 | Llama Llama Time to Share
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
 |  | The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
Publication Date: November 22, 1999Amiri Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer - is one of the preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader provides the most comprehensive selection of Baraka's work to date, spanning almost 40 years of a brilliant, prolific, and controversial career, in which he has produced more than 12 books of poetry, 26 plays, eight collections of essays and speeches, and two books of fiction. This updated edition contains over 50 pages of previously unpublished work, as well as a chronology and fu...
|  | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Publication Date: October 1, 1958In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate, clawing hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds. Maggie, Big Daddy's daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that she's finally become pregnant by Big Daddy's favorite son, Brick, but Brick won't cooperate in Maggie's plans and prefers to stay in a mi...
|  | Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
Publication Date: January 17, 2005"Exhilarating, like a swift ride through river rapids with a spunky, sexy gal handling the oars."—Washington Post Book WorldIn Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection of strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down. "I've always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey,” says the narrator in the collection’s title story. “But a real cowboy is hard to find these days, even in the West.” Our her...
|  | Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
Release Date: April 16, 2013From a debut author already praised by Colum McCann as a "profound and necessary new voice" comes a novel about two women adrift in New York—an Iraqi Jewish widow and the latchkey daughter of a chef—who find each other and a new kind of family through their shared love of cooking. ...
|  | Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
Release Date: April 29, 2008The Los Angeles Times bestseller that has Austen lovers hooked After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up to find herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy? Not only is Courtney stuck inside another woman's life, she is forced to pretend she actually is that woman; and despite knowing nothing about her, she manages to fool even the most astute observer. For her borrowed...
|  | This Far By Faith: My Mother's Shadow\A Cracked Mirror\Honor Thy Heart
Publication Date: April 1, 2008LaShunTillman'smanyblessingshaven'teasedherpainat being abandoned as a baby. Fate has given her an opportunity to reveal to the world that her birth mother, former supermodel Sariah Langston, has an ugly past. But revenge is never simple—and neither is the truth.Aspiring actress Jessica Drake lands a bit part in Broadway diva Diana Edmonds's latest show, only to find that her idol has feet of clay—plus a monumental ego. But their strained relationship is changed utterly when a reporter discovers that Jessica is really the daughter Diana thought had d...
|  | Expectations (The Oxford Chronicles)
Publication Date: March 1, 2005| Series: The Oxford Chronicles (Book 2) An unforgettable taleof dreams pursued in Tolkien’s Oxford and romantic Paris. A beautiful autumn afternoon in 1965 findsKate, David, Austen Holmes, and Yvette Goodman each on their way to the Eastgate Hotel to meet the others. Kate has just learnedthat she is pregnant. Yvette is struggling with her single status as hertwenty–ninth birthday nears. Austen quickly pays a brief visit to the grave ofhis young wife. David is bursting with the good news that he has been invitedto spend the winter term as a visiti...
|  | Euripidea Altera (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum) (Mnemosyne Supplements)
Publication Date: August 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 9004106243 | ISBN-13: 978-9004106246This volume, which continues the textual discussions section of the author's "Euripidea" (Brill, 1994), discusses those passages in Euripides'"Heraclidae, Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba, Supplices, Electra, Heracles," and "Troades" - the plays of the author's Loeb Euripides, volumes Two and Three - where text or translation was in need of explanation or justification. A large number of new conjectures are proposed and some forgotten conjectures argued for. ...
|  | Remarks on some German tragedies written after the model of Shakespeare's Macbeth;: With first and particular regard to that of Schiller
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|  | The Gardener
Publication Date: January 11, 2004The Gardener, a book of prose. Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the series of religious poems contained in the book name Gitanjali. The verses in this book are far finer and more genuine than even the best in Gitanjali. ...
|  | Humanism and Secularization: From Petrarch to Valla (Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
Publication Date: January 22, 2003| Series: Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies The Renaissance movement known as humanism eventually spread from Italy through all of western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being felt and debated.Central to these debates—and to this book—is the question of whether (and how) the humanist movement contributed to the secularization of Western cultural traditions at the end of the Middle Ages.A preeminent scholar of Italian humanism, Riccardo Fubini approaches this question in a new way—by redefi...
|  | Ophelia and Victorian Visual Culture
Publication Date: May 21, 2008| ISBN-10: 0754658767 | ISBN-13: 978-0754658764Kimberly Rhodes' interdisciplinary book is the first to explore fully the complicated representational history of Shakespeare's "Ophelia" during the Victorian period. In nineteenth-century Britain, the shape, function and representation of women's bodies were typically regulated and interpreted by public and private institutions, while emblematic fictional female figures like Ophelia functioned as idealized templates of Victorian womanhood. Rhodes examines the widely disseminated representations of Ophelia, from...
|  | Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: December 14, 2009| Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Book 70) This is a study of high and low culture in the years before the Reform Act of 1867, which vastly increased the number of voters in Victorian Britain. As many commentators worried about the political consequences of this 'Leap in the Dark', authors and artists began to re-evaluate their own role in a democratic society that was also becoming more urban and more anonymous. While some fantasized about ways of capturing and holding the attention of the masses, others preferred to...
|  | Edge Of Time (Volume 1)
Publication Date: September 1, 2012Langston Brothers Series Book 1... Jilted by her fiancé, Marissa is done with men until fate steps in and she finds that Craig Langston may be more man than she can resist. Marissa is a high energy independent career woman of the 21st century who finds herself on a collision course with destiny when she is thrown 144 years into the past. Confederate Officer Dr. Craig Langston is an enticing man that any woman would long to fall in love with, and now Marissa is torn between rampant desire, for the man ignites her very soul, and a longing to return home....
|  | Silver Wing (Topaz Historical Romance)
Publication Date: May 1, 1999| Series: Topaz Historical Romance In 1840, a young woman, bored by her monotonous existence at a convent school, stows away on a missionary ship with her priest and the bold young warrior Silver Wing. But a duplicitous servant of the priest arrives in the Indian village before them, causing distrust and outright hostility between the Indians and the white man. Hardening his heart towards the white man and his god, Silver Wing imprisons all the white visitors, except the naive young girl. Can she remain loyal to her upbringing, while her heart longs for the hands...
|  | Blue Belle
Release Date: July 4, 1995 Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York City’s bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of children. In Andrew Vachss’s tautly engrossing novel Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among the teenage prostitute...
|  | Private
Publication Date: August 1, 2011| Series: Private The police can't help youFormer Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. It is where you go when you need maximum force and maximum discretion. The secrets of the most influential men and women on the planet come to Jack daily--and his staff of investigators uses the world's most advanced forensic tools to make and break their cases.The press will destroy youJack is already deep into the investigation of a multi-million dollar NFL gambling scandal and the unsolved slayi...
|  | Dan Fowler: G-Man Companion
Publication Date: April 3, 2011For nearly 20 years, Dan Fowler and his G-men battled crimedom in the pages of G-Men Detective. Now, author Tom Johnson has indexed each issue, listing everything you need to know about the series. Also included are complete reprints of the two best Dan Fowler stories as chosen by Johnson and pulp historian Will Murray: "Give 'Em Hell" by Norvell W. Page and "Bullet Justice" by Charles Greenberg. And reprinted in its entirety for the first time: "I Cover the Murder Front," the lost, rejected Dan Fowler story. Featuring additional articles by Johnson and Murray,...
|  | The Jewel of Covent Garden
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