Kenneth: 4007 books

No fewer than 16 of the 40 parables preached by Jesus mention coins or money. Have you ever wondered what the 30 pieces of silver—the money given to Judas for his betrayal—actually looked like? They were real coins, like the ones we spend today. What about the Widow’s Mites (two tiny coins that...

All the top crime writers agree that Kenneth Abel is a spectacular writer: "A gripper all the way," says Elmore Leonard. "A stunning achievement," declares James Lee Burke. "Brilliant," says Robert B. Parker. And now with Down in the Flood, former New Orleans prosecutor...

An iconic symbol and sound of the Lucum'/Santer'a religion, Afro-Cuban batá are talking drums that express the epic mythological narratives of the West African Yoruba deities known as orisha. By imitating aspects of speech and song, and by metaphorically referencing salient attributes of the deities,...

Kenneth Johnson's Warner Bros. television series V swept the nation and drew in hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide. Now, the novel V is finally back in print, with an all-new, never-before-seen revised ending. V tells the exciting story of mysterious Alien visitors who are ready to solve...

The Pit of Raeben is a tale told in turn by three enlightened trees. This is the first of three parts describing how the oldest of them was laid to rest. The Pit itself was dug by the Clan Destined being known as Raeben; an entity with a penchant for naming things. Drawn by the beauty of a quietly...

To sixteen-year-old Randal Regulus nothing is more important than his goal to be a monster hunter like previous generations of his family. To accomplish this goal he and his friends are spending their summer training in Tucson, Arizona, at the headquarters of the premier monster-hunting organization...

A short story where a young student becomes desperate. He has two weeks to pay his student account or the university will withdraw him from class. Consequently, the student does the unthinkable. The story has a little psychology from the student rationalizing his guilt from his misdeed.

According to Wikipedia: "Kenneth Grahame (July 20, 1859 July 6, 1932) was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon, which was much later adapted into a Disney film."

Two geologists emerge from caves in the south-west of England to discover that the world they left a few days before has been encased in ice. After wandering for hours through a transformed landscape, they begin to get a sense of what must have taken place - the fall of a giant asteroid. As they begin...

The story of a boy returning home for Christmas after his first term at boarding school. The previous year he lost his mother, and through the last months he has been bullied mercilessly. He comes home miserable and unable to share that misery. But his grandmother tells him that if it's a real...

The story of Deirdre of the Sorrows is widely known in Ireland, yet all but forgotten across the water in Scotland. This great tragic love story, which has its roots in the ninth or tenth century, is very much shared by both countries. For Deirdre, according to the legend, fled with her lover Naoise...

A swirling together of selected poems from over twenty years of writing. Poems that are first and foremost inspired by the wild world, and by the places and people that are found there. These are poems that have appeared in twelve different volumes over the last two decades; they are poems that have been loved by readers both at home and abroad.

It was by coracle that the early Celts made journeys on the sea roads of their time. A coracle is a tiny vessel, yet it is sufficient to carry one soul on a whole voyage. This collection of poems is about voyages, both real and figurative; journeys of many kinds. It is about facing danger and doubt with faith - against all the odds.

On the Great Atlantic Railway is Kenneth's Koch's inspired collection of 32 years of work. Koch, David Lehman said in The American Poetry Review, is "a masterly innovator . . . who has used his extravagant powers of wit and invention to enlarge the sphere of the poetic . . . he has stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry."