| Eleventh Guest (A. D. Chronicles) Publication Date: May 24, 2010| Series: A. D. Chronicles (Book 11) The lepers in the Valley of Mak’ob hear rumors that a miracle worker is walking the earth. Ten are chosen to search for him, knowing that outside the Valley lies almost certain death. Could this healer be the Messiah they long for? And will they find him in time? You will be touched by the stories of these broken, weary travelers searching for the Messiah. ...
| | Making of a Romantic Icon: The Religious Context of Friedrich Overbeck's "Italia und Germania" (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society) Publication Date: November 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 0871699753 | ISBN-13: 978-0871699756Winner of the American Philosophical Society’s 2007 John Frederick Lewis Award for best book or monograph.In this original and thought-provoking book, Lionel Gossman, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, focuses on Franz Overbeck's "Italia and Germania" to discuss the importance of religious conversion in Romantic thought. Gossman has an impressive knowledge of the historical situation and philosophical background of the time. Gossman giv...
| | Figures for the Ghost: Poems (Contemporary Poetry Series) ...
| | Divine Inspiration: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry Publication Date: December 11, 1997The Bible is by far the leading source of inspiration for Western literature, and in particular, the life of Jesus has drawn the attention of artists and writers throughout the ages. Now, in a volume of astonishing range and originality, Robert Atwan, George Dardess, and Peggy Rosenthal present 280 remarkable poems from world literature focusing on Jesus's life and teaching.Readers accustomed to the predictable inclusions of many anthologies will be surprised and delighted by the diversity of poets represented here, from Aquinas, Dante, de Guevara, Donne, a...
| | The Lost Publication Date: April 1, 2008It was the summer of 1965. Ray, Tim, and Jennifer were just three teenage friends hanging out in the campgrounds, drinking a little. But Tim andJennifer didn't know what their friend Ray had in mind. And if they'd known,they wouldn't have thought he was serious. Then they saw what he did to thetwo girls at the neighboring campsite--and knew he was dead serious.Four years later, the 60s were drawing to a close. No one ever chargedRay with the murders in the campgrounds, but there was one cop determinedto make him pay. Ray figured he was in the clear. Tim and Jen...
| | The Night Battles Publication Date: December 9, 2008Historian Joan Severance returns to the Sicily of her childhood, ostensibly to do research in archives newly opened in the remote fortress town of Valparuta. In truth, her academic career lies in ruins behind her she has been relieved of her teaching duties at Brown University after assaulting a student. Unable to approach her own long-buried history of loss and displacement, Joan has become obsessed with the lost possessions of those long dead all the objects, furniture, clothing and tools she finds recorded in Renaissance probates. But Valparuta, Joan disc...
| | Earthcare: Women and the Environment Publication Date: November 6, 1995| ISBN-10: 0415908884 | ISBN-13: 978-0415908887| Edition: 1 Written by one of the leading thinkers in environmentalism, Earthcare brings together Merchant's existing work on the topic of women and the environment as well as updated and new essays. Earthcare looks at age-old historical associations of women with nature, beginning with Eve and continuing through to environmental activists of today, women's commitment to environmental conservation, and the problematic assumptions of women as caregivers and men as dominating nature. ...
| | Waiting for Godot (Eng rev): A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (Beckett, Samuel) ...
| | The Love of a Good Woman : Stories Release Date: October 26, 1999| Series: Vintage Contemporaries In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met--the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed. In others time is telescoped: a young girl finds in the course of an evening that the m...
| | The Poetry Break: An Annotated Anthology With Ideas for Introducing Children to Poetry ...
| | Watchfiends & Rack Screams Release Date: January 2, 2004Clayton Eshleman's translations are the finest and most authentic which have yet been made from Artaud's writing. Artaud's final work is his strongest and most enduring, and this collection has been wisely selected and magnificently realized. Artaud is being taken into the 21st century.--Stephen BarberAmong Antonin Artaud's most brilliant works are the scatological glossolalia composed in the final three years of his life (1945-1948), during and after his incarceration in an asylum at Rodez. These represent some of the most powerful outpourings ever recorded, a t...
