 | Lincoln : Speeches and Writings : 1859-1865 (Library of America)
Release Date: October 1, 1989Lincoln measured the promise--and cost--of American freedom in lucid and extraordinarily moving prose. Here in this two volume set ("Speeches and Writings 1859-1865" and "Speeches and Writings 1832-1858"), are all the significant works, including the complete Lincoln-Douglas debates, dozens of speeches, hundreds of personal and political letters, communications to generals in the field, presidential messages and proclamations, poems, and private reflections on democracy, slavery, and the meaning of the Civil War's immense suffering. ...
 |  | Sunrise at the Mayan Temple (The Accidental Detectives Series #14)
Release Date: November 1, 2004A baffling invitation to an archaeological dig in Mexico defies all logic, but it is too good to pass up. Along with Joel and Old Lady Bugsby, Ricky and his friends head south and encounter a chilling mix of ancient legends and present-day mysteries. Their search for the truth leads to people they wouldn’t have suspected…and places they’d prefer to avoid. Accidental Detectives book 14 ...
|  | Fearful Rock & Other Precarious Locales: Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman (Volume 3)
Publication Date: November 1, 2001Fearful Rock and Other Precarious Locales is the 3rd volume of Night Shade Books' five volume "Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman." This volume is made up of eight novella length stories. It reprints Wellman's "Judge Pursivant" and "Sergeant Jaeger" stories, as well as a lost classic that has not been reprinted since its original publication in Strange Stories, in 1939. In addition, it features an introduction by Wellman's long time friend, Stephen Jones, who provides a heartwarming bit of historical perspective on Wellman, and the influential shadow tha...
|  | The Empire of Ice Cream
Publication Date: April 1, 2006Mixing the mundane with the metaphysical, the pairings of the everyday and the extraordinary in this collection of short fiction yield supernatural results—a young musician perceives another world while drinking coffee, a fairy chronicles his busy life in a sandcastle during the changing tide, a demonic 16th-century chess set shows up in a New Jersey bar, and Charon, the boatman of hell, takes a few days vacation. Storylines both conventional and outlandish reveal humdrum routines as menacing, or imaginary worlds as perfectly familiar. Allusions to authors...
|  | Dutch II: Angel's Revenge (Dutch Trilogy)
Publication Date: March 8, 2010| Series: Dutch Trilogy (Book 2) HE IS THE MASTER OF THE GAME. HE'S BUILT THE ULTIMATE EMPIRE. BUT HIS STORY IS ONLY BEGINNING. NOW NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR TERI WOODS BRINGS YOU THE SECOND IN THE SENSATIONAL DUTCH TRILOGY, WHERE ONE WOMAN WILL RULE DUTCH'S STREETS . . . OR DESTROY THEM. DUTCH II:ANGEL'S REVENGE She is the most merciless of his lieutenants, with style and skills that even the hardest hustlers fear . . . and none survive. And with Dutch gone, Angel is fueled by a shattering vendetta and methodically eliminating every successor, wannabe...
|  | The First Patient
Release Date: February 19, 2008From the blockbuster, New York Times bestselling author comes a high-concept, high-octane thriller at the crossroads of presidential politics and cutting-edge medicine. . . .Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were roommates at the Naval Academy in Annapolis years ago. Today, Gabe is a country doctor and his friend Andrew has gone from war hero to governor to President of the United States. One day, while the United States is embroiled in a bitter presidential election campaign, Marine One lands on Gabe’s Wyoming ranch, and President Stoddard delivers a di...
|  | Bending the Landscape: Horror - Original Gay and Lesbian Writing
Release Date: April 29, 2003| Series: Bending the Landscape S. Bending the Landscape: Horror brings together a tantalizing slew of truly horrifying tales guaranteed to provoke, entertain, and inspire fear in even the most seasoned horror aficionado. World-renowned fantasy author Nicola Griffith and fantasy publisher Stephen Pagel have compiled an exciting array of never-before-published stories, from both talented newcomers and award-winning genre veterans. In Kraig Blackwelder’s "Coyote Love," a man wakes up in a stranger’s bed, not knowing how he got there, after a drunken night ...
