The Poems of Octavio Paz
9 best books like The Poems of Octavio Paz (Octavio Paz): No One Here Gets Out Alive, Beirut Hellfire Society, Brave New World Revisited, Dragons of Spring Dawning, Dragons of Winter Night, Frank Sinatra in a Blender, The Complete Poems, Clockers, Driven
No One Here Gets Out Alive
| Author | Danny Sugerman |
| ISBN | 0446697338 |
Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity-singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent-the brilliant, charismatic, and obsessed seeker who rejected authority in any form, the explorer who probed "the bounds of reality to see what would happen..." Seven years in the writing, this definitive biography...
| Author | Rawi Hage |
| ISBN | 1324002913 |
After his undertaker father’s death, laconic, Greek mythology– reading Pavlov is approached by a member of the mysterious Hellfire Society— an antireligious sect that, among many rebellious and often salacious activities, arranges secret burial for outcasts who have been denied last rites...
Brave New World Revisited
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 0060898526 |
When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the...
Dragons of Spring Dawning
| Author | Margaret Weis |
| ISBN | 0786930705 |
“They don’t want to hear about darkness and death. They want children’s tales about love and rebirth and silver dragons.
Don’t we all.”
If what you are after is an uplifting children’s tale about love and rebirth and dragons (of many colours) then you have come to the right...
| Author | Margaret Weis |
| ISBN | 1932796789 |
They won their first real battle in the war for Krynn, but the war has only just begun for the Companions! Friendships born in conflict will be torn apart. Hope will rest on the shoulders of a disgraced Knight and his two inexperienced companions. Worlds long divided by hatred and prejudice will either...
Nick Valentine has problems. He’s a drunken ex-cop who lives in his shabby office, hangs out at strip clubs, and has only one real friend—Frank Sinatra. But he’s one of the best private investigators in St. Louis. So when an inept crew robs a credit union, only Valentine can figure out who made off...
| Author | Walt Whitman |
| ISBN | 0140424512 |
In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work that defined him as one of America’s most influential voices and that he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation, and what it meant to be an American. From...
| Author | Richard Price |
| ISBN | 0747562733 |
Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair" (USA Today)
At once an intense mystery and a revealing study of two men, a veteran homicide detective and an innercity crack dealer,...
| Author | James Sallis |
| ISBN | 1464200106 |
Driven is the sequel to Drive, now also an award-winning film. As we exit the initial novel, Driver has killed Bernie Rose, “the only one he ever mourned,” ending his campaign against those who double-crossed him. Driven tells how that young man, done with killing, later will become the one who goes...
