 | The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings (Modern Library Classics)
Release Date: January 10, 2006| Series: Modern Library Classics Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how Americans thought about religion, literature, the natural world, class distinctions, the role of women, and the existence of slavery.Edited by the eminent scholar Lawrence Buell, this comprehensive anthology contains the essential writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, M...
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Publication Date: April 11, 2012All dreams are made possible through God and faith, but the devil cautiously displays a blue print of his own. Raquan "Grey" Taylor, an aspiring singer and songwriter struggles to attain his family's past until his brother's untimely death. His mother succumbs to alcoholism and is forced to send him away to Renwick Taylor, a high powered music executive and estranged father. Under Renwick's roof an opportunity surfaces when he meets Antoine Swinger and goes against his mother's wishes to pursue a career in music. Once discovered, Raquan enters the worl...
|  | City Terrace Field Manual
Release Date: July 2, 1996Brawling, street-wise prose poems push the boundaries of narrative form, taking the reader through the physical and psychological landscapes of East Los Angeles. ...
|  | Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians
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|  | Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy Deluxe Boxed Set: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Plus On Stieg Larsson
Release Date: November 26, 2010| Series: Millennium Trilogy Readers all across America are talking about Stieg Larsson’s #1 best-selling trilogy—The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest—which has more than 12 million copies in print. Now, just in time for the holidays: a deluxe, slip-cased set of the three hardcover novels—each unjacketed, bound in full cloth and uniquely stamped, with maps and individual full-color endpapers—as well as On Stieg Larsson, a previously unpublished col...
|  | Webster County Omnibus: Going Home/On Her Own/Dear to Me/Allison's Journey (Brides of Webster County 1-4)
Publication Date: October 1, 2008Enjoy the bestselling Brides of Webster County series of four novels all under one value-priced cover. This jumbo volume encases four bestselling and beloved novels by bestselling author Wanda E. Brunstetter. Four Missouri women struggle to fit to the expectation of their Amish community and to trust God when life hands them unexpected challenges of widowhood, parenting, careers, and dating. ...
|  | Heart of the Lonely Exile (The Emerald Ballad)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Series: The Emerald Ballad (Book 2) In Heart of the Lonely Exile, Book Two of BJ Hoff's acclaimed and bestselling Emerald Ballad series, readers will find heroine Nora Kavanagh struggling to build a new life for herself and her son Daniel in America. With help from a wealthy American family and friendship and support from a British gentleman, Nora nevertheless finds herself caught in a conflict of the heart.Michael Burke, a strong, dedicated Irish policeman, desperately wants to keep his promise to his best friend Morgan Fitzgerald to marry Nora and protect he...
|  | The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Poetry of 1993 (The 1994 Rhysling Anthology)
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|  | Captain Whitecap
Publication Date: December 19, 2000A sea story based on the quasi-war with France (1799-1800). Captain Jason Baylor is captured by pirates. He escapes and returns with an armed vessel to rescue the girl captured by the pirates. He engages the Insurgent, rescues the girl and in final sea fight destroys his enemy. ...
|  | The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
Release Date: May 1, 1971A satirical fable with a rootless and helpless accountant as the protagonist. Alone in his apartment, he spends all his nights and weekends playing an intricate baseball game of his own invention. The author has won the William Faulkner Award and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (Perennial Classics)
Release Date: March 2, 2004| Series: Perennial ClassicsThe brilliant shorter novels of Tolstoy, including The Death of Ivan Ilych and Family Happiness, collected and reissued with a beautiful updated design. Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of War and Peace, his epic in prose, and Anna Karenina, one of the most splendid novels in any language. But during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to fill many volumes. Here reprinted in one volume are his eight finest short novels, together with "Alyosha the...
