2013, ISBN: 9781602701014

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Glasgow, United Kingdom: Harper Element. No Binding. 0007219040 Good Condition With Good Dust Jacket, Dust Jacket Has Some Slight Bending And Wear, Pages Clean And Smooth, Binding Secure,… More...

Glasgow, United Kingdom: Harper Element. No Binding. 0007219040 Good Condition With Good Dust Jacket, Dust Jacket Has Some Slight Bending And Wear, Pages Clean And Smooth, Binding Secure, Overall A Beautiful Copy, Not A Former Library Book, Not A Remainder Or Book Club, Not Clipped, Hardcover. A Wonderful Read For All Bird-Lovers And Those Interested In The Folklore, Mythology And Spiritual Symbolism Of Birds Throughout The World. Packed With Fascinating Historical Esoterica And Inspiring True Stories Of Birds Working Their Magic As Spiritual Messengers.A Fabulous Inspirational Reference Book, Packed With Historical Facts, Myths And Real-Life Spiritual Encounters With Birds. Ranging From The Robin To The Phoenix And The Everyday To The... Mythological, Any Bird Lover Who Is Interested In Esoterica, History And Folklore Will Find The Book A Must For Their Bookshelf.One Of The Key Themes In The Book Is The Concept Of The Winged Creature Carrying Messages, And The History Of Bird As Augur From Greek And Roman Times Where They Studied Birds' Flight Patterns And Entrails To Make Critical Decisions. Many People Will Love The True Stories Of Ordinary People In The Present Day Too, Who Have Encountered The Miraculous, Or Healing Qualities Of Birds In Their Own Lives.Birds Travel The World And Similar Symbolism Is Seen In Many Cultures And Myths - For Example, The Giant Bird Which In N. America Was The Nunyanune, In Russia, The Firebird And In The Arctic, The Anka (Which Was Said To Carry Off Elephants).This Book Is An Enormous Treasure Trove Of Information That Is Spiritually Uplifting And Historically Fascinating. It Contains Many General Tip Bits For Bird-Lovers To Be Enchanted By, Such As:- Baby Robins Eat 14 Feet Of Earthworms A Day- Condors Can Fly For 10 Miles Without Flapping Their Wings- A Bird Flying Into A House Foretells An Important Message- Hummingbirds Weigh Less Than A Penny- A Jay Is Said To Spend Fridays With The Devil, Telling Tales! All Books Shipped Within 24 Hours With U.S. Postal Service Delivery Confirmation, Each Order Is Packaged In A New Box With Bubble Wrap, And Always Your Satisfaction Is Guaranteed. . Good. 2006., Harper Element, 2006, Genre: LGBT Shape-shifter/Vampire Paranormal A closeted werewolf and a dying vampire give in to desire and make an unusual and powerful connection. Lukas Blacque is a deeply closeted werewolf, and almost more than anything in life, he desires his neighbor, Oliver Bleu. Oliver is a vampire who is slowly dying from insomnia. More than anything, he needs Lukas Blacque and the rich blood that flows through his veins. On the day that Blacque makes an important commitment to his family and pack, he also succumbs to temptation and agrees to a passionate weekend with the alluring vampire. At sunset on Friday, it's all about urgent lust and the drive to lose his virginity. When the sun rises on Monday, lust has shifted to love and devotion. He's not sure he can walk away, even for the commitment he's made. He's even less sure Bleu will let him go. In Blacque's world, vampires and werewolves make uneasy bedfellows, and a gay werewolf is an impossibility. In Bleu's world, all living creatures are little more than vessels for food and sex. But in the mysterious and magical town of Arcada, the unexpected is always waiting right around the corner. Now Blacque and Bleu just need to survive long enough for Arcada's magic to work for them. Publisher's Note: Blacque/Bleu is related to Chrysalis and Mad at the Moon , which are available at Changeling Press. This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Bondage, domination, male/male sexual practices, violence. Weight:0.73 lbs, Loose Id, LLC, 8/29/2011 0:00:00, Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Fair/ACCEPTABLE. 