D A: 2318 books

Karen Roberts loves to run, but running will only get her so far. She just wants to be the best sportscaster she can be and fall in love with a man like her father. Is that too much for a girl to ask for? But when love chases her, she’ll have to decide between a love that is safe or one that’s...

Did she go too far? Dallas Marshall is beautiful, rich and...relentless. Once she decides she wants to be with Avery nothing will stand in her way. But becoming a powerful vampire who cannot control her hunger threatens to push Avery further out of her reach. And that is not all. Dallas now finds...

In a world ruled by sub- and half-human races, a tribe of centaurs haunt a nearby neko clan. The nekos have avoided war and extinction by offering the centaurs a unique gift: every year, one willing bride to live with them until the end of her days. Meeka is prepared, secretly wishing for this...

This selection of A.D. Hope's poetry was published in 1992, the first in Australia since 1973. It includes pieces from all his major collections, including The Wandering Islands, first published in 1955, his subsequent collections A Late Picking, Antechinus and The Age of Reason, and Orpheus (1991)....

Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America isa collection of essays that explores historical memory at the intersection of political, cultural, social, and economic forces in the contexts of Spain and Latin America. The essays here focus on a variety of forms of memory—from the most concrete to...

Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance; Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality; Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...

Innovative and thorough, Signs and Symbols in Chaucer’s Poetry presents nine essays that reexamine the literary iconography of Middle English. Chaucer’s work is the most well-known, and possibly the most significant, remnant of the Middle Ages; investigations into his writing and meanings are...

Fairy tales don't always have happy endings. The hero doesn't always get his girl. True love's kiss doesn't always wake the sleeping princess. Finding the rabbit hole you fell through seems impossible when you've given up all hope of returning to the reality you once knew. The first time Jack...

Lilly and her brothers explore the woods surrounding the small town of Thunder Creek. One fateful day they stumble upon a sea of tall green grass and beautiful wild flowers. Lilly doesn’t notice the meadow; instead her eyes are drawn towards the edge where a large Victorian style house is hidden...

Voyageur Classics is a series of new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions. In this bundle we find two classic works of the art of the Canadian essay. Charles G.D. Roberts was a distinguished writer of his time who published more than forty volumes of poetry,...

A varied and fascinating look at sin, confession and pardon in Judaism. Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, almost forty contributors—men and women, scholars, rabbis, theologians and poets, representing all Jewish denominations—examine the history of confession in...

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. And superpowers distort perception. But even superheroes need help with the mundane things. When you’re the world’s premier costumed crusaders and things get broken, who ya gonna call? Because not all heroes have superpowers. And, if power corrupts,...

A short story that examines the relationship between time and money, explains why time travel won't make you rich and postulates just what might happen when scientists find their government grants being withdrawn. It doesn't explain the current global financial crisis but, then again, it might give...

During its impressive career over the last decades the term 'performative' has been attributed with many parallel meanings in the humanities, philosophy, arts, or economics. Empty Stages, Crowded Flats additionally applies the notion of the performative to the context of curating with the aim to unfold...