 | Roughing It (Signet Classics)
Release Date: January 1, 1995In his youth Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West, working in a variety of professions. This is a record, fact and impression, of those early years. ...
 |  | To Tuscaluca, Mauvilia, and The Great River (We Too Followed De Soto)
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|  | Scarlet Masquerade
Publication Date: April 1, 2011What do you say to the woman you thought died over a century ago? Will time heal all wounds or does it just allow them to fester and grow? A.J. Locke has lived over two centuries and works like a demon, both figuratively and literally. As the owner of a successful pharmaceutical company that specializes in blood research, she has changed the way she can live her life. Wanting for nothing, she has smartly compartmentalized her life so that when she needs to, she can pick up and start all over again, which happens every twenty years or so. Love is not an emotion ...
|  | Bayou 54
Publication Date: April 16, 2011Out far and In Deep. Issue 54 of Bayou Magazine ...
|  | Bright's Passage: A Novel
Release Date: May 15, 2012NATIONAL BESTSELLER Henry Bright has newly returned to West Virginia from the battlefields of the First World War. Griefstruck by the death of his young wife and unsure of how to care for the infant son she left behind, Bright is soon confronted by the destruction of the only home he’s ever known. His hopes for safety rest with the angel who has followed him to Appalachia from the trenches of France and who now promises to protect him and his son. Haunted by the abiding nightmare of his experiences in the war and shadowed by his dead wife’s father...
|  | The Work of Her Hands
Publication Date: August 1983This simple but eloquent little novel of the Cotswolds will delight those who have enjoyed James Herriot's matchless true stories of his veterinary practice, for, like them, it is concerned with English country people and their farm animals. A warm, wonderfully capable piece of work, a short book that speaks knowingly of the heights and depths of the human heart...Anniston (Alabama) Star ...
|  | Old Age
Publication Date: June 1, 2010"Better to spend a day meditating on a single page of her writing than to read a stack of books on enlightenment." -Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and The Planets Within"Helen Luke is a unique voice that carries beautiful passion, feeling, and clarity. She is clearly one of our most precious national treasures." -Helen Pinkola Estés, author of Women Who Run with the WolvesIn this classic text on aging wisely, the renowned Jungian analyst Helen M. Luke reflects on the final journeys described in Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's King Lear, and T.S. El...
|  | Tolstoy: Plays V3: Volume III: 1894-1910 (European Drama Classics)
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|  | Figuring Things: Char, Ponge, and Poetry in the Twentieth Century (French Forum Monographs)
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|  | Wheels
Publication Date: November 2, 2011| ISBN-10: 1845231422 | ISBN-13: 978-1845231422Using the power of language to explore and discover patterns of meaning, this collection brings the lyric poem face to face with the external world—with its politics, social upheavals, and ideological complexity. Whether it is a poem about a near victim of a terrorist attack reflecting on the nature of grace, a president considering the function of art, or a Rastafarian defending his faith, the selections all seek illumination in understanding the world. They are as much about the quest for love and fai...
|  | Antigone's Claim
Publication Date: March 15, 2002| ISBN-10: 0231118953 | ISBN-13: 978-0231118958The celebrated author ofGender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship -- and open up the concept of kinship to cultural change.Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocles'sOedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms o...
|  | An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (4th Edition)
Publication Date: July 20, 2009| ISBN-10: 1405859148 | ISBN-13: 978-1405859141| Edition: 4Praise for An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory ‘Sparkling, enthusiastic, and admirably well-informed' - HélèneCixous 'By far the best introduction we have, bar none. This unmatched book is for everyone: from those beginning literary study, through advanced students, and up to teachers; even those who, like me, have been professing literature for years and years' &...
|  | Deadly Women: The Woman Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion
Publication Date: November 1997Deadly Women is a large-format, illustrated companion volume to the popular and award-winning compendium The Fine Art of Murder.From Agatha Christie to Murder, She Wrote, women have occupied a central and honored place in the mystery scene. Packed to bursting with photos, stories, interviews, recommended lists, illustrations, and new information by and about favorite female writers present and past, this book celebrates women's contributions to crime fiction.Deadly Women contains articles by and about such luminaries as Mary Higgins Clark, Barbara Michaels, Pat...
|  | The Murder at the Stork Club and Other Mysteries (Lost Classics)
Publication Date: October 10, 2009| Series: Lost Classics CRIME AND MYSTERY FROM THE AUTHOR OF LAURA! Vera Caspary (1889-1987), playwright and novelist, is best remembered for the novel which led to the great Otto Preminger movie, Laura, but she also wrote novellas and novelettes which combined mystery and suspense with an awareness of gender and class issues. Working-class sleuths in high-class settings (like New York's famed Stork Club), sexual and work-place tension, Nazi spies during the Second World War, complex characters -- all these elements were combined in Caspary s writing with an...
|  | Detective Duos: The best adventures of 25 crime-solving twosomes
Publication Date: October 23, 1997Sleuthing twosomes have long made their mark on detective fiction. From the unnamed narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter" who adroitly recounts the virtuosity of the Parisian detective, C. Auguste Dupin; to Dorothy L. Sayers's beloved Lord Peter Wimsey and Mr. Bunter; to Lillian Jackson Braun's interspecies partnership between Phut Phat (an investigative genius who happens to be a cat) and one of its owners; detective duos have come in all guises. Indeed, there are almost as many variations of compatriot crimefighters as there are types of mys...
|  | Flashing Fire Engines
Release Date: September 15, 2000| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Kingfisher Treasury of Giant and Monster Stories (The Kingfisher Treasury of Stories)
Publication Date: September 15, 1992| Age Level: 5 and up...
|  | Snowboarding! Learn About Snowboarding And Learn To Read - The Learning Club! (45+ Photos of Snowboarding)
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| | Gymnastics (World of Sport)
Publication Date: January 31, 1988 ...
|  | Children's and Young Adult Literature by Latino Writers: A Guide for Librarians, Teachers, Parents and Students
Publication Date: January 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 1586830627 | ISBN-13: 978-1586830625This title's easy-to-use format provides access to the sometimes difficult-to-find resources for youth written by Latino authors. The author has included complete bibliographic information for a variety of titles in various genres including novels, chapter books, short stories, folklore, drama, poetry, and nonfiction. A list of additional resource materials, as well as publisher information and an index is also included. For each book, complete bibliographic information is included, as well as a list of editi...
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