 | I Didn't Ask to Be Born: (But I'm Glad I Was)
Release Date: November 1, 2011In this hilarious collection of observations, Cosby brings us more of his wonderful and wacky insights into the human condition that are sure to become classics. In the tradition of Fat Albert, I DIDN'T ASK TO BE BORN offers a host of new characters, including Peanut Armhouse and Old Mother Harold. Not since Mushmouth, Dumb Donald, Bucky and the Cosby Kids has there been such a memorable cast.Over the past century few entertainers have achieved the legendary status of William H. Cosby Jr. His success spans five decades and virtually all media-remarkable accompli...
 |  | Alabanza: New and Selected Poems 1982-2002
Publication Date: November 17, 2004"An astonishing collection of political poetry at its finest."—The Progressive, Favorite Books of 2004Alabanza is a twenty-year collection charting the emergence of Martín Espada as the preeminent Latino lyric voice of his generation. "Alabanza" means "praise" in Spanish, and Espada praises the people Whitman called "them the others are down upon": the African slaves who brought their music to Puerto Rico; a prison inmate provoking brawls so he could write poetry in solitary confinement; a janitor and his solitary strike; Espada's own father, wh...
|  | The Night the DeFeos Died
Release Date: March 7, 2006The true story surrounding the world's most notorious, alleged haunted house in Amityville, New York. ...
|  | Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm
Release Date: November 29, 2011Available for the first time since its original publication morethan fifty years ago, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm is acharming collection whose hilarious title story features Christmasdinner with the Starkadders before Flora's arrival. With Adam playingSanta while draped in Mrs. Starkadders's shawls, the family sharestheir traditional "Christmas pudding"-a mélange containing randomobjects of doom foretelling the coming year: a coffin nail for death, abad sixpence for financial ruin, and a menthol cone to indicate that the lucky recipient wil...
|  | Horseman, Pass By : A Novel
Release Date: June 25, 2002When Larry McMurtry's classic novel of the post-World War II era was originally published in 1961, it created a sensation in Texas literary circles. Never before had a writer portrayed the contemporary West in conflict with the Old West in such stark, realistic, unsentimental ways.Horseman, Pass By, on which the film Hud is based, tells the story of Homer Bannon, an old-time cattleman who epitomizes the frontier values of honesty and decency, and Hud, his unscrupulous stepson. Caught in the middle is the narrator, Homer's young grandson, Lonnie, who is as much dr...
|  | The Zion Chronicles: Books 1-5
Publication Date: November 1988Out of the ashes of the Holocaust, a sweeping historical drama of an infant nation, her brave people and their struggle for survival against overwhelming odds. Set includes: The Gates of Zion, A Daughter of Zion, The Return to Zion, A Light in Zion, and The Key to Zion. ...
|  | Dime Store Magic (Women of the Otherworld)
Publication Date: June 23, 2008| Series: Women of the Otherworld (Book 3) Paige Winterbourne was always either too young or too rebellious to succeed her mother as leader of one of the world's most powerful elite organizations-the American Coven of Witches. Now that she is twenty-three and her mother is dead, the Elders can no longer deny her. But even Paige's wildest antics can't hold a candle to those of her new charge-an orphan who is all too willing to use her budding powers for evil...and evil is all too willing to claim her. For this girl is being pursued by a dark faction of the super...
|  | Gay Warrior: Transforming Betrayal into Wisdom
Publication Date: October 24, 2002What makes a gay boy a gay man? This important book provides us with a map and valuable roadside assistance as we seek to make our journeys into male maturity. It helps us better identify and articulate the dead end detours many of us are taking, and challenges us to take responsibility for who and what we are. ...
|  | Roman Poets of the Early Empire (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: January 7, 1992| Series: Penguin Classics An anthology of poetry drawn from all of the genres practised during the early Roman Empire. This translation includes the work of Ovid, Seneca, Persius, Lucan, Statius, Martial and Juvenal, as well as minor poets of the period. ...
|  | Greek Mythology: Cosmogony; Gods - Heroes & Their Worship; The Trojan War; The Odyssey
Publication Date: 2010Fabulous unfolding of Greek Mythology divided into these book sections: Cosmogony/Theogony; The Gods of the Hellenes; Other Deities; The Heroes; The Trojan War; The Return of the Heroes Home; Odyssey and The Return of Odysseus. ...
