 | Summer Love: Garrison Keillor and the cast of A Prairie Home Companion (Prairie Home Companion (Music))
Publication Date: May 17, 2011| Series: Prairie Home Companion (Music) In the summer of 2010, Garrison Keillor, Nickel Creek’s Sara Watkins, the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band, and sound-effects artist Fred Newman went on a whirlwind tour of 25 cities in less than two months. The theme was everlasting love; the shows were jam-packed with tender duets and ballads, poetry, and stories of passion and marriage, all done Prairie Home Companion-style.Now the best performances from that tour are available on this Summer Love collection. Never broadcast and therefore available for the first ti...
 |  | Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World: A Novel
Release Date: August 7, 2012A transporting and brilliant novel narrated by an unforgettable woman: Karen Nieto, an autistic savant whose idiosyncrasies prove her greatest giftsAs intimate as it is profound, and as clear-eyed as it is warmhearted, Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World marks an extraordinary debut by the award-winning Mexican playwright, journalist, and poet Sabina Berman.Karen Nieto passed her earliest years as a feral child, left alone to wander the vast beach property near her family's failing tuna cannery. But when her aunt Isabelle comes to Mexico to take over the fami...
|  | Walking in Between
Publication Date: August 6, 2011Fourteen-year-old Elisabeth Grace is so stricken with the curse of beauty that she attracts everyone she meets. Her family calls it, ‘sangre dulce’, or sweet blood. But is it possible her curse is actually a gift? In the story she realizes the greater reason for it; her sweet blood is not limited to this realm. During a summer spent at a historic inn near Williamsburg, Va., she discovers that she is a clairvoyant. She develops a powerful bond with an older boy, Carter, who has been dead for over two hundred years. He is instantly smitten with her...
|  | Candide: or, Optimism (Modern Library Classics)
Release Date: October 11, 2005| ISBN-10: 0812972015 | ISBN-13: 978-0812972016A flamboyant and controversial personality of enormous wit and intelligence, Voltaire remains one of the most influential figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Candide, his masterpiece, is a brilliant satire of the theory that our world is “the best of all possible worlds.” The book traces the picaresque adventures of the guileless Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunegonde, tortured by the Inquisition, et cetera, all ...
|  | Corpus (Cape Poetry)
Release Date: July 20, 2004| Series: Cape Poetry Winner of the Whitbread Prize, this gripping collection of poems centers around the body. Mystical, philosophical, and erotic, the bodies in these poems move between different worlds—life and after-life, death and resurrection—encountering pathologists' blades, geneticists' maps, and the wounds of love and war. Equally at ease with scripture and science, these poems are a thrilling blend of modern and ancient wisdom, a profound and lyrical exploration of the mysteries of the body. Ranging effortlessly between the physical extremes of...
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|  | Measure for Measure (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Release Date: June 28, 2005| Series: Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare LibraryThe world's leading center for Shakespeare studies• Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play• Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play• Scene-by-scene plot summaries• A key to famous lines and phrases• An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language• An essay by leading Shakespeare scholar, Christy Desmet, providing a modern perspective on the play• Illustrations from the Folger Shakespear...
|  | Elye of Saint-Gilles: A Chanson de Geste
Publication Date: December 16, 2010"Elye of Saint-Gilles" tells the story of Elye — the son of Count Julien of Saint-Gilles, a vassal of William of Orange — and of his exploits during his youth and early knighthood. It is part of the William of Orange cycle, whose historical kernel is linked to events of the First and Fourth Crusades and the Reconquest of Spain.As Elye is dubbed a knight, he endures an insult from his father, so he undertakes a self-imposed exile from the court. It is not long, however, before he encounters and battles Saracens. Despite his prowess, they captur...
|  | Propertius (Classical Literature and Society Series)
Publication Date: December 5, 2008| ISBN-10: 0715634534 | ISBN-13: 978-0715634530In 'Propertius: Poet of Love and Leisure', Alison Keith explores Propertius' elegiac poetry in the context of early imperial Roman society. Examining a variety of themes associated with both Propertian poetics (such as genre theory, poetic models, the girlfriend, the rival) and the poet's social context within the early Augustan principate (such as Roman imperialism, the elite male cursus honorum, Augustus' building projects) she offers a synthetic overview of Propertius' achievement in his four books of ele...