192 pages. Blue cloth hardcover, with unclipped dustjacket. Lightly tanned pages with fair tanning on fore-edge. Front hinge is slightly cracked and pulled. Boards are good, slight bumping on corners and spine ends but generally clean. Dj is acceptable, fair creasing and chips along extremities, with large loss from on and around base of spine., Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, 1111, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1111. Hardcover. Good/GOOD. 192 pages. Hard cover with a dust jacket. Clean pages with no markings or annotations. Mild edge wear to the boards and spine ends. The dust jacket has only mild chipping and edge wear.The dust jacket is clipped., Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1111, Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Good/GOOD. 192 pages. Red cloth covered boards with pictorial dust jacket. Pages lightly tanned with foxing to endpapers and text block edge. Moderate board and edge wear with corner bumping. The dust jacket has moderate creasing and edge wear, with some soiling and loss to edges., Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, 1111, Royal Institution, London, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Includes articles on 'Pragmatic value of magic in primitive societies' by Audrey I. Richards, 'Bones, Teeth and Indentification' by R. J. Harrison, 'Automation in the laboratory' by U. W. Arndt and more. Illustrated. Size: 8vo - over 7.75 - 9.75" tall. 329-445pp. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, but spine is slightly cocked. Front hinge slightly tender. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: 6920. ., Royal Institution, 1963, Rita A. Simmonds’ poems offer a soulful account of life in New York, not the mythical, magical destination of tourists, but the grim, gritty city eight million people call home. SOULS IN THE CITY bears witness to the lived experience of real New Yorkers, from the young couple falling in love in Goldberg’s Pizzeria to the married couple having their Friday night fight against the backdrop of R&B on their car radio, from Jesus the Beggar sitting on the bare pavement to the Wise Woman searching the snowy streets for the sleeping Christ Child, from the visionary beauty of the Verrazano Bridge by night to the bald Battery bereft of its Twin Towers. Simmonds’ city pulsates with pain and with beauty, the two becoming one as the poet weaves from the tiny particulars of city life the universal story of suffering and redemption, consolation and desolation, despair and (always) hope. Simmonds’ poems constitute glancings of grace, intimate glimpses of shimmer and shine that redeem the ugliness of urban life. Following in the footsteps of her poetic forbears Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, and Allen Ginsberg, Rita Simmonds has discovered the soul of her city and blesses her readers with her vision. --Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, author of MOVING HOUSE, SAINT SINATRA, and WAKING MY MOTHER With her utterly authentic imagery – concretely observed and lived and felt through-and-through – Rita Simmonds has rendered a city I was born into and have loved all my life intensely fresh. More, she has re-introduced me to its humanity and in important ways to my very self within it. Her distinctive gift is to show us that, if we will only pay enough attention, we will see St. Augustine’s City of God, not there and then but right here, right now. --James Como, Professor Emeritus, York College (CUNY), author, WHY I BELIEVE IN NARNIA Weight:0.2 lbs, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 11/24/2013 0:00:00, Welcome to a comedic urban fantasy about dragons and demons, mortals and magic, vampires and… baseball? Yes, baseball! You'd be surprised how much baseball has to do with human history - and you can hear it all from the dragons hanging out at Uncle Merl's Bar & Grill in Newark! But as Merlin the bartender will tell you, don't try to talk to them when they're watching a Mets game. Yes, supernatural sports fans, welcome to the opening game of the End-of-the-World Series! From the depths of the underworld, from the ninth circle of hell, please welcome the visiting team – Satan and the REAL Hell's Angels! And now, from across all of time and space, from every season of every team in every city, please welcome the home team—the Hall of Fame Heroes! That's right, sports fans—all the baseball legends, from Georgia Peach Ty Cobb to Jiltin' Joe DiMaggio, have returned from their graves to duel the demons on the diamond! So grab some peanuts and head to the bleachers with a few beered-up dragons to watch the best of humanity play the worst of hell! The stakes are high, and the winner takes all—all the world, that is! Weight:0.58 lbs, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 5/10/2011 0:00:00, Privately Printed, 1985. Inscribed By Francis Weaver. Clean and tight. "Introduction: