 | The Guns in the Closet
Publication Date: October 1996stories collected over the last twenty years...
 |  | Cold Literature: Selected Works by Gao Xingjian (Bilingual Series on Modern Chinese Literature)
Publication Date: November 16, 2005| Series: Bilingual Series on Modern Chinese Literature Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese Nobel Laureate in Literature. The Swedish Academy summarized his achievements as follows: "An oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chines novel and drama." The collection, which aims to present the diversity of Gao's literary talents, contains the highlights of his essays, stories, plays and poems. ...
|  | My Sisters (Premier Fiction Series)
Publication Date: April 2009| Series: Premier Fiction Series When sisters Margaret, Rose, and Quincy Lansing receive the tragic news that a car accident has claimed the life of their mother, they must return to their childhood home - and to one another's company. Although they are shocked and heartbroken, none of the Lansing sisters is eager to be back. For the painful memories they thought they'd left behind have suddenly resurfaced...The Lansings were never a close or loving family. And each sibling had long ago found her own means of escape-Margaret into her lab work, Rose into her "perfe...
|  | Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Release Date: September 3, 2002| Series: Modern Library Paperbacks Austerlitz, the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by “one of the most gripping writers imaginable” (The New York Review of Books), is the story ofa man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, one Jacques Aus-terlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only d...
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|  | The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries
Publication Date: March 1, 1992Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centred on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ritual battles against witches and wizards, to protect their villages and harvests. If they won, the harvest would be good, if they lost, there would be famine. The inquisitors tried to fit them into their pre-existing images of the witches’ sabbat. The result of this cultural clash which lasted over a century, ...
|  | Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race
Release Date: August 3, 2006The Celtic race has had a surprisingly formative influence in the history, literature, and art of the inhabitants of the British Isles. It is for the Anglo-Celtic, not Anglo-Saxon, people that this account of the early history, religion, and literature of the Celtic race is written, but the stories included are fascinating for readers from any background. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press. ...
|  | The Art of the Turkish Tale, Vol. 1
Publication Date: January 15, 1990| Series: V. 2: Ministry of Culture Publications of the Republic of Turkey In casting them into English, Walker has paid particular attention to capturing the flavor and excitement of the Turkish telling, while not infringing "on the narrator's right to have the tale recreated as he had told it." …The Beauty, power, and appeal of the present volume for the general reading public, however, depends largely upon Barbara Walker's own consummate skill as a teller and re-teller of tales and her commitment to conveying as much of the Turkish performance contex...
|  | The Exorcism (Acting Edition)
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|  | Silent, Sacred, Holy, Deepening Heart
Publication Date: February 24, 2010This collection is from the pen of Neale Donald Walsch's wife, Em Claire. These warmly engaging poems are divided into three sections Remembering, Naked, and Forgetting.The purpose of the poetry of Em Claire is written with the intention of celebrating the Oneness of all Creation and exploring the mystery of who we are. Claire envisions her work as "a lantern in the window to which you have just this moment lead yourself, for reasons your own Self and Soul know."This is a book for those who loved the work of Hugh Prather and Rod McKuen; for those interested...
|  | Wonderstand: Aphorisms - the Dot and the Dots
Publication Date: May 31, 2009Wonderstand contains sutras and insights on yoga and meditation. It is modern in the way that it inspires us, and at the same time, it ranges alongside many classic texts on the subject. The title Wonderstand is a play on words that speaks for itself and holds a promise, for the seeker, of both serenity and humor. The book includes two collections of texts: Aphorisms and The Dot and the Dots. The truth cast into idea looses its truth the mold takes hold Make me transcend my time my space and break my border to you In the loss of longing belonging gets lost - hen...
|  | Elements Haiku Verse
Publication Date: February 8, 2011The second in a series of selections of haiku verses. This edition offers inspiration and delight from every corner of the world we live in from the sunrise to the shadows, food to fantasy. Another little book to bring joyful moments to the bookshelf. ...
| | Russian songs and lyrics: Being faithful translations of selections from some of the best Russian poets, Pushkin, Lermontof, Nadson, Nekrasov, ... Klushnikov, Anatole, Kremlev, Myatlev, etc
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|  | The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: January 19, 2009| ISBN-10: 0521547555 | ISBN-13: 978-0521547550Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists for decades. Since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, he has come to be considered one of the most important English language poets in the world. This Companion gives an up-to-date overview of his career thus far, and of his reception in Ireland, England ...
|  | Jenny (Brides of Durango)
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|  | Before Sherlock Holmes: How Magazines and Newspapers Invented the Detective Story
Publication Date: September 29, 2011| ISBN-10: 0786467878 | ISBN-13: 978-0786467877Traditionally, the history of detective stories as a literary genre begins in the 19th century with the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Emile Gaboriau and a handful of other writers. The 19th century was actually awash in detective stories, though many, like the so-called detective notebooks, are so rare that they lay beyond the reach of even the most dedicated readers. This volume surveys the first 50 years of the detective story in 19th century America and England, examining no...
|  | Marvel Super Hero Squad (Super Hero Squad Spotlight)
Publication Date: January 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Zeus: El Padre De Los Dioses (Mitos Para Nios) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | A Book of Tricksters: Tales from Many Lands
Release Date: October 1, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up For centuries, people around the world have been telling stories about tricksters characters who solve problems by using their wits to fool others. Sometimes, these tricksters want to help people. Other times, they use their cleverness for selfish reasons. Occasionally, they aren t as clever as they think and are themselves tricked. Although trickster tales from different countries are similar in many ways, story details, problems to be solved and the personalities of characters reflect the beliefs and values of the c...
|  | Monster Trucks (Horsepower (Blazers Paperback))
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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