|  | Moby Dick (Signet Classics (Pb))
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|  | The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, Second Edition (Nota Bene)
Publication Date: July 11, 2000| ISBN-10: 0300084587 | ISBN-13: 978-0300084580| Edition: 2 Sub This pathbreaking book of feminist criticism is now reissued with a substantial new introduction by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar that reveals the origins of their revolutionary realization in the 1970s that "the personal was the political, the sexual was the textual". ...
|  | Under African Skies: Modern African Stories
Publication Date: August 5, 1998Spanning a wide geographical range, this collection features many of the now prominent first generation of African writers and draws attention to a new generation of writers. Powerful, intriguing and essentially non-Western, these stories will be welcome by an audience truly ready for multicultural voices. ...
|  | Learn Then Burn Teacher Guide and Workbook Companion
Publication Date: May 1, 2010Hello teachers! We know you work hard. Besides ninjas, you have the hardest job in the world. Between the teaching, the testing, the grading, and the nurturing it's difficult to seek out new materials for your classroom. We are here to help.As poets and teachers, we know the power of the spoken word in the classroom. All you have to do is attend a youth slam or find a clip of one online and you will see the positive impact modern poetry has on our young people. It is able to engage students from any background in a way that classical poetry simply cannot touch. A...
|  | Rumi - Mini 2010 Mini Calendar
Publication Date: June 1, 2009Let the words of Jelaluddin Rumi, the great 13th century Sufi poet, soothe you and transport you to the magical, mystical place where the soul yearns to return. Today, this spiritual poetery is more needed and relevant than ever. ...
|  | Letiashchie teni: Stikhi evreiskikh poetov Bessarabii (Russian Edition)
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|  | Romantic Hearts: A Personal Reference for Romance Readers
Publication Date: May 15, 1997This updated version of the popular reference for romance readers features information on over 10,000 new titles representing the work of thousands of new and continuously publishing authors. Also included is information about previously published works dating back as far as the 1950s.All types of romantic fiction are covered here—historical, gothic, regency, contemporary, futuristic, and time-travel—and everything in-between. Under each author name, titles are listed chronologically. Publication date, publishing house, and publisher's book number ...
|  | FORMS OF SPEECH IN VICTORIAN FICTION
Publication Date: January 1, 1994| Series: Studies in 18th and 19th Century Literature Forms of Speech in Victorian Fiction examines how Victorian writers used dialogue in the presentation of characters and the relationships between them, and its contribution to the work as a whole. Quoting over a hundred novels of the period, including all the major authors, many fascinating topics are discussed. The book also looks at the conventions which governed the writing and circulation of fiction, imposing certain restraints on the novelists. It also relates the dialogue used in Victorian fiction to...
| | The Surrealist Reader
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|  | Vulture Peak (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original)
Release Date: August 21, 2012| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, but now he is heading out of his comfort zone. Way out. Assigned to the highest-profile case in all Thailand, he is tasked with ending international human-organ trafficking. His hunt will lead him across five countries and will draw in a host of unwitting players, including an aging rock star wearing out his second liver, and his quarry, twin Chinese queenpins of the international body-parts trade known as the Vultures. Meanwhile, there are ru...
|  | Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book I
Release Date: August 30, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Tales From Many Lands
Publication Date: February 9, 2001| ISBN-10: 0844208558 | ISBN-13: 978-0844208558| Edition: 1 Introduce your students to a delightful collection of folktales gathered from all the corners of the globe. All twenty-three selections explore the universal human experience of making choices, and each section of the book focuses on choices made for different reasons. ...
|  | The Edge Chronicles 4: The Curse of the Gloamglozer
Release Date: September 16, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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