|  | Good: A play with music
Publication Date: 1983Good is the story of how a 'good' man gets caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich: "Germany in the thirties? Nothing, I should have thought was harder to dramatise. Witness all those turgid films and telly plays full of stuffed SS uniforms. Bu --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Feltboard Revival
Publication Date: January 15, 2012Feltboard Revival is the culmination of seven years of my life, quite possibly some of the most potent years of learning about maturity, tragedy, and success on the journey to Everyman. Each work you have in front of you is in some way tied directly to a real event. When you read this book from cover to cover, you have lived a few years of my life. When you read about heartbreak, you've experienced my heartache. When you read about love, you've experienced my deepest feelings. This is part of my life that you find here – with some poetic freedom, of course. ...
|  | Javier Marias's Debt to Translation: Sterne, Browne, Nabokov (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)
Publication Date: July 5, 2012| ISBN-10: 0199651337 | ISBN-13: 978-0199651337This is a book about translation and literary influence. It takes as its subject Spain's most important contemporary novelist, Javier Marias (1951-), who worked as a literary translator for a significant portion of his early career. Since then, he has maintained that translation had a crucial impact on the development of his writing style and his literary frame of reference. It examines his claims to the influence of three writers whose works he translated, Laurence Sterne, Sir Thomas Browne, and Vladimir Naboko...
|  | The Souls of Black Folk (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Publication Date: February 15, 1997| ISBN-10: 0312091141 | ISBN-13: 978-0312091149| Edition: 1st One of the most influential and widely read texts in all of African American letters and history, The Souls of Black Folk combines some of the most enduring reflections on black identity, the meaning of emancipation,and Afican American culture. This new edition reprints the original 1903 edition of W.E.B. Du Bois's classic work with the fullest set of annotations of any version yet published, together with two related essays, and numerous letters Du Bois received and wrote concerning his wide...
|  | Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years
Publication Date: March 30, 2006Virginia Foster Durr (1903-1999) was a monumental champion of civil rights and yet, as a privileged white southern woman, an unlikely one. Freedom Writer is a collection of her letters from across three decades of struggle for the cause of racial equality. In 1951, returning to her native Alabama after a twenty-year absence, Durr was deeply affronted by the same unchecked racism she recalled from her childhood. To help understand the South and battle her sense of isolation, Durr wrote hundreds of letters--humorous, sharp, and observant--to her friends outside ...
|  | A Midsummer Night's Sin (Blackthorn Brothers)
Release Date: November 22, 2011| Series: Blackthorn Brothers Meet the Blackthorn Brothers—three unrepentant scoundrels infamous for being mad, bad and perilous to love.Handsome as the devil and twice as tempting, Robin "Puck" Blackthorn lives for the pleasures of the moment. His only rule—never dally with an innocent woman. But when an encounter at a masquerade ball leaves him coveting the one woman who refuses to succumb to his charms, Puck realizes that some rules were made to be broken….Scandalized to discover that the masked man with whom she'd shared a dance&#...
|  | Chosen By Blood (A Para-Ops Novel)
Release Date: May 3, 2011| Series: A Para-Ops Novel (Book 1) Don't miss out on National Bestselling Author Virna DePaul's intriguing Para-Ops world! "Incredibly well-written, different, and hot." --NYT Bestseller Larissa Ione
"DePaul is amazing! Chosen by Blood is a unique, hot, spellbinding treat for all paranormal romance fans. I can't wait for the next book in the series!" --NYT Bestseller Author Lori Foster"A gripping tale!...DePaul creates the perfect blend of danger, intrigue, and romance. You won't be able to put this book&#...
|  | Traitor's Kiss
Release Date: February 27, 2007For the past four years, a high-ranked Russian naval officernamed Viktor Archenko has been passing valuable information to MI6. Hiscontacts in London know nothing about him--but when the flow of informationstops, they know for sure that he’s under suspicion. The time has come toget him out. But a new breed plays the spy game now: men like Gabriel Locke. Locke hasno interest in irrelevant Cold War sparring or the risk of a scandal. Hewould rather leave Archenko to fend for himself.Only one veteran agentrealizes that there is much more at stake than one man'...
|  | Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You: Movie Tie-in Edition (The Spiderwick Chronicles)
Release Date: January 1, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Tick Tock, You're Dead! (Give Yourself Goosebumps #2)
Publication Date: November 1995| Age Level: 8 and up The reader is taken on a museum tour in New York City, avacation that is less than exciting until a strange time-travelaccident occurs at the Museum of Natural History, in an adventure thatasks readers to choose from twenty possible endings....
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