| | Aimé Césaire (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature) Publication Date: November 13, 1997| ISBN-10: 0521390729 | ISBN-13: 978-0521390729Aimé Césaire is the best known poet in the French Caribbean. In this study Gregson Davis examines Césaire's extraordinary dual career as writer and elected politician. As one of the most profound critics of colonialism, Césaire, the acknowledged inventor of the famous term "negritude", has been a hugely influential figure in shaping the contemporary discourse on the postcolonial predicament. Gregson Davis' account of Césaire's intellectual growth is grounded in a careful reading of ...
| | The Complete Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King Release Date: May 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0312324901 | ISBN-13: 978-0312324902| Edition: Reprint The myriad worlds and universes King has created are, in reality, one world, one universe. Here is the guide to that universe. The Complete Stephen King Universe is the only definitive reference work that examines all of Stephen King's novels, short stories, motion pictures, miniseries, and teleplays, and deciphers the threads that exist in all of his work. This ultimate resource includes in-depth story analyses, character breakdowns, little-known facts, and sta...
| | Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era Publication Date: September 1, 1993| ISBN-10: 0801846935 | ISBN-13: 978-0801846939InMoney, Language, and Thought, Marc Shell explores the interactions between linguistic and economic production as they inform discourse from Chretien de Troyes to Heidegger. Close readings of works such as the medieval grail legends, The Merchant of Venice, Goethe's Faust, and Poe's "The Gold Bug" reveal how discourse has responded to the dissociation of symbol from thing characteristic of money, and how the development of increasingly symbolic currencies has involved changes in the meaning of meaning.Purs...
| | The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period Publication Date: February 9, 2008| ISBN-10: 0199230277 | ISBN-13: 978-0199230273The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early twentieth-century literary and, more broadly, aesthetic and cultural consciousness, by bringing together the study of the terms and strategies of early writings about film with literary engagement with cinema in the same period. She gives a new understanding of the ways in which early writers about film - reviewers, critics, theorists - developed aesthetic categori...
| | Masterwork Studies Series: The Divine Comedy (Twayne's Masterworks Studies) ...
| | Christmas Letters: Forces of Love/The Missing Peace/Christmas Always Comes/Engagement of the Heart (Inspirational Christmas Romance Collection) Publication Date: August 1, 2001Communication with the "home front" keeps love alive in this collection of World War Ii stories. ...
| | Dracula, My Love: The Secret Journals of Mina Harker Release Date: July 20, 2010A THRILLING, PAGE-TURNING TALE OF ADVENTURE AND FORBIDDEN PASSION...Syrie James approaches Bram Stoker's classic Dracula with a breathtaking new perspective--as, for the first time, Mina Harker records the shocking story of her scandalous seduction and sexual rebirth.Who is this magnetic, fascinating man? And how could one woman fall so completely under his spell?Mina Harker is torn between two men. Struggling to hang on to the deep, pure love she's found within her marriage to her husband, Jonathan, she is inexorably drawn into a secret, passionate affair wi...
| | Evil Dark: An Occult Crime Unit Investigation Release Date: April 24, 2012My name's Markowski. I carry a badge. Also, a crucifix, some wooden stakes, a big vial of holy water, and a 9mm Beretta loaded with silver bullets.A series of seemingly motiveless murders of supernatural creatures points to a vigilante targeting the supe community. Markowski wouldn't normally have much of a problem with that, but his daughter may be next on the killer's list...File Under: Urban Fantasy [ Unnatural Law | Thicker Than Water | The Bite Stuff |Duty Calls ]e-book ISBN: 978-0-85766-137-1 ...
| | Spider-man Versus Kraven (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (The Amazing Spider-Man/ I Can Read! 2) Publication Date: May 1, 2009 ...
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