 | Highlander: The Complete Watcher's Guide
Publication Date: September 1, 1998This comprehensive history of the popular "Highlander" series features exclusive interviews with cast and crew, viewers' top ten shows, trivia about how the series began, and more. Approximately 150 photos. ...
 |  | Euripides: Andromache (Classical Texts)
Release Date: November 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 0856687707 | ISBN-13: 978-0856687709Andromache, written in the early years of the Peloponnesian War, shows the effects of war on the conquerors and the conquered. The other main theme is the role and nature of women, explored through the conflict between the contrasting figures of Andromache and Hermione. The play has a bold and original structure, which finds room for paranoia, nymphomania, racialism, blackmail, treachery, mental breakdown, elopement and revenge. The climax is a messenger speech describing the lynching of Neoptolemus in the templ...
|  | Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America
Publication Date: June 3, 1999From Tiny Tim to Helen Keller, disabled people in the nineteenth century were portrayed in sentimental terms, as afflicted beings whose sufferings afforded ablebodied people opportunities to practice empathy and compassion. In all kinds of representations of disability, from popular fiction to the reports of institutions established for the education and rehabilitation of disabled people, the equation of disability and sentimentality served a variety of social functions, from ensuring the continued existence of a sympathetic sensibility in a hard-hearted, market...
|  | Comparative Studies in Merlin from the Vedas to C.G. Jung
Publication Date: December 1991| ISBN-10: 0889463964 | ISBN-13: 978-0889463967These papers from the Kalamazoo Symposium on Merlin cover the subject from various angles, including a Jungian perspective, Merlin in Dryden's "King Arthur", and Merlin in the Indo-European tradition. ...
|  | Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid (Medieval Cultures)
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|  | Rebellious Desire
Release Date: January 1, 1991Of all the dukes in England, Jered Marcus Benton, the Duke of Bradford, was the wealthiest, most handsome -- and most arrogant. And of all London's ladies, he wanted the tender obedience of only one -- Caroline Richmond.She was a ravishing beauty from Boston, with a mysterious past and a fiery spirit. Drawn to the powerful duke, undeterred by his presumptuous airs, Caroline was determined to win his lasting love. But Bradford would bend to no woman -- until a deadly intrigue drew them enticingly close. Now, united against a common enemy, they would discover the...
|  | The Bounty/a Little Texas Two-Step (Rebecca Brandewyne/ Peggy Moreland)
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|  | The Lady Chapel (An Owen Archer Mystery)
Publication Date: May 15, 1995Owen Archer, the intriguing Welsch archer-turned-sleuth, is back-in another riveting challenge to Ellis Peters!High summer, 1365-and York is glorious with pageantry for the Feast of Corpus Christi. But wool merchant Will Crounce, who acts in "The Last Judgement," meets his maker all too soon, his throat slit in the shadow of the great cathedral. When Crounce's severed hand is found in fellow-merchant Gilbert Ridley's tavern lodging, the Archbishop calls in Own Archer.To unravel a second murder, and the grisly warning of another severed hand, Owen will need his s...
|  | You Can Write a Mystery (You Can Write It!)
Publication Date: August 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 0898798639 | ISBN-13: 978-0898798630| Edition: 1st Have you ever thought about writing a mystery, and gave up the idea because you weren't sure how to start it? Well now is your chance to go out and write that mystery you have always dreamed of. You Can Write a Mystery, written by Gillian Roberts, author of the Anthony Award-winning Amanda Pepper Series, will help you start your mystery and guide you through to the end."The 'rules' that govern the mystery are the rules that govern all fiction. Every novel needs suspense and drama," says Roberts...
|  | The Rogue Crew: A Tale of Redwall
Release Date: May 3, 2011| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Amazing Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Vol. 1
Publication Date: June 4, 2008| Grade Level: 4 and up This is it, Arachnophiles! The most pulse-pounding piece of four color fiction to be delivered unto the Mighty Marvel Minions in decades! You asked for more Spidey! You demanded it! And, by Buckley, you're gonna get it! Same Old Power. Same Old Responsibility. Brand New Day! After the devastatingly heartwarming events of One More Day, Peter Parker puts the past behind him and sets forth on a Brand New Day! Spidey's new status quo gets a swift punch in the gut as Dan Slott (She-Hulk; Avengers: The Initiative) and super-star artist Steve Mc...
|  | LEGO Ninjago Reader #2: Masters of Spinjitzu
Publication Date: February 1, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Eagle
Release Date: January 4, 2011| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up The Ninth Legion marched into the mists of Northern Britain—and they were never seen again. Thousands of men disappeared and their eagle standard was lost. It’s a mystery that’s never been solved, until now . . . Marcus has to find out what happened to his father, who led the legion. So he sets out into the unknown, on a quest so dangerous that nobody expects him to return. ...
|  | Who Shot the Sheriff? (Robin Hood Novelisation)
Publication Date: October 13, 2006 ...
|  | The Last Summer
Publication Date: May 16, 2012It’s June 1948, and Charlotte Mason’s father is tentatively backing the family’s Oldsmobile into the driveway of a small two-story home in northeastern Georgia. Only five minutes ago, almost 8-year-old Charlotte was excited to move into their new house, but now she’s not so sure when she sees how quiet and lonely it appears. Sent to help move boxes to her room, it’s not long before she proves to be “too much of an obstacle,” and is forced to sit on the porch with nothing to do. This is when, as if from nowhere, th...
|  | Swimming (Real World Math: Sports)
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|  | Yokai Attack!: The Japanese Monster Survival Guide
Publication Date: August 10, 2012 ...
|  | Wuthering Heights (Bantam Classics)
Release Date: October 1, 1983"My greatest thought in living isHeathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I shouldstill continue to be... Nelly, I amHeathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not asa pleasure... but as my own being."Wuthering Heights is the only novel ofEmily Bronte, who died a year after itspublication, at the age of thirty. A brooding Yorkshire taleof a love that is stronger than death, it is alsoa fierce vision of metaphysical passion, in whichheaven and hell, nature and society, arepowerfully juxtaposed. Unique, mystical, with a timelessappeal, it has b...
|  | Tiger's New Friends (The Sock Animals Series)
Publication Date: June 1992| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Traditional Feeding of Farm Animals
Publication Date: March 1, 2004 ...
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