 | The Life of Objects
Release Date: September 18, 2012In 1938, seventeen-year-old Beatrice, an Irish Protestant lace maker, finds herself at the center of a fairy tale when she is whisked away from her dreary life to join the Berlin household of Felix and Dorothea Metzenburg. Art collectors, and friends to the most fascinating men and women in Europe, the Metzenburgs introduce Beatrice to a world in which she finds more to desire than she ever imagined. But Germany has launched its campaign of aggression across Europe, and, before long, the conflict reaches the Metzenburgs’ threshold. Retreating with Beatri...
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|  | The Halfway House (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: May 27, 2009| Series: New Directions Paperbook “This posthumous translation of Rosales, a Cuban-American writer who committed suicide in 1993, delivers a raw, powerful story set in a Miami home for the mentally ill… It’s a frightening, nihilistic cousin of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”—Publishers WeeklyNever before available in English, The Halfway House is a trip to the darkest corners of the human condition. Humiliations, filth, stench, and physical abuse comprise the asphyxiating atmosphere of a halfway house for indigents in...
|  | Drag King Dreams
Publication Date: March 22, 2006From award-winning and best-selling author, Leslie Feinberg, comes Drag King Dreams, the story of Max Rabinowitz, a butch lesbian bartender at an East Village club where drag kings, dykes dressed as men, perform.A veteran of the women's and gay movement of the past 30 years, Max's mid-life crisis hits in the midst of the post-9/11 world. Max is lonely and uncertain about her future — fearful, in fact, of America's future with its War on Terror and War in Iraq — with only a core group of friends to turn to for reassurance. Max is shaken from her crisi...
|  | Viator
Publication Date: July 19, 2005Quartered aboard the freighter, Viator, run aground twenty years before on a remote section of the Alaskan coast, the four men hired to determine the ship's worth at salvage have begun to exhibit a variety of eccentric behaviors. They've become obsessed with Viator to the point that the world beyond seems of consequence only as it relates to the ship. When their putative leader, Thomas Willander, is afflicted by a series of disturbing dreams, he concludes that something on board may be responsible for their erraticism. He seeks the help of a woman in the nearby...
|  | The Spirit of Butterflies: Myth, Magic, and Art
Publication Date: November 1, 2000Butterflies have inspired humankind since antiquity, not just for their decorative value but also as spiritual beings, symbolic of metamorphosis, rebirth, love, hope, and freedom. This is the only book that explores the butterfly's role in myth, religion, literature, art, and the decorative arts, and includes magnificent pictures ranging from ancient stone carvings to modern furniture, Pompeiian mosaics to Sevres porcelain. ...
|  | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: April 29, 2003| ISBN-10: 0141439769 | ISBN-13: 978-0141439761| Edition: Reissue When Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865, it set critics awry: here was a book for children written for the pure pleasure of reading. It has since become one of the most famous children's books ever, translated into many different languages, performed as a play, and made into a popular Disney animated film. @AliceInTheSkyWithDiamonds Is it OK to drink from a mysterious bottle that’s been opened? What if there are Ruffies in it? From Twitterature: The World's Greate...
|  | The Function of Humour in Roman Verse Satire: Laughing and Lying
Publication Date: March 1, 2008Maria Plaza sets out to analyse the function of humour in the Roman satirists Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. Her starting point is that satire is driven by two motives, which are to a certain extent opposed: to display humour, and to promote a serious moral message. She argues that, while the Roman satirist needs humour for his work's aesthetic merit, his proposed message suffers from the ambivalence that humour brings with it.Her analysis shows that this paradox is not only socio-ideological but also aesthetic, forming the ground for the curious, hybrid nature ...
|  | The Oxford Book of War Poetry: Second Reissue
Publication Date: December 15, 2008| Series: Oxford Book of There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. The 250 poems in John Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology span centuries of human experience of war, from David's Lament for Saul and Jonathan, and Homer's Iliad, to the finest poems of the First and Second World Wars, and beyond. Reflecting the feelings of poets as diverse as Byron, Hardy, Owen, Sassoon, and Heaney, they chart a great shift in human awareness--from man's early celebratory "war-songs" to the twentieth ...
