 | Norton Anthology of Western Music (Sixth Edition)(Vol. 1: Ancient to Baroque)
Publication Date: February 2, 2009| ISBN-10: 0393931269 | ISBN-13: 978-0393931266| Edition: Sixth Edition This comprehensive collection of 205 scores illustrates every significant trend and genre of Western music from antiquity to modern times.Highlights of the repertoire include new worksfrom all periods: more contrasting virelais,ballades, and other chansons from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries; large-scalechoral works, including Gabrieli’s Inecclesiis, Lully’s Te Deum,Haydn’s Creation, and Prokofiev’sAlexander Nevsky; more opera, including No...
 |  | Our Lady of the Night: A Novel
Release Date: August 11, 2009The epic story of the complex, sensual, tragic, and remarkable life of a legendary Puerto Rican madamBorn into poverty and then abandoned by her mother, Isabel "La Negra" Luberza blossoms into a supremely sensual young woman. Obsessed with attaining aristocratic status—armed with incredible physical presence, indomitable ambition, and keen intelligence—she meets Fernando FornarÍs, the man who will forever change her life. With a parcel of land given to her by her rich, white married lover, Isabel transforms herself into a hard-edged and merci...
|  | Nappily Ever After: A Novel
Release Date: December 26, 2001Venus Johnston has a great job, a beautiful home, and a loving live-in boyfriend named Clint, who happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous doctor. She also has a weekly beauty-parlor date with Tina, who keeps her long, processed hair slick and straight. Ever since childhood, the tedious hours in the salon and harsh, burning chemicals have grated on Venus, and increasingly, she dreams of cutting off her beautiful “good” hair. When her boyfriend keeps balking at commitment, and the thought of another hour at the salon is just too much, Venus decides to give...
|  | Courting Miss Amsel
Publication Date: January 1, 2011Edythe Amsel is delighted with her first teaching assignment: a one-room schoolhouse in Walnut Hill, Nebraska. Independent, headstrong, and a strong believer in a well-rounded education, Edythe is ready to open the world to the students in this tiny community. But is Walnut Hill ready for her?Joel Townsend is thrilled to learn the town council hired a female teacher to replace the ruthless man who terrorized his nephews for the past two years. Having raised the boys on his own since their parents' untimely deaths, Joel believes they will benefit from a woman'...
|  | Lost On Planet M-142
Publication Date: September 21, 2011Novel 3 in the Jaguar and Peacock Novel Series. Federal Agent Jessa Masters went undercover on the Planet M-42. Suddenly, her communication with her starvessel is lost. Then someone bombs the business district on the planet. She knows that the cult leader who is being accused of the crime is innocent. How far will Jessa go to prove it? ...
|  | Chasing the Night (Eve Duncan)
Release Date: October 19, 2010| Series: Eve Duncan A CIA agent’s two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is never coming back. But she can’t. Catherine needs to find someone as driven and obsessed as she is to help her— and that person is Eve Duncan. She knows that Eve shares her nightmare, since closure is also something that eludes Eve after the disappearance of her daug...
|  | The Mandalorian Armor (Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Wars, Book 1)
Release Date: June 1, 1998He's the most feared and successful bounty hunter in the galaxy. He is Boba Fett, and even the most hardened criminals tremble at his name. Now he faces the deadliest challenge of his infamous career--an all-out war against his most dangerous enemies.As the Rebellion gathers force, Prince Xizor proposes a cunning plan to the Emperor and Darth Vader: smash the power of the Bounty Hunters Guild by turning its members against each other. Only the strongest and most ruthless will survive, and they can be used against the Rebellion. It's a job for the fiercely independen...
|  | Soul: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: December 4, 2007| Series: New York Review Books Classics A New York Review Books OriginalThe Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime. In recent decades, however, these lost works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of Platonov’s vision have become ever more clear. For Nadezhda Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky, Platonov was the writer who most profoundly registered the spiritual shock of revolution. For a new generation of innovative post-Soviet Russian writers he figures as a daring explorer of word an...
|  | Last Night
Release Date: March 14, 2006Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion–by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating. These ten powerful stories portray men and women in their most intimate moments. A lover of poetry is asked by his wife to give up what may be his most treasured relationship. A book dealer is forced to face the truth about his life. And in the title story, a translator assists his wife’s suicide, even as he performs a last act of betrayal. James Salter’s assured style and emotional insight make him on...
|  | 7Prose
Publication Date: May 19, 2010| ISBN-10: 1934851175 | ISBN-13: 978-1934851173Literary Nonfiction. Marick Press is happy to be publisher of Franz Wright's very first book of prose, some of it narrative, some of it dramatic, some of it highly lyrical, and much of it verging on the unclassifiable. This chapbook of seven of his prose pieces presages the publication by Knopf of Kindertotenwald, his collection of sixty-five prose pieces, in October of 2011. Those familiar with Wright's work will find many of the preoccupations and obsessions of his lyric poems present in his prose, but present...
|  | Eclipses of the Sun - A Book of Poems
Publication Date: 2004Portia Love-King's first published book of poetry. The book is filled with touching, beautiful, sometimes heart-breaking images. Portia has her own unique & original way of viewing life, love & the Black experience. Portia Love-King currently lives in Omaha, Nebraska. She has been writing poetry since she was 13 years old and one of the poems in this book was written when she was 15. portia said "writing has always been a great love of mine. In my poetry, it's important to me to create something that can reach every person, young, old, male or female." Portia is current...
|  | Struwwelpeter in English Translation (Dover Children's Classics)
Publication Date: April 7, 1995| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
Release Date: September 30, 2008In The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, a Book Sense selection, Lewis Buzbee celebrates the unique experience of the bookstore—the smell and touch of books, the joy of getting lost in the deep canyons of shelves, and the silent community of readers. He shares his passion for books, which began with ordering through the Weekly Reader in grade school. Woven throughout is a fascinating historical account of the bookseller trade—from the great Alexandria library to Sylvia Beach’s famous Paris bookstore, Shakespeare & Co. Rich with anecdotes, The Yell...
|  | Notes from Underground; The Double (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: July 30, 1972| Series: Penguin Classics ‘It is best to do nothing! The best thing is conscious inertia! So long live the underground!’Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky’s groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter sarcasm, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the ‘ant-hill’ of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence ‘underground’. The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmar...
|  | Reader's Digest Best Loved Book for Young Readers Vol. 4: The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Great Cases of Sherlock Holmes - Abe Lincoln Grows Up - Lost Horizon
Publication Date: 1966Hardcover: 287 pages Publisher: The Reader's Digest Association; First Edition edition (1966 ...
|  | X-Men: Excalibur Classic, Vol. 2 - Two-Edged Sword
Publication Date: July 19, 2006| Grade Level: 4 and up The British mutant team's earliest incarnation is still trying to find its feet, only to fall headfirst into the Inferno! Meanwhile, Mojo's first batch of X-Babies escape to Earth, but Excalibur has much worse doppelgangers to deal with before the Cross Time Caper commences! Guest-starring the New Mutants! Featuring dinosaurs, demons, rock stars and royalty! Collects Excalibur #6-11 & Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem ...
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