 | Introduction to Literature, An (Second Printing) (15th Edition)
Publication Date: June 29, 2008| ISBN-10: 0205668372 | ISBN-13: 978-0205668373| Edition: 15 A market leader for more than 30 years, this paperback anthology continues to uphold the traditions that have made it a success— a rich blend of both classic and contemporary selections as well as Barnet’s signature “how-to” apparatus that covers the elements of literature and the writing process. The new edition features more student essays than any other anthology giving students a deep reservoir of writing models to learn from including argument papers and fi...
 |  | Stealing Candy (Zane Presents)
Release Date: July 6, 2010| Series: Zane Presents Forced teen prostitution in America is on the rise and is being exposed through the media. Allison Hobbs offers a provocative look into the lives of three young girls who have been forced into sex slavery by a homicidal pimp, and the one woman who risks everything to try and save their lives. Stealing Candy by Allison Hobbs is a shocking novel about human sex trafficking. Three teenage girls from very different backgrounds have been abducted by a pimp who refers to them as “his candy” while treating them with cruelty and contempt....
|  | Real Vampires Don't Wear Size Six
Release Date: August 2, 2011| Series: Real Vampires For a vampire, losing weight can be hellish-from the national bestselling author of Real Vampires Hate Their Thighs.After Glory St. Clair kicked out the demon that had set up shop in her body, she had a serious fallout with longtime lover Jeremy Blade. But before Glory can win him back, she has some issues of the hellish variety to deal with. When Lucifer himself offers Glory the ultimate temptation-work for the devil and he'll make her a size six-the curvy vampire's not sure if she can resist. But what Glory does know is that somehow, sh...
|  | Deux femmes un soir: Roman (French Edition)
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|  | Under the Cajun Moon
Publication Date: September 1, 2009What Secrets Can Be Found by the Light of the Cajun Moon?New Orleans may be the "Big Easy," but nothing about it was ever easy for international business etiquette expert Chloe Ledet. She moved away years ago, leaving her parents and their famous French Quarter restaurant behind. But when she hears that her father has been shot, she races home to be by his side and to handle his affairs--only to learn a long-hidden secret that changes everything she knew to be true about herself and her family.Framed for murder, Chloe and a handsome Cajun stranger must sear...
|  | Big Brown Bap Monster (Mona the Vampire)
Publication Date: March 29, 2001| Series: Mona the Vampire TV tie-in editions of the original Mona the Vampire stories: Tinned Poltergeist - Disappearing keys and chairs moving can only mean one thing - a poltergeist! Jackpot Disaster - Angela's father hits the jackpot and Angela turns horrible overnight. Hairy Hands - Charley disappears after crashing his bike, the Hairy Hands must have grabbed him! Big Brown Bap Monster - The last bun in the bag transforms into the Big Brown Bap Monster! Mona the Vampire was screened in the UK on Nickelodeon in Autumn 1999 and BBC 1 in Spring 2000. ...
|  | Mosig at last: A Psychologist Looks at H.P. Lovecraft
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|  | From Ritual to Romance
Publication Date: November 2, 2011Landmark of anthropological and mythological scholarship explores Grail legend, uniting its folkloric and Christian elements by using printed texts to prove the parallels existing between every feature of the legend of the Holy Grail and the recorded symbolism of ancient Mystery cults. A major source for Eliot's The Waste Land. ...
|  | Harold Prince and the American Musical Theater (Directors in Perspective)
Publication Date: March 31, 1989| Series: Directors in Perspective This account of Prince's unique contributions to the American theatrical world--controversial subjects, innovative music, and theatrical stage design--is enhanced by extensive interviews, rare photos and exhaustive backstage material. ...
|  | The Lion and the Throne: Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Vol. 1
Publication Date: October 1, 1997Among the masterpieces of world literature, perhaps the least familiar to English readers is the Persian book of Kings (Shahnameh, in Persian). This prodigious national epic, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between 980 and 1010, tells the story of ancient Persia, beginning in the mythic time of Creation and continuing forward to the Arab-Islamic invasion in the 7th century. Translator Dick Davis combines his skills as a poet and a Ferdowsi scholar to evoke the metrical music, impact, and nuance of Ferdowsis monumental poem. Breathtaking miniatures from the fine...
| | Around Africa: From the Pillars of Hercules to the Strait of Gibraltar
Publication Date: February 7, 1994Following in the wake of Vasco de Gama, Peter Marshall set off in early 1992 to circumnavigate the huge continent of Africa. Having been warned that he might never make it, he found himself travelling on a wide variety of craft, ranging from a Portuguese caravelle, a Moroccan fishing boat, French, German, Greek and Polish container ships, a sanctions-busting South African cargo ship and a Swahili dhow to an Italian cruise ship. On his way, he went deep into the interior of many countries, spending time with drummers in Senegal, pygmies in Cameroon, NC milita...
|  | Mission Road
Release Date: February 28, 2006From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series The triple-crown winner of mystery’s most prestigious awards–the Edgar, the Anthony,and the Shamus–Rick Riordan blasted onto the crime scene with one of its freshestand most intriguing protagonists, Tres Navarre.In Mission Road, Navarre returnsin a wrenching crime drama in which he must revisit the sins of the past to catcha killer about to get away with murder…again.San Antonio private investigator TresNavarre is used to working on the e...
|  | The Sempster's Tale (Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries)
Release Date: January 2, 2007TRAPPED BY REBELS, THREATENED BY THE INQUISITION... AND A GOLDEN FORTUNE IN THE BALANCE!Sincethe death of her husband, Anne Blakhall has carried on their shared business as a tailor and embroiderer in the heart of London. Rather thanremarry as prosperous London widows usually do, she has taken a lover -David Weir, a foreign merchant who is secretly a Jew and therefore in constant deadly peril so long as he remains in England, where Jews have been banished for over a hundred years. Anne, sharing in his secrets, knows that both his life and hers would be forfeit if...
|  | Ain't Myth-behaving: Two Novellas
Release Date: September 25, 2007A modern woman and a god from ancient legend? Surely an epic love mismatch...or maybe it's the "myth match" of the century? The irrepressible Katie MacAlister brings us heroes who are more than mere mortals in two sparkling new novellas of the Otherworld. STAG PARTYDane Hearne -- also known as the Irish fertility god Cernunnos -- must choose a bride quickly. His long-time goddess has run off with a salsa dancer, and Dane must be married by Beltane, just a week away, or become a mortal -- and die. When he meets American travel writer Megan St. Clair, he knows...
|  | The Origins of the American Detective Story
Publication Date: September 8, 2006| ISBN-10: 0786427760 | ISBN-13: 978-0786427765Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in America saw no significant progress as a literary genre. Much to the dismay of moral crusaders like Anthony Comstock, dime novels and other sensationalist publications satisfied the public’s hunger for a yarn. Things changed as the century waned, and eventually the detective was reborn as a figure of American literature. In part these changes were du...
|  | City of Glass (New York Trilogy)
Release Date: April 7, 1987| Series: New York Trilogy (Book 1) Nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year, City of Glass inaugurates an intriguing New York Trilogy of novels that The Washington Post Book World has classified as "post-existentialist private eye...It's as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version." As a result of a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written. Written with hallucinatory clarity, City of Gl...
|  | The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story
Release Date: April 10, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upWhen Buddy Stebbins stumbles onto the thirteenth floor of a shabby old building, he finds himself suddenly transported aboard a leaking pirate ship in a howling storm—three hundred years in the past! Cast adrift with Captain John Crack-stone, Buddy washes up in New England, where his plucky ancestor, Abigail, is caught up in the witchcraft mania. In an adventure filled with ghosts, witches, pirates, and razzle-dazzle treasure, Buddy might be able to save his wayward ancestors. But will he find his way back to th...
|  | Scream Street: Fang of the Vampire (Book #1)
Release Date: August 25, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Ultimate Spider-Man, Vol. 7
Publication Date: October 4, 2006| Grade Level: 4 and up This deluxe hardcover collects Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 13: Hobgoblin and Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 14: Warriors, plus extras. In Hobgoblin, it's the terrifying debut of the Ultimate Hobgoblin as Harry Osborn returns to Midtown High harboring a dark secret that will affect the lives of all those around him - especially his best friend, Peter Parker. And where does Harry's father - Norman Osborn, a.k.a. the Green Goblin - fit into all this? And in Warriors, the Gang War to end all Gang Wars begins! The Kingpin is in retreat, and that kin...
|  | Steven Gerrard (World Cup Heroes)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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