 | Mrs. Roberto: Or the Widowy Worries of the Moosepath League
Release Date: June 29, 2004 Through three delightfully old-fashioned, incomparably written novels, Van Reidhas relied on the gentlemen members of his Moosepath League to take readers backto a late-nineteenth-century Maine full of quirky inhabitants and irresistibleVictorian spoofing. This fourth installment finds jovial League leader TobiasWalton, along with faithful assistant Sundry Moss, as guests at the eccentricFern Farm—and unlikely counselors to a depressed pig—where they tangle withPortland’s most infamous gangster, have a run-in with a flying piano, and raceto rescue a...
 |  | The Mile High Club (Kinky Friedman Novels)
Release Date: August 28, 2001| Series: Kinky Friedman Novels It all starts with a casual flirtation, two people on a flight from Dallas to New York. She's gorgeous and mysterious; he's a private detective. When the plane lands, the detective -- our hero, Kinky -- finds he's been left holding the bag, literally. The woman, having asked the Kinkster to watch her luggage while she visits the can, has taken a powder and somehow vanished. Mystery Woman does turn up again, but not before Kinky has claimed the interest of an array of suits from the State Department, been party to a thwarted kidnap ...
|  | Colonel's Lady, The: A Novel
Publication Date: August 1, 2011In 1779, when genteel Virginia spinster Roxanna Rowan arrives at the Kentucky fort commanded by Colonel Cassius McLinn, she finds that her officer father has died. Penniless and destitute, Roxanna is forced to take her father's place as scrivener. Before long, it's clear that the colonel himself is attracted to her. But she soon realizes the colonel has grave secrets of his own--some of which have to do with her father's sudden death. Can she ever truly love him?Readers will be enchanted by this powerful story of love, faith, and forgiveness from reader favori...
|  | Grave Shadows (Red Rock Mysteries, No. 5)
Publication Date: August 22, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Bryce and Ashley Timberline are normal 13-year-old twins, except for one thing—they discover action-packed mystery wherever they go. Whether it's searching for a missing writer or fearing for their lives at the bottom of a canyon, Bryce and Ashley never lose their taste for adventure. Wanting to get to the bottom of any mystery, these twins find themselves on a nonstop search for the truth. ...
|  | From Pearl to Gawain: Forme to Fynisment
Publication Date: April 20, 1995"Exciting insights and ideas. . . . Offers a provocative argument for the aesthetic significance of the four poems taken as a whole."--Martin B. Shichtman, Eastern Michigan University"The authors' respective careers' worth of study of this poet. . . gives their joined critical voices tremendous authority and an almost unmatched knowledge of the history of critical opinion relevant to the issues being discussed."--Lorraine K. Stock, University of HoustonDespite lip service to the proposition that the<i> Pearl </i>manuscript...
|  | Measure for Measure (Arkangel Shakespeare)
Publication Date: January 26, 2006Puritanical Angelo finds his values changing as his lust for the virtuous Isabella sinks him into the corruption he condemns in others. This thought-provoking black comedy is a brilliant exploration of justice and mercy. Performed by Roger Allam, Simon Russell Beale, Stella Gonet, and the Arkangel cast. ...
|  | The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith
Publication Date: June 1, 1993Includes 33 stories that represent Cordwainer Smiths entire SF works except for the novel Norstrilia. These stories are "classics" of the field such as "The Dead Lady of Clown Town," "The Game of Rat and Dragon," "Scanners Live in Vain," and "A Planet Named Shayol." Appearing for the first time in print are "Himself in Anachron" and the completely rewritten adult version of his high school story "War No. 81-Q." Introduction by John J. Pierce. ...
|  | The Sense of the Song of Roland
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|  | Persian Text of the Poems in: Faces of Love, Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz (Persian Edition)
Publication Date: September 20, 2012Persian Text of the Poems in: Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz, introduced and translated by Dick Davis (ISBN 1933823488) ...
|  | Book and Text in France 1400-1600: Poetry on the Page
Publication Date: January 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 0754655903 | ISBN-13: 978-0754655909In recent years, literary scholars have come increasingly to acknowledge that an adequate understanding of texts requires the study of books, the material objects through which the meanings of texts are constructed. Focusing on French poetry in the period 1400-1600, contributors to this volume analyze layout, illustration, graphology, paratext, typography, anthologization, and other such elements in works by a variety of writers, among them Charles d'Orleans, Jean Bouchet, Pierre de Ronsard and Louise Labe. ...
|  | The Myths of Love: Classical Lovers in Medieval Literature
Publication Date: October 1, 1990This study seeks to define the medieval literary conventions governing allusions to certain Ovidian and Virgilian tales of love in the works of Boccaccio, Machaut, Froissart, and Chaucer. Using evidence from the Latin mythographers, it addresses several much-debated critical issues in medieval scholarship: questions of narrative voice, thematic unity, and purpose. Its principal contribution is to the discussion and evaluation of the French and Italian poems of love to which Chaucer was most heavily indebted. The author suggests that the love poems of Boccacci...
|  | The Pearl: A Journal of Voluptuous Reading, the Underground Magazine of Victorian England
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|  | A Collection of Essays
Publication Date: October 21, 1970| Series: Harvest Book George Orwell's collected nonfiction, written in the clear-eyed and uncompromising style that earned him a critical following One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George Orwell fought the injustices of his time with singular vigor through pen and paper. In this selection of essays, he ranges from reflections on his boyhood schooling and the profession of writing to his views on the Spanish Civil War and British imperialism. The pieces collected here include the relatively unfamiliar an...
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|  | Wrapped In Wishes
Release Date: July 1, 1996Sent back through time by an accident in hypnosis, attorney Chloe Plum falls in love with rogue adventurer Harrison Connors only to return to her own time, but his appearance in modern-day New Orleans offers Chloe a second chance to be with him. Original. ...
|  | Kisscut: A Novel
Release Date: September 3, 2002Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long as anyone can remember, but when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton -- the town's pediatrician and medical examiner -- finds herself entangled in a terrible tragedy.What seemed at first to be a horrific but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications. The autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse, of ritualistic self -mutilation, but when Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate, they ...
|  | Adventures of Charlie Keeper: Technobrat
Publication Date: July 26, 2006The year is 2020. Charlie Keeper is a thirteen year old who loves to take virtual reality trips. However, to his amazement and disbelief, he becomes physically trapped inside his computer and soon learns that he may never get back to the Real World.Join Charlie, sidekick Lilly Lewellan and the sly, Shakespeare quoting computer mouse Auberon, in their quest to escape Virtual Reality and return home. Also in this whimsical adventure are the delightful Do Nothings, Spheresnocks, Hack Packers, Flo Peds, Braggarts and Noids—among others, who help Charlie discov...
|  | Monkey and the Crab (Japanese Fairy Tales (Unnumbered))
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|  | Voices from the Ice
Publication Date: September 1996John Peyton uses his marvelous skills as storyteller and artist to give children a glimpse of Ojibway life in the northwoods during the early 20th century. In this fully illustrated story, a young boy and his family leave the hunger and isolation of their winter camp and make their way across the still snow-covered land and frozen streams, hoping to join the rest of their people at the sugarbush. Theirs is a race against the thawing ice, beneath which lie spirits, some of which are waiting to cut off the family from the bounty of spring, while others seek to e...
|  | The Best of Hi and Lois
Publication Date: June 10, 2005Since its debut in 1954, Hi and Lois, the quintessential family comic strip, has chronicled the changing (and yet unchanging) life of the American family. Hi, Lois, Chip, Dot, Ditto, and Trixie (sitting in her sunbeam) have tracked the daily life of the baby boomers and their folks, from the trials and pleasures of good old family life to the passing fancies of the day—coonskin caps to video games. Readers, who once followed the strip from Chip and Dot’s angle, as kids, now see things more from Hi and Lois’s point of view, as parents shepherding ...
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