 | Leaves of Grass
Publication Date: August 11, 2011| ISBN-10: 1613820984 | ISBN-13: 978-1613820988Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poetWalt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinatedPresident Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass,revising it in several editions until his death.Leaves of Grass has its genesis in an essay called The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1845, which expressed ...
 |  | Milk and Honey: A Decker/Lazarus Novel (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus)
Release Date: January 25, 2011| Series: Peter Decker/Rina LazarusIn the silent pre-dawn city hours—alone with his thoughts about Rina Lazarus, the woman he loves, three thousand miles away in New York—LAPD detective Peter Decker finds a small child, abandoned and covered with blood that is not her own. It is a sobering discovery, and a perplexing one, for nobody in the development where she was found steps forward to claim the little girl.Obsessed more deeply by this case than he imagined possible, Decker is determined to follow the scant clues to an answer. But his trail is le...
|  | The True History of Paradise: A Novel
Release Date: June 28, 1999A symphonic novel that brings to vibrant life the culture and conflicts of Jamaica.It is 1981, and Jamaica is in a state of emergency: there is violence in the streets and police checkpoints are everywhere. Island dwellers for centuries, the Landing family has gathered to bury one of its own. Staring at the closed coffin, mother and sister confront the reality that bright, vibrant, fiercely independent Lana has taken her own life. Jean, Lana's sister and closest confidante, has always been attuned to the spirit world, and now, in the face of this latest catastrophe...
|  | en un instante (Nelson Pocket: Ficcion; Suspense) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: February 3, 2012| Series: Nelson Pocket: Ficcion; Suspense De la mente de Ted Dekker, autor de gran éxito de ventas según el New York Times, viene la pregunta: "Si usted supiera el resultado de sus decisiones, ¿determinaría eso lo que hiciera?"Seth Borders tiene uno de los coeficientes intelectuales más altos del mundo. Ahora de pronto es atacado por un poder increíble, la habilidad de ver múltiples futuros posibles, y se encuentra con Miriam, una hermosa princesa de Arabia Saudita que se ha escapado de un matrimonio forzado. Las culturas coli...
|  | Nichole: A Kiss for the Dying (Vampire Story Unfolds)
Publication Date: November 1, 2001| Series: Vampire Story Unfolds In an era of corruption, espionage, and assassination, Nichole must stop an ancient enemy before he can open the gateway to the Dark Real. Within childhood her nightmares, is the key to her dark ancestry and her enemy?s weakness. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Larry Bond's First Team: Fires of War
Release Date: November 14, 2006| Series: Larry Bond's First Team Larry Bond, New York Times bestselling author of Dangerous Ground, and Jim DeFelice have earned widespread acclaim for the gritty authenticity and spellbinding suspense of their military-political adventures involving the First Team. "The Team" lead by top CIA officer Bob Ferguson, and supported by Special Forces commando Stephen Rankin and Marine Jack Young, is authorized to take immediate action, beyond the bureaucratic restraints of US intelligence or the military establishment, in the ever-surprising War on Terror.After yea...
|  | The First Sunday (Sunday Rose)
Publication Date: October 18, 2011| Series: Sunday Rose (Book 1) Rose always knew what she wanted. But the Lord had other plans for her.In this engaging story, author R.J. Berry is inspired by certain events in her grandmother's life and loosely chronicles her life in the late twenties and early thirties. The story begins with Sunday Rose Tyler's birth and childhood in Kittman, Texas, a small community comprised mostly of African Americans, including the Tylers. In this community, Rose has big dreams that she is determined to fulfillshe aims to be a singer. At the age of seventeen, she leave...
|  | Paths of Glory
Release Date: January 3, 2012Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. People like Christopher Columbus, Isaac Newton, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Edison, Nancy Astor, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hilary and Neil Armstrong—their unparalleled success has made their stories into legend. But what if one man had such a dream, and once he’d achieved it, there was no proof that he had fulfilled his ambition?Jeffrey Archer’s new novel, Paths of Glory, is the story of such a ...
|  | In the Courts of the Sun
Publication Date: March 26, 2009A mind-bending, time-bending, zeitgeist-defining novel about the days leading up to December 21, 2012—the day the Maya predicted the world would end December 21, 2012. The day time stops. Jed DeLanda, a descendant of the Maya living in the year 2012, is a math prodigy who spends his time playing Go against his computer and raking in profits from online trading. (His secret weapon? A Mayan divination game—once used for predicting corn-harvest cycles, now proving very useful in predicting corn futures—that his mother taught him.) But Jed’s li...
