 | Classic Jewish Humor in America
Publication Date: January 1, 1995American Jewish humor began with the early colonialsettlers, the Jews, who first arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York)from Brazil in 1654 aboard the St. Charles, otherwise known as theJewish Mayflower. Their descendants constituted a majority of theJewish citizenry in North America for more than 200 years.The scene began to change when, in 1848, the Jews of Germanywere oppressed to the point where tens of thousands were forced toflee their homeland, most of them coming to America--the NewWorld--the world of great promise.Then, between 1881 and 1900, the dir...
 |  | Los dias del arcoiris (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
Publication Date: September 19, 2005This powerful, gritty, and vivid novel is the unforgettable story of Carlito Brigante, a Harlem drug dealer in the 1960s, and his rise to the top. Drug dealer, thief, and murdered, Carlito Brigante was once just another Spanish Harlem street punk with a poor boy's dream of flash and fast money -- but as he gets older he determines that it's either take or be taken, and he knows which role he intends to play. Soon he's a mob-connected professional with an easy charm, joie de vivre, stubborn pride, and hair-trigger temper. But the rules change rapidly in a s...
|  | Portsmouth: Spies, U-boats, and Romance on the Outer Banks
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|  | No Regrets? No Regrets!: A compelling and deeply moving memoir from the 1950's
Publication Date: July 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 159932265X | ISBN-13: 978-1599322650Come, take this exciting, romantic ride through a bygone era. MissUniontown 1951 is an endearing, coming of age memoir of a decade thatPlus Hall characterizes (not without reason), as “hers.” Within thesepages, she captures the innocence, the charm and the promise of a youngwoman on the edge of her adulthood. In her sweet, bouncy style, Plusshares her journey from beauty queen, to nursing school, to a romancewith Pop Star Rudi Magueri of The Crew-Cuts, when her dreams wereshattered by a...
|  | Palais-Royal
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|  | Piecing Earth and Sky Together: A Creation Story from the Mien Tribe of Laos
Publication Date: November 1, 2001"In the beginning, a helper from heaven named Faam Koh came down to make the sky. His sister, Faam Toh, came down to make the earth...
|  | Heroes of China's Great Leap Forward: Two Stories
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|  | The Essential Iliad
Publication Date: June 2000| ISBN-10: 0872205436 | ISBN-13: 978-0872205437While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this bare-bones abridgment highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature, and in Western civilization surveys. ...
|  | Sagas of Warrior-Poets
Release Date: October 29, 2002| Series: Penguin Classics Lovers, poets, and dragon-slaying heroes populate the gripping Icelandic sagas included in this collection. Part of Penguin Classics' new eight-volume Icelandic Saga collection, this volume includes stories that were composed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and are set more than two hundred years earlier-a time when the old Viking ethos of honor and heroic adventure merged with new ideas of romantic infatuation. Set in the farmsteads of Viking-age Iceland, each of these sagas features poet heroes, complex love triangles, and...
|  | Rilke and Andreas-Salom
Publication Date: June 17, 2008"Immensely readable...a significant piece of scholarship."—Fred Volkmer, New YorkSunHe would become one of the most important poetsof the twentieth century; she a muse ofEurope's fin-de-siècle thinkers and artists. In this collection of letters, a finalist for thePEN USA translation award, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé, a writer andintellectual fourteen years his senior, pen arelationship that spans thirty years andshifting boundaries: as lovers, as mentor andprotégé, and as deep personal and literaryallies. ...
|  | Between God & the pine
Publication Date: 1997Vincent Tripi is a haiku poet living in San Francisco, California. This is his tenth volume of poetry. Illustrator Marlina Rinzen is a poet & artist living in Berkeley, California. "between God & the pine" is a paperbound volume with dustjacket, sewn binding, 85 numbered pages plus 8 unnumbered, 5 3/4" x 9 1/8". ...
|  | Comparative Mythology
Publication Date: August 1, 1989| ISBN-10: 0801839386 | ISBN-13: 978-0801839382In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-Euopean origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared religious, mytholoigcal, and cultural heritage. Separate chapters on individual traditions as well as on recurrent thees - god and warrior, king and virgin, fire and water - give life to "Comparative Mythology" as both a general introduction a...
|  | The 60 Greatest Old-Time Radio Shows of the 20th Century selected by Walter Cronkite
Publication Date: October 1, 1999It is with great pride that Radio Spirits has teamed with Walter Cronkite in selecting The 60 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows of the 20th century. You'll hear Orson Welles' legendary "War of the World's", Abbott and Costello's famous "Who's on First?" routine, Jack Benny's hilarious "Money or Your Life" show and many more oldtime radio favorites! This unparalleled collection includes a booklet containing rare photographs and a detailed history on each of the 60 greatest old-time radio shows of the 20th century and a foreword written by Walter Cronkite. This col...
|  | How to Tell a Story And Other Essays
Publication Date: July 18, 2011This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library ...
|  | Letters to James F. Morton
Publication Date: October 18, 2011James Ferdinand Morton was one of H. P. Lovecraft's most learned and accomplished correspondents: the recipient of a B.A. and M.A. from Harvard, Morton served as a leading figure in the Esperanto Association of North America, the Thomas Paine Natural History Association, and other organizations, and was a longtime curator of the Paterson (New Jersey) Museum. Lovecraft's correspondence with Morton reveals the full range of his and Morton's intellectual interests, ranging from freethought to socialism, from amateur journalism to crossword puzzles, from race re...
|  | Savage Awakening: An Alpha Pack Novel
Release Date: April 3, 2012| Series: Alpha Pack (Book 2) A group of former Navy SEALS, the Alpha Pack is a top-secret team of wolf shifters with Psy powers combating the greatest dangers in the world. But sometime those dangers are more intimate than they bargained for... After a mission goes wrong, Aric Savage is taken prisoner. Half-dead and despairing, he makes a stunning discovery: his Pack mate Micah Chase, who was reported dead, is a fellow captive. When the Alpha team goes into full-rescue mode, accompanying them is an absolute stunner with sable hair--and a spine of solid stee...
|  | The Nemesis Mission
Publication Date: September 15, 1992When a Columbian drug kingpin flies a billion dollars in cash and a plane full of hostages out of Las Vegas into Mexico, only one man can stop him--US agent West Hardin. With the help of his gorgeous pilot, Coleen Morrison--and his ultra-light, solar-powered, high-tech spy plane, Nemesis-he plans on stinging the drug lord, stealing his loot and hitting the Cartel right where they live. ...
|  | The Vintage Vendetta: A Wine Country Mystery (Wine Country Mysteries)
Release Date: July 26, 2011| Series: Wine Country Mysteries Ellen Crosby’s "beguiling" (Kirkus Reviews) fifth mystery takes readers into Washington’s corridors of power, where Lucie Montgomery uncovers a political and financial scandal while trying to locate her missing friend. WHEN LUCIE MONTGOMERY VISITS Washington, D.C., during cherry blossom season she doesn’t expect her reunion with old friend Rebecca Natale is a setup. But Rebecca disappears into thin air after running an errand for her boss, billionaire philanthropist and investment guru Sir Thomas Asher. Also mis...
|  | Babe & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure
Release Date: March 5, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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