The Shadows

The Shadows

Author: Jacqueline West

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-06-14

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1101532297

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For fans of Small Spaces, Coraline, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and James Howe's Bunnicula classics comes the first book in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Books of Elsewhere series. This house is keeping secrets . . . When eleven-year-old Olive and her parents move into the crumbling mansion on Linden Street and find it filled with mysterious paintings, Olive knows the place is creepy—but it isn’t until she encounters its three talking cats that she realizes there’s something darkly magical afoot. Then Olive finds a pair of antique spectacles in a dusty drawer and discovers the most peculiar thing yet: She can travel inside the house’s spooky paintings to a world that’s strangely quiet . . . and eerily sinister. But in entering Elsewhere, Olive has been ensnared in a mystery darker and more dangerous than she could have imagined, confronting a power that wants to be rid of her by any means necessary. With only the cats and an unusual boy she meets in Elsewhere on her side, it’s up to Olive to save the house from the shadows, before the lights go out for good.


Laughter in the Shadow of the Trees

Laughter in the Shadow of the Trees

Author: James Prideaux

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780822215127

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THE STORIES: LAUGHTER IN THE SHADOW OF THE TREES. Martin, a brilliant, distinguished critic, is rapidly falling into a state of dementia. His wife, Felicia, remains the epitome of the supportive wife and loyal fan, even in the face of his insults and peev


The Shadows

The Shadows

Author: L. A. Banks

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-07-08

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0312368755

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In the next scintillating Vampire Huntress Legend tale, the Huntress team sets off to save the world from Armageddon.


Rumi's Little Book of Love and Laughter

Rumi's Little Book of Love and Laughter

Author: Coleman Barks

Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing

Published: 2016-10-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 161283373X

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Rowdy, ecstatic, and sometimes stern, these teaching stories and fables reveal new and very human properties in Rumi's vision. Included here are the notorious "Latin parts" that Reynold Nicholson felt were too unseemly to appear in English in his 1920s translation. For Rumi, anything that human beings do--however compulsive--affords a glimpse into the inner life. Here are more than 40 fables or teaching stories that deal with love, laughter, death, betrayal, and the soul. The stories are exuberant, earthy, and bursting with vitality--much like a painting by Hieronymus Bosch or Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The characters are guilty, lecherous, tricky, ribald, and finally possessors of opened souls. Barks writes: "These teaching stories are a kind of scrimshaw--intricately carved, busy figures, confused and threatening, and weirdly funny. This is an entertaining collection from one of the greatest spiritual poets of all time, rendered by his most popular translator. "The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."--Rumi


And Laughter Fell From the Sky

And Laughter Fell From the Sky

Author: Jyotsna Sreenivasan

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2012-06-19

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0062105779

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“A timely story about what matters most deeply: our quest for love and acceptance….Jyotsna Sreenivasan’s writing speaks straight to the heart.” —Kim Barnes, author of In the Kingdom of Men And Laughter Fell from the Sky, the enthralling first novel from Jyotsna Sreenivasan, is a stirring contemporary love story about two young Indian-Americans trying to find love and their place in the world, while dealing with the confines and pressures of their culture and their families. A remarkable literary journey that carries the reader from the American heartland to the Pacific Northwest and into the teeming heart of India, And Laughter Fell from the Sky is a magnificent debut by a fresh and exciting new voice, immediately placing Sreenivasan alongside Jhumpa Lahiri, popular author of The Namesake, as an expert chronicler of the Indian-American cultural experience.


The Shadows

The Shadows

Author: J.R. Ward

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-03-31

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 1101602368

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Two brothers bound by more than blood fight to change a brutal destiny in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Sold by his parents to the Queen of the s’Hisbe as a child, Trez escaped the Territory and has been a pimp and an enforcer for years. On the run from a destiny of sexual servitude, he’s never been able to rely on anyone...except for his brother, iAm. iAm’s sole goal has always been to keep his brother from self-destructing—and he knows he’s failed. It’s not until the Chosen Selena enters Trez’s life that the male begins to turn things around...but by then, it’s too late. The pledge to mate the Queen’s daughter comes due, and there is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and no negotiating. Now Trez must decide whether to endanger himself and others—or abandon the female he loves. When tragedy strikes and changes everything, iAm, in the name of brotherly love, is faced with making the ultimate sacrifice...


Through the Shadows of Forever

Through the Shadows of Forever

Author: James Patrick Krach

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-08-12

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1300073942

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Through the Shadows of Forever is a supernaturally dark commentary on society, and the world in which we live. Follow one man's horrifying journey to survive in a world he chooses to live apart from. Follow another man's twisted journey through madness, as he searches for the answers to his own life forgotten. Watch as the two collide in an enlightenment of insanity. Welcome to the shadows.


Jaguar of Sweet Laughter

Jaguar of Sweet Laughter

Author: Diane Ackerman

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-07-27

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0307763382

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In A Natural History of the Senses Diane Ackerman revealed herself as a naturalist who writes with the sensuous immediately of a great poet. Now Jaguar of Sweet Laughter presents the work of a poet with the precise and wondering eye of a gifted naturalist. Ackermans's Olympian vision records and transforms landscapes from Amazonia to Antarctica, while her imaginative empathy penetrates the otherness of hummingbirds, deer, and trilobites. But even as they draw readers into the wild heart of nature, Ackerman's poems are indelible reminders of what it is to be a human being—the "jaguar of sweet laughter" that, according to Mayan mythology, astonished the world because it was the first animal to speak.