 | Almanac of the Dead
Release Date: November 1, 1992In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas, told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors. Author readings. ...
 |  | Empowered Deluxe Edition Volume 2
Publication Date: August 28, 2012| Series: Empowered Behold, fools! Yet another towering stockpile of much-vaunted Sexy Superhero Comedy looms nigh! Adam Warren's Empowered Deluxe Edition Volume 2 collects betwixt its Covers Most Hard every scintilla of silliness, sensuality, and sporadic seriousness contained within Empowered Volumes 4, 5, and 6! This colossal cornucopia further boasts a bounteous bevy of rarely seen bonus treasures galore, such as Sketches Most Saucy, Artwork Unpublished, Vainglorious Notes from the Auteur, and far more still! Release your inner Demonwolf, mortals . . . IF...
|  | Doctor Who Short Trips: Zodiac
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| Series: Doctor Who Short Trips Doctor Who Short Trips is a series of themed short story anthologies of new Doctor Who fiction, featuring the Doctor in all of his first eight incarnations. They feature stories written by some of the leading names in Doctor Who, past and present, including Paul Cornell, Gareth Roberts, Christopher H. Bidmead, and Paul Magrs. Telepathic fish, miniature lions, and twin planets are the least of his problems, as the Doctor —all eight of him—faces the Capricorn Killer, endures a mindswap with the Machiavellian Master,...
|  | King of Angels, A Novel About the Genesis of Identity and Belief
Publication Date: March 24, 2012By Perry Brass, the acclaimed author of How to Survive Your Own Gay Life, Carnal Sacraments, The Substance of God, Warlock, and Ippy-Award Gold Medalist The Manly Art of Seduction comes a novel in the setting of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, in the Man Men period. "Perry Brass is a literary polymath who enthralls readers no matter the genre." Richard Labonte, syndicated book columnist, Book Marks King of Angels is a novel about the difficult and often tragic relationship of fathers and sons, or about one particular father and his attachment ...
|  | Symphony
Release Date: December 9, 2008“A deeply empathic exploration of obsession and art, genius and madness. . . . Morgan’s ability to bring each character to life is virtuosic.” —The Washington Post Book WorldIn 1827 Harriet Smithson, a beautiful young Irish actress, determined to avoid the traditional route to stardom via the manager’s bed, joins an English company in the bold experiment of taking Shakespeare to Paris.With the ferment of revolution in the air, the new generation is longing for passionate, spontaneous art. And to Harriet’s astonishment, i...
|  | Take the Mic: The Art of Performance Poetry, Slam, and the Spoken Word (A Poetry Speaks Experience)
Release Date: April 1, 2009| Series: A Poetry Speaks Experience Get on Stage and Perfect Your Performance Have you ever enjoyed a slam or two and thought, "I could do this," but felt apprehensive staring at that empty mic—or worse, you climbed up on stage and struggled? Let Marc Kelly Smith, the founder of Slam Poetry, teach you everything you need to be a confident performer, from writing a powerful poem, to stage techniques, to going on tour (if that's where your muse leads you). Take the Mic is filled with insider tips, backstage advice, and tons of examples of slam poems that wake u...
|  | Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle: An Anthology: A Bilingual Edition (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)
Publication Date: May 15, 2006| ISBN-10: 0226039234 | ISBN-13: 978-0226039237Internationally known during her lifetime, Laura Battiferra (1523-89) was a gifted and prolific poet in Renaissance Florence. The author of nearly 400 sonnets remarkable for their subtlety, intricate narrative structure, and learned allusions, Battiferra, who was married to the prominent sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Ammannati, traversed an elite literary and artistic network, circulating her verse in a complex and intellectually fecund exchange with some of the most illustrious figures in Italian history. I...
