 | Mark Twain : Mississippi Writings : Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson (Library of America)
Release Date: November 1, 1982| Series: Library of America Here for the first time in one volume are the most famous and characteristic of Mark Twain's works. Through each of them runs the powerful and majestic Mississippi. The river represented for Twain the complex and contradictory possibilities in his own and the nation's life: the place where civilization's comforts meet the violence and promise of freedom of the frontier. It was the place, too, where Twain's youthful innocence confronted the grim reality of slavery. The nostalgic re-creation of childhood in "Tom Sawyer"--"simply a hymn...
 |  | Tidewater Maryland
Publication Date: January 1969A teenage boy finds his loyalties divided between the values of his father, a Mexican immigrant, and those of the Brown Berets, a rebel group of Mexican Americans. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | References to Salvador Dal
Publication Date: June 1, 2002Surrealism, magic realism and expressionism are the hallmarks of Jose Rivera’s influential body of work. This new volume collects the author’s plays written in the past five years, including References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot ("effortlessly melds otherworldly fantasy with gritty realism to make sparks fly onstage."—The Journal News), Sueño (a reworking for Pedro Calderón’s Life is a Dream) and Sonnets for an Old Century, the author’s most recent work, which recently premiered in Los Angeles.Puerto Rican-born play...
|  | Never Look Back (Phantom Hollow Series #2)
Release Date: October 16, 2007Forgiveness is one thing, but who really forgets?Ivy Griffith has been released from jail after serving time for covering up the strangulation death of a high school classmate ten years earlier. She’s paid her debt to society. Kicked her drug habit. She’s making a fresh start.Problem is, everyone in her hometown of Jacob’s Ear, Colorado, knows what she did. And her seven-year-old son, Montana, won’t stop probing about the father he has never met–the man Ivy was too stoned to even remember. Plagued by her own shame and her littl...
|  | Catalyst
Publication Date: March 5, 2010Dr. William Havard, a cardiologist in the twilight of his career, is thrown into a maelstrom of events that challenge his career, his self-image, his priorities, and his very life.While taking care of his patients awaiting transplantation, Dr. Havard finds himself in a situation that not only threatens his security, but that of the entire nation. ...
|  | Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Publication Date: December 4, 2007| Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series Elizabeth Willis's new collection is a stunning collision of the pastoral tradition with the politics of the post-industrial age. These poems are allusive and tough. While they celebrate the pleasures of the natural world--mutability, desire, and the flowering of things--they are compounded by a critical awareness of contemporary culture. As we traverse their associative leaps, we discover a linguistic landscape that is part garden, part wilderness, where a poem can perform its own natural history. Divided into four cantos in...
|  | The Histories, Volume II: Books 3-4 (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: May 31, 2010| Series: Loeb Classical Library (Book 137)The historian Polybius (ca. 200–118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Lucius Aemilius Paulus and his two sons, especially Scipio Aemilianus, whose campaigns, including the destruction of Carthage, he later attended. Late in his life he became a trusted mediator between Greece and the Romans; helped in ...
|  | Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
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|  | Space, Place and Perception in the Anglo Saxon 'Letter of Alexander': Master's Thesis
Publication Date: August 16, 2012This thesis is an attempt to define and outline multiple senses of place in Anglo-Saxon England through an investigation of the Beowulf manuscript’s 'Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle'. Primarily using the theories of space and place set out by Yi-Fu Tuan in the 1970s, this work seeks to understand how Anglo-Saxons understood their place in the world and determine the extent that a textual artifact from the period can impart spatial knowledge. Tuan’s spatial distinctions facilitated the categorization of the Letter of Alexander’s...
|  | Spanked: Real Stories
Publication Date: June 4, 2012In this collection of personal confessions, women describe in intimate detail their most memorable spankings, the stories behind their spanking fetishes and the desires beneath their compulsion to be spanked again and again.Erotica author and researcher Gabriella Luciano interviewed hundreds of women about their experiences getting spanked. From those, she distilled this handpicked assortment of the most vivid, extraordinary and extreme stories.From a kinky affair with a demanding professor, to a strict Columbian step-father, to the extremes of domestic disc...
|  | Seduction by Chocolate (Leisure romance)
Publication Date: January 2007| Series: Leisure romance PAPERBACK ...
|  | Addicted
Release Date: August 26, 2008They come at dusk in a cloak of sensuality. They embody our darkest fears and our most erotic fantasies. Enter their immortal world - and surrender to their seduction...Once a lawman, now a vampire, Jake Brand still likes to play fair. So he fulfils his need for blood by giving his victims intense sexual pleasure. The scent of their lust intoxicates him, making the taste of the liquid heat pulsing through their bodies even more desirable. But then he meets Athena who threatens his self control and makes him wonder if he has finally found the woman who can bring h...
|  | Knight of Honor
Release Date: July 6, 2006The twenty-first century meets the fourteenth century. Catherine Berrister is a beautiful, happy-go-lucky, in-your-face Hollywood actress. Adrian Blackthorn is Warlord to His Majesty Richard II. No one rivals his massive size. Men tremble at the sight of him, women yearn to tremble in his arms. Their love crosses the boundaries of time. ...
|  | Mistletoe, Merriment, and Murder (Ellie Avery's Mystery)
Release Date: October 2, 2012| Series: Ellie Avery's Mystery Super organizer Ellie Avery could really use some Christmas cheer when Gabrielle Matheson, a grinchy professional rival, sets up shop in the same small Georgia town. But before the halls are even halfway decked with holly, someone uses Ellie's terrifically tasteless white elephant swap gift as ...a murder weapon! Ellie's now a suspect. Besides playing Mrs. Santa for her Air Force pilot husband and their two kids, shielding her eyes from the garishly over-decorated house down the street, and helping a client who's a hardcore hoarder...
|  | Yoso Lagoon
Publication Date: July 26, 2010It isn't safe in Castle City anymore. The evil cyborg Banazwav has taken control of the Outer Territories, and also kidnapped the princess. Now, he threatens Castle City. Ralph has been trained to fight Banazwav. Will he succeed? ...
|  | Puffin Book of Stories for Five-Year-Olds
Publication Date: March 1, 2007This wonderful collection of stories has been enjoyed in particular by children around the age of five years. Coming from all over the world, they include the tale of Eric and his elephant, of the hungry hedgehog who decides to eat hamburgers, of the Indian King who never takes a bath and of the little girl who yearns for a special pair of trainers. These are stories to enjoy alone, or to share with parents, friends, brothers and sisters. ...
|  | Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s
Release Date: July 31, 2008Jonathan Lethem, editor "The most outré science fiction writer of the 20th century has finally entered the canon," exclaimed Wired Magazine upon The Library of America's May 2007 publication of Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s, edited by Jonathan Lethem. Now comes a companion volume collecting five novels that offer a breathtaking overview of the range of this science-fiction master. Philip K. Dick (1928-82) was a writer of incandescent imagination who made and unmade world-systems with ferocious rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. "The floor ...
| | El Zorrito Miguelisto/the Quick Little Fox (Habia Una Vez) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Shadows of the Night -The Hidden World of the Little Brown Bat
Publication Date: April 1, 1993When many of the earth's creatures are seeking shelter for the night, bats are waking and beginning to hunt. In this delightful picture book, award-winning author and artist Barbara Bash guides readers into the shadowy world of the Little Brown Bat, one of the most common species in North America. ...
|  | Barracudas (Under the Sea)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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