 | What Work Is
Release Date: April 21, 1992Winner of the National Book Award in 1991 “This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the furnaces, forges, slag heaps, assembly lines, and loading docks at places with unglamorous names like Brass Craft or Feinberg and Breslin’s First-Rate Plumbing and Plating. Only Studs Terkel’s Working approaches the pathos and beauty of this book. But Levine’s characters are also significant for their inner lives, not merely the...
 |  | Last Song of Standing Bear
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|  | In Praise of Churches
Publication Date: March 1, 1998John Betjeman's delightful evocation in verse and prose, of the church and church life, is gracefully rendered in 80 watercolor paintings. No one has captured as completely that intimate world, with its clergy, congregation, architecture, and ritual, than the late poet laureate. ...
|  | Magic: An Occult Thriller
Publication Date: December 3, 2010Stage magic and sleight-of-hand trickery meet ceremonial magic and deadly spiritual warfare when a widowed single mom and her amateur magician teen son are caught in the terrifying occult crossfire between warring lodges of modern Magi, battling for possession of an ancient grimoire (an esoteric textbook of ritual magic) containing the arcane secrets of obtaining immortality and limitless supernatural power. MAGIC is an old-school "metaphysical thriller" or "spiritual shocker," updated and set in contemporary suburbia. ...
|  | Single White Vampire (Argeneau Vampires, Book 3)
Publication Date: December 1, 2008 Roundhouse Publishing editor Kate C. Leever's first letter to her newest legacy author was intended to impress upon him the growing demand for his "vampire romances." Though he'd expressed little to no desire for publicity, book tours or the like, it was clear that this was a writer waiting to be broken out. Correspondence with Mr. Lucern Argeneau tended to be oddly delayed, but this time his response was quick and succinct. "No." But Kate was adamant: Luc will attend a romance convention to meet his fans. By hook or by crook, despite his reclusive natu...
|  | Elizabeth Bathory: A Memoire: As Told by Her Court Master, Benedict Dese
Publication Date: July 8, 2011Accused of having murdered hundreds of her servants, Countess Elizabeth Báthory was walled alive in her castle until she died.Years later, desperate to know the truth behind his infamous mother's crimes, young Count Paul seeks out the only man still alive who can tell her story: Countess Báthory's court master and confidante, Benedict Deseö.However, revealing the truth could destroy the old man's sanity and, very possibly, ruin the family reputation which the count so desperately wishes to preserve.Using real names and places, this historic novell...
|  | Much Adoe About Nothing: Applause First Folio Editions (Folio Texts)
Release Date: March 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 1557834407 | ISBN-13: 978-1557834409(Applause Books). If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio isthesource of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent e...
|  | Divan-I Kebir Vol. 19: Hezec Matvi (Divan-I Kebir, 1)
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|  | The Double Reckoning of Christopher Columbus, 3 August-12 October 1492: Poems
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| | La lyre française (Golden treasury series)
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|  | John Magee: the Pilot Poet
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|  | Tongues of Their Mothers
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|  | La retorica del romanticismo / The Rhetoric of Romanticism (Teoria Literaria / Literary Theory) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Soviet Writers' Congress, 1934: The Debate on Socialist Realism and Modernism
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|  | The Mexico City Reader(The Americas Series)
Publication Date: July 15, 2004Mexico City is one of Latin America's cultural capitals, and one of the most vibrant urban spaces in the world. The Mexico City Reader is an anthology of "Cronicas" -short, hybrid texts that are part literary essay, part urban reportage-a ...
|  | Rat Trap
Publication Date: May 1, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up In this adventure of genetically engineered rats, evil scientists, and some scientists who may just save the day, young readers will be thrilled to welcome back Jeff and Rat in this charming sequel to "Space Station Rat". ...
|  | Don't Eat That! (Easy-to-Read Spooky Tales)
Release Date: October 14, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Basketball Great (First Book)
Publication Date: April 1992 ...
|  | Training Volleyball
Publication Date: March 1, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Volleyball is one of the fastest growing sports in Europe, loved for its fast pace and competitive nature, but mostly because it is great fun that can be enjoyed by virtually anyone. Aimed at those with a basic grasp of the game, "Training...Volleyball" teaches readers how to improve and optimize their skills for setting, forehand, and over hand passing. It also looks at various techniques for the overhand serve, hitting, and blocking, and provides easy exercises that can be done anywhere, as well as discussing the ...
|  | Extreme Sports (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (DK Readers: Level 3 (Pb))
Publication Date: August 1, 2001| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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