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by James Richardson"For James Richardson, poetry is serious and speculative play for both intellect and imagination... [He] makes familiar scenes strange enough to provoke new and startling insights."--National Book Award Judges"James Richardson is . . . a poet who earned his reputation as a master of imagery and concision."--The Christian Science Monitor"[O]ne of America's most distinctive contemporary poets . . . a powerful and moving body of work that in its intimacy and philosophical naturalism is unique in contemporary American poetry."--Boston Review"James Richardson's poetry is . . . unusual, quirky, personal, and profound."--The Threepenny ReviewIn this seriously playful new collection, James Richardson enters into underused and forgotten places in our emotional spectrum to revive lost feelings. His breathtaking skill with aphorisms open portals of new perspective to refresh us with their humor and make the familiar reinvigorated with the blessedly strange.From "Big Scenes":And what was King Kong ever going to dowith Fay Wray, or Jessica Lange,but climb, climb, climb and get shot down?No wonder Gulliver's amiably chattingwith that six-inch woman in his palm.Desire's huge, there's really nowhere to put itin this small world that it will stay put:might as well just talk...James Richardson is the author of six books of poetry, including By the Numbers, which was a National Book Award finalist, and his poems appear regularly in The New Yorker. He is a professor of English and creative writing at Princeton University and lives in New Jersey.
During Stalemate: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Pi YiThe affairs of the mortal world were like a chess game.Chess has never changed and the age of chess has changed. The victor would gain the world, while the loser would have to start thinking again.A thousand-year grudge would never end, and it was unknown when they had become the people in the shadows.With every cycle of reincarnation, both the Scarlet and Black sides would set off a war between the pawns. All sorts of heroic souls would turn into war chariots, and they would fight each other to the death. Ordinary high school student Pei Yilan had been involved in this war, which was already in ruins, because of the jade pendant his father had left behind. The war that was supposed to only concern the two of them became even more complicated when they accidentally got involved in another troublemaker, Bai Qi and Bai Daiyu. The battle was getting fiercer and fiercer. It was difficult to determine the victor in a battle between swords. There were new chess pieces that entered the game, as well as old chess pieces that left.
During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
by Meghan O'Rourke Joan ChaseJoan Chase's subtle story of three generations of women negotiating lifetimes of "joy and ruin" deserves its place alongside such achievements as Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women.The Queen of Persia is not an exotic figure but a fierce Ohio farmwife who presides over a household of daughters and granddaughters. The novel tells their stories through the eyes of the youngest members of the family, four cousins who spend summers on the farm, for them both a life-giving Eden and the source of terrible discoveries about desire and loss. The girls bicker and scrap, they whisper secrets at bedtime, and above all, they observe the kinds of women their mothers are and wonder what kind of women they will become. But always present is the family's great trauma, the decline and eventual death from cancer of Gram's daughter Grace. A powerful story about family ties and tensions, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia is also a book about place, charting the transformation of the old hardscrabble Midwest into the commercial wilderness of modern America.
During-the-Event (Permafrost Prize Series)
by Roger WallFor D.E., only two certainties exist: his grandfather is dead and life will never be the same. During-the-Event is a dystopian adventure that roams across a fallen United States, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters along the way. In the near future, climate change has ravaged the United States, leading the government to overcorrect through culls and relocation. Those who survive the mandated destruction are herded into “habitable production zones,” trading their freedom for illusions of security. The few who escape learn quickly that the key to survival is to stay hidden in the corners of the country. For seventeen years, During-the-Event, or D.E., has lived free in a pastoral life with his grandfather in North Dakota. But when death reaches their outpost. D.E. is forced on a journey that will change his life—and reveal surprises about his past. Once taught that strangers are only sources of pain, D.E. must learn to trust the people he meets on his journey. During-the-Event is a soaring coming-of-age story that grapples with achingly familiar issues: coming to terms with loss and loneliness, finding what our identities really mean, and searching for love in an often strange and bewildering world.
Durma Bebê
by Cindy VineKyle Rushton parece ter tudo para ele. Sua própria casa, um negócio de sucesso, uma linda mulher em sua cama e um filho adorável. Mas quando as coisas começam a dar errado em seu relacionamento, ele se espalha como um câncer em todas as facetas de sua vida. Às vezes as coisas não são o que parecem. Preso entre uma necessidade de vingança e uma busca por justiça, Kyle se volta para o passado em busca de respostas e quanto mais camadas ele descobre, mais escura a verdade se torna. Eventualmente, ele se encontra perguntando - está sabendo que a terrível verdade vai ajudá-lo a encontrar a paz e a justiça?
