Rowe: 574 books

A beautiful ebony circus performer falls for a manly hunk of milk chocolate. Neesha Wright wanted to run away and join the circus. At age eighteen, she did. Now, ten years later, she’s one of the top contortionists and sword swallowers out there. She can suck down eighteen inches of cold steel....

From my own experiences of looking after my dear Mum 'Andy' who had Parkinsons and Lewy Body disease, including Alzheimers as her condition deteriorated, this ebook is written to help others who are looking after a loved one with dementia caused by any of these diseases. This book is full...

Are you preparing for the Cambridge English: Proficiency exam? Do you want to know exactly what to expect from the Writing paper? Then this book is for you!This self-study guide is full of useful tips and answers to commonly asked questions. It identifies common mistakes and how you can avoid them. The...

A fugitive disguises himself as a Buddhist pilgrim on a small island in Japan, only to realise that his fate rests in the hands of a novice monk.

Bradt's new guide to Orkney is written by experienced writer and journalist Mark Rowe, author of Bradt's hugely popular guide to the Outer Hebrides and something of a specialist in more remote parts of Scotland. Orkney comprises 70 islands, 19 inhabited, and the focus of this guide is the 13 major...

August 1914 is the story of England in that watershed month when the country went from peace to war. It tells of what life was like in a country that looked, and smelt, very different to today. Work could be long, hard and deadly; pleasures were rough and simple; religion was a comfort for many. Some...

Bill McGill, a lawyer living in St. John’s, has been asking himself this same question for more than twenty years, since the day he saw—or thought he saw—something large and monstrous rise up out of the water and pluck a hapless seagull from the air. Today the memory resurfaces as his niece,...

A Boy who can run like the wind seems a sure bet for the upcoming runball game. A girl's ugly eyebrows impossibly vanish. A movie, The Wizard of UZ, abruptly leaves the "tracks of sanity." An intelligent bulldog chases an elusive whizzer bird up a tree and conspires to steal human food....

On Mirth, humans share the planet with the invisible, tiny Golumphs and their demanding, screaming ruler, Queen Snarelda. A Golumph wizard's wand--which has a mind of its own--allows itself to be found by human children. When the wand secretly grants the kids' unwitting wishes, human adults hilariously misunderstand the magic.

Escarpment country, Western Australia—three cattle station hands and a city reporter embark on a journey across a desolate, timeless land in search of a notorious bull named "Big Barney". Their boss has given them a rifle with only three bullets.

For almost 300 years, the dominant trend in New Testament interpretation has been to read the Acts of the Apostles as a document that argues for the political possibility of harmonious co-existence between 'Rome' and the early Christian movement. Kavin Rowe argues that the time is long overdue for...

Stories about siblings abound in literature, drama, comedy, biography, and history. We rarely talk about our own siblings without emotion, whether with love and gratitude, or exasperation, bitterness, anger and hate. Nevertheless, the subject of what it is to be and to have a sibling is one that has...

A collection of real-life Buddhist love stories, with commentary and guided exercises for couples developed by Peggy Rowe-Ward and Larry Ward, senior students and ordained Dharma teachers in the tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. These personal stories, from couples of a range of different ages...

Bringing together eight previously published essays by M. W. Rowe and a substantial new study of Larkin, this book emphasizes the profound affinities between philosophy and literature. Ranging over Plato, Shakespeare, Goethe, Arnold and Wittgenstein, the first five essays explore an anti-theoretical...