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Publisher
Blair & Associates, Ltd
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
In House on Haunted Hill, Vincent Price portrays the owner of a haunted house who offers five strangers ten thousand dollars if they can last out the night in his house. In The last man on earth, Price appears as a scientist who is the only person on earth immune to a plague that has turned humans into vampires.
Author
Series
Star mother volume 2
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In a heavenly war, the moon is prevailing... It happens in an instant, filling Aija with dread: the Sun is suddenly cast from the sky, throwing the Earth into midday darkness. On the fourth day of endless night, Aija finds an unconscious man by the river. His skin is as hot as her lantern's glass and just as golden. To Aija, a farmhand with the soul of an artist, this beautiful stranger is an inspiration--and a mystery. He calls himself Saiyon. He...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In our time there has been no poet who revived human hearts and spirits more convincingly than William Stafford." -Naomi Shihab NyeSome time when the river is ice ask memistakes I have made. Ask me whetherwhat I have done is my life. -from "Ask Me" In celebration of the poet's centennial, Ask Me collects one hundred of William Stafford's essential poems. As a conscientious objector during World War II, while assigned to Civilian Public Service camps...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The biggest names... The coolest sounds... The 40 most inspirational movers, shakers and innovators in black music history are here! Learn how these black musicians changed music in this book packed with incredible facts. Meet the Godfather of Funk, the High Priestess of Soul and the King of Reggae. Learn how Marvin Gaye shaped the sound of Motown, how N.W.A redefined rap, and what made the Supremes, supreme. Each artist is an icon of their age, but...
66) The Monstrous
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Take a terrifying journey with literary masters of suspense, including Peter Straub, Kim Newman, and Caitlín R. Kiernan, visiting a place where the other is somehow one of us. These electrifying tales redefine monsters from mere things that go bump in the night to inexplicable, deadly reflections of our day-to-day lives. Whether it's a seemingly devoted teacher, an obsessive devotee of swans, or a diner full of evil creatures simply seeking oblivion,...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Paleontology is one of the most visible yet most misunderstood fields of science. Children dream of becoming paleontologists when they grow up. Museum visitors flock to exhibits on dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. The media reports on fossil discoveries and new clues to mass extinctions. Nonetheless, misconceptions abound: paleontologists are assumed only to be interested in dinosaurs and they are all too often pictured as bearded white men...
Author
Publisher
University of Cincinnati Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell is a literary love letter to the joys of wandering graveyards and the discoveries such wanderings can yield. Here, Michael Griffith roams Spring Grove (founded 1844), the nation's third-largest cemetery, following curiosity and accident wherever they lead. The result is this fascinating collection, which narrates the lives of those he encountered on the way. Griffith lingers amidst the traces left behind-these...
Author
Series
X-O Manowar volume 0004
Publisher
Valiant Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Aric of Dacia's bone-crushing climb to the throne of an alien world earned him scores of allies ... and a legion of scorned enemies. Now, stripped of his crown and cast out of his kingdom, the man known as X-O Manowar must return to his roots as a sword-wielding warrior of Earth if he is to survive the relentless band of intergalactic bounty hunters that have been hired to kill him cold. But with few places left to turn, could the last Visigoth's...
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The first anthology ever to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories--from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and the permanently thick-witted, delicate sensualists, incompetent seers, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh--these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable...
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