Durma Bem
by Esther Hervy Albert SpanoVocê lembra da primeira vez em que tentou prender a respiração? Você era criança e estava brincando. Você encheu os pulmões aspirando o máximo de ar possível, inflou as bochechas e contou até sessenta. Eu também brincava dessa brincadeira inocente, e ainda sorrio quando penso nisso. Mas hoje tudo mudou e eu estou com medo. Desde que fui nomeado diretor dessa grande empresa, dias atrás, alguém ou alguma coisa me impede de respirar quando tento encher os pulmões. Uma mão invisível pressiona meu peito ou aperta minhas narinas para se certificar de que nenhuma molécula de oxigênio alimente meu corpo. Qualquer forma de vida está agora proibida para mim. E mesmo que eu ainda não esteja morto, não sei quanto tempo vou aguentar. Durma Bem é um conto escrito a quatro mãos por Albert Spano e Esther J. Hervy.
Durée as Einstein-in-the-Heart: Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)
by Candice Lee KentDurée as Einstein-in-the-Heart traces the trajectory of modernist interaction with Bergson and Einstein through the works of Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) and Mary Butts (1890–1937). It presents an overview of critical approaches that focus on time in Woolf’s novels, and that foreground Bergson in their analyses of Woolf. It then examines how Woolf’s formal experimentation, and theorisation of time, in Jacob’s Room (1922) and Mrs Dalloway (1925) relates to Bergson’s temporal theories. This is followed by a discussion on the role Bergson’s thinking played in the early formulation of Butts’s ideas of time, and an analysis of how Bergson’s ideas emerge in the short story ‘Angele au Couvent’ (1923), concluding by highlighting points of contrast in the engagements of Woolf and Butts. The book then documents the growth of Butts’s interest in Einstein’s ideas and shows how she amalgamates these with Bergson’s thinking in her journals and in the most intense of her fictional engagement with Einstein’s ideas, the novel Death of Felicity Taverner (1932). It discusses Butts’s responses to the popular science genre and examines the important role played by J. W. N. Sullivan and Arthur Eddington in the development of her understanding, and interpretation, of physics. It concludes with a discussion of Butts’s antisemitic characterisation of Kralin, as purveyor of corrupted science, in contrast with the Taverners, who are conscious of durée and delight in the abstractions of scientific truth.
Dusht Kaua
by Sanjeev Thakur"दुष्ट कौआ" यह एक दुष्ट कौवें की कहानी हैं। जो घोंसले में रहने वाले पक्षियों के अण्डों को फोड़कर नुकसान पहुँचाता था। वह एक के बाद एक सबके पास मदद माँगने जाता है और अंत में वह शरमा कर जंगल की ओर उड़ जाता है। This is a story about a cruel crow who used to destroy the eggs of other birds and run away to the forest.
Dusk
by Eve EdwardsDusk by Eve Edwards is a beautiful love story set against the brutal back drop of WWI.For all fans of Sebastian Faulks and historical fiction - this is Bird Song for young adult readers.A love worth fighting for.When Helen, a young hard-working nurse, meets aristocratic artist Sebastian, she doesn't expect to even like him, let alone fall in love. But against the troubled backdrop of wartime London, an unlikely but intense romance blossoms. And even the bloody trenches of the Somme, where they are both posted, cannot diminish their feelings for each other.But Helen is concealing a secret and when a terrible crime is committed there are devastating consequences for them both.When lives are being lost, can true love survive?Eve Edwards is an award-winning author. She lives in Oxford and is married with three children.www.eve-edwards.com
Dusk
by Maureen LeeA gripping ebook-exclusive suspense novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Maureen Lee.Sixteen years ago, summer went wrong...As school closed and the long summer break begins, lifelong friends Norah and Daisy are looking forward to one last summer together. Daisy has finished school and is about to marry; Norah is due to return for her A Levels. Those last few weeks were meant to be a special time, but that was before the strangely charismatic Jack Hannay arrived at the local boatyard. Instead of visiting all the places they had planned that summer, the girls fall under Jack's dark spell as does beautiful Amanda, who dreams of being an actress. But as the summer draws to a close, Daisy refuses to accept that it is over. She insists on one last visit to Jack's boat where something so horrific happens that it shatters the lives of all three girls in a cruel and brutal way. Sixteen years later, all three women are still suffering from the effects of that night in their own different ways. But there are matters yet to be resolved, mysteries to solve and truths to face before lives can return to normal, if they ever can...
