 | Is It Good for the Jews?: More Stories from the Old Country and the New
Publication Date: October 15, 2009“Jewish stories,” writes Adam Biro, “resemble every people’s stories.” Yet at the same time there is no better way to understand the soul, history, millennial suffering, or, crucially, the joys of the Jewish people than through such tales—“There’s nothing,” writes Biro, “more revelatory of the Jewish being.” With Is It Good for the Jews? Biro offers a sequel to his acclaimed collection of stories Two Jews on a Train. Through twenty-nine tales—some new, some old, but all finely wroug...
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|  | Girl in Translation
Release Date: May 3, 2011When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but also herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.Watch a Video ...
|  | A Woman of Our Times
Release Date: September 1, 1990From the author of "Strangers", "The White Dove" and "Bad Girls, Good Women", this is a story of money and the effects it can have. Bored Harriet meets an ex-POW who gives her a game of his own invention. She realizes its potential and soon earns a fortune - but she is changed fundamentally. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Mainely Mysteries: Homicide at Blue Heron Lake/Treasure at Blue Heron Lake/Impostors at Blue Heron Lake (America Loves a Mystery: Maine)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010Emily Gray returns to the tiny lakeside town of Baxter, Maine, to prepare her mother’s island cottage for sale. She doesn’t expect to find a murder victim on Grand Cat Island—or to find love when she walks into the Baxter Marina. Is it Nate Holman or the fascinating mysteries that draw her back to the shores of Blue Heron Lake? ...
| | Literature of the Occult (Twentieth century views)
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|  | Southern Seas (A Pepe Carvalho Mystery)
Release Date: May 15, 2012| Series: A Pepe Carvalho Mystery Barcelona detective Pepe Carvalho’s radical past catches up with him when a powerful businessman—a patron of artists and activists—is found dead after going missing for a year. In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell—eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters—disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific. A year later he is found stabbed to death at a construction site in Barcelona. Gourmand g...
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|  | The Maravillas District (European Women Writers)
Publication Date: December 1, 1992| Series: European Women Writers Rosa Chacel belongs to that brilliant generation of artists that moved to the cultural vanguard in the 1920s and 1930s: García Lorca, Buñuel, Dali, Alberti, Guillén, Aleixandre. As a young artist—a sculptor and writer—she participated in the intellectual ferment of Madrid during those decades. But the victory of fascism in the late thirties erased Chacel's works and the works of other women from the cultural memory until recently. In the interim Chacel was exiled in Brazil and Argentina. At last h...
|  | Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad)
Publication Date: October 28, 1994| Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad Set in eastern Borneo during the 1880s, Almayer's Folly recreates the conflicts of imperial Europe with the colonized East Indies through Kaspar Almayer's personal tragedy: his loss of both his daughter to her native lover and his dream of finding gold. This edition presents Joseph Conrad's first novel freed from seven layers of publishers' and typists' corruptions. Complete textual and contextual histories, full annotation and two regional maps are provided. This is the text, established through ...
|  | The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: May 1, 1999| Series: Penguin Classics John Milton was a master of almost every type of verse, from the classical to the religious and from the lyrical to the epic. His early poems include the devotional 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity", "Comus", "A Masque", and the pastoral elegy "Lycidas". After Cromwell's death and the dashing of Milton's political hopes, he began composing "Paradise Lost", which reflects his profound understanding of politics and power. Written when Milton was at the height of his abilities, this great masterpiece fuses the Christian with the classical ...
|  | Celtic Fairy Tales (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: June 13, 2012Preface LAST year, in giving the young ones a volume of English Fairy Tales, my difficulty was one of collection. This time, in offering them specimens of the rich folk-fancy of the Celts of these islands, my trouble has rather been one of selection. I reland began to collect her folk-tales almost as early as any country in Europe, and Croker has found a whole school of successors inC arleton, Griffin, Kennedy, Curtin, and Douglas Hyde. Scotland had the great name of Campbell, and has still efficient followers in MacD ougall, Maclnnes, Carmichael, Macleod, and ...
|  | Faust: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Parts 1 and 2 (German Library)
Publication Date: October 1, 1993| ISBN-10: 0826407250 | ISBN-13: 978-0826407252| Edition: 1 Goethe's masterpiece translated by the eminent English poet and translator Louis MacNeice. ...
|  | Silent Ears, Noisy Eyes Book 1 & 2- The Manifestation of the Twin Soul
Publication Date: August 23, 2011| Series: Silent Ears, Noisy Eyes A detective's investigation of his cousin's strange death leads him to discover a connection of divine abilities between the victim, and a long lost childhood friend. He discovers that they both have a connection to the unseen, allowing them to have prophetic visions and talents that put them back in touch with their sacred marriages. This is a story of 2 individuals who discover the truest love of all, based on true events and experiences. ...
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|  | On The Front Line: Guerilla Poems of El Salvador
Publication Date: July 1, 1995More than poetry of combat, this bilingual edition is a record of the struggles, hopes and dreams of a war-torn country, providing a vivid description of the recent struggles in El Salvador. ...
|  | Con el alma desnuda (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Breaking Midnight (Berkley Sensation)
Release Date: July 7, 2009| Series: Berkley Sensation Edmund is an elder among the upyr, a shape-changing race of immortals. Kidnapped by rivals, he's now a pawn in a deadly game to control the world, and only the love of the mortal beauty, Estelle, can save him. ...
|  | A Telling Time
Publication Date: January 6, 2003Set in South Africa during the 1970’s, A Telling Time portrays a group of attorneys trying to challenge the cruel Apartheid system. The harrowing events that follow their defense of a Zulu man pit victims against oppressors, and family members against each other. After uncovering brutal secrets, the lawyers find themselves involved in bigger legal issues than they had anticipated, as charges of attempted murder and torture arise. The future seems bleak: harsh laws forcibly separate black families, white families are torn apart by angry differences, and a...
|  | Magic Tree House Volumes 17-20 Boxed Set: The Mystery of the Enchanted Dog
Release Date: October 27, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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