 | Yo Yo Ma (Asian-American Biographies)
Publication Date: September 15, 2005| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
 |  | Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared (New Restored Text Translation)
Publication Date: May 2004Newly restored to the original text: for this new translation, Hofmann returned to Kafka’s manuscripts, restoring matters of substance and detail, and even the book’s original ending.Michael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with light in this highly charged and enormously nuanced translation. Kafka began the first of his three novels in 1911, but like the others, Amerika remained unfinished, and perhaps, as K...
|  | 44 Charles Street: ANovel
Release Date: April 5, 2011A magical transformation takes place in Danielle Steel’s luminous new novel: strangers become roommates, roommates become friends, and friends become a family in a turn-of-the-century house in Manhattan’s West Village. The plumbing was prone to leaks, the furniture rescued from garage sales. And every square inch was being devotedly restored to its original splendor—even as a relationship fell to pieces. Now Francesca Thayer, newly separated from her lawyer boyfriend Todd, is desperate. The owner of a struggling art gallery, and suddenly the ...
|  | The Magdalena Curse
Release Date: August 2, 2011It only takes a couple of visits to convince Dr. Elizabeth Bancroft that Adam Hunter is not just having bad dreams. He’s a child possessed. His father is desperate: adamant that his son’s affliction is the result of a curse he incurred in the depths of the Amazon, where a badly misguided military operation ended in a terrifying and macabre encounter. There he met two women—one who placed the curse and the other with whom any hope of saving his son resides. Mark Hunter leaves the Scottish Highlands to beg help from the mysterious woman, ...
|  | The Curse of the Vampire
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|  | The Cruel Sea (Classics of War)
Publication Date: March 14, 2000| Series: Classics of War A powerful novel of the North Atlantic in World War II. ...
|  | The Golden Notebook: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: October 14, 2008| Series: P.S.Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook. Doris ...
|  | Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond
Publication Date: September 17, 1998This important book of thirty new essays focuses on the crucial question: what makes tragedy, especially Greek tragedy, tragic? The contributors include many of the world's foremost scholars in the field of Greek drama. The book is accessible to readers with no knowledge of Greek and will be essential reading for anyone interested in tragedy, especially students and specialists in classics, drama, and English literature. ...
|  | Shakespeare Lane
Publication Date: March 1, 2010A new play translation, Arabic to English, by award winning Moroccan playwright Zoubeir Ben Bouchta. Shakespeare Lane confronts difficult challenges of contemporary Tanjwai society within the all-to-real post-colonial/global contexts.An excerpt from the text: Albarrani: If he wasn't a soldier, then he was somehow working like a soldier. Something in his work must have resembled guns... this is a famous Tangier street, without such power the English would never have named it for him.Marshana: Words were Shakespeare's guns, but his words resurrect rather than kil...
|  | Tughlaq, Second Edition (Oxford India Perennials)
Publication Date: August 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 0198077130 | ISBN-13: 978-0198077138| Edition: 2 Muhammad Bin Tughlaq, who ruled from Delhi in the fourteenth century, was a man of many dimensions. A well-read scholar of the arts, theology, and philosophy, a brilliant calligraphist, a mystic, as well as a poet, it is the 'madness' that earned him the epithet 'Mad Muhammad', that Karnad explores in the play. Using history and myth in equal measure, Karnad delves into the psyche of Muhammad to understand and interpret the rationale behind his whimsical actions. Operating at both symbolic and met...
|  | Yeats's Golden Dawn: The Influence of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn on the Life and Art of W.B. Yeats
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|  | On My Way Back
Publication Date: January 8, 2007"On My Way Back," written by Aladdin Assaiqeli, is an intriguing collection of original poetry which provides the reader with the author's unique perspective of what he deems to be a miscarriage of justice imposed upon the Arab world by the world's most dominant force, The United States, and her close ally, "Israel". Being of Palestinian heritage, Mr. Assaiqeli's experiences and views could offer an opportunity for those not well versed on the ever present struggle for co-existence between Jews and Palestinians to understand the feelings of those from the Mus...
|  | Cayendo hacia arriba (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 1, 2012This is the last book written by Shel Silverstein before his death in 1999. Bursting with the poet's characteristic humor and originality, this is a brilliant collection of short poems and drawings. Children will find these funny poems and their zany characters so irresistible they'll hardly realize they re reading poetry! ...
| | Antologia del teatro del Siglo de Oro (El Retablo de Maese Pedro) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Women of the West)
Publication Date: January 1, 1990| Series: Women of the West Elinore Pruitt, a widow and mother who washed clothes for a living in Denver, planned to work as a housekeeper for some rancher while learning all she would need to know about homesteading a place for herself. In 1909 she went to work for Clyde Stewart, whose ranch was near Burnt Fork, Wyoming, and within six weeks she married him. "Ranch work seemed to require that we be married first and do our sparking afterward," she wrote Juliet Coney, her former employer. She maintained her independence by filing on a quarter section adj...
|  | Doms of Dark Haven
Publication Date: May 5, 2012Three women, three Doms. One extraordinary night. Welcome to Dark Haven, and may all of your darkest wishes come true... MET HER MATCH (A HAWKEYE STORY) by Sierra Cartwright Highly trained Mira Araceli can hold her own in the toughest parts of the world, but not, it seems, against her secret crush, Torin Carter. She'd fallen for her Hawkeye instructor years before, and to him, she'd been just another recruit; fresh, green, idealistic. Torin, with his dark Irish good looks and fierce temper, doesn't want a partner, any partner, and especially not Mira. But assignm...
|  | Somebody To Love (Hqn)
Release Date: April 24, 2012| Series: Hqn After her father loses the family fortune in an insider-trading scheme, single mom Parker Welles is faced with some hard decisions. First order of business: go to Gideon's Cove, Maine, to sell the only thing she now owns—a decrepit house in need of some serious flipping. When her father's wingman, James Cahill, asks to go with her, she's not thrilled…even if he is fairly gorgeous and knows his way around a toolbox.Having to fend for herself financially for the first time in her life, Parker signs on as a florist's assistant ...
|  | Romance Your Writer Within & Reawaken Your Passion to Write
Publication Date: November 25, 2010Dear Writer: you may know how to romance your lover, but do you often forget how to treat you Creative Self with equal care and love? This book will demonstrate that by courting your Writer Within, you will strengthen your creativity, engage with it, become partners, and produce beautiful creations.For over 20 years, Dr. Melba Burns has been a "soul-midwife" to thousands of people through her creative writing groups - using the techniques in this book. She also continues to utilize them in her own forty year writing practice. She believes that reawakening y...
|  | False Dawn
Release Date: March 1, 1994Representing a client who has admitted his guilt in the killingof a fellow warehouse worker, Miami trial lawyer Jake Lassiter issuspicious and is determined to get at the truth. Reprint. NYT....
|  | Duplicate Death
Release Date: April 1, 2010 An elegant card party turns deadly... Inspector Hemingway has his work cut out for him when a seemingly civilized game of Duplicate Bridge leads to a double murder. The crimes seem identical, but were they carried out by the same hand? Things become even more complicated when the fiancée of the inspector's young friend Timothy Kane becomes Hemingway's prime suspect. Kane is determined to prove the lady's innocence-but when he begins digging into her past, he finds it's more than a little bit shady... Praise for Georgette Heyer: "Ranks alongside such incompara...
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