 | Hard Night
Publication Date: May 1, 2005Make no mistake: Christian Wiman’s poetic endeavors are ambitious. From the personal lyrics of solitude and loss to “Being Serious,” the long poem that concludes Hard Night, his poems examine emotions clearly, without sentimentality. A profound reverence for form and passion for poetry are evident in these artfully shaped poems that contain and find meaning in the unwieldy and inexplicable. Just as he is doing as the new editor of Poetry, Wiman makes intellectually and emotionally engaged writing accessible to an expanding audience of readers.Ch...
 |  | Daughters of the Witching Hill
Publication Date: January 5, 2011Daughters of theWitching Hill brings history to life in a vivid and wrenching account of a family sustained by love as they try to survive the hysteria of a witch-hunt. Bess Southerns, an impoverished widow living in Pendle Forest, is haunted by visions and gains a reputation as a cunning woman. Drawing on the Catholic folk magic of her youth, Bess heals the sick and foretells the future. As she ages, she instructs her granddaughter, Alizon, in her craft, as well as her best friend, who ultimately turns to dark magic. When a peddler suffers a stroke after exc...
|  | Stern
Publication Date: February 27, 2001Grove Press continues the reissue of Bruce Jay Friedman's critically acclaimed fiction with two classic novels by the comedic genius. Friedman's first novel, Stern, tells the story of a young Jewish man who relocates his family from the city to the suburbs, where they are besieged by voracious caterpillars and a bigotry that ranges from the genteel snub to outright confrontation. ...
|  | Terra Nova : Settling the Red Planet
Publication Date: January 15, 2005If you think space travel to Mars is just dream, think again! Thelma Ritchie makes those dreams come alive and takes you on the adventure of a lifetime! ...
|  | Diplomatic Immunity: A Novel of suspense
Release Date: May 1, 2001Four cassettes, 6 hrs.Performance by Frank MullerWhen special envoy Toshio Hatanaka is murdered in the basement of the UN, Sam Windrush, First Deputy in UN Legal Affairs, has only one week to solve the crime before the Secretary General is forced to hand the case over to the NYPD. Three years ago, Sam and Toshio had found their lives linked by a devastating tragedy that left Sam a widower with a daughter to raise. Now, capturing Toshio's killer becomes his personal crusade.As Sam digs into his friend's personal and professional lives, he soon uncovers a complicated w...
|  | No Irish Need Apply
Publication Date: March 11, 2008Kevin Borden has a secret, and that secret is about to shake the world around him - a tame and suburban world ruled by his widow mother, Sarah and peppered by his study-mate, Louis. Teenagers sometimes do the darndest things, but in Kevin and Louis' case, it's a stroke of wisdom wrapped in fool's gold. In a time not so long ago, in the days of JIM CROW and NO IRISH NEED APPLY signage, the world made it clear to those regarded as the fringe. "Stay away." To those who know no better - or perhaps know best, such lines are only meant to be crossed, or why else wou...
|  | Water: A Novel
Publication Date: April 28, 2006The renowned author Bapsi Sidhwa and the equally renowned filmmaker Deepa Mehta share a unique artistic relationship: Mehta adapted Sidhwa’s novel Cracking India for her brilliant film Earth, and here, Sidhwa adapts Mehta’s controversial film Water to the printed page.Set in 1938, against the backdrop of Gandhi’s rise to power, Water follows the life of eight-year-old Chuyia, abandoned at a widow’s ashram after the death of her elderly husband. There, she must live in penitence until her death. Unwilling to accept her fate, she beco...
|  | The Tall Stranger
Release Date: July 1, 1986Wagon trains heading west were forced to defend themselves against Indians, cope with injuries and illness, and struggle to find food. The group of easterners Rock Bannon was scouting for faced another problem. They were being deceived. When he warned them to remain on the Humboldt Trail, Sharon Crockett and the others refused to listen. Mort Harper, a stranger riding a beautiful black mare, had dazzled them with his charm and good looks. The southern route was the best way to go, Harper told them. But best for whom? Bannon wondered. That route led straight to the S...
|  | Nobody's Angel
Release Date: November 12, 1986Patrick Fitzpatrick is a former soldier, a fourth-generation cowboy, and a whiskey addict. His grandfather wants to run away to act in movies, his sister wants to burn the house down, and his new stallion is bent on killing him: all of them urgently require attention. But increasingly Patrick himself is spiraling out of control, into that region of romantic misadventure and vanishing possibilities that is Thomas McGuane's Montana. Nowhere has McGuane mapped that territory more precisely -- or with such tenderhearted lunacy -- than in Nobody's Angel, a novel tha...
|  | The Decameron (Signet Classics)
Release Date: December 7, 2010| Series: Signet Classics Set against the background of the Black Death of 1348, Giovanni Boccaccio's undisputed masterpiece recaptures both the tragedies and comedies of medieval life and is surely one of the greatest achievements in the history of literature. ...
|  | String of Beads: Complete Poems of Princess Shikishi (Shaps Library of Translations)
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|  | Encounters with Cold Mountain: Poems by Han Shan
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|  | A Second Book of Russian Verse
Publication Date: June 28, 1971| ISBN-10: 0837148146 | ISBN-13: 978-0837148144A sequel to the first volume, this new volume contains pieces both from a number of poets not represented and from among poets who have risen to prominence since 1917. ...
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|  | The Cultural Context of Medieval Music (Praeger Series on the Middle Ages)
Publication Date: November 2, 2011| Series: Praeger Series on the Middle Ages Nancy van Deusen's The Cultural Context of Medieval Music addresses the mental landscape surrounding music that, especially, was sung and experienced in the Middle Ages. Largely anonymous in its composition, and apparently lacking the motivation of fame and commerce, music within a well thought-out system of education served a purpose that goes far beyond casual entertainment or personal professional advancement. Offering experience through performance, music exemplified the basic principles not only of the materia...
|  | Love Letters: Hearts Of Gold\Masquerade\To Love Again (Arabesque)
Publication Date: February 1, 2000| Series: Arabesque In "Hearts of Gold," a jilted lover rekindles lost love; whilein "Masquerade," a shy editor finds the man of her dreams on theInternet; and in "To Love Again," a revelation helps a widow let go ofthe past. Original. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Death Match
Release Date: October 31, 2006Everyone’s looking for the perfect match, a life-long partner, and Lewis and Lindsay Thorpe have found theirs, thanks to hi-tech matchmaker Eden Inc. But when the happy couple’s life together ends in what looks like a double suicide, Eden Inc. has some explaining to do. So they hire forensic psychologist Christopher Lash to figure out what went wrong. And then another perfect match ends in death... ...
|  | A False Mirror (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries)
Release Date: January 9, 2007| Series: Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries Hampton Regis is a small harbor town on the southern coast of England, a place with an ancient history but long since passed over by its larger neighbors. There, in the year after World War I has ended, a tragedy is in the making - a woman-s husband has been attacked and badly injured and the suspect, the man she loved before he left to go to war, has taken the wife and her maid as hostages. The desperate man, Stephen, threatens to kill the hostages unless the local police bring in a man he knew in the trenches - Scotlan...
|  | Bartholomew and the Oobleck: (Caldecott Honor Book) (Classic Seuss)
Release Date: October 12, 1949| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Betrayal (2099)
Publication Date: November 1999| Age Level: 8 and up...
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