 | The Towers of Trebizond (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: November 30, 2003| Series: New York Review Books Classics "'Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass." So begins The Towers of Trebizond, the greatest novel by Rose Macaulay, one of the eccentric geniuses of English literature. In this fine and funny adventure set in the backlands of modern Turkey, a group of highly unusual travel companions makes its way from Istanbul to legendary Trebizond, encountering potion-dealing sorcerers, recalcitrant policemen, and Billy Graham on tour with a busload of Southern evangeli...
 |  | Never Enough
Release Date: September 6, 2011From the national bestselling author of Inside Out--asizzling story of insatiable passion. Gillian Forrester spent her life running...until Miles came along.The moment she held her older sister's unwanted newborn, Gillianstopped running and began building a life for her adopted son. Now,thirteen years later, Gillian's sister reveals the father's identity onher deathbed-a revelation that shakes Gillian to her core.Adrian Brown is the epitome of the successful rock star. It takes alot to shock him-but the bombshell that he has a son rocks his world.And Adrian is ...
|  | A Reader's Guide to Caspian: A Journey into C. S. Lewis's Narnia
Publication Date: February 29, 2008Back into Narnia"Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, and it has been told in another book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe how they had a remarkable adventure." So begins C. S. Lewis's Prince Caspian and the children's second remarkable escapade into Narnia--a Narnia known but unknown, looking much different than it did in their first adventure.C. S. Lewis scholar Marjorie Lamp Mead and literary specialist Leland Ryken work their own magic to take you deep into Narnia once again, providing a guided tour o...
|  | Vampires
Release Date: April 25, 2007| ISBN-10: 0670029726 | ISBN-13: 978-0670029723Seductive and mysterious, Vampires have the power to fascinate and horrify us. This anthology brings together some of the most beguiling and terrifying vampires from literary history. ...
|  | People of the Thunder (The First North Americans)
Release Date: November 3, 2009| Series: The First North Americans By 1300 AD, the Sky Hand people had crushed and enslaved the Albaamaha people and built their high-walled capital, Split Sky City, to dominate towns up and down the Black Warrior River. But a violent wind is brewing that may topple the city's mighty walls. Great armies are on the march, and a cunning new leader, Smoke Shield, has risen. He will lead the Sky Hand people either to stunning triumph or to bloody doom. Old White, Trader, and the mystical Two Petals are journeying across the Choctaw lands straight into the cha...
|  | Second Generation
Publication Date: May 1, 2010Risking all, a young socialite discovers her calling to fight injustice "A novel of satisfying depth and breadth, written in good, clean, forceful prose." -Chicago Tribune Desperate for independence and scornful of the hypocrisy of the upper class, Barbara Lavette returns to her family home in San Francisco following her first year of college determined to make her own way in the world. After abandoning her privileged life to disguise herself as a poor volunteer down on the wharf, Barbara journeys to France to report on the onset of Nazi terror and the coming of ...
|  | Bedside Manners: A Medical Thriller
Publication Date: December 2000| ISBN-10: 1587215349 | ISBN-13: 978-1587215346A medical thriller ...
|  | The Victory of Geraldine Gull
Publication Date: June 1, 1994Shortlisted for the 1988 Governor General's Award for Fiction Set in a Swampy Cree community on the western shore of Hudson Bay, The Victory of Geraldine Gull is about the struggle for survival. In prose as clear as a northern lake, Joan Clark weaves together biblical symbolism of the flood and salvation with native myth and legend, while offering a message of hope and the dignity of self-determination. ...
|  | Brush the Summer By
Release Date: May 19, 2008Max Murphy, the all-star shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, marries his high school sweetheart and settles down to play his second year of major league baseball but runs afoul of the evil and sadistic Josh Allen, who has his henchmen make several attempts on Max’s life. Max learns that the hitmen are members of the Chicago Mafia headed by Don Spiletto. Taking matters into his own hands, Max pays the don a visit but gets nowhere with the don, who denies knowing who was trying to kill him. After a second visit to the don, Max learns that the killers are membe...
