 | A Taste of Reality: A Novel
Release Date: January 7, 2003Kimberla Lawson Roby returns with another moving and triumphant novel about a woman who, against all odds, battles the most blatant kind of workplace discrimination while dealing with a crumbling marriage and a trusted friend s betrayal.On the surface, Anise seems to have it all: a successful career, a solid marriage, and good friends. But when she applies for a promotion at work, she loses out to a white colleague who isn t nearly as qualified for the job. However, the problem at work is only the beginning of Anise s troubles. After being married for four seemin...
 |  | Planets: The Astrological Tools (Llewellyn's New World Astrology Series)
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|  | Creepy Archives Volume 2
Publication Date: December 16, 2008| Series: Creepy Archives This vein-chilling second volume showcases work by some of the best artists to ever work in the comics medium, including Alex Toth, Gray Morrow, Reed Crandall, John Severin, and others. Each archive volume of Creepy is packed with stories (usually up to eight short stories were featured in every issue!) running the gamut of gruesome subject matter, from reimagined horror classics such as "The Cask of Amontillado," to spectacularly mind-twisting shorts such as "The Thing in the Pit," or the macabre maritime yarn "Drink Deep." ...
|  | The Golden Ocean
Publication Date: October 17, 1996The first novel Patrick O'Brian ever wrote about the sea, a precursor to the acclaimedAubrey/Maturin series.In the year 1740, Commodore (later Admiral) George Anson embarked on a voyage that would become one of the most famous exploits in British naval history. Sailing through poorly charted waters, Anson and his men encountered disaster, disease, and astonishing success. They circumnavigated the globe and seized a nearly incalcuable sum of Spanish gold and silver, but only one of the five ships survived.This is the background to the first novel Patrick O'...
|  | Ramage at Trafalgar (The Lord Ramage Novels) (No. 16)
Publication Date: September 1, 2002| Series: The Lord Ramage Novels (Book 16) Ramage, finally reunited with his beloved Sarah, hopes to spend at least a few quiet weeks with her. Instead, he is summoned by Admiral Nelson himself. His orders: Ramage is to join Nelson's fleet blockading the combined French and Spanish navies in the port of Cadiz. But Nelson's plan is not merely to blockade the enemy's fleet. He intends to confront it head-on in the biggest naval battle the world has ever seen. ...
|  | The Complete Euripides: Volume IV: Bacchae and Other Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Publication Date: February 23, 2009| Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations Collected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal, a powerful examination of the horror and beauty of Dionysiac ecstasy; Herakles, translated by Tom Sleigh and Christian Wolff, a violent dramatization of the madness and exile of one of the most celebrated mythical figures; and The Phoenician Women, translated by Peter Burian and Brian Swamm, a disturbing interpretation of the fate of the House of Laios following the tragic ...
|  | Humanist Comedies (I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Publication Date: July 29, 2005| Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library (Book 19)The five comedies included in this volume, three of which have never been translated into English, present a characteristic sampling of comic form as it was interpreted by some of the most important Latin humanists of the Quattrocento. Pier Paolo Vergerio's Paulus (ca. 1390), Philodoxeos fabula (1424) by Leon Battista Alberti, Philogenia et Epiphebus (ca. 1440) by Ugolino Pisani, Chrysis (1444) by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II), and Tommaso Medio's Epirota (1483) span nearly the entire period and...
|  | I've Learned Some Things (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation) (English and Turkish Edition)
Publication Date: 2008| Series: Modern Middle East Literature in Translation I've Learned Some Things allows English-language readers the rare opportunity to experience the work of Ataol Behramoğlu, one of Turkey's most celebrated poets. The sixty-six poems in this collection span the author's extraordinary career and are stunning examples of the intense emotional quality of his work. Behramoğlu celebrates the rich fabric of everyday life by exploring both personal and social struggles, sometimes employing a whimsical tone. Walter G. Andrews's skillful translation conveys the v...
|  | Cloud and Water: An Interpretation of Ch'an Poems
Publication Date: October 1, 2001The cloud and water life is a life of living in the moment, always fresh and ready to experience.This book is a collection of poems from celebrated Buddhist masters that reflects what the cloud and water life is about.Venerable Master Hsing Yun offers an insightful commentary on each poem to show us the relevance of these poems to our everyday life, and the universality of Chan Buddhism. ...