|  | The Loving Cup: A Novel of Cornwall, 1813-1815
Publication Date: May 1985Cornwall 1813. A silver cup lies half-forgotten in a dark cave, amongst a pile of stolen goods. Yet the tiny vessel and its inscription 'Amor gignit amorem' haunts the lives of the still-feuding Poldark and Warleggan families, as Ross, Demelza and the ambitious and powerful Sir George Warleggan watch their children make the decisions that will shape their destinies. In the closing years of the wars against Napoleon, for Jeremy and Clowance, and for arrogant, cynical Valentine Warleggan, these are troubled and momentous times. 'From the incomparable Winston Graham......
|  | The Last Victory
Publication Date: March 1990In this romantic novel the author continues the adventures of Rudyard Kipling's hero, Kimball O'Hara, which he fictionalized in "The Imperial Agent". Peopled with historical figures - Gandhi, Nehru, General Dyer - the novel comes to a climax with the horrifying events of 1919. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust
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|  | Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Modern Theatre Guides)
Publication Date: March 6, 2009| ISBN-10: 082649594X | ISBN-13: 978-0826495945| Edition: 1 <div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS ??'">"An impressively complete survey of the play in its cultural, theatrical, historical and political contexts." - David Bradby, co-editor of <i>Contemporary Theatre Review</i> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>&l...
|  | Premier Book of Major Poets: An Anthology
Release Date: September 29, 1996This brilliant collection spans the years from the Middle Ages to the modern day to bring you a unique selection of the greatest poetry of all time. Arranged around major themes such as love and hate, war and peace, liberty and oppression, alienation and city life, The Premier Book of Major Poets is an invaluable reference work as well as a source of great pleasure.Among the poets included are-- Matthew Arnold-- W. H. Auden-- William Blake-- Gwendolyn Brooks-- Robert Browning-- Geoffrey Chaucer-- Samuel Taylor Coleridgee-- e. e. cumming-- Emily Dickinson-- Joh...
|  | The Esoterism ofDante (Collected Works of Rene Guenon)
Release Date: July 27, 2004| ISBN-10: 0900588640 | ISBN-13: 978-0900588648| Edition: Rev Without pretending to be thorough on so inexhaustible a subject, in The Esoterism of Dante Guénon nonetheless casts an unexpected light onto a specifically esoteric and initiatic aspect of Dante's work, and above all of his Divine Comedy. Dante was without doubt far more than a literary genius, and one is justified in thinking that many treasures remain to be discovered in what Guénon calls 'the spiritual testament of the Middle Ages'. The author undertakes to establish that the three divis...
|  | My Journey Home: Changes Through Writing
Publication Date: May 14, 2007| ISBN-10: 0943283248 | ISBN-13: 978-0943283241My Journey Home: Changes Through Writing is a look into the life of a struggling mother of four who, at 30 years old, returned to the college classroom and found a love of writing, teaching and herself. This book includes poetry and essays written for her teachers, writing which became a way to rediscover the true writer lost within the real woman. This book chronicles her struggles through divorce and becoming the single mother of four children all the while trying to redefine herself as a woman, teacher and wr...
|  | Wading the Tide
Publication Date: March 1, 2009Wading the Tide is an expression of profound emotions touching on a wide range of issues-personal and political-from the birth of the Cameroon nation, her political meandering, until the state of emergency declared on the North West Province in 1992.Accordingly, Doh complains, ridicules, and pays tribute, even as he instructs and guides on timeless matters of life, all in an effort to draw attention to his country's gradual, downward spiral into anomy. ...
|  | An International Companion to the Poetry of W. B. Yeats
Publication Date: September 13, 1990| ISBN-10: 0389209058 | ISBN-13: 978-0389209058Contents:Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Yeats's Life; A Brief Outline of Irish History; A Note on the Text; A Note on the Spelling of Gaelic Names; General Commentary; Brief Notes on Style and Metre; Symbolism: The DanceróThe SwanóThe ToweróThe Gyre; Magic, Myth and Legend; Nationalism and Politics; The Poet's Vision; History and Civilization; People; Places; Summaries; Summaries and Commentaries on Single Poems and Summaries of the Poetry Collections 1889-1939 as listed in Collect...
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