 | The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove: A Novel
Release Date: August 17, 2010Nobody in Nashville has a bigger name to live up to than Bezellia Grove. As a Grove, she belongs to one of city’s most prominent families and is expected to embrace her position in high society. That means speaking fluent French, dancing at cotillions with boys from other important families, and mastering the art of the perfect smile. Also looming large is her given name Bezellia, which has been passed down for generations to the first daughter born to the eldest Grove. The others in the long line of Bezellias shortened the anc...
 |  | Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination: A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 1928-1995 (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: April 1997| Series: S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture Analyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on Israel, Andrew Furman explores the evolving relationship between the Israeli and American Jew. He devotes individual chapters to eight Jewish-American writers who have "imagined" Israel substantially in one of more of their works. In doing so, he gauges the impact of the Jewish state in forging the identity of the American Jewish community and the vision of the Jewish-American writer.Furman devotes individual chapters to Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Sau...
|  | The Poet's Homecoming (MacDonald / Phillips series)
Publication Date: May 1990| Series: MacDonald / Phillips series Scotland's master storyteller unfolds a classic novel noted for its profound truth wrapped in disarming simplicityThe Poet's Homecoming was written at a time when five of George MacDonald's six sons were in their early to mid-twenties, and he was no doubt observing and pondering their struggles of growth toward adulthood. In this story, Walter Colman leaves the country farming life to pursue fame and fortune in a literary career. But he is actually leaving much more. With the love of his father behind him, the road before him is...
|  | Winged Pharaoh
Publication Date: November 1, 1986Sekeeta is the daughter of Pharaoh in ancient Egypt. Because she demonstrates psychic abilities, she is sent to the temple, where she is trained to recall past lives, remember her dreams, and much more. Upon the death of her father, she becomes a "winged Pharaoh"--both priestess and pharaoh--and leads her country with enlightenment. The most famous of Joan Grant's 7 "far memory" novels--stories based on her recollection of earlier lifetimes. ...
|  | Horrors!: 365 Scary Stories
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|  | Mrs. Rahlo's Closet and Other Mad Tales
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|  | Three Complete Novels - Dean R. Koontz - A New Collection (Shattered/Whispers/Watchers)
Release Date: July 20, 1992Three more electrifying thrillers by the new king of the genre. The New York Times #1 bestselling author's terrifying masterpieces: Watchers (his personal favorite), Whispers and Shattered, now for the first time in one hardcover edition. ...
|  | Four Major Plays: Doll's House; Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; and The Master Builder (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: July 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-dat...
|  | Last Will: A Novel (Annika Bengtzon)
Release Date: April 10, 2012| Series: Annika Bengtzon HOW FAR WILL A MADMAN GO TO ATTAIN THE ULTIMATE PRIZE? In the midst of a brutal Scandinavian winter, a member of the Nobel Prize committee is gunned down in the city of Stockholm. Reporter Annika Bengtzon, who made eye contact with the killer just seconds before the shots were fired, is the key witness. Because of the sensitivity of the crime, police issue a gag order on her immediately—and she is forced to figure out on her own why an American assassin known only as “the Kitten” ordered the hit. With her marriage fallin...
|  | Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company
Publication Date: October 12, 1995This anthology celebrates more than twenty-five years of the Negro Ensemble Company’s significant contribution to American theater. Collected here are ten plays most representative of the eclectic nature of the Negro Ensemble Company repertoire.The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) was formed in New York City in 1967 with support from the Ford Foundation to aid in the establishment of an independent African-American theater institution. Under the artistic directorship of Douglas Turner Ward, the NEC offered a nurturing environment to blac...
|  | The Odyssey
Publication Date: July 15, 2000The most popular epic of Western culture springs to life in Allen Mandelbaum's magnificent translation. Homer's masterpiece tells the story of Odysseus, the ideal Greek hero, as he travels home to Ithaca after the Trojan War—a journey of ten years and countless thrilling adventures. Rich inGreek folklore and myth, featuring gods and goddesses, monsters and sorceresses, The Odyssey has enchanted listeners around the world for thousands of years.Mandelbaum's robust, romantic, lyrical translation has an openness and immediacy unsurpassed by any other. Read ...
|  | The Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa by Kobayashi, Issa published by Swallow Pr Hardcover
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|  | Illuminations from Books of Hours (British Library)
Publication Date: August 22, 2005| ISBN-10: 0712348492 | ISBN-13: 978-0712348492Books of Hours survive in their thousands in libraries, museums, and private collections across the western world, reflecting both the personal piety and the fashionable taste of the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Europe. They owe their name to a single essential text, the Hours (or Little Office) of the Virgin Mary, but otherwise their contents may vary quite considerably.This extensively illustrated book acts as an introduction to some of the most beautiful and historically interesting manuscripts...
|  | The Telenknovian Experiment
Publication Date: June 2002L. Geoffrey Weingurg is a fast-lane New York biochemical science superstar. Boris, a psychiatric patient, who by all biological reasons should be dead, is a survivor who was part of one of the most innovative, immoral, vicious, and secret plans ever devised by Ukrainian peasants. Boris is ready to pass on ""the secret"" to stopping a plague that has killed thousands in pre-Glasnost Russia and, if not stopped, will kill millions worldwide. ...
|  | Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Book: Based on the Film Phenomenon
Release Date: November 16, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up This collectible Harry Potter pop-up book, based on the creative development of the films, features exquisite original artwork by Andrew Williamson, concept artist for all eight movies. With dynamic pop-ups animating memorable moments and locations — like the Triwizard Tournament, Diagon Alley, and Hogwarts Castle — Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Book offers a 3-D glimpse into the amazing world, as seen in the films. This deluxe book will delight Harry Potter fans with dynamic pop-up ingenuity, insights from t...
|  | Iktomi And The Coyote (Venture-Health & the Human Body)
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| | The King's Daughters (Look-Look Books)
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|  | Howliday Inn (Bunnicula)
Release Date: August 8, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | North Carolina Tar Heels (College Basketball Today)
Publication Date: January 1999| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Me and My Friends: The Book of Us (Colors may vary) (Klutz)
Publication Date: January 1, 1948| Age Level: 8 and up...
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