 | A Little White Shadow
Publication Date: May 1, 2006Selectively painting over much of a forgotten nineteenth-century book, Ruefle’s ninth publication brings new meaning to an old story. What remains visible is delicate poetry: artfully rendered, haunted by its former self, yet completely new. A high-quality replica of the original aged, delicate book in which Ruefle “erased” the text, this book will appeal to fans of poetry as well as visual art.Mary Ruefle’s poems and prose have appeared in Best American Poetry and The Next American Essay. Her many awards include a Guggenheim and an NE...
 |  | Kindness Goes Unpunished: A Walt Longmire Mystery (Walt Longmire Mysteries)
Release Date: February 26, 2008| Series: Walt Longmire Mysteries Walt brings Western-style justice to Philadelphia in this action-packed thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Cold Dish and As the Crow Flies, the third in the Walt Longmire Mystery Series, the basis for LONGMIRE, the hit A&E original drama series Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and Robert B. Parker will love New York Times bestselling author Craig Johnson's mystery series—starring Walt Longmire, the straight-shooting sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, and the basis for LONGMIRE, the hit A&...
|  | Piers Plowman by William Langland: A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text (University of Exeter Press - Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies)
Publication Date: November 7, 2008| ISBN-10: 0859897842 | ISBN-13: 978-0859897846William Langland’s poem Piers Plowman treats several important aspects of late fourteenth-century life: ideological conflict, social upheaval, and the changing role of religious thought. Vividly encapsulating the great debates of the day, it acts as a commentary on such historically significant events and ideas as the Peasants’ Revolt (1381) and medieval allegory. Its engagement with religion and politics aside, Piers Plowman stands as one of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages, earning...
|  | The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women (Mammoth Books)
Publication Date: 2001Horror Anthology. "Here, collected together for the first time, are 34 tales by vampire fiction's greatest women writers. From Edith Nesbit's 1913 story of a mad scientist's vampiric experiments to Storm Constantine's 2001 tale of a woman's hypnotic regression to a time of blood-thirsty shamans, these uncanny and erotic stories dip into the darkest well of human fear and feeling, exposing blood-drinkers of every shade - from the tormented good to the unspeakably evil... this is one anthology vampire fans can sink their teeth into." ...
|  | The Living Blood
Release Date: January 2, 2002From the author of the national bestseller My Soul to Keep comes a riveting new novel of supernatural suspense -- a gripping tale that brilliantly showcases a writer at the pinnacle of her astounding storytelling abilities.Jessica Jacobs-Wolde has somehow survived the worst that any mother or wife could ever endure: the deaths of her husband and first daughter. But now, four years later, not only is the nightmare continuing -- it may have only just begun. Jessica has discovered the terrifying truth behind the legacy that her husband left to their second daughte...
|  | COUP D'TWELVE: The Enterprise that Bought the Presidency
Publication Date: September 22, 2011Race across the globe with Dr. Cyrus Alexander as he roars to life in David Martin’s inaugural novel.From the windswept steppes of Mongolia to the sweltering desert of Dubai to the rooftop bars of Manhattan, this epic thriller weaves the global political events of the past twelve years into a tapestry so close to believable that it will leave you wondering where the line between fantasy and reality is drawn. The truth is, it is true.Inside of every good conspiracy is an even better idea.Inside such an idea would be a Herculean opportunity.The perfec...
|  | Child Wonder: A Novel (The Lannan Translation Series263)
Release Date: September 27, 2011| Series: The Lannan Translation Series263 *Winner of the prestigious Norwegian Booksellers' Prize**A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection (Holiday 2011)*A glorious evocation of a Norwegian childhood in the early sixties by an author short-listed for the 2009 Dublin IMPAC AwardLittle Finn lives with his mother in an apartment in a working-class suburb of Oslo. Life is a struggle to make ends meet, but he does not mind. When his mother decides to take a lodger to help pay the bills, he watches with interest as she freshens up their small apar...
| !["Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books", Text & Essays (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/2116MMv9o4L._SL500_SS500_.jpg&width=150 ""Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books", Text & Essays (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies)") | "Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books", Text & Essays (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies)
Publication Date: December 31, 2007| ISBN-10: 0820704040 | ISBN-13: 978-0820704043| Edition: 1 This two-volume set includes "Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books: An Authoritative Text of the 1667 First Edition" and its companion volume, "Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books: Essays on the 1667 First Edition" ...