|  | The Annotated Frankenstein
Publication Date: October 31, 2012First published in 1818, Frankenstein has spellbound, disturbed, and fascinated readers for generations. One of the most haunting and enduring works ever written in English, it has inspired numerous retellings and sequels in virtually every medium, making the Frankenstein myth familiar even to those who have never read a word of Mary Shelley’s remarkable novel. Now, this freshly annotated, illustrated edition illuminates the novel and its electrifying afterlife with unmatched detail and vitality.From the first decade after publication, “Frankenst...
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|  | Anthology of World Scriptures
Publication Date: September 13, 2007| ISBN-10: 0495503878 | ISBN-13: 978-0495503873| Edition: 6 ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD SCRIPTURES is a comprehensive collection of scriptures from the major world religions, including: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as scriptures from more recent religious movements. The text presents scripture readings in context, giving you a framework that shows how each religion is actually practiced today, as well as its history, teachings, organization, ethics and rituals. The ...
|  | Titus Andronicus (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)
Release Date: March 16, 1995Jonathan Bate is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick, an honorary Fellow of St. Catharine's College Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written several books on Shakespeare, including Shakespeare and Ovid and The Genius of Shakespeare. Well known as a reviewer and broadcaster, he is also the author of Romantic Ecology and a novel, The Cure for Love. After centuries of vilification and neglect by both scholars and actors, Titus Andronicus has at last come to be recognized as one of Shakespeare's early ...
|  | The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw
Publication Date: April 23, 1999The Saga of Gisli was written early in the thirteenth century. It offers an imaginative reconstruction of the story of a man and his family who came to Iceland from Norway about AD 960. Soon after 960 Gisli, the central figure, was outlawed for killing his brother-in-law, and then, for thirteen years or more, he lived in hiding in remote parts of the northwest of Iceland until he was finally caught and killed by his enemies.Around this imaginative core the author has spun a web of conflicting passions - love, hare and jealousy between man and wife, brother and...
|  | Mama Said There'd Be Dates Like This
Publication Date: January 22, 2010IN MY WILDEST DREAMS I NEVER COULD HAVE MADE THIS STUFF UP! Single women of all ages will be able to relate to J.T. Briggs' new book, a collection of stories about one young woman's memorable - and not-so-memorable - encounters with the opposite sex. These hilarious anecdotes of actual dates will strike a chord with many readers, who have probably had similar experiences or know someone who has. Plus, there are helpful hints and advice throughout the book; even some specifically for men who need a little help: Guys, try to remember that spoiled is not attrac...
|  | The Devil's Teardrop
Release Date: December 28, 2010After an early morning machinegun attack by a madman called the Digger leaves dozens dead in the Washington, D.C., subway, the mayor’s office receives a message demanding twenty million dollars by midnight or more innocents will die. It is New Year’s Eve, and with the ransom note as the only evidence, Special Agent Margaret Lukas calls upon retired FBI agent and the nation’s premier document examiner Parker Kincaid to join the manhunt for the Digger—or for hundreds, the first moments of the new year will be their last on earth. ...
|  | The Event
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|  | Blood and Thunder (Nathan Heller Novels)
Release Date: September 13, 2011| Series: Nathan Heller Novels (Book 7) Private detective Nate Heller finds himself in the dangerous swamp of Louisiana’smob-infested political machine when former governor-turned-presidential candidateHuey Long is assassinated....
|  | The Sea of Trolls (Sea of Trolls Trilogy)
Release Date: May 23, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up...
|  | Boom!
Release Date: May 11, 2010| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up An explosive, highly charged, and hilarious middle-grade adventure from Mark Haddon, acclaimed author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.From the moment that Jim and his best friend, Charlie, bug the staff room and overhear two of their teachers speaking to each other in a secret language, they know there's an adventure on its way.But what does "spudvetch" actually mean, and why do Mr. Kidd's eyes flicker with fluorescent blue light when Charlie says it to him? Perhaps Kidd and Pearce are bank robbers ...
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