 | Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
Release Date: October 7, 2008 The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise. His familiar landscapes are here—San Francisco, the Northern California coast, the Sierra high country—in addition to some of his oft-explored themes: art; the natural world; the nature of desire; the violence of history; the power and limits of language; and...
 |  | Clear Water
Publication Date: September 16, 2011Meet Patrick Cleary: party boy, loser, and spaz. Patrick's been trying desperately to transform himself, and the results have been so spectacular, they've almost killed him. Meet Wes "Whiskey" Keenan: he's a field biologist wondering if it's time to settle down. When the worst day of Patrick's life ends with Whiskey saving it, Patrick and Whiskey find themselves sharing company and an impossibly small berth on the world's tackiest houseboat.Patrick needs to get his life together-and Whiskey wants to help-but Patrick is not entirely convinced it's doable. H...
|  | Beyond the Breakwater
Publication Date: October 2004In Beyond the Breakwater, Sheriff Reese Conlon and Doctor Tory King face the challenges of personal change as they define their lives and future together. Tory’s pregnancy forces her to examine her personal needs and goals while Reese struggles with her escalating anxieties over conditions she cannot control.Twenty-year-old Brianna Parker makes a sacrifice for love that threatens not just her happiness, but her life, when she returns home as the newest member of the Sheriff's department. A life-threatening accident, a suspicious fire, and the appearance of ...
|  | The Hunters (A Presidential Agent Novel)
Release Date: January 2, 2007| Series: A Presidential Agent Novel Delta Force Major Charley Castillo returns in the third crackling adventure in Griffin's #1 New York Times-bestselling series.The first two novels in W. E. B. Griffin's exciting new Presidential Agent series, By Order of the President and The Hostage, immediately raced up the bestseller lists-The Hostage debuting at #1.The Hunters picks up right where The Hostage left off. Two brutal murders and millions of missing dollars in the growing UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal have lead Castillo and his team to an estancia in Uruguay...
|  | Wasps, Lysistrata, Frogs, the Sexual Congress (Aristophanes) (v. 2)
Publication Date: June 1999| Series: Aristophanes (Book 2) The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | The Signet Book of Short Plays
Release Date: December 7, 2004A new collection: 12 short plays by Tennessee Williams, Horton Foote, Wendy Wasserstein, and more. This introduction to the ever-evolving tradition of American theater includes works from Kia Corthron, Daisy Foote, Horton Foote, Susan Glaspell, Greg Gunning, David Ives, William Saroyan, Shel Silverstein, Gore Vidal, Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, and Tennessee Williams. ...
|  | Rumi: The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship
Release Date: October 12, 2010 Considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, The Big Red Book is perhaps the greatest work of Rumi, the medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be the bestselling poet in America. Rumi was born in 1207 to a long line of Islamic theologians and lawyers on the eastern edge of the Persian Empire in what is now Afghanistan. In order to escape the invading Mongol armies of Genghis Khan, his family moved west to a town now found in Turkey, where he eventually became the leader of a school of whirling dervishes. It was a fateful day in 1244 when he met S...
|  | Lip Wolf
Publication Date: August 1, 2007Ripe and dangerous, this linguistically and emotionally charged volume is contemporary Mexican poet Laura Solórzano's first appearance in an English-language edition. Jen Hofer's translation conducts the frisson and friction of the original into English whiletempting us out onto the fitful, outermost limbs of language. With an introduction by Dolores Dorantes. ...
|  | Dessert Haiku: Petite Desserts for the Sweet Tooth & Poetry for the Soul
Publication Date: June 4, 2009Dessert Haiku stimulates your exotic sweet tooth while feeding the mind. The cornerstone to making first-rate desserts is using fresh ingredients to create real food made simply. Welcome Dessert Haiku into your food and poetry love life. Deliver a taste sensation of sweetness while uncovering dozens of fresh dessert recipes from around the world. Gratify a bland uninteresting food life with Dessert Haiku. Embrace the sweetness in life. The influence of international dessert fare pooled with a fresh outlook on food and poetry makes for a one of a kind cookbook. E...
| | Russkie sonety (Vsemirnaia biblioteka poezii) (Russian Edition)
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|  | Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire (Radical Perspectives)
Publication Date: July 12, 2006| Series: Radical Perspectives Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. The event at the center of the book is the massive international controversy that followed the 1927 publication of Mother India, an exposé written by the American journalist Katherine Mayo. Mother India provided graphic details of a variety of social ills in India, especially those related to the status of women and to the particular plight of the country’s child wives. According to...
|  | The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading
Publication Date: August 26, 1997Most people can remember the first book they really loved--or the person (a teacher, a parent, a librarian) who showed them how words could make magic. These are the memories that 57 of today's best writers share in The Most Wonderful Books--the stories, the experiences, and the people that made them lifelong readers. ...
|  | Victorian Poetry, Drama, and Miscellaneous Prose 1832-1890 (Oxford History of English Literature Ser)
Publication Date: July 19, 1990| ISBN-10: 019812239X | ISBN-13: 978-0198122395This book is intended for students of English literature at `A' level and above; general readers interested in a complete history of literature from Middle English to the earlier twentieth century. ...
|  | Medieval Marriage: Literary Approaches, 1100-1300
Publication Date: May 1, 1997This book uses literary texts to trace the development of medieval thinking about marriage in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, taking into account not only important developments in theological and legal thinking about marriage during this period, but conventions such as `courtly love', which affect its portrayal in literary texts. The focus of this study is upon England, and specifically three groups of texts linked together by English manuscripts -the `AB'-Group, containing the <I>Ancrene Wisse; The Owl and the Nightingale</I> and its compa...
|  | Common Pleas
Publication Date: March 2003Two young lovers stand accused of the murder of the girl's parents, and all of Philadelphia teems with speculation:Are they both innocent, or both guilty, or is one lying to protect the other?A story of the boundless power of obsessive love, Common Pleas is intricately constructed and lyrically written, with dazzling characters and breathtaking plot twists.Philadelphia lawyer and author Bonnie MacDougal again displays an impressive knowledge of forensic evidence and a true insider's savvy about the workings of the law.In Common Pleas, she delivers another provocat...
|  | Aesop's Fox
Publication Date: August 2, 1999| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up One summer morning, Fox awakens and begins his search for food. His travels take him to a vineyard, where the unreachable grapes are probably sour, and to a conversation with Rooster and Crow, during which flattery first fails but then succeeds. Fox meets--among others--foolish Donkey, wise Boar, vain Leopard, and shrewd Lion. With each meeting, Fox gains wisdom--until at the end of the day, falling asleep in the hollow of a tree, he says, “Time fixes everything.” And so it does. ...
|  | Brain Quest Hispanic America: 850 Questions & Answers About People, Places, Culture & Language
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | The Last Musketeer #2: Traitor's Chase
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Carl's Christmas
Publication Date: October 17, 1990| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Little Louie the Baby Bloomer
Release Date: May 2, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up Leo is losing patience with his little brother, Louie. He can't throw a ball. He can't pull a wagon. He can't even talk! So Leo decides it's time to take matters into his own hands and teach his little brother how to play, but Louie can't seem to learn. Will Little Louie ever bloom? ...
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