 | Native American Literature: An Anthology
Publication Date: November 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0844259853 | ISBN-13: 978-0844259857| Edition: 1 This treasury of literature by Native American authors allows students to listen to the voices from America's first and oldest literature. More than fifty tribes from the U.S. and Canada are represented, giving readers opportunities to explore the diversity of authors' experiences through poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including the oral tradition. Two maps provide geographical context for the readings, one showing tribal locations and the other showing the Trail of Tears. ...
 |  | A Place of Greater Safety: A Novel
Release Date: November 14, 2006It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden--and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre, also a lawyer, is slight, diligent, and terrified of violence. His dearest friend, Camille Desmoulins, is a conspirator and pamphleteer of genius. A charming gadfly, erratic and untrustworthy, bisexual and beautiful, Camille is obsessed by one woman and engaged to marry another, her daughter. In the swells of revolution, they each taste the a...
|  | Monkeys
Release Date: August 8, 2000NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this luminous story of family life--the first novel by Susan Minot, author of the highly acclaimed Evening--the seven Vincent children follow their Catholic mother to Mass and spend Thanksgiving with their father's aging parents who come from a world of New England priviledge. As they grow older, they meet with the perplexing lives of adults. Susan Minot writes with delicacy and a tremendous gift for the details that decorate domestic life, and when tragedy strikes she beautifully mines the children's tenderness for each other, and their achi...
|  | Fire in the Blood (Vampire Files, No. 5)
Release Date: August 1, 1998Paperback: 198 pagesPublisher: Ace; First Edition edition (June 1, 1991)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0441859461ISBN-13: 978-0441859467Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.6 inchesShipping Weight: 4 ouncesAverage Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 starsSee all reviews (4 customer reviews)Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,553,473 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) ...
|  | Odes for Victorious Athletes (Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity)
Publication Date: August 3, 2010| ISBN-10: 0801895758 | ISBN-13: 978-0801895753| Edition: 1 You've just won the gold medal, what are you going to do? In Ancient Greece, your patron could throw a feast in your honor and have a poet write a hymn of praise to you. The great poet Pindar composed many such odes for victorious athletes. Esteemed classicist Anne Pippin Burnett presents a fresh and exuberant translation of Pindar's victory songs.The typical Pindaric ode reflects three separate moments: the instant of success in contest, the victory night with its disorderly revels, and the actua...
|  | Oratory in the Kings' Sagas-- norway
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|  | Caminho das asas (Volume 1) (Portuguese Edition)
Publication Date: June 10, 2012Para amigos da boa amizade, para quem nem mesmo conheço, para os amantes da liberdade deste mundo, para as boas novas da vida, para os jardins cobertos de flores, para o canto lindo dos passarinhos.Para todos que gostam de ler, para quem sempre encontra o que fazer, para o mundo da literatura e da arte em geral, para os pensadores, para quem aprecia a meditação, para quem ora por um mundo melhor.Para os bons caminhos de andar, para todas as cidades que amanhecem com sol de alegrias no ar, para as boas festas, para a simplicidade de viver, para a ...
| | Canto a Mi Mismo / Song of Myself (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1999For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays. Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde teatro, narrativa, poesía y el ensayo. --This text refers to the Paperback ed...
|  | El Silencio de los Inocentes (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 6, 2011Estos poemas nacen en medio de unainvestigación del sincretismo religiosodominicano y encarnan la vivencia devisiones y revelaciones que se abrieronpaso ante la poeta mientras conducia la busqueda de datos e informacion,entrevistando y visitando a los devotos en Villa Mella, Bani, Higuey, y otros santuarios. ...
|  | Vivarium
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| | Printing the Written Word: The Social History of Books, C. 1450-1520
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|  | A Search for a Postmodern Theater: Interviews with Contemporary Playwrights (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)
Publication Date: December 30, 1991| ISBN-10: 0313273642 | ISBN-13: 978-0313273643Thirty-three leading American and British playwrights, from Robert Anderson to Paul Zindel, discuss their views on their own work and contemporary drama, and offer projections about theater for the 21st century. Proceeding from the premise that recent drama in various ways is a reaction to the modernism of Theater of the Absurd, the interviewer, John DiGaetani, terms the diverse responses "postmodernism." This concept, while not universally accepted by the playwrights interviewed, becomes a point of departu...
|  | Surrealism and Painting
Release Date: September 2, 2002Originally published in 1928 and augmented throughout the author's life, Surrealism and Painting is the single most important statement ever written on Surrealist art. While many pages have been devoted to visual Surrealism, this is the only book on the suject by the movement's founder and prime theorist. It contains Andra Breton's seminal treatise on the origins and foundations of artistic Surrealism, with his trenchant assessments of its precursors and practitioners, and his call for the plastic arts to "refer to a purely internal model." Also included are es...
|  | The Writings of Margaret of Oingt: Medieval Prioress and Mystic (Library of Medieval Women)
Publication Date: July 20, 2006| Series: Library of Medieval Women Translated from the Latin and Francoprovencal with an introduction, notes, and interpretative essay.Margaret of Oingt was born around 1240 into a noble family in the French Beaujolais region, and became prioress of the Carthusian charterhouse of Poletains; visionary and mystic, her writings are intelligent and humorous. Included here are the Page of Meditations, on sin and salvation; theMirror, a vision of Christ; the Life of the Virgin Saint Beatrice of Ornacieux, an exemplary text; and letters and stories, including comment...
|  | Affair of the Heart
Release Date: July 1, 1984When beautiful Caroline Carruther visited Jay Hamilton at his ranch in Wyoming, she knew his appraising look and incredible blue eyes spelled danger. ...
|  | Hiding in the Shadows (Shadows Trilogy)
Release Date: October 3, 2000| Series: Shadows Trilogy Terror waits just out of sightHiding In The ShadowsAccident victim Faith Parker has done what her doctors feared she never would: awakened from the coma that held her prisoner for weeks. But she has no memory of the crash that nearly killed her—or the life that led up to it. Nor does she remember journalist Dinah Leighton, the steadfast friend who visited her in the hospital...until she disappeared without a trace. Now as Faith begins to regain her strength, she's shocked by intimate dreams of a man she doesn't recognize and tortu...
|  | DK Readers: The Invincible Iron Man: The Rise of Iron Man
Publication Date: January 18, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Publication Date: February 2002| Age Level: 2 and up FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Follows a family of bears on a fun-filled outing as their gentle boat ride down the stream turns into a fast-paced adventure. --This text refers to the School & Library Binding edition....
|  | The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Release Date: June 6, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up The Herdmans are the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, smoke cigars, swear, and hit little kids. So no one is prepared when this outlaw family invades church one Sunday and decides to take over the annual Christmas pageant. None of the Herdmans has ever heard the Christmas story before. Their interpretation of the tale -- the Wise Men are a bunch of dirty spies and Herod needs a good beating -- has a lot of people up in arms. But it will make this year's pageant the most unusual anyone has seen and...
|  | Curious George Plays Baseball
Publication Date: October 27, 1986| Age Level: 4 and up...
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