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 |  | Atlantis: Poems by
Release Date: September 1, 1995The poignant, accomplished new collection of poetry from the author of My Alexandria--1993 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Times Book Award, 1993 National Book Award Finalist. ...
|  | The Expats: A Novel
Release Date: March 6, 2012The international thriller that Patricia Cornwell says is “bristling with suspense” about an American abroad who finds herself in complex web of intrigue. Can We Ever Escape Our Secrets? Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage . . . and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to leave behind her double-life, to start anew. She begins to ...
|  | Dangling on a String
Publication Date: April 30, 2001Tina Marsh is a young, intelligent, and attractive woman on the move. She wants it all -- a successful career, a loving husband, and wonderful children. In her picture perfect version of life, Bruce, the guy who loves her, isn't perfect enough. But Johnny, a college man, shows promise. They marry. Unfortunately as the years wear on, their love wears thin. They divorce. Tina continues her search for the perfect love. She finds only heartache as one affair after another falls apart. Then a wiser, mature Tina makes a phone call to an old friend that puts her on t...
|  | A Plain and Simple Heart (The Amish of Apple Grove)
Publication Date: September 1, 2012| Series: The Amish of Apple Grove A Plain and Simple Heart, an exciting new Amish-meets-Wild West adventure from bestselling authors Lori Copeland and Virginia Smith, weaves an entertaining and romantic tale for devoted fans and new readers.1884--Several years earlier, young Rebecca Switzer lost her heart to Jesse Montgomery, a rugged but dissolute cowboy on a dusty cattle trail near the Amish settlement of Apple Grove. Now she is grown up, and when she hears one day that he has been spotted nearby, her desire is plain and simple: She must see him.Sheriff ...
|  | The Secret Scroll
Release Date: February 1, 2008Josh Cohan, a work-obsessed archaeology professor, has a recurring dream about a great secret. He follows his instincts to the Judean desert, where he makes a fantastic discovery an ancient scroll which seems to have been written by Jesus Christ. The Israeli Antiquities Authority has a claim on the scroll, but another, more sinister organization wants the scroll as well. The Guardians, members of an ancient extremist religious sect, are willing to kill to get what they want.Josh joins the government-sponsored team of translators who believe the scroll might be g...
|  | The Fountain
Release Date: November 28, 2006What if you could live forever? The Fountain is an odyssey about a man's thousand-year struggle to save the woman he loves. In three separate lives—Tomas the conquistador, Tommy the scientist, and Tom the explorer—Thomas is driven to discover the mysteries of life; all three stories converge into one truth as he comes to terms with life, death, love, and rebirth. The book is an extension of Aronofsky's cinematic vision, and will contain production stills of the film's stars Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz, original script, original art, and observat...
|  | Republic: A Novel of America's Future
Publication Date: May 2007The surprise dystopian bestsellerFrom an author described as "one of America's criminally neglected authors," Republic is a surprise bestselling dystopian novel (more than two years on the Amazon Alternate History bestseller list) described by readers as "breath-taking," "riveting," and "haunting."Republic: A Novel of America's FutureKen Murphy is a 45 year-old National Guard Colonel and senior manager at a computer chip manufacturer in quiet Highview, West Virginia. In this future history featuring frightening parallels to ou...
|  | 50 Mission Cap
Release Date: July 6, 2006Inspired by the Tragically Hip song of the same name, 50 Mission Cap is a quintessentially Canadian story told by a former junior hockey reporter. With its charming characters and authentic scenarios, it's sure to win over anyone who holds hockey dear. ...
|  | The Secret Garden
Publication Date: April 8, 2012The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett ...
|  | The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Release Date: December 10, 1988New Hardcover w/dust jacket (same as picture) minor shelf wear, in great condition. Ready to ship with delivery confirmation number. Fast shipping. Car ...
|  | Hamlet (The Pelican Shakespeare)
Release Date: December 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0140714545 | ISBN-13: 978-0140714548| Edition: Revised"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stew...
|  | Poems from the Book of Hours (Second Edition) (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: November 24, 2009| ISBN-10: 0811218538 | ISBN-13: 978-0811218535| Edition: Second Edition A beautiful bilingual gift book of poems: selections from Rilke’s legendary masterpiece, The Book of Hours, with a new introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin.Rilke’s Book of Hours falls into three parts: The Book of Monkish Life (1899), The Book of Pilgrimage (1901), and The Book of Poverty and Death (1903). Although these poems were the work of Rilke’s youth, they contain the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously received prayers, they cele...
|  | Pictures of God: Rilke's Religious Poetry, Including 'The Life of the Virgin Mary'
Publication Date: June 2005This is the first comprehensive collection of poems of Rainer Maria Rilke's work on religious and biblical themes. The collection also contains the complete poetic cycle of "The Life of the Virgin Mary," and constitutes the first English translation from German in over fifty years. This is a book for lovers of Rilke, as well as those interested and engaged in the intersection of religion and the arts, beauty and the transcendent. (A bilingual edition.) ...
|  | Abandoned Farms
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|  | Sacred Things
Publication Date: January 1, 2002AARON RUDOLPH not only touches the pivotal memories commonly found in a poet’s first collection, he dissects them with a candid, and sometimes dark, humor.Sacred Things is a young man’s final lunge back toward the tranquil bliss of childhood, which time has placed just beyond his grasp.Aaron Rudolph has created his tender depictions of family life in the Southwest from the grief of his lost innocence.Sacred Things has been praised for its dense passion, controlled language, and wide range of landscape and mood. ...
|  | Locals: A Collection of Prose Poems
Publication Date: September 19, 2012Locals is a narrative atlas of prose poems as intimate as they are unpredictable, each a keyhole glimpse into the life of a different realm where our normal logic doesn't apply. Are we beholding magic?No, but through observing these strangers, we're confronted by the extraordinary paradoxes within our own hearts."When Shakespeare wrote about the poet's calling to give form to what 'imagination bodies forth,' to 'local habitation[s]," surely he was foreseeing the arrival of Claire Bateman's Locals. And if he was not as prescient as he now se...
|  | Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library
Publication Date: January 2009| ISBN-10: 1904890547 | ISBN-13: 978-1904890546This beautifully illustrated hardback volume discusses the nationally and internationally important holdings of the Library of the Royal Irish Academy. This volume is not only a celebration of the diversity of the works that the library curates, but also an exploration of: the nature and origins of the collections and artefacts; people who have shaped and commented on them over the course of time; and the ways in which this major national resource has enhanced our understanding of Ireland, its people and its pla...
|  | James I and the Politics of Literature
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|  | A Companion to the Gothic (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: December 4, 2001| ISBN-10: 0631231994 | ISBN-13: 978-0631231998This Companion is a standard reference work for scholars and students of the Gothic from its origins to the present day. Providing stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy, it offers coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned. ...
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