 | The Story and Its Writer
Publication Date: May 8, 2006| ISBN-10: 0312442726 | ISBN-13: 978-0312442729| Edition: 7th During her many years of teaching introduction to fiction courses, Ann Charters developed an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom. She also discovered that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction. Accordingly, her choice of fiction in the first edition of her The Story and Its Writer was as notable for its student appeal as it was for its quality and range. And to complement these stories, sh...
 |  | Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, Collaborations with Artists, and Interviews
Release Date: June 22, 2010An updated edition with six new essays, including "An Evening at Shea" and "Remembering Beckett," as well as two long interviews from "one of America's greats" (Time Out Chicago) The celebrated author of Invisible, The New York Trilogy, and The Book of Illusions presents a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings (including the seminal work The Invention of Solitude), and collaborations with artists, as well as occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers. Ranging in subject from Sir Walter Raleigh to Ka...
|  | The Progress of an Image (American University Studies Series IV, English Language and Literature)
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|  | The Innocent: A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel
Release Date: August 28, 2012| Series: Vanessa Michael Munroe Vanessa Michael Munroe – the fearless heroine of the New York Times bestseller The Informationist – returns in a gripping new thriller. Eight years ago, five-year-old Hannah was spirited out of school and into the closed world of a cult known as The Chosen. Ever since, followers of the cult leader have hidden the child and shielded her from her abductor. Now, childhood survivors of The Chosen who have escaped to make a life for themselves on the outside know where to find Hannah and they have turned to Vanessa Mic...
|  | Jesus
Release Date: November 10, 2005With eloquence and beauty, the award-winning author of Book of the Dun Cow, The Book of God, and Paul: A Novel turns his pen to history's most compelling figure: Jesus of Nazareth. In vibrant language, Walter Wangerin Jr. sweeps away centuries of tradition and reveals a man of flesh-and-heart immediacy. Passionate, intelligent, and irresistibly real, this is a Jesus pulsing with life who will captivate you as thoroughly as he did the men and women who walked with him across Galilee's golden countryside. Days of centuries past become today, lit with bright color...
|  | The True History of Paradise: A Novel
Release Date: July 14, 2009It is 1981. Jean Landing secretly plans to flee her beloved Jamaica–the only home her family has ever known, a place now rife with political turmoil. But before she can make her final preparations, she receives devastating news: Lana, her sister, is dead. The country’s state of emergency leaves no time to arrange a proper funeral. Even Jean’s mother, Monica, who hadn’t spoken to Lana in more than a decade, cannot fully embrace her grief. The tragedy only underscores Jean’s need to leave an island that holds no promise of a future. Her ...
|  | The Draegan Lords
Publication Date: April 11, 2008From best-selling gay-fiction author M.L. Rhodes......A hundred years ago, the high sorcerer of Velensperia launched a swift and deadly attack against the draegans--a race of dragon shapeshifters who'd always lived in harmony with the humans. The draegans were all but destroyed, with the few who remained, scattered and in hiding. But after a century of cruel repression, a group of them have united and begun to fight back. Their leader, Keiran Hareldson, is determined to free his people from the high sorcerer's tyranny. Gaige Rizik is captain of the sorcerer's ...
|  | The September Queen
Release Date: November 1, 2011Charles II is running for his life-and into the arms of a womanwho will risk all for king and country. Jane Lane is of marrying age, but she longs for adventure. She haspushed every potential suitor away-even those who could provideeverything for her. Then one day, adventure makes its way to herdoorstep, and with it comes mortal danger...Royalists fighting to restore the crown to King Charles II imploreJane to help. Jane must transport him to safety, disguised as amanservant. As she places herself in harm's way, she finds herselffalling in love with the gallant ...
|  | Proust's Macaroon
Publication Date: April 16, 2010| ISBN-10: 0982575300 | ISBN-13: 978-0982575307In the medieval world of contemporary law firms John Botts is a vassal whose lord and mentor has moved on leaving him at the mercy of the Managing Partner of Biggins, Tostick & Thomas, LLP. Proust's Macaroon is the story of John's struggle to save his job and his romance with Ellen Miller, a more senior associate whose past comes as a surprise.Other characters are Charlie, a former fast-track associate now recycled as the firm's Administrator; Ernie, a brilliant but unstable casualty who's threatening to take ...