Dusk
by Maureen LeeSixteen years ago, summer went wrong... As school closed and the long summer break begins, lifelong friends Norah and Daisy are looking forward to one last summer together. Daisy has finished school and is about to marry; Norah is due to return for her A Levels. Those last few weeks were meant to be a special time, but that was before the strangely charismatic Jack Hannay arrived at the local boatyard. Instead of visiting all the places they had planned that summer, the girls fall under Jack's dark spell as does beautiful Amanda, who dreams of being an actress. But as the summer draws to a close, Daisy refuses to accept that it is over. She insists on one last visit to Jack's boat where something so horrific happens that it shatters the lives of all three girls in a cruel and brutal way. Sixteen years later, all three women are still suffering from the effects of that night in their own different ways. But there are matters yet to be resolved, mysteries to solve and truths to face before lives can return to normal, if they ever can...
Dusk
by Susan GatesSharing both human and hawk genes, a young girl escapes from her cage at a top secret laboratory where she was conceived by military scientists in a botched experiment designed to create stronger soldiers.
Dusk
by T. A. CreechWhen contact is lost with Mission Control, Commander John Dennington isn’t overly concerned. Such hiccups in communication are common. The first inkling of the larger problem occurs when he sees the very shape of the world change before his eyes.John must ease his crew into a new mission and keep the Station together by any means necessary. The crew jeopardizes their chances by fighting his orders, but Jason Weiss, his mission specialist and the light of his life, makes John’s situation more bearable.The smallest malfunction to Station or crew would spell the end for six astronauts trapped high above a ruined Earth. It’s their mission to carry on. Random chance of the universe hasn’t operated in their favor so far, but John is determined to see them all safely home.
Dusk
by Tim LebbonKosar the thief senses that Rafe Baburn is no ordinary boy. After witnessing a madman plunder Rafe's village and murder his parents, Kosar knows the boy needs his help. And now, for a reason he cannot fathom, others are seeking the boy's destruction. Uncertain where to begin, Kosar turns to A'Meer, an ex-lover and Shantasi warrior whose people, unbeknownst to him, have been chosen to safeguard magic's return. A'Meer knows instantly that it is Rafe who bears this miracle of magic. Now Kosar and a band of unexpected allies embark on a battle to protect one special boy. For dark forces are closing in-–including the Mages, who have been plotting their own triumphant return.
Dusk Outside The Braille Press
by Paul HostovskyFrom the book: Dusk Outside the Braille Press The lights go on in all the windows but one. It's the one in the northeast corner of the narrow three-story building at 88 St. Stephen Street where the proofreading department misses another sunset. Some of the white canes lean against the wall like backslashes in the unpunctuated dark, and some lie folded underneath the chairs like bundles of long chalk, a red one in each, and the fingers are passing over the dots like wind over buildings, and the braille dictionary in seventy-two volumes is stacked practically to the ceiling like a cord of wood. It steams in the darker darkness of a corner and a book louse is journeying imperceptibly through the D's. A proofreader stops reading, opens her watch and closes it click, reaches under her chair for her cane and opens it chick-a-chick into a white line which she sweeps across an invisible line which she walks straight to the hulking dictionary to look up a word which needs hyphenating. Braille is dots in a cell, lots and lots of cells. Each cell is a three-story building at dusk, the lights on in certain windows and not others. Each book is a city where the blind look in through the windows with their fingers pressed to the panes. Outside it's beginning to snow and each snowflake is a different character in the Complete Works of Beauty which contains only one mistake that the proofreading department can find, and the faces pressed to the windows are saying beautiful. And the fingers checking the time are saying time. And the white canes are opening in a chorus of switchblades and beginning to cut their separate paths home.
