 | Bad Little Falls: A Novel (Mike Bowditch Mysteries)
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Mike Bowditch Mysteries (Book 3) Anthony- and Edgar-award nominated author Paul Doiron delivers another “masterpiece of high-octane narrative” (Booklist) with his newest harrowing thriller about the hunt for a murderer at the height of a major snowstorm Maine game warden Mike Bowditch has been sent into exile,transferred by his superiors to a remote outpost on the Canadianborder. When a blizzard descends on the coast, Bowditch iscalled to the rustic cabin of a terrified couple. A raving and halffrozenman has appeared at their ...
 |  | The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Publication Date: September 22, 2008The said town was hard on the borders of a woodwhich men held to be mighty greator maybe measureless; though few indeed had entered itand they that hadbrought back tales wild and confused thereof. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Jennie's Tiger: A Woman's Pioneering Stand in an Untamed Corner of Washington State
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|  | Collected Plays 2
Publication Date: January 9, 1975| Series: V. 1: a Galaxy Book, 392 (Book 392) '"The Lion and the Jewel" alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' - "The Times". The ironic development and consequences of 'progress' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works included in this second volume of Wole Soyinka's plays. "The Lion and the Jewel" shows an ineffectual assault on past tradition soundly defeated. In "Kongi's Harvest", however, the pretensions of Kongi's regime are also...
|  | The Aeneid of Vergil (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture)
Publication Date: January 15, 2012| Series: Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture (Book 43) At the beginning of Vergil’s epic poem—long considered a classic of Western literature—the hero Aeneas escapes from the carnage of the Trojan War and embarks on a treacherous series of adventures that eventually lead him to the future site of Rome. Vergil renders Aeneas’ dramatic story in deceptively simple but powerful language, yet the poet’s style is often lost in translation. This magnificent new English translation of the Aeneid conveys the force of the original ...
|  | Family, Kinship, and Lineage in the Cycle De Guillaume D'Orange (Studies in Mediaeval Literature)
Publication Date: October 1990| ISBN-10: 0889466920 | ISBN-13: 978-0889466920Ronald Koss examines chronologically nine major texts of the Guillaume cycle, the kinship relationships of the characters (men, women, brothers, and siblings), and the nature, consequences, motives, and functions of these relationships. The text demonstrates that the Cycle of Guillaume is a true cycle and details how the bonds of kinship provide the structural framework of the cycle. ...
|  | Cuaderno de campo (Espejo De Paciencia/ Mirror of Patience) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: November 2, 2009| Series: Espejo De Paciencia/ Mirror of Patience Las paginas de este libro son parte del unico poema que he escrito. Es un libro de madurez. En el figura toda la tematica de mi quehacer poetico, de ahi su caracter caleidoscopico. Sus versos dan cuenta de algo que siempre he sostenido: un poeta es un hombre que quiere ser todos los hombres. Con sus altas, sus bajas, sus iluminaciones y sus planos de sombra. De igual suerte, es un testimonio de mi insuficiente gratitud a Dios, mi familia y mis amigos. Corresponde al lector su inteligencia. ...
| | Early Stevens: The Nietzschean Intertext
Publication Date: March 30, 1992In recent years Nietzsche has emerged as a presiding genius of our intellectual epoch. Although scholars have noted the influence of Nietzsche's thought on Wallace Stevens, the publication of Early Stevens establishes, for the first time, the extent to which Nietzsche pervades Steven's early work. Concentrating on poems published between 1915 and 1935—but moving occasionally into later poems, as well as letters and essays—B. J. Leggett draws together texts of Stevens and Nietzsche to produce new and surprising readings of the poet's early work. Thi...
|  | Eels
Release Date: September 5, 1997"Eels can be read in a heartbeat, but the erotic power of that hearbeat is remarkable, and though the poems, all coming after the novella cool us down, they also deepen the experience of the novella, remind us of the abiding power of risks taken with our hearts. No matter those risk always end disastrously, we dine out on the damage forever." --Review of Contemporary Fiction ...
