 | Haiku: The Last Poems of an American Icon
Publication Date: February 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 1611453496 | ISBN-13: 978-1611453492| Edition: 1 The haiku of acclaimed novelist Richard Wright, written at the end of his life.Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed Native Son and Black Boy, discovered the haiku in the last eighteen months of life. He attempted to capture, through his sensibility as an African-American, the elusive Zen discipline and beauty in depicting man’s relationship, not only to his fellow man as he had in the raw and forceful prose of his fi...
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 | Edge of Honor
Release Date: November 22, 2001A powerful novel of honor, forgiveness, and unquenchable faith--set at the end of the Civil War. Quentin Larribee is a surgeon, but in the confusion at the end of the Civil War, his healing hands brought death to an enemy soldier. To ease his troubled conscience, he visits the man's impoverished widow, only to find himself falling in love. Now he is torn between two choices: a bright medical future with his wealthy fiancee in New York City, or an impossible love with a woman who knows nothing of his terrible secret. In this unforgettable novel, good is found in...
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 | The Fall of Babylon: SPOOKS, Vol. 1
Publication Date: September 16, 2012| Series: Spooks 1895. Members of the East Coast elite have died under mysterious circumstances. To investigate this delicate problem, Richard Clayton—against the wishes of the President—calls upon a man named Morton Chapel for his unorthodox methods and peculiar associates. As they begin to uncover strange, vanishing marks on people’s bodies, unexplained changes in behaviour and hints of widespread corruption, the team reforms around the name Ulysses S. Grant himself gave it years earlier: his SPecialists in the Odd and the OCcult—...
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 | Leavings
Publication Date: October 1997Back cover states, "Not since Rod Serling terrified an entire generation with his 'Twilight Zone' series has anyone tapped into the well of fear that exists inside the human soul the way P.D. Cacek does..." ...
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 | Blue's Bayou: A Michel Doucette & Sassy Jones Mystery
Publication Date: September 20, 2011When his cousin Verle is accused of murder, private investigator Michel Doucette heads to the small town of Bayou Proche to help prove Verle’s innocence. In the process, he uncovers a blackmail plot against one of Verle’s closest friends, and an apparent conspiracy to gain control of the mineral rights to Verle’s land in the Atchafalaya Basin. He is also forced to finally confront painful memories from his own childhood."Blue’s Bayou" is the fourth novel featuring detectives Michel Doucette and Sassy Jones. The second, "Echoes,"...
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 | The Four Ancient Books of Wales (Forgotten Books)
Publication Date: November 26, 2007Book Description: "This is William Skene's anthology of dark-age Welsh Bardic poetry. Often cited, but difficult to obtain, this book contains every remaining piece of Bardic poetry known. The poems are translated from four manuscripts: the Black Book of Caermarthen, the Red Book of Hergest (which is also the source of the Mabinogion), the Book of Taliessin and the Book of Aneurin, all of which date from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries C.E. The poems themselves date from much earlier, probably from the sixth century by internal evidence.This corpus i...
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 | On the Trail Made of Dawn: American Indian Creation Myths
Publication Date: September 2001| Age Level: 9 and up When knowledge was passed from generation to generationthrough story, early peoples in North America gathered to hear of howtheir world came to be. Their elders spoke of fundamental oncerns of alife lived close to the earth: the origin of the winds, or the stars,or the seasons; where night and day came from; how the first human, oranimals, took breath and a rightful place in the world.This book contains thirteen such creation stories retold simply andpowerfully for young children. The Eskimo, Tlingit, Maidu, Makah,Cree, Navajo, Hopi, Osag...
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 | Ironic Drama: A Study of Euripides' Method and Meaning
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 | The Collins Book of Love Poems/from the 16th Century to the Present Day
Publication Date: February 1991A companion volume to "The Collins Book of Best Loved Verse", this work includes love poems from the 16th century to the present day. The poets included range from Sir Philip Sidney to Raymond Carver. ...
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 | Neruda: La Biografia Literaria (Seix Barral Biblioteca Breve) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Further Convictions Pending: Poems 1998-2008
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0864736061 | ISBN-13: 978-0864736062This definitive collection of celebrated poetry displays the wit, intellectual agility, and arresting beauty for which O’Sullivan is renowned. ...
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| Han fu yan jiu (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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 | Herodotus in Context: Ethnography, Science and the Art of Persuasion
Publication Date: August 12, 2002| ISBN-10: 0521012414 | ISBN-13: 978-0521012416This book examines the Histories of Herodotus within the context of the intellectual climate of the mid to late fifth century BC. Herodotus is read widely for his accounts of archaic Greek history but his descriptions of Egypt, Scythia and Libya are equally fascinating. Rosalind Thomas concentrates on the latter, along with Herodotus' accounts of the wonders of nature and his methods of convincing his audiences, seeing these as part of the world of scientific inquiry and controversy more familiar from the nat...
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 | The Text and Beyond: Essays in Literary Linguistics
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 | Pursuit of Leisure: Victorian Depictions of Pastimes
Publication Date: January 1998Victorian genre painting remains a relativel y under-investigated field. This study brings to light the i ngenuity and sharpness of observation exhibited in these Vic torian ''leisure pictures'' which are well worth rediscovery. ' ...
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 | Lie Down With Lions
Release Date: December 2, 2003The #1 international bestseller set in Afghanistan...NOW IN TRADE PAPERBACK.“Vintage Follett…This is his most ambitious novel and itsucceeds admirably.” —USA Today“May be Ken Follett’s finest yet…The suspense mounts as swiftly as Afghan villagers running to escape Russian guns—and the pages will turn just as fast.” —Cosmopolitan...
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 | Lasso the Moon: Book One in the Wild West Romance Series
Publication Date: February 1, 2006| Series: Wild West Romance Motivated by a childhood promise, Paris Garrett travels to the wilds of Arizona Territory to seek fame as a stage actress. Never mind that she doesn't possess a lick of experience or that her true passion is songwriting. Before he died, her beloved papa encouraged her to reach for the stars. She promised to lasso the moon! She's already slipped free of her over-protective brothers. Nothing and no one, especially some badge-wearing Romeo, is going to rein her in or stand in her way. Joshua Grant's life went from diamonds to dirt in...
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 | Disney Scary Storybook Collection (Disney Storybook Collections)
Release Date: July 15, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | Vintage Car Racing (Fast Tracks)
Publication Date: January 1, 1999| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Ice Skating (Sports Injuries: How to Prevent, Diagnose & Treat)
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