 | A Walk in the Woods.
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 |  | Molly by Any Other Name
Publication Date: October 1990A teenage Asian girl who has been adopted by non-Asian parents decides to find out who her biological parents are. ...
|  | Blandings Castle
Release Date: October 23, 2002Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of hilarity borders on obsession.Overlook happily feeds the obsession with four more antic selections from the master.Blandings Castle is a collection of tales concerning Lord Emsworth and the Threepwood clan, while Jeeves in the Offing finds Bertie Wooster in yet another scrape-with the peerless Jeeves out of sight, on vacation! Poor Bertie nearly becomes unstuck! Young Men in Spats is Wodehouse at his most sparkling: stories concerning members of the inimitable Dro...
|  | The Elevator (Steeple Hill Women's Fiction #46)
Publication Date: July 1, 2007In the path of a devastating hurricane, three very different women find themselves trapped in the elevator of a high-rise office building. All three conceal shattering secrets—unaware that their secrets center on the same man. The betrayed wife, eager to confront her faithless husband, with rage in her heart and a gun in her pocket… The determined mistress, finally ready to tell her lover she wants marriage and a family… The fugitive cleaning woman, tormented by the darkest secret of all… As the storm rages ever closer, these three must ...
|  | The Last Zombie: Inferno TP
Publication Date: February 28, 2012| Series: The Last Zombie In the dead of winter, The Last Zombie: Inferno picks up where The Last Zombie left off, as Doctor Ian Scott and his team of soldiers and scientists make their way across the wastelands of a post-zombie apocalyptic America. Infected with the virus that caused the zombie outbreak, Ian struggles to stay alive long enough to see his wife again. As if that wasn''t enough, the team finds themselves caught between a raging, state-wide wildfire and the radioactive destruction of a nuclear reactor meltdown. More apocalyptic awesomeness fro...
|  | For Your Eyes Only (James Bond Novels)
Release Date: May 27, 2003| Series: James Bond Novels "Bond watched her as she reached the edge of the tables and came up the aisle. It was hopeless. She was coming to meet someone—her lover. She was the sort of woman who always belongs to somebody else. What damnable luck!Before Bond could pull himself together, the girl had come up to his table and sat down. ‘I’m sorry I’m late. We’ve got to get moving at once. You’re wanted at the office.’ She added under her breath: ‘Crash dive.’" Sudden emergencies and beautiful girls who aren’...
|  | Middle English Lyrics (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: January 17, 1974| ISBN-10: 0393093387 | ISBN-13: 978-0393093384This Norton Critical Edition offers one of the largest collections ofMiddle English lyrics ever made available to the college student.It isthe only anthology which includes all thirty-one English lyrics from MSHarley 2253, all the verses by Friar Herebert printed in Brown XIV, andall the important poems given in Robbins' Secular Lyrics.In all there are 245 lyrics, arranged thematically.To make these delightful poems accessible to the modern reader, theeditors have removed many of the orthographic impediments...
|  | The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
Release Date: April 1, 2003Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep aside the sham of surface appearances and lay bare man's intimate gestures, acts, and thoughts. Murder and sacrifice...greed and devotion...lust and affection...vanity and love -- one by one, in this volume of great stories, Tolstoy dissects the basic drives, emotions, and motives of ordinary people searching for self-knowledge and spiritual perfection. Chekhov said, "Of authors my favorite is Tolstoy." And Turgenev "marveled at the strength of his huge talent...It sen...
|  | The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind
Publication Date: June 1, 1993| Series: Mythos Sage, scientist, and sorcerer, Hermes Trismegistus was the culture-hero of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. A human (according to some) who had lived about the time of Moses, but now indisputably a god, he was credited with the authorship of numerous books on magic and the supernatural, alchemy, astrology, theology, and philosophy. Until the early seventeenth century, few doubted the attribution. Even when unmasked, Hermes remained a byword for the arcane. Historians of ancient philosophy have puzzled much over the origins of his mystical teachings;...
| | The Psychoanalytic Theory of Greek Tragedy
Publication Date: October 28, 1992Alford begins with the possibility that the insights into human needs and aspirations contained in Greek tragedy might be more profound than psychoanalytic theory. He offers his own psychoanalytic interpretation of the tragedies, one that reconstructs the dramatists' views of the world. ...
| | The Count of Narbonne: A tragedy, in five acts
Publication Date: 1807This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
Publication Date: June 17, 1992A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for readers in their translations of Homer and Virgil. ...
