Roy: 2801 books

Poetry, Free Verse and Digital Art. This book is philosophical and as challenging as cryptography.

American Heartland flows from the Midwestern childhood of the author who learned the values of loyalty, bravery, and honesty with love for God and country. LTC Peterson's poetry is a unique portrayal of those values, as a substantive down to earth word painting, but with a transcending perspective,...

Are you someone who “thinks things over?” Do you have conversations with yourself, silently in your head? If so, you are a practitioner of reflexivity. There is evidence that most people are reflexive and that there are (at least) four different kinds of reflexivity. This book uses a character...

Special Taskforce Agent, Grant Dalton is forced to partner with Private Eye, Robyn Kyser, pooling their talents and resources in an effort to take down the elusive terrorist, Alex Lambert, before he can unleash a biological weapon on the citizens of New Orleans using a new species of insect.

Explore the seven deadly sins as told through modern situations. Each story follows unpleasant circumstances we’ve all been subjected to, either in person or by the recollection of another. Step into a relationship or a heated moment and ask yourself where you would have ended up. The answer might...

*Winner of the prestigious Norwegian Booksellers' Prize* *A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection (Holiday 2011)* A glorious evocation of a Norwegian childhood in the early sixties by an author short-listed for the 2009 Dublin IMPAC Award Little Finn lives with...

My Spirit Is Like the Eagle begins with a poem sharing its title with the book. The central image of the poet as an eagle provides a unique introduction to the variety of themes in this poetry collection. Some verses soar high above the landscape, while others swoop down from the heights to grasp...

For nearly three years, Walt Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of the Civil War, tending to thousands of wounded soldiers and recording his experiences with an immediacy and compassion unequaled in wartime literature anywhere in the world. In The Better Angel, acclaimed biographer Roy Morris,...

The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day. In doing so it charts the journey from specialist black theatre companies to the mainstream,...

Roy Shifrin is an author with published books containing more than three hundred of his poems. He has also written three novels and an autobiography describing an artists life lived in New York City and in Europe. An artist as well as a prolific poet, he has primarily supported himself and...

Known for his unique knack for creating three-dimensional portraits of children, author Roy Rolfe Gilson pulls it off again in the charming novel Miss Primrose. Told from the vantage point of a young boy, the tale relates the idyllic village life of Miss Letitia Primrose, and her father, a somewhat curmudgeonly scholar.

I was captivated by the weather at an early age. This book describes some of the unique weather-related experiences I've had during my lifetime and how they helped pique my interest in this subject.. Most notable were incidents involving severe weather like thunderstorms, snowstorms and hurricanes....

Funny and fast moving, with just the right level of Dennis-the-Menace-type mischief, How to Handle: Your Teacher is perfect for readers who love a good laugh (largely at the expense of teachers!). Inside you'll find highly expert* advice to help identify teacher 'types', and hints about where...

Winner of The CAA–Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography The 2000 Ottawa-Carlton Book Award The (U.S.) Rutstrum Award for Best Wilderness Book “A portrait of a true original.”—The Hamilton Spectator In 1929, at the age of twenty-two, Duncan MacGregor, the son of a...