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Jordan Manning novels volume 2
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Journalist Jordan Manning delves into the case of a mother in danger and uncovers a dangerous web of secrets that could lead right to the missing woman--or put Jordan in the crosshairs of her abductors.
After dropping her child off at preschool, Marla Hancock, a stay-at-home mother, disappears. She had recently left her verbally abusive husband in rural Indiana and moved in with her sister, Shelly, who simply can’t believe that her sister would...
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How does a part-time college student/full-time construction worker survive an outbreak of Rage Virus? Behind a veil of darkness. Follow Michael Moore as he struggles to survive in a world of ultra-violence. How will he deal with the paralyzing fear? Can he trust others? Will the government come to the rescue, or is it being consumed by power hungry politicians, after all, how many times have we heard it said, "Never waste a good crisis?"When there...
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Dwelling in the Twilight Realm begins with a series of evocative "dreamscapes" as a lens through which the poet observes the blurring of the observable and the imagined in contemporary society. These poems examine the conjoining of dream and reality in what André Breton called surreality. In the remainder of this collection Don Langford further explores the twilight realm by peeling away social surface layers to reveal underlying disillusionments...
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These poems-intrepid, obsessive, and erotic-tell the story of a woman's attempt to overcome despair. Claudia Rankine, whose first collection was the prize-winning Nothing in Nature is Private, creates a transfixing testimonial to a woman facing her own disease. Drawing on voices from Jane Eyre to Lady MacBeth, Rankine welds the cerebral and the spiritual, the sensual and the grotesque, courting paradox into the center of her voice.
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All the Way tells the story of the tumultuous first year of Lyndon Baines Johnson's presidency. Thrust into power following the Kennedy assassination and facing an upcoming election, Johnson is nevertheless determined to end the legacy of racial injustice in America and rebuild it into the Great Society-by any means necessary. In order to pass the landmark 1964 Civil Rights bill, LBJ struggles to overpower an intransigent Congress while also attempting...
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A collection of short stories and
poems, fiction and non-fiction.
Gwendolyn was raised in the south. My mother was a cafeteria aid, and my father was a share cropper, construction worker.
My ninth-grade teacher. Mrs. Charlie encourages me to write. At the age of thirteen I wrote my first play called Slaves not for sale and a short story called our trip to China.
I earn my associate in science degree from Roxbury Community College in Boston...
7) 6 am
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New love is on the horizon in this poetry collection. These feelings are wrongMisleading as usualCrushing at first sightI'm seeing loveThat is supposed to be blindIt's a bluffI can see itThough I still put herIn a poem *Sakari* New Love...
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How should we think of civil disobedience? Do we have a moral right to disobey unjust laws? Do we have a moral obligation to disobey unjust jaws? How should we perceive those who engage in civil disobedience. This poetry strives to answer these and other questions. 26 pages; 25 poems.
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God's Blood, God Seed is the first in a series of novels tracing the path and exploits of Jon Logan from the Flint Hills of twenty-firstcentury Kansas backwards in time to the last ice age and his full circle return to the modern world. Often more by accident than design, Loganplays an integral part in building the collective mythology of the human race and is both present and involved in the birth and creation of supernatural beings we know as gods...
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One of the most well-known figures in modern fantasy and science fiction, often credited for heralding the genre into the mainstream, Ray Bradbury delights readers time and time again with writing that pushes the boundaries of reality.
In this outstanding collection, Bradbury delivers poem after poem full of hope, fear, philosophy and faith. As in his work of speculative fiction, Bradbury's unique perspective on humanity graces every page.
From...
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This tenth collection of Irving Feldman's poems extends what readers and critics have long recognized as a body of work singular in its lyric, visionary, even prophetic intensity; its extravagant wit; its powerful storytelling; and its variety of voices and range of feeling - playful, tender, ardent, biting, enthralled. Here, among the major poems of Beautiful False Things, the stand-up comic Larry Sunrise of Funny Bones duels with death in Florida;...
13) Louise in Love
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In this stunning new collection of poems, Mary Jo Bang jettisons the reader into the dreamlike world of Louise, a woman in love. With language delicate, smooth, and wryly funny, Louise is on a voyage without destination, traveling with a cast of enigmatic others, including her lover, Ham. Louise is as musical as she is mysterious and the reader is invited to listen. In her world, anything goes, provided it is breathtaking. Bang, whose first collection...
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In America, the two major parties monopolize our political system, but despite this, political independents, 3rd party candidates, and mavericks still press on. Bold political independents, mavericks, and 3rd party candidates refuse to lie down and accept less than God's best. Instead, these political independents, mavericks, and 3rd party candidates fearlessly advance novel and liberating solutions. In the process, they inspire us to live the best...
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When William Matthews died, the day after his fifty-fifth birthday, America lost one of its most important poets, one whose humor and wit were balanced by deep emotion, whose off-the-cuff inventiveness belied the acuity of his verse. Drawing from his eleven collections and including twenty-three previously unpublished poems, Search Party is the essential compilation of this beloved poet's work. Edited by his son, Sebastian Matthews, and William Matthews's...
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The Fool, Poetry and Other Works is the last book in a series I now conclude to be THE POSITIVE PRIME, which was the title of my first book of poetry. The Positive Prime began my story and my process as a poetry writer. It is my "Self – Identity" and the beginning of the story of how I viewed the culture of the African Diaspora and culture within the world. I attempted in my next books, Conversations with a Soul Brother, Soul Food, Legacy of an...
18) Old Songs
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A collection of old songs. Excerpt: "If I go abroad and late come in, "Sir Knave," saith she, "where have you been?" And do I well or ill, she claps me on the skin."
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CIA agent Henry Wilson was given an impossible task. Find a remote viewer to spy on the Russians. They had theirs we needed ours. He was searching in Brazil, the land of miracle healers, psychics and charlatans when he stumbled upon two boys performing a mind blowing street magic show. As he watched in amazement he found who he was looking for, Phillip Goodhouse and recruited him on the spot.At Phillip's insistence he's forced to bring along Phillip's...
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Open the cover of this book and embark on a poetic journey that captures the impermanence that sculpts our world, the fragile balance between creation and decay. Witness a nursing home that succumbs to nature's embrace, feel the desert sands reclaiming an abandoned town, and explore an estate sale revealing musty rooms filled with orphaned excess. Each poem in this collection is a brushstroke in a carefully painted scene that reminds us that life's...
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