 | The Earth in the Attic (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
Publication Date: April 15, 2008| Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets (Book 102) Fady Joudah’s The Earth in the Attic is the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. In his poems Joudah explores big themes—identity, war, religion, what we hold in common—while never losing sight of the quotidian, the specific. Contest judge Louise Glück describes the poet in her Foreword as “that strange animal, the lyric poet in whom circumstance and profession . . . have compelled obsession with large social contexts and grave national dilemmas.” She f...
 |  | The Monkey Wrench Gang
Publication Date: February 1985Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power-taking on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam, and bridge builders who are threatening the natural habitat. The Monkey Wrench Gang is on the move-and peaceful coexistence be damned! --This text refers to the Audio C...
|  | Shopaholic & Sister (Shopaholic Series)
Release Date: September 28, 2004| Series: Shopaholic Series Sophie Kinsella has conquered the hearts of millions with her New York Times bestselling Shopaholic novels, which feature the irresistible one-woman shopping phenomenon Becky Bloomwood.Now Becky’s back in a hilarious, heartwarming tale of married life, best friends, and long-lost sisters (and the perils of simply having to own an Angel handbag!).What’s a round-the-world honeymoon if you can’t buy the odd souvenir to ship back home?Like the Chinese urns and twenty silk dressing gowns Becky found in Hong Kong…t...
|  | Ghost Moon (Bone Island Trilogy)
Release Date: August 31, 2010| Series: Bone Island Trilogy Reclusive collector Cutter Merlin is seldom seen in Key West—lately, not at all. Officer Liam Beckett visits Merlin's curious house and discovers the gentleman in his study. In his death grip: a volume of occult lore and a reliquary. His eyes are wide with fright, his mouth a horrified rictus where spiders now dwell.Kelsey Donovan returns to the old house to catalog her estranged grandfather's collection of artifacts and antiquities, vowing to see his treasures divested properly. But she cannot ignore the sense that she's bei...
|  | Dawn of the Blood Moon: A Vampire's Tale
Publication Date: May 25, 2004They live among us—unknown and unseen—unless they’re the last things we see.They’re the stuff of legend, the subject of novels and movies, but their biggest asset is anonymity.They have life spans with no limit and powers beyond imagination.Feared and hated, they are what we call vampires—drinkers of blood, predators of humans—creatures of the night world.Dawn of the Blood Moon is the story of one vampire’s desire to escape the living hell that is the existence of the undead.Confronted unexpectedly with an ancient enemy, the va...
|  | The Taliban Cricket Club
Publication Date: May 15, 2012Set in war-torn Kabul, a harrowing yet tender novel -- Bend It Like Beckham in a burka -- about one woman's courage and guile in the face of terror and tyranny. A spirited young journalist supporting her widowed mother and younger brother in Kabul, Rukhsana is summoned to the infamous Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice to face its terrifying minister, Zorak Wahidi, who announces that the winner of a cricket tournament will travel to Pakistan to train and then play at an international level. The idea is ludicrous. The Taliban will never...
|  | Partisans
Publication Date: May 1, 2012A thrilling tale of wartime espionage by the acclaimed Alistair MacLean. During World War II, Yugoslavian rebel forces struggle to resist the German occupation, even as a three-way civil war tears the nation apart. In the mist of this terrible confusion, three compatriots set out across their besieged country to relay the German battle plan and unmask a double agent. But where do their loyalties really lie? On this dangerous journey with dangerous companions, everyone's motives are uncertain--and no one is who he seems. ...
|  | Wrath of the Mountain Man (Mountain Man, No. 2)
Release Date: December 1, 2004SHOOT A MOUNTAIN MAN IN THE BACK...On the frontier, a man's word is his bond, and only fast guns and good friends can save your life. So when Smoke Jensen trusts his gravely injured comrade to the care of a small-town doctor, the last thing he expects is an act of betrayal-and a call for revenge...AND GET READY TO LOOK HIM IN THE EYE. Somewhere in his past, Smoke crossed paths with a lowlife who has now built a little kingdom as a frontier sheriff. For the corrupt lawman, holding Smoke's friend hostage is the perfect way to lure Smoke into a death-trap. Now ther...
|  | The Life Treasury of American Folklore
Publication Date: 1961The Life Treasury of American Folklore ...
