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 |  | Present Company
Publication Date: June 1, 2007“One of America’s greatest living poets.”—The Washington Post Book World“Merwin keeps his language simple but his perceptions complex. Classical in their lines of inquiry and restraint yet vital in their attunement to the here and now, these personal odes and musings on daily existence and the cycles of life are, by turns, bemused and exalted . . . each poem infuses the collection with buoyancy and light.”—BooklistNow in paperback, W.S. Merwin’s latest masterwork—which reviewers have described as “medit...
|  | City of Thieves: A Novel
Release Date: March 31, 2009From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival—and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime. During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his daughter’s wedding cake. In a city cut off from all...
|  | Hoomania: A Journey into Proverbs (Christian Adventure Series)
Publication Date: March 1988| Series: Christian Adventure Series An encounter with an inventor and a game he has created zaps Kris into a fantastic world of crazy characters, where his race to Mount Wizzdom brings him knowledge about responsible choices to please his parents and God. ...
|  | The Phantom of the Opera
Publication Date: March 1, 2007The Phantom of the Opera is the most famous work of French author Gaston Leroux. Far darker than the stories familiar to audiences of today from the phenomenally successful Broadway musical and the early Lon Chaney, Jr. film, Leroux's Fantom is a genuine murderer, and the story, a true Gothic murder/horror tale. Erik, the Phantom of the Opera, terrorizes the Opera Garnier (or Paris Opera House) by a successful multi-year blackmail plot. When new owners take over the Opera, Erik's reign of terror is abruptly curtailed. With this threat to his formerly comfortabl...
|  | The Sea-Hawk
Publication Date: December 23, 2008The Sea Hawk is another pirate adventure novel penned by Rafael Sabatini, author of Captain Blood. It was originally published in 1915 and is set in the late 16th century. Sir Oliver Tressilian, a typical English sea-faring gentleman, is villainously betrayed by his jealous half-brother and is accused of murder. Sir Oliver is kidnapped off the Cornish coast, and forced to serve as a slave on a Spanish galley. Eventually Sir Oliver is freed by Barbary pirates. He joins the pirates, gaining the name "Sakr-el-Bahr", the hawk of the sea, and swears vengeance ag...
|  | Staying On: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction)
Publication Date: October 1, 1998| Series: Phoenix Fiction In this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating her husband, Lucy claims a degree of independence herself. Eloquent and hilarious, she and Tusker act out class tensions among the British of the Raj and give voice to the loneliness, rage, and stubborn affection in their marriage. Staying On won the Booker Prize in 1977 and was made into a motion picture starring Trevor Howard and Celia J...
|  | The Man Who Never Died
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|  | Tell the World: Storytelling Across Language Barriers
Publication Date: November 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 1591583144 | ISBN-13: 978-1591583141Working with or without a native speaker, a storyteller can touch the minds and hearts of all listeners—even those with little or no English language skills. Here a group of expert storytellers share a variety of tips and techniques that help bridge the language gap; along with sample stories that librarians, teachers, and professional storytellers can easily incorporate into their repertoires. Four basic techniques for bilingual telling are explored: summarizing, line-by-line translation, tandem tel...
|  | Uraniia (Russian Edition)
Publication Date: October 1987| ISBN-10: 0882338412 | ISBN-13: 978-0882338415In Russian.Poems, 1977-1987; reissue of the Ardis Publishing Company edition of 1987, with texts reviewed and corrected by Lev Loseff and Alexander Sumerkin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Oliver St. John Gogarty
Publication Date: July 1991| ISBN-10: 0749301848 | ISBN-13: 978-0749301842This biography of the Irish poet contains material from letters, articles, newspapers and Gogarty's friends, including Yeats, James Joyce and George Moore. It not only provides a portrait of a great literary figure, but also gives insight into Dublin life during the period of Gogarty's Senatorship. ...
|  | Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach
Publication Date: July 1, 2008Is there life after postmodernism? Many claim that it sounded the death knell for history, art, ideology, science, possibly all of Western philosophy, and certainly for the concept of reality itself. Responding to essential questions regarding whether the humanities can remain politically and academically relevant amid this twenty-first-century uncertainty, "Why the Humanities Matter" offers a guided tour of the modern condition, calling upon thinkers in a variety of disciplines to affirm essential concepts such as truth, goodness, and beauty.Offering a lens of ...
|  | The Matarese Circle
Release Date: October 1, 1983Only two rival spies—and one mysterious woman—can stop them:Scofield, CIA, and Talaniekov, KGB.They share a genius for espionage—and a life of terror and explosive violence.Sworn enemies, they have vowed to terminate each other—yet now they must become allies.Because only they possess the brutal skills and ice-cold nerves vital to destroy an international circle of killers, the Matarese. ...
|  | Dragon Bones: A Red Princess Mystery (Red Princess Mysteries)
Release Date: March 2, 2004| Series: Red Princess Mysteries In a magnificent land where myth mixes treacherously with truth, one woman is in charge of telling them apart. Liu Hulan is the Inspector in China’s Ministry of Public Security whose tough style rousts wrongdoers and rubs her superiors the wrong way. Now her latest case finds her trapped between her country’s distant past and her own recent history.The case starts at a rally for a controversial cult that ends suddenly in bloodshed, and leads to the apparent murder of an American archaeologist, which officials want to kee...
|  | Adventurers Wanted, Book Two: The Horn of Moran
Publication Date: February 2, 2011| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Martina Hingis (Women Who Win)
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|  | Be Merry and Wise: Origins of Children's Book Publishing in England, 1650-1850
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|  | Jonathan's Thunder
Publication Date: January 12, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Jonathan’s Thunder is a tale of courage and friendship. Jonathan a young boy keeps the people enchanted with the wonderful tales he spins. One day, a thundercloud takes poor Jonathan’s voice. What will Jonathan do? Will Jonathan ever speak again? Come read about Jonathan’s tales and how he makes a new friend. Jonathan’s Thunder is a perfect read to or read along book. It is a wonderful bedtime story for children of all ages. ...
|  | Asterix Eta Obelixen Urtebetetzea / Asterix and Obelix's Birthday: Urrezko Liburua / The Golden Book (Basa Edition)
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|  | The Scarlet Stockings Spy (Tales of Young Americans)
Publication Date: October 14, 2004| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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