Genuinely funny people are hard to find. Some people are funny once in a while. Some are funny without meaning to be. A few work hard at it. But the naturally spontaneously funny person is a rare find. Such a person is Frances Weaver. Ten years ago I was sitting in front of a dais waiting to be introduced as the director of a series of fiction workshops for the International Women's Writing Guild. A woman dressed in a rather tattered teeshirt and a shirt that had obviously seen hard service came up and sat down beside me. She was carrying a large bag with sticks and strange paper bulging out. The rest of us were gussied up to look professional on this Friday evening, and I thought perhaps this woman didn't realize that the seats at the front of the auditorium had been set aside for the workshop leaders. As tactfully as possible I tried to explain she was in the wrong seat, that she belonged back in the audience. I got a Frances Weaver smile. "I'm the kite lady," she said. "This is what kitefliers wear." Fran is the only person in the world I know who has professional kite-flier in the space on her passport that says Occupation. She began her career as a writer by doing articles on kites; she branched out into sketches of general interest and rapidly moved on to a weekly column about "Midlife Musings." A lot of people buy the Sunday paper that her column appears in just to read that column because it always produces what it promises: a witty look at life in the advanced level lane. The columns are famous for their sly look at the pitfalls and foibles of middle age. But the writing of Frances Weaver is far more than pleasant pass-time reading: in every column Fran skewers the is from the ought. That is, she shows us that our expectations almost never match our hopes for the dramas in everyday existence. True comedy tells us that life is difficult and quirky, but that the salvation and safety of endurance is built on being able to laugh at how ridiculous our actions are. Laughter is the magic medicine of survival, and we treasure those who measure out the medicine. That they are few and far between doubles the pleasure we feel in finding a genuine surgeon for the spirit. In the columns collected here there are massive doses of wit and wisdom. I recommend a column every morning before breakfast and every night before bed. Jean Rikhoff". Inscribed By Author. Illustrated Card Cover. Very Good., Privately Printed, 1985, The Century Co, 1906-01-01. Hardcover. Good. La Comedie Humaine of Honore de Balzac. Hardcover bound book. / lacking dustjacket. spine title paste-on chipped mostly off. At Least Good- (3 of 10) May have creases to the spine &/or creases to cover &/or small chips to the edges &/or minor tape &/or minor highlighting &/or minor underlining &/or Former owner's name/note inked &/or rubbing/chipping &/or old price stickers. May have a different cover than the current image shown. BUT will be readable, and may very well not have much damage at all. 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We run a percent discount for our Biblio listings, which insures Biblio has our lowest prices online, but does give odd change.}, The Century Co, 1906-01-01, Thomas Nelson [1960]. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. ... Illustrated, color frontispiece. Some light foxing. ... (Children's Book)., Thomas Nelson, No binding. New. Audio book, no binding. ONE LITTLE GIRL NEEDS A FAMILY One rain-slicked night, six-year-old Holly lost the only parent she knew, her beloved mother, Victoria. And since that night, she has never again spoken a word. ONE SINGLE MAN NEEDS A WIFE The last thing Mark Nolan needs is a six-year-old girl in his life. But he soon realizes that he will do everything he can to make her life whole again. His sisters will gives him the instructions: Theres no other choice but you. Just start by loving her. The rest will follow. SOMETIMES IT TAKES A LITTLE MAGIC . . . Maggie Collins doesnt dare believe in love again, after losing her husband of one year. But she does believe in the magic of imagination. As the owner of a toy shop, she lives what she loves. And when she meets Holly Nolan, she sees a little girl in desperate need of a little magic. . . . TO MAKE DREAMS COME TRUE Three lonely people. Three lives at the crossroads. Three people who are about to discover that Christmas is the time of year when anything is possible, and when wishes have a way of finding the path