 | Around the River's Bend (The Spirit of Appalachia Series #5)
Publication Date: September 2002Will Sabrina Finally Find Her Place in the New World?Sabrina Fairfax was raised in an elegant house with servants catering to her every desire. With her father’s unexpected death, she finds herself impoverished and alone in London. Among his papers, however, she discovers a deed to a piece of land in the Colonies and seizes it as her best—and perhaps only—hope.A mix-up lands Sion Kenyon, an out-of-work miner, in jail. Sabrina arranges his release on the condition that he accompany her to America as an indentured servant. They soon find that noth...
 |  | Valley of Bones (Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy)
Publication Date: May 11, 2010| Series: Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy (Book 3) For millennia, two groups of immortals have roamed the earth in a spiritual chess game for human souls. Now they enter the time of Final Vengeance.On one side are the Collectors--unholy, undead entities who feed on misery and blood. In opposition are the Nistarim--saints raised from their tombs during the Nazarene's resurrection, who work to protect mankind.Natira, a powerful Collector infused with Judas's blood, is on the verge of finding the last of the Nistarim. To destroy them all in one master stroke, he mus...
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|  | Mudrarakshasa of Visakhadatta
Publication Date: August 1, 2011Thye Mudrarakshasa, unlike the majority of sanskrit plays, is purely a political drama. It has for its theme, besides elevation of Chandragupta to the throne of Magadha, wining over of Rakashsa, the hostile minister of the Nanda dynasty to the side of Chandragupta and adoption of measures to strengthen the rule by Chankaya, the renowned politician of his times. In the words of H.H.Wilson; It is a historical or political drama, and represents a curious state of public morals, in which fraud and assassination are the simple means by which inconvenient obligation...
|  | The Shape of the Final Dog and Other Stories
Release Date: September 13, 2012Best known as the original screenwriter of Blade Runner, author Hampton Fancher makes his debut with this extraordinary collection that bears all of the hallmarks that have made him beloved to film fans. These are stories about people and places that exist just outside our perceptions of space and time: in “Narrowing the Divide,” an escaped lab rat winds up in a philosophical conversation with a man whose wife sleeps in the next room; in “Cargot,” a failed actor is reincarnated as a garden snail and avenges himself with a Hollywood prod...
| ![The metrical repertoire of shorter poems by Russian émigrés: 1971-1980 (Canadian Slavonic papers. [Offprint])](http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/x-site/icons/no-img-sm._AA500_V192198896_.gif) | The metrical repertoire of shorter poems by Russian émigrés: 1971-1980 (Canadian Slavonic papers. [Offprint])
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|  | Postmodern American Literature and Its Other
Publication Date: October 20, 2008Although literary postmodernism has been defined in terms of difference, multiplicity, heterogeneity, and plurality, some of the most vaunted authors of postmodern American fiction--such as Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, and other white male authors--often fail to adequately represent the distinct subjectivities of African Americans, American Indians, Latinos and Latinas, women, the poor, and the global periphery. In this groundbreaking study, W. Lawrence Hogue exposes the ways in which much postmodern American literature privileges a typically Eurocentric, ma...
|  | Letters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends
Publication Date: June 30, 2002"Excellent. This is a fine, and unusual, collection of literary Americana."--<i>Atlantic</i>"Fine comic moments of truth."--<i>New York Times Book Review</i>"An invaluable source of literary history."--<i>Publishers Weekly</i>This is the story of one of the most famous literary "sets" of the twentieth century. Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the center of a group including Ernest Hemingway and his wives, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Archibald MacLeish, Dorothy Parker, ...
