 | CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Release Date: February 1, 1997"This book is a rare event: a brilliant new satirist bursting out of the gate in full stride, wildly funny, pure, generous—all that a great humorist should be." —Garrison Keillor "An astoundingly tuned voice—graceful, dark, authentic, and funny—telling just the kinds of stories we need to get us through these times." —Thomas Pynchon "Scary, hilarious, and unforgettable . . . George Saunders is a writer of arresting brilliance and originality." —Tobias Wolff "A cool satirist and a wicked stylist.The quirkiest and most accomplished sh...
 |  | We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (Everyman's Library)
Release Date: October 17, 2006(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection.Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. The White Album covers the revolutionary politics and the “contemporary wasteland” of the ...
|  | Eureka Mill
Publication Date: September 15, 2001Eureka Mill tells the story of Carolina cotton mill workers through poetry. Clemson, S.C., poet Ron Rash follows the migrations of Appalachian mountain farmers to Piedmont mill villages. Following the blood-memory of his parents and grandparents, Rash tells the human stories of cotton mill life: long hours, low pay, loss of self-sufficiency. Yet through this often bleak story, the joys of textile community life show through, as do the complexities of an economy built on the sacrificies of these honorable families. The poetry of Eureka Mill is chilling, mas...
|  | Line of Fire
Release Date: August 7, 2012New York Times bestselling author Stephen White returns with a gripping thriller about the one devastating secret that could cost Alan Gregory everything—the first of the dramatic two-part conclusion to his acclaimed bestselling series.Clinical psychologist and Boulder resident Alan Gregory is finally beginning to feel settled, hopeful that a long period of upheaval in his private life is behind him. He refocuses his energy on his clinical psychology practice, where a beguiling new patient is challenging his values. The interlude of calm doesn’t last...
|  | Rapture of the Deep: Being An Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy (Bloody Jack Adventures)
Publication Date: March 15, 2010| Series: Bloody Jack Adventures On the very day that Jacky Faber is to wed her true love, she is kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission this time to search for sunken Spanish gold. But when Jacky is involved, things don't always go as planned. Jacky has survived battles on the high seas, the stifling propriety of a Boston finishing school, and even confinement in a dank French prison. But no adventure has quite matched her opportunistic street-urchin desires until now. ...
|  | A Knife Edge: A Thriller
Release Date: January 5, 2010By the time Special Investigator Vin Cooper arrives at the murder scene–the shark-infested waters off the Japanese coast–there’s little left of the victim to prove that his death wasn’t an accident. That’s what the military wants Cooper to believe, but he isn’t buying it. What kind of top secret project could the military be engaged in that would require the services of a foremost marine biologist and a genetic researcher? The ominous answer lies at the end of a trail of “accidental” deaths and presumed terr...
|  | The Stranger (Everyman's Library)
Release Date: February 23, 1993(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Albert Camus’s spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. Possessing both the force of a parable and the excitement of a perfectly executed thriller, The Stranger is the work of one of the most engaged and intellectually alert writers of the past century. Translated by Matthew Ward ...
|  | Adoption Papers
Publication Date: December 31, 1991Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple- from three different viewpoints: the mother, the birth mother, and the daughter. ...
|  | South Asian Folklore: A Handbook (Greenwood Folklore Handbooks)
Publication Date: April 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0313331936 | ISBN-13: 978-0313331930| Edition: 1 South Asia is a distant, exotic place to most American students. It is also a land of diverse and fascinating cultures, exemplified by the folklore of the region. This book gives students and general readers a thorough introduction to South Asian folklore. Included are chapters on different types of folklore, the place of folklore in popular culture, and the scholarly response to South Asian folklore. The volume also provides numerous legends, tales, myths, riddles, jokes, and other examples of fo...
|  | Classical Myth (5th Edition)
Publication Date: May 27, 2006| ISBN-10: 0131962949 | ISBN-13: 978-0131962941| Edition: 5th Comprehensive and scholarly, this well-designed and class-tested text presents Greek and Roman myths in a lively and easy-to-read manner. It features fresh translations, numerous illustrations (ancient and modern) of classical myths and legends, and commentary that emphasizes the anthropological, historical, religious, sociological, and economic contexts in which the myths were told. This book covers myths of creation, myths of fertility, myths of the Olympians, Heracles, Oedipus, Trojan War, Roma...