|  | William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience
Publication Date: April 2, 2010| ISBN-10: 1451585446 | ISBN-13: 978-1451585445William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience," combined in this little volume, are both filled with amazing poetry. In "Songs of Innocence," Blake reveals the true innocent and peaceful ways of a person's childhood. While most people remember William Blake for "Tyger, tyger, burning bright" and "Little Lamb, who made thee?" his other poems are wonderful as well. The point of the poems doesn't seem to be that aging brings experience, but that experience changes innocence, to some degree. For instance, the ...
|  | Come to Laugh: African Traditional Theatre in Ghana
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|  | Le sang d'un po
Publication Date: March 10, 1999[This book is written in French.] Le sang du poète (1930) est un poème de cinéma, un film éclaireur de l'oeuvre cinématographique de Cocteau. Il éclaire son cycle orphique qui par récurrence est traversé par les rayons d'Orphée et du Testament. Dans cet ouvrage, il s'agit d'un découpage plan à plan du film, intégrant le texte de Jean Cocteau et les traits descriptifs supplémentaires. The Blood of a Poet (1930) is a cinematic poem, a benchmark in the cinematographic work of Cocteau. It pointed the...
|  | The Road from Hiroshima
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|  | Fifty Tang Poems
Publication Date: March 21, 2000Bi-lingual edition with translation and annotation of fifty of the greatest poems from China's Tang Dynasty (617-906 a.d.).Appended are introductions to the history of the Tang Dynasty, Tang poetic genres, and Tang poets.Each poem is given with translation and Chinese original; on the facing page are found the pronunciation and meaning of each character, as well as copious notes. ...
|  | The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France (New Middle Ages)
Release Date: September 16, 2008| ISBN-10: 0230608132 | ISBN-13: 978-0230608139| Edition: Revised and Updated This book examines a medieval text long neglected by most scholars. The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard looks at the earlier correspondence between these two famous individuals, revealing the emotions and intimate exchanges that occurred between them. The perspectives presented here are very different from the view related by Abelard in his "History of My Calamities," an account which provoked a much more famous exchange of letters between Heloise and Abelard after they ...
|  | A Tryst of Fate
Publication Date: April 28, 2012After inheriting a Georgian house in Berkley Square, London, Colt Daniels, millionaire art dealer, finds himself obsessed by a portrait of the home's former owner, Lord Alexander Swift. During a conversation with author, Jake Williams, Colt discovers Lord Swift and his cousin had mysteriously disappeared from the cellar one evening, shortly after Alexander's illicit affair with the rogue, David Fitzhugh. Jake reveals Colt bears a remarkable resemblance to Fitzhugh. Colt decides to investigate Alexander's strange disappearance and ventures into his cellar late ...
|  | Lost Souls of the Witches' Castle
Publication Date: July 1, 2002Based on the Gothic mental institution located north of Boston, in Danvers, Massachusetts, Lost Souls of the Witches’ Castle is a story within a story. Dana Etheridge and Nick DeSantis meet on the grounds of the closed facility. Dana is an RN who had done her psychiatric training there ten years ago and Nick is a photojournalist writing a book about Danvers State. Within moments of meeting, they’re drawn to each other. With the help of a journal written by a former patient who was placed there in 1919, they discover their own destiny and the powerful e...
|  | Sacred Country
Release Date: June 1, 1995"I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no ...
|  | The Devil Speaks Hungarian
Publication Date: December 1, 2011In a land of unrelenting turmoil, in a city that's been laid siege by Mongols, Huns, Turks, Tartars, Germans, and Russians, a cop from Brooklyn joins the chase for a notebook with a mathematical formula that could turn the world on its head. ...
|  | Service of All the Dead
Release Date: September 1, 1996"[MORSE IS] THE MOST PRICKLY, CONCEITED, AND GENUINELY BRILLIANT DETECTIVE SINCE HERCULE POIROT."--The New York Times Book ReviewThis time Inspector Morse brings the imposition on himself. He could have been vacationing in Greece instead of investigating a murder that the police have long since written off. But he finds the crime--the brutal killing of a suburban churchwarden--fascinating. In fact, he uncovers not one murder but two, for the fatal fall of St. Frideswides vicar from the church tower Morse reckons to be murder as well. And as he digs in...
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