home. . . . This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN, Momence,IL, Commerce,GA., This isn't magic, is it? No, certainly not. There's no such thing as magic The only magic is when someone performs slight of hand tricks to make it look like magic. That's right, isn't it? But, if that's true, then why is Greg the only one to see it as a beautifully carved box, when every one else sees a plain block of wood? The answer is simple. Greg's been on the streets for the last five years drinking cheap wine. He wouldn't know what he was looking at if it hit him right between the eyes. Whoa, why then, is he able to open the box and take out the contents of it when no one else is around? Also, why does he have the box? And, what role will it, and its contents play in his life? Will they have any affect on others around him? Weight:0.74 lbs, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 10/15/2013 0:00:00, HarperCollins, 2010. Here's the blurb >> 'Full-on, uncontrollable, laugh-till-you-weep stories. Glover has become the indispensable chronicler of Australian family life.' Geraldine Brooks Wickedly funny stories of everyday life, as heard on ABC Radio's Thank God It's Friday. Meet the sexy and feisty Jocasta; confront teenage rebellion in the form of a fish called Wanda; do battle with magpies the size of small fighter jets; try to work out which font you use when speaking the language of love; and find out what men really have to offer. In Richard Glover's stories, the day-to-day becomes vivid, magical and laugh-out-loud funny. 'Glover is better than Proust. OK, maybe not better, but how often do you find yourself in a cold bath at midnight still chuckling over Proust?' Debra Adelaide 'desperately, wickedly funny ... Richard Glover has done the miraculous - he's made ordinary family life extraordinarily entertaining ... Go ahead and open a page at random - you'll laugh out loud.' Augusten Burroughs. The book has anauthor dedication > "For Fiona" & his signature on the title page.. Paperback. Very Good/None issued. 21.5cm., HarperCollins, 2010, From bestselling author Lisa Kleypas comes the third book in her Friday Harbor series, Crystal Cove .When Justine Hoffman was born her mother cast a spell to protect her from heartbreak, and as a result,� she is incapable of falling in love. Eventually Justine's irrepressible curiosity �and her wish to lead a normal life �get the better of her,� and she finds a way to temporarily block the enchantment.�However,�when Justine meets the mysterious Jason Black, she accidentally unleashes a storm of desire and danger that will threaten everything she holds dear . . . and together Justine and Jason discover that love is the most powerful magic of all. Weight:0.6 lbs, St. Martin's Griffin, 2/5/2013 0:00:00, In the bestselling tradition of� The Friday Night Knitting Club� and� The Jane Austen Book Club ,� three women find unexpected answers, happiness, and one another with Meryl Streep movies as their inspiration. � Two sisters and the cousin they grew up with after a tragedy are summoned home to their family matriarch's inn on the coast of Maine for a shocking announcement. Suddenly, Isabel, June, and Kat are sharing the attic bedroom--and barely speaking. But when innkeeper Lolly asks them to join her and the guests in the parlor for weekly Movie Night--it's Meryl Streep month--they find themselves sharing secrets, talking long into the night--and questioning everything they thought they knew about life, love, and one another. � Each woman sees her complicated life reflected through the magic of cinema: Isabel's husband is having an affair, and an old pact may keep her from what she wants most . . . June has promised her seven-year-old son that she'll somehow find his father, who he's never known . . . and Kat is ambivalent about accepting her lifelong best friend's marriage proposal. Through everything, Lolly has always been there for them, and now Isabel, June, Kat--and Meryl--must be there for her. Finding themselves. Finding each other. Finding a happy ending. Weight:0.63 lbs, Gallery Books, 6/19/2012 0:00:00, As a young man, Earvin “Magic” Johnson admired his father and other small-town entrepreneurs who created jobs and served as leaders in his Midwestern community. He worked for them, watched them, and his interest in building communities through economic development grew even while his basketball career flourished. His fame as an NBA star gave him access to some of the most successful business leaders in the country. It