 | Venom and Song: The Berinfell Prophecies Series - Book Two
Publication Date: July 13, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | All The Bells on Earth
Release Date: November 1, 1995The author of the award-winning ghost story Night Relics spins a chilling tale of greed and the powers of darkness in which tanned, laid-back Californians come under the influence of black magic. ...
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 | Horse's Neck
Publication Date: August 1985Townshend explores life's "razor-edged pathways" in this bold, impressionistic work of autobiographical fiction, with "intriguing experimental writing packed with vivid imagery" (Library Journal) that strikingly mirrors the musical compositions Tommy and Quadrophenia. As he recalls his childhood, the decadent indulgences of success, and a new discovery of life itself, Townshend re-creates in fiction a powerful personal odyssey from the inside out. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | Romanticism and the Rise of the Mass Public (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Publication Date: July 30, 2009| ISBN-10: 0521117100 | ISBN-13: 978-0521117104| Edition: 1 Dramatic changes in the reading public and literary market in early nineteenth-century England not only altered the relationship between poet and reader but prompted new conceptions of the poetic text, literary reception, and authorship. With the decline of patronage, the rise of the novel and the periodical press, and the emergence of the mass reading public, poets could no longer assume the existence of an audience for poetry. Andrew Franta examines how the reconfigurations of the literary market...
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 | Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
Publication Date: May 13, 2008In their third critically acclaimed collection of original fairy tales for adults, World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling present 21 new stories by some of the top names in literature today. Dark, disturbing and delightful, each story was written expressly for this superb collection of distinctly grown-up fantasy - a brilliant companion volume to Datlow and Windling's acclaimed anthologies, Snow White, Blood Red and Black Thorn, White Rose. ...
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 | Amar Chitra Katha: The Complete Mythology Collection (Set of 73 Titles)
Publication Date: 2008ACK- The Complete Mythology Collection includes the following 73 titles:AbhimanyuAndhakaAniruddhaAruni and UttankaAshwini Kumars : Tales from the VedasAyyappanBahubaliBheema and HanumanBheeshmaChandrahasaDasharathaDhruva and AshtavakraDraupadiDronaElephantaGandhariGaneshaGangaGarudaGhatotkachaHanumanHanuman to the RescueHarischandra Indra and ShachiIndra and ShibiJagannatha of PuriJayadrathaKacha & DevyaniKarnaKarttikeyaKrishnaKrishna and False VaasudevaKrishna and JarasandhaKrishna and NarakasuraKrishna and RukminiKrishna and ShishupalaKumbakarnaMahabharataMahiravanaNa...
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 | My Sister - Life (European Poetry Classics)
Publication Date: October 24, 2001| Series: European Poetry Classics One of the great books of twentieth-century poetry. ...
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 | The Culture of the Book in Tibet
Publication Date: July 6, 2009| ISBN-10: 0231147163 | ISBN-13: 978-0231147163The history of the book in Tibet involves more than literary trends and trade routes. Functioning as material, intellectual, and symbolic object, the book has been an instrumental tool in the construction of Tibetan power and authority, and its history opens a crucial window onto the cultural, intellectual, and economic life of an immensely influential Buddhist society.Spanning the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Kurtis R. Schaeffer envisions the scholars and hermits, madmen and ministers, kings and quee...
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 | Justus Lipsius: On Constancy (Bristol Phoenix Press - The Neo-Latin Library)
Publication Date: March 31, 2006| ISBN-10: 1904675158 | ISBN-13: 978-1904675150Lipsius’ De Constantia of 1584 is a key Humanist text. A dialogue in two books, conceived as a philosophical consolation for those suffering through contemporary religious wars, it proved immensely popular in its day and formed the inspiration for what has become known as ‘Neostoicism.’ This movement advocated the revival of Stoic ethics in a from that would be palatable to a Christian audience. In De Constantia Lipsius deploys Stoic arguments concerning appropriate attitudes towards...
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 | The Ring of the Dove: A Treatise on the Art and Practice of Arab Love
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 | Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form
Release Date: April 16, 2009Glamour is an alluring but elusive concept. We most readily associate it with fashion, industrial design, and Hollywood of the Golden Age, and yet it also shaped the language and interests of high modernism. In Glamour in Six Dimensions Judith Brown looks at the historical and aesthetic roots of glamour in the early decades of the twentieth century, arguing that glamour is the defining aesthetic of modernism. In the clean lines of modernism she finds the ideal conditions for glamour-blankness, polish, impenetrability, and the suspicion of emptiness behind it all. ...
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 | Consuming Visions: Cinema, Writing, and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro (New World Studies)
Publication Date: November 29, 2011| Series: New World StudiesConsuming Visions explores the relationship between cinema and writing in early twentieth-century Brazil, focusing on how the new and foreign medium of film was consumed by a literary society in the throes of modernization. Maite Conde places this relationship in the specific context of turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro, which underwent a radical transformation to a modern global city, becoming a concrete symbol of the country's broader processes of change and modernization. Analyzing an array of literary texts, from journalist...
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 | After Dark
Publication Date: May 1, 2011The first woman ever hired by legendary defense lawyer Matthew Reynolds, Tracy Cavanaugh cuts her teeth on a horrifying crime: the car-bomb murder of Oregon Supreme Court Justice Robert Griffen. Reynolds's client--and the chief suspect--is none other than the icy but celebrated prosecutor Abigail Griffen, the Justice's estranged wife. Tracy's research plunges her into a web of betrayal and revenge, of secret deals and hidden passions. At the heart of the case lies a twisted truth--and when the verdict comes in, she will discover that nothing is as it seems...afte...
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 | Triple Play: A Nathan Heller Casebook
Release Date: April 17, 2012| Series: Nathan HellerSince his introduction in 1983’s True Detective, Chicago-based private eye NathanHeller has handily earned his spot alongside American crime-fiction greats Phillip Marlowe,Archie Goodwin, and Mike Hammer. Now the classic gumshoe is back in this collection ofthree novellas, all based on real cases of the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s. In Dying in thePost-War World, Heller returns from combat to find his marriage a shambles and himselfsquare in the middle of the notorious Lipstick Killer case of 1946. Kisses of Deathfollows the ...
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 | Tales from the Crypt #8: Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid
Release Date: November 10, 2009| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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 | Power Rangers Super Samurai #1: Memory Short
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 | La Gran Pesca/The Big Catch: Un cuento sobre Robot y Rico/A Robot and Rico Story (Bilingual Stone Arch Readers: Level 2) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Tales from the Greek Legends (Classic Literature with Classical Music)
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 | Jack and Jill: A Halloween Nursery Rhyme
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Age Level: 2 and up The classic Jack and Jill nursery rhyme gets a Halloween twist in this striking board book.The nursery rhyme may be familiar—but everything changes when “Jack” and “Jill” are jack-o’-lanterns! Salina Yoon takes a classic tale and gives it a fresh spin, brightly and boldly adorning the pages of this chunky board book with cheerfully grinning pumpkins. Both kids and parents will appreciate the updated, positive ending to a favorite rhyme! ...
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 | Alma Flor Ada and YOU Volume I (The Author and YOU)
Publication Date: October 30, 2005| ISBN-10: 1591581869 | ISBN-13: 978-1591581864Playing on the phrase, the author and you--a common reading comprehension strategy that teaches the learner how to look at the words of an author and make inferences about what is being said--this series helps the teacher and teacher-librarian understand the underlying purposes of an author as they prepare learning activities for their students. The series focuses primarily on books for the elementary age child (K-6), featuring insights into the author's background and purposes and goals in writing his books...
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