Rowan: 385 books

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...

Ancient questions about the causes and nature of pleasure were revived in the eighteenth century with a new consideration of its ethical and political significance. Rowan Boyson reminds us that philosophers of the Enlightenment, unlike modern thinkers, often represented pleasure as shared rather than...

Chasing Shadows, a poetic short horror story by Rowan Blair Colver. Verse by verse, encounter the brewing of fear as the lines craft kindling for the flames of panic and negative anticipation. Imagery and timing combine to create a sensation of tension as the reader encounters frightening situations depicted through the lens of a poet's darkened heart.

One of The Washington Post's Best Poetry Collections of 2015 One of NPR's Best Books of 2015 Long-listed for the National Book Award in poetry "Who the hell's heaven is this?" Rowan Ricardo Phillips offers many answers, and none at all, in Heaven, the piercing and revelatory encore...

At dawn on the spring equinox, when the natural world is in balance and fully engaged in regeneration, Epona, guardian of those moving in and out of life, meets Ostara taking colored eggs and baked goods to their friend Freya at the time of her child’s birth. Once the baby arrives, Ostara returns...

Love is supposed to be the happy ending. Maybe it's only the beginning.... Fashionable Sophie Mills was a corporate manager on a fast track to success. Then, in the space of a heartbeat -- the time it takes for a car to crash -- two little girls, Bella and Izzy, her best friend's daughters,...

What do you do when you are a child' s last hope? From bestselling author Rowan Coleman comes a deeply touching tale of a fast-track career woman whose life takes a sharp right turn when motherhood unexpectedly lands in her lap. Sophie and Carrie were childhood best friends, but in the...

Can you ever mend a shattered friendship? From Rowan Coleman, author of the acclaimed bestseller The Accidental Mother, comes a deeply moving novel for every woman who was ever a teenager in love, a mother, or made a heartbreaking decision. For wealthy Alison James, moving with her family...

A gentle, clean and wholesome romance for Christmas and New Year with no bad language or violence. Willow leaves her drunken husband at a party on New Year's Eve and  takes a trip over the North Yorkshire Moors to meet a man in Whitby whom she believes to be perfect.. Does the perfect guy...

Life's most intense moments happen in the dark. Death. Love. Magick. A vampyr cortège, Three spell casters, a knight, and a single Veil Key all collide on the deadly streets of a shadow shrouded San Francisco. Death. Love. Magick. Hautdesert stands apart, a servant of the Circle, but...

This bibliography was developed during a literature search for materials for a doctoral study of essential oils, and accompanying carrier oils. It contains over 400 resources from international academic and popular media publications, and spans more than 220 years of research. This list of resources...

This book offers guidance to anyone who wishes to explore further 'the Pagan within', or who is exploring a broad spiritual path. It offers broad guidance and advice, and draws comparisons between various philosophies, both mainstream and alternative.

The geomorphology of the Teton Range of the Rocky Mountains of North American land formation is described. The geologic features of the Teton Range and surrounding areas are discussed, including Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and the geologic history of eastern Idaho and western Wyoming. Includes references and photographs.

Here, James Beard award-winning author Rowan Jacobsen plumbs the secrets of Parma, Italys ham and cheese heaven.