was Earvin’s own entrepreneurial spirit that inspired them to serve as his mentors. Earvin made the transition from great athlete to greater entrepreneur through hard work and by avidly pursuing opportunities. He recognized that densely populated urban communities were ripe for commercial and residential development. He partnered with major brands like Starbucks, 24 Hour Fitness, and T.G.I. Friday’s to lead a major economic push in these communities. The success of his businesses proved that ethnically diverse urban residents would welcome and support major brands if given the opportunity. Earvin continues to be a leader of urban economic development that provides jobs, goods, and a new spirit of community. 32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business will inspire and enlighten readers who wish to make a similar impact with their careers and business endeavors. From the Hardcover edition. Weight:0.53 lbs, Crown Business, 12/29/2009 0:00:00, Paperback. New. Paperback. Brimming with the same spirited sense of style and magic as Disneys Thats So Raven, Drama High introduces a fun, brazen new series featuring a young sistah whos learning that life in the hood is nothing compared to life in high school. . . Proudly hailing from Compton, USA, sixteen-year-old Jayd Jackson is no stranger to drive-by shootings or run-ins with the friendly neighborhood crackhead. Street-smart, book-smart, and life-smart, shes nobodys fool--least of all KJs, the most popular and cutest basketball jock at South Bay High, aka Drama High. Yes, its a fact, Jayd fell hard for his player ways for a time, but now that KJs shown his true colors--dumping Jayd because she refused to give up the cookies--shes through with him and his game playing for good. Jayd just wants to start her Junior year of high school drama free. But wanting aint getting, especially at a place like Drama High, a predominately white high school in a wealthy part of Los Angeles, where Jayd and 30 other Compton kids get bussed to daily. Saying race relations arent what they should be would be putting it mildly, and thats just the beginning of the drama. Jayds first day back to school, KJs new girlfriend, Trecee, steps to her wanting to fight. Egged on by Misty, Jayds former best friend-turned-nemesis, Trecee wants to make Jayd understand that KJ is off limits--even if she has to do it with her fists. With the fight set for Friday, and the sistah drama at an all time high, Jayd is about to learn whos really got her back and more importantly, when shes got to watch it. But at least she can always count on Mama, and her mystical bag of tricks. Drama High is a remarkably assured debut, and L. Divine is a tantalizing and refreshing new voice. Jayd and her bold, honest, and laugh-out-loud funny assessment of life, along with her quirky cast of friends, classmates, loves, her magical family and eccentric neighbors make for an irresistible, cant-put-it-down read. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN, Momence,IL, Commerce,GA., E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: New Amer Library, 1988. By ALVIN KLEIN Published: November 10, 1985, Sunday What is a shayna maidel? In Yiddish, the expression means a pretty girl. But according to Barbara Lebow, who wrote a play with that title, it is to be taken neither lightly nor literally. Surface beauty doesn't tell it all, she said. ''Shayna'' can stand for dear, good, radiant or kind - all those qualities that emanate from the soul. The title has created a stir among non-Yiddish-speaking subscribers and ticket buyers at the Hartford Stage Company, where ''A Shayna Maidel'' is to begin preview performances Tuesday, and open Friday for a run ending Dec. 8. But the author stressed that a comprehension of Yiddish is not needed for an understanding or appreciation of the play. ''A Shayna Maidel,'' subtitled ''The Life of a Family,'' deals with ''the healing of a family that is torn assunder by World War II,'' Miss Lebow said. Set in New York City in 1946, it alternates among fantasy, memory and reality. For the 49-year-old Miss Lebow, who said her knowledge of Yiddish was second-hand - ''My parents used it as something for me to not understand.'' - the language's ''flavor, intonation and quality'' are vital to the play. A translator, Lily Baxter, helped her with the Yiddish idioms. Although ''A Shayna Maidel'' concerns a Jewish family, and Yiddish is spoken on stage, its use is minimal. The transition from Yiddish to English