Dante Alighieri paved the way for modern literature, while creating verse and prose that remain unparalleled for formal elegance, intellectual depth, and emotional grandeur. The Portable Dante contains complete verse translations of Dante's two masterworks, The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova, as well as a bibliography, notes, and an introduction by eminent scholar and translator Mark Musa.

The final Uncle Fred novel marks his return to Blandings Castle to relieve Lord Emsworth's woes: a nagging secretary, prankster Church Lads, and a plot to thieve his prize-winning sow. Uncle Fred must serve up his brand of sweetness and light to ensure that everything turns out very capital indeed.

Leo Caraway, president of the Young Republicans Club and a future Harvard student, has his entire future planned. But Leo is soon thrown for a loop when he discovers that the lead singer of punk rock's most destructive band is his biological father.

Roshell, a girl from an Oregon trailer park, dances into a bright future despite life throwing a series of curveballs. This book is unmistakeably a product of the 90s - home of boy bands, individualism, teenage angst, Size Zero models, and Whatever!. For teenagers now, it's a springboard into a vivacious past of not so long ago.

Shorts stores by Maurine T. HarrisonThis is not just a story. This is not to entertain. This is far from having the size and the writing of a conventional book. If you are looking for hours of pleasant writing about descriptions of characters or places, this is not what you are searching for.This is a small written work belonging to a sci-fi series called Softweapons that is solely focused on sharing with you powerful ideas that will most probably shake some of your beliefs about yourself and the world. Softweapons mixes plot with reflections, explanations and philosophic texts in a writing that is neither formal nor poetical. It is just as if someone was reporting something that happened.

Scientists and intellectuals are often poorly portrayed by the entertainment industry. An easy choice for an evil antagonist is a mad scientist. An equally easy choice for a ridiculous fool is a scientist without common sense. These stereotypes are reinforced again and again in movies, television and literature. It’s amazing when any child grows up wanting to be a scientist, in our culture.If the general public has misconceptions about scientists, it is not hard to see why. Scientists and other intellectuals are often poorly portrayed by the entertainment industry. An easy choice for an evil antagonist is a mad scientist. An equally easy choice for a ridiculous fool is a scientist without common sense. These stereotypes are reinforced again and again in movies, television and literature. It’s amazing when any child grows up wanting to be a scientist, in our culture.The undermining of scientists’ public image is especially acute in science fiction. The genre appeals to people who are interested in science, and they are badly served by writers who misrepresent scientists as bumbling idiots or evil megalomaniacs. The early history of science fiction has some of the best examples.

A twelve year old boy who was born with a facial disfigurement befriends an old, fallen-from-grace preacher. Their friendship is threatened, however, when the boy's mother discovers the old man is the preacher responsible for her parents' financial ruin years ago.Jonas Pike is a twelve year old boy who was born with a facial disfigurement. He befriends an old, fallen-from-grace preacher who just needs someone to believe in him. Their friendship is threatened, however, when the boy's mother, Dolores, finds out he is the same preacher who swindled her parents out of their life savings years ago. Matters are complicated even further when Paul Jenkins, the boy's drunken step-father, suspects Dolores of having an affair with the old man, and he vows revenge.A tragedy about forgiveness and faith, accusation and doubt, the mundane and the miraculous, Pain's Joke examines the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.

Sometimes the mannequins get behind my eyesI feel them tugging the strings of my nervesplaying with my mechanismsThey make themselves at home in the lumber room of my skullJames Knight's latest collection of poems and prose poems takes the reader to the other side of the mirror, where the Bird King reigns and mannequins are more real than people.Sometimes the mannequins get behind my eyesI feel them tugging the strings of my nervesplaying with my mechanismsThey make themselves at home in the lumber room of my skullImagine a chessboard made of an infinite number of squares, in which the pieces are locked in eternal stalemate. The mannequin is white to the Bird King’s black. Where he is broken, mad, risible, she is perfect, glacial, sinister. She is the mask Lady Macbeth presents to her haunted husband. The Bird King is, in part, me, by which I mean that his nest is somewhere in me, between memory and imagination. Although he is a tyrant, he is also vulnerable and silly. Aren’t we all vulnerable and silly? The mannequin, on the other hand, is totally alien to me. She seems emotionless and inscrutable. I find her mesmerising and nightmarish. What is she thinking? Like Lady Macbeth, she reveals nothing to me. She tells her secrets only to the night.The Bird King and the mannequin do have one thing in common, however, which is that it is impossible to attach to either of them a stable mental image. If we see either of them in their entirety, in the glare of the sun or a spotlight or headlights, what we see is provisional, a brief phase in their constant mutation. Despite this, the essential identity of each of them is fixed. They are both trapped by who they are.

A lonely old woman awakes one morning to find that the butcher has climbed into her tree. A quirky little love story.Ms. Wellington's Oak Tree is a collection of short works spanning a variety of genres. Enjoy!A young man returns from a trip to Amsterdam and has an unexpected encounter with customs.In Renaissance Italy, the chance arrival of a devious merchant at an embittered village brings about unexpected renewal.A lonely old woman awakes one morning to find that the butcher has climbed into her tree.The dark, disturbing visions that presage mental illness.A stubborn nanny with progressive ideas challenges her charge's strict, traditional father.When their oracles fall inexplicably silent, the people of Miridia send two emissaries out into the world to seek out the gods.A fat man gets stuck in his neighbor's window and has a surprisingly pleasant evening.In a distant future dominated by corporations, a tiny but fierce light in the skysmudge is ignored at humanity's peril.A distraught man sues everyone because he is miserable.Ms. Wellington's Oak Tree is a collection of short works spanning a variety of genres. Enjoy!

Destined to Dominate (2nd Book of Captain’s Duet)

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Split Second (Maggie O'Dell Novels)

One Night Only! When Rhea's offered the bargain of a lifetime on a unique fur coat, she doesn't know it will change her life forever. Short erotic fiction by the author of best-selling novels Dirty, Broken, No Greater Pleasure and more!