 | Modern Life: Poems (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award)
Release Date: October 2, 2007| Series: Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Matthea Harvey's Modern Life introduces a new voice that tries to exist in the gray area between good and evil, love and hate. In the central sequences, "The Future of Terror" and "The Terror of the Future," Harvey imagines citizens and soldiers at the end of their wits at the impending end of the world. Her prose pieces and lyrics examine the divided, halved self in poems about centaurs, ship figureheads, and a robot boy. Throughout, Harvey's signature wit and concision show us the double-sided nature of reality, of what we ...
 |  | Sneak (Swipe Series)
Publication Date: September 4, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death
Publication Date: January 1, 2008This, the long-awaited third volume of the Cosmic Trigger series, includes Wilson's witty and humorous observations about the widely spread (and, happily, premature) announcement of his demise. And, of course, what Wilson masterpiece would be complete without synchronicities, religious fanatics, UFOs, crop circles, paranoia, pompous scientists, secret societies, high tech, black magic, quantum physics, hoaxes (real and fake), Orson Welles, James Joyce, Carl Sagan, Madonna, and The Vagina of Nuit. ...
|  | Dawn Of Change
Publication Date: February 1, 2005Susan Sterling wanted nothing more than to escape her life... and her marriage. The family's secluded cabin in Kings Canyon National Park seemed the only place for her to find peace. But it took Shawn Weber coming into her life for her to find the courage to make changes. The budding friendship between the two women strengthens into an intense emotional bond, a bond that soon eclipses friendship. Despite pressure from her family to reconcile with her husband, Susan can't deny the feelings that Shawn stirs in her. Susan finds she's willing to forsake her enti...
|  | The Genial Idiot
Publication Date: April 11, 2011First published in 1908.Bangs was an American author, editor and satirist. ...
|  | Assegai
Release Date: May 12, 2009Wilbur Smith has won acclaim worldwide as the master of the historical novel. Now, in Assegai he takes readers on an unforgettable African adventure set against the gathering clouds of war. It is 1913 and Leon Courtney, an ex-soldier turned professional hunter in British East Africa, guides the rich and powerful from America and Europe on big-game safaris. Leon had never sought fame, but an expedition alongside U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has made him one of the most sought-after hunters on the...
|  | Whitman's Men: Walt Whitman's Calamus Poems Celebrated by Contemporary Photographers
Release Date: May 15, 1996Walt Whitman's Calamus Poem, "thehomoerotic poems" as seen and celebrated by some of today's top contemporary photographers, some using old classical tones in sepia and blue wash.Breathtakingly beautiful in combination with the words of Whitman. ...
|  | No More Masks! an Anthology of Poems by Women
Publication Date: April 1973"This volume presents for the first time the continuing tradition feminist consciousness as expressed in poetry by women." ...
|  | Borrowed Water A Book of American Haiku
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|  | Xian Qin Han Wei Jin Nan Bei chao shi jia ju lei dian (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier (Library of Latin America)
Publication Date: October 29, 1998| Series: Library of Latin America On December 12, 1794, Fray Servando Teresa de Mier preached a sermon in Mexico City that led to his arrest by the Inquisition. He was exiled to Spain--only to escape and spend ten years traveling throughout Europe, as none other than a French priest. So began the grand adventure of Fray Servando's life, and of this gripping memoir. Here is an invitation hard for any reader to resist: a glimpse of the European "Age of Enlightenment" through the eyes of a fugitive Mexican friar. In this memoir, one sees a portrait of manners ...
|  | Halfway To Half Way (Hannah Garvey Mysteries #5)
Publication Date: May 1, 2007Hannah Garvey, the resident manager of Valhalla Springs, an exclusive retirement community, thought she had this love thing all sewn up. She's engaged to David Hendrickson, the hunky Kinderhook County sheriff, and thinks the future looks pretty rosy--until one of Sanity, Missouri's most esteemed citizens becomes the county's latest homicide victim.Meanwhile, Delbert Bisbee and his gang of senior gumshoes are driving Hannah nuts, doling out advice, delving into an old missing-persons case and digging dirt where they don't belong. Literally. And no matter what they...
|  | The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics)
Release Date: December 4, 2007| Series: Signet Classics The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. Dostoyevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner, but he died fewer than four months after its publication.The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that explores deep into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spir...
|  | The Day of the Jackal
Publication Date: 2007The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a thriller novel by English writer Frederick Forsyth, about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French terrorist group of the early 1960s, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France. ...
|  | Octopussy,
Publication Date: 1967In paperback by Signet Books, NAL, First time in this format, stated. #P3200. Contains the last great adventures of james bond 007: OCTOPUSSY; THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS; THE PROPERTY OF A LADY. ...
|  | Ngaio Marsh: A Life
Publication Date: May 1, 1998Ngaio Marsh, a died-in-the-wool New Zealander, wrote more than thirty polished, quintessentially English detective novels between 1934 and 1982, the year of her death. How did she, in some senses an outsider, do it? To say would give away the story of her life, better read in these pages than told. But those who have already met her elegant sleuth Roderick Alleyn know he, too, kept his footing in diverse plots, managing the local idiom whether crime cracking in Britain, on the continent, or in New Zealand. Marsh's talent was as varied as her heritage. A gifted ar...
|  | Magic Tree House #43: Leprechaun in Late Winter (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))
Release Date: January 24, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | La Montana del Alimento / The Legend of Food Mountain
Publication Date: April 1987| Age Level: 4 and up An Aztec legend recounting how a giant red ant helped the ancient god, Quetzalcoatl, bring corn to the first hungry people of the earth. ...
|  | Bill Pennant, Babe Ruth, and Me
Publication Date: March 12, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up At the start of the 1920 baseball season, 16-year-old Hank Cobb is assigned to train the New York Giants’ new mascot, a Mexican wildcat named Bill Pennant. Bill’s not too trainable, though, even with the help of sardines and mice. And if Hank can’t handle a cat, how can he handle his next charge, an undisciplined slugger for the Yankees named Babe Ruth? Ruth’s manager asks Hank to keep an eye on Ruth, and since both teams play at the same stadium, it’s doable. But is it wise? A disastr...
|  | A Guide Through Narnia
Publication Date: July 1, 2004A Guide Through Narnia was one of the first in-depth studies of C.S. Lewis's seven Chronicles of Narnia. The focus and organization of this revised and expanded edition is on why Lewis wrote the books as fairy tales, the best "Form" for his ideas. It is written for both students and scholars who want to expand their understanding of these popular classics.Chapters include:-Seeing Pictures: How the books were written, chronological summaries,publication history-Selecting the Ideal Form: Why Lewis chose the fairy tale form, fairy taleelements and style-Seeing Man ...
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