 | Complete Poems of Whitman (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library)
Publication Date: April 1, 1998| Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled consciousness, communicated in language and idiom regarded by many at the time as shocking. Whitman's poems are organic and free flowing, fit into no previously defined genre and skilfully combine autobiographical, sociological and religious themes with lyrical sensuality. His verse is a fitting celebration of a new breed of American...
 |  | The Homecoming of Samuel Lake: A Novel
Release Date: July 10, 2012“Raw, dark, and powerful . . . Southern Gothic at its best. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake puts one in mind of Erskine Caldwell and Flannery O’Connor.”—Fannie Flagg Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. And every year, Samuel Lake, a vibrant and committed young preacher, brings his beloved wife, Willadee Moses, and their three children back for the festivities. In the midst of it all, Samuel and Willadee’s outspoken eleven-year-old daughter...
|  | The Firebird's Vengeance: A Novel of Isavalta
Publication Date: August 1, 2004Magic and the force of destiny propelled Bridget Lederle across the void between worlds, through the Land of Death and Spirit, to the world of Isavalta, where she discovered secrets about herself and her family that had been hidden since before her birth. It seems like only yesterday that a charismatic stranger swept her from her home on the shore of Lake Superior and took her on an impossible journey to a strange, bejeweled world where sorcery could spring from the simplest of patterns, with most serious effect. In Isavalta she also discovered magical powers ...
|  | You Are Not Here and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction
Publication Date: April 24, 2006The Buddhist tradition is rich in stories, especially those that help teach the sutras. You Are Not Here and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction takes the sutra tradition into new and unexpected places. Classic Buddhist themesthe — reality and illusion, stillness and being, meditation and actionthe — are the inspiration for these stories, but the appeal of these powerful, often quirky and provocative works spreads far beyond just students. Like its predecessor, this collection includes both new voices and established masters such as Pico Iyer, Anne Donov...
|  | Whispered from the Grave: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales
Publication Date: December 1999Quietly echoing in a cold graveyard's breeze, the moaningwails of the dead, whispered from the grave to mortal ears with talesof desires unfulfilled, of dark vengeance, of sorrow and forgivenessand love beyond the grave.Fourteen writers spin their mostfrightening stories of ghosts and hauntings, each a terrifying voicefrom beyond, whispered from the grave.Includes tales by Edo vanBelkom, Sue Burke, P.D. Cacek, Dominick Cancilla, Margaret L. Carter,Don D'Ammassa, D.G.K. Goldberg, Barry Hoffman, Tina Jens, NancyKilpatrick, Kyle Marffin, Julie Anne Parks, Rick R. ...
|  | El diario de Bridget Jones / Bridget Jones' Diary (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Blood Knot and Other Plays
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|  | The Love of Three Oranges: A Play for the Theatre That Takes the Commedia Dell'arte of Carlo Gozzi and Updates It for the New Millennium
Release Date: October 20, 2003Based on a scenario by Carlo Gozzi and inspired by his original project, The Love of Three Oranges is a wild raucous slapstick comedy. A comedy in three acts. Prince Tartaglia's life is filled with misery until an evil witch and her equally evil henchmen concoct a plan to kill him by sending him on a quest for three giant oranges. This quest, however, soon proves more fruitful than he could have imagined. Once he leaves the sheltered world of the castle he finds a friend in a clown, love in an orange, and most of all laughter in everything he meets. Throw in wit...
|  | For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories
Release Date: March 21, 2000One of the most stunning literary debuts of our time, these energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories introduce an astonishing new talent.In the collection's hilarious title story, a Hasidic man gets a special dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute. "The Wig" takes an aging wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful. In "The Tumblers," Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for the death camps and, in a deft, imaginative twist, turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harm's wa...
