| Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (Lake Wobegon Novels) Release Date: August 26, 2008| Series: Lake Wobegon Novels Garrison Keillor makes his long- awaited return to Lake Wobegon with this New York Times bestseller The first new Lake Wobegon novel in seven years is a cause for celebration. And Pontoon is nothing less than a spectacular return to form?replete with a bowling ball-urn, a hot-air balloon, giant duck decoys, a flying Elvis, and, most importantly, Wally?s pontoon boat. As the wedding of the decade approaches (accompanied by wheels of imported cheese and giant shrimp shish kebabs), the good-loving people of Lake Wobegon do what they do ...
| | Pyres Release Date: October 16, 2007In PYRES, 15 year old Lucia Moberg lifts a CD out of a store in a shopping mall—and when she and her dad get into their car, there is a tap at the window. The next second her father's brains are on the dashboard. So begins the story of the ruin of her mother, whose home life is shrouded in darkness, a mysterious and menacing motorcycle gang, the real-to-life female cop out to crack the case, who is facing her own family's collapse, and the struggle for Lucia to piece together some semblance of a normal teenage life. The writing is h...
| | What Did It Mean? Publication Date: 1999"...A fictional stretch of English countryside in which a large and recurring cast of characters play out-in stylish and comic comfort-the conversations.that determine the destiny of a community."The plot is set spinning when the forthright and capable Lydia Merton is asked by a deputation of distinguished ladies to chair the local committee, whose charge it is to plan festivities to mark Coronation Day (Queen Elizabeth II). As Thirkell wittily reveals, there's no better place to observe the affections and jealousies, the pettiness and grace of a community and its indiv...
| | 8 Tens @ 8 Festival: 30 10-Minute Plays from the Santa Cruz Festivals I-VI Publication Date: June 30, 2001| ISBN-10: 1575252422 | ISBN-13: 978-1575252421| Edition: 1st Thirty award-winning short plays from the first five years of the famed Actors Theatre of Santa Cruz 8 TENS @ 8 Festival. This innovative and wildly popular annual theater event features the work of West Coast playwrights in a format which is excellent for scene study and directing projects. Comedies, dramas, traditional, and avant-garde, these plays explore character, setting, theme, and action in a wide variety of styles. An anthology well-suited to the introduction of contemporary drama and a ...
| | The Story Girl Publication Date: September 4, 2007With Frontispiece by George Gibbs ...
| | ALIF 21 Lyrical Phenomenon (Journal of Comparative Poetics, Number 21, 2001) ...
| | The Blue Lagoon: Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry Publication Date: September 1981| ISBN-10: 0892503440 | ISBN-13: 978-0892503445This book contains texts from Rafael Alberti, David Escobar Galindo and Francisco Gavidia. Illustrations by Ruben Dario, Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, Valle Inclan, Gomez Carrillo, Unamuno, among others.Direction: Aída Flores de Escalante. Textos de Rafael Alberti, David Escobar Galindo y Francisco Gavidia. Caricaturas de Ruben Dario, Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, Valle Inclan, Gomez Carrillo, Unamuno, entre otros.Direccion: Aida Flores de Escalante. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
| | Aristotle and Modernism: Aesthetic Affinities of T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Virginia Woolf Publication Date: August 22, 2008| ISBN-10: 1845191714 | ISBN-13: 978-1845191719Aristotle and Modernism examines literary modernism in its relation to the history of criticism by analyzing the role of Aristotelian principles â primarily the notion of formal affectivism â in the critical writings of three modernists who have invariably been thought to uphold incompatible aesthetic beliefs. These three modernists are T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Virginia Woolf. Whereas Eliot saw himself as a classicist modernist, Stevens and Woolf shared a marked antic...
| | Literature and Work (The Essential Literature Series) Publication Date: November 14, 2010| ISBN-10: 0205681093 | ISBN-13: 978-0205681099| Edition: 1 Literature and Work is part of Longman's The Essential Literature Series. This anthology introduces students to work by having them read, discuss, and write about work-related topics, which are often connected to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and class. The book features contemporary as well as classic literature with a global perspective. The literature is arranged under eight primary themes: “Work: Definitions and Ideals,” “Ente...
| | We Shared The Peeled Orange: The Letters of "Papa Louis" from the Thai-Cambodian Border Refugee Camps 1981-1993 ...
| | Miserere Mei: The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (ND ReFormations: Medieval & Early Modern) Publication Date: May 31, 2012| Series: ND ReFormations: Medieval & Early Modern In Miserere Mei, Clare Costley King'oo examines the critical importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. During this period, the Penitential Psalms inspired an enormous amount of creative and intellectual work: in addition to being copied and illustrated in Books of Hours and other prayer books, they were expounded in commentaries, imitated in vernacular translations and paraphrases, rendered into lyric poetry, and even modified ...
| | The Well-Mannered Assassin Release Date: May 4, 1994The author of The Spy Wore Red draws on her life as anAmerican beauty turned Spanish countess and spy to weave a tale ofintrigue and romance, featuring a former secret agent who falls for aterrorist. ...
| | Steam Pig: A Lieutenant Kramer and Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi Investigation (Kramer and Zondi Investigations Set in South Africa) Release Date: July 1, 2010| Series: Kramer and Zondi Investigations Set in South Africa In the debut mystery featuring Lieutenant Kramer and Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi set in South Africa, a beautiful blonde has been killed by a bicycle spoke to the heart, Bantu gangster style. Why? ...
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| | Fablehaven Release Date: April 24, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up...
| | Ninjago Graphic Novels #1: The Challenge of Samukai Release Date: November 8, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up...
| | Sea Enchanter and Soul Thieves: Combo Publication Date: August 10, 2012"Sea Enchanter" Sitting on my favorite conch shell waiting for my friends ‘Galene’ the Nereid of calm seas’, and ‘Doris’ the Nereid of seas bounty to arrive; I admired a flock of white birds flying around me while I waited. I live in a beautiful kingdom above the sea water called ‘Empyrean’. Empyreans live in identical four level castles in the middle of what ‘Landers’ call the ‘Bermuda triangle’. Our homes were erected on top of 300 foot-high rocks with God Poseidon’s permiss...
| | The Worst Witch at School Release Date: June 12, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
| | If I Built a Car Release Date: June 14, 2007| Age Level: 3 and up ?If i built a car, it?d be totally new! Here are a few of the things that i?d do. . . .? Jack has designed the ultimate fantasy car. inspired by zeppelins and trains, Cadillacs and old planes, with brilliant colors and lots of shiny chrome, this far-out vision is ready to cruise! there?s a fireplace, a pool, and even a snack bar! After a tour of the ritzy interior, robert the robot starts up the motor . . . and Jack and his dad set off on the wildest test drive ever! ...
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