 | The Oriental Wife
Release Date: July 19, 2011The Oriental Wife is the story of two assimilated Jewish children from Nuremberg who flee Hitler’s Germany and struggle to put down roots elsewhere. When they meet up again in New York, they fall in love both with each other and with America, believing they have found a permanent refuge. But just when it looks as though nothing can ever touch them again, their lives are shattered by a freakish accident and a betrayal that will reverberate into the life of their American daughter. In its portrait of the immigrant experience, and of the tragic gulf between gene...
 |  | The Queen's Own
Publication Date: April 5, 2010Civil War rages across Glenmara. Forces prepare for the battle that will decide the fate of the kingdom. Amidst the sinister plots of Moloch's High Priest. Anwend Halfdane faces an old enemy, and young Martin Reamon must make a decision that will define the remainder of his life. In the midst of impending disaster, Aine Ceallaigh gathers a group of redoubtable warriors for a final stand against impossible odds, and the measured tread of marching legions echoes across the war-torn land."The Queen's Own" is the sequel to "Fire from the Earth" and the fifth book i...
|  | Stop Forgetting to Remember: The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz
Release Date: July 10, 2007WHO SHOT WALTER KURTZ?Nobody. Walter Kurtz doesn’t exist. He’s the alter ego of me, Peter Kuper. But, if he were real, perhaps his obituary would read something like this:Walter Kurtz, illustrator and self-exposing cartoonist, dies of embarrassment at 48.Walter Alan Kurtz, born September 22,1958, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Harvey and Olive Kurtz (an Ellis Island rewrite from Kurtzberg), was pronounced dead at Mt. Sinai Hospital on Monday. He was rushed there following his collapse at the publication party for his coming-of-middle-age novel, Stop Forgettin...
|  | The Icarus Girl: A Novel
Release Date: June 21, 2005“The Icarus Girl is an astonishing achievement.”—Sunday Telegraph (London)Jessamy “Jess” Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of an extraordinary and powerful imagination, she spends hours writing haiku, reading Shakespeare, or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, Jess just can’t shake off the feeling of being alone wherever she goes, and the other kids in her class are wary of her tendency to succumb to terrified fits of screamin...
|  | Tradition and Originality in Plautus: Studies of the Amatory Motifs in Plautine Comedy (Hypomnemata)
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|  | Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester
Release Date: November 11, 1997"Dazzlement and enchantment are Bester's methods. His stories never stand still a moment."—Damon Knight, author of Why Do BirdsAlfred Bester took science fiction into hyperdrive, endowing it with a wit, speed, and narrative inventiveness that have inspired two generations of writers. And nowhere is Bester funnier, speedier, or more audacious than in these seventeen short stories—two of them previously unpublished—that have now been brought together in a single volume for the first time.Read about the sweet-natured young man whose phenomenal...
| | Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period: Studies in Honor of Jess B. Bessinger, Jr. (Studies in Medieval Culture)
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|  | Good Poems for Hard Times
Release Date: September 8, 2005 When Garrison Keillor published Good Poems, he touched a chord in readersacross America. The anthology of poems he selected for their "wit, theirsimplicity, theirpassion, and their utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has todeal with"inspired thousands to buy what was for many their first book of poetry.Now, in Good Poems for Hard Times, Keillor has pondered over the archivesofhis beloved Writer’s Almanac radio show to select a batch of consoling,rousing,and truthful poems guaranteed to raise flagging spirits or to inspire those inneed ...
|  | Elegies: With Parallel Latin Text (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: February 20, 2012| Series: Oxford World's Classics Tibullus is one of the three great Roman elegists. In this volume, the award-winning poet A. M. Juster provides a faithful and stylish new translation of his major work, with parallel Latin text. The Introduction considers Tibullus' poems in the context of classical elegy and in particular the elegies of his contemporaries, Ovid and Propertius, and discusses the influence of his patron Messalla in the reign of Augustus. Finally, Maltby's comprehensive notes explain topical, literary, and mythological allusions and identify ...
