 | The Stories of J.F. Powers (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: March 31, 2000| Series: New York Review Books Classics Hailed by Frank O'Connor as one of "the greatest living storytellers," J. F. Powers, who died in 1999, stands with Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver among the authors who have given the short story an unmistakably American cast. In three slim collections of perfectly crafted stories, published over a period of some thirty years and brought together here in a single volume for the first time, Powers wrote about many things: baseball and jazz, race riots and lynchings, the Great Depression, and the flight to...
 |  | A Searing Wind: Book Three of Contact: The Battle for America
Release Date: March 6, 2012| Series: Contact: the Battle for America “An irresistibly intriguing story line that brings the past vividly to life. . . . Nobody does Native Americana better than the Gears.” —BooklistIn the eagerly awaited third installment of the Contact: Battle for America saga, New York Times bestselling authors W. Michael and Kathleen O’Neal Gear richly portray a clash of cultures and a native peoples’ struggle to protect their world. Set against the tragic war sparked by Hernando de Soto’s brutal invasion of the American South, A Searing...
|  | Manalive
Publication Date: March 26, 2009| ISBN-10: 1604591722 | ISBN-13: 978-1604591729In Manalive we follow the madcap adventure of Innocent Smith. Innocent Smith is a man who keeps the commandments but breaks all the conventions, and while doing so he shows us just how absurd those conventions are. Follow him as he breaks into his own house, and then carries on a torrid affair with his own wife. Enjoy a picnic on the roof and then leave home just for the sake of returning home. A joyous and uplifting book. ...
|  | Good Faeries, Bad Faeries: 2 Books in 1
Publication Date: October 1, 1998Good Faeries/Bad Faeries gives an insight in to the imagination of the artist, and into the mystical worl d that lies deep within the human psyche. ' --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
|  | Further on, Nothing: Tadeusz Kantor's Theatre
Publication Date: September 4, 2009| ISBN-10: 0816654816 | ISBN-13: 978-0816654819Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990) was one of the twentieth century’s most innovative visual artists, stage directors, and theoreticians. His theatre productions and manifestos challenged the conventions of creating art in post–World War II culture and expanded the boundaries of Dada, surrealist, Constructivist, and happening theatre forms. Kantor’s most widely known productions—The Dead Class (1975), Wielopole, Wielopole (1980), Let the Artists Die (1985), and Today Is My Birthda...
|  | You Drive Me Crazy: Love Poems for Real Life
Publication Date: January 1, 2005From the editors of the successful anthologies "The Hell With Love" and "Kiss Off" comes a third collection of poetry celebrating commitment, passion, and everlasting love. Two-color text. ...
|  | Sor Juana's Love Poems (Poemas de Amor) (English and Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 24, 2003These exquisite love poems, some of them clearly addressed to women, were written by the visionary and passionate genius of Mexican letters, the seventeenth-century nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. In this volume they are translated into the idiom of our own time by poets Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique. Some of them are rooted in Renaissance courtly conventions; others are startlingly ahead of their time, seemingly modern in the naked power of the complex sexual feelings they address. ...
|  | A Treasury of the Great Children's Book Illustrators
Publication Date: February 1, 1997This captivating survey profiles the lives and works of the most influential children's book illustrators, focusing primarily on the now-classic works of Edward Lear, Randolph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, Beatrix Potter, Ernest Shepard, Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, N.C. Wyeth, and other Victorian artists. 252 illustrations, 93 in color. ...
|  | Young Men and Fire
Publication Date: February 8, 2012On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy.Young Men and Fire won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992."A magnificent drama of writing, a tragedy that pays tribute to the dead and offers rescue...
|  | Attorney's Run
Publication Date: September 15, 2009Fresh out of law school, London Vaughn discovers there's no room in the prominent law firms for a middle-of-the-class graduate. While barely making ends meet as a waitress, she encounters a beautiful woman who engages her services irrespective that she has no experience, no office and no reputation. Almost immediately, London and her client are thrust into the deadly throes of a high-stakes international thriller of unimaginable scope. ...
|  | Death and Honor (Honor Bound)
Release Date: June 3, 2008| Series: Honor BoundUnabridged CDs ? 17 CDs, 21 hours The crackling new novel in the bestselling Honor Bound series by the #1 New York Times?bestselling master of the military thriller. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Godspeak: A story of self-discovery
Publication Date: June 7, 2002A physicist is murdered, a discovery of potentially apocalyptically destructive proportions is stolen after its inventor mysteriously commits suicide. Enter a world of spies, murder, mayhem, sex, love, a frenzied pursuit across four continents. This is the world that, The Godspeak opens up to you. But far beyond its thrills and suspense, you will find a path of self discovery that engages the deepest questions of life, death and the thirst of every human being for meaning and happiness. For anyone who loves both a great mystery, loves the exploration of the late...
|  | The Untold Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Publication Date: August 2, 2012In the year 1933 an elderly Dr John Watson is looking back over his life and his time spent with his brilliant friend and master of deduction Sherlock Holmes. He writes in a letter to the reader that he has assembled a list of seven untold adventures that span from his and Sherlock's early years until the time of Sherlock's retirement. Watson explains that he wishes to leave, not only his family but the public with a final compilation of Adventures that he and Sherlock shared while he is still able. In these seven stories Holmes and Watson are caught in the mi...
|  | Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet and the Sign of Four
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|  | The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight: More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep
Release Date: August 21, 1992| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up "In a companion volume to Nightmares, poet and artist again collaborate to elicit feelings of exquisite terror."--Horn Book. "Prelutsky's rhymes are as lethal, lithe, and literate as ever, and Lobel wrings every atmospheric ounce out of them."--School Library Journal. ...
|  | The Christmas Adventure of Space Elf Sam
Publication Date: October 1998| Age Level: 4 and up Santa delivers Christmas presents to children everywhere, but when Earth families begin to live on distant planets, Santa needs help. That's why Santa builds the Space Elf Christmas Academy--where elves like Sam are trained to fly spaceships. Full color. ...
|  | Keepers of the Animals: Native American Animal Stories
Publication Date: September 1, 1992| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Drawn from the legends of Indian cultures, this collection features 24 stories from the bestselling Keepers of the Animals and Native American Animal Stories. 2 cassettes. ...
|  | Happy Easter, Corduroy (Corduroy (Board Book))
Release Date: January 26, 2004| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Kumon Focus On Reducing and Calculating Fractions (Kumon Focus on Workbook)
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| | Abner & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure (Baseball Card Adventures)
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