|  | Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford (Cultural Studies of the United States)
Publication Date: November 30, 1990| Series: Cultural Studies of the United States The "Young American" critics—Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford—are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village "Little Renaissance" of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and politics.In Beloved Community, Casey Blake considers these intellectuals as a coherant group and assesses the connection between thier cultural criticisms and their attempts to forge a communitarian alternative to liberal and socialist poitics.Blake draws on biogr...
|  | Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime
Publication Date: May 17, 2012In the past ten years, theorists from Elaine Scarry to Roger Scruton have devoted renewed attention to the aesthetic of beauty. Part of their discussions claim that beauty—because it arises from a sense of proportion, symmetry, or reciprocity—provides a model for justice.Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime makes a significant departure from this mode of thinking. Mark Canuel argues that the emphasis on beauty unwittingly reinforces, in the name of justice, the constraints of uniformity and conventionality. He calls for a more flexible and inclusive c...
|  | Blood Ties: A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel (Bishop/Special Crimes Unit: Blood Trilogy)
Release Date: August 31, 2010| Series: Bishop/Special Crimes Unit: Blood Trilogy NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNew York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper takes us to the outer reaches of fear in Blood Ties, as the Special Crimes Unit is targeted by a monster intent on destroying both Noah Bishop and his people. A series of grisly murders has left a trail of blood across three states, bringing the Special Crimes Unit to a small Tennessee town. There, two more brutal killings lure Noah Bishop and the SCU into what may be the ultimate trap, and lead Special Agent Hollis Templeton into a...
|  | An Unforgiving Temper
Publication Date: February 14, 2011In "Pride and Prejudice," by Jane Austen, what if Elizabeth never went to Pemberley? What if Fitzwilliam Darcy was not the only one with an unforgiving temper? What if the events in Ramsgate ended in an explosive conflict that set their course in another direction filled with implacable resentment and a rapacious thirst for revenge?"An Unforgiving Temper," by Gail Head, is the captivating story of what Darcy and Elizabeth's journey might have been. ...
|  | White Lies And Other Half Truths
Publication Date: December 9, 2008Barbara Tiller Cole shines a comedic, sexy light on the characters of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, turning it into a delightful romp.Open the pages and take a look at maiden fears, the consequences of white lies, and the hope for redemption. If Fitzwilliam Darcy were alive today he would say, "If Jane Austen had written a Regency Sex Manual, this would be it!"Elizabeth Bennet would have said, "A fun, light, sexy yarn!What I would give to be taught by Professor Darcy!"Take a delightful journey with your beloved characters as you read this delightful far...
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|  | Silicone Solution
Publication Date: August 1, 1999When a noroious plastic surgeon is found dead the police soon discover that quite a few of Tampa's elite had a motive for murder. ...
|  | Adventures of the Stalwart Companions: Heretofore Unpublished Letters and Papers Concerning a Singular Collaboration Between Theodore Roosevelt and Sherlock Holmes
Publication Date: July 1979"Lately, manuscripts purporting to be 'lost' Watson writings have been turning up with great regularity, each of them pretending to fill in certain gaps in the literature of the sleuth of Baker Street... What I no longer leave to speculation is the question of whether Holmes walked this earth with other men. I know he did."This, from the foreword of this extraordinary book, is not the outrageous statement it once might have been now that the authenticity of Dr. Watson's biographical writings on the great detective and his work is widely accepted. But the spate of '...
|  | The Demon of Dakar: A Mystery (Ann Lindell Mysteries)
Release Date: June 23, 2009| Series: Ann Lindell Mysteries Winner of the Swedish Crime Academy Award for Best Crime Novel, international sensation Kjell Eriksson has quickly built a name for himself in the United States. In this highly acclaimed follow-up to The Cruel Stars of the Night, Manuel Alavez’s life is in ruins. One of his brothers is dead, the other is in jail, and the man who double-crossed both men is running a high-class successful restaurant. A series of dramatic events inevitably leads to murder, and Inspector Ann Lindell is forced to sample many fine meals at the resta...
|  | Warriors: Power of Three Box Set: Volumes 1 to 6
Release Date: September 28, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | The Little Mermaid: From the Story by Hans Christian Andersen (Classic Tales (Running Press Kids))
Publication Date: May 26, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up...
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