 | Look Again
Release Date: February 9, 2010When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a “Have You Seen This Child?” flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops—the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. Her every instinct tells her to deny the similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was lawful. But she’s a journalist and won’t be able to stop thinking about the photo until she figures out the truth. And she can’t shake the question: if Will rightfully belongs to someone else...
 |  | Calm, Cool, and Adjusted: The Pursuit of Life, Love and the Perfect Pedicure!(Spa Girls)
Publication Date: March 11, 2008Silicon Valley chiropractor Poppy Clayton is as calm, cool, and adjusted as they come . . . or is she? Known for her bad fashion sense, a love for all things natural, and the inability to get a second date, Poppy is beginning to wonder if she might be misaligned herself. Poppy's route to self discovery will be an unnatural one involving a plastic surgeon (of all people!), a condemned house in Santa Cruz, and a wedding date from the dark side. It's enough to send a girl and her gal pals running for their favorite spa! ...
|  | Beyond Time
Publication Date: March 30, 2007Fast-paced science fiction with a fascinating twist. After leaving the scene of his friend BJ's death, Peter, along with one of his colleagues in the Physics Department at the USC, harnesses the weightless qualities of a newly discovered particle. He plans to ricochet an intense beam of light through a black hole, back in time, with a message designed to save BJ's life. But will it work? Or could the ripple in time affect more than just BJ? A terrorist ring is determined to heist his invention. The very economy of the United States is at stake. ...
|  | I and Thou (Scribner Classics)
Release Date: June 13, 2000| Series: Scribner Classics Today considered a landmark of twentieth-century intellectual history, I and Thou is also one of the most important books of Western theology. In it, Martin Buber, heavily influenced by the writings of Frederich Nietzsche, united the proto-Existentialists currents of modern German thought with the Judeo-Christian tradition, powerfully updating faith for modern times. Since its first appearance in German in 1923, this slender volume has become one of the epoch-making works of our time. Not only does it present the best thinking of one of ...
|  | Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Publication Date: December 21, 2000This book is a carefully annotated selection of eighteenth-century writings about popular culture. During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance. In the early part of the century, high and low cultures often collided. Later in the century, politeness more and more required the distancing of genteel from vulgar amusements. This collection rediscovers some of the energies of the low and the vulgar in the period by examining particular themes (crime, religious enthusiasm, popular politics, for example) and telling particular stor...
|  | The Goddess and Her Heros
Publication Date: November 1, 1995Dr. Goettner-Abendroth has lifted matriarchy out of its mythological cloud by showing that matriarchal-based religions not only existed up to about 3500 years ago throughout the Indo-European world, but that their remnants remained for many centuries among the farmers and country people everywhere until the late Middle Ages, when they were systematically extinguished by the inquisitions and witch burnings. Dr. Goettner-Abendroth points out that Western historians, in upholding patriarchy, have ignored and dismissed these remnants, along with the important ma...
|  | I Want Burning: The Ecstatic World of Rumi, Hafiz and Lalla
Publication Date: April 1, 2001Complete with more than 50 poems, vocals, pan flute, harmonium bells, and hand drums, this audiobook presents an inspired evening featuring works by three literary legends of the 14th-century Middle East: Jelaluddin Rumi; Hafiz, the all-time favorite poet of the Persian world; and Lalla, the astonishing Kashmiri woman poet, singer, and dancer. 1 cassette. ...
|  | Homer's Blind Audience: An Essay on the Iliad's Geographical Prerequisites for the Site of Ilios
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|  | Tellers of Tales
Publication Date: March 1969Dust jacket in fair condition. Pencil marks in text.Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a reading copy. ...
|  | La Naissance du texte (French Edition)
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|  | Sensus Spiritualis: Studies in Medieval Significs and the Philology of Culture
Publication Date: December 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 0226620891 | ISBN-13: 978-0226620893| Edition: 1 Of the major figures in medieval studies, there are few whose influence is greater and for whom admiration is more widespread than Friedrich Ohly (1914-96). This book represents the long-awaited English-language edition of Ohly's most important writings.Drawn from the entire career of this great medievalist, who, more clearly and in greater detail than anyone before him, articulated the singularly allegorical mentality of the Middle Ages, the essays in this collection show the tendency of mediev...
|  | Sappho
Publication Date: June 1, 2012These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct--the best ever published. She has rendered the beloved poet's verses, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English. ...
|  | Encyclopedia of Postmodernism (Routledge World Reference)
Publication Date: December 11, 2003| ISBN-10: 0415308860 | ISBN-13: 978-0415308861| Edition: 1 The Encyclopedia of Postmodernism provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of academic disciplines, critical terms and central figures relating to the vast field of postmodern studies. With three cross-referenced sections, the volume is easily accessible to readers with specialized research agendas and general interests in contemporary cultural, historical, literary and philosophical issues.Since its inception in the 1960s, postmodernism has emerged as a significant cultural, political...
|  | The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937-1952
Publication Date: November 1, 2006Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept journals his entire life, beginning at the age of eleven. These first journals detail the inner thoughts of the awkward boy from Paterson, New Jersey, who would become the major poet and spokesperson of the literary phenomenon called the Beat Generation. The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice covers the most important and formative years of Ginsberg's storied life. It was during these years that he met Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, both of whom would become lifelong friends and significant literary figures. Ginsberg's jou...
|  | George Orwell: An Age Like This 1920-1940: The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters (Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters George Orwell)
Publication Date: October 31, 2000| ISBN-10: 1567921337 | ISBN-13: 978-1567921335| Edition: Reprint Considering that much of his life was spent in poverty and ill health, it is something of a miracle that in only forty-six years George Orwell managed to publish ten books and two collections of essays. Here, in four fat volumes, is the best selection of his non-fiction available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism that is breathtaking in its scope and eclectic passions. Orwell had something to say about just about everyone and everything. His letters to such luminaries as...
|  | Winds of the Storm
Release Date: April 25, 2006Archer Le Veq owes his life to the woman who rescued him from certain death at the height of the Civil War...a woman known only as "the Butterfly." Now, in the dark, waning days of Reconstruction, he needs the courageous and beautiful former spy...in more ways than before! Zahra Lafayette thinks her days of intrigue are far behind her, until she is asked to go on one more mission. Posing as an infamous madam in New Orleans, Zahra must gather information to ensure the safety of the South's freedmen. The last thing she expected was to see Archer Le Veq again. He is ...
|  | Bink and Gollie
Release Date: April 10, 2012| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Cincinnati Reds 101 (101 My First Team-Board-Books)
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|  | 1990s NBA Flashback
Publication Date: July 20, 20121990s NBA Flashback is an action-packed chronicle of the NBA’s greatest performers of the decade. Illustrated with 50 images, it features the exploits of Michael Jordan, the greatest player of all time, as he builds the Chicago Bulls into a six-time NBA champion. Hakeem Olajuwon‘s quest to bring a title to Houston is also spotlighted. Other superstars featured include Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, Scottie Pippen, Patrick Ewing, Grant Hill, Robert Horry, David Robinson and Dennis Rodman, plus Dream Team and All-Stars. ...
|  | Spooky, Silly Halloween Puzzles
Publication Date: September 7, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Creepy crosswords, slimy rhymes, scary stories, murky mazes, and more-this can mean only one thing: Patrick Merrell, puzzle constructor extraordinaire, has spooked up another twisted Halloween-themed collection. Kids will have a frighteningly good time seeing how many words they can spell using only the letters in FRANKENSTEIN, making their way out of menacing mazes, solving “grossword” puzzles, and creating the best tongue twisters this side of the haunted house. What wacky, wonderful Halloween fun!...
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