 | Frida: A Novel of Frida Kahlo
Release Date: January 31, 2012Frida Kahlo, painter and cultural icon, lived a life ofextremes. The subject of an Academy Award(c) nominated film starringSalma Hayek, Kahlo was crippled by polio and left barren by an accidentwhen she was a teenager. And yet she went on to fall in love with andmarry another star of the art world, muralist Diego Rivera. filled withpassion, jealousy, and deceit, their story captured the world'simagination.Told in the voice of Frida's sister Cristina, who bears witness toFrida and Diego's tumultuous marriage, this is a brilliantly vivid workof historical fiction....
 |  | Sherlock Holmes Vs Zombies. Ian Edginton
Publication Date: December 1, 2010In 1854, a meteor streaked across London's skies, bringing with it a zombie plague. For twenty years, Her Majesty's Secret Service kept the threat under control. But now dastardly fiend Moriarty has begun using the zombies in an attempt to overthrow the Victorian Government. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson must face off against their favorite foe, MI-5 and zombies at the same time. ...
|  | Cardinal's Sin: Psychic Defenders Uncover Evil in the Vatican (The Committee)
Publication Date: January 8, 1990| Series: The Committee In this novel about magical secrets which ha ve been found in a Vatican library, an insanely vengeful Car dinal evokes fierce magical storms that take America hostage . The Committe joins forces with a Wiccan Priestess to count er the attack. ' ...
|  | Romantic Interludes 2: Secrets
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|  | Grasping for Dreams
Publication Date: August 1, 2011Davison Parris is a high school science teacher who hates his boss almost as much as he hates his father. After a prank goes wrong and he nearly gets fired, he rededicates himself to teaching and coaching the baseball team. But when his father dies, he looks to his past and rediscovers a love of baseball that makes him attempt to revive a career that was derailed in college by injuries. As he pushes himself through the minor league ranks, he learns about himself and his relationship with his father. In the end, he achieves his ultimate dream, but is it what he...
|  | The Elizabethan influence on the tragedy of the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries
Publication Date: 1967This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Greek Bucolic Poets: Theocritus. Bion. Moschus (Loeb Classical Library No. 28)
Publication Date: January 1, 1912| Series: Loeb Classical Library (Book 28) Theocritus of the third century BCE, born at Syracuse, travelled widely in the Greek world. Having studied poetry at Cos with poet and critic Philitas, he composed poetry under patronage, chiefly perhaps at Syracuse and Cos; and then went to Alexandria in Egypt, whose King Ptolemy II (died 246 BCE), pupil of Philitas, befriended him. Here (and at Cos?) he spent the rest of his life. Most lovable of Greek versemakers, Theocritus was the founder of bucolic or pastoral poetry. Of his so-called Idylls, 'Little forms' or ...
|  | Shido, The Way of Poetry
Publication Date: April 6, 2001Born in a wartime Relocation Center for Japanese-Americans in 1944, Tanaka uses the Zen parable to create a voice for those Americans who feel that they are ‘living in a cultural vacuum’ on the margins of society. These small stories are kata or form exercises in spiritual self-definition, where the reader is shown how to create his or her own virtual literary culture. At the same time, Shidó focuses on the process of writing poetry as a spiritual discipline in which the poems themselves become stepping stones to spiritual ends.Originally publish...
|  | Thresholds / Umbrales: Bilingual poems (Spanish and English Edition)
Publication Date: November 1, 1996This bilingual edition of poems from El Salvador's most beloved poet moves in imagery between Central America and the world, between childhood's safety in the ceiba tree's shade and the journey through time that the speaker must take. The translation lovingly preserves the lyricism of the original language, a moving and memorable collection. ...
| | Franzosische Dichterinnen: Studien zur Erweiterung des Lyrikkanons (German Edition)
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|  | Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry (N0.17 Pocket Poets Series)
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|  | Can the Subaltern Speak?: Reflections on the History of an Idea
Publication Date: March 11, 2010| ISBN-10: 0231143850 | ISBN-13: 978-0231143851Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's original essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" transformed the analysis of colonialism through an eloquent and uncompromising argument that affirmed the contemporary relevance of Marxism while using deconstructionist methods to explore the international division of labor and capitalism's "worlding" of the world. Spivak's essay hones in on the historical and ideological factors that obstruct the possibility of being heard for those who inhabit the periphery. It is a probing interrogation...
|  | The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series 3: Correspondence, Volume 1: 1842-1852
Publication Date: December 8, 2009| Series: The Frederick Douglass Papers Series (Book 1) This volume of The Frederick Douglass Papers represents the first of a four-volume series of the selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer. Douglass’s correspondence was richly varied, from relatively obscure slaveholders and fugitive slaves to poets and politicians, including Horace Greeley, William H. Seward, Susan B. Anthony, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The letters acquaint us with Douglass’s many roles—politician, abolitionist, diplomat, runa...
|  | Irish Magic II: The Changeling/ Earthly Magic/ To Recapture the Light/ Bride Price
Release Date: January 1, 1998| Series: Iris Magic Just in time for St. Patrick's Day comes this enchanting collection of four Irish myths celebrating romance, adventure, and timeless love. From stories of warrior women to tales of sorcery and magic, each novella has been crafted by one of today's most accomplished and beloved romance authors. Ads in "Romantic Times". ...
|  | Thunder Heights
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|  | The Last Super Hero (Dc Super Heroes (Dc Super Villains))
Publication Date: January 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Holes
Release Date: September 2, 2008| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up 10th Anniversary Edition Louis Sachar received great recognition for his groundbreaking story of Stanley Yelnats – a boy with a history of bad luck. As School Library Journal predicted in their starred review of the book when it was first published, “Kids will love Holes.” A decade later, the book is still quenching young readers’ thirst for a gripping story about a far-reaching family curse, friendship, adventure, endurance, and, finally, a generous helping of good karma. ...
|  | Jane and the Magician (Jane and the Dragon)
Release Date: February 13, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Ohio State Buckeyes (Team Spirit (Norwood))
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|  | The Five-Dog Night
Publication Date: August 15, 1993| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up When Old Betty tries to advise Ezra on how to survive the cold winter nights, Ezra rebuffs her concerns because he has his own private source of warmth. ...
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