Dusk Watchman (Twilight Reign, Book #5)
by Tom LloydAfter his pyrrhic victory at Moorview, King Emin learns the truth about the child Ruhen - but he is powerless to act. Instead, he must mourn his dead friends while his enemy promises the beleaguered peoples of the Land a new age of peace. The past year has taken a grave toll: the remaining Menin troops seek revenge upon Emin, daemons freely walk the Land, and Ruhen's power is increasing daily. And yet, a glimmer of hope remains. There is one final, desperate chance for victory: a weapon, so terrible only a dead man could wield it, and only a madman would try. But if they do not grasp this opportunity, King Emin and his allies will be obliterated as Ruhen's millennia-old plans are about to bear terrible fruit. If his power continues unchecked, Ruhen will achieve total dominion - and not just over mankind, but over the Gods themselves. One way or another, the future of the Land will be decided now - written in the blood of men.
Dusk and Other Stories
by James SalterJames Salter is an author with an impassioned following among contemporary readers, writers, and critics, and Dusk and Other Stories is among his signal achievements. First published nearly a quarter-century ago, and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital--each narrative a masterpiece of sustained power and seemingly effortless literary grace. <p><p> These stories chart the myriad moments and details that, taken together, shape a fate. Two New York attorneys newly flush with wealth embark on a dissolute tour of Italy. A divorced woman learns that she is about to lose the last thing of real value to her. An ambitious young screenwriter unexpectedly discovers the true meaning of art and glory. A rider, far off in the fields, is involved in an horrific accident—night is falling, and she must face her destiny alone. <p> Each of these stories is told with weighted calm, with a lingering mixture of precision and sudden revelation. They confirm James Salter as one of the finest writers of our time.
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day
by Seanan McGuireWhen her sister Patty died, Jenna blamed herself. When Jenna died, she blamed herself for that, too. Unfortunately Jenna died too soon. Living or dead, every soul is promised a certain amount of time, and when Jenna passed she found a heavy debt of time in her record. Unwilling to simply steal that time from the living, Jenna earns every day she leeches with volunteer work at a suicide prevention hotline.But something has come for the ghosts of New York, something beyond reason, beyond death, beyond hope; something that can bind ghosts to mirrors and make them do its bidding. Only Jenna stands in its way.Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day is a new standalone urban fantasy novella from New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Dusk until Dawn (One Night in South Beach #1)
by Andie J. ChristopherNo boundaries.Bartender and aspiring painter Maya Pascual loves turning up the heat. And dumping a vodka-and-karma chaser on the man who broke her heart is perfect Bronx girl payback. But how can she resist when Miami playboy prince Javier Hernandez begs to make it up to her. . .No regrets.Between his disastrous personal life and his wealthy family’s meddling, Javi needs to get back on track. The only thing that’s certain is his passion for Maya. If she’ll just let him show her how sorry he is, maybe he can move on and start fresh. But one look in her gorgeous eyes and he knows letting her go will be easier said than done.No rules.Maya agrees to one dinner with Javi. But as their attraction threatens to combust, she wonders if a night of no strings, no repeats surrender is the only way burn off their desire once and for all. . . Unless the light of day reveals it’s impossible to let go.
Dusk's Darkest Shore (Regency Wallflowers #1)
by Carolyn MillerHow can a meek wallflower help a returning war hero whose dreams are plunged into darkness?Mary Bloomfield has no illusions. Her chances for matrimony have long since passed her by. Still, her circumstances are pleasant enough, especially now that she has found purpose in assisting her father with his medical practice in England's beautiful Lake District. Even without love, it's a peaceful life.That is until Adam Edgerton returns to the sleepy district. This decorated war hero did not arrive home to acclaim and rest, but to a new battle against the repercussions of an insidious disease. Mary's caring nature cannot stand to see someone suffer--but how can she help this man see any brightness in his future when he's plunged into melancholic darkness, his dreams laid waste by his condition?Adam wants no charity, but he's also no coward. If this gentle woman can work hard, how can he do less? Together they struggle to find a way forward for him. Frustration and antipathy slowly develop into friendship and esteem. Then a summer storm atop a mountain peak leads to scandal--and both Mary and Adam must search the depths of their closed hearts for answers if they hope to find any future path with happiness at its end.Best-selling author Carolyn Miller is back with a fresh series that will not only thrill readers eager for more of her work, but bring in new fans looking for beautiful writing, fascinating research, deftly woven love stories, and real faith lived out in the Regency period.