|  | Voices from the North: New Writing from Norway
Publication Date: July 28, 2008Stavanger in Norway, one of the world's three leading oil cities, has been chosen as a European Capital of Culture for 2008. Seven prize-winning writers, all with a connection to the region, showcase their work, both prose fiction and poetry, in this celebratory anthology. Exciting and innovative, these young writers use images of life and death, the past and the future, of Norway and abroad, of the poetic and the everyday, to illuminate our current lives and issue warnings about the future.""An amazing showcase of modern-day literary talent from Norway.""The M...
|  | The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez
Release Date: March 24, 2009 The great Persian poet Hafez is so beloved in Iran that almost every family there keeps his Divan close at hand. For some fifteen years, esteemed American poet and author Robert Bly has worked with the great Islamic scholar Leonard Lewisohn to produce this translation, which for the first time captures Hafez's nimbleness, his fierce humor, his astonishing range of thought, and his delight in love—enabling English speakers to fully appreciate the true genius of this master of the ghazal form, one of the greatest inventions in the history of poetry....
|  | Guide to Japanese Poetry (Asian Literature Bibliography Series)
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|  | NIGHT SIDE OF DICKENS: CANNIBALISM, PASSION, NECESSITY (VICTORIAN LIFE & LITERATURE)
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|  | Visiones de Estereoscopio: Paradigma de hibridaci
Release Date: December 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0807892769 | ISBN-13: 978-0807892763This book, written in Spanish, focuses on the literary and artistic works of such avant-garde figures as Ram³n G³mez de la Serna, Benjamn Jarn©s, Antonio de Obreg³n, Juan Chab¡s, Rosa Chacel, Claudio de la Torre, Almada Negreiros, Maruja Mallo, Mauricio Amster, Manuel Reinoso, Diego Rivera, and Angeles Santos y Victorio Macho. It identifies the attempt to integrate conflicting epistemological, ethical, and sociopolitical categories as the organizational principle driving the avant-...
|  | The Hesse/Mann Letters
Publication Date: July 12, 2005The letters present two great XX century Nobel Prize writers grieving for the ruined world. In the 1930s and 1940s, they rail against the stupidity of war and the cowardice of diplomats, against the social savagery of the Nazis, against the blind forces of abstraction and nationalism. They brood about the fate of Germany and of Europe after the last shots have been fired.They have lived through a time of extraordinary horror and yet they have not surrendered to despair or nihilism. Reading the letters, the reader will feel like some privileged guest in a specia...
|  | Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Later Work
Publication Date: September 7, 2012A collection of new essays on the remarkable work produced by the poet Geoffrey Hill since the mid-1990s.Hill is widely recognised as the finest living English poet and the quality of his recent publications has been matched by the pace at which he produces quantities of profound and startlingly original verse. This book brings together work on Hill by figures as diverse as Rowan Williams and Christopher Ricks, along with penetrating treatments of these late writings by younger scholars, in order to provide a series of fresh perspectives on some of the fine...
|  | Quinn's Undying Rose: Scanguards Vampires (Volume 6)
Publication Date: September 8, 2012"I'm addicted to Tina Folsom's books! The Scanguards series is one of the hottest things to happen to vampire romance. If you love scorching, fast-paced reads, don't miss this thrilling series!" -Lara Adrian, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Midnight Breed series Vampirebodyguard Quinn has lived the last 200 years as a playboy trying in vain to forget the only woman he has ever loved: his human wife Rose, who he believes to be dead.But Rose is very much alive. Now a vampire herself, she has lived in hiding from Quinn all of these years, ha...
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Publication Date: January 13, 2011| Series: Desire, Oklahoma: the Founding Fathers [Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Western Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M] Desire, Oklahoma: The Founding Fathers...and the courageous women who dare to love them. Here is how it all begins...When Eb and Jeremiah Tyler left their father's ranch five years ago, Maggie Simms thought she'd never see them again. But now they're back. But different. In the years they've been gone, they've become strangers--hard, cold men she barely recognizes. Dangerous men. But her heart knows them. And knows she'd never survive wat...
|  | The Case Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Musgrave Ritual
Publication Date: August 1996Whose was it? His who is gone. Who shall have it? He who will come. So begins the strange Ritual of the Musgraves, a catechism whose meaning has been lost to generations of the familyuntil the death of a butler and the disappearance of a maid lead Sir Reginald Musgrave to bring the case before Sherlock Holmes. The Musgrave Ritual' is the first of The Case Files of Sherlock Holmes', a series which will examine each of Holmes's cases through the eyes of leading Sherlockian and Doylean writers. In addition to examining previous scholarship relating to the case, the ...
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