 | The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
Release Date: February 27, 1991Jane Wagner's masterpiece--The first play in more than 20 years to become a national bestseller--is now a motion picture! ...
 |  | Document of Expectations (American Indian Studies)
Publication Date: September 13, 2011| Series: American Indian Studies When Hopi/White Mountain Apache anthropologist Tony M. Smokerise is found murdered in his office at Central Highlands University, the task of solving the crime falls to jaded Choctaw detective Monique Blue Hawk and her partner Charles T. Clarke. A seemingly tolerant and amicable office of higher education, the university, Monique soon learns, harbors parties determined to destroy the careers of Tony and his best friend, the volatile Oglala anthropologist Roxanne Badger. In the course of her investigation, Monique discovers...
|  | Missing
Publication Date: August 31, 2012While attending a 20th high school reunion in Alabama, Blain Harrington loses the love of his life in the blink of an eye. He soon realizes that everything is not always as it seems as he sets out on a journey for answers. What do you do when the world you thought you knew crumbles around you? How do you piece it back together? ...
|  | The Open Door
Release Date: June 10, 2008“The story is the journey, not the destination. Or so the philosopher’s say. But this is my story, and it has a beginning, a middle, and an end….”The Open Door is a luminous and profoundly moving novel inspired by the life of Constance Fenimore Woolson, one of the most widely-read and respected American authors of the nineteenth century. Exploring themes of passion, life, death, friendship, and art, the novel is a vivid evocation of the complex forces behind literary creation.After years of supporting her mother and a hapless brother thr...
|  | Dreamworld
Publication Date: November 24, 2008I am wide awake So, all that happened to me Wasn't real after all It was only a fake, A strange dream, It would seem But then I can hear Elijah whispering in my ear,"Know you are in the right place,Accept it with gratitude and grace! Be happy, appreciate and enjoy your family.You are now in the true house Of your destiny!"To a great extent Dreamworld is related to my experiences in the Holocaust. The stories in my book are based on the night- mares I had for many years after my return from the German concentration camps. As time went on my nightmares subsid...
|  | Quietus
Release Date: July 29, 2003quietus: 1. a finishing stroke 2. discharge or release from life 3. the moment of deathRegaining consciousness in a Boston hospital soon after her chartered flight crashes into the treacherous White Mountains of New Hampshire, Kylie O'Rourke finds the world around her irrevocably altered. She is haunted by memories of the crash: though she was trapped within the wreckage, she recalls wandering through the icy mountainside and speaking with the other passengers, including one who had died upon impact. Seized by a growing sense of guilt and paranoia, Kylie fights t...
|  | Don Quijote (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: January 17, 1999| ISBN-10: 039397281X | ISBN-13: 978-0393972818| Edition: 2 The text reprinted here is based on award-winning translator BurtonRaffel’s masterful translation of Don Quijote, which is consistent,fluid, and modeled closely on the original Spanish."Backgrounds and Context" invites readers to explore the creativeprocess that culminated in the publication of Don Quijote. Included areselections from works parodied by Cervantes (Amadis of Gaul and OrlandoFurioso) and a portion of the spurious sequel to Part 1 written byFernándes de Avellaneda....
|  | My Last Duchess and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: December 23, 1993| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Features 42 works, among them a number of the Victorian master's famed dramatic monologues — "Fra Lippo Lippi," "How It Strikes a Contemporary" and "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church" among them — plus such memorable masterworks as "Love among the Ruins," "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "Home Thoughts from Abroad." Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative. ...
|  | The Fin de Siecle: A Reader in Cultural History, c. 1880-1900
Publication Date: December 7, 2000| ISBN-10: 0198742797 | ISBN-13: 978-0198742791The fin-de-siècle period--roughly the years 1880 to 1900--was characterized by great cultural and political ambivalence, an anxiety for things lost, and a longing for the new. It also included an outpouring of intellectual responses to the conflicting times from such eminent writers as T. H. Huxley, Emma Goldman, William James, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde. In this important anthology, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students, scholars, and general readers a large body of non...
|  | Poems of Paul Celan: A Bilingual German/English Edition, Revised Edition
Publication Date: November 2002The peerless translations of this haunted—and haunting—Holocaust poet, including ten new poems and an illuminating essay by the translator. Paul Celan is one the twentieth century's most essential poets, and twenty-two years after its publication, Poems of Paul Celan continues to be the single truest access for English-speakers to this poet's work. This new edition adds ten more poems and a significant essay, "On Translating Celan" by Michael Hamburger. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook
Publication Date: May 15, 1989Alan Dundes continues his exploration of well-loved fairy tales withthis casebook on one of the best-known of them all: Little Red RidingHood.Following versions of the tale by Perrault and the BrothersGrimm, the essays by an international group of scholars provide animpressive cross-section of theoretical approaches. ...
