 | Midwinter Day
Publication Date: May 1, 1999| Series: New Directions Paperbook (Book 876) Perhaps Bernadette Mayer's greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on December 22, 1978, at 100 Main Street, Lenox, Massachusetts."Midwinter Day," as Alice Notley noted, "is an epic poem about a daily routine." A poem in six parts, Midwinter Day takes us from awakening and emerging from dreams through the whole day-morning, afternoon, evening, night-to dreams again: ". . . a plain introduction to modes of love and reason/Then to end I guess with love, a method to this winter season/Now I've said this love it's all I ...
 |  | The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party: The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel
Release Date: March 6, 2012| Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency In this latest installment in the charming, bestselling series, Precious Ramotswe faces two confounding cases: the mysterious fate of some cows, and the ghost-like reappearance of her dear old white van. As Mma Ramotswe investigates the deaths of cows at a cattle post outside Gaborone, she finds herself also pursuing other mysteries closer to home. One of Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni’s apprentices appears to have gotten a girl pregnant, and has run away to avoid marrying her. Meanwhile, Precious sees her beloved old van&md...
|  | Di Cesare's Pregnant Mistress (Romance Large Print)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Series: Romance Large Print Sexy, arrogant Bruno Di Cesare hears interior designer Tamsin Stewart is a gold digger. But on meeting her he's instantly attracted, and hires her to work on his Tuscan villa. Down-to-earth Tamsin knows the Italian billionaire is ruthless yet she can't resist him. Tamsin must leave Bruno to save her heart, but then she discovers she's pregnant....--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The House on Maple Street: And Other Stories
Release Date: June 30, 2009 For the first time on CD! Vintage Stephen King at a great low price!Stephen King's unparalleled imagination is in full force in this collection of four unabridged short stories originally found in the classic, Nightmares & Dreamscapes. Stephen King and an all-star cast of readers bring to life these timeless stories from the darkest places. Mysterious machinery begins to take over The House on Maple Street. A private detective finds out that he is merely the character in crime novel in Umney's Last Case. In the non-fiction piece Head Down, King chronicles th...
|  | Delicate
Publication Date: July 17, 2012Sydney Pierce has just met the guy of her dreams…just don’t tell her psycho boyfriend, Trevor. With a gorgeous boyfriend, a thriving gymnastics career and a stellar academic record, anyone would assume that Sydney has it all. That's precisely what the seventeen-year-old perfectionist wants you to believe, and she works hard to keep up the pretense. Especially now that there are cameras following her for a documentary on Olympic hopefuls.When Grant, the charming new student, disrupts her carefully crafted routine, the cracks beneath her perfect fa&...
|  | Coriolanus In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version
Publication Date: March 16, 2012T.S. Eliot said Coriolanus was superior to even Hamlet; Ralph Fiennes loved it so much he directed, produced, and starred in modern telling of the play. So if everyone loves it so much, why is it so hard to understand? Let's face it...Shakespeare can be difficult to read! Let BookCaps help with this easy to read modern retelling. If you have struggled in the past reading Shakespeare, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation of Coriolanus. The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of both text. We ...
|  | Bacchai
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 1840022612 | ISBN-13: 978-1840022612Dionysos, the God of Wine and theatre, has returned to his native land to take revenge of the puritanical Pentheus, who refuses to recognize him or his rites. Remorselessly, savagely and with black humor, the god drives Pentheus and all the city to their shocking fate. ...
|  | Julius Caesar (Ignatius Critical Editions)
Publication Date: June 15, 2012| Series: Ignatius Critical Editions Though a staple in high school English classes, Julius Caesar is not a simple play. Seemingly irreconcilable forces are at work: fate and free will, the changeableness and stubbornness of ambitious men, the demands of public service and the desire for private gain. Drawn from history as recorded by Plutarch, the major characters-Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony-are complex, as are the twists and turns of their fortunes. What kind of man rises to power? What price does he pay when he becomes a politician? These questi...
|  | Homer's The Odyssey (Barron's Book Notes)
Publication Date: October 1, 1984| Series: Barron's Book Notes Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. ...
|  | Deliciae, Hortenses, Or, Garden-Recreations; And Voluptates Apianae (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
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|  | Indianapolis booksellers and their literary background, 1822-1860,: And a glimpse of the "old book" trade of Indianapolis,
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| | A History of Literacy and Libraries in Ireland: The Long Traced Pedigree (A Grafton book)
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|  | A New History of Classical Rhetoric
Publication Date: October 17, 1994| ISBN-10: 069100059X | ISBN-13: 978-0691000596George Kennedy's three volumes on classical rhetoric have long been regarded as authoritative treatments of the subject. This new volume, an extensive revision and abridgment of The Art of Persuasion in Greece, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, and Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors, provides a comprehensive history of classical rhetoric, one that is sure to become a standard for its time.Kennedy begins by identifying the rhetorical features of early Greek literature that anticipated the formulati...
| | Novel Possibilities: Fiction and the Formation of Early Victorian Culture (New Cultural Studies)
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|  | Iberia
Release Date: October 12, 1984"Massive, beautiful...Unquestionably some of the best writing on Spain...The best that Mr. Michener has ever done on any subject...Stunning...Memorable."THE WALL STREET JOURNALHere, in the fresh, vivid prose that is James Michener's trademark, is the real Spain as he experiences it. He not only reveals the celebrated Spain of bullfights and warror kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards; he also shares the intimate, often hidden Spain he has come to know, where toiling peasants and their honest food, the salt of the shores and the oranges ...
|  | Macbeth
Release Date: November 29, 2011| ISBN-10: 1613821220 | ISBN-13: 978-1613821220Each book in the Arden Shakespeare series pr ovides a full introduction to the featured work, discussing the critical and historical background to the play, and deta iled notes and commentary on the same page as the text. ' ...
|  | Heart Change
Release Date: November 3, 2009 First time in print?the fantastic new Celta novel from the award-winning author of Heart Fate. Robin D. Owens returns to the world of the faraway planet Celta in the eighth novel of her award-winning series. Signet D?Marigold?s lonely life is shaken when a prophet reveals she is a catalyst for change. But to accept her new life?and the charge of the noble child Avellana?means embracing a danger that may be fatal for them both. Especially when Signet?s attraction to her new bodyguard signals a secret enemy sworn to destroy them....
|  | The Heart Knows (Indigo)
Release Date: October 1, 2011| Series: Indigo Diana Hamilton Pisano thought she would never see Trace Montgomery again. After five years of absence, Trace returns to Ashville, NC, for the reading of his uncle's will; in a fateful complication, Diana is his uncle's widow. Diana isn't prepared for the onslaught of emotions she feels upon seeing the man who had betrayed her with another woman. When she learns her husband only left her half ownership of his ancestral mansion and no money, she resolves to not let Trace see her sweat. . .especially when the will dictates she must share the house w...
|  | A Moment in Time
Release Date: May 1, 2000| Series: Zebra Splendor Historical Romances Present-day hairdresser Jackie Clarke is either having a very bad hair day, or an erotic dream come true when she falls into the arms of a miner with a heart of gold in 1891 Colorado.... ...
|  | Andruw Jones: All-Star On and Off the Field (Sports Stars With Heart)
Publication Date: August 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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