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|  | The Measured Word: On Poetry and Science
Publication Date: April 16, 2001| ISBN-10: 0820322873 | ISBN-13: 978-0820322872Though the interests of science and art frequently seem to inhabit opposite poles, The Measured Word assembles a brilliant anthology of twelve essays that illumine the historic--and newly emerging--relationships between the poetic and scientific imaginations. Assembling the writings of leading contemporary poets, essayists, and thinkers, Kurt Brown highlights ways in which poets use scientific discoveries and mathematical ideas to their artistic advantage--and offers insight on the recently apparent integratio...
|  | Bidasari: Jewel of Malay Muslim Culture (Bibliotheca Indonesica)
Publication Date: July 2005| Series: Bibliotheca Indonesica (Book 31) The sly wit and silky eroticism of the verse genre known as romantic syair were staple dishes on the Southeast Asian cultural menu, especially in the Malay, Islamic regional centres. Yet very few examples are available in translation for the many readers interested in the genre, and attempts by academics to account for their powers of attraction are even rarer. This book is the author's effort to convey the seductive qualities of the sexiest of the romantic syair, the 'Poem of Bidasari'.Few Malay works have been loved and ...
|  | Graven with Diamonds: Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Inventions of Love
Publication Date: April 1, 2011This intriguing and amusing book tells the story of Henry VIII, -his court, his victims and his Queens - from the perspective of a powerful but little-discussed influence in the lives of those involved: poetry. Learned divines despised it, sober heads ignored it, but for Henry, the beau ideal of chivalry, poetry made things happen. It affected his wars, his diplomacy and his many marriages. It was at the root of his fatal attraction to Anne Boleyn, the source of her power and it was the means of her destruction. In this witty and accessible account, Nicola Shul...
| | German poetry, 1910-1975: An anthology
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|  | Leaf and Bone: African Praise-Poems
Release Date: July 1, 1994Praise poetry is a mode of verbal celebration that is distinctly African - not uniquely African, for throughout the ages and among all peoples, poetry has been uttered and written in tribute to singular existences. But in Africa praising is ubiquitous, a cultural institution cutting across ethnic differences, and expressing a profound humanism grounded in inter-relationships. All the poems in this book were originally "performances". Some praises are of individuals, others are more concerned with the family or clan. Plants and animals, even bicycles and trains are a...
| | A Splintered Mirror: Chinese Poetry from the Democracy Movement
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|  | A History of the Book in America: Volume 4: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940 (History of the Book in America (University of NC))
Release Date: December 15, 2008| Series: History of the Book in America (University of NC) (Book 4) In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Books, magazines, and newspapers were produced more quickly and more cheaply, reaching ever-increasing numbers of readers. Volume 4 of A History of the Book in America traces the complex, even contradictory consequences of these changes in the production, circulation, and use of print.Contributors to this volume expla...
|  | Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time: A Guide for Students and Readers (Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Series: Studies in American Literature and Culture The volume of collected short stories and vignettes In Our Time was Ernest Hemingway's first commercial publication. Its appearance in 1925 launched the full-fledged literary career of this century's most famous American fiction writer. And while other later works of Hemingway have eclipsed In Our Time's fame, none of Hemingway's subsequent works would again carry the degree of experimentation found in this distinctly modernist masterwork. Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time: A Guide for...
|  | Crossbreed: The Werewolf And The Vampire!V
Publication Date: April 3, 2009CROSSBREED, VOLUME 1,"The Werewolf and the Vampire, is a story that begins in a castle in Germany long ago. The Grand Baron Maximillian and his wife Lara raised their son, Sebastian, to become a fine young man; however, by the age of twenty-one, he has become both a werewolf and a vampire. His father calls his son the CROSSBREED. Because Sebastian is not an "evil" entity, doing only good with his peculiar traits, he is also known as "judge, jury, and executioner." This is an exciting book detailing Sebastian's many adventures, even a cruise on the Rhine. ...
|  | The Thunder Keeper (A Wind River Reservation Myste)
Release Date: August 6, 2002| Series: A Wind River Reservation Myste The apparent suicide of a young Arapaho on sacred ground shocks the populace of the Wind River Reservation. But strange events following the death lead Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley to suspect foul play....
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