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Ferlinghetti's Greatest Poems
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - 2017
At last, just in time for his 99th birthday, a powerful overview of one of America's most beloved poets: New Directions is proud to present a swift, terrific chronological selection of Ferlinghetti's poems, spanning more than six decades of work and presenting one of modern poetry's greatest achievements.
Characters of the Passion: Lessons on Faith and Trust
Fulton J. Sheen - 1998
This journey to Calvary dramatically introduces the reader to a deep and personal knowledge of faith.96-page paperback - 5-1/8 x 7-3/8
Serial Killers True Crime: Chilling True Crime Cases Of The Worlds Most Twisted Serial Killers And Criminals (True Crime, Organized Crime Book 1)
Layla Hawkes - 2015
However, there are people whose hobbies consist of sinister things: some of them desire to kill women, both young and old, children, or homosexuals.Serial killers often act unpredictably - even experts who study them agree that there is no telling how they will react once they have completed a murder. Many of them become perfectionists, often using the same MO throughout their killing spree and fine tuning it to suit their tastes. Others become braver and take more risks to increase the adrenaline rush. For others, each murder becomes more brutal than the next, while in some cases, they virtually stop - as if their need to kill had been sated appropriately. All we can say for certain is that it is an area of interest for many people and that many movies, books and television shows have been created in response to this.In this book, you will learn of 5 people whose desire to murder was sated – learn how they started, why did they did it, and how they were captured. If you love reading about the twisted minds and heinous actions of some of the worlds most psychotic serial killers, then grab this book now! * Scroll Up and Get Now! *
Inquire Within
In-Q - 2020
Rhythmic. Original. Authentic. Inspiring. A journey to the center of the soul, Inquire Within is a provocative and entertaining debut from an award-winning poet. You’ll never look at poetry the same way again.
Satipatthana Meditation: A Practice Guide
Bhikkhu Anālayo - 2018
With mindfulness being so widely taught, there is a need for a clear-sighted and experience-based guide. Analayo provides it.
A Store at War
Joanna Toye - 2019
But her burgeoning friendship with young salesman Jim draws her into a swirl of secrets within the store. And with the war progressing to crisis point, Cedric Marlow and his staff must battle nightly bombings and the absence of loved ones to keep going.From a former writer of The Archers comes a novel that weaves together a powerful sense of community and a vivid evocation of a time when every man, woman and child was doing their bit.
'Jo writes with a sure hand and a light touch…It's a real page-turner with a spirited heroine who will worm her way into readers' hearts. A sparkling new voice in fiction.' Sunday Times bestseller Veronica Henry
House of Cards
Big Hit Entertainment - 2020
Some lyrics even on their own pulse with special power.We are happy to present to you the GRAPHIC LYRICS Series as a new means of storytelling with lyrics and illustrations ― a new way to move the hearts of people with the songs and their lyrics.As the first installment, five illustration books with the lyrics of BTS songs are now available. “A Supplementary Story:You Never Walk Alone” from the album YOU NEVER WALK ALONE; “Save ME” and “House Of Cards” from the special album The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever; and “RUN” and “Butterfly” released in the mini album The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt.2 have been reborn as illustration books under the same titles.“We Can Laugh When We’re Together”The story of seven boys and their special connections of encouragement and hopeVol. 3 House Of Cards presents two boys and their despair and frightful visions, and the story tells how they reach out for a better future with hope despite all their travails. Printed in an extended vertical format with short-edge binding and portrait orientation, each illustration continues to the next page to create the image of falling into an abyss.Like a repeat sign in a music score, some emotions have a way of surging back to you in retrospect. The GRAPHIC LYRICS Series will knock on the hearts of readers with the lyrics from the five songs, five different illustrations, and five printing formats as well as the joy of reading which only paper books can offer. The series will be the very first of its kind as well as a brand-new way of appreciating music.
The Girl from Venice
Siobhan Daiko - 2021
But when the Germans occupy Venice in 1943, she must flee the city to save her life. Lidia joins the partisans in the Venetian mountains, where she meets David, an English soldier fighting for the same cause. As she grows closer to him, harsh Nazi reprisals and Lidia’s own ardent anti-fascist activities threaten to tear them apart.Decades later in London, while sorting through her grandmother’s belongings after her death, Charlotte discovers a Jewish prayer book, unopened letters written in Italian, and a fading photograph of a group of young people in front of the Doge’s Palace. Intrigued by her grandmother’s refusal to talk about her life in Italy before and during the war, Charlotte travels to Venice in search of her roots. There, she learns not only the devastating truth about her grandmother’s past, but also some surprising truths about herself.A heart-breaking page-turner, based on actual events in Italy during World War IIReleasing July 1st 2021
Kingdom of Yesterday's Lies
Hayley Osborn - 2020
It could be that the handsome dark-haired fae helping her find her mother is adamant she’s fae. Or the fact that her ears—which she thought were deformed from birth—may have been chopped off by her mother to hide her heritage. Or perhaps it’s that her life has become so messed up, she’s relying on the help of that handsome fae, when the fae have been her enemy for as long as she can remember.Either way, it seems like everyone wants her dead and she doesn’t know why. Everyone except the dark-haired fae, that is. He doesn’t want her dead, and though she’d admit it to no one, she wants to be something very different from his enemy.Her mother knows what’s going on. Bria’s just got to find her, help her escape the king and make her explain.But the more Bria learns, the more she realizes the truth might not set her free. It’s more likely to imprison her and steal away everything she’s ever loved. Including the dark-haired fae.With a nod to Cinderella and a slow burn romance, KINGDOM OF YESTERDAY'S LIES will appeal to fans of Sarah J Mass and Holly Black, and anyone who enjoys fae royalty.
