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Company of Moths: Poetry


Michael Palmer - 2005
    Michael Palmer has been hailed by John Ashbery as "exemplarily radical" and by The Village Voice as "the most influential avant-gardist working, and perhaps the greatest poet of his generation." His new book, Company of Mothsa collection in four parts, "Stone," "Scale," "Company of Moths," and "Dream"is beautiful, and fierce: "bright archive, sad merriment," "question pursuing question." Palmer, in this new volume for our darkest times, asks, "How will you now read in the dark?"

Some Values of Landscape and Weather


Peter Gizzi - 2003
    His third book in a decade, Some Values of Landscape and Weather revives poetic architectures such as elegy, song and litany, to build what he calls "a comprehensive music." Here musical and pictorial values perform against a backdrop of political, social and ethical values. These intense and exacting poems traverse a landscape of cultural memory that opens into the explosive, vibrant registers of the now. John Ashbery has written that Gizzi's poems are "simultaneously all over the page and right on target. He is the most exciting poet to come along in quite a while."

Highly Unstable


Mayank - 2020
    

Ellie Kline Series Box Set 2


Mary Stone - 2020
    Kingsley, or The Master, the man who kidnapped Detective Ellie Kline when she was fifteen, is in the wind. But if he’s incapacitated and on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, has someone taken his place? Lucky’s playground is America’s cold highways, taking his power from women with the kill. Partnered with FBI Special Agent Clay Lockwood to crack open a case as horrifying as the human trafficking ring, all signs point to a new master, or mistress, of a terror that went under with the master. When someone very close to Ellie is taken, the hunt turns personal once again, and Ellie is determined more than ever to bring this ring of terror down. But sometimes the prey eats the predator…Cold Grave: Every death tied to Tucker Penland, who hunted his prey and left behind a horrific mystery, raises more questions than answers, and Detective Ellie Kline must piece together clues to help identify a dozen victims. Their families need closure. So does she. But she can’t escape the feeling that Dr. Kingsley is still out there, waiting to strike. But what can she do? Her kidnapping case was taken out of her hands, and the new detective wastes no time pointing a finger in her direction. Worse, her colleagues believe she’s obsessed with a ghost. When a threatening package arrives on her doorstep, a call to FBI Agent Clay Lockwood leads to a startling revelation. No one is safe. Not even one of their own. Evil doesn’t always stay in its grave…Cold Shadows: Katarina, The Master’s protégé, is making a comeback one mark at a time, but she’s losing her razor-sharp edge. Seeking revenge, she’s making bloody mistakes that just might cost her the one desire of her heart. When Dr. Kingsley surfaces, Detective Ellie Kline and Special Agent Clay Lockwood track him to Florida where each horrifying clue adds a new whirl to the circle of evil that’s growing wider. Now, it’s circling back on itself. When Ellie was a beat cop, she saved a child from Katarina’s clutches. Little Harmony is missing again, and a secret is being exposed one terrible illegal adoption at a time. The circle’s evil fingers are wrapping tighter around Harmony. It’s a race to the rescue with the life of an innocent child at stake, and hundreds more. The deadliest monsters live outside the shadows...A blood-pumping chase to stop a monster turns high stakes in the Ellie Kline Series. Before you begin reading...count your knives.

When Day Is Done


Elizabeth Gill - 2004
    But Vinia is tragically already married to Dryden's employer, Joe, manager of the Black Prince coal pit. Joe's jealousy over the growing connection between his wife and Dryden, sends Dryden into the arms of the beautiful and fiery Roberta Grant. But can Dryden ever truly forget Vinia?

Yellow: The verses of hurting and healing


Urja Joshi - 2020
    Mohi symbolises ""the hurting"" and Kabir is all about ""the healing"" that comes after it. A book written and illustrated by author,which is for everyone. for those who believe in love and compassion and for those who don't. Those who have healed and those who are still in process. Those who aren't able to move on and those who have successfully done it. It is for feminists, the activists, the believers, the gender norm shatterers.It is a gift, a book on its journey to make difference in it's reader's life.

In the Skin of a Jihadist: Free Sampler: Inside Islamic State’s Recruitment Networks


Anna Erelle - 2015
    Bilel is the French right-hand man of the most dangerous militant in the world, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Caliph of Islamic State. He offers Mélodie a way to fill the boredom in her young life: he cares about her, offers beautiful things, spiritual purpose and, in less an idyllic life. Bilel’s seduction is honey-tongued and forceful – and all Mélodie must do is join him and ISIS in their Syrian jihad. Every day he gives more detail, telling her how he drives a jeep filled with guns and bottles of the chocolate milk he loves for hundreds of miles on murderous missions of execution. Every night he lures, seduces and manipulates this vulnerable young woman.A riveting page-turner In the Skin of a Jihadist is a shocking inquiry into how technology is spreading radicalism, the lure of ISIS propaganda, and the factors that motivate young people – including many British teenagers – to join extremist wars in Syria and elsewhere.

Blush


CICI B - 2016
    B is known for her amazing ability to make readers feel like they are walking beside her with every page that they turn, and this book, the follow up to the notorious "Letters To My Ex," is another testament to that. Fresh out of an intense break-up, and with her three closest friends by her side, Cici brings you with her as she learns what it means to take back control of her life, and to be her own woman. Completely raw and unfiltered, as always, she doesn't hold back. This is a story for the modern day grown woman. It will make you smile, laugh out loud, hold your breath, bite your bottom lip, and most importantly... Blush.

