Red Shift
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| Author | Hafez |
| ISBN | 0140195815 |
More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Because his poems were often ecstatic love songs from God to his beloved world, many have called Hafiz the "Tongue of the Invisible."
With this stunning collection of 250 of Hafiz's...
| Author | Patricia A. McKillip |
| ISBN | 0441004385 |
Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will bound you and yours and the children of yours...
Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his own son, were a wicked curse. To others, it was a winter's tale spun by firelight on cold, dark nights. But when Corbet Lynn came to rebuild his family estate,...
| Author | Russell Hoban |
| ISBN | 0253212340 |
Fionnuala wrote: "Ah, you wouldn't be 'fixing' it, not, but you know that of course!
No, you'd be doing an interesting exercise for yourself, maybe for me who'd be curious to read your 'transliteration', even a pag..."
Alan is sure it would be ruined but he's a writer, who aren't necessarily...
| Author | Brian K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 1534313249 |
THE END IS HERE!
After surviving adventures in their past, present and future, the Paper Girls of 1988 embark on one last journey, a five-part epic that includes the emotional double-sized series finale. Featuring a new wraparound cover from Eisner Award-winning co-creator CLIFF CHIANG,...
| Author | Philip Pullman |
| ISBN | 1448194512 |
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey.
It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end...
| Author | Ellen Kushner |
| ISBN | 0553586971 |
Award-winning author and radio personality Ellen Kushner’s inspired retelling of an ancient legend weaves myth and magic into a vivid contemporary novel about the mysteries of the human heart. Brimming with ballads, riddles, and magical transformations, here is the timeless tale of a charismatic...
So Long, See You Tomorrow
My heart was sliced to ribbons by this story. The narrator, an elderly man whose boyhood was scarred by a horrendous event, attempts to make sense of it all – and to make amends, as he tells it – 50 years down the road during the course of writing his memoirs.
In his memoirs, he talks about his...
| Author | E.E. Cummings |
| ISBN | 0871401541 |
The one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last valedictory sonnets. Also featured are thirteen drawings,...
| Author | Thorkild Hansen |
| ISBN | 8701234021 |
It was not for colonization nor for trade that six men left Copenhagen by sea in 1761. They were not charged with spreading Christianity; they wanted no slaves. The Age of Enlightenment had its moments, after all. It was an all-star team of scientists: a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor,...
| Author | Georges Simenon |
| ISBN | 0241258553 |
Kees Popinga is an average man, a solid citizen who might enjoy a game of chess in the evening. But one night, this model husband and devoted father discovers his boss is bankrupt and that his own carefully tended life is in ruins. Before, he had watched impassively as the trains swept by; now he catches...
| Author | Gillian Rose |
| ISBN | 0805210784 |
A devastating confrontation with mortality leads Gillian Rose, one of England's most distinguished thinkers, to illuminate the deepest issues of our lives: love, friendship, sex, illness, and death. Rose's crisis gives her search the force of immediacy and intimacy; her willingness to face life...
First appearing in The London Mercury (May 1925), and republished later the same year in A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories, “A View From the Hill” remains—with each subsequent reading—one of my favorite M.R. James’ tales. It is not one of his most popular, and its premise—man...
| Author | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
| ISBN | 0571138799 |
Kevin Crossley-Holland, an expert in the field of legends, has collected and retold some of the best of the East Anglian and Fen country tales. To the people who lived in this bleak, cold marshland of mist, dark paths and corners, the strange creatures and spirits that haunted and lived in the earth and...
