 | Neck Deep and Other Predicaments: Essays
Release Date: January 23, 2007An innovative and engaging nonfiction debut by "an original new voice" (Publishers Weekly) and the winner of the 2006 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize In this sparkling nonfiction debut, Ander Monson uses unexpectedly nonliterary forms--the index, the Harvard Outline, the mathematical proof--to delve into an equally surprising mix of obsessions: disc golf, the history of mining in northern Michigan, car washes, topology, and more. He reflects on his outsider experience at an exclusive Detroit-area boarding school in the form of a criminal history and invents...
 |  | Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer
Publication Date: September 1, 2000In this collection of essays woven with poems and folklore, Judith Ortiz Cofer tells the story of how she became a poet and writer and explores her love of words, her discovery of the magic of language, and her struggle to carve out time to practice her art.A native of Puerto Rico, Cofer came to the mainland as a child. Torn between two cultures and two languages, she learned early the power of words and how to wield them. She discovered her love for the subtleties, sounds, and rhythms of the written word when a Roman Catholic nun and teacher bent on changi...
|  | The Last Final Girl
Publication Date: September 16, 2012"The Last Final Girl is like Quentin Tarantino's take on The Cabin in the Woods. Bloody, absurd, and smart. Plus, there's a killer in a Michael Jackson mask." - Carlton Mellick III, author of Apeshit Life in a slasher film is easy. You just have to know when to die. Aerial View: A suburban town in Texas. Everyone's got an automatic garage door opener. All the kids jump off a perilous cliff into a shallow river as a rite of passage. The sheriff is a local celebrity. You know this town. You're from this town. Zoom In: Homecoming princess, Lindsay. She's just...
|  | Takumi-kun Series vol. 2: Barefoot Waltz (Yaoi)
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|  | The White Queen: A Novel
Release Date: September 20, 2011Philippa Gregory’s New York Times bestseller, The White Queen is now available for only $14.99 and will coincide with the hardcover and audio release of The Lady of the Rivers. Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants and kings who ruled England before the Tudors, and now Philippa Gregory brings them to life through the dramatic and intimate stories of the secret players: the indomitable women, starting with Elizabeth Woodville, the White Qu...
|  | The Rose of the World
Publication Date: December 1, 1997Completed in 1959, hidden from the Soviet secret police for twenty years, THE ROSE OF THE WORLD was first made public through excerpts in the magazine Novy Mir in 1989. THE ROSE OF THE WORLD is a unique and poetic cosmological treatise, passionately written out of personal spiritual experience. It offers a prophetic call for the spiritual reunification of all people and an open and harmonious relationship among the great world religions. For Daniel Andreev, The Rose of the world is a spiritual flower whose roots are in heaven; each petal is a unique image of...
|  | Ordinary Wisdom
Publication Date: March 15, 2000A popular guide to the art of living, the Sakya Legshe "Treasury of Good Advice" has been fundamental to the development of Tibetan culture and character. As in Aesop's Fables, Sakya Pandita uses proverbs and stories to address the basic question: "How are we to live peaceably with ourselves and with others?" Ordinary Wisdom is the only available English translation of the Sakya Legshe, a book that reveals the heart of the Buddhist way of life. ...
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| | The Development of American Romance
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|  | Pygmalion's Wordplay: The Postmodern Shaw (Florida Bernard Shaw)
Publication Date: May 1999| Series: Florida Bernard Shaw "An illuminating meditation on postmodernist elements in Pygmalion . . . it offers valuable insights into Shaw's ways of thinking about and representing experience."--Jonathan Wisenthal, University of British ColumbiaIn the first book-length treatment of Bernard Shaw as a postmodern writer, Jean Reynolds offers a fresh interpretation of Pygmalion, one of Shaw's most enduring plays. Challenging widely held assumptions about Shaw, she maintains that he critiqued conventional notions about language and psychology long before such iconocla...