|  | Nauvoo Polygamy: "... but we called it celestial marriage"
Publication Date: December 5, 2008When Joseph and Emma Smith arrived in Ohio in 1831, several families offered them lodging, as did the Whitneys, whose five year-old daughter, Sarah Ann, and her eleven-year-old neighbor, Mary Elizabeth Rollins, would later play a role in Mormon polygamy. The Smiths soon moved in with the Johnsons, where Joseph met fifteen-year-old Marinda Nancy. In 1836, seven-year-old Helen Mar Kimball attended school near the Smith home. Each of these girls, whom Joseph met during the 1830s, would later marry him in the 1840s gathering place of Nauvoo, Illinois, on the eas...
|  | Gold's Bride
Publication Date: July 18, 2005Wife for sale!When Jeremiah Gold buys the beautiful Garnet from her sot of a husband, he intends only to save her from degradation. Married by a convict parson, Jeremiah takes his bride to his remote selection, only to find Garnet fighting him at every turn. Fury soon turns to love and desire, but will either of them realize before it's too late?The time is 1830, the place the colony of New South Wales. Lively Garnet Perry has been sent from England to marry Edward Landis. Edward proves both elderly and impotent, and his terrible old mother engineers a situatio...
|  | The Troupe
Publication Date: February 21, 2012Vaudeville: mad, mercenary, dreamy, and absurd, a world of clashing cultures and ferocious showmanship and wickedly delightful deceptions. But sixteen-year-old pianist George Carole has joined vaudeville for one reason only: to find the man he suspects to be his father, the great Heironomo Silenus. Yet as he chases down his father's troupe, he begins to understand that their performances are strange even for vaudeville: for wherever they happen to tour, the very nature of the world seems to change. Because there is a secret within Silenus's show so ancient ...
|  | The Skull Beneath the Skin (Cordelia Gray Mysteries, No. 2)
Release Date: April 3, 2001Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the vainly beautiful actress Clarissa Lisle from veiled threats on her life. Within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle, she finds the stage is set for death."Richly intricate and literate," James's second Cordelia Gray mystery "shows James at the height of her storytelling powers" (San Francisco Chronicle). ...
|  | Rosa sangrienta (Criminal (roca)) (Spanish Edition)
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| | Why the Crab Has No Head
Publication Date: November 1988| Age Level: 4 and up Retells the African folktale from the Bakongo people of Zaire in which Crab's pride influences his creator, who leaves Crab without a head to make him humble. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Siempre te querr
Publication Date: March 1, 1992| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and upA young woman holds her newborn sonAnd looks at him lovingly.Softly she sings to him: "I'll love you forever I'll like you for always As long as I'm living My baby you'll be."So begins the story that has touched the hearts of millions of Americans. Since publication in l986, Love You Forever has sold more than 15 million copies in paperback and the regular hardcover edition....
|  | Mr. Grumpy (Mr. Men and Little Miss)
Release Date: April 5, 1999| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Quiero ser poeta: Ejercicios e instrucciones para escribir poesia (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Dynamic and detailed, this guide will stimulate the imagination of young readers and teach them about poetry using examples and illustrations. The authors—including Rafael García Jolly, José Antonio Carbonell, María D. Torres Bañuls, and Antonia Moreno—invite readers to submit their poems for publication in an online poetry magazine. This brilliant resource is the perfect way for young readers to develop and maintain an interest in poetry. Dinámica y detallada, esta gu...
|  | The Pumpkin Fairy
Publication Date: August 2003This is the story of the advent of the Pumpkin Fairy.It tells of her quest, which all new fairies must undertake, to find the right good deed with which to earn her magic powers. And how, one memorable Halloween night, she discovers those powers in defense of the pumpkins in the pumpkin patch. In her role as protector of the pumpkins, she deals magically with friends and foes alike.Her new friends include Rollo, the generous pumpkin, and Tatterpatches, the brave but futile scarecow.The villains of the piece are Roggard and his band of marauding coyotes. ...
|  | Fox in a Trap
Publication Date: September 24, 1990| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Daniel is excited by Uncle Pete's glamorous life as an outdoorsman and a writer, until his uncle teaches him how to trap foxes. ...
| | Wolf Country: A Mystery in Progress
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