Nearly 200 tales of cryptid animals and other unusual beasts are contained in this well-researched book by Michael D. Winkle. Readers will encounter familiar monsters like Bigfoot and Nessie, dinosaurs and ancient fish that have survived into the present day, and less well-known beings such as flying cats and rabbits, brain-eating horrors, and interdimensional hamsters!

As far as we can discern,the sole purpose of humanexistence is to kindle a lightin the darkness of mere being.Carl Jung

Days Gone By is a collection of poetry and writing by Michael B. Van Winkle over a 50-year period. It includes works on Love, Beauty, Loss, Gratitude, Forgiveness, Discovery, Nights, Seasons, and more. For those who seek the light within, it offers a glimpse of a way. If you find peace in the night sky, you will find comfort here. If the change of seasons is the rhythm of your soul, you can rest here. If you enjoy teaching children about the mysteries of nature, you will find ideas here. I...

A collection of short stories about creatures which will warm the heart.

Love in the Time of Ethnography explores love – variously defined – as an important facet of human life and a worthy focus of study. The authors look at love in association with an Alevi and Sunni couple in Turkey, organizers of Mexican American and immigrant youth movements, Christian missionaries in China, an elderly man with dementia, two women “coming home” to queer identity, a White researcher working with Black women in the US, the common ground between Dogen’s Zen teachings and Habe...

Winner of the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award (Young People's Literature - Text)Winner of the 2017 Kirkus PrizeWinner of the 2018 Sunburst AwardWinner of the 2018 Amy Mathers Teen Book AwardWinner of the 2018 Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Young Adult LiteratureWinner of the 2018 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of th...

Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-along with works chosen by Oliver from six of the books she has published since New and Selected Poems, Volume One.

VIAJES POR ESPAÑA by D. PEDRO ANTONIO DE ALARCÓN offers a concentrated, compelling experience within fiction / literary. This concise work presents carefully drawn characters and purposeful plotting that together explore themes of choice, consequence, and human connection. The prose is precise and economical, balancing vivid scenes with clear pacing to maintain narrative momentum. Ideal for readers seeking a thoughtful, accessible read, the book is well-suited to book clubs and classroom d...

This paperback edition contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published volumes in addition to sixteen previously uncollected poems. Included are his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners The Walking, Words for the Wind, and The Far Field.These two hundred poems demonstrate the variety of Roethke's themes and styles, the comic and serious sides of his temperament, and his breakthroughs in the use of language. Together they document the development ...

You probably haven’t ever noticed them. But they’ve noticed you. They notice everything. That’s their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers’ work habits, the positions of the security guards. Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on its daily rounds. Surreptitiously jiggling the handle of an unmarked service door at the racetrack.They’re thieves. Heisters, to be precise. They’re pros, and Parker is far and away the ...

A book of fifty lucid, urgent poems from internationally acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling author Margaret Atwood.In The Door, Margaret Atwood investigates the mysterious writing of poetry itself as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality. The Door ranges in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and touches on subjects both personal and political. Brave and compassionate, this collection of reflective poet...

Selected Poems 2 is an essential collection from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author Margaret Atwood, tracing her work from 1976-1986.Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Margaret Atwood is also one of our most significant contemporary poets.Selected Poems 2 presents her work in the decade following 1976—important years of change and new themes in her poetry. It includes selections from Two-Headed Poem...