Kirby: 517 books

Featuring leading scientists acting as consultants on the stories, and writing scientific afterwords, bringing the theory featured in the stories to life, including Prof. Sarah Bridle (Jodrell Bank), Prof. Jonathan Wolff and Prof. Frank Jackson (the inventor of the 'Mary's Room' thought experiment). Science...

TO THE PUBLIC: In the year 1877 the first edition of “The Golden Dog” (Le Chien d'Or) was brought out in the United States, entirely without my knowledge or sanction. Owing to the inadequacy of the then existing copyright laws, I have been powerless to prevent its continued publication, which I understand...

2015 REVISED EDITION Struggling to come to terms with his new life in Rshan na Ostre, young Scarlet is trying to find his place in a decadent, foreign society that bears an ancient hatred for all Hilurin. As Liall is pulled away from Scarlet and into the jaded intrigues of a royal court, the...

A grandmother takes her two grandsons to the Grand Opening Luau at the Molokai Shores condo complex. The grandmother crosses paths with her ex and the grandsons try to get them back together. The younger boy meets his ex-girlfriend from Punahou at the luau and he attempts to rekindle an old flame.

These dreamscapes explore the places of in-betweens, the gray zone between life and death, living and dying. Would father make love again to his wife's best friend, even though she's become a zombie? Why is Gramma chasing the narrator out of the rest home? Has father learned a lesson in empathy when...

A son sees his mother with another man at the Woolworth's lunch counter.

I am Miss Kanagawa. In 1927, my 57 doll-sisters and I were sent from Japan to America as Ambassadors of Friendship. Our work wasn't all peach blossoms and tea cakes. My story will take you from New York to Oregon, during the Great Depression. Though few in this tale are as fascinating as I, their...

A Guatemalan journalist is kidnapped, and the only message from her kidnappers is the murder of her lawyer. In a race against time, Luc Vanier sets about reconstructing her life, through the sordid world of human trafficking, the secretive underbelly of a multinational mining corporation, and the...

A historical look at ladies in fox hunting with some notes on famous masters of fox hounds from around Great Britain.

The victims of US military campaigns are usually nameless civilians in far away places, but there are also victims closer to home - the soldiers so often used and then discarded by the establishment. Binding Their Wounds is a book about US veterans written by a US veteran - Bob 'Doc' Topmiller. Topmiller...

This collection of Kafkaesque miniatures offers a terrifying vision of the Worcester asylum where the writer's uncle spent most of his adult life. The asylum theme zips into overdrive in a series of sometimes darkly comic flashes threaded throughout the book. Dadio and June Spoon have created their...

WHEN I took up the study of the Kalevala and Finnish literature, with the intention of publishing a critical English edition of the poem, on which I am still engaged, the accumulation of the necessary materials led me to examine the literature of the neighbouring countries likewise. I had expected to...

A collection of Nouveau Noir stories, many reminscient of Kafka. Some of the stories are set in the Czech Republic while others are set in Hawaii. There is a dreamlike quality to most of the stories, but others are realistic in temperment.  

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS I. Introductory, II. Objections answered, III. Metamorphoses of Insects, IV. Direct Injuries caused by Insects, V. Indirect Injuries caused by Insects. Injuries to our living animal Property, VI....