 | 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology
Publication Date: September 17, 2010| ISBN-10: 0312609655 | ISBN-13: 978-0312609658| Edition: Third Edition 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology is the best-selling value-priced reader in the country because its virtues don't stop at the price. Its carefully chosen selections include enough classic essays to reassure instructors, and enough high-interest and high-quality contemporary readings to keep things lively and relevant for students. The editorial apparatus is more extensive than in competing value readers, but still is flexible and unobtrusive enough to support a variety of approaches...
 |  | In the Shadow of the Banyan: A Novel
Release Date: August 7, 2012You are about to read an extraordinary story. It will take you to the very depths of despair and show you unspeakable horrors. It will reveal a gorgeously rich culture struggling to survive through a furtive bow, a hidden ankle bracelet, fragments of remembered poetry. It will ensure that the world never forgets the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979, when an estimated two million people lost their lives. It will give you hope, and it will confirm the power of storytelling to lift us up and help us not only survive but...
|  | Sula
Release Date: June 8, 2004Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a wor...
|  | From Here to Eternity
Release Date: October 13, 1998| Series: Delta World War II Library Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart and blood . . ....
|  | The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults
Release Date: October 12, 1999In this brilliant jewel of a book, the best-selling author of Tao Te Ching: A New English Version expands and deepens the classic fairy tale in the most surprising and delightful ways, giving new emphasis to its message of the transcendent power of love.The Frog Prince tells the story of a meditative frog's love for a rebellious princess, how she came to love him in spite of herself, and how her refusal to compromise helped him become who he truly was. This is a magical book that moves (amphibiously) from story to meditation and back, from the outrageous to the ...
|  | The Magic Monastery
Publication Date: March 1, 1992This beautiful collection of stories is one of Shah's best-selling books, and a stirring example of the Sufi system of development at work in the world today. The Magic Monastery was the first book to include stories written by Shah, along with traditional tales illustrating the instructional methods employed by Middle Eastern sages during the last thousand years--mostly unpublished. ...
|  | Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizensof the Deep
Release Date: October 27, 2003From the serpentine "Champie" of Lake Champlain to the venerable "Nessie" of Loch Ness, extraordinary-and un-explained-creatures of the deep have been reported in sightings throughout the twentieth century. Now, two of the world's leading cryptozoological investigators provide a globetrotting field guide to when, where, and what kind of mysterious aquatic beasts have gripped the public-and sometimes the scientific-imagination. Filled with comprehensive drawings, classifications, and maps, their book offers an invaluable and unusual resource for the intrepidly cu...
|  | Costume in Aristophanic Poetry (Monographs in Classical Studies)
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|  | Theater in Sierra Leone: Five Popular Plays
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|  | Malgudi Days (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 29, 2006| Series: Penguin Classics Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan's centennial Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India "the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story." Powerful, magical portraits of all kinds of people, and comprising stories written over almost forty years, Malgudi Days presents Narayan's imaginary city in full color, revealing the essence of India and of human experience. ...
|  | Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
Publication Date: November 5, 2007| ISBN-10: 0754653366 | ISBN-13: 978-0754653363How did women Surrealists such as Leonora Carrington and Claude Cahun take up the question of female identity in terms of their own aesthetic and intellectual practice? What was the response of women analysts such as Joan Riviere to Freud's psychoanalytic construction of femininity? These are among the questions that Natalya Lusty brings to her sophisticated and theoretically informed investigation into the appropriation of 'the feminine' by the Surrealist movement. Combining biographical and textual methods...
|  | Educating Ansley: A Red Hot Menage with Cowboys!
Publication Date: January 11, 2012Gossip Girl meets the Dukes of Hazard with a whole lot of red hot sex thrown in—that's Educating Ansley. Connecticut’s rich and beautiful summer at mansions in the Hamptons not on a ranch in Colorado, but that’s exactly where society girl Ansley Craig’s been banished by her grandmother just for having a little too much fun at a graduation party. She expects to find cows and boredom at the Kane ranch. What she doesn’t count on are the Kane brothers. Ansley may have the college degree, but Jeremy and Ryan are two cowboys who ...
|  | The Eiger Sanction: A Novel
Release Date: May 10, 2005Jonathan Hemlock lives in a renovated Gothic church on Long Island. He is an art professor, a mountain climber, and a mercenary, performing assassinations (i.e., sanctions) for money to augment his black-market art collection. Now Hemlock is being tricked into a hazardous assignment that involves an attempt to scale one of the most treacherous mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps, the Eiger.In a breathtakingly suspenseful story that is part thriller and part satire, the author traces Hemlock’s spine-tingling adventures, introducing a cast of intriguing characters...
|  | The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?
Publication Date: June 3, 2011When church architect Mr. Thipps finds a naked man in his Battersea bathroom, Lord Peter Wimsey is on the case! The aristocratic amateur detective, accompanied by his camera-bearing manservant Bunter, follows a trail of blood as he pursues stock market manipulation, medical malpractice and Lord Brocklebury's edition of Dante. But the curious case of the bathing body turns darker and deadlier as Lord Peter uncovers a ghastly crime.Published in 1923, "Whose Body?" was Dorothy L. Sayer's debut novel, and Bill Peschel has provided hundreds of notes to guide the read...
|  | Best Mounted Police Stories
Publication Date: 2004The Mountie always gets his man. He asserts the law not by using violence but by denying it. He is a uniquely Canadian figure in the great stories of the West. Dick Harrison has collected 22 classic adventure stories by Wallace Stegner, Rudy Wiebe, Ken Mitchell, Ralph Connor, and 18 others. ...
|  | Dawn (Warriors: The New Prophecy, Book 3)
Release Date: November 14, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Pippi Longstocking (Puffin Modern Classics)
Release Date: April 21, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a flair for the outrageous that seems to lead to one adventure after another! ...
|  | Imagine That!
Publication Date: November 3, 2009Imagine That! takes your children 'out to the old ballgame' to see a little slugger turn to Jesus in the midst of a nail-biting inning. Author Kathy Kaye shows children in a fun and exiting story that Jesus is our friend who desires for us to put our trust in him for whatever life pitches. This is an eLIVE book, meaning each printed copy contains a special code redeemable for the free download of the audio version of the book. ...
|  | The Big Football Collection: 3 Books in One
Publication Date: October 1, 1995| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up This is a collection of three stories, The Big Game, The Big Match, and The Big Prize, about two soccer-crazy brothers. ...
|  | BMX Freestyle (Radsports Guides)
Publication Date: January 2001| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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