Dusk: A Novel
by F. Sionil JoseWith Dusk (originally published in the Philippines as Po-on), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called "the first great Filipino novels written in English." Set in the 1880s, Dusk records the exile of a tenant family from its village and the new life it attempts to make in the small town of Rosales. Here commences the epic tale of a family unwillingly thrown into the turmoil of history. But this is more than a historical novel; it is also the eternal story of man's tortured search for true faith and the larger meaning of existence. Jose has achieved a fiction of extraordinary scope and passion, a book as meaningful to Philippine literature as One Hundred Years of Solitude is to Latin American literature."The foremost Filipino novelist in English, his novels deserve a much wider readership than the Philippines can offer."--Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books"Tolstoy himself, not to mention Italo Svevo, would envy the author of this story."--Chicago Tribune
Duskfire (Duskfire #1)
by Joann RossCollaborating with rakish Ryan Sinclair would be impossible, Brandy Raines knew. He wrote gritty detective novels; she penned sweeping romantic sagas. Joint authorship would never work. Reluctantly Brandy agreed to meet with Ryan-and found herself immediately attracted. Ryan was so sexy, such a tease. And far more interested in collaboration of another kind.
Duskin (Grace Livingston Hill Classic Ser. #12)
by Grace Livingston Hill"That Phil Duskin has got his price, you know! Upon Carol Berkley’s arrival at the Midwestern construction site that was critical to her employer's success, she was strengthened by her resolve to fire the seemingly incompetent and deceitful engineer, Philip Duskin, and to oversee the scheduled completion of the project herself. But Carol’s self- confidence soon disappeared when her actions brought about unforeseen complications that threatened the future of the Fawcett Construction Company. Carol was troubled by her lack of expertise to manage the proceedings at the building project, but she was also helpless to control events in her personal life. When a crony of Schlessinger, the dishonest mayor, took Carol to a secluded illegal roadhouse against her will, she was terrified. She remembered how her wise and loving mother had warned her that a Midwestern construction site was no place for a young and pretty girl to be alone. Now Carol ruefully admitted this was true, but it was too late, was there no one who could rescue her from the clutches of these despicable men? Look in the Bookshare library for these novels by Grace Livingston Hill: #1. Where Two Ways Met, #2. Bright Arrows, #3. A Girl to Come Home to, #13. In Tune with Wedding Bells, #15. Marigold, #18. Brentwood, #19. Daphne Deane, #24. By way of the Silverthorns, #26. The Seventh Hour, #30. Matched Pearls, #33. Happiness Hill, #36. Patricia, #38. Spice Box, #41. blue ruin, #42. A New Name, #47. The Street of the City, #50. The Finding of Jasper Holt, #55. Ladybird, #60. Miranda, #61. Mystery Flowers, #66. The Girl From Montana, #68. The Story of a Whim, #70. in the way, #71. exit Betty, #72. The White Lady, #73. Not Under the Law, #74. Lo Michael, #76. The City of Fire, #77. The Ransom, #84. Cloudy Jewel, #93. Katharine’s yesterday, #95. Mary Arden and #96. because of Stephen. Many more are on the way.
Dusklands
by J. M. Coetzee"J.M. Coetzee's vision goes to the nerve center of being."—Nadine GordimerJ.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. A shattering pair of novellas in the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Dusklands probes the links between the powerful and the powerless. "Vietnam Project" is narrated by a researcher investigating the effectiveness of United States propaganda and psychological warfare in Vietnam. The question of power is also explored in "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee," the story of an eighteenth-century Boer frontiersman who vows revenge on the Hottentot natives because they have failed to treat him with the respect that he thinks a white man deserves.With striking intensity, J. M. Coetzee penetrates the twilight land of obsession, charting the nature on colonization as it seeks, in 1970 as in 1760, to absorb the wilds into the Western dusklands.
Dusssie
by Nancy SpringerDusie is having a bad day of mythological proportions Dusie wakes up one morning to a hissing sound. As she catches her reflection in the mirror, she finds that her hair has turned into snakes. That&’s right—snakes. But her mom seems totally unfazed. That&’s because underneath the turban, Dusie&’s mom has a crown of vipers. She is an immortal gorgon—a kind of goddess—and had hoped Dusie wouldn&’t inherit the family curse since her father was a mortal, but it looks like Dusie is stuck with it too. Middle school is tough enough without being cursed, and Dusie—or Dusssie, as the snakes call her—is about to learn that being half gorgon comes with its own set of challenges. She tries to keep her snakes hidden, but when a boy at school nearly blows her cover, Dusie is desperate to figure out a way to control her newfound powers. Growing up, with or without snakes for hair, isn&’t kid stuff.