 | Ray of Hope
Release Date: December 28, 2010Grandmother Ma Ray, a churchgoing woman with a mysterious past, steers her two reckless granddaughters away from trouble with her smarts, savvy--and the Word of God...Troublesome teen sisters Sahara and Crystal Nichols are acting up, and their risqué behavior is more than their mother Lenora can handle. Enter the girls' 75-year-old churchgoing grandmother, Ma Ray, who agrees to take charge of the young women. She's determined to turn their lives around--and knows more about being a bad girl than either sister bargained for...Sahara and Crystal don't realiz...
 |  | Loving Frank: A Novel
Release Date: April 8, 2008I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock Chicago s...
|  | Ruby River
Publication Date: September 2002Warm and sensuous, Lynn Pruett's debut novel crackles with the energy of strong, colorful characters whose lives are continually colliding. Chronicling the life of a young widowed mother trying to raise four girls while running a truck stop in the small Alabama town of Maridoches, Ruby River is a poignant, uplifting story by a writer of extraordinary generosity of spirit and earthy wit. In the blistering heat of summer, Hattie Bohannon has just opened a truck stop -- a magnet for transients of questionable background and inclination, some say, and an uneasy pr...
|  | Eyrbyggja Saga (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: June 6, 1989| Series: Penguin Classics This is an Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized society. ...
|  | Nightshade: A Novella
Publication Date: March 15, 2012Assassin, Bronwynne St. Just has a knack for finding trouble, usually in the form of a beautiful woman. After fulfilling a haunting contract on her sister’s childhood friend and former employee, she takes off for the Caribbean and business as usual; but danger waits for her in the most unexpected places. With an endless appetite for luscious variety, Wynne courts danger and pleasure from all corners of the globe. But she must wrestle with her own demons as she trades kisses and blows with some of the deadliest women in the business. She’s been lucky in all her...
|  | The Straight Mind: And Other Essays
Release Date: February 3, 1992| ISBN-10: 0807079170 | ISBN-13: 978-0807079171These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writing from the acclaimed novelist and French feminist writer Monique Wittig. ...
|  | Blake: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: October 18, 1994| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Blake contains a full selection of Blake's work, including Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, poems from Blake's Ms. book, poems from The Prophetic Books, and an index of first lines. ...
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|  | Poetics Of The Pretext: Reading Lautreamont (EUROPEAN LITERATURE)
Publication Date: January 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0859894983 | ISBN-13: 978-0859894982| Edition: 1 Poetics of the Pretext is an original study of the French poet Lautréamont (1846-1870), who was rediscovered by the Surrealists in the 1920s and promoted to the vanguard of theoretical debate by the 'Telquelists' of the 1960s, but whose work has remained largely ignored or misinterpreted beyond a small circle of enthusiasts. Poetics of the Pretext analyses closely the texts, pretexts and intertexts of this innovative poet, bringing Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies to the foregrou...
|  | A Bilingual Edition of the Major Epics of Victor Hugo Volume II (Studies in French Literature)
Publication Date: March 2002| ISBN-10: 0773472045 | ISBN-13: 978-0773472044| Edition: Bilingual Victor Hugo's epic trilogy - "La legende des siecles", "La fin de Satan", and "Dieu" - is often said to contain his finest literary achievements. This volume contains the 10 best-known longer epics from the trilogy, supplemented by relevant shorter poems and unfinished fragments. ...
|  | Rita Dove's Cosmopolitanism: Poems
Publication Date: June 9, 2003Pulitzer Prize-winner and former poet laureate of the United States, Rita Dove has written prolifically since the early 1970s. In this, the first full-length critical study of her entire body of work by an American scholar, Malin Pereira traces the development of Dove's literary voice, looking at the ways she combines racial specificity with the perspective of the unraced universal. Pereira examines Dove's poetry, fiction, drama, and literary criticism closely and chronologically, charting her path through the racially charged culture wars of the 1970s and 1980s...
| | Yeats Folklore and Occultism
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| | Xin shi dai ge shou: Lun He Jingzhi, Guo Xiaochuan, Wen Jie di shi (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | The Accident (Thorndike Thrillers)
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| | Essence of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 (Chinese Edition)
Publication Date: January 9, 2010Essence of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 ...
|  | Binky the Space Cat (A Binky Adventure)
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | The City of Ember (The First Book of Ember)
Release Date: May 25, 2004| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are beginning to flicker. When Lina finds part of an ancient message, she’s sure it holds a secret that will save the city. She and her friend Doon must decipher the message before the lights go out on Ember forever! This stunning debut novel offers refreshingly clear writing and fascinating, original characters. ...
|  | Kayaking (Outdoor Adventures (Weigl Hardcover))
Publication Date: July 1, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Voting Rights Days (Hitty's Travels)
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|  | I Can Draw It Myself, By Me, Myself
Release Date: May 24, 2011| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Budding artistes and Seuss fans will be delighted to get their hands on this newly reissued backlist classic—now with with four primary color crayons blister-packed to the front cover! The 18 full-color drawings in I Can Draw It Myself by Me, Myself are unfinished. Some are missing small things, like feet or fingers or noses or toes. Some are missing big things, like the whole front of a Hamika-Snamik-Bamika-Bunt. It's up to the reader to add what is missing. So whether kids are beginner or advanced colorers, ther...
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