 | Short Stories in Spanish: New Penguin Parallel Text (New Penguin Parallel Texts) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: January 1, 2001| Series: New Penguin Parallel Texts Reflecting the variety of modern Spanish literature, these stories range from the sharp insights of Gabriel García Marquez's "María dos Prazeres" to Isabel Allende's powerful evocation of the oral traditions of the Amerindian "Walimai," the deceptive simplicity of Javier Marías's "On the Honeymoon," and the philosophical speculation of Laura Freixas's "Absurd Ending." ...
 |  | Softly and Tenderly (A Songbird Novel)
Publication Date: January 4, 2011| Series: A Songbird Novel (Book 2) Maybe in the wide-open country she can learn to breathe again. Happily married and owner of two successful boutiques, Jade longs to begin a family with her husband, Max. But when she discovers that Max has an illegitimate son—who he wants her to help raise—Jade’s life is turned upside down. She flees to her childhood home, a rambling Iowa farmhouse, with enough room to breathe. There— while her mother’s health grows fragile, and the tug of her first love grows stronger—Jad...
|  | Levi's Will
Publication Date: October 1, 2009Will flees his Old Order community at the age of 19, leaving behind a pregnant girlfriend and all things Amish.He begins a new life, joining the army and later marrying and having two sons of his own.But his life and his new family are tainted by the hidden sins of his past.Hoping to patch things up with his father, Will takes his new family to meet the old one.Levi's Will is the haunting story of a fallen man seeking to build a bridge across three generations."A beautiful and original story.This is an accomplished work."--Booklist (starred review)&...
|  | Downhill Chance: A Novel
Publication Date: July 15, 2003With Kit’s Law, Donna Morrissey established herself as a gifted storyteller. Her chronicle of life in a remote Newfoundland outport was acclaimed by critics and embraced by readers worldwide. Downhill Chance is a captivating successor to Morrissey’s first novel. Set in a pair of isolated fishing communities in Newfoundland during and after the Second World War, this is the story of two families joined by friendship but torn apart by fear and sorrows.Prude Osmond reads her tea leaves and predicts dark days ahead. Meanwhile, an hour’s boat ri...
|  | The Joke's on Me
Publication Date: June 28, 2011Frankie Goldberg is a former actress and stand-up comic whose life in Hollywood falls apart with an exclamation mark when a mudslide destroys her hopes, her home, and her entire collection of impractical footwear. Needing comfort, she returns to her mother's B&B in Woodstock, New York, where she spent her teen years doing chores and chasing after the handyman's hot, high-school-jock son. But the joke's on her. Now she has to deal with the mess she left behind, including her non-relationship with her bossy older sister and their mother's illness. As if her n...
|  | Many Bloody Returns
Release Date: February 3, 2009"Clever...entertaining... excellent"(Library Journal) original vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and more. From cakes to stakes, a celebration of everyone's favorite bloodsucking subculture by a baker's dozen of favorite authors. Each of these thirteen original stories offers a fresh and unique take on what birthdays mean to the undead. From Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse attending a birthday party for Dracula to Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden battling bloodsucking party crashers, these suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark...
|  | The Maya book of the dead: The ceramic codex ; the corpus of codex style ceramics of the late classic period
Publication Date: 1981xxi + 257 pp. with 90 figs. & 161 illus., 27 tables, folio. ...
|  | Ivanov (Absolute Classics S.)