|  | Instruments of Darkness: A Novel
Publication Date: February 17, 2011An intricate historical page-turner about a forbidding country estate and the unlikely forensic duo who set out to uncover its deadly secrets. In the year 1780, Harriet Westerman, the willful mistress of a country manor in Sussex, finds a dead man on her grounds with a ring bearing the crest of Thornleigh Hall in his pocket. Not one to be bound by convention or to shy away from adventure, she recruits a reclusive local anatomist named Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer, and historical suspense's newest investigative duo is born. For years, Mrs...
|  | The Clouds: By Aristophanes ; Translated by S.H. Landes ; Edited and Introduction by William-Alan Landes
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| | Jest Call Me Cowboy: Jest a Little Bit More
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| ![From the earth to the moon ; and, Round the moon [ca. 190-]](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31l4dg4aF1L._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg&width=150) | From the earth to the moon ; and, Round the moon [ca. 190-]
Publication Date: July 23, 2009Originally published in ca. 190-.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ...
|  | Essay On the Life and Poetry Of Homer (American Classical Studies)
Publication Date: May 1, 1996| Series: American Classical Studies (Book 40) This bilingual edition, with introduction and brief commentary, makes accessible for the first time in English a text of great importance for the history and interpretation of Homer. Although attributed to Plutarch, the Essay is probably the work of a grammaticus of the second and third century and is the single most valuable source of evidence for the nature of the teaching of Homer in the schools of the Roman Empire. Well represented in the manuscript tradition, the Essay was used as prefatory material by Renaissan...
|  | Meleager: The Poems
Publication Date: June 1, 1992| ISBN-10: 0865162549 | ISBN-13: 978-0865162549As a poet and an editor of an anthology that transmitted the poetry of many Hellenistic epigrammists to modern times, Meleager is an important literary figure, and this text provides an excellent introduction to his poetry. The total of 132 epigrams is encompassed in a little more than 800 lines, allowing a complete reading within a reasonable time. The volume includes notes, vocabulary, and proper name and epigram source indices.Also available:Plato: Apology - ISBN 0865163480Dioscorides and Antipater of Sidon: ...
|  | The Haiku Murders: A Lt. Liebes Honolulu Mystery
Publication Date: February 22, 2012Izzy Liebes, a Jew from Brooklyn, wound up as a lieutenant in the homicide division of the Honolulu police force. His passions are body surfing and haiku poetry. But he begins to receive a series of haiku from an anonymous source. He soon realizes that they are from a serial killer who gives him clues about murders he is about to commit. Thus, Liebes and his Native Hawaiian partner, Hoku, must take those clues and try to prevent the next murder. The book is filled with descriptions of the land, food and customs of O‘ahu. It is probably the first book...
|  | Story People
Publication Date: October 1997"StoryPeople" is about the memories you have of yourlife.The stories & drawings on these pages are selected favoritesfrom the first three StoryPeople books: "Mostly True" (1993), "StillMostly True" (1994) & "Going Somewhere Soon" (1995).Still mostly true, just like before.We hope they start you on agreat adventure, the way they have so many others.Let us know how itgoes... ...
|  | Great Hexpectations: Dulcie O'Neil Series (Volume 3)
Publication Date: February 26, 2012| Series: Dulcie O'Neil A misunderstanding turned deadly. A fairy in law enforcement who won't stop until the truth is uncovered. A vampire who seems to be her ally but appearances can be deceiving. And a partner who would put his own life on the line to defend hers. Dulcie O'Neil knows she's at fault for failing to arrest a wanted criminal but when her partner gets pinned for the crime, she'll stop at nothing to ensure his innocence. What Dulcie isn't planning on is a trip to the infamous Netherworld where chaos rules. Between battling the affections of a ...
|  | The Egyptian Cinderella
Release Date: February 28, 1992| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Poor Rhodopis! She has nothing - no mother or father, and no friends. She is a slave, from the far-off country of Greece. Only the beautiful rose-red slippers her master gives her can make Rhodopis smile. So when a falcon swoops down and snatches one of the slippers away, Rhodipis is heartbroken. For how is she to know that the slipper will land in the lap of the great Pharoah himself? And who would ever guess that the Pharoah has promised to find the slipper's owner and make her queen of all Egypt? ...
|  | Assassins Of Rome, The
Publication Date: July 3, 2003| Age Level: 11 and up...
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