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 |  | The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation (Classics of Ancient China)
Release Date: September 7, 1999| ISBN-10: 0345434072 | ISBN-13: 978-0345434074| Edition: 1 "To quietly persevere in storing up what is learned, to continue studying without respite, to instruct others without growing weary--is this not me?"--ConfuciusConfucius is recognized as China's first and greatest teacher, and his ideas have been the fertile soil in which the Chinese cultural tradition has flourished. Now, here is a translation of the recorded thoughts and deeds that best remember Confucius--informed for the first time by the manuscript version found at Dingzhou in 1973, a partial ...
|  | ReVamped (Void City, Book 2)
Release Date: March 10, 2009 REVIVED. REFRESHED. AND READY FOR REVENGE.Eric has lost his strip club, his Mustang, and even Marilyn, the elderly love of his (mortal) life. Even his body was obliterated. In short, they almost got him. But when you're a vampire, "almost" is a very important word. With a little magical help from his friends, Eric is restored to corporeal form, but his treasured Mustang gets caught up in the sorcery and winds up with an unlife of its own. Now, along with "Fang the 'Stang," he's out to save Marilyn from one of Void City's most powerful soul-stealing demons. But ...
|  | Eagle in the Sand
Publication Date: December 11, 2008| Series: Eagle Bestselling Simon Scarrow's brilliant adventure novels about the Roman army appear in B-format. Trouble is brewing in Syria, on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire. With the troops in a deplorable state, centurions Macro and Cato are despatched to restore the competence of the cohort. But another challenge faces them as Bannus, a local tribesman, is brewing up trouble and preaching violent opposition to Rome. As the local revolt grows in scale, Macro and Cato must stamp out corruption in the cohort and restore it to fighting fitness to ...
|  | The Anything Friend
Publication Date: July 18, 2011Elizabeth Benson steps in her shoes every morning unaware of who she is.She struggles with the emotional pain of virtually being unseen, except by a few.Without warning, after thirteen years, Jack Bennett, a model of perfection to so many, befriended her.Elizabeth soon discovers that Jack's life isn't as flawless as she once imagined.They make a dangerous pact to help each other survive.Is is possible for two strangers to become the best of friends forever?Or are they doomed by the intensity of their friendship to forever hurt one another?Do you believe in dest...
|  | White, Christian
Publication Date: November 16, 2010Fiction. LGBT Studies. Introduction by Bruce Benderson. The borderline lifestyle of twenty-year-old Christian White is a carnival of drugs and sex, accessorized by designer clothes and frequent stealing or scamming. Underneath the decadence are haunting memories of childhood abuse, the death of a brother and a father's criminal past. Expecting to make a fresh start, Christian relocates from San Francisco to New York, just as his friends are being rounded up by the police; but life only spirals farther out of control in the new setting. Instead of drugs, Chr...
|  | Westerns
Publication Date: March 2002Seven hours of old-school Western entertainment!Six short stories by Louis L'Amour and 2 longer ones by Max Brand are featured on six cassettes adding up to almost seven hours of listening time. Each story is a gem. Purchased for the Louis L'Amour stories, I found my greatest pleasure in the "new-to-me" Max Brand tales. Excellent narrators on each one!The collection includes the following titles with the synopsis of each from the back of the box.Riding for the Brand by Louis L'Amour - Jed Asbury assumes a dead man's identity, hoping to cash in his big homestead an...
|  | The Pirate Queen: The Story of Grace O'Malley, Irish Pirate
Release Date: January 3, 2006Grace O'Malley commanded a dozen ships and the obedience of thousands of men. Her empire stretched from Connaught on the Irish coast to the cobalt aters of Africa. Through the daring of her piracy, Grace nearly bankrupted the English treasury-and her outright defiance brought embarrassment to Elizabeth I. Yet the lives of these two amazing women were inextricably intertwined-and their eventual meeting during the most brilliant and romantic era that Europe has ever known would shock the world. ...
|  | On Orwell's 1984 (Cliffs Notes)
Publication Date: June 19, 2000The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.CliffsNotes on 1984 introduces you to the modern world as imagined by George Orwell, a place where humans have no control over their own lives, where nearly every positive feeling is squelched, and where people live in misery, fear, and repression.Orwell's vision of the future may be gr...
