 | Great American Stories: Ten Unabridged Classics
Publication Date: February 6, 2003These ten classic stories from four of America's greatest authors of the 19th and early 20th century were selected for their literary importance as well as their dramatic oral qualities. The stories include Mark Twain’s "The One-Million Pound Bank Note," "A Visit to Niagara," and "A Mysterious Visit;" Stephen Crane’s "The Blue Hotel;" Ambrose Bierce’s "The Eyes of the Panther;" and Jack London’s "The Love of Life" and "To Build a Fire." ...
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|  | Person of Interest
Release Date: March 7, 2009Buried in the darkest recesses of Jodie Ellis’s mind are horrific memories of her ex-husband Paul, whose wealth and charm masked a domineering personality. After their wedding, his volatile temper mushroomed into violence: Paul imprisoned Jodie in the basement of their house, where he tortured her for days. Thanks to her childhood friend Dina, Jodie narrowly escaped with her life and sent Paul to prison. Afterwards, she began a new life with Dina, but remained haunted by the trauma she endured at Paul’s hands. Ten years later, Paul is up for parole, a...
|  | The Black Book
Release Date: July 11, 2006A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen FreelyGalip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel–loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband or Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celâl's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he b...
|  | Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem. Translated from the Heyne-Socin Text, by Jno: Lesslie Hall
Release Date: September 28, 2005This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1904 edition by D. C. Heath & Co., Boston. ...
|  | Daphnis and Chloe. Love Romances and Poetical Fragments. Fragments of the Ninus Romance (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: January 1, 1916| Series: Loeb Classical Library (Book 69) Longus seems to have been a pagan sophist who lived about 200 CE; he is known to us only by his novel Daphnis and Chloe. This is the bucolic story of two foundlings, brought up by goatkeepers and shepherds on the island of Lesbos, who gradually fall in love. Notable among ancient romances for its perceptive characterizations, Daphnis and Chloe traces the development of the protagonists' love for each other from childlike innocence to full sexual maturity, the successive stages marked by adventures. The novel's pictur...
|  | The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-Yun
Publication Date: November 17, 2001| Series: New Directions Paperbook In our own time the "wilderness" has emerged as a source of spiritual renewal, both as idea and in actual practice. But Hsieh Ling-yün (385-433 C. E.) was there before us. During the last decade of his life, living as a recluse high in the mountains of southeast China, he initiated a tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" (shan-shui) poetry that stretches across the millennia in China, a tradition that represents the earliest and most extensive literary engagement with "the wild" in human history. These poems were h...
|  | La amada inmovil / The Immovable Loved One (Letras De America / American Letters) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Cronicas del Forastero (Aplicaciones a Ciencias de La Educacion) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | JIM THOMPSON OMNIBUS:
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|  | The Story of the St. Louis Cardinals
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|  | Chamique Holdsclaw: My Story
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|  | The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail
Publication Date: January 1, 2003| Age Level: 9 and up Ride shotgun with the heroic mushers whose bravery inspired the Iditarod.In the winter of 1925, Nome, Alaska, was hit by an unexpected and deadly outbreak of diphtheria. Officials immediately quarantined the town, but the only cure for the community of more than 1,400 people was antitoxin serum and the nearest supply was in Anchorage—hundreds of miles of snowbound wilderness away. The only way to get it to Nome was by dogsled.Twenty teams braved subzero temperatures and blizzard conditions to run over 600 miles in six days in a de...
|  | Badminton in Action (Sports in Action)
Publication Date: March 15, 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | A Day at the Beach (Pictureback(R))
Release Date: May 22, 2001| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Going to a Park (Acorn)
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|  | Out in the Dark: Poetry of the First World War in Context & With Basic Notes
Publication Date: June 1998| ISBN-10: 0952896915 | ISBN-13: 978-0952896913This anthology, based on "Minds at War" - by same author - has been prepared for the general reader who requires less background information, and for students, including GCSE and A Level. One of mankind's greatest tragedies was the First World War. For over four years whole nations unleashed the full might of their new-found destructive powers. Poets played their part in this war as promoters of it, soldiers, victims and onlookers. Their stories and their responses to their experiences are deeply moving, and their ...
|  | Collected Rhymes and Verses
Publication Date: July 31, 1989Complementing his "Collected Poems", this volume gathers together all Walter de la Mare's poems for children. The book includes what, for the adult, are among his greatest "pure" lyrics. His descriptions of birds, beasts and natural phenomena are judged particularly sharp and accurate. ...
| | Cry Wolf
Publication Date: May 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Danny doesn't know what to think when his little brother, Tid, tells him about Wolf, with his terrifying yellow eyes and silver teeth. Who is Wolf? Is he really out to get Danny? And isn't it strange that Tid knows so much about it... ...
|  | Sea Turtles
Publication Date: March 1, 1998| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up The characteristics and lifestyles of the eight different kinds. ...
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