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Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"To the Danes, he is skraelingr; to the English, he is to the Irish, he is fomoraig. He is Corpse-maker and Life-quencher, the Bringer of Night, the Son of the Wolf and Brother of the Serpent. He is Grimnir, and he is the last of his kind--the last in a long line of monsters who have plagued humanity since the Elder Days. Drawn from his lair by a thirst for vengeance against the Dane who slew his brother, Grimnir emerges into a world that's changed....
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macm.illan
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland's best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jericka tries to navigate the impending death of her estranged grandmother in a haunted small Maryland town.
Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother lives--someone she knows only two things her name and the fact that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes you walk into a room, a building, or even a town, and you feel it. Something seems off--an atmosphere that leaves you oddly unsettled, with a sense of lingering darkness. Join Aaron Mahnke, the host of the popular podcast Lore, as he explores some of these dreadful places and the history that haunts them. Mahnke takes us to Colorado and the palatial Stanley Hotel, where wealthy guests enjoyed views of the Rocky Mountains at the turn of...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From an acclaimed historian and financial analyst, the first definitive history of the legendary private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman - and through it, the rise to world power of the so-called American Establishment. Conspiracy theories have always swirled around Brown Brothers Harriman, and not without reason. Throughout the 19th century, when America was convulsed by a devastating financial panic every generation, Brown Brothers quietly...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"This present moment That lives on To become Long ago." For his first collection of new poems since his celebrated Danger on Peaks, published in 2004, Gary Snyder finds himself ranging over the planet. Journeys to the Dolomites, to the north shore of Lake Tahoe, from Paris and Tuscany to the shrine at Delphi, from Santa Fe to Sella Pass, Snyder lays out these poems as a map of the last decade. Placed side-by-side, they become a path and a trail of...
Series
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In volume 1
Publisher
TimeLife
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The 60's gave us "in crowds," "be-ins" and "love-in," and starting in 1968, the happening place for free-form comedy was Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, broadcast from beautiful downtown Burbank. Straight man Dan Rowan and wisecracking co-host Dick Martin led a gaggle of goofballs through a rapid-fire assault of one-liners, skits, bits and non sequiturs that left viewers in hysterics and disbelief. Anything and anyone in the public eye was a target....
Author
Publisher
Strawberry Records
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"3 CD set containing much-loved UK soul act The Foundations' recordings for Pye including the hits, 'Baby Now That I've Found You' (UK #1, US #11), 'Back On My Feet Again' (UK #18), 'Any Old Time (You're Lonely And Sad)' (UK #48), 'Build Me Up Buttercup' (UK #2, US #3), 'In The Bad Bad Old Days (Before You Loved Me)' (UK #8) and 'Born To Live, Born To Die' (UK #46). Plus The Foundations' UK albums, 'From The Foundations' (1967), 'Rocking The Foundations'...