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David Braine, Thomas Joseph White
The Fittingness of the Incarnation collects David Braine's best unpublished philosophical and theological essays. The essays contained herein are representative of Braine's careful, rich and distinctive work. As one of…
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The Fittingness of the Incarnationcollects David Braine's best unpublished philosophical and theological essays. The essays contained herein are representative of Braine's careful, rich and distinctive work. As one of the…
Toni Thomas
In the mish mush universe
where fizzywicks like to play
while queens and bunnies bale the hay
where tadpoles turn the small to big
cats and mice hoard tea and…
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Tony Thomas
Dancing between two worlds, 'Canvas Echoes: A Poetic Odyssey Enkindled from a Symphony of Paint' takes readers on an enchanting journey through the realms of art and poetry. In this…
In the polar universe
where owls and rabbits and mice hold court
bigaboos paint the walls for sport
where clocks freeze up and ponies fly
my hamster will your shoes…
Tony L Thomas
Don't Be Rude, Let's Include! is about love and inclusion through enlightening/reinforcing the fact that the disabled are people too. Everyone has a purpose. Everyone is welcome. Everyone deserves love…
Tony Lyons
The book analyses Thomas Orde's background, along with the state of education in Ireland during his time as Chief Secretary, the evolution of his ideas on education, his main education…
Tony Thomas, Roopak Surendran, Teenu John, Mamoun Alazab
The popularity of Android mobile phones has attracted cybercriminals to create malware applications that carry out various malicious activities. This book will be highly useful for Android malware researchers, developers…
Kenny Thomas
Kenny Thomas shot to fame in 1991 with the multi-platinum-selling album Voices, storming the music charts and the UK soul scene in the process. But what happened next? Read how…
Tony L Henthorne, Thomas R Panko
JAMAICA: Teal blue waters, sandy beaches, scintillating cuisine, globally renown rum and Blue Mountain coffee. One hundred fifty years under Spanish rule and then three hundred years under English dominion…
Thomas Hardy
Against the lowering background of Egdon Heath, fiery Eustacia Vye passes her days, wishing only for passionate love. She believes that her escape from Egdon lies in marriage to Clym…
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This collection of poems by award winning author Toni Thomas explores the nature of love, challenges of relationship, family, the hopes we carry, things that threaten to fall apart.
The…
This collection of poems is a celebration of Christmas time, winter joys, family, friends, animals, nature, and play. It speaks for perennial values of kindness, inclusion, compassion and appreciation of…
Set in Scotland, this collection of poems is a meditation on the nature of modern life, home, relationship, equity, longing. Through a variety of people, landscapes and experiences these poems…
A Note on Toni Thomas’ Chosen These are poems of that day- when the fiction lifted, poems of ecclesiastical life burning / sweet on the bread sticks, these are narratives…
Do some girls find another measure of moonlight, live amid the rain, half-sung roses in the hope someday they can carry them?
Why do some of us permanently vanish, others…
An updated history of Hollywood film music from the 1930s to the 1990s, this book presents portraits of its foremost practitioners. It discusses the life, work and influence of Alfred…
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What would you do if out of your house ached an epiphany, loss wore a tangled dress. In the shoplifter’s paradise there are racks of mink, cashmere, homeless girls who…
Through lyrical verse and visual art the author takes us on a journey of personal discovery.
She seeks to explore the gifts of the natural world, the sustenance of the…
This collection explores childhood, desire, loss, the feminine, immensity in a measured world, the things we think we know, and those we’ve forgotten.
Enter the world of the Little People and you will find merriment, kindness, adventure, and simple ways that inspire an appreciation for life, community,
nature, and all creatures. Even when…
Sometimes love turns a blind eye, the seasons of a life go missing. Are there women who sail away, refind the skin that was peeled from them, slide back into…
The girl with thirst on her tongue wants to taste liquid kisses. In the dowry of her heart a pole star burns bright as a secret corridor. These poems are…
What is the key we enter by? How is it that invisible bread sometimes arrives unbidden in the cramped of our soul's kitchen. What does it mean to be tender…
Tony Thomas’s new essays pulverise woke causes including climate doomism; the Aboriginal industry; and the ABC’s bias.
While society goes mad with political correctness, Tony gives sanity and laughter a…
Tony Thomas's Anthem of the Unwoke is a new portfolio of his trademark anti-woke essays. He skewers the climate crazies, the green/Left brainwashing and textbooks in schools, the Aboriginal industry…
This book of 45 essays - ranging from purely humorous to politically and socially grave - provides samples of the lifetime’s work of a trained journalist of 60 years’ professional…
Tony’s pieces are an absolute tonic. That’s because Tony himself is full of such palpable energy, empathy, a relentless ear for hilarity and irony, and most importantly boundless curiosity. The…
This is the third collection of Tony Thomas’s best work. It ranges from zany travels in the PNG Highlands to a reporter’s career highlights and lowlights since he first opened…
What is it that threads through our life amongst the trees' nesting, threads through our family, marriage, hopes, pain? What does it take to be here?
How can our children…
In these poems, the night can't always be trusted. Things get carried away, a woman's voice, body. But some of us refuse to parenthesis want forever behind a barbed wire…
Are some lives diminutive, do they come to us as a hidden pearl, unnoticed vestibule. Will the woman heavy with longing find a way to meet banishment with a different…
This collection of poems explores the nature of perishing; how lovers, places, family can disappear before we are even able to claim them. The poems circle longing, faith, the preciousness…
In this fourth collection of poems Toni Thomas explores the nature of family, emotional trauma, addiction and loss in contemporary working class America through the lens of her relationship with…
This fifth collection of poems explores the issues of sibling love and loss, addiction and peril in working class America.
A preacher by calling, a volunteer coach by passion and a humorist by nature, Tony Thomas takes a whimsical look at life in A Smidgeon of Religion. For the past…
Toni Thomas’s poems inhabit a world where love is a subversion of slinky dresses, strangers live in shoes, sea merchants wander, jewels grow on the leafless tree, where permeable girls…
A Sydney man working late at night watches news stories detailing uncontrolled violence around the globe. He panics and rushes out to buy supplies. Later, his fears seem justified as…
Making music offers enormous possibilities--and faces significant limitations--in its power to generate belonging and advance social justice. Tony Perman and Stefan Fiol edit essays focused on the forms of interplay…
Donald Thomas,Tony Thomas
Aristocrat Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) remains a man whose name is instantly recognized but whose life is obscure. For all his reputation for monstrous behavior, he was loved by women…
Wedding day makeup never looked so good or was so easy to achieve when done by a bride who has learned the skills to do flawless wedding day makeup on…
Tony Tanner
Tony Tanner provides a brief, comprehensive introduction to the work of Thomas Pynchon. Against the background of Pynchon the man, this book, originally published in 1982, examines in detail his…
