 | Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library
Publication Date: November 13, 2007Mild-mannered librarian tells all in shocking new book! Not long ago, the public library was a place for the bookish, the eggheaded, and the studious—often seeking refuge from a loud, irrational, crude, outside world. Today, libraries have become free-for-all entertainment complexes filled with rowdy teens, deviants, drugs, and even sex toys. Lockdowns and chaperones are often necessary. What happened? Don Borchert was a short-order cook, door-to-door salesman, telemarketer, and Christmas-tree-chopper before landing a job in a...
 |  | From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002
Publication Date: December 10, 2002Celebrated novelist, poet, and MacArthur fellow Ishmael Reed pushes the boundaries once again in the publication of From Totems to Hip Hop—a truly all-inclusive multicultural anthology—a literary event which will finally even the playing field. This important collection synthesizes and presents broad swaths of work from poets of all races and backgrounds, as only Reed can, ranging from Gertrude Stein to Ai, from Bessie Smith to Askia Toure, from W. C. Handy to the little-known poetry of Ernest Hemingway. Through his unique position in American let...
|  | The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: July 29, 2008| Series: Penguin Classics The greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, in a brilliant new translation by an award-winning translatorThe Underdogs is the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth century. Demetrio Macias, a poor, illiterate Indian, must join the rebels to save his family. Courageous and charismatic, he earns a generalship in Pancho Villa?s army, only to become discouraged with the cause after it becomes hopelessly factionalized. At once a spare, moving depiction of the limits of political idealism, an authentic representa...
|  | Watchers on the Hill (Pine Ridge Portraits #2)
Publication Date: August 1, 2004Pine Ridge Portraits book 2, the sequel to the bestselling Secrets on the Wind. Readers will be charmed and inspired by the story of Charlotte Valentine, who, in her earlier years, was a ¼irtatious young beauty in search of an army of¹cer to marry.But the passage of years has made Charlotte a different woman, one in desperate need of a safe haven.Her return to Fort Robinson, Nebraska, brings one surprise after another, including the appearance of two former beaus. Trusting God to heal the wounds of her past and being able to move forward in faith bec...
|  | Dreams of Decadence #16 Winter 2001 Vampire Poetry and Fiction
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|  | Blow Fly (A Scarpetta Novel)
Release Date: September 7, 2004| Series: A Scarpetta Novel Readers are in for the shock of Kay Scarpetta's life....
|  | Shots Fired
Publication Date: November 3, 2008Kyla and Echo seem to have the perfect relationship and the perfect life until someone shoots at Kyla and causes a car crash that not only takes away her memory, but almost takes her life. Seeking a motive, the detectives investigating the case quickly turn their attention to the people closest to her, and there's plenty for them to find. Kyla can't believe Echo is having an affair, but the police are treating her as a suspect. The more Kyla learns, the less certain she feels about everything--her partner's love, her own choices, and her safety.Caught betwee...
|  | Eager Spring
Publication Date: October 15, 2008A young academic is drawn towards activism when she is increasingly troubled by the growing threat of biocides. Through Virginia Brooke, Barfield charts the mental and spiritual journey of a thinking person - and, by extension, of all thinking persons - faced with "the need for action and the obligation to take it".From environmental thriller to Iron Age settlement, domestic estrangement and the alienation of Man from Nature, Barfield's last work of fiction will continue to delight admirers and provoke a fresh generation of thinkers. Owen Barfield is one of ...
|  | Euripides: Bacchae (Duckworth Companions to Greek & Roman Tragedy)
Publication Date: March 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0715634305 | ISBN-13: 978-0715634301References to Dionysus in popular culture focus on the god as the incarnation of wild and decadent behaviour, by which humans are intrigued and appalled. The god as he is portrayed in Euripides’ Bacchae is, however, more complex, paradoxically transcending straightforward notions of the Dionysiac. Euripides’ Dionysus blurs the dividing line between many of the fundamental categories of ancient Greek life - male and female, Greek and barbarian, divine and human. This book explores his place in Athenian...
|  | Magnificent Monologues for Teens: The Teens' Monologue Source for Every Occasion (Hollywood 101, 4)
Publication Date: May 2002| Series: Hollywood 101, 4 (Book 4) Magnificent Monologues For Teens: The Teens’ Monologue Source For Every Occasion! provides 12-17 year-olds with performable age-appropriate comedic and dramatic monologues, all 100% teen tested.CHAMBERS STEVENS introduces young actors to the joys and how-to’s of performing monologues written in true Hollywood industry-standard style in preparation for competitions, debates and professional stage and screen auditions.+40 monologues are incorporated, each is titled for quick content perusal, easy to understand & requir...
|  | Treasury of Polish Love Poems, Quotations, and Proverbs (Treasury of Love)
Publication Date: 1995| Series: Treasury of Love This collection includes endearing quotes and enlightening wisdom from Poland's greatest poets, writers and aphorists: Adam Mickiewicz, Zygmunt Krasinski, Julian Tuwim, Boleslaw Prus and Henryk Sienkiewicz, to name a few. ...
|  | Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition (Cambridge Studies in German)
Publication Date: March 20, 2006| ISBN-10: 0521025117 | ISBN-13: 978-0521025119| Edition: 1 Judith Ryan traces Rilke's development from aestheticism to modernism, paying special attention to the way his work engages with other poetry and the visual arts. Taking a skeptical view of Rilke's own myth of himself as a solitary genius, Ryan shows how deeply his writing is embedded in the culture of its day. Rilke is now the most widely-read and influential German-language poet, and this study is full of surprising discoveries about his innovative and often profoundly moving poems. ...
|  | Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku
Publication Date: April 1, 2010Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku is Barry George's first collection of poetry. The haiku in this book blend a distinctly urban content with the nature-oriented perspective of traditional haiku. ...
|  | Criticism Without Boundaries: Directions and Crosscurrents in Postmodern Critical Theory (Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language and Literature)
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|  | Honor y Pasion / Honor's Splendour (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Greek Alexander Romance (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: November 5, 1991| Series: Penguin Classics Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery? One thing is certain: the boy is destined to conquer the known world. He grows up to fulfil this prophecy, building a mighty empire that spans from Greece and Italy to Africa and Asia. Begun soon after the real Alexander's death and expanded in the centuries that followed, "The Greek Alexander Myth" depicts the life and adventures of one of his...
|  | Dead Man's Folly: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Release Date: August 30, 2011| Series: Hercule PoirotSir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well-known crime writer, agrees to organize their murder hunt. Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively, she senses that something sinister is about to happen…....
|  | Castor & Pollux: The Fighting Twins (Myth Men, Guardians of the Legend)
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|  | Motocross Racing (Motorsports)
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|  | The Indian School (Trophy Chapter Book)
Release Date: August 16, 1997| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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