 | A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell: Two Novels
Release Date: June 27, 2006Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse." ...
 |  | Outside the Bones
Publication Date: September 30, 2011Fina is a big girl with a big mouth. She's the neighborhood bruja, or spirit worker as she likes to call herself, casting spells for her neighbors in Manhattan's Upper West Side. She can't believe it, though, when she puts an accidental fufu or spell on Chico, the irresistible trumpet player who lives upstairs. "With so many scraps of his clothing . . . sprinkled with blood, gunpowder, sugar, spit, and God knows what else, poor Chico's body didn't know if it was being cursed or blessed." Chico recovers just as two women from his past turn up: his f...
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|  | Especially for Mothers
Publication Date: January 1, 2003Show your mother--or any woman who fills a mother's role in your life-- how special she is with the beautiful book of Helen Steiner Rice poetry. This deluxe full-color gift book is the perfect substitute for a greeting card with its inspirational text, photographic illustrations, and an envelope, too! ...
|  | The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (Oxford Books of Prose)
Publication Date: November 19, 2001| ISBN-10: 0192862197 | ISBN-13: 978-0192862198Brimming with tales of terror, suspense, and the uncanny, this work offers the first collection devoted to the Gothic genre. Each story contains the common elements of the gothic tale--a warped sense of time, a claustrophobic setting, a link to archaic modes of thought, and the impression of a descent into disintegration. Yet taken together, they reveal the progression of the genre from stories of feudal villains amid crumbling ruins to a greater level of sophistication in which writers brought the gothic t...
|  | Creepy Archives Volume 1
Publication Date: August 19, 2008| Series: Creepy Archives Gather up your wooden stakes, your blood-covered hatchets, and all the skeletons in the darkest depths of your closet, and prepare for a horrifying adventure into the darkest corners of comics history. Dark Horse Comics further corners the market on high-quality horror storytelling with one of the most anticipated releases of the decade - a hardcover archive collection of the legendary Creepy Magazine!This groundbreaking material turned the world of graphic storytelling on its head in the early 1960s, as phenomenal young artists like...
|  | Who Moved My Blackberry?
Release Date: April 22, 2008Martin Lukes is a superstar at the office and at home -- just ask him. Blessed with an ego the size of Mount Everest and virtually no sense of self, he blusters through life with cheerful obliviousness. Who Moved My BlackBerry is the uproarious e-epistolary story of one spectacularly bad year in his life, during which Martin hires an executive coach to help him achieve "22.5 percent better than my bestest," only to inadvertently insult his new boss, watch his wife get a job that threatens to eclipse his own, and allow his BlackBerry -- complete with racy...
|  | Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Fiction (13th Edition)
Publication Date: June 23, 2011| ISBN-10: 0205175414 | ISBN-13: 978-0205175413| Edition: 13For Introduction to the Short Story and Introduction to Fiction. A collection of carefully chosen, interesting stories with literary merit, the best-selling text-anthology Fiction 100 continues to offer instructors the flexibility to organize their courses in a format that best suits their pedagogical needs. Intended to ignite students' curiosity, imagination, and intelligence, these selections represent a wide variety of subject matter, theme, literary technique, and style. International in ...
|  | The Joys of Friendship and Love (Come Sit Awhile--Inspiration from the Front Porch)
Release Date: April 20, 2005| Series: Come Sit Awhile--Inspiration from the Front Porch Come Sit Awhile-The Joys of Friendship and Love invites readers to enjoy all the comfort, warmth, and love a visit with friends on the front porch has to offer. Memorable words and charming four-color illustrations grace every page of this little volume. The addition of a presentation page allows consumers to add their own personal message for gift giving. With heartwarming memories, recipes for tasty treats, inspiring scriptures, and more-all for the value price of only $7.97-Come Sit Awhile-The Joys of ...
|  | 21st Century Chinese Poetry, No.2: Bilingual Chinese-English
Publication Date: April 12, 2012These are unusual times. These poets are tale-tellers of their world. Their poems are for real people. Please enjoy with us the evolution and revolution of the making of modern Chinese poetry. The quarterly journal of 21st Century Chinese Poetry was founded with the intention of introducing modern Chinese poetry to readers worldwide. Modern Chinese poetry was born from the broader intellectual movement that took place in China in the early part of the 20th century, known as the May-Fourth Movement (1917-1921); for the first time in history, ve...
|  | Vergilius Redivivus: Studies In Joseph Addison's Latin Poetry (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society)
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|  | A Poetry Handbook
Publication Date: August 15, 1994| ISBN-10: 0156724006 | ISBN-13: 978-0156724005| Edition: 1 With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space. “Stunning” (Los Angeles Times). Index. ...
|  | Love, Tommy: Letters Home, from the Great War to the Present Day
Release Date: September 18, 2012A legacy of an empire and a nation at war, Love Tommy, is a collection of letters housed at the Imperial War Museum sent by British and Commonwealth troops from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa from the frontline of war to their loved ones at home. Poignant expressions of love, hope and fear sit alongside amusing anecdotes, grumbles about rations and thoughtful reflections, eloquently revealing how despite the passage of time many experiences of the fighting man are shared in countless wars and battles. From the muddy trenches of the Somme to fr...
|  | Banner O'Brien
Release Date: June 1, 1991In 1886, lovely Banner O'Brien overcame every obstacle and won her coveted medical diploma. Still she longed to escapefrom Oregon...and the nightmares that left her shaking, screaming one man's name.Banner fled to the Washington Territory to accept a position with Dr. Adam Corbin...arrogant, handsome and rumor said, violent. Although Banner respected his skills, she was unnerved by the very nearness of this moody, powerful man, His past was a mystery that would challenge her to her utmost...for Banner wad determined to win Adam Corbin's heart. ...
|  | Pretty: A Novel
Release Date: August 30, 2011An electrifying debut novel from the New York Timesbestsellingauthor of Some Girls. Bebe Baker is an ex-everything: ex-stripper, ex-Christian, ex-drugaddict,ex-pretty girl.It's been one year since the car accident that killed her boyfriendleft herscarred and shaken. Flanked by an eccentric posse of friends, she isserving outa self-imposed sentence at a halfway house, while trying to finishcosmetologyschool. Amid the rampant diagnoses, over-medication, compulsive eating,andacrylic nails of Los Angeles, Bebe looks for something to believe inbeforesomething--her pas...
|  | Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright (Sherlock Holmes Mysteries (Breese))
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|  | The Mermaid's Treasure Hunt: Peek inside the 3D windows!
Publication Date: October 16, 2012| Grade Level: P and up Join Sapphira the mermaid and her friends on an exciting undersea quest in this charming adventure, with pop-up pages that allow the reader to explore and peek through seaweed and coral reefs in three layers of pretty illustration....
|  | The Ugly Dragonling (Children's Books)
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|  | The Silk Princess (Picture Book)
Release Date: December 26, 2007| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Extreme Cycling With Dale Holmes (Robbie Readers)
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