Charles Bukowski

John Martin

A selection of the best poetry from America's most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski.

Poems, 1951-1993

The Pleasures of the Damned

Scott Seegert

Presented by James Patterson's new children's imprint, this gleefully illustrated space adventure is a laugh on every page. That's a lot of laughs! Kelvin Klosmo isn't just the new kid at school - he's the new kid in the galaxy! Welcome to Sci-Fi Junior High: an inter-galactic space station with students of all shapes, sizes, smells, and... slime content. As the son of Earth's two most famous geniuses, Kelvin isn't just the smartest kid in the world....he's the smartest kid in the UNIVERSE. At least, that's what everybody at Sci-Fi Junior High thinks. So, maybe Kelvin lied a little about being a genius to fit in. And maybe a mad scientist is about to take over the universe unless Kelvin can stop him. Maybe everyone is doomed. Well, at least Kelvin won't have to worry about math homework anymore. Sci-Fi Junior High is an out-of-this-world story about friendship, accepting our differences, and the fight against evil... bunnies. Yes, evil bunnies - don't ask.

Sci-Fi Junior High

Middle school in space! An alien dog! A mad scientist! Hundreds of illustrations! Sci-Fi Junior High is galactically good! James Patterson presents a hilarious space adventure featuring an average human kid getting into a universe of trouble. Kelvin is the new kid at Sci-Fi Junior High--a floating space station filled with alien kids form across the universe. And he arrived just in time for the annual school dance: The Galactic Get Down! Kelvin is desperate to take luminous Luna (her species literally glows), but now that his secret about not being a Mega Supergenius is out, Kelvin doesn't have a shot. He has to think of a way to become super cool so everyone forgets he lied about his average intelligence... Cue mad scientist Erik Failenheimer's escape from his asteroid prison, an army of Pinions (any similarities to the MinionsTM is purely coincidental), and a battle to save Sci-Fi Junior High from imminent doom. Let's dance! "Saving the universe has never been so much fun!" -- Gordon Korman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of 39 Clues and Masterminds on Sci-Fi Junior High.

Sci-Fi Junior High: Crash Landing

Friedvoll, winterlich still und verschneit: sieben Kurzgeschichten, die einladen zu philosophischem Diskurs und lyrischer Beschaulichkeit. Gebet und Predigt über Gott und die Bibel, Religion und Kirche. Vom Kreislauf der Schöpfung und menschlichem Geschick bis hin zum Abgesang am Abend unseres Lebens. An Orten, wo wir die Sehnsucht spüren nach dem ewigen Licht, losgelöst von allem Irdischen, endlich am Ziel unserer wunderbaren Reise. Doch um in den Himmel zu gelangen, müssen wir zuerst sterben ... Leider, leider!

Band 1

... und schweigend fällt der Schnee

If the Tasmanian Tiger really is extinct, how come it won't go away in this bundle of six amusing novels? 1. LIE OF THE TIGER Windy Mountain is a one-dog town because of a law the mayor rammed through years ago. But it's a law two funny old men will need to break. When a frighteningly familiar Irishman arrives to take charge of the Tasmanian Tiger Museum, he discovers the last manager left the building in a coffin – and the owners really don’t want him to succeed anyway. So if Oodles and Wish-Wash can’t help him, Paddy is on a hiding to nothing. 2. BLOKES ON A PLANE When the nasty old mayor disappears, someone starts stealing local landmarks from the quirky little town, and no one else seems to be overly concerned, two old men go from being unlikely tourists to unlikely sleuths. Enter the walkie-talkies and cow-camouflage trousers. Octogenarians Oodles and Wish-Wash would normally be the last people to worry the former mayor is missing. Especially not now when they are busy planning an overseas trip to explore family history sparked by a DNA test. 3. WHITEY AND THE SIX DWARFS Even when they're not there, the old men are complicating things. Find out how in this funny whodunnit. Oodles, Wish-Wash and The Mayor have gone to Ireland to research family history, and have washed their hands of the Tasmanian Tiger Museum. But the new owners are thrown into a puzzle after a garden ornament goes missing. The clues include a skeleton, a chess set, and a concrete marsupial with a secret pouch. The old men are no help. In fact, their emails just muddy the waters. 4. BLOKES IN DONEGAL St Patrick might have been so busy chasing snakes that he overlooked banishing Tasmanian Tigers from Ireland. This might explain how one ends up under the kitchen sink in the fourth book of the Windy Mountain series, which is more crazy mystery than cozy mystery. The three old men think they are flying to Donegal to trace family history and to inherit a castle. It ends in laughs and tears. Who knew Donegal has quirky characters, too? 5. BLOKES IN THE HOUSE Nobody warned the three old men that hitmen and Tasmanian Tigers were going into lockdown with them! The former mayor is 82, and not on speaking terms with the former town drunk, 83, and one of his former council employees, 85. So when they're forced to isolate in a small house together for three months to stay safe from the pandemic, there is bound to be friction. But while the old mayor resigns himself to a future of face masks, hand-sanitiser and a life of much less luxury than he is used to in the company of two buffoons he didn’t even want to see again, he gets some very unpleasant surprises 6. WHO KNEW TIGER SHARKS ALSO EAT APPLES? When someone threatens to spoil Christmas by demolishing the town's Art Deco cafe, it's time to take sides. The proposed replacement is an ugly commercial building that would tower over the district. More crazy mystery than cozy mystery, the quirkiness of this funny series goes to a new level when a Tiger Shark surfaces. The three old men are at each other's throats yet again, this time over the proposed development. But they have a new umpire. He is someone who has earned an infamous reputation in Windy Mountain before, but he returns in a surprising new role.