|  | The Rhetoric of Modernist Fiction: From a New Point of View
Publication Date: December 2, 2005Though it has been one of the most influential critical works of the last fifty years, Wayne Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction has disappointed many readers in its treatment of modernism. Despite Booth's astute and influential readings of earlier novels, his system shed little light on the experiments in point of view that characterize many more recent works. Despite a revision some two decades after its first publication, the book continues to strike many readers as outdated in its choices of authors and texts. In a bold updating of that seminal work, Morton ...
|  | Undeniable (A Dalton Gang Novel)
Release Date: October 2, 2012| Series: A Dalton Gang Novel THE DALTON BOYS ARE COMING, ONE BY ONE… There was a time when Crow Hill, Texas’s notorious Dalton Gang ran wild. Now, as owners of the Dalton Ranch, their partnership in the rundown operation leaves little time for raising hell—except for the right women who can turn on the heat… It’s been sixteen years since Dax Campbell set foot in Crow Hill—and sixteen years since Arwen Poole had a crush on him in high school. Unfortunately, setting her sights on this irresistible man again has stirred up a lo...
|  | A Stained White Radiance (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)
Release Date: November 30, 2010| Series: Dave Robicheaux Mysteries “It’s impossible to think of the Louisiana bayou without conjuring up James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux books” (Chicago Tribune), including this early masterwork that pits the Cajun police detective against one of the New South’s most twisted and powerful forces. Oil speculator Weldon Sonnier is the patriarch of a troubled family intimately bound to the CIA, the Mob, and the Klan. Now, the murder of a cop and a bizarre assassination attempt pull Robicheaux into the Sonniers’ hellish world o...
|  | Turquoise Girl: An Ella Clah Novel (Ella Clah Novels)
Release Date: April 29, 2008| Series: Ella Clah Novels Valerie Tso has been murdered, apparently during a break-in, and Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is determined to find the killer—and fast. Valerie is the estranged mother of Boots, who takes care of Ella’s daughter after school. Ella owes Boots a quick resolution to the case. Unfortunately, things aren’t as simple as they seem. A Bible verse on a scrap of paper left near the body reminds Ella of a string of murders of Navajo women she worked on in her FBI days. The killer w...
|  | Shoeless Joe & Black Betsy
Release Date: March 1, 2006| Age Level: 5 and up No one knew better than Shoeless Joe Jackson what was needed to become the best baseball player ever: a good bat. And no one knew more about bats than Ol' Charlie Ferguson of South Carolina, a good friend of Joe's. With love, nurture, and a lot of hard work, the two friends created Black Betsy -- the finest bat in all the land. And with a bat the likes of her by his side, you can bet Joe went all the way to the major leagues!...
|  | The Kid from Tomkinsville (Odyssey)
Publication Date: March 1, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Deep Waters (London 2012)
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Wreck-It Ralph Junior Novelization (Disney Wreck-It Ralph)
Release Date: September 18, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Dreadful Doings of Jelly Belly
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Age Level: 0 and up More than 20 years after its original publication, Dennis Lee’s classic The Dreadful Doings of Jelly Belly continues to enchant readers of all ages with its irresistible mix of modern humor and traditional Mother Goose charm. His rollicking, raucous poetry is laugh-out-loud funny, yet simple enough for even the youngest reader to follow. Nora Hilb’s vibrant illustrations are the perfect match for Lee’s whimsical, sometimes deliciously gross text. Available for the first time in a sturdy board book format, the poem stan...
|  | The Ghost Dog/The White Boat Rescue/The Brown Box Mystery/ The Trapline Thief/The Blue Cow (Sugar Creek Gang 25-30)
Publication Date: August 1, 1998| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up This set includes books 25-30 in the Sugar Creek Gang Series: The GhostDog, The White Boat Rescue, The Brown Box Mystery, TheWatermelon Mystery, The Trapline Thief, and The Blue Cow.InThe Ghost Dog, a fine pet funeral for the finest dog that ever livedin the Sugar Creek Gang territory kicks off this exciting adventure. But when Billhears a mysterious dog howling in the middle of the night, he wonders if a ghostdog is roaming the woods. And later, in those same woods, strange lights in thesky cause the Gang to ...
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