Kyle Achilles Series, Box Set 1: Pushing Brilliance / The Lies of Spies


Tim Tigner - 2018
    You'll save 40% when you buy book 2 at the same time as book 1.Includes Amazon #1 Bestsellers PUSHING BRILLIANCE and THE LIES OF SPIES. Both are destined to keep you reading late into the night."Achilles is my new Mitch Rapp." --Robert Getty"Reads like a Reacher novel with a little Ludlum and Flynn mixed in." --Jeff Bowden"My first thought was a new Jack Reacher--only better." --Lucia O'Brien"Think of Tim Tigner as Tom Clancy without the filler." --Larry Nesbit"Every bit as spellbinding as David Baldacci." --Kathryn Grady_______________________________________PUSHING BRILLIANCEHe didn't do it.He really didn't.But proving it,will be a killer.Imagine Harrison Ford's THE FUGITIVE meets Tom Clancy's HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER.Framed for murder and on the run, former Olympic biathlete Kyle Achilles is also in the crosshairs of assassins' guns. Why? He has no idea. He's fighting blind against two master strategists and one extraordinary invention--known as Brillyanc.Achilles' only ally is the other prime suspect, a beautiful Russian mathematician who is either the best or worst person to ever enter his life. Katya was engaged to Achilles' brother -- before he died.Chasing clues while dodging bullets, Achilles and Katya race around the globe, uncovering a conspiracy conceived in Moscow, born in Silicon Valley, and destined to demolish both the White House and the Kremlin. Along the way a lost soul finds purpose, a broken heart confronts forbidden love, and America gains a new hero.Packed with heart-stopping surprises, paced by razor-sharp plotting, and populated with richly rendered characters, Pushing Brilliance will leave you breathless and longing for more.________________________________________THE LIES OF SPIESThe American president sent him...The Russian president caught him...The free world is counting on him...But he doesn't remember.Imagine Robert Ludlum's THE BOURNE IDENTITY meets Lee Child's PERSONAL.Journey beneath the diplomatic veneer of international politics and beyond the reach of conventional military operations into the epicenter of clandestine affairs -- where diplomats dance and spies collide in wars that never make the news.For the next step in its expansionist agenda, the Kremlin devises a covert coup far more devastating than Bin Laden's most dangerous dream. With the American economy in his crosshairs, Russian President Vladimir Korovin picks suitable pawns and pulls sizable levers, initiating the boldest gambit the world has ever seen.Halfway around the world, the White House develops a plan for derailing Russian aggression. A way-off-the-books, high-risk, high-reward plan. American President William Silver identifies the perfect person for his impossible mission: former CIA operative Kyle Achilles.With their plans in place and their spies undercover, each president is confident that he has outplayed the other -- until everything goes wrong.

Smörgåsbord of Musings


Rathnakumar Raghunath - 2020
    People living happy lives, some not-so-happy lives, people in love, hopeless romantics, people dealing with heartbreak, the ones who believe life is better with a bit of whimsy, this book, hopefully, has a little something that resonates with everybody, lets the reader find the silver lining when needed and discover the joie de vivre even when times are hard.

The Age of Huts


Ron Silliman - 1986
    This book brings together for the first time all of the poems in Ron Silliman's Age of Huts cycle, including Ketjak, Sunset Debris, The Chinese Notebook, and 2197, as well as two key satellite texts, Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, and BART. Each poem offers a radically different approach toward using language to explore the world. One of the founding works of Language Poetry, The Age of Huts is about everything, more or less literally, as each sentence, even each phrase, embarks on its own narrative, linking together to form a large polyphonic investigation of contemporary life. From Ketjak, one of the first poems to employ "the new sentence," to 2197, a serial work that scrambles the vocabulary and grammar of its sentences, The Age of Huts questions everything we have known about poetry in order to see the world anew.

Deposition: Poems


Katie Ford - 2002
    There was a woman.There was a cross. But in factthey have hung him too high to be touched.—from "A Woman Wipes the Face of Jesus"

American Noise


Campbell McGrath - 1994
    With compassionate wit and insight, Campbell McGrath transports us on a journey through contemporary society, transforming the commonplace into scenes of profound revelation. From late-night bars to early-morning diners, suburban malls to the Mojave Desert, McGrath's meticulously detailed vision defines singular moments of joy and melancholy.

Rhythm of Remembrance


Samir Satam - 2020
    – Shubhangi Swarup (Latitudes of Longing)

I Wrote This Crap for You


Edward Savio - 2012
    It’s all right here in these words. Everything you ever need to know. That’s because I use all twenty-six letters, and you can make anything out of those twenty-six letters. So, you see, this book encompasses everything." — PleaseHelpMeRumored to be penned by the brother of the best-selling author of “I Wrote This For You,” this new tour de force in poetry is sure to stab at your heart, or, at least, make you want to.If you loved the international best-selling collection of poetry, “I Wrote This For You,” you’ll probably hate this. But even those admirers of the free-verse artistry of that work will get a laugh from this classic parody. Author and screenwriter Edward Savio put together a spot-on send up of the poetry best-seller with “I Wrote This Crap For You.”It’s a quick, fun read that we hope you enjoy.“It touched my heart and moved me to tears.”“It’s as if he knew my inner thoughts and fears, and—come to think of it my diary is missing.”