The first six quirky novels of the Windy Mountain series

Different Stripes

Even when they're not there, the old men are complicating things. Find out how in this funny whodunnit. Oodles, Wish-Wash and The Mayor have gone to Ireland to research family history, and have washed their hands of the Tasmanian Tiger Museum. But the new owners are thrown into a puzzle after a garden ornament goes missing. The clues include a skeleton, a chess set, and a concrete marsupial with a secret pouch. The old men are no help. In fact, their emails just muddy the waters. Whitey and the Six Dwarfs is book 3 of the funny Windy Mountain series. Each book has its own story. But if you like this one, Blokes in Donegal (book 4) and Blokes in the House (book 5) await with some of the same quirky, but endearing characters.

Whitey and the Six Dwarfs

A Grammar of the Tonga Language

An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard

What we believe, how we think and how we act are determined by our backgrounds and our upbringing.We are the way we are because of what we have been taught and exposed to.Why do I believe the things I do and why do I act and react in certain ways?Come and see what our training has done to us. See what possibilities exist to help you become more aware and more involved in making a new you and a very different tomorrow.

The Damaged Child

William Mariner

Compiled and Arranged from the Extensive Communications of William Mariner, Several Years Resident in Those Islands

An Account of the Natives of Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean

Major Jeremy Billycock-Smythe ("Oh, do call me Major B S, old boy!"), is a former British soldier, failed mercenary and bumbling adventure tour operator who puts his business interests on hold in a bid to save his wife¿s historic Australian homestead, Rowbottom.Along the way, he is recruited to carry out a top-secret government mission.Unfortunately, unless you have a top-level security clearance, you probably can¿t read this book to find out what it is and how he messes it up yet again!Major B S is a comic novel from the author of How Much Is That Scorpion in the Window?

A Top-Secret Mission

Major B S

An exquisite, comprehensive and beautifully written study of the important role of Our Lady in history, art, literature, music, theology and apparition throughout history. This superb contribution to Mariology will appeal to both new and longtime Marian devotees as it stimulates the mind and inflames the spirit.

The Virgin Mary in History, Art, and Apparition

Roses, Fountains, and Gold

With an Original Grammar and Vocabulary of Their Language : in Two Volumes

An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean

John Partridge

In this work John Partridge (assisted by John Martin) proves that Jonathan Swift was the author of The Benefit of Farting and Arse Musica (1722 and subsequent editions). The volume contains a poem about Hester (Vanessa) Van Homrigh that the author maintains was written by Jonathan Swift and which establishes that his relationship with her was sexual. John Partridge contends that when writing about farting Swift is in a broader sense claiming an intimacy with women that included sex. He begins the task of identifying the fifty-two women listed in Arse Musica for their 'prowess in farting'. Their names are hidden by suggestive pseudonyms that are difficult for a modern reader to decipher but which were obvious to Swift's contemporaries. This list includes women from both aristocratic families and the wives of tradesmen. These women, it would seem, organized themselves into a fan club or family dedicated to Swift, an activity that Swift's contemporary and biographer Lord Orrery denounced as the keeping of a seraglio at the Deanery. John Partridge asserts that some of these women had children by Swift. To demonstrate this he sets out a proof that Swift had children by Laetitia Pilkington, destroying the myth that Swift was asexual. Not since Norman O. Brown's 'The Excremental Vision' in Life Against Death (1959) has such insight been granted into the mind, art and being of Jonathan Swift.

The Meaning of Dr. Jonathan Swift's Preoccupation with the Nether End, and a Full Text of The Benefit of Farting and Arse Musica

Bums, Farts & Other Inappropriate Acts

Cynthia Schmidt

Joseph Opala

A small group of people on the Caribbean island of Carriacou, in the state of Grenada, still identifies with the Temne people of Sierra Leone, West Africa. Although more than 200 years have passed since the last enslaved Africans were taken to Carriacou, the members of that group still call themselves "Temnes," and still remember their ancient homeland in Africa. This is the story of how the "Temne Nation" of Carriacou managed to preserve the memory of its origin in a small place in Africa. It describes the events that led to a "Temne Reunion" in 2016 when Sierra Leone Temnes and Carriacou Temnes will meet for the first time.

Sierra Leone's Lost Family in the Caribbean

The Temne Nation of Carriacou

Barbara C. Morden

Sumptuously illustrated book brilliantly capturing John Martin's paintings of apocalyptic destruction and biblical disaster.

Apocalypse Now!

JOHN MARTIN knows where the bodies are buried, where the Jellybean Stalk was planted. This collection contains 51 true (well almost true, probably slightly embellished) stories from John Martin's years of parenting a toddler. Better known these days as a funny mystery novelist, Martin cut his teeth on his son cutting his teeth. He takes a light-hearted look at some serious issues, including childbirth, nappies, circumcision, pets, religion, Santa Claus and learning on occasions to cope without mummy. Until a father can wipe his baby son's piddle off his chin, he can't call himself a man. At least, that's what he tells himself.

Funny recollections of a father

Jack and the Jellybean Stalk

First Volume

Contributions to Military and State Medicine

No-one believed the town drunk when he claimed an extinct animal had woken him up in a bus shelter in the middle of the night. Now he's leading a community revolt! This is the prequel to the funny Windy Mountain series but holds up fine as a self-contained story. It offers laughs with a twist of mystery. See revenge dealt up by someone who doesn't really want to deal it! The plot takes some quirky detours and you'll meet some quirky folk.

John Martin

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