Carl: 2594 books

Do you struggle to get your child to sleep? Join millions of parents all over the world and embrace a bedtime routine that will help your child to relax and fall fast asleep. Let your child be lulled to sleep with Tractor Alex in a sleep-inducing ride around the farm. Along the way they meet Yawning...

**Each beautifully told story in this fine collection resonates with a moving depth of emotional understanding.**Having won prizes in major national competitions for four of these stories, had several selected for anthologies of significant New Zealand writing, with numerous broadcast on radio and...

This is the last of a trilogy of assorted poetry from my youth. Back in the late 1970'd I was employed as a supervisor in a heavy steel making plant. Sometimes the minority of producing repeditive forgings and other assorted steel fabrications would white-ant my creativity levels and ... what better...

A six-year-old pharmacy robbery and double murder provide private detective Sean Sean with just enough threads that he can latch onto the tracks of a roving gang of thieves. The pharmacy robbery centered around a mysterious aluminum case that shows up and disappears in odd ways. When Sean is asked...

“Palladian Days is nothing short of wonderful–part adventure, mystery, history, diary, and even cookbook. The Gables’ lively account captures the excitement of their acquisition and restoration of one of the greatest houses in Italy. Beguiled by Palladio and the town of Piombino Dese, they trace...

Most politicians would kill for a high approval rating. The powerful Lorrimer family don't need your approval-but they kill anyway. Conspiracy expert Isaac Salt is determined to uncover all the Lorrimer's secrets, even if it means sneaking onto their private island. But what's waiting for him there is the last thing in the world he expects.

‘I used to think all the trouble in the world was caused by people giving orders. Now I reckon that it’s people being so willing to take them.’ Released after fifteen years in prison, trapped in a bureaucratic maze, petty criminal Wilhelm Voight wanders 1910 Berlin in desperate, hazardous pursuit...

A reporter comes upon a forbidding looking structure while traveling through the Southwestern United States.

First print-published by Five Star/Gale in 2006Deep water . . .Jean Fairbairn is off to write a story about the haunted waters of Loch Ness. She has an appointment with American scientist Roger Dempsey, who is using his latest gadgets to try and prove that the legend of the monster,...

Chicago Poems (1916) was Carl Sandburg's first-published book of verse. Written in the poet's unique, personal idiom, these poems embody a soulfulness, lyric grace, and a love of and compassion for the common man that earned Sandburg a reputation as a "poet of the people." Among the dozens...

A practical description of the death posture as well as some of the theory behind it as expressed by Austin Osman Spare.

First print-published by Wildside Press in 2000 Claire came to the English village to find her best friend, Melinda, who’d vanished after performing in a play which re-creates a seventeenth-century witchcraft trial. What she found was a murder mystery—and a man. A man who, like her,...

A terrified elf no bigger than a dime hides in a boy's ear to escape from the dangers of the world. Despite the boy's plea for the visitor to leave, Elias stays and slowly reveals a magical identity. A friendship grows between the two, and through a hair-raising adventure courage is restored to elf...

In the back streets of Montmartre, the Theatre du Grand Guignol opens its doors to an unsuspecting public. The plays performed, rife with madness and murder, are sold out every night. A psychiatrist obsessed with the playwright’s gruesome dramas ingratiates his way into the company. But when he starts...