 | After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties
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 |  | The American Heiress: A Novel
Release Date: March 27, 2012"Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin’s The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s who bags an English duke, this is a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers in the mind." --Allison Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of I Don’t Know How She Does It and I Think I Love YouBe careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose ...
|  | About US
Publication Date: March 12, 2012Try as we might to deny it, we are in part what our families have made us. Set under the shadows of the Great Depression and World War II, About Us follows Benny Kahn, youngest of a Jewish family living in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, from his first great disappointment to the moment when he faces the choice of who and what he will become. It is a story of joy and grief, of love and anger, andof a boy who grows to manhood while the world he knows crumbles and falls. In his first novel, reprinted now after nearly three decades, Chester Aaron’s clear ...
|  | Seeking Spirits: The Lost Cases of The Atlantic Paranormal Society
Release Date: September 29, 2009 TV's POPULAR GHOST HUNTERS REVEAL ALL-NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-TOLD STORIES FROM THEIR SPOOKY EARLY INVESTIGATIONS!For the first time ever, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, founders of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (T.A.P.S.), share their most memorable and spine-tingling early cases -- none of which has ever appeared on television. Beginning with the previously untold experiences that sparked their passion for ghost hunting, Jason and Grant's bone-chilling investigations uncover:• A Connecticut woman who seems to exist in two places at once • A little ...
|  | Nobody's Laughing
Publication Date: August 7, 2012The author takes us on a raucous journey into the life and mind of Richard Bonhom.He is a post modern portrait of success despite his failed marriage, delinquent drug addicted daughter and looming financial scandal at work. The story takes place in a one week period preceding Bonhom's fiftieth birthday. A growing discomfort at facing this turning point in his life, and the urgent need to make things right, are the driving forces motivating his desperate search for some form of salvation. These issues force him to dig deep, hold on, and take stock. This serious...
|  | Gulliver's Travels (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: December 2001| Series: Norton Critical Editions This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726text—the edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative.It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. "Contexts"collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, aswell as documents that suggest its initial reception, including Swift'scorrespondence, Alexander Pope's poems on Gulliver's Travels, andrelevant passages from Gargantua and Pantagruel."Criticism" includes fourteen assessments of Gulliver's Travels by theEarl ...
|  | The Brothers Karamazov (Bantam Classics)
Release Date: April 1, 1984In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid, nightmarish, always brilliant, the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle, a pathological obsession, and a gripping courtroom drama. But throughout the whole, Dostoevsky searhes for ...
|  | A Book of the Beginnings, Vol.2 (Cosimo Classics Metaphysics)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Series: Cosimo Classics Metaphysics After enjoying years as a popular journalist and poet, intellectual and freethinker Gerald Massey turned his vast studies in the field of Egyptology into A Book of the Beginnings, a bold statement that the origin of all civilization lays in ancient Egypt. His assertions, radical at the time-indeed, almost a century before the discovery of three-million-year-old human remains in Africa-resonate loudly today, when molecular biology is making corresponding discoveries alongside the still-raging creation-versus-evolution co...
|  | A Sea of Voices: Women Poets in Israel
Publication Date: March 31, 2008A unique anthology that brings the voices of fifty-one women poets who live in Israel but write in their native languages as well as Hebrew, there are poets from France, Spain, Iraq. Poland, and USA. who write in French, Yiddish, Russian, Spanish/Ladino, Arabic, Polish, German, Hebrew, and English. ...
|  | Ismaelillo: versos libres, versos sencillos
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| | The Cid ballads, and other poems and translations from Spanish and German
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| | Basho, dichter zonder dak. Haiku en poetische reisverhalen. (Inforient)
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| | Duanaire an Irish Anthology
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| | The complete ci-poems of Li Qingzhao: A new English translation (Sino-platonic papers)
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|  | A Hard Day's Fright (A Pepper Martin Mystery)
Release Date: April 5, 2011| Series: A Pepper Martin Mystery What happened to a teenager named Lucy one night in 1966 after a Beatles concert? She rushed the stage, kissed Paul, started home with her friends, and was never seen again-until cemetery guide and unintentional PI to the dead Pepper Martin sees her as a ghost. Lucy's spirit can't rest in peace until her body is found and buried. But how will Pepper track down a missing corpse after forty-five years? ...
|  | Smuggler's Moon (Sir John Fielding)
Release Date: October 1, 2002| Series: Sir John Fielding Blind magistrate Sir John Fielding investigates corruption and murder in the seaside town of Deal, which has become a haven for smugglers. ...
|  | The Silver Chariot (Greek Beasts and Heroes)
Publication Date: November 2, 2011| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Witch, Witch ...: Please Come to My Party (Child's Play Library)
Publication Date: October 1, 1991| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | A Treasury of Princesses: Princess Tales from Around the World
Release Date: October 3, 1996| Age Level: 1 and up From the Mayan people of Central America to the Xhosa people of Southern Africa, from the ancient mythology of China to the legendary Arabian Nights, every culture across the globe has its princesses. The princesses themselves may be as diverse as the lands they represent, but rich or poor, vain or wise, brave or spoiled, they have one thing in common: they all live happily ever after.Selected from world folklore and presented in a richly designed, elegantly illustrated volume, this lavish gift book is the definitive gathering of princess lo...
|  | The Hero Beowulf
Release Date: April 14, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: K and up The epic warrior from earliest English literatureBeowulf was always a hero. As a child, he borrowed his father's sword to attack a nest of savage trolls that preyed on travelers. Now a young man, he seeks to defend the Danish kingHrothgar from a monster named Grendel. King Hrothgar asks Beowulf, "Are you not afraid?" Beowulf replies, "Why should I fear? If I am fated to win, then Grendel cannot defeat me. IfI am fated to lose, then it has been my destiny since the day I was born." Sure of his role, if not of his succes...
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