 | The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
Publication Date: September 1, 1994"How ironic," Joyce Carol Oates writes in her introduction to this marvelous collection, "that in our age of rapid mass-production and the easy proliferation of consumer products, the richness and diversity of the American literary imagination should be so misrepresented in most anthologies." Why, she asks, when writers such as Samuel Clemens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, and John Updike have among them written hundreds of short stories, do anthologists settle on the same two or three titles by each author again and aga...
 |  | Iona
Publication Date: April 15, 1995Eight rare poems, written at Iona monastery between 563AD and the early 8th century, translated from the original Latin and Gaelic and fully annotated with literary commentary. ...
|  | A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
Release Date: September 18, 2007Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems sent shivers through Vienna’s intellectual circles and directly challenged Ludwig Wittgenstein’s dominant philosophy. Alan Turing’s mathematical genius helped him break the Nazi Enigma Code during WWII. Though they never met, their lives strangely mirrored one another—both were brilliant, and both met with tragic ends. Here, a mysterious narrator intertwines these parallel lives into a double helix of genius and anguish, wonderfully capturing not only two radiant, fragile minds but also th...
|  | War Trash
Release Date: May 10, 2005Ha Jin’s masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S. POW camps during the Korean War. In 1951 Yu Yuan, a scholarly and self-effacing clerical officer in Mao’s “volunteer” army, is taken prisoner south of the 38th Parallel. Because he speaks English, he soon becomes an intermediary between his compatriots and their American captors.With Yuan as guide, we are ushered into the secret world behind the barbed wire, a world where kindness alternates with blinding...
|  | Death at Dartmoor (A Victorian Mystery)
Release Date: March 4, 2003| Series: A Victorian Mystery “A sentence to Dartmoor Prison is a sentence to a living hell…” Lord Charles Sheridan and his American wife, Kate, have heard some truly awful things about Britain’s most notorious prison. But Dartmoor and its mist-shrouded environs hold special appeal for both Sheridans. Kate hopes to find inspiration for her new Gothic novel, while Charles plans to implement a fingerprinting program at the prison—and arrange a meeting with one of its most infamous inmates, Samuel Spencer. He’s convinced that Spence...
|  | Lovers and Liars
Release Date: April 12, 1994"Beauman manages to out-Krantz Judith."PEOPLEAssigned to expose the story of a lifetime, photographer Pascal Lamartine and reporter Gini Hunter penetrate the perfect facade of John Hawthorne, the charismatic U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, a man who is not what he seems. But beyond the scandalous web of deceit, betrayal, and desire they are about to unmask, Gini and Pascal must confront themselves and a past they share. Deftly woven of dark secrets and unfolding deceptions, LOVERS AND LIARS is a romantic, suspenseful journey into the mysteries of the h...
|  | Unconformities in Shakespeare's Early Comedies
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|  | Tragedy and Citizenship: Conflict, Reconciliation, and Democracy from Haemon to Hegel
Publication Date: November 6, 2008| ISBN-10: 0791476294 | ISBN-13: 978-0791476291A study of attitudes toward tragedy in both democratic and nondemocratic political theory. ...
|  | Alices Adventures in Wonderland (Acting Edition)
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|  | Vita Nuova (Oneworld Classics)
Publication Date: April 30, 2012| Series: Oneworld Classics Universally recognized as Dante's early masterpiece, and including some of his best poetry outside the Divine Comedy, to which it can be regarded as a sort of prequelPart poetical tribute, part autobiography, it traces Dante's passionate love for Beatrice from his first meeting with her as a boy to her premature death at the age of 24 and the psychological and emotional turmoil that this caused him. Not only a lasting monument to the powers of imagination, it also represents the triumph of poetry, love, and faith...
|  | Heroic Revivals from Carlyle to Yeats
Release Date: September 4, 2012| ISBN-10: 1137035625 | ISBN-13: 978-1137035622Heroic Revivals from Carlyle to Yeats reassesses the cultural and political dimensions of the Irish Revival's heroic ideal and explores its implications for the construction of Irish modernity. By foregrounding the heroic ideal, it shows how the cultural landscape carved out by these writers is far from homogenous. Revising the prevailing critical view that there was a single logic of heroism which led inevitably to the Easter Rising, Carlyle's leadership fetish is transformed in the Irish context into a flexib...
|  | Learning to Lead and Manage Information Literacy Instruction Programs (Information Literacy Sourcebooks)
Publication Date: August 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 1555705154 | ISBN-13: 978-1555705152As institutions develop a variety of courses - credit and non-credit, physical and online - to meet the information literacy needs of their students, new challenges for leading and managing these programs arise. This essential guide, written by ACRL Instruction Section Publication Award Winners (Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and Practice) Esther Grassian and Joan Kaplowitz, takes a comprehensive look at the new needs of librarians and instructors charged with teaching information literacy. The chapt...
|  | The Persistence of Presence: Emblem and Ritual in Baroque Spain (University of Toronto Romance Series)
Publication Date: August 21, 2010| Series: University of Toronto Romance Series The Persistence of Presence analyzes the relationship between emblem books, containing combinations of pictures and texts, and Spanish literature in the early modern period. As representations of ideas and ideals, emblems are allegories produced in a particular place and time, and their study can shed light on the central cultural and political activities of an era.Bradley J. Nelson argues that the emblem was a primary indicator of the social and political functions of diverse literary practices in early modern S...
|  | Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery
Release Date: December 9, 2004| Series: Medieval Mysteries (St. Martins Hardcover) In this spectacular work of historical speculation Terry Jones investigates the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer over 600 years ago. A diplomat and brother-in-law to John of Gaunt, one of the most powerful men in the kingdom, Chaucer was celebrated as his country's finest living poet, rhetorician and scholar: the preeminent intellectual of his time. And yet nothing is known of his death. In 1400 his name simply disappears from the record. We don't know how he died, where or when; there is no o...
|  | The Whitechapel Horrors
Publication Date: October 1992This novel brings back to life Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great character in atmospheric Victorian London as he is faced with a crisis of conscience when confronted with disclosing the identity of Jack the Ripper. "Intriguing and chilling".--New York Times Book Review. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Pikachu Shocks Back (Pokemon)
Publication Date: December 6, 1999The entire four-issue miniseries Pikachu Shocks Back, collected in this graphic novel, stars favorite characters from the Pokemon TV series - Ash, Misty, Brock, and clumsy Team Rocket. Ash wins a race against dozens of other trainers, and then helps Mikey, another Pokemon trainer, prove his pet's worth. Pikachu wanders off to find the legendary Pokemon Paradise, and Ash must decide whether to let Pikachu return to its own kind. ...
|  | The Good Neighbors #2: Kith
Publication Date: October 1, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Scooby-Doo! Dead & Let Spy (Scooby-Doo! (Spotlight))
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|  | Go Girl! #6: Surf's Up!
Release Date: May 27, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | I Can Draw a Weeposaur and Other Dinosaurs
Release Date: February 20, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up "Let us out!" I hear them say, so I become my artist self and set them free.And that is how we meet Speedasaurus and Florasaurus and Trickosaurus and Babysaurus and all their friends and relations.I don't even smile till the picture is done, then I laugh,...And so will you. Eloise Greenfield and Jan Spivey Gilchrist have created a young artist whose imaginary dinosaurs are just plain irresistible. ...
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