The Champion Mindset: An Athlete's Guide to Mental Toughness
Joanna Zeiger - 2017
Reaching the top of any sport, or any aspect of life, takes years upon years of dedication and proper preparation. But if there's a huge pool of individuals who have undertaken the same commitment and steps towards becoming the best, what truly separates the winners from everyone else? Joanna Zeiger believes proper mental preparation is the answer.The Champion Mindset is a much-needed and long overdue look into how to program a competitor's mind to achieve optimal success. Changing behaviors and ways of thinking are never easy, but the chapters in this book aim to simplify this process to make it manageable and achievable. This book is for every athlete--from the weekend warrior, who wants to complete in his or her first 5k running race, to those who have aspirations of one day becoming Olympians and world champions.The Champion Mindset is a compendium of Zeiger's own personal journey from struggling novice swimmer to Olympian and World Champion. Through steps including: Proper Goal Setting, Keeping it Fun, Building Your Team, Intention in Training, Improving Motivation, Promoting Self-Confidence, and Mind/Body Cohesion, among others, Zeiger uses her decades of personal experience, doctoral-level research, and professional success, to prepare readers to go all-in with their mental game.
Damned Good Show
Derek Robinson - 2002
known as 'the best flying club in the world', but when war pitches the young pilots of 409 Squadron into battle over Germany, their training, tactics and equipment are soon found wanting, their twin-engined bombers obsolete from the off. Chances of completing a 30-operation tour? One in three. At best.Robinson's crooked salute to the dogged heroes of the R.A.F.'s early bombing campaign is a wickedly humourous portrait of men doing their duty in flying death traps, fully aware, in those dark days of war, there was nothing else to do but dig in and hang on.
Now Is The Hour
Hilary Green - 2006
Four firm friends are forced to part. Rose, the beautiful dancer, must return to her family in London and the blitz, leaving singer Richard to enlist in the army with their relationship still unresolved. Gay, asthmatic Merry, the musical director, is destined for the army too, while the object of his unrequited love, charismatic magician, Felix, chooses the RAF.Before long, Rose joins a group entertaining the troops in France. The Nazi war machine however is fast and merciless on the land and in the air and soon all of them find themselves in terrible danger. And as they are struck by the brutality of war they realise exactly who is most important to them and despite the odds, and in terrible circumstances, they determine to find each other again.With the threat of capture, injury and death ever present, the four of them will have to find reserves of courage, love and endurance that they did not know they possessed.
World War 2 Japan: (Pearl Harbour - Pacific Theater - Iwo Jima - Battle for the Solomon Islands - Okinawa - Nagasaki - Atomic Bomb)
Stephan Weaver - 2016
The Japanese went from fighting against just the Chinese to attempting to practically take on the entire world at the one time. Inside you will learn about... ✓ The Attack on Pearl Harbor ✓ The Pacific War Begins ✓ The Completion of the War Plan. ✓ Attacking Australia and Further Expansion ✓ Battle of the Coral Sea ✓ The Battle for the Solomon Islands ✓ The Bomb ✓ The Japanese Surrender And much more! This is a story of rapid expansion, an attempt at consolidation, and ultimately, retreat and massacre. It is a story of honor, of Allied unity, and eventual surrender. The role of Japan in the Pacific War is a part of WWII that cannot be forgotten.
The Postmistress
Maggie Sullivan - 2020
It’s 1939 and one ordinary street in Lancashire is getting ready for war, but who knows what else is going on behind the blacked-out windows?Sylvia Barker runs the haberdashery in the village of Millhead, her headstrong daughter Rose has no plans to waste her life on a lot of old needle and cotton. She’ll get a shock when a few family secrets come to light.Violet Pegg has been writing to a Canadian pilot and is excited to learn he is going to be stationed nearby; with so many girls eager to make friends with the handsome young man, will Violet get a look in?Vicky Parrot has known more heartache and tragedy than most 25 year old and she wouldn’t know where to look for happiness even if she tried, is the war about to change all that.In a time when the country is pulling together, can the people of Millhead do their best for King and country?
Twelve Seconds to Live
Douglas Reeman - 2002
Haunted by the mine that destroyed his first command, H.M. Submarine Tornado, Lieutenant-Commander David Masters now defuses mines on land and teaches the same deadly science to others.