 | Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass (The Complete 1891-92 Edition)
Publication Date: May 28, 2012| ISBN-10: 1477558098 | ISBN-13: 978-1477558096Walt Whitman was a poetic Visionary.He published the first edition of this monumental work in 1855 and began his magnum opus with the words, "America does not repel the past of what it has produced."He asserted in his declaration: America is "essentially the greatest poem."And he qualified this remark by stating that the "genius of the United States," that which is at the core, the essence of the poem of America, is "always most in the common people."Whitman wrote for and about the common people, and wanted his ...
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 | More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide: Complete & Unabridged
Publication Date: November 19871991: by Douglas Adams.You would not believe what can happen to a pennyless hitchhiker. ...
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 | Afternoons with Emily: A Novel
Publication Date: April 24, 2007In mid-19th-century Amherst, Emily Dickinson is famous both for her notable family and for her reclusive ways, and only Miranda Chase, a smart girl with big plans for her own life, is allowed to enter the budding poet's very private world. At first, their Monday afternoon visits involve discussing books over piping hot cups of tea, but when Miranda begins exploring her own yearnings--for love, for an education, even for a career--she discovers that being a friend of Emily's is not without its dangers. The very charisma that has inspired her becomes a web of in...
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 | In Shady Groves
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 | Love Notes
Publication Date: January 15, 2003Like Demi Moore in the movie Ghost, Hosea Brown suffers the unexpected loss of his spouse becoming incurably distraught until she begins to talk to him from Heaven through music, which he eventually plays for the world. ...
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 | Word Order in Greek Tragic Dialogue
Publication Date: September 6, 2007| ISBN-10: 0199279292 | ISBN-13: 978-0199279296| Edition: Bilingual Helma Dik approaches word order in Greek tragic dialogue from the perspective of language rather than metre. The tragic poets engaged in mimesis of natural dialogue; therefore the analysis of the linguistic characteristics of the dialogue precedes exploration of the metrical dimension, on the assumption that poets would not be overly constrained by the iambic trimeter, which, after all, was the most natural speaking verse according to Aristotle. Dik analyses the word order of tragic dia...
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 | Book of the Edge (Lannan Translations Selection Series)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Series: Lannan Translations Selection Series (Book 17) Ece Temelkuran is arguably Turkey’s most accomplished young writer. In Book of the Edge, she describes an allegorical journey wherein the speaker, or explorer, encounters strange creatures, including a butterfly, bull, swordfish, sow bug, and cruel city dwellers. These poems point to the undeniable connection between all living beings.Born 1973 in Turkey, Ece Temelkuran (www.ecetemelkuran.com) has published eight books of poetry, prose, and nonfiction. An award-winning daily columnist for Milliyet, s...
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| A snowy morning: Eight Chinese poets on the road to modernity (CNWS publications)
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 | Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me
Publication Date: October 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 0983520305 | ISBN-13: 978-0983520306Poetry. BEAUTY WAS THE CASE THAT THEY GAVE ME is Mark Leidner's first full-length collection of poems. A collection of poems that might make you feel like a flower, like a black hole, like punishment meted out at night by a giant tractor, like you have to get on fire, then slowly walk around your old neighborhood, like the town was real, like she thinks swoon is a funnier word than mulligan, and he thinks swoon is a funny word too, but no way in hell is it funnier than mulligan, like he's searching for the Ho...
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 | The Octopus: A California Story
Publication Date: December 4, 2011This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works. ...
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 | A Sea of Troubles
Release Date: August 25, 2009Commissario Brunetti finds himself adrift in his tenth investigation?available for the first time in the United StatesDona Leon has amased devoted fans around the world for her atmospheric and intelligent Commissario Brunetti series. A Sea of Troubles offers a rare glimpse into the scrupulous Commissario?s personal life. When Brunetti investigates the murder of two local fishermen on the island of Pellestrina, the small community closes ranks, forcing him to accept Signorina Elettra?s offer to visit her relatives there to search for clues. Though loyal to his bel...
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 | Dangerous to Know: A Novel of Suspense (Lady Emily)
Release Date: October 26, 2010| Series: Lady Emily Set in the lush countryside of Normandy, France, this new novel of suspense featuring Lady Emily Hargreaves is filled with intrigue, romance, mysterious deaths, and madness.Returning from her honeymoon with Colin Hargreaves and a near brush with death in Constantinople, Lady Emily convalesces at her mother-in-law's beautiful estate in Normandy. But the calm she so desperately seeks is shattered when, out riding a horse, she comes upon the body of a young woman who has been brutally murdered. The girl's wounds are identical to those infl...
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 | Colour of Sin Hb
Publication Date: February 1998Ged's life is in crisis when he hears that his father has died. He barely knew the man but his shadow has always hung over Jed's life. Now, for the first time, he visits the extraordinary household which his father had gathered around him and discovers secrets from the past. ...
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 | Riddle of the Raptors (Astrosaurs)
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 | Madonna: 3 Book Collection
Release Date: October 14, 2004| Age Level: 1 and up This boxed set of "three books for children (even grown-up ones)" includes:The English RosesA story about how to find true-blue friends. And a few red-hot dance moves.Mr. Peabody's ApplesIn the town of Happville, rumors are anything but a game.Yakov and the Seven ThievesSeven thieves must pick the trickiest lock to save a child's life. ...
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 | Wings Above the Waves (Dragonblood)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Aikido (Martial Arts)
Publication Date: August 1999| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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 | Federico va a la escuela (Federico Crece/ Federico Grows) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | Hannah and the Homunculus
Publication Date: May 2001| Age Level: 5 and up...
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 | Halloween Sweets and Treats (Holiday Cooking for Kids!)
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