|  | Dionysus since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium
Publication Date: March 10, 2005| ISBN-10: 0199281319 | ISBN-13: 978-0199281312Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity. This lavishly illustrated book is the first attempt fully to document and explain its revival. It assembles fourteen essays by specialists from classics, theater studies, and the professional theater, who relate the recent production history of Greek tragedy to social and academic trends. ...
|  | A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry
Publication Date: April 1, 1998"A collection of 300 poems from writers around the world, selected and edited by Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz Czesław Miłosz's A Book of Luminous Things—his personal selection of poems from the past and present—is a testament to the stunning varieties of human experience, offered up so that we may see the myriad ways that experience can be shared in words and images. Miłosz provides a preface to each of these poems, divided into thematic (and often beguiling) sections, such as “Travel,” “History, ...
|  | Private Libraries in Renaissance England : A Collection and Catalogue of Tudor and Early Stuart Book-Lists/Plre 5-66 (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Vol. 105)
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|  | The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, & Colonization, 2nd Edition
Publication Date: October 7, 2003| ISBN-10: 0472089315 | ISBN-13: 978-0472089314| Edition: 2 The Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization of the New World. Exploring the many connections among writing, social organization, and political control, including how alphabetic writing is linked with the exercise of power, Walter D. Mignolo claims that European forms of literacy were at the heart of New World colonization. It has long been acknowledged that A...
|  | A Celebration of Humanism and Freethought
Publication Date: June 1995Bacon's memorable insight is specially significant when applied to the wide range of works by some of the world's most renowned writers, poets, philosophers, and intellectuals - men and women whose determination to espouse and defend the cause of humanism and freethought, interpreted broadly, has given us a well-endowed repository of the wisdom of the ages. In "A Celebration of Humanism and Freethought", author David Allen Williams has mined this vast body of literature. The result is this priceless treasury of poetry and prose draped in art and rare steel engravin...
|  | Heart of the Highland Wolf
Release Date: June 1, 2011Praise for Seduced by the Wolf: "With just enough wolf detail and werewolf lore, this action-packed story crackles with mystery, adventure, violence, and passion." -Library JournalIt's a matter of pride...Modern day werewolf laird Ian MacNeill reluctantly allows a film production company to use his castle, but he knows his secretive clan has a big problem when a beautiful red werewolf female who insists she's working on the film keeps showing up in the wrong places... and a matter of pleasure...Julia Wildthorn is not who she says she is-she's sneaking into Arg...
|  | Touch of Enchantment
Release Date: June 2, 1997From the bestselling author of Breath of Magic and Shadows and Lace comes a beguiling new time-travel love story in the hilarious, magical voice that has made Teresa Medeiros one of the nation's most beloved romance writers.Heiress Tabitha Lennox considered her paranormal talents more a curse than a gift. So she dedicated her life to the cold, rational world of science. Until the day she examined the mysterious amulet her mother had left her and found herself catapulted seven centuries into the past—directly into the path of a rearing black charger ridden by ...
|  | The Coast Road (Cliff Hardy series)
Publication Date: June 1, 2005| Series: Cliff Hardy series Cliff Hardy trades the mean streets of Sydney for the Illawarra escarpment, a rugged undeveloped area of Australia, in this latest hard-boiled detective novel. First hired by the daughter of the late, wealthy Frederick Farmer to investigate his mysterious and fiery death, Hardy is then called in on a second case—the disappearance of the young daughter of Marisha Karatsky, an exotic, dark-eyed interpreter who gets under Hardy's thick skin. Questionable insurance agents and feral bikers round out the colorful cast as Hardy battl...
|  | As if by Magic (Jack Haldean Murder Mysteries)
Release Date: August 1, 2009| Series: Jack Haldean Murder Mysteries Praise for Dolores Gordon-Smith: “With vision and vigor, Gordon-Smith pulls off another Golden Age delight.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch“A classic postwar country-house mystery with a Christie-like denouement.”—Kirkus Reviews“Dorothy Sayers fans will be most rewarded.”—Publishers WeeklyFreezing and hungry, George Lassiter breaks into a stranger’s house where he witnesses a murder. But when the police find no evidence, they—and George’s friend Jack Haldean&md...
|  | Dragonpox (Carly's Dragon Days)
Publication Date: January 2009| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Arizona Cardinals (Inside the NFL)
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