|  | Medieval, Reformation andRenaissance History: A Literature Approach (A one year course with study notes for grades 7/8 and 9/10)(History Through Literature)
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|  | Sir John Gilbert
Publication Date: April 1, 2011Perhaps the most prolific artist of the nineteenth century, Sir John Gilbert (1817-97) was President of the Royal Watercolour Society, a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and illustrator for numerous illustrated papers, novels and children's books. Yet despite his impressive list of achievements, his name has become lost among figures such as Leighton, Watts, Millais and Burne-Jones who dominated the Victorian art world of which he was a part.Re-assessment of Gilbert's contribution to British art history reveals an artist who created powerful images - stro...
|  | Robert Penn Warren's Modernist Spirituality
Publication Date: July 1, 1995| ISBN-10: 0826209963 | ISBN-13: 978-0826209962| Edition: 1As a man who disclaimed any kind of religious orthodoxy,Robert Penn Warren nonetheless found in Christianity "the deepest and widest metaphor for life." The significance he drew from itwas one he expressed strictly in humanistic and natural terms:spiritual renewal and redemption were possible through engagement with literature and participation in the world. In RobertPenn Warren's Modernist Spirituality, Robert Koppelmanexplores the spiritual or religious dimension to Warren's work in light of his ...
|  | Corner of Blue
Publication Date: November 26, 2007Set in the turbulent '60s, with the Vietnam conflict brewing and life philosophies evolving, Corner of Blue is a coming-of-age love story you won't forget. She thought she had her love life ironed out. Now there's plenty to stew over.... Jemmabeth Forrester doesn't learn from anybody's mistakes but her own, so she's obliged to make plenty of them. She's always been a good girl, and she has a boxful of Sunday school perfect attendance certificates to prove it. Someday she'll marry Spencer, the hometown guy who's been in love with her since the first grade. B...
|  | Evanly Choirs:A Constable Evans Mystery
Publication Date: March 15, 1999| Series: Constable Evan Evans Mysteries When Constable Evan Evans is persuaded to join the local male choir for the upcoming eisteddfod (cultural festival), he doesn't think the addition of his mediocre voice will do them much good. In spite of all the effort that choirmaster Mostyn Phillips puts in to the choir, it is not exactly first class. Hope arrives in the form of world renowned tenor Ifor Llewelyn, come home to Llanfair to rest, on doctor's orders. Llewelyn immediately sets about renewing old friendships, and Mostyn even persuades him to sing with the...
|  | Minnesota Timberwolves (Inside the NBA)
Publication Date: August 1, 1997| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Grandma's Magical Storybook
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|  | Leave Well Enough Alone
Publication Date: September 9, 2011Kettu, a young arctic fox, is sent into the wild on his own for the first time. He is frightened but exhilarated. He knows he will be tested, but he feels he is up to the challenge. No longer a child, he is ready to learn more about the world around him. His adventure takes a sudden turn, however. He finds an abandoned structure, and his curiosity leads him to explore it. His investigation ends up trapping him in an icy, underground world. And he soon discovers he's not alone. ...
|  | It's a Butterfly's Life
Publication Date: April 15, 2007What is a butterfly s life? It s full of twists and turns as butterfly glide on air currents. It s full of dips and dives as they show off for their mates. There are more than 17,000 kinds of butterflies in the world. Some of them will only live for a few days. Others will migrate thousands of miles to winter in a warmer climate. Still others will hibernate through the cold months. For all butterflies, life begins with etamorphosis. In one of nature s most amazing feats, caterpillars become creatures of beauty and grace. Filled with winsome illustrations and a...
|  | Ten Rules You Absolutely Must Not Break if You Want to Survive the School Bus
Publication Date: July 4, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Kyle is dreading his first trip aboard the school bus. Luckily, his big brother, James, is a school bus expert. James gives Kyle ten rules for riding the bus that he absolutely, positively must obey if he wants to avoid getting laughed at or yelled at, pushed around, or even pounded. During his fateful ride, Kyle grapples with each unbreakable rule. Along the way, he discovers that the school bus isn’t so bad, and he may even have a thing or two to teach his brother. ...
| | Una Casa de Mama y Otra de Papa (Mis Grandes Problemitas) (Spanish Edition)
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