|  | The Heracles of Euripides (Focus Classical Library)
Publication Date: February 1, 1988| Series: Focus Classical Library This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Heracles on how Heracles is maddened by the gods to murder his wife and children. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play, innovative in its treatment of the myth, bold in its dramatic structure, and filled with affective human pathos. The play tells a tale of horror: Heracles, the greatest hero of the Greeks, is maddened by the gods to murder his...
| | Curtained Windows, Lighted Rooms
Publication Date: January 1, 2001Bal Sethi pens his reflections on all that is happening around him with wisdom and a (sometimes) heavy heart.An example is the poem "Home for the Holidays" where the narrator discovers that his wife has been unfaithful. Yet Bal never seems to lose hope for the world. This is a truly beautiful compilation of poetry concerning all that matters most to mankind. ...
|  | Man & Beast
Publication Date: December 30, 2005For Irish-born poet and zookeeper Eric Cole the fourteen lines and rhythmic patterns of the sonnet echo the very building blocks of life. Within the basic structure of simple genetic material lies the limitless potential for the existence of all living things, be they man or beast. So, too, within the simple structure of the sonnet, there is a similar universe of untold possibilities. Now, in these robust and stylish poems, the mysteries of the animal kingdom are explored with genuine scientific curiosity and rendered with tenderness, stimulating language, ...
|  | Bones of Jade, Soul of Ice: The Flowering Plum in Chinese Art
Publication Date: November 1984Clean but shows light marks to text. Large format softcover. ...
|  | Treasured Stories of Christmas
Publication Date: September 16, 2011Stories that reflect the gifts of Christmas-faith, hope, love and joy. Christmas is a special time of year; a time to share with loved ones-family, friends and neighbors as we remember Christmases past and embrace the new joys we discover in our present Christmas. ...
|  | The Irresistible Henry House: A Novel
Release Date: March 16, 2010It is the middle of the twentieth century, and in a home economics program at a prominent university, real babies are being used to teach mothering skills to young women. For a young man raised in these unlikely circumstances, finding real love and learning to trust will prove to be the work of a lifetime. In this captivating novel, bestselling author Lisa Grunwald gives us the sweeping tale of an irresistible hero and the many women who love him.From his earliest days as a “practice baby” through his adult adventures in 1960s New York City, Disney...
|  | How to Dine on Killer Wine: A Party-Planning Mystery
Release Date: July 3, 2012| Series: Party Planning Mystery (Book 5) Presley Parker’s event-planning business is the toast of San Francisco. But when she ventures into Napa Valley to oversee her first wine tasting, an unexpected death could leave a stain on her reputation.…For Presley Parker, a wine-tasting event at the boutique winery the Purple Grape is a job worth savoring. But she quickly discovers that, even in idyllic Napa Valley, local politics can have a bitter finish. JoAnne Douglas, president of the Green Grape Association environmental group, believes the wineries ar...
|  | The Boy & His Mud Horses: & Other Stories from the Tipi
Publication Date: March 16, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Beautifully illustrated by award-winning author Paul Goble, The Boy and His Mud Horses features a collection of 27 traditional stories from different Native American tribes, including the Pawnee, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, and Lakota. Also includes a foreword by Albert White Hat, Sr., a nationally respected Lakota leader and linguist. ...
|  | The Shoemaker and the Elves (The Brother's Grimm)
Publication Date: June 1, 1992A pair of industrious elves bring prosperity to a kindly shoemaker and his wife. ...
|  | Out and about at the zoo
Publication Date: May 18, 2012Rhyming text and colourful pictures accompany this fun day out discovering different animals at the zoo. ...
|  | The Lady with the Hat
Publication Date: November 1, 1997| Age Level: 10 and up In 1947, seventeen-year-old Yulek, the only member of his immediate family to survive the German concentration camps, joins a group of young Jews preparing to live on a kibbutz in Israel, unaware that his aunt living in London is looking for him. ...
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