 | In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
Release Date: October 11, 2011At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction,” a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestor of th...
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 | 101 Read-Aloud Asian Myths and Legends
Publication Date: April 1, 2001| Age Level: 9 and up...
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 | Democracy: An American Novel (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: July 29, 2008| Series: Penguin Classics An instant bestseller when first published in 1880, Democracy is the quintessential American political novel. At its heart is Madeleine Lee, a young widow who comes to Washington, D.C., to understand the workings of power. Pursued by Silas Ratcliffe, the most influential member of the Senate, Madeleine soon sees enough of power and its corrupting influence to last her a lifetime. ...
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 | Brain Warp: A Medical Thriller
Publication Date: July 22, 2007Doctor Peter Branstead’s neurology department at St. Mark’s Hospital in New York’s picturesque Greenwich Village is flooded with a series of critically ill vagrants exhibiting identical symptoms. Confused and agitated upon admission, they rapidly progress into convulsions, cardiac arrest, and death. The deaths are too methodical to be a coincidence, but how—and why—are they being killed? Peter’s investigation leads him into a dark underworld of international intrigue and into the center of a plot to destroy the president of the Ukr...
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 | The Forgotten Legion
Release Date: March 3, 2009Set in the late Roman Republic, in the first century B.C.E., The Forgotten Legion is a tale of the greatest empire of the ancient world from the perspective of those on the lowest rungs of its society. Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery to a enslaved mother who is much beloved by them, and much abused by their owner. At 13 years old, they and their mother are sold: Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome, and their mother into obscurity and death in th...
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 | Polishing the Pestoskey Stone (Wheaton Literary)
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 | Exister Territoires (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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 | Optical Fiber Communication Systems (Artech House Optoelectronics Library)
Publication Date: October 31, 1996| ISBN-10: 0890067562 | ISBN-13: 978-0890067567Electrical and communication engineers can gain a strong command of the important technologies and mathematical concepts behind today's optical communications systems with this comprehensive book. ...
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 | Mind's World: Imagination and Subjectivity from Descartes to Romanticism (Literary Conjugations)
Publication Date: July 16, 2009| Series: Literary Conjugations Imagination is unruly. It creates the mind's world, linking the sensory realm to the realm of the intellect by oscillating between mind and body, self and world, ideal and real. It has been construed as both essential to rational thought and as a dangerous impediment to it. Alexander Schlutz demonstrates that this ambivalence in conceptions of imagination informs fundamental philosophical and aesthetic projects of European modernity. By analyzing the discourse about imagination in the philosophical systems of Plato, Aristotle, De...
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 | Constructing Postmodernism
Publication Date: January 24, 1993| ISBN-10: 0415060141 | ISBN-13: 978-0415060141| Edition: First Edition Brian McHale provides a series of readings of a wide range of postmodernist fiction, from Eco's Foucault's Pendulum to the works of cyberpunk science-fiction, relating the works to aspects of postmodern popular culture. ...
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 | Letters from a Nut
Publication Date: October 1, 2003Spoof letter writing has a long history from Lazlo Toth to Henry Root but nothing can prepare for the uniquely surreal and endearing world of Ted L Nancy. A kind of Trigger Happy correspondence, his innocent requests, queries, complaints, demands and suggestions to hotels, airlines, multi-national corporations, local government and department stores are so absurd it is amazing they fool anyone - but often the deadpan responses are even more hilarious. Ted wants to know if he can graft his big toe onto his nose, why his wife left him while he was in a coma for...
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 | Branded Sanctuary: Ellora's Cave Taboo
Publication Date: August 31, 2010Book 7 in the Nature of Desire series. Chloe has always been a creature of joy and laughter. Since a brutal attack nearly a year ago, the trauma she experienced has gotten worse. She has started hiding from her life, even putting up walls between herself and those she cares about most. During a panic attack one night, she impulsively calls a number that she's had for many months. Chloe met Brendan at her boss's wedding. With confidence and seduction, he easily steps into the role of helping her manage her fear. By the end of the long call, they've indulged in...
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 | The Stolen Bride of Glengarra Castle
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 | Ghost of Dark Harbor (Five Star Romance)
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 | Call to Treason (Tom Clancy's Op-Center, Book 11)
Release Date: July 6, 2004Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Call to Treason is yet another gripping addition to the bestselling series masterminded by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. The Op-Center's budget is slashed, leaving General Mike Rodgers in the market for a new job. When presidential candidiate Senator Donald Orr recruits Rodgers to act as his military advisor, it sounds like a perfect transition. There's just one problem. A spree of deaths may be tied to Orr's presidential run and Rodgers must decide whether to sign on or shut it down. ...
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 | The Sisters Eight Book 9: The Final Battle . . . for Now
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | Hercules/Hercules: Los Doce Trabajos / the Twelve Labors (Mitos Y Leyendas En Vinetas) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Formula One (Automania!)
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 | Puppy Wimbledon (Pod'n Sam Tennis Tips for Children)
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 | Mi Primer Cid/ My First Cid (Spanish Edition)
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