 | Unterzakhn
Release Date: April 3, 2012A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York’s Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths. For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of New York’s Lower East Side circa 1910 are both a fascinating playground and a place where life’s lessons are learned quickly and often cruelly. In drawings that capture both the tumult and the telling details of that street life, Unterzakhn (Yiddish for “...
 |  | Death By Bourbon (Josiah Reynolds Mystery 4)
Publication Date: September 1, 2012Charming and handsome Addison DeWitt takes a sip of bourbon at an engagement party and falls into a fit a few minutes later. Josiah thinks it was murder, but no one believes her except for her friends, Lady Elsmere and Meriah Caldwell, the famous mystery writer. The three of them try to outsmart the suspected murderer, but the killer is always three steps ahead of them in this fast-paced, witty and fun who-dun-it! Death By Bourbon is the fourth installment in the award-winning Josiah Reynolds mystery series. Josiah Reynolds is a retired art professor who ke...
|  | Filled With Nothing: A story of hope set against the backdrop of bullying and teenage violence. (Volume 1)
Publication Date: May 25, 2012Set against the backdrop of bullying and a vicious beating, this is the story of a shy and lonely teenager's summer of renewal and hope. As teen Scott Walsh recovers from a brutal attack that almost killed him he has vowed never to leave his house alone again. That is, until his new neighbors move in. It is an African-American family of three. The mother is a famous artist, the father a diplomat leading a study at Harvard and the daughter, Trinity, is about his age and blind. They slowly begin to interact with the fearful boy and surrounded by a unforgettable ca...
|  | Le Divorce (William Abrahams Book)
Publication Date: July 1, 2003| Series: William Abrahams Book This delightful comedy of manners and morals, money, marriage, and murder follows smart, sexy, and impeccably dressed American Isabel Walker as she lands in Paris to visit her stepsister Roxy, a poet whose marriage to an aristocratic French painter has assured her a coveted place in Parisian society...until her husband leaves her for the wife of an American lawyer.Could "le divorce" be far behind? Can irrepressible Isabel keep her perspective (and her love life) intact as cultures and human passions collide? Le Divorce is Diane Jo...
|  | Native Moments
Publication Date: May 12, 2011Amsterdam—the grand old ringed canal city of cobblestone streets, the gabled roof peaks, the painted flotsam waterways. Max and Christopher meet by circumstance during a summer. The noisy human cargo has changed over the centuries. People learn new ways about making connections and taking chances, and how the present is tied to the past. Although Max feels drawn to Christopher both of them leave much unsaid and undefined when they part.Max, alone on a flight back to the States, meets Justin Conrad, an engaging, and openly gay actor. Max admits his attract...
|  | Of Steel and Butterflies
Release Date: February 8, 2007Of Steel and Butterflies portrays survival and softness resulting in the soaring of Elizabeth's newly awakened spirit.An artist, working through the adversity of childhood's fears and guilt, numerous moves and sensual romantic experiences disrupt her life causing more despair than fulfillment.Aware and accepting responsibility for mistakes, her life takes a new turn. Finding that the answers she seeks come only from within, she discovers the love that had so warily eluded her. It is a poignant message of change, gently woven into a tapestry offering hope to thos...
|  | Mystic Dreamers
Release Date: August 28, 2007| Series: Mystic Dreamers (Book 1) For over a decade, Rosanne Bittner has enchanted her readers with tales of adventure and romance in the times before the White Man settled the West. Now, in the tradition of Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear, the bestselling author of Song of the Wolf and the Savage Destiny Indian series turns her hand to historical fiction with a wonderful new story of Native America sure to capture you and carry you on an adventure of love and hate, good and evil, life and death.In 1833, Star Dancer, a Sichangu (Brulé Sioux), is pr...
|  | Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (New Canadian Library)
Release Date: August 3, 2010| ISBN-10: 0771094094 | ISBN-13: 978-0771094095Of the many books by Canada’s most celebrated humorist, none has received more acclaim than his brilliant, caustic treatment of the glittering rich who gather at the Mausoleum Club on Plutoria Avenue.Today, Leacock’s pointed satire of the privileged class, and their social abuses and pretences, retains every ounce of its freshness and bite. An undisputed comic masterpiece, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich reveals a depth of compassionate criticism rare in Leacock’s writings.From the Paperba...
|  | Glossen bis 1924 (German Edition)
Release Date: December 6, 2011Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg veröffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Großteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhältlich. Mit der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als gedruckte Bücher zu verlegen – und das weltweit! Die Buchreihe dient zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Förderung der Kultur. Sie trägt so ...
|  | The Dead Side of the Mike (Charles Paris Mysteries)
Publication Date: July 24, 2000| Series: Charles Paris Mysteries Text for Author Bio Box: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years. Creator of the Charles Parks, Mrs. Pargeter and Feathering series of mysteries, his psychological thriller, A Shock to the System was filmed, starring Michael Caine. Married, with three children, he lives in an Agatha Christie-style village in West Sussex, England. Text for Book Description: Murder at the BBC? Its almost unimaginable. When Andrea Gower, the beautiful studio manager is...
|  | Popular Culture Theory and Methodology: A Basic Introduction (Ray and Pat Browne Book)
Publication Date: February 17, 2006| Series: Ray and Pat Browne Book Since its birth in the 1960s, the study of popular culture has come a long way in defining its object, its purpose, and its place in academe. Emerging along the margins of a scholarly establishment that initially dismissed anything popular as unworthy of serious study-trivial, formulaic, easily digestible, escapist-early practitioners of the discipline stubbornly set about creating the theoretical and methodological framework upon which a deeper understanding could be founded. Through seminal essays that document the matura...
|  | Shakespeare's Tragedy of Cymbeline (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: June 21, 2012Niggard of space, prodigal of thought, he uses the closest compression, they the widest expansion: his aim is to crowd the greatest possible wealth of mind into a given time ;theirs, to fill the largestpossible time with a certain modicum of matter. The difference is greatly owing, no doubt, to the different spirit of the present age, which requires the popular author to be a miser of his own time, and a spendthrift of the reader s. The Poet sstructure of language and mode of expression are in keeping with this policy, and indeed took their growth under its dis...
|  | Seeding the Cosmos: New & Selected Haiku
Publication Date: December 18, 2010| ISBN-10: 1888809604 | ISBN-13: 978-1888809602| Edition: First Thirty years of selected modern American haiku from John Brandi's oeuvre have been collected into this handsome edition with a cover collage and three illustrations by the author. From Brandi's afterword: A student looking at modern haiku for the first time often asks, 'Why does haiku look like it does today? What happened to the rules?' A simple answer, to quote Zen teacher Joko Beck, is: 'A good practice is always undermining itself.' Continent to continent, culture to culture, language t...
|  | Cherry Blossoms Japanese Haiku Series Three
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|  | The poets and poetry of Munster: A selection of Irish songs
Publication Date: 1849This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Philo: On the Special Laws,On the Virtues. On Rewards and Punishments (Loeb Classical Library No. 341)
Publication Date: January 1, 1939| ISBN-10: 0674993764 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993761The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BCE to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish learning. In attempting to reconcile biblical teachings with Greek philosophy he developed ideas that had wide influence on Christian and Jewish religious thought.The Loeb Classical Library edition of the works of Philo is in ten volumes and two supplements, distributed as follows. Volume I: C...
|  | The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles (Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture)
Publication Date: September 14, 2010| ISBN-10: 0470398256 | ISBN-13: 978-0470398258| Edition: 1 A philosophical exploration of the entire seven-book Harry Potter seriesHarry Potter has been heralded as one of the most popular book series of all time and the philosophical nature of Harry, Hermione, and Ron's quest to rid the world of its ultimate evil is one of the many things that make this series special. The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy covers all seven titles in J.K. Rowling's groundbreaking series and takes fans back to Godric's Hollow to discuss life after death, to consider...
|  | Desperate Duchesses
Release Date: May 29, 2007 Welcome to a world of reckless sensuality and glittering sophistication . . . of dangerously handsome gentlemen and young ladies longing to gain a title . . . of games played for high stakes, including—on occasion—a lady's virtue. A marquess's sheltered only daughter, Lady Roberta St. Giles falls in love with a man she glimpses across a crowded ballroom: a duke, a game player of consummate skill, a notorious rakehell who shows no interest in marriage—until he lays eyes on Roberta. Yet the Earl of Gryffyn knows too well that the price required ...
| | The Hound of the Baskervilles [With The Hound of the Baskervilles] (Unabridged Classics (In Audio))
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|  | The Silver Donkey
Release Date: September 12, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up From extraordinary novelist Sonya Hartnett comes a gently told fable of a lost soldier, heroic children, and a steadfast donkey.One morning in the woods of World War I France, two young sisters stumble upon an astonishing find — a soldier, temporarily blinded by war, who has walked away from battle longing to see his gravely ill younger brother. Soon the care of the soldier becomes the girls' preoccupation, but it's not just the secret they share that emboldens them to steal food and other comforting items for the man. They are fas...
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