|  | The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs)
Publication Date: September 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 0932885322 | ISBN-13: 978-0932885326In a groundbreaking study of contemporary Arab political poetry, Flagg Miller provides a wide range of insights into the ways that modern media aesthetics are shaped by language and culture. Investigating a vibrant audio-recording industry in southern Yemen, The Moral Resonance of Arab Media shows how new forms of political activism emerge through sensory engagements with Arabic poetry and song. From the 1940s onward, a new cadre of political activists has used audio-recording technologies, especially the ...
|  | Get Those Guys Reading!: Fiction and Series Books that Boys Will Love
Publication Date: May 7, 2012| ISBN-10: 1598848461 | ISBN-13: 978-1598848465| Edition: 1 In Get Those Guys Reading!: Fiction and Series Books that Boys Will Love, authors Kathleen A. Baxter and Marcia A. Kochel provide compelling and current reading suggestions for younger boys—information that educators, librarians, and parents alike are desperate for. Comprising titles that are almost all well-reviewed in at least one major professional journal, or that are such big hits with kids that they've received the "stamp of approval" from the most important reviewers, this book will be ...
|  | Byron (Routledge Guides to Literature)
Publication Date: December 7, 2006| ISBN-10: 0415268567 | ISBN-13: 978-0415268561| Edition: New Ed Lord Byron (1788-1824) was a poet and satirist, as famous in his time for his love affairs and questionable morals as he was for his poetry. Looking beyond the scandal, Byron leaves us a body of work that proved crucial to the development of English poetry and provides a fascinating counterpoint to other writings of the Romantic period. This guide to Byron’s sometimes daunting, often extraordinary work offers:an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of Byro...
|  | Antonin Artaud : Collected Works (Volume 2)
Publication Date: 1999| ISBN-10: 0714501727 | ISBN-13: 978-0714501727Drama. Antonin Artaud is one of the two or three most influential innovators of the twentieth centruy, whose theoried, production ideas along with his writings and plays have broght a new poetic impulse and dynamic intensity to the stage, replacing the naturalistic theatre that preceded his own. In this volume of COLLECTED WORK, we see Artaud's early formulations of his theories on theatre in general, and the genesis of the theatre of cruelty. In particular, the volume contains the famous manifestos of the revolutionary...
|  | Forecasting Opportunity: Kairos, Production, and Writing
Publication Date: July 2005| ISBN-10: 0761831614 | ISBN-13: 978-0761831617This project focuses on the classical Greek rhetorical construct kairos, generally translated as right timing and due measure. Classical Greek scholars positioned kairos as a symbolic tool used by rhetoricians during the production of oral discourse. Modern rhetorical scholars have appropriated kairos, employing it as a tool for the post hoc evaluation of printlinguistic text. However, these contemporary scholars have failed to support either theoretically or empirically their appropriation of the construct. Etymol...
|  | Crimson Joy
Release Date: April 2, 1989They call him the "Red Rose Killer" because he leaves one on the body of each woman he kills. But then the madman's eyes turn to Susan Silverman, and Spenser is on the case. For when Susan's life is in danger, Spenser becomes a hard-fisted, unstoppable locomotive--determined to bring the criminal to justice no matter what the odds!((Dell--Fiction) ...
|  | If Fried Chicken Could Fly (Country Cooking School Mystery)
Release Date: January 3, 2012| Series: Country Cooking School Mystery (Book 1) At Gram's Country Cooking School, Betts and Gram are helping studentsprepare the perfect dishes for the Southern Missouri Show-Down, thecook-off that draws the first of the summer visitors. Everything isgoing smoothly until they discover the body of local theater ownerEverett Morningside in the school's supply closet, and Everett's widowpoints an accusatory finger at Gram. Now, Betts has to dig deep intoBroken Rope's history to find the modern-day killer-before the lastpiece of chicken is served... ...
|  | The Incredible Hulk vs. The Marvel Universe
Publication Date: June 18, 2008| Grade Level: P and up Before World War Hulk, before Planet Hulk, the Green Goliath spent years fighting the finest the Marvel Universe has to offer! Hulk vs. the Thing! Hulk vs. Thor! Hulk vs. the Silver Surfer, Wolverine, and more! Whether facing a tag-team match from the Fantastic Four and the Avengers or going one-and-one against Spider-Man and Daredevil, the Incredible Hulk's the strongest one there is no matter who his opponents are! Also featuring the X-Men and S.H.I.E.L.D.! Collects Fantastic Four #25-26, Journey into Mystery #112, Tales to Astonish #9...
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