Alan Burns was an important voice in a group of experimental writers who came to the fore in Great Britain in the post-World War II era. He worked in multiple genres—essays, interviews, drama, non-fiction, and short fiction—however, his reputation is based primarily on his eight novels, the first four of which are collected in this volume. In Buster , Burns recounts the childhood and maturation of Dan Graveson, a middle-class boy who experiences the death of his mother and older brother at a young age and who wanders from one undertaking and ...

Are you plagued by compulsive thinking? Do you have a voice inside your head that tends to obsess, complain, compare and criticize yourself and others? Do you feel like a hostage to your mind’s whims?   If you're ready to start harnessing the present and living in the now, this is the ideal book to introduce you to the basics of mindfulness meditation .  Keep reading! The mind loves to hold onto the illusion that it has control over situations and to immerse itself in thought. In reality, your thoughts are just a tiny piece of ...

Set against the background of the Great Depression, this book presents the life of Ralph Guldahl, who for a brief period in the 1930s was widely recognized as the best golfer in the world. From 1936 to 1940, he won two successive U.S. Opens, one Masters title and three successive Western Opens, held the best scoring average award and was a Ryder Cup player with a 100 percent record. After this memorable run, he "lost his game" and almost disappeared from view. This biography is the first to trace the rise and decline of his career and answer the question: ...

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In turbulent times, King David united a nation—and his hard-earned wisdom can bring us together today. This new  30 Days With  book offers a month of readings plus ideas for small-group discussion. David ranks among the world’s greatest heroes for defeating Goliath and best-selling authors for writing Psalms. He is honored by Jews, Christians and Muslims. In this book, pastor, educator and leadership coach Larry Buxton shows us how David embodies 14 crucial values shared by effective leaders to this day. Just as the first volume in ...

Her daughter has disappeared before her eyes, clutched in the deadly embrace of her enemy, and her beloved Gabrael lies dead at her feet, slain by her own son. How much more can the planet of Kamilon throw at her before the spirit of Jenna Whitehair is broken? In the third volume of the Chronicles of Jenna Whitehair, the evil that has taken her daughter becomes a threat to the very existence of both Kamilon and Earth and together with some strange new allies; Jenna must race against time to save both. Hidden secrets, resurrected heroes, and a love ...

Stories are all around us. They're in the TV and movies we so adore, in the video games we play, and of course in the books we read. They're in newspapers and magazines, too; in the conversations we share with old friends, and with new ones. They're on our mobile phones, in aeroplanes, in submarines, and even in our dreams.   Our obsession with, and craving for, stories rests squarely with the way we are so absorbed by them, just as it does with the way we don't need to continually consider how and why they work. Most of the time, when ...

In this compelling and informative volume, Jimmie R. Hawkins walks the reader through the many forms of Black protest in American history, from pre-colonial times though the George Floyd protests of 2020. Hawkins breaks American history into five sections, with subsections highlighting how Black identity helped to shape protest during that period.  These protests include slave ship mutinies, the abolitionist movement, the different approaches to protest from Frederick Douglas, W.E.B. Dubois, and Booker T. Washington, protest led by various ...

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