| The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder: A Novel Release Date: April 13, 2010 In the small river town of La Luna, Louisiana, Calla Lily Ponder bursts into being, a force of nature as luminous as the flower she is named for. Under the loving light of the Moon Lady, the feminine force that will guide and protect her throughout her life, Calla enjoys a blissful childhooduntil it is tragically cut short. From her mother, Calla learns compassion and healing through the humble womanly art of "fixing hair." On the banks of the La Luna River, she discovers a sweet, succulent first love that is as enticing as the music, food, and dancing of h...
| | Sirius Loss: A Star Lost, a New Future Publication Date: June 14, 2012An unassuming astronomer and her family find themselves and the entire world dislocated after she makes a series of major interstellar discoveries that lead to the worst threat to Earth ever. Everyone tries to carry on with life as best they can, seeking normalcy in the midst of the news that the Earth has less than four years. Then she makes another discovery even more remarkable that opens the door to our first contact with an advanced civilization that has come to our rescue. The future of our solar system, the sun, and the Earth will never be the same again...
| | Creation: A Novel Release Date: August 27, 2002A sweeping novel of politics, war, philosophy, and adventure–in a restored edition, featuring never-before-published material from Gore Vidal’s original manuscript–Creation offers a captivating grand tour of the ancient world.Cyrus Spitama, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster and lifelong friend of Xerxes, spent most of his life as Persian ambassador for the great king Darius. He traveled to India, where he discussed nirvana with Buddha, and to the warring states of Cathay, where he learned of Tao from Master Li and fished on the riverbank with Co...
| | Masters Of Men: A Romance Of The New Navy Publication Date: August 29, 2007This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
| | The Unicorn Whisperer Publication Date: December 7, 2010Spiritual insight froma wise and wisecracking unicorn.A captivating tale filled with humor and wisdom.This book is like a magical gift and everyone who opens it receives exactly what they want or what they need. ...
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| | Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series) Release Date: February 12, 1987| Series: Pantheon Modern Writers Series Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, free-wheeling account of Oliveira's a...
| | Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Modern Library Classics) Release Date: February 11, 2003| Series: Modern Library Classics Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies, demons, witches, priests, and saints, these stories evoke both tender pathos and lighthearted mirth and embody what Yeats describes as “the very voice of the people, the very pulse of life.”“The impact of these tales doesn’t stop with Yeats, or Joyce, or...
| | Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays ...
| | A Midsummer Night's Dream (Go Shakespeare - Set 2) ...
| | The Great Books Foundation Short Story Omnibus Publication Date: 2009REVIEWS A great resource for the teaching and reading of the short story.--Marcia Aldrich, editor, Fourth Genre and professor, Michigan State University A stellar story anthology for the twenty-first century.--William Giraldi, fiction editor, AGNI and lecturer, Boston University With Short Story Omnibus, the Great Books Foundation has attempted to update the way readers conceptualize the short story. Few organizations are as committed to canonization as Great Books, and the attempt here is admirable, if not entirely successful. Stories are followed by straightforward di...
| | Henrik Ibsen's Poems (Norwegian University Press Publication) Publication Date: March 19, 1987| Series: Norwegian University Press Publication Ibsen's poetry has not until now been widely accessible in translation, which is remarkable considering that several of the poems are closely related to his famous plays. Northam, an eminent Ibsen scholar, offers versions of the 1899 edition of Ibsen's Poems, as well as his Selected Poems 1848-72, published in 1902.Professor Northam's sensitive translations reproduce the metrical form of Ibsen's originals and he provides extensive commentary in the form of headnotes for each poem and an introduction which relate...
| | Forgetful Muses: Reading the Author in the Text Publication Date: December 11, 2010How can we understand and analyze the primarily unconscious process of writing? In this groundbreaking work of neuro-cognitive literary theory, Ian Lancashire maps the interplay of self-conscious critique and unconscious creativity.Forgetful Muses shows how a writer's own 'anonymous,' that part of the mind that creates language up to the point of consciousness, is the genesis of thought. Those thoughts are then articulated by an author's inner voice and become subject to critique by the mind's 'reader-editor.' The 'reader-editor' engages with the 'anonymous...
| | The History of the Book in the West: 19142000 (The History of the Book in the West: a Library of Critical Essays) Publication Date: April 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0754627837 | ISBN-13: 978-0754627838This collection brings together published papers on key themes which book historians have identified as of particular significance in the history of twentieth-century publishing. It reprints some of the best comparative perspectives and most insightful and innovatively presented scholarship on publishing and book history from such figures as Philip Altbach, Lewis Coser, James Curran, Elizabeth Long, Laura Miller, Angus Phillips, Janice Radway, Jonathan Rose, Shafquat Towheed, Catherine Turner, Jay Satterfield, ...
| | Men of Holsum College [College Boys: Diva and the Frat Boy] (Siren Publishing Classic ManLove) Publication Date: September 4, 2012College Boys [Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Romance, M/M, HEA] When soccer star Chris Fischer moves next door to an openly gay classmate, he doesn't realize the wall between their rooms will be so thin he'll hear his neighbor's every move. But soon he and Peter become friends, and Chris is intrigued-imagining what happens on the other side of the wall. Active on the Queer Student Council, Peter Cohen wishes he wasn't so damn hot for his straight neighbor. He can't tell if Chris is flirting or in denial or what, but Chris's innocent overtures lur...
| | The Rakehell's Reform (Signet Regency Romance) Release Date: December 1, 1996| Series: Signet Regency Romance A notorious rake with a reputation for conquest over naive youngwomen and a lady with family money but no station begin a game ofcat-and-mouse in which each tries to outmaneuver the other for whatthey want....
| | G-Man Volume 1: Learning To Fly Digest Publication Date: May 20, 2009 ...
| | The Missing Mitt (Hardy Boys: Secret Files) Release Date: April 27, 2010| Age Level: 6 and up...
| | Six Foolish Fishermen Release Date: September 28, 2011| Grade Level: K and up How foolish could six Cajuns on the bayou possibly be? Down in Louisiana bayou country, six friends--Jules, Jacques, Jean, Ti-Paul, Philippe, and Pierre-love to go out fishing on their pirogues. But these fellows are very foolish indeed. It isn't long before one silly misunderstanding after another results in a hilarious and ridiculous Cajun-flavored folktale that will delight readers young and old. An alternate version of the traditional Seven Foolish Fishermen, this story contains Cajun words and phrases, expressive and bright illustr...
| | Persephone the Ladybug Publication Date: May 14, 2003| Grade Level: P and up ersephone the Ladybug finds herself taken to the city, where she discovers a new life among friends in a teashop. How Persephone escapes the rats and returns to her mother forms the climax of this enchanting story that introduces Moria Stephens, an exciting new talent, to the Little, Brown list. ...
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