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Series: Absolute Classics S. Ivanov, a driving force in local government and a visionary landowner, feels burnt out at thirty-five. Once the pioneer of scientific farming methods and of education for peasants, he now drowns in bureaucracy and debt, his large estate neglected. While his wife is dying, Sacha, a young, educated woman, falls in love with Ivanov and determines to save him. ...
|  | Young Women's Monologues from Contemporary Plays 2: Professional auditions for aspiring actresses (No. 2)
Publication Date: April 1, 2008So well-liked was the first collection of these contemporary monologues that we offer this sequel by popular demand. The monologues are wildly funny, tragically sad and yet courageous. The ultimate journey for this collection is to create the possibility of living lovingly as equals in our modern world. The monologues are organised in chapter themes with brief sketches to set the scene. The collection features well-known playwrights - Arthur Miller, Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson - and many superb, emerging new writers. There are several original monologues w...
|  | The Divine Comics: A Vaudeville Show in Three Acts
Publication Date: November 15, 2011Dante s Divine Comedy has, since it was first published, captured the imagination of readers with its amazing journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven. Now, in a dazzling reimagining of Dante s work, award-winning novelist and poet Philip Lee Williams presents his own version of our journey from suffering to final rest. The Divine Comics: A Vaudeville Show in Three Acts is Williams s stunning updating of Dante s original epic poem, though as fiction this time, filled with wild surrealist riffs, postmodern side trips, and multiple layers of meaning, plot,...
|  | Fire the Bastards! (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Publication Date: February 7, 2012| Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive) Fire the Bastards! is a scorching attack on the book-review media using the critical reception of William Gaddis's 1955 novel The Recognitions as a case study.Although this monumental novel is now generally regarded as one of the few indisputable milestones of contemporary American fiction, its original reviews were overwhelmingly negative. Combining meticulous research with savage indignation, Green exposes the inaccuracies, prejudices, and outright incompetence of Gaddis's reviewers to argue that the review me...
|  | Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II: England's Paradise (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity)
Publication Date: May 2012| ISBN-10: 1409436748 | ISBN-13: 978-1409436744Spanning the period from Elizabeth I's reign to Charles II's restoration, this study argues the garden is a primary site evincing a progressive narrative of change, a narrative that looks to the Edenic as obtainable ideal in court politics, economic prosperity, and national identity in early modern England. In the first part of the study, Amy L. Tigner traces the conceptual forms that the paradise imaginary takes in works by Gascoigne, Spenser, and Shakespeare, all of whom depict the garden as a space in which to im...
|  | Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Publication Date: October 1996| ISBN-10: 0804727937 | ISBN-13: 978-0804727938In pursuing the sources for late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century “demonization” of racial and cultural difference, this book moves back and forth between the imagined world of literature and the “real” world of historical experience, between fictional romance and what has been called the “parallel fictions” of the human sciences of anthropology and biology.The author argues that the gothic genre and its various permutations offered a language that could be appropriated, cons...
|  | The Divine Spark
Publication Date: January 11, 2001The Divine Spark is the emotional story of a young scientist in Atlanta who wins the Nobel Prize for Medicine for re-sparking life into mice after death. The discovery triggers an attempt by a powerful group of people with a hidden agenda to control and use the research for an extraordinary purpose. The young scientist is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife while the powerful group drives him into attempting to re-spark life into a dead gorilla and, later, a human.He deals with animal and human rights protestors, Washington politicians and even a...
|  | Manga Claus
Release Date: September 14, 2006| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Curious George Visits the Zoo
Publication Date: October 28, 1985| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Baboushka: A Christmas Folktale from Russia (Christmas & Hanukkah)
Release Date: October 1, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Whispered Secret (Leven Thumps)
Release Date: September 25, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | A Possum's Pyramid and the Tomb of King Tut
Publication Date: July 7, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up A possum, pyramids, the Great Sphinx, and the tomb of King Tut! Do you know the history of what it was like to discover the Tomb of King Tut? A Possum's Pyramid and the Tomb of King Tut, by author Jamey M. Long, will help you to discover all of the adventure and excitement during the life and times of ancient Egypt. Follow a curious little possum named Opie as he visits the boy and goes with him on a trip across Egypt to the Valley of the Kings with archeologist Howard Carter to look for ancient artifacts. You will e...
|  | Come Here, Tiger! (Green Light Readers Level 1)
Publication Date: August 1, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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