|  | Mis Versos (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: December 13, 2011Mi amiga María Cristina Beltrán solamente ha escrito un puñado de poemas. Me contó que descubrió sus poemas cuando revisaba sus escritos diarios e íntimos, los que escribe en su balcón todos los días. Confesó que los revisaba para destruir sus secretos y descubrió sus poemas. Siente que a veces amanecen éstos en su mente, completos, y lo que tiene que hacer es pasarlos al papel. La avergüenza firmarlos, dice, porque cree que no es ella la que escribe, sino si ''ángel amor: . . . Sus poemas, Có...
|  | Coheed & Cambria's Claudio Sanchez presents The Amory Wars #1 : The Second Stage Turbine Blade Part 1 (Image Comics)
Publication Date: 2007Coheed Kilgannon's suburban world is turned upside down by General Mayo Deftinwolf, who explains the nightmares of torture that violate Coheed's dreams are real-and that Coheed and his family play a crucial piece in a terrorist plot to destroy all the worlds of the Keywork. To save these worlds, Coheed and his wife, Cambria, must do the unthinkable... From the imagination of Claudio Sanchez, the creative mind behind the music sensation COHEED AND CAMBRIA, comes a science fiction epic in the tradition of Star Wars and The Matrix-a new, star-spanning mythology, rooted in ...
| | An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Modernism (Harvester Annotated Critical Bibliographies)
Publication Date: June 1982| ISBN-10: 0389203033 | ISBN-13: 978-0389203032The book discusses the origins and importance of modernism, analyzes its politics, and describes its relationship to other arts. It also provides separate historical and descriptive bibliographies of the four major English modernists: W. B. Yeats, Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, and T. S. Eliot. All guides and anthologies dealing with these figures are listed thematically and chronologically, and entries include details of places and dates of publication. ...
|  | Enemy Mine
Release Date: October 25, 2005Originally published over ten years ago, Enemy Mine combined tender romance with action and suspense--a precursor to the New York Times bestselling romantic thrillers that she writes today. A rare treat for fans, this novel features two fierce rivals who are on the trail of a rare art object--and who wind up finding love....
|  | Bridge of Sand
Publication Date: March 25, 2009In this beautifully written novel, Burroway uses a woman’s personal loss, coincident with 9/11, to explore race, territory, and renewal.Dana, the widow of a Pennsylvania senator, buries her husband the morning of 9/11, only miles from the United 93 crash. After months of paralysis, she sells her house and heads south in an effort to pick up the lost strands of her youth.Finding that her grandmother’s house is now gone, replaced by a strip mall, she phones an old acquaintance. Cassius Huston is black, separated from a harridan of a wife, and devoted...
|  | Dinosaur Dig (Scooby-Doo! Picture Clue Book, No. 3)
Publication Date: November 1, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. --This text refers to the School & Library Binding edition....
|  | 15 Minutes
Release Date: August 1, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and upIt's not thatCasey Little isalways late. It's just that everythingstarts a littletoo early. But when Casey discovers a weird little time machine, he figures he'll never be late again. Unfortunately, it's not a very good time machine. It can only go back 15 minutes. And it seems to have a mind of its own. Still -- what could possibly go wrong?...
|  | iCarly Mad Libs
Release Date: September 18, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Morris and Boris: Three Stories
Publication Date: July 1974Morris the Moose and Boris the Bear have three exasperating encounters. ...
|  | Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature (Children's Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: April 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0815312989 | ISBN-13: 978-0815312987What happens to traditional stories when they are retold in another time and cultural context and for a different audience? This first-of-its-kind study discusses Bible stories, classical myths, heroic legends, Arthurian romances, Robin Hood lore, folk tales, 'oriental' tales, and other stories derived from European cultures. One chapter is devoted to various retellings of classics, from Shakespeare to "Wind in the Willows." The authors offer a general theory of what motivates the retelling of stories, and how ...
|  | Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?
Release Date: September 9, 1996| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up In early America, when all the men wore ruffled shirts and rode grandly on horseback, one man refused to follow suit. He was the rebel leader Sam Adams, a plainspoken gent who scorned ruffles, refused to ride a horse, and had little regard for the King. This lively biography is a nice, personal look at a leader and his times. ...
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