Kevin Styles is the best college football player in the nation, but he gets caught up in the world of celebrity. Will he figure out who his real friends are and will he commit to his girlfriend before it's too late?
The inspiring true story of "the Indiana Jones of conservation." --The Guardian (UK) When Lawrence Anthony, author of The Elephant Whisperer, cared for not only elephants but other types of wildlife, including rhinos, on his nature reserve. So when he learned that there were only a handful of northern white rhinos left in the wild, living in an area of the Congo controlled by the infamous Lord's Resistance Army, he was determined to save them from extinction. If the world lost this subspecies of rhinoceros, it would be the largest land mammal since the woolly mammoth to go extinct, a tragedy for those who care about the world's endangered species. What followed was an extraordinary adventure, as Anthony headed into the jungle to ask the rebels to help protect the rhino. Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, and always exciting, The Last Rhinos tells the story of his fight to save these remarkable creatures.
Troubled and confused about his strange visions, James Molloy, a young poet, embarks on a haunting odyssey of self-awareness as he struggles to deal with his artistic imagination and cope with the schizophrenia that affects his life. Reprint.
In his first published work, Lawrence offers a new fictional voice describing the African-American urban scene. "The Ring of Betrayal" also represents his spiritual upbringing and his desire to reach a lost generation.
One in the 'Australian Poetry Series', this is the fourth collection of diverse poems published by Anthony Lawrence. Many of the poems have been previously published in newspapers and literary journals and magazines. His other books include 'Dreaming in Stone' and 'The Darkwood Aquarium' which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize.
Each stanza of Anthony Lawrence's Ken gradually unveils, with a satirical and compassionate eye, a plastic doll's restricted identity. Ken, the occupant of engendered humanity, is observed in a series of adventures, transgressions, and unresolved intimate encounters. Delightfully humorous and intellectually credible with a melancholy edge, Ken is a book for our times.
Entropy is the tendency for systems to go from a state of higher organization to a state of lowest organization - i.e., to fall apart. We watch as Nick fights to keep entropy at bay, to hold on to what he knows, even as he begins to realize he can't. Nick gradually comes to understand this process while he watches others resist it. Through Nick, we see how people cope, how people search for comfort and cohesion, and how sometimes our best selves become hidden in all the rubble.
The Curse of Santos Jones is a Christian thriller. Jodie Hamilton grew up in a small close-knit community in Somers, Maryland, sheltered and protected by her parents; always full of hope and optimism about her future. She left home and accepted a job as a prison nurse not knowing that her life would spiral out of control when her path crossed the path of inmate Santos Jones. Nurse Jodie Hamilton and inmate Santos Jones would embark on a collison course that would change their lives forever. Santos Jones was pure evil, a serial killer and deranged maniac; his cat-shaped eyes frightened everyone who came in contact with him. He was a stalker and took delight in killing anyone who crossed him. Ritualistic in his killings, he saw hell through those cat eyes of his. He knew he was hell bound and had every intention of sending his victims there too. Prison could not stop him from killing. Jodie Hamilton found herself involved in a prison murder and later confined to a mental institution fighting depression and reoccuring nightmares. It would take years for her to go through the process of confession, repentance, redemption and forgiveness. Now years later and pregnant, when Jodie should be enjoying her new freedom, she discovers that she and her husband and soon to be born baby are marked for death by someone from the past.
Too much information can be hard to swallow.Time will often tell when leads are hard to follow.Evidence blows away when the earth is fallow.Some seeds take. Some graves are shallow.Blending verse novella and book-length poem, The Welfare of My Enemy is a ground-breaking, haunted portrait of the phenomenon of Missing Persons. At times disturbing, always captivating, this new book showcases Lawrence's marvellous imagery and spellbinding rhythms in a work that highlights a dark, prevailing underside to Australian society.Anthony Lawrence has published twelve books of poems, the most recent being Bark (UQP, 2008). He has also published a novel, In The Half Light (Picador, 2000). His work has been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Slovenian, Ukrainian and Japanese, and has received a number of awards. He is currently working on a book of erotic poems and a new novel. He lives in Newcastle.
In the second work of his series on survival in the urban ghetto, a naïve teenager, Douglas, is forced to adjust to his ever changing environment. The mean streets are hostile, and Douglas must make choices. Only spiritual values and family commitment save Douglas from the onslaught of hostile urban challenges.--Page [4] of cover.
Radicals in Their Own Time explores the lives of five Americans, with lifetimes spanning four hundred years, who agitated for greater freedom in America. Every generation has them: individuals who speak truth to power and crave freedom from arbitrary authority. This book makes two important observations in discussing Roger Williams, Thomas Paine, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, W. E. B. Du Bois and Vine Deloria, Jr. First, each believed that government must broadly tolerate individual autonomy. Second, each argued that religious orthodoxy has been a major source of society's ills – and all endured serious negative repercussions for doing so. The book challenges Christian orthodoxy and argues that part of what makes these five figures compelling is their willingness to pay the price for their convictions – much to the lasting benefit of liberty and equal justice in America.
Second collection of poems, including a long sequence set in the Australian outback, by this Harri Jones Memorial Prize winner. Individual poems have previously been published in a number of newspapers and magazines. Part of the TContemporary Australian Poets' series.
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