|  | Teaching the Gothic (Teaching the New English)
Publication Date: August 22, 2006| Series: Teaching the New English Gothic Studies has become a significant and popular element in the English degree curriculum and a rapidly expanding international academic field. Teaching the Gothic provides a clear and accessible account of how scholarship on the Gothic has influenced the way in which the Gothic is taught. The book examines a range of topics including Gothic criticism, Theory, Romantic Gothic, Victorian Gothic, Postmodern Gothic, Female Gothic, Gothic Sexualities, Gothic Film, Imperial Gothic, Postcolonial Gothic and Postgraduate developm...
|  | Monkey: A Journey to the West
Release Date: April 12, 2005Part spiritual pilgrimage, part historical epic, the folk novelJourney to the West , which came to be known asMonkey, is the most popular classic of Asian literature. Originally written in the sixteenth century, it is the story of the adventures of the rogue-trickster Monkey and his encounters with a bizarre cast of characters as he travels to India with the Buddhist pilgrim Tripitaka in search of sacred scriptures. Much more than a picaresque adventure novel,Monkey is a profound allegory of the struggle that must occur before spiritual transformation is possible....
|  | Political Fictions
Release Date: August 27, 2002In these coolly observant essays, Joan Didion looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns, one presidential impeachment, and an unforgettable sex scandal, Didion reveals the mechanics of American politics. She tells us the uncomfortable truth about the way we vote, the candidates we vote for, and the people who tell us to vote for them. These pieces build, one on the oth...
|  | The Defense
Release Date: August 29, 1998Dynamite defense attorney Joseph Antonelli has never lost a case--or felt the sting of conscience for letting the guilty go free. "I can deceive anyone," he says, "and no one more quickly or more completely than myself." Now the man he most admires, the honorable Judge Rifkin, has asked him a favor: Defend a drug dealer accused of raping his twelve-year-old stepdaughter. Yet Antonelli's acceptance of the case sets in motion an explosive chain of corruption, betrayal, and murder that will leave no one unscathed. . . . ...
|  | The Small Room (Norton Library)
Publication Date: October 17, 1976| Series: Norton Library Anxiously embarking on her first teaching job,Lucy Winter arrives at a New England women'scollege and shortly finds herself in the thickof a crisis: she had discovered a dishonest actcommitted by a brilliant student who is aprotégée of a powerful faculty member.How the central characters—students andteachers—react to the crisis and what effect the scandal has on their personal and professionallives are the central motifs of May Sarton'ssensitive, probing novel. ...
|  | Crazy to Kill
Publication Date: January 1, 1990A rediscovered Canadian classic. What killer is stalking the nervous occupants of Resthome? ". . .one of the most interesting of all the woman protaginists in detective fiction." -Robin Skelton, Toronto Star ...
|  | The Complete Sherlock Holmes Volume 2 by Arthur Doyle (With a Preface by Christopher Morley)
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|  | Le avventure di Sherlock Holmes: la banda maculata. Testo inglese a fronte
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|  | Body Line (Bill Slider Mysteries)
Publication Date: March 1, 2011| Series: Bill Slider Mysteries The brand-new Bill Slider Mystery - David Rogers was a doctor, handsome, charming and rich. He lived the lifestyle of a consultant – expensive clothes, top restaurants, exclusive clubs – until someone killed him in the hallway of his lovely million-plus-pound house. But when Bill Slider and his firm are thrown into the mystery, they soon discover that nothing is as it seems, for though David’s girlfriends are plenty, none of them can tell Slider anything about where he worked or wha...
|  | The Lion King: The Lion King/The Lion King II Simba's Pride/The Lion King the Brightest Star (Disney's Read Along Collection)
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Modern Olympics
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Garden Flowers Coloring Book (Dover Nature Coloring Book)
Publication Date: June 1, 1975| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Young Pioneers
Release Date: September 5, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up A story of frontier love and courage...Newlyweds Molly and David are only sixteen and eighteen years old when they pack up their wagon and head west across the plains in search of a new homestead. At first their new life is full of promise: The wheat is high, the dugout is warm and cozy, and a new baby is born to share in their happiness. Then disaster strikes, and David must go east for the winter to find work. Molly is left alone with the baby -- with nothing but her own courage to face the dangers of the harsh pr...
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