication are stuck rather than sewn), pages are clean but a little darkened. No dust-jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Inscribed by Author. Inventory No: 42314110051. ., Whiting & Co Limited, 1884, Random House, 2014. Soft cover. Very Good. 512 pages. Illustrations A major biography of arguably New Zealand's greatest modern political leader As Norman Kirk's body lay in state near the steps of Parliament on the day after his death on 31 August 1974, a kaumatua wailed 'the mighty totara has fallen'. The lament reflected what many New Zealanders felt about this big, commanding and loved leader, dead at just 51. More than 30,000 people filed past Kirk's casket over two days, and again in Christchurch, in a commemoration that matched only Michael Joseph Savage's for emotional power. Both men died in office, both men were humanitarians. Kirk also worked to move the Labour Party away from its cloth-cap heritage to embrace a much broader electoral compass, for it to become, in his words, 'the natural party of New Zealand'. Prime Minister of New Zealand between November 1972 and August 1974, Kirk's childhood was blighted with poverty, yet he thrived. He moved into a succession of manual trades, before booming into local body politics. His political rise was rapid, from mayor of Kaiapoi at the age of 30 to leader of the Labour Party within a few years. This book examines Kirk's political leadership; his successes, especially his stunning performances on the international stage, but also his later difficulties when the country's economy was rocked by international oil shocks. He deferred the 1973 Springbok tour and sent warships into the French nuclear testing zone near Mururoa Atoll, his government set up ohu and the established the DPB. He was New Zealand's first truly regionalist Prime Minister, drawing New Zealand closer to Asia and the Pacific, as the ties to 'mother Britain' slowly loosened. This landmark book takes the full measure of the remarkable New Zealander who was our last working-class Prime Minister., Random House, 2014, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 34 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: . . . as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars; Who, inward searchd, have livers white as milk. ; And these assume but valours excrement To render them redoubted! Look on beauty, And you shall see tis purchased by the weight; Which therein works a miracle in nature, 90 Making them lightest that wear most of it: So are those crisped snaky golden locks Which make such wanton gambols with the wind, Upon supposed fairness, often known To be the dowry of a second head, The skull that bred them in the sepulchre. Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on 100 To entrap the wisest. Therefore, thou gaudy gold, Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee; Nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge Tween man and man: but thou, thou meagre lead, Which rather threatenest than dost promise aught, Thy paleness moves me more than eloquence; And here choose I: joy be the consequence! Por. Aside How all the other passions fleet to air, As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair, And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy! 110 0 love, be moderate; allay thy ecstasy; In measure rain thy joy; scant this excess! 1 feel too much thy blessing: make it less, For fear I surfeit! Bass. What find I here Opening the leaden casket. Fair Portias counterfeit! What demi-god Hath come so near creation Move these eyes Or whether, riding on the balls of mine, Seem they in motion Here are severd lips, Parted with sugar breath: so sweet a bar Should sunder such sweet friends. Here in her hairs The painter plays the spider, and hath woven 12i A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men, Faster. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<