Young: 2898 books

Set in post-war England, this is the story of the square-rigger Bonnie Clyde. Before this great lady meets her fate, a group of rogue sailors, unable to persuade the Admiralty to help save the vessel, pirates the ship away while she?s under tow to be scuttled. Through their creative use of materials...

  Birds become trees, and trees, birds; stars and old men change positions as easily as changing seats. Welcome to the fantastical world of The Fairy Tale Book of Bifford C. Wellington, a collection of stories from the elusive T. A. Young. The usual hierarchy of fairy tale characters...

Surrounded by enemies and beyond rescue….In Victorian Europe, American college girl Abigail Smithfield is offered what appears to be a dream come true: spend a week standing in for an “indisposed” princess who rules a remote kingdom. Too late, Abigail discovers the princess wants to use...

Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor’s family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy, and their two children. Lexi soon adapts to...

Can Josh and Jana thwart an impending Armageddon? The world they knew continues disintegrating around them, as Josh and Jana put their lives on the line for a crippled nation. They will discover old enemies and new friends in places they couldn’t imagine, as they fight for what they believe....

Rhetoric, Embodiment, and the Ethos of Surveillance: Student Bodies in the American High School investigates the rhetorical tension between controlling student bodies and educating student minds. The book is a rhetorical analysis of the policies and procedures that govern life in contemporary American...

This book traces the Baul Path, a Tantric spiritual tradition, from its earliest roots in the subcontinent of India, to its dissemination in the West in modern times. “Baul” – meaning “madcap” or “taken by the wind” – describes one who has a vision...

W. Paul Young versplinterde met De uitnodiging (The Shack) ons beperkte beeld van God. Zijn roman Eva daagt ons uit om schadelijke misvattingen over onszelf los te laten. Wanneer een zeecontainer aanspoelt op een eiland tussen onze wereld en de volgende, vindt John de Verzamelaar daarin een jonge...

Poems that unfold like liturgy, confronting old violence with a trembling, dignified restraint. Reunion is a parable, an origin story, a cautionary tale. It is also a time machine in which poems commune with ghosts in an attempt both to reckon with and subvert their legacy. It is a tale of the impossible...

Elephant and Rabbit are philosophers without peer, pondering everything from the existential dilemma of a particular snowflake to how to get a whale out of a river and back to the fjords (oh, wait - they really did that). They meet a drooling panther with an old grudge, a chicken with an inferiority...

The medias focus on the assumption that we should avoid growing old at all costs creates a fear of approaching these aging years. But in Savoring Sage Time, author I. Leahanna Young provides a road map for growing old and wise and appreciating the mature years of lifes journey. Young offers...

1999 — somewhere in the middle of the Arizona desert… Returning from a family visit to meet his newborn granddaughter, Jonathan Walsh, lead singer of Torrent, decides to take the long route home to California.  After about a week of travel, he finds himself exhausted while driving...

It's 1969 and Marty's family lives on the U.S. island of Guam, where his father manages the NASA tracking station. It's important work and never more so than during the Apollo 11 space mission, where the tracking station relays signals back and forth between the astronauts and Mission Control in Houston,...

The year is 2056, and the world is gradually recovering from a catastrophe that saw half the planet disappear beneath the oceans, with the loss of three and a half billion people. The waters are slowly receding, but life for surviving humans has become harsh and often cruel. Food is scarce, with precious...