|  | Protestant without a Horse
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|  | Flowers from Hell: A Satanic Reader
Publication Date: October 15, 2001| ISBN-10: 1840680245 | ISBN-13: 978-1840680249| Edition: illustrated edition Unholy creations from the world's greatest authors and artists are bound together in this essential illustrated anthology of Luciferian literature. Charting the progress of the Prince of Darkness via the short stories, novels and poetry of centuries past, this Satanic sampler summons forth the Devil in a fascinating array of guises ?Authors and artists include: Charles Baudelaire, Aleister Crowley, Dante Alghieri, Goethe, J-K Huysmans, Matthew G Lewis, Charles Maturin, Mark Twa...
|  | Touch of Evil (Thrall, Book 1)
Release Date: March 7, 2006Kate Reilly has a hard time trusting people.Six years ago, the love of her life turned her over to the vampire parasites who call themselves the Thrall. Katie survives the powerful bite of the master parasite only to discover that the Thrall's venom, coupled with her own natural psychic ability, has transformed her. Now she is next in line to be the Thrall Queen--and each day might be her last as a human.Tom, a handsome firefighter, arouses all of Katie's dormant senses, but her heart shies away. After Dylan's betrayal, how can she trust any man--even a seemingly p...
|  | Jihad (Stephen Coonts' Deep Black, Book 5)
Release Date: January 2, 2007The word's most effective anti-terrorist force has the tools to monitor every move the enemy makes. They've planted a listening device inside a terrorist's skull, and activated a video spy drone disguised as a bird. But knowing is only half the battle… Multi-lingual, nerves-of-steel agents Charlie Dean, Lia DeFrancesca, and Tommy Karr prowl the winding streets of Istanbul to the crowded airports of America to stop terrorists in their tracks. Hooked into a real-time, high-tech system, this army of three goes head-to-head with the most dangerous people ...
|  | The Ninja
Release Date: May 12, 1985"Totally absorbing...as gripping a tale of hatred and revenge as you will read...It is superb."NEWS RECORDThis is the story of Nicholas Linnear, half-Caucasian, half-Oriental, a man caught between East and West, between the sexual passions of a woman he can't forget and the one he can't control and between a past he can't escape and a destiny he can't avoid. A sprawling erotic thriller that swings from postwar Japan to present-day New York in a relentless saga of violence and terror elaborately designed for the most savage vengeance of all... ...
|  | Gunpowder Green (A Tea Shop Mystery)
Release Date: March 5, 2002| Series: A Tea Shop Mystery (Book 2) Tea shop owner Theodosia Browning knows that something’s brewing in the high society of Charleston—something other than her newest tea…The Indigo Tea Shop, Charleston’s favorite spot of tea, has just come out with its latest flavor: Gunpowder Green. Theodosia Browning cannot wait to hear its praises as it is unveiled at the annual yacht race. But when she hears the crack of an antique gun meant to end the race, a member of Charleston’s elite falls dead. Theodosia has a hunch that his demise was no...
|  | Aliens Ate My Homework (Alien Adventures)
Release Date: May 8, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit
Publication Date: May 12, 1999| Age Level: 9 and up This is a reproduction of the 1907 edition of this important southern book, in one of its first full color versions. ...
|  | The Teacher from the Black Lagoon
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up An outrageously funny tale of how rumors can make a student create a monster out of any teacher!Two popular books from the bestselling Black Lagoon series--TEACHER and LIBRARIAN--are now reissued with fun new covers!Join Hubie once again as he faces his comically horrific fears during his first day of school and his first trip to the school library.Featuring a fire-breathing teacher and a library where all the books are bolted to the shelves, these stories are sure to amuse and quell fears of new experiences at the...
|  | Poppy's Puppet
Publication Date: September 15, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up Poppy creates magical puppets whose personalities are determined by what Poppy 'hears' in the wood before he carves it. When he takes his puppets on the road, their show becomes famous throughout the land.But one day Poppy impatiently shapes a ballerina puppet, Clarinda, from a piece of wood without listening carefully to the wood's message. Clarinda will not perform--and almost ruins the show--until Poppy discovers her secret wish. ...
|  | Scavenger Hunt Adventure (Zoobles!)
Release Date: July 19, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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