is ''magical,'' Miss Lebow said. When a scene begins in Yiddish, it ''quickly flows'' into English, she explained. ''I've been careful to put English-sounding words into what Yiddish there is, so nothing is missed by the audience,'' she added. As for the levels of the title's meaning, Miss Lebow said ''it's a term of endearment, adoration and hope; it's about the precious nature of a child, about feelings for the future and it's a phrase that applies to different characters in the play. Two of the characters are sisters separated at childhood. One grows up in America; the other in Poland. The latter survives the war and both are reunited - with their father - almost as strangers rediscovering each other. The six-character cast also includes the mother, and the husband and a childhood friend of one of the sisters. Miss Lebow's approach is not historical and not political. ''So much has been written about the Holocaust that I would never presume to do that,'' she said. ''What I'm interested in is the emotional response to the event, the feelings it engendered -how some of us who did not experience it are repelled and fascinated, guilty and concerned - and still wondering.'' Last year, ''A Shayna Maidel'' was selected by the American Theater Critics Association as one of the three best regionally produced plays of the season. It was first seen at the Academy Theater in Atlanta, where Miss Lebow lives. Twenty of Miss Lebow's plays have been produced in Atlanta. Although she was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she said, ''now I'm considered a Southern playwright.'' Among her works are westerns (''The Adventures of Homer McGundy 'Little Joe' Monaghan'') and plays about the elderly, (''Yesterday's Children'') and nonviolent social change (''The Trashcan Kid''). After ''A Shayna Maidel'' was chosen by Theater Communications Group, a Manhattan-based organization, as one of a series of ''plays-in-process,'' it was made available to various regional theaters. The play's director, Robert Kalfin, recalls reading it. ''I fell in love with it,'' he said. ''What intrigued me was that the title might create certain predispositions, or expectations about ethnicity, but the play is about humanity: A family survives disaster and picks up their lives and lives again. That could just as well happen now in Mexico City. I'm interested in that transcendence of culture, about how simple things become revelatory, how the ordinary becomes extraordinary.'' Mr. Kalfin contacted different heads of nonprofit theaters, among them Mark Lamos of the Hartford Stage, who responded. Mr. Kalfin said: ''There's enormous pressure upon regional theaters to become as safe and boring as commercial ones. They think success is measured by your income, not your art. This is supposed to be the place to explore the unknown - and when regional theaters do that, the plays ae usually relegated to smaller or second stages. That the Hartford maintage is doing this play shows what nonprofit theater should be about.'' Mr. Kalfin, a 1957 graduate of the Yale School of Drama, has been a consultant, instructor and guest lecturer at the University in New Haven, but this is his professional directorial debut in the state. As the founder of Manhattan's Chelsea Theater Center in 1965, he produced or directed many shows that went to Broadway or off-Broadway, including Isaac Bashevis Singer's ''Yentl,'' later made into a film starring Barbara Streisand; ''Happy End,'' the Kurt Weill musical with Meryl Streep, and a new Harold Prince staging of the Leonard Bernstein musical ''Candide.'' Recalling his experience with ''Yentl,'' which also deals with a Yiddish-rooted experience, he said, ''at first people thought that was too ethnic.'' ''Then Singer won the Noble Prize and Streisand did the movie,'' he added. As for Miss Lebow's play, Mr. Kalfin said: ''In Georgia, people thought it was Indian. What should we call it? 'A Couple of Sisters and Maybe a Father Sitting Around Talking?' If you really want a translation, it could mean 'My Fair Lady.' '' A couple of edge tears on jacket, otherwise in very nice condition.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. Illus. by Some B/W Photos., New Amer Library, 1988, Magic Wagon (Looking Glass Library). Used - Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Find out why millions of customers rave about Better World Books. Experience the best customer care and a 100% satisfaction guarantee., Magic Wagon (Looking Glass Library)<