|  | The Selected Poems of Tu Fu
Publication Date: June 17, 1989For over a millennium, Chinese literati have almost unanimously considered Tu Fu (712-770 A.D.) to be their greatest poet.Tu Fu radically altered poetry as he found it in the High T’ang period. In addition to making formal innovations in language and structure, he extended the range of acceptable subject matter to include all aspects of public and private experience, thus becoming in the words of translator David Hinton, “the first complete poetic sensibility in Chinese literature.”This edition of The Selected Poems of Tu Fu is the only c...
|  | A Good Man is Hard to Find (The Harcourt Brace Casebook Series in Literature)
Publication Date: July 21, 1999Part of The Wadsworth Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title provides all the materials a student needs to complete a literary research assignment in one convenient location. ...
|  | The Geometry of Modernism: The Vorticist Idiom in Lewis, Pound, H.D., and Yeats
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 0292722273 | ISBN-13: 978-0292722279Addressing both the literature and the visual arts of Anglo-American modernism, The Geometry of Modernism recovers a crucial development of modernism's early years that until now has received little sustained critical attention: the distinctive idiom composed of geometric forms and metaphors generated within the early modernist movement of Vorticism, formed in London in 1914. Focusing on the work of Wyndham Lewis, leader of the Vorticist movement, as well as Ezra Pound, H.D., and William Butler Yeats, Hickman ...
|  | Galer
Publication Date: March 3, 2006| ISBN-10: 0078742471 | ISBN-13: 978-0078742477| Edition: 1 Open the door to the wonders of Hispanic literature and artGalería de arte y vida expands your advanced level four Spanish students’ knowledge of the Spanish language and Hispanic culture with this perfect blend of literature, structure, conversation, and art.The text is composed of 12 units (cuadros), each structured around such universal themes as art, humor, heroism, and women. Each unit contains background material, prereading activities, questions that promote conversations relatin...
|  | In Search of Grace
Publication Date: August 31, 2012Alexandra Davis has a dark secret from her past that she has hidden from everyone, including those that love her the most.After meeting her new neighbor, she realizes that her secret has been holding her back from living a full life.Would she have the courage to open her heart to him before it is too late? Seth Walton, an ex-Navy Seal and now Massachusetts State Trooper knows his new neighbor has a past that she wants to keep buried yet is bound and determined to help her not only face her demons but confront them head on. Soon, he realizes that he would need...
|  | Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire (Broken Heart, Oklahoma, Book 2)
Release Date: July 3, 2007being a mother is never easy-especially when you're undead. Eva LeRoy, Broken Heart, Oklahoma's librarian, got "vampified" when everyone else did: during a rogue vampire's feeding frenzy. But books still make her undead heart beat-and, strangely enough, so does Lorcan the Loner, the vampire who killed her... ...
|  | Evolving Ecstasy: Almost Human
Publication Date: July 3, 2008ALMOST HUMAN - the first trilogy - In this witty paranormal adventure/romance, each chapter alternates perspective between an elder vampire and a young human girl as they navigate the difficulties of addiction and desire; the perils of zombies and vampires; and struggles with abuse, morality and... college.Volume 3: EVOLVING ECSTASY - The relationship between Cain and Felicity has crested to a peak that leaves them unsure whether to step back for safety or jump into a future united in death.Felicity is unlike any human Cain has known before.She treats him as an ...
|  | The Stalking-horse
Release Date: January 1, 1999The acclaimed mysteries of Miriam Grace Monfredo have fascinated readers by bringing to life one of the most exciting eras of our nation's history, and the adventures of a small-town librarian named Glynis Tryon...It's the eve of the Civil War, and Glynis Tryon's niece, Bronwen, has joined Pinkerton's Detective Agency.While on her first assignment in the South, two agents are murdered.When word reaches Seneca Falls that Bronwen is in trouble, Glynis heads south--and finds her niece caught in the midst of a diabolical plot designed to strike at the very heart of t...
|  | A Classic Christmas Crime
Release Date: November 1, 1998Rejoice in this delightfully lethal collection of thirteen original Christmas tales written by today's best mystery writers. Whether set in Yorkshire Dales or sun-baked Florida, these short stories are gift-wrapped with mistletoe and murder--all to celebrate the season of Christmas in the spirit of crime...Contributors include:* P.D. James * Simon Brett * Susan Moody * Catherine Aird * Robert Barnard * Liza Cody * Tim Heald * H.R.F. Keating * Peter Lovesey * Mike Seabrook * Nicole Swengley * David Williams * Margaret Yorke ...
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