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The selected poems in this volume, sometimes very personal in nature, were composed over a lifetime during which real poetry has fallen into a great divide, becoming an anachronism, a curious vestige of the past, while what has taken its place, disconnected from tradition, is degrading the entire art form to pop culture. Like religion and faith, literature is a necessary pillar whose removal hastens the collapse of culture. As it is under atta...

Of all the poetic forms, the sonnet continues to thrive where others have fallen out of use. In "Safe Harbor, " Adam calls the sonnet "...a bright lighthouse near rough seas." Those seas are getting rougher, which makes such beacons even more important in the darkness where free thought is under constant attack. This collection is a map for the mind to see the signs of "Perilous Times, " and to "think well" during this period when truth again ...

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Die siebte und letzte Staffel von "Rizzoli und Isles", die spannender und gefährlicher ist, als die Serie jemals gewesen ist, beginnt zur Zeit nach einer Schießerei, die in der Folge vor dem letzten Staffelfinale stattfand. Das Team muss jedes verfügbare Mittel verwenden, um die schwer fassbare Alice Sands, auf die es Jagd macht, zu finden und vor Gericht zu stellen, bevor ihr die Zerstörung von Janes Leben gelingt. Auch in dieser Staffel kehr...

Bruce Adam was born in Chicago. He studied at Lake Forest College and Harvard before graduating from Northern Illinois University with honors. He then moved to Nantes, France where he taught and continued his studies. Returning to the U.S., he worked ten years in publishing before turning his attention to completing his own work. Dreams of a Lifetime is the first in a series of book of stories. The second volume, The Voyage of a Bean, is sched...

Winner of the Medical Journalists' Association's Tony Thistlethwaite AwardA Finalist for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science BooksRecipient of the International OCD Foundation's Illumination AwardWhat might lead a schoolgirl to eat a wall of her house, piece by piece, or a man to die beneath an avalanche of household junk that he and his brother have compulsively hoarded? At what point does a harmless idea, a snowflake in a clear summer...

This fascinating novel tells the story of Hector Wolf, an archeologist who discovers a giant stone statue buried in the wasteland. Soon afterwards, a mob flocks to the scene searching for the meaning of their lives. Among them is a writer, a young troubadour, a chaplain and his daughter, a self-serving politician, and a foreign dissident. As the new settlement grows, and more and more of the stone giant is exposed, each of these strong-willed ...

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Includes two plays by Bruce Adam. In Mary Mary confusion reigns when Terry brings a (decidedly inebriated) new woman named Mary home to meet his mother - also called Mary. And in When I Snap My Fingers Simon and Maria Moffat agree to undergo hypnosis as part of performer Sven Gali's act when a fire alarm sounds before Sven has had a chance to remove the effect of certain trigger words.|3 women, 3 men

Filled with invention, this singular collection of stories by the author of Dreams of a Lifetime and The Voyage of a Bean is a potpourri of comedic pieces composed to amuse and inspire. Short dramatic sketches, biography, satire, mock literary criticism, and a new genre of jokes are presented for the reader's delectation in a rich stew of fictions rendered in high vein with subtle wit. Zen Death and Other Stories is a feast of smart humor infu...

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