|  | Butterfly Mother: Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China
Publication Date: September 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0872208494 | ISBN-13: 978-0872208490A collection of epics from the Miao (Hmong) ethnic group of southwest China. The poetic narratives, traditionally performed by two groups of singers, relate the creation of the world and the peoples and creatures in it. One of the major figures in one series of the songs is Butterfly Mother (Mai Bang), a personified butterfly who lays the eggs that eventually lead to the creation of the local peoples. Rich in cultural lore, these mythic narratives are virtual encyclopedias of traditional myths, legends, an...
|  | Four Greek Plays
Publication Date: November 11, 2002A collection of four timeless plays: Agamemnon by Aeschylus, translated by Louis MacNeice; Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald; Alcestis by Euripides, translated by Fitts and Fitzgerald; and The Birds by Aristophanes, translated by Fitts. Introductory Note by each translator; Index. ...
|  | Songs Without Names, Volumes I-VI: Poems by Frithjof Schuon (The Library of Perennial Philosophy)
Publication Date: November 13, 2006| Series: The Library of Perennial Philosophy A four-volume collection of spiritual poetry by Frithjof Schuon who wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express our experience of the sacred through the medium of poetry. ...
|  | Love in London (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought Translation Series)
Publication Date: January 1995| Series: Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought Translation Series Text in English & German.This volume contains a bilingual (German-English) edition of poems by the Austrian-Jewish writer Theodor Kramer (1897-1958), assembled and translated by Frederick Brainin (New York) and Joerg Thunecke (Nottingham) who has also written an afterword. The sixty poems presented here were written during the period of exile in England between 1938 and 1957. Kramer provides a vivid account of the problems facing German-speaking emigrants forced to leave Nazi-occup...
|  | Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945
Publication Date: September 15, 2008| ISBN-10: 0691138451 | ISBN-13: 978-0691138459Though often defined as having opposite aims, means, and effects, modernism and modern propaganda developed at the same time and influenced each other in surprising ways. The professional propagandist emerged as one kind of information specialist, the modernist writer as another. Britain was particularly important to this double history. By secretly hiring well-known writers and intellectuals to write for the government and by exploiting their control of new global information systems, the British in World...
|  | The Unquiet
Release Date: September 27, 2011Five New York Times bestselling authors-five superlativestories.From J.D. Robb: Eve and Rourke return to investigate a series ofmurders connected to a brilliant young surgeon in Chaos inDeath.From Mary Blayney: A shopkeeper's solitude is complicated by amagic coin, a daring rogue, and dreams of her late husband, whowhispers but one word...wish.From Patricia Gaffney: A lonely woman and a hotline psychic turntheir astonishing connection to the other side into an unexpectedromance.From Ruth Ryan Langan: The shattered soul of an angry spiritimprisoned in a Scottis...
|  | Tapestry
Release Date: August 27, 2002I dare you to read a 'Kurland' story and not enjoy it. (Heartland Critiques) Welcome to a world of chivalry, danger, legends, and love. These four original novellas bring to life all the romance and adventure of the Middle Ages, with the common thread of a rich medieval tapestry woven through each tale....
|  | Nada, nadie. Las voces del temblor (Biblioteca Era) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France (The Middle Ages Series)
Publication Date: October 7, 2008| ISBN-10: 0812241150 | ISBN-13: 978-0812241150When King Philip VI expelled the Jews in 1306, some 100,000 men, women, and children were driven from royal France into the neighboring lands of Spain, Provence, Italy, and North Africa. The great expulsion of 1306 was arguably one of the most traumatic moments of medieval Jewish history and would prove to be the harbinger of a series of recalls and expulsions, local and general, culminating in King Charles VI's expulsion decree of 1394.Despite the upheavals of the fourteenth century, the literary productivit...
|  | Family Likeness, A
Release Date: January 5, 1991The selfless love Tessa felt for her grandmother was a natural, ingrained thing; her pride in her family tradition an unquestioned duty, an essential part of being a Jasmyn. Why, then, as she grew up, did she occasionally yearn to be free of Barmote Hall? Was it simply a longing to escape to the village and Reuben Bateman, or was her unhappiness in some strange way linked to the misgivings aroused in her by Grandmamma's tenant at the Lodge, the enigmatic Mrs Masson? Tessa's struggle for spiritual freedom involves her in the discovery of a wrong as cruel as it is ...
|  | Binky to the Rescue (A Binky Adventure)
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | The Grand Duke: Lucky Luke Vol. 29 (Lucky Luke Adventures)
Publication Date: October 16, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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