 | In the Shadow of the Banyan: A Novel
Release Date: August 7, 2012You are about to read an extraordinary story. It will take you to the very depths of despair and show you unspeakable horrors. It will reveal a gorgeously rich culture struggling to survive through a furtive bow, a hidden ankle bracelet, fragments of remembered poetry. It will ensure that the world never forgets the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979, when an estimated two million people lost their lives. It will give you hope, and it will confirm the power of storytelling to lift us up and help us not only survive but...
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 | Anna in the Tropics
Publication Date: September 1, 2003Winner of the 2003 Pulitizer Prize for Drama. . . there are many kinds of light.The light of fires. The light of stars.The light that reflects off rivers.Light that penetrates through cracks.Then there’s the type of light that reflects off the skin.—Nilo Cruz, Anna in the TropicsThis lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect the arrival of a new "lector" (who reads To...
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 | The Weight (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Release Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Andrew Vachss returns with a mesmerizing novel about a hard-core thief who's about to embark on a job that will alter his life forever. Sugar’s a pure professional, “time tested” and packing 255 pounds of muscle. Accused of a rape he couldn’t have done because he was robbing a jewelry store at the time, the DA offers him two options: give up his partners in the heist and walk, or go back to prison alone. For Sugar, there isn’t a choice; he takes the weight. When he gets o...
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 | Markings
Release Date: October 10, 2006Universally known and admired as a peacemaker, Dag Hammarskjöld concealed a remarkable intense inner life which he recorded over several decades in this journal of poems and spiritual meditations, left to be published after his death. A dramatic account of spiritual struggle, Markings has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers since it was first published in 1964.Markings is distinctive, as W.H. Auden remarks in his foreword, as a record of "the attempt by a professional man of action to unite in one life the via activa and the via contemplativa.&qu...
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 | Catharine: and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 3, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics This new collection of Austen's brilliant short fiction is the first annotated edition of her short writings.The texts have been compared with the manuscripts to give a number of new readings.In addition to prose fiction and prayers, this collection contains many of her poems written to amuse and console her friends, and are unavailable in any other single volume.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume refl...
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 | Latidos: Las Flores de Lis
Publication Date: August 20, 2012Este poemario es un mapa de «latidos». Pequeños instantes fraguados durante las madrugadas insomnes entre 2009 y 2010. Entre sus ángulos y esquinas se esconden de las miradas nuestros encuentros fugitivos. Se construyen nuestras voces silenciosas. Son el diálogo oculto de un amor pintado de imposible. Pero el amor es siempre posible. Primer volumen de una obra mayor, la selección de "Latidos" sumerge al lector en un pulso poético repleto de climas. Hondo, sensible y lleno de la lírica ternura propia del autor. Leer el v...
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 | La generation Marot: Poetes francais et neo-latins (1515-1550) : actes du colloque international de Baltimore, 5-7 decembre 1996 (Colloques, ... sur la Renaissance) (French Edition)
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 | The Unrepentant Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton
Publication Date: December 15, 2011Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? These widely articulated values were part of the inherited Christian tradition and were reinforced by key elements in the Renaissance, especially the revival of Stoicism and Platonism. This book is devoted to those who did dissent from them. Richard Strier reveals that many long-recognized major texts did question the most traditional values and uncovers a Renaissance far more bumptious and affirmati...
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 | The Experiences of Tiresias
Publication Date: November 10, 1997In The Experiences of Tiresias, its title referring to the shepherd struck blind after glimpsing Athena's naked body, Nicole Loraux explores the ambivalence in how the Greek male defines himself in relationship to the feminine. In these essays, Loraux disturbs the idea of virile men and feminine women, a distinction found in official discourse and aimed at protecting the ideals of male identity from any taint of the feminine. Turning to epic and to Socrates, however, she insists on a logic of an inclusiveness between the genders, which casts a shadow over t...
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 | Six Days in January
Publication Date: October 2006Just after midnight on a bitterly cold Thursday in January, William McCall is stumbling down an icy Manhattan street, wondering when things started to go wrong. As he makes his way to an empty subway station, he begins piecing together the events and relationships that have led him to this moment -- alone, ashamed, and kicked out into the cold -- and suddenly realizes that he wants to become a better man. Over the next six days, William will examine the events that led to his downward spiral...and, if he can finally confront the feelings that he has kept buried,...
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 | Usborne Stories for Little Boys
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Age Level: 3 and up A puppet, an emperor and a gingerbread man are all waiting to tell young boys their tales, in this exciting collection of stories.Each story is gloriously illustrated and perfect for either reading aloud or for more confident readers to tackle alone. ...
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 | STAT: Standing Tall and Talented #1: Home Court
Publication Date: August 1, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up...
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 | NFL: Super Bowl Fireworks
Publication Date: July 1, 2009| Age Level: 7 and up...
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 | Daytona 500 (NASCAR)
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 | Sky-High Guy
Release Date: April 13, 2010| Age Level: 3 and up Whether they’re trekking to a magical island to hunt dinosaurs or saving a city from destruction, Jack and his action figure Guy have exciting adventures. Sometimes, Jack’s little brother Gus joins them. When Guy gets caught in a branch while sky-diving, Jack and Gus must launch operation rescue! In this companion to Below, Nina Crews uses her trademark photo-collage style to tell a playful story where innovative ideas and teamwork save the day. ...
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 | Halloween
Publication Date: August 1, 2003| Age Level: 5 and up Luminous, haunting illustrations of three trick-or-treaters' moonlit revels capture the spooky, spine-tingling thrill of this magical night. ...
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 | Adventures in Ancient Greece (Good Times Travel Agency)
Publication Date: August 1, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | Harcourt School Publishers Trophies: On-Lvl Indpndnt Rdr Coll G5
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 | Straight and Narrow Pb (Acting Edition S.)
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 | A Moose's Morning
Publication Date: February 20, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up This gentle story follows a calf and his mother as the young moose learns about the other creatures in his woodland world, some of which seem a bit scary at first. After an adventurous day in which the two moose become separated, the calf is reunited with its mother. ...
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