 | Home Fires
Release Date: January 18, 2011Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange. A young man and woman, Skip and Chelle, fall in love in college and marry, but she is enlisted in the military, there is a war on, and she must serve her tour of duty before they can settle down. But the military is fighting a war with aliens in distant solar systems, and her months in the service will be years in relative time on Earth. Chelle returns to recuperate from severe injuries, after months of service, still a young woman but not necessarily the same person—while ...
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|  | The Last Dragon of Steeple Morden
Publication Date: June 6, 2012The Last Dragon of Steeple Morden is an incredible story of survival. Chicago's Top Fighter Pilot in World War II is shot down, deep behind German lines, in the apocalyptic twilight of the war. What happens over the subsequent two weeks tests the young pilot's resolve to survive and affirms mankind's propensity for severe brutality as well as its overwhelming capacity for compassion in the face of death.One of the most fantastic aspects of this story is that it is all true. ...
|  | Marabou Stork Nightmares
Publication Date: January 17, 1997"For anyone who gets high on language, this book is a fantastic trip...a real tour de force."—Madison Smartt Bell, SpinThe acclaimed author of the cult classics Trainspotting and The Acid House, Irvine Welsh has been hailed as "the best thing that has happened to British writing in a decade" (London Sunday Times). This audacious novel is a brilliant (and literal) head trip of a book that brings us into the wildly active, albeit coma-beset, mind of Roy Strang, whose hallucinatory quest to eradicate the evil predator/scavenger marabou stork keeps being ...
|  | Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva (School of Oriental & African Studies)
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|  | Blasted (Methuen Drama Student Editions)
Release Date: August 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 1408103850 | ISBN-13: 978-1408103852This Student Edition of Sarah Kane's seminal play Blasted features expert and helpful annotation and is an accessible guide for anyone studying or performing the play. This includes a scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes, characters, language and structure of the play, as well a list of suggested reading, questions for further study and a review of performance history.In 1995 Sarah Kane's first full-length play Blasted sent shockwaves throu...
|  | The Bronze Horseman: Selected Poems of Alexander Pushkin
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|  | The History of the Holy War: Ambroise's Estoire de la Guerre Sainte
Publication Date: June 16, 2011The Estoire de la Guerre Sainte, an early example of vernacular chronicle, by the Norman poet Ambroise, presents an eye-witness account of the Third Crusade (1188-92) in a highly-polished rhetorical style. Central is the character of Richard the Lion Heart, Ambroise's hero, but the narrative is also enlivened by short anecdotes, sometimes heroic and sometimes more down-to-earth, about other participants. It depicts clearly the privations and sufferings of the ordinary crusaders, whether at the siege of Acre or on the march, and provides both a detailed record o...
|  | The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism
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| | The Esperpento Tradition in the Works of Ramon De Valle-Inclan and Luis Bunuel (Spanish Studies)
Publication Date: May 2000| ISBN-10: 0773476938 | ISBN-13: 978-0773476936Valle-Inclan's "esperpentos" are a particularly Spanish style of black comedy. This work analyzes Valle-Inclan's works, defines precisely what the term "esperpento" means, and what technique Valle-Inclan used to achieve his aesthetic. These techniques are demonstraed by examples from the plays themselves. The second part of the book examines the manner in which Valle-Inclan's "esperpento" blends with Bunuels' surrealistic films, particularly "Un Chien Andalou", "L'age D'or" and "Tierra Sin Pan". This book serves as ...
|  | Fury: Ellora's Cave
Publication Date: December 15, 2011Ellie is horrified to discover the pharmaceutical company she works for is doing illegal experiments. Company scientists have spliced human and animal DNA, creating exotic new species. One such “experiment” captures her heart and she’ll do anything to save him—even if he hates her for it. Fury has never known compassion or love. He’s spent his life in a cell, chained and abused by humans. The one woman he allowed himself to trust betrayed him. Now he’s free and set on vengeance. He vows to end her life but when she&...
|  | Night Moves: A Shadow Force Novel
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Shadow Force (Book 4) Anything can happen under the cover of darkness. Kell Roberts has walked the thin line between life and death for so long that it now feels like home. He is a soldier, a survivor, and a loner. Still, Kell cannot turn his back on the beautiful woman caught in his firefight against the drug lords of Mexico. She says her name is Teddie, but Kell senses there’s much more to her story—and it’s about to pull him into a mission he didn’t sign on for: keeping her alive.Teddie knows this lean, mean rescuer just ...
|  | Dead Over Heels
Release Date: March 4, 2008Three all-new paranormal stories of lust, laughter, and love from the New York Times bestselling author, including an original novella featuring Undead queen Betsy Taylor. With her trademark "sassy dialogue, lusty lovemaking [and] irreverent humor"* New York Times bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson delighted fans with her wickedly sexy and wildly funny anthology, Dead and Loving It-stories in which the worlds of the Wyndham Werewolves and Undead Queens collided. Now she returns to that sensual and irresistible after-dark realm of werewolves, vampires, and merma...
| | Theseus Battles the Minotaur (Graphic Mythical Heroes)
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|  | Princess Stories from Around the World
Publication Date: October 1, 2007| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Welcome to a collection of princess stories with a difference. There's a princess here to appeal to everyone, from the bold girl with her wits about her who rescues a bewitched prince from the fairy folk, to the mysterious daughter of the Dragon King under the Sea waiting for her long-lost love. Kate Tym's chatty, humorous style retains the richness and depth of the original stories while making the book appealing to both children and adults, and Sophy Williams's exquisite signature pastels bring the stories vivid...
|  | Red Ridin' in the Hood: and Other Cuentos
Release Date: April 14, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Famous tales refashioned in Latin American settingsEleven classic tales are retold with an injection of Latinoculture, providing a twist on the traditional forms while sustaining a freshness all their own. The title story, "Red Ridin'in the Hood," moves the setting to the barrio, where Red decides to brave dangerous Forest Street in order to reach her abuelita and encounters the menacing wolf in a thumping Chevy lowrider. Some stories are set in the Mexicancountryside; in "Belleza y La Bestia," the beautiful heroine is...
|  | Thor's Wedding Day: Library Edition
Publication Date: March 12, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up What could possibly make Thor--the massive and mighty god of thunder and protector of all his people--put on a bridal gown?It all begins when the source of Thor's power, his beloved hammer, is stolen. Unfortunately for Thor, the plan to get it back requires that he dress in fancy finery and be packed off to marry the king of the giants. Luckily, Thialfi the goat boy--along with his snarky charges, Grinder and Gat-Tooth--have come along. Working behind the scenes, Thialfi just may be able to save the day . . . which...
|  | Mark Martin (Superstars of NASCAR)
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| | Midsummer Knight
Release Date: March 29, 2007| Age Level: 5 and up Gregory Rogers is back with a new wordless adventure every bit as funny and inspired as The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard. Here the Bear returns as a soldier whose daydreams are interrupted by Shakespeare's fairy, Puck--the Boy in the previous book. Soon Bear finds himself hurtled into an enchanted world replete with treacherous doings, sinister plots and, of course, palace dungeons. Is Bear truly a swashbuckler? Will he ever escape? ...
|  | The Berenstain Bears: God Bless Our Home (Berenstain Bears/Living Lights)
Release Date: April 23, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up...
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