How do you define rockabilly?Who were the original "outlaws" of Country music?Where can you go to hear great music in Austin, Texas?My Country Roots answers all these questions and hundreds more! It is a resource that will help you fill your mp3 player with the essential Country songs, while impressing your friends with your knowledge of the ultimate outsider art.Containing 100 recommended playlists for downloading, this book is the best and most un...

Innocence is no protection against evil…One early October afternoon, ten-year-old Jacob Rossi begins the short walk home from school. But he never makes it.Days later, DCI Anna Tate is called to the scene of a burning building, where an awful discovery has been made. A body has been found, and the label in his school blazer reads: J. Rossi.As Anna starts digging, she soon learns that a lot of people had grudges against the boy’s father. But would an...

A BRAND-NEW, relentlessly pacy psychological thriller with twists you won’t see coming, for fans of Michelle Frances, Lisa Jewell, and Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies ‘A sizzling, addictive thriller with a wicked twist.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Author D.E. WhiteEveryone has something to hide… After surviving a house fire that killed her husband, Kelly Reynolds vanishes into the East Hamptons, a world of gated estates, pristine lawns...

Do you hear the voice in your head and believe it is you? And have you considered the possibility that you might be something more, instead?This concise guide serves as your introduction to the life-changing neuroscientific truth that you are not your brain. It is designed to help you step back from the patterns of your brain to reclaim your rightful seat as the conscious leader of your adult life. And when you do that, you'll begin to author your life from the deeper, calmer, wise...

A BRAND-NEW, relentlessly pacy psychological thriller with twists you won’t see coming, for fans of Michelle Frances, Lisa Jewell, and Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies ‘A sizzling, addictive thriller with a wicked twist.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Author D.E. WhiteEveryone has something to hide… After surviving a house fire that killed her husband, Kelly Reynolds vanishes into the East Hamptons, a world of gated estates, pristine lawns...

Do you sense that your true potential remains limited by unhelpful patterns of thought and behavior? Are you ready to reclaim your inherent magnificence?This concise guide serves as your introduction to the transformative Polymorphic Mind Model (PMM), opening the door to deeper personal understanding, growth, and authentic living. It gently dismantles the myth that greatness is something external to be chased or earned and, instead, reveals greatness as an innate truth already with...

On a rainy night at a tiny Oregon college, a shadowy figure at the back of the hall interrupts Bullwick Farley's mythology lecture: "Little Red Riding Hood has done something terrible," he says, "and I desperately need your help before it's too late."Just another story in a class all about stories? A myth, a fable, a tale told and retold? The students might think so. But ten years after leaving a life where even the strangest stories turn out to be true, Farley fa...

'Her Imagination was one of the most dazzling this century' MARINA WALKER, INDEPENDENT'The way to Carter's visionary and lurid world' THE TIMES'The darting, lyrical pen of Angela Carter, mistress of the erotic picaresque' KIRKUS REVIEWS'I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a ...

Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world- from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters.This fabulous celebration o...

What is knowledge? Why is it valuable? How much of it do we have (if any at all), and what ways of thinking are good ways to use to get more of it? These are just a few questions that are asked in epistemology, roughly, the philosophical theory of knowledge. This is Epistemology is a comprehensive introduction to the philosophical study of the nature, origin, and scope of human knowledge. Exploring both classic debates and contemporary issues in epistemology, this rigorous yet acc...

Eschewing old clunkers like "military intelligence" and "student-athlete," this volume features well over 200 fresh and original oxymorons with commentaries-all with a satirical twist. As a satire, Little House of Oxymorons complements Steven Carter's The New Devil's Dictionary, a two-volume "sequel" to Ambrose Bierce's notorious The Devil's Dictionary of a century ago.Cover image: Allison O'Donnell, Resist, 2008. Acrylic and graphite painting on...

'The boldest of English women writers' LORNA SAGE'Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language' OBSERVER'She can glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, from depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the elusive power of the original tales' THE TIMES