 | Valparaiso: A Play
Release Date: June 13, 2000A man sets out on an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It turns out to be a mock-heroic journey toward identity and transcendence.This is Don DeLillo's second play, and it is funny, sharp, and deep-reaching. Its characters tend to have needs and desires shaped by the forces of broadcast technology.This is the way we talk to each other today. This is the way we tell each other things, in public, before listening millions, that we don't dare to say privately.Nothing is allowed to be unseen. Nothing remains unsaid. And everything melts repeatedly in...
 |  | Amanda's New Song
Publication Date: November 15, 2000"Amanda's New Song" is the account of a young motherdealing with the break-up of her marriage and her efforts to make anew life for herself and her three children.It covers approximately one year as she begins dating, working, andleaning to be a single parent.The book emphasizes strong family ties, and deals with problems adivorced woman faces. The main focus is how Amanda turns to God forcomfort and help and how He intervenes to put her life back together,including meeting the man she will marry.The story ends as Amanda is walking down the aisle on her wed...
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|  | The Cure
Publication Date: September 1, 2003Suppose a cure for cancer was finally discovered, a cure that could save the lives of millions--and render much of today's medical and pharmaceutical industry obsolete? How far would the world's movers and shakers go to control this miraculous panacea--or destroy it? Controversial oncologist Dr. Anson Lunt dies in a suspicious plane crash, just as one of his researchers develops what appears to be a "magic bullet" against all forms of cancer. Before Lunt's mangled body grows cold, powerful fo...
|  | Paperback Original
Release Date: April 6, 2004Joshua King has more reasons than most young writers to produce that Great First Novel-and they're sitting in his father's bank account. Before dying of a tragic Viagra overdose, Josh's father put a stipulation in his will: Josh cannot claim his fortune unless he writes a bestselling novel in the next five years. The last thing Josh wants is a purpose in life: he's far too busy traveling, taking drugs, and growing his hair. He's very uncomfortably ensconced in a dirty Delhi flophouse, but it's the perfect place to meet drifters and druggies, users and seekers-the k...
|  | The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
Publication Date: January 1, 1997When Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself over night out of thin air. Not only was the writing extraordinary but its sudden and spectacular appearance itself seemed magical. In fact, Latin American literature has a long and rich tradition that reaches back to the Colonial period and is filled with remarkable writers too little known in the English-speaking world.The short story has been a central part of this tradition, from Fray Bartolome d...
|  | Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum, Fragmenta Selecta (Oxford Classical Texts)
Publication Date: September 13, 1990| ISBN-10: 0198140711 | ISBN-13: 978-0198140719| Edition: 3 This invaluable new edition incorporates additional fragments contained in the appendix of the second edition, and includes some further discoveries, recent research on the relative placing of certain papyrus fragments, and an updated index of names. ...
|  | The Old French Fabliaux: An Analytical Bibliography (Research Bibliographies and Checklists: new series)
Publication Date: September 17, 2009| ISBN-10: 1855661853 | ISBN-13: 978-1855661851The Old French fabliaux form a corpus of over 120 short comic verse narratives from the late twelfth to the early fourteenth centuries which has been the subject of very active work over the last thirty years, building on continuous though less intensive interest over the previous century. There are many editions, a society and a journal devoted to fabliaux study but, until now, no bibliographical survey. The author of this analytical bibliography takes a wide view of the definition of the genre in French ...
|  | Irish Haiku
Release Date: September 30, 2005Irish haiku features the literate and thoughtful prose of one of Ireland's crirically acclaimed writers, the award winning poet and essayist, Chris Arthur. Arthur's writing blends the intensely personal with the abstractly philosophical in his explorations of the meaning of what happens, what has happened, and what may happen. His writing has been compared favorably with figures as diverse as Hubert Butler, Joseph Campbell, Seamus Heaney, C. S. Lewis and V. S. Naipul. ...
|  | Apariencias a la manera de haiku
Publication Date: 1997Luisa R. Goldenberg is from Buenos Aires in 1918.Small book of haiku poetry. ...
|  | Masocriticism (SUNY Series in Postmodern Culture)
Publication Date: December 3, 1998| Series: S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture These provocative, inventive, and at times outrageous essays on literary theory, philosophy, and cultural criticism describe, in their form and content, the end of criticism, even while performing the endlessness of that endgame. In a sense, the book deconstructs all forms of critique and criticism, including deconstruction, and including its own self. That the book is so painfully aware of the futility of its own enterprise, even while pursuing it relentlessly and with such critical rigor, is what makes this a ...
|  | Grayson (Harlequin Intrigue)
Publication Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Harlequin Intrigue (Book 1314) Sheriff Grayson Ryland wasn't easily shocked. But then his old flame, Eve Warren, returns to Silver Creek for the sole purpose of asking him to impregnate her. And although he's never forgiven Eve for walking away and breaking his heart, her anguish is hard to watch. Before he can reject the most hardheaded—yet still impossibly alluring—woman in Texas, he has to protect her. An attempt on her life thrusts the two of them into a dangerous murder investigation—and an even more dangerous liaison. I...
|  | Pulp
Release Date: May 31, 2002 Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles....
|  | The Adventures of Venus
Publication Date: July 17, 2012| Grade Level: 4 and up A charming all-ages comic from Gilbert Hernandez.A rare foray into all-ages work, “The Adventures of Venus” was Gilbert Hernandez’s contribution to the kids’ anthology Measles which he edited in 1999 and 2000. This super-affordable little hardcover collects all the previously uncollected “Venus” stories from Measles in which Luba’s niece creates and collects comic books, walks through a scary forest, plays soccer, schemes to get the cute boy she likes, laments the snowless-less of a California Ch...
|  | Grimm's Fairy Tales (Great Illustrated Classics (Abdo))
Publication Date: January 1, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Jackie Robinson: Hero of Baseball (Heroes of American History)
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|  | Karate for Beginners
Publication Date: April 1997| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up In Karate, it takes speed and practice to be the best. Lightning-fast punches, powerful kicks, and deft blocks and counters make it an exciting, fast-paced non-contact sport. A renowned black belt champion shows you what it takes to climb from one level to the next -- on your way to the top! Every technique is clearly spelled out and demonstrated with drawings of exercises and positions, and great photos of world champions in action, all in full color. For each belt level, you get a list of techniques to master, in ord...
|  | Scholastic True or False: Reptiles
Publication Date: November 1, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Eating the Rainbow (Babies Everywhere) Portuguese Edition
Publication Date: September 30, 2009| Age Level: 1 and up...
|  | The Roses in My Carpets
Release Date: September 1, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up It's always the same. The jets scream overhead. They've seen me. I'm running to slowly, dragging my mother and sister behind.In a flowerless war-torn world where every inch of land must be used to grow precious food, a young boy weaves roses in his carpets as he masters the skills that may save his family from a life of poverty.For a young refugee living with loss and terror-filled memoriers, time is measured by the next bucket of water, the next portion of bread, and the next call to prayer. Here where everything-w...
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