|  | The City as Comedy: Society and Representation in Athenian Drama
Release Date: January 20, 1998These thirteen essays combine classical scholars' interest in theatrical production with a growing interdisciplinary inquiry into the urban contexts of literary production. Taking as their departure point the annual comic competitions at the Athenian dramatic festivals, the contributors examine how the polis—as a place, a political entity, a specific social organization, and a set of ideological representations—was enacted on stage from the middle of the fifth century B.C. through the fourth.Applying a variety of critical approaches to Athenian comedy,...
|  | Easter Program Builder No. 21
Release Date: December 1, 1990| Series: Easter Program Builder (Book 21) Especially for Easter, this collection of graded resources is an excellent tool for the creative program planner. Included are poems, recitations, exercises, and plays centered around an Easter theme. Permission to make photocopies of program builders is granted when three copies of the same book have been purchased. ...
|  | Kipling
Publication Date: November 30, 2005A beautifully illustrated, evocative portrayal of a by-gone age ...
|  | Postmodernism and its Others: The Fiction of Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
Publication Date: February 4, 2006| ISBN-10: 041580292X | ISBN-13: 978-0415802925| Edition: Reprint Analyzing the work of Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker and Don Delillo, this book argues against the critics who cite these authors as quintessentially postmodern. It contends that whilst these authors do possess a number of so-called 'postmodern' qualities, their critical forms and/or contents remain ethically and politically grounded. Given that most postmodern theory rejects such grounding; its presence in these prototypical postmodern novels suggests flaws with the 'postmodern' category itsel...
|  | One In A Million / Love, Texas Style (Harlequin Duets, No 4)
Publication Date: May 1, 19992 BRAND-NEW, FULL-LENGTH NOVELSONE IN A MILLIONLike taking candy from a baby. Not!Sophie Brannigan—a four-year-old "penny pincher"—is the prime suspect in the theft of a one-cent coin. Quint Sterling is hot on her trail, and that of her mother, Amber—because both penny and woman are one in a million. He soon discovers he's no match for the little girl, but Amber is another story…LOVE, TEXAS STYLEEven cowgirls get the blues…New York lawyer Suzanne Hillsbury is looking for love in all the wrong places. So, inspired by a commercial for a Wil...
|  | The Cradle Robbers (Mommy-track)
Release Date: July 5, 2006| Series: Mommy-track Author Ayelet Waldman returns with her one-of-a kind sleuth. Private eye-cum-super-mom Juliet Applebaum tracks the mysterious whereabouts of a missing infant through the dark maze of a widespread conspiracy. ...
|  | The Reckoning: A Thriller
Release Date: July 13, 2010Bestselling author Jeff Long's apocalyptic thriller Year Zero was hailed as "superbly original...terrifying and exquisite." -- Dan Brown, ş bestselling author of The Da Vinci CodeNow Long enters new territory with an intricate,suspense-charged journey into the Vietnam War'shaunting legacy.The killing fields of Cambodia hold nightmarish secrets of the past -- and the present -- for Molly Drake, an intrepid photojournalist covering the U.S. military's search for the remains of an American pilot shot down during the Vietnam War. A flight helmet buried among ...
|  | The Outlaws of Ennor (Knights Templar)
Publication Date: June 1, 2004| Series: Knights Templar Shipwrecked, Baldwin and Simon are washed ashore on neighboring islands. Both are independently charged with investigating the murder of a tax gatherer, embroiling them in the bitter rivalry between two island communities. Can they uncover the truth in time to prevent a massacre? ...
|  | Black & White
Publication Date: February 2, 2012When a call from dispatch sends John Hatch to a gruesome murder scene, his gut tells him there's something more to learn than the homicide team uncovers. But he's a street cop, not a detective, and he's got trouble enough with his hot-headed new partner, a rookie sergeant, and the disaster that is his personal life. One by one, the duties of the job take their toll as he confronts the daily reality of the streets-the druggies and wife beaters, cheaters and crooks-that remind him how short life really is, and how impossible it is to live well in a world where...